Plan A Magazine

Catch the short documentary I'm Not An Activist, which will go online on Fri July 28! Dir by Dan Chen (Accepted, 95% on RT), prod by @PlanAMag. See what Dragon Combat Club has been trying to do amidst attacks on Asians in the past few years. youtu.be/J4xEu_Zn2EQ

"I'M NOT AN ACTIVIST" Coming soon instagram.com/reel/Cu9ke7bg7…

Dropping soon, watch out for it 👀🔥

A thought-provoking op-ed on the SFFA decision from @PlanAMag's @JesuInToast. Subscribe to Chris' new Substack, Salieri Redemption, for more of his writing! salieriredemption.substack.com/p/dont-trust-a…

Part 2 is available on Patreon for Plan A Mag patrons! patreon.com/posts/ep-426-n…

.@aesthdistance1, @JesuInToast, and filmmaker Dan Chen to talk about Velma, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the dead-end of diversity self-insert culture, divorcing one's self-esteem from media rep, and striving to create instead of just criticize soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

Part 2 is available as a bonus for Patreon patrons: patreon.com/posts/ep-424-d…

.@aesthdistance1, @cogitatotomato, @jesuintoast, and @Mont_Jiang discuss the widespread phenomenon of embracing older creative techs like film cameras and typewriters and we stand to gain from them soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

Watch Dan Chen's acclaimed short film, Ella, here: vimeo.com/286736202

The trailer for Dan Chen's acclaimed documentary, Accepted youtube.com/watch?v=puja1h…

Happy new year! @Mont_Jiang and @duskyrainbow discuss Plan A's short doc project helmed by director Dan Chen, cinematographer Philips Shum, and producer Millicent Cho soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

Part 2 is available on Patreon as a bonus for patrons: patreon.com/posts/ep-420-p…

.@Mont_Jiang and @JesuInToast talk about wanting to regularly publish pieces again, but now with a newfound focus on creativity rather than criticism, and their hope that that can help foster a new Asian American artistic subculture soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

.@JesuInToast, @Mont_Jiang, and @filipgwriting talk about how the new AI writing program ChatGPT could either spell doom for human writers or usher in a renaissance where mediocre shitlib writing is rendered obsolete. soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

Bonus: @Mont_Jiang and @JesuInToast picture a world without Tik Tok and also discuss the recent Asian American complaints about the failures of KPOP (the musical) and the The Partner Track, and theorize that AsAms (at least the "creatives") just suck patreon.com/posts/ep-417-t…

Part 2 is available as a bonus here: patreon.com/posts/ep-416-c…

After @JesuInToast's trip to Korea, he and @filipgwriting talk about aging parents and the impact their increasingly apparent mortality has on how we balance our own interests vs. their desires for our careers, dating and marriage, and other life pursuits soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

An early release! @JesuInToast and @snbatman talk about Korea's dramatic progression to the knockout stage of the 2022 World Cup, how much we tie up self-worth to international sports, and the rise of Cho Gue-sung as the Hot Guy of the World Cup. soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…

Part 2 available as bonus here: patreon.com/posts/ep-413-s…

.@cogitatotomato and @Mont_Jiang talk about the difference in life approach between those of us who seek achievement within the confines of a competition, versus those of us who seek achievement entirely as self-satisfaction. (Part 1 of 2) soundcloud.com/plan-a-magazin…