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WOKE mcr be like:

I brought you my BLUE HAIR you brought me your PRONOUNS

three cheers for VACCINES

the PRIDE parade

Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys

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ID: a cropped panel from the comics of DESTROYA walking. Above is text in all caps reading "tag a mate that does fuck all". end id

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“olfactory memory: referring to the recollection of smells.”

[ID: a three page comic in a limited colour palette of black, white, purple, and yellow:

an unnamed killjoy lights a cigarette with a matchstick, leaving smoke trails. the girl, slightly older than in the music videos, turns to face them and says “hey. ya mind puttin’ that out?” the killjoy raises their eyebrows and replies “sheesh, ya got somethin’ against nic-sticks or what?”

a close-up of the girl’s mouth — she pauses, then says “…nah.” her speech bubble trails off into clouds of smoke, weaving through several objects: a revving motorcycle, a laser gun, bound sticks of dynamite, and, finally, a familiar hand holding a cigarette aloft, clad in a fingerless glove and string of bad luck beads.

purple smoke connects the last page to the previous, drawing the viewer’s eye downwards. on a black background, white text reads: “i just can’t stand the smoke.” the girl’s face is turned away, seemingly emotionless. a single tear drips down her chin. /end ID] 

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i'll find you when the sun goes black

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death is a postal worker,

and my soul is labelled:

fragile, handle with care.

she collects me from the mailbox,

holds me, briefly.

I am hers, briefly.

until I am carried to the scribbled address.

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They’ll be your android girl!!

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jet star saturday it's jet star saturday give it up for jet star saturday

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(the dissertation i mentioned on anon @falloutboycd )

i'm writing this post because i think that a lot of non AAPI fandom bloggers could benefit from reflecting on how they view both asian cultures and asian people.

to start, we have to understand what cultural exports are. a cultural export is defined as "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding". it is most often used to rebrand a country in the wake of propaganda.

in the west specifically, a lot of the largest cultural exports from other countries come from east asia- in forms such as k-pop, j-fashion, idol culture, anime, k-dramas, k-beauty and c-beauty, etc. there also are other notable exports that influence the west's perception of these countries, such as technology.

enjoying these cultural exports isn't inherently bad. enjoying things like anime and kpop isn't cultural appropriation, and it's something that brings together communities around the world. however. the issue arises when people cross the line from "this is a cultural export from this country" to "this is *who* the people from this country are". reducing entire ethnic groups to one component, no matter how "positive" the component is, has far more consequences than people realize.

in essence, it is stereotyping. and it also reduces the perceived humanity of the AAPI community. because these parts of certain cultures are commodified in this way, reducing us as people to these cultural exports carries a heavy risk of commodifying us as *people*. when you as a person and community are perceived as a commodity, people feel like they are entitled to you and your identity. this is seen in stereotypes of asians as submissive and obedient (ESPECIALLY ASIAN WOMEN), and white people essentially playing dress up with being asian (like oli london). it's also seen in stereotypes of us as cold, villainous, and unfeeling (such as the head director of BLI in danger days).

these stereotypes are often a matter of life and death. in the atlanta spa shooting, the shooter confessed that he wanted to "eliminate the temptation" that these asian women represented for him. this is where reducing the AAPI community's humanity ends up.

tying this all back to danger days. we can see where it drew from japanese art and television, but gerard took it too far and ended up dehumanizing asians. and we see this everywhere, in the majority of fandoms, as well as in non fandom interactions. and it needs to fucking stop. because all it does is dehumanize us, and dehumanizing us only causes more violence towards us. it unconsciously feeds into stereotypes, it's the literal definition of orientalism, and it's not okay.

as an aside- i see this also happening with the reduction of chinese people to being the same as the chinese government, which also carries the real world consequences and violence from sinophobia. whether negative stereotypes or ones that seem positive on the surface, reducing a people to one aspect of their country is never acceptable.

if you say dumb bullshit in the replies or tags, you are going to get blocked. i have no bandwidth to deal with white people griping. i am still processing monterrey park and i am weighed down by fear for my family. i will not be nice. i have spent energy explaining this to you in depth, and if you don't want to understand it that's on you.

i also have a post about the person saying they would get the rising sun flag tattooed, here

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ANOTHER fun thing we are missing out on is ofc by this point weve all accepted "tommy chow meins shopfronts are in every zone exactly the same and hes always there no matter which one" like as a weird zones fact its lore to us BUT in comics in i think the first page of doctor death defyings broadcast he does say that to find tommy youd have to go to a specific room in the paradise motel for something. which means. which i am taking to mean like if ur unlucky and miss one of these announcements u could be minding ur own business stumbling about like hyper thrusts or the nest and u open a door and Suddenly you are stood in the middle of tommys (you have to buy something to leave)

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Drew Cherri Cola dead again. It's fine. He likes it.

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Wait, you know that one sexy legs bed sheet ghost post? That, but with the Phoenix Witch

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rocketman

[image description: a digital bust drawing of Jet-Star from Danger Days. Jet faces forward with a determined expression. There are dyed purple and blue streaks in his hair, and several gray streaks in the section of hair that curls over his right eye. He has double lobe piercings and wears a crescent moon necklace, and a black jacket with stars on the lapels. His right eye is obscured with a burst of starlight. The background is dark blue, with stars and constellations. End description.]

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hunter

some trad art

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OMG WHAT A LEGEND

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my girl strange and unusual……my girl the ghost with the most

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fix it au where volume still dies but it's wednesday so the witch just sends him back