#non dinsey

[haveamagicalday]

Battle of the Barbies! Round 1: Vintage

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in can be found here.

[starblightbindery]

Editor's Note from The Black Sands of Socorro by Patricia A. Jackson

While researching Patricia A. Jackson’s entire body of Star Wars work for a short story anthology, I came across the West End Games sourcebook Star Wars: The Black Sands of Socorro (1997.) It’s a crucial work of Star Wars ephemera: The first creator of color writing for Star Wars in an official capacity, writing not just about individual characters of color, but centering entire cultures populated by non-white characters. A young Black woman in the 1990s wrote science fiction for Star Wars, worldbuilding with concepts like antislavery, indigeneity, linguistic divergence, and settler colonialism...while Disney-Lucasfilm in the 2020s ineffectually positions Star Wars as a post-racial fantasy.

I non-hyperbolically refer to Patricia A. Jackson as the “Octavia Butler of Star Wars,” not because fans of color need to be officially sanctioned by Lucasfilm to create Star Wars content, but because of how difficult it is to carve out anti-racist space in a transmedia storytelling empire. Challenging even in transformational fandom spaces (e.g. fan works), to broach race in affirmational fandom spaces—or while writing content for the property holder—is to be unflinchingly subversive.

And Jackson did it first. In an interview with Rob Wolf in 2022, Jackson described her experience writing race into Star Wars in the 1990s as an “experiment.” The planet, peoples, and cultures of Socorro were a way for Jackson to obliquely, yet concretely, center Blackness and racial justice into Star Wars, pushing the racial allegory constrained by the original trilogy to its limits.

Since it’s inception, Star Wars has spent much of it’s storytelling on the fringes of the galaxy (whether it’s Tatooine or Jakku, Nevarro or Ajan Kloss.) The Black Sands of Socorro is an extension of that trope, but where the Star Wars films used indigeneity as set dressing (eg. “Sand People”, Ewoks, Gungans, etc.) Jackson creates a vivid world where indigenous culture and settler colonists collide; where characters are coded with dark skin and central to the action. The planet Socorro is distinct as a Star Wars setting. As one of the only places in the galaxy where slavery is eradicated with a vengeance, Socorro refuses to let go of a plot line Star Wars media often leaves behind. Socorro is a haven from Imperial fascism, a space where readers are invited to imagine a story that does not center around occupation.

When I learned that Patricia A. Jackson no longer has a physical copy of The Black Sands of Socorro, I realized that I had the materials and the means to create a fanbound hard copy for her home library (well, and also for my own home library.) While this handmade book is not an exact reproduction of the RPG supplement, I hope my renvisioning of the supplement as an in-universe travel guide lives up to the original work.

As the idea of creating a travel guidebook based on the original material percolated, I reflected on the State of Race in Star Wars in the year since I compiled Designs of Fate, an anthology of my favorite Patricia A. Jackson short stories. In May 2022, actress Moses Ingram debuted as Inquisitor Reva Sevander, the deuteragonist in the Dinsey+ streaming Obi-Wan Kenobi series. As predicted by Lucasfilm—and any fan sick of alt-right Star Wars related “whitelash”—Ingram was promptly subjected to a firehose of racialized harassment and misogynoir.

Yep, fascist self-proclaimed fanboys complained about a Black woman Inquisitor in 2022, having no idea (or deliberately whitewashing) that one of creators of the entire freakin’ concept of Inquisitors was a Black woman writing for the Star Wars Adventure Journal three decades ago.

Then, a public facing Star Wars account (@StarWars on Twitter) broke precedent and slapped back at the trolls. Lead actor Ewan McGregor filmed a video retort, posted on @StarWars, stating “racism has no place in this world” and telling off the racist bullies: “you’re no Star Wars fan in my mind.” A few months later, Disney+ debuted it’s second flagship Star Wars streaming series of the year, starring a Latino actor as the protagonist. In the opening episode of Andor, a police chief describes Diego Luna’s eponymous lead as a “dark-featured human,” perhaps the closest the franchise has ever gotten to acknowledging out-of-universe constructions of race, to date. The series explored aspects of imperialism with more depth than Star Wars had previously done on screen, such as the Empire’s treatment of the native people of Aldhani. And, in November, the The Acolyte, a Disney+ series co-developed by Rayne Roberts, announced Amandla Stenberg and Korean actor Lee Jung-jae as its top-billed leads. Stenberg will be the first Gen Z, mixed race, Black, Inuit, queer, and non-binary actor to lead a major Star Wars series.

