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Support Indie AAPI Publishing!!
Hi, everyone!!! I know it's been a while (like many years...) and Steven/Ryan kinda dropped the bomb by being a very lame capitalist (boo). This is why it's awesome that you can now support very cool & awesome AAPI creatives who are NOT trying to swindle you (YAY!)
I've been volunteering at Slant'd, an indie nonprofit publisher focused on uplifting and sharing AAPI writers, artists, and creatives! Issue 06: Homecoming is a collection of heartwarming and provocatively told stories that unpack the different layers of home and the complex feelings and experiences that come with it. You can pre-order here (+ other cool rewards you can check out!) Kickstarter operates on an all-or-nothing basis, so please consider backing us today. BONUS: Since we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, some of our rewards are tax-deductible! We also have corporate deals/bundles, so let me know if you're interested in your 9-5 supporting Slant'd! Instead of supporting very sad ex-buzzfeed employees who are now apologizing on the couch, you can now support upcoming AAPI artists! BTW here's our IG if you want to check it out.
We're dangerously close to not hitting our goal :( so help us out by supporting our Kickstarter (you can donate from $1), signal boosting this post, and sharing more Slant'd content. Think of sharing this post like... if you don't reblog this post your worst enemy (Steven Lim) might haunt you with capitalist BS! And also we're accepting book proposals if you're an AAPI writer looking for a publisher!
#hana fact!#signal boost#AAPI#AAPI creatives#AAPI artists#AAPI writers#independent publishers#independent writers#publishing#publishing industry#nonprofit#taxdeductible#kickstarter
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Hi, show! Jere and show! Belly have been bisexual and Korean-American the whole time we’ve had them yet the fandom acknowledges Jere during Pride month and … during AAPI month for Belly?
#just very inch-eresting how the fandom treats these two#this is from an admittedly biased Asian-American POV and how AAPI month only started being celebrated the full month in 1992#but it was first established in 1978#the current american administration eliminated federal recognition of AAPI month this year#I��m just fucking tired of this fandom being cool with erasing important parts of both Belly and Jere’s identities or not acknowledging it#granted jenny han and her writing room (WHICH HAS ASIAN CREATIVES) did jack all about giving Belly more Korean heritage in the show#and we know that their track record on bisexuality rep is appalling#but ffs fandom is EXACTLY the place where this stuff gets addressed and expanded#i thank the fans who have done this in their stories#but everyone else can fuck all the way off#jenny han only gives lip service to true inclusion and diversity#i remember growing up with zero to no rep in stories as I’m sure she did too#so it’s a bit rich that out of her 3 Asian-female led projects#one has barely any cultural rep#the first one has Asian women dismissing ugly stereotypes about Asian men in favor of a mid white man#XO kitty has done the best at reconciling Kitty’s Koreanness and her Americanness and it’s an original work#my gif
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Currently reading: "What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma" by Stephanie Foo (Ballantine Books, 2023)

This past week, I've been reading this whenever I have a break. Recommended to me by a colleague friend, I decided to dive in with no real sense of what this book would be about. Imagine my surprise when--after the author's note that warned me--the first part (of five) really detailed the abuse inflicted upon the author as a child and teen. I was really thrown by how awful, how intense, the violence was. And I kept reading, as the author encouraged. Despite how awful it was, it gets better.
I like that the explanations are easy to follow when the trauma theories start to get confusing or overwhelming. The voice is also very easy to read; I've been breezing through the chapters. I think the only thing that irks me is that, at times, the chapters will end on a "cliffhanger" kind of sentence or question that didn't feel necessary. It feels too much of the journalistic, click-bait titles, which I don't prefer. But that's not a huge deal. The chapters cover a lot of ground--from her childhood to high school to college to working life to current life. The pacing feels fast, but it doesn't feel too disjointed.
#what my bones know#what my bones know stephanie foo#stephanie foo#what my bones know memoir#complex trauma memoir#asian writers#aapi writers#bookblr#memoir#creative nonfiction#books books books#jer reader mode#jer brain dumps
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So I’ve begun plotting my first serious novel draft and I’m so excited because I realized my stories can be about whatever I want it to. I have the power to take characters on a journey and let them live unique and interesting lives. I can write in as many seals as I want because they’re my favorite animal. I can base the cultural foods of my world off of my knowledge of different dishes around the world and no one will know where I got my ideas from! Fellow writers, don’t forget that your creative powers are the magic that brings your book to life! Don’t give up on whatever weird, crazy or silly ideas you have!
