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Man I don't know jack about how this site works man. 🇰🇿🇨🇳🇳🇵🇲🇳.

[saryzhai]

how does tumblr work

T rex lived 66 million years ago

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[saryzhai]

man I fucking hate pride month

Every fucking June without fail my dash floods with the same recycled rainbow capitalism and the same tired history lesson mainly focused around Stonewall and I’m so goddamn tired of it.

Stonewall is like the single story that gets trotted out every year as the genesis for all queer liberation everywhere. As if the entire global struggle for queer rights begins and ends with a NYC riot in 1969. Pisses me off.

It was important but really only for white American queers more than anyone else. It was a flashpoint I GUESS. It’s still a largely white American male focal point.

What about everything that came before it like everywhere else?

Where is the mentions of Japanese crossdressing? Arabic homosexual poetry? African love courts? Indian third genders? The fucking Palestinians were doing nonbinary before any white people did but somehow I’ve never seen reblogs of Canaanite art. I mean the ring of doves has hella fucking artistic potential but when has a yt queer ever drawn THAT. I guess that’s all irrelevant just because some white people could throw bricks.

Focusing on Stonewall lets people think white people are saviours of the oppressed Asian babies who can’t be independent themselves and need a strong saviour for their rights and let’s them ignore that the struggle for queer rights isn’t actually over since black queers still get brutalized Chinese queers have to risk their lives just to be open about it etc pmo

and don’t forget it allows American capitalists to market pride flags for minorities they don’t even give a shit about so their tax money can go towards buying more bombs for the Middle East (it’s okay though because it’s woke)

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu in Ming dynasty style

[saryzhai]

first tumblr post.. kind of #nervous

Every time I watch some westerner call a pair of actual lesbians “yuri” I have to physically restrain myself from biting on cyanide I swear to fucking god.

It’s not about the word being bad. It’s just a lazy two for one racism. You manage to be sexist and to exoticize asia at once which is really impressive.

A lesbian couple in Chile is not yuri. Two women dating in Toronto are not yuri. Your coworker and her wife are not living their yuri arc. They are lesbians. Just say lesbian. I am fucking begging you.

And we all know why you won’t. “Lesbian” is a real social category. It means actual women, which most people find gross to think about for too long. Yuri is a genre. A tag. A consumable product from a country you’ve decided is the world’s cute factory. It lets you engage with female homosexuality as a concept without ever having to engage with the reality of women. It’s safe for you. It’s fictional.

So of fucking course when a real woman mentions her girlfriend or some shit you immediately try to translate her life into your fandom vocabulary. Or when you read a non Japanese lesbian book it’s also randomly fucking Yuri. The existence of lesbians only becomes legible to you once it's been made into a trope. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s the same shit women have always dealt with which is that their lives are repackaged for spectator consumption.

In your rush to aestheticize everything, you drag Japan into it too. Not as a country, with its own very clear issues, but as a flattened and exported idea. A brand. You don’t engage with Japan, you engage with your curated fantasy of it. You use its language as a seasoning like dry irony.

You don’t need a Japanese word for everything. Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon. It’s not anime. Sometimes a school uniform is just a school uniform. And sometimes, shockingly, a lesbian is just a fucking LESBIAN JESUS CHRIST.