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I literally JUST finished Yerba buena and had a lot of mixed thoughts about it. Clicked on this video immediately after seeing the thumbnail, thank you for this

As a Black author, I felt so SEEN when you went on that rant!!! Rant away, Cindy, rant away!

10/10 conclusion

She called herself KIM CHI?! Fucking seriously?!

gotta say I'd have enjóyed that version of shadowhunters as well

NO I BURST OUT LAUGHING AT 14:27 NOT THE MUSICCCC

Last time I went to the book store, I picked up 2 books. One by a queer Chinese author, and one by a cishet white male author. Both books, so far, have been fantastic and I definately would recommend (books at the end of the comment). But I only learnt of the book by the queer Chinese author through their own social media, their own advertisement plug ins at the ends of their - very well made and researched - youtube videos. The other book, I learned of through a bunch of lists of "great fantasy books without excessive romance". This man's book stumbled across my phone screen via buzzfeed style listicles about books, none of his own advertising efforts reached me (not to diminish his own efforts, its a well written story and he has said in the aknowlagements that he went out of his way to make sure he didnt misrepresent any marginalised groups featured in the book, he even named the sensitivity reader he hired.) But yeah. If that doesn't tell you something about how the publishing industry treats marginalised authors, idk what will. *books I'm talking about are Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (absolutely fantastic but I'm gonna add a little warning cause it does get pretty violent in places (injuries aren't described in detail but how they are inflicted is) and I know not everyone is comfortable with that) and Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (also very good so far but I only started reading it a few days ago and likely won't be finished with the book for a little while, I can be a pretty slow reader. Not as violent as iron widow so far but that could change, I'm only about a quater to a third of the way through. But so far violence has been, whilst not exactly explicit, still pretty nightmare fuel if you have a vivid enough imagination. Like. It's not something that could happen in the real world, unlike with iron widow, but it's still pretty gruesome imagery, even if not explicitly described) sorry about the focus on violence in the books, but that's something I know people that find it hard to read personally, so I tend to focus on that in my book recommendations.

WHAT DOES THE STEM MEAN!? Is it for science, tech, engineering, mathematics!? OWN/STEM means human race voice or robot voice? I need answers and comments section didnt deliver help me

I am going to reread Dracula soon. Once I finish this one which is Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom by Erica Berry. My favourite book so far this year was Astronomy: Sky Country which is a nonfiction about the Aboriginal people's knowledge of astronomy. About their stories of the stars, what they called, how they used them for their own practices and more. It also talked about space pollution (aka satellites) and light pollution and a lot more. It also ended on a hopeful note and ways where current issues can be fixed.

Not done it yet, but so far I'm loving "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa. It was supposed to be a little beach read and I became so invested in the main character trying to deal with her depression and life mess that I didn't realize when everyone was in the water and I was still on the sand with my book.

I’m not even into the book community😂 but as an Asian person I just had to watch this.

I’m here to complete the race cosplay trilogy 😭😭😭

The thing is the fact you were calling out people for laughing their asses off when this is my second time watching this video laughing with tears in my eyes will never not be funny

Lmaooooo not him using my goddamn foundation shade. I already have a hard time finding it 😂

She knew what she was doing naming herself Kim Chi. She thot how do I be racist and skate by. She was very aware you can write about poc without being part of the demographic and she said that. Nah she's a racist.

Yt person: * book doesn't get picked up * must be those pesky pocs. Baby I wish we had the privilege they think we have. When will y'all learn it's easier to research the culture and truly learn from people - not the white savourism type of learning- than race faking

I'm going to send you my hospital bill. I chocked on my drink. Only 14 minutes in and the editing is sending me.

these comments are killing me😂😂

If you want to read more stuff written by disabled people, you should read my shitty fanfiction lmao

Feels like the dark romance genre has the same issue "edgy" or "dark" humour has - just being a convenient excuse for bigotry instead of any actually interesting exploration of dark subjects

I literally love u sm, I'm begging you to read heaven official's blessing

I'm a proud Australian so I've happily named myself "Veg E'mite" in honour of my country's proud heritage and culture.

Donde hallar respuesta a , que proposito tiene la vida?

Writing a book is so hard. Feels damn near impossible sometimes. Why you would risk that career by pulling such a stunt makes me wonder how much they value that "being a writer"

THE WAY THIS MADE ME CACKLE OMG AHHHHH poor Ze’Ev though…

Dakota Johnson will literally deliver a line about her house exploding with the same level of enthusiasm as being told her grocery coupon expired

"Not only that, a bald werewolf" Cindy please 😭

Honestly though when you all going to start interrogating the fact that this keeps happening because it often works?

"Caucasity" I chortled

As a middle class Mexican girl trying to publish. EVERYTHING CINDY SAID IT'S ON POINT.

Why should anyone care? No really,black people have complained about this and were dismissed. And not it’s a problem because it’s happening to Asians?

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only Canadian who’s never done blackface

Oh, yeah, we don't claim Quebec. They're different there

Omg. Someone PLEASE revoke this authors ability to write dot dot dot again. I'm gagged

A Black Like Me shein dupe is the most random thing to ever happen in my lifetime this can’t be fr😭😭😭

THE OUTRO MUSIC WAS FOUL. 10/10

Imagine it turns out no one would pick him up because their thoughts were "omg! That is clearly a white man in really badly done black face... There is no way I'm letting that crazy racist guy in my car"

Listening to you rant warms my gay little heart

so... their book sucked so they thought to change their race because they think the bar for getting published is lower for people of color?

0:21 this made me cackle i am so sorry 😭😭😭😭

i might just be dumb but how is what ethan said a microaggrwssion

CINDY YOUR HAIR IS GORGEOUS bump if you agree

I literally spent nights crying and wishing that I was straight and cis so I maybe wouldn't be treated so poorly by the people around me before I finally came to terms with my identity, so seeing all these authors stealing the identities of POC or complaining about minority groups like mine because they think being LGBTQ+ or a racial minority is somehow 'easier' is just all around infuriating.

sad thing is Kim Chi is actual legitimate Vietnamese name but now internet people won't look at it the same.

I can see these whites pointing to DEI policies to justify this in the future. Probably because they are so woke that their npc brains would THINK they can get away with it,

Cindy: “…I like shaved cut heads for men…” Ronan (The Raven Boys):

I made it a point to read more diversely this year, specifically queer books, and now it’s my most read genre on StoryGraph 🌈 we love a win during pride month

I can't understand why these white authors don't just incorporate their own culture in their writing. I'm sure there's something about being italian that would've fit nicely into whatever she was writing. I'm white, I'm from a country in the Balkans and I feel like there is so much i could write about; the specific snacks we'd all eat growing up, going to a big wedding and meeting some of your many cousins, the "everybody knows everybody" feeling since we're like 2 million people max... (Edit: I realize now that these may not be the best examples since they might not be culture-related, but they are a big part of my life and childhood so I specifically thought of those things first during the writing of this comment). I personally would also write about being queer in my country. Although now that I'm writing this, I can see how a white person from the USA might not have something to write about. Still, as you said in the video, white people don't have that pressure on them to always incorporate their culture into their writing, so they could just write a fantasy or something. It's really not that hard to not fake being a certain race..

So good to hear that the banter in the Emily 2 is still good 😂

12:38 ooh