#it's not just a homogenous “other”
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I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with so much Iranian hate and drama <:[
oh anon. hate to break it to you (a lot of people make this mistake) but iran and iraq are two entirely separate nations.
and also i think reducing it to the words "hate and drama" kind of doesn't cover it, anon.
#i think if people were. just a little bit more informed. then maybe people would see that the people from this region are humans actually.#so anon. please. like... look at a map and do some reading maybe. if you care just a little.#i'm sorry anon but i'm a little bit at a loss for words over this message. like it rendered me speechless for a little.#but it's so common in my life that i've been called iranian and i constantly have to correct people on it. c'mon man.#i mean i have SO many iranian friends even though iraq and iran you know. aren't exactly bedfellows. politically.#but those politics don't really follow me. like in my day to day. iraqis and iranians in the uk of this generation. are again.#pretty divorced.#but it's kind of really frustrating that people Without Fail make this mistake over and over.#it's like how people just refer to “africa” as a whole. instead of recognising there are seperate nations there and.#it's not just a homogenous “other”#please. there are humans there. it's not just “foreign”.#i don't know if you're american anon but i see it a lot that anything outside of america is just “foreign”#and i mean#even as a brit. americans are constantly surprised i'm british because they forget anything exists outside of america.#i think it would be so so so so sexy of you anon to take a look at the globe tonight. give it a spin.#look at the world. it's so full and so beautiful and there are So Many Nations.#i'm going to look at my globe tonight too. i have a really cool old one. it spins so good.#and i'm going to pick some countries i don't know a lot about and do some reading about them. for funsies.
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https://x.com/MERCL4REN/status/1743286121973555513?s=20
find the difference level impossible :D but seriously, this tweet gave me a stomachache from laughing so hard.
THERE'S MY TWO CREEPY TOO SIMILAR VESTAL VIRGINS THAT MAKE ALL THE MEN ON THE GRID (except lewis) GO HUUUHHHHH???
#the tweet text salgfljasgfhljashfslja truth#but I love how they sometimes turn just wayyy too similar and at a distance the grid is like wait which is....#and when they drove triumphantly back to the pits those two times fist bumping across the air as they were side by side#the other drivers were like ohhhhh boy I don't like this#if they can weather a bad car the same#and then succeed in a good car almost the same#what will become of us mere men??#we do not like The Arts we do not like Silent Communication we do not know what they are saying when it is Just The Eyes#we are but men who get angry and dejected alone or celebrate and shout at the top alone or maybe we thump our brothers backs and laugh loud#what are these delicate creatures with hairless cheeks and babysoft heads of hair and adolescent skins#only Lewis stands apart and watches the pair with knowing and gladness that the future will be theirs#the natural rightful heirs to his disruption and inveigling of the most homogeneous sport known to man#Carlos: the Piastri Boy does not like me but he is soft like a woman should I love bomb him or fist bump him what do I do#Charles: I feel as if I should be one of them but The Men want me over here oh but I wish I could Join Them in Silent Beautiful Eeriness#what the FUCK am I saying#inchreplies#vestal virgins au
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revisiting my roots as an artist - never sketching, never planning, and going straight to the inks. and also drawing traditionally again. with some digital colours
speaking of my roots as an artist, so many people say my art is cute/storybook/wholesome vibes which is funny cause i started off drawing a lot of bloody evil gorey demon things. 14 y/o me would not be happy with me for going down the route i ended up taking - i wanted to be edgy.
#my art#oc#pathos#drawing traditionally again is a big reminder that i have no set process and draw differently with every medium#i feel like i never do these sort of lines digitally. maybe because i don't have the right brushes to make it look good but idk#but also maybe i live with my work so much i see every minor difference whereas most people just see a more homogenous style#it's so funny to me that whenever i look at art that isn't my own i'm like wow this is all intentional and stylistic and cool#but i have no idea if that artist actually wanted to do that or it just happened by accident#or god forbid they don't even like what i like about their work and they see it as ugly and something to work on#anyone get me. i'm flying by the seat of my pants for so much of my process and i hate things about my work that other people might like#rambling again im sorry. it happens at night always i have 1000000 thoughts
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the kyoshi flashback in Avatar Day and the sheer scale of ba sing se in comparison to…. literally everywhere else in the world really has me thinking about the politics that lead to such distinct “nations”. it makes way more sense for a land as vast as the earth kingdom to have once been earth kingdoms with local land disputes between feudal lords - as we see with the conflict kyoshi ended - only for a world-spanning war to have driven first the lords to unite under ba sing se’s banner for protection, and then as the war continued, increasing waves and waves of refugees and oma shu standing as the only remaining hold out due to their unique position (top of a mountain - most other earth kingdom towns we see are in valleys) such would explain how many ruins and ghost towns we see throughout s2 but also the improbability of a land that big to be unified under a single leader for that long
#text✨#just pondering i don’t want to do research about if they’ve actually spoken about this#hm. i think it’d be very interesting if the beifongs are descended from a former lordship. would explain even folks in ba sing se recognizin#the name and crest…..#anyway i think smthn similar happened to the water tribes . i like the idea that the village we see in the south is only one of many but i#really like the idea that the north only has such a big city bc their miscellaneous tribes banded together#and i’m very interested in the political strife that would result in#different clans with different practices all piled on top of each other… the myth of homogeneity is BORING give me cultural diversity bryke#also…. another layer of tragedy in the loss of regional cultures in both the earth kingdom and northern water tribes as their populations#were condensed into urban environments
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I was looking through the tags in that "are you White" poll, and it was really interesting how many people said they were "technically" half & half but only considered themselves to be White.
