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MEAT REVOLUTION🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩
#my art#oc#meat art#meat#flesh#Inspired by ancestral worship panels in vietnam#he’s unfilial AND regicidal! anti-monarchy icon#he is going to topple the dynasty like a boss#Vietnamese reference 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
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France Nuyen
#france nuyen#asian actress#French Asian#French#Vietnamese#film#Asians in film#old Hollywood#Asian icons#mixed#Vietnamese actress
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Thấm Thúy Hằng
#Thấm Thúy Hằng#60s#60s icons#50s#50s icons#vintage actress#Vietnamese actress#tham thuy hang#asian actress
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some of the zionist accounts on here are fucking sickening because somehow they are posting about queer struggles and being supportive of black history while actively advocating the murder of a whole fucking group of people.
my experiences as a minority made me empathetic to others--what the fuck did they do for you?
#like. dude youre closer to one side than the other here#i dont wanna hear any other vietnamese folk supporting this shit (luckily i havent yet)#when the us did the same to us#i dont wanna hear any queers supporting the occupation when those murdered also include queers#i dont wanna hear any poc support the occupation when you know damn well the feeling of oppression#and ESPECIALLY when palestinians have stood on YOUR side#the only good thing about a pro israhell post popping up in my fyp is that i get a whole new list of people to block in rbs#hope your home countries of origin shame you if you support the occupation#hope every queer and equal rights icon you supposedly look up to blocks your asses#hope if i ever put my work out there not a single one of you derives any benefit or enjoyment#free palestine
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Viet-A-Porter - Street Vendor Part 3
Heyyyy!!! It’s been a minute, but we’re back with a new set! This time we're bringing the vibrant flavors of Vietnam right to your Sims' neighborhood with our latest collection inspired by the iconic Vietnamese street food - Banh Mi. So, grab yourself a bite and immerse in the irresistible flavors of this famous street food cuisine!
All item is Base Game Compatible (BGC)
Banh Mi Oi! Cart | 10 swatches
Fresh Bread Basket | 5 swatches
Banh Mi Plate | 10 swatches
Street Dish Rack | 10 swatches
📍Get the set now on PATREON (Public Release 15/03)
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#the sims 4#s4#ts4#s4cc#sims 4#ts4cc#the sims 4 cc#s4ccmm#s4mm#ts4ccmm#the sims 4 stuff pack#cc stuff pack#sims 4 cc#maxis match#the sims 4 dining room#ts4 dining room#s4 dining room#2023#vietnam#homechefhustle#streetfood
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This Week in BL - We In A Slump, but help might be coming from a very strange source
Organized, in each category, with ones I'm enjoying most at the top.
Sept 2024 Week 4
Ongoing Series - Thai
Jack & Joker (Thai Mon IQIYI) ep 3 of 12 - I don’t have a lot to say except that the plot is somewhat predictable but the show is still very engaging. War is fantastic. I’m enjoying it a hell of a lot.
Monster Next Door (Thai Thurs Gaga ) ep 10 of 12 - The second leads are getting better in this one. I understand where they are coming from, which makes their conflict so much more understandably painful, and honest to a friends2lovers trope. The main couple is kinda standard college relationship drama, but they are cuties.
Kidnap (Fri YT) ep 4 of 12 - How is Ohm so damn gorgeous? Meanwhile, babies’ first argument. And it’s sponge bath time. Q has got to be wondering if Min is as meticulous with all kinds of care and attention to detail all......the......time. Somebody here in the hellhole said something about this being "the most BL to ever BL." And I think they’re right. At least right now. Although, watch out, we got us a new contender from the east.
I Saw You in My Dream (Weds Gaga) ep 11 of 12 - I do love the continuation of the perversion, in a good way, of the punishment trope from last week's episode. Oh, has the show finally remembered its title? NO SINGING.
