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Arne Darvin suit practice pocket, double welted with comic print fabric!!!
dontblinktheangelshavecamelot:
Look! There was a fan fiction article in today’s Washington Express (a free daily I newspaper put out by the Washington Post in Washington DC)
Article credit, Beth Marlowe (Express)
Art credit, Patrick Leger (For Express)
“DAMMIT JIM”
I am. I am. I am.: You can be a fan of problematic things while still enjoying them....
You can be a fan of problematic things while still enjoying them. There are a lot of shows I love, and still sit back and critcize for its problematic elements. I reblogged a post from someone I respect, who is very concerned with the problematic nature of media and people in general, criticizing the casting of Star Trek: Into Darkness. The critique was good, and it didn’t shame fans, and still, plenty of people are whining about how the particular character COULD be white. It’s not ambiguous. It’s an Indian name. Even if it WAS ambiguous, there are far too many “ambiguous” characters filled by white actors. And explicitly characters that are POC are cast as white (see ATLA movie and The Hunger Games franchise, for example).
No one is saying you can’t like problematic things. I’m going to see the movie in about an hour and a half and I am sooooo fucking excited. Honestly haven’t been this excited since Les Mis or The Hobbit. I still am disappointed with the casting, though I know Benedict will do a fantastic job.
freema “hearts in my eyes” agyeman
“not tempted to go as that legendary green bellydancer, then?”
because when a woman dresses up as a character from a sci-fi show it should really be a sexualized one ugh ugh ugh
(Source: t-d-possum)
worf…………
While trying to find Chekov Bones stops to do some awesome doctoring
*falls over*
*dies*
“He could have paled in stasis” oh god dying.
lol remember when people said Amon/Noatak got pale from wearing a mask.
DUDE YES and people got angry at me for saying that was wrong and then screencapping ppl’s ACTUAL SKIN in the ACTUAL CARTOON to show that that was an actual, deliberate, frame-by-frame painted thing that had actually happened
fandom
what
My god I didn’t even make it to page 10 on the Khan tag before I got a bingo:
oh my goddddddd
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(Reblogged from racebending)
It’s not about the actor… it’s about what the actor represents, which is the fact that at some point, the creators of this film decided that there was no brown person good enough to play a character which is a brown person.
And that’s f—- bullshit. That’s insulting to every non-white actor working on the planet, and it’s insulting to every non-white person in the potential audience. That’s it. That’s all it’s about.
defcock: i’m going to try to keep this simple. writes “People being upset about Star Trek’s racefail has nothing to do with [Cumberbatch] as an actor or as a person. you don’t have to defend him.” (via racebending)
Star Trek
Gina Torres - Captain
Jamie Bamber - Helm Officer
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Librarian
Nicola Walker - Chief Engineer
Zuleikha Robinson - Security Officer
Sendhil Ramamurthy - Communications Officer
Rosario Dawson - Doctor, captain’s sister
Meghan Ory - Bartender
Mads Mikkelsen - Botanist
Indira Varma - Science Officer
Neve Campbell - Teacher, captain’s wife
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(Reblogged from racebending)
Casting a white guy as Khan means tossing out one of the most valuable things about the character — his ability to make us talk about eugenics without it being a coded discussion of white supremacy.
io9 (via whitewashing-khan)
Not that eugenics hasn’t been a coded discussion for white supremacy anyway, but still.
(via racebending)- Picard: Use your words
- Janeway: Use your head
- Kirk: Use your heart
- Sisko: USE THE SUBTLE SMOULDER OF A PANTHER STALKING ITS PREY AND THEN YELL PASSIONATELY ABOUT EVERYTHING
