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idkthisismyusernameiguess · 9 months

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Could the Ace Attorney fandom stop pretending that Phoenix Wright or Miles Edgeworth or any of the main cast is white? Idgaf if the localized version is set in America. Asian Americans exist. You are consuming a piece of Asian-made media, not everything is about white people

#I need y’all to stop thinking of white people as the default setting #The amount of people in this fandom that whitewashes Edgeworth is insane #Surprise Asians can wear clothes outside our native cultures #Asian characters shouldn’t have to act explicitly or stereotypically Asian for you to acknowledge their heritage #This applies to other pieces of media too #Asian characters can exist in a modern setting they can exist in a Western setting #Please get rid of your orientalist lens because we are literally just people #Ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #literally so done with how this fandom of an Asian game treats Asians

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ranilla-bean · 6 months

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culture tips for writing asian settings: calligraphy (pt i)

i love chinese calligraphy, to me it is just so gorgeous and i've dedicated a few scenes of my own fics to it, so here are just a few quick 'n' dirty calligraphy tips:

the calligraphy scene in sokka's master (illustrated by korean animators!) is a pretty good depiction tbh. you write using a brush (the brushes can be hung up on a stand too)—it can be jarring to see fics mention quills or parchment. one excellent detail from the show is that sokka, who seems left-handed, has to write with his right hand—the left hand holds the sleeve out of the way. the ink is not liquid/bottled, but is in a solid stick form and has to be ground on an inkstone mixed with water

traditionally, chinese text is written downwards, and goes from right to left across the page.

as with any other form of calligraphy, chinese calligraphy emphasises beauty of form over legibility—in the same way you wouldn't really consider times new roman font 'calligraphy'. there are different types of script in chinese, and for someone like piandao to master them is a reflection of his education and gentility. the semi-cursive below i see quite commonly in calligraphy:

then you might have something like the cursive below is quite technical but seriously hard to read

contrast that with something like this seal script, harking back to an older era of chinese script:

any calligrapher worth their salt will be putting their stamp on the work, quite literally! name seals, also called "chops", are carved out of stone; ink it up with cinnabar paste and stamp it onto your artwork to get that iconic red signature. (i got one made a couple of years ago and there's a trick to stamping: breathe on the stamp surface after dipping in the paste to warm up the pigment, and when stamping put some circular pressure on the stone to get the print to come out evenly)

i'm going to do a second part focusing a bit more on scripts from the atla world, so keep your eyes peeled...

check out:

some more calligraphy examples from singapore's national gallery

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#atla #atla culture #atla meta #avatar the last airbender #piandao #sokka #asian culture tips #some of the most beautiful calligraphy i saw at singapore's national art gallery #a really cool contemporary twist on the form #i took photos but my old lens was soooo bad so i don't have the specific ones i really liked but do check the link out <3

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themancorialist · 5 months

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Mosley Street, Manchester.

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bookcub · 1 year

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As with other identity labels, asexual is not prescriptive of behavior; it is a tool. People are free to use the term to help better understand themselves and find community with others who also find the label to be accurate. It is unfortunately quite true that labels can sometimes feel as carceral as they do liberating. But ideas don't put us in a box. Ideas do. For many of us, it is in asexuality that we find the affirmation we have always needed but were never afforded by any other language. We have taken hold of the part of our being, or are we coming, that has long been nameless, and have given it a name.

-Sheronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

#sherronda j brown #refusing compulsory sexuality #Refusing compulsory sexuality a black asexual lens on our sex obsessed culture #asexual #asexuality #ace stuff #safeforace #queer books #lgbtqia

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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He was nothing. The well is everything.

- Lawrence of Arabia (1964)

One of the greatest cinematic scenes in movie history. And no wonder. To film Omar Sharif's entrance through a mirage, Panavision created a 482mm lens specifically for this one shot as envisaged by David Lean, the director.

It has never been used since.

#lawrence of arabia #quote #film #cinema #movie #panavision #cinematography #lens #film lens #david lean #peter o'toole #omar sharif #culture

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aroaessidhe · 8 months

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2023 reads // twitter thread

To Shape A Dragon’s Breath

YA fantasy

a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic

historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes

bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC

#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #this is really really good i loved it!#the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool #it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that #I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff #t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m #definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that #was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel #on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening?#that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 -#I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like -#a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!)#some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application #the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series!#also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺#anyway. i really loved it!#oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture....#To Shape A Dragon's Breath

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jewishpopculture · 8 months

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Lisa Bonet photographed by Dah Len for Vibe magazine (2000).

Bonet is of Ashkenazi Jewish and African American descent.

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guy60660 · 6 months

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#close #Stephen Goldstein #lens culture

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kavehater · 20 days

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I support girls but NAH THIS IS REACHING “if you look carefully LIKE REALLY CAREFULLY 🤓☝️”

#the same people who would shriek like the witch of the north melting her skin off if I tell you haikaveh / kavetham isn’t implied because #if you actually look into our culture they’re being normal and not everyone having rivalry and caring about each other means they’re 💅#in fact Arabs are some of the worlds most hospitable people alhaitham letting kaveh live with him #is the most Arab thing I’ve ever seen #heck if kaveh was a stranger it wouldn’t be unusual for an Arab to let him in their house ☠️#goddamn #“if you look in the internet you can see how they’re implied!🤓☝️”#maybe if you had any respect for my culture or any desire to be educated when I’m handing this to you for free you wouldn’t be your mistake #your mums greatest mistake 🤗🤗🤗*#dora daily #if only ppl dedicated this level of detail to actual culture compared to pulling out their microscope at level 100x magnification lens to #observe robins spots under her eyes the world would be a better place 🙀#let me tell you btw this whole I hate you meh meh meh ( I’m so in love with you ) trope is the most whitest booktok millennial plant growing #basement dweller nonesense I have ever heard in my life don’t do that to my pookies ☹️#( the pookies in fact were 11 and 9 years older than her respectively )#guys my dad is the straightest man alive ( oh the trauma lowkey wish he wasn’t ) and he legit was putting his hand on his best friends lap #LMAOOO even I as a very logical person was like bro this is so zesty rn I am SO uncomfortable #anyways live laugh love boothill x Baizhu they’re the most canon things I’ve ever seen in my life #<- this is a joke btw it’s an ironic ship I saw on tiktok ☠️

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aro-culture-is · 10 months

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Aro culture is being sick of "They aren't dating anyone so they must be gay/a lesbian!"