And thinking about it, most of the mixed White-and-non-White people I know irl (especially White-and-East-Asian people) also identify only as White. My sister looks very similar to me and says she doesn't feel comfortable identifying as PoC, even though I use the term for myself. Although culturally I'm not very Asian, I have had people assume I'm not from the US, assume I can speak other languages, and assume all sorts of Asian stereotypes about me such as that I'm nerdy or care a lot about food. I think White and Asian people alike see me and understand that I am "their race", but also know that I am "other" in some way.
Idk I just find it really interesting and I wonder how common an experience that is... I feel like I've fallen a bit into the trap of thinking that all half-White people (in the US and Canada anyway) have somewhat similar experiences to me, and it's both disorienting and pretty cool to be reminded how incorrect that is.
#I've heard different ideas abt how mixed people are viewed in homogeneous countries too...#there's the “one-drop rule” where anyone who looks a bit different is “othered” and thought of as a less common race#but there's also the “majority wins” rule where anyone who looks a bit like the majority is assumed to be since “outsiders” are so strange#idk i just think this is all super fascinating and I'd really love to talk to other mixed people about it#ramblings#mixed race#aptericia's identity crisis tag#race tag
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fun potential what with so much of the ds9 cast being nonhuman people for worf to mention some relatively obscure human cultural thing offhand and kira/jadzia/quark/odo/etc assuming it's a klingon thing
#p#probably somewhat less fun for him in fact but yknow#relatively obscure as in just not something people often think about (like.. schoolyard games or something)#or as in of a particular place/culture thats not often included in the homogenized starfleet face other planets typically see#ds9#worf
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You know, very rarely do I run into accounts of historical cannibalism that are completely new to me. But I did today and I'm frankly completely taken aback by this
Fro the article: "The Guangxi Massacre comprised a series of lynchings and massacres in the Chinese province of Guangxi between 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution. The official record shows an estimated death toll between 100,000 and 150,000. Methods of murder included beheading, beating, live burial, stoning, drowning, boiling, and disemboweling. In specific areas, including Wuxuan County and Wuming, Nanning, hundreds of incidents of human cannibalism occurred—even though no famine conditions existed. According to records that have been made public, at least 137 people were eaten, with thousands of people having participated in the cannibalism... In 1993, The New York Times stated that the incidents reported from Guangxi were apparently the most extensive episodes of cannibalism in the world in the last century or more. They were also different from any others in that those who took part were not motivated by hunger or psychopathic illness. Instead, the actions appeared to be ideological: the cannibalism, which the documents say took place in public, was often organized by local Communist Party officials, and people apparently took part together to prove their revolutionary ardor."
