#I wrote this instead of doing assignments

[fully-functioning-pigeon]

This is not my usual content but I feel like it’s something I need to say

On principle, if a character in a piece of media has a backstory that is in no way related to their race, the actor portraying that character can be of any race and what should take priority in casting is their talent

Attached to this sentiment, if a character in a piece of media has a backstory that is very much related to their race, the actor portraying that character should be of that race and the second priority should be talent

Now what does this mean? I will give examples

Leah Sava Jeffries, black actress playing a traditionally white character, Annabeth Chase. In no way does Annabeths whiteness relate to the core of her character or backstory, so Leah’s talent was what got her the role. The role is not reliant on race, anyone of any race can play Annabeth because her backstory is not reliant on race

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, black actress playing Juliet Capulet, a traditionally white character. In no way does Juliet’s race relate to the core of her character or backstory, so Francesca’s talent was what got her the role.

Avantika Vandanapu, an Indian actress being fan casted as Rapunzel, a traditionally white character. In no way does Rapunzel race relate to the core of her character or backstory, so Avantika would be eligible for the role if casting directors decided she was fit based on talent

Do we see the pattern

Ok now, the inverse

If a white actress was fan casted or casted to play a traditionally black character whose backstory was highly relevant to her race, this would be an issue.

If a black actress was fan casted to play a Japanese character whose backstory was highly relevant to her race, this would be an issue

Just because a character is traditionally white does not mean that their whiteness is a relevant factor, especially if it is a fictional character!

Stop being racist, start using logic

[airenyah]

Episode 6: FadelStyle vs. Beginnings and Endings

In the past one and a half-ish weeks we've discussed at length just how good the last scene at the diner is and how Style drawing tears on Fadel at the rock concert was foreshadowing to Fadel ending the episode crying real tears. What I haven't seen discussed yet, however, is how that ending scene is actually a counterpart to Fadel and Style's conversation after the rock concert. And I think that makes the scene in the diner even more poignant. And it also makes the scene at the rock pub even more painful as well. Because they are basically the same scenes, just flipped. And I desperately need to talk about it or else I'll explode.

Part 1: "Tonight I am very happy"

In this scene Style knows something that Fadel doesn't: This will most likely be their last chance to be happy together like this. Tomorrow Fadel will go on his mission where the police will be waiting and then Fadel will be taken away from him.

But Style already loves Fadel, he is already worried about him and he really does not want to lose him. So he keeps trying to subtly talk Fadel into staying home from the mission and spilling the beans about the mission so he can explicitly ask Fadel not to go. But Fadel keeps his mouth shut. And as happy as Style is together with Fadel this evening, he is also very upset. He doesn't want the night to end, but there's no way around it. For Style this is a goodbye.

And for Fadel? Fadel went from I'll tell her this will be your last job to Ruerat is the last jerk we have to kill. After that, we can live however we want. Even in this episode, right before he goes to the concert with Style, Fadel tells Bison "Once we're done with Ruerat, I'll talk to Mother again", when Bison says it's time for them to quit. Fadel is on the same page as Bison now. Ruerat is their last victim and after that Fadel wants out. For Fadel, this is the last night where he's still stuck in his hitman life, but once he is done with his mission the weight will be off his shoulders and he can finally truly be with Style. For Fadel this is the opposite of a goodbye.

In the words of my mother: For Style, when the night is over life will end. For Fadel, when the night is over life will begin. Style is ending something and Fadel wants to begin something.

And another thing my mom pointed out is how they're standing in front of a pink sky:

And at what time of the day is the sky pink? Either at dawn or at dusk. The beginning of the day or the end of the day. And for Fadel this scene is only the beginning of the day while for Style this scene is the end of the day.

Part 2: "I think I already love you"

In this scene Fadel knows something that Style doesn't: Style has played him, has made him lower his protective walls, has made him fall for him only to turn around and betray him.

