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i think we should start openly mocking male creatives who can't figure out how to write women. like actually i think it's embarrassing that it took elliot page transitioning for christopher nolan to give him a good role. why did it take like ten years to get the first female lead in a marvel movie? why is it a Known Fact that stephen king can't write women? why is 50% of the population omitted from large ensemble works? i asked my friend to name a movie directed by a man with a majority female cast and he said ghostbusters 2016. ghostbusters. ghostbusters. g
What makes it much more worse is that you hear interviews from these directors and authors who detail the great lengths they went to understand a new culture, concept etc or even get into the heads space of the characters they are creating. But apparently canât turn around and do the same to write women. Itâs not that they canât, clearly, itâs more on the lines of âwhy?â And âI donât careâ.
And itâs much easier to say âI canât write womenâ then to accept any valid criticism about their lacking efforts
âI donât like this expression âFirst World problems.â It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesnât disappear just because youâre black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Hereâs a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.â
It is actually unforgivable to me that Kishimoto never holds Konoha accountable for the oppression and extinction of the Uchiha clan. There are ZERO narrative consequences - and worse, he has several "good guy" characters call Itachi heroic for carrying it out. Kishimoto doesn't even bother to invent an in-universe justification for it, it's literally only "if you take action against your oppressors, the state is allowed to slaughter your entire ethnic group". (There's no actual justification for genocide btw.) And then fandom eats it up unquestionably. What the actual fuck.
Iâm not that fond of the notion that Kaeyaâs bad with feelings or emotionally unintelligent, because everything weâve seen of him has said otherwise.
Heâs very in tune with the feelings and emotions and others and considers their needs well, and he is quite aware of his own feelings, vices and turmoil - itâs just that he has a sense of fatalism that he mostly just applies to himself because, well, the rules of the world he exists in stereotyped and villainized his people, and his family lineage specifically, over 500 years ago to the point everything in that system pointed to him being a terrible person. Not only that, but the environment he was in and the people he was with did very little, if anything to contradict that message. Heâs a decent person who got dealt an awful hand in life (you ever tried playing poker with only the 3-10 number cards and only oneâs a spade? Like that), particularly during some of the biggest developmental periods, childhood + young adulthood, that heâs barely out of. Even so, from what weâve seen of him, heâs rarely, if ever truly considered anyone else a lost cause, even if theyâve wronged him in some way.
You can see it in how, despite everything heâs seen and what stemmed from his own childhood, he still goes out of his way to make sure kids in the present time donât lose theirs. How he helps cover for people who had dark pasts and are trying to break free, like Jilliana, without thanks or even the other party knowing. He even looks out for a guy who fumbles all the time, like Captain Wu, despite struggling to remember who he was when they met up again during Kaeyaâs hangout. Heâs even shown hanging out with and getting to know people like Reckless Pallad on a more personal level, such as having drinks with them on his off time. Itâs usually vulnerable people, like the elderly, who have the best things to say about him. You donât have to be one of the âchosen onesâ by the system or someone who proved their goodness through vibes (TM) or hard work for Kaeya to want to look out for you, even if he peppers it in sarcasm he actually shows up when you need it. He also has a lot of markings that require a ton of critical thought and tact in the emotional/social department: accountability, the ability to be criticized even by his own friends and family, being able to improve on his behavior when called out on it, and how he always tries to prioritize what the other party has to say rather than just assuming he knows best or overriding their consent (which, ironically, is a trait that keeps popping up in the characters Hoyo and the fandom keep propping up as the nicest and most emotionally intelligentâŚtake some time to really think about that one). He also didnât instantly trust in an upbringing that involved making his identity revolve around being good because some legacy or godly values said so. All of those things require a lot of thought and care put into navigating and understanding your own/othersâ feelings or circumstances, and being able to rein them in. Kaeya is, by no means, an emotionally unintelligent character towards others.
Now, as for towards himself, I just want to tackle this common conclusion the fandom often jumps to about Kaeya: no, his fatalism towards himself is not a sign of stupidity or an inability to see whatâs good for him. Out of all the ways Kaeyaâs been interpreted by the fandom in all these years, this is the one I despise the absolute most, mainly because it involves a lot of harmful, unexamined biases and has that overarching issue of prioritizing how Kaeyaâs issues are inconvenient to other (white) charactersâ feelings without thinking about how heâs affected by them.
