@impertinent-starlight thank you, pleasure to learn about you! 💫 Figured I’d continue the chain here despite multiple tags 😅 I hear ya on the French vanilla from Dunkin’, I think I’ve only had it hot/warm. JACKIESHAUNA‼️ yk I was just telling @thepuppymasc that the director of Jennifer’s Body [yk the movie between two LESBIC BFFs], Karyn Kusama, (Japanese-Scottish-Irish-American) directed the pilot episode and the Season 2 Finale. US is also such a good movie, Black American horror genre is spinechilling and is my favourite horror genre, Asian American horror could learn a thing or two from it.
@thepuppymasc thanks for the tag! ✨ AWESOME that you’re watching Yellowjackets pls DM who your favourite VS most hated character is asap🧍🏻♀️Also 10/10 for the Aggressives, very good—they really grow into themselves in the second documentary that came out 2023, maybe next watch? Dw about your teeth also, sweet things are good for you ✨ I love the smell of freshly brewing coffee ☕️, because why does my brain instantly send me a whole dose of serotonin… pair it with sunny/summery mugs, fresh flowers and a yellow tablecloth to go with breezy Sunday mornings. 🌷☀️🌷
@badwolfdogbutch cheers for the tag! 🤝 Love the tunes and was that book a good read? Recommend or no? SINNERS ‼️‼️‼️ FAWWKKKKK so gooood 🦅🦅🦅 was it your first time watching?? I can’t recall if we watched it together with tlgb the last time. I’d be keen to hear your thoughts some time!
@ninthwhisperinguts peepeepoopoo tag! 😎 u feeling fishy, thats why u were listening to Beyond The Sea. Also i was NOT aware that there was a Peaky Blinders movie and now I’m grieving the series all over again, and Helen McCrory (Aunt Polly)😭 I shall have to watch that very soon. Also I relay a serious msg from the peoples that you must NOT crochet another FACKing Patrick Star buttcheeks. 👥👎 It is imperative u listen to the peoples.
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Reading: “Biting the Hand: Growing up Asian in Black & White America” by Julia Lee, an autobiography on the Asian-American/Asian diasporic experience by a South Korean-American raised by 1st-generation South Korean immigrants, interspersed with critical race theory. A bit slow with it right now, but every single page is refreshing to me. Startlingly cutting to my experience as an Asian migrant who often feels there is no space at all for Asian peoples in the Black and white Anglosphere, and who have observed some of these survival mechanisms in myself and in other Asians. It truly honours the anger of some Asian folks, and how our emotions of any kind except the expected silent pain and sacrifice, are seen as taboo and unnatural by both culture and society. Lots of good references to Black authors and activist-authors as well, it’ll be good to follow up on these references when I can. Also I was encouraged to study The Red Guard, an Asian-American resistance organisation defending Indo-Chinese and Asian-American rights, founded by San Francisco Chinatown’s youths in 1969. It was inspired by both the African-American Black Panthers and the Maoist Red Guard from China. I will be reading up on that soon.
Last series: Girls Raised in the South (G.R.I.T.S), which follows three African American women in Memphis, focusing on their passion in roller-skating to earn competition cash prizes and hopefully move on up to fulfil their individual dreams. Unfortunately there are a lot of obstacles and decisions made out of desperation, along the way. And it all seems connected to one of the women’s father, the pastor of an up-and-coming Black church. What I love about this series is that it completely focuses on Black people—their struggles, successes and love even through the hardships. AND THERE IS LESBIANISM !! 🏳️🌈
Last movie: I Saw the TV Glow (2023)— well, partially. So far so good. I do feel nostalgia connected to the cable-TV static and the 90s synthpop atmosphere. A film I completed watching before that was The Aggressives (2005). A complicated film documenting the 90s—00s for 6 AGs. Knowing how the recent years have been for the Chinese AG -> trans man Chin who went through the prison system, lost his green card and went through hell trying to stay afloat and stay in the country he has known all his life, was nearly deported…all because of the mistake of the immigration offices… yeah. Hard one. I’m glad all the other/former AGs are doing well though!
Last song: Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl — yeule. Special appreciation for my fellow SEAsian-Chinese. And there’s something to the sound of Asian post-pop and glitch music. It’s got that cybercore digital Y2K aesthetic to it, and it feels cozy in a static noise way. All this bedrotting dreaminess contained in the four walls of a <???> one-bedroom. It feels very EAsian to me because it can only come from the urban decay in metallic industrialisation and the wounds of tradition carried by Asian GNC_infantilistic_fems from generations of suffering under the patriarchy and colonisation and the lustre of Westernisation [mirage of advancement] vs diasporic EAsian clinging to traditions. And how this ties into the “cyber dystopia-futurist-EAsian-alien-machine” Orientalism and its reclamation. Only HK, Taiwan, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Sinitic SEA would get it. But I could also be making it up.
Working on: Clearing my graveyard of half-finished Tumblr essays on Chinese make-up, writing EAsian characters, E/SEA fem portrayals in the performing arts, and more. Also my uni lectures that I keep falling behind on, fuck me sideways I CANNOT repeat this year. Also on community organisation (a bunch of societies and clubs I’m a part of this year), some of my friendships and strength conditioning for my vaguely acrobatic hobby rn.
Coffee or tea: Coffee. What’s not to love.
Tagging: @cxn-txm @dirtypower @gurlzkissing @cookbookbutch @juudaimes-true-form @ursinefutchass @plique-a-jour @queerasaurus-rexx @veerierir @lynxden @j-y-ay @espritsvoyageurs @crybabyboyscout
