maggamaggamagga:maggadraws:I got a poopton of art to art but...

maggamaggamagga:

maggadraws:

I got a poopton of art to art but I had to squeeze in a Katharsis sketch because I LOVE HER.  I’m literally not exaggerating when I say I’ve been waiting my entire life for Thai-American character and it makes me sooo happy she’s all my favorite badassy, vigilante-y things! I mean, I love all of team Movement but there’s nothing quite like finally, finally finding that character you’ve been wanting for 22+ years :’) 

No, really, I’ve been waiting my entire life for a Thai-American character in fiction. I have consumed exactly one piece of Western media featuring a Thai-American person, and that was an autobiography (about a half-Thai, half-American man going back to Thailand to become a monk, so that was only somewhat fulfilling). 

What also makes me really happy is that she’s a Thai character with personality characteristics not oft attributed to Thai women, i.e. her unabashed, loud aggressiveness. I know I’ve certainly felt kind of weird and out-of-place among my Thai relatives for being as outspoken and aggressive as I can be and even condemned because of how it plays into my kind of femininity. It’s very hard to explain how really, really deeply happy it makes me that Kulap embodies a lot of things that I, as a Thai-American woman, was kinda not expected to take on and hold dear. I only know her a little, but a little representation goes a long way— and it doesn’t feel like a bone tossed to me! This is a mainstream comics character whom thousands are reading and getting to know and fjdklasjfl;jidjfojawe it just makes me really, really happy :’) We’ll see how it plays out from here, and I gotta actually read the Knighfall arc in Batgirl ‘cause apparently she was one of the big antags there, but for now I’m just walking on sunshine. 

I am delighted to have a character from that region in comics, and particularly, Katharsis is a favorite of mine because she reacts so strongly to everything. I love her, and she has some AWESOME stuff coming up.

AND I LOVE THIS SKETCH, AGAIN I SAY!