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I am a songwriter now, for all the people wondering if I have died

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I just wanted to mention, that the movie was written by Nick Antosca, Sarah Cronwell and Ben Ketai and directed by Jason Zada. I do agree that it is disrespectful to turn something, that still holds a lot of grief for  a lot of people today, into a whitewashed horror movie, I just want to make sure, that you blame the right people. Natalie Dormer is the lead actress, that is right, but she did not write the movie. It is not easy to find work as a female actress, even for someone as well known as Natalie Dromer, because most of the movies that are written just don’t include a lot of poc, female and older than hot 25 year old female characters, who just serve as love interest.  This is not Natalie Dromers fault, but the fault of uncreative writers, lazy directors and just stupid producers who pressure directors and writers to do their bidding, just because they supply them with money.

why i am boycotting natalie dormer’s film, “the forest”

besides the fact that it’s in japan and they whitewashed the film

it romanticizes death, suicide, and the forest

it is a real forest in japan, aokigahara, where people go to commit suicide

suicide in japan is a national crisis. the usa ranks 50th in yearly suicides while japan ranks 17th—an estimated 70 suicides per day.

japan’s rigorous culture of conformity heavily stigmatizes those with mental health issues. many japanese people have grown content with suicide and see it as a reasonable solution. in reality, suicide is an epidemic and is the second leading cause of death in the country.

suicides in the forest are still happening today so it is extremely disrespectful. this isn’t something that happened 400 years ago. it’s been happening for the last 30 years—over 100 bodies are found in aokigahara every year.

ableist erasure of poc with mental health issues—does not mention depression and whitewashes japanese people with depression, making yet another example where poc with mental illnesses are completely invisible.

as someone else said, the model minority myth doesn’t just assume that we (asians) are universally intelligent or rich, it also assumes that we’re able-bodied and don’t suffer from mental illness. NO ONE talks about mental health among asians. NO ONE talks about disabled asians. why? because everyone believes that we’re rich and smart enough to access healthcare. we aren’t.

instead of reaching out and confronting a problem that exists and is on-going, natalie dormer and her hollywood ilk turned it into a horror movie and whitewashed its cast, thus dehumanizing not only asians around the globe affected by mental health, but those who have already committed suicide.

please just don’t watch this fucking film

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A piture taken by my dear friend Paulina in june. The mural in the background was painted by me, the knitting person in the foreground. I had 3 absolutely lovely days in the Cooleen Cottage in westmeath where the picture was taken. No internet nor TV. Just Paulina and me, lyrical FM on the radio, lots of painting,  tea and knitting! If you ever go to Ireland make sure to visit them too! https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/cooleen-cottage

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Some covers made for a contest....

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This is a mural that I made for a friend of mine in the beginning of 2014. :) He did send me the pictures again so I thought I would share them with you <3

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2015 part 2

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2015 part 1

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2014 part 3

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2014 part 2

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2014 part 1

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I decided to upload some of my sketchbook art from the last couple of years. These are all sketches from 2011-2013.

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Okay, something really weird happened to me.

Just a week ago or so I was trying to call a friend of mine, who is in Slovenia right now. She has a german number, so have I, nothing special about that really. But then something weird happened. Instead of getting the normal connection noise I got to listen to 2-3 men! They were talking in english, probably in some kind of british accent. I was way too confused about the occurence itself to actually listen to what they were saying. I kept checking my display. I did NOT call the wrong number, it was not a weird mailbox because my phone said it was still connecting.  And then suddenly the call was canceled completely without me doing anything. When I tried to call my friend again, everything was back to normal and when I asked her about it she did not have a clue. So now I am here, thinking about what happened back then, and how this is basically something that would happen to a main character in the beginning of a movie or book and I just seem to fail at making an exciting adventure out of it. Also I am wondering if it ever happened to anyone else.

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A warm up animation I did today. I got invited for the test of one of the best schools for animation worldwide, so I might do some more practice animations.

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Chiara, this is absolutely stunningly beautiful!

Wip of something