lol nah

[diablodancer]

Ciara Renee as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[onesingularsensation]

Happy trails to The Color Purple!

[ma-petite-ballerina]

[half--agony--half--hope]

Splurging in seats in the 3rd row was totally worth it. Misty was just amazing to watch. Simply gorgeous.

[egberts]

“short people stick together” how about we stack together. if enough of us unite we can be the ultimate tall person

[reprisemyrole]

Julie Andrews on the set of The Sound of Music (1965)

[jungkookrose]

infinite list of dream roles: esmeralda (the hunchback of notre dame)

“I don’t feel very brave. If there really is this heaven you believe in, maybe we can watch from it together, when all this is gone and the world is better.”

[the-little-disnerd]

Toni Braxton First African American woman to play Belle on Broadway (1998-1999)

Keke Palmer First African American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway (2014-2015)

[lipat]

[shittyninja-deactivated20210218]

blue-flavored candy is always the best flavor of candy like what the fuck. blue raspberries aren’t even a thing. we’re literally eating the color blue as a flavor and it’s fucking magical.

[accras]

Audra McDonald receives National Medal of Arts from President Obama, 9/22/16.

[ilikebroadwaythings]

Visit Original Link

Cynthia Erivo singing “A Summer in Ohio” at the Last Five Years concert 9-12-16

*don’t link or post on twitter, youtube or anywhere else, thanks*

[butterbeermustache]

So I finally cracked open my Princess Diaries special edition dvd, and immediately went to the bloopers, as you do, and decided that the internet needed even more reasons to love Julie Andrews. You’re welcome.

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

[shrewreadings]

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa. 

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO. 

[note-a-bear]

Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

[prokopetz]

Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

[hogna-lenta-deactivated20160930]

Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

[princesseblade]

O_O

[itschinyere-deactivated20200201]

Racist white lady calls in and tells Native Hawaiian to stop blaming the white man for taking their land, especially since the Japanese are doing it too.

[theblacksophisticate]

This succinct READ though? COME THRU!!!

[heyisfur-at-gmail-dot-com-deact]

1) How did she do that? It was like magic… 2) I see so many videos like this from TV shows, and it makes me wonder why daytime television doesn’t have real and intelligent guests anymore… This is something we would NEVER find on TV in 2016.

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

can someone tell me who this is and where this video is from?

[swampthing]

her name is Haunani-Kay Trask! From what I know this was a segment from the TV Show “Island Issues”. She’s a Hawaiian activist as well as an academic professor and author.  She wrote the book From a Native Daughter. 

[stagesofbrown]

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Debose, two actresses that would have fit perfectly in this reading, have responded.

[lastarpeggios]

Julie Andrews is going to live forever and nobody can convince me otherwise.