Things That Happened In Bristol And London Late Last Night:

Me: wow I love the pacifist themes of Doctor Who and how the Doctor tries their hardest to be kind and resolve conflict across time and space by talking about the root cause of problems and encouraging compromise

The Doctor: I gave you a chance and you were too stupid to take it, so now I’m gonna have to murder you and your entire species

also me:

merlin characters as stock photos

merlin:

arthur:

morgana:

uther:

gaius:

gwen:

mordred:

gwaine:

lancelot:

percival:

hold on i have more

*taps the glass* hey, y'all know that what you might want isn't necessarily what's best to legislate?

today it was revealed that a white woman in brownface was amita suman’s stunt double in shadow and bone. 

at a time when hollywood is preaching to stop aapi hate the show has shown us, twice so far, that they don’t care about our community. by having a south asian coded character make racist remarks towards an east asian coded character they added nothing to the plot or character development- all they did was try to create a divide between our communities. this hurt more especially because zoya was never racist in the books.

they condoned putting a stuntwoman in brownface because they couldn’t be bothered to find a desi stuntwoman for amita. there are truly so many talented desi dancers and acrobats out there but shadow and bone refused to cast accurately solely because stuntwomen are supposed to show up in blurry or fast moving shots, making it “easier” to rely on brownface. this speaks volumes about how much they care about diversity.

for a show that has been praised for representation and diversity and was going to mean so much for asian viewers, shadow and bone failed to deliver time and time again, showing us that all we can count on when it comes to south asian representation in hollywood is constant disrespect and racism.

netflix and leigh bardugo along with the rest of the showrunners and writers marketed the show as being a diverse fantasy but were surrounded by a team that approved brownface should tell you all you need to know about how much they respected desi people in the first place. so many south asians were excited to finally see themselves onscreen in inej and zoya, especially as the show was praised by reviewers and writers as being diverse and accurate representation and this is what we got.

amita was so excited to play inej, a strong brown woman whose identity was not solely defined by her race and i can’t imagine how she felt watching a white woman paint herself brown so that she could perform stunts that amita had trained for as well. if anything, this proves that hollywood’s pushing of diversity on screen does nothing to help poc and representation unless that same diversity exists behind the camera.

i don’t know how you can look at this and not be enraged at the state of this fucking island

here and here are numbers (and other resources) for the national hotline for domestic violence in the uk given that around major football tournaments domestic abuse has spiked up by 38% when england has lost. it is not your fault and never will be. please rb to spread resources.

people are talking more about the grammys than the uk govt trying to screw over queer and abused kids but sucks to be us i guess

I’m seeing a lot of posts about the new bill completely ignoring the impact it’s going to have on Traveller and Romany communities.

And this isn’t a ‘why is nobody talking about this?!’ post, it’s a very, very gentle reminder that one of the most discriminated-against groups in the UK has just been effectively outlawed, and we need to put that front and centre when we talk about the problems with this bill.

Not just because, you know, that’s fucked up, but because there are a LOT of people on all sides of the political spectrum who would happily let that part of the bill pass quietly. More people than you know.

So it’s up to us to say “No, there will be no compromise” and fight tooth and nail to get EVERYTHING in this bill shut down.

So when you’re protesting your right to protest (lol normal island), remember to protest other people’s right to exist, too.

Thinking about how season 15 is the last and how im not ready to say goodbye to sam fucking winchester

I have nothing to prove to you.