#biracial things

[mxmorbidmidnight]

I had this event a while ago to do with celebrating culture and we were given the option to wear cultural dress. I’m half Scottish and Korean for context. I don’t have a full hanbok (traditional Korean dress) or a full kilt HOWEVER I did have a norigae from my halmeoni as well as a headpiece part of a traditional hanbok. As well as that I had a sash in the tartan of our family clan in Scotland that I wore with a kilt pin decorated with thistles (flower of Scotland) as well as the crest of our clan. From the kilt pin I attsched the norigae (hanbuk accessory), so I was basically walking around in half a kilt and less than half a hanbuk. Ridiculous? Perhaps. However I find joy in creating my own culture between my two backgrounds. I bear connection to my family and Korea as well as the clan in Scotland. I am equally Koran as I am Scottish and equally Scottish as I am Korean.

Join me next time when I wear a kilt over a hanbok—

*gets struck down by my ancestors*

[technically-human]

okay now please doodle Charles and Edwin’s wedding. Also love your art it’s so cute and loveable in a way

Sherwani for Charles and morning dress for Edwin, yay

ko-fi

And you get a little headcanon/concept

At some point during their friendship, way before Port Townsend, Charles mentioned the tradition of wearing gold at weddings. He did so in a sad sort of way, as he had seen the pictures from his parents wedding, and knew her mum had not been allowed to wear a lehenga nor many gold accessories.

Maybe, as these things are meant to bring happiness to the couple, he mentions that as a child he believed his parents marriage would have been happier if she wore those things.

Edwin starts to collect gold items. He doesn't analyze the reason, but if a case offers gold as payment? Edwin is taking it. Charles thinks nothing of it, it's just one of Edwin's quirks.

After his revelations in Port Townsend, Edwin will eventually realize a few things regarding his gold rush.

And they will have a lot of gold jewlery for their wedding day!

[1960z]

how people go about interpreting dr bashir I presume? really frustrates me sometimes ngl especially the “jules bashir died” scene.

like that whole scene is about julian revealing the depth of how deeply his augmentations fractured his sense of identity and who he is - which feeds into the themes of the whole episode surrounding how disability and then by extension disabled people are often viewed as a problem to be solved and because of that are often denied the ability to have fulfilling lives because the able bodied people around them don’t believe that they can.

but… idk, when the fandom talks about it there’s always seems to be a push to read a trans allegory into it that I don’t think is really there? I keep mulling over this post in my mind and when I initially reblogged it I didn’t really want to talk about this because the post is about how stories about racism can be hijacked by white people to be made about their own transness and it felt like as a white person, using that post to complain about ableism would be missing the point. but it really helped me articulate in my mind why the trans reading of this episode feels off to me because the same general principle seems to apply and that is taking a story trying to discuss a specific type of marginalisation and putting a trans reading above it because you can relate more to it personally.

“jules bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of having a son who didn't measure up!” this scene is the culmination of julian expressing his pain about what was done to him as a disabled child by his parents due to how they viewed his disability. but often when I see it being discussed, people aren’t really interested in talking about that. instead supplanting it with a trans reading instead which, in my opinion is an allegory that doesn’t even really work when you think about what’s going on in the broader context of the scene.

julian didn’t stop going by jules because he came to the conclusion on his own that the identity didn’t suit him similar to the way a trans person questions or rejects the gender they were assigned at birth, he stopped going by jules because he felt like the identity attached to that name was taken from him because of what his parents did. it’s not julian affirming who he wants to be it’s grieving over who he can’t be and to me at least, it’s honestly kind of harrowing.

and as an aside: when people read transness into a story about parents who change their child’s body and mind at a very young age without consent, which is literally a narrative projected onto trans people by transphobes to justify the curtailing of trans rights, that also doesn’t sit well with me. I think people latch onto this reading because of the idea of “killing a name” but again in the context of the whole episode the trans reading really doesn’t feel appropriate.

I think it’s okay for people to have trans headcanons about julian of course or literally any character they want to really, but I think saying that specific episode codes him as trans isn’t all that great honestly.

[should-be-sleeping]

Can you not?

[malkaleh]

To make a long story short - due to abuse reasons I only found out I was biracial and Mizrahi Jewish in my twenties and I could only come back to because I was so so sure I was not Jewish Enough, that I didn’t know enough. That being patrilineal meant I wasn’t.

But I remember listening to this and feeling as though I was home. In my soul, in my blood and bones - I was home. I am a biracial Mizrahi Jewish woman - Am Yisrael Chai - through my Persian and Syrian Jewish lines through my bio father, I am enough perhaps. And hearing a Persian Jewish musician sing, it made my heart ache and made me feel loved.