On the Patricia A. Jackson Star Wars front, in 2022, Jackson’s character Fable Astin was an easter egg in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Jackson will again write for Star Wars in an official capacity in From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, due for publication in Fall 2023. A series about Lando Calrissian, the galaxy’s most famous Socorran, is still in production, so I have my fingers crossed that we may soon see Socorro on camera.

I wonder if this past year will have been a fulcrum year for BIPOC fandom. Maybe Disney has finally realized it’s bad for business that the alt-right uses social media algorithms and Star Wars fan spaces as a soft recruiting ground to radicalize young white men? Maybe Star Wars as a franchise will continue to loudly disavow fan whitelash and firmly position performers of color in true leading roles? I really hope so. On the other hand, as much as I am in favor of increased representation in Star Wars storytelling, I am also troubled by Disney-Lucasfilm’s framing of the Galaxy Far, Far Away (GFFA) as “colorblind.” Recently, Star Wars fans have been asked to accept that in the (a long time ago) sci-fi futurepast GFFA, humans have always been post-racial, and it’s just a coincidence that racialized people were not caught on camera the way white characters have been for years. The galaxy is post-racial and it’s just acoincidence that the movers and shakers of the galaxy have largely been depicted as white men for the past 40 years of media.

For example, in the decade since Disney rebooted the expanded universe, fans have learned that Star Wars’s biggest galactic war criminal to never be depicted on screen is Admiral Rae Sloane, a bisexual Black woman who was the leader of Imperial remnant forces, one of the architects of the First Order, and personal mentor to General Hux. Under Disney-Lucasfilm’s post-racial retcon of the Star Wars universe, the allegorical fascists are intersectional equal opportunity employers (at least in expanded universe content like animation, video games, and novels.) Along those lines, several of the franchise’s newly introduced, prominent women of color have been part of the Empire: Imperial loyalist Cienna Ree (Lost Stars), Inferno Squad leader Iden Versio (Star Wars: Battlefront II) former stormtrooper Jannah (Episode IX), First Order pilot Tamara Ryvora (Star Wars: Resistance), Inquisitor Trilla Sundari (Jedi: Fallen Order), Captain Terisa Kerrill (Star Wars: Squadron) and, most recently, Inquisitor Reva Sevander. Once the sole purview of stodgy, very white and very British men (demonstrably so even in the sequel trilogy movies,) now anyone can be a stooge of the Empire.

That’s not to say that marginalized people can’t collude with fascism, or that there haven’t been heroic characters of color introduced in recent years. Rather, I posit that in order to sell audiences on the post-racial/colorblind GFFA, fascist-of-color characters like Rae Sloane or Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon (The Mandalorian) are created by necessity. The franchise wants to at once be racially inclusive and yet never directly address race. In Star Wars, real world oppression is primarily explored through allegory—such as Solo (2018)’s bit on droid rights, the clone army, or the myriad of non-human alien bodies that nonetheless are coded with racial stereotypes. A lot has been said about how allegory in sci-fi allows audiences to grapple with inequality from a comfortable distance, and not enough has been said about which audience is being prioritized for comfort.

