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jessicafurseth · 1 year

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Reading List, Hotter Than Ever edition.

“The question is not who influences you, but which people give you courage.” [Hilary Mantel]

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"I think I’m hotter than I’ve ever been and so is every woman I know. I do not look at one female friend and think they were more physically attractive ten years ago. They know their face and bodies now; what suits them and makes them feel great. They know that thinness doesn’t mean happiness and that the best parties are with the best people, not when you’re wearing the best outfit. They are more likely to go for a swim in their mismatched underwear if they forget their bikini but the water looks beautiful. They are not scared to ask for what they want in bed. They’re hotter than ever." Dolly Alderton has opinions. [The Times - PSA: if you sign up you get one free a week]

Most of us feel about 20% younger than we actually are. But why? [Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic]

How Red Rock Island became the only private island in San Francisco Bay [Tessa McLean, SFGate]

“My perspective has always been that we can out of a sense of hope and not out of a sense of fear. I’m preserving food for another day because I expect to be around to enjoy it.” Canning, a retro hobby for the end times [Anna North, Vox]

The New York Times' 'Letter of Recommendation'series is usually great, but they've been on a proper roll lately:

"And now the Shipping Forecast, issued by the Met Office.” A Secret for Falling Asleep So Good It’s a British National Treasure [Grace Linden]

"I trained my gaze toward my feet [and found] evidence of all kinds of commutes: traces of hopping birds, the soles of humans’ shoes, restless leaves that fell and sank into wet concrete at just the right moment." Why I Hunt for Sidewalk Fossils [Jessica Leigh Hester]

"An unspoken intimacy and solidarity exists among us, the attentive viewers." Why I Watch the Closing Credits of Every Movie I See [Emma Kantor]

“I love being in that place where everything is just coming in, and everything is potentially important, and I’m underlining every great sentence that John McPhee has ever written and then I’m typing it up into this embarrassingly long set of reading notes, documents, organized by books. And then when you sit down with it as a writer who has a job, and his job is to fill a little window of a magazine or website, all of that ecstatic inhaling has to stop. You realize that you’ve collected approximately 900,000% of what you need or could ever use.” Longform Podcast #506: Sam Anderson

My Parents Got Sick. It Changed How I Thought About My Marriage [Mary HK Choi, GQ]

"If you are a fast walker and the person in front of you on the sidewalk is walking slowly, do not walk directly behind them for blocks on end." OMG Etiquette Rules for Tipping, Parenting, Friends, and Work [The Cut]

"It makes me feel ridiculous to acknowledge that cutting those few hours of [weekend] life prep out of my life effectively knee-capped my plans for the week. But I guess I have to feel ridiculous, because it’s true." The Work is Not Enough [Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study]

Menopausal hormone therapy was once the most commonly prescribed treatment in the US. But one imperfect study in 2002 incorrectly linked it to health risks, and women have been suffering ever since. Women Have Been Misled About Menopause [Susan Dominus, The New York Times]

The Mystery of Teenage Anxiety [Derek Thompson, The Atlantic]

Influencer Is a Real Job. It's Time to Act Like It. [Emily Hund, Wired]

Why on earth does anyone care what Gen Z think of sex scenes in films? [Marie Le Conte, The New Statesman]

Who gets to be messy? [Kathryn Jezer-Morton, The Cut] On restaurants as living rooms [Ruby Tandoh, Vittles]

The case for hanging out [Dan Kois, Slate]

The pandemic changed us, but we still don't know how to talk about it: "[Maybe] when we say the pandemic is over, we are actually seeking permission to act like it never happened — to let ourselves off the hook from having to make sense of it or take seriously its continuing effects. ... Each of us is consciously or subconsciously working through potentially irreconcilable stories about what we lived through — or else, strenuously avoiding that dissonance, insisting there’s no work to be done." I don't think we can fully move forward until we understand what happened - this article helped me do this a little more.[Jon Mooallem, The New York Times - unpaywalled link]

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museeanime · 2 years

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Hong Kong people's "Stockholm syndrome" towards colonisation history(?)

(It's only a sharing about the colonisation issue in Hong Kong. I can't speak for Indians, Africans, Australian, Scottish & Irish people. Colonialism is a cruelty, it's the darkest page of history.)

