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y’all know what I’m going to do after handing in my bachelor thesis and suffering through an oral exam tomorrow? I’ll bake muffins and rewatch all harry potter movies and cuddle with my cats

eliselaserre

I’m happy to announce that I officially passed the Latinum and that Harry just received his letter

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10.14.17

greyyourwarden

Not to change the subject, but Christmas is very much not a Jewish holiday, so why are they labeling it as Judeo-Christian??

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the trick for enjoying a new video game is avoiding the internet’s opinion on it

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Light - Death Note (2017) - Netflix

acomik

The joke of adulthood is being able to afford all the games you always wanted as a kid but no longer have the time to play.

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kereeachan

Everything coming out about the new Death Note shows how much they’re missing the point of Death Note.

Light is not a weird loner kid. He’s a top of his class, “that kid’s going places” type. People admire him. He stays beneath suspicion until L enters the fray by seeming so perfectly straitlaced and normal that no one thinks he could ever be a serial killer. The idea of Light having a locker sign saying “normal people scare me” is ridiculous, Light would probably mock the kind of person who’d put that in their locker. Light is handsome, confident, and while his ego is horrendous and his god complex ends up going to sociopath levels eventually, he has great charisma. He’s great at talking people into things and getting them to trust him.

Light is not an outcast. He is not a punk or a rebel in any way.

If you were committed to doing “Death Note but in the USA” Light would be an all-American boy, the local sheriff’s son who plays sports and gets good grades and just seems oh-so wholesome. That was why back when I was in high school and people floated Zak Effron as the casting for an American Death Note I thought it was a great idea since Light would probably be a Troy Bolton type in the USA, albeit with a bit more focus on his academics than sports.

Light is not an outcast. He is the sort of boy where if he was American and was accused of a crime you’d have two thirds of the town online going “that good boy would never do such a thing.”

Just…where did this idea of “punk” Light even come from? Where in any version of Death Note has Light ever done anything remotely teenage-rebellion-ish? Just…where did this even spring from?

joshualunacreations

People who defend whitewashing have hundreds of tired excuses for why roles should be white, but never Asian-American. These excuses always boil down to a white supremacist ideology that believes “American” is synonymous with “white,” and Asian-Americans have no place in this country.

So it’s no surprise that Hollywood always tells Asians that the best we can get is crumbs—even when we’re the ones who made the cake. But rather than agree that there’s a problem, defenders of whitewashing will instead try to redirect our attention to something like L’s supposed “blackwashing”—which doesn’t exist, and is instead a concept designed to put a wedge between two communities of color who are both constantly told to be happy with their crumbs.

From my own personal experiences with Hollywood, Asian-Americans don’t get anywhere by asking nicely like a model minority. Instead of staying silent or being misdirected, we need to be loud. Luckily, we don’t need a magical notebook to do so in this instance—we can boycott Death Note to make it flop, and remind Hollywood that if we don’t get any cake, they don’t either.

(Hate-watching still counts as watching. Don’t watch it at all)

vorpalgirl

The stupidest thing about this adaptation is they moved the setting to Seattle and yet people are like “well Asian people have to earn the roles too” (I seriously fucking saw that argument, like somebody actually posted to that to like an i09 comment or something??) and like the reviews are already saying the two white leads are MEDIOCRE in it anyway, so Lemme point out 1.) The entire US West Coast has a LARGE Asian and Asian-American population, I think the highest out of any US region AT ALL. Like, to the extent Tagalog (a language spoken in the Philippines, for those not familiar with Filipino culture) is the third most common language in California (beaten out only by English and Spanish, people. In Cali-freaking-fornia!). Los Angeles? One of the most goddamn diverse cities/regions in the entire United States, has not just one Asian ethnic enclave, but at least three that I can think of just off the top of my head: -a Koreatown (suffered heavy damage during the 1992 Riots but still there as I understand it) - a world fucking famous Chinatown (definitely still there last I checked) - AND a Japantown (though thanks to WWII-era fuckery, mostly not actually Japanese-populated today as far as living places go, the original Japantown does still have a Japanese temple though). Also fortune cookies were invented, IIRC, in California and I believe specifically in LA?? 2.) Do you want to know where Seattle is? DING DING. IT’S IN ONE OF THE THREE US STATES THAT MAKE UP THE WEST COAST. In fact, lest someone even so much as think “okay but you keep talking about California, California is not Seattle”; ah, no, see, the diversity of California ain’t a damn fluke: Seattle has SUCH a high Asian population/Asian influence that there is literally, no joke, a massive store from a Japanese bookseller chain, Kinokuniya, located in it. It includes many many imported books IN JAPANESE, and has been there for YEARS. Years!!! Boba/Bubble tea made it big in Seattle (and possibly LA, not sure which had it first) YEARS before you started seeing it pop up elsewhere, straight up from just the Asian influence on Seattle cafes and restaurants.

3.) Let me repeat that: the CITY IT IS SET IN, IRL HAS A HUGE ASIAN POPULATION/INFLUENCE. And!! This is not even counting the fact that Japanese and Chinese and Vietnamese and Filipinx and Korean and Indian etc etc people live ALL OVER the USA, in fact there’s a significant Japanese-American diaspora spread throughout the South/Bible Belt of all places, and I went to middle/high school in FLORIDA with: - a Korean-American girl (cool and confident and witty and stylish af and ridiculously pretty, and boy, I had such a low-key crush on her in hindsight haha)

- a Vietnamese-American boy (pretty sure he had ADHD, Predominantly Hyperactive Subtype and I say this as someone with ADHD. Smart. Boisterous. Slightly annoying. Yelled “cut his [thing you don’t want cut off] off!” during a field trip to Medieval Times, and got permanently banned from the facility. Fluent in Russian, I think, so he may have had mixed heritage too??) -a first-gen Chinese-American girl (didn’t speak any English at first, I was put in a room with her to try and teach it to her which wtf even I was a KID I had no training?? isn’t that what ESOL is for?? Desperately tried helping her learn English by using cartoonish drawings and pictures, and got Very Protective over people being snotty about her pronunciation of “cat” though I couldn’t really do anything about that. I hope she’s doing well today, she was nice and people kept fucking butchering her name because they didn’t even really try :\ She seemed to at least progress through the grades at the same rate I did, since I saw her again in high school, so there’s that) - at least two Indian-Americans? (One was named Ravi. He wasn’t annoying, kept to himself. Maybe was into anime because kind of all our class was, but not sure? The other I don’t think I had too many classes with) - depending on your definition of “Asian”, the Saudi Arabian friend I had in middle school counts too (she, like much of the classes I had, liked anime and missed being able to catch it uncut via satellite, because to my surprise, even a lot of pretty raunchy anime was getting translated into Arabic at the time and totally available if you had satellite TV). …soooo don’t tell me that even if it WERE set outside the West Coast (which it’s not!), that you couldn’t find it perfectly logical to cast an Asian actor in ANY OF THE CAST WHATSOEVER because that logic doesn’t fly but it’s especially STUPID when your setting is off places fucking SEATTLE! 4.) Tldr: this means even if they cast “local” from Seattle, they could probably have gotten an at least decent Asian-American actor, no prob, YET THEY DIDN’T 5.) This also means that if they used any of the major casting/production centers for TV/film in the US - those being Los Angeles (which I have thoroughly covered lol), Vancouver (also on the West Coast, sometimes referred to as “Hollywood North”, this is where a lot of TV productions like Stargate: SG-1 have been filmed, has its own famous film school and everything, STILL diverse), or New York City (which is LA’s biggest competition for “most diverse city in USA”, and has, itself, A WORLD FAMOUS CHINATOWN)…Asian actors would have been available if they had bothered to cast them. Yet they didn’t.

6.) Let’s also point out that people aren’t even saying it had to necessarily be a Japanese actor in Specific (though yes, again, SEATTLE HAS A HUGE JAPANESE POPULATION); Asian, period! Over 60% of the world population is fucking in ASIA, do you know how many cultures are “Asian”?? Give us an Indian-American or Filipino-American Light! Vietnamese! Fucking anything but goddamn white??? Tons of options??? 7.) The idea that an Asian should have to “earn” a “non-race-specific” role MORE than a white actor sounds particularly ridiculous when the reviews I’ve seen seem to indicate that aside from Willem Defoe, the white cast members weren’t that great anyway, or at least nothing special. Tell me: WHY does even a half decent Asian actor have to “earn” that more than a mediocre white one did??

8.) I’ll tell you “why”, it’s because even when the story was Asian originally, people find a way to interpret “white” as “default” unless they think they can’t avoid it. 9.) To the extent that it’s supposedly “progressive” to their minds, gives them some sort of brownie points, that L was cast as black, when he’s LITERALLY from the sounds of it the only POC in the entire damn cast. That’s not progressive, that’s better than “nothing” for POC rep overall, but it’s basically tokenism, which is only marginally better than zero rep, if that.

10.) Which is bullshit. As I’ve pointed out: there’s no fucking reason for this view in American film and TV. There’s NO reason not to have at least ONE Asian cast member. Of any Asian ethnicity/background whatsoever. If they had made him Indian or Filipino-American or Korean-American I doubt people would have complained but no, they just made him fucking white. For no other reason than “white” is their DEFAULT MODE, even though it’s only ingrained, racist, white-privileging bias that makes it so. This frankly needs to stop. I forget where but there was a study someone did in relatively recent years, where it was found that even though Asians make up about 5% of the US population (which means about 15 MILLION people), they were represented at a rate of about 2.5% in TV/Film EVEN IN BACKGROUND ROLES. Stop fucking?? Ignoring Asian people in your goddamn casting??? They’re more fucking common than you think and you have NO excuse to completely pretend they don’t exist in MOTHERFUCKING! SEATTLE!!! Like, beyond just whitewashing the characters…they basically whitewashed the setting in order to do that, too. :\

Alright so I went to a wedding today and I brought my little brother. I have my wallet, my keys, phone, and retainer case on me. I decide that I've got too much stuff to be carrying around so I decide to give my retainer to my brother. He's 8 years old and decides he doesn't want to carry it so he gives it to my dad. My dad gets it and he thinks," oh my youngest son gave me something to hold lemme throw that shit in the garbage." Then we get home and I find out he tossed it as soon as he got it. Then he tells me it's my fault for telling my brother to hold it. Not even a my bad and he tells me that since he's just some dumb kid that of course he can't be trusted with anything. What a punk ass piece of shit this guy is

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Yea

voxlunae

this is my mood after that short

uppityfemale

I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.

If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.

kittykat8311

this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it

intheicyairofnight

Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.

If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.

For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service.

The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage.