there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.
and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.
idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.
which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'
*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.
903 notes
·
View notes
Bonus Page 2/2
BEGINNING | PREVIOUS
Mikey’s intuition knows no bounds
And with that I bring part one of Mutant Manhunt to a close! There’ll be more coming, trust me, but probably not a multi-part comic like this one for a while (just to give myself a break, lol). In the meantime I’ve got plenty to share about this AU, so feel free to stick around :]
2K notes
·
View notes
2010s Nostalgia || Hetalia Edition
Hetalia Youtube Nostalgia Playlist | 117 songs | 7hr 5min
• Hey Na Na - Katie Herzig
• Viva La Vida - Coldplay
• Rasputin - Boney M.
• Glad You Came - The Wanted
• Hot Mess - Cobra Starship
• Counting Stars - OneRepublic
• Fireflies - Owl City
• Bombshell Blonde - The Jagged Edges
• Do Better - Say Anything
• Welcome To The Show - Britt Nicole
• Dance With The Devil - Breaking Benjamin
• Survive - Sick Puppies
• Life is Beautiful - Sixx:A.M.
• Fairytale - Alexander Rybak
• Everybody Loves Me - One Republic
• Don't Mess With Me - temposhark
• Mimimi - SEREBRO
• I Like It Loud - Cash Cash
• I Just Wanna Run - The Downtown Fiction
• I'm ALIVE! - Becca
• Lovestruck - Breathe Electric
• I Like To Dance - Hot Chelle Rae
• Haven't Had Enough - Marianas Trench
• Kiss Me Thru The Phone - Soulja Boy, Sammie
• Hard out Here - Lily Allen
• Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars
• I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy
• Airplanes - B.o.B., Hayley Williams
• Rock Star - Prima J
• This Is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars
• Hey Brother - Avicii
• Cinderella - Tata Young
• Centuries - Fall Out Boy
• Déjà Vu - 3OH!3
• Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me - Lene Alexandra
• Miss Jackson - Panic! At The Disco, LOLO
• The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco
• Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak
• Bad Apple!! - RichaadEB, Cristina Vee
• Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! At The Disco
• Let's Kill Tonight - Panic! At The Disco
• Hurricane - Panic! At The Disco
• Casual Affair - Panic! At The Disco
• Never Close Our Eyes - Adam Lambert
• Playing With Fire - Ovi, Paula Seling
• Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab
• Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco
• Killer - The Ready Set
• How to Be a Heartbreaker - MARINA
• This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy
• Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance
• Troublemaker - Olly Murs, Flo Rida
• Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship, Leighton Meester
• I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters
• One Woman Army - Porcelain Black
• How To Start A War - Simon Curtis
• Maps - Maroon 5
• Do Better - Say Anything
• STARSTRUKK - 3OH!3
• Remember Everything - Five Finger Death Punch
• The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
• Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
• When You're Evil - Aurelio Voltaire
• Canadian, Please - Julia Bentley, Gunnarolla
• Sarah Smiles - Panic! At The Disco
• Take Me to Church - Hozier
• Viking Death March - Billy Talent
• Headstrong - Trapt
• Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
• Don't Believe A Word - Third Eye Blind
• Warriors - Imagine Dragons
• iNSaNiTY - CircusP
• Paralyzer - Finger Eleven
• I'm Awesome - Spose
• 24 - Jem
• Clarity - Zedd, Foxes
• Hall of Fame - The Script, will.i.am
• The Is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco
• Immortals - Fall Out Boy
• Rather Be - Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne
• Wake Me Up - Avicii
• a thousand years - Christina Perri
• Just Like Fire - P!nk
• Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars
• Safe And Sound - Capital Cities
• Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde
• Demons - Imagine Dragons
• DNA - Little Mix
• Remember The Name - Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond
• Victorious - Panic! At The Disco
• 右肩の蝶 (Butterfly On Your Right Shoulder) - Kagamine Rin/Len
• We Are One (Ole Ole) - Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Claudia Leitte
• Hero - Skillet
• Maraca - Mohombi
• The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy
• DONTTRUSTME - 3OH!3
• Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
• SING - My Chemical Romance
• Good Time - Owl City, Carly Rae Jepsen
• White Rabbit - Egypt Central
• Not Gonna Die - Skillet
• The Kill - Thirty Seconds To Mars
• We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool, DCup
• Nobody's Listening - Linkin Park
• Disco Pogo - Die Atzen
• German Sparkle Party - The Something Experience
• Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects
• I Could Be The One - Avicii, Nicky Romero
• Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Still Into You - Paramore
• Primadonna - MARINA
• Pompeii - Bastille
• 恋愛サーキュレーション (Renai Circulation) - 物語シリーズ
• Awake And Alive - Skillet
• Monster - Skillet
• Poker Face - Lady Gaga
• Falling Inside The Black - Skillet
226 notes
·
View notes
why am i so shocked arkham knight has gay people LMFAOO
the militia were talking about lying to their partners about being mercenaries and how they got dumped for it despite them bringing money to the table. one of them talks about his ex girl and the other says "yeah i hear you. my other half's a human rights lawyer. he, uh, he thinks i'm on a business trip" PLEASE
224 notes
·
View notes