What does it mean when race is supposedly a non-issue for humans in the GFFA, but creators and actors with marginalized identities cannot participate in Star Wars in any capacity without experiencing identity-targeted harassment? In the past ten years, this has been true even for white women like Kathleen Kennedy and Daisy Ridley, but the vitriol has been most strongly directed towards Black women like Lucasfilm Story Group lead Kiri Hart, author Justina Ireland and The High Republic Show host Krystina Arielle. Can the Galaxy Far, Far Away truly be “colorblind” or “post-racial” (never-racial?) if the narrative continually centers white characters and replicates all the common racial inequities seen in commercialized Hollywood storytelling? Upon the release of The Force Awakens in 2015, critic Andre Seewood aptly described Finn’s positioning in the story as “hyper-⁠tokenism,” even presciently predicting that Finn would continue to be hyper-⁠tokenized in Episodes VIII and IX. As the narrative veered away from Finn, it also left unrealized a stormtrooper rebellion plot line where Finn could have been, in effect, a Black abolitionist. Actor John Boyega’s critique of his experience in the sequel trilogy aligns with Seewald’s assessment: “Do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important to the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side.”

Published in 1997, The Black Sands of Socorro came before Finn, before Mace Windu, back when all the melanin of Star Wars could be found in Billy Dee Williams’s singular swagger and James Earl Jones’s distinctive voice. Back then, the most prominent Black actress in the original trilogy was dancer Femi Taylor, who played Oola, the hypersexualized green twi’lek fed to the rancor in Return of the Jedi. Bantam Spectra, the publisher that held the license for Star Wars from 1991 to 1999, had no leading characters of color in its’ Expanded Universe. The first full length Star Wars novel by a writer of color, Steven Barnes’s The Cestus Deception15, would not be published until 2004. Even though the book featured two protagonists of color, they would not be depicted on the cover. At Comic-Con in 2010, I spoke with Tom Taylor, a white Australian comic book writer who tried to make the lead family in Star Wars: Invasion (2009) a Black one, but was shut down during the creative process. The comic instead depicts a family of blondes, because the publishers did not think fans would embrace leads of color. All this to say, the inclusion of melanated characters in Star Wars has been so, so hard fought. It’s incredible The Black Sands of Socorro exists at all. It’s more than worthy of celebration, and I’m floored that more attention has not been brought to it.

Patricia A. Jackson is a smuggler.

This sourcebook was explicitly written to assist fans in telling their own Star Wars stories, and in it Patricia A. Jackson smuggled in emphatic allusions to the Black Panther movement and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, smuggled in commentary on indigeneity and settler colonialism, and smuggled in multiple ways for fans to envision characters of color. Her writing has consistently added richness to the GFFA, and in The Black Sands of Socorro she envisions multiple histories for multiple cultures coded as non-white. She ensured the existence of not mere tokens, but flourishing societies of people of color in Star Wars.

The coda for The Last Jedi again shows how perilously close to tokenization characters of color, particularly Black characters, are in modern day Star Wars. In this film, the franchise returns to itsprevious exploration of slavery with the depiction of enslaved children on Canto Bight. The last speaking lines of the film are from Oniho Zaya (played by Josiah Oniha, a young Black British actor) who recounts Luke Skywalker’s heroic exploits to the other children. The film then closes out by showing that one of the downtrodden children is Force-sensitive—a future hero in the Star Wars mythos. In a film where every single Force-user depicted is white, the next generation kid with the potential is, again, a young white boy. Once again, the Black character can only serve the narrative in a supporting role. A franchise depicting a colorblind fantasy continually reifies racial and gender hierarchies in America. With The Acolyte, scheduled for release in 2024, it’s possible the franchise may finally be shifting past hyper-tokenism. In the meantime, fans of color and our erstwhile allies will continue doodling in the margins.

In the end, the sequel trilogy left the Canto Bight plot line (and the overarching slavery plot line started in Episode I) unresolved. I’d like to think the Black Bha’lir strafed Canto Bight and grabbed those kids. It seems like something they would do. Out among the stars, Oniho Zaya is adventuring with Drake Paulsen, and his story does not bracket another characters’; he is central. The Black Sands of Socorro is a launching pad for stories like that. It represents how fans of color have always carved out pieces of Star Wars for ourselves.

[yen-sids-tournament]

Animal Besties Tournament

These are the Disney Brackets:

This is the Non-Disney Bracket:

These are the brackets all again but with the names:

As you may have noticed, the first round of the Disney Brackets are pairs and the first round of the Non-Dinsey Bracket are, mainly, trios. This allowed us to get the most amount of entries into the tournament.

