#but it’s also not The Most Evil and Problematic Book ever y’know?

[oscargender]

Heartbreaking: “problematic” danmei everyone told you to avoid is actually pretty decent and has mildly interesting things to say about poverty and class

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Top 7 Comfort Movies

I was tagged by @nilo2207​ and I like talking about films, SO!

Fair warning, this is 100% Star Trek free, because I’m not a huge fan of Star Trek movies to the point that I haven’t even watched a chunk of them. (Star Trek is my comfort TV, though.) Also fair warning, I’m comforted by odd things, I guess.

In no particularly order. Except the first one, which is definitely my favorite comfort movie.

Seven Samurai

Um, Kikuchiyo is one of my favorite characters of all time, and his little friendship with Heihachi that was cut so short is so important to me. Like, I get that it’s some cinematic masterpiece or whatever, and I love it for all that kind of stuff too, but I’m mostly just emotionally attached to these characters. Also, it’s three hours long, so when I need a big chunk of time to not think about my issues, this helps me a lot.

Vevet Goldmine

Well, y’know. I was a  small queer child in a small Texas town when I first saw this and my whole life changed. Also i just love it. I love it. It’s kind of trash and problematic but I love it. The soundtrack also is a comforting thing.

Akira

Look, I know this movie is not... that comforting for most people probably. But the animation is so gorgeous! And I watched it about a thousand times as a child, so I don’t know what to tell you except this isn’t even the only thing with body horror on this list.

Less Than Zero

Um, this movie is Not Good and the author of the book is a DICK, but I can’t help it. The 80′s colors, the melodrama, the young Robert Downey Jr. and James Spader... The heart wants what it wants, even if it makes me a bad queer and a bad socialist.

Tuff Turf

Speaking of REALLY AWFUL MOVIES with RDJ and Spader, here’s a movie that is literally the stupidest ever, but I enjoy every second of it. It’s so bad. So stupid. So amazing.

Evil Dead (1981)

Here’s my other “comfort movie” with body horror. I don’t know what to tell you. Evil Dead was a little scary and a lot funny, but not trying as hard to be funny as the sequels, so for me it is perfect. Also Bruce Campbell is best.

Every Star Wars Movie

I’m so sorry for doing this on my Star Trek blog, but Star Wars is the only thing I love like I love Star Trek... I will enjoy it regardless of how bad it is. But Star Wars films are more enjoyable than Star Trek films for me. But Star Trek shows are better than anything from Star Wars? Yeah. I just love both so much I’m sorry.

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Look, the reason Asian-Americans get so upset about whitewashing in American movies when people living in Asia doesn't, is because Asian-Americans ARE AFFECTED BY AN ALREADY IMPOSSIBLY TINY MARKET FOR ROLES. It's based in a really long and shitty history of racism so of course people are going to be up in arms about roles for Asian characters being taken by white people that already have a huge pool of roles to choose from and nobody telling them that they're not good enough for them. 1/2

2/2 If you could almost only be cast as ‘sexy exotic woman’, 'evil martial arts villain’, 'mysterious oriental martial arts master’ or 'sexless butt of the joke’ you’d also be upset at roles where your people get to be heroes, romantic leads and main characters getting twisted around to cast white actors because they are supposedly seen as more 'desirable’ and 'marketable’ than Asian-American actors. So yeah, Japanese natives doesn’t care because it doesn’t affect them and their careers.

… I read this three times and I swear I tried to come up with a nice response, but I don’t know if it’d be nice according to you so whatever. Never mind.

These are all fair points but you know what’s the fucking problem?

That at least on here, y’all market this as **cultural appropriation** other than whitewashing. and you wanna know something? let’s just use g*host in the shell since I guess it was what kickstarted it.

‘g*host in the shell is a JAPANESE MEDIA FRANCHISE’

JAPANESE MEDIA FRANCHISE

JAPANESE MEDIA FRANCHISE

JAPANESE MEDIA FRANCHISE

where does it read japanese-american or asian-american? nowhere. so if you care about the **cultural appropriation** behind it, the japanese’s opinion comes before anyone else’s at any time because they came up with the franchise. it’s their stuff, not yours. and if they think that americans making horrid movies out of their stuff isn’t inherently problematic then you should listen to them for a moment, or the chinese, or whatever, but no, because whenever I hear this argument it’s all ‘but it’s about US and not about THEM’ when you’re… talking about things that… they created. now, there’s stuff and stuff - the netflix death n*ote movie looks like an americanized dumb clusterfuck but uhm I haven’t seen that many people complaining about it (is that because one of the racebends is that a character became black? who the fuck knows), but like if the show itself then is inherently racist or sucks then by all means complain, if it’s not and it doesn’t suck and y’all just out to complain for the sake of complaining (not mentioning what I’m thinking of but everyone who’s been around here understood it I fear) then idk ask yourself a few questions and give yourself a few answers.

