#KNEW I WAS EAST ASIAN

[maned-wolfe]

I may be transchinese.. not transjapanese....... so if anyone has a flag for me to switch transjapanese out for in my rentry. that'd be lovely heehoo

#domiposts ´ˎ˗ #KNEW I WAS EAST ASIAN #JUST NOT WHICH ONE #MAY ALSO BE SOUTH KOREAN #GAHDAMN #radqueer safe #radqueer positivity #transabled #transid please interact #transid safe #radqueer #pro radqueer #pro transid #transrace #trace community #transchinese

[miyuecakes]

old sketches of hk (top) and guangdong (bottom) because apparently not even my chineseness is secure enough to not be othered from me when i don't follow how outsiders think we should act )-)o

#hws hong kong #aph hong kong #hws guangdong #hetalia #hws #aph #hws chinese provinces #orz its a given that people constantly take my birthright as nikkeijin away from me but my chineseness too? damn #what im saying here is that every time ive acted out of line of what people think a japanese-descent or chinese person should act #i get reduced and labeled in a way that removes those core aspects of my identity -- typically by overemphasizing my chineseness as other #or recently -- as just vaguely east asian #yowch #whether or not op knew i was chinese i was still stripped of my chinese identity in order for op to smear my art as sinophobic #it doesn't matter if they didn't know. they had to make the assumption i wasn't chinese #“because what chinese person would do such a thing?” says the orientalist #orientalism only makes the orientalist's orient true to the audience #not to know the actual orient -- which doesn't exist outside of the occidental imaginary

[revasserium]

the unofficial ultimate bungo stray dogs reading list

this is mainly for myself bc i rly do want to read most if not all of these and i'm sure it's already been done by someone somewhere. but, i thought why not post it lmao; most if not all of these can be found on anna's archive, z-library, or project gutenberg! (also, consider buying from your local bookstore!) for those that are a bit harder to find, i've included links, though some are from j-stor and would require login to access.

detective agency:

osamu dazai:

no longer human (novel)

the setting sun (novel)

nakajima atsushi:

the moon over the mountain: stories (short story collection)

light, wind and dreams (short story)

fukuzawa yukichi:

an encouragement of learning (17 volume collections of writings)

all the countries of the world, for children written in verse (textbook)

yosano akiko:

kimi shinitamou koto nakare (poem)

midaregami (poetry collection)

edogawa ranpo:

the boy detectives club (book series)

japanese tales of mystery and imagination (short story collection)

the early cases of akechi kogoro (novel)

kunikida doppo:

river mist and other stories (short story collection)

izumi kyouka:

demon lake (play)

spirits of another sort: the plays of izumi kyoka (play collection)

tanizaki junichirou:

the makioka sisters (novel)

the red roof and other stories (short story collection)

miyazawa kenji:

ame ni mo makezu; be not defeated by the rain (poem)

night on the galactic railroad (novel)

strong in the rain (poetry collection)

port mafia:

mori ougai:

vita sexualis (novel)

the dancing girl (novel)

nakahara chuuya:

poems of nakahara chuya (poetry collection)

akutagawa ryuunosuke:

rashoumon (short story)

the spider's thread (short story)

rashoumon and other stories (short story collection)

ozaki kyouyou:

the gold demon (novel)

higuchi ichiyou:

in the shade of spring leaves (biography and short stories)

hirotsu ryuurou:

falling camellia (novel)

tachihara michizou:

in mourning for the summer (poem)

midwinter momento (poem)

from the country of eight islands: an anthology of japanese poetry (poetry collection)

kajii motojirou:

lemon (short story)

yumeno kyuusaku:

dogra magra (novel)

oda sakunosuke:

flawless/immaculate (short story)

sakaguchi ango:

darakuron (essay)

the guild:

f. scott fitzgerald:

the great gatsby (novel)

the beautiful and the damned (novel)

edgar allen poe:

the raven (poem)

the black cat (short story)

the murders in the rue morgue (short story)

herman melville:

moby dick (novel)

h.p. lovecraft:

the call of cthulhu (short story)

the shadow out of time (novella)

john steinbeck:

the grapes of wrath (novel)

of mice and men (novel)

lucy maud montgomery:

anne of green gables (novel)

the blue castle (novel)

chronicles of avonlea (short story collection)

louisa may alcott:

little women (novel)

the brownie and the princess (short story collection)

margaret mitchell:

gone with the wind (novel)

mark twain:

