this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is
a pretty much epic
beautiful
actually Chinese version
with great characters
and Mulan’s more accurate story
readily available???
Since 2009??
Well I know what I am watching now
UPDATE: I just watched this and I have so many emotions. Seriously, check this out
OOH! On my list!
i didnt know this existed!!! ok
I’ve failed all my followers for not letting them know about this immediately. I’m sorry you guys missed out.
Here is a link to watch it free online with English subtitles.
Just as a warning, it is a little violent, some horses are killed during the battles, and there is a scene where Wentai cuts open his wrist. It is a very good movie, I just finished watching it and would recommend everyone watch it.
This is a great, intersectional article with clear examples of the fat empathy gap.
Also interesting is how commenters almost immediately call the article “skinny shaming.” The mentality that empowering marginalized people by giving them a voice (and, in the case of this article, control over how they want to appear in the accompanying photographs) is somehow “shaming” the people who don’t live those experiences is a special – and way too common – kind of toxic.
Omg this entire article is so hilariously bad (link):
He knows that if people look inside him, they will only find a scared boy and the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa.
Ben Solo, Kylo’s real name, is the result of the failures of his
family. Firstly he shows that Leia and Han failed him as parents. Leia
was so dedicated to bettering the overall universe and being a fantastic
public servant that she ignored the evil that was creeping up on her
own family.
Han may have noticed that something was deadly wrong
with Ben, but Han often avoids and runs away from conflict. When things
go bad for his son and then for his marriage with Leia, Han left them to
return to work as a smuggler. Han’s sacrifice at the end of THE FORCE
AWAKENS is his attempt to rectify his sins as a father and not walk away
from his family.
I guess “sacrifice” is the new term for “being murdered” these days? This is pre-TLJ, too, so we can safely guess that this author has now added Luke to the list of people to be blamed for Kylo’s actions.
Also what is this faux fantasy nonsense:
Kylo will continue as the sword of the First Order, a hero to his people.
That is endlessly satisfying but I kinda wish he wouldn’t. One of these alt-right shitstains stabbed his own father to death last year over similar disagreements (link). These are by definition violently authoritarian people, though in most situations they’re dipshit cowards who talk big. Confronting them, to say nothing of publicly humiliating them, could be dangerous.
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.
Larry, a Korean scent evidence canine with six years of experience, died of a snakebite while searching for a missing person. According to Daegu police the male German Shepherd was searching for a 50-year-old missing man in the hills on July 23, 2018 when he was bitten on the back of the left hind foot by a poisonous snake. Larry was taken to a veterinarian’s office at 11:20 am. However, after suffering severe pain through the night, he passed in the early morning hours of the next day.
Larry was first posted with the Daegu police in August of 2012 when he was one and a half years of age. In the six years since he worked on 39 violent crime cases and 171 missing persons cases, where he distinguished himself with his service record.
In May of 2017, in particular, Larry was responsible for discovering the buried remains of a murdered 43-year-old woman. She might never have been found otherwise in her place of burial 30m off the hiking trail, as her husband, who was a prime suspect, had taken his own life after calling her in as a missing person.
In consideration of Larry’s contributions and service, the Daegu police cremated him in a funeral home specializing in companion animals and gave his ashes an arboreal burial. The canine handlers who had loved him were also in attendance at the solemn ceremony.
Officer Ahn Seong-heon, 33, who worked as Larry’s handler, said of the death: “Larry did nothing but good in his life before he passed from a truly unfortunate accident. I hope he rests easy now in a better place.”
To honor Larry, Daegu police will have a bronze plaque with his picture
and achievements hung at the entrance to the Crime Scenes Investigation
unit. Larry’s death, which came at only half a German Shepherd’s life expectancy, marks the first fatality among the 16 scent evidence canines placed in 2012 at local police precincts across Korea.
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