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[c3rvida3]

Me and my cousin have an ongoing bit where we pretend we made "slightly better" versions of things where we'll be like.

"That was a pretty good movie, but not as good as my movie, House of 1001 Corpses," or "I guess this song is okay. Kind of reminds me of a song I'm working on called 'Faster Car'."

Never once has it been funny or made anyone but us laugh.

[mucmucvi]

This reminds me of a joke I have with two of my cousins

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[venonomnomicon]

you're a good soldier for mommy, aren't you?

[girlthulhu]

wololo

[venonomnomicon]

you're a good soldier for mommy, aren't you?

[thinkingabout-girls]

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

[ouppygirlcity]

[onmentalsafari]

I get what you mean with the not white-washing Feng Xin and to depict him correctly. But at the same time, most stylistic characters have big eyes - clearly Japanese characters from anime too, for the bigger part (just an example, I know he’s from China, but these characters, they’d have Japanese features too in reality, but in anime it’s stylized, e.g. demon slayers (or the Anime about the Chinese MaoMao)). The Donghua of tgcf too. They convey culture and identity more through clothes and hairstyles than through the eyes.

Also, many of the fandom don’t make Feng Xin white, but keep his canon a bit darker wheat-colored skin tone. It’s very probable that his ethnicity is that of a minority.

If it’s a realistic depiction, the eyes should probably be adapted accordingly. But in stylized works/caricatures of them, is it necessary? It could very quickly lead to people accusing other people of making caricatures of Asian features too, in the stylized format. And I think that would be worse and would hurt the fandom.

What do the Chinese fans think?

Hi there!

Firstly, I didn't bring up eyes in my original post. Thinking that in order to draw an ethnicity or race, you must include a specific feature (such as a certain shape of eyes) every time, is not a good method and can even lead to the spread of racial caricatures as you've mentioned. For a similar reason I didn't bring up skin tone, because skin tone alone is not a good indicator of ethnicity. Asian people can also be naturally dark skinned or tanned, even some white people can get tanned.

In the end, we have to do our best when drawing to create a overall impression that suits the character. My point was that people have a tendency to draw FX with a combination of many physical traits associated with whiteness, which create an impression that he's been drawn as white.

Donghua and anime are primarily created for East Asian audiences and the 'default' stylised character is intended to be read as East Asian. In the context of cultures where Asianness is already the default, there is no need to specifically avoid whitewashing Asian characters.

Here on the English speaking side of the fandom, we have to care for our own community, which is more international and includes many more people (including Chinese diaspora and other poc) living in cultures with the type of racism that values whiteness and leads to whitewashing. In this context, seeing familiar characters being whitewashed can create a sense of hurt and alienation (or whatever, I can't speak for everyone). Let's be mindful and try not to hurt our fellow fans like this.

To be honest, the choice of which characters within a canon get lightened hair/eyes/the whitewashing treatment is also something that displays unconscious racial stereotypes but I won't comment further on that lol because I don't keep up on multi fandom trends

[onmentalsafari]

Some day us english speaking fandom fq fans must have a talk about how many fanarts there are showing feng xin with light hair and eyes, sometimes freckles, and no recognisable asian face structure or features

I know this is a subjective thing especially in more stylised art styles but we could stand to be a little more conscious of it. We do in fact have a duty to try and avoid dealing psychic damage to our fellow fans via whitewashing

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[horce-divorce]

"I would never jeopardize the beans" pales in comparison to it's newest successor, "beans r not woke. How could u do this?"

[ao3commentoftheday]

i also love css and found a really useful trick today for a particularly niche edge case, but i think you'll get a kick out of it too: you can block only works, not comments or bookmarks, by a specific ao3 user by using chained selectors and it turns out really elegantly simple!

.blurb.user-[WRITER ID NUMBER]:not(.bookmark){ display: none !important }

Whoa! Very cool! 🤩

I've added this to my work for how to block users, works, and series (with credit to you). Thanks for sharing that 😁

[lessmouse]

task complete - sing karaoke

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[quietwingsinthesky]

okay. something about the way i worded this is making people think this is a vent thing about real relationships. and it’s fine if that’s where it took you. but i feel like i need to be transparent here: this be blorboposting. karlach cliffgate and her terrible awful no good very bad betrayal.

[quietwingsinthesky]

they are seasoning my fucking post with unknown herbs. beefleaf. the fuck’s a beefleaf. why are you putting that in the stew.

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[diivineray-archieve]

@riwrite everyday it’s like this

[turtlepsych0]

mu qing - tgcf

yes he's problematic, petty, tormented, sassy, jealous, and stupid, but he is also objectively one of the best written characters in the books & im a mu qing defender until the day i die (or get proven otherwise, I guess). if you have tips on making the left/right eyes match 🥲🥲 please drop

pls follow on insta turtlepsycho <3

[shenzhiheng]

Fanghua + Calling for A-Fei (and the one time it wasn't needed)

[ymutate]

Väinö Blomstedt ( 1871 - 1947 ) Finnish painter

"Lake in the Wilderness" oil on canvas 103 x 64 cm, 1895

Finnish National Gallery