because I’m honestly fucking tired of americans-anything complaining about X media being problematic because it’s not representative enough for *their* needs and blaming it on cultural appropriation when the people from that actual culture don’t give a fuck.

other than that:

Asian-Americans ARE AFFECTED BY AN ALREADY IMPOSSIBLY TINY MARKET FOR ROLES

point taken, and then why every time I see a show with Asian-Americans in it or with Asians in parts that are their ethnicity or the likes no one on this shit hole of a website gives two fucks about it? I mean, idk, THE THREE FIRST THINGS THAT COME TO MIND:

marco polo. one white character (and they hired an Italian to play an Italian you don’t even know how happy we were everyone on italian tumblr watched it), everyone else in the cast had Asian heritage if they weren’t Asian tout-court, it was done fairly well, people didn’t even speak English all the time, canceled after two seasons while every other netflix show in existence gets renewed for at least three or four and on tumblr everyone was crying about OMG THERE’S A WHITE MALE LEAD (wow, italians are white…?) and who cares if everyone else was not white and had a+++ arcs/storylines.

the great wall. lol this one was amazing, y’all complained for months about white-saviorism and whitewashing even if IT WAS DIRECTED BY A CHINESE DIRECTOR WHO’S BEEN IN THE BUSINESS SINCE THE FUCKING EIGHTIES WHO USED CHINESE ACTORS OTHER THAN NOT AND SHOT IN CHINA, when it came out I’ve seen one post (ONE) by someone asian-american who said that actually it was a good movie and didn’t do any white-saviorism and the main character was actually a chinese woman who saved the day and wow, it tanked and none of y’all went to see it. (but when tumblr went up in arms about mad max fury road you all went even if it was mostly white actors, but that one was a feminist action movie and this one… apparently was not because matt damon was in it. okay.)

fresh off the boat. I’ve see gifsets from that show maybe thrice from people of asian heritage (tho I think a few lived in Europe) and a few posts like OMG IT’S A SITCOM JUST WITH ASIAN-AMERICANS DEFYING STEREOTYPES IT’S LOVELY WATCH IT. okay, have I seen the whole of tumblr supporting it? blah. no. it’s still on the air so I guess people watch it so yay for them but like, where’s the support for it? idk. never saw it. most probably never will.

bonus: the 1*00 has actually more non-whites (including asians) in its main cast but everyone wanks about it and wants to quit it when they kill off white characters and fuck me if I’ve been lurking in that fandom for a year or so and I only see people talking extensively about monty when discussing a non-canon ship he’s part of when in theory both him and the other party are otherwise engaged (and both canon ships get ignored hahahaha but we all want more interracial canon relationships right?). now that show is hardly perfect when it comes to *representation TM* (like monty and his mom are both asian-americans but from two different nations originally but WHATEVER) but I mean, support what you have so they do better after maybe??

extra bonus: it’s not a role it’s a cartoon but pls also go after people in the v*oltron fandom who are fixed on thinking that if you have two asian characters they have to be related somehow? anyway, nevermind.

I could also rant about how everyone on here hates c*lint eastwood and forgets he made gran torino (which had plenty hmong actors and was not at all racist actually all the congrary but who cares), or letter from iwo jima ie the least american-centered war movie I’ve ever seen (from americans) with all japanese actors (or japanese-americans) entirely shot in japanese, but who cares. I could rant about how every piece of media I consume that has canon well-written minority characters (not just asian-american) gets thoroughly ignored seven times on ten on this hellhole of a website, which is a thing that happens whatever y’all say.

