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Important! 🐀🐀🐀

Alright, so I don’t usually involve myself in discourse, but this one made me want to say something. I’d appreciate if this gets reblogged.

The word rat is not a racial slur towards Asians. Please stop telling people it is, especially if you’re not Asian yourself.

As an Asian myself, I’m telling you it is not an actual thing, and I’ve asked my Asian friends and my own parents, all of varying nationalities within Asia, and more specifically, East Asia, the area said to contain the people who should be offended by this word. None of us have ever seen it as a racial slur. If someone calls me a rat, I will assume I’ve just been called it because I’m seen as a sly, scheming bastard or something of the like, not that I’ve been called it because I’m Asian.

I have seen the historical arguments for this, the propaganda, all that. I showed that to my friends, my parents. It makes no difference to us. Rat was a general insult used towards a lot of groups back then, not just Asians, and it’s not a thing we Asians register as being offensive slur-wise. It’s just generally not a fun thing to call a person if you’re purposely being mean. Nothing to do with race, so don’t make it out to be, because it isn’t.

For more about the history, please refer to this very well-worded post that I strongly recommend you reading, exploring where White Knighting topics, blowing them out of proportion and lack of consideration for the actual groups in mind is causing problems, and the screenshot below, taken from this reddit post, which also sums it up quite nicely.

So there’s that. And there are those who might go, “But you’re normalising casual racism! :(”, and I really don’t know what to tell you, buddy. You can’t tell us what we should be offended by, because you’re not us. And vice versa.

Basically, please remember that the whole way that something even becomes considered a slur is if the group actually feels offended by the term in the first place.

The group. Not just one or two people, or someone who isn’t from the group but feels some sort of Entitled Righteousness about trying to ‘stand up’ for the group. The group.

If the group doesn’t find it offensive, then please stop saying it is and saying we are offended by it! By doing this, you’re just talking over Asians’ voices, putting words in our mouths, and shutting us up just like whoever started this did! ;-;

Please stop spreading misinformation. We’re fine. So if you see someone call a character a rat, don’t mind it in the slightest. Thank you so much.

My other inspirations for wording this post:

[Sources: here and here if you wish to like and reblog them. Do not harass.]

Please do boost this. Y’all can add on, but please don’t clown! I reserve the right to block if I feel you’re messing around and looking for a fight. Also fellow Asians who have never heard of this mess, feel free to express confusion in the replies. I felt the same way.

And to my friend on Discord who brought this to my attention, this isn’t to you, I promise. I don’t hate you. You’re okay. This is just to the people who told you the wrong things, and the people who need to hear it. You probably just believed it when you heard it and were passing on the message, and I appreciate that you were trying to be respectful to Asians, but I just wanted to address this and clear it up.

Thank you again 🐀❤️

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Nature

Arctic ocean

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Blizzard from cave

Blizzard in road

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Ocean rocks with rain

River campfire

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Server room

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Blackwell dorm (Life is Strange)

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Star Wars penthouse (Star Wars)

Tatooine (Star Wars)

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Luke’s home (Star Wars)

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Blade Runner city (Blade Runner)

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Ravenclaw tower (Harry Potter)

Hufflepuff common room (Harry Potter)

Slytherin common room (Harry Potter)

Gryffindor common room (Harry Potter)

Hagrid’s hut (Harry Potter)

Hobbit-hole house (The Hobbit)

Diamond City (Fallout 4)

Cloud City beach (Bioshock)

Founding Fathers Garden (Bioshock)

Things

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Old west saloon

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Cyberpunk street with rain

Futuristic server room

Futuristic apartment with typing

Futuristic rooftop garden 

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Harbor with rain

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HEY, Romance Writers!

A few followers have asked for tips on writing romance into their stories or as the basis of their stories. Here’s a masterlist of sources (below cut) that may help.

General Romance:

What Defines Romantic Love?

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story

How to Plot a Romance Novel

Slowburn Romance

When Friends Fall for Each Other (ask)

Tips for Writing a Character Who Has a Crush

Tips on Writing Unrequited Love 

Writing Healthy Couples in Fiction

An Antidote to “Love at First Sight”

How Attractive Should Your Characters Be?

3 Great Ways to Show That Your Character Is In Love

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy

Six Steps to Stronger Character Arcs in Romances

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes 

How to Write a Kissing Scene in a Romance Novel

Types of Kisses and Kissing + This Post Is All About Kisses

List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High

100 Questions for Character Couples

How Do I Make the Relationship Development Realistic?

