Hey Internet, when you were younger than 10 years of age, did you ever see ads for things you’d like and say, “I’ll just wait til I grow up. Then I could get thing!”?
…or are you normal, I guess
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Are you nervous about joining the aunties and uncles in the park?
…fair.
But you only need to be scared if you see the slippah. If you do…
“They had a right to be nervous.”
Queer? LGBTQIA+?
Not in the majority of Chinese households
Child like face and personality. FOREVER.
DOCILE. Not allowed to speak over one whole decibel.
Elders being abusive? HONOR SAYS NO BITCH YOU THOUGHT WRONG
Body image? There’s tests!
- body should not be wider than 8.5” (~21.5cm)
- should be able to reach around and splay your hand on your own belly
- collarbones should be sunken enough to house a goldfish
- no boobs
- no hips
- men? No stomach whatsoever. Need to be a hella ripped dorito chip.
Wait wait I get it. You’re nervous about putting up a thousand Shen Yun posters and avoiding uncomfortable questions about Falun Gong!
Don’t worry. You get used to it
PS when you say Chinese, which of the 56 officially recognized groups are we talking here?
Nervous about honor?
K just keep in mind that you can’t just code switch to being independent without the metric ton of guilt in your shoulders
Nervous about the still extremely prevalent preference of cis males?
That’s okay, being ignored due to my gender is just upholding traditions!
Nervous about the passive aggressive colorism?
One learns to smile and nod about it.
You’re always gonna be too dark. The one day you’ll be too light and you’ll be so confused.
“I love little Asian girls.”
I love pedophiles being thrown into a festering and tetanus infested jail cell with zero escape.
It’s easy to be nervous 😬 n such a situation.
Too macro. Let’s focus a little:
Nervous about being fetishized for just existing?
Lol I’m wrong that’s something a lot of teenaged girls got in spades.
I realize that last one may be too dated. Let me try again.
Are you nervous about tying your literal existence to an arbitrary yet horrific illness that caused people to hoard tp
Doing a cosplay of Alexandra Wallace?
Don’t worry, Jimmy’s got you covered:
youtu.be/zulEMWj3sVA?...
Kidding. I hope she’s well. And got her epiphanies.
The part where adults and kids pull at the corners of their eyes and try to buck their teeth?
How about colonizing your neighboring kingdoms and countries? That’s something to be nervous about.
I mean I get the palpitations when thinking of scaling mountain ranges to invade Korea. There’s got to be a better way to get that skincare…
The severely and harshly currently patriarchal culture and social climate handed down through years of Confucianism that got appropriated and kicked off with western colonization?
Warning; the following thread may have triggers (read: definitely had triggers) regarding body image, sexuality, and misogyny
“My first day of being Chinese. I’m kind of nervous 😉”
Which part are you nervous about?
#chinesebaddie #omgimchinesenow #diagnosedchinese
An unhinged 🧵
Ahem. Taps mic.
🎙️ ARE WE GONNA STOP INFANTILIZING MILLENNIALS OR ARE WE THE GENERATION THATS GONNA GET MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY SACRIFICED? 🎙️
Isn’t there someone we forgot to ask for consent from
Reaching out to an editor? lol like I said, not quite there yet
Not ready for that! Would need to finish the book, firstly, then go through edits, etc etc etc
Yas!!! we need more love in the world!!
The Hundred Schools is a coming of age, urban fantasy series that follows Ki Lo; a person with an unknown past, a mysterious present, and an ever shifting future. At 13, got invited to Gum Shan, a sorcery and cultivation school in the Immortal World.
Well I guess not published PER SE. But you can read up on the first draft and follow along on the journey!
