#i am not that i just like to appropriate their culture

[henrythepug]

Batman is white???

I was today years old (16) when I found out that Batman is in fact a white man. I just spent 16 years of my life thinking Batman is Asian, for me to watch a Batman movie for the first time and find out he is fully white. And I looked it up, and that's right, they are all fucking white. I then told my sister the news and she was also shocked to find out that Batman is in fact known by the general public to be white. On the other hand, my parents (including my Japanese father) were confused as to why we thought he was Asian in the first place. and now I'd like to ask the same question.

The truth is, I had never seen a Batman movie before, yet Batman has been a huge figure in my life since I can remember. I read DC comics with my dad religiously before I could even read and we dressed up as Batman and Robin for Halloween at least 3 years in a row. And it was never a conscious thing that I decided Batman was Asian. Batman just was Asian. And now I'm having to examine that conception and ask myself how that happened. Like I said my knowledge of Batman came solely from books and so somehow that gave my brain more room for imagination into what the characters would look like in real life, as well as the fact that he had his mask on for most of the time. and as far as why it happened, it has just come to me suddenly yet quite easily, I am Asian American. my dad is asian american. Batman was a father-like figure to me, he represented my dad. My dad was Batman and I was Robin so Batman and Robin were Asian. I wanted to see people like me, I wanted these people to represent me. so my brain subconsciously made them look and act like me and my family.

This has for the first time made me realize why representation really is important. To me as a kid batman was my representation, although he is not actually an Asian character. but if there were superheroes as well as any and all characters that represented more people and cultures that kids can relate to it becomes so much more meaningful. and I think what made it even more meaningful, was that it wasn't actually an Asian story so it wasn't about being Asian. Somehow it was celebrating me by simply being (in my mind) an Asian person who could be the main character and be badass and wasn't appropriated or made fun of.

either way, Batman will always be Asian to me. I mean he is a martial artist for Christ's sake. please if anyone had a similar situation it truly fascinates and in a way warms my heart, reach out and tell me your story. was Batman Asian for you too? Will he be from now on? I know he will be for me.

[tbonechessor]

Need to be held pretty fuckin' bad bud

[justacynicalromantic]

People be like "Russia is not imperialistic"🤡 - and then the most famous Ukrainian chef cannot open a restaurant of the most famous Ukrainian cultural food in Japan, because Japanese widely consider borscht a Russian dish and so would avoid the restaurant thinking it to be Russian🫤🫤🫤🤯🤯🤯

[threnodians]

what if i just stopped playing genshin impact

[spotsupstuff]

hii if you don't mind I actually doodled your old gijinka moon design and tried to come up with a post collapse look that's more in line with how she looks now :] excuse for the photo quality my phone hates when I take pictures of my drawings lmao

jaysus chwist it's like seein a ghost from the past... protective Inca woman enters the chat...

these are wonderful! the scar is very pretty n fitting i Applaud (what the fucck a Frog -points at Riv-)

[meirimerens]

you know i must have been bone-tired when this part of the herb brides lore didn't come to my mind when i discussed how the Kin fundamentally differs from the cultures it is inspired by um There Is The Human Sacrifice part. like it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you are doing human, or anthropomorphic (if you want to see the Herb Brides as closer to spirits, which comes with its own set of problematics regarding how to approach their oppression) sacrifice. it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you kill a woman, as part of the journey and in direct resonance with you ritualistically killing cattle earlier, and she offers herself to you with cultural and religious significance.

human sacrifices have been done across the globe for millennia, but i cannot, for the life of me, find any source at all that mentions the Buryats (since that was the discussion point) partaking in human sacrifices by the turn of the 19th-early 20th century (or even anything past the 16th). every single source mentioning offerings and sacrifices i've read mentions animals, things such as milk and vodka, and often both at once. would love to read anything about these rituals if papers exist, but i'm personally drawing a blank.

the Kin has Obvious and very Visible influences but it also differs from specific (in this discussion's case, the Buryats) or wider (here, turkic/mongolic as a whole) cultures from the area by so many pieces, big and small, that i wouldn't have enough appendages on my whole body to count them all. and sister. i have plenty of appendages.

[viatrix-glow]

happy hispanic heritage month 🎉 ft my ocs who were designed with the intent of being hispanic

[aroaceleovaldez]

What cabin are you in? (If you are a demigod, and Greek)

I usually say Athena for what I'm sure you can fathom are obvious reasons [gestures to entire blog], though one could probably equally argue Apollo and I would accept that.

I do also rarely as a joke say Trivia (Hecate's Roman "equivalent") purely because in a discord server I'm in that has godly parent roles we used to do Riordanverse trivia nights and I just kept winning.

Now which group (CHB, CJ, rogues [Hunters, Amazons, misc], Magicians, Einherjar, Valkyries, etc etc) I would be affiliated with is a different question, and a very good one that I feel is very underappreciated, but I will save that silliness for another time.

[nexus-nebulae]

so like. lately I've been feeling like there's some kind of Thing living in this house with me, like a spirit or creature or something, and i feel like it's been here a long time bc of how long things have been going missing in this house with no explanation. and i noticed when i got really badly sick i lost something and it made me like. sob uncontrollably bc it was important. and then i started Finding things in odd places. so i started thanking the mysterious entity. and now I'm finding More Stuff more often. and like i feel strange for believing in this entity bc I've always been told believing in pagan things is childish (??????) and feel awkward thanking it but also i Want To bc it's polite. anyway i wanna like. leave a little offering or something but don't know what would be appropriate bc i also dont know what entity this is

[dykrophone]

my toxic trait as a femslash enjoyer is that i can't STAND clexa or supercorp. they're the automatic filter out every time im searching for good f/f fic on ao3

[rigginsstreet]

I’m constantly using random Yiddish words I got from like the nanny and other pop culture and like they’re not uncommon words either but for some reason no one around me ever knows what the hell im talking about

[crabussy]

RRARAAAAAAAAAUUAUUAAGHHHHH

[bioswear]

Actually I think we as America could potentially Benefit by more white people digging into their white culture (barring people like nazis bc that’s the bad side of history and you should not be taking up Nazi history as your identity and yet😬 but I digress), but like if your family is Finnish or German or French, I think we should let the white insta-girlies connect to it more.

At least it would give them a more interesting facet to their personality beyond iced mochas, Pilates, and social media.

[skruffie]

had a thought in my head when I was getting beading supplies at Michael's earlier today and it has not left me since: the federal government did it's best to try to eradicate my ancestors, and the same government would then further punish me as their descendant if I misstep while reconnecting with what they were trying to steal away (i.e.: if I sold any beaded products I make, possession of eagle feathers, etc)

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

man i’m still so hung up on the way that this professor handled music in the philippines. there were Choices made and though i agreed with a few of them, i found most of them straight up fucking baffling and it was disheartening to not feel heard or invited to contribute to the discussion despite this subject matter being uhhhhhhh my fucking lived experience just because i didn’t pay a twenty dollar membership fee to the fil-am org

[foxcassius]

do y’all think I could, in the month and a half before I start work, make a twitter account with a pen name and start actually making Thee money off of self published amazon garbage stories. second question, is it morally right and ethically sound to feed the amazon garbage fiction industrial complex.