adult’s movies: sex, explosions, yelling, cheap love story
kid’s movies: deep heart-wrenching death, moments where you question your own values, humor, adult jokes splashed in, the secret to the fucking universe, sometimes explosions too
“I dunno man, kid’s movies are just kinda dumb”
Things writers need to STOP doing:
- “Olive toned skin” BITCH IS SHE FUCKING GREEN?! Olive toned skin is just an excuse for readers to praise the author for including PoC, but when the character is white washed in the movie, the author can say “oh well, olive toned can mean white” (@ Suzanne Collins)
- Writing high fantasy books where all the characters are white, even though the human default is to be black. Humanity originated with black people so why the fuck would you not have high fantasy be about black people? That doesn’t make sense.
- Saying someone has thin eyes or “slits” for eyes when you mean to say that they’re Asian. Just fucking say that they’re Asian. Don’t sit here and act like the defining feature for Asian people is their eyes. Do you know how fucking racist that is?
- Having the heroine of the story almost get raped and then having the hero of the story show up to save her. AND THEN NEVER BRINGING IT UP AGAIN. Did you know that there are other ways to show male characters being heroic and chivalrous than using rape as a plot device?
- Post-apocalyptic America. This is the future of one of the most racially diverse countries in the world. But 99% of the people are white.
- Making mixed race characters have light/pale skin so that your readers can think it’s okay to whitewash them. It’s even worse if you DEFEND the whitewashing (@ Mara Dyer fandom/Michelle Hodkin)
- Racial ambiguity is fucking dumb as hell. It’s just an excuse for you to act like your book has PoC in it then when they’re whitewashed by fans or in the adaptation, you can act like it’s fine (this is the same principle as the olive toned skin bullshit). Just give your characters specific races. It’s not that hard.
- Killing off PoC just to make white characters sad (@ Sarah J. Maas - I’m still pissed about Sorscha and Nehemia)
- Writing an Indonesian character and then defending BOTH casting choices when the actor is not Indonesian EITHER TIME because you think all Asians look alike (@ She Who Must Not Be Named)
- Writing gay characters and having all of their characterization be about them being gay/coming out.
- Writing PoC and having them all be half-white because apparently you’re only valid as a character if you’re part white.
- The girly girl being a total bitch because she’s blonde, hot, and rich? Just because the popular girls didn’t like you when you were in high school doesn’t mean that every girl who fits that stereotype is automatically evil.
- Male love interests who stalk/abuse the heroines? What kind of message are you sending to young readers when you say “if he’s cute, it’s okay if he stalks/abuses you”.
- Boys fighting over girls? When was the last time you actually saw two boys fighting over a girl?
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
How I use my “like” button:
-reblog later
-watch later
-listen later
-might save this photo later
-show to my friend later
-I just really like it*Forgets to do all of the above*
Bingo
Megatron loses starscream in a crowed
Megatron on intercom: “Megatron has fallen”
Starscream, somewhere in the crowed: “NOW I, STARSCREAM AM LEADER OF THE DECEPTICONS!”
Megatron: “there he is.”
Someone: ay Matthew we want to do a photoshoot of you
Matthew Gray Gubler: can it be outside?
Someone: Ye
Matthew Gray Gubler: can I wear a bright pink turtleneck?
Someone: Um sure I guess, we were really thinking more neutral tones-
Matthew Gray Gubler: do I have to brush my hair?
Someone: um no I guess not
Matthew Gray Gubler: can I have a cockatiel on my head?
Someone: can u just be fuckin normal for once or
laser-free diet.
y'all need to hear about gerb.
gerb was my high school physics teacher. (gerb is short for mr. gerber.) when we were learning about radiation and whatnot, and we touched on radiation poisoning, gerb decided to tell us a story.
when gerb was in high school, he worked in a supermarket. a cashier. there was this one little old lady, mrs. cassopolis, who was a regular. mrs. cassopolis firmly believed that the lasers used to scan her food items would give her radiation poisoning. they tried to explain that’s not a thing. but old cass wouldn’t hear a word of it.
the employees had to punch in every. last. grocery. item. MANUALLY.
and this woman would buy cartfulls of food every week, like any good grandma trying to feed her five children and eighteen grandchildren every time they come for a Sunday visit. so pretty soon, the employees figured out a strategy to get her on her way and get on with their lives.
one or more employees would distract old cass while the cashier would scan all the items he could as fast as humanly possible while she wasn’t paying attention.
now this supermarket had a rewards program for its most efficient workers. the computer would track how quickly the cashiers scanned items, and how many total they scanned in one day, that kind of thing. so one day, gerb’s boss came to him and said “uh,”
“you scanned three hundred items in six minutes last Tuesday during your shift”
and gerb says “i recall”
“that’s about four times faster than anything i’ve ever seen”
and gerb says “yea ok”
“jeremy what happened?”and gerb says
“i had to save a little old woman from placebo radiation”