Addicted Heroin (Thai Tues WeTV) ep 7 of 10 - More kidnapping and an attack and now there’s a girl involved and somebody’s going to China and I don’t understand anything! And I don’t really care. Is this how the actual book originally went? Because it’s wild. Also TOO MANY of flashbacks. I guess they got a bit of a boyfriend era, and the claiming during the water fight was cute, but otherwise...... meh
Love Sick 2024 (Thai Sun iQIYI) ep 2 of 15 - One shouldn’t make comparisons, of course, but all I can think about is how amazing Captain was as Noh in the original series. Thus this show is mostly just making me want to rewatch the original. It’d be an interesting twist to have Aim be queer instead of a damaged cool girl slut. Was the helmet hand letting go a foreshadow of the iconic bookstore hands letting go? Also, I gotta say for the second episode of a series there are already too many flashbacks. Why are they using filler when they have so much content crammed into so few (comparable) episodes for a series? It’s annoying. Stop it.
Live in Love (Sun Gaga) ep 4 of 5 - This show has some interesting, if heavy handed, things to say about shipping and trolling, but also predatory/proprietary female behavior. It’s fascinating to see it tackled head on, if handled in a profoundly clumsy manner. I’m not sure how I feel about it. That said, most of this episode was actually an advertisement for a resort in Phuket.
Bad Guy My Boss (Thai Sun Gaga) ep 2 of 10 - I'm getting What's Wrong with Secretary Kim? vibes from this show. Only this is WAY more bullying. It’s very old-fashioned 90’s billionaire romance novel only gay. It’s never a good sign when I’m watching two boys kiss and I really want one of them to just bite the other ones lip off instead.
Battle of the Writers (Sun YT) ep 9 of 12 - No ep this week.
Ongoing Series - Not Thai
Sugar Dog Life (Japan Sun grey) ep 8 of 10 - Gosh it’s so frikin adorable. Baby got sick. He has SUCH A CRUSH. And such a courageous little confession! Yay! Can’t wait for next week.
Teenager Judge (Vietnam Sat YouTube) ep 1 - sure, yes this is, in fact, just Ba Vinh doing his thing with pretty boys again. And yet...... There is a REASON this leapt into the standings guns blazing. So it’s high school set but it's stepbrothers trope. (My, aren’t we popular this year?) I know, but I NEVER get tired of this trope. We got us Bach (BV's sullen tsundere) and Dat (babygirl meets bully). It’s GREAT how the brothers' dynamic is entirely different at school than when they're at home. My ear isn’t trained for Vietnamese, but I think Dat is using different pronouns depending on his location (his personality entirely shifts when he’s at school). I’m not sold on the Bach character, although I always trust BV to serve in the end (at least we know the kisses will be good), but Dat is utterly in love, a touch spicy, and reasonably complex. The surrounding cast is good too, my favorite pretty boy is there playing top dog (woof), and one of the besties is out gay (YAY!). The plot of the show is...... well...... absent. Nothing happened. But if we are aiming for Love Sick slice of life style BL, I'm game. Subs are appropriately terrible and confusing. But I like it A FUCK TON so far, so I’m gonna keep it in rotation. Nice to have Vietnam back in play. What a shocker.
2024 has been a year of upsets.
Love is Like a Poison AKA Doku Koi: Doku mo Sugireba Koi to Naru (Japan Tues Netflix?) 3 of 10 eps - I weirdly enjoyed the farcical music and the utter absurdity of the court case. I also liked how it highlighted what a good team these two are. Frankly I don’t mind a bit of an antihero sleazy lawyer + conman, it's engaging. I’m getting wholesome out of Thailand. I don’t really need it from Japan at the moment. Also I don’t believe for one second our conman actually is serious about the relationship. Conmen gonna con. I'm reminded of the scorpion and the frog fable.
First Note Of Love (Taiwan Mon Gaga) ep 8 of 12 - I love Orca so much. I do not love the autotuned version of Orca, but I knew what I was in for with this particular show, it's in the title after all. I did laugh a whole lot when Laing used kha. Hon, I don't think that word means what you think it means......
