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@superheroverthinking please read the interview and not one line GQ pulled. He was talking about the boycotts over TFA because of him and ONLY HIM. KMT was not in TFA. He acknowledged that she wasn't treated well either in the interview.
Also it's worth noting that KMT has gotten far more support from fans, the media and DLF itself when racism was directed towards her than John Boyega ever did. Read the article and learn about how he had to put on a brave face and laugh at the haters (unlike KMT he wasn't expected to feel pain). Yes, others have experienced racism, but antiblackbess is different. I and others have been harassed for calling out racism against John Boyega. You're pretty safe from that if you call out racism against KMT. They're both bad, but they're not the same.
ETA: There's also a particular brand of racism with KMT where she is used as cover for racism against JB by fans and journalists, and that's another conversation that gets swept under the rug.
LucasFilm, fandom, every commentator: I support Kelly Marie Tran!! I don't stay silent in the face of racism!!!!11one
The same people when John Boyega is subjected to antiblack abuse: *crickets*
Spare my Asian ass this constant use of "but Kellyyyyy D:" to derail any discussion of fandom & industry antiblack racism. She deserves better than that. John and Black fans deserved so much better.
In his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, he explains how both platforms inspired
Wow, what an interview. (Read the whole thing)
so like when zuko becomes fire lord do u think his portrait is put up everywhere like his dadâs was
like zuko definitely didnât WANT it to happen, but the fire nation is just so used to being a faccist regime that they just go ahead and start putting their new leaderâs face everywhere and zuko is so âughâ about it but he also has way more important things to focus on so he develops a very choose-your-battles kinda attitude towards it
but do you think the gaang finds it hilarious? do you think they put up tiny portraits of zuko in their own homes for the hilarity of it? do u think Sokka and Suki have a portrait of zuko in every room in their house? do you think they say good morning to it every day? do you think they kiss it goodnight? do you-
this one. right here. this sits right above the fireplace in Sokka and Sukiâs living room. tell me im wrong
youâre not wrong at all. youâre 100% right
this is tophs
I can just image Aang and Kataraâs kids having a sleepover at Sokkaâs place.
Sokka: Goodnight kids
Kids: Goodnight uncle Sokka, goodnight aunt Suki
Suki: Who else do we say goodnight to?
Kids: Goodnight giant tapestry of Zuko in the living room
Nsishwidhdwjdislwndodjwiwk this is an excellent addition, god bless
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SO THATâS HOW THEY FUCKING DO IT
Itâs not idealâŠbut K still uses it. What if everyone in Rogue One got to have a nice day at the beach? (In the last picture, K2 is behind a dune.) In Jynâs defense, I would do the same thing if I had a snarky robot friend. So, in the event of a robot/droid uprising, maybeâŠdonât stand next to me. Yes, that is a Death Star beach ball (*laugh-cries*), and Bodhi is in the background, building a scale model of Yavin 4 out of sand.Â
achilles and patroclus / andromache and hector / odysseus and penelope
âThe most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black Woman.â
-Malcolm X (1962)
(Originally made on insta by @michaelabalogun)
[Multiple people have pointed out that the Sojourner Truth speech isnât accurate. Interesting none of you bother recommending other resources to spread awareness of what itâs like to be a Black Woman while you are pulling attention away from the main pointâBlack Women need to be recognized. If you have such a problem with how accurate the speech is, just know I looked into it and apparently she approved the second version which also expresses how sheâs feeling. Letâs move on or pm me and I can list some alternatives if itâs weighing on your mind.]
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old ER technician and former EMT, was lying in her own bed when police broke in and shot her eight times without so much as announcing their presence. Say her name. Do the work. Text. Call. Sign. Donate.
All graphic credit to @xonecole on Instagram.
Hey LJ, it's been a while! I thought I'd share this video about Kylo Ren, and how the sequel trilogy and its fandom downplays his acts of genocide. (Moth)
Anti Blackness in Asian Communities Master Post
By God, why do I still have to make this?
Model Minority Myth
Non-Black Poc
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Anti-Blackness is the Fulcrum
Forcing Black People to Fight Your Battles
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South Asians
Black Lives Matter
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Family Racism
Nigeria
Why Is this Important?
ASIANS, Iâm not trying to vilify my own community. I love you all dearly, but we need to do better. Whether we like to admit or not, anti-blackness is global. And if we have the slightest chance of getting anywhere with social justice, we might as well start with ourselves.
