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East Coast USA 🇺🇸 to East Asia🌏
Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture.

Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
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Taiwanese-American Doug Chiang on growing up with Star Wars, then making Star Wars since prequels with George Lucas.

Among his work was the prequel's China-Japan mashup History Aesthetics. Likes seeing Asian Am leads in Hollywood.

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Doug Chiang: A lot of both, actually. I remember when I first started working on Star Wars with George Lucas in 1995, one of the biggest lessons that I learned from him was to study history, study other cultures, to design an alternate future. I didn’t expect that. At that time, my only experience with Star Wars was from watching the original trilogy and looking at the Art of books in terms of design aesthetics. When I finally started to work with George, my first intention was to repeat exactly that, and he was the one who said, “No, we’re going to try something new. Let’s look into different cultures. Let’s study history and study other cultures to come up with exotic designs.” It was such an eye-opener, because he really encouraged myself and the other artists to look at Japanese culture and Chinese culture for design motifs that we could incorporate. Concept art by Doug Chiang inspired by Asian farmers returning from the field for 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. "It was such an eye-opener, because he really encouraged myself and the other artists to look at Japanese culture and Chinese culture for design motifs that we could incorporate." Concept art inspired by Asian farmers returning from the field for 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Further political context: In the 2019 District Council elections, all 19 of the elected seats of Tai Po District Council were won by "yellow" (i.e., Hong Kong pro-democracy) candidates. The pro-Beijing camp was completely wiped out bar for the two ex officio members of the 21 person strong body.
ryanhk.blue Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 1d
This 2024 post from the DAB’s Peggy Wong is quickly becoming infamous.

In it, the pro-Beijing district councillor dismisses fire safety concerns about the Wang Fuk work as malicious rumours misleading the public, and accuses the Democratic Party of “provocatively live-streaming “ from the scene.
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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指先に命懸け
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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niaocollective.bsky.social
The HK pro-democracy camp recognised what the Chinese Communist Party ironically did not want to admit publicly - livelihood issues *are* political
ryanhk.blue Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 1d
Pro-democracy parties existed to be thorns in the government’s side — true enough. But the official story, that they “politicised” everything while the establishment camp championed livelihood issues, does not match the reality.

See below for an example of how they also pushed back on local issues.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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自分のデフォルメ絵で好きなのこの辺かな
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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To mark the 50th anniversary of "Gamba's Adventure" (Osamu Dezaki, 1975), the movie will be re-released in Japanese theaters on January 9, 2026.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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🍵 "BLOOD SONG" 2014 Japanese Cover Art
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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My soul is there

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6omI...
Phantasy Star Online OST-For eternal story
YouTube video by I VoidSoul I
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November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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🌎 The first #Copernicus Sentinel-1D images are in!

Check out the images featuring Tierra del Fuego, the Antarctic Peninsula, Thwaites Glacier and the Elbe River delta.
Tierra del Fuego: Bright colours created using multiple radar polarisations. The ocean and snowy peaks appear in shades of blue, while the land shows in yellow. Antarctic Peninsula: A black‑and‑white radar view showing the stark contrast between the ocean and the icy landscape. Thwaites Glacier: Sea ice is visible in tones of purple and violet, while the glacier appears white. The Elbe River delta
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Found an old chonky Zaku design sketch.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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"Camille Claudel, an apprentice of Rodin. When I learned about her personal history, I decided to use Camille as a man's name. In fact, everything about the character of Camille Claudel was transferred over to Kamille Bidan"
-Tomino on Zeta Gundam's hero

www.gundamunofficial.com/production/z...
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Earliest* surviving depiciton of Chinese porcelain in Europe, Bellini & Titian's Feast of the Gods (1514, 1529), based on a Roman Ovid poem.

Earlier porcelain in bible paintings could be west Asian, this with nymphs and satyrs with nature patterns is undisputed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese...
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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When looking up centuries of historic European Orientalism, it's important to check how they looked at themselves and often it was an even weirder way.

That 16c map aims for accuracy when they liked depicting Europe as a virgin woman with Asia peeping down her dress.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Pokemon BW finishes the "Conflict cycle" that began with Green Red Gold Silver's Team Rocket (PKMN as weapons), Ruby Sapphire (as Territory) Diamond Pearl (as Energy).

Set in not-USA with christian crusader villains preaching morals to take power.

