Actor in Training

Just a young nerd who's trying to do the whole acting thing and not succeeding very well. This blog is gonna have a bunch of random stuff because I honestly don't care! 

[mockwa]

[fauxfable]

It’s the Pope

[meghli]

[reverseracism]

Click here to support #FlintKids Christmas with Little Miss Flint organized by Pack Your Back

Hi. My name is Mari Copeny. Im 11 years old and a kid from Flint, Michigan. You may know me as Little Miss Flint. Im an activist, an advocat

[reverseracism]

Click here to support #FlintKids Christmas with Little Miss Flint organized by Pack Your Back

Hi. My name is Mari Copeny. Im 11 years old and a kid from Flint, Michigan. You may know me as Little Miss Flint. Im an activist, an advocat

[dragontatoes]

A literal 11 year old: the government poisoned my city

right wingers: who cares, it’s just Michigan! America comes first!

11 year old: Michigan is in America

right wingers:

[frogribbit]

random thing but i realized it might be helpful for some people so uh. theres this thingy where you can upload an image and it gives you a color palette based on it ! 

heres an example

and it also gives you the hex code values for them too its p neat !

here’s the link to the website !

[schro-dingus-deactivated2023030]

[thelittlebluedruid]

For fucks sake

[arrghigiveup]

Iswarya Jayakumar & Shruthi Nair, Bharatanatyam fusion, Singapore

[greenjudy]

Please check this out my fam, and prepare to be amazed.

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

I had to do it…

[shegotistical]

I just watched The Blob for the first time and not to spoil it but cold is the only way to stop it so they ship it to the arctic. And these old B movies get a lot of flack for not actually being scary but the last line of the film was that the blob can’t be killed but at least it’s stopped “so long as the arctic stays frozen” and lemme tell you that is THE most terrifying line a viewer in 2018 could hear.

[geardrops]

anyway i have a pitch for The Blob 2

[blacktwittercomedy]

[firbolging]

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

 jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

[firbolging]

the bingley x jane song is reprised with more honestly but as that golden rehearsal scene between darcy and bingley in the 2005 version

[mooserattler]

Reblog this picture of me holding a Family Size box of Honey Nut Cheerios? I’d really appreciate it.

[therevenantrising-deactivated20]

Fuck it.

[shitpost-senpai]

One last time

[onlytwitterpics]

[ladybrun-deactivated20140111]

[muzahmat]

Zohra Sehgal, a South Asian actress par excellence, actually spoke multiple languages including Urdu, Hindi, English and German. She is one of the earliest international actresses who came from an aristocratic Muslim family in India. When her father insisted that she get married, she outright said, ‘I don’t want to get married,’  and announced that she might become a pilot. In 1917 she went to a boarding school in Lahore, after which, in 1930, she donned a burqa and set off for Europe by road — crossing Iran, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. She trained as a ballet dancer in Germany. Zohra was quite blunt when it came to expressing her opinions. She was an agnostic and defied all the stereotypes about a “Muslim girl from a traditional family”. She was unbelievably bold and confident and was known for her mischievous humor. She earned immense respect in British TV at a time when people were not accepting of ‘diversity’ and even the Asian roles were played by white people. When she had first arrived in Britain, “it was such that if we were sitting in the bus, the British did not sit next to us. Unconsciously in the minds of white people, there was a hesitation”. She defied cultural norms once more when she married her Hindu student eight years younger than her. She never felt welcomed in Lahore, so she left half her family in Pakistan after 1947 Partition and settled in Delhi where she taught a theater group. She raised her children on her own when her husband committed suicide at a young age. She was literally unstoppable and appeared consistently in British TV series like The Jewel in Crown, Mind Your Language and Doctor Who. She has acted in myriad Bollywood films and performed across Japan, Egypt, Europe and the US. She was a classical dancer, choreographer, cinema, theater and television actress whose career spanned over 8 decades. She was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan, some of the highest civilian honors in India. She was a fighter all her life, she even defeated cancer. On her 100th birthday she said, “I want an electric cremation. I don’t want any poems and fuss after that. And for heaven’s sake don’t bring back the ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh". Zohra aapa lived the life of a grand diva and passed away in 2014 at the age of 102.

