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hiromicota · 1 year

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Earlier today, Paizo announced long awaited books for their Asian inspired continent Tian Xia. Unlike many other companies attempting projects that large, Paizo went out of their way to hire damn near every Asian TTRPG writer in the business.

I’ve worked on ~100 books & games. I’m often the only Asian on a project. It’s rare to have more than 1 other Asian on a book with me.

The Tian Xia books?

There were like 40 of us! 😲

I’m really glad that Paizo took the time to do this right. 💚

Players are going to see what a difference that level of representation makes when they get their hands on Tian Xia & see the massive diversity of Asian cultures & experiences reflected in the books.

I’m not just talking about countries or ethnicities; there’s also different stories of identity — diasporic groups, immigrant experiences, people reconnecting with their heritage, refugees, people finding & making places of belonging, … The sheer breadth of Asian experiences and identities represented in Pathfinder’s Tian Xia team and in our books is astounding.

This is why representation matters.

#pathfinder #pathfinder 2nd edition #pathfinder 2e #tian xia #ttrpg #paizo publishing #paizo #asian representation #representation matters #asians represent #roleplaying games #lost omens

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1-siracha · 7 months

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asian! mc: ... do i take my shoes off??

lucifer: no, we keep our shoes on in the house of lamentation

asian! mc: no wonder this place is called the house of lamentation what the fuck is wrong with you

#not sure if its right to categorise mc as asian 4 this post but me and my other asian friends always complain abt how our white friends make #us wear shoes when we go into their house like 😭😭#this post is mostly centered around my chinese/malay and indian/malay mcs #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #obey me crack #obey me shitpost #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me lucifer #om! lucifer #ASIAN OM! FANS REPRESENT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

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cinnamonsikwate · 3 months

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"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭#characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭#calemonsito notes

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bones-n-bookles · 2 years

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Tajikistan landrace LGD - mostly from Latif La

#LGD #livestock guardian dog #central asian shepherd #cas #landrace #landrace dog #tajikistan #tajikistan dog #these are just the ones i wanna use as inspiration for my project btw #not necessarily a representative sample #they seem to come in every color except merle #not that i was looking super closely #preeeeeeeetty sure latif la was credited for all of these but not 100% sure #they're from a random working dog fb group lol #thylakanis #thylakanis universe #i wanna use these for the bulky solo-pair hunting thylakanis species #combined with thylacine and some of the prehistoric caniforms

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getosugurusbangs · 6 months

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a flower named “you”

#GO LISTEN TO A FLOWER NAMED YOU BY ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION (also read the lyrics. they work well with mai and maki)#anyways. the flowers in the background are a bit abstract in my painting of them. but the flowers are azaleas and pink larkspurs #azaleas main meanings are: take care of yourself for me. temperance. fragile passion. and are also the chinese symbol of womanhood #and pink larkspurs represent fickleness #doing the sketch for this was really fun #i got pretty excited to draw mai- and also to draw more women #despite mainly drawing men nowadays; back in the day i used to like. exclusively draw women. exclusively #i never drew men. or if i did it was like once a year or something #also since i did this when i was little; i ended up drawing heavily implied to be lesbians without really knowing what lesbians were LMAO #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #jujutsu kaisen art #mai zenin #zenin mai #jjk mai #mai jjk #jujutsu kaisen mai #mai jujutsu kaisen #watercolor #my artwork

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seawitchkaraoke · 10 months

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Something very interesting in how Eugene Lee Yang has been the one gay asian guy on a (first buzzfeed now) youtube team with otherwise straight white guys for years, so he felt a lot of pressure to perform well (especially in early videos). So he has this public image of an incredibly confident, talented, extroverted guy.

Plus of course, he's an internet celebrity so everyone has parasocial relationships with him (even more so than with other celebrities like actors and such). But obviously none of us actually know what goes on in his head or in his private life beyond what he decides to share.

And now he's playing a guy who feels a lot of pressure to perform well and has to appear confident and competent and extroverted - but who in his own mind has a lot more insecurities and of course acts differently in his private life than he does in public.

Idk. It's just fun. I wonder if he drew on that for his performance for Ambrosius

#ambrosius goldenloin #eugene lee yang #nimona #(of course eugene is indeed incredibly talented #but he's mentioned before how especially in early try guys videos he felt a lot of pressure to always do really well #bc he felt a lot of pressure to represent the queer and the asian communities well #can't have the asian guy do worse than those white guys y'know?)#it's different from ambrosius but also it's not totally different

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ratwizz · 7 months

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"friendship lesson secured the end."

Davekat week!!!! @davekatweek day one late submission this is my favorite conversation they have :]

#Dave strider is MY ASIAN AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE I DONT CARE #I found out the week had started just this morning so I had to rush these #All proceeding ones will also be rushed it's midterms #davekatweek2023 #davekat week #davekat #karkat vantas #dave strider #my art #homestuck #Ignore the horrid tz feet my dark urges compelled me

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muscatjello · 1 year

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Bottom gets a new top!! 👚✨ (I'm wearing pants I promise)

#trans #transgender #transfem #transfeminine #transgirl #trans girl #Asian trans girls represent!!