Beyond personified "God" 僊 Arceus is The Yin Yang.
Pokemon Black/White is about coming into conflict for **IDEAOLOGY**. Team Plasma believes catching pokemon is cruel, and will forcibly ‘liberate’ Pokemon from their trainers. Unlike previous antagonist teams, Team Plasma is actively preaching their message, and will even go to such measures as using Pokemon to enter people’s dreams to incept their ideology among the masses. Team Plasma is driven by intense righteousness and view the world in Black and White terms. Their uniforms are based off the real-world Christian crusaders, who warred to spread their beliefs. The symbol of Team Plasma also bears resemblance to the “Chi-Rho”, a symbol used by the first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constatine. When Constantine was in a war of succession for control of Rome, the Chi Ro appeared to him in a dream. He put the mark upon the shields of his men and the next day they were victorious in battle. Left: The historical Chi-Rho, Right: The symbol of Team Plasma Pokemon Pearl/Diamond is about coming into conflict to attain **ENERGY**. Towns in the game are themed after different energy resource such as wind power, solar power, and even coal mining, which is presented in a matter-of-fact way to show how humans harness energy. Enter Team Galactic, an organization that is studying the energy released when a Pokemon evolves and find that it disregards the law of conservation of energy, there is more energy being created than expended. They then investigate this phenomenon as a potential new energy source. Team Galactic’s research leads them to seek the legendary Dialga, creator of time, and Palkia, creator of space. To be able to create energy from nothing is the power of creating a new world. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire is about coming into conflict to attain **TERRITORY**. The towns you visit are dotted among islands (some even manmade), past vibrant rainforests, through parched deserts, and even inside dormant volcanoes. The unique properties of each environment are cherished by its human occupants, for land is a finite resource and they respect what they have Enter Team Aqua and Team Magma. Magma seeks the legendary Groudon, who can make land rise from the ocean depth. Team Aqua seek the legendary Kyogre, who can send landmasses sinking beneath the waves. Team Aqua and Magma battle to control them for they give their wielder the power to create new land by raising the earth, or making existing land scarce by raising the seas, power that would fundamentally change the human view of territory as set and finite. Emerald adds a 3rd being, Rayquaza who dwells in the stratosphere, and the extraterrestrial Pokemon Deoxys. This generation’s movie centers around Deoxys arriving on earth as a meteor, which Rayquaza considers a violation of his territory. Conflict for territory is also within the realm of Pokemon. Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver is about coming into conflict to attain powerful WEAPONS. The pokedex is full of colorful quips about the violent power of Pokemon able to melt steel with their breath or reduce buildings to rubble with a swing of their tail. From the Koga ninjas to Lt. Surge, we’re shown that Pokemon have fought alongside humans in conflicts ancient and recent, though there is peace in the present day. The image of Pokemon is softened through a trainer program where young kids are given Pokemon to treat as their friends and companions. Enter Team Rocket, an underground organization that holds on to the archaic view that Pokemon are weapons to be wielded, and use them against their fellow man. When scientists obtain the genes of the phantom Pokemon Mew, they use its immense genetic potential to craft the ultimate weapon, Mewtwo. But its immense power proves uncontrollable, and the scientists are destroyed by their own creation.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
hokutoandy.bsky.social
Flamethrowers were (co) invented and used in ww1 by a firefighter named "Burnhard Redman" (Bernhard Reddemann).

This is IRL history, so don't hold back in your own high gritty scifi fantasy worldbuilding.
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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In one of the prototype versions of Yoshi's Island, the Baby Mario handover process is unfinished and does not always work. The Yoshi that should be waiting at the end is missing, and the playable Yoshi simply throws Baby Mario onto the ground, making him crawl off by himself.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org

How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?

📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
hokutoandy.bsky.social
Doodle of a Warcraft Troll warrior with more Southeast Asian islands (Dayak, Nias) aesthetics, with trophy from the Alliance.

Listening to Bali Kecak and gamelan music:
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A lanky troll headhunter warrior holds a decapitated alliance head trophy by its beard. He has decorative griffon feathers on his sword holding arm.
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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主人公の駒井の魔法について
・動物に姿を変える
・変身する動物の生態や体内組成についてきちんと理解していないと正常に機能しない、あるいは命に関わることもある
・よって駒井は仕事で使い勝手のいい動物中心に、それらの生態について専門書などを読んで最新の情報を収集している
・質量保存の法則は適用しない
・容疑者確保の際、オウギワシの姿で上から抑え込んでいるが、この時駒井は体重だけ人間の姿の時のものに戻している
・別の動物の姿、動きへの切り替えなど素早くするのにはなかなか高度な技術がいる（駒井は結構器用で高い魔法のスキルを有している）
・その種の個体の平均から大幅に外れていなければ、体格の操作が可能
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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What might be my favourite fossil has been just published by Kiat et al. 2025. Years ago I saw a pic of this Anchiornis specimen in nat geo article and I audibly gasped.preserving not only the feathers but also the original patterns as well. I made this drawing on the spot. Maybe its time to do v2.0
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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https://pinksea.art/did:plc:amqgtbh6r5nzpv2gbwyx6e4g/oekaki/3m4qbrnelzs24

#pinksea
ATV concept
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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あっ、今日 #いい兄さんの日 ！！
#KDMworks
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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DOM（GQ）
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM