#it's like the show lured them in with all the things they're perpetually annoying about like siths and lightsaber duels and death
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***THE ACOLYTE SPOILERS***
Oh my god, absolutely FEASTING on fanboy tears tonight as I repeatedly rewatch not only a sexy, well-choreographed and performed fight between an Asian man and an Asian Canadian but also one between a nonbinary person and a woman (who's even playing her character as queer), holy shit!!!
And, like, do you understand what it means to me to have an evil Asian character who's not a racist caricature??? Like yeah, in Star Wars, but also in Western media in general! Also very important to me is that he's ACTUALLY HOT. Asian men never get to be hot on screen in Western media, especially Asian diaspora folks. It's not only shitty in a racist way but also a travesty for hot people enjoyers such as myself!! (And I mean like one of the few times they attempted to give it somewhat of a shot, the role went to a former incel ffs.)
This is also important because Qimir getting to be hot means people are thirsting after him!!! That's an important part of representation people don't talk about enough. Just reading posts and chats where people are seeing him as physically attractive and salivating over his body makes me so emotional??
The casting director, the costumers, and the hair and makeup teams on this production, my god. First Mother Aniseya and now Qimir. They're just casually dropping some of the hottest characters in Star Wars into this show, bless.
#the acolyte spoilers#i do have actual meta thoughts about the ep but first i just needed to scream about this#manny jacinto broke on to the scene and shattered asian stereotypes in the good place and now he’s doing it in the gffa#what a wonderful day#i'm personally immune to biceps on men but his face and hair holy shit#also boy did the gender envy hit me like a truck#i immediately want to cosplay him but alas my noodle arms#as i started this show i was expecting to thirst after amandla stenberg and have just gotten blindsided by everyone else also being hot af#also i just went on twitter for one second to like the official ep 5 post#and the comments are full of fanboys being like oh…that was really good LMAO#it's like the show lured them in with all the things they're perpetually annoying about like siths and lightsaber duels and death#qimir#the acolyte#star wars#amph talks
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