the adventures of tom sawyer (novel)

adventures of huckleberry finn (novel)

nathaniel hawthorn:

the scarlet letter (novel)

rats in the house of the dead:

fyodor dostoevsky:

crime and punishment (novel)

the brothers karamozov (novel)

notes from the underground (short story collection)

alexander pushkin:

eugene onegin (novel)

a feast in time of plague (play)

ivan goncharov:

the precipice (novel)

oguri mushitarou:

the perfect crime (novel)

decay of the angel:

fukuchi ouchi:

the mirror lion, a spring diversion (kabuki play)

bram stoker:

dracula (novel)

dracula's guest and other weird stories (short story collection)

nikolai gogol:

the overcoat (short story)

dead souls (novel)

hunting dogs: (i must caveat here that the hunting dogs are named after much more comparatively obscure jpn writers/playwrights so i was unable to find a lot of the specific pieces actually mentioned; but i still wanted to include them on the list because well -- it wouldn't be a bsd list without them)

okura teruko:

gasp of the soul (short story; i wasn't able to find an english translation)

devil woman (short story)

jouno saigiku:

priceless tears (kabuki play; no translation but at least we have a summary)

suehiro tetchou:

setchuubai/a political novel: plum blossoms in snow (novel)

division for unusual powers:

taneda santouka:

the santoka: versions by scott watson (poetry collection)

tsujimura mizuki:

lonely castle in the mirror (novel)

yesterday's shadow tag (short story collection; i was unable to find a translation)

order of the clock tower:

agatha christie:

and then there were none (novel)

murder on the orient express (novel)

she is the best selling fiction writer of all time there's too much to list here

mimic:

andre gide:

strait is the gate (novel)

trascendents:

arthur rimbaud:

illuminations (poetry collection)

the drunken boat (poem)

a season in hell (prose poem)

johann von goethe:

faust

the sorrows of young werther

paul verlaine:

clair de lune (poem, yes it did inspire the debussy piece, yes)

poems under saturn (poetry collection)

victor hugo:

the hunchback of notre-dame (novel)

les miserables (novel)

william shakespeare:

romeo and juliet (play)

a midsummer nights' dream (play)

sonnets (poetry collection)

the seven traitors:

jules verne:

around the world in 80 days (novel)

journey to the center of the earth (novel)

twenty thousand leagues under the seas (novel)

other:

natsume souseki:

i am a cat (novel)

kokoro (novel)

botchan (novel)

h.g. wells:

the time machine (novella)

the invisible man (novel)

the war of the worlds (novel)

shibusawa tatsuhiko:

the travels of prince takaoka (novel; unable to find translation)

dr. mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley

frankenstein (novel)

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #literature #dark academia #reading list #academia #i'm sure there's people i've missed but i did my best LOL #this also really throws into a stark contrast how relatively un-worldly american literary curriculums really are #obviously; it makes vague sense to focus american literary schooling on the western 'canon' bc so much of the english language #is influenced by it and the 'culture' is more touched by it but HOLY SHIT does it just... astound me #how uneducated i am on even east asian literature (from wheremst i technically hail!!!) #i know like.... maybe 3?? 4??? chinese writers off cuff??? #like the only reason i even know anything about jpn literature is i got my minor in jpn so i read some stuff but WOWWWWW there's a wORLD. #the fact that i knew not a SINGLE work by most of these jpn writers but as soon as we got to the guild members #i didn't even have to fucking google/wiki -- i just KNEW off the top of my head #kinda fucked up tbh;;;; #anyway this list is massive but i think at least dipping my foot into some of the poems/short stories will be fun

[samuraijackpostdump]

dude I was looking through clips for a reference image and it literally makes me sick with anger that Genndy chose to portray Africa like That. Literally racist caricatures like come onnnn man. The worst part is that I really want to LIKE that episode aside from the art direction. His mentor is a very sweet guy and I like Jack’s little rivalry with the other kid. I dislike that Jack has to save everyone and the other tribe is portrayed even worse, but at least Jack isn’t fighting by his fucking self the whole scene. there was so much potential in this episode if Genndy hadn’t been so fucking racist with his character designs. I do not fucking understand why he chose to make them absolutely pitch black in color. That’s not what humans look like. It’s like how he colors Jack straight up yellow sometimes. I know during the time this came out it was not very likely for bigotry to get called out but that had to have made some people uncomfortable. Jeeeeesus Christ. The guy portrayed China more respectfully than he portrayed literally any other culture including Japan lmao. Actually I take that back he gave quite a few Chinese characters racist accents. The man wanted a ‘multiethnic’ feel to his show but could not fucking stop being white and racist for it

