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zhengzi · 1 year

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okay i have a lot of unincubated thoughts on kim’s relationship to asian-ness as filtered through my own experiences as a chinese diaspora person navigating both my home country in se asia and also canada for a period of time

also i need more lore on seol, i must flesh out the context of kim’s seolite heritage in proximity to seol’s place within the wider geopolitics and culture

if there are gaps in the lore, i will certainly fill them in myself

#disco elysium #zee.txt #i have to say that the game's depiction of seol as a stand in for east asia is still very much limited #by the fact it was written by predominantly white eastern europeans from what i know of #i could be wrong and feel free to correct me if i am #even seol looking very similar to seoul #and kim's name being an amalgamation of both korean and japanese #leans too much into the common orientalist impulse of white people to treat east asian cultures as interchangeable #especially when we have such complicated political histories #nevertheless i still heavily appreciate kim being an east-asian coded character in the game #and that the anti-asian racism that he frequently encounters is treated very seriously in the game #which i can't say the same for many non-asian media out there

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