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Fantasy Mission Force

迷你特攻隊 (1983)

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Reminder: Nick is still an asshole for not warning Rachel about his family, especially his mom.

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omg you’ve read erha! chu wanning and kevin day really are the same type of character. they’ve even got the same problem of making men insane and obsessed about them, often one-sided ways. 0.5!ranwan is really what kevriko would’ve looked like in the alternate universe where riko had as much power as taxian-jun huh

THE CHU WANNING OBSESSION BEAM IS REALLY just as crazy as kevin’s its really really really bad……. theyre so alike! strict teachers with no tact that make their pupils think they hate them…… i was immediately in love w chu wanning the moment he opened his mouth but even more so i think there are some little moments where he’s also so kevin day……. when he tries to make jokes but they come off rude and dry…… when he stumbles over casual affection…. chu wanning was even raised in a cult. its really fucking crazy how alike they are

AND YEAH 0.5 ranwan is remarkably kevriko to me like yeah my buddy riko moriyama WOULD make kevin wear an earring with his blood that doubles as an aphrodisiac. i also think the way txj was losing his grip on his sanity so he’d hurt chu wanning then immediately go out of his way to seek comfort from him… so kevriko………. does this make neil shi mei? lowkey i see it

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Exiles #78 (2006)

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Pōhutukaryl Cosplay as Rachel Chu Crazy Rich Asians

photoshoot with Ian Tan ICoN Cosplay Photo Fest Salamanca Square, nipaluna September 6 2024

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Crazy rich asians, 2018

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kevinmchale When good things happen to good people, jonmchu you deserve it all. wickedmovie is the perfect culmination of witnessing your rise over the past 20 years - your creativity and your kindness and your expertise are in every frame. How the hell you, Chris, and every single person in every depart pulled this off I will never understand. This story means so much to so many and I’m so excited for the world to see this because you did it right. Congrats on the baby girl! 💚🩷

Also, being able to see this with austineyes was the sweetest gd thing. He’s seen this show an embarrassing amount of times, has watched every trailer and bts video for the movie on loop. Watching him watch this movie was so special.

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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

While it would be nice for every story to be wholly new and completely unpredictable, there’s something satisfying about a film that uses genre tropes this well. Crazy Rich Asians is the best romantic comedy we’ve seen in a long time. It’s glamorous, romantic, gorgeous, hilarious, smart and expertly directed.

Economics professor Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) is travelling to Singapore with her boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding) for his best friend Colin’s wedding. There, she learns that Nick's family is among the richest in the country. Dismissed by many because they don’t believe she will fit in, Rachel becomes determined to prove them wrong.

I watched Crazy Rich Asians on a double-bill with Monster-in-Law because of the two pictures’ similarities. Basically, they share a plot but the execution makes them so different it’s like they have nothing in common. You can probably guess the story’s beats but there’s a twist to them that makes Crazy Rich Asians so much more. When you see Nick and Rachel together, they’re perfect. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. He’s wealthy but isn't insensitive to the problems of the common person and doesn't flaunt his riches. The performers have excellent chemistry. They’re both beautiful people. The camera doesn’t shy away from showing you Henry Golding without a shirt on and Constance Wu appears in several glamorous outfits that make her look like a princess. You like them as individuals. You like them even better as a couple. There’s no reason for Nick's mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh) to disapprove of them but she does. In her eyes, Rachel's upbringing means she will never fit in.

It’s not that Rachel grew up “poor” and that Nick didn’t. This film is deeper than that. Eleanor doesn’t approve because of the way Rachel was raised. Her parents were Chinese but she grew up in America. In Eleanor's eyes, Rachel could never understand the values the Young family hold so dearly. The opening scene shows Eleanor being discrimated against for being a foreigner. It generates sympathy for her. Seeing her judge Rachel later shows how much of a hypocrite she is.

You could dig deep into the film’s themes of old money vs. new money, of tradition and need to move away from them as well, the significance of the relationship between Astrid (Gemma Chan) and her husband, Michael (Pierre Png), or what it means to see a major theatrical release with an all-Asian cast, but ultimately, all of these are gravy. What you came for are some laughs and scenes of tenderness that will make your date want to hold your hand. That's what you get. The wedding Nick and Rachel attend is so beautiful and so glamorous. It radiates love so brightly it’ll bring tears to your eyes. It’s as romantic as attending a real-life wedding between two people you know are perfect for each other. You love seeing Nick and Rachel together. Seeing them having a great time with every luxury money can buy at their fingertips is rewarding.

There's so much going on with the cinematography, sets and costume designs you could watch the movie on mute and have a great time but then you’d be missing out on the comedy. Awkwafina (an actress who continues to impress with each film) delivers one big laugh after another. So does Ken Jeong - the funniest he’s been in years. Many of the side characters are quirky and memorable for their comedic values. The “serious” characterization is left to the main cast, with Eleanor coming off as particularly multi-faceted. She can afford to be. As in any fantasy, the leads have to be “perfect” to reinforce that anyone who doesn’t cheer for them is a villain.