Here is the planned schedule for the first round:

September 16 - Disney Polls A (Mushu v Abu side)

September 19 - Non-Disney Polls E (Toothless v Falcon v Hobbes side)

September 23 - Disney Polls B(Dude v Rufus side)

September 26 - Disney Polls C (Pluto v Waddles side)

September 30 - Non-Disney Polls F (Rain v Boga v Zwei side)

October 3 - Disney Polls D (Archimedes v Captain Flint side)

Each poll will include the name and type of the animal plus what they are from and who is credited as their person.

Propaganda is welcomed and encouraged as long as it stays in the spirit of a fun game. This is not a hill to die on in anger guys, if you wanna die on one of these hills do it positively.

Hot tip: if you want to convince people please add propaganda because we will not become subject matter experts on the characters we have never heard of.

We hope y'all are as excited as we are to get underway!

edit: We wanted to point out that the word brackets may be a little different in part because we tried to order the pictures to be more complementary visually. Also, we fixed a few spelling errors on the polls (and in even a miss-named characters).

[benzinazero]

L'uso dell'automobile è 'libertà', ma la *libertà del più forte* (e questo è il motivo per cui servono i limiti a 30)

Immagine dal cartone animato di Walt Dinsey ‘Motormania’ NON è vero che automobilisti, pedoni e ciclisti sono tutti uguali: su una strada qualsiasi basta che transitino ogni giorno 20 persone in automobile a 50 km/h per marginalizzare le persone che camminano a piedi o pedalano in bicicletta, e metterle in pericolo, anche quando le persone a piedi o in bicicletta magari sono dieci volte di più…

[your-god-empress-lavender]

Humans are so fucked up but also amazing. Like, I know this is a point that so many people have made before me, but it's just so amazing the potentials we have in ourselves.

Anyone who tries to sell you the whole concept that humans had predators is wrong. While the occasional lone human has fallen prey to a predator, it was by far the outlier. Not only are humans a very expensive meal, giving very little nutrition compared to the amount of energy it would take to actually down one of us, we were almost always traveling together. While an individual human is not very strong compared to a lion, wolf, or bear, our strength is in our bonds between humans, range of movement, and use of tools. Few lone humans could take on a predator with their bare hands, but give that person a rock and they're usually pretty set. If you have just two humans, especially with a rock or a stick, it would take a bear or a pack of dire wolves to have a chance at taking them on, and seeing as most bears find their nutrition in much smaller animals and a lot of plants, we really didn't need to worry about this often. All of this to say, humans (and other closely related hominids) haven't really had to worry about predators for a long time (at least for the last 6 million years, and possibly longer but before that they weren't really hominids). Then, you may ask, why are we still skittish? Why is it that when walking through the woods alone you feel fear? Usually when an animal has no natural predators, their fear response all but disappears (you probably know the story of the dodo bird as the most famous example of this). Part of it is the same reason that lions and other big cats are, even if they don't have predators, the environment can still be dangerous. Hippos may not be your predator, but if you piss them off, you're good as dead. Same goes with snakes and the other dangerous but non-predatory animals and dangerous environments. But this really isn't the full story. If a human hears a rustling in the bush near them, their greatest fear isn't a predator, dangerous snake, or flood, but another human. We have an unprecedented ability to control our environment, to avoid predators, and to get by, but we also have an almost unheard of ability and propensity to hurt our own people. Sure, that dangerous hominid may be from another species or subspecies of human, but the majority of the time, it's someone who you know. Someone that's part of your little group/tribe. We are scared, not because the world can be a dangerous place, but because we can be dangerous people. The only predator that most people have ever dealt with was another person. Our stories/fables about the dangers of the woods found their origin not in people getting snatched by bears, but in people being killed (or worse) by their neighbors. Whenever you hear a Grimm fairy tale, know that it was made due to our need for a more palatable explanation for human cruelty. I used to dislike how sanitized disney's versions of the fairy tales were, but knowing that the Grimm stories themselves were to the truth as the dinsey films were to them is unsettling (well, at least for me).