History of Hong Kong is complicated and the identity of "Hong Kong people" is also complicated too.

Most Hong Kong citizens are not "natives" but the refugees from the rules under Chinese Communist Party. (Added that the natives Hong Kong people own tons of land in this city, most of them are rich as hell now. Just imagine you own tons of land in New York.) For a group of people experienced WWII, civil war, cultural revolution and losing their original homeland, the British Hong Kong is where they settled and rooted their identity. Then they experienced the booming economy and when Hong Kong becoming the Asia wealthiest international city from a fishing village. (And yes, free education with English classes - that's why I can communicate in English)

Do Hong Kong people feel like they are "Chinese"? Almost nobody in Hong Kong under 30 identifies as“Chinese". But then who are they? None of us experienced the Opium Wars but prosperity, laws & orders and freedom were so real, which people can relate to. The colonisation history became one thing people can identify themselves and differentiate themselves from "Chinese".

Circumstances have changed dramatically since 1997 in human rights, freedom of speech & expression after the handover. Is independence a choice? It's THE FUCKING COLUMNIST PARTY. It may only happen when something like dissolution of USSR happen in China. I can only dare to say this because it's an anonymous account and I’m not in Hong Kong currently... A lot of young people are now in jailed because what they published or publicly said. It’s how columnist party works.

So People here tend to romanticize the colonial period and experience, some even want UK to takeover Hong Kong again. Is it pathetic? Yes, maybe. But it's their only form of escapism. Is it a "Stockholm syndrome"? Yes, maybe but they are all humans. They are just a group of desperate people.

I built this blog for sharing & discussing about manga, esp Rumiko Takahashi's works. Writing about political can be sensitive and irritating to some people. But after the AO3 election issue, I feel like politics and cultural shocks are EVERYWHERE, even in fandom. And interestingly, the America-centric mind & critics are often found in manga fandom too, eg: a manga is "bad" and "boring" just because the Americans didn't get the jokes, "and obsession towards exotic cultures, etc. Some of them are just so IGNORANT and embarrassing to see. What bothered me is: whenever things happen, Americans are always the noisiest. They care things for few days without much in-depth understanding and without asking how & why people think or feel. But still, I love talking to people from different cultures, both online or in-person. Love and sympathy are always inside people's cores, no matter what's their nationality, stands and even fandom. Tumblr can be a window to say something or record something about a place I lived and I always love. Ya....Just in case you are interested @artistefish @inusmasha

#hong kong #british hong kong #hong kong handover #current issue #the queen is dead #colonial history #colonizers #hong kong news #hong kong is not china #political #colonisation #hong kong history #human rights #Stockholm syndrome

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l-in-c-future · 18 days

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China's global secret police networks not only endanger Australia's national security and other countries, but also the personal safety and the lives of those being targeted.

"You can humuliate CCP but not Xi Jin Ping. You can humiliate Xi Jin Ping but not Xi's daughter."

Fact is, nobody can say anything about an autocracy throughout China's history. "Humiliate" is vaguely and broadly intepretated as anything those with power in the authority do not like to hear or feel "embarrassed" or anything that make them feeling 'not looking good'. This was a FACTUAL explanation of such in HK under the same tyranny according to PRC "National Security" and the extension of which in Article 23 of the Basic Law.

On the contrary, the propaganda agenda imposed to HK as extension of the same under Xi Jin Ping's 'good stories' narrations is only things that make the dictator and the authority feel good, look good and heard as good is 'legitimate'.

#secret police #Australia national security #ASIO #China spies #China Ministry of Public Security #Chinese Communist Party #China espionage networks #China Ministry of State Security

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stusalgus · 2 months

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Iceland

9 April

Our nightflight to Iceland was just shy of six hours. Compared to longer haul trips like NZ to HK or NZ to JP this didn't give us enough time to get in a decent snooze. Making things more difficult, perhaps was that we were flying through high latitudes, which meant that six hours of flight took us six hours into the future. So when we landed at about 6:30am it was 12:30am Chicago time, and we felt like it was very much bedtime first thing in the morning.

