#ygr1tte

[alaynesnow]

ygr1tte replied to your post “I can’t form coherent thoughts about this episode I’m a bizarre mix of...”

RIGHT like i literally cannot believe I just watched it after over a year of anticipation and dread

I KNOW..i need to decompress and watch it again later...but will i survive

[owldee]

ygr1tte replied to your post: “¦i’m raging at nick’s stupidity so hard i can’t even enjoy the...”:

of that huge long list of leaks this is by far the fucking worst like it's literally almost a THIRD of the entire season

the scary thing is i was just counting up the atla book 3 eps that were leaked in full - that being eps 1-15, except for the awakening and sokka's master - which equals 13 eps

...aaaand lok book 3 only has 13 eps total x-x

for the love of god, QUIT WHILE YOU'RE BEHIND NICK

[pondspondsponds]

Hi! would you mind posting the video of that deleted scene of Jon and Ygritte? or linking to where you got if from?

Hii i got the dvd early so yeahhh. I tried ripping, but it has terrible sound and quality

[laerugo]

hey megan ive been following you for about a year now and i love you and your blog!! if you dont mind, i have a question- i got into an argument with my dad last night bc he thinks that there was nothing wrong with casting white actors in the last airbender. he says that it's just a western interpretation and that in movies/art the director can express themselves however they want so it doesnt matter. im horrible at arguing so i was wondering what you might say in response??

depends on why he's arguing that, but if it helps here's a list of common arguments pro-whitewashing and my rebuttals:

“talent is what matters, if a white kid can play aang/katara/sokka/etc the best then they should"

that is lends little to no credit to actors of color. how would we know what asian or inuit actors and actresses could do if the casting director/s never even gave them a chance?

there are many more roles for white actors than there are for those of color; it's has become the default race in this society bc we’re used to seeing white people lead. it’s normal, acceptable, and what we’ve come to expect, but avatar broke a lot of those boundaries by having a cast of all poc, and live-action adaptations should respect that. when it comes to representing characters belonging to other cultures, whitewashing is inexcusable. roles belonging to colored characters are not roles waiting for white actors to fill in. white actors will be considered for positions written for people of color, while people of color are rarely, if ever, considered for white roles.

“avatar takes place in a fantasy world, anyway, asia doesn’t really exist in that universe.”

1) neither does europe

2) the world was based on various asian and inuit designs, martial arts, names, clothing, food, and culture. just because this show takes place in a world that isn’t Earth doesn’t mean that white people are the default, or that you can take a poc and substitute it with somebody from another race.

this argument is so popular i imagine bc we’ve seen so many fantasy worlds that are euro-centric (hp, lotr, got, etc) they worked in hp and middle earth and westeros because that’s what the stories called for, but the avatar world doesn’t call for white people. you wouldn’t change frodo from a hobbit to an elf or a human. it doesn’t fit with the lotr story. tolkein made certain that the reader understands that his characters are white because his story takes place in a european-inspired world. likewise bryke has emphasized the fact that the avatar universe is an asian-centric one, so white people do not fit within the realm of the avatar story. it’s fantasy, but even the most fantastical world has roots in reality. changing someone’s race in avatar to something that isn’t asian or inuit is simply not realistic.

“they did have black, indian, and other people of color in the movie. what’s the problem?”

lol yeah as tokenism, it's shyamalan going “hey i threw some black people in there, will you stop complaining now?” and it doesn’t change the fact that white actors dominated the film.

the poc actors filed under the category of 'other' and shoved into the background. inserting people of one race into another culture sends the message that they’re all interchangeable, or in other words, they’re all 'different'. “hey, it doesn’t matter that they’re not accurate depictions of people of that race, what matters is that we threw in some token people of color in there for you!” they’re there to use for the basis of a “see, look at the black people! i’m not racist! this film is culturally accepting!”

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hope that helps give you some fuel for the fire. go forth and conquer bb

[alaynesnow]

okay at all of your urgings i am going to start watching orphan black like right now in my bed let's go

[alaynesnow]

ygr1tte replied to your post: meereeneseknot replied to your post: what is my...

DO IT

IM GONNA

[romangod]

ygr1tte replied to your post: ygr1tte replied to your post: fayzes replied to...

dang well at least you found the account!

i asked the person who tweeted it to rick and she stated that she got it from this person. im promising not to use the girl's twittername to the instagram person ugh what fun

[elventhespian]

yo mike and bryan dont have any control over air dates!

Dude yo, I know. That’s why I didn’t whine about an airdate, but whined about being “thrown a bone.” Meaning I’d love another screenshot or sly hint.

I don’t actually expect anything from them, except to continue doing their respective jobs well—and realistically I’ll wait months longer if that’s what it takes. When I whine it’s mostly from 1) Silliness or 2) Frustration with the higher ups and/or other departments at Nick/Viacom.