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I find it interesting that you keep saying that Asians in Asia don't see themselves as poc. While you may feel that way, I think it's valid to note that Britain (white people) occupied and conquered what was then India (today India, Pakistan, Bhutan, etc.) There is a big difference between the fair indians and the darker indians. To be light skinned is considered beautful. Therefore, that region of Asia does see itself as poc for they were treated as second class to the gori British.

Hey, I appreciate you writing in! I’ll explain my thinking behind the term here.

I too grew up in a former British colony, so while I did have a concept of whiteness and therefore do not see myself as “white”- I want to emphasise that the term “person of colour” does have different political and cultural implications than “non-European” or perhaps “non-white”. Simply, I do not see myself as “white” because of British colonialism, but I does not mean I see myself as a “person of colour”. I see myself as Han Chinese, East Asian or Asian. “ In general, I believe the term should not be used carelessly outside the US due to different ideas of whiteness between the US and Europe, as well as other countries in the Americas, where race isn’t perceived the exact same way. I don’t believe it should be used at all in the non-Western context.

1. Person of colour is a term that specifically originated in the context of the United States’ system of colourist racism, of Jim Crow, of slavery, where the idea of “white” became a vehicle to confer privilege. I say “vehicle” because whiteness has always been a social construct. in much earlier parts of US history, several light-skinned European ethnic groups were not allowed to access whiteness, like Irish people. Today, they are seen as white. Although the term has been used carelessly by many people on tumblr, “person of colour” is first and foremost a racialised identity taken on to organise against white supremacy- in Western contexts.

2. I don’t believe it should be applied to non-Western contexts firstly, because the history of Asian colourist discrimination has actually long-predated European colonial rule. Further, it doesn’t quite just exist as a marker of racial otherness, but as a class division. Fair skin has been prized in China, Japan and Korea for thousands of years due to classism. I believe it is the case with India too- from what I know, it was very much tied to the ancient Indian caste system or other class/regional divisions. That is not to say that Western beauty standards don’t help to reinforce this preference today, but it would be inaccurate for us to ascribe this obsession for light skin all to recent European imperialism. Recognising its ancient roots is crucial: as a light-skinned East Asian, nobody has ever tried to sell me skin-whitening cream, unlike my other Han Chinese friends who were darker-skinned. 

3. As “person of colour” is an organising tool against white supremacy, I do not believe it has much relevance in non-Western contexts because we are no longer under European colonial rule. This is not to say its legacy doesn’t still affect us, but that the fault lines and tensions that matter are very often not going to centre so much around whiteness anymore in day-to-day life. I feel white privilege can be discussed there without us defining ourselves as “persons of colour”. 

Primarily, I am against the term because it posits a false illusion of solidarity that erases local oppressor-oppressed dynamics, and centering on whiteness very often becomes a tool of deflection for their own crimes (like in Mugabe’s ZImbabwe, when he appropriated land from white farmers but mostly gave it to his cronies who didn’t utilise the land properly, causing food shortages that hurt thousands of black Zimbabweans.) On another level, I don’t wish to centre around whiteness all the time because I think the fixation on it at the expense of other fault lines is in of itself a perpetuation of Eurocentic/whitecentric history and narratives.

To me, the attendant notions of solidarity underpinning the idea of POC have very little relevance when outside the Western world, our oppressive structures and systems of privileges are very often run by other non-Europeans. Whiteness is the “default” in the US, but in mainland China? It’s being Han Chinese. Han Chinese supremacy is the reason for continued racism and Sinicisation of non-Han minorities like Uighur Muslims and Tibetan. And this racism has a history in Chinese imperialism that long-predates European colonialism. To call all of us “POC” flattens the power structure and posits false solidarity between oppressor and victim- it allows the oppressor to wrongly occupy the space as the victim: as if the Han Chinese general is the same as the non-Han people he has captured for human sacrifices to the gods during the Shang Dynasty. Minorities in the Middle-East and North Africa like Kurds, Amazigh are very often marginalised by Arab supremacy- such as when Saddam Hussein enacted a genocide against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, using chemical weapons. The Nigerian government’s slow response to the Boko Haram crisis despite angry protests by Nigerians? The government not caring when people in Northern Nigeria, which is much more impoverished- die. For my own family history, some of the deepest grievances stem from how the Japanese mistreated my grandparents during WW2.