Iâve said this before, but Kaeya can, and does see how he can be loved by others. He even makes it clear in multiple branches of his Hangouts, such as when he tells the theater troupe that he has friends and family in Mondstadt waiting for him, when he assures Adelinde that heâll be fine because heâs met a lot of good people outside the Winery, when he makes a big speech about doing a coin toss to decide whether Captain Wu would be his friend only to not go through with it, and he reminisces on his times with Crepus, Diluc, and the Winery pretty positively even if it pains him to remember sometimes. He even wonders if his father left him in Mondstadt to protect him instead of assuming the worst in the Caribert quest. Heâs aware of the love people have shown him in the past and present. Unfortunately, and especially with the specific circumstances heâs been through, thatâs not the same as being assured in its authenticity. Nor does being loved in such a way necessarily translate into being trusted, valued, or safe.
To him, it doesnât matter whether he sees the love they have for him - because even if that love and admiration wasnât faked, it never stopped them from leaving, giving up on him in some way, treating him noticeably different from others or peppering it with unsavory remarks. And most of all, it could be rescinded at any time, particularly if anything involving his past or roots with Khaenriâah were involved, or if he couldnât be what others wanted (see why only ever praising Kaeya for what he can do for others isnât enough to prove to him that heâs soooo loved?)
He seems to be aware that his birth father held genuine affection for him, but that didnât stop him from leaving, now did it?
He doesnât doubt the love Crepus and Diluc gave him in the past. Trouble is, that love was not only instantly rescinded from him and still in disrepair even now, but Crepus didnât get the same treatment despite also lying and keeping secrets for much more selfish reasons, and likely as long as Kaeya hid his from the wineryâs inhabitants.
âBut when will he get it through his thick skull that the knights care and that he can open up to them!!â Except Amber instantly rescinded her helpfulness and started assuming the worst of him when he said ânoâ to her help once, and never got called out for it or asked to respect his boundaries. Except Jean also chides him for his bad decisions and tendencies to work alone while not only not speaking up against othersâ boundary-crossing behavior, but tends to be a lot more easygoing towards other knights for acting similarly or worse (*cough* Albedo in Paralogism *cough*). Except that the only time they really talk positively about him, itâs about what he can do for them (and in Lohenâs case, it feels like a backhanded compliment). And letâs not forget how everyone condemns laziness, shiftiness and has shown disdain or pressure towards him for his behaviorâŚonly for Varka to show up behaving exactly like the kind of behavior they condemn but worse than anything Kaeyaâs ever shown, but itâs okay because Varkaâs soooo amazing! No oneâs going to call him out because heâs the overly worshipped Grand Master!
Then thereâs how the Hexenzirkel are in contact with basically everyone else in Mondstadt for one reason or another, but canât be bothered with him.
Even other Khaenriâahns, like Dainsleif, are quick to be wary of him and point out his connection to his ill-reputed family name (while completely leaving out their own family membersâ involvement in the matter). In front of his own friends, no less.
Thatâs not even getting to how the Traveler will condemn his behavior and even treat him like heâs one of the most immature people theyâve ever met, only to be perfectly fine with similar or worse behavior from the rest of MondstadtâŚand is even okay with cracking jokes about spiking his drink (as recently as Nod-Krai) or not even considering him for relevant conversations such as about Chlothar and Caribert Alberich, Irmin, or Crepus.
That aside, a lot of the characters above have also been heavily worshipping the system that doomed his homeland and treated his people like there was something wrong with them for deviating from it. Crepus and Dilucâs reverence of Visions and their Archon, The Knights, church and citizenry of Mondstadt not being all that differentâŚnone of them have been checked on that notion, not even by the Traveler despite everything theyâve learned about Celestia and the fake skies during their journey. Even if theyâre nice about it, combined with his experiences above Kaeyaâs constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, and for good reason. When Kaeya is reluctant to receive this kind of love, itâs not stupidity or ignorance - itâs clear, logical thinking based on what heâs gotten from the past and what heâs seen of the environment he ended up in.