Iceland! This land of myth and adventure! Of ice and fire! Of eye-watering expensiveness! Our first task was to catch a coach into Reykjavik. The driver was very professional, and good thing too: we'd paid $250NZ for a return airport transfer. It seemed that as with other Scandanavian countries Iceland was a high tax nation.

The landscape on our drive into town could best be described as "desert roady", although it was principally made of frozen lava rather than layers of volcanic ash. We drove past the turn off to Grindavik, an evacuated village that has been under threat from volcanic eruptions over the past few months. The Grindavik sign had been politely taped through, with a certain finality. (On past behaviour the eruptions are likely to be happening on and off for a number of years, so Grindavik is considered to be over.) We saw clouds of smoke or steam rising from that direction. I'm not sure if it was the eruption or the famed (and now frequently closed) Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, or the power station that has also been threatened by lava It was odd having contact with a country's global news event, especially just a few miles out of the airport. But I guess much of Iceland is lava waiting to happen.

Reykjavik has a population of 140k but it managed to feel smaller than that, lacking a centre even as substantial as that of Nelson or New Plymouth. Instead the overall vibe felt more "Scottish fishing village". The morning was overcast and grey and many of the buildings were 1970s style and faced with stucco concrete, which seemed extremely bleak. Luckil other buildings were painted jauntier colours.

Given our tiredness it was with some relief that we were allowed to check in early to our hotel (Center Hotels). I think it's best practice for the jetlagged to stay awake as long as possible to adapt to the current timezone, but in this case we decided "bugger that", and went to bed.

Iceland's equivalent of TV2 only seemed to be showing a live volcano feed.

We awoke around 1pm local time and staggered out to visit the Hallgrímskirkja, a Lutheran church built to cathedral scale, which featured a string winged spire. Indoors it's pretty sparse per Lutheran taste, with a tremendous organ. A bloke sat down at a smaller organ to give an impromptu performance, although I got the impression he was practising for a later service. The walls were decorated in grey stucco similar to the grim buildings I saw earlier. Again it was a little offputting, but perhaps Icelanders are at home with grey.

Across the road we had lunch at a cafe called Loki, where we blew $150NZD on two dishes and a dessert. We shared a lamb rack, and some other Icelandic delicacies: dried fish with butter (the fibrous fish sort of functioning a bit like bread), and pieces of sweet ryebread with various fishs upon them. We even had small cubes of Iceland's infamous fermented shark. The texture was quite odd, but not out of the realms of a Chinese fish ball. The alcoholic aftertaste was more intriguing, though, but not an experience I feel an urgent need to repeat.

Overall, the lunch/dinner was excellent. Chicago had been a gastronomical ordeal for us, and I was glad to eat a meal that felt nourishing.

We had a bit more of a stroll around Reykjavik, in the more touristy end of town. We then retired for the night.

10 April

Today was day one of our two day tour of the south of Iceland, conducted by Nice Tours. Our guide/driver was named Pavel. He is a Pole who, like millions of his countrymen, has taken the opportunity afforded by the EU's open borders to make a new life anywhere in the EU that's not Poland. I like their gumption, but I think a native Icelander might have had more context to impart. Or maybe not; in any event he seemed a decent chap.

We left Reykjavik in sunshine and was immediately by the beauty of the landscape. The cliche is that you see something new in Iceland every few miuntes/miles, and I have to agree. By midday the clouds began to worsen, and eventually the sky became overcast.

The van had wifi (my first experience of 5G - well worth the UN mind control, I reckon; but I guess I would say that…), which proved disastrous as Angus spent most of driving time watching YouTube videos rather than enjoying the scenery, as most 9 year olds generally don't. It did keep him quiet - it's an ill wind, and that - but I lament the low quality of the content. (Meanwhile I listened to a multi-episode podcast about the American Revolution. Well, at least I kept looking out the window, and took innumerable photographs of rocks.)

