he/him - two spirit - gay (nwlnw) aspiring artist and writer i have many strange fixations to post about asks and dms welcome!! diseaseriddledhomosexual on ao3
i realize i should probably make an intro post so here we go :)
my names simon! my pronouns are he/him, im canadian, first nations, two spirit and gay. i’m a pretty big reader and mostly enjoy gay romance books (original i know). my notable favourite books include heated rivalry and the game changers series, red white and royal blue, and i dabble in a lot of other things. like comic books. i fucking love comic books.
i also love movies and tv shows! (and also the occasional musical) notable favourites include it’s always sunny in philadelphia, 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 lonestar, interview with the vampire (tv 2022), lots of other sitcoms and shows, mostly shows because movies are touch and go.
i write a lot of one shots and i do take prompts! if you have an idea you want me to write, let me know, though i do reserve the right to write what i want too / am comfortable with, and at my own timeline in correspondence to my motivation. i’m super picky with ships half the time so like i might just not be into the ship.
i also draw! uh some of its cringe but i love it all the same (that’s what i tell myself)
i also play a lot of video games and am generally just into a lot of stuff so like it’s hard to write it all down if that makes sense.
as always happy pride to people that are not out. happy pride to people that dont plan to come out any time soon. happy pride to people for whom it is not safe to be out. happy pride to people that live in a homophobic environment and happy pride to people from countries that criminalize queerness
i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness
roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck.
anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
there should be a fic where philomena cunk interviews shane and ilya. i need that on my desk yesterday please. or i’ll just write it but i think it needs to happen.
Something about Ilya's reaction to Alexei calling Svetlana a whore being linked to how he watched his father treat his mother. How he was too small to stand up to his father back then but he will be damned if he'll let a member of his family speak that way to a woman he loves at this point in his life.
Hi! Here's a list of some Asian-Led/Starring or Asian Story Short Films and Movies that you should add to your watchlist for AANHPI heritage month. ✽
Current count: 19 short films and 2 movies.
(NOTE 1: some of these I have watched, some I still want to explore myself. Please recommended additions, especially for PI and NH films.)
(NOTE 2: there are a couple of queer short films here. To all the queer Asians out there still seeking fellowship: you'll find it.)
OMAKASE (2024), dir. Tristan Au
Starring: Mika J. Nakano, William Poole, Emily Fan and Tomoko Takahasi-Lin.
Media: Short Film.
Duration: 26:25.
Topics/genres: Culture and societal pressure, aging and feeling like life is fleeting, and queer identity.
Language(s): English, Japanese.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Japanese.
OP Status: Watched.
Halmeoni | 할머니 (year), dir. Kevin Jin Kwan Kim
Starring: Cici Ting, Haze Ham, Hazel Kim, Maki Yi.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 1:56.
Topics/genres: Forgetting your mother tongue/ethnic language, death and grief, familial love and strength.
Language(s): Korean.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Korean.
OP Status: Watched.
Lucky Fish (2023), dir. Emily May Jampel
Starring: Lukita Maxwell and Anna Mikami.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 8:24.
Topics/genres: Culture and family, growing up and finding your path on your way to college, and queer identity.
Language(s): English.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Chinese, Japanese.
OP Status: Watched.
Hold Your Back (2026), dir. Zack Fonzovs
Starring: Hudson Williams and Zack Fonzovs.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 5:00.
Topics/genres: (TW) Domestic violence, queer love and building a family in an echochamber of toxicity.
Language(s): English.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Asian-starring, not an Asian story (irrelevant to the plot).
OP Status: Watched.
Maneki (2023), dir. Brandon Okumura
Starring: Iris Liu, Elsie Wang, Garth Sodetani and Cory Wong.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 12:53.
Topics/genres: Sapphic 'meet-cute', hopeless romantic with a crush on a straight girl, rejection with a light-hearted ending.
Language(s): English.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Japanese.
OP Status: Watched.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), dir. Pat Boonnitipat
Starring: Billikin/Puttipong Assaratanakul, Usa Semkhun and Tontawan Tantivejakul/Tu.
Media: Movie.
Duration: 2:06:37.
Topics/genres: Grief of a terminally ill grandparent, familial love, aging and family, wanting better for yourself and motivation, the dramedy that is life.
Language(s): Thai.
Location: Netflix, Prime Video.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Thai.