âŚdo you see the pattern and why itâs insidious to blame Kaeya for being stupid when this is the pattern and experience heâs had with his environment? And not only was he sent messages since he was born that he could never be a good person and his familyâs past will catch up to him, but none of the characters I mentioned above ever pushed back against that notion or stopped feeding into it? The first time I legitimately saw that happen was when Collei showed concern that Kaeya might be perceived as a bad person for playing the Master Thief in Veluriyam Mirage - the first time someone tried to be positive about him in a context other than what he could do for others, and without any jabs or sarcasm plastered in there. It took three years into the game for that to happen, to show concern about Kaeyaâs feelings on something rather than whether heâs affecting, helping or especially inconveniencing everyone else around him. Even if it wasnât the intent, over-focusing on that is one of the most surefire ways to make someone feel burdensome and not want to draw attention to themselves no matter how much theyâre going through. Itâs honestly a miracle that heâs still got so much unconditional love in him, and that he hasnât lost faith in humanity altogether.
Maybe stop and think about why Kaeyaâs always automatically seen and presented as the problem in these situations, while the system and environment that made him constantly alert for the other shoe dropping can never be challenged or criticized. Iâd like to see more content where he isnât blamed for the failings of a system that wrote revisionist history in Teyvat, a nation that he moved to for safety reasons where he has to deal with centuries of generational problems that arenât even remotely his fault, or a skewed narrative that didnât tell the entire side of the story for the Alberichs. Heâs not emotionally unintelligent or stupid, quite the opposite really - he needs a break from everyone elseâs unchecked shit. Like, no wonder he ended up with that deep sense of fatalism for himself that lasted for so long - how is he supposed to see things any differently if these are the messages he keeps getting from people and the system that runs the world he lives in???
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you know, it will always look Less authentic for koreans working in korea (yes, even the ones born or raised abroad) to be rapping mostly in english, specifically aave, about their own success or popularity. or just chanting random words or nonsense phrases meant to go viral for a week or two.
hip hop culture and kpop culture are fundamentally at odds because the former champions raw self-expression and the latter is carefully curated to present any given image.
kpop borrows the aesthetics of black music and fashion, especially hip hop, but layers onto it a level of external control and corporate planning that strips it of any similarly unfiltered meaning. this is more insidious the bigger the company behind the group is; billions are poured into this race for relevance by emulating the culture without the melanin.
more insultingly, the industry does this while tripping over its own catch-22 of wanting to capitalize on korean-ness as an othering factor to international audiences (especially korean beauty and skincare) while trying to assimilate to western trends without actually acknowledging any of the black roots.
so nobody should take it seriously when a kpop group or its members -- operating within and on behalf of the world's most rigid and hierarchical corporate music industry -- are strategically marketed as relatable, genuine, struggling underdogs. be serious.
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
⢠infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
⢠youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
⢠only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
⢠manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
⢠journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
⢠even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
The movement, which began as a satirical protest, has evolved into a nationwide challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
Supporters of India's youth-led Cockroach movement said Tuesday they will continue their protest in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them as they tried to march toward Parliament.
Hundreds of protesters camped at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, under heavy police presence, saying they would stay until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures in India's examination system.
"We are going to continue our protest," said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which emerged just two months ago.
The movement, drawing students, professionals and families, marks a rare public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's government in its third term, reviving criticism over its handling of dissent and its use of force to respond to protests. [...]
Sona Bisht, a 20-year-old student who was part of the protest, said the confrontation strengthened her resolve.
"If the government thinks that doing this with Gen Z, they can stop us, then that won't happen. We are here talking about education, talking about securing our future. And till the time our demands are not met, we will not move from here," she said.
"Definitions developed thus far about youth, like the Gen Z narrative, have largely been linked to roles attributed by the dominant system. The rulers have invented a whole range of terms â rebellious, irresponsible, apolitical, extremist, consumerist â not to understand youth, but to neutralize it. They know as well as we do that whoever wins over the youth wins over society. [...] Thus the question is not whether youth is powerful, but in whose interest this power is directed. Todayâs uprisings â such as those in Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, and beyond â demonstrate that youth continues to emerge as a decisive actor. Young women like Deniz Ciya have proven this with their lives. These uprisings are not expressions of generational temperament. These âGen Z uprisingsâ are expressions of a social force confronting structural crisis inherent in the current system. [...] Recent youth uprisings â whether in the form of environmental justice protests, labor movements, or uprisings against authoritarian governments â are proof that youth worldwide are not only responding to a set of circumstances; they are consciously and collectively rejecting the narratives that seek to define them. Thus, it is crucial to analyze what transpired, and draw lessons from these uprisings, particularly in the context of building a global youth democratic confederalism. For the power of youth movements is interconnected, despite being geographically distant." â "Beyond "Gen Z": Defending Revolutionary Youth Spirit" by LĂŞgerĂŽn
"The youth in general, and especially the young women, are the spark of every revolution.We canât look at the history and found a revolution without the youth. We are a fundamental factor. We should be aware of this reality, we should take conscience of our historical role. By doing this we will provide ourselves with a plan that will allow us the unity of action and objectives. The Youth should not be condemned to be a slave of the capitalist system. [...] If we reject the labels and mentalities imposed by the system, taking consciousness as Internationalist Youth in a global level and organizing ourselves, is there someone who can stop us?" â "The youth is the spark of every revolution" by LĂŞgerĂŽn.
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I have a theory on why cyno x alhaitham and to a lesser degree tighnari x cyno (as in top tighnari) never really took hold in the greater genshin fandom, despite the initial popularity it enjoyed when sumeru was released, as compared to other alhaitham ships and cynari.
surprise, surprise it all boils down to racism. the fandom doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation when it comes to the treatment and attitudes towards non-white characters. white washing, racist jokes, colorism, general apathy towards them.... if you can name it, it's probably there. while hoyo also has a hand in this, given their treatment of darker characters, the fandom also upholds and reinforces these biases on a large scale.
it is no secret that some fans ascribe dominance and aggression to darker skin tones, whether the character's personality warrants this or not. warrior characters such as cyno or candace are depicted as brutish people whose first course of action is a fight, nevermind the fact that they are both level-headed and mature and definitely try to resolve conflict peacefully. meanwhile characters that are not primarily fighters, such as xinyan, get labeled as loud and overbearing.
in addition to this, any aspect of femininity or "female traits" are divorced from these characters by the sole reason of skin color. female characters like dehya get called masculine and stripped of their femininity, and male characters such as cyno are pushed into a domineering and unfriendly archetype. and while cyno is not a push-over, he is not this "reacher" type person that people make him out to be. he is a playful person who is also emotionally intelligent and generally speaking firm yet gentle. however, in fanon these characters are not allowed express vulnerability, save for love confessions or in sexual scenarios. they are the "tough" ones that save the white character and love them unconditionally. they are the pursuers, who are rarely afforded the same interiority as their white counterparts.
both these racist tendencies culminate in the general distaste of seeing a dark skinned person being submissive in a relationship. this manifests in top/bottom preferences that track across the board, which cannot solely be chalked up to coincidence. it can be seen in ifa/ororon, cyno/tighnari, kaeya/albedo just to name a few.
even when comparing the tagged fics on ao3 for cynari, there are about 300ish where cyno is the tagged top, and around 100ish where tighnari is - and that's just the tagged ones.
this may be conjecture on my part, but i think that a lot of shippers tend to identify with or "project" more on the submissive partner in a ship; which could be due to their own preference or gender. i believe that a lot of people cannot or do not want to empathize with (or relate to) darker skinned characters. and while i am of the opinion that this is mostly subconscious, the aforementioned biases play into their perception of these characters which in turn makes them unfit for projection. its a doom loop which reinforces itself.
this forces the dark-skinned characters into the dominant role while reserving the submissive role for a light-skinned character. In turn this limits the possible romantic constellations characters can be in without disturbing this cookie-cutter model.
something else we need to consider for this conversation is also the general aversion to shipping characters with different models. ever since the beginnings of the genshin fandom this was frowned upon for several reasons (none of which were particularly valid). namely that the shorter model character is a child/minor, that it resembles pedophilic dynamics, or just flat out weird/problematic. people have always gravitated to ships where the character models were the same (if we're pulling out ancient artifacts) e.g. zhongchi, xiaoven or jeanlisa. while there were always other ships like zhongven or zhongxiao, the general consensus was that they were something akin to "problematic".
now this trend has obviously gotten a foothold in the olden days and has not let up ever since. (although a case could be made that its slowly easing up, when considering the popularity of illuga x flins or lohen x varka). in any case, even when shipping a tall and a short character the unspoken rule was that the taller character needs to be the top.
