#chinatown things

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

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[angel-babydoll-blogx]

hiiii guyss!! just wanted to let u know im doing great :) im talking to this guy i really like and its going great. sorry for not posting in a while i have been super busy but imma post more toda x have a lovely day i love u allll

[thetorturedlovergirl]

Theta Sigma’s favorite candy

[meluli]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

For those unaware I sent Snap an ask that Magneto’s powers are the only thing keeping his sack up… which would mean he has balls of steel but like snap said we’re not ready for that 😂😂😂

thank you for sending the ask twice anon id make an old man joke about the lead in magneto’s blood to celebrate but lead isn’t a ferromagnetic metal now is it

[ophernelia]

A lot of y’all aren’t from Chicago, so y’all don’t know fr but those raids could genuinely be devastating. Chicago is segregated af. There’s little mixing among racial groups between neighborhoods. We’re all pretty much contained to our respective areas. K-Town is typically where most Hispanic and Latino chicagoans reside. It’s where most of the businesses are. The schools. Usually if you go over there you’ll see some English, but a lot of things are in Spanish because that’s just the area. You know where you are and who you’re around once you hit that area. They’re going to hound that area for the foreseeable future. So when I see people being like “oh just hide” they can’t hide that.

[natjennie]

OOOOOOHHHHH MY GODDDDDD

[niccichi]

Everything We Know About Jamie (so far)

Recently some developers for SF6 revealed a bit of Jamie's backstory at an event, and since he's my babygirl I decided to compile everything that's confirmed to make it easier to reference! I tried to pull everything from the game (World Tour, official descriptions), developer tweets and summaries from events like these. Most of these were in Japanese though, and since idk Japanese I had to Google Translate, so please take these with a grain of salt!

Putting everything under the cut because it's long and I don't wanna clog up dashes 🍶

He’s 2 years younger than Luke. Luke’s in his late 20s.

While Luke loves fighting for the sake of fighting, Jamie takes his relationship with his opponent into consideration. He reserves some techniques (like the finger snap) for a few opponents.

Jamie’s dad is a rich businessman and his mom is his dad’s mistress. His father’s wife passed away for unknown reasons. He hates his dad but loves his mom as they both went through a lot of hardships together (not sure how correct this is considering in WT he says he rarely sees her and doesn't know anything about her besides the fact that she's pretty). He calls his mother often, and he is very close to her.

Jamie's mom is a former actress.

He was born in Shanghai, but moved with his dad to Hong Kong to live with his mom.

He knows how to play the trumpet and learned it when he was a kid. The taunt he does where he sings his theme song and pretends to play the trumpet actually has the right finger placements.

He values his friends highly, always considering them first before himself.

He finds it hard to open up with people he likes, but he has no problems being honest with people he doesn’t like.

He moved to the US with his parents in high school due to his father’s work.

He hates lectures and arrogant people.

He loves his grandmother, Yun, and Yang.

He lived with his grandmother for a little bit in China, in the middle of nowhere. His parents sent him to live there when they got tired of his reckless behavior. He says that she was the one who taught him "how to fight" and "how to live." It's unknown how old he was when he lived with her.

Yun and Yang saved his life when he was in middle school after he got beat up by a gang member and was about to be killed for refusing to join their gang. He's admired them since and considers them his bros. He hasn't seen them in recent years though.

His favorite food is cloud noodles. He loves spicy foods and candy too.

He doesn't like carbonated drinks, and he doesn't like any foods with raw fish because he can't stand the smell.

He's ambidextrous.

Jamie started wearing make-up because of his mother.

He looks like his mother but his personality is like his father's. It's unknown why his relationship with his father is so strained.

Jamie doesn't text anybody because he doesn't like having messages being left behind. It's unclear why he doesn't like having messages - it's speculated that he either doesn't like having proof of people he's close with being found out because of his 'work' (see next point), or that he doesn't like having the memories there. He only calls people.