4. Lastly, the term “POC” outside the Western context tends to flatten the power structure between non-Europeans who live in the West or otherwise have a Western background vis a vis people from our ancestral countries. 

White privilege can reinforce Western privilege but they are not totally synonoymous: Because even people not considered white do benefit from citizenship in a Western country or a Westernised background. When it comes to global economic inequality, we are closer to the centre of the empire, to the position of those who benefit, not the exploited. People like myself benefit from speaking English, from appearing “more European” and generally Westernised. It’s the reason my friend, who is of Indian ancestry, was treated very differently by the immigration officer when his British accent became obvious- compared to Indians from India who were on the same flight as him. There would for example, be a huge power differential between an Arab-American soldier and the other Arab people in say, Iraq. I cannot in good faith say my experiences are the same as the Chinese workers who work long hours in factories, many of whom start working at 16. At 16? I wasn’t done with schooling. It was taken for granted I would get a university education, and so on. 

5. So, the term “person of colour” is meaningless to me in the non-Western context context, and I personally find it actively harmful when people lump us as “POC cultures” because it purports to create an illusion of solidarity that obscures the massive amount of racism and oppression Asians are enacting against each other till today. Further, I see it as a projection of Western race politics on a non-Western context, which is decentering from local dynamics.

In conclusion, I very much see myself as “non-white” in Asia due to growing up in a former European colony. But I do not see myself as a “person of colour” there. I see myself somewhat as a person of colour in Europe, because it is a Western context where light-skinned Europeans are the majority. Still, not entirely- because it is quite an American term and European racism has a lot of ethnicity dimensions. I tend to see myself as Han Chinese, most specifically.

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nathan: *trips on his flapping flip flops and falls on his face*

neil: *watches in gleeful horror*

horribly cursed fact of the day:

the description of nathan wesninski in baltimore in the king's men is the ONLY APPEARANCE OF THE WORD "BAREFOOT" IN ALL FOUR AFTG BOOKS

i think about it way too much. nora. nora. WHY is nathan barefoot. WHY.

like honestly it says a lot about him. he walked into his cellar no socks no shoes rawdogging the concrete

brother died with dust in between his toesies. i bet the soles of his feet were dirty as hell.

like he couldn't have put on some slippers? a pair of socks? some flip flops even. nah he went down there to kill his son with his Dogs Out

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I Will Be Sure When I No Longer Remember Myself

Personal piece <3

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you know it’s fun and good art when it makes you wanna draw too

New year, new obsession 🦊

I'm glad I looked past the first sentences of aftg, which really made me want to just close the book and never open it again. After a while, I somehow fell in love with that mess 💓

No specific scene or anything, just thought about how I imagine Andrew, Aaron and Kevin could look like (kind of at least)

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- I’m not the child you once knew.

- No. That child would see you and run.

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Cat's and Jean's friendship is very important to me 🫂

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Neil makes SCRAPS of appearances in tsc but he serves cunt and leaves. Absolute legend. I get now why Jean was at his wits end with this guy. He orders drinks and food, makes fucking fbi agents WAIT for him then sits in an INTERROGATION and eats take out as if it's just another day for him. Jean probably got 20 separate heart attacks because of this man and then this gremlin goes ahead and orders a hit on the behalf of a man he knew only in pain while sitting in a very public diner and waiting on fbi agents to show up and drag them away.

Neil Fucking Josten, Andrew has his hands full. Never a dull day with him.

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no literally it was this for me:

“Neil, being the person he was, pointed at the fire hydrant adjacent to its front bumper and said, “That’s illegal, just so you know.”

