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[toxicsamruby]

pls explain muslim palestinian dean i need to know ur reasoning. im fascinated pls pls pls

youve unlocked it! ill never shut up now!

so: my secret spn in my head where every single character is a person of color. john is still a white vietnam vet cuz i think thats important to his character but maryam is the american born daughter of palestinian refugees who left during al nakba. maryam was pretty invested in assimilating (hence white vietnam veteran husband and naming her children Sam and Dean) but she Was muslim and her first language Was arabic and that Did leave a mark on dean but not sam bc he was a baby when she died.

so sam grows up never having known anything abt his heritage and so there’s never any comfort for him in it it doesn’t feel like home to him you know? and that’s part of the mythologization of maryam that dean buys into it more completely than sam. so when sam leaves home he tries to find comfort in american protestantism he does genuinely have faith but it isn’t a faith that comes from family it comes from trying to assimilate in a culture/religion that will literally never accept him because he’s arab (and also, like, half demon)

whereas dean doesnt actually BELIEVE in god but he does still remember the prayers that maryam used to say before he went to sleep he remembers the way she’d say bismillah before she ate or subhanallah when something good happened. and this is sort of a way that he connects w her. even though he doesnt really know or understand islam it’s still something sacred to him specifically because it belonged to maryam. like he doesnt read the quran and he doesnt avoid pork or alcohol bc he’s also trying really hard to emulate john’s ideal of white masculinity (which he will never reach because he’s a man of color) but he does privately identify w islam in a way that is reverential to his mother

and i picked palestine specifically bc im projecting all this is relevant to the palestinian diaspora. the cultural disconnect broadly but also specifically the sense of homesickness for a home that doesnt really exist anymore because of colonization. and that re: sam and dean both wanting to settle down wanting to have a home (they want it in different ways but they both want Something) even though they dont have anything to go back to

[saintemiliosandoz]

listen like listen! dean taking after mary still, in looks but also in other ways–he’s not big on spicy food, but he always has a small packet of adobo in his bag for meals. he tells sam about the three kings day festival in old san juan, remembering the fond way his mother would talk about it, how she would leave dean a present in a pile of hay on the eve of dia de los reyes while their dad would make a rosca de reyes that they’d have for breakfast. they went once, when dean was two. dean doesn’t remember the island, but sometimes he dreams of the salt in the air and the way the humidity felt like breathing for the first time.

whenever dean and sam were able to stay in rented apartments or houses instead of motel rooms, dean would make sam asopao de pollo, and watch as sam dumped a generous amount of hot sauce on it. later, in the bunker, dean tries to remember all the dishes they’d eat. he learns how to cook with plantains, making mofongo, tostones. when mary comes back, he learns that she just bought that stuff from the goya section in the supermarket, that she didnt really know how to cook.

it was john who did the cooking then. he made them rosca de reyes as i said before. barbecues in the summer werent for burgers and hot dogs (though they had plenty of those too) but for morcilla and elotes and fajitas. sam who takes after him in taste, in temperament. sam with the guadalupe tattooed onto his body, unbeknownst to him that john had the same tattoo, though it was hidden and small.  

mary always had a pendant around her neck, a little silhouette of la virgen, and dean finds it in his father’s bag when he’s cleaning their guns one day, and he slips it around his own neck. john notices but doesn’t say a word

[fatimajpeg]

Sophie but she’s Desi ♡

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Wonderful Women of Color Meme: 2/10 Fancasts:

Sofia Boutella as Natasha Romanoff, The Black Widow (Marvel Comics)

[visibilityofcolor]

A specific type of representation

Arthur Curry (Jason Mamoa) and Mera (Amber Herd)

So another article. This is looking on the representation, and discussing how the most representation we see of “marginalized groups” are men of color and white women. Women of color are erased in these narratives even if the film is important to a specific culture. The two movies I touch mainly up on are Aquaman and Into the Spider verse. I’m going to follow this up later with discussing a “specific type of interracial ship” focusing on men of color and white women being the only “Acceptable” interracial ships. 

Please share. And if you like this story, please give it a like/heart on wix. You don’t need a wix account to like the article! :D enjoy.

[visibilityofcolor]

Also, editted so i could add a but about peni parker!

