Okay, one last post about Netflix's 3 Body Problem. I literally moved on (as in, I didn't bother finishing it), but today I saw a post on *** and some Chinese American saying the Ye Zhetai scene is the representation we need blah blah blah China could never. What triggered me the most about this is that the closest thing this person is to being Chinese is probably being born with the bloodline, probably never interacted with Chinese media. We are supposed to be in this together, and what are you talking about right now? There's a handful of Chinese diaspora out here who literally never bothered interacting with our culture (which is fine, nobody's business to tell them what to do), and then whenever America does any "representation," they are suddenly online! Sure, it would be nice if Western media started to be more diverse for us out here, but you literally can't rely on some white man to do it. You have to curate this experience for yourself if it's something you truly care about. There's no good excuse to not seek out things for yourself. The majority of the cdrama/cnovel fandom here on Tumblr (or Twitter) do not speak Chinese, but there are English subtitles on many official and fan-based platforms. Some non-Chinese danmei reader could probably tell you about censorship in China back to front better. Anyways, that's another can of worms.

Back to Ye Zhetai, I've already talked about it briefly here. It's not that deep, the scene exists to get people talking. It's all perfunctory, the banners are written in a Microsoft YaHei font (Microsoft invented this font in 2004), they do not care about the history behind it, it's to evoke a reaction in the West. Let's show this traumatic thing that happened in China, then segway all the world saving plot-line to England, is that clear now if that hasn't occurred to you yet??

There's a list of the media that stemmed from the Cultural Revolution on Wikipedia with one easy Google search. Did you really look? Did you watch and read everything on that list?? Is there really no Chinese representation apart from Netflix??? If it's not allowed in China, how could he ever write the book and publish it in China?? Did you even know about the speculation that Ye Zhetai is based on the real physicist Ye Qisun??

i just got hit with a outfit of a completely different character to draw kieran in Mentally

it can be tempting to assume that the American spirit is one of revolution, when in fact, America was specifically formulated to be revolution-proof

Samuel neilson approving this for printing after another long day of the united irishmen encouraging individuals to commit acts which will both directly and indirectly tend to aid the king's enemies:

WHY ARE ALL OF THE COMPANIONS LIKE THAT

form of expression

friendship ended with stirling. ❌ now emelia is my best friend 🤝

Revolution from within (Gloria Steinem, 1992)

"Now, I’ve come to believe that bodies know whether their times of transition are leading to something positive or negative.

If I tell you that menopause turned out to be mainly the loss of a familiar marker of time, plus the discomfort of a few flushes and flashes—and that to me, the ease of this transition seems related to the much-longed-for era of relative peace and self-expression it ushered in—you may think I’ve gone off my rocker.

But consider the results of a 150-nation menopause study: negative symptoms increased when women went from more to less social mobility and power, but decreased when women’s power and freedom grew.

In the United States, where women are valued for youthfulness, for instance, there were many negative menopausal symptoms, but in countries like Pakistan, where women are restricted during childbearing years but allowed more authority and social mobility after menopause, women had very few.

Within this country, African-American women reported the fewest negative symptoms and Jewish women reported the most; arguably because of the relative importance of the role that older women play in those communities.

In fact, when a medical anthropologist named Yewoubdar Beyenne came here from Ethiopia, she was so surprised by all the negative attributes of menopause that she did a study of its impact in a wide variety of countries and concluded that it is a “biocultural phenomenon.”

As she put it, “Coming from a non-Western background, I was not aware that menopause causes depression or any other emotional or physical illness.

I only knew that menopause was a time when women in my culture felt free from menstrual taboos.”"

christ almighty some people are sad fucking miseries huh

just some sillies

i love you humanity i love you culture i love you language i love you skin color i love you music i love you diaspora i love you traditional clothing i love you ancestral land i love you natural features i love you cultural exchange i love you traditional art and jewelry and dances and architecture i love you accents i love you pagan religions i love you tribes and clans and dynasties i love you festivals i love you tracing back your ancestry i love you oral history i love you explaining cultural practices and listening to someone explain them i love you food i love you preserving history and modernizing tradition i love you diversity and i love US, the people of color/indigenous people all around the fucking world that dare to imagine a world full of culture and life that live in harmony together because the collective heart of humanity RAGES not in one voice but in a billion tongues in protest against the crime of conformity and bellows in a million prehistoric languages that YOU MUST KNOW WHO YOU ARE

slamming my head against a brick wall WHYYYY WON’T IT LET ME FILL OUT THE FAFSA WHY WHY WHY WHY

bro so many people on here are under the impression that strikes are a burgeoning communist revolution it’s killing me

Sometimes I think about how, in another world, Gus Fring got cucked by Ted Beneke

i’d love hearing your thoughts on parasite (2019) if you’ve watched it :D

i looooove parasite and i love the way bong joon-ho physically visualizes class structure, like the back of the train to the front of the train in snowpiercer and the literal underground to above ground manifestation of wealth in parasite. he’s one of those directors that’s ridiculously adept at using his medium to demonstrate his themes with such visual impact and i want to kiss him severely. while i think parasite is probably his most important film, i carry the host and memories of murder in my heart always always always as my mostest favorite.