so when i do the Autistically Kills You To Death Stare its “strange” and “offputting” and “bad for customer rapport” but when a skinny person with eyeshadow on does it its “trendy” and “the new look”
Tumblr doesn’t have a poll feature so we have to do this the old fashioned way anyway reblog this and put in the tags your sexuality and whether or not you think izzy hands is hot
Anne Rice is dead; everybody go post Vampire Chronicles fanfiction!
I’m only half kidding, and this isn’t just a shitpost - this is a call to arms.
I’m sending you into the world to spread the news, to share that now is the time! go post your Vampire Chronicles fanfic that ff.n and other sites banned back in the day!
we live in a new era - now that both of the anti-fanfic Annes (McCaffrey and Rice) are dead, we can start to rebuild. nature is healing
Summary: Jungkook has a dragon in his pants and he needs
your help taming him. Do you risk getting burned, in more ways than one?
A/N: Hey, do people actually read this part of the
fic? Or do they just skip right down to the good stuff? Do you feel tricked
yet? Great, because now you can buckle yourself in and read about anti-Asian
racism and how white privilege manages to prevail in K-Pop fandoms! People
abuse the tagging system on Tumblr anyway, so I might as well use that to my
advantage since no one cares about the “stop Asian hate” tag anymore.
By the
way, if you’re mad, you’re just proving my point that people only care about
their oppas, but not about Asians who are being affected by hate crimes in
their communities. Let’s get started!
How white privilege
still trickles into places like K-Pop fandoms: observations from an AAPI in the
BTS ARMY
I’m a second-generation Asian American millennial who grew up without much
Asian representation in Western media. Seeing K-Pop’s incredible breakthroughs
gives me both delight that Asians are finally being recognized as respectable
artists and immense anger that fans seem to adore their oppas in Korea, yet
they don’t give a shit about Asian Americans being targeted and killed. I
wanted to share my experiences in the BTS fandom as an AAPI and how I’ve
witnessed white privilege creeping into K-Pop fandoms, which celebrate people
of color.
This lack of compassion is a byproduct of fetishization - taking only the good, surface-level parts of a
culture while completely ignoring the bad. People consider themselves an ally simply because they enjoy
Korean music or dramas or films. So they think that they don’t have a
responsibility to VERY EASILY reblog a post here and there about awareness. That
because they find Asian men attractive, they’re suddenly exempt from
accidentally perpetuating racism. The bar is on the fucking GROUND and
people still manage to dig below the dirt.
Asians
have always been portrayed as exotic or foreign in American TV and film, and this view has been
completely accepted by our society. In recent years, K-Pop artists have had to field the dumbest interview questions by Western media outlets and no one bats
an eyelid. One could argue that oh, the interviewers are just trying to be
respectful because they know things are really different in America. I’m
sorry, but asking “Have you tried In-n-Out yet?” is not breaking any fucking
cultural barriers.
It’s become so
normalized to not take AAPI discrimination seriously because “it’s really not
that bad” or because “Asians just can’t take a joke” or because “Asians are so privileged, they’re basically white (~newsflash~: we aren’t white).” When
people dismiss “smaller” issues with microaggressions and fetishization, they
can then turn around and deny race was a factor in bigger problems, such as not
labeling a mass shooting or a cold-blooded murder anti-Asian hate crimes.
it’s hard to be the coolest cousin who is mentally ill, touch starved, annoying and reads a lot, has the best fashion sense and an unstable obsession with swords, fictional characters and always have the best comebacks, cries a lot, is always yearning and is the family failure but someone has to do it and that someone is me
