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dooffirmations · 13 days

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Just watched Strange World idk why this was so unpopular it's gooooood

#strange world #like. apart from the homophobic backlash I saw like no one talking about it but !!!#it's about cosmic awe i guess. it's about symbiosis. it's about life and existence and it has a biracial gay mc!!#And it has a song that's stuck in my head so that's nice

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balletbookworm · 7 months

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Her Good Side by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Summary from Edelweiss: **A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year** A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they call a late-bloomer.…

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#23 for 2023 #African-American #Asian-American #biracial #Contemporary #M/F couple #Minimal steam #PoC Author #PoC MC #Romance #WoC Author #YA

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aroaessidhe · 9 months

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2023 reads // twitter thread

Burn

historical fantasy set in an alternate 1957 with dragons

a girl and her father in a small town hire one to help with their farm, and despite warnings she starts to talk to him

meanwhile an assassin for a dragon worshiping cult is heading their way trailed by FBI agents, and things start to get far more complicated with world-ending prophecies and the impending war

#burn #patrick ness #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is one i just never got around to reading bc i guess by the time it came out i mostly don't read white dude authors anymore #(love u patrick ness tho...)#there are a lot of things i liked about this!#i love the base concept and everything; and a lot of the details #maybe the detail choices of characters/settings was a bit odd?#on one hand that's the point and also a patrick ness thing. on the other idk if it meshed entirely #definitely switches things up at halfway also!#love the weird time stuff and magic based on belief but it kinda only came in properly at the end #also. i do love the concept of dragons being russian blues. like the cats. they're called blue but theyre grey #big warning for racist police violence #the MCs are a biracial girl w a japanese boyfriend and a gay boy #also my random notesapps while listening to this: woah half way; 'you were a teenage dragon??'; society................

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amcrimera · 2 years

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Give me unhinged black/biracial girl Annabeth Chase!!!

As an unhinged black girl myself, I feel very underrepresented in the media.

So from now on, I will be projecting onto Annabeth.

#i'm not saying she's crazy #i'm just saying that she is unhinged #will i explain myself? no #black!annabeth #biracial!annabeth #give me more unusal black girls!#we're not all the token black friend who talks sense into the white mc #give me black characters with RANGE #thank goodness we are leah as annabeth #leah jeffries #annabeth chase #pjo

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writingwithcolor · 9 months

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Representing Biracial Black South American Experiences…Through a White/Asian Mixed Race Character in Europe

@colombinna asked:

I have a YA story that's in very early development - pre-alpha, if you will. For now what I have developed is the characters: one of the MCs is a biracial asian queer girl (her dad is thai-american and japanese, her mom's white), she has a medium/dark brown skin, and lives in a very white context in a fictional European country. The contact she has with her extended family is limited to phone calls and regular visits because her dad moved from the US to said fictional European country.

I'm a biracial black queer girl myself, living in a very white community in South America, my extended black family also lives in a different place, and I'm taking a lot of my experiences of being not white and queer whilst living in white communities into her story (the feeling of not belonging, the impostor syndrome, standing out as one of the only POC kids in class, etc) and thinking back to what I've heard asian friends and classmates say about their experiences in the same school/community context as mine. But I want to know how different her experiences as a dark-skinned asian girl would differ from mine and my friends' in a similar context (white community, small number of other asian people - and POC in general - in the social circles, and limited contact to her extended family), and what experiences could make sense if the character was biracial black like myself, but won't if she's biracial asian.

Why not write a biracial Black girl if those are the experiences you want to represent?

This MC is straddling, like, 3 different cultures. Having multiple immigrant identities in not-Europe is not the same experience as being Black in South America; while both are complex minority experiences, there are too many differences in intersections and histories to compare. Not to mention, it really depends on what European culture(s) you’re basing your not-Europe on.

I think you’ll find that the written result will ring much more genuine and rich in depth if you either translate your experiences more directly or pick a more narrow focus, instead of assuming that there is a universal for racism and colorism against biracial people that is transferable across contexts. Because there isn’t. There can be overlaps, but if you’re looking to cover the entire range of What It’s Like in general, it won’t work.

This isn’t to say that people can’t use other identities to write about specific experiences of their own, but in this case you need to think about what story you want to tell and what your reasons are. Marika’s commentary will go more into when and how this can be done effectively.

