#lot asia

[caramello-styles]

literal peck sound from mr styles during matilda— MWAH!

[daisiesonafield-blog]

LOVE ON TOUR ASIA 2023

Harry is bringing Harry's House on Love On Tour to Asia! Love On Tour starts in Bangkok, Thailand and ends in Tokyo, Japan, for a total of 6 shows in 5 different countries!

After Asia, Love On Tour heads back to Europe & the UK for the summer!

[mychampagne-mybubbles]

Harry Styles • Love On Tour • Tokyo • 24.03.2023

Blue and black striped suit • counted in Japanese for golden entry & talking a little bit • some songs he wrote them while being in Japan • Harry asking around where people is from and got back the most unexpected answers • He talked about how much this country means to him • red & green crowd lights for wms • sushi hat • japan flag • apologized for his low level of Japanese

[leroibobo]

around the great mosque of xi'an, originally built in 742, and one of the largest historical mosques in china. chang'an (xi'an's old name), then the capital of the tang dynasty, had a large west asian community to the point that emperor xuanzong permitted the construction of the mosque. unlike most contemporaneous chinese buildings, which are oriented north-south in accordance with feng shui, the great mosque is oriented to the west, towards mecca.

[welcometogrouchland]

Also I am. Constantly forgetting how fucking funny Hunter is. We never give him enough credit for how funny he is because his life is so fucked up but I swear 90% of his lines are just bit after bit after bit. He's not even trying either. Anytime he actively tries to make a joke it falls flat but if you just put him in a Scenario he'll find a way to be so over invested and yet out of touch/at odds with whatever's going on. He's so autistic

[lenaellsi]

baby pictures

[canisalbus]

Whenever someone says "This would kill a Victorian child." Or "This would kill a medieval peasant." I have to think about Machete. Would he... would he survive eating a Dorito?

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[handweavers]

older books on like art and history are interesting artifacts in their own right bc you learn not just the content of the book but also the prevailing attitudes and thoughts of that time, what was socially acceptable, common parlance, etc. which are all easier to notice from the distance that time offers. you can't play down past attitudes toward certain people and places when you have the physical evidence, and i like reading these books bc i get to pretend to argue with the author. like i'm reading a book from 1973 about 'historic india' and the way the author writes about 'indian culture' as both a monolith and as something so foreign and different from any other culture on earth is fascinating lol. it echoes so many present day sanghi talking points and even praises the caste system out of some ass backwards attempt at not being racist. it also does that thing where 'hindu' culture is positioned as being fundamentally different and separate from 'muslim' culture, which is so wrong for so many reasons

[peonycats]

What are your favourite kinds of Japan content? Or alternatively, what are your least favourites?

I'm a huge aph Japan fan, and I'm always curious abt this stuff.

Hmmm, well honestly I could talk all day about this topic LMAO but for your sake and mine I'll keep it brief and focus mostly on two especially grating depictions i dislike. I have some posts queued up down the line for how i tend to see japan so feel free to ask me about that when i get around to posting it ehehe

"Polite, cute, shy, quiet" japan depictions reallllly don't work for me. Like it's one thing to say that Japan is a reserved guy who puts value in having good manners and doesn't want to come across as rude, but it's another to turn him into a wilting flower who's easily dominated by louder personalities and turns into a side character. Besides it falling into ur typical trope of the "diminutive east asian who needs to be taught by their loud non easian (usually white) partner how to stand up for themself and live life a little," I think it's just patently false, both canonically and historically lmao. Like hima has called Japan a stubborn old man before, and history will tell you that Japan is nothing if not resourceful and very very proud, lol. He may bite his tongue, but I imagine that hes not someone who easily gives up or submits or at least without a fight 😂

Germany-Italy-Japan trio, or "Axis" trio, depictions never go over well for me, lol. I'm of the mindset that you can't really divorce them from their history in WW2, especially if you're going to call them the Axis, like lol the least you could do is call them something new. Furthermore, Geritapan depictions in my opinion are terrible with tokenizing japan as the sole character of color/east asian in the group, but the Worst Geritapan Depictions as of late are shipping gerita with japan off in the cuck chair?? I'm not saying we need to give Japan bitches (because lord knows he doesn't deserve any) but wow, congrats, you made your only East Asian man an emasculated yellow guy who just pines and copes over a white love interest who dgaf about him <3 a win for diversity!!!

anyways, if you're going to ship gerita but treat japan like this, i would rather you ship germany and italy together like a normal person and leave japan out of it 🙏

[protagonist-art]

"Uh- I'm Arnold. Bennett. It's profoundly difficult to get your lifes works and studies accepted if your name isn't... yes, oh! Are you a fan of moths, sir?"

NEW RDR2 OC!! a reclusive, clumsy entomologist and bug collector; cooped up in his study of uniformed clutter

[caramello-styles]

this compilation of harry speaking korean 😭 감사합니다 aka thank you WITH A FINGERHEART 😭

[syn0vial]

me writing a whole-ass wikipedia article on Forcipomyia taiwana after one bit my leg:

[mychampagne-mybubbles]

Harry Styles • Love On Tour • Singapore • 17.03.2023

Harry in a striped colored polo & black pants • got a drawing from a fan • Stop traffic let them through • absolutely bonkers • pride flag • Dad talk about stealing his clothes • fan proposed to partner •

[ladyimaginarium]

reminder that asia is. fucking massive. btw

[leroibobo]

the papier-mache walls of the shrine in kanqah naqshband sahib in srinagar, kashmir, built in its current form in 1633. the complex is dedicated to bukharan baha' al-din naqshband, who founded the naqshbandi sufi order, and is a mausoleum for one of his descendants. the shrine is a site for ziyarat as it contains what's said to be a lock of the prophet muhammad's hair.

[kirby-the-gorb]