#theyre not even an ok ko blog

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I saw someone in the tags of some post talk about tko and OH MY GOD I HAD THE SAME EXACT THOUGHTS I AGREE WITH THEM SO MUCH but i have no way of telling them and it feels weird to send an ask bc it was a while ago.. dying inside

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(scheduled to post this around noon on thursday my time.)

as we head into this (american) thanksgiving, a lot of us are gonna be dealing with some Grade A Bullshit: retail work, bigoted relatives, etc. i wasn’t actually gonna do this originally, but then i realized what holiday was coming up right around the time of my blogiversary and i was like... welp. alright. guess we’re doing this then. things lined up too perfectly NOT to, and things can be kinda shitty for people around this time of year, so let’s put a little positivity back into the community! or something like that.

(yes i realize some of the people here are not american. no reason to deny my love tho.)

anyway, onto the callouts!

@ultimatetalentless have i talked about how much i love sin’s hinut lately? his and nanami’s friendship/rivalry (and his and chibot’s unresolved romantic tension) is so much fun to write and it’s so great having an Angst Partner to shoot terrible ideas at. on top of that i love talking to sin out of character and sharing some of the things we come across that remind each other of our muses. 

@mideoku​ julie followed me and the following day, snakes started manifesting physically in my house. i get no peace from them. they follow me home every day and beat me down with a two by four while yelling down with cis. but if we’re being real here julie’s shitposting lights up my dashboard every day for better or worse and theyre actually a really cool person. we’ll fight in pokemon when u catch up to me binch

@steinways​ sarah’s one of my oldest mutuals from all the way back when she just had her mahiru and i?? love sarah?? she’s such a sweetheart and all of her characterizations are so absolutely stellar. 10/10 would sarah again and also she made my theme so. yknow. amazing all around

@ongakuvoices rio’s a special brilliant soul w so much love for their muses and it shows in everything they write... i adore both their ibuki and their nagisa to pieces!! i know theyre gonna go places in life and ill be over here cheering them on from the sidelines, probably holding up some signs with memes on them

@jrco-disd actually i hate seth. nevermind. i’m not doing this

@nullverum​ boss was like one of the first ndrv3 blogs i interacted with long before the game had its official english release. i remember i made a post a while before saying that i thought ouma/nami would be a strange but cute brotp and hell! i was absolutely right in every way. its even funnier upon finding out ou/ma kind of plays the na/nami role just as much as the ko/maeda role in actuality (he’s gotta do both since a CERTAIN SOMEONE gets fridged at the beginning), so they’re surprisingly good (bad, actually) for each other. 

@ayatsurii sparkle’s peko is great ok? best sword girlfriend, would shower her in love and affection and cute things. nanami apparently has a thing for taller, stoic individuals with red eyes who could kick her ass one-handed. (don’t we all tho??) ahem. anyway. would recommend sparkle’s pekpek.

@kibouzuru i know we were mutuals for a while before i got involved with truth syndicate stuff? i feel silly not having interacted with u before because i rly should have. im really glad i got a chance to bc u and ur egg are cool (well, naegi’s a total dork) and now i can have nanami tease leggy and eggy about their relationship. she’s gotta get back at hinata for all those years of short jokes somehow, too bad naegi’s just collateral

@hikaup i remember i was on the lookout for pokemon blogs a while back and i stumbled across ur blog and was like... what the heck, this hikari seems way too cool... and wow!! i was totally right!! i love ur portrayal so much it’s such good shit and chiaki and hikari already have such a good dynamic. i hope chiaki gets to do Spooky Shit with hikari someday (and maybe even hold hands???? lets not get ahead of ourselves here) btw i get whiplash from how often u put out amazing themes

@kibcu

and yes, im gonna be at your basketball game tomorrow. stop telling me about it

@cantalazarus u know how i feel about u. ur smart and funny and talented and ur take on ur muses is So Good and 

@malchancevilain​ watchy is another one of my oldest mutuals and its always great to see their togami on my dash! we’ve been in a few group verses together now and i love seeing how he handles different situations (always with a great degree of salt) and just hanging out ooc! also: greg grimaldis wherever you are you better believe im getting those fifteen dollars back *mic drop*

@seineijashu​ oh.

hey nerd. we havent rly spoken much in a while but im still out here 100% in ur corner and i love everything u do. i know i dont know like anything about Boruto’s Dad like i said (im more a hunter x hunter guy myself,,,) but even if roleplaying opportunities are scarce im still totally down to talk like any time. now if only our time zones would line up. ps theres a secret message hidden here did you see it