#worldbuilding#book writing#fantasy#science fiction#writer#writing#writer's block#writer advice#books#stories#novel#draft#aapi authors#creative#fiction#nonfiction
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Quote of the Day - May 27, 2025
#AAPI Authors#APPI Authors#Art#Asian American#Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month#Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month#Create in Defiance#Creativity#Humble#Inspiration#inspirational#Life#Love Trumps Hate#Maxine Hong Kingston#Quote of the Day#Quotes#writing
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Join us for the grand finale of Asia North 2025 with SilverSity, a multicultural music trio whose masterful blend of diverse backgrounds creates a unique pop music experience. Tyler Phimphahn (main rapper), a first-generation Thai and Lao American; Ahn Caintic (lead vocalist), a Filipino immigrant; and David Davon (lead guitarist), a multi-generational African American Baltimorean celebrate unity in diversity with electrifying music that transcends borders.
Closing Event
Asia North 2025
Saturday, May 31, 5-8:30 pm
16 W. North Ave., Motor House, Club Car, Currency Studio
Celebrate the conclusion of Asia North 2025. Congratulate the artists featured in EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. Enjoy performances by Chinese guqin player Ilsa Yin, Hon Jao Violin, inspiring The Fictionals, and close out the party with Indie-Pop-Funk band SilverSity. Hosted by Momo Nakamura. Curated by Eva Barrie.
5:00 p.m.
Exhibit opens at the 16 W. North Avenue, Club Car, Currency Studio, and Motor House
6:00p.m. Welcoming remarks at the Motor House
6:15 p.m. Performance by Dr. Ilsa Xiaoshan Yin at the Motor House
6:40 p.m. Performance by Hon Jao Violin at the Motor House
7:05 p.m. Performance by Fictionals at the Motor House
7:25 p.m. Performance by SilverSity at the Motor House
#asianartsandculturecenter#towsonuniversity#asian art#aapi#baltimore#dmv#creativity#unity#diversity#music
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Maysia 2024 Week 2: Dragon by @maysia-art-share
Lạc Long Quân
The Dragon King of Lạc. Mighty warrior who slayed the Ngư Tinh (Demon Fish), Hồ Tinh (Fox Spirit), and Tree Demon. One of the progenitors of the Vietnamese people.
#maysia#maysia 2024#aapi heritage month#vietnam#dragons#vietnamese mythology#lạc long quân#he's different from his usual depictions bc this is an alternate version of him from a steampunk fantasy story I'm working on#the armor isn't historically accurate bc it's not supposed to be. it's a fantasy world#i haven't found any stories where he actually wields Thuận Thiên so I'm taking creative liberties#moonlight & mist#id in alt#my art#this drawing took me about 8 hours. I know this from the lengths of the audiobooks I listened to while drawing
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Leo Sanders x Sophie Chen-Parker
“She was sunshine, I was midnight rain.”
- Choosing Chopsticks
#moodboard#creative writing#aapi representation#love story#grumpy sunshine trope#original story#original character#adoption#adoptee
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https://porterhousereview.org/articles/adoption-vs-appropriation-writing-as-an-asian-adoptee/
Thank you so much to Porter House Review for publishing my essay "Adoption vs. Appropriation: Writing as an Asian Adoptee."
#porter house review#essays#i slipped in a memory of being a teenager on tumblr#adoption#cultural apropriation#apropriation#transracial adoption#asian american#aapi#creative nonfiction#jqcwrites#writing
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At some point during the past several years, so many Pride celebrations turned into a corporate affair. While marching in parades alongside nonprofits providing life-saving health care for queer people, we’d also see floats paid for by banks, fast food chains and petroleum companies. To some queer people, this feels like progress — or at least a belief that the LGBTQ community’s mainstream visibility would equate to permanent protections.
This year, however, something’s changed. Corporations such as Target, Comcast and Mastercard have pulled out of Pride celebrations around the country, citing “shifts in priorities.” Given this administration’s blatant rejection of diversity, we know what that means.
