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funny haha me not posting for over a year because i am cool now but i have had this eating at my brain since the first season came out and now it with this casting thing i now can’t stop thinking about it!! and now i don’t care about what i say on here anymore as literally who even uses tumblr in 2022 so i may occasionally pop on here and say a thing or two as unlike every other social media thing atm i can remain sexy and anonymous and not need to be good at dancing or whatever

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sometimes i think about if shadow and bone actually cast characters like tolya and tamar and inej with actors from the kind of background that they are very clearly supposed to have from the book. i think it’s great that it is such a diverse show etc but it really feels like they just cast what western audiences would perceive an ‘asian’ character to be e.g., east or southeast asian when the characters of tolya and tamar and clearly supposed to be central asian. leigh bardugo’s world building obviously isn’t exact but the same way you can gather that kaz and wylan are effectively dutch and nina is effectively russian, anyone actually paying attention would notice that inej is meant to be roma and tolya and tamar are from an unspecific central asian background (probably kazakh or kyrghyz). and literally no one is talking about this:/ like this show has such an opportunity to give representation to two groups who are almost never shown is western media except from harmful stereotypes and they really just went no we are not going to do that! and it’s literally so funny because you can see that they are trying to make stuff about the characters that’s in the book (such as inej being effectively an orthodox christian) make sense with her being south asian in the show and just…have no idea what to do it’s likes bestie u are creating ur own problems here and i think amita suman is really good and there definitely needs to be waaay more south asian rep than there is currently but just not at the expense of other marginalised groups?? like that doesn’t feel like my progress to me! and it really gives the impression that leigh bardugo has written these particular characters as being from cultures that she does not understand, taken elements from their culture and then when it comes to the huge million dollar netflix show that everyone is talking about doesn’t then know about about the people she is supposedly representing to make it clear what their backgrounds are and that they should be represented accurately! but who knows it’s probably not her fault because most people watching would just accept the casting choices at face value and not this hmm wait a second so maybe none of this matters but i just think that if you write characters as central asian or roma you should cast people with central asian and roma heritage to play them on screen 👍

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Details from Garofalo’s Annunciation (1481)

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The Big Apple (‘82-‘84), Frank Horvat

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a fresh cut crop of soft spring flowers: beverly peele for elle us may 1991

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The vaganova ballet academy in konservatoriet

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCry6fbJdR6/?igshid=k6j6i3sq2ulv

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sweaters i want </3

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lorde really said so i guess i’ll go home into the arms of the girl that i love the only love i haven’t screwed up she’s so hard to please but she’s a forest fire i do my best to meet her demands play at romance, we slow dance in the living room, but all that a stranger would see is one girl swaying alone stroking her cheek and we just let her huh

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Money is not life’s report card. Being successful doesn’t mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you’re successful, but that doesn’t mean that you’re happy.

Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

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J'ai tué ma mère (2009) dir. Xavier Dolan

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vive l’amour (tsai ming-liang, 1994)

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Trà My as Johannes Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring reimagined by Dzũng Yoko for ELLE Vietnam August 2018.

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Iftar (Breaking Fast) (2020) dir. Mike Mosallam

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