How Do I Know If Two People Are Compatible?

Healthy Relationships Can Include Teasing

YA Romance:

How to Write a YA Romance Without Cliché  

20 Mistakes To Avoid When Writing Young Adult Fiction/Romance

Intercultural Romance:

How do I write an interracial couple accurately? (ask)

15 Common Stereotypes About Intercultural Relationships

Cross Cultural Relationships

[Ideas for] Your [Fictional] Cross-Cultural Relationship

Things to Avoid When Writing Interracial Romance

writingwithcolor: Interracial Relationships (w/ links)

Bad Romance:

Removing the Creeps From Romance

Why The Surprise Kiss Must Go

Possessiveness 101

10 Signs You May Be in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Edward & Bella Are In An Abusive Relationship

Red Flags, Verbal Abuse, Stalking… | Script Shrink

5 Huge Mistakes Ruining the Romantic Relationships in Your Book

How do you write a [bad] relationship without romanticising it? (ask)

General Tips for Writing Characters Love Interests:

How to Write from a Guy’s POV

Writing Awesome Male Characters: What You’re Doing Wrong

7 Point-of-View Basics Every Writer Should Know

How Do You Describe a Character?

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

3 Signs Your Story’s Characters Are Too Perfect

Is a Quirk Just What Your Character Needs?

Six Types of Character Flaws

Is Your Character Optimistic Or Pessimistic?

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language

10 Body Language Tricks for Deeper Characterization

Describing People Part Three: Gestures, Expressions, and Mannerisms

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion

Distinguishing Characters in Dialogue

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

Characters: Likability Is Overrated

Relationships in General:

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

8 Secrets To Writing Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships: 6 Tips for Crafting Real Connections

Writing Relationships: Hate to Love

Stereotypes, Archetypes, & Tropes:

Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist: Part 1, Part 2

Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist – Against Men

Always Female vs Always Male

Born Sexy Yesterday & Manic Pixie Dream Girl

7 (Overused) Female Love Interests

Other Resource Lists

Resources For Romance Writers

Pinterest Board “Writing: Romance Arcs and Plots”  

thewritershelpers FAQ (romance, kissing, sexuality, etc)

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You can only reblog this today.

reblog if the boy on the right is just as beautiful as the boy on the left tryna prove a point

I need to address this but PLEASE when the anime introduces Sister Krone we absolutely cannot not brush aside the fact that her design is racist and especially the way she’s drawn. I love her and her characterisation is great but we cannot let go of that fact at all. Artists if you do draw her NEVER draw her like how she’s drawn canonically, it’s awful and extremely racist. Here’s an article made by a black woman concerning the matter. (tw for: racist caricatures and anti-blackness)

Hello could you please do some general headcanons for chiba from Assclass pls and thank u? 🙏💕

Of course! Here in this house, we always love a bit of Chiba. Sorry it took so long to get out,,

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General headcanons for Chiba Ryūnosuke:

-So, As a lot of us know, Chiba is one of generally more quiet students in the class, in comparison to a lot of the other students in class E-3. But he definitely joins in on the chaos when he wants to sometimes.

- I’m almost 100% on that if any of the teachers would let students listen to music during class, he would be the one kid listening to his stuff while diligently doing all his work.

- Since it’s canon that he formerly was in the light music club, he probably is able to play at least one type of instrument I’m betting one guitar,, mainly blaming all the Chiba lovers on Tumblr for me not being able to unsee it.

- Helps out if they need to draw out maps in an easier way to see, due to his love and skills for triangulation. Even though they don’t do it much, he still enjoys it.

- When it comes to bands he likes, I could kinda see him be into bands like X-Japan, due to their well-known rock music legendarily-ness that they have come to be known for. Though, since he is into hard Japanese rock music in general, he probably does have an interesting in a lot of different ones, too.

- Probably likely to keep some contact with some of his classmates after graduating, outside of the yearly meetings in the future. Maybe not as much as others, but they all know just how much they have learned about themselves and how many friends that they had gained over the year, so there’s a likely chance of the bond never breaking with his closest friends.

Sorry for not having written or posted much lately. I have my first exams next month and am already dreading life, but I’ll try when I can get some time off!