I could rant about a lot of things, but just the fact that you say ‘WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT WHAT THE JAPANESE OR THE CHINESE OR THE KOREANS THINK ABOUT ADAPTATIONS FROM THEIR OWN MATERIAL BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS IS HOW IT AFFECTS US AMERICANS’ is making me fucking want to punch a mirror because y’all are going like

and honestly, it’s US-centrism all over again.

is there a problem with asian-american casting? sure. so WATCH THE THINGS WHERE THERE ARE ACTUAL GOOD ROLES FOR ASIAN-AMERICANS, ignore g*host in the shell if that’s what you want (honestly I don’t even give a fuck about that movie, I haven’t read the manga and I don’t even know if it’s actually racist or not and I don’t care because I don’t want to go watch it) and put your money where your mouth is and go support the things that actually give you what you want, because if you don’t then you’ll get stereotypes forever because majors won’t invest money in things that they know won’t return that fucking money. marco polo tanked? see when netflix comes up with another show with the same cast again. I doubt it will in the next five years or so. but whatever, I really doubt y’all give a fuck when you can have a few nice witch hunt and go against stuff that is popular or rant about how appropriative i*ron fist is when the chinese don’t particularly care about that either and when they haven’t whitewashed characters that weren’t originally, y’know, white. but okay.

people are going to be up in arms about roles for Asian characters being taken by white people 

fair, except that I’ve seen people suggesting l*ucy liu for that role as well. lucy liu has taiwanese origins. the character is japanese. if you want r*inko kikuchi then you have a point, if you want someone who’s not originally japanese to play the characters because they’re asian so it’s all the same…. do I have to finish the damned sentence or do we all get where I’m going at?

you’d also be upset at roles where your people get to be heroes, romantic leads and main characters getting twisted around to cast white actors because they are supposedly seen as more 'desirable’ and 'marketable’ than Asian-American actors

yeah, and every time I see a show or movie where asian characters are all that, as stated above, they tank or no one cares about that show or no one cares about that character.

putting your money where y’all mouth is, again? or should I remember the times people wanted the 1*00 to get canceled because a white lgbt character got killed when at the same time it has representation for a whole bunch of other groups including a canon interracial gay ship that no one gives a fuck about and a canon interracial het ship everyone hates because both go in the way of the interracial fanon m/m ship? (one of which is asian btw but lol as if I ever saw anyone advise ppl to watch the 1*00 because monty is in it. btw he’s a main character.)

Japanese natives doesn’t care because it doesn’t affect them and their careers.

given all of the above this is just so - so terribly US-centric I don’t even know how to start to address it. hey, the japanese opinion about a movie made out of a japanese comic book/franchise is irrelevant because it doesn’t affect them. wow. almost sounds like, ‘we are pretending to care about your culture/your media being exploited by the americans (because yOU COULD TALK ABOUT AMERICANS REMAKING EVERYTHING IN AMERICANIZED WAY RUINING IT 90% OF THE TIME) but instead we just care as long as it affects us and if you disagree with us then fuck you’.

okay, then next time start fucking using the right terms. call it ASIAN-AMERICAN. CALL IT JAPANESE-AMERICAN. CALL IT CHINESE-AMERICAN. because whether y’all like it or not, japanese-american is not the same as japanese same as italian-american is not the same as italian, being american is part of your motherfucking identity and you have absolutely no right to impose it on others just because for some reason in the US there’s an identity culture that tends to reject the AMERICAN part of it and focuses on where you originally come from, and y’all pretending to be paladins of saving other cultures from so-called appropriation or from white people appropriating roles or whatever is honestly so ethnocentric I don’t even wanna know.

thanks and goodbye.

by the way, you know why everyone italian on tumblr watched marco polo with utter glee? because we’re sick tired of seeing that whenever an italian character is on any american media they’re ALWAYS criminals - like you have to hope they’re well-written criminals (ie: ASSHOLES) rather than badly written criminals, but guess why whenever they write well-written criminals the italian-americans go like OMG THAT’S NOT ACCURATE WE’RE NOT LIKE THAT (lol criminals are like that sadly) and then we end up getting cringy shit most of the time. and then when we get an actually decent character who’s not a criminal then there’s people like BUT IF HE WAS ITALIAN HE SHOULD BE A POC again superimposing american standards on us because lol obv. an italian character CAN’T BE PLAYED BY AN ITALIAN ACTOR BECAUSE HE’S NOT DARK ENOUGH ACCORDING TO YOU.

that’s all y’all sound when you complain about this shit and like idk if for people from asia it’s the same level of frustration or not but the moment you go like it doesn’t affect them it affects me when the franchise in question is not even fucking american you need to ask yourself how bad did your ethnocentrism get.

jfc.

also: I have to work in the afternoon and I already lost forty minutes replying to this thing while feeling progressively less inclined for nice discussion about the topic because I’m honestly sick fucking tired of US centrism on this blue hellhole so any wank coming out of this or whatever is not getting answered period because I have work to finish. bye for real now.