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Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!

Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We’re celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.) While the usual affiliate links are included, you’re strongly encouraged to order from the Native-owned Birchbark Books where available! Picture…

Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025!

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I’m working really hard on releasing my post about Waylon’s Korean-coding, coming from the lens of someone who is a product of Asian migration to the US. (I’m really excited for it! I hope it’s educational)

[EDIT]: here’s a list of things I will address:

- Model Minority Myth

- the “feminine Asian man” stereotype in the US

- comp sci at UC Berkeley

- Asian emigration to the US

- notions of gender/masculinity in 20th century America

There will be a slight delay—during my deep dive, I realized that there’s a history of characters with Asian surnames who have shown some type of resistance/rebellion against Murkoff, which I thought was interesting and definitely worth analyzing. That being David Annapurna, Melissa Cho, and Ethan Sriskandaraja. Their contributions to the game are subtle, but I think they mean a lot to the overall lore—especially David’s parallels with Waylon.

I’m finding it very meaningful. It will hopefully come very soon!