"It's actually kind of peaceful"

Lexi~22~I cry over werewolves a lot

[m-ikrokosmos]

‘’Tell me why the widow’s so interested in you.‘‘

[fyintothebadlands]

Into the Badlands Opening Titles

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But has anyone watched ‘Into the Badlands’ yet?? The writing is kinda meh but the visuals are amazing and the story is interesting- also yay for original programming.

[dailypawnee]

[hellotailor]

Marvel delayed the 'Captain Marvel' movie to make way for an 'Ant-Man' sequel.

This really doesn't feel like good news.

The Captain Marvel movie has just been delayed to make way for another Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp. When revealing this new release schedule, Marvel described Ant-Man and the Wasp as “the first Marvel Studios film named after its heroine.”

We can’t help but suspect this comment was directed at the many fans who will be disgruntled about Captain Marvel—the studio’s first female-led movie—being delayed yet again.

For those keeping track, Captain Marvel will be Marvel Studios’ 21st film.

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ALSO, APPARENTLY ELEKTRA DIDN’T HAPPEN.

[urie]

tumblr discourse has truly taken away the right to subjective opinions and its exhausting

[urie]

like now instead of saying “i like this tv show because it is entertaining and engaging” you have to come up with totally ridiculous reasons as to why this random television show on like, the CW or something is Actually the paradigm of feminist media even when it isnt at all

instead of saying “this celebrity is obnoxious and overrated and annoying” you get people searching meticulously through their twitter or interviews in order to find something incriminating enough to end up on a yfip list, and now you can pretend that your reasons for disliking this celebrity arent entirely personal and have some kind of Righteous Cause backing it

you dont need to put politics into everything you love and you dont need to bend over backwards trying to explain why this Thing you love is Actually Totally Political. you are allowed to subjectively enjoy things. conversely you can hate looking at a celebrity’s dumb face without acting like theres always some kind of social justice reason fueling it

[in-love-with-movies]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (USA, 2012)

[sadtit-deactivated20160618]

*cancels plans* sorry i can’t come i’m ugly

[jeangrayss-deactivated20161104]

DC’s Post-Convergence and Marvel’s Post-Secret Wars female-led ongoing titles.

[standarddivyation]

list of heterosexual boys who have not disappointed me:

Ben Wyatt

[standarddivyation]

i forgot about ice town

[95snayeon]

fire wants to burn, water wants to flow, air wants to rise, earth wants to bind. (x)

[all4movie]

[redvelevet]

PACIFIC RIM (2013)

When I was a kid, whenever I’d feel small or lonely, I’d look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was fifteen when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco.

[ryhopes]

Claire ~ 1743 // 1945

[bugsongs]

my aesthetic is students at the library who have all their study materials out but are blatantly Not Studying

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

Ask yourself: What would you sacrifice for what you believe?

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Usually I don’t have much commentary for things like this but man…why is it that people think Africans needed to be in that taylorswift video? Like were they supposed to be randomly dancing behind her with the giraffe? That would have been definitively worse. Also, black people aren’t the only ones in Africa??? To top it all off, white people weren’t featured in the scenes where she was in Africa either…it was literally just her, Scott Eastwood, and the film crew. As an african american I am saying: ya’ll get butthurt too easy. Calm down and go pick on an actual racist.

[smokeymcbandit]

as a Kenyan who deals with history pre-dominantly, and watched TCM before I no longer could, I tell you that the images of colonial Africa spread about the world were harmful enough that you think Africans at the time of romanticised colonial rule were busy dancing with a giraffe. they weren’t. some of them were pushed out of their homes and communities to cater to colonialists desires to not see Africans so they can experience the dream of being alone in the vast wilderness with nary a native in sight but wildlife abound. wildlife they could shoot and sell for trophies. those of us living with the aftermath of that don’t find being troubled by the reproduction of harmful days trivial, as you do.

[peterqil-blog]

I’m sorry but if you feel that Taylor Swift was depicting colonial rule by making a MUSIC VIDEO where a scene was filmed in Africa then I’m not sure how to help you. People put far too much thought into TRIVIAL things. If she had put African people in the video then there would have been even more backlash. Also, Taylor Swift is even donating all proceeds to the conservation of animals in Africa. You cannot expect one girl to make up for the shortcomings of a nation but she is trying to do better than most. And please don’t insult my intelligence. I know all about colonialism and even post colonialism. I studied the writings of Edward Said and have read other texts such as ‘Heart of Darkness’ know that things are still very problematic in that area. I wrote a paper on postcolonialism just last semester. I’m not sure why “intellectuals” feel the need to attack other people based on preconceived ideas of their intelligence. I DO NOT romanticize Africans as busy dancing with giraffes in colonial rule- nor did I ever say I did. I suggest that before you go attacking people based on intelligence you realize that YOU are being more problematic than anyone in this situation.