Style told Fadel he hoped that Fadel wouldn't get any more scars and yet here Style is, stabbing Fadel right in the heart and jeopardizing his life. Here Style is, bursting Fadel's bubble that he's finally started daring to dream about, a dream of a future where he wasn't lonely, a future where he was happy and himself with someone, Style, by his side. But Style is a danger to him. Style can't stay. As happy as Fadel has been together with Style, he needs to let go of him. For Fadel this is a goodbye.

And for Style? He has just spent a full week worrying sick about Fadel after his mission went wrong and went completely MIA. Style has likely (definitely) spent a week checking the restaurant every single day for any sign of Fadel's return, not giving up hope of seeing him again. And then Fadel is back. Style is overjoyed. The heavy metal concert wasn't their last day together, Fadel is pulling through on his promise to have many more nights like that with each other. The concert may have been the end of the day, but now against all odds a new day has come. For Style this is the opposite of a goodbye.

And so we're left with the exact opposite situation from what we had at the concert: Fadel is ending something and Style wants to begin something.

Conclusion

These two scenes go together, they're flipped parallels of each other.

At the concert, Style is internally saying goodbye to Fadel because he thinks their relationship will be over when Fadel gets arrested at the mission and the police take him away. At the diner, Fadel is internally saying goodbye to Style because he thinks their relationship is over now that he "knows" that none of it was real on Style's part since in reality he was working with said police.

At the concert Fadel is truly happy, because once his mission is over he'll talk to mother and when he's managed to convince her that him and Bison will be out, then Fadel can go and start a new life, a new future with Style. At the diner, Style is overjoyed because he thought he was about to lose Fadel, but Fadel has come back and now Style gets a second chance at a future with Fadel.

At the concert, Fadel is happy and he can tell something is kinda off about Style ("What's wrong? You act like we're not going to see each other again."), but he has absolutely no idea that Style is in the process of bidding him farewell. At the diner, Style is happy and he can tell something is kinda off about Fadel ("You were just calling me out for being affectionate. Now you wanna be romantic?"), but he has absolutely no idea that Fadel is in the process of bidding him farewell.

It's brilliant writing, really. And both scenes were flawlessly performed by both boys.

[pnfc]

i will say my fav idea in that most recent thing i wrote is that in 'lotsa latkes' heinz got stuck out of time for a month and thinks this makes him a leo now. because i do think he should be a leo even if catu made him a virgo

[sadkachow]

how the fuck did my english class manage to take a semi-positive stance on generative ai

[lucyfrankenstein]

got a 15/15 on my first dracula paper

[iwakuraz]

sorry for posting a thing from art class but does anybody like the first page of the book for my project

[sneef-to-a-snorf-fight]

"And then I said, 'Orange pith? Sounds like he's dehydrated!' Ohohohohohoho!"

The people standing around you laugh at his joke. You stare down into your glass of champagne. You begin to wonder if this gala fundraiser will ever end. How long have you been here? 2 hours? A day? A month? You've stopped counting. You're not even sure what the fundraiser is for anymore. You finally let a question surface. A question you've been pushing down for an unknowable amount of time.

Is this hell?

You walk to the next group of formal attire wrapped around ghoulishly pale, unaturally smooth skin. A man starts a joke: "Yeah, so I went to go visit my friend..."

[venomgender]

my anthropology teacher is working on his dissertation for his doctorate or whatever so he's kinda behind on grading which MAKES SENSE and IS REASONABLE but its also like. mannnnnn i really want to know my grade on these things though. more than that (bc i know im getting a 100) i want to hear YOUR thoughts… please…

[which-hospital]

had an idea for part two of “what if you were a PARAMEDIC in HOLBY and you didn’t have a HOUSE or a FAMILY and this guy from MANCHESTER wouldn’t leave you ALONE?!?” but i swore i would write and edit at least one paragraph of an essay today……….

