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things have taken a really terrifying turn in sudan over the past few days. it's currently sudan action week to raise awareness to the war and the increasingly desperate situations of both sudanese citizens and refugees. some of the people to follow for updates and news about sudan on twitter (both in sudan and outside)

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The thing is, the people who are most "entitled" to "taking a break" from talking about the atrocities happening daily are the ones who will continue talking about it non-stop, either because we actively live it or because we share similar plights. We cannot afford to look away because we all know liberation and decolonization and anti-racism are goals we all share and strive for, and the suffering of Palestinians is the same as the suffering of every formerly and currently colonized peoples.

Yet the ones who talk about "activism burnout" or "compassion fatigue" or whatever, who only want this to be "over" so they can watch Disney+ again and get their favorite Starbucks TM drink TM, are the ones least impacted by what is happening; globally, but in their own country and even community as well. Imagine living in such a comfortable bubble that your main concern isn't the horrific government-sponsored genocide, but whether or not you can "go back" to your fun daily routines without feeling mild guilt because the corporations you're getting your fun and convenience from are either implicitly or explicitly backing that genocide happening right now.

If you can afford to look away and play pretend you are not only appallingly privileged, you have blood on your hands as surely as the military personnel bombing hospitals do.

some books written by asian authors that you should support because they’re really really good and overshadowed by their white counterparts: 

🏳️‍🌈  means there is queer rep

Out Already: 

- the poppy war series (extremely popular. fantasy based off the Song Dynasty, amoral/morally grey brown asian girl protagonist. i haven’t read this yet but all of my poc mutuals have this as their favorite book of all time. pls read tw warnings. no romance only faint subtext)

- jade city series (another favorite of the poc that i haven’t read. no romance) 

- the bone shard daughter trilogy 🏳️‍🌈  (set on a strand of fantasy islands based on imperial china but has a healthy mix of various asian representation - south asian, southeast asian. queernormative and no patriarchy. main lesbians. one of my favs)

- these violent delights duology  🏳️‍🌈 (a side mlm couple, 1920s gangster shanghai, romeo and juliet retelling. one of my favs)

- warcross duology 🏳️‍🌈 (set in futuristic tokyo. ft. a side mlm couple, sci fi. one of my favs)

- not your sidekick triology 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic superheroes and sidekicks. vietnamese bisexual protag, sci fi)

- girls of paper and fire triology 🏳️‍🌈 (extremely popular, chinese lesbian protag but other asian rep as well, fantasy) 

- parachutes 🏳️‍🌈 (side sapphic couple, read tw warnings, contemporary).

- huntress 🏳️‍🌈 (east asian sapphics)

- last night at the telegraph club 🏳️‍🌈 (chinese lesbian protag. 1900s fiction)

- forest of a thousand laterns (morally grey angry chinese female protag)

- the space between worlds 🏳️‍🌈 (main southeast asian and east asian sapphics, sci fi dystopian. read tw)

- everything i never told you 🏳️‍🌈 (mlm rep. 1900s biracial family deals with the death of their daughter)

- the gilded wolves 🏳️‍🌈 (be gay do crime, indian love interest. historical fantasy)

- the weight of our sky (set in 1960s malaysia. historical fiction)

- spin the dawn (fantasy)

- descendant of the crane (fantasy)

Out In 2021: 

-  she who became the sun 🏳️‍🌈 (one of my most anticipated releases. genderqueer sapphic protag with a sapphic love interest, mlm main characters. set in the ming dynasty of china. the official advertisement is the song of achilles meets the untamed meets mulan)

- jade fire and gold 🏳️‍🌈 (the pitch was “what if katara was the dark avatar and zuko was chasing her down?” main sapphics) 

- the ones we’re meant to find (i literally don’t know what this is about but the cover is gorgeous)

- counting down with you 🏳️‍🌈 (fake dating romcom b/w a south asian brown girl and the bad boy who is a himbo. ft. diverse girl gang so im interpreting that as lgbtq)

- the jasmine throne 🏳️‍🌈 (morally grey lesbians tearing an emperor from his throne/washing each other’s hair/holding sharp-edged knives to each other’s ribs. set in india) 

- gearbreakers 🏳️‍🌈 (cyberpunk japanese sapphics. there is a tender tattooing scene) 

- six crimson cranes (fantasy)

- black water sister 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic malaysian protag, fantasy/sci-fi)

- how we fall apart (dark academia murder mystery thriller but make it asian american)

- you’ve reached sam (contemporary)

- love and other natural disasters 🏳️‍🌈 (sapphic fake dating b/w japanese girls)

- the chosen and the beautiful 🏳️‍🌈 (queer sapphic retelling of the great gatsby)

- hani and ishu’s guide to fake dating 🏳️‍🌈 (south asian sapphics)

one last thing, i realize that a lot of these are east asian, so if you have more to add on, please do!

I know we (rightfully) love to hate on writers here in the comics fandom, but we should never forget the real enemy: Editorial

btw if you ever make anything for me EVER ill literally go crazy stupid. like ill go insane . il love you for ever.

Celeste (2018) | Extremely OK Games

lmao the worst thing about being Palestinian is you’ll be fucking grieving and you are STILL expected to articulate all your thoughts in the most coherent manner IN ENGLISH and have at least 25 citations backing up any point you make, even if you’re just talking about the way you are feeling . otherwise the west is just going to paint you as a barbarian

going on xiaohongshu regularly means having to be bombarded by Chinese propaganda (people who claim that drinking ice water is bad for you)

all the dakota teen heroes are trans WHAT ABOUT IT?

Also got scammed by a USPS-related text

The only reason I didn't do it was because I don't remember asking for anything using USPS

I searched up the order number and asked my mom beforehand

Bless...