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1st of February, 2021

i was debating on whether or not i should post this on tumblr but seeing as there haven’t been posts about this yet, here it is. i’m exposing my real location and nationality but it doesn’t matter.

if you have been active on twitter, you may already know #savemyanmar is trending. long story short, there has been a military coup. several nations have released statements but i want to share insight on what’s happening in the country.

memes about a coup have been circulating around for a couple days and when i slept at 2 am last night, we were still under the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD). while they are not technically democratic, they are the closest we’ve got. when my mother woke up at 6 this morning, she was notified that the country was now under the rule of the military.

banks services are no longer available. wifi was cut at around 7-8. some people got wifi again earlier but many got it barely thirty minutes ago. this is bad for businesses especially ones that require international communications. additionally, international students like myself are experiencing anxiety; how do we pay for and attend classes if we’re not sure wifi is a given?

myanmar has a long, complicated history with military governments. the last time the military went into rule was in 1962 and only stopped in 2011, following the 2010 elections. there was a huge protest in 1988 lead by students that resulted in lots of death. during the military junta, resources like rice, water, oil, were scarce. the gist is military rule is bad for us.

all of my followers are not myanmar citizens, i’m sure but as part of the international community, please help us. here is a petition that you can sign (although i’m not sure if that can do much). there may be protests in front of myanmar embassies so look out for those. most of all, please help spread awareness. 

the people here are coping with dark humor, primarily in the form of memes but we don’t know how long this rule will last, even though the official statement said only a year. here’s something that pretty much sums up our coping mechanism:

again, even a reblog helps

update :: all telecommunication means will be cut off at 12 am MMT

What’s Mia Eating

hey ho, more from the pile of recipes that I got by calling my parents and guesstimating recipes from the list of ingredients my parents recall. Remember, these recipes have no actual amounts in them:

Stewed Chicken Legs!

Recipe also works with thighs or wings, anything bone-in

Prep:

slice some ginger, put it in a little container with some star anise

poke some cuts into the raw chicken to let the flavour in

It’ll make it easier if you have all these flavouring ingredients already mixed in one container beforehand:

dark soy sauce

regular soy sauce

shaoxing wine

sugar

salt

oyster sauce (ours was expired so I went with a splash of hoisin)

chili (you can do dried flakes but i had sriracha on hand)

>>put pot/wok on the heat

add oil add sliced ginger and star anise,

>>fry for a moment

add chicken

>> stir fry, high heat for a moment

add sauce marinade from earlier

>> stir fry, high heat for a moment

pour in cold water, just enough to submerge, wait until boil

>>simmer for 20-35 minutes, depending on how much chicken you’re working with

I prefer to take it off the heat and let it cool down whilst sitting in the sauce, and then I serve it (often over rice)

Happy Cooking!

me trying to plug in my phone blind and missing the jack like 500 times: you know i really should have known that bbc sherlock was bad way sooner

Honestly wouldn't have thought people possible of such cruelty

WARNING: ANIMAL CRUELTY

Apparently people have been adopting dogs and either killing them themselves or dropping them to a kill shelter (and one even said they were flying them to poor Asian areas to be eaten) under the Twitter hashtag #pitbulldropoff

This is completely cruel and evil and word needs to get around about these demons so everyone knows what these demons are planning to do to dogs once they get ahold of them.

If you know someone or if you yourself is planning to give away a pitty by craigslist soon, DONT and wait for awhile!!!! They act like they’re going to adopt them and act all nice then they get rid of them, don’t be fooled!!

DM me for uncensored names!!!!!!!!

I just got an offer for a university which I had applied to for fun because I thought it ranked too high for me to get in which is great but idk if I want to accept the offer opposed to another uni whose course I prefer but is ranked lower that was my first choice when applying. It feels like a waste to not go for the higher ranked uni but I'm scared that I wouldn't be as happy/interested with the course. I wish someone else could just make the choice for me honestly.

Garlic powder & onion powder are literally like two beautiful twin sisters brushing eachothers long hair at the lake by moonlight one last time before they both walk into the forest and kill themselves

People who aren’t at fault for attacks against queer rights:

Trans women

Nonbinary people

Asexuals

Aromantics

Pansexuals

Catgender people

Stargender people

People with conflicting gender labels

People that use it/it’s pronouns

People that use noun/nounself pronouns

People that use no pronouns

Cis people using “different” pronouns

People who are at fault for attacks against queer rights:

The politicians attacking queer rights

The white supremacists attacking queer rights

The conservative crowds attacking queer rights

The transphobes attacking queer rights

The homophobes attacking queer rights

The only people at fault for attacks on queer rights are the people attacking queer rights. Don’t blame your community for having their rights taken away alongside you.

bungus

like people are just going to keep saying “theyre only queer because they want to be/because it gets them off/because they think it’s fun/because they saw a queer person and thought it sounded like a good idea/etc”. theyre gonna keep saying it.

and we are going to have to stop desperately scrambling to say noooo, they have to be like that, they have no choice, they wouldn’t be like this if they didnt have to. we HAVE to stop falling all over ourselves assuring straight people and transphobes that we hate being us as much as they hate us being us, that we are suffering and that’s why we deserve this decadence and deviancy. we HAVE to start saying “yeah ok and?”

being queer is a delight. deviant sex makes people really happy. being genderfucky is joyful. queerness CAN actually be an option you can choose, and that doesn’t make it worth less than if you only picked it with a gun to your head, because it is a good option and there are good reasons to pick it.

we have to stop shifting the goalpost to “we can’t help being like this”. the point is that being like this is good. being queer is good, whether you chose it on purpose or whether you only moonlight or whether you do it because it gets you off or because it’s fun and freeing or because you have been this way since you were born. queerness does not need to be earned or justified by an inability to be “”“normal”“”. if you are being queer that is good because being queer is good.