Also, if the point is to make her a dark-skinned Asian, as a white/asian mix myself, I implore you: why must you make her 1/4 Japanese and 1/2 white? Even with the Thai ethnicity thrown in, Thai people very much range in skin tone and have their own domestic issues with colorism. It’s not impossible for dark-skinned examples of your MC’s ethnic makeup to exist, but still I don’t recommend it for two reasons:

It's going to make researching people whose experiences fit that much more difficult. Most experiences of colorism, othering, and other forms of discrimination that mixed white asians tend to face are completely different from mixed race asians who tend to have darker skin & features.

There's enough Japanese & white mixed Japanese rep in the Asian rep sphere as is. Consider that this individual could be mixed Asian (not Japanese) with something else (not white)!

But again, think over your motivations. I’ll spare you the copy/paste of our Motivations PSA, but re-read it and consider. Why do you wish to write a mixed Asian character to tell the story of your experiences as a mixed Black individual instead of a mixed Black character? What does it add to the story? Is it an effective vessel for the experiences you want to convey?

~ Rina

I think Rina brings up some good points here: I’m not hearing a lot of specificity in your query. As you doubtless know firsthand, the more intersectional and complex an identity, the more of a chance the identity may come with unexpected baggage and nuances that fly in the face of what is common sense for less intersectional identities. This can make writing such characters challenging just because there is so much choice on which identity themes to emphasize.

I once spent about 15 minutes explaining to a person the thought process I used to determine when I could wear jeans depending on which country I was living in as a mixed race person who is perceived as different things in different places. It might seem trivial, but it’s actually very important to me for the purposes of identity, safety and gender presentation, so I personally think it’s interesting. But will my readers think a character’s multi-page internal monologue on whether or not to wear jeans is especially compelling? Does the writer-version of me want to research the version of myself musing on my specific jeans conundrum to that extent? Or do I want to talk about other things related to attire a lot of other people would relate to? I think those are all YMMV questions, but hopefully, they provide some perspective that will help you be intentional about how you might want to tackle something potentially very time-consuming.

When I say intentional, I mean that when covering a complex identity with which you are peripherally familiar, it will always be more effective and easier to use it to tell a specific story extremely clearly than to be extremely broad in scope and try to include almost everything about your own experiences, especially because some of those experiences might not be as relevant for your character’s background as they are to yours.

One of my favorite childhood picture books is written and illustrated by a Nikkei writer-illustrator team. The book is titled Ashok by Any Other Name (link). The story features a desi child growing up in the US who wishes he had an American name his friends and teachers wouldn’t think was strange. It covers how being othered for his name makes him feel, and how he copes with that feeling. Speaking as someone both Japanese and desi, I think through the plot device of names perceived by the majority of Americans as foreign, this book aptly shows how many immigrant/diaspora creators are capable of relating to the pressures of assimilation experienced by other immigrant, even if the creator, the audience and the story’s subject’s backgrounds all don’t completely overlap 100%.

There will be aspects of your Blackness, mixed identity, skin color, sexuality and living in a local community lacking diversity as a member of many minority groups that you will find resemble/ resonate with the experiences of mixed-race, Japanese individual in a Europe-themed setting, and I think any story that leans into those themes will be considerably easier for you to research. In other words, instead of asking us “How does my experience differ?” I would approach this issue by deciding what narrative you want to show about your own experience and then research the specific contexts within which your desired story overlaps with elements of mixed-race Japanese experiences.

- Marika.

#japanese #mixed race #biracial #black #black woman #asian women #multicultural #multiracial #pov #identity #representation #asks

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punkeropercyjackson · 3 months

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The Spiderverse crew really dropped the ball by not making Gwen a half white afrolatina.Like can you imagine?The first fellow Spiderperson Miles meets is 'like him' in more ways than one,her being given black hair and brown eyes since the designers made all the poc in the franchise realistically look the part,the pastel black girl and t4t black love rep with Ghostflower in Atsv,the fem black mc having TWO black guys down bad as fuck for her and always treating her with such kindness and respect,her being besties with Margo because by then they would've known better on how to write black women and don't even get me started on George being the white parent so instead of the copganda bullshit,we would have gotten a story on biracial kid abuse and how Gwen isn't obliged to like his racist ass just because he's her dad because he dosen't treat her like she's black and in fact disencourages her to embrace the heritage that came from her mom because he only wants half of what she is AND it's topped off by the first time she meets an adult black woman onscreen her instant reaction was to say 'adopt me'.I'm a Gwen defender til the end of time and beyond(pun hehe)but i'll be honest,this would've been a lot better than canon-Not that canon is bad persay,just that it needs improvement in certain areas