OP Status: Not watched.
PERSUASION (2018), dir. Alex Lukas
Starring: Christina Hsu, Connor Storrie, Jarrol Taylor Jr. and Tanya Raisa.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 5:02.
Topics/genres: Fetishisation in the work place, type casting and stereotyping, frustration of an Asian actress trying to be taken seriously in between takes.
Topics/genres: The little moments that make us who we are and memory, turbulence and unhealed trauma, togetherness and culture.
Language(s): Minimal speaking, but English and features of many other Southeast Asian languages.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, etc.
OP Status: Watched.
When The Sun Goes Down, dir. Mia Frank
Starring: Neetika Knight and Ayan Philip.
Media: Short film.
Duration: 19:05.
Topics/genres: Childhood reconnection in adulthood, romance, metaphors of the sun, generational cycles and pressure, we learn from those we love.
Language(s): English.
Location: YouTube.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: (unspecified) South Asian.
OP Status: Watched.
(To close this out. Last, but not least:)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu.
Media: Movie.
Duration: 2:00:19.
Topics: Generational trauma and familial love, philosophical ponderings like nihilism vs. existentialism, acceptance of life and its absurdity.
Language(s): English, Mandarin.
Location: Rakuten Viki, HBO Max, Hulu, YouTube TV, Prime Video.
Centered cultures/ethnicities: Chinese.
OP Status: Watched.
Once again❕please recommend additions in the reblogs or comments, especially for South Asian, West Asian, Central Asian, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian representation. Thank you so much: enjoy the films!
Happy AANHPI 🇵🇭, here are some reminders for this month and the rest of the year.
To Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific islanders:
You're valid.
You're valid if you live in your ethnic country, and you're valid if you don't.
You're valid if you know the language, and you're valid if not.
You're valid even if you're disconnected to your culture(s), despite being raised in it or having it pointed out in your appearance, name, etc.
You're valid for openly celebrating and being proud of your culture(s).
You're valid for being White and Asian.
You're valid for being Black and Asian.
You're valid for being Hispanic and/or Latino and Asian.
You're valid for being Indigenous (indigenous american, maori, first nations, Native Hawaiian, etc.) and Asian.
All shades of skin, shapes of eyes, defining noses, etc. are so beautiful.
All of your names, cultures and languages are beautiful, even if they're not considered so/not fetishised by Western society.
Each Native land of Polynesia is sacred, and your staying alive keeps the islands alive.
The countries of South Asia, West Asia and Central Asia are all Asian countries whether you want them to or not.
You do not have to be palatable.
You are not for comedy.
People don't have to like you, love you or even respect you as long as you do all of those things to yourself.
To (mainly) white and/or non-Asian/NH/PI people:
It's important to be in listening mode. What you think you know secondhand doesn't sum up the lived experience of your Asian counterparts.
Polynesian indigenous lands are not only tourist spots. They are living islands with living people, not spectacles.
There is no "joke" in the AANHPI identity. If you find yourself laughing at something with no clear punchline other than the person, it's time to self reflect.
Uplift Asian authors and creators any day of the year, not just this one. Take May to clear some Asian stories off your Letterboxd watch list, though (e.g., Everything Everywhere All At Once, a very popular Oscar-winning movie).
Just because racism doesn't always come in the form of hate crimes that commonly "anymore" (this can really only be applied to some places in America, Canada and the UK that are seen as "woker") does not mean that racism has fully disappeared. We are in a very micro-aggressive place in society, making it very easy for neonazis to take flight and infiltrate.
Study, study study. Ask questions. Admit you're wrong. Stay inclusive. Call yourself and your friends, family, lover(s) and coworkers out.
Have a great month everybody. I'm making a post on some (mostly queer) Asian medias to check out. Bye!
It's not that Rachel Reid writes Shane Hollander "out of character," it's that she didn't make a character of colour rooted in enough reality and intention for him to be fleshed out. That's that. Rachel Reid doesn't acknowledge Shane Hollander's identity to the very nuanced point it is because she does not have the toolset of a person of colour to write that. It's very disappointing, but it would've been easier if she just hadn't acknowledged certain fan readings at all (e.g., autistic Shane Hollander) and kept quiet because I think that even she knows [to an extent] the character that people want of Shane Hollander isn't something she can write in a way that wouldn't read as offensive. Unfortunately.
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