If there’s a lesson to be learned from these pivots, it’s that corporate and state-sponsored Pride is fragile, simply because whoever is in power changes every few years. We now live in a country where the majority of voters chose a president who holds staunchly anti-trans views, and where it’s become financially risky to publicly support queer people.
These changes have made something click for me: We must root the future of Pride celebrations in communities that have resistance ingrained in their DNA, and divest from our desire to be “celebrated” by corporate America. Sometimes, that means searching in places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. At the end of May, San Francisco’s Chinatown quietly threw its first ever Pride celebration, which asserted the neighborhood’s long standing history of resistance.
When I first heard that a Pride celebration was going to be organized at a Chinatown, I was admittedly surprised. To me, Chinatowns have always been places of cultural and familial comfort. It’s where my mom would go to buy groceries for a Lunar New Year potluck, where I’d get cheap haircuts as a college student or chat with the aunties while they played mahjong. They were never places where I felt I could bring or express my queerness openly, well aware of my elders’ reverence toward the nuclear family.
At Chinatown Pride, I learned that the true history of most American Chinatowns are deeply radical. San Francisco’s Chinatown, for example, has always been at odds with the world around it. In the mid-1800s, hundreds of Chinese migrants went to California in search of opportunities, where they found jobs in railroads and factories. There, they faced xenophobic hate ― even lynchings.
San Francisco was a haven for Chinese workers, but even in that liberal city, there were restrictions on where Chinese people could rent property, leading to the creation of a Chinatown. As San Francisco grew, developers tried to destroy Chinatown to make way for real estate, and cited concerns about the neighborhood being a site of moral corruption and filth.
Chinatowns have always existed in their own world within Western cities, and have provided fertile grounds for radical and creative underground communities. Those communities are still very much alive today. This year’s celebration was organized by several key players involved in preserving San Francisco’s Chinatown and its history, including Edge on the Square, an art hub that celebrates local artists; GAPA, an organization that uplifts queer Asians; and the Rice Roquettes, an AAPI drag trope.
On May 24, a small crowd congregated in front of Edge on the Square. Among them were drag queens in kimonos, activists dressed in fabulously colorful suits, and politicians. The theme of the event was “We are Immortal,” a rallying cry tying us to our ancestors’ fight for visibility.
“We are in San Francisco Chinatown embracing diversity when the goons in the White House are trying to erase it,” said Danny Sauter, who serves as member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in District 3, where Chinatown is located. “It sends a message throughout this country for those who need it most, those who need the love, to know that they belong in San Francisco and in this country.”
It sent reverberations of 2020’s activism, a time when many of us were filled with hope that America could actually change and reckon with its difficult past. And while that was a pipe dream, this rally provided a view of what once was and what could potentially be again.
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Inside ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ the revolutionary robot musical that has Broadway audiences aglow
A line in “Maybe Happy Ending” describes the lives of fireflies, the once-ubiquitous insects that magically produce their own light. “They only live for two months. But what a beautiful two months.” The same was nearly said of the stage show itself. Of all the new musicals debuting on Broadway this season, “Maybe Happy Ending” is the sole entry not based on true events, archival music or any other existing material, which made it a box office underdog when it opened last November. Its unabashed originality has since become its biggest boon. Set in Seoul circa 2064, the one-act adventure centers on two retired Helperbots who set aside their solitude and head to Jeju Island; Oliver, optimistic by design, hopes to reunite with his former owner, and Claire, cynical from experience, wants to witness the fireflies’ glow before her own obsoletion. Along the way, these robots fall in love, their narrative needle dropped by jazz standards of a bygone era. This intimate spectacle — already a hit title in Asia for years, before the isolation of the pandemic and the existential threat of AI — is a singular exploration of human connection and the beauty of being alive, even though the only living thing in their apartments is a potted plant named HwaBoon. The Times spoke separately with members of the musical’s cast and creative team about developing the standout show in Asia, witnessing its remarkable rise to Broadway acclaim and pulling off an ending that fascinates audiences to the tune of repeat viewing.



