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so gorgeous.....

looks gorgeous! was planning on swinging by but my partner is sick. alas </3 best of luck though!!!

the poster for Pride and Panels fest by Cynta Camilia. text reads: "Pride in Panels SF Queer Comics Fest! 2026 / Feb 15th 12-5 PM / SF Main Library 100 Larkin St." the illustration is in bright, almost fluorescent colors and shows five chibi figures holding art supplies amongst a jumble of wiggly shapes, symbols and comic panels

printed and sewn fresh for Pride in Panels at the SF Public Library this Sunday! that's why the thread bindings are Valentine's colors (red, pink or black-and-white stripe) haha. i'll be at Table 30 🌁🌈

the cover of DISCOORDINATE zine. it's a collage: the background image is an inverted scan of black lace gloves framing an ink drawing of a disheveled youth in a Lolita style dress and striped stockings sitting with an electric guitar draped with ribbons. the image is mostly black and white except for the title text, which reads "DISCOORDINATE" in a glitchy Matrix-like serif font that is a blue-screen-of-death shade of blue.

a thick stack of zines on a table viewed from the side. the paper is an ivory color and the bindings on the spines are handsewn with threads that vary between red, pink and black-and-white diagonal stripe.

a spread of some of the zine's interior pages, showing fountain pen ink sketches of punk and lolita clothing in emerald green and scarlet.

🎀 DISCOORDINATE 🎀 punk & lolita fashion sketchzine + essay // 32 pages // handsewn binding

the essay i reference is: bao3bei4.tumblr.com/post/6656780...

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.

whoa. a lot of time passed. my humors are totally out of whack everyone. watch out for black bile

i'm still working on my game for what it's worth.... slow but sure.... life is happening but i persist :)

YESSSSSSS THIS IS SO GOOD. i loved reading through this while listening to the song... i'm so glad you made something so cool <333

Post by @thegleampt3 · 15 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · here she is my beloved ugly firstborn daughter... my bingqiu lyric zine set to if you know what's right by her's made for tshirt's first fanwork fest :3 ty for hosting, this rly g…

i made... a fun little bingqiu lyric zine. my beloved ugly firstborn daughter. it's way too many pages for bsky but u can view it on tumblr here : www.tumblr.com/thegleampt3/...

i had so much fun working on this tysm @tshirt.bsky.social for hosting the event !! #firstfanworkfest

DUDE I REMEMBER WHEN YOU LINKED THIS..... KILLER SONG CHOICE

YESSSS which song which ship

i wanted to have a bunch of them… but life conspired otherwise </3

YESSSS bingqiu in motion is something so beautiful... i'd say proof of concept could be fun, like a 2 second gif???

i'm actually making a fangame. not a zine. so i encourage you to write a silly off the cuff threadfic, redraw a meme, and/or try something completely new to you this weekend!!!!!!

okay behold the lyric zine walkthrough..... it breaks everything down to just the necessities to make something for the first time longposter.neocities.org/MY%20FIRST%2... (holding my hand outstretched) would you like to make something with me this weekend?

i want to work on my "shen jiu gets cancelled" simulator/interactive fiction. it's the sequel to my callout fic.... guess i better start pondering a plot for it

trying to work on guided prompts for this... but the only one i had any juice in me for is the "make a lyric zine" step by step one. (already scaling back) what if we just all promised to try to make something new tomorrow

what if we did this this weekend...... new year new me.....

we both have such good usernames on here btw..... we won the noun game

there was a period where i was like. if i had known i'd stick with this alias so long i would have picked something easier to google. but now i like how common it is.

how easily i could have been jeans.... or sock.

the story behind my username.... well i'm tshirt. i always used pick a random word in my line of sight for each website i signed up for. and it needed to be a common noun that wasn't taken on ao3. i was doing laundry at the time i think

a 3x3 square grid, each square being a crop of a panel from my black and white, mixed media short autobio comic THE PRINCE, published in AMERICAN FUJO Literary Journal in 2025. drawings include elaborate framed portraits and illustrations of Laurent of Vere and Damien of Akielos from CAPTIVE PRINCE, myself as a kid browsing the internet on an old computer with a speech balloon saying "What's 'lemon'?", myself at an anime convention table, myself playing a game of chess against Laurent of Vere and losing spectacularly, a pair of Looney Toons-esque "awooga" eyeballs and a hand holding a whip mid-strike.

ink, pencil and collage comic panels from THE PRINCE (AMERICAN* FUJO* Literary Journal, 2025) 🖤⛓️

YAYYYYYYYY

🥰🥰🥰 tyyyy i think they did a really nice job

omg.... if you prefer to listen to your fic... and if you love moshang.... annapods, fleurrochard, frecklebomb, vorvayne, and thecasualcheesecake recorded "commodity fetishism," my moshang findom fic!!! it's kind of really awesome. archiveofourown.org/works/74913006

HOORAY!!!!!! worldwide american fujo <3

HE MAKES THAT FACE!!!!!

pictured: yuka overdosing on attention (he gets pets and kisses for every yuka zine sold)