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Okay who's ready for THREAD: CULTURAL INSPIRATIONS AND OTHER TRIVIA & LORE IN AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER, BOOK 1Disclaimer: Unless cited from official sources, all musings about possible inspirations are

Man they did Jenny Lind SO DIRTY in The Greatest Showman. In history she parted ways with PT Barnum on her tour bc she was sick of his ruthless tacky

OMG SO GLAD YOU ASKEDIn China (and East Asia by influence), the planets are named after the 5 Chinese elements/phases!!Mercury: Water StarVenus: Metal StarMars: Fire StarJupiter: Wood StarSaturn: Earth StarThis

Of course people can be excited for #RayaAndTheLastDragon, but I don't want everyone to pat Disney on the back for going as generic as possible in their Southeast Asia rep

You see me appear on screen in a movie like this. What do you think my character would proceed to do? if this was a movie made by white people

in Chinese we stopped making new characters in the past few hundred years, so for new stuff we have to combine existing characters, resulting in -Turkey: FIRE CHICKENGiraffe: LONG-NECKED DEERDolphin:

ALL RIGHT BY POPULAR DEMAND HERE WE GO: Everything culturally right and wrong with Mulan 1998, the thread -(Disclaimer: This movie never marketed itself on authenticity, so I'll only be

when it comes to stone lion guardians, usually only one of them is supposed to have the ball under the paw to represent that they're the female of a male/female

The placement of Mulan's hand suggests she's also writing in the correct direction, but she's left-handed?? interestingAnd yes, this is indeed how you hold an inkbrush. About this, I don't

i find it very interesting that Chinese culture (and the whole East Asian cultural sphere by extension) gets such as rep for being "conformist," yet if you look at the

Mulan 1998 is one of my all time favorite movies but it really does have plenty of questionable details like writing characters...HORIZONTALLY...across a bamboo scroll oh and i know

ALL RIGHT YOU GUYS READY TO WATCH ME LOSE MY MARBLES FOR 2 HOURS?? (but less because i watch on double speed). Livetweeting #Mulan , the thread: why are you