The On1y One (Taiwan Thurs Gaga) eps 11-12fin - I never thought I’d say this, but the pacing was off in the penultimate episode. Taiwan, and its chronic misuse of flashbacks strikes again. That said we eventually got a "lock in" trope and Wang being the biggest little flirt shit in the cafe OMG!!! Of course, you shouldn’t use a girl to torment your bf, but it was so well done, I can’t really complain. Meanwhile, teacher kisses. And now I understand exactly why they’re present in this narrative. Clever. Bummer of a burden on that ending though. I cannot see how they’ll manage to stick this landing. [That was ep 11]
AND NOW EP 12 - doomey doomey doom
Not the water bottle trope! Argh the teenage lust of it all. Just stop it. Wang is so smart he knows exactly how bad he has to be to leave the class. And his bf certainly knows that too. And......
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So that was not an ending and I’m not happy about it and no one is surprised. Even I’m not surprised. I’m just disappointed. Even tho I suspected this was where we were headed I'm disappointed. That’s it. That’s all I got. How do I review something that was such a crushing let down?
Conclusion:
Based on a Mou Mou novel + the Your Name Engraved Herein team, this is old-school coming of age BL and it was bloody fantastic. Tsundere seme to beat all tsundere (smartest + tallest + bestest at everything but people) meets socially-ept cutie smart-ass uke. They're living together by end of ep 1 and start kissing by end of ep 2. A stellar tense slow burn stepbrothers trope that ate my life and than just belly-flopped the finale. What I'm left with is epic levels of disappointment and well...... at least nobody died? My standard "fatally flawed" rating for any BL is 4/10 so I guess that’s what I’m giving it.
Before you ask me for the stats: Taiwan does not have a history of second seasons. I went ahead and ran the numbers and the odds are certainly not in our favor. I put the chances at 2%.
Yes, I contemplated a revenge rating of 2/10 but even I'm not that mean.
It's airing but...
The Hidden Moon (Sat WeTV) ep 1 of 10 - This is a supernatural romance (my ghost boyfriend trope) by Violet Rain (I Feel You Linger). A man is hired to write an article about an old mansion in Chiang Mai being converted into a café. He sees the ghosts of people who died at the mansion, falls in love with one of them. Was substantially recast. I loved IFYLITA except the ending so I think I'll let this one run it's course you can tell me if it's work tracking down... if they managed to land it. I have my doubts.
In Case You Missed It
Falling For My Boss is vertical format (nash) short from Korean BL about a happy-go-unlucky man who keeps losing his flower shop business because of romantically misbehaving employees (apparently it's a thing). When his best employee brings in a new boy he's worried she's falling for him, but it turns out it's his own heart on the line. He a clueless softy and The Boy is a lost broken sweetheart, making this a gentle little snippet of a show. There's a baby linguistic negotiation, some hung slinging, awkward handholds, and everyone is very pretty. For me the absence of kisses and the vertical format were more annoying than the length, which felt fine but many viewers will find too short. I enjoyed the 30 minutes of cute. All of which makes this a solid 7/10 from me. It was originally only available on this one ap in very short form with ads so I wasn't gonna bother. Then some kind soul cut it together without ads and stuck it up for download. Say thank you.
Oddball recommendation next: This podcast episode touches on some stuff we see in Thai BL so I think it's worth listening to. Journalist Dominic Faulder on the Complex History Between Thailand & Myanmar
Happy of the End (Japan Gaga) - Completed its run. A boy is disowned for being gay, dumped by his boyfriend, and ends up in a dysfunctional co-dependant relationship with his would-be kidnapper. We were due for another messy JBL and it's exactly as expected. I do not like it at all and DNFed. Gossip round the hellhole is that was a solid decision.
Marriage Equality Law has officially been enacted in Thailand...
Yes the actual law. Goes into effect Jan 22, 2025
Next Week Looks Like This:
Upcoming BLs for 2024 are listed here. This list is not kept updated, so please leave a comment if you know something new or RP with additions.
Coming Oct 2024:
10/3 Fourever You (Thai iQIYI?) 16 eps - New directs Earth (UWMA, 12%) + Pond (Century of Love, 180 Degrees), Bas (Gen Y, 2 Moons) + Maxky (Why You… Y Me?) and other familiar faces like Bever. Sampler pack university BL from Wabi Sabi that looks like it's trying to be a gay Boys Over Flowers (4 older med students hot boys) and I'm not mad about it. Trailer Not sure who's distributing this but my guess is iQIYI since they had the last few from this house.