Throughout the day I have to confess that there we had so many stops I'm having trouble remembering all of them. I can recall a big waterfall cascading downm a cliff. We also visited a vast 17th century lava field festooned with luxuriant deposits of moss. We saw various outlets for the Vatnajokull glacier including one up close. We also the famous diamond beach - a beach littered with lumps of ice) ejected by the glacier. (I tried not to think about how much of the Vatnajokull glacier will be left in a century's time.) In sunshine the diamond beach, with its glittering ice on black sand, is a wondrous sight. We got it with angry dark clouds and a late afternoon gloom. Getting back to the shuttle I found Pavel was showing Angus how to fly a drone, with our lad grinning away, having previously passed on the lumps of ice on the beach.

I should say something about the temperature. It was a few degrees above zero, but the wind chill took it well south of that - at least, that's how it felt. Pavel told us that to him this amount of cold was nothing. Nice for him, I suppose, but despite the number of layers we wore it definitely felt like something.

Around 7 we reached our accommodation for the night, a late 70s/mid 80s single story lodgey thing operated by a local farming family. It felt a bit eccentric, but not unpleasantly so. For dinner we ate a lamb burger (beef was off) and "lobster" (read prawn) pizza, along with a yoghurty cheese cake and some deep-fried dough. It was filling and tasty, and again, a joy compared to US food. (If you're wondering about our lunch, the most memorable aspect was a bowl of tomato soup, for which Iceland, with its year-round hothouse tomatoes, is famed.

We then retired for the night.

11 April

We had a quick breakfast livened by Angus locking himself in the toilet. Then we drove to the jojoskull glacier to venture into an ice cave. We got driven there in a 4x4 which went bumpity bump, and we put on hard hats and crampons/cleats to tramp up to the cave on the glacier ice. The translucent textures of the cave ice were remarkable esp interspersed with ash from innumerable volcanic eruptions. This will seem obscure, but what the the way remind me most of are the "magicube" flash bulbs that my grandfather had on his Kodak instamatic camera. We had an Icelandic guide, and I asked him how much the glacier was retreating. He said that in 1900 it was at the main carpark (at least a couple of km), but that the ice would return "in a few years", citing no evidence. I'm fairly sure this prediction goes against scientific orthdoxy, but I just nodded in agreement - partly out of politeness, and partly because I wished it was true.

On the way back down the glacier Angus tripped and sprained his ankle. Our guide, Pavel was attentive and we later made a special stop to get some anti-inflammatory cream.

After the ice cave we ended up at Black Sand Beach, which is exactly that, but it also has hexagonal lava columns, of which the most specatcular example is the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. The most impressive aspect of the beach though is the huge waves roiling angrily into the shore. There were lots of warnings not to go too near the water, and guides seemed particularly keen to warn people away.

Next we visited not one but two waterfalls, simultaneously. On the south coast there were lots of cliffs for water to fall off. There's not much to say other than the spray from the waterfalls drenched us, and the moss perched on adjacent cliffs absolutely loved it.

We came back to Reykjarvik and bade farewell to Pavel, before checking into a new Hotel, different instalment of Center Hotels, and sadly not quite as mod. Sally was keen for hot water after all that ice so we booked the spa for an hour. I have to say I'm not a fan of sitting in too-hot water (sitting in a bath at the temperature I want is preferable), and even Sally felt she was being cooked. Angus enjoyed himself thoroughly however, even if he spent more time capering outside the hot pool than in it.

We then retired for the night.

12 April

Today we had another bus tour, this time a day trip to the Snæfellsnes peninsula. We drove through a long tunnel under a fjord, and I wondered how a country with a population the size of greater Wellington could build such things when New Zealand seems incapable of creating infrastructure without decades of fuss and rancour. On reaching the peninsula we visited Kirkjufell, a pleasingly shaped mountain that I know chiefly from a Google Chromecast wallpaper image.

Though not much further north than Reykyavik, the Snæfellsnes peninsula was covered in a thick layer half melted snow that was tricky to walk across. We no longer had the boots we'd hired for Angus on the previous tour, so his feet got wet and cold, and he became increasingly miserable. This was the third day of bussing about, and the majestic vistas that had my eyes out on stalks two days earlier were getting a touch monotonous. What's more, our (native Icelandic) driver was a bit of a jerk, and I was missing my old mate Pavel.

