#south asians are asian too

[pbnmj]

i deserve a spider-woman nepal..... miles doesn't have to be the only teen spider with a terrible bisexual mentor (enter my own sketches of the world's most annoying spiderperson, who i fling towards pavitr, complete with a design that's subject to change)

#geeta methodically puts on all her jewelery before going out as spiderwoman <3 u cant fight crime if u are not cute #spidersona #of sorts? i think but everyone should have expected this from me. there was no way sony was going to give me spiderman india #and not receive spiderwoman nepal (THE KATHMANHATTAN JOKE IS TOO EASY) in response #im tackling south asian unity one spidersona at a time! #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman #my art #also ofc one specific mention to demigod-of-the-agni who inadvertently triggered my actual posting of geeta #who was just supposed to stay in my psd files forever..... #mythic mumbattan au my beloved. hindu mythology my beloved. genuinely so so cool to see and it enabled me being self indulgent on this blog #for some extra context: im very much still workshopping her and me and my nepali friend were drawing her tgt #as in she would say something and i would hurriedly scribble/sketch it down #and then i kept kinda building on it. ofc i could not resist being inspired by the comics noirverse #so here she's also gifted her powers by a goddess (durga!!!!!) and almost works w her like a much less deranged moon knight. yeah... #don't look too closely at these pls . the design/sketching/etc is kind of everywhere #edit: forgot to adjust colors so theyre up again and a little more vibrant nyeow....

[sweet-potato-42]

cool fun fact for sunday

East Asia and South of South America are Antipodes meaning that they are in completely opposite points on the globe.

This means that when Acau joins we will have ccs in oppolise places playing together. People who physically could not be further away from each other.

The ones in buenos aires would be the furthest but i doubt Carre will play so I think cellbit or bagi are next. (idk where exactly they live but I'm pretty sure they come from the south of brazil)

Here is a map of the world showing antipodes. The areas in orange are perfectly opposite to each other.

#qsmp #hope when chinese speaking streamers get added we can get carre on as well so we have someone in Beijing and in Buenos Aires being together #they are both nearly opposite as well #alternativelly we could get someone in Peru and South East Asia #Or in Spain and New Zealand #Colombia/ venezuela and Indonesia too #ahh cant wait for more Asian CCs and mroe south american CCs #Taiwan and paraguay #Brazila dn the philipines but that part of brazil is fairly uninhabited (the coast has most people) #Chile and central china too

[miyuecakes]

funny enough i've never drawn male nepal and sri lanka

#hws sri lanka #hws nepal #aph sri lanka #aph nepal #hetalia #hetalia oc #hws south asia #idk. ive been feeling uninspired about their designs for a year now #also yeah i recycled one of lebanon's old hairstyles for nepal lmao cause i still liked it but i thought it didn't fit the former #plus it was too similar to jordan #it works because this style is just basically a short hair ver of fem nepal's hair down #almost all of south asia has gotten a face lift these this past year and a half.....maldives and bhutan are next #i made south asia in like 2018 or 2019 #isnt that crazy? #i think i'm particularly fond of my south asian designs despite starting with SEA because they basically grew up with me #as the 2nd region i designed

[musiquesduciel]

Patting Zoya Akhtar's back for casting a dark-skinned actress to play the rich, desirable, popular mean girl in The Archies (2023) when a light skinned Khushi Kapoor was available to play that role but instead did not.

#Suhana Khan is so pretty and I'm so glad she wasn't the girl on the sides. This is representation too. #Also this is not to say Khushi isn't brown - she is as brown as Suhana. I'm talking strictly in terms of skin colour here. #the archies #suhana khan #khushi kapoor #vedang raina #agastya nanda #zoya akhtar #desi #brown #bollywood #desiblr #brown culture #hindi #south asia #south asian #riverdale #archie comics #reggie mantle #veronica lodge #betty cooper #archie andrews #jughead jones #bollywood2 #indian

[ayowotsdis]

I have seen a lot of posts about Robin and Ramy. But let's for a moment focus on Ramy's identity. A bengali MUSLIM as one of the big characters in a fantasy/academia novel? That is neat and all. But I want to discuss how BANGLA was never one of my Ramy's language to be studied at Babel. Like that's his mother tongue. And I know my blood boiled a little when Babel had him study Urdu instead of Bangla. And if you know the historical context behind my anger, you know WHY I'm angry. These days I see a lot of west bengali Hindus (not all obviously) saying that bengali Muslims are not bengali (especially Bangladeshis) like, firstly Bangladesh fought to SPEAK bangla. We got killed for wanting to speak our language. So when I see the earlier seeds of the British in Ramy's education, I want to sob. Bangla is quite the complex language and we have always been rather intellectual. It pains me that even myself, a proud bengali, my bangla has weakened. Let us please avoid Ramy's faith.

#babel rf kuang #babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #rf kuang #representation #bengali #bangladesh #i am bangali too #ramiz rafi mirza #south asian

[kaalbela]

Please elaborate why or why not in the comments/reblogs. You can send me an ask too if you don't want to under your username.