10/7 Every You Every Me (Thai Gaga) 10 eps - Jade and Chin have lived over a thousand lifetimes. In each one they somehow manage to fall in love with each other. (This pair, TopMick was piloted in a My Universe ep, that was one of the only ones I liked.)
10/10 Eccentric Romance (Korea ????) 12 eps - Silkwood’s 2nd Thai/Korean colab, that has been in production since 2022 which is a LONG time in the BL world. I'm worried but I like the concept: friends of 10 years who’ve been hiding feelings for each other enter the same university. Plus MURDER.
10/10 Gangster and His Boyfriend (Korea ????) 8 eps? - Kim Dong Bin (famous trainee & idol reality competitor, yeah that happens) stars as a fallen idol who unexpectedly becomes entangled in a gangster family. Discovers that his friend’s father is responsible for the murder of his entire family years ago. I don't know much about this one, neither does anyone else and I'm not sure where I got that release date so……
10/21 Love in the Big City (Korea ????) 8 eps - Adaptation of Booker-nominated famous coming of age novel of the same title by Park Sang-Young. Cynical yet fun loving student writer Young pinballs from home, to class, to Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female besie and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their worries about life, love, and money with soju. As time passes Jaehee settles down and leaves Young to face his problems on his own. Young finding comfort in the arms of the series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness and another who might be the great love of his life. Not really BL. Stars Kim Go-eun (The King: Eternal Monarch), Noh Sang-hyun, and Nam Yoon Su (The King’s Affection). This already released as a movie and isn't very well regarded, this date is supposedly an international release as a series. I'm wary of it being BL.
THIS WEEK’S BEST MOMENTS
I got nothing, The On1y One drove me into a funk.
(Last week)
Streaming services are listed by how I (usually) watch, which is with a USA based IP, and often offset by a day because time zones are a pain.
The tag BLigade: @doorajar @solitaryandwandering @my-rose-tinted-glasses @babymbbatinygirl @babymbbatinygirl @isisanna-blog @mmastertheone @pickletrip @aliceisathome @urikawa-miyuki @tokillamonger @sunflower-positiiivity @rocketturtle4 @blglplus @anythinggoesintheshire @everlightly @renafire @mestizashinrin @bl-bam-beyond @small-dark-and-delicious @saezurumurmurs
Sigh, Tumblr in its infinite wisdom doesn't like too many at-ings.
#this week in BL#BL updates#Jack & Joker#Jack and Joker#Addicted Heroin#Battle of the Writers#Monster Next Door#Sugar Dog Life#I Saw You in My Dream#The On1y One#First Note of Love#Live in Love#Kidnap the series#Love Sick 2024#Bad Guy My Boss#upcoming BL#BL news#BL reviews#BL gossip#Thai BL#Japanese BL#live action yaoi#Koren BL#BL starting soon#BL coming soon#new BL#The Only One Review#Teenage Judge#Vietnamese BL#Falling For My Boss
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Are you tired of feminine hygiene products that don’t come with that added flair of high class and luxury living? Well I’m pleased to introduce you to our new Trump Branded Tampons(TM)! Don’t menstruate with those boring old, regular cotton balls ever again! Our grope worthy, premium Vietnamese MAGAcotton is sourced directly from the best cotton growers the world has ever seen. Packaged in a glass tube that’s hand painted with various different iconic images from my presidency, they come pre-loaded with 14 karat gold inlays and are generously coated in my favorite brand of lube. Make your time of the month the best time of the month for luxury and style with Trump Branded Tampons(TM)! You won’t be able to keep your hands off them, believe me!
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I guess I should put out a bat fam basic headcanon statement…..
