HarbinLights

I'm not mentally ill. Nintendo brainwashed me.

Personally, I just wanna find ultra-wide JNCO style pants again. Shirts with stars and unicorns. And frilly pastel pink dresses. And Sylveon hats.

Sadly, most places don't sell any of those things in particular. And I usually have to go to online specialty stores and things. I mean maybe a few at Hot Topic and ect., but definitely not the thing you'd find an TJMaxx or something.

I'll wear a pair of men's pants with a My Little Pony belt, but then also wear it with a women's Pokemon shirt and wear an Eevee themed handbag. I wish I could say I have a pair of Princess Peach vans, but I didn't get them in time, and they're too expensive right now. :/

Anyway, I feel like these clothing sections force me to need to shop in both anyway. And that there's probably more overlap in men's and women's clothing by different aesthetic than just gender. I think these seperated sections by gender actually make it harder for me to find things than easier. If I were to find things easier, I would be better off if they had a section just called "cutesy and nerdy". As it is, I have to search through both binary gender categories, to find basically the exact same aesthetic and look.

I like listening to fan-music and fanart. Does that count as interacting with fandom?

Anyway, the things I like are part of who I am. So yeah, I definitely feel a connection to people who like the same sorts of media and the same sorts of things about them as I do. Like the characters.

I just don't let the toxic parts of a fandom define me. And proudly like the things I like about a thing I like.

I think there are so much more interesting and accurate labels for the fashion, design, aesthetics, size, shape, ect. of clothing, than gender ones.

I'm all for clothing having labels, more than we have now currently, even. Just not gender ones.

Like, an anthropomorphic Mushroom? Is that what Toads are?

It is confirmed now that it is not a hat, the 'cap' is part of their heads. Kind of like how nokonoko/koopa troopas are basically turtle people reminiscent of kappas. And Goombas are.. chestnuts?

Would I get something akin to toxoplasmosis were I around Toads for an extended period of time?

I have this weird desire to go through pipes, now, after years of playing Mario games. I know I surely can't be alone in this.

I don't suppose there is a way to incorporate, large, oversized pipe-shaped structures into my home and yard design? Like, I don't suppose someone has a pot/planter shaped as a warp pipe? Especially considering Mario Pipes often contain Piranha Plants.

I suppose you can use one of those fangamer pipe mugs for that purpose.

https://www.fangamer.com/products/pipe-mug

I want something bigger, though.

Ideally but impractically, though, I kinda want a door in the shape of a warp pipe, somewhere, somehow. :/ Has anyone out there in the world figure out a way to make a door out of a warp pipe? That would just be way too cool as an entrance to a game room or something.

I'm not interested in taking away the clothes. I'm interested in taking away the labels. All the clothes that exist for men and women today and more should exist. I don't think they need gender labels.

I don't think that, for instance, dresses should be considered "women's clothing". They should just be considered human clothing.

I don't need one of these.

But I need one of these.

Yeah, but by gendering clothing and other products, companies are kinda pushing gender roles moreso than self expression and individuality.