Jean Moreau be like Neil Josten was supposed to be my best friend and I consider that loss to be one of the worst things that ever happened to me. He's one of the select few who I trust to take me and my problems seriously and make good on his promises to me. Unfortunately he is also the fucking antichrist and everything he does is calibrated to spike my blood pressure.

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this is absolutely stunning on so many levels

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

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did you know jackalopes are my favorite cryptid

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okay but how was it so accurate 😭

but also what do you do when AFTG isn't on the list of fandoms i felt like an imposter in other fandoms lmfao

So I finally made a uquiz to see how fandom would see you if you were a fictional character.

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absolutely obsessed with this whole series

Window wings, fragile panes

Shield me from the dark

Warm me with your spark

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Full resolution images and painting videos on Patreon

Part of my glass wings series

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Tribute to my late grandma who was born in the year of the dragon. It’s my first Chinese New Year without her and I miss her so much.

When my parents divorced and essentially abandoned me for their new families, it was my grandma and grandpa who made sure I still felt loved. Without their care and guidance I probably wouldn't be here today. 

Thank you, Grandma, for everything and more. 

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ARE YOU READY FOR THE FOXHOLE COURT?

In collaboration with Nora Sakavic, Rainbow Crate is pleased to announce our long-anticipated special edition set of the All For The Game series!

This will be an open preorder with no limits. Sets will ship in Fall 2024 with shipping date TBA at a later date. We ship internationally. 

We accept paypal, shop pay, google pay, as well as credit and debit cards. Orders over 50 USD are eligible for a pay in 4 payment plan through shop pay. This program splits the total cost (including shipping) into four bi-weekly, interest-free installment payments. Paypal may also offer a payment plan option depending on user settings.

Customers can buy as many sets as they want, however they must all be purchased separately. Sets cannot be shipped together in the same box. 

Edge design to be revealed tomorrow, March 10th when the sale goes live at 9 AM EDT!

DETAILS:

- A gorgeous hardcover set of all three books

- OPEN PREORDERS begin on March 10th at 9 AM EDT!

- OPEN PREORDERS end on March 24th at 11:59 PM EDT!

- $119.99 USD plus s&h

- Dust jacket art by @/unholyrodeo

- End page art by @ouijacine

- Hard case art by @llstarcasterll

- Printed edges

- New, exclusive short story for each book

- Ribbon bookmarks 

- Author Letter

- Each book hand-signed by Nora

- Special, AFTG themed shipping box

Note: Cover layout and typography are not final. This is a digital mockup and finished copies may differ slightly.

Thank you, you were amazing.

ID: A post of four slides. Slide 1: A graphic with a white brick wall background. Along the top it reads “All For the Game Trilogy”. In the middle are three front covers for each book of the trilogy. Underneath the covers is a bulleted list which says “Hardcover Set”, “Exclusive New Covers”, “Art on the Hardcovers”, “Art Endpapers”, “Printed Edges” and “...And More!”. Slide 2: A graphic with a white brick wall background. Along the top it reads “All For the Game Trilogy”. In the middle are three back covers for each book of the trilogy. Underneath the covers is a bulleted list which says “Hardcover Set”, “Exclusive New Covers”, “Art on the Hardcovers”, “Art Endpapers”, “Printed Edges” and “...And More!”. Slide 3: A graphic with a white brick wall background. Along the top it reads “All For the Game Trilogy”. In the middle are three front covers for each book of the trilogy. Underneath the covers is text which reads “Open preorders begin 9 AM EDT on 10th March 2024” and “Important: Each set must be purchased separately. You can order as many sets as you would like”. Slide 4: A graphic with a white brick wall background. Along the top it reads “All For the Game Trilogy”. In the middle is an orange paw print with a black and white outline. Underneath the paw print, text reads “Thank You You Were Amazing”. End ID. 

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I see you.

[Characters from CTC]

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my faveourite guy ever!!