[HQ] Marcus Choi, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Darren Criss of the Broadway musical “Maybe Happy Ending,” photographed at the Belasco Theater in New York. (Photo by Justin Jun Lee / For The Times)
Darren Criss (actor, Oliver): Let’s call a spade a spade here — I’m the white-passing Asian of our group, but it is my identity. The AAPI community in the arts is a smaller, if not marginalized, group, so to be up there, I feel that excitement and encouragement from the community at large. It’s important, and I hope this show can continue to have that legacy and be an inspiring call to action in other artistic spheres.
Criss: After a few previews, we noticed that audiences had conflicting ideas about the ending and would ask us for answers. We told Michael, and he said defiantly, “No, that’s not the play we’re doing. This is what happens, make sure you tell that story.” Shy of any eye flutters, we’re doing that same directive every night.
Criss: Even though we’re trying to be definitive, people want to see things and need the ending to be one way or the other, maybe because of taste or life experiences. It just speaks to the investment people put into these characters and the story.
#darren criss#los angeles times#helen j shen#hwaboon#will aronson#michael arden#hue park#dez duron#marcus choi#clint ramos#justin scribner#dane laffrey#george reeves#ben stanton#maybe happy ending#maybe happy ending bway#press#photos#march 2025
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*holding my hands out aggressively*
GIVE ME THE HEADCANONS
Please I am so content starved it is not even funny, I want the hight school headcanons PLEASE
I love all of them but it I had to chose for only a few I would say gimme Chip and Leaf please
Also I like that one fic u have with Logainne, and Chip, and Leaf, it's really awesome, I'm that one person who commented begging you to please continue the fic and not drop it
K that's it, hope u have a good day byeeeeee
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hi!!! tysm for asking here's highschool headcanons for chip and leaf! ((and sorry it took a while) 🙏🙏 ALSO im so glad u like the fic i will try to finish it but it might be a little while #busybee
in this au they all are in similar grades bc i thought abt trying to make it work in canon but it just doesn't rip
chip tolentino
- goes to highschool with marcy, leaf, and marigold
- yes he is incredibly tortured by seeing her all the time lol
- in his freshman year he had a random slump and kind of just did nothing and sulked around all the time (post child boy scout burnout/gifted kid burnout)
- like his grades were... whatever but he didn't talk to anyone and didn't do any extra curriculars
- his parents got tired of him being so suddenly lethargic-teenager so they made him join track
- he's actually really good at it, and eventually (not freshman year but eventually) he's semipopular in an awkward way where people know him but he doesn't TALK to all those people
- does really embarrassing dares with his track teammates. He's not necessarily pressured so much as he gets really into it in the moment LOL
- i put this in the fic but he ran into leaf at a club fair and they hang out now lol
- and leaf hangs out with logainne so he started hanging out with logainne
- and he has some classes with marcy and they were both in a school-rut so they bonded
- wasn't for a while that leaf naturally got the whole spelling bee group hanging out together but that was incredibly weird for chip ... bc... it's kind of weird in general
- especially hanging with barfee but they make up and they're homies (who play argue and play brawl)
- had to do a creative writing unit and discovered he's really good at that too but he's kinda embarrassed about it
- he likes like typical story writing and also nostalgic poems but he's even more embarrassed about that
- he and olive once made eye contact at a creative writing contest he went to without telling anyone and now she wards his secret
- one summer marcy got really into skateboarding and chip tried it out too to be supportive but he ate shit every. Single. time.
- chip learned to drive his junior year and really wanted a sports car but he got a shitty hand me down dad car
- one time marcy called him like "hey can you pick me up" nd he was like "from where" and she's like. "from san francisco?'
- bro how did u even get there
- he does it anyway tho
- they're like besties and they go on a lot of late night snack missions
- if they watch scary movies he will be screaming and crying and she'll be like "oh my god pay attention"
- has a crush on like every single girl he talks to
- sometimes they overlap with logainne's crushes and it's very awkward, especially bc he listens to her disaster lesbian rants at every sleepover
- he grows a really shitty puberty stache he's very proud of and EVERYONE (minus leaf who is unconditionally supportive) BEGS him to shave it
- his dad sits him down like Son. What are you doing.
