I’ve been waiting a year to post this

@superheroverthinking please read the interview and not one line GQ pulled. He was talking about the boycotts over TFA because of him and ONLY HIM. KMT was not in TFA. He acknowledged that she wasn't treated well either in the interview.

Also it's worth noting that KMT has gotten far more support from fans, the media and DLF itself when racism was directed towards her than John Boyega ever did. Read the article and learn about how he had to put on a brave face and laugh at the haters (unlike KMT he wasn't expected to feel pain). Yes, others have experienced racism, but antiblackbess is different. I and others have been harassed for calling out racism against John Boyega. You're pretty safe from that if you call out racism against KMT. They're both bad, but they're not the same.

ETA: There's also a particular brand of racism with KMT where she is used as cover for racism against JB by fans and journalists, and that's another conversation that gets swept under the rug.

LucasFilm, fandom, every commentator: I support Kelly Marie Tran!! I don't stay silent in the face of racism!!!!11one

The same people when John Boyega is subjected to antiblack abuse: *crickets*

Spare my Asian ass this constant use of "but Kellyyyyy D:" to derail any discussion of fandom & industry antiblack racism. She deserves better than that. John and Black fans deserved so much better.

Wow, what an interview. (Read the whole thing)

so like when zuko becomes fire lord do u think his portrait is put up everywhere like his dad’s was

like zuko definitely didn’t WANT it to happen, but the fire nation is just so used to being a faccist regime that they just go ahead and start putting their new leader’s face everywhere and zuko is so “ugh” about it but he also has way more important things to focus on so he develops a very choose-your-battles kinda attitude towards it

but do you think the gaang finds it hilarious? do you think they put up tiny portraits of zuko in their own homes for the hilarity of it? do u think Sokka and Suki have a portrait of zuko in every room in their house? do you think they say good morning to it every day? do you think they kiss it goodnight? do you-

this one. right here. this sits right above the fireplace in Sokka and Suki’s living room. tell me im wrong

you’re not wrong at all. you’re 100% right

this is tophs

I can just image Aang and Katara’s kids having a sleepover at Sokka’s place.

Sokka: Goodnight kids

Kids: Goodnight uncle Sokka, goodnight aunt Suki

Suki: Who else do we say goodnight to?

Kids: Goodnight giant tapestry of Zuko in the living room

Nsishwidhdwjdislwndodjwiwk this is an excellent addition, god bless

Creative & DIY

SO THAT’S HOW THEY FUCKING DO IT

It’s not ideal…but K still uses it. What if everyone in Rogue One got to have a nice day at the beach? (In the last picture, K2 is behind a dune.) In Jyn’s defense, I would do the same thing if I had a snarky robot friend. So, in the event of a robot/droid uprising, maybe…don’t stand next to me. Yes, that is a Death Star beach ball (*laugh-cries*), and Bodhi is in the background, building a scale model of Yavin 4 out of sand. 

achilles and patroclus / andromache and hector / odysseus and penelope

“The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black Woman.”

-Malcolm X (1962)

(Originally made on insta by @michaelabalogun)

[Multiple people have pointed out that the Sojourner Truth speech isn’t accurate. Interesting none of you bother recommending other resources to spread awareness of what it’s like to be a Black Woman while you are pulling attention away from the main point–Black Women need to be recognized. If you have such a problem with how accurate the speech is, just know I looked into it and apparently she approved the second version which also expresses how she’s feeling. Let’s move on or pm me and I can list some alternatives if it’s weighing on your mind.]

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old ER technician and former EMT, was lying in her own bed when police broke in and shot her eight times without so much as announcing their presence. Say her name. Do the work. Text. Call. Sign. Donate.

All graphic credit to @xonecole on Instagram.

Anti Blackness in Asian Communities Master Post

By God, why do I still have to make this?

ASIANS, I’m not trying to vilify my own community. I love you all dearly, but we need to do better. Whether we like to admit or not, anti-blackness is global. And if we have the slightest chance of getting anywhere with social justice, we might as well start with ourselves.

