Well, I mean, of course Rey would have a tan though, she’s lived in the desert her whole life. Her skin tone is not a result of her ethnicity. I’m confused as to why a WOC actress wouldn’t also require makeup to reflect desert life. Are brown people not affected by the sun at all?

I’m talking about the fact that LF was giving lip service to the idea of diversity without actually walking the walk.

Trying to fold Enfys Nest’s helmet in origami but I cannot for the LIFE of me find a good base. I can picture it in my head and it’s so infuriating. It’s probably not even going to look good if I do manage to figure it out. I’m surprised no professionals have taken on the challenge yet. I’d use box pleating but I can’t fold a straight grid to save my life

Sounds like a fun project! Enfys Nest’s helmet is a complex design with the horns and everything, too.

It’s true Lucasfilm used spray tan in Daisy Ridley in TFA? Why they just didn’t cast a woc? So many women of color tried to play her

The head of the makeup department said so herself (link). The original casting call was evidently for a biracial actress which was why biracial actresses Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Jessica Hemwick, and Kawannáhere Devery Jacobs tried for the role. Turns out the only “biracial” they wanted was between white and a can of Imagine Brazilian Brown.

You wouldn’t be able to tell my cousins are adopted because their sister looks like them and she was born after they were adopted. It’s the best thing.

Stealth adoption!

Drax is extremely sexist and the movie act as if his comments are funny. Mantis is treated like shit during the entire movie and used as comic relief, totally different from Comic!Mantis. No character called out Drax for how he treats Gamora and Mantis “[Drax to Mantis] I’m sorry… but I like a woman with some meat on her bones. I tried to let you down easily by telling you you were disgusting. [starts gagging] Ugh… I’m imagining… being with you physically”

Looks like Gunn’s sense of humor hasn’t gotten any better, just toned down to “acceptable” levels of misogyny.

Working on a bingo card for a certain famous sci-if ship. What’s a better free space, “Jungian Archetype” or repetitive swooning over Driver? (Moth)

So I’m no bingo expert but I thought free spaces were… free? Both of these sound like excellent squares.

I’m not sure how Wending tweeted but he clearly took Jmes Gnn’s defense. That JG was treated unfairly. When that’s not the case. JG was gross. Misogynistic, racist, homophobic and down right horrible with the rape jokes. Just bc the alt-right were the one that brought up the tweets doesn’t change the fact JG did them.

If anything it shows how alike leftist and right-wing dudes are under the hood when it comes to things like misogyny and rape culture.

Thoughts on Finn x Kylo

Finn deserves SO much better, it’s not even funny.

I don’t get why everybody is obsessed with a Kylo/Ben redemption arc. Like why can’t we have fucked up and complex villains? Like not everybody deserves or wants to be fucking saved. I’d rather they made Kylo someone we hated even more in TLJ, by massacring the kids at the Jedi temple and all the shit him and his Knights have done, rather then attempt to make us feel for him. What a waste.

What was there even to feel bad about? He was handed redemption on a silver platter and kicked it away. If anything he came across as less sympathetic than in TFA, at least to me.

Why does Cletus Kasady/Carnage seem like a blatant Joker rip off?

The character’s designer said he was directly inspired by the Joker, so… (link)