#I knew about the desperately bad famine conditions in this period so when I saw 'cannibalism during the cultural revolution'#that's what I assumed this was and from a historical viewpoint that's pretty normal and not particularly newsworthy#but this was something Totally Different#I had Never heard of this and frankly its so extreme that I don't even have another case to even really compare it to#and you know me I am not at all flustered by cannibalism but this bowled me over#the normalcy of the circumstances and within a homogeneous ethnic and cultural environment?#the scale?#the recentness? like my parents were alive when this happened#its on the level of other inexplicably extreme violence (rwanda or the french revolution) but generally those situations don't end#with fun family patriotic-solidarity-barbecues of the victims afterwards#I was so in disbelief I went looking for scholarly stuff on this because it just felt so extreme like it had to be be exaggerated#but legit research came up (mostly from the 90s when this story apparently broke globally)#I'm still not over this#at least this is something you can throw at the 'eat the rich' people next time they want to glorify guillotining throw pillow owners#guangxi massacre#history
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no words make me more upset than "you live in america, speak english." my great-grandparents were forced to assimilate and now a century later the same bullshit keeps getting pushed on folks... i felt so much joy in high school when all the asian kids across different cultures realized they all never spoke english that much at home, so they didn't need to speak english with their friends either. i feel so much joy when im just out at the grocery store and hear so many different dialects and languages, it's mostly spanish i think, and that's just good. and now im jealous. i wasn't born to be monolingual. im mourning something that was taken from me decades before i was even born. im supposed to know italian, i was supposed to be at least bilingual, and now im stuck monolingual throwing myself at language learning resources as an adult, desperate to try to wrap my brain around something that should have been there since before i spoke my first words. and its a slim chance i'll actually be able to walk along side someone and have a conversation in anything other than english, at least for a long time, because its not just knowing another language that i need, its speaking it, not as an exercise, but in mundanity.
i wasnt supposed to be monolingual, and now im struggling to fix that as an adult
#vent post#this literally brings me to tears#i hate xenophobia i hate assimilation i hate being monolingual#things i should say in therapy instead of on tumblr#if anyone comes into the notes to say ''uhm actually its ableist to say that being monolingual is wrong'' fuck off this isn't about YOU#this is about my language skills and mine alone#im desperately grabbing at something trying to just know one other language it doesn't even need to be italian#okay maybe this is about some weird family trauma i have about knowing some distant heritage that i dont feel like i can connect to#and language being the vector that im expressing that#and how that makes it challenging for me to form an identity without feeling like a dumb white kid whose culture was sterile and homogenous#im supposed to be asleep but instead im crying about some shit my greatgrandfather internalized and repeated from some bigots a century ago#i dont even know if i magically knew italian tomorrow if that would fix these feelings because when would i even get to use it#besides online#its alienating its isolating its just making me feel like crap#okay im going to end the post here goodnight
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tatimaxxing (something big just happened to me but i can't talk about it on this blog because ive posted face)
#my friend's in the hospital again so i spent 20 on an uber with my other friend to go see her#but by the time we got there visiting hours were over 😭#so we just had dinner at the park#and i told her about The Big Terrible Thing for the first time#straight through without embellishment! yay! i think at least#because ive retold the story in so many different ways that im not actually sure what happened anymore#she was like super chill about it though!! and was like im really impressed that you actively made an effort to not be [REDACTED]#not really what she said more like Making An Effort to No Longer [Redacted]#redacted as an action not as a noun blah blah you know#and she told me about how shes faced discrimination at our super homogeneously chinese church which i feel REALLY BAD ABOUT BUT I DON'T KNOW#HOW TO EXPRESS IT TO HER OR WHAT TO SAY ABOUT IT 😭😭😭😭 GIRL HELP#im being so useless and chinese about it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i don't know how to talk to people about things that matter#and idk like ok v non-tatimaxxing of me to say but ive been so self centered and going Wahhh these normies will never experience my#Deep Secret Emotions unlockable only by spending too much time on tumblr as a child#on the other hand i feel like once this has gotten out of the way i don't really have an excuse for not connecting with my church friends#yknow. like i don't have to hide this from them any more#they're great people!! and they're going through so much and I need to be there for them but I couldn't even get tothe stupidhospital on tim#not cry typing just ran out of space#anyway I wish I could care more about them I wish I could make genuine connections without having to lie to feel some sort of weird#rush of power over them because I know the truth and they don't when I lie so much I don't even know what the truth is#I've been putting my face on here more lately because I want to be genuine and I want to not hide things#but idk if it'll work I think it might just make me unemployable 😭😭😭#cc diary
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having a culturally diverse friend group is so fun because how else would I hear badly translated jokes that make no sense in any other language or watch drunk people fighting in two different languages
#my czech and hungarian friend are my biggest source of entertainment as you can see#a serb a bosniak and a croat walk into a bar#they just bully each other#culturally diverse is very limited for me though because I do indeed live in a pretty homogeneous country BUT#somehow managed to form a very mixed group despite that#it's still mostly different slavs plus a few jewish people and hungarians#outside of that group I also have a half french half jamaican guy and a mexican american and three amazing indonesian ladies#student exchanges my beloved
