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I’m trying to come up with why fancasting known ableist a-hole Baseballfield Cloverpatch as Thrawn (🤢🤢🤢) is bad but I can’t find the words beyond “he’s an ableist fuckwad.” (And why typecasting him as autistic/autistic coded characters is bad too.)
He’s specifically said that he dislikes having his characters (Turing, Sherlock etc.) called autistic, because I guess to him autistic people have to constantly struggle and have, in his words, “the mental age of, I think, an 18 month old.” Why is this dude not canceled yet?
@finnchiladas Pls turn this into a post it’s perfect
Anyway instead of the “Godspeed, Rebels” line Holdo should have said “Good luck babes.”
so a r3ylo post appeared on my dashboard and it had a vid of supposedly daisys stunt doing some maneuvers that looked like she was using a double-bladed lightsaber, I didnt look further into it but maybe it is true?
It seems to suit Rey well, and her stunt double Chloe Bruce is said to be good with staff stunts. I’d say there’s a high possibility.
I’m trying to come up with why fancasting known ableist a-hole Baseballfield Cloverpatch as Thrawn (🤢🤢🤢) is bad but I can’t find the words beyond “he’s an ableist fuckwad.” (And why typecasting him as autistic/autistic coded characters is bad too.)
He’s specifically said that he dislikes having his characters (Turing, Sherlock etc.) called autistic, because I guess to him autistic people have to constantly struggle and have, in his words, “the mental age of, I think, an 18 month old.” Why is this dude not canceled yet?
Meet America’s first openly gay imam
He’s been condemned by other Muslim leaders, and some local imams have even refused to greet him. But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam in the Americas – is proud of his story.
He was born and raised in Detroit, where his parents were Southern Baptists. At age 15, he came out to them. At 33, while studying in China, Abdullah converted to Islam, and went on to study the religion in Egypt, Jordan and Syria. But as a gay man in America, he saw that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Muslims had unmet spiritual needs and he became an imam to provide community support.
“Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. And because of the necessity in our community, that’s why I came into this particular role,” he told America Tonight about his journey.
His first act as an imam? Performing funeral rites for a gay Muslim who died of AIDS.
“They had contacted a number of imams, and no one would go and provide him his janazah services,” he said, referring to the Muslim body cleaning ritual. That pained him.
“I believe every person, no matter if I disagree with you or not, you have the right as a Muslim to have the proper spiritual [rites] and rituals provided for you. And whoever judges you, that will be Allah’s decision, not me.”
It’s one of the mantras he lives by in his work, even as others condemn him.
Hmm I think that’s a natural end for that scene and it’s gotten more than long enough at 3,000 words lol. Time for the pivotal capture scene–I wrote a version of this scene years ago, like in 2014-5? But there’s been so much drift since then, I’m sure it’s going to be very different this time.
Note to self: Never rely on saving website URLs, screenshot everything and save it if it looks interesting. Like half the URLs I saved no longer exist, holy shit.
Got around 336 words in while husband was out with the kid. Was great.
Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth
Denialism can also create an environment of hate and suspicion. Forms
of genocide denialism are not just attempts to overthrow irrefutable
historical facts; they are an assault on those who survive genocide, and
their descendants. The implacable denialism that has led the Turkish
state to refuse to admit that the 1917 Armenian genocide occurred is
also an attack on today’s Armenians, and on any other minority that
would dare to raise troubling questions about the status of minorities
in Turkey. Similarly, those who deny the Holocaust are not trying to
disinterestedly “correct” the historical record; they are, with varying
degrees of subtlety, trying to show that Jews are pathological liars and
fundamentally dangerous, as well as to rehabilitate the reputation of
the Nazis.
It’s almost like… if European Jewish people were considered white… they wouldn’t have suffered genocide? Also way to miss the point, putting this on a post that discusses Holocaust denial–i.e. attempts to erase the genocide of the very people you claim are so *privileged* by historical remembrance.
Wait, have you written about Angel on this blog? (The Buffy spinoff) What are your thoughts?
Not on this blog, since my brief interest in Angel was way before I ever got on Tumblr. Come to think of it I don’t think I ever posted about it anywhere. I didn’t see many episodes, since availability back then was rather spotty. I was interested in Wesley, though, and followed the story along in recaps and such. I was disappointed that his story didn’t seem to go much of anywhere and particularly disliked the fact that Cordelia’s story was so brutally “subverted” for the sake of shock value. Also her and Connor, ew.
Hmm I think that’s a natural end for that scene and it’s gotten more than long enough at 3,000 words lol. Time for the pivotal capture scene–I wrote a version of this scene years ago, like in 2014-5? But there’s been so much drift since then, I’m sure it’s going to be very different this time.
Note to self: Never rely on saving website URLs, screenshot everything and save it if it looks interesting. Like half the URLs I saved no longer exist, holy shit.
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