#samurai jack #I HAAAAATE ITTTT #I love the character of the African Chief I just can’t stand his fucking character design. you didn’t deserve that king #I say he didn’t portray Japan well bc he barely even did. it was like some hand wavey Vibe of Japan and nothing concrete #he at least bothered to portray Shaolin monks without just making them aggressively Chinese #Genndy straight up knew more abt China than he did Japan bc there are SO many times #where what Genndy thinks is a Japanese culture thing is more just him considering all East Asians the same #listen I love samurai jack but I think it got away with this a little too easily. I think Genndy should get some flak for that #that whole ‘great ancestors’ prayer is cool and all but Jack wouldn’t be praying to them like in fucking Mulan. that’s not his religion. #in Japanese culture you can and do pray to your ancestors but not like. in the middle of nowhere in battle? #it made for a cool moment to show Jack wasnt abandoned by his culture but it was. not even a little accurate LOL #I GGUESS the argument could be made Jack was just sending a little prayer up but it still felt. off #not even people in China prayed like that to nebulous ancestors in the sky LOL #it’s just kind of an orientalist thing. idk maybe Genndy pulled the idea from somewhere like most of his Jack scenes but #it’s not Japanese in nature LOL #I can see it coming from a Conan scene. a goood chunk of Jack was inspired by Conan #anyway. the most accurate fucking Japanese culture scene was when the Jack robot was praying to what he could scrounge up as a small shrine #and it WASNT EVEN REAL JACK.

[sfit-canteencleaner]

''He's my special boy.''

Baymax: While I'm a personal healthcare companion, I'm not overprotective according to Tadashi's programming. I will take care to keep human beings safe, but I also encourage them to try, something new.

Still Baymax(S1E23): Hiro, I have finished my risk-assessment of your unsanctioned final project, there is an eighty percent chance of failure, within that eighty percent, there is a ninety-six percent chance of disastrous failure. I have concerns, I will list them now. One, fiery explosions--

#big hero 6 #big hero 6 the series #baymax #hiro hamada #Bayhiro #Hiromax #Just some East Asian special feeling #Hiro: Although he didn't say it I knew he meant to stop me

[captainamsel]

Many people have noted the numerous parallels between Zhu and Mizu that go beyond superficial things like "big triangular hat". Presenting as male from a young age to survive, terrified of anyone finding out, high body count, singular focus on their own goal... But something about their approach to gender feels very different to me and I think it's this: For all that gender performance matters for Mizu, I don't think they care one bit for gender identity. Mama says he should be a boy so he's a boy. Mama says she should be a woman so she's a woman. Mama is dead and revenge is easier as a man - man. But for Zhu, identity is everything. To be Zhu Chongba, Zhu not only has to convince other people, but Heaven itself, which does not merely mean acting as Zhu Chongba would, but being him and believing it to her very core.

#neither of them become boys in the first place for male privilege! that's entirely secondary to the initial goal of survival! #and survival means being someone specific (zhu chongba) for zhu #and NOT being someone specific (a half-white girl with a bounty on her head) for mizu #I knew people said they'd be similar but I am glad the parallels go beyond east asian protagonist becoming a man for survival #anyway don't @ me about pronouns they're a game we play with society and these are fictional characters #also no spoilers I'm only halfway through she who became the sun #she who became the sun #blue eye samurai #mizu bes #zhu chongba #the radiant emperor

[thewingedwolf]

He’d thought it remarkable, to have found two, when in his heart he’d always believed there was only one perfect woman out there for him. His heart had been right. There was only one.

Some non Lily James fancasts for Sophie Beckett!

Adelayo Adedayo - of Some Girls fame, and I’d love to see her again

Mei Mac - a stage actress who recently got some buzz in a Shakespeare production

Oona Chaplin - possibly a little too famous for Bridgerton given the projects she’s done but I think she’d make an excellent romantic lead

Mandip Gill - who didn’t love her in Doctor Who

Anjli Mohindra - best known for The Sarah Jane Adventures and a standout bit in Bodyguard

Katie Leung - Cho Chang from Harry Potter. It would be such a fun comeback role for her!