[naramdil]

desi cinderella would have worn glass chudiyaan. of course one of them breaks, they’re made of glass. the raja hangs onto the pieces and has his most trusted jeweler make it one again. he then goes on an arduous journey to seek out every maiden in the province, searching for the one with the matching set. there are whisperings of what the bangle is like, many try to replicate it. but the glass is never the same clarity and the bangles never match in size. numerous aspiring princesses attempt to wear it, but the bangle simply will not fit…there is but one maiden this churi can be adorned upon and she’s nowhere to be found 

[mattmurderdocks]

friend: what if john boyega played aziraphale and oscar isaac played crowley

me: oh my god. holy shit. what the fuck. i gotta draw this.

[sunfortune]

is venom muslim bc he said 'we dont eat police officers' (pig)?

LMFKFNDKDHDJBD YOUR MIND

[ree-duh]

REASONS WHY ASH TYLER IS A CONFIRMED™ MUSLIM:

Have you seen his beard like do you honestly think a non believer could grow that huh no I didn’t think so

when everyone was getting intoxicated™ my boy was making a toast with water because he knows alcohol is haram

He wasn’t trusted and isolated by the people around him as if that isn’t the biggest Muslim M O O D

When he first met Lorca he gave his food to him because he saw that Lorca needed it because like the good Muslim man he is he knows deen >>>> dunua

Do you even need any more reasons like look at the F A C T S™

[ree-duh]

Did I read this correctly tumblr user Yucky Yikes would like to keep religion out of Star Trek

They’d like to keep religion out of Star Trek

They want to remove religion from Star Trek

Buddy I don’t think you know anything about Star Trek

[oatmilksupremacy]

honestly? keanu reeves should have been in the MCU by now

[oatmilksupremacy]

honestly keanu reeves should’ve been doctor strange

[oatmilksupremacy]

marvel wouldn’t even need to spend money on cgi because keanu reeves can just do that

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Superhero Aesthetics:

Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

[sunfortune]

ever watch a hit movie from the 2000s that has a white and non white lead that jump started both of their careers but then look at their filmography since then and the white actor got cast as lead in so many movies/shows while the non white actor rarely Ever got cast at all…makes me sad every time I see it

[tastefullyoffensive]

I’m lovin it.

[infinitecrime]

This post fails to include the entire context and point of this stunt, which was to protest the lack of Asian representation in US media and advertising. And the legit HEIST including fake McDonalds uniforms that they had to pull off to get it up

(Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/blogs-trending-45402404)

[asiansinhollywood]

Here's All The South Asian Talent Coming to Your Fall TV - The Teal Mango

Your definitive guide of where to watch your favorite actors of South Asian descent shine on-screen this fall

[vietzuko]

okay but consider…….lucy liu as emma frost

[vietzuko]

i’m?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!

[lunaeregia]

winning.

Disney Reanimates Portions of Upcoming Film After Criticism for Lightening Black Character’s Skin

Walt Disney Co. has decided to reanimate scenes showing its only black princess in the coming “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel after facing criti

[fangedfiend-deactivated20200430]

The WSJ article is behind a paywall, so here’s the relevant bits:

Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.67% has decided to reanimate scenes showing its only black princess in the coming “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel after facing criticism that the company had lightened her skin tone from previous appearances and narrowed her nose.

Princess Tiana, hailed as a breakthrough character for Disney when she first appeared in 2009’s “The Princess and the Frog,” is briefly featured in the “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel, called “Ralph Breaks the Internet.” After images of the princess were released by Disney over the summer, online users noted what they perceived as differences in pigmentation and facial features between the 2009 and 2018 versions of Tiana.

The social-media-driven backlash prompted Disney to begin reanimating the princess immediately after the images were released, according to a person familiar with the matter. The revisions—an unusual move given the yearslong process of making an animated film—come in the final months before the movie’s release on Nov. 21.

During the revision process, Disney animators weighed feedback from Anika Noni Rose, the actress who voices Tiana, and met with representatives from Color of Change, an advocacy organization that focuses on issues of racial representation and political inequality, including portrayals of black characters in Hollywood.

Brandi Collins-Dexter, a senior campaign director with Color of Change, traveled to Disney’s Burbank, Calif. headquarters last week for a review with the animators of the changes, which she described as darker hair and a wider nose and mouth.

In a statement Thursday, Color of Change praised Disney’s decision to “restore Princess Tiana’s image to that of an unapologetically black princess with full lips, dark skin and dark hair.”

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