“Oh, my burqa was of lovely silk and I was so glad I made petticoats out of it!”

Zohra with her husband Kameshwar Sehgal in 1945.

“What actually makes brings out your beauty is the radiance of being content and you can only be content when you are employed in something you love.”

“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”

Zohra at her 100th birthday was quietly humming “Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon” (I am still young) by poet Hafeez Jullundhri, as she attacked the huge cake.

“Life’s been tough but I’ve been tougher. I beat life at its own game”

[bead-bead-deactivated20190901]

What an amazing face! And an even more amazing woman!

[sapnokidarika]

What a life, what a woman!

[simonalkenmayer]

I am so pleased that there are people who make these types of posts.

Thank you.

[rslashrats]

i thought those were kermit the frog’s legs

[tokillthedragon-deactivated2020]

Kermit being tortured by the Viet Cong (1967, colorized)

[minfonica]

[dearartdirector]

Dear DADs. Do you have any good resources about cultural appropriation vs appreciation when it comes to illustration? I'm becoming more and more obsessed with this notion of how a white guy can respectfully paint a black woman/ young girl in a fantastical Han Dynasty China etc. I'm not looking for answers, and obs don't know yall's backgrounds/ethnicities, so much as other places you might suggest I turn to to tackle to topic. Thanks, -Drawing Stick Figures

Great question! This has been a hot topic and the point is not to make artists and authors scared to depict cultures (and genders and sexual orientations) not their own, but to make sure that they’re doing it respectfully. That’s the real difference between Cultural Appropriation & Cultural Appreciation. 

A good question here is to ask yourself WHY you want to paint black girls & Han China. Do you feel strongly about showing more diverse characters? Are you making a statement about cultural clash? Is it important to the narrative you’re building? Or is it a mashup of cool shit just bc it seems cool to you? That’s not a bad place to start but you need to dig deeper.

Here’s a quick checklist of things to ask yourself:

—Have you done research into the origins and meaning of the cultural symbols you are referencing? If the answer is “I just thought it looked cool” then go do some more research. 

—Are you representing something sacred in that culture in a superficial or sexualized or fetishized way that is disrespectful to members of that culture?

—Are you profiting from using references and styles that the original culture is being discriminated for? In other words, are you getting away with something because you’re white that an asian or black or hispanic person would be punished for?

The point is not to stop white/cis/heterosexual folks from painting or writing diverse cultures, gender expressions, and sexual orientations — we’ll never get anywhere with making art and media more diverse if we leave it only to the members of that minority to do so. The point is to aim for “imaginative engagement” — I love this quote by Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie: ‘‘The moment you say a male American writer can’t write about a female Pakistani, you are saying, Don’t tell those stories. Worse, you’re saying: As an American male you can’t understand a Pakistani woman. She is enigmatic, inscrutable, unknowable. She’s other. Leave her and her nation to its Otherness. Write them out of your history.’’

The answer, as with many things, is Research & Respect.

Here’s some starter resources:

NYTimes: Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong?

Everyday Feminism: The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation

Bustle: 7 Things You Might Not Realize Are Cultural Appropriation That Are

—Agent KillFee

P.S. There’s not a lot of specific material on this in illustration, but Art Directors are constantly talking about it, both the topic of how to get more diverse artists hired as well as making sure artists are depicting minority experiences with the utmost respect. White illustrators who have been doing a great job of depicting diverse characters in a white-dominated field (SciFi/Fantasy) that you can look at are Greg Ruth, Tommy Arnold, & David Palumbo. Maybe we’ll have to suggest it as a topic to Muddy Colors.

[noodleos]

when u drink tap water from a city uve never been

[sigeel]

here have some more nonsense.

this is after she gets back from the underworld. ;P