- ramen and hotpockets diet (if he wanted to cook he'd be good at it tho)
- also this is just me projecting but he's filipino cuz i say so (and my word is law bc it's AAPI month /j)
- 5'5 forever... he constantly prays it'll change
- is really good at dioramas
- goes to school dances to complain in the corner the whole time about the music and the food
- could be misconstrued as mysterious but he's just awkward
- most indecisive person of all time and makes it everyone else's problem
leaf coneybear
- not ALL of his siblings made the switch to public school for high school but some did, including marigold (and pinecone who is older than them)
- it was a hard switch but it doesn't take long to find his crowd bc he's a naturally charismatic person
- his crowd is theater kids. he really loves improv and straight plays, he loves musicals too but he doesn't have great rhythm LOL
- he also LOVES helping make costumes, and in junior/senior year he's on the board
- still likes to make some of his own clothes
- was always tall for his age but had a growth spurt before freshman year and he's like. 6'1 LOL he's a stringbean
- sneaks both his cats and logainne into his school
- yes admin is tired but damn are his cats cute
- logainne is his best friend for literal life they are inseparable and will find any reason to hang out
- kind of an energy drink addict (they're not allowed in his house but he WILL drink too many anywhere else if u don't watch out and then crash and feel sick)
- (sidenote he HAS calmed down some but he can still be distractable and is still rlly high energy. Some days he takes to just completely slow down and veg out tho which is nice) (like pretty much he just won't stomp around and roar or whatever in the middle of sentences like in im not that smart 😭)
- on the complete opposite end of that he's also an organic fruit smoothie addict
- he also loves to bake and he's REALLY good at it but his younger siblings aren't allowed sugar so he will spontaneously get a bunch of ingredients and then show up at his friends' houses late at night to borrow their kitchen
- he tries to "spread the love" by doing this equally at all his friends places
- olive is his #1 baking buddy tho!
- also speaking of siblings he's the best older brother ever and he doesnt really like to be home but he'll spend time with his siblings
- .... his parents just keep havin babies
- anyway he's not as good at cooking bc it bores him so he'll get distracted and let things burn whoops
- tons of sleepovers at logainnes he's like a son to her dads
- gets a giant van to drive all his friends around in, it's decked out
- fixes holes in his friends clothes
- they all have a million friendship bracelets bc he just gets sappy and makes more or forgets he made one
- keeps everything ever given to him
- loves interactive science museums where u get to touch stuff more than ANYYYYTHIIIING. He will get lost in the dino bones
- and loves nature and hikes but mainly to look at bugs
- is the king of poster projects in class
- wasn't allowed to watch horror movies as a kid so logainne showed him some classic his freshman year and he literally couldn't sleep for a week but now he likes them, just mostly the campy stuff
- so stuff like little shop, rocky horror, r his the musicals bc it's cheesy campy horror AND theater!
- also first got social media like freshman/sophomore year and he just posts poorly taken pictures and occasionally answers his friends dms
- junior year on, a good amount of his theater peers develop like silly little crushes on him but he's completely oblivious and chip is just so jealous bc he gets no bitches
- he's the glue of the 25th annual kids bc he sort of just naturally started hanging out w them individually again and was like Oh shit why don't we all just hang out
- he is the only person marcy will cuddle
- (on that note he's the group teddy bear)
#again sorry this took so long i am uh. my plate is stacked asf#chip tolentino#leaf coneybear#25apcsb#25th annual putnam county spelling bee#headcanons#idk what to tag this#idk if I wrote equal amounts#meh#anywyay#i have like notes of headcanons for more characters too lol#didnt wanna put it all in one post and have it be super long lol
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Another one finished! I'm quite proud that I can now switch my brain to focus when I'm listening to audiobooks. Just two years ago, that wouldn't have been possible because I felt so scattered. This feels like a good step. I think the ability to choose the reading speed has really helped. Instead of listening to this book for 11+ hours, I was able to finish the book (and still follow along) in 6 hours and 27 minutes.
This book is a traditional memoir in which I mean it's chronological, starting from her mother's time and her mother's life for a couple of chapters to explain why her mother is the way she is before transitioning into Putsata's life as a child, teen, and adult. I mentioned in another post, but I didn't know much about Khmer Americans. I knew a bit about the Killing Fields and the genocide, but not much about their lives afterward or their lives in the United States. Just as I started this book, I was reminded by a friend about how this year is the 50th anniversary of wars ending in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It's quite an important year for Southeast Asian Americans.