Batfam Headcanon Baseline:
Alfred (69…nice)
-5’8
-British
-Is in possession of the coveted last brain cell
-Can and will kill for very little
-Despite having infinite shopping money for groceries he loves a bargain, coupon king
Bruce (35)
-6’4 (big boi)
-Italian (Southern Region) and Russian
-A brand of autistic that could be described with the word “grumch”
-In love with Clark
-Is a himbo AND a wet cat
Dick (21)
-5’10 (says he’s 6’0)
-Romani, Portuguese and French
-ADHD and joint hypermobility
-Pansexual menace
-Fashion ✨Icon✨
-Should quit being a cop and become a beauty guru
Cass (18)
-5’5
-Chinese
-L E S B I A N
-Selectively mute
-Does fake ASL around pretentious rich people, actually just Naruto ninjutsu signs
-Loves to grill a cheese
Jason (18)
-6’7 (Biiig Boi)
-Puerto Rican and Scottish
-A chef a connoisseur
-Hates Cops
-Bisexual/Greysexual (he’s not sex repulsed just not like that about it)
Tim (15)
-5’4 (pocket sized)
-Vietnamese and German
-Trans King 👑
-In a polycule with Kon and Bernard (maybe Bart too depends on the time of day)
-He was a sk8er boi
Duke (12)
-5’0 (A growing boy)
-Jamaican and Dominican
-The token straight
-Sleeper mario kart assassin
-Airdrops memes at galas to his siblings to see who will break first
Damian (7)
- 4’5 (he so tiny)
-Italian, Russian, Chinese and Arab
-Will ask if you have games on your phone
-Not allowed on the internet unless he is watching cat videos
-Also Autistic
#bruce wayne#batfam#batman#jason todd#dick grayson#damian wayne#tim drake#dc batman#alfred pennyworth#cassandra cain#duke thomas#headcanon#gay#a gay house hold#they love and accept Duke despite not being gay#he’s serving ally#Bruce being the child of this big buff Italian guido type and this little Russian mafia woman is lodged in my head#The Autism is genetic#Tim has Autism too#autistic tim drake#Dick has joint hyper mobility#I need to convert people to my cult#I am a prophet who brings the truth#imagine him in his little wrist brace when he has to write long reports because fine motor skills make his hand cramp#i am projecting#I don’t need to imagine#I’m him#my brain is rotten but the worms still feast
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ASIAN WOMEN IN COMICS icons of ten of my favourite asian women in DC Talia Al Ghul - Half Chinese Linda Park - Korean-American Sandra Wu-San( Lady Shiva ) - Chinese Cassandra Cain( Batgirl, Black Bat) - Half Chinese Kimiyo Hoshi( Doctor Light) - Japanese Rose Wilson( Ravager ) - Half Cambodian Shado- Japanese Emiko Queen( Red Arrow) - Half Japanese Jade Nguyen( Chesire ) - Half Vietnamese Tatsu Yamashiro( Katana ) - Japanese
#spork edits#talia al ghul#linda park#sandra wu san#lady shiva#cassandra cain#kimiyo hoshi#rose wilson#shado#emiko queen#jade nguyen#tatsu yamashiro#dc#asianincomics
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KARRUECHE TRAN in BEL-AIR SEASON 3
in the SOURCE below you'll find gifs (sized 268x151) of karrueche tran as ivy in bel-air ( s3 but will be updated as the episodes drop! ) all gifs were made by me and are for roleplaying purposes. she's of african-american and vietnamese decent, please cast accordingly and use appropriately! feel free to make into gif icons, add psd coloring, add into edits. please DON'T claim as yours and add to other gif packs. reblogs and likes are appreciated!! enjoy.🫧 TRIGGER WARNING : TBA.
#karrueche tran#karrueche tran gif hunt#karrueche tran gif pack#black fc#underused fc#gif hunt#gif pack#* will be updated!
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Notes about Link’s Frostbite Armour!
Hi, I’m Robin, I’ve done this before- see the Lynette outfit analysis. This time I made the Frostbite outfit, and I’ve noticed a few things.
-the “dress” closely resembles a Vietnamese ao dai, and so do the pants. The rest of the outfit is more aztec-inspired, information that came from a dude who came up to me during the convention. Thank you to that dude
-that crown of horns that are meant to resemble Naydras? I had trouble fixing them onto me, and apparently Link did too. There are three straps on top of his head to keep the horns from dropping into his eyes while moving.
