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@mslynnchen

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actress, filmmaker, loves a sale
@iwmymfilm @genxtaste
Preorder my children’s book w @slantdcreative 🥟👇

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Gratitude for these glorious 👑s. So many moments of great memories, Marco Polo videos, and more in these last few years of difficult days. ♥️❤️‍🩹

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spend the morning w me: youtube.com/@genxtaste

#vlog #mourning #griefjourney #griefloss

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WE DID IT!!! 🎉
$25,902 raised + 304 backers from all corners of our community = another successful @kickstarter campaign in the books (pun 100% intended) ! 📚

This campaign was never just about hitting a number: it was living proof that AAPI stories deserve to exist in the world. To everyone who backed, shared, or cheered us on: THANK YOU. We mean it from the bottom of our hearts. 🙏🏼 ❤️

It was definitely one of the most stressful campaigns we’ve ever run, and we were only able to do it because this community shows up when it really matters. Because of your support, we’ll be able to fund the production of our first two books and make our debut authors’ dreams a reality. ✨

WHAT’S NEXT:
🥟 Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese by @mslynnchen @annychen.art launches NEXT MONTH (Oct 2026)! We’re planning a launch celebration in Los Angeles (more details soon)!
🇵🇭 Eternal: Tales of an East Side Pinoy by @itsdjeternal @kelsotang @moodinfinite launches Spring 2027!

🔜 Backers: Keep an eye on your inbox later this month! We’ll be sending backer updates and fulfillment details your way very soon.

Missed the campaign? You can still make a late pledge (link in bio) to get your hands on books + merch before the public.

#kidlit #indiepublishing #diversebooks #memoirs

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“Sometimes your body knows what you really want.”
I only watched this movie more than twenty years after its release; I initially wondered if it was too late, but after seeing it, I realized it is never too late. I love every aspect of their emotions—the shyness, the boldness, the hesitation, and the regret. I may never quite shake my concern for saving face, but the courage to pursue love remains a constant.
Love is strange.Everything But The Girl.

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Saving Face - 2004
Criterion Collection @criterioncollection
🇺🇸 Region A

One of my favorite films! It's such a gem. Happy to finally have this in BluRay

#savingface #cinephile #bluray #physicalmedia #film

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August roundup is up: genxtaste.substack.com

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WE DID IT!! 🎉🥟🎧 Our kickstarter campaign is 100% FUNDED! Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! and Eternal: Tales of an East Side Pinoy are officially coming to life! Thank you to the 289 backers who believed in these stories. This was the most ambitious campaign we’ve ever run, and every single pledge, share, and comment got us here. From the bottom of our hearts — thank you!!
We’re not closing up shop just yet: the campaign runs through 8/30, so there’s still time to back us if you haven’t, or add on anything extra to your pledge. And for our Canadian friends — we’re now shipping to Canada! 🇨🇦 We can’t wait for you all to read these stories 🥹

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This is so stressful. Link in bio to help.

Update: so many people had trouble donating bc of site issues that they’re giving us 5 more days! August 30th! We can do this!!!

#aapi #childrensbookstagram #kickstarter #firsttimeauthor

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👀 A new sneak peek into Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! as we get ready to send one of our first books to print 🥟 Every spread here carries something intentional. @mslynnchen wrote this story from her own history with body image and identity — the kind of thing she wished she’d had language for as a kid. @annychen.art took that and gave it shape: designing Little Dumpling and Mama as visual opposites on purpose, soft and rounded versus sharp and precise, and folding in little details from her own upbringing along the way. This book has been years in the making, made with more care than a caption can really capture. And it doesn’t reach print without you.
3 days left to help bring Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! to life. Back us on Kickstarter — link in bio 💛

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⏰ 3 DAYS LEFT to back us on Kickstarter! We’re in the final stretch of the campaign. Help us bring our debut books to print 🙏🏼 If you’ve been saving this as a to-do for later, NOW’S THE TIME! Kickstarter is all or nothing, ever pledge helps, or share this with someone who’d love these books. 🔗Link in bio to back us before time runs out 💛

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We’re halfway to $25,000 and we can’t get to the finish line without you! In one week, our Kickstarter closes, and Kickstarter is all or nothing: if we’re short by even $1, we get $0. These aren’t just two books to us, they’re Lynn Chen @mslynnchen and Roel Garcia @itsdjeternal, two debut authors getting a shot at telling their stories that traditional publishing rarely gives. Only 7% of published authors in the U.S. identify as AAPI. Every pledge is a small act of making sure that number changes! Both of these stories deserve to exist in the world and with your help, they will. We’re so grateful for everyone who’s gotten us this far. If you haven’t backed us yet, now’s the time. Please help us amplify and share with someone who would love these books! Link in bio 💛

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Every book starts somewhere. Swipe through to see how Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! came to life, from @mslynnchen’s earliest ideas to @annychen.art’s final art. And remember: this book only gets made if we hit our Kickstarter goal — link in bio to help bring it to print. ✨

Lynn co-founded a body image blog called Thick Dumpling Skin — and when it came time to write her first children’s book, she knew the hero had to be a soup dumpling. Soup dumplings have strict standards: precise weight, an exact number of pleats. The perfect metaphor for a story about the pressure to be “just right.”

Lynn described Little Dumpling as “plump and proud” to Anny on their very first call. That one phrase stuck with Anny through the entire illustration process. She always starts with character first – reading the manuscript, highlighting every word that describes who Little Dumpling is, then sketching until her facial expressions and body language feel true to that description.

Early versions kept Little Dumpling’s clothes “doughlike”, styled like dumpling skin – but it made her look too young. The team landed on a letterman jacket, a ruffle dress, and chucks: bold, age-appropriate, and true to her sassy, rebellious personality.

It’s been an inside joke between Lynn and her husband for decades – and somehow, it became the title of her first book.

Once the characters were set, Anny moved into storyboarding. Rough thumbnails first, then refined sketches, determining pacing and how the story would move page to page. This is where Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! started to feel like an actual book.

Once the characters were set, Anny moved into storyboarding. Rough thumbnails first, then refined sketches, determining pacing and how the story would move page to page. This is where Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! started to feel like an actual book.

Little details like these are why Little Dumpling feels so real – she’s not just Lynn’s character or Anny’s illustration, she’s a little bit of both of them.

Soup Dumplings Don’t Eat Cheese! doesn’t go to print without backers. Help bring Little Dumpling’s world to life – link in bio to support the Kickstarter. ✨

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