When someone is hospitalized because they're "a threat to themselves or others", that's just the human condition. Few if any humans aren't, and that is a truth that most people don't like to face head on.

[disneysliceoflife]

The Issue with Frozen 2

I didn't watch the movie in half a year, and since Dinsey+ now has it on norwegian, I decided to check it out on the sisters' "official language"

The obvious fault of it jumped at me, now that the excitment of seeing the sisters again passed.

IT REALLY ISN'T ABOUT THE SISTERS!!! By the time Elsa met Brunni, I was like "I don't care about this spirit story, daaaamnnn..."

Like someone talking to you non-stop about something you don't care about.

I was excited about watching Anna and Elsa having an adventure together, and instead it was getting halted constantly by characters and things that were new.

Which isn't bad per say, because I did like a lot of it the first few times....But now I understand the disappointed of so many.

How beautiful would it have been to have Anna and Elsa to perhaps deal with their differences and learning to deal with one another's differences (and traumas)? Instead of the ambient being the main character, like..have the sisters be the main character...?

It's the story of the forest and the spirit, not really of the sisters.

How nice would it have been for the sisters' scenes to be a useful aspect of the movie, instead of feeling like fan service? Anna could learn that being forceful and raising her voice only gets Elsa to shut down. And Elsa's deal is speaking to Anna, instead of keeping things to herself and wanting to do everything on her own?

We need a hero to edit like...80% of the movie, and we can have a short that we can eat up like chocolate ice-cream to get our fill of Elsa/Anna (sisterly) love.

Sometimes I wonder if Disney discovered the Elsanna fandom and got alarmed by this interprepation of the sisters' relationship and that's why they did this, lol.

[princesshawkins]

Some snapshots of my NEW VIDEO

[the-once-and-future-dork]

Can I just talk about how important the movie Mulan was for me as a kid? It was the first time I realized that I didn’t just want to be a girl, I wanted to be a boy too. I didn’t have a word for it at the time, but I had a whole song.

Who is that girl I see Staring straight, back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know?

My life up until that point had been spent performing femininity because it was what my peers did (note: my parents never forced gender roles/stereotypes on me as a child. Everything I learned was from outside the home). Sometimes I was fine with that, but more often than not I felt trapped by what society expected of me. The unhappiest years of my life were spent maintaining this ruse. 

I have a word for it now, but even just the implication of a fictional character feeling the same way I did was an immense comfort to me. Even today, when I put on makeup and dress more feminine, the words to Reflection go through my head. 

That was me in grade 8, forcing a smile beneath several pounds of makeup, hoping that if I just tried hard enough, if I looked the way other people wanted me to, I would be happy. 

This is me now:

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel totally at home in this body. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and would rather be anywhere than in this body. The difference is that I’m no longer trying to hide who I am. I don’t have to perform femininity if my heart is screaming against it. I can be as masculine or as feminine as I want, and no matter what, it doesn’t stop me from pursuing the things that make me happy. 

Tl;dr  that’s why representation matters. Mulan isn’t even canonically non binary, but I saw in her the same longing that I saw in myself, and I felt so much less alone. And seeing her get a happy ending full of love and acceptance gave me hope for the future.

[oc-challenges]

Welcome To The OC Halloween Challenge 2021!

For those of you who do not know and even those who do, the OC Halloween Challenge is a month-long Halloween themed challenge for OC creators. It is designed to encourage creativity, foster community, and have fun! Brought to you once again by @lizziesxltzmxn and @randomestfandoms-ocs​.

Rules

DO NOT copy others edits.

If you are doing crossovers, PLEASE make sure that the creator of the other oc is okay with crossovers.

If you want your post to be reblogged onto this blog, it must contain the hashtag ohc2021.

Feel free to ask questions!

Everything is up to the creators interpretation, although I have tried to include some examples for help!

Have fun!

Challenges below the cut

       1. Murder Mystery AU

Everybody loves a good Murder Mystery! Be it a Clue AU, a themed dinner party, or just the investigation of a straight-up murder, this is a day someone in your ocs story gets to put their detective hat on!

       2. Couples Costume/AU

From couples costumes like Sonny & Cher to a Notebook AU, today’s a day for your ships to take a dip in their daydreams!

       3. Musical AU

Are you a broadway expert? Or is the only musical you know High School Musical? Either way, it’s time to put your knowledge to the test and make a Musical AU... or you could even create your own original Musical concept.

       4. Buzzfeed Unsolved AU

Today on the Halloween Challenge, we create Buzzfeed Unsolved AUs, perhaps one of the greatest YouTube shows of all time. Will your oc look into a mystery plaguing their town? Or will the ghoul-boys investigate the strange events of your OCs past? Well, however you interpret this challenge is up to you!

       5. Dinsey AU

Everybody knows what Disney is, it’s a staple in most childhoods. So what if your oc got to live out your/their Disney dreams? From Disney Princesses to DCOM aus to a good ole Disney show, today’s the day to bring the magic to life.

       6. Godly Parent AU

History is rich with stories, and most every culture has tales of the divine and immortal. Which god could have parented your oc?

       7. Same Face AU

Dopplegangers, clones, evil twins, oh my! What happens when your oc comes face to face with... themselves? A great chance for crossovers!

       8. Kids Show AU

Nostalgia is the curse of the masses, what show makes you feel nostalgic? Do an edit with your oc and your favorite show as a kid!

       9. Squad Costume/AU

From Taylor Swift’s squad to a Mean Girls Christmas Costume, who doesn’t love a group costume? Or what if your oc’s squad took on Mystery Inc? The red coats of The A Team?

       10. Hogwarts AU

Send a non-HP OC to Hogwarts! (and don’t forget fjkr)

       11. Genre Swap

Is your story a teen drama? Maybe it could be a rom-com! Whatever genre it is, make it a different one!

       12. Superhero AU

The fate of the world is on your ocs shoulders... and the people want a hero. What costume would your oc done? What powers will help them on their quest?

       13. Time Travel AU

A time turner, a Tardis, superpowers, an science experiment gone wrong? Humanity has explored many ways to travel back in time in their fiction. How would your oc do it? Where would they go?

        14. Soulmate AU

Souls meant to be together. Nothing can stop them from meeting, not war, politics, or even accidents in time... unless you love a good tragedy. The soulmate trope is a popular one, but what would you do with it? Here’s some ideas!

        15. French Mistake

We’ve had our fun with ‘if your oc was canon’ aus, but what if your oc stumbled into a world where they were just a character to be played? Where all their struggles and downfalls were just entertainment for the masses?

       16. Period AU

The place and time where your story takes place can affect even the smallest of details in your story. How would your story be different if it took place in the 1920s insteads of the 2020s?

       17. Not-So-Perfect Trip AU

Everything is going perfectly... you have fast lane tickets, or maybe a hotel room with a great review, it’s exactly how you dreamed... until it turns into a nightmare.

       18. Supernatural Creature AU

Make a human oc a supernatural creature! Or maybe a supernatural oc as a different type!

       19. Beloved Object/Pet Becomes Human

Sometimes the things that bring us comfort aren’t sentient, and sometimes that’s a good thing... What if your favorite blanket could tell the world of the things you cried over while hiding under it? What if your cat could tell everyone of the songs you sing in the shower?

        20. Pre-2000s Movies

You know Heathers? The Breakfast Club? Clueless? 10 Thing I Hate About You? These are iconic movies that came out before the year 2000! Go ahead and make an au or edit involving a pre-2000s movie!

       21. Different Ship AU

Have an AU where your oc is with a different love interest than their originally intended? Have a love interest you scrapped in favor of another one? This your chance to show them off!

       22. Horror Archetypes

What horror archetype does your oc fall under? What qualifies them for it?

       23. Grishaverse AU

With the premiere of the Netflix series, Shadow & Bone, Leigh Bardugo’s grishaverse has been a trend in the oc community! So... if your oc was a Grisha, what kind would they be?

