While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'
And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.
the black woman having a criminal record with debt + scams + an only fans? BOOOOOOO
i'm sorry but uh, why do black characters have to be perfect? compared to most of the characters on the show, including the white characters, she's already an angel, but you object to them making her flawed?
Your complaints read as being upset that a character who says offensive things we're meant to find offensive said an offensive thing, and being upset that other black characters have flaws.
Jacob said that he loved that black characters on this show are allowed to have flaws and be monstrous sometimes. Not everything needs to be "good representation"
black characters do not have to be perfect, in fact i love when they're flawed, it gives them depth and makes them even more interesting to watch and discuss—however, you see no issue in the way both of the black women shown thus far have been written? what do we know about dee aside from her being fed on and fucked by lestat/whoever else he decides he wants that night? what do we know about regina aside from her being a sex worker with mountains of debt and a criminal record that clearly needs money? the black women in this show are just being used as tools to further the story for the men (oftentimes the white men), and that ties back to the previous episode with louis reading claudia's diary to her rapist and her only being raped in the first place because the white show runner believed it'd toughen her up.
louis' character has just been one humiliation after another in regards to people that are supposed to be his friends or at least care about him some small amount (but even that is questionable). he is mocked by lestat, disrespected by daniel and received no apology from armand, and i hear that it doesn't get much better. jacob literally said that he felt like he was playing a different character this season and i don't disagree.
beyond that, having flawed black characters is pointless when half of the viewers engaging with them are either racist, know nothing about antiblack writing/misogynoir, or just have a fundamental misunderstanding of the characters to begin with. and obviously don't care to look into why it's fucked up to have a black character referred to as "a bucket of fried chicken" or be nothing more than a financially unstable sex worker so we can understand why they'd pretend to be someone's dead daughter. why couldn't regina just be fucked up and into that? why is financial desperation tied to these black women?
black characters can be flawed, but not knowing how to write or engage with them toes the line between an imperfect character and a flat out racist caricature
I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally
You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.
and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.
Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.
i saw your reblog where you said your brother writes emails to streaming services to get subtitles fixed
i want to do that too. i have free time and incorrect subtitles bother me.
i was wondering if you could ask him how he goes about it. like, streaming services usually have multiple legal/customer support/etc emails for multiple purposes, which one is the right one to use? does he cite a specific law? etc
if it's possible for you to obtain and share that type of information, i'd really appreciate it and find it useful. thanks!
Hey! I've talked to him and it seems I was partially incorrect. He does not email. Most streaming services have a way to report issues with titles in-app, and that is actually how you should report subtitle issues! It may vary slightly from service to service, but I think most services have a way to report it from the actual title— meaning pull up the specific show you're having issues with and be specific in your report about episode number and where the issues are.
Alright, those of you who are familiar with Star Trek: Voyager already knows this episode,
BUT
I'll give a rundown for folks who aren't familiar and still have an opinion, because anyone could have an opinion on this situation.
Do you think Captain Janeway made the right choice in regards to Tuvix and what is your gender?
Yes - Cis Woman
No - Cis Woman
Yes - Trans Woman
No - Trans Woman
Yes - Trans Man
No - Trans Man
Yes - Nonbinary Person
No - Nonbinary Person
Yes - Cis Man
No - Cis Man
Remaining time: 6 days 3 hours
Explanation of the situation below the cut:
The USS Voyager is a Starfleet ship that ends up in the Delta Quadrant - unexplored by the Federation - after getting sucked through a black hole. They are very far from home and are trying to get back, which means they have limited resources and some decisions they make are given additional leeway.
In this particular episode, two members of the crew are transporting back onto the ship after being on a planet and collecting plants, specifically orchids.
These two members are:
Tuvok, a Vulcan who is Captain Janeway's second-in-command and - as Vulcans are predisposed to be - very logical, reserved, etc etc.
Neelix is a Talaxian, actually someone from the Delta Quadrant who came onto the Voyager to cook for them. He's personable and outgoing.
Tuvok (left) / Neelix (right)
These two members of the crew end up merged - due to the orchids transporting with them - into one being. This being portmanteaus the two members' names together and calls themself Tuvix, as pictured below.
Tuvix has the memories and emotions of both men. He calls Kes, Neelix's partner "sweeting," which is a name Neelix calls her and says he loves her as he loves T'pel, Tuvok's wife.
Anyway, weeks pass. Tuvix has shown himself a capable tactician and a very good chef. He integrates himself into the crew, but the crew is still kind of mourning Tuvok and Neelix.
Eventually, the Doctor aboard the ship figure out a way to separate them. The whole crew rejoices, except for Tuvix.
He doesn't want to cease being/die. He asks Kes to vouch for him, she does not. No one on the crew vouches for Tuvix's right to exist.
Captain Janeway orders Tuvix to go through with the procedure. He fights it, security takes him to sickbay.
While being escorted, Tuvix says this:
"Each of you is going to have to live with this. And I'm sorry for that. For you are all good, good people. My colleagues. My friends. I forgive you."
However, the Doctor refuses to do the procedure, because the patient does not want it.
Captain Janeway does the procedure herself, Tuvix is successfuly separated/dies so Tuvok and Neelix return as individuals.
Everyone has an opinion about Captain Janeway's decision in this matter. (Often that opinion is played off as horrified.)
Personally, I think Captain Janeway did the right thing. Without knowing Tuvok and Neelix's opinions on the situation, if you can feasibly separate Neelix back into them, that's the right thing to do.
I don't think Tuvix inherently had the right to exist at the cost of Tuvok and Neelix.
(Also, he didn't help his case, imho, by assuming people from Tuvok and Neelix's past would just, like, accept him to replace them? And he did put Kes in the middle and he insinuated the crew was doing a bad thing by "killing" him to get Tuvok and Neelix back. It felt emotionally manipulative and I don't like that.)
But, really, the "everybody wins" workaround was to make a copy of Tuvix - since transporters can do that, albeit "accidentally" - and to separate one while leaving the other intact. But no one was creative enough for that solution, apparently.
But, idk, I want to know opinions and I'm curious if there's something to be said about the play of gender in opinions on this matter.
If you were accidentally merged with someone else and another being was created from this merge, would you expect/want people to separate the being to bring you back? AND what is your gender?
Tell me you have never actually tasted or smelled chocolate without telling me. I usually keep my blog fairly pg aside from the swearing but I have been laughing so hard at this for so long my stomach hurts
i spot a plus size honey across the bar and start to chat her up until her bisexual boyfriend with a magic the gathering tattoo comes over and starts yelling at me so i turn him sideways so he can't make another action until his next turn