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ardourie · 10 days

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maybe they could’ve been successful if they didn’t waste a “black ppl with a secret magical society” set up on a “this biracial rlly rlly RLLLLY wants white pussy :(((!” followed by all the magic in the movie being used to quite literlaly soothe white ppl, like i understand what the magical negro trope is but instead of subverting it they just …did the trope again…and then added a white love interest for the black mc to ruin his life and the magical societies standing over like cmon

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jasontoddssuper · 5 months

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"Why does Rwby write it's female characters as people instead of anime waifus and have the male mc being a biracial afrolatino boy(Oscar)instead of my blonde blue eyed white fave >:("Oh woah..........I mean,it's not like the creator was happily married to his wife and partially based the fem mcs off his female friends because he loved them and wanted to make them happy and was also an moc and inmigrant of several kinds of mixed descendents.................That'd be absolutely insane and unrealistic

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starlightandetherealshadows · 6 months

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just saw an IF where everyone including the MC is white. that ain’t crazy to y’all?????? No? Just me?

couldn’t even throw us a biracial bone 🤨

#everyone has creative freedom but an all white cast is nuts to me

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jerzwriter · 2 months

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Why don't you write more diverse characters?

And also:

Also might get hate for this but your Casey and Jessica pairing gives me "when straight girls say they wish they are gay so they don't have to deal with boys". I'm aware you're queer yourself and there's no one way to be queer but just wanting to let you know, from the perspective of a gay person myself.

You're welcome to disagree, delete this or so on but I just want to offer my two cents if that's still something I can do.

Nonny,

Let's see: Wake the Dead: My MC is Latina. I have a whole HC on how she tries to connect to her culture despite most of it being stolen from her due to their circumstances. It has been addressed in asks, etc., but I have not written it completely because of time. I wrote an extensive backstory on Eli's family; his parents are canonically black/white, and his brother (like him) is biracial. Crimes of Passion: My MC is Latina and demiro. I haven't addressed the latter as much as I want to, partially because I don't relish the inevitable feedback. You know, where the fandom that demands diversity then tears down any creator who attempts to write them? So, 99% of creators have decided to only want to write what they know? Yeah, that.

Open Heart: Casey is white because that's the sprite I used in canon, and you know what? There's nothing wrong with that. Her husband is bi-racial. Their 3 children are biracial. His mother (an OC) is black, his brother (an OC) is biracial and bisexual, oh, Casey's bisexual too, and I HC that their youngest daughter is queer, but I have not written much about their adult daughters.

So, yeah, while I don't owe you an explanation, I needed to point out how wrong you are. Saying there is no diversity among my characters is a bit of a stretch unless you want to say that Latino, black, biracial, and queer people aren't diverse. I hope that's not what you're saying.

As to Casey and Jess, you're entitled to your opinion, of course, but the typically straight girls who wish they were gay so they don't have to deal with boys don't date or fall in love with girls. At least not the ones I have known. They certainly don't fuck them. So, there's that. Have I written smut for J/C? No. But I haven't written much smut at all recently. I just have not been interested in doing so.

So I am bi, and my bi character isn't bi enough for you - BUT why do I suspect that you're one of the people who bitch about the lack of queer characters in the fandom, then sit perched and ready to attack when someone tries and doesn't do it "right." I can see how that really encourages people to branch out and write more diversity. Oh, that's sarcasm.

If my stuff isn't your cup of tea - that's fine. It's allowed. Don't follow/read and find another creator who can provide you with what you desire. That's sort of how it's supposed to work.

PS... are you the same anon who said I don't support queer creators? If so, babe, you're going to have to try harder. Don't accuse me of things that are so easily verifiably wrong.

#asks answered

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qbdatabase · 9 months

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Hello, I saw that you had awesome recs for bi4bi books! I rarely have found bi4bi books in genres other than contemporary so I was hoping you could help me with that? Could you please recommend bi4bi (sapphic) books in fantasy, horror, mystery and basically any genre other than contemporary

heads up, these lists will include poly pairings with at least two female characters, pansexual / queer / unlabled multi-gender-attracted identities, and F/NB pairings

bi4bi WLW Fantasy

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson: Cuban-American bisexual female x white bisexual female

Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper: bisexual female x Russian-American bisexual female

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl: bisexual female x bisexual female

The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector: Norse bisexual female x pansexual genderfluid LI

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin: starts with lesbian female x bisexual female, but ends with an FFNB poly triad with a bisexual genderfluid MC