       24. Multiverse AU

It’s the MCU concept! It’s the “What If?” of the OC world. What if your Gotham OC met their arrowverse counterpart? Or your X-Men oc meant their Avengers universe counterpart? It’s the parallel universe concept! Another great chance for crossovers as well!

       25. Social Media AU

Show off your ocs instagram account! Do they frequent Snapchat? Do they secretly run a tumblr fandom account? What nonsense do they post on their twitter?

       26. Fairytale AU

Who’s your OCs fairytale counterpart? Love a good kid-friendly tale? Or are you a Grimm fairytale fan? Toss your oc into a tall-tale!

       27. Video Game AU

Until Dawn stats! Your oc is an android fighting for rights the same as humans! There’s an imposter among your ocs group! Combine your favorite video game and one of your ocs!

       28. Fear Street AU

Whether your oc is from Shadyside or Sunnydale, or somewhere else entirely, not all villains are easily defeated.  This Halloween, let your OC come face to face with the same horror that their parents, or other ancestors, once encountered.  Will they be the one to finally see an end to it, or will the cycle carry on to their children?

       29. Celebrity AU

What if your oc was a celebrity? How would they get famous? What would they be famous for? What is their fandom like?

       30. Role Swap AU

Your hero oc as a villain! Your villain oc as a hero! Whatever it is, swap those roles!

       31.  Horror AU

For the finale, a straight-up horror au! Spooky scary skeletons may send shivers down your spine, but what horrifies your oc?

[lieutenant-amuel]

Hi, guys! I'm done with my exams and I've got some free time, so as I promised, video requests are open!

General information:

1. I'll be accepting requests for one week (June 15 - June 22)

2. I accept EoA requests only, which means crossover requests (including Sofia the First) don't go.

3. I accept requests through my inbox (anonymous ones as well) only. Not under this post, not in reblogs, not in my other social media platforms. Please, consider it. It's difficult to keep track of requests when they're spread everywhere.

4. All characters, ships, and platonic relationships are accepted. However:

Characters: I won't accept requests, including the vast amount of characters (like jaquins, sirenas, etc videos). Please, choose one character or a specific dynamic between a few ones.

Ships:

Characters who never/barely interacted on screen. With my limited editing skills I just won't be able to make it happen.

Inappropriate ships like incest and pedophilia.

Esteriki as my only NOTP. Sorry about that.

5. Videos you can request:

AMV. A typical video edit, accompanied with a song or an instrumental music. If you have a song you want me to use, feel free to share it with me, and I'll make it happen! However, if you don't, it's not a big deal, as I'll choose an instrumental composition myself (or not, as you can suggest it yourself to make me get the mood of the video you want to see) and try to look it as fancy as possible.

Compilation. Just a collection of video clips united by the same theme (like my last video of Gabe and his parents scenes). It can be everything you want, excluding very vast ideas, like "every time the character X was on screen", especially if it applies to one of the mains. The video will long for hours in that case, and I don't think anyone would watch it.

Bonus!

Multilanguages. Since it's nearly impossible to find EoA songs in different languages (especially from season 3), in that occasion, I'm open for non-EoA requests as well, just keep it Dinsey-related.

6. Not necessarily, but letting me know you saw and liked your video would be highly appreciated :3

And that's it! If you have any questions and want to clarify anything, feel free to ask me! I hope we all will have a fun time together again!

[gotaholeinmysoull]

sentite un po’ maghi dei pc

come faccio a fare il picture in picture su dinsey plus?

ho già provato con le estensioni ma non fanno un bel niente

[haveamagicalday]

[corallorosso]

