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the-bluespirit

KE HUY QUAN wins Best Supporting Actor for WAYMOND WANG in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE | 2023 Oscars

leonardospoetry

I tried putting some feelings into words and it turned into this rambling. Sometimes, it seems that what gets me anxious is an undercurrent craving for more. There’s so much conditioning for us to always be moving forward and achieving. It feels like there will never be enough time to just be present.

I guess that’s how it feels to be a human sometimes and it’s okay. But I do believe that some things can be revealed with these kinds of emotions. Personally, I’ve been trying to redefine my ideas about success and growth. We've been seeing lately how so much of what’s considered progress is actually killing the earth and I think that might be a good hint about the way we need to change.

Anyway, that’s enough for today. Thanks for reading.

the moment you go from team averygrayson to team avery

#like y'all really questioned how she felt about eve????#she was sussy af from the start #the final gambit #the hawthorne legacy #the inheritance games

loving-ricciardo

if you don’t love me at my 7 time grand prix spinner

you don’t deserve me at my 8 grand prix winner.

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2021 Italian GP | September 12, 2021

juergenklopp

DANIEL RICCIARDO wins the 2021 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza on September 12, 2021

jeongjaehyuns

i knew from the first time, i’d stay for a long time ‘cause i like me better when i like me better when i’m with you

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video essays i love and think about a lot (mainly in relation to pop culture):

aaliyah, britney & the apathy of lifetime “biopics”

baby phat enterprise: how kimora lee simmons pioneered 2000’s fashion

whiplash vs. black swan — the anatomy of the obsessed artist

born sexy yesterday

parasite — the power of symbols

hilary duff, lizzie mcguire, and the teen idol pigonhole

why this font is everywhere

it’s time to talk about the r@cism in dan schneider’s shows

a legally blonde fashion analysis

ghost singing: jennifer lopez’s stolen vocals and songs

the late capitalism of kpop

jennifer’s body and the horror of bad marketing

let’s get sad: a last of us video essay

video vixens got paid like rappers

how midsommar brainwashes you

beyonce’s voice is changing (part one, part two, part three)

explained: smoking and the voice

here’s what we missed on glee

how one netflix movie broke the entire internet

naughty dog’s game design is outdated

jeffree star faked everything about… well, everything

how we failed megan fox

mariah carey’s voice

token black girl: how tyra banks vs. naomi campbell was orchestrated by the industry

colorism in your favorite black sitcoms

that 80s show and the limits of nostalgia

‘us’ and the american dream: what it means

unraveling the madness of kanye west

life is strange: the worst best friend

maryolive

may i add:

what people get wrong about climate change

the very creepy issue surrounding millie bobby brown

the social network - ten years later

the adorkable misogyny of the big bang theory

the epidemic of passable movies

ellen’s fall from grace

stalking for love

abduction as romance

the problem with disney’s movies in one word

pewdiepie and the rebranding of white nationalism

vaping: a lesson in irony

stranger things, belligerent romance, and the danger of nostalgia

the us medical system is still haunted by slavery

specialpotforinstantnoodles

may i also add a few:

Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here’s Why

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Parasite’s Perfect Montage

How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)

The Engoodening of No Man’s Sky

The Trouble with the Video Game Industry

Judaism and Whiteness in Wolfenstein

“Bad Graphics”

Cringe

The Speed (and Stillness) of Being Online

Superposition: The Genre of Life is Strange

CTRL+ALT+DEL

Weighing the Value of Director’s Cuts

YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)

The Art of Storytelling and The Book of Henry

How To Steal Like Wes Anderson

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy

Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling

blulious

Haikyuu!! Birthday Portraits

blackwoolncrown

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

sonateharder

I know I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating.

This is a thing humans do; you don’t have to be good at it to enjoy it.

ellisnightingale

“Novembers are for softest sleep when skies are dark and grey. They do not mind the time you keep when night looks much like day. They do not mind the rain that falls so warmly down your cheek. ‘Rest easy now’ is what they’d say if months knew how to speak.”

— Ellis Nightingale

eurydice-rising

On Asian "accents"

It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was so proud I did not have to go to Bingo class, unlike my friends, because I could speak good English -

although I had no idea what a yellow dog that could spell had anything to do with Chinese.

(I figure out now that it was probably called Bilingual class)

I am lucky. I speak the fluent, accentless English of newscasters, the dialect spoken by the children of immigrants, that we learned not from our parents but rather from watching Sesame Street and other things on tv.

Last year, a white facebook friend of mine posted, “In order to celebrate Chinese New Year, me talk rike chinese man arr day.”

And then told me that she was “sorry I was offended” and “she didn’t mean anything by it” when I (nicely, sweetly) told her that that shit was not okay. She said that she saw it the same as doing an accent, like Irish. Or British. Or Italian. (for bonus points, she even said that she has lots of Asian co-workers and friends, and LOVES Asian people, and so is not a racist.)

And when one of my white friends gets drunk, he thinks his “Asian accent” is hilarious.

And I was told by a coworker about the time my Asian coworker mispronounced “Barroway” as “Bwawwoway” and how hilarious it was.

Here’s the thing - can you guess how many Asian people I know who actually say

me rikey

me from _____

me so solly

(or, if you like, the fetishized versions: me so horny, me love you long time)

if you said ZERO, then ding ding ding! Congratulations, you have working brain cells.

No, my misguided fb friend, the “Asian accent” is not an actual imitation of an accent, comparable to your bad British/Irish/Italian - but rather a mockery of Asian people and their supposed inability to speak English. It is the perpetuation of the image of Asian people as perpetual foreigners in America.

Like that time when my family was at an Italian restaurant, and we were speaking to my father in Cantonese, and a drunken white lady said very loudly, “GOD when you come to this country at least learn the language!”

Or when my father was pulled over for speeding, and although he said “what’s the problem, officer?” the first thing the state trooper said was, “Do you speak English?”

Your fake “Asian accents” are not harmless and silly, because at the root of the joke, it says - you, you are stupid. You cannot speak English. You are Other. You do not belong.

my parents have been in this country for 30 years. They have been American citizens for 30 years.

And they are very self-conscious of their imperfect English, afraid that it makes them look ignorant, knowing that it marks them as immigrants. That, after 30 years, you can still be told (in not so many words) that you do not belong.

The Cultural Revolution started in China when my father was 13. He was pulled out of school and, later, sent to work in the fields. (He escaped to Hong Kong when he was 18, but that is another story for another time.)

When my father came to this country, he had a middle school education and did not speak a lick of English. He worked as a busboy at a Chinese restaurant, the evening shift that ran until 3 or 4 in the morning, and went to school during the day.

It took my father ten years to earn his bachelor’s degree. He is now an engineer.

Is this not your “American Dream?”

When my mother came to this country, she spoke very little English. She got a job as an entry level clerk. Over the years she earned one promotion after another. She is now management at a large federal agency, and manages funds for the whole state.

Is this not your “American Dream?”

And my father didn’t understand why his coworkers said, “flied lice, flied lice!” to him over and over and laughed.

And my father is still afraid to speak in a professional setting, even when he has ideas.

And my mother still checks and double checks her professional e-mails with me, for fear of mockery from the same people she manages.

And people don’t understand why I can’t take a harmless joke. Why I don’t think that shit is funny.

No, I don’t “rikey.”

No, I won’t “love you long time.”

And no, I’m not sorry.

So, please, kindly - FUCK OFF.