marigrace.

I'm marigrace. I like thinking about the future & writing about the past. Ravenclaw with slytherin tendencies queer robot

[marifullofgrace]

Hey friends! Long time, no tumbl, I know. But just in case there are people out there who are still listening....

...the amazing web series I produce, Hermione Granger and the Quarter-Life Crisis, is currently fundraising for Season 2. We need your help to make this season bigger, better, and more magical.

What’s so special about HGQLC, you ask? Well, it inspires women, especially women of color, to tell their own stories. The creator/director/showrunner is a Black woman who was sick and tired of seeing Hermione depicted as a lily-white girl in fanfiction. The entire producing staff is women, and half of us are queer. The writers - you guessed it, all women. There’s only one white person in our Main 8 cast - Draco Malfoy. Yes, Hermione Granger is Black, and so is her fabulous cousin, LaQuita. Parvati Patil is the first person we meet after Hermione, along with a slew of American witches and wizards (who are all PoC, btw).

The thing is, making the show that we want to make is, well, expensive. It’s 14 episodes long. 20 shoot days. That’s a lot of crew we’ve got to pay for their good work. A lot of food we’ve gotta make. A lot of VFX to roto in!

Please check out the link, and don’t forget to share share share!

Thank you all so much! Thank you for supporting women of color in filmmaking!!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hermione-granger-and-the-quarter-life-crisis-s2/x/13312403#/

[marifullofgrace]

come on inside, now (at Los Angeles, California)

[marifullofgrace]

home is a fire (at West Adams, Los Angeles)

[marifullofgrace]

creamsicle dreams (at West Adams, Los Angeles)

[flange5]

So the Rogue POTUS Staff Twitter is … terrifying

[johnohboyega-archive]

“Useless?” “Useless?” That is a parasitical magical force that killed a child. What on earth would you use it for?

[mariahcareys]

[itsaubreylmfao]

the best moment in film history

[buginettte-deactivated20200516]

the meaning of I C O N I C,

[a-tla]

[phycodurus]

talking to trump supporters

[wtf-fun-factss]

Traces of coca and nicotine found in Egyptian mummies - WTF fun facts

[jillyaintfromphilly]

well DUH. a lot of historians are still trying to process the fact that ancient egyptians knew how to build boats, which is ridiculous. why would they not be seafarers and explorers?

[youngbadmanbrown-deactivated201]

this is not new or surprising information at all. it pretty much day one of any african-american studies course.

the egyptians knew that if they put their boats in front of the summer storm winds it’d blow them right across the sea to the Americas and they shared that with the greeks.

[doublehamburgerjack-deactivated]

It’s really hard for people to understand that everyone had boats, exploration, and trade interactions without the same level of murder, colonization, and violence that the Europeans did. It’s really hard for people to get that.

[medievalpoc]

An 11,000 year old Iroqious boat.

A whole book about Ancient Egyptian Maritime technology and culture.

Scientists “shocked” to discover that humanity casually traveled the seas over 100,000 years ago.

The Sea-Craft of Prehistory (book; Eurocentric as heck)

Humans traveling long distances by sea and deep=sea fishing for c. 42,000 years

The Dufuna Canoe, Africa’s oldest surviving boat, is 8,000 years old (Nigeria)

A fleet of 5,000-year-old boats in Abydos, Egypt

7,000-year-old seaworthy vessels in Kuwait

7,500-year-old boat found in China’s Zhejiang Province.

Scientific Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages (273 pages-for the hardcore only!):

The only plausible explanation for these findings is that a considerable number of transoceanic voyages in both directions across both major oceans were completed between the 7th millennium BC and the European age of discovery. Our growing knowledge of early maritime technology and its accomplishments gives us confidence that vessels and nautical skills capable of these long-distance travels were developed by the times indicated. These voyages put a new complexion on the extensive Old World/New World cultural parallels that have long been controversial.

[ami-angelwings]

This is important for the knowledge/history aspect, but also because of what was said above, that exploration/seafaring/technological advancement does not automatically mean conquest, colonization, and genocide.  It’s one of those myths that an annoyingly large amount of people pass around to justify white supremacy: that everybody wants to conquer and wipe out everybody else, and that white people just got the technology and exploration level up first to do it.  They like this myth for several reasons: 1) it frames genocide, slavery, conquest, etc, as natural results of human development, SOMEBODY would have eventually done it regardless 2) it frames evil acts as “human nature”, it implies that the victims of those acts would have done them if they could, and that the people doing it were only acting on “nature” 3) it implies that because white people did these things therefore white people must have had the highest technological level and 4) because white people had the highest technological level therefore white people deserved their place in the world as conquerers and colonizers and enslavers.

Of course none of this is true, but it’s something our society likes to believe and the narrative is distributed through “common knowledge” and through our media, where non-white cultures in “historical” dramas are framed as “primitive” or warlike or both, and all the various dystopia fiction where “the oppressed become the oppressors” and what not (i.e. everybody wants to conquer everybody else, so SOMEBODY has to be on top).

[everchanging5683-deactivated201]

This is the content I use Twitter for

[itsyaboicecil-deactivated202109]

[campadog]

Source

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[benepla-deactivated20180521]

[sexint-deactivated20180130]

Barron Trump outchea drawing big anime tiddies on the daily. I knew he was our guy.

[dealersample]

Diverse group of friends with big tit

[sinfulwario-deactivated20171201]

IS THAT BIG HERO 6

[healingfruit-deactivated2020101]

I CANT BELIEVE

[kurosae]

IM

[nunyabizni]

The first son we need.

[nonpopularopinions]

More like Big Hero Tits, amirite lads?

[dalaisa-katili-deactivated20170]

He’s good tho I hope he takes art seriously

[ijionano]

Yo, Barron, I’m sorry your dad’s a giant twunt, but you keep drawin’ big tit.  Bless.

[thebattyblacklolita]

Don’t end up like Bush Jr, Barron follow your art dreams

[m0xt]

[i-live-in-llama-land]

Turk and jd are relationship goals

[sosuperawesome]

[vir-adahlen]

harry and hermione’s friendship is so good……. who are they dragging today, is it snape, is it cormac mclaggen, is it the state of the wizarding world, i dont know but whoever it is is about to get wrecked 

[starsfadingbutilingeron]

honestly same

[meanplastic]