Del Toro/Mchale Adapting Pleasure Island As A Fascist Youth Camp Where The Boys Are Forced To Train And

Seizure First Aid. 

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My family makes fun of me because I prefer to have captions on while watching shows/movies, even though I'm not hard of hearing. It just helps me to 100% comprehend what's going on.

And then they ask me if I would want captions when talking to real people, and its like-- yea that would be pretty nice actually 💃

I was a brown kid raised among other brown kids in South East Asia and yet, every single time I wrote a story in class or I came up with an idea for a play, I used traditional white European names and all my characters were white. So were those of the other kids. Even with no white people around us, the default race in anything fictional was white.

Every single book I read was white. Enid Blyton, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl all wrote books about white kids. The Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, the Meg Cabot novels. All the cartoons, all the early 2000s Disney channel shows, all the made for TV movies. Everything features straight, white children and all anyone wanted to do was to emulate them. When there was some representation of other races, it was secondary, tertiary characters. Or white passing actors. To think that our own stories aren’t worth it unless we acted white enough.

I didn’t want to be Shanti in the jungle or Jasmine in the Taj Mahal or the weird kid in the background everyone made fun of for being an “other”.I wanted to be Hermione and Annabeth and Nancy Drew. I would pretend my name wasn’t my full long Indian name but Keira, or Kara, or Katie and insert myself into the fantasies of my childhood. Even in my own head, I didn’t think I was good enough to be myself. I grew older and called myself Keer when I moved to the UK to compensate and shorten it for white people to pronounce better (why? racism.)

It took me a long time to accept that my story was worth telling, that my skin colour and heritage and religion were not inferior both in real life and on the page. It took me an even longer time to realize that I deserved to see people like me on the screen and the page in a way that doesn’t burden the character to be an ambassador for my entire race but she just exists, like I do. I still am shocked that I can’t even name one single Asian leading character from any of my childhood novels - Asian! The continent with 60% of all humans!

I want the default race to be non existent. I want a class of children to think up a story and not have 90% of them come up with straight white characters. White is not the default. Representation matters.

Criteria for being a wizard in TOA is u must have dyed tips to ur hair

The Riddler: Yeaa you know the amount of suffering caused because the corrupt rich never cared about those below them really gave me motivation and purpose. And so, what I did was the best way stand up for those whose been forgotten and silenced-- a new start 😊

Gotham Police: So your best course of action would've been to cause a flood that mostly affected the people you "stood up for"? Like defenseless children and families that died and others that can't afford to leave?

The Riddler:

Anyways look at this pretty cloud I saw today. Very nice.

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and your for us.

Me: I don't mind drawing unsymmetrical faces. I think that it adds character and some realism since most people's faces aren't two perfect halves of each other :)

Also me: The flip and symmetry tool is scary

Jeff bezos origin story film where his mother is chased off a cliff by a horde of angry Amazon workers

I just learned the tiktok AI voice that reads all the text out loud is a STOLEN VOICE

Bev Standing is a voiceover actress and did NOT consent to this. Tiktok took previous content she created and utilized it without her permission or knowledge, and with NO compensation.

Here is a short interview regarding the issue

She is also now suing them and if you want to help support her in doing so, here is a gofund me helping her be able to do so.

gofundme.com

Stand with Bev Standing, organized by Maria Pendolino

Bev Standing  is a lot of things in the voiceover industry. She is a voice actor, a coach, a m… Maria Pendolino needs your support for Stand