#blood relation

[renegadesstuff]

He's always by her side 🥹❤️

[campingmonkey]

Smirk. 🥰😍

[scrabbleknight]

Every Zelda starting from Skyward Sword is (probably) the descendant of the previous Zelda and previous Link while every Link is not. This means that every Zelda gets more and more Link in them thus making the most recent Zelda (BOTW) the Linkest of all Zeldas.

[thepapergirlandthespiegelman]

it’s that old [mixed race identity crisis]

As I’ve been exploring witchcraft more deeply over the past year, I’ve naturally also been thinking a lot about my personal cultural heritage. While there are many aspects of witchcraft that are shared or even perhaps universal, there are also many aspects that are unique to certain cultures. Even when the underlying principles are the same (which they aren’t always), the details are necessarily steeped in culture. One culture’s sun goddess is not a direct equivalent of another’s; Eos is not Ame-no-Uzume is not Sulis is not Xīhé.

As someone who is half Chinese—more Chinese than any other ethnicity in my makeup—I often feel like I ought to know more about Chinese culture. I feel like I should draw on Chinese culture for my spiritual practice. But I don’t know anything about Chinese culture, or at least very little, and very, very little about what my particular ancestors were like. The only member of my family to have actually lived in China is my PoPo, and even she came to the United States when she was very young. From what I know, she came from some village in Taishan. I don’t know what life in that village was like or what my ancestors prior to that time were like or where they were from. So even when I try to learn more about Chinese language, mythology, and culture online, it feels somewhat wrong. After all, anything that has proliferated enough to be available in the English language is probably the culture of the elite and/or the majority (and/or the culture that Western scholars deemed interesting or important), which could be quite far afield from the culture of that tiny village in Taishan, where they don’t even speak Mandarin. Sure, I have a relationship to broader Chinese culture too, but like...how much? How much can I feel like that culture is really mine? For all I know, I could be reading some myth or principle, and my much nearer ancestors had an entirely opposite perspective!

This brings me to my frustration with the conflation of ancestry with culture. At the end of the day, doesn’t it make more sense for me to just pursue things that resonate with me rather than struggling to discover my own ancestry and then, if I manage to succeed, perhaps finding that I have nothing in common with those people? And if that’s the case, why should I bother exploring Chinese culture at all? I feel much more drawn to Japanese culture, despite having no blood tie to it.

I also don’t like the idea that if I were to come out to others as, say, a Daoist sorcerer, people might assume that that practice comes from an unbroken line, continuously passed down from my mother to me and my grandparents to her and so on and so forth, rather than from whatever English-language resources I’m able to find on the Internet. I don’t have access to any special, secret knowledge just because of my Chinese ancestry. If a White practitioner refers to ancient European practices, no one assumes that they come from a pagan family, but if an Asian person refers to ancient Asian practices, people are much more likely to assume a direct connection. People assume that White families have lived in the United States for some time and been predominantly Christian for even longer, yet they’re likely to assume that Asian people are first-generation immigrants with a direct connection to the culture of their homeland, including its native religions.

I don’t like the glorification of blood relation. As someone who comes from an extremely toxic and dysfunctional family environment, I kind of have to believe that I’m not doomed to the fate of my parents, restricted to what they’re able to give me. I have to be better than they are.

At the same time...I do see the value in knowing the culture that is associated with my ancestry, if only because if I don’t do it, who will? If I don’t represent Chinese culture, then it will often go unrepresented, and I'm not really comfortable just standing by while immigrants are assimilated into the dominant culture and American culture becomes increasingly homogeneous. Even if my mother couldn’t care less about Daoism, that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t try to learn about it. Even if my PoPo prefers Greek mythology to Chinese, that doesn’t mean I can’t take an interest in it. I don’t have to let my immediate relations be an insurmountable chokepoint for my access to Chinese culture.

Unfortunately, even after working through all of this, there are some problems when I actually try to engage with Chinese culture. Namely...

Filial piety.

You can probably guess from what I’ve said thus far that I’m not a fan of filial piety. I don’t believe that parents deserve undying devotion simply for being parents, especially when said parents are abusive. I simply do not agree with this value, but it’s so deeply ingrained into Chinese culture, and I...don’t really know what to do about that.

In general, I find myself frustrated that so much of what I find in my research is disturbingly approving of hierarchy. I recently came across the legend in which  Nüwa crafts by hand the people who would go on to be elite and rich, while she simply swings a muddy bamboo branch to create those who would become the lower class. Like...literally, what the fuck? That’s a terrible story. I don’t want to be associated with that kind of thinking at all!

I don’t know. I know there must be other stuff out there. I know there must be stories about people questioning authority and challenging the status quo and loving across social groups and forming found families...Right??? I know that there must be a culture of The Resistance in China. I just don’t know how to find it.

[ambreignssmemories]

Their friendship is like a blood relation 💪🤙 Not only friends but brothers 💕

[renegadesstuff]

THEY WERE SO HAPPY 🥺❤️‍🩹

[letspriyanshithings]

:)

One of those emotional calls from bhaiya.. Universe has finally started listening to me or what.

I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you..

[latestcarernews]

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