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Stories from Johalor

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Created on 2026-09-06 10:01:52 (#4342220), last updated 2026-10-27 (2 weeks ago)

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Name:Runaway Wangkang
Birthdate:2001
Figuring out plural things.
A Crip descended from a family of Baba Nyonya Peranakans who had grenades thrown at them by communists
And who thinks that grenades are a perfectly valid tool for use in decolonial war

Weaver (she/her)
Fili (they/them)

Mid Twenties
Lover of Pokemon and Godzilla and Zelda and Tamagotchi and Evangelion, and unsure how to reconcile this love with the fact that the Japanese occupied our grandfather in living memory
Ghost/Fairy Type

Artist and storyteller who loves the weird and the distorted and the haunted and the ancient and mythological and cosmic
Makes music sometimes about that and sometimes about trans things and sometimes about less important affairs
The least interesting person I know

It was a big monster! And aliens!
People like her are always and inevitably taken by aliens.

Haunted by the Melaka Gateway, which is always hiding behind something in the distance
There wasn't enough land and the land that was there was full of empty buildings and so they just made more land and the sea became smaller

Wearer of masks some of which are N95s

A serial dropout of high school art school university
Learning what can be learned from aunties and uncles

Most toxic trait is having the music taste of an interesting white person
Raised on Royksopp Daft Punk Janelle Monae Gorillaz Flume Metronomy
Now listens to Sufjan and the Avalanches and Portraits of Tracy and Crumb and Toro Y Moi and Joao Gilberto and Little Dragon
Went Mad listening to Age of Adz
(I want to be well, I want to be well, I want to be well, I want to be well)
(When it dies when it dies it rots but when it lives when it lives it gives it all it's gots)
(I know you really wanna barricade the bathroom door I know you really wanna hide from things you can't ignore)

Was given a traditional name spoken in Mandarin for the sake of convenience
Which should have been Hokkien
And is gendered regardless

Was diagnosed as a narcissist among other things and doesn't know what to do with that and was given sleepy pills that aren't used

The mast cells took away the durian and the char kway teow and the ais kacang and the cincalok omelette and the kopi and the chap chye and the ang ku kueh and the pineapple tarts that Anne taught me to make and instead i vomit up black from charcoal pills

Silent Hill Omori Yume Nikki Hatsune Miku Warframe Hollow Knight Kentucky Route Zero Voltorb Flip Ableton Mystery Dungeon Hylics ENA bilateral gynandromorphism apparently the merlion was invented by a white man and everything that came spilling out of Hundun will someday make its way back in

Has a Ribombee whose pollen triggers chronic allergies
And a Litwick that saps energy slowly
And a Mimikyu who hides under cloth from the sunlight
And a small collection of bootleg Pikachu plushies from op shops and carnival games

Has a complicated relationship with the Queen Mother of the West and hopes that the girl and the rabbit on the moon will have their story told

Built a shrine out of crumbled bricks in an empty building on the river in Melaka and prayed there and placed an anchor down so that part of them would always be there in the humid air

Probably needs money and absolutely knows people who do

What is Johalor?
Johalor is in space, is far away from here, and it all happened a long time ago except for what is currently going on


Posting from a hospital bed
Posting from occupied land

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ancestor worship, baba, baba nyonya, baba nyonya peranakan, chinese ghosts, covid, covid conscious, filial piety, hantu, kristang, land back, mad, malaya, malaysia, melaka, mixed, mutual aid, neuroqueer, nyonya, peranakan, plural, queer, singapura, system, trans
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