this puts our titular heroes alhaitham and cyno in quite the tough spot. on one hand you have cytham, which is frowned upon because the tall character is bottoming (although it is in line with the racialized perceptions). on the other hand you have haino, which fits the "tall top short bottom" trope, but goes against the racialized perceptions of the characters.
both these cases are sub-optimal to the average genshin shipper. as a result the characters got paired up with other characters that are in line with both these fandom "preferences". alhaitham with kaveh (tallxtall, white bottom (whichever way you spin it)) and cyno with tighnari (shortxshort, white bottom).
this is tragic to the core. their personalities compliment each other well, their development is a classic "rivals to reluctant allies to friends" and their dynamic is entertaining. i truly believe that if cyno and kaveh's models were swapped the popularity of the respective ships would also switch, because its not *just* about the characters, its always deeper than that.
and not just that, these racialized notions people hold are actively limiting their enjoyment in fandom and perpetuate harmful stereotypes, even if they're are unconscious. there are many interesting dynamics that never get explored just because of these "fandom consensuses", and not just through a shipping lens!
and dont even get me started on how it shapes peoples perceptions of characters. it's how dehya is so often called masculine, despite her canonical love for makeup and dresses! how people disregard non-white characters and only care for them in terms of shipping, especially sethos! (they don't even feature him in merch lineups :( )
and im not saying anyone is wrong to ship what they ship, and I'm definitely not calling you racist over it. i just wanted to express my thoughts on this particular matter.
Hey! I only really started genshin recently, like within the last year or two, so I was wondering when/where Alice insulted (I don't know if this is the right word sorry) Kaeya when he told her no. I only know this happened because I like reading your analysis of things.
Was it one of the limited events or a story quest I haven't done yet?
Anyways, I love your analysis of things and how well you word them! Even if it feels like some of the things your talking about goes over my head.
I will acknowledge I have a hard time picking up on implicit racism and sexism, despite being a person of color. It is something I'm trying to figure out how to get better at.
Oh itâs actually in the Teyvat Travel Guide, where Alice talks about wanting to set explosives all over Starsnatch CliffâŚonly for Kaeya to tell her she canât and to stay away from the cliff entirely, and she calls him âthat unctuous Cavalry Captain.â (Unctuous = greasy, unpleasant personality). The guides are also where the stories about the hilichurls and Kujou Sara are from (the latterâs in Vol. 3).
It especially stands out next to Aliceâs track record in other situations - sheâs still quite positive towards Jean for grounding her and her daughter multiple times, she doesnât talk negatively about Lisa when the latter is disturbed by her experiments and wasnât okay with her proposals, and she instantly considers Diluc an honorary son because he was nice to her kid ONCE (whereas Kaeyaâs more of a parent to her than she is at this point and gets no credit for it), etc.
Thanks for reading my stuff and not taking it the wrong way - Iâm mostly deconstructing the biases from a Chinese pov and double standards Iâve noticed, and even then thereâs some I mightâve missed too. Iâd recommend reading analyses by multiple other BIPOC fans, listening and really thinking about why they consider stuff like this a big deal.
I explain that often times women and girls are excluded from stories in favor of a predominantly male cast because the author doesnât value female narrative contributions nor considers them worthy of character development in their own rights independent of the men, so the result isnât uplifting male relationships with romantic intentions, but simply sexist writing in its most basic form.
I will say this. Yall (fandom and media critics) will literally watch shows about terrible white people like Hannibal, Succession, White Lotus etc., and find it in your heart of hearts to empathise and psychoanalyse them. But god forbid yall do the same the moment a Black or Brown character is messy, rude, unlikeable, indecisive, or dare I say, problematic, becos yall will calling for their heads.
Yall can't handle Solomon Baek (or any of the characters really) from Pachinko, yall can't handle Louis De Pointe Du Lac from IWTV, yall can't handle Trinity Santos from The Pitt, yall can't handle Criston Cole from House of the Dragon, yall can't handle Nate Shelley from Ted Lasso, etc
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Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.
"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"
You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.
"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"
The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.
"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
ActionAid India
SEEDS India
GlobalGiving
Raise India (Project Tapan)
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