absolutely reprehensible behavior

every time i think about overwatch's orientalism i go a lil more insane. 5 japanese characters all of which are tied to a very stereotypical mythologized version of japan. they're some of the few explicitly magical characters. all of them are part of clans and lineages and shit. every map that takes place in japan is an orientalist fairy land with idyllic old looking villages with shrines and gates and cobblestone and zero utility poles in sight. this game is so incredibly racist

what's interesting to me is that no other asian characters get this treatment. mei is a climate scientist or something. diva is a gamer. lifeweaver and symmetra are scientist. something about japan specifically makes the overwatch devs get a boner for the image of a permanently ancient magical other, japanese characters are simply not allowed to be contemporary

thank fucking god someone else was thinking this too

you're arguing that it's a good thing that overwatch stereotypes its characters because it makes it more readable to white racists. get off my fucking post lol

i'm no character designer but i'm fairly sure you can design unique and varied characters of multiple nationalities that stand apart from each other for the purposes of gameplay without diving straight into the valley of racism. what the fuck are these people talking about lol.

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

The Ikea biphobia couch is the funniest thing that's ever happened. We found it gang. Nothing will ever top it in terms of being funny.

The what???

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I don't know what to tell you man.

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

I once called a colleague's Borzoi a beautiful Gentle Alien, assuming the term had long since become commonplace outside of Tumblr, and discovered when he burst into delighted laughter at the term that it Had Not. I had to explain to him that I'm not a comedy genius, just repeating a niche meme.

I saw people say that they won't see Jax as tfem until Goose confirms it and... did people forget how to consume media???? You can't wait for the creator to confirm something about their character if said thing is very obvious in the show itself. People need to stop expecting creators to say anything about their shows, before social media all we had was the show and that's where we got all of our information from. Did people really expect Jax to look at the camera and say "hey, I am a trans woman and my pronouns are she/her". Jax being a woman isn't subtext anymore, it's text but some people are deciding to consciously ignore it. Goose gave us enough proof in the show and you have no right to demand her to confirm something so obvious.

"Do you think that they implied it for fun."

These are the exact same flavor of people with those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers on their Teslas