I'm off Tumblr until people stop being stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic
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I bet a lot of it has to do with the "exoticness" of their names.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
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DebetEsse - Oct 28, 2014 8:11:39 am PDT #27929 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2014 8:51:00 am PDT #27930 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
P.M. Marc - Oct 28, 2014 8:54:44 am PDT #27931 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Stroppy children with a flair for the dramatic about this, at least!
Names, roles played previously. Lotta factors, many of which make me hella uncomfortable, because there's some seriously skeevy undertones of exoticization of people in the name of great justice.
Add to that the whole "he's drawn as swarthy with strong features and they never said flat out he was white in the comics, therefore clearly not white!" and I am in full side-eye mode. Again, think the character would be improved by race bending, but dude. With his backstory and when he was created, they wouldn't have had to specify whiteness there. That's kind of the reality of America's fucked up system. (Plus he's totally drawn like Vincent Price, who was totally awesome, but also an upper class rich white guy. So they're are literally doing this whole creepy gross classification by what you view as stereotypical features, and this would make so much more sense were I not on my phone.)
DebetEsse - Oct 28, 2014 9:03:15 am PDT #27932 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Nah, I get you. Tumblr-dom seems to have real problems with differentiating between categories of Things Which Are Issues and degree of outrage for various Things Which Are Issues. Also, history and context. And then you have the just free-floating fail that occurs in the world, including on Tumbr, which then gets reblogged and not examined and...yeah.
Calli - Oct 28, 2014 9:35:06 am PDT #27933 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Though like a few of the FFA people, I suspect most of the people who'd been fancasting Oded Fehr were operating under the assumption that he was Egyptian.
I'm mostly operating under the assumption that he's hot and underused.
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2014 9:47:08 am PDT #27934 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
- Captain America: Civil War - May 6th 2016
- Doctor Strange - November 4th, 2016
- Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 (to be named) – May 5th, 2017
- Thor: Ragnarok – July 28th, 2017
- Black Panther - November 3rd, 2017 – starring Chadwick Boseman
- Captain Marvel – July 6th 2018 – featuring the Carol Danvers character
- Inhumans – November 2nd 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 – May 4th 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 – May 3rd 2019
Strix - Oct 28, 2014 9:56:53 am PDT #27935 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Tom beat me, and oh my dear god, my geek panties are wet.
Strix - Oct 28, 2014 9:57:21 am PDT #27936 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
(Huh. That above post needs context, but Imma let it stand.)
Vonnie K - Oct 28, 2014 10:11:12 am PDT #27937 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Coolness. I have no comics knowledge whatsoever, but I'm glad the MCU head honchos finally got around to planning movies not headlined by yet another white dude.
Cumberbatch is not announced as Doctor Strange so it looks like that's not yet confirmed.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2014 10:14:45 am PDT #27938 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Chadwick Boseman?
I'm sure he will be fine, but what about all the other guys?