-the centerpiece on his chest is probably an imitation of Naydras face. Every Zonai outfit has one, with the exception of Zelda and I think Sonia? There’s a face on it- this one looks vaguely owlish, and the nose has a mustache. This may be our only image of pre-Dragon Naydra. Just speculation, though.
-the markings on the bottom of Links robe, from its start to the little bone-things near the bottom, are identical on every Zonai object, including Zelda’s and Sonia’s. The motif can also be found in shrines, and once you know it, you’ll see it EVERYWHERE.
-you may not have noticed, but Zonai really like their eyes. Link has five eyes on his headpiece, and on the back of his dress, there’s a line of beads leading to an eye that looks almost exactly like the Sheikah eye. Oh, and Zonai eyes have teeth at the bottom.
-his wrap is not pleated. Its tassels
-the iconic backless diamonds, they need to be ironed in place to stay in their shape.
- his belt goes under the dress. It goes around his hip and connects to both the charges and the quiver. The one around his chest connects to his sheathe.
-there are tiny little teeth on his armbands
-the six teardrops on his face are not makeup, like Sonia and Zelda. They’re little gems. He’s a diva
-there are seven horns total, if I counted right
Concluding notes, the costume is light and breathable and you don’t have to worry about favbric getting in your way. Easy to move around, the most difficult thing to keep in place is the horns. I imagine it would do fine for movement in totk battles, and shit for warmth, which tracks.
Here’s my costume!
#totk#loz totk#cosplay#cosplay notes#link#link totk#references#tears of the kingdom#naydra#frostbite armour#frostbite armor#this took SO DAMN LONG
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૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა / CASEY LUONG GIF PACK
in the source link, you'll find #100 268 x 151 gifs of casey luong, also know as his stage name keshi, from misc videos and interviews. casey was born in 1994 and is of vietnamese descent so please cast accordingly. i made all these gifs from scratch, so please do not claim as your own. please do not crop into gif icons without my permission. i do not agree with the -/+ 5 year rule and please do not use my gifs for any taboo plots or rps. please like/reblog if you found these useful. if you'd like to tip me, please see the link to my ko-fi here.
#casey luong gif pack#casey luong gif hunt#keshi gif pack#keshi gif hunt#gifpacknetwork#underused fc#gifsociety#gif pack#gif hunt#gifhunthub#gif pack: mine#content: mine
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bots; unending bots
You know, my accounts didn't used to get targeted that much by waves of bots. I would see people post about, and sympathize with, getting waves and waves of bot followers, while I would get a couple here and there.
A couple of days ago, I had like, 7 bots show up. Yesterday, I went through and reported/blocked 60+ new bots. Today, my follower count has shot up by 200, almost all bots, and I just can't. (I don't know of a way to mass report/block?) Hopefully all of the reports/blocking that people are doing right now will result in these getting cleared out at some point by staff.
(It's a weird mixture, too. Some are the usual completely blank blogs with random names/numbers, no reblogs, no likes. Some are pornbots. Some are Turkish casinos. Some are Vietnamese gambling bots. Some are just flat-out financial scams. I don't ever remember seeing such a variety before? Usually it's JUST pornbots.)
And it's just on my art sideblog, not this main account, too. Weird!
Anyway, the usual plea for new real accounts out there: do *something* to personalize your blog. Changing the default icon is good, but bots are definitely onto that. Putting a blog title and sub-title is good too. (I say, from an account on which I have a title and sub-title that both just consist of my blog name, lol.) It just helps people tell that you're NOT a bot.
#life with tumblr#bots#(they also pushed me past a follower milestone; but it's not REAL#which is just faintly irritating)
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Hey ho, have you seen The Creator (2023) yet? Unsubtly about US imperialism, but also really moving, aesthetically stunning (Greig Fraser as DP, oh yeah) and John David Washington killing it in the main role. I was surprised by how much there was to love. xoxo
I fucking LOVED The Creator and kept trying to write something about it here but never managed to collect my thoughts. But yeah what a fucking movie, oh my god. I feel like it kind of got buried by lack of publicity but tbh I am not that surprised because it's one of those movies with politics that make you think how the fuck did they get away with making this.
