SULLY

Honestly we should have all known we were in a dangerous global decline as soon as Hollywood struggled to make a new movie about Blade

a stylized 3d render of an office at night. a dog is at a computer and staring at a tempting tennis ball in the foreground.

late night

a drawing of 8 galloping horses, drawn with jagged outlines & stylized in various to mimic distance, printed in a bright red-orange and muted green

year of the horse 🔥🐎 2 color risograph print (moss + fluorescent red)

BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all

"can a boy and a girl have a bromance" yes their name is hector and lyn

YOOOOOO gods work fr. ro is gonna love this

a white crowned robin chat stands atop a book titled “a dumb birds field guide to the worst birds ever”

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅

(this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him)

🧪🌍 #bird #birb

drawing of a red horse carved from stone

oh ya horse year
#art

I saw some whitewashed danmei-inspired fiction a while ago. And obviously it bothered me. But what also bothered me was that I didn’t know quite what to do next. I have mutuals in common with the author. So I was going to ask one of them to privately DM some concerns to the author. But when I sat down to write that message, I realized that I had no clue what I wanted from the interaction. Did I want an apology to the Chinese people at large? Not really, no. I don’t think that would actually do anything. Did I want them to delete their writing in penance? Again, not really. I’m not trying to punish this person. What I really wanted was someone to have said at the onset of that person’s project: “Hey! Could you think this premise and project through a little more?” I want the harm to never have existed. I want fantasies; I want alternative universes. I want something that very self-evidently did not happen. So what now? What I’m really asking is a very simple, very commonly asked question: how do we identify and repair harm? Maybe we can try to think through this together. What was the harm? This is a bit nebulous. The whitewashing upset me, but the reason it’s bad is not because it hurts my feelings, although my earlier writing has attempted to restore this dimension to the conversation. I think the harm is that it is part of a common practice of treating Chinese culture (and other cultures of people of color) as purely aesthetic, apolitical, and disposable. So, how do we fix this? As a writer, I do believe that critique, like the kind I’m writing right now, is an important part of making this dynamic visible and then rejecting it. If whitewashing is allowed to remain invisible and unremarked upon, this both reinforces and naturalizes it. Ideally, I could break down exactly how whitewashing occurred, why it went unremarked upon, and some strategies for avoiding it.

But critique is charged. To be frank, I don’t trust you, the reader of this post. I don’t trust you to be chill about this. I want to be able to have a conversation about whitewashing that doesn’t result in 1) harassment or 2) a lack of reflection from people doing the harassing. I am not drawing a link between anti-racist critique and harassment. I am alluding to a social dynamic that I’ve written on before in my earlier essay “white eyes and chinese looks,” the last time I tried to write about whitewashed danmei-inspired fiction. The problem isn’t that people care too much about anti-racism; the problem is that people care insufficiently about meaningful anti-racism. Anyway. So instead of putting this author on blast, I am writing a gentle reminder to us all to consider how whitewashing may manifest, even in our mutuals’ work. I encourage you to say something to them, if you think you know who this is about. You may be right. You may be wrong. But either way, you have started a conversation about whitewashing in a respectful way that is hopefully more productive than anything I can write to a stranger. And to the author of the story I’m talking about, I don’t have any practical ways for you to rework your story. I think it’s pretty inherently predicated on whitewashing, and I would like you to sit with that.

anyway i came back on here to try to invent the ethical vague.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Once in a while, you luck across a book where something as simple and unique as the narrator’s voice hooks you from the start. This was my experience with Josephine Carson’s 1957 novel, Drives My Green Age, about an orphan girl growing up in 1930s Kansas.

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Priest, and haunting resonance Hyung Min-Woo's unfinished story lingers.

helloooo i've started a substack page! my first post is about a discontinued manhwa that i really like :) glowtoads.substack.com/p/priest-and...

🐶 🎤

#jiangcheng

A screenshot of a portion of the complaint reading as follows: Part I - "Book of Grudges" and Inappropriate Desk Calendar: 4. MDI Zanelli possessed what she termed a "Book of Grudges" in her office, which had the appearance of an ancient leatherbound tome with papyrus pages. 5. The "Book of Grudges" bore an inscription, written by MDJ Zanelli, dated November 22, 2023, which stated, "Upon this day, we shall begin to record within our Book of Grudges." Following the inscription, MDJ Zanelli made notes in the "Book of Grudges," some of which were decipherable and some which were not decipherable. 7. Of the notes that were decipherable, MDJ Zanelli described a local attorney as "Just a Dick," and she made notes that were critical of another person who appeared before her in landlord-tenant matters.

A Pennsylvania Magistrate Judge (our version of a District Court judge) has had a judicial conduct complaint filed against her for, amongst other things, creating an “ancient leather bound tome” with “papyrus pages” that describes, in part, a local lawyer as a dick.

such a sexy screenshot

this is one of my favorite ebay finds btw

Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute

a-yuan is so fucked up and also not that nice (i am saying this with so much love) and that IS all lan wangji's fault but that's because he's like lan wangji (again. saying with love)

more people should make kid ocs for their faves who need therapy from their parents' horrible behaviour. everyone needs to stop pretending blorbo from your shows would be the world's most capable parent if they were that nice and competent you wouldn't be writing all that fanfiction about them

real wangxian fans would know and accept that this is a-yuan (my kid oc i guess)

(two panel, poorly drawn comic) panel 1: ephraim and valter are having a political debate or something. valter says "and that is why i believe we should legalize murder". panel 2: ephraim turns to look at the camera and says "so can we just kill this guy now. you know since he's already-" then gets interrupted by someone saying "Sir you can't say that on live television"

my fire emblem modern au

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

• In his A support with Tana, in the Japanese version Cormag says that he's thinking of disappearing. Strangely, the English version changed this line so Cormag instead says that he's thinking of getting into woodworking.

i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad) get into woodworking

awesome. i love the cradled face... so tender and possessive. awesomeeeee

study with kyosato

Crimson

Kyosato #狂聡 #ファミレス行こ #カラオケ行こ

folding myself into a pretzel and baking at 200°c

i'm in pieces i am losing my mindddd over this man and how badly he Wants but also Cannot he has to let satomi set the parameters now LET ME INTO HIS BRAIN PLEASEEEEEEEEE