maenomia

[hobohobgoblim]

[satisaranea]

when people stop using the excuse of “olive [skin] is a spectrum!” when referring to any character that hails from the seam, i can die peacefully.

for reference: the seam — dark hair (straight, with the exception of haymitch and his curly hair,) olive skin, gray eyes. (e.g, katniss, gale and the hawthornes, haymitch.)

merchants — blonde hair (curly,) pale skin, blue eyes. (peeta, delly cartwright, mrs. everdeen and primrose.)

yes, in the case of the seamfolk, it is definitely possible that they are simply tan white people. however, in the racial context of appalachia, there is a population of native americans (who often have olive skin and straight dark hair,) along with the melungeon population (which includes people of color.)

suzanne collins would've made the distinction, as she did for the merchants if they were white. this theory is unlikely though, considering that systematic oppression plays a role within their race. (the seam are worse off; they're the poorest part of the district with people casually dying of starvation in the streets, they're also workers in the mines and more likely to have lung problems/die from mine collapses if not explosions. they also run a black market for sake of trades and food. the merchants run shops and are better off than the seam.)

i'm not saying at all that white people can't be olive skinned, i do very much agree with that and it's something i acknowledge. but again, appalachia, where twelve is located, has a population of people of color in which fit the description (which could likely be native americans.) there's a stark difference in both sides of twelve's population and their races, and if suzanne had made the seamers with the intention of them being white in mind, katniss simply could've said it was a white-predominant population with the notion of seamfolk being darker.

with all of this in mind, no matter how you flip it, the seam-originating characters in the movies are whitewashed. and that takes away from the history of these people and takes from their oppression and representation of history in a book that already deals with racial issues and such things.

[blackynsupremacy]

I CAN DIE HAPPY NOWWWWW! 😍🥰 I was conjuring up a list last week of black actresses from the 2000s that I think would kill it in a role in smallville or could be great as fcs for any smallville fanfic with a black mc to post on here and it so happened that Christina Milian came to my mind as one of them. Come to find out just now that she was in an episode of S7 (I’m on S2), but this bts photo is soooo real!! They look so good. I did some research and she wanted to be in the show because she’s a huge dc comic book fan! She even wanted to play Wonder Woman, but plans fell through. 🙄 Ugh, I love when black girls live out their dreams. Now I’m even more motivated to finish this series out.

[melanatedeuph0ria]

y’all im lowkey thinking ab writing for qimir but i need like a scenario 🤭 pls send requests cs idk what to do atp (i DONT do smut well not yet cs like what business do I have writing literal SEX 😭what I WILL do is fluff, comfort, & angst fics)

i luv this picture of this black dude if anyone knows his name pls lmk cs WHO IS HE LMAO LIKE DONT LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT

[gloriasato]

i havent watched a single spooky month episode in my life but these two kinda funky

[sukibenders]

The way some people are reacting to the Oscar nominations, specifically in regards towards Barbie, and many other things surrounding it holds certain undertones, especially when they then start to go and deny America Ferrera's talent among other things, that are very concerning. Like let's not do that. Especially if you're writing an article for a newspaper (LA Times) that makes digs towards the other films and their nominees, mainly who were women, and say that that proves the point of Barbie. Even though the point of the film was that women have to work harder than men just to get their foot in the door, not about shaming other women, but I digress.

[theheistattheball]

[xannerz]

part of our job as arm*nians is to remind amerikatsiner that it's okay to be critical abt tur/aze!! you wont be racist for criticizing their fascist policies and war crimes!! uwu it's okay!! ""brown"" countries can also be imperialists 💖 and it's okay to call them out on it uwu

[flannelepicurean]

One of my besties, who knows my taste in media: fr, you need to play coral island. it is gay AF. like we are reasonably sure the artist drew gay dudes for DeviantArt or something

I've had it on my Steam wishlist for a while, because I love me a "little tasks" game, and I love it when there are more POC in the cast. Then I got me a gift card from some dear folks, and I was like, "You know what? It's time."

THEY. WERE. NOT. KIDDING.

The art is legitimately very, very good. I love the character designs.

EVERYTHING IN THE GAME IS BEAUTIFUL AND PRECIOUS. The music is lovely. The environment is GORGEOUS, and the use of 3D in the landscape of it is really nice without being overwhelming.

There are a whole bunch of middle-aged people in the cast of characters, and I just want to adopt every single one of them. THE MINI-SCENE. OF CARPENTRY MOM. AND CARPENTRY DAD. HELPING YOU SET UP THE STUFF. IN YOUR HOUSE. It destroyed me like a Sailor Moon villain beholding the power of love. Interracial "capture the critters minigames" couple with the "we've been married for 30 years and hey, amirite?! hee-hee, love this one," energy? ADOPTED. Betty. BETTY!!! AdOpTeD. I cannot cope.

Random animals everywhere. Dog named Taco that splashes in the fountain every day, and if you try to talk to Taco, it says, "Taco is busy and can't talk right now." YA GODDAMN RIGHT. Dogs, cats, Fennec foxes, rabbits, a lizard. I don't even know what else. And those are just the pet-type animals I've seen! There's also WILDLIFE all over the island!

All the farming, fishing, mining, tree-chopping goodness you'd expect from this genre. But also OCEAN STUFF. And I didn't know this was so important to me until I had it, but you can RUN IN THE SHALLOW WATER AREAS. Low tide pools, trickling bits of streams with pebbly bottoms and stuff, and also just...what looks like ankle-deep water that has a clear path within a larger body of water. Water's part of the landscape, not an automatic barrier. And that's SO FUCKING COOL.

Anyway, play Coral Island. It's not 100% done, but goddamn. I'm like 8 days into the first season, and I never want to leave.

[sariels-world-ella]

A short low effort comic based off a conversation I heard in real life

Undertale by Toby Fox

[hobohobgoblim]

The only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good boy with a gun.

[thevalleyisjolly]

I wish literally any other one of the nominated movies this awards season won instead of Oppenheimer. No offence to the actors (although really, what the hell did RDJ do that was so exceptional), but I'm physically upset that they rewarded such an Oscar-bait movie.

[velvetstreets]

I’m trying to initiate having my tummy peek out in certain outfits bc all tummies r good tummies but I’m struggling putting it into practice for myself 😩

[volvolts]

tbh i always thought apoo was meant to look something like a walkman or at least a radio cassette. like his head shape pre timeskip looks more tube-y and old school robot to me and he didn't really have that >:} energy yet. i didn't see the ape resemblence until he became more prominent in wano

[bisaster-energy]

nimona is going so hard rn I'm only 20 minutes in bruh

[somacruising]

I’m sorry but if I see anyone of my mutuals reblogging the C*stlevania Netflix show then I’m immediately unfollowing