You ever just get hit with a wave of like

"Happy. Need to stim."

Or is that just me?

Yesterday, I met Amy Chu, a comic writer who played a major hand in adapting Turning Red into a graphic novel (among plenty of other things). My friend spotted her and headed over to talk to her. I went along, met her, and also talked to her for a while. In that, I found out an interesting piece of information about the film.

Domee Shi has had plenty of interviews on Turning Red and its production, but one thing Chu let us in on was how Pixar "Disney-ified" the ending. Initially, Shi hadn't written a scene where Ming hugged Mei and apologized to her. Test audiences and editors noted that the story's ending didn't have closure as far as Ming and Mei's relationship went, and many regarded Ming as an abusive mother when asked about their impressions.

This struck me because I remember when Turning Red first came out. A big joke among me and my Asian friends as well as generally among Asian Canadians and Americans on Twitter was, "Turning Red was so real. The only unrealistic part was when Ming hugged and verbally apologized to Mei." Knowing now from an insider that Ming didn't originally have that scene with Mei and that the turn of their relationship was initially very implicit and reflective of a more plausible real experience gives me even more respect for Domee Shi—which I didn't think would be possible at this point.

Of course, I understand why Pixar heavily modified the scene. Even with the way Turning Red ultimately released, audiences who weren't Asian still held great disdain towards Ming as both a character and a mother. Plus, for diasporic Asian families, it gives us the ability to see a depiction of ourselves indulging in a sort of affection that we may regard as unnatural or taboo when applied to ourselves. In the end, though, I'm glad to know of another way in which Domee Shi prioritized telling a version of her own story that girls, people around her age, and Asian Canadians and Americans, could relate to (above pandering to audiences that may find the story boring or tasteless). She's certainly aware that she'd never be able to please everyone, especially with a film like that.

We also found out that Turning Red has a very steady balance of young girls and boys of all sorts of visible ethnicities who are still diehard fans of the movie! After noting upon some odd backlash from adults, Chu phrased this phenomenon as, "The kids are alright."

i've probably posted abt My Coworker Vladimir before but i'm going to unhinge my jaw like a snake and swallow him whole (<- we disagree on the appropriate level of abstraction for a hardware fault message and i've been bitching at him in code review about it for the past few days)

IN MY DEFENSE his first attempt was

bool motor_fault

bool sytem_fault (yes. misspelled.)

bool power_fault

and another coworker and i were like "can you please add comments explaining what these mean" and he was like "sure :)" and popped out with

# This means there was some fault with the motor.

bool motor_fault

(etc.)

so you see why i am frothing at the mouth

Me during most of this weeks episode of Antireset

Me during the last 2 minutes of the episode

stretching to interpret nonfan as an aiyuu song like

saionji serving cunt moodboard

am i wrong here. AM I WR

@mischiefxmuses said : “ Don't say another word. ” - Loki to Chu Wanning

Chu Wanning looks extraordinarily affronted by the other's command, his face instantly frowning indignantly. He hadn't done anything to deserve being spoken to in that way, or so he thought. But he also knows not to run his mouth in a situation where silence might very well be important, so he keeps his lips pressed together and waits quietly for the other to reveal why it's so important that he apparently not speak another word.

RID WHAT IS THIS BEHAVIOUR 😦😦😦

Me rn 😦

New stim, whaddup

erha reread reminded me that cwn is SCARY

I'm writing descriptions for the Popular Danmei Character Tournament, and I've just been thinking about Chu Wanning for, like, an hour. He's just such a character

I KNOW IM NOT CRINGE MY BRAIN JUST MEAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

A!

Okay thanks, i screamed enough i feel better bye *skuttles away*

I am bitting ur brain tilt it’s not mean, as if my brain isn’t the exact same, and then patting ur head. MUCH LOVE FOR U

I feel like if someone gets into toowntown corporate clash they get obsessed with/kin at least 1 manager so uh rb nd put in the tags who

I’ll go first, mine is Multislacker/Cathal Bravecog they just like me fr

I LOVED FEMALES IT WAS SO RIGHT

lol yeah i need 2 revisit it it's been a few months since i read it now but!! i remember feeling not only like it was v readable (i really enjoy andrea long chu's writing style) but that it was actively playing w + stretching + breaking down a lot of rhetoric surrounding gender such that it really made me think in new ways...felt sort of like opening a door leading 2 new avenues of thought 4 me etc...might end up returning 2 it this semester 2 write a paper abt it in the context of horror studies bc truly. so many interesting ideas

Buggy hands you his weenie like a lunchbox when you leave the house. "For bad times"