Susan Wokoma - from Enola Holmes, another Netflix original

Neelam Gill - a model, but she’s been trying to break into acting for years, much like a lot of the actors they’ve cast

#sophie beckett #benedict bridgerton #bridgerton #susan wokoma #katie leung #oona chaplin #adelayo adedayo #neelam gill #mandip gill #mei mac #anjli mohindra #i wanted some dark skinned actresses bc we haven’t had any as Thee romantic lead #and some east asian and latino actresses for the same reason. also someone not super skinny #i also tried to keep it to like. actresses i thought were realistic picks. slight unknowns and netflix actresses. again minus oona but the #thing is i love her also they got michelle fairley to do a season maybe they’d get oona too #rani graphics #not that this was intensive it took me like 10 minutes #also i thought ben barnes was too famous for s&b but i think he took the role bc he knew he was a popular fancast and liked the role so. #anyways i’m just mad bc oona chaplin deserved better in got i want her to be in a period piece again!!! #i’m very excited for season four can u tell.

[mundycide]

tbh I think growing up in georgia, most of student body was half/half white n black kids and then ONE hispanic kid(who was my art rival....Victor Garcia the man that you are...) and ONE Muslim kid who dropped in around the time I was in 6th grade.

#sometimes im so shocked i only knew One hispanic kid at all #omg im also remembering there was also like only One east asian kid too....christina.... she was cool and nice

[ghoul-haunted]

oh lmao they actually cast filipinos in this korean show I was wondering if they were going to do brownface or some shit like that one hong kong drama did last year

#i dont trust east asian media with the philippines. man i dont even trust east asian americans with the philippines. #y'all remember when lucy liu said she didn't want to get too tan bc she didnt want to look filipino. anyway. #i knew epy was cast but you never know for all the extras ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #and it looks like they filmed in the philippines too! we love to see it folks #with the amount of money filipinos spend on korean entertainment the literal least you could do is film on location tbqh

[pinkfey]

do u ever see a picture of a celebrity after a long time and they look just a little bit off or weird and you’re like ah fuck not you too

#u know what i mean?? #like i knew miss grande went under the knife way before her new east asian persona because she just looked Off #anyways.txt

[lemonlovemeanslove]

All my racially ambitious people, tag the ethnicities you have been mistaken for

#when I was younger it was thai #now its moslty pakistani #like thats the no1 #desi #Indonesien #Malaysian #i get those when I wear a face mask #egyptian #something arab maybe #i dont get arab as much tho #there was ONE lady who instantly knew it was something white/black #bc her kids were the same mix #most people here probably also think im south east asian

[busylilbee]

I just remembered that I once got called up to the office of the community theatre I volunteered at and got asked if my brother could sing at all and if my mom was available for the upcoming show. Because my mom is east Asian and my brother and I are half. And they literally could not find any Asians at all to fill the 3 Asian parts in the show.

#spoiler alert my brother could not do it #like he had the abilify to do it hut it was too stressful #so the 2 chinese boy roles were played by 2 at least partly hispanic kids #i think #i only knew one of them and idk his exact heritage but it definitely wasnt anywhere in asia lol #my mom did agree to do the mom part #she just had to run on stage at the end and call her 2 sons names and they ran happily to her #whats HILARIOUS is that we were going to be out of town for the last 3 shows #so not only did we have to find people to fill our backstage roles #but also the tall 20 something white costume designer filled my moms role as the chinese mother #yes the musical was thoroughly modern millie #i forget this happened and then remember and laugh #this is what happens when you need to fill ethnic roles in the american south i guess #i cant believe in our whole city they couldnt find a single asian boy to play one of those parts #maybe they just didnt ask around enough #bc 3 of my brothers friends were fully east asian or at least looked it #but to be fair that was not the norm #most asians in that city were indian or filipino #anyways this production was hilarious and when i remember how i got called up and strategically asked about my brothers abilities #i laugh #i was like #i mean yes he CAN sing and dance bc we were in a performing troupe in elementary school for a few years #but he is currently a deeply stressed and anxious teenager so #dont get your hopes up #personal #i miss that theatre though it was really fun

[ayowotsdis]

So, the Asian dad stance of them watching TV standing with their hands behind their back is a thing across the whole continent?

#i knew it was a thing #but #i didn’t know it was the same #across the whole #continent #asian #asian dad stance #asia #south asian #south east asia #south asia #east asia #west asia #desiblr #east asian #west asian #dad stance #father

[nerozane]

Probably not gonna edit that post since if i do i'm gonna be spending hours looking up sources (damn my obsession with historiography). But growing up in australia, there's barely an opportunities for non-white folks to do australian productions in theatre/film/tv.