A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray: polyamorous bisexual female x queer non-binary MC x Asian bisexual female

Vicious Devotion by Aveda Vice: queer female x queer female x queer male x queer male in a polyamorous quartet

The Sea Witch by Katee Robert: half-Vietnamese polyamorous bisexual sub female x older fat black mga Domme female LI x (sub?) male LI in a polyamorous triad

bi4bi WLW Historical

The Companion by E. E. Ottoman: polyamorous bisexual transgender female x bisexual transgender female x transgender male

Her Countess to Cherish by Jane Walsh: pregnant bisexual female x mga bigender LI

Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak: biracial Haitian bisexual female x French bisexual female (possible) LI; French male (possible) LI

Windfall by Shawna Barnett: bisexual female MC x bisexual female MC x asexual male LI x male LI (love square, but the bi!F MCs do also romance each other)

Scandalous Passions by Nicola Davidson: Domme bisexual female x sub questioning bisexual female x sub straight male with a stutter in a polyamorous triad

bi4bi WLW Horror

Wilder Girls by Rory Power: mga female x queer female

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson: polyamorous bisexual female x bisexual female with mood swings and depression x bisexual male

bi4bi WLW Mystery

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist: bisexual female x bisexual female

All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell: white pansexual female with PTSD x Korean-American queer mga female

The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe: bisexual female x mga female

Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn: bisexual female x bisexual female, black lesbian female

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell: mga female x straight male (possible) LI; bisexual female (possible) LI

The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman: bisexual female x bisexual female

bi4bi WLW Sci-Fi

Curved Horizon by Taylor Brooke: bisexual female x demisexual panromantic female

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn: chronically ill bisexual female x Japanese/ Portugese bisexual female

Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders: white pansexual female x black Brazilian bisexual trans-nonbinary femme

Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine: black bisexual female x Brazilian bisexual female x bisexual male in a polyamorous triad

full notes on representation and publishing info at qbdatabase.com

#wlw #sapphic #bisexual #bi4bi #queer books #book recs #bookblr #the-bi-library #ask #answered

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sweetestofchaos · 5 months

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Was talking to friend about my writing and my insecurities when it comes to sharing. She asked me “why do you even share your writing if no one leaves feedback or interacts?”

Honestly, I had to think about it for a few minutes. Why do I bother I write and throw it into this void called tumblr? Once I had the answer, I didn’t know how I felt.

I do this because there are hardly stories where I am represented. If I am represented, the mc is an angry black woman that is hated or unloved. She isn’t worthy of love. Or she is in a black love relationship.

And that isn’t me. My mom is biracial. My family is biracial. My children are biracial. I grew up in a home where race truly didn’t matter. We are equal and I was taught to love people for who they are.

I write for myself. I write the stories I wish to see more of. I share them here in hopes that it makes other black people feel seen. I want them to know that it’s okay to be “different” or “weird”. It’s okay to like kpop, rock, metal and all things fantasy. We do not have to fit inside a box and I hope that my stories give you the love you deserve and are searching for.

I will continue to write. I’m not going anywhere. Even if I write for myself half the time. I enjoy my stories and that’s what matters. I have to thank my friend for allowing me to remember that.

Chell

#black writer #a safe place for black folks #I know I bitch about lack of interaction #but I get it #just know imma be here regardless #soc talks

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thedisabilitybookarchive · 2 months

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'Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens'- Nijkamp, Marieke

Disability Rep: Unidentified Mental Health Condition (Possible Bipolar), Blind, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Wheelchair User, Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Idiopathic Pain, Cane User, Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations, IBS, Chronic Pain, Bipolar II, Cerebral Palsy, Autism

Genre: Short Stories, Multi-Genre, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic, Science-Fiction, Horror

Age: Young Adult

Setting: Persia, USA, Multiple Settings

Additional Rep: Chinese Female MC, POC, F/M, Sapphic Characters, F/F, Latin MC, Muslim Female MC, Transgender Man LI, Black Female MC, Non-Binary MC, Biracial Native-American MC, Cuban wlw Female LI, Queer wlw Female MC

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

#books #disability books #disability representation #disability #disabled characters #fiction #lgbtq books #lgbtq+#lgbtq characters #lgbtq representation #multiple disabilities #multiple setting #multiple contributors #multigenre #young adult #young adult fiction #short story anthology #short stories #link

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13leaguestories · 7 months

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In SoS, is Moran family supposed to be Latin Americans or Basque Spaniards? Since they speak Spanish and "amá" is apparently short for "mom" in Basque County and some Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, if Wiktionary isn't lying to me.

