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[fananarama]

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I'm watching glee again. I am so weak in the face of Samcedes.

[aspirationalbrand]

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Life goals

[oliviasbenson]

 So now you’ve decided that the one thing you want is my daughter, my child, mine! What I made. What I created.

[thisisbluelanguage]

THIS IS THE BEST SHIT EVER!!!

[cousinmarcus]

served heem something vicious

[kerrymwashington]

[hersoulshinesthru]

You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful little brat! You have everything handed to you on a silver platter and you squander it. You’re given the world and you can’t appreciate it because you haven’t had to work for anything! So now you’ve decided that the one thing you want is my daughter, my child, mine. What I made. What I created. You could talk about what a great lay she is and try to get a response from me all you want. But guess what? I am actually quite literally above your pay grade, which means that I know that you believe that you are in love with her, as wrong as you may be. 

Papa Pope called out White Privilege to the T!!

[sonofbaldwin]

Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination by Olivia Cole

[racebending]

As white people, we are used to representations of ourselves crowding the covers of magazines, crowning the posters of newly released films. The good guys are white, we have learned, after eons of our faces being plastered under cowboy hats and in impeccable Bond suits. White men are Superman, we have learned. White men are Ethan Hunt and Neo and white men are hobbits. Bad men, we have learned, are black. They’re gang bangers and thugs and talk loud and sometimes deliver funny lines where we laugh at their Otherness. Black men aren’t heroes, we learn. Our imagination and subconscious are so saturated with white supremacist notions of goodness, beauty, and heroism, that when confronted head-on with an image of a black man who is brilliant and kind and normal and who saves the day, we transform into robotic versions of ourselves: Does… not… compute. Hero… must be… white. It’s this line of thinking that turned Disney’s Princess Tiana into an animal for 95 percent of the movie. The collective white imagination had difficulty imagining a black girl as a princess… and so she became a frog.

First they freaked out when Rue was black; this time it’s Beetee.

The next day on the bus, I overheard a young woman and her friends — who had just come from the film, apparently — exchanging their thoughts about what they had just seen, and the young woman said, “I thought it was awesome. Well, except for Beetee. Why the f*ck did they make him black? Beetee wasn’t black.”…. After hearing this young woman’s comment, I jumped on Twitter and searched mentions of Beetee’s name. I came across the usual racist vitriol, but there was the occasional tweet that looked like this:

Like, it’s not the fact that he’s black, IT’S THE FACT THAT HE ISN’T BEETEE.

— kitchen sink (@walkinginnuendo) September 7, 2012

I saw more of the same in comment sections on various articles around the web. Never read the comment sections, guys. Really. And it has led me to believe that the problem isn’t that Hunger Games purists who believe that Beetee looked a certain way were disappointed that the film strayed from that representation, it’s that white audiences in America are afflicted with a certain limitation of the imagination when it comes to the representation of characters they are fond of. 

[tubooks]

So what we have here in Ms. Savage’s post is an expression of concern about the rise of “gratuitous” diversity… framed by a call for more straight white men. And what we have in Mr. Davidson’s call for “minority”** characters who genuinely represent their own background is… the very gratuitous superficiality that he claims he doesn’t espouse. Because, well, he only demands that “minority” characters justify their existence in a given narrative. Only women and people of color (etc.) risk being less-than-genuine for appearing alongside dragons and spaceships without reason. There has to be a point, see, whenever people like me pop up in fiction. We’re there only to “expand our experience and knowledge”, to educate; we can’t just be kicking around for the same reasons white men would be. I mean, really: if we’re not doing something black (or gay or Jewish or whatever), why are we even there? Because, amirite, God knows we’re not marketable. - See more at: http://nkjemisin.com/2013/12/concern-trolling-and-gratuitous-diversity/#sthash.aFx1j1qx.dpuf

Concern trolling and “gratuitous diversity” (via tubooks)

gods, i love @nkjemisin! 8)

[everythingrhymeswithalcohol]

“”Q.U.E.E.N.’ definitely is an acronym,’ Monae explains during an interview at Fuse HQ. ‘It’s for those who are marginalized.’ She says the ‘Q’ represents the queer community, the ‘U’ for the untouchables, the ‘E’ for emigrants, the second ‘E’ for the excommunicated and the “N” for those labeled as negroid. ‘It’s for everyone who’s felt ostracized,’ she adds. ‘I wanted to create something for people who feel like they want to give up because they’re not accepted by society.’” #JanelleMonae  

[bluetiefling]

[irresistible-revolution]