[smokeymcbandit]

I don’t feel; it’s what it is. The music video is not trivial no matter how much you want to intone it is. Millions will watch it. Millions will wish to replicate it. Millions will visit some random nation on the continent and insist to the tour guides about going to a place that looks exactly like where Kahn and company shot the video, and take pictures of some semblance of said place, and call it Africa, cause yes, damn it, it’s Africa! Music videos do enough when they get enough of an audience. Also, the video was probably shot in South Africa, on a conservancy owned by a white person. But does anyone defending it care to be that specific? Yet, you ask why Africans are mad. Though, not all Africans are angered by it. Some find it very tastefully done. Most don’t care.

Further, I haven’t said Swift has to do anything, but since you put it out there; she should learn to look at something called google scholar once in a while, and put keywords like Hollywood and Colonial Africa in the search box when deciding whether shooting old Hollywood content in Africa was a good idea to pursue. Jospeh Kahn should have done the same. If they had to do colonial Africa, the least they could have done was subvert the presentation of that era on film, and include a native pilot. They didn’t have to do colonial Africa, though. Didn’t USA have grasslands back then?

Also, what does Swift’s donations of all ad revenues from the youtube views to a Africa Parks of USA do to mitigate the recreation of colonised Africa’s appeal to colonisers?

As for your studies; you have studied colonialism in which capacity, cause I can’t figure it out. Because how can you study colonialism in Africa, and not know of the displacements of peoples so the colonialists could have vast lands where access to natives was barred? I never questioned your intelligence; and I didn’t say you romanticise Africans dancing with giraffes. I said the impact of romanticised colonial rule on screen is why you think they’d be dancing with giraffes.

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Millions will want to replicate what? Flying to Africa to do WHAT? I don’t understand what you’re saying will happen here? People ARE allowed to visit Africa right? Also, all the ways you suggest fixing the issue are completely irrational. Have an African pilot? You DO realize that the pilot was the main actor in the video right? It wouldn’t make sense. Also I’m not sure what “grasslands” you speak of in the US. It was meant to be a period piece about old Hollywood and just so happened to be set in Africa. Your argument about Africans not being in the video is totally invalid. Would you have preferred her director to be African? What do you want from her? Let’s stop hiding behind this “argument” that ‘boo-hoo there were no black people in her video.’ There are plenty of things problematic here but there being no black people in a ridiculous premise for an argument on colonialism. #dropsthemic

[peterqil-blog]

Usually I don’t have much commentary for things like this but man…why is it that people think Africans needed to be in that taylorswift video? Like were they supposed to be randomly dancing behind her with the giraffe? That would have been definitively worse. Also, black people aren’t the only ones in Africa??? To top it all off, white people weren’t featured in the scenes where she was in Africa either…it was literally just her, Scott Eastwood, and the film crew. As an african american I am saying: ya’ll get butthurt too easy. Calm down and go pick on an actual racist.

[smokeymcbandit]

as a Kenyan who deals with history pre-dominantly, and watched TCM before I no longer could, I tell you that the images of colonial Africa spread about the world were harmful enough that you think Africans at the time of romanticised colonial rule were busy dancing with a giraffe. they weren’t. some of them were pushed out of their homes and communities to cater to colonialists desires to not see Africans so they can experience the dream of being alone in the vast wilderness with nary a native in sight but wildlife abound. wildlife they could shoot and sell for trophies. those of us living with the aftermath of that don’t find being troubled by the reproduction of harmful days trivial, as you do.

[peterqil-blog]

I’m sorry but if you feel that Taylor Swift was depicting colonial rule by making a MUSIC VIDEO where a scene was filmed in Africa then I’m not sure how to help you. People put far too much thought into TRIVIAL things. If she had put African people in the video then there would have been even more backlash. Also, Taylor Swift is even donating all proceeds to the conservation of animals in Africa. You cannot expect one girl to make up for the shortcomings of a nation but she is trying to do better than most. And please don’t insult my intelligence. I know all about colonialism and even post colonialism. I studied the writings of Edward Said and have read other texts such as ‘Heart of Darkness’ know that things are still very problematic in that area. I wrote a paper on postcolonialism just last semester. I’m not sure why “intellectuals” feel the need to attack other people based on preconceived ideas of their intelligence. I DO NOT romanticize Africans as busy dancing with giraffes in colonial rule- nor did I ever say I did. I suggest that before you go attacking people based on intelligence you realize that YOU are being more problematic than anyone in this situation.