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Zhang Gong — Beijing No.3  (acrylic on canvas, 2014)

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CDC says fully vaccinated people can now stand on the overpass and scream at the cars, “I WANNA GET BETTER”

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hello i am looking to move out of my abusive household!!! finally!! im going for a house inspection on saturday so any tips for what to look for/moving out tips generally will b much appreciated

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today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately solely because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface. this speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

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COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

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“I was thinking, ‘Well, am I completely non-binary? What am I?’ And I realized, actually I am who I am. I’m first and foremost, just a human being who likes what I like. I am also a woman, and that’s how the world has viewed me the majority of my life. I’m proud of that as well, and I can identify with both those things. I think that’s the thing with your pronouns and gender identity, you can just be who you are. That was so freeing to me to understand that I could have multiple pronouns and some friends will refer to me as they, and some will refer to me as she, and that’s okay … I’m proud to be gender nonconforming. I’m proud of all my friends who are the same. Hopefully as time goes on, it becomes something that more and more people feel they can talk about.”

Jessie Mei Li for Elle photographed by Danny Kasirye

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“ we live in a society where the female experience and the length and breadth and width of ALL DIFFERENT WOMEN aren’t fully represented on screen yet . and i have felt restricted by that in my career and in my life , and like i said –– when i saw nina i went ‘ oh my god . finally . i feel some representation … and i would hope that other people would feel that as well from this show . and not just through nina , but through ALL THE CHARACTERS . because i think leigh bardugo has made an effort to do that . i think the show runners have made an effort to do that . as a show , we can’t fix society , and this has been a systemic problem for so long … but we are , i would hope , a STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION . and we haven’t forgotten that or taken that for granted . we have worked , but we can’t fix the problem . but we can just be –– i can just be the best nina that i can be … BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ME BEING NINA IN A NETFLIX SERIES DOESN’T TAKE AWAY ANYONE ELSE’S NINA . everyone owns their own nina from reading the book for the first time . i’m just adding a version to the already existing versions , and i don’t want to say that because i’m here now , this is the definitive version . I DON’T BELIEVE THAT IT IS . ” –– danielle galligan on playing NINA ZENIK 

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my contribution to fandom

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Shadow and Bone + 👀

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Maybe you aren’t annoying, maybe they were just annoyed. Maybe your entire personality can’t be boiled down to actions others found disruptive. Maybe peoples feelings are subjective views of you, not objective. The same way we teach kids to say “I feel angry when you do this thing” instead of “you made me angry!” maybe you should consider that people, due to their own personal beliefs about social interaction, felt annoyed in response to your actions but that that doesn’t necessarily mean you did something bad or are something bad. And while its sweet that you want to make sure people don’t have negative feelings, there’s a lot of humans in this world and we’re always going to be stepping on each others toes so maybe don’t let people feeling annoyed with you define you. 

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SUPERNATURAL + TAROT CARDS (4/?)

[sam winchester → the hanged man] the hanged man understands that his position is a sacrifice that he needed to make in order to progress forward - whether as repentance for past wrongdoings, or as a calculated step backward to recalculate his path onward. this time he spends here will not be wasted; he does this as a part of his progression forward.

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this just in: second dose of covid vaccine makes you homophobic

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can't believe peiople are earnestly posting Again about gay vs bi character discourse when half of these takes are from someone arguing uncritically that men are encouraged to be gay lmfao

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knuckle tats that say TEEN WOLF

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darklina is awful sorry im a malina stannie now

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There’s nothing funnier than imagining Kirigan reading Mal and Alina’s letters. Did he mock them to himself late at night? Do dramatic readings? Pin them to the wall for target practice? Release the scene, Ben