me checking if i actually would be cooked if i posted that painting 💀💀💀 i would like to visit home someday, yeah

my two braincells when i draw pol vent art within 24 hours of drawing vague bramex yaoi

WIP

i’m absolutely shitposting with this pairing

more ryoko kui inspired busts + covering their awrah ver cause why not lol

heads up since people got surprised last time! i am going to be privating my blog again after tomorrow. im probably not going to be drawing anything post-worthy in a while

@ hanfu blogs can i get some ideas on masculine island core hanfu because all of the summer fits still look rly stuffy lmao

being hainanese and trying to design characters based on that home province is a struggle

restarting my non fandom ocs :3 he’s a dunhuang/fei tian ribbon dancer

i'm going to be privating this acc for a little while. i don't feel well.

nvm i'm actually rly irate that someone who clearly has ethno-nationalist and anti-diasporan inclinations hijacked @tianshiisdead (ethnic-religious minority) and i's (fourth generation diaspora) post observing casual sino-fetishism in japan

worse is seeing the traction the post with that addition getting reblogged by hanfu blogs with pretty big followings

inspired by the dungeon meshi busts i saw hehe

@tianshiisdead help our post is blowing up

tbh the amount of tags ive seen being like "i learned something new" or expressing absolute shock at the normalization of what is essentially chinese raceplay in japanese fetish culture makes me quite happy we've had this discussion publically. because this is a subject that honestly isn't studied well but HAS history:

Desire Sung with a Lisp: Chinese Women Represented in Japanese Popular Songs During Wartime; thesis by Amane Kusai

The Allure of a Woman in Chinese Dress: Representation of the Other in Imperial Japan; chapter by Ikeda Shinobu

Politics, Art & Eroticism: The Female Impersonator as the National Cultural Symbol of Republican China [in the Imperial Japanese Worldview]; chapter by Catherine Vance Yeh

and is just... incredibly normalized, like beyond sexualized caricatures of chinese women in anime/manga. "cheongsam" is a whole category on japanese porno sites. (you can google it!)

but also the lack of awareness on this kind of aggrieves me because for me personally, the only discussion i've seen of intra-east asian fetishization on mainstream sms is like. regarding genshin's sexualization of the kimono or whatnot. it's a fair and valid critique and it is worth criticizing. the hegemony of white supremacy means that even the marginalized can reproduce white supremacist ideas against other marginalized people (it's like women who perpetuate patriarchy against other women). chinese media in general is no stranger to this, especially with it's depictions of inner asians, southeast asians, MENASA, and black folks.

but i would argue that the conversation about how japaneseness specifically is presented in chinese media takes place under a premise that ignores the reality of japan-china modern relations. there's absolutely very little recognition that in the contemporary era, japan is the largest east asian producer of culture. and as a consequence, china's pop culture is therefore heavily influenced by japanese pop culture.

i think it's unfair to accuse chinese media of japanese fetishization without recognizing this fact. unperfect example, but: it's not too different from the the fact that east asian makeup and fashion styles are popular in southeast asia. it would be bad faith to accuse southeast asians of fetishization without recognizing that east asian pop culture dominate a significant part of their media (though this doesn't excuse the fact that many seasian govts have a pretty bad history w their chinese minorities!). the fact this seems to be completely ignored indicates to me something metaphysical; there's a default guilt placed upon china wrt japan in spite of the historical-cultural facts. it's sinophobia ingrained into discursive "common sense".

on the contrary, japan's fetishization of chineseness, in it's current-day iteration, is based on racial hierarchy. maybe you could potentially make an argument that any pre-meiji objectification comes from the same place as mentioned earlier (with china being the historical lingua franca of east asia) ... but as it stands now, the casual sexualization of china comes from the imperial era which sees chinese people as an object to be dominated. if you read the sources i've listed and if you watch japanese imperial movies like Shina no Yoru and find similarities of how the Chinese female lead is portrayed to characters like Chun-Li, Ada Wong, Shampoo, etc. ... the literary legacies of japanese colonialism will reveal itself.

everyday my assessment of japan's casual fetishization of china is correct

why is regular (not lingerie) qipao/cheongsam being sold at a fetish store lmaooo

everyday my assessment of japan's casual fetishization of china is correct

why is regular (not lingerie) qipao/cheongsam being sold at a fetish store lmaooo

guys i cannot express just how much i hate the sexual dimorphism art style (or in a gay context, sexual role dimorphism) 😭😭 my biggest pet peeve since i was a kid, like why am i seeing two different art styles dependent on sex 😭😭😭😭😭

these are the same art style. to me

I JUST FINISHED NAMING SOUTH ASIA WHEEEEEEE

I JUST FINISHED GIVING HUMAN NAMES TO MENA WHEEEEEEEE

I also drew some ecuador art :)