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Spotted: An extremely oppressed brown woman skating her way to Oppressedville.
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
Collab with Maré! He wrote the words and I drew the pictures
Canon MP600
★ Who is your favourite villain?
Possibly the greatest Greek-myth trainers ever (and maybe the only).
wwaaaaaannnntttttttt
Six seconds well spent.
It was. It was.
Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.
KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”
This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.Reblogging again for that
Omg yes
Basically.
so today i forgot that a senior picnic would involve a picnic and that a picnic would be outside so i forgot to wear sunscreen and now I do not have a sunscreen all over or just on my arms and face or just on my arms, BUT I ONLY HAVE A SUN BURN ON MY LEFT ARM.
What angers me the most about Abrams essentially saying he made the Star Trek movies so it would work for “not just smart people, but for everyone!” is that apparently making Star Trek for everyone means that he has to whitewash PoC characters and reduce female characters into “10 out of 10 would bang” (that playboy interview and the way he talks about Zoe Saldana still pisses me off)
Remember after Star Trek 2009 when Abrams was interviewed and there was mention of the fact that there has never been actually any confirmed on screen queers character on Star Trek? Remember how he mused that he would include one and thought it was odd that Star Trek hadn’t featured any queers previously? He had the chance to be inclusive, he publicly went on record with the promise of ‘maybe’ doing something good and he didn’t take it.
Instead, he basically turned one of the most iconic Sci-Fi series, one that had things like the first interracial kiss, featured a PoC captain, and a female identifying captain, one that (while not always brilliantly) handled a lot of issues regarding for example gender and race, into any other big bright shiny problematic as fuck action flick.
The Star Trek series was by no means perfect, it had issues with it, but they were far more progressive than the bullshit JJ Abrams is producing in the goddamm 21st centrury.
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Let’s be serious for a moment, how did I end up with yooooooooooooou.
so
i have an art blog now
What angers me the most about Abrams essentially saying he made the Star Trek movies so it would work for “not just smart people, but for everyone!” is that apparently making Star Trek for everyone means that he has to whitewash PoC characters and reduce female characters into “10 out of 10 would bang” (that playboy interview and the way he talks about Zoe Saldana still pisses me off)
Remember after Star Trek 2009 when Abrams was interviewed and there was mention of the fact that there has never been actually any confirmed on screen queers character on Star Trek? Remember how he mused that he would include one and thought it was odd that Star Trek hadn’t featured any queers previously? He had the chance to be inclusive, he publicly went on record with the promise of ‘maybe’ doing something good and he didn’t take it.
Instead, he basically turned one of the most iconic Sci-Fi series, one that had things like the first interracial kiss, featured a PoC captain, and a female identifying captain, one that (while not always brilliantly) handled a lot of issues regarding for example gender and race, into any other big bright shiny problematic as fuck action flick.
The Star Trek series was by no means perfect, it had issues with it, but they were far more progressive than the bullshit JJ Abrams is producing in the goddamm 21st centrury.
AH, I HAVE DISCOVERED WHY I HATE YOUR GUTS.
He acts like Star Trek is no longer needed for its ability to address social issues, so now why not just turn it into a bright and shiny action flick and nothing else? Dizzy bastard.
He took a project on without really realizing what it meant to so many people. I’m not just talking about those “crazy” nerds that stand in lines at conventions for hours. I’m talking about Marton Luther King Jr., who begged Nichelle Nichols not to quit the show. I’m talking about the hundreds of men and women that joined the navy or airforce, worked in the space industry, or became astronauts because of Star Trek. He’s forgotten all those people. He didn’t have faith that Star Trek in its purest form could reach all people– because it never reached him. So he molded it into something very different to fit a societal standard of action movies that pervades Hollywood today.
He missed that mark. And he pats himself on the back for it.
It got better.
TOOK MY LAST TEST TODAY. I’M DONE, MOTHERFUCKERS.
Loved all of her props. @marinagrams #marinaandthediamonds #denver #lonelyheartsclub (at The Gothic Theatre)