If you are black and/or Asian, feel free to reblog.
Gag @ eddy huang and aziz ansari having their own tags
I forgot Beethoven was deaf for a minute and had a hard time finding the specific typo, while laughing uncontrollablyÂ
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) dir. Taika Waititi.
Oma and Shu were not narrative parallels to Zuko and Katara
Yes yes I know itâs so very easy to make the whole âOpposite sides of a war!â âForbidden lovers!â comparisons (even though Zuko and Katara objectively never had a Forbidden Love dynamic, if anything they would have been Enemies-To-Friends-To-Lovers), but hear me out.
The basic and essential narrative elements of the Oma-Shu story are:
Opposite sides of a war.
Fell in love.
Met up in secret.
One of them is killed.
The survivor unleashes hell.
(For the last two points we actually had a bit of pre-foreshadowing for the Oma-Shu story in the form of Tui and La. Remember Koizilla? The Water elemental getting pissed off and raging on the Fire Nation in grief is going to be important later.)
The only actual component Zuko and Katara had that was similar to Oma and Shuâs was the fact that they were on opposite sides of a war. This similarity might well satisfy some fans who are, letâs just say, a little overzealous to find narrative âproofâ for Zuko/Katara in the text but going past that initial shallow archetypal surface reading into any kind of objective scrutiny reveals that the supposed âparallelâ falls apart.
Iâll explain.
How does Oma and Shuâs love story start?
âThey met on top of the mountain that divided their two villages.â
So. The two were basically strangers who encountered each other in âneutral territoryâ, had good first impressions of each other free of the bias of their villagesâ enmity, and hit it off. We presume.
Right away the Zuko/Katara comparison dissolves, because Shu did not invade Omaâs village with a small military force to terrorize her and her people.
Continuing onâŠ
âThe villages were enemies so they could not be together.â
As mentioned, this is the only part in which Zuko and Katara are similar to Oma and Shu, and even then itâs a thin comparison because while Oma and Shu were all, âWe are in love but weâre supposed to be enemies!â Zuko and Katara were⊠well⊠Actually Enemies. The thing getting in the way of them being together was not merely the war, it was the fact that Katara genuinely loathed him and considered him the face of the enemy and Zuko barely paid attention to her except as a means of getting to Aang or as an obstacle in the way of his getting to Aang.
This is the bit where shippers get a little too excited because, âOMG! Red and blue! Color symbolism!â Ignoring of course that Oma was also wearing yellow just a few seconds earlier and wears gray just a few seconds after and also that if weâre taking the whole red/blue color symbolism legitimately that would make the Oma figure Zuko. This is too obviously false because Katara never âdiesâ during the war and Zuko doesnât put on a rageful display of bending power in grief so most shippers just kind of⊠ignore that part and rely solely on the inaccurate broad surface read.
Well okay, but surely there must be other parts of the story that Zuko and Katara meet, right?
Nope. They donât spend any time or effort trying to reach across the divide between their two sides to meet. Zuko gets hurt in the series finale and if weâre reeeaally reaching I guess we could claim that as his symbolic âdeathâ but Kataraâs reaction is hardly the emotional, grief-stricken lashing out that Oma did.
In fact the two times I can recall Katara unleashing some serious bending power because someone close to her âdiedâ was her whole ninja mission to confront the man who killed her mother and before thatâ
Oh.
OH. Lol.
Am I saying that the Oma-Shu story is really foreshadowing for Aang/Katara instead?
Yes. Yes I am.
Obviously itâs not a note-for-note parallel, wouldnât dream of claiming it is. But they hit more of the beats than Zuko/Katara, with the added bonus of also being echoed/foreshadowed in Tui and Laââpushâ and âpullâ soulmates who work in harmonyâŠ
âŠand who experience an incident where their Sky elemental mate diesâŠ
âŠand the Water elemental goes apeshit and drowns Fire Nation soldiers in large wavesâŠ
âŠbefore the beloved is reborn.
So really, think about it. Which ship is really the one where they meet and fall in love but canât be together because of a warâ
âwhich leads to one of them being killedâ
âreleasing a âpowerful display of bendingâ from the devastated survivor?
Hint: Itâs the one whose romance theme is the same music cue as the one for the story of the two lovers. XD
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