Gareth Edwards, like Villeneuve, is a director I've been paying attention to for a while now, ever since his 2010 movie Monsters, which was a really impressive low-budget sci-fi with effects that just looked seamless and interesting things to say about borders and the human cost of militarized responses to disastrous events.
And then he did Rogue One and pulled off something very impressive, which is to take one of the most famous sci-fi weapons of our era--the Death Star, a metaphor for nuclear weapons so iconic it has become a symbol in itself--and made it actually fucking scary for the first time in the history of the franchise. And he did it by turning the camera around.
Because the thing is that before this point, we had only ever seen the Death Star from the point of view of the people firing it. The idea of a planet-destroying weapon is intellectually horrifying but we didn't really ever feel it. Because for that we need to see the weapon from the point of view of its victims. It's such a simple but radical shift in perspective, and I feel like Gareth Edwards took that idea from Rogue One and then made it into a whole movie with The Creator.
The Creator, for those unfamiliar with the premise, is about a near-future counterinsurgency war in which the US military is hunting down various forms of AI/android/robot beings. It also features a space-based super-weapon that is eerily beautiful but goddamn fucking terrifying. It was mostly shot in southeast Asia and heavily evokes Vietnam War imagery (as the ending of Rogue One did as well); it is probably about as close to "Vietnam War movie but you're rooting for the Vietnamese" as it is possible to make in the American studio system. The protagonist is still an American soldier (who defects and "goes native" fairly early in the movie) but making him a Black disabled veteran was certainly a Choice. And yes it's John David Washington and he's great in it.
It feels facetious to say The Creator is Reverse Terminator, because it's much richer than that, but it's also kind of fucking true. For the entire movie, the characters are just running for their lives from the implacable and overwhelming destructive force of the US military which is just crushing everything in its path.
The movie does a lot of things that you simply do not see in most American war movies, but the one that stands out to me the most is that in every scene of war violence there are civilians, including children, fucking everywhere. It really threw into relief for me how often American war-action movies create these empty video game environments for soldiers to run around in, where any actual people who might live in the place where the war is happening are at best props and at worst completely absent. (Alex Garland's Civil War, in addition to being terrible in every other conceivable way, is a particularly bad offender at this.) The Creator does what really should be the bare minimum of taking time to showing that these are people whose homes and lives are being destroyed and it is shocking how novel it seems. (There's a line that plays in my head all the time where one of the AI characters says something to the effect of, "Do you know what will happen to the humans when we win this war? Nothing. We simply want to live.") I will also say that this made it a very intense watch in late October 2023 in particular, but it is fiction so we get a very satisfying and cathartic ending. And yes it is an absolutely gorgeous movie, the VFX are mind-blowing, and I found it quite moving.
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Viet-A-Porter - Street Vendor Part 4
Have you ever wondered how street food vendors magically carry all those delicious goodies and serve them up on the spot? Well, the secret's out – it's all thanks to the iconic Gánh! In our latest set from the Street Vendor series, we're bringing you this essential element of Vietnamese street food culture, straight from our childhood memories to your Sims' neighborhood!
All item is Base Game Compatible (BGC)
Gánh | 10 swatches
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Funny thing is that years ago in my country (Vietnam), the song Ievan Polkka Miku cover went viral because someone made a choreography for it, commonly known as the "hand wash dance". It became one of the most iconic dance, that if you show a random Vietnamese person the song they would most likely remember dancing to it and go "Oh! this is the hand wash dance song!" but will have no idea who Hatsune Miku is. It is so popular, that a lot of schools make their students dance to it, either as performance or excercise. During elementary school, my ENTIRE school had to dance to the song twice a week. In this country, kids and students all dance to Hatsune Miku, and they have NO IDEA. They even dance to this song in important events. Here's the link to the video that taught people the dance. The song starts at 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp_dD9hqh6E The fact that the comments is all about people saying how nostalgic the song is and how well they still remember it. Hatsune Miku made thousands of people's childhood.
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