Drops of Jupiter

I'm a 27 year old British woman who would like to be an academic librarian and/or a professional author. I'm currently working as a part-time receptionist and a part-time LRC Assistant. I'm still looking for a graduate library job.

Expect to find a lot of fandom-related things here (mainly anime/manga for now) and whatever else catches my interest.

If you have any (non-personal) questions, please feel free to go ahead and ask.

kairisk:

So I pokemon-fusioned and

the MAJESTY

(via femstef)

I suspect it’s difficult for men to imagine a world in which their bodies have long been inextricably linked to their value as an individual, and that no matter how encouraging your parents were or how many positive female role models you had or how self-confident you feel, there is an ever-present pressure that creeps in from all sides, whispering in your ear that you are your body and your body defines you. A world where, from the time of pubescence on, you can feel the constant and palpable weight of the male gaze, and not just from your male peers but from teachers and sports coaches and the fathers of the children you baby-sit, people you’re supposed to respect and trust and look up to, and that first realization that you are being looked at in that way is the beginning of a self-consciousness that you will be unable to shake for the rest of your life.Even if they are never verbalized, the rules of bodily conduct for females become clear early on: when school administrators reprimand you for the inch of midriff that shows when you lift your hands straight in the air or youth group leaders tell you that the sight of your unintentional cleavage is what causes godly young men to fall, you learn that your body is dangerous and shameful and that it’s your responsibility to cloister it in a way that is acceptable to everyone else. You learn that your body is a topic of public debate that everyone is entitled to weigh in on, from a male classmate telling you that those jeans make your ass look huge to the male-dominated United States Congress dictating the parameters that rape must fall within to be considered legitimate. To be a woman, and to live life in a woman’s body, is to be held to a set of comically paradoxical standards that make you constantly second-guess yourself and jump through a million hoops in pursuit of an impossible perfection.

Stop Catcalling Me (via anorecsia)

Men: please, please read this.

(via stfuconservatives)

(via accioharo)

tsukislashlover:

Creator: santa matsuri

tsukislashlover:

Creator: santa matsuri

greedsling:

Winry/Katara Parallels

(via adventuresofcomicbookgirl)

(via riboku)

fuckyeahfanficflamingo:

[NO ONE WRITES FOR YOUR OTP ANYMORE (Fanfic Flamingo) DECIDE TO WRITE EPIC FIC TO INSPIRE PEOPLE]
Now the question is, will it work?

^ This is basically the reason why I’m the Queen of Drawerfic when it comes to Inuyasha fandom. I did make a New Year’s resolution to start posting it online this year so maybe you’ll get to see the prologue by December 31st.

fuckyeahfanficflamingo:

[NO ONE WRITES FOR YOUR OTP ANYMORE (Fanfic Flamingo) DECIDE TO WRITE EPIC FIC TO INSPIRE PEOPLE]

Now the question is, will it work?

^ This is basically the reason why I’m the Queen of Drawerfic when it comes to Inuyasha fandom. I did make a New Year’s resolution to start posting it online this year so maybe you’ll get to see the prologue by December 31st.

royalbk:

Raven-Uncut-Envy

mottomottoobsession:

Hiroaki Samura talking about BotI anime

It sucks so much - compared to the original manga - that the only thing which made me watch ‘till the end was the soundtrack, made by the marvelous Koh Ootani

(the opening also is kind of awesome)

I watched up to about episode 9  of the anime before I dropped it. You know an anime adaptation is disappointing when the fight scenes look more dynamic in the manga. The anime also managed to miss the entire point of Manji as a character.

As anime go, I’d say the BoTI anime is mediocre but it’s incredibly meh when you compare it to the manga.