Do you know what is awesome? dark_agenda is awesome.

The problems of White and Western consumption of Manga and Anime.

I wish I could quote all of the quotes there, but I will go for:

inkstone said in her post: "My wish for Yuletide is that people who offer to write in anime and manga (and manhwa and manhua, if there are manhua being offered) fandoms, and do write in those fandoms, to please do so with respect to the source's host culture."

She was prompted by wistfuljane's observation:

I've noticed some trends in animanga fanworks that left me rather perplexed:

* the prevalent of historical AUs set in Regency or some other British historical periods and the rather absence of historical AUs set in say Heian, Edo or some other Japanese or Asian periods;
* the prevalent of stories based on European fairy tales or folklores and the rather lack of stories based on Japanese or Asian fairy tales or folklores;
* the prevalent of stories centering around (party) games or activities that either originated in America or more common there and the rather absence of stories centering around (party) games or activities that originated in Japan/Asia or more common there



Then, of course, there's the rather lack of anime vids set to non-English songs. (And the more nitpicking stuffs like glaringly out-of-place English sayings or phrases in fanfic.)

The discussion that this prompted is something I love.

End of de-hiatus intermediate intermission. Damn, chemistry.