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I've been drinking milk tea almost every day, bubble milk tea if I can get it!
omg lucky. i want some sooo bad right now ;~; soooo good w/ sago and grass jelly or egg pudding, especially in this heat ugh. you know it was so hot, that the metal lining thingy on my door melted and the bottom part expanded so we had to hammer it back into shape so that the door would shut properly? it’s too hot. i need that drink blagh.
i’m short on money since next week is spring break for the kids and i’m not scheduled to work all week so i won’t get paid for another two weeks. i just need to raise $60 to pay off a couple of bills. my internet bill (the second half of the image below) hasn’t come in yet but this is the monthly price.
you can also commission me for art (my art tag). please! i need it by the end of the week if you can help.
paypal: [email protected] (please choose sending money to family/friend)
People who defend the casting of a white man as Iron Fist in the name of “accuracy” and “faithfulness to the comics” can eat my entire yellow ass.
Danny Rand’s narrative can be adapted to fit an ASIAN-AMERICAN story. Not Asian, but Asian-American. Asian-American tries to connect to his roots while in America, ends up becoming Iron Fist. Walks the line between being too Asian for America and too American for Asia. Embraces and rejects aspects of both cultures. Fights stereotypes of Asian men in media. Ends up not being the white savior for all Asian people (who are somehow all Chinese?) everywhere.
Seriously, if you think Danny Rand could never be Asian - if you think this inherently racist white savior character should stay white - you are bad and your opinions are bad and you need to find a corner for yourself and feel bad.
hey just a friendly reminder that an american game company has ZERO responsability on portraying or representing your race and no i'm not a white cis het male from the US telling you this. my latino brothers arent represented at all in videogames but i dont complain to people that dont have to do boo for me. once the gaming market in asia grows bigger then you can get all the asian games you want but play us/eu games and complain about diversity? pleeeease
Fuck off with this bullshit. You deserve representation, and so do I. Do you give these companies your money? Do you want to see the place where you live reflected accurately in your media? Do you want to see yourself better connected to narratives that should be universal? Not just in video games, but television, movies, and books? Then you bitch to the people creating those things.
You have no idea what the hell you’re talking about when it comes to the gaming market in Asia, nor do you understand the dynamics that drive the market, the design, and the marketing. ASIANS IN ASIA DO NOT HAVE THE SAME EXPERIENCES AS THE REST OF THE DIASPORA.
Your feelings are valid but you should keep that shit to yourself. Don’t come whining to me because you’re upset I decided to open my mouth before you did. Minorities exist, and we should be visible. To render us continually invisible only perpetuates the idea that we don’t matter, which is what you’re buying into.
Here are some directions for fucking off. Walk to your left. Continue walking.
Oh, anon, your feelings are valid, but you also should be asking yourself: What kind of internalized racism is involved in whitesplaning for Bioware? Because no, we don’t get representation. But no, we should not be passive about it. Not if we want representation, not if we want to be able to put ourselves and see people who look like ourselves in a game.
Not when Thedas can be full of elves and dwarves and Qunari and maybe even races we haven’t even heard of yet, but not have representation for us.
Not when it takes Ballades TWO HOURS playing with sliders that are supposed to make customization as versatile as possible to make a character who looks faintly Asian, but still not really.
Not when any game that even has a shitty CC but which lets me make Asian characters gets automatically makes me slightly more excited.
And, anon, your comment about games from Asia was completely insensitive and frankly, ignorant. There is so much of a cultural difference between games from Asia made for Asian people IN ASIA and the culture that we Asian American grow up in, this dual culture where we don’t really fit in either. Think of it this way: there’s a reason we’re playing games by an American company and not exclusively Asian games.
Honestly, anon, this post doesn’t make me angry. Mostly, it just makes me sad. Because you know what? About five years ago, I might have agreed with you. Hell, even two years ago, I might have agreed with you.
But we deserve representation. As consumers, we deserve the same respect that white consumers do: the ability to represent ourselves in a game that should be immerse, that should be letting us do that.
And we should have a right to be angry when we don’t get the chance to do that.
there like wasn’t an ounce of friendliness about this whitesplaining ask lmao it was all passive aggression. pls anon—for all that is good—love yourself.
I have been asked by a few people why it is so important to me that PoCs are represented in fandom.
It takes me more than two hours to make an Asian Inquisitor, and even then she only looks partially Asian. Whereas the default Inquisitor is white and in a second one can go on and play.
My people do not exist in this game. At all. Part or full. We do not exist. What message does that send to the Asians playing Dragon Age?
Reblogging tonight because some people think this is a new problem.
It isn’t.