Time passed by and we were returned to Reykjavik. We sauntered to the waterfront to get some dinner at a food court. We passed by Iceland's coastguard fleet (two ships, looking in good order). After dinner we checked out the the Harper, the Reykjarvik opera house. It's a flash modern building covered with glass polygons that recall Iceland's hexagonal basalt columns, or (in my head at least) fish scales. The building might be designated an opera house (perhaps to class it up) but it's got lots of different rooms, and - even at 9pm when we wandered in - had a feel like a community drop in centre. Again I was a bit regretful that Wellington is incapable of building something similar.

We then retired for the night.

13 April

We spent our final morning in Iceland wandering around Reykjavik. We bought more pastries from Braud. I should revise my "Scottish fishing village" assessment of Reykjavik from our first day. It turned out there was a modern commercial district, a precinct of government buildings a bit like a sawed-off Molesworth Street, an embassy row like a Nordic Thorndon, and so on. We visited the city council buildings, which were beset by swans and geese. We

Although I'd appreciated Chicago and could have done with another, more sedate week there, I hadn't felt sad to leave it. I was definitely sorry to be leaving Iceland.

At the airport bookshop there was a pile of copies of Njal's Saga, a 14th century transcript of a 10th century recounting of a bunch of goings on between Icelandic chieftains. I'd actually read Njal's Saga perhaps 25 years ago, as my flatmate Andy had a copy. I'd completely forgotten the story, however (and for good reason, as it's a bit rambling and there's a cast of thousands). On a whim I bought a copy and read it on the flight to Washington.

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providentprojects · 2 months

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steamishot · 2 months

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pottery week 5/6

it was officially one month since my first class. my first class was difficult emotionally lol, and in retrospect it's due to PMS. i experienced similar negative self-talks and a defeating feeling after this wheel throwing session as well.

i felt as if i was the slowest to improve because the others in my class were throwing larger bowls that looked more uniform. one girl is now able to make matcha tea bowls with a spout. she wore a brown university sweatshirt to class that day. another girl who is from HK has ceramics experience before as well, and she wore prada shoes. this HK girl missed last week's session and she's always like 30 min late to class. the instructor also mentioned a couple of people being absent in his other classes. i was like woah, these people must have so much money to miss essentially one class that is a little over $80/class (no make-up class available). it made me reflect on my poorer upbringing and now transcending the social class i grew up in. i never had small group or 1 on 1 tutoring/instruction like this, academic or not, so that itself was a small hump to get over. i feel like i'm learning etiquette and social norms of a different culture.

anyway, we basically just trimmed and threw more pieces. we selected the pieces we'd like to fire and will be choosing the color next week (last class!). i don't know if any of the pieces i made will be useful lol. after this class ends, i'm looking into taking a summer 8-week beginner/intermediate class in a different studio that is walkable from my apartment.

other stuff:

my work friends came to NYC for a day trip yesterday! although i wasn't too close to them while doing in-person work and wasn't interested in hanging out outside of work hours back in LA, i really appreciated getting to see them on the east coast! it is really cool that we've kept in touch all these years, since like 2017

went to the ukranian national home with T to make pysanky eggs. this was a last minute decision (we had planned on going to japan fest but there was heavy rain). i really enjoyed making the eggs and interacting with ukranian people! there were live performances by kids and most everyone was speaking/singing in ukranian. we were basically the only non-ukranians/asians and purchased some food to go

apartment upgrade: we most likely will not proceed with this lol. it is a hefty investment (like shelling out 7k the first month) which doesn't really make much sense, especially when we'll need to purchase car(s) once we go back to LA. in the meantime, i plan on going back to LA in may for 3-4 weeks.

so i can remember, i got complimented by a stranger (older white guy) last week (4th time ever)! it was raining and i was walking to the train station closeby home. we crossed paths for a second and he just said out loud "wanted to say you look really nice". i said thank you and continued walking lol

another thing i want to remember: i had bright red blood in my stool 1-2x/month for the last 3 or so months - only in NYC :( the first time i had it, i legitimately thought it was my period. i don't know if it's from sitting too much/being less active in the winter months, eating poorly, but it does scare me each time. i had a virtual session with a kaiser doctor. he said if it continues happening i should look into getting a sigmoidoscopy... which i don't want to do. i'll limit myself from eating after like 10pm, make sure i drink more water, and utilize the standing desk more frequently

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unawards · 3 months

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madewithonerib · 8 months

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Q4: The questions also about, you mentioned about America putting their hope in GOD, then nation, and then the self. I know you've only been in Hong Kong for a short time, but you've been to Asia before..

