I Missed My Train Station Because I Looked At My Phone, But Because Of That I Saw This Gem That I Think

I think it would be hilarious to put weed into the cole trading card game box

Lego ninjago

Time for Inkarmat meta.

Inkarmat's cunning and manipulative nature is a product of the oppression she faced both as a woman and an ethnic minority. She developed these skills as a coping mechanism precisely because of her status in society.

Noda went to great lengths not to fall into the "noble savage" trope & made the Ainu characters in GK just as interesting as the Japanese ones. Also, given that Ainu independence is a big theme in GK, it makes sense that these concept would influence Inkarmat's development.

Inkarmat was a female orphan, traveling by herself since a young age, getting into dangerous situations and needing to learn fast alternative means to defend herself.

As an adult Inkarmat is depicted as sexy, flirtatious, and manipulative but as a child she has an innocence that is comparable to Asipra. This is an explicit parallel as we see Asirpa is reminded of her relationship with Sugimoto, when Inkarmat recalls her love for Wilk.

Also Yes, Asirpa's canon crush on Sugimoto is paralleled by Inkarmat's crush on Wilk when she was a child. Inkarmat's sadness that Wilk may have forgotten her represents an insecurity Asirpa carries with her for most of the plot.

Asirpa is afraid one day Sugimoto will leave her behind for another woman -the woman he loves as he said himself. Just as Wilk did to Inkarmat when he fell in love with Asirpa's mother, not even sharing stories of Inkarmat to his child whom he told so many other important things.

Carrying on. Noda empowers adult Inkarmat by having her taking advantage of Japanese people, the oppressors of the Ainu, and on that it is largely men she is taking advantage of. Yes, Inkarmat uses her wiles to manipulate men, and take advantage of them to secure her own safety.

But she is still very much vulnerable to the majority power. The narrative emphasizes this in the subtext. She is working under Tsurumi, the primary representative of imperialism by the plot, a man who does not rely on the subordination of the Ainu to accomplish his goals

And she is later imprisoned by him proving that Tsurumi had always been the one in power all along, she is sexualized and victimized by other random Japanese men, and she relies on Tanigaki (a Japanese man) for safety.

Need to add you can compare the way other female characters are depicted sexually based on their societal status. O-gin is very empowered and free even during sex. And Sofia has personal agency and is regarded as a leader of men so when her tits are out it's just for a good time.

Also kind of on a similar note. Inkarmat and Ienaga end up sharing a positive relationship which I find kind of cute but also when you think about it. Ienaga is also a suppressed minority as a transwoman, and similarly being held prisoner by Lt Tsurumi.

Anyway, Inkarmat operates with a certain inevitability in her mindset. She has accepted the state of things as an Ainu woman, and that is why she does not care about the gold, or her own fate as dictated by her divinations.

However much like the rest of the cast, she is influenced to have more hope by Asipra who by her very name represents a "new kind of Ainu woman".

And she learns to love and feel the security of family by the influence of Tanigaki and Cikapasi. Likely this is what encourages her to leave clues for Tanigaki so that he can find her after she is taken hostage by Tsurumi.

Inkarmat and Tanigaki get a happy end and I think it represents something very important and also compliments the theme of Ainu liberation pretty nicely imo She was always independent but now she also has security. Anyway, we stan Inkarmat, she is an amazing character...

REBLOG IF YOU HAVE STRETCHMARKS

This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

I drew a tutorial for all the new players struggling with combat hope it helps!!

New and improved oc server post!

Swtor tumblr is awesome, but in terms of multiple people talking in one spot, tumblr just isn't that great. I love tumblr, I think it's wonderful for many reasons... but it's way easier to parallel play with the blorbos from your friends' brains on discord.

So there's this server...

It started out as specifically for swtor rp, but it's kinda sorta grown. It would be more accurate to call it an oc appreciation hugbox, with occasional rp, some of it even related to star wars... but the point is that so far, it's doing exactly what I had in mind, which is...

I've gotten to meet so many amazing OCs and trade ideas and pick brains and it's been. Awesome. And it seems like every time I reblogged the original post about it, I got one new person asking to join-- so I'm making a more streamlined, updated post! Because when it comes to having special interest time about people's ocs,

Anyway, it's super casual, NOT A GUILD, and the more the merrier! DM if you'd like to join and have everyone insist that your oc is the cutest thing they've ever seen and the scrungliest blorbo in existence.

To my defense I not that long here😭😭😭😭

yknow maybe we should let ryan reynolds stay - the guy has his likes and following hidden like a true tumblrina.

or we have him and neil gaiman duke it out for the coveted position of The Only celebrity allowed on tumblr, which is infinitely more entertaining.

one of the cutest icons I made, another tav oc to @refusing-to-be-tranquil thank you ♥

Gay sex as a metaphor for friendship