Doodles and Thoughts

disclaimer: I am east asian. if anyone who is not white sees anything wrong with my phrasing, inaccuracies, or insensitivity, or something I missed, please feel free to add on. I’m just one person with one perspective; none of what I say should be taken as The Singular way to draw an Asian character. if you havent done so already, please take the effort to expand your view of Asian culture outside this one tutorial.

Image description for the original post and my addition are underneath the read more at the end.

Thank you for reading! Once again, image description for my images and OP’s images are under the cut.

Just like OP, I’m only one single person, so if anyone wants to correct me or add something I missed, then go for it. And further disclaimer, there are exceptions to everything I’ve said in this post, and it only applies to East and Southeast asian people who are either not mixed or white-mixed, as those are the hair types I’m most familiar with.

Edit: AUGH I FORGOT TO mention this but @ everyone in the comments talking about blue eyes on biracial asians, here’s another guide I made that goes over color inheritance for biracial people: https://6480n.tumblr.com/post/633074808569069568/making-this-guide-because-i-see-this-question-time

Are they really going to drop everything that they enjoy and makes them happy once they reach a certain age? Do they really believe they're on a time limit to enjoy fanart and fanfiction and headcanons?

Because I’ve been to comic stores all across the country, and quite a few of them give off the vibe of ‘gross man cave.’ No duh you don’t see women in a place like that. Hell, I’m a dude and I don’t usually like going to stores like that.

And in the 2000s-2010s, I made sure to avoid mentioning being autistic or Hispanic on any comic book forum sites, because I knew I would be bombarded by Mexican slang jokes (even though I’m not Mexican) and the r-slur. So it’s not that non-white, non-male, non-straight comic fans and nerds didn’t exist until the 2010s-2020s. It’s that they stayed the hell away from places that were openly hostile or creepy to them.

Am I onto something or am I just talking out of my ass?

"what do YOU guys call it"

"isn't it [insert time here] over there????"

"GO THE FUCK TO BED"

"good morning" (it's 6pm in your timezone)

"do you have/say [thing] over there"