This book reminded me of that not-so-distant past for my people and SEA Americans, the differences, but also the similarities. Putsata felt survivor's guilt over all the ones who died in the Killing Fields. I can't speak for other Hmong, but I definitely used to panic over the fact that my family and I are alive whereas many Hmong perished in the Secret Hmong. The guilt was there. And I understood the mindset of Putsata's Ma, even if I disagree.
I think this book really came together for me in the second half, in which the rupture between Put and her Ma occurred. I am interested in that kind of moment: Where do you go from that breaking? How do you heal? How do you reconcile? If your mother won't recognize all of you, how do you share joys and woes? These themes and questions resonated with me, as someone who have gone against my own culture...
The final chapters were a great way to end the book: a reflection on grace, on recognizing the flaws, the hurt, but also the good, the beautiful. The last line and those last few words took my breath away. Love, love that ending.
#memoir#creative nonfiction#bookblr#ma and me#ma and me by putsata reang#asian writers#aapi writers#putsata reang#jer reader mode#reading#final thoughts
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I'm no longer in need of back up money, so commissions aren't needed, but if you ever want to commission me, I'm usually open. I also occasionally put some of my art on redbubble.
Please read Boundaries before sending an ask.
Anyways, hello everyone, I am too lazy to find my old crack DID pride flag (it'll come up some day and I'll link it here), and I figured I should slowly update some of my intro stuff for this blog after not touching it for a fucking minute.
You can call me Feathers - we're a 21+ year old Buddhist mixed-AAPI intersex nonbinary system (they/them) that is fully fused. There's a lot of oddities going on with our system so here is a bit of an explanation of our system situation here. "So what's up with the Feathers anyways?"
OUT OF DATE (5/15/2014); Keeping for it being an interesting post. For the most recent discussion on Buddhism, Full Integration, Final Fusion, and Functional Multiplicity written by our fully fused self before our recent decision to swap back to Functional Mulitiplicity, feel free to read here; it's long but a pretty cohesive understanding of our current experiences with our DID and shit. (End of OUT OF DATE note)
We're diagnosed with DID, C-PTSD, autism, trichotillomania, OCD, and honestly a number of things cause complex-trauma life. We have some physical disabilities but nothing that typically causes too much obstruction in our day to day.
As a result of our state of recovery, we really don't have a set headcount, however we were / are polyfragmented.
Some fun things about us and things you'll see on this blog:
Due to the fact that DID is no longer really that much of an interesting topic / impactful part of our life, we only occasionally post about DID and our experiences with it. While it was the original purpose of this blog, as a depiction of our healing journey and what healing with DID can look like, we decided we would rather just post about whatever sparks joy in our life. As a result, rather than much content on DID, you will likely see things relating to the topics below. PLEASE feel free to send asks about ANY of the topics below. We love to talk about things.
We are Buddhist (primarily non-theistic; mostly non-denominational, largely Zen) and we really enjoy it. We particularly like the philosophy and do practice it. Admittedly, we identify as being god awful Buddhists, but thats okay cause its part of the process.
We love research and plan to go into it when our ducks are better aligned. We particularly love research and literature around developmental psychopathology, trauma, dissociation, animal behavior, and the more abstract neuroscience topics (particularly consciousness research). We likely won't post much on it as overtly here because I don't enjoy talking science on tumblr much because most people (in my experience) don't actually want to talk about research as much as they want to prove their point.
We are avid bird watchers and regularly document / photograph the birds we see and upload them to ebird. We really enjoy it as an activity and social engagement and really love sharing that joy and knowledge with people. We actually have a minor in Avian Science and have been tested on North American ID skills. We also know more than we need to about chicken biology as a result of said degree. If you want to send anything about birds, bird watching, or asking for a bird ID (even non North American), they are ALWAYS welcome and you are ALWAYS allowed to tag us in any bird related content.
We do a lot of creative work and have dedicated ourselves (without writing partner) to a large story world project that we've been writing for over a decade now. We actually specifically started grinding our art skills in 2020 specifically just to help build that world up. Art is one of our largest self soothing coping mechanisms. We are going to turn that story world into a comic and a TTRPG system so please check out @thedevaaffliction.
