Serendipity & Fluff.

Rachel.Nevada.

[books-wrote-my-story]

Yellow is the happiest color

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“Yes. We decided that the new companion was going to be non-white, and that was an absolute decision, because we need to do better on that. We just have to. … I think I had this baffling idea that if we just threw open each part to everybody, it would work out in the end. I put my faith, inexplicably, in the free market. I don’t know why, I of all people would do that! It doesn’t work. You can only cast for talent – you’ve got to cast the best person, every single time – but you’ve got to gauge where you’re looking for that talent. … Sometimes the nature of a particular show – historical dramas, for instance – makes diversity more of a challenge, but Doctor Who has absolutely nowhere to hide on this. Young people watching have to know that they’ve a place in the future. That really matters. You have to care profoundly what children’s shows in particular say about where you’re going to be.”

Steven Moffat on the casting of Pearl Mackie and Diversity in the BBC (Doctor Who Magazine #500)

I can’t fucking believe it.

Moffat is learning.

(via bemusedlybespectacled)

[margaerytyrellsource]

You’re the best person I know. I was just telling him about your devotion to the poor. Ah, yes, I visited their hovels and I fed them soup and I made sure I was seen doing it. I never gave them what they really needed, though.

[thepuppyclub]

ep 22 

[eastiseverywhere]

Africa Week!

Sam Okyere on Abnormal Summit South Korea (2014) [Source]

To end off Africa Week, I wanna talk about the remarkable success story of Sam Okyere, a Ghanaian university student who’s become a really famous Korean TV celebrity:

Ghanaian television personality Sam Okyere, 24, is not afraid to admit that he stands out on Korean TV shows because of his race and skin colour.

Speaking over the phone from Seoul, Okyere says: “If I’m frank, it’s because I’m black. There have not been too many black entertainers on Korean TV.

“Just for the fact that I speak Korean, I love their culture, I want to bond with the people. I want to do something that a normal foreigner wouldn’t. I think that’s what Koreans want.”

(Okyere is being too humble. He’s also been successful because he’s hella fine.)

Sam Okyere South Korea (2014) [Source]

Okyere arrived in Seoul in 2009 on a Korean government scholarship to pursue a computer engineering degree at Sogang University. He graduated earlier this year [2014].

So far, being a foreigner has worked to Okyere’s advantage and earned him TV gigs… he recalls earlier appearances where he was on the receiving end of jokes about his African heritage.

“The jokes get old. The period of ‘Oh I thought Africans run after lions and run in the jungle’ is slowly coming to an end. People are realising that people from Africa are not like that. They realise that Africans live their lives just like they do,” says Okyere.

Sam Okyere in Nike advertisement South Korea (c. 2014) [Source]

The verbose Okyere has big dreams beyond a TV career. He hopes to do his part as a “black representative” and create awareness about his home country and adopted home South Korea.

He says: “I get fan mail from people all over the world. Just the fact that they want to visit Ghana, it’s big for me.”

He has already got his first official appointment as an ambassador to promote seaweed from the small fishing town of Wando in South Korea.

He says with glee: “I love to eat seaweed. I ate a lot on the show Island Village Teachers. It was an honour to be made an ambassador.”

He’s been pretty busy since then. He’s also been in a movie called Intimate Enemies:

Sam Okyere and Hyeon-kyeong Ryu in Intimate Enemies South Korea (2015) [Source]

… and he’s trained with the Korean army in a reality TV show called Real Men:

Sam Okyere in Real Men South Korea (2015) [Source]

(That bit is cute because it’s when his mother and sisters come and visit him.)

And he’s now in a TV drama called Moorim School, where he plays the security officer of some elite high school where the male students keep getting shirtless.

Sam Okyere in Moorim School South Korea (2016) [Source]

He’s really out to represent. And according to him, culture is flowing both ways:

During the broadcast, a female guest from Ghana revealed that she is a fan of Super Junior’s Siwon. After hearing this, Sam Okyere pointed out, “Lee Min Ho is the most popular in Ghana.”

He then added, “My cousin came to Korea after seeing Rain,” explaining that singer-actor Rain also holds popularity in Ghana.

However, he revealed that his cousin was met with disappointment once she actually arrived in Korea, as the male population was not what she had expected.

Awwww. Anyway, follow Sam on Instagram here. He really is adorbs.

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[cssndralicia]

My thread on xicana reproductive rights.

[chujo-hime]

Seriously guys, all Americans need to watch No Más Bebés. This wasn’t like some 1920s pre-Nazi shit or happening in some little institution the middle of nowhere Texas, this was shit that was happening in Los Angeles at one of the largest public hospitals in the country in the 1970s. 

The 1970s.

[makebeliever]

♕ You weren’t made to sit on a chair in a palace.                                                 You’re a conqueror, Daenerys Stormborn.

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The Late Show, May 26, 2016

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“I’m normally surrounded by dudes. Doing Me Before You meant I didn’t have to be continually proving myself in a man’s world, having to try and force people to listen to me. I’ve got a really strong mum. I was brought up thinking that men and women are equal. It’s only as I’ve got older that I’ve been like: “Mum! What the f…? Why are they treating me differently because I’ve got a pair of tits?” - Emilia Clarke wearing Christian Dior Haute Couture, photographed by David Slijper for Harper’s Bazaar  (July 2016)

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Emilia Clarke for Harper’s Bazaar UK (July 2016)

[gameofthronesdaily]

♕  “Every Khal who ever lived chose three blood riders to fight beside him and guard his way, But I am not a Khal. I will not choose three blood riders. I choose you all. I will ask more of you than any Khal has ever asked of his Khalsar. Will you ride the wooden horses across the black salt sea? Will you kill my enemies in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses? Will you give me the Seven Kingdoms, the gift Khal Drogo promised me, before the Mother of Mountains? Are you with me, now and always? “ — Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones 6.06 “Blood of My Blood”

[owlmybooks]

freshly rearranged and cleaned bookshelves! there was some method to the madness, it kind of started off with my favorites on top, then kind of by genre, then just random as I got bored 😂 but they look GOOOOD!

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good reads with good company 💛