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Some important tips on making/writing Asian OCs

Try to stay away from the smart/nerdy Asian stereotype. Plenty of Asian people are very smart, just like in any other race. However, stereotypical racial representation is worse than none at all. By all means, you can have an intelligent Asian character but make sure their intelligence is not the main factor of their personality.

Write more than just East and light-skinned Asians. In most cases, if an author wants to have some Asian representation they’ll throw in a Chinese or Japanese character. And while yes, there aren’t very many Chinese and Japanese characters as opposed to white, there are even less Southeast, South, and Middle Eastern Asian representation. Not all Asians have light skin, even in East Asia. There are plenty of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese people with dark skin!

 Do your research when naming Asian characters. Unless you want to end up like J.K. Rowling who’s sole Asian character was named Cho Chang. Do not just throw a last name with an ‘ong’ or an ‘ang’ at the end.

Represent plus size Asians. Asian women are stereotyped as petite, and just like white plus size women, plus size Asian women need representation in media.

Asian people don’t eat everything with chopsticks. I didn’t think that needed to be said, but here we are.

Create Asian characters with an alternative fashion sense/style. Asians with dyed hair. Asians with piercings. Asians with tattoos.

Stay away from the strict parent Asian stereotype. In fact, stay away from every stereotype, okay?

Keep in mind, stereotypes for other races aren’t the same for Asian people.

By all means, write about Asian culture. BUT MAKE SURE IT IS ACCURATE!!!

Write Asian characters who get in trouble and/or are reckless. Asians that swear. Asians that break rules. Asians that get detention.

WRITE ATHLETIC ASIANS!!!

Do not, under any circumstance, use the word ‘chinky’ to describe an Asian character. Just. Don’t.

Asian people face racism too.

Don’t fetishize or demonize Asian culture.

Asian people, feel free to add some more on! If you’re white or non-Asian POC do not comment if you reblog! (Unless it’s to say something like, oh nice tips! Or thank you, I didn’t know that!)

If you can, reblog. I haven’t seen any for Asian OCs.

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never let two japanese boys alone

My only critique about the Mario Movie is that this wasn’t in the B plot. 💃🕺

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dinner conversation (based on this)

they’re idiots, your honor.

about age gap fics

before writing an age gap fic I (@notjoelmiller) am going to legally require you to write a paper (8-10 pages, double spaced, 12 font, Times New Roman) about how your fic isn't just romanticizing predation and fetishizing youth/innocence. If you can't then i will be asking you to rewrite your fic. This especially includes step father and dad's best friends fics.

There should be no fic where your "legal" character has the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. Write an age gap fic- I really don't care. But in doing so you need to be mindful of what you're putting out. It may not seem like it means a lot, but this type of content has been popping up more and more recently, and I fear for the slippery slope that fandoms may be going down.

Making sure that we're protecting minors through 18+ warnings and blocking underage/ageless accounts isn't the only step that we need to take online to protect minors when making sexual content. As writers we should not be publishing materials that fetishize youth. While it's not an immediate way to protect minors online, it is something that is important (at least to me), to ensure that we are making the internet and the greater world safe for the youth.

alternate mario movie ending

dumb lip sync practice, i guess. oof it’s so short.

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