If you are black and/or Asian, feel free to reblog.

Gag @ eddy huang and aziz ansari having their own tags

I forgot Beethoven was deaf for a minute and had a hard time finding the specific typo, while laughing uncontrollably 

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) dir. Taika Waititi.

Oma and Shu were not narrative parallels to Zuko and Katara

Yes yes I know it’s so very easy to make the whole “Opposite sides of a war!” “Forbidden lovers!” comparisons (even though Zuko and Katara objectively never had a Forbidden Love dynamic, if anything they would have been Enemies-To-Friends-To-Lovers), but hear me out.

The basic and essential narrative elements of the Oma-Shu story are:

(For the last two points we actually had a bit of pre-foreshadowing for the Oma-Shu story in the form of Tui and La.  Remember Koizilla?  The Water elemental getting pissed off and raging on the Fire Nation in grief is going to be important later.)

The only actual component Zuko and Katara had that was similar to Oma and Shu’s was the fact that they were on opposite sides of a war.  This similarity might well satisfy some fans who are, let’s just say, a little overzealous to find narrative “proof” for Zuko/Katara in the text but going past that initial shallow archetypal surface reading into any kind of objective scrutiny reveals that the supposed “parallel” falls apart.

I’ll explain.

How does Oma and Shu’s love story start?

“They met on top of the mountain that divided their two villages.”

So.  The two were basically strangers who encountered each other in “neutral territory”, had good first impressions of each other free of the bias of their villages’ enmity, and hit it off.  We presume.

Right away the Zuko/Katara comparison dissolves, because Shu did not invade Oma’s village with a small military force to terrorize her and her people.

Continuing on…

“The villages were enemies so they could not be together.”

As mentioned, this is the only part in which Zuko and Katara are similar to Oma and Shu, and even then it’s a thin comparison because while Oma and Shu were all, “We are in love but we’re supposed to be enemies!” Zuko and Katara were… well… Actually Enemies.  The thing getting in the way of them being together was not merely the war, it was the fact that Katara genuinely loathed him and considered him the face of the enemy and Zuko barely paid attention to her except as a means of getting to Aang or as an obstacle in the way of his getting to Aang.

This is the bit where shippers get a little too excited because, “OMG!  Red and blue!  Color symbolism!”  Ignoring of course that Oma was also wearing yellow just a few seconds earlier and wears gray just a few seconds after and also that if we’re taking the whole red/blue color symbolism legitimately that would make the Oma figure Zuko.  This is too obviously false because Katara never “dies” during the war and Zuko doesn’t put on a rageful display of bending power in grief so most shippers just kind of… ignore that part and rely solely on the inaccurate broad surface read.

Well okay, but surely there must be other parts of the story that Zuko and Katara meet, right?

Nope.  They don’t spend any time or effort trying to reach across the divide between their two sides to meet.  Zuko gets hurt in the series finale and if we’re reeeaally reaching I guess we could claim that as his symbolic “death” but Katara’s reaction is hardly the emotional, grief-stricken lashing out that Oma did.

In fact the two times I can recall Katara unleashing some serious bending power because someone close to her “died” was her whole ninja mission to confront the man who killed her mother and before that–

Oh.

OH.  Lol.

Am I saying that the Oma-Shu story is really foreshadowing for Aang/Katara instead?

Yes.  Yes I am.

Obviously it’s not a note-for-note parallel, wouldn’t dream of claiming it is.  But they hit more of the beats than Zuko/Katara, with the added bonus of also being echoed/foreshadowed in Tui and La–”push” and “pull” soulmates who work in harmony…

…and who experience an incident where their Sky elemental mate dies…

…and the Water elemental goes apeshit and drowns Fire Nation soldiers in large waves…

…before the beloved is reborn.

So really, think about it.  Which ship is really the one where they meet and fall in love but can’t be together because of a war–

–which leads to one of them being killed–

–releasing a “powerful display of bending” from the devastated survivor?

Hint: It’s the one whose romance theme is the same music cue as the one for the story of the two lovers. XD

Credit: @ThinkAnneThink