August 2012
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Casting director: We cast colorblind, race is not part of the equation. We just cast the best actor for the part.
Me: Wow, then it's really amazing that almost all your actors are white! What do you think are the odds of that happening totally by chance?
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expelliarmusvoldemort asked: Oh lord. I like your blog, I was simply wondering...
expelliarmusvoldemort asked: Why do you keep going on with this? You aren't going to change the fact that a white woman was cast as a character who is a woman of color. I'm merely wondering, are you trying to accomplish something by having this blog? seriously just wondering.
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theravendesk:
you know what? characters from the seam are people of color. THEY ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR. johanna Mason is a woman of color.
and if i’m wrong and i’m ~projecting~ then maybe you should take a moment and consider how SCREWED UP IT IS that i have to project. that in order to see quality representation of myself in one of the best selling series in the world right now i have to carve...
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aestivate asked: personally i think if you're white and want to cosplay as a POC you have to make sure that you make sure that you recognize and honor that the character you are cosplaying is a POC. the fact is that cosplaying a POC character can be seen as infiltration no matter what. what a white person who wants to cosplay as a POC can and should do is just be as respectful and understanding as possible -...
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who-was-the-glad-in-gladiator asked: (1) I have a question, and I was hoping you could help me. I'm sorry about the length of this... Okay, so I know very well that white-washing is wrong. In things like faceclaims, fanarts, and fanfictions; it is perfectly avoidable. Those are things you can control. Something you can't control, is your personal skin color. I am a white chick and I would love to cosplay someone like...
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someothermonstra asked: All the victors could be said to suffer from PTSD (most noticeable with Katniss since she's the main character). Also the Morphlings from District Six (catching fire) seem to have a physical addiction to the drugs. o:
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bitsybiter asked: Who is the disabled character in the hunger games? I know Peeta loses his leg in the books, but who is the other person?
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hold your breath →
haymitch x the love of his life (here named amber!), rated r-ish
The tradition of staying up all night together before a reaping began two years ago, with their small, close group of friends, when the pair of them hadn’t been more than two longtime schoolmates with a fierce kind of crush on one another.
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mnemehoshiko asked: So, I have mixed feelings about Enobaria's casting. On one hand, yay! Lionsgate actually casted a WOC, on the other hand, they picked the character known for ripping out tribute's throat and consequently altering her teeth to be more animalistic, which is essentially dehumanizing her and thus casting a WOC...has unfortunate implications...
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miatrix asked: this new theme is fantastic & works perfectly for me. thanks a lot :)
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Me dressed as Katniss -
I’m Native/Scotch Irish and I currently live in the Appalachian Mountains. Sorry about the creepy eyes. I was trying to make them look grey!
submitted by jeremyrennersfineass
That’s awesome! Looks great :)
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trulymadlyd-eeply asked: I love your post about hair & eye color, people can be so ignorant sometimes. ^_^
As our theme wasn’t working on everyone’s computers, it’s been changed. Let us know if there are any issues with the new theme.
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politemachinegun asked: expelliarmusvoldemort: Prejudice is thought, discrimination is action, racism is action with the force of society behind it. Being denied a job because you're white (lol) would be discrimination since whites still hold much of the power across the world. Being denied a job because you're black would be racism since it would be upholding a pattern already in place. See how it is?
*White person gets cast as character of color*
Racist people: ITS OKAY THEY CAN JUST DYE THEIR HAIR NO BIG DEAL
*PoC is suggested for PoC but has a different hair color than the character*
Racist people: NO NO THEIR HAIR COLOR IS ALL WRONG EW GROSS
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expelliarmusvoldemort asked: Just making sure what the 'real' definition of racism is. So if I, a white person, interviewed for a job and was declined the job only because I was white, what is that? That isn't racist? But if a black person interviewed for a job and did not get it only because he was black, that is racist? I don't understand the difference.
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isaacandhismother asked: My idea of katniss all grown up, in case no one has mentioned her- Rachel Luttrell
So, if anyone makes graphics or anything like that with Hunger Games characters who are people of color (or posts about Lionsgate whitewashing), feel free to tag it “poc thg” and then “poc katniss” or “poc gale” or whatever characters are included in the graphic. We’ll reblog any serious posts in that tag.
Also, to the person who asked, Submit is back...
isaacandhismother asked: I was just scrolling through thegoldenshitch's posts and she's doing philosophy at uni. She should really know better if she's doing a subject like that.
I don’t even understand how people justify using eye color as an excuse for why they think Finnick has to be white. Apart from the fact that people of color can definitely have sea-green eyes, it’s not as if the franchise has gotten anyone else’s eye color right.
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achievement-hunter asked: Dang I'm sorry. That really sucks.
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achievement-hunter asked: I don't want to be the person who's like "Block herrrr!" but you should probably just block her if she's going to act like that
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gosuckagrayson asked: *hugs* they're all dicks. And I'm guessing "this one person" is thegoldensnitch?
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seriously tho
this one person keeps on harassing us and has caused us incredible amounts of stress, she directed her followers to our blog to harass and spam us, because of her and others we were forced to turn off anon and even our askbox for a while
quentin received ableist slurs and language and we were called cunts by one anon
and still
there are some people who are willing to defend these actions when...
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pluckyduck asked: "This is all very amusing. How deluded you are." They spelt AWESOME wrong. = ) You are awesome and good for the people.
thegoldensnitch asked: Because this is all very very amusing, how deluded you are.
onlysleepswithbutterflies asked: I'd like a poc Katniss tag also! Should we all just tag things "poc katniss"?