Plans for slave galleys calculated the difference between kidnapped females and males only as one of volume occupied on board: five females were allotted the same cargo space as four males…Once ships landed…cane fields continued the dehumanization and/as unwomaning begun at sea…For one, females were employed in cane gangs in equal or higher numbers than males, performing the same tasks but living up to five years longer. But West Indian planters’s strategy of “buying rather than breeding” - working slaves to death - also meant that pregnant workers received no differential treatment, and slave motherhood was not a way for females to become women. Conscripted to cut cane even in the ninth month of pregnancy, most enslaved females never gave birth at all due to miscarriages, amenorrhea and abortions….To justify this treatment of kidnapped Africans as neuter work units, imperial narratives insisted that ungendering preceded slavery…and that something in the [Black] race’s physical makeup made its members’ animal sexual differences incapable of adding up to recognizable, desired femininity….[they] saw African females not only as beasts but as beasts of burden, noting that their “masculine physique” matched males’ in “enduring toil, hardships and privations” - proving the sexes EQUALLY fit for slavery”

- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, from “Thiefing Sugar”

since SOME people in the SH fandom are trying to act cute let me remind all you transparently racist fuckers that every time you parrot “Abbie is a strong independent woman who needs no man” BULLSHIT as an excuse for not shipping Ichabbie or prioritizing Katrina over her, the above is the kind of rhetoric you’re perpetuating. Your stereotypes about what Black women deserve are DIRECTLY descendant from slave masters who worked Black women to death for centuries cos they were “strong” enough. Clean up ur white tears and go read a fucking book.

(via irresistible-revolution)

[luna-cry]

"I Ship It" — an Icona Pop parody by Not Literally Productions

  THEY WROTE A FUCKING SONG FOR SHIPPING!

[fananarama]

On the one hand--I think this is brilliantly done, as infectious as the original song, and a great evocation of the fun that shippers have in fandoms.

On the other hand--this is a pretty white cis shipping perspective, with the transgressions (that are fun and carefree!) coming from two quarters: incest ships and slash. I don't even think I saw a POC in any of the footage. So there's that.

[asieymomo]

another article minimizing her to a sidekick. Team Abbie Mills / Nicole Beharie ain’t havin’ that. TV Guide, I am disappoint. 

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

We need to tweet the writers and ask if Abbie is just Ichabod’s “sidekick” now, as in tonight.

Oh, but Abbie fans are just paranoid about how things have been going.

[fananarama]

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH! 

[themushr000m]

it’s interesting how people will fight for their ship but won’t fight for the real people who are implicated in real ways by domestic abuse by white cis dudes.

it’s a trigger for me and watching that show is actually disgusting.

like plce yourself in the shoes of this black...

[fananarama]

I'm writing a co-authored paper right now about just this issue. We never get to be the center.

[crisschele-moved-blog]

Dancing With The Stars Season 17 Champion

Amber Riley & Derek Hough

[fananarama]

Because I want to remember and test my annoyance

Did we have to find the connection between Ichabod and Abbie through Katrina/the baby/the midwife? What I got from that episode was that this awesome discovery that Abbie made about her ancestry (which she clearly didn't know) was pretty much a sidebar to Ichabod's discovery about his progeny (which he also didn't know and yawn). 

Also: Jenny and Irving feel like they're becoming characters while Abbie feels like sidekick (wise and seeing sidekick, related to some guardian of witchery sidekick, kick-ass sidekick, but sidekick nonetheless). I hope I feel differently (for the better) by the end of the season.

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Wait a min

Did no one read the TITLE of the video? 

Families Intwined from “Sanctuary”

Plural. As in more than one family is involved. Maybe Abbie will find out that her lineage goes back to the Founding Fathers, too. 

*fingers crossed for her to be related to Arthur Bernard*

[fananarama]

My head canon is that he and Ichabod were the witnesses, but his death necessitated Ichabod's long nap until the next Witness came around again.

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

What do you think Abbie’s biggest flaw is? Part of me wants to say how guarded she is, but I don’t know if that’s really a flaw to be guarded. She does seem to bottle things up a lot, which I suppose could be seen as as a flaw because all of that frustration is eventually going to…

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

You are where I am. I’m racking my brain, but I’m having trouble really thinking of something. I hope they do an ep that focuses on her story again before the season ends.

[fananarama]

I'd like that, too. I'm just going to adopt a bit of Abbie's caution and not get too hopeful...

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

A lot has been made of Ichabod's various flaws thanks to the last ep

What do you think Abbie’s biggest flaw is? Part of me wants to say how guarded she is, but I don’t know if that’s really a flaw to be guarded. She does seem to bottle things up a lot, which I suppose could be seen as as a flaw because all of that frustration is eventually going to have to be let out.

What do you think?

[fananarama]

I don't think we've seen it yet, whatever it is (and there had better be one, dammit). The guardedness feels like a character trait, not a flaw. She doesn't appear to be clinging to an irrational rationality about their circumstances, so she's not holding out on doing the work because of disbelief. She's compassionate but was willing to have Crane dispatch Andy with a quickness, which suggests she'll make the tough choices no matter what they cost her heart (which we've learned a couple of times with her already). Frankly, I can't think of a flaw, which is concerning, because I want her to be as whole as possible, and right now the only sorts of things that may be conflicts for her would be the members of their merry band, and I don't see loving worthy people as a flaw so....