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the way that adult men working both in the x-men office and “influencer” fan-adjacent spaces always behave so performatively extra about gambit will never stop being weird to me. it’s such a nasty underhanded way to gatekeep his (mostly female lbr) fans under the guise of (repeatedly asserting) mere personal preference
#this isn’t the same as fandom arguments btw bc it’s often unprovoked out of nowhere bashing#gambit#x#he’s not real#but his fans that you keep trying to gatekeep are#this shit isn’t new btw#the office tried to kill him ever since antarctica#i’ve read account of people attending cons in the early aughts#and the x-office men on the panel would pull this shit on the FANS ASKING QUESTIONS#the x-office keeps getting more homogenous the further we get from summer 2020#i knew it was just corporate pinkwashing and there you go#otherwise then where is vita#where is kelly thompson#why is leah only getting an occasional mini#treating tini howard like their peggy olson ‘superstar’ while culling all other female/nb/non-white writers…. tells you everything#we’re finally getting stephanie williams after how many years of the same yt men#and is she actually getting a book#or just a story included in marvel pride?#i don’t give a shit about what those men like and they don’t have to share my interests#but the fact that they’re actively trying to sabotage everything outside their specific personal preference?#not promoting r&g until presales ended for 1#while they promoted captain britain and x23 EARLY?#was a very specific choice#i remember this song and dance from long ago#see also ‘you’re not real fans’ levied at girls/women who loved movie rogue and her kinship w wolverine#even though they’re super close in the comics too#i know it’s partly the subset of weirdo kitty pryde fans (including our current x-editor lol)#who think any female character who logan mentors is a ~threat~ but it’s mostly misogyny
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well. that was........everything i expected and yet i'm still massively disappointed
#steph.text#there are a lot of things i could say#it's just odd to come onto your dash and see everyone hyping this album up when in reality it's fine? he could do so much better#and yes i already gathered that this was for the western market and it will do well on that end#but in terms of the music?#it's so mediocre it hurts#there's no urgency or personality or expression in any of these songs#it sounds like you took all ten of them put them in a blender & created a homogenous blob#and that's what most mainstream pop music sounds like today so again to be expected#i'm not shocked i'm just sad#the biggest crime imo?#none of the songs really bring out the beauty of his voice#between the mixing vocal layering/filtering autotune etc.#also keep in mind he uses a lot of air when singing in english#it's okay he doesn't sound bad but in comparison to what his voice fully capable of on other songs & in general?#yeah#i'm gonna go watch the mv#at least that will deliver#also to no one's surprise it's the best song on the album hands down#oh boy
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related to the previous ask you answered, if you’re up for it - incredibly curious about how you research stuff for your writing. I feel like you’re so good at capturing all these little details of a life with such humour that I’m always going ‘how is yellow meg caballero not x identity’ (which is obviously not true & just the sign of a good writer, etc etc but still). Are you just out here talking to five million different types of people?? And understanding them??
Yes hello hi <3 <-- catching up on ask
I really do have the awful habit of swerving dramatically out of my lane and talking about shit I have no business talking about. I don't even do a lot of research, or at least not as much research as I should. I'm genuinely a terrible person to emulate here. But as for like how it tends to happen.
One half of it is. Patrick Stewart voice Writing fiction.
jaklsjdflksadf the other half is like...yeah, I talk to a lot of people. I like people a lot. I find everybody really interesting, and even if I don't like somebody then it's still interesting to have learned about a new kind of person. Over the internet especially is so much fun - everybody has at least one thing super interesting about them! Everybody has a unique trait or has had an experience totally unfamiliar to me. I also just really have an eclectic knowledge of a shitton of extremely useless stuff, I watch a lot of random-ass YouTube essays, all of it. Baby I got information even I don't care about for days lol.
Some of my characters are based lowkey off people I know. Sometimes they're based off me at different points in my lives, or the kind of person I used to think I was. I think most often they fit into a category of people I've met in my life - for example, for an OC I'm writing right now, she's based off this type of person I know. And in there I look for what I always liked about those people, what I always related to about those people, and how I always interacted with them. They're often kinds of people I don't even necessarily like. You never really want to do "well im writing [marginalized group] so I'll just make them [friend from marginalized group]", but for me once I meet and talk to enough people from that group kind of the experience and perspective that being in that group gives you emerges. The 'why' of the experience stands out, and you can go deep into that.
All that said, I look for the similarities instead of the differences. My MK stuff isn't about being a system (cuz not that.), it's about having a highly stigmatized mental illness, and somebody's relationship with their identity as a mentally ill person, which is something I can understand. Lots of my SW stuff was about...existential dread, lol. I do just know a fuckton of neurodivergent and trans and etc people. And I think we do just project - I'll interpret a character as having my experiences instead of another's, because I'm SUPER loose with characterizations lol. But yeah I'm just constantly talking to people about their experiences and if you do that enough then a bigger, more relatable experience emerges lol. Everybody knows that there's really only like five emotions.
