coming from your local chinese american to you: any discussion surrounding either of the disney mulan movies cannot focus on a nebulous “authenticity” (please ask yourself: what is authenticity? who does it serve? who decides what is or isn’t authentic?) rather than whose voices are heard, whose stories are told, and how culture is framed
you are going to get better mileage out of your words by critiquing the heart of the issue: the nationalistic themes of the movie (and ironically mulan wasn’t originally a han story at all so if you REALLY want to talk about staying faithful to the source you can start here, it would definitely piss the CCP off – and by the way this story has been adapted numerous times over the centuries and interpreted in myriad different ways to fit people’s agendas) and the lack of chinese contributers on the writing staff
coming from your local chinese american to you: any discussion surrounding either of the disney mulan movies cannot focus on a nebulous “authenticity” (please ask yourself: what is authenticity? who does it serve? who decides what is or isn’t authentic?) rather than whose voices are heard, whose stories are told, and how culture is framed
@white allies: because i see constant self-deprecation based on your whitness, here’s a detailed explanation of why it’s not helping us (or you).
if you continously go on about how horrible white people are, you may rot your own brain into thinking that these shortcomings are a natural state of being rather than a manufactured supremacist system which is simultaneously widespread, evil, and capable of being dismantled.
recognizing that you have the same human compassion capabilities as everyone else, regardless of how alienated from them you have become, is the first step toward becoming a better person capabable of helping other people (of color).
don’t mirror the way that PoC talk about you as an oppressor class. the context is different, and the mindset that you develop from it is different.
don’t fall into a mindset where you (act as if you) are a morally compromised being for being white. the ultimate end of antiracism is to denaturalize racial hegemony, including virtuous moralization of the “oppressed”
evaluating your engagement in racism & the benefits you receive from white supremacy is only one piece of this process. the other piece is interacting with other people (of color) as if they are indeed the same species as you.
so instead of demoralizing yourself, look at your actions to determine if they are compassionate. academic stuff aside, this is often a good litmus test for racism; even the unintentional you will soon realize was often a failure to conceptualize how your actions would affect others- not a failure by some innate aspect of your race but by the normalized lack of consideration whiteness may afford you
if you see somebody with a take you don’t like it’s probably a better idea to just focus on their take, which is self evident, instead of trying to clown on their identity (do you see what you’re doing???) because you for some reason feel the need to litigate whether or not somebody is marginalized “enough.” i wouldn’t call that behavior strictly performative but it does feel like 1. to some degree, clout-chasing and 2. severely missing the point, and i kind of thought we left that in 2015
Aug 25
everybody tagging my last post as only croma should know: soul loves crona very much too. we are all love crona in this house
Aug 24
crona vs the mortifying ordeal of being loved
Aug 11
my brain won’t leave this throwaway joke/drawing i did last week
I don’t care if I get hate. Momo (the author of “Preeny Has To Repeat The 6th Grade”) is NOT a pedophile, and how dare the person who bated her. I met her before the allegations, and she has shown me nothing but kindness. It’s clear from my interactions with her that she is not neurotypical and can be easily mislead into saying something she didn’t mean.
Momo is not a pedophile. Stand up for her, stop spreading the post, or at least put this response up with it.
imagining a real life au where soul eater doesn’t regularly make me wanna strangle atsushi ohkubo for not respecting girls
Aug 07
i really hate to have the last reblog as my most recent post for people to see but: i cannot express enough how absolutely livid i am that my friend’s name is being dragged through the mud and how people are coming to wild assumptions about her, and for what basically amounts to the world’s dumbest [if in that context, maybe malicious] misunderstanding of terminology
[pedophilia mention]
Thought I’d address this, since some are right now trying to accuse me of being a p*do despite having never drawn or liked p*dophilic content. I do NOT condone CP or sexual art of kids. EVER. You can rest assure to that. I have always been against it.
I really am hurt and upset at this person twisting my words like that. This is a serious accusation. I’ve done some sfw commissions of baby characters in the past, because I figured it was just cute art that they wanted. That’s all. I was simply honest about that fact. I didn’t think that person would twist it into some kind of “admission” of anything.
Please, please don’t believe any of the baseless accusations about me. I only want to make a nice comic everyone can enjoy, and I don’t want to hurt anyone.
theres a webcomic where the artist buys adoptable sparkledog ocs from young deviantart artists and has them all as characters and it’s so so fuckin good
its called Preeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade and you can read it here!
hey, this is my friend’s comic! it’s so exciting to see people talk about it… PLEASE read it, it’s really good!!!
yeah so i spent the last week reading/watching soul eater for the first time and while i do have a lot of mixed bag Opinions about the work as a whole the only one that matters in the end is that i love maka