I am olive (trees and skin and..) and pomegranates and brown eyes and water and doves. I am a dancer with jasmine and roses twined in my hair and silk and cotton gowns. I am enough. I live. We live.

(I am my dads family too - those who lived in Poland once and then and then but I am Jewish)

[isawthismeme]

[bayetea]

seeing non-black people critique rick's portrayal of black characters is interesting sometimes. only like 30% of the critiques I see make any sense to me to be honest

[yaikat]

HAPPY 1K OMG ... uhhhhh draw a funny Archimedes

fuckingg. bird

[scoots-canoe]

more doodles including DBS tien & yam, tien opening a red envelope, haikyuuken, & Arab Yamcha (But the Artist Only Knows Basic Arabic)

[pro-royalty]

Cindy Kimberly

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Crazy how in 2024 as a mixed person I still constantly hear “well you’re not actually Korean” “you’re not actually Scottish” have you ever considered maybe, just maybe I am both? And I can be both? Have you also considered that it is in fact a beautiful thing that someone like myself born from two cultures on other ends of the world can exist? That I can wear my hanbok with pride one day and my clan tartan the next? That in this world we get to share our cultures with each other? That I can be made of thousands of years of tradition from both Korea and Scotland? Where is your whimsy boy.

[starrysharks]

i wonder if white people specifically white progressives realise that black people are only ever seen as their skin color first and foremost

[hanzajesthanza]

nooo like reading maria janion's such comprehensive overview of vampires and what defines a vampire and how the myth changes through times and authors, as entirely expected, has contributed to my regis brainrot.

because though it's obvious how many tropes regis subverts as he literally talks about himself, it's more overwhelming when they're all summarized focused on examples from across history and the literature canon, and pretty much hitting none of them or fucking with all of them. because it's not that he just doesn't fit in within his own fantasy universe, but that he doesn't fit in within the broader canonical definition...

"my personal vision of fantasy (...) he is not the typical vampire bloodsucker, according to the dictates of the canon" ... uggghhhh sapkowski, in his witcher, by challenging all genre expectations and tropes, creates all of these characters that don't fit in anywhere, neither in their universe or in the broader canon. and thus, can only find fraternity with each other

i was just reading like 'so... so he doesn't fit in *anywhere*... 🥺'. regis in baptism of fire explaining how he doesn't conform to either vampiric expectations of vampires (socially, for his personal principles) nor of human expectations of vampires (biologically, for his literal existence). but it even goes farther when you look beyond the witcher and to the broader literary and mythological canon. in practically every understanding of a vampire he would not be recognized as one of them... and does he even want to.

[undeadvinyls]

missed drawing these 2 a lot

[malkaleh]

recount it, peredhel

Gil-Galad regrets it as soon as the words leave him - he had been angry, worried and hurt and it had all arrived in a snarling, small prejudice that had always been an undercurrent around Elrond and Elros. Of not being one or the other, of being half and half and half again - of the faces of so many who had been lost.

He had been angry and worried and his heart had ached for Elrond and how little he seemed to feel valued, to feel that he was loved and yet, yet Erenion had not put his love for the son of his heart into words, had instead hurt him. Had almost, for a moment, wanted to hurt him so that he might see that Elrond felt something for him still.

And now, now he may never see him living.

My little nightingale - how did you treasure him, High King? Not at all, I say for the way you wounded him - I could feel it, in his fea, in his tears. But then, you never saw his tears - he was not meant to be free, to be so cast aside by you. He belongs to me.

It is a whisper in his mind and it is words, Saurons words. There would be no ransom offered and no demands met but Gil-Galad would have paid it. There is a part of him that can only weep to Nienna that he does not have to make such a choice.

He thinks of Elrond, so fragile in Saurons hands and Ai, would that The Abhorred was before him.

@nocompromise-noregrets @self-destructinganimal

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

One of the reasons the Dursleys refused to associate with Lily and barely even know her husband and son's names is because she married a Black man and had a Black son.

And they're so ashamed of Harry when he comes to live with them not solely bc of the possibility that he has magical power but simply because he is Black and having a Black person in their household (not their family because they don't treat him like family) is a source of shame to them.

So they treat him like a servant and tell everyone he's a criminal whom they are attempting to reform out of the goodness of their own hearts. AND ALL THEIR NEIGHBORS BELIEVE THEM even tho Harry is the kindest, most generous, most polite child in the world!!! Everybody is soooo ready to think he's a bad egg, and it doesn't end at Hogwarts even tho everyone there has magical power too. The fickleness and disloyalty with which so many of Harry’s peers treat him when he is smeared by the press or puts a toe out of line at school!!

Dumbledore's thumb up his ass attitude toward the Dursley's abuse and grooming Harry to believe it's his duty to die for the cause HMMMMMMM!