Lui è Kenzo, un bambino di due anni che, guardando il film Dinsey 'Encanto', ha notato una certa somiglianza con il personaggio di Antonio Madrigal. Kah Brand, la mamma, ha condiviso questa foto sui social e in poche ore è diventata virale negli Stati Uniti. Intervistata da PopSugar, ha raccontato; "Sembrava in trance, sorrideva e guardava lo schermo. Poi si è alzato e si è voltato verso me e suo padre, sorridendo ancora. Credo abbia pensato di vedersi riflesso nello schermo vista la somiglianza con Antonio. Il fatto di non sentirsi invisibile ha avuto subito un impatto su di lui. È essenziale che i bambini neri si sentano così e che si sentano collegati a immagini positive e cariche di ottimismo per la loro autostima. C’è potere nella rappresentazione e magia nella creatività. Questa generazione e le prossime si sentiranno incluse perché l’industria si sta spostando in una direzione che riflette l’effettiva diversità del nostro mondo". Radio Deejay (Soumaila Diawara)

[crossdreamers]

Loki as the queer, non-binary and transgender “Other”

Fantasy author E. J. Beaton has written an interesting article on the way the god Loki (in the Marvel Universe as well as in the original Norse myth) is both a queer, non-binary and trans character.

In Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster? Beaton reflects on how queer viewers have embraced the Loki found in Dinsey’s new TV series.

This should come as no surprise, Beaton explains, as the character of Loki has always played a symbolic role as an “othered” figure, with queer and feminine-associated aspects that contrast with the socially acceptable norm:

Introducing Loki in his edition of the Norse Myths, Kevin Crossley-Holland notes the trickster’s hybridity, claiming that Loki “embodies the ambiguous and darkening relationship between the gods and the giants.” (xxix) As the stories unfurl, Loki emerges as the social other to the community of immortals....

Striking descriptions throughout the tales illustrate Loki’s physical alterity: his eyes gleam different colours, including brown, green and indigo (80), and his “scarred” lips twist into a “wolfish” smile. (80) 

The scarring also serves as a reminder of Asgard’s desire to silence its mischievous, chaotic other. Previously, Loki’s lips had been sewn up as punishment when one of his tricks went awry (53), leaving him with marks long after the stitching had been unpicked. The hint of the bestial in the description is no coincidence, either, since Loki can transform into animals, often taking the form of a slighted animal such as a flea or fly.

Significantly, the myths also refer to Loki’s transformations into women and show the derision that the other gods direct at Loki for inhabiting, enjoying, and making use of a female body. 

Odin mocks Loki for having “lived under the earth for eight winters in the shape of a woman, a milkmaid” and borne children. (164) These bestial and feminine “others” come together in a now-infamous story of Loki transforming into a mare, mating with a stallion, and giving birth to the magical horse Sleipnir. 

Despite the attacks on his masculinity, Loki appears to enjoy shape-shifting and gender-shifting, even in front of the collective of immortals. When Thor is required to dress as a bride on a secret mission, the Thunder God worries that he will look “unmanly,” yet Loki enthusiastically volunteers to dress up as his “maidservant.” (72) The contrast in Thor and Loki’s attitudes to cross-dressing remind us that Loki’s attitude to gender deviates from the normative group.

In Marvel’s universe Thor is the brother of Loki, and Beaton describes Thor as the embodiment of the hypermasculine standard.

Read the whole article here!

The female version of Loki (from the Disney/Marvel TV-series)

[babymushy]

About me!

Name: Mossy!

Age: 20, almost 21 ;-;

Location: Indiana, America

Little age range: 2-5

Gender:None/ nonbinary !

Relationship status:Very taken 🥰

Sexuality: No label but I like everyone!

Favourite Colour: GREEN!! 💚🌱🐸🐛

Favourite Dinsey movies: Tangled and brother bear!

Favourite non-Disney little films: My neighbor totoro, spirited away, all of the how to train a dragons, inkheart, 9 and so many more haha

Interest: I'm autistic and mushrooms are my special interest! Following that there's foraging, biology, politics (which I keep off this account), making music and art, poetry, punk, folk,and lots more! I really enjoy advocating for disabled folks, because I myself am disabled, as well as queer and POC rights!

[captain-squid-knuckles]

okay i was watching a random dinsey channel iceberg when i saw this

which i was like oh cool random pixel art gravity falls game got some nice pixel art theen i noticed

and was like hold on a sec i rember this from somewhere and then it hit me

good ol dippy has been like confirmed non binary by some random tie in game