#nerozane rants #even drama within my own asian circles weren't encouraged and laughed at #I knew asians got bullied out of drama unless it's like. super traditional beijing opera and you can only do it if you're GOOD #this is my experience with east asian/viet groups #it's last decade that bipoc are making their own productions and it's super saddening we have to make our own opportunities

[kuiinncedes]

ahhhhh

#ni/mona thoughts y’all LOL #actually before the ni/mona thoughts #we watched pu/ss in boots tonight w glowstick club which was actually so good i knew nothing abt it #and i wasn’t expecting much tbh but i keep seeing it like in posts w ni/mona and across the s/piderverse as like just amazing movies #that happen to be animated hehe but yeah anyway pu/ss in boots (the last wish) was rly good :D #but we voted on the movie to watch and nim/ona was one of the options and obv i just want to rewatch that lol #but now i’m fucking rereading a fic for the like 5th time and i’m like fuck #if we watched that idk how i would feel trying to not reveal how not normal i am abt this movie XD #my friend read the graphic novel before and she was kinda like graphic novel superiority kinda thing #which i totally get and i used to be that to an annoying degree lol 🤩 #but like i loooove the movie fuck i love the movie and it made me slightly not rly interested in reading the graphic novel #like from what i’ve heard abt it LOL like i just want these soft gay knights and shit idk man #AND AND what’s soooooooo fucking compelling to me in the movie is their RACE I LOVE THE POSTS ABT RACE IN THE MOVIE IT MAKES ME GO CRAZY #ITS SO GOOD and like i’m pretty sure they’re all white in the graphic novel i haven’t looked into it but ik it was changed might b wrongtho #but anyway like ik it’s different obviously and i’ve seen that the story is just fundamentally pretty different and for different audiences #but yeah i’m losing my point LOL i fucking love the movie <3 and imma keep reading movie fic and probably not the graphic novel sndbdhdjdjdh #i would love to watch it w my club but i wonder if i’ll say anything CD #*XD like DID U GUYS KNOW THIS WAS VOICED BY EUGENE FROM TRY G/UYS DID U KNOW HE WAS CHANGED TO EAST ASIAN #DO U SEE THE MODEL MlNORITY MYTH ALLLLLL OVER HIM #DO U THINK ABT HIM BLEACHING HIS HAIR FRIM CHILDHOOD #i’m so normal abt a fucking gay knight named ambr/osius goIdenIoin BRO #anyway LOL while we were watching last wish the death guy was kinda scary and me and another friend were both like creators out by him #it was so funny i love her sm lmfao 😭😂 i brought up watching en/canto and being creeped out by it too and she was like same #idk it was just good it was so fun we were just like kids animatedmovies need to be less fucking creepy bro like imma have nightmares XD #meanwhile my other friend like 😐 y’all fr #HEHE I LIVE IN THE SAME BUILDING W FRIEND WHO WAS ALSO CREEPED OUT BY KIDS ANIMATED MOVIES (just to identify her in this post LOL) #I LIVE IN THE SAME BUILDING AS HER NOWWWWWWWW 🥰🥰🥰🥰 #also our unit is lowkey at like . street level which is fun LOL #but it’s ok c: anyway bro idk why i’m saying so much lmfao bye gonna finish rereading this fic and sleep dhffhdjbxxjd #jeanne talks

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

sorry wtf did I just learn?? im in class rn you can't just tell me this

tw: death, mental health

he passed away? im not even sad yet I think, im just so shocked right now. its just so sudden and startling

it's not confirmed yet but the fact that it seems like more people are committing suicide recently is so alarming but sadly not super shocking

I wasn't into kpop (and was too young for these topics) back 5-7 years ago when it seemed to peak, but this is honestly such a huge issue

not even just kpop itself, but Korean (and asian/specifically East Asian) cultures of just work work work & how taboo mental health is. I hope this can at least lead to more and more conversation being able to open up around mental health & safety, but its devastating that this is what has to happen for it to be taken seriously

but this truly does just keep happening because no steps are being taken to fix it. so it just keeps going in cycles every few years

#I wasn't even really into them #but I knew enough and I knew all the members #this is just such an upsetting thing #and as a east asian (even if I didn't grow up in the culture) I still feel that intense pressure #and I just can't even imagine that #jae’s thoughts #kpop #astro #moonbin #tw death #death tw