#remaking this i set it for a day sorry #that one person who voted please vote again 😭 #nepalis and sri lankans im sorry ik you are desi too but here i exclusively mean Indians pakistanis and bangladeshis #but it wont fit in the word limit #desi tumblr #desiblr #desi tag #desi #india #pakistan #bangladesh #south asia #south asian #polls

[burinazar]

Oh, wait, wait, ok, I can tell tumblr my news now.

I was accepted into the JET Program and will be moving to Japan for one year starting in late summer to teach English. : )

I don't know how many other applicants have ever had either of my specific application 'angles'. I think they were both pretty weird, but also very, very me, and I'm pleasantly surprised that they seemed to have worked, going off both by the acceptance and the very positive and warm reactions I got during the interview I had. These were:

Science/scicomm/museum background + implying mutual interest in and love of like insects and sea life could be an avenue of intercultural connection and exchange

India and Japan have always struck me as weirdly similar in ways nobody seems to discuss, especially in both being simultaneously hurtling into modernity and deeply traditional/conservative in many ways and places

So. Is this a silly idea considering most people in this program are fresh college grads, and people my age are expected to maybe be getting more settled rather than hopping continents? Is this a scary idea, considering I'll have to uproot all my shit and go exist in a foreign country whose language I really don't know beyond miniscule smatterings? I mean, hmm, yes on both counts, but I'm very excited. On count one, I'd only get older in the future and demonstrably *don't* already have a settled life and career here to disrupt (lol), and on count two...guys, I'm so so tired of letting fear and inertia make my life decisions.

Time to pack up and store most of my shit and end my lease and. Yeah. Also I haven't actually been to India in five years and will probably try to visit my relatives there in the coming months since idk if i'd had an opportunity for a prolonged visit in the future during the one year (at least) in jp. I'll also be probably selling, trading, or giving away a lot more of my hobby shit (that was sort of an ongoing project already but since I'll be unable to use most of it for a year plus it's another reason to do so), so uh, if you've ever wished I would sell any of my dolls now might be time to commit BJD Hobby Taboo and ask me lol. And, obviously, I'll be studying more Japanese, because mine is incredibly へたくそ at the moment. So much to do. But I'm really excited. And thank you to all of y'all that have been encouraging to me about anything related to this matter <3

#i don't know where they'll put me but i asked for ibaraki prefecture #during my research i became really endeared by the idea of The Prefecture Everyone Thinks is Ugly and Boring lol #seems like a good combo of 'not too far from urban things + cost of living + genuinely there ARE nice natural and cultural things there' #they could put me anywhere though lol #already one of my fandom friends from there wants to meet up ;; im so flattered #im obviously not going there to do doll and fandom bullshit but that stuff will be a nice bonus in off time #i have very little idea on what to expect specifically re japanese attitudes to south asian people and am interested to find out #and maybe be a bunch of kids' first exposure to both americans and south asians and like immigrants as a concept : 3 #keeping my expectations tempered though. It Could Suck #but it'll suck in a novel way and truly i thrive on novelty even though often i take the easy and familiar path to try to protect myself #just. aaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa scary but exciting im so excited

[foeofcolor]

So so many thoughts abt angel Torres and his survival and him tying himself down with barbed fucking wire to survive and how he got so LUCKY with the tarp and the wire and how its about that survival needs and takes pain to be accomplished.

#personal shit tm #angel torres #its cause im south asian too #my bi king #nope #nope (2022) #nope 2022

[victim-of-subtraction]

guys hear me out

in the ninjago movie Lloyd lost his arm right (he gets it back but Shh)

I just think it would be epic if he had a prosthetic or something

that’s just me tho so

#anyways south Asian jay is so real #his voice actor is so why cant he be #love kumail nanjiani #and he’s basically a nerd so it fits too!!! #(im Indian I can say that) #i love the movie sm #it’s my comfort movie fs #it was released like six years ago and I still think of it every day 😭 #found my place is such a good song #im listening to it while typing this #ninjago #lego ninjago #tlnm #the lego ninjago movie #lloyd garmadon #ninjago lloyd #movie lloyd #jay walker

[nais-doodles]

Pushing my ‘all the demons in the actor au are related’ agenda. They’re very roughly coloured don’t stare at them for too long.

Yes, that includes Gavin who you can see here

More of my actor au stuff here, though I warn you a lot is uncoloured 

#redacted audio #redacted asmr #redacted audio huxley #redacted audio actor au #actor au #redacted audio caelum #redacted audio vega #redacted audio avior #nais doodles #also pushing the 'they're south asian' agenda too bc I am south asian and i want to #my desi boys akdsjflkasdj

[xhanisai]

every time i (a mixed race girl) come across a post that’s basically saying that Marinette, a mixed race girl, isn’t Chinese enough, my urge to set hellfire on this world increases by 100000000%.

