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1 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Stumbled upon this mini PBS documentary on the historical China Town in Wyoming and it's actually super fascinating and enlightening regarding the early Chinese Americans there, especially the ways they kept their culture alive in, well...Wyoming
Apparently the Chinatown in Marysville, California had an expensive silk dragon imported from Hong Kong and they would loan it out to Chinese communities across the West Coast for their New Year's celebrations, so they actually had to stagger all celebrations -
- because there was only one dragon to go around for parades 😂
They talk about a vegetable peddler named Lock Long Choong (nicknamed Mormon Charlie despite not being Mormon) who managed to grow vegetables at elevations white people couldn't by using farming methods from China. He'd give rides to children in his baskets after the day's sale
omg I found a memorial for him. seems that he was from Toishan, like most early Chinese Americans

findagrave.com/memorial/57368… Ogden Standard Examiner October 14, 1939 Mormon Charlie –

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1 Oct
Oh my god @KaijuKombat, N/F/Ts aren't going to be a thing, STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM A THING. You are grossly misrepresenting the Ultraman brand by associating with a pyramid scheme like that. Your success at this game is lower than the anatomy quality of your models.
What the hell are you doing making people buy N/F/Ts for access to a fighting game???
NO YOU'RE NOT, YOU ARE TRYING TO GLEEFULLY GRIFT PEOPLE
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25 Sep
brooo i love domestic fluff so much you have no idea, i had to delete so many fluff scenes from Iron Widow because word count 😭
Things that got cut out of Iron Widow:
- Actual scenes of Zetian and Shimin learning to ice dance
- Zetian and Yizhi making breakfast!
- Yizhi doing a face mask while Shimin's lying across his lap
- Zetian and Shimin getting their minds blown as Yizhi drives them through Chang'an
my agent: xiran why did this book turn into slice of life 2/3rds of the way through

my self indulgent ass:
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21 Sep
HELLO PARTY PEOPLE IN VANCOUVER, @rrschaeffer AND I WILL BE SIGNING OUR BOOKS AT THE METROTOWN CHAPTERS STARTING NOW TILL LIKE 7PM??
Also please bring your own copy if you can cause stock in here is running out REAL FAST 😫
IM NOT JOKING THERE ARE ONLY 15 COPIES LEFT YALL BETTER GET HERE FAST LOOOOL
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16 Jul
Thinkin bout how not a single American publisher was willing to give Iron Widow a chance and that's why I'm with a Canadian publisher but once the book deal was announced, public interest blew up and it ended up selling in 7 other territories at 4 auctions and a prempt 😶
Kind of hate how American publishing tastes gatekeep books for the rest of the world tbh. Like if my agent didn't happen to submit Iron Widow to my Canadian publisher, it would've languished in my computer. It would've never made it to those international pubs that fought for it.
Feeling very surreal because Iron Widow is a book that should not have made it into traditional publishing since American publishers didn't believe in it. But it squeezed through via Canada, and once the actual reader community saw it, they responded
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15 Jul
ALL RIGHT WHO WANTS TO SEE ME SUFFER FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT & EDUCATION

BECAUSE HERE I GO WITH EVERYTHING CULTURALLY RIGHT AND WRONG WITH MULAN II (2004), THE THREAD: title card of Mulan II
Disclaimer: Culture is subjective so some of what feels "off" to me is gonna be personal opinion as a single Chinese person, but a lot will also be pointing out factual errors like them trying to write hero 英雄 but the 雄 is missing its whole right half??? Image
ANYWAY the movie starts with George Takei praising Mushu for helping save China in Mulan 1998

just a fun fact but the scepter he's holding is called a ruyi, a Buddhist symbol of power that possibly originated as a backscratcher. you see it a lot in Chinese buddhist art. ImageImage
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18 Jun
what was the most disappointed you've ever been in a piece of media

i was ranting to a friend about what i wished the anime Darling in the Franxx had done differently, which spiraled into a whole other story infused with Chinese history and myth

it hits bookstores Sept 21.
alksdfjasf what i love though is how whenever someone's like "hey isn't this just like Darling in the Franxx?" upon reading my book summary, and then I'm like "yes, it was born out of my frustration with the show," they're always like "understandable, have a great day."
Though in the end, the only inspiration I took from the show is the concept of boys and girls being paired up in a questionable heteronormative piloting system to fight giant monsters. Everything else is completely different, looool
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