Nothing against people headcanoning characters as gay or lesbian (I'm arospec ace and gay) but like. Aromanticism exists too.

(This was brought on by seeing a slide in a PowerPoint in my English Lit lesson today (13th March), I didn't see it fully since the teacher was just skipping over it quickly to check some other context stuff but it said something about how in the book we're studying, Jekyll and Hyde, none of the major characters are in romantic relationships and therefore it's possible that they could be gay. I might bring up that they could also be aro when my teacher brings it up?)

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#aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod phoenix #also like... contextually how can that be interpreted through the historical/cultural lens of the era?#how might a romantic/sexual relationship have affected the story?#like ngl i also HATE the way that there's an assumption that if a person has dated someone of [some gender] they MUST be attracted to them #like even if the major characters were in a romo/sexual relationship:#does that actually mean they are exclusively attracted to that gender? is it not possible that - for example - they're a- or m-spec?#or even: what if they aren't romo/sexually attracted to them? what if we are meant to interpret that attraction as misunderstood?#or as forced upon them by a narrative?

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o-wild-west-wind · 6 months

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I’m actually gonna make one more extra hot & spicy take while I’m here because this is where I’m at today apparently…am I the only person feeling a bit uncomfortable with all the discourse that headcanoning ed as illiterate is racist? I think the criticism is well intentioned, but the way the argument is being framed feels like it’s veering too far in the opposite direction and I kind of want to talk about it.

I made a much more detailed breakdown here that I don’t feel like rewriting but I mean…it’s the 1700s and class is a huge aspect of the show. it makes a point that class marginalization (and related racism) is a violent oppressor that the characters cleverly fight back against—that the things they were denied as a result of the status they were born into has no bearing on their brilliance, and that social climbing isn’t really all that (cue the fickle crowd Ed once longed to be a part of). I do think Ed can read based on details in s2 and I get wanting to defend the details of the show—but generally, I don’t think that headcanoning illiteracy of a guy who’s from a culture that was forced by colonial powers to use written script under the paternalistic assumption that written traditions were superior is racist imo…and the implication of conflating intelligence with the written word feels…not great. being illiterate is a neutral trait, especially in the time period and context of this show…Ed’s not less of a genius for not speaking ecclesiastical Latin, right? so I don’t really understand why literacy is treated so differently.

Like, again—I don’t think it’s an intentionally racist take, but I’m feeling weird about the angle that pits communication styles against each other. Infantilizing Ed for being illiterate? Yeah, that’s a problem that I’ve seen perpetuated in fandom. but idk…I know these characters are written for and by a contemporary western lens, but viewing everything from said contemporary western lens such that all people are presumed to need to utilize written language to operate in the world is like. a little white-saviory uncomfy to me. because whether or not he can read has no bearing on Ed’s status as a genius tactician. It wouldn’t make him inferior if he couldn’t. And saying that signs point to him being able to read based on show details can be done without creating this dichotomy.

if I’ve misinterpreted all this please correct me!! just needed this out of my brain

#maybe it’s my anthro and public health degrees talking and getting too in the weeds idk #I have a lot of thoughts about culture and maybe I’m putting too much of a real-world lens on this topic?#also let’s be real I’m here doing fandom critical analysis because I’m avoiding writing my paper #and I just find anthropological analysis of fandom so fascinating #as usual feel free to disagree #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death #ofmd meta #edward teach

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amphibious-thing · 4 months

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I was going to say that the problem with talking about 18th century gender is that too many peoples understanding of gender has really just progressed from there are two genders man and woman and there is no overlap between them to there are three genders man, woman and nonbinary and there is no overlap between them. While in comparison 18th century people talk far more of people who are both men and women than they do people who are neither. But honestly this is also just a problem with talking about modern gender because far to many people just forget multigender people exist, even those who would describe themselves as allies to nonbinary people.

#this is not to say 18th century ideas of gender were perfect they sure as fuck were not #it’s just hard to get people to understand the cultural lens when they have their brain stuck in a gender trinary

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little-meowyao · 5 months

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Okay but the way swords in danmei often represent/are associated with manhood and masculinity and the way hensheng is a soft sword and a sneaky weapob could very well represent JGY's position as "lesser" for his origins as a prostitute's son.

Like the way JGY is treated, in lack of better wording, as a woman, throughout the whole novel, (see: the way he's held up to higher standarts than everyone else, the way his standing will plummet with a single whiff of sex relating to him, the way he has to protect himself and take preemptive measures against everyone and everything and most of the time he's right)

I feel it kind of ties onto the way hensheng works, as an assassin's weapon, as something that doesn't require strenght per se, as something hidden easily, etc, and the fact that it's a soft sword— soft as women and JGY are expected to be, soft as they have to be to survive, but deathly nonethelesss

Idk. I'm just very into swords and very into the subtle themes of emasculation around JGY's character