Jamie makes money through 'dirty work,' but it's unclear what this work involves. However, director Nakayama said that he learned how to do these jobs from Yun and Yang, who are speculated to be involved with the criminal underworld in Hong Kong in order to maintain the peace, resolving issues in their town by getting paid by residents to act as bodyguards/security, and Jamie might be doing the same in Chinatown if he learned from them.

[meanya]

If you reblog (much appreciated, this is for an experiment) tag with what's stuck in your head right now

[astrangerlately]

bleachers x running

bleachers parallels [1] [2] [3]

[soapbubbles511]

Taika (and Jimmy O. Yang) will be on Good Morning America this Friday to promote Interior Chinatown

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

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[blackcur-rants]

I think part of what makes "Chinatown" such a heartbreaking and devastating movie is that...it honestly starts off as kind of a comedy.

Like seriously, there are a lot of good jokes at the start of that movie. There's the scene where the farmers let their sheep loose in Mulwray's presentation on the dam. There's the scene where Jake is sitting by the pipe and gets hit in the face by water. There's the scene at the mansion where the doorman (played by James Hong if I remember correctly, btw) just casually shuts the door in JAke's face like he's just some annoying salesman. There's poor Jake being basically just a glorified marriage counsellor who gets wrapped up in ridiculously convoluted city politics like a blue-collar Ned Stark. And there's also the kind-of offensive but also dang thematically important joke that Jake hears from his barber and then repeats to customers at his office. It's a pretty funny and witty screenplay for that first half or so.

And then the big swerve happens. And everything changes and is recontextualised, to the point where you can easily see Jake hearing the racist joke from his barber and then repeating it to his customers as a metaphor for generational cycles of violence.

And that's all I'm saying.

[xslytherclawx-writes]

i'm seeing sooooo many people falling for propaganda for trump and the chinese government at the same time, like... think critically for 2 seconds i promise it's free and it won't kill you

[bowtiestash]

shoutout to overly sarcastic productions for making me interested in journey to the west ahahaha

[deductions-and-magic]

On the perimeter of the Int.

so I just watched Interior Chinatown and discovered Archie Kao (and proceeded to start watching his entire filmography as you do) (also i think i really need to read the book Edit: finished the book!! might write a new post)

And I think it is so poignant that he is Uncle Wong

The ABC (American Born Chinese) who has a foot in both worlds (the first to realize the dangers involved and believes it’s his responsibility to protect his people!), who says

"I was born here. In this city. I've been here my whole life."

and yet is so grounded in both cultures

who finds the victims of the systematic violence resulting from the police procedural

is performed by the ABC who was raised on an American farm, who did not know Mandarin when he moved to China a few years back to find his roots and pursued acting there, who is now back in the US (source: his Int. Chinatown interviews), who has always tried to help. to change things (even if small)

In his interviews he talked about how he spent most of his time in Hollywood on procedural dramas

And parallels with Willis Wu who as a "Generic Asian Man" could not be the hero, the lead (on CSI: Enhance! On Chicago PD: Detective but tech guy — so many parallels)

So he, like many Asian Americans, IS Willis Wu (like Uncle Wong was Willis but even more similar)

but more importantly, his path of America -> Asia -> America is the path of so many people who are unsure of “self” and where they stand, thinking about where they come from and what that actually means

What being American Means, What being Asian Means, What being Asian-American Means

so I think it's likely this show represents a culmination of his journey of self discovery

As a Chinese American

And what that means to him.

Not at the intersection of two cultures but Cape Horn -- a confluence

Where oceans crash together and people get submerged

where there is a distinct divide but you can’t see it when you’re in the water

In Chinese there's a saying: "见山是山，见水是水；见山不是山，见水不是水；依然见山还是山，见水还是水", which roughly translates to “Seeing mountains as mountains, seeing water as water; seeing mountains not as mountains, seeing water not as water; still seeing mountains as mountains, water as water"

like you're back where you are before, and it's the same

but it’s different now

Which applies to so many things here.