#*age

[lotusarchon]

Yknow I have this weird strange feeling that the infantalization of Nezha (not even just in lmk anymore☹️) is like 10 times more disrespectful than not believing he’s a permanent child. But hey, what do I know!

Hang on Anon, I'm a lil dumb so I think when you mean the infantilization of Nezha outside of LMK too, you mean the way people treat him as a child compared to people not believing he is a child god?

[small note; author isn't really in a proper thinking space, so his rambling below may not make any sense and holds no actual factual claims aside from his opinion and experience.]

If so, then I agree. While Nezha's age is more discussed in LMK (because I'm not really sure of other media outside of it), in general how he's treated as a deity by Western fans really disgusts me, as someone who once practiced an Asian religion myself.

As far as I know, Cole (not including Over sarcastic Productions or whatever their name is) is the ONLY person who made the statement Nezha is a 6-7/12 year old. I've heard that SEVERAL actual Daoists and Buddhists have come forward to refute him with FACTS of their own, yet not only have Western fans denied them, they also went as far as to doxx and harass them for disagreeing with Cole.

If you ask me my opinion about it? Western fans - I'm referring to the ones who are deadset on Nezha being a child god, not in general - cannot handle the idea they're wrong. They perceive Chinese people as innocent and not knowing any better, and they blatantly fetishize the culture for reasons I'm not even understanding of. They can't handle that they're wrong in their way of thinking, and I'm certain that they don't want too. Why would they? If they have to admit Nezha's a child, then they'll also lose their idea that Chinese people aren't soft uwu children but instead grown adults who are capable of thinking for themselves. If you know about Genshin Impact and the recent characters from Sumeru and Natlan, you can see it for yourself and the amount of blatant excuses used.

I know chronically online people exist, but there's something so disgusting about this headcanon about Nezha as a god's age. I'm not referring to any fandoms here, I mean Nezha himself as a deity, who's been worshipped for decades longer than the internet has existed.

My friend mentioned that the reason there's so much debate about his age is because he's by far the only god (to my knowledge) known to be worshipped as a child and an adult, but I don't think so. That's an excuse to weaponize incompetence and stupidity if you ask me. Ignorance is not an excuse to be disrespectful about a religion, and furthermore, it truly is only Western fans that are so defensive about Nezha being a child. I've only seen Eastern (?) fans who are involved to point out the misinformation, but not much else.

Again, this is merely a personal opinion of mine, but Western fans infantilize Nezha because they fetishize Chinese culture in general. It's much similar to those weeboos who yap and yap about Japan because of anime but not much else.

In my opinion, Nezha's their outlet into thinking Chinese people are innocent little creatures. Forcing them to acknowledge he's an adult means you have to acknowledge in the first place Chinese people aren't children.

It's kinda like how weeaboos (I forgot the term) will see Japan as the land of anime and cute polite people, yet they refuse to learn about the world wars and Japan's part in it because it'll ruin the image of an innocent group of people that creates their favorite anime or manga.

I might be ceaselessly rambling here, but really if you think about it, I don't think I'm too far off. I've seen it for myself- as a matter of fact, I've EXPERIENCED it. When I was a kid (9-10) that got into anime I didn't think a country like Japan would do anything like that either. When I got into History and started learning about world wars, I was horrified and didn't feel like continuing. That doesn't mean I haven't change, and now I'm completely numb to it, but that's pretty much how it is with some people.

People will argue that not treating him as an immortal child is disrespectful, but personally, INSISTING he's a child is FAR MORE disrespectful because HE IS NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER TO PLACE A HEADCANON ON. IF AN ACTUAL DAOIST/BUDDHIST POINTS OUT THEIR GOD IS NOT A CHILD DEITY, THEN HE IS NOT.

Nezha as a god is NOT something you can place a headcanon on. Stop acting like you know better, because you don't. If you aren't Chinese or Daoist, then respectfully, shut your mouth about the affairs regarding Asian religion, because it's invalid as fuck.

[emily-mooon]

Hey moots and followers!

[cowardlycowboys]

sooo funny to hear kids say "oh my god" like yeah dude

[quitefair]

I can’t wait to make my fuckin bronze dragonborn paladin when I download bg3 tmrw… I’ve been salivating for days now…. Yelling screaming crying throwing up…

[astronnova]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

(also here's the fic i was writing when it happened)

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[mediocre-megs]

honestly more media should portray the anti aging industry as horrific and decidedly unhuman. it IS body horror it IS grotesque it DOES go against nature. it WILL kill you. yes.

[mimi-maru]

[rocketcomics]

pure love

[willgrahamscock]

YOURE 30???????

yeah I mean i've been posting on tumblr since 2011, I'm part of the geriatric tumblrinas

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[usergwen]

Both kinds of Bioware girls got a lot of rep at the 2024 VMAs