Overall, we really just like thinking about a lot of topics and things as part of both our interest in research, philosophy, and as part of our Buddhist practice. We don't really find an interest in arguing discourse / syscourse because we really dislike and see very little benefit in debate. That said, we love to discuss experiences, thoughts, feelings and perspectives on complex topics and as long as the intent is to discuss and share rather than to "win" or "prove", we really enjoy that sort of enrichment in our life so we do welcome it. That said, we withhold the right to deem any conversation as more debate than discussion and to abandon it.
Additionally, related to the fifth point, we believe in being fully transparent about our past and admission that we were wrong as we think it is very important to be able to re-evaluate your beliefs and opinions and grow. In our mid teens we actually were pretty far into the alt-right pipeline and until about a year or so ago, we were staunch anti-endos. These days we are basically commies and very pro-endo. If anyone has any interest on how we pivoted so hard in our opinions on those topics, we are more than open to talk and discuss it as well as any insights we pulled from the experience.
Also we love martial arts - I forgot that cause I'm not particularly XIV brained rn but we REALLY enjoy martial arts.
We suck at being labeled and having labels. We're just very very queer.
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DNI:
People who put on their socks/shoes in the order of Sock-Shoe-Sock-Shoe
That's about it. We liberally block, so we don't really worry about DNIs. If we don't like your content for any reason, we will remove it from our dash. Whether or not you want to interact with us is up to you past that point. Generally, we welcome anyone to follow as it can make for good conversation.
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There was an AAPI BMC???
Okay so there’s 2 answers to this!
Thought not AAPI specifically, there was a Japanese production of Be More Chill and there were specific performances of Be More Chill Broadway that were important in terms of AAPI representation on Broadway.
For the Japanese production, it was an official production of the show in Japan with the same creative team as Broadway and London. It was almost entirely in Japanese and used the 4.0 script from the London run. It had an entirely Japanese cast.
Be More Chill has 4 leads, Jeremy, Michael, Christine and the SQUIP. During its Broadway run, 3/4 of those were usually played by actors of AAPI descent (George Salazar, Stephanie Hsu, and Jason Tam). Then one performance when Troy Iwata, another AAPI actor, went on as the understudy for Jeremy, Be More Chill became the first show on Broadway, that was not specifically about being Asian, that had all 4 of its leads be played by actors of AAPI descent (if the specifics of this are wrong someone please correct me).


Playbill article
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Fictionals is DMV’s very own Jess Trúc My: a musician, political educator, and activist. They are a founding member and Creative Director of Viet Place Collective (VPC) with the revolutionary vision tending to the intergenerational wounds of a post-war community with creativity at the forefront.
Fictionals embarks on their debut musical project (EP) that uplifts the stories and dreams of a double-displaced diaspora while stitching together the loose threads of oppressed peoples around the world who must unlearn the dominant narratives of imperial history.
Catch their performance at the Asia North 2025 closing event at the Motor House on May 31.
Closing Event
Asia North 2025
Saturday, May 31, 5-8:30 pm
16 W. North Ave., Motor House, Club Car, Currency Studio
Celebrate the conclusion of Asia North 2025. Congratulate the artists featured in EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS. Enjoy performances by Chinese guqin player Ilsa Yin, inspiring music from The Fictionals, party with Indie-Pop-Funk band SilverSity, and close out the evening with uplifting music by Hon Jao Violin. Hosted by Momo Nakamura. Curated by Eva Barrie.
5:00 p.m.
Exhibit opens at the 16 W. North Avenue, Club Car, Currency Studio, and Motor House
6:00p.m. Welcoming remarks at the Motor House
6:15 p.m. Performance by Dr. Ilsa Xiaoshan Yin at the Motor House
6:40 p.m. Performance by Hon Jao Violin at the Motor House
7:05 p.m. Performance by Fictionals at the Motor House
7:25 p.m. Performance by SilverSity at the Motor House
#asianartsandculturecenter#towsonuniversity#asian art#aapi#baltimore#dmv#music#musicwithmeaning#diaspora#creative#healing
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