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John attempting to bond with his son Joseph. “I had this old head dress lying around and thought, well, you might like it.”

Joseph not caring about his heritage. “Horns and a feather. Thanks.”

King of the Hill is a satire of middle-class white US-American culture, and as such has a few token “minority” side-characters to reflect the main chararacters' stereotyped views. The Souphanousinphones are the Asian characters that appear the most, and John Redcorn is the Native American character who appears the most. Indeed, he's the only Native American character that acknowledges his heritage because the other ones (Joseph and Kate) are both John's kids and don't even know that they're John's kids! Which is actually quite sadly true to real life, because many kids don't know their family's heritage as they're subsumed into middle-class white US-American culture.

The Souphanousinphones are explicitly stated to be Laotian, with Kahn and Minh having a good bit of real life history informing them¹⁾. This is interesting because Laos is a bit of a lesser-known Asian country, and that's lampshaded by Hank's asking ignorantly “So are ya Chinese, or Japanese”? Connie was born in the USA, but is still connected to Laotian culture compared to John's kids, due to her parent's stereotypical fanaticism for good grades and immigrating for a better life/“the American Dream”. I was fascinated by this tidbit as a kid growing up, because it was so rare to see Asian characters in cartoons let alone Laotian characters.

I was also fascinated by the inclusion of John Redcorn as a character, because as an Asian kid growing up I thought it was cool when characters were not only explicitly not white, BUT ALSO had long black hair CUZ I had (have?) long black hair! John is mostly referred to as Native or Indian, with not much more provided about tribes or family. It's likely that the showrunners, being middle-class white US-Americans, didn't place that importance on specifics, and the character of John Redcorn isn't 100% clear on his own heritage. But today I'm here to autistically artistically connect the little crumbs of information we get about side characters with about 30 total minutes of dialogue. Because I love you.

Bobby hill at the book store reading at the intersection of Ethnic Studies and American History with a cup of milk is EXACTLY what I look like right now. But I have black hair cuz I'm Asian.

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I finally updated the web version of JUST GORLY THINGS (my lesbian fujoshi webcomic galarian darminatan zen mode) with the 11ty version. Yippee. Better to have it up now and slowly add the old comics, than wait 5 years for me to upload all the old comics at once. Maybe it'll be a good excuse to post the old comics online again and force people to look at them once more. Hey there's a new page on there… I haven't uploaded that yet to social media!!!

I'm also having fun pre-emptively writing my exchange letter for whim's 10 Items or Less exchange! I always worried that I yap too much in exchange letters… maybe if I host it on this wiki I can let the links to the talking, people can choose to click on the links to what I like about genderbends or decapitation on their own time.