I mean where do you think hope is being placed in..

A4: Well that's a very interesting question, because there is a sense in which Chinese culture, you might go way back. Now if you go back in Western culture 300 years, you've gone back to the beginning [58:01]

Evidently, I can't do that in China. [58:14]

So maybe we ought to say there is some analogy because surely in your Confucian past, though obviously is not Christianity, & the Chinese idea of Heaven is not the Christian idea of Heaven..

But it does seem to me, that you might say:

There was a time, the idea of Heaven & the way Confuscious defined Heaven & living a life that conformed with Heaven.

It's very close to what the Greeks & the Romans called the logos, kind of rational & moral order behind the universe. [58:50]

So there was a time in Chinese Culture, where the main hope was you conform your life to Heaven & then there was a 2nd stage in Chinese culture is a little similar to the American 2nd stage. [59:07]

1st stage for Americans was GOD & China Heaven, 2nd stage was Nation, well you do have this.

You do have Socialism & Marxism. [59:14]

You have this idea, where we are going to take this Western Philosophy & we are going to understand life completely in light of, we are going to create a nation & we are going to have Socialism, that is not only good for us—a hope for the world. [59:33]

America very similar.

America always said, “We have this democracy that makes us so great. And we are creating this great nation & we are going to make everyone as great as we are. [59:43]

A similar kind of confidence that the way in which we were building a nation was the right way for all people. [59:50]

And I do think, that China went through a period like that. But I have to say that Western Consumer Capitalism puts so much emphasis on the self, the individual happiness, the fulfilment, the making money.

And I can see that in the East it's not as strong as it is in the West; & there might be some rough analogies that I know nothing.

What in the world am I doing in HKU?

I haven't even taken a course on Chinese History. So it's not fair, but I do see some rough analogy, behind: They are very spiritual, & very material; now they are very individual [1:00:20-1:00:30]

Spiritual, then collective material, then the individual, but I also think that Andrew Delbanco is right—you'd probably also find that a fascinating book.

I don't think you can have a cohesive & coherent society when everyone's basically saying, “I'm going to get mine”

And that's all that matters. [1:00:47]

[Yeah I mean HK is a big mixture of different..]

That's why it is endlessly fascinating. [It's quite difficult] It really is. [1:00:53]

Hope Beyond World P:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,Q1,Q2,Q3,𝗤𝟰,Q5,Q6,Q7,Q8,Q9,

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fumblingmusings · 9 months

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I'm not the original anon, but I'm an EAsian whose family was brutalized under Japanese colonialism. And even factoring in unreliable narrator (which is not strictly accurate: you actually have several scenes of third person narration or where it's from other characters POV which you could have used to fill in context that Evelyn ignores)...While I won't claim to speak for everyone, your headcanons and whole story came off to me and several friends with lived-experiences of Western and Japanese colonialism as downplaying or wholesale whitewashing Japanese imperialism and British racism/imperialism towards Japan and its Asian colonies. It elevated white femininity while treating Asian characters and Asian women as disposable set dressing in a way that you, as a white British woman, are not entitled to do.

I genuinely cannot fathom how, in an almost 100k+ word fic ostensibly interested in exploring imperialism and the british empire in Asia, you can justify having zero lines of dialogue from any other Asian character except Kiku. I am not saying the other Asians had to be main characters but you literally have more lines about Kiku worrying about whether a bed is comfortable enough for a white woman's spine than any mention of for example, Taiwan, Japan's oldest and model colony, whom Japan used to show they belonged to the Western colonial club. Taiwan only came up in the extremely frivolous context of whether Oz wanted to kiss her in the final chapter. Surely, the intersection of gender and empire also includes non-white femininity? Further, you reduced an instance of Japanese colonial violence against Korean women (the Queen and her maids' murder) to a one-off retort in a romantic scene that chiefly re-emphasized how gentle and romantic Kiku was, and never even returned to it or mentioned the consequences for Korea. Glossing it over like this is especially insensitive given that the alliance wouldn’t have existed without Korea, and recognition for Japanese war crimes in Asia is a live issue we continue to struggle with. There is a lot more to be said about the total exclusion of India and China or HK and Singapore who were important to the british empire for more than a century from having even small scenes but I will leave it here first.