That being said I made a joke in a recent Moon Knight fic about how baby Marc liked baby Steven at first just because he would wake up and his bed would randomly be made. And my sys friend was like "HOW did you know about chore ghost??". So. Lucky accident a lot of the time I think. Thanks for the Q though, I'm happy I succeed at this!
#my writing#when i do run into issues and i dont do things right is when i don't recognize that an experience isn't my own#e.g. i assume that the experience of this group is similar to my own and it rly isn't#ppl be the same but we think really differently sometimes too#for example turns out some christians believe different things than catholics do and it's SUPER FUCKED UP#i feel like ppl can be afraid to write characters of different identities significantly differentiated from each other#like to write a guy mindfully as different from a girl because he's a guy#but i think just kinda homogenizing everything creates that inauthenticity#and more importantly the 'default' 'neutral' is often the majority#idk i dont like ignoring things#for example. when i try writing characters religiously neutral i just make them catholic#and this is sending ME to hell
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the japanese-korean stuff is always just this weird elephant in the room.... idk. a lot of the times the stuff like in that one orv arc is just really uncalled for but at the same time it doesn't feel right ignoring all the bad blood there just to say oh this is hashtag problematic or whatever. idk it's not a topic i know as much about as i maybe should what with being a usamerican with parents that have made no great efforts to keep me super tied to korean culture other than just like. the food. but it's hard to get good information on it with all the polarized uninformed biased opinions out there. my parents themselves aren't the most impartial sources either. idk idk. whatever
#from what i've seen in general other than maybe one freak or two there's no korean that'd genuinely come after some random japanese person#just for being jpn. a lot of koreans appreciate the culture and are into manga and the music and stuff like that. but it's just when it's#a conversation about politics or something that people start getting heated. i think it's just this cultural thing they've all grown into#living in korea. it's not always accusations either though a lot of the time it's just like... competition? you see it in sports esp a lot#also it's not always only ever towards japan..... for one thing korea. and japan for that matter. have been mostly racially homogenous#and i've seen firsthand that that leads to a lot of general ignorance and like condescending/stereotyping attitudes towards everybody#also korea specifically has historically spent a lot of time getting stepped on by others. both china and japan in particular#so i feel like that contributes to this sort of like sorta competitive touchiness that's there present day#idk though like i said. usamerican. this is all just stuff i've generally observed from my parents and the internet. probably shouldn't tak#it as like super deep commentary with a lot of authority.
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i actually am living for the shot in the arm the movie is going to give william fanart
#i don't... hate fanon william#there is utility in sticking to certain design perimeters that make him a recognizable character#but like... literally any actual human person is more interesting than a generic design like in the graphic novels#there's something to latch onto and stylize#like just seeing a different hair color other than salt and pepper black or dark brown is nice#the aviator shades being canon is nice! a shirt that isn't purple or goldenrod yellow is nice!#facial hair! nice!#it reminds me of a post i saw recently that was talking about the homogenization of fanon designs into a lowest common denomenator#that's not really what anyone 100% wants but they feel pressure to either conform to or react against this thing that isn't canon#and this is just a series that has soooo much calcified fanon#it's just really nice to get completely new visuals! i'm excited!
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Sometimes I am reminded that For Honor can be both the most fun shit in the world and also the most viscerally unfun thing to ever exist in the universe and it depends entirely on who you're fighting and how many of them there are
#Idk what they did to make my favourite event exhausting to play but I'm just grappling with that still#Every time Test your Metal has been around I've been SO excited#like it is without question my favourite event mode#but idk they brought it back again and it just feels so much worse to play now#and I really honestly genuinely have no idea why#because on paper it's basically no different than it used to be#so like#why is it just not fun to me anymore#am I just worse now? did my extended hiatuses from this game make me just bad? Like is it a skill issue?#Is my deep anger and disappointment at the devs' attempts to bleed every cent from people possible just venting through a different outlet?#Is this because of the balance changes they've made to every character in-between now and the last time this event happened#gradually homogenizing the cast into the same orange-or-blue 50/50 guessing game?#Am I realizing that idk if I even actually like playing For Honor most of the time anymore#and just keep playing it because I'm desperately hoping a better game comes along that plays similar#and am just imagining this theoretical other game whenever I play it thinking about the potential it had#that was wholly squandered by making it an always-online live service game that egregiously haggled you for cash at every turn?#I genuinely don't know#all I know is that I'm tired man#I'm just deeply painfully tired#and only partly because it is 6:30am and I haven't slept yet#lmao#Pun's text Posts#for honor
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