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whimsycore · 10 months

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Love that the new cast of ATLA is all Asian and Native folks but truly hate the capitalistic reimagining of things into live action

#am I happy to see these young native and Asian kids employed and represented ? yes #did we NEED this 20 years post ATLA after they butchered korra? no

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allgremlinart · 2 months

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thoughts on natla? Still unsure if i should give it a go (like I’ll watch it if I can get something out of it, even if taking the piss out if it. It just seems bland and heartless)

see for me its OFFICIALLY ! a solid 6-6.5/10

I dont get bland ! and I dont get heartless ! There are additions that I think really add flavor to the world, to the worldbuilding, even some character decisions that I think are interesting or fit well for this version of the story ! I can tell from how the cast and director talk about it that they put a lot of love into it !

what it DOES lack. is a sophisticated script. well written dialogue. it has its moments, maybe, but the entire time I was watching it I kept thinking... I bet I could think of a way to get this information across quicker and more naturally.... and thats BAD cus I do NOT consider myself the best writer sdhsd

would I recommend it ? for people who want to have fun watching some good live action fanfiction, absolutely. for someone who likes action/fantasy/c-dramas on in the background, sure. but not for anyone else.

do I want a second season of this ? yes. because frankly, I think a second season will make or break this show. if they dig their heels in on the script/writing style choices then the narrative, the tension, the characters, they'll just fall apart.... If they build on the good stuff they already have going on and pay attention to the right stuff writing wise, they'll have a hit !

#some people are like 'why is a live action even necessary' well for one. I think #this show deserves to be represented by a fully asian and indigenous cast - that kind of #representation hits a LOT different in live action as opposed to animation which can only do so much #and for two. some people just cant get into animation (weird ik) its a great fantasy world. it deserves a wider audience.#ideally this would give it that. so like I really do get why its being made. it's also a cash grab but. well #natla #allgremlinasks

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notwordsspoken · 7 months

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Twins

#south park #shitpost #sp cartman #sp kyle #sp kenny #sp stan #definitely think girl kenny is supposed to represent rebellious asian girl with purple highlights stereotype

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sytokun · 1 year

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Experimenting with dark-skinned Blake with sort of Indian features. She'd be originally born in Vacuo if this were the case.

#rwby #blake belladonna #rwby blake #if we sort of assume Ruby represents Vale #Weiss represents Atlas #Yang represents Mistral by nature of her Asian influenced name and heritage #Then with Blake from Vacuo that'd be each member of Team RWBY representing each of the four Kingdoms

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jesncin · 7 months

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I really wish they went into lois being korean in maws :( i really wish the season was longer than 10 episodes, all of the emotional development felt rushed to me. they could have done more with her if they had more time

While I agree that MAWS is super rushed, I don't think that more episodes would fix their issues. MAWS inherently has an "I don't see color" approach to their characters of color.

Why did they have a joke about Black Jimmy Olsen not comprehending oppression? Why is his only basis to anything remotely similar to facing bigotry be "being stood up" by his friends? Why does Lois as a Korean American not understand why an alien immigrant would hide his heritage from an unaccepting world after she herself said "nobody normal believes in aliens"? Why is her Asian American dad xenophobic to Clark without any insightful discussion as to how assimilation can make minorities turn against each other? Why is it, in the narrative of MAWS, that the only characters who go through bigotry are white people (and a gorilla)? Why is it in Lois' hope speech to support Superman does she mention that humans are cruel to "people who don't look like us" when Clark passes for a white man?

These aren't things that can be fixed with "more time". It's a fundamental problem with how MAWS depicts characters of color. They view them as a commodified aesthetic acknowledgement of diversity and not people who navigate the world differently. Changing historically white characters into people of color comes with understanding how those different experiences would affect their characterization. It's not skin deep.

#askjesncin #as someone who was specifically excited about asian lois in an animated show my disappointment is something else #im so jaded about how “poc rep” has been reduced to a marketing ploy to create discourse over “diverse reimaginings”#while delivering nothing to the people it's meant to represent #congrats u made the bigots mad i guess #if anyone needed more time it's jimmy #jesncin talks maws

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signedjehanne · 1 year

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i swear some of you people need like. a sign next to mcr art that has the rising sun in it telling you not to reblog it, or something. i keep seeing art with the rising sun in it making the rounds again and again without mention of, i don't know, the symbol that represents a longstanding history of imperialism and genocide? like did you guys just never learn from the myriad of people telling you on here not to do that or is there something i'm missing. it's not an unreasonable request not to spread art with hate symbols in it, so either you didn't see the posts, or you care more about the aesthetics than east and southeast asian people. judging by how many posts have been made and how far they've spread, i think i know which is the answer.

#seb speaks #mcr #my chemical romance #fandom racism #gerard way #bandom racism #quite frankly exhausted of this shit #are we just expected to deal with seeing this symbol day in and day out?#if you don't know what it represents #google it #don't pester me or other asian ppl about it

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blueskittlesart · 1 year

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I mean… you can’t really get around how orientalist the design of the Gerudo set is either. Like you’d have to redesign it as well.

yknow in the nicest way possible every time i point out how transphobic the gerudo quest is i get a bunch of asks like this. which like. yes. you are correct. it is racist. i am not denying that it is racist. i am painfully aware of the fact that it is racist. i would absolutely try to fix that if it was within my power to do so. however that was not the specific issue i was addressing in the last post, thus i did not bring it up. i am, as a trans person, equipped to address the transphobia off the top of my head in a way that i am NOT, as a white person, equipped to address the orientalism. one of those things is something i have experience with and one is not necessarily my place to redesign or fix. so.

#if you want gerudo redesigns i guarentee there are a ton of african/SW asian fans who have the cultural experience and knowledge to do so #and are much more able to accurately represent their own cultures than i am.#sorry if this is mean or you didnt mean it that way but the last time i talked about this i got a ton of asks like this that kind of #insinuated i was ignoring the racism?? and it pissed me off. we are having a different convo rn. there can be more than one problem #asks

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ranilla-bean · 3 months

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#as an east asian i am increasingly privileged in being represented in media #and i do not want wins for east asian representation to cover up dropped balls in #indigenous or even south/southeast asian representation #i can’t cosign these ‘wins’

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