#mixed stuff

[inimeitiel]

2024/2025 sketches

[dunne-ias]

A fun work thing and also best uninhabited custom hood and a writing update

I’m translating something, and I need to write SMS. I wrote SIMS, realized my mistake, deleted it, but then wrote SIMS again. And again. It took me five tries. My fingers just wanted to write SIMS instead of SMS. Freudian slip?

Also, thank you for replies regarding the best uninhabited custom hoods. I think I’m going to download plasticbox’s Elsewhere, which I played once for a few sim days back when it was first released all those years ago. I think it really is the best one he made, or at least the one with the most personality. Tumbleton looks good, but I always felt it was a bit too ambitious and big for my taste (although I get the appeal of such a huge collaborative effort, we need more stuff like that in our small ts2-community).

I just really miss just playing the game.

The other day someone (sorry, forgot your name) liked a really old post of mine, which made me click and see what it was and then I fell into the rabbit hole that is my blog four years ago where I got to re-read a bunch of old story posts and now I feel inspired, so I will do my very best to finish writing next chapter of thirty. and upload it here, Idiotic tumblr decency rules be damned. It has been over a year.

[sweetsurrenderbyjohndenver]

Idk how to phrase this, but have you ever gotten the feeling like "I need to make more friends of my race?" At least for me, growing up in a majority white neighborhood, my friends were mostly white. There wasn't as many kids the same race as me that I could connect with, or share the same experiences with. All of them were mostly in books or in media, people who I pretended were my friends, but they obviously weren't. So now, now that I'm much older, and I don't live in such a predominantly white area, its like I feel disconnected. All of my friends growing up were white, so now I feel like I'm an outsider to a culture I grew up surrounded by. Is it just me trying to chase that feeling of belonging again? Of being with people who not only look like me, but went through the same struggles that I went through? Or is this just some sort of tinny voice in my brain?

[purecommemasolitude]

being semi-white-passing truly is a minefield because every time i talk about hating the chinese government i have to hurry and specify i hate them in a taiwanese way and not a racist way

[gointorosedale]

the reason I was thinking about this actually is I just had an exam on amongst other things Dutch colonial nostalgia which used two films with Indonesian/white mixed women as main characters and it was criticizing its use of the usual tropes for mixed women, the exotic seductress and the tragic mulatto mainly and like. that is problematic and I understand the necessity of that critique but at the same time. I identified with it as a kid. I did feel like there were two incompatible worlds clashing inside me. and my parents marriage is a mess. like I feel a certain pressure sometimes to prove there is more than the tragic mulatto but at the same time so much of it just. isn't wrong for me. and I know many happy mixed marriages and families, most even. but my parents marriage is so marred by colonialism like for the first fifteen or so years of their lives my mom was literally a colonial subject to my dad's home country and he has such a colonial view, he has that colonial nostalgia he literally says he would like to live in colonial Indonesia and he speaks about surinam like it's still a colony and he's so proud of what the Dutch did there! ofc that messes up a marriage and my position as mixed woman! I feel torn! and it makes me feel like I'm bad, like I'm confirming a negative stereotype. idk.

[buzz-kill]

Things I reaffirmed today.

I am better than DMGs at CS.

I am still very lonely and feel unloved.

Just another day really.

[aplacecalledorange]

Hi I came across your response to the guy who said Big Hero Six didn't have enough representation because some of the characters were mixed race. I'm mixed race, and both my parents are immigrants. I've never really felt like I can own my own heritage because I don't look Hispanic and don't speak Spanish or Dutch. The characters in BH6, especially Honey Lemon, made me feel a little more like my heritage is valid, so thank you for sticking up for this amazing film.

Hi! And thank you for thanking me about this. I can relate to you - I’m half Chinese and half English/Scottish/Irish/Italian, and while I do speak English, I don’t speak Chinese or Italian which makes me a little sad because I wish I could be more involved with my cultures that way. (Thankfully, I’m learning Italian right now and will hopefully learn Mandarin in the future!) Just like you said you don’t look Hispanic, I don’t look Chinese to a lot of people so it’s sometimes hard to connect to that side of my family. Representation is so important, especially in children’s films. I can count on one hand the amount of times a character in ANY media I’ve seen is explicitly designated as mixed race. BH6 is a great start to more mixed race visibility.

It was so depressing to realize that some people honestly think mixed-race people aren’t “real” diversity. The girl who made the original post thinks that diversity only counts when someone is fully not white, which is completely false. She fancies herself a racism activist but in reality is doing more to hurt the movement than she will ever do to help it and she is a pathetic coward for sending hate mail and closing her own inbox so people can’t even disagree with her and have a discussion.