me, scrolling thru my own [shit]posts on my blog: wow you CANNOT tell i’m a competent artist
beastars review: still fantastic, totally worth it, but if i wanted to read a story that just stopped in the middle of things i could just head over to ao3 and have my pick of thousands of 200k word slowburn fanfics that haven’t updated since 2014
i am lightly suggesting we let go of the use of “freak” as an insult… i don’t use it personally because i don’t like implying that being abnormal is bad (or rather that ‘normal’ is inherently good) and if the person really does suck then just saying what they do that is harmful is infinitely more damning
maybe i’m just jaded, but i have no interest in, even by proxy as this insult does, protecting or establishing any standard of normalcy because such standards have continually proven themselves useless in telling us what matters. “you guys are missing the point” is like my catchphrase at this point. if i’m going after somebody or something that hurts people i’m going straight for the throat
i am lightly suggesting we let go of the use of “freak” as an insult… i don’t use it personally because i don’t like implying that being abnormal is bad (or rather that ‘normal’ is inherently good) and if the person really does suck then just saying what they do that is harmful is infinitely more damning
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
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