White and western writers are far too quick to take our history and aesthetics for your own entertainment. The Anglo-Japanese alliance era is Asian history, and if you can't see anything wrong with leaning so hard on the drama and tumult of our history to 'develop' your nyo!England without including us as characters with an actual presence, I don't know what more to say. Finally, my goal is not for anyone to be cancelled, but more sensitivity, empathy and awareness about your positionality and enormous privileges as a white woman. I certainly don't expect your fic to be a textbook or to be mistake-free, but your consistent pattern of excluding every single other Asian character from any relevance frankly came off as racist, was extremely uncomfortable and is something you need to simply reflect on without trying to explain away or justify it. I'm sorry my ask does not sound particularly friendly, but I hope you won't disregard it if you are serious about learning and taking criticism.

Of course, I won't disregard this! And don't apologise, I am the one who is apologising, because I got things wrong. I'm sorry you had to lay it all out like this - that isn’t fair to you, and I should have done better.

I got the tone wrong in several scenes, I see that. The scene with Kiku was supposed to read as a red flag of how unhealthy and avoidant they were towards each other, where an opportunity to actually confront what the other was doing was sidestepped in favour of a delusional and unhealthy romance, but I see where I failed there.

And you're right - the avoidance of most colonies and exploited nations' prescence was again supposed to speak to the hierarchy of empire, and how easy it was for people to look the other way as and when it suited them, but without a voice on the other side it didn't work and crossed a line.

I am serious about doing better going forward, so I do apologise for everything I got wrong. I didn’t get the intersectionality aspects correct, and I apologise for it and any hurt the fic caused you or any other readers. Thank you for sending this - I'm sorry you had to in the first place.

#i will go back to the ao3 version of the fic and add additional context and notes to the relevant chapters if this is helpful in any manner #i don't think leaving the fic as is right now is the right thing to do #fanfic ask

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postersdecinema · 9 months

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Um Segundo

CHN, HK, 2020

Yimou Zhang

8/10

Um Segundo de Felicidade

Sempre fiel a um estilo grandioso e de bela cinematografia, Zhang deixa a História politicamente correta, dos seus primeiros filmes, para se dedicar a um capítulo bem mais negro da História recente da China, a Revolução Cultural.

A odisseia de um prisioneiro político foragido, só para ver um simples segundo, em filme, da sua filha, que foi obrigado a abandonar com oito anos de idade, ao ser aprisionado num campo de reeducação.

Pelo caminho encontra o deserto, que é a imagem de uma China apática, refém de slogans revolucionários, do culto dos heróis políticos, mas onde famílias destruídas procuram forças para reconstruir as suas vidas, depois que o temporal político finalmente acalme.

Zhang acrescenta poesia à denúncia do enorme crime que foi a Revolução Cultural. Alguns acharão que tal constitui uma concessão ao regime. Eu prefiro ver na obra um contributo para a reconciliação nacional, depois dos tempos difíceis do totalitarismo autoritário.

A Second of Happiness

Always faithful to a grand style and beautiful cinematography, Zhang leaves the politically correct History of his first films to dedicate himself to a much darker chapter in China's recent History, the Cultural Revolution.

The odyssey of an escaped political prisoner, just to see a single second, on film, of his daughter, who he was forced to abandon at the age of eight, when imprisoned in a re-education camp.

Along the way he encounters the desert, which is the image of an apathetic China, hostage to revolutionary slogans, the cult of political heroes, but where destroyed families seek the strength to rebuild their lives, after the political storm finally calms down.

Zhang adds poetry to the denunciation of the enormous crime that was the Cultural Revolution. Some will feel that this constitutes a concession to the regime. I prefer to see the work as a contribution to national reconciliation, after the difficult times of authoritarian totalitarianism.

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panicinthestudio · 11 months

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