But the surname is Irish (unless it's meant to be Morán, which is Spanish) so are they biracial or of Irish descent, or Irish-Latin Americans? Sorry for the questions, I have been wondering about it for a while. Huge fan of your works. :)

Most of the spanish for the book is in thanks to a few close friend, one being the main one but a few others giving me a few things.

Moran is literally just because I like the name, I don't ever do MC names based off of culture/language/region. I think it and therefore it is lmfao. Moran has spanish in their family but of course, how much and on whose side and what not is up to the player. So there's no "one place" that I'm being specific to, though because of my friend most of the spanish is probably more from Latin America.

#sos ask

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writingwithcolor · 9 months

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Japanese Q Speedround: Google Is Right There

Hi, it’s mod Rina. It’s time to speedrun some asks.

@troublsomeidiots asked:

I'm writing a character who is both black and Japanese and lives in japan in a primarily Japanese area and wanted some help in writing a person who is biracial who lives in primarily homogenous society? Like what kind of struggles she would face, especially as a person who has never met anyone who is black other than in passing?

Open Youtube. Hit search bar on Youtube. "being black in japan" "half black half japanese in japan" "black hafu in japan". Try different combinations of keywords. Bon voyage.

(neither Marika nor I are Black. We will not be speaking to experiences we do not have.) (we can outsource to some of our friends if you ask a specific question. These are not specific questions.)

(Black Japanese readers--please feel free to comment if there’s something you want OP to know!)

@layzeal asked:

Hello! I have a question regarding family/last names in Edo period Japan. My story takes place in 1816, my character was born in 1796 from a commoner family (that she gets separated from a few years later, and in a different country).

I've read that regular people in Japan didn't adopt the use of family names until Meiji restoration, but I'm not sure how true that is. Would a family of commoners in that period carry a family name, or would they only use their first names? And any idea if that family would have to present a last name when moving/passing by a different country that does use them?

It's important for me to know, since the existence of a last name or not would quite heavily influence how hard it'd be for the family to meet again, and which means would be used. Thanks in advance!

When I gave Google some keywords from your query, the second result explained how pre-Meiji commoners without family/clan names used bynames to distinguish themselves, and gives additional data on them. Maybe give it another Google?

@weavefeather asked:

Hello, I am a writer and I really need some advice. I am wotking on my book since a few years, maybe 2 or 3, and I finally got the points together how it could begin. My plan is that my MC (named Nanami Kudo) is an lawyer of the FBI and has to go to her homecountry Japan, beacuse they send her to foreign investigations about a syndicate of people..... And the some things happen, like her brother who still lives in jp doesn't really welcomes her, some complications with the police and so on...

But thats not the point! Im really struggling to take in words how she gets to the other country, leaving her home behind and her partner she worked with. Do you have any advice on it, maybe how to structure it, some words or scenarios that fit?

How she gets to the other country: …..She flies there.

How US government agents/workers relocate and what the experience is like: That's your job to google. We are not government agents. Try anecdata on reddit, reddit AMAs, and Quora.

It’s unclear what her relationship/proximity to Japan is. What kind of nikkei is she? Is she mixed race or monoracial? How much Japanese can she speak? So many unknowns. Go read our Japanese tag and appreciate just how many ways one can be a Japanese person. Until then, you are nowhere near close to being able to write a nikkei homecoming plot.

Lastly, you are the author. Give us scenarios yourself and come back to us.

In Conclusion

Guys, you all gots to google some more. It’s beneficial to both of us: not only do we get to help with more specific things and have enough info to do so, but you don’t have to wait months until your ask comes through the backlog only to receive an answer you could have researched in anywhere from a couple days to 3 minutes.

~ Rina

“But Rina, I don’t know how!”

You’re in luck!

First, try one of our own post on Google shortcuts.

Second, stay tuned for some very relevant posts...

COMING SOON: WWC’s A Beginner’s Guide to Academic Research

#japanese #mixed race #japanese diaspora #research #asks

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punkeropercyjackson · 2 months

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I'm so glad i never watched Teen Wolf.Imagine having to deal with not only everyone insisting your brown biracial mc is actually the sidekick to his white boy comic relief best friend AND the white boy in question getting nonstop queerbait accusations over an adult white man even though both of them are high schoolers.Scott Mccall stans and minors in the TW fandom in lending you my strength since they ain't shuttin' up ever even i can tell

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