Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I wrote and recced fics as well as picspammed celebrating characters and characters played by actors of Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage across various fandoms.

My fics featuring Asian/Pacific Islander characters:
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Fandom Roundups
Roundup #1 - Pictures
Roundup #2 - Fics

Non-Fandom
Fusion Stories Asian Pacific Heritage Month For Young Readers • May 2008
I found this via Angry Asian Man and decided to include it into this roundup because they're "Ten new contemporary novels by Asian Americans aren’t traditional tales set in Asia nor stories about coming to America for the first time". I don't know about you, but I plan to pick up some of these books to read.

In fandoms across the board, there are wonderful characters (and actors of those characters) of Asian and Pacific Island heritage. In this roundup, I've gathered fanfic, fanart, and fanvids of those characters. This is only a small sample of fanworks in a few fandoms.

The fandoms are: Captain Planet, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Grey's Anatomy, Hard Boiled, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Harry Potter, Hero (2002 movie), Heroes, High School Musical, House, Kill Bill, MLB RPS, The Office (US), Smallville, Soccer RPS, Stargate Atlantis, Storm Riders, Torchwood.

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In fandoms across the board, there are wonderful characters (and actors of those characters) of Asian and Pacific Island heritage. In this roundup, I've gathered pictures of those characters, celebrating their beauty and diversity.

Battlestar Galactica
( Number Eight )

Bones
( Angela Montenegro )

ER
( Jing-Mei Chen, Neela Rasgotra )

Grey's Anatomy
( Cristina Yang )

Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
( Harold Lee, Kumar Patel )

Harry Potter
( Cho Chang, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil )

Heroes
( Ando Masahashi, Hiro Nakamura, Mohinder Suresh )

House M.D.
( Lawrence Kutner )

High School Musical
( Gabriella Montez (played by Vanessa Hudgens) )

Kill Bill
( O-Ren Ishii, Gogo Yubari )

Law & Order SVU
( George Huang )

Lipstick Jungle
( Victory Ford (played by Lindsay Price) )

Lost
( Jin-Soo Kwon, Sun-Hwa Kwon )

The Office (US)
( Kelly Kapoor )

Smallville
( Lana Lang (played by Kristin Kreuk) )

Stargate Atlantis
( Ronon Dex (played by Jason Momoa) )

Star Trek TOS
( Hikaru Sulu )

Star Trek Voyager
( Harry Kim )

Torchwood
( Tosh Sato )

The Wire
( Kima Greggs (played by Sonja Sohn) )

MLB RPS
( Chien-Ming Wang, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, Ichiro Suzuki, Kosuke Fukudome )

NFL RPS
( Hines Ward, Junior Seau, Lofa Tatupu, Tedy Bruschi )

Additions from lilithilien (in the comment below)