“Here’s to the security guards who maybe had a degree in another land. Here’s to the manicurist who had to leave her family to come here, painting the nails, scrubbing the feet of strangers. Here’s to the janitors who don’t even fucking understand English yet work hard despite it all. Here’s to the fast food workers who work hard to see their family smile. Here’s to the laundry man at the Marriott who told me with the sparkle in his eyes how he was an engineer in Peru. Here’s to the bus driver, the Turkish Sufi who almost danced when I quoted Rumi. Here’s to the harvesters who live in fear of being deported for coming here to open the road for their future generation. Here’s to the taxi drivers from Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and India who gossip amongst themselves. Here is to them waking up at 4am, calling home to hear the voices of their loved ones. Here is to their children, to the children who despite it all become artists, writers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, activists and rebels. Here’s to Western Union and Money Gram. For never forgetting home. Here’s to their children who carry the heartbeats of their motherland and even in sleep, speak with pride about their fathers. Keep on.”
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Fun Fact: Quiet people are aware that they are quiet. They don’t need you to point it out to them. They know. Please stop.
The yowamushi pedal character designs really are so interesting. Like, the faces are great, I love the faces, but like firescribble says, there’s also so much interesting stuff going on with bodies. And as a series it’s SO MUCH about how people relate to their own bodies and others’ bodies, in really particular ways, and I’m fascinated. Bodies are hardly ever neutral in this series.
Yeah. I find it really interesting that there is no standard mold for how bodies look. Quite often in anime there is a way bodies look and then maybe some bodies are different. But like a million people have pointed out, the yowamushi pedal characters don’t even look like they’re from the same series and there doesn’t seem to be a norm.
I don’t know what to make of that, but it’s interesting and I like it.