#ml fandom salt #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #this isn't just white people saying this shit i've seen non whites going around with this #and ofc it's always the americans #more like AMERICUNTS FUCKS SAKE #listen i don't mind if you're like 'ooo i like marinette with brown eyes or grey eyes' or if you're like #'hey i made this neat redesign of marinette and she looks a bit more chinese here' #BUT #i can't stand it when people go around saying SHE SHOULD LOOK/ACT more CHINESE #FUCK OFF #my family and I are decendents of east asia and guess what SOME OF US HAVE BLUE EYES #and miraculous is a FICTIONAL show #judging someone's race by eye colour or eye SHAPE is stereotypical #i am not chinese enough to fit in china and i'm not british enough to fit in england and i'm not south asian enough to fit there or south #east asian enough to fit there DESPITE being a mix of all of this shit #like it is bad enough growing up being mixed and being told by so many people i'm not X enough #and now seeing my fave characters go through this shit too??? fuck off #ugh i'm so tired #fuck this fandom sometimes

[axel-slays-sometimes]

jaan chor, trafalgar law ♡ [please click for quality]

closeups (better quality) !! ⬇️

#for anyone wondering jaan chor means “love stealer” (but in the my love aka referring to my lover kinda way) #jaan is like. a petname #its written in bangla but it might work in hindi too idrk #meri jaan type shit except in bangla its amar jaan LMAO #trafalgar law #desi law #south asian generally #headcanon time! i love desi trafalgar law #see my vision #one piece #my art tag #fanart

[angelfic]

i’ll be going through the most traumatic life experience ever that would drive the common man to insanity and i’d still come out of it saying that a cup of tea could fix me right about now

#was this a little too british of me #my bad but i mean I’m south asian so I’m not that sorry #ni.txt

[bijoumikhawal]

"Biden is the best choice and he's actually really empathetic and reasonable but also you can't wait for a candidate that won't do genocide and war crimes because to become a presidential candidate you have to be willing to do that" see what you fundamentally don't understand is I'm not waiting for a candidate that won't do war crimes, because I know that. I cannot morally stomach this system, it's a joke to claim its democratic, and AMERICA DELENDA EST. this country is a plague on this Earth

#cipher talk #It's baffling because okay so you know how fucked up this is but you're behaving in a way that clearly indicates you want that this shambli #Disgusting empire to cling to life until after you're dead because it'd make /you/ uncomfortable and inconvenienced #To live through its destruction (the wealthier classes and more privileged experience lesser material changes in state collapse so long as #They aren't too highly ranked/involved in politics. A Sri Lankan wrote an article specifically addressing Americans about this) #It's so dehumanizing! People's blood is so cheap to you! You've just accepted its inevitable that genocide will happen! #Because of how the US operates! You can see no other future! It hardly matters to you! #You say this like the death of Palestinians of Yemenis of Syrians is someone else's dropped ice cream cone #You understand why people hate this country and you understand we deserve it but it just. Hardly matters to you #It feels like madness to watch this. It's disgusting #I keep thinking- it'd be so easy for you to justify my people being killed if violence broke out and it was in your favor #It's unlikely because. Well. America loves 'the church of the martyrs' #But you'd do it if that was favorable. You wouldn't think twice. You might feel a twinge in your heart but that's all #Because we aren't people to you! #We aren't all that important! Not important enough for you do anything more than 'well let's vote a blue in and do some protests' #What's a protest worth if you perpetuate the system and can't see a way out and don't try for a way out? #That's killing a man then putting flowers on his casket. It's /perverse/. #You get used to the idea that Africans die that West Asians die and that's just the way of the world. My g-d do you understand anything?? #I watch necrosis take hold my parts of my culture and I watch every good person I know be ground to dust under a military regime #I talk to my friend who got drafted and is trans and may never come out because if they do they can get arrested as a 'prostitute' #I watch the wild hope for the future I was introduced to over radio at 9 years old wither #I watch people risk it anyway because just past the fence they can see they know there are people there #I watch my neighbor to the south crumble and weep because our hands are bloody and it's in part because we bloodied them for the west #And you just think that's how things are. #Fascist white death cult mindset

[brightokyolights]

Hello to my fellow Desi people! I have heard that some desis/south asians consider themselves arab? And idk if this is maybe a usAmerican thing because of the lack of options on the census yada yada yada. Basically, I wanted to ask

#idk if this makes sense i really struggled wording all this and sorting the options dhsbdbjd hence having to squish continents together #i also wonder if it depends on religion too tbh like i could see muslims being more likely to consider themself arab #also if you are mixed and this is more complicated or any other reason i really apologise DX #REGARDLESS i want 2 kno #and if anyones curious personally i never would consider myself arab #le text post #poll #desi #south asian

[onelonelystory]

dude it's absolutely bonkers when like. thai or korean actors/musicians take even the shortest of breaks from idol life and all their media in the interim they're like 4 shades darker

#obviously colorism means that naturally fairer people get more work too but like #genuinely it's bonkers how much people are clearly having maintaining a fair complexion managed #like obviously it's the same in india everyone is avoiding the sun and doing permanent skin lightening and and and etc etc etc #I think people just tend to forget that like. south/south east asians generally aren't as fair as they're represented #and paying attention to how that is very much deliberately curated and enforced is kinda whack