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my little dark winds fanblog.

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

soooooo my bitch ass finally decided to make a sideblog for my dark winds love. I'm only midway into season two but I love it and I love you all. <3 follow meeee. queueing posts already

not big into intros or personal info, but true to the url i am a lil genderfucker; you are on the gay website, lol. 🌈 not into any intolerance towards any group, will unfollow/block for said ignorance/disinformation.

on the young side of the fandom olds, lol. came here from LJ. into meta discussion and multishipping anything just for the interesting possibilities. it's not crackfic if you write it seriously enough, lmao.

get comfy

[pinkflipphonez]

jim chee baby!

[pinkflipphonez]

bern manuelito, dinetah loves you (and so do I)

[gffa]

The Mandalorian | Chapter 5 - The Gunslinger | TATOOINE + THE TUSKEN RAIDERS

“Tusken Raiders.  I heard the locals talking about this filth.” “Tuskens think they’re the locals.  Everyone else is trespassing.” “Well, whatever they call themselves, they’d best keep their distance.” “Yeah?  Why don’t you tell them yourself?” “What are you doing?” “Negotiating.  We need passage across their land.”

[romanticamnesia]

Fun fact: according to the episode’s end credits, the actor playing “Tuskan [sic] Raider Scout #1” is Troy Kotsur.

Troy Kotsur is a Deaf American actor who uses American Sign Language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Kotsur

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1319274/

I don’t know if the Mandalorian and the Tusken were using ASL when signing, but it’s pretty cool that the series cast a character who signs with an actor who signs, rather than “person waving hands around randomly” that’s used for a lot of fictional SFF sign languages.

[heroineimages]

Huh. This is really cool… 

[theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea]

Second fun fact! It was not, in fact, ASL, but Plains Indian Sign Language.

[dollsahoy]

(and the Space Port Operator credit up there is the VA of Zeb in Rebels)

[slecnaztemnot]

That’s hella cool! Plains Indian Sign language was used as a trade language between various tribes who didn’t share spoken language, so it totally makes sense its included!

[ozu-teapot]

River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt | 1994

Larry Fessenden, Lisa Bowman

[ozu-teapot]

River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt | 1994

Larry Fessenden

[starship21zedna9]

'If you're part of the land that I bought, then I guess you belong to me.'

Oh, kill that man. Kill him until he's dead. He doesn't deserve to live.

Also, the music on this show? Perfection. Last episode we got Working Class Hero and this episode we're getting Season of the Witch? More of this please.

[starship21zedna9]

Bernie, I love you, but you are way too pro cop, pro military, and pro government. I know this show is about cops but this poor kid has been drafted and he (understandably) doesn't want to go and your response is 'it's our duty to serve when we're called' ????

Like hell it is!

Also, you want to work for Border Patrol? You're breaking my heart.

[localblacklady]

im watching s2 of dark winds rn too and that put a rllyyyyy bad taste in my mouth but hopefully her viewpoint will be challenged bc the show has definitely been critical of corruption within government/law enforcement (i.e high pockets in s1)

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

Yeahhhh... the entire monologue that the writers had Leaphorn give to Tso in the final episode of s1, right before having him kill himself... It felt very Hayes Code. The entire first season was a mixed bag between critical framings of the problems faced (loved High Pockets' ending lol), more or less forcibly mixed with moments like these, made to appease the white sensors. And allow it to fall close enough to copaganda's general "shape" to stay safe.

Paraphrasing basically what all of the cast have said at one point or another in promos or interviews: "we're grateful we even have the opportunity to keep making this show" aka not get canceled. There is a Line they are expected to toe, unfortunately. The amazing things that they manage within that line never fail to impress me. And always love how the actors (esp Gordon) make clear how much clearer they'd love to make it. heh.

[starship21zedna9]

Me when that piece of shit blond man finally dies:

[moosehwk]

Recent rough sketches ithink blehh

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

How the fuck does someone decide to block this mini fandom blog with only positive content

I have like 10 posts

[detectivehole]

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

[detectivehole]

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

[flavinbagel]

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

[kat-witha-k]

This is fucking insane

[brightlotusmoon]

[mod2amaryllis]

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

Staying in an airbnb, and someone forgot to log out of their netflix, hehe...

I usually loathe the whole "excessively big shiny TV" lifestyle. I won't have one of those and won't put any sized TV in my room at home, either. Personal thoughts on the world; usually goes with materialism, not thinking, big annoying shiny cars and the works.

But. Tonight.

Let's watch my man drag that white bastard through that canyon, trippin' him around on a rope in HD, on a screen longer than of my most of my height. Fuck yeah, lmao.

Special occasion.

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

Apparently this is my favorite episode to such a degree that I forgot I'd seen the entire episode, remembered it more than any other this season, and got excited to watch it again.

Also because in my dream world, he would have been much harsher on that man (I understand why he wasn't) and anything less slipped my memory as anticlimactic. I guess. lol.

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

Wait a second. I DID finish watching that entire episode at home. AND two more after.

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

I love how the writers have the Blond Man quote Karl May - to describe Native people as "knowing no pain" - just to make pointedly clear to any European viewers the racism present in those books. No blunter way than to quote it in the mouth of your white supremacist antagonist on a killing spree.

[unclemamasdarkwindsfanblog]

Chee's muscle-twink ass usually does nothing for me, but. that man can rock a tank top