#tumblr is where the gays are at

[jenniferchaulam]

/its always tumblr, ITS ALWAYS FUCKING TUMBLR when i search IN MY OWN LANGUAGE on literally any other site, people got stumped. Bác? Too old. Bạn? Too casual/disrespectful. people jest, like lets call them Mày (which is even More casual/disrespectful than Bạn, and most NBs are young, so there is no generation After them yet for them to consider a Older-Casual pronoun)

chanh? 10/10. lets call them limes its so perfect (Limes, because while Chanh can be translated to lemons, they arent the first thing people think off. Also lemons arent naturally grown here and are very expensive lol, Ive never tasted a natural lemon)

I am writing a story where one of the main characters is vietnamese-american and nonbinary. I myself am nonbinary, but I'm not asian and I know there are some western tropes around portraying asian characters as "genderless" (like robots etc). This character has a love interest but I also don't want any expressions of gender neutrality to be misconstrued as "desexualized" (as I believe that is another trope). What is some advice on how to make these aspects of my character work well without being disrespectful?

Nonbinary Vietnamese character, worried about (neutral = de-sexualized) tropes

A note that Vietnam is part of Southeast Asia, not East Asia! 

Obviously there are multiethnic Vietnamese people such as myself that are East and Southeast Asian, and Vietnamese people of East Asian (ethnic) origin - but Vietnam’s considered a Southeast Asian nation (here’s a link to the ASEAN’s page on Vietnam).

Speaking as a nonbinary Vietnamese person, I’d say go for it! I personally know many other Vietnamese nonbinary people, so the identity is definitely a sizable population of the queer Viet diaspora.

Clearly you’ve done research on dehumanizing tropes of characters of color, so I would just recommend scrolling through our “nonbinary” and “Vietnamese” tags.

If you want some resources from LGBT Viets specifically, I’d recommend checking out Viet Rainbow of Orange County, an organization founded by LGBT Vietnamese people based in Little Saigon.

[Content Warning for mentions of suicide and mental health issues]

According to the Trevor Project, many young queer Vietnamese-Americans struggle with mental health issues with as high as 60% LGBT Vietnamese youth not being “out” to their parents, and 31% contemplating suicide. I would tread carefully if this is a topic you plan on addressing in your story.

Something interesting I’ve stumbled across with regards to the nonbinary Vietnamese identity: according to the Asian American Writers Workshop, some people use “chanh” as a pronoun (combining the words for sister and brother). I personally don’t speak Vietnamese, but thought this was pretty neat!

Nonbinary Vietnamese readers, feel free to contribute any thoughts you have.

~ Mod Emme

[ash-and-starlight]

Sokka splashed a line of water through his path. The fire fizzled. Zuko’s eyebrow raised, then he forged on. The path zigzagged out of the constellation, hopped eastwards through the galaxy’s north. Hiss. Hiss. Sokka met him each time with a streak of water. Zuko pressed on, building rhythm with each star he joined up.

The Mercy of Magpies Chapter 4 out now!!

as always written by thee @ranilla-bean and betaed by @faux-fires

Chapter Post || Cover || Map and Characters || Ch2 || Ch 3.1 || Ch. 3.2

[queenoftheimps]

One thing I find interesting about The Terror's cult following is that, on the face of it, the audience that is attached to the show is not at all what I imagine people assumed when it was released.

Like, this a show specifically about history and the military/the navy, with a cast that is 95% white guys. Even with the horror elements, I kind of imagine AMC executives might've thought it would do well with the 'Dad' audience, or people who like stuff like Band of Brothers. (Tobias Menzies' latest show, Manhunt, is in this category, and I don't think it's entirely coincidental that he & Ciarán Hinds were also big main characters on HBO's Rome, something that also fits this niche.)

And instead, it seems like it was mainly embraced by a younger audience (something Jared Harris himself noticed), specifically one that's probably a lot more queer/non-masculine than might have been expected.

I'm sure there are people out there with much more astute analysis than me on why that is, but I wonder if a lot of it is simply down to tone. This isn't a show about the glory of the military or a patriotic mission, or even about men being noble/tough in the face of an ultimately tragic ending.

It's about how all that shit falls apart when it comes to push comes to shove, and how sometimes things that are framed as glorious are actually a pointless fucking tragedy on behalf of an empire that kept chugging right along without them. And the only thing to show for it is the bonds these people formed before they died.

[siriuslygay1981]

Remus- Does james make your heart beat faster?

Regulus- I don’t know. I have anxiety, everything makes my heart beat faster

[weirdnico]

regulus and his baby (yes, she's james' too) (sirius spoils her rotten)

[crayolascribblz]

i haven't gotten my package yet where the hell is the mailman

[spenglerstwinkie]

30 days to train aka 30 days for kars to cyber bully joseph

[personostient]

The Trés holemies

[critter-covenant]

BOOM frowning critters yuri be upon ye

Catfeine and Dogpressed by @/eggritos!! :D

[cozylittleartblog]

me omw to scare mormons out of a wendys!! 🍂🖤🍟

ootd from like 2 weeks ago and yes that really happened

[nemnums]

they should’ve been canon

[alebanana]

falsettos recreation from that one scene from moral orel!!!

gif-ied (?) version under the cut 👀👀👀

omigod gae,,, im 100% sure this is marvin and whizzer when they first met try to change my mind

[dumbbunny0505]

Sillyzai is fucking lit

[hikarry]

No, I don't portray Crowley as having a weird fascination with Aziraphale's blue eyes because I also have a weird obcession with them, what do you mean? *sips my caprisun*

[marinusart]