Crazy Rich Asians is so enormously pleasing only those with a bone to pick against romantic comedies could dislike it. That said, I would agree with criticisms directed towards the conclusion. It’s a bit too long and does indulge a bit in some rom-com clichés. I'm mentioning this to show I'm not biased. The visuals, humor, drama and romance make Crazy Rich Asians a film you’ll be glad to return to over and over. It’s a terrific pick for date night. (August 7, 2020)

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Agnes Chu, Aoki Lee Simmons, Bing Chen, Havana Rose Liu, Kevin Lin and Kim Shui attend the Apex for Youth 31st Inspiration Awards Gala, 04/26/2023.

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SixtTthree or Bread and Circuses with Cheese

It has come to our attention that a surprising 37% of your species believe that your planet is flat.  There is a great deal of factual evidence against this and yet you believe.  We actually went out and did a special probing, not in Cambodia because they are way too smart for that, but in your United States (a misnomer if ever we saw one) somewhere south of the middle.  We wanted to get more…

[dayurno]

i think i’ve asked you this before but i recently got back into tgcf and don’t mu qing and feng xin radiate kevaaron energy. its real to meeeee

I BELIEVE IT CAN BE TRUE… before tsc i thought kevin was very mu qing in the head but after seeing how therapy has done wonders for him its really crazy that he might be…. more well adjusted than mu qing… better at relationships even…. its crazy.! BUT I DO i do see it quite well i actually think i can really get behind the idea of kevaaron being absolutely insufferable to each other and fighting all the time like fengqing. have you read erha? i think the kevin day-mu qing-chu wanning character trope has given me severe brainrot

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When is Capitalism Not Capitalism? - Kevin Carson, January 14th, 2016

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As used by right-wing apologists for “free market capitalism” (an oxymoron if ever there was one), capitalism is the source of everything good in the world — but also something that never existed. And it switches repeatedly back and forth from one to the other, every couple of sentences, in the same argument. I learned this from interacting with the right-libertarians who’ve been using the “anticapitalists with iPhones LOL” meme to troll the #ResistCapitalism hashtag on social media.

I cited Arthur Chu’s observation that “Capitalism didn’t make your iPhone. Workers did. Capitalism just determines how the rents are distributed.” In response, someone said “Capitalism created the freedom that allowed people to invent the iPhone.” I pointed out to them all the ways that Apple’s profits from the iPhone depend on the use of the state to restrict freedom, both directly by using “intellectual property” to impede free cooperation and replication of technology outside their corporate framework, and indirectly through state subsidies to the offshoring of production to countries where workers are easier to exploit. The would-be defender of capitalism immediately piped up “What do subsidies have to do with capitalism? That sounds more like government to me.”

Aha. So the iPhone demonstrates the wonders and productivity of “free market capitalism,” but all the state-enforced monopolies, subsidies and other government intervention that Apple’s actual profit model depends on are “government.” Gotcha.

Sorry, but you can’t have it both ways. You can use “capitalism” as the name either for an idealized free market system that has never existed in practice, or for the actually existing historical system that you’re an apologist for. You can’t do both. If you start with the corporate capitalism that Apple is part of, and then take away the historical legacy (and ongoing process!) of peasant land enclosure, colonialism and neo-colonialism, slavery, land and resource grabs, “intellectual property” and other monopolies, and restrictions on the free movement and association of labor… well, you don’t have much left.

If you want to argue that “real capitalism has never existed,” and repeat “That’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism!” like a broken record, fine. But you can’t turn around then and use the products of a transnational corporation like Apple as an example of capitalism. If you do, you’re either stupid or a liar. It’s that simple.

And when you get right down to it, “capitalism” is a really bad term for a free market system. The word originated in the early 19th century as a name for the real-world historical system of capitalism, that emerged from the late Medieval economy from about 1500 or so on. And the state was absolutely integral to the emergence of that system of political economy, and to the form it took. It was a system in which the state actively intervened in the market, in all the ways (and more) I listed two paragraphs above, and did so on behalf of capitalists.

The use of “capitalism” by self-styled “free market” advocates only came later. It was a word that already had a long history — a history, in Marx’s words, written in letters of blood and fire — and was clearly identified with specific class interests. So when Mises and Rand chose that word, a word with those bloody associations and class identifications as their name for the “free market” — and named their ideal system after capital, one particular factor of production, at that! — you damn well better believe they had an agenda, and knew exactly what they were doing.

Corporate capitalism is not the free market, no more than was Soviet state communism. Both capitalism and state communism are coercive systems of power that parasitize on the creativity and cooperative labor of freely interacting human beings, so that those in power — whether CEOs and coupon-clippers or commissars — can live off the products of ordinary people’s efforts and ingenuity.

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Pōhutukaryl Cosplay as Rachel Chu Crazy Rich Asians

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Crazy rich Asians, 2018