@hopefromtheordinary​ it’s so great to see you back in the dr rpc! i loved your komaeda and your kamukura way back when. i love the twin shenanigans you and sin get up to (serious or crack) and i really can’t wait to get more chibot/kamukura stuff going! im excited i hope ur excited too

@gamblingqueen ANOTHER person i’m so glad to see back over here!! u were one of the first people to rly plot with me to any extent ooc and i am very excited to get right back into it! chiaki and celes are such an odd pair, but it’s wonderful to see them interact after they’ve both been brought so low. im over here rubbing my hands together at the speed of light in anticipation

@mxssias if naegi tries to get nanami to watch sword art online with him one more time shes gonna kill him and hide the body in the reserve course grounds. ahem. anyway. alex you’re such a little shit but you’re funny and i love your egg boy even if he’s constantly getting himself into trouble and sacrificing himself like he doesnt have anything better to do. get that boy a better hobby? thanks

and sorry if i forgot anybody! doing these is kind of exhausting for me and i might have gotten a little lazy, but i tried to hit most of the people i’ve been in contact with ooc at least a bit (who have been active within the past week or so).

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@jrco-disd ok fine fuck you. seth was one of the first people in the fandom to reach out to me and even if he’s often belligerent at me for no good reason (ok, fine, maybe i deserve it) i still really appreciate his friendship and am glad that we can exchange shitty sonic memes with each other. the day we get that sonic forces monster factory is the day we both can die happy, probably after strangling each other

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What's k/rp? ive never heard of it before.

i’ll start by saying i’m not korean myself, i’m chinese, so i can’t speak from a korean person’s perspective, but i’ll direct you to a number of posts regarding the matter of k/rp on blogs run by koreans who have spoken up against it : here , here and here . 

but essentially, it’s a sub-genre of rp that basically treats korean people, specifically k/pop idols as their own specific “trope” ( in the same way you might have detective / crime rp, horror rp, etc. ) ; the vast majority of people who partake in the normalising of k/rp are those who tend to be ko/reaboos ( think wee/aboo but with korean culture instead of japanese culture ) and will generally have their own view of the culture often being shaped solely by what they might see in korean dramas and variety shows, a handful of interviews with their fav k/pop idol, etc ( which, as any kind of media tends to be, is often ridden with inaccurate representation ).

some do it for the sake of writing real k/pop idols / celebrities as themselves ( which is creepy in itself to claim that you know another person, who you don’t know personally, so well that you can write them as you would a fictional character ) or an “au version” of them, a real living person ( same as the former, but just placing them in a different setting ; i commonly see harmful stereotyping of asian gangs with “gang / mafia aus” going hand in hand with this ). some write it to ship two real living people, in the same essence as someone might write a fanfic. 

this isn’t to say that if you’re an oc using a k/pop idol or celebrity fc ( and therefore pull the “but i’m not k/rp myself !!!!” card ) and may or may not continue to write with k/rp writers, you’re exempt from being k/rp, as the other issues like stereotyping and fetishisation are often still prominent. it’s easy enough to tack on a claim that you aren’t this or that, but being passive / continuing to support or condone the issue is just as bad.

but even with that aside, it promotes the idea that koreans ( and other asians who are in k/pop groups, such as chinese, thai, taiwanese, japanese people ) are nothing more than their own isolated genre of media, rather than being actual people, and dehumanising them. there’s a ridiculous amount of culture erasing ( such as slapping on hangul / hanzi / kanji, etc for aesthetic, ignoring rocky political histories between asian countries ), having such a lack of research that you’d just mash a bunch of relatively “asian sounding” syllables together to name your asian muse, thinking asian ethnicities are interchangeable ( a la “its ok if i use this korean k/pop idol as an fc for my chinese muse theyre both asian and look similar !!!” racism ), blind stereotyping, infantalisation and fetishisation/objectification of east asians, especially females ( yeah i’m talking abt ppl n their blatant yellow fever fantasies and connotations of “uwu sweet docile petite east asians”, something which myself, and many other east asians, are subjected to constantly ; it makes me uncomfortable as fuck ).

it’s fine to write an east asian muse if you’re not east asian yourself, but for the love of god don’t let your portrayal be shaped by stereotyping, fetishisation and non-researched views of east asian poc and cultures specific to their respective ethnicities. be respectful and considerate when writing an ethnicity that differs to your own. i could go on, but i think this is already enough to go by. if any koreans or other east asians wish to correct me on anything i’ve said, or add any words of their own, feel free to do so !