[raytoromp3]

maybe im maturing #took my medication and didn't freak it

[airenyah]

you know how style makes a confession in ep6:

but then it turns out fadel was already well aware of what style was confessing to:

and after the truth is out, style is also very stressed about fadel's reaction and whether he's gonna be angry or not:

but fadel isn't angry at all:

and now at the end of the episode we're left with fadel learning something about style...

but the thing is, style doesn't know what fadel now knows!! style still has a confession to make about how he knows that fadel kills people. and so i'm wondering if we'll ever get a parallel scene to the confession scene at the rock pub where style tells fadel "i know you're a hitman" and fadel tells style "i know that you know". and i wonder if when the time comes, the writers will flip it and have fadel be angry then or if the "why would i be mad?" from the rock pub is foreshadowing for how fadel will react when the time comes. that when fadel listens to style's confession about having been aware of the truth fadel won't be angry, because we know his reaction in the immediate aftermath of hearing the news wasn't actually anger:

and IF the scene at the rock pub really was foreshadowing that fadel's reaction is NOT gonna be anger when style finally opens up about how much he already knew, then well, there is more that we can learn from the conversation about the rock pub. because apart from "why would i be mad? i already knew that", fadel also says:

style was keeping the truth from fadel, a truth fadel was already aware of and when style finally confesses to the truth, fadel isn't mad, but there will still be a punishment, there will still be consequences. so that makes me wonder... what are the consequences gonna be for style knowing the truth about fadel's hitman identity? what is the punishment going to be?

at the rock pub, the punishment is:

style followed fadel into the heavy metal world even though he himself isn't a heavy metal fan and the consequences are that he has to put on make-up to blend in

and i wonder if style will follow fadel into the hitman world even though he himself isn't a hitman and i wonder if as a consequence style will end up killing someone

i'm still haunted by this pic that dunk posted on the last day of shooting:

(edit: @lavenderrlilac pointed out in the replies that the murder husband pic could be from the painball scenes, and while that is highly likely, it still doesn't cancel out the whole thing about "the punishment for keeping the truth is that you have to blend in into my world" 🫣🫣🫣)

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

sighhhhh i want to draw but i need to lock the fuck in and get stuff done

[souptimewithfrogs]

So I work at a tool store, right? In the South. I'm mostly at register so I get to talk to all of the customers. Something that caught my attention recently is the confidence of folks to express violence after Trump's win. I was lucky enough to be off the days following the election but I was back to work that Friday.

I remember a customer coming up with a socket set that was missing a few pieces, and we had a bit of conversation. Theft is fairly common at my store, much like it is throughout all of retail. I mentioned this, and how it was especially common for this type of item. His response was, "Those people need the crap beat out of them." Honestly, I'm not sure if this man's casual call for violence was a result of the election or a consequence of being in the South, but it struck me as unusual. I didn't really have a response for him, so I just checked him out and he left. I've had a few other customers come up and talk about the election results, but that one stuck out to me.

I've seen so many people online pleading for their friends and their community to just survive and to keep living. I've had conversations with my friends who are afraid to ask who their parents voted for out of fear of knowing that they voted against everything they believe in. One of my friends has diabetes and she's worried that she'll be able to keep getting her medication after this.

I honestly don't know the most about this stuff, but what I can see is on one side people are pleading for their lives, and the other is calling for violence.

[nelkey]

New header!!!!

Finally stopped procrastinating my art assignments and after finishing the first one, which was a moodboard, I realized I could use it as a header xD

[frogmanfae]

I....might do that people are intimidating

#the anon returns to their designated post. Have you heard of me xD there was lore for a while.

#the anon talks in third person like a winner.

Youre super cool

So so consider race teasing jack (in a nice way) for the fondness written all over his face when he talks to davey

Oh yeah for sure. Lowkey might write a drabble or so about that. Actually...

Teehee

[scarletblob]

Basically haven't done anything university-related for over a year since I took/was pressured into a leave; finally checked my school email today and briefly looked at the 'return from leave' requirements and immediately felt all the stress return and ruined my mood for the rest of the week :/