| Ergo Proxy is a lovely overlooked sci-fi anime with philosophical, mythological and vintage science fiction elements and rather gorgeous character designs. This is one anime that needs all the loving it can get. Not surprisingly, the fanart tends to be awesome. Wish I could find them all, but for now here are a few favorites of mine. |
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- 86 Zutara Fever - Jan 25, 2009
- 68 Copyrighting Just Got Easier! - Feb 10, 2008
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| There's been so much that I wish to share. I don't want to remain quiet and say, OH WELL...NEXT TOPIC! and ignore the last one so I will readdress the issue for a moment. Bear with me, please? (sad that i have to ask, no?) No. I've not changed my mind about the The Last Airbender movie. Yes, I'm fully aware that Indian-British actor Dev Patel will now be playing Zuko. I'll address that later. Don't try to guess what I'm thinking. I do still feel it was a dickish move on the studios part to give the role of a colored character to a white actress though. WHY is it sooo important?  1 Those characters are not Asian or anything else, JB. It's a fantasy world! and they don't look Asian!*sighs* Did Lord of the Rings have anyone who wasn't white on it? It's a european-centric fantasy so obviously, nobody blinked an eye at the all-white cast. It's understandable. So why should it be any different for The Last Airbender which borrows heavily from Asian culture the way LotR borrows heavily from european folklore/culture? And as for Avatar characters not looking Asian... Shati says it well with so few words. Strangely, my eyes are not perfect circles. 2) It's not a race issue JB! Quit pulling out the race card!  No. It is a race issue. Why does it matter to have more diversity in the media? Especially children's media? Check this short video, pay close attention to the experiment done in the middle: A Girl Like Me and then you may find a clue as to WHY. I discovered this post recently and found he explained it better than me. 4th Letter: Shake it! "...It isn’t anything malicious. There aren’t evil marketers out there wearing Klan robes and planning on turning a little black girl into a roiling ball of self-hatred and no self-esteem. It’s how things have shaken out. It’s the saddest thing in the world... ...Sistah Spooky, and everyone else who has fallen prey to this kind of self-hatred, had no idea of her own potential. But, because she’d lived a lifetime of seeing bottle blondes held up as the only standard of beauty, that idea had set inside her mind. She was blind. And that’s what makes this self-hatred thing so terrible. It makes you blind to your own worth and potential. How are you supposed to even suspect that you’re beautiful when every standard of beauty around you says the opposite? You don’t even get a chance. ...This sort of implanted self-hate is one of the reasons why I care so much about seeing black faces in comics. How are you supposed to shake this off you if you never know about an alternative? Now you guys know why I give a damn about whether Katara is naturally dark skinned. She's supposed to be the beautiful girl in the story. The one that the main character falls in love with. And she's being played by a caucasian actress who will be getting a tan. Yeah, like I can get my skin bleached and I'll automatically become a white person. No, I'll just be a bleached latina, just like she and Rathborn are going to be tanned white folks. You're not fooling anyone, guys. sorry, I refuse to "suspend" my "disbelief" even "a little." Because I know it's not going to fool any children who watch this. Especially not the little dark-skinned girls who loved Katara and wanted to dress up as her for Halloween because she looked like them. 3) Also...not a real race issue? Not something worth wasting time on, because there are more important cases of racism to deal with? Really? Can't help but think that The SAG would disagree with you. As would this study from the UCLA. No doubt there are more pressing issues of racism out there, but this is one that also needs to be addressed, not ignored. Btw, as for whether they can sue or not is not the main issue here. I don't care if studios are not obligated to practice something like affirmative action (which in studies has shown to mostly benefit white women...women being considered another minority, so please spare mentioning this to me.), it's still pretty dickish of the studios to cast white folks in minority roles. They're once more pushing minorities to the side. And that is a big deal. Otherwise, why else is it such a big deal that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus to a white guy? It's the bus's rules, why speak against the bus driver? It's a business. Can't they be allowed to run it how they like it? Why didn't she just get a car? Or better yet, if she wanted to sit wherever she wanted in a bus after work, she should have just moved to Africa where she could have. RIGHT? And before you ask...Yes. Someone did tell me that if I wanted to see minorities in movies so badly, I should go to another country. Go to mexico to see latino actors, go to africa to see black actors. Go to Asia to see Asian actors, because...get this.... 4) America is for white people. ORLY? Hm...methinks someone forgot to tell President Obama that. 5) And before I get this response..."Oh and btw, I'm...[fill in minority race] so I can't be racist."Who are you kidding? Black people, Hispanic people and Asian people can be just as racist or worse. Not just with white folks but amongst themselves. Being a minority doesn't stop Asian parents from telling their kids to not marry a black person. It doesn't stop Hispanic youth from telling their friends to not date the Chinese guy. And it hasn't stopped black guys from preferring white chicks or black chicks with lighter tone of skin. And no one dare try to tell me it isn't true. Because for every enlightened individual you know, I'm certain you know five more who fall in the above category. 6) It's not right, but it's happens. Guess what? That's not an excuse. Do not give it to me. I am not a sheep. I will not remain defeatist, or complacent. I will not give up talking about it. I will not let it drop. As you can see in the video above, this negative attitudes start early in childhood. Like the 4th Letter poster said, if kids don't know an alternative, what hope is there that this attitude will change in the future, huh? The Last Airbender is a movie who should have been a break from the norm. It should have been the alternative because of the Asian source material. Instead, it's not. 7) JB, they had to pick actors according to their talent. The white actors were the only talented ones to show up at the audition!Right, cuz there are no actors of color that are talented. I wonder what Dev Patel would say to that (or the kids in Slumdog Millionaire). Funny, I have to wonder if they would've hired him to play Zuko had Slumdog Millionaire not won so many awards and accolades. My guess is not. Otherwise, they should've picked him from the very beginning. Cuz yeah he didn't audition for this movie. Just like neither did Jackson Rathborn nor Jesse McCartney. Lucky for them Dev Patel was available now that McCartney's got a busy tour schedule. Yeah, pretty convenient, and sadly, still a miscast (he'd make a better Sokka in my opinion but I digress).  *sighs* I shall conclude this with words of Bossymarmalade who Sees Fire. "...You see, I couldn't just decide not to have a conversation about race anymore, because it follows me home. My race issues ARE my home. ...I don't make modest proposals (because I have never seen anybody appropriate Swift and do it properly)...And I would never dream of telling anybody to "let it drop" when what "it" is...is themselves. ...I tend to wryness more than to sentiment, dear ones, but I cannot help but feel as though this is a gorgeous moment, right here. We're having conversations. We're going to keep having them. There's a whole big internet out here for us to finally talk."  So guys...I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm not trying to guilt trip anyone. I just wanted to clarify some of my viewpoints that I failed to do so when I wrote that last rant of mine. I don't want to alienate anyone nor make them feel bad. I just...wanted to share something that means something to me. You can agree with me, you can disagree with me, but please do not think this is a little thing. It's one more thing in a long history of bad things. I just felt it needed to be addressed. I will speak about other things in the future, things relating to my art, no doubt. But if i wish to speak about an uncomfortable but important issue, I shall. Please forgive me if I made you uncomfortable. I don't want discord amongst ourselves. I just wanted to share my knowledge with you. That's all. ANYWAYS!  ON a more positive note. Check this out...Some News Stories make you happy to be alive Is this not the coolest thing in the world? LOL, "We are a Gang for Justice." Hells yeah! Fighting crime while dressed in pink! Now that's girl power done right. Sampat Pal Devi you are my new idol!  Woot!  |
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