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So, hi. I'm Rose. I'm a student majoring in what I like to call "Stuff By Dead British Guys (and a few Dead British Gals)" but most people call English. I read lots of urban fantasy and YA stuff when I have time, like Harry Potter, Doctor Who, the Cranberries, and LOVE Tamora Pierce and a lot of other stuff, too. Also: I cannot make gifs for the life of me. If you see a gif, assume that someone totally awesome made it, not me.
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May222013
1PM
in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me
you can’t repeat the past
can’t repeat the past? why, of course you can! of course you can.
Umm…. Some of the modern values are just as sucky as those of the 20s, just saying.
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12AM
Messing around with stuff from screencaps I took of Slings and Arrows because A) Why not and B) I’m using Rachel McAdams from when she was Kate McNab as a playby for an RP
May142013
Arthur Darvill as ‘Guy’ in Once on Broadway
THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS I WANT TO SEE THIS AND NOW ARTHUR DARVILL IS ONE OF THEM. AS IF JUST HEARING A REALLY PRETTY SOUNDTRACK WASN’T ENOUGH.
(Source: benfankhauser, via governorodious)
8PM
I know those feels
Sigh…. Tomorrow is my last day doing student concerned stuff at RU, and I have no motivation to be a proper student. XDDDDDD
May132013
Common Myths About Bisexuality from the lovely Webcomic “Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too” by bi blogger & author Maria Burnham (writer/memoirist) and Maggie Siegel-Berele (comic artist).
I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.
This kinda made me get a little teary eyed because it also reminded me of a lot of garbage convos people have had with me.
Reblogging because I have had every single one of these things thrown at me when I came out by at least one person, and it sucked and it hurt and it shouldn’t have been thrown at me when I was trying to be more open about something that is a part of me. Because I shouldn’t have felt like a freak for trying to stop lying to myself about something that it took me a few years to realize didn’t mean that I didn’t fit into my own skin. Because the amount of it I’ve seen thrown at me has made me less willing to be open and talk about this to others unless they ask me, and because I’ve stopped using my voice about it as my own voice and pretended to be an ally for a while at points the past few years, becuase I was so sick and scared of it all being directed at me, and have felt guilty and sickened by my own fear and hurt. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
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3PM
Be still my shippy heart.
(Source: thatwaythewindcansee, via fytortall)
2PM
Minutes ago, hundreds of minimum wage fast food and retail workers all over Chicago walked off their jobs.
Share this and join the Fight For 15: http://bit.ly/142eDr9fuck yeah chicago!!
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2PM
“In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch, intellectually and physically perfect, possessed of such charisma and drive that despite his efforts to gain control of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk (and many of the other officers) felt admiration for him.
And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.”
And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.”
Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness.
perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color:
- “…The actual issue is that black people aren’t often allowed to play full and complete characters, and an antagonist who isn’t unintelligent, thuggish cannon fodder is just as much of a rarity for black men as the stubbly hero who saves the world or wtfever. “
- “…The stereotype in no way intersects with brilliant geniuses who choose to step outside of the boundaries of society in order to exercise their intellect while having no concern for lesser beings.
Or to break it down further: the problematic stereotype regarding black people is that of being, in essence, subhuman. Characters of the Moriarty (and Holmes) archetype are rooted in being superhuman.”
You see? It’s more complicated than “people of color get typecast as villains.”
Black people get typecast as an extremely specific type of villain - they’re thugs, brutish and animalistic. South Asian actors are similarly typecast as scary oppressive (usually coded Muslim) terrorists.
But when your villain is of the superhuman archetype? When they’re brooding antiheroes, when they’re nuanced, when they’re multi-faceted?
They’re white.
(And check out this post on the glorification of white criminality in shows like Dexter, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, etc.)
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