• Dear Certain Members of THG Fandom:

neverthehurricane:

Be consistent with your shit.

If you subscribe to the idea that Katniss is a woman of color then that means Gale is a man of color. And that means that the way this fandom at large deals with him is gross. He’s a man of color who’s fighting for the rights and freedom of his people, for fuck’s sake. To hear some people talk, you’d think he was the villain of the text.

If you don’t like him, then don’t like him, that’s fine. But being a person of color goes both ways. Maybe no one else in fandom cares about men of color who want the revolution to begin but I do.

Deal with it.

posted 1 month ago with 96 notes from neverthehurricane

tagged: #y e s #my fair ellie #like tbh gale's feelings reminds me a lot of of a lot of my family members #so #yeah #i have feelings #may the odds be ever in your favor

Lady Stark You may survive us yet

(Source: king-of-the-north, via sansastark)

posted 1 month ago with 337 notes from king-of-the-north

tagged: #she'll survive you all #keeping stephie's tag because yes #Y E S #sansa stark; future queen and master of the game #my skin has turned to porcelain to ivory to steel #HATERS ARE JUST BITTER SHE'LL OUTLIVE THEIR FAVORITES #(and that her arc is the actual best arc) #war is easier than daughters

letseyx:

Top 5 screencaps of Battlestar Galactica 2x18 Downloaded (asked by quaintcarnography)

#THE MOST TELLING #finding our essential humanity as orchestrated through robot dames #through assimilation; through iconography; through enforced performance #the convert; the doubter; the fact-finder #and their reverence for life: the only thing boomer knows; the thing caprica discovered; the thing d’anna’s obsessed with learning #immersion and discovery and fact-finding #they’re perfect #this episode is perfect #who needs humans

(via hotelsongs)

posted 1 month ago with 164 notes from letseyx

tagged: #Y E S #isabel is made of wonderful #there are so many fucking things this show should have completely ran with #and the dyanmics between these three should have been it #i think the reason i have such a hatred for the last season and the series finale is because my number one priority was the eights #and lol look what happened there #LOOK WHAT HAPPENED THERE #some wounds will never heal #anyways this episode is the best episode and i'm bitter we didn't get everything with the cylons after this #this has all happened before and it will happen again

itsinthetrees:

“There’s something to be said about Girls and the state of diversity in education. Dunham is a recent college graduate; one of the first in a new generation of young writer/directors who will—whether we like it or not—be helping to shape the pop culture we’re going to consume over the next decade. If these course requirements represent the average college graduate requirements, then pop culture might be in trouble. I don’t claim to know what Dunham’s course schedule was while she attended Oberlin, but the fact that there’s a chance that she—and the other writers and directors who will come after her—has never had to read a Langston Hughes play, watch anything by Chen Kaige or Oscar Micheaux, or study any type of non-white/European media narrative is troubling, and it’s unsurprising that it would lead to the creation of a show that highlights (I would even go so far as to say rehashes) the lives of four white girls in New York City. Despite our similarities in background, our views of life in New York city seem to be radically different. An article in The New Yorker tells me that our circles of friends come from the same pools: Oberlin Students and high school friends that more often than not come from the same group of New York City day schools and New England boarding schools. Not only do I work with a WOC who attended high school with her, I have friends who went to high school with both her and her younger sister and, because my friends consist of Latin@s, Asians, Blacks, and whites, I know her life couldn’t possibly have looked as white as the posters for Girls (which is semi-true to life; she calls her character Hannah “another version of herself”) would have you believe. Yet Girls, set in Brooklyn, where only one-third of the population is white, somehow exists in a New York where minorities are only called to cast for one liners and nanny roles. “Pleasantly plump” Latinas may also inquire within. These are casting calls from April and May of 2011—when the show was still filming its first season—pulled from Breakdowns Express. There may have been (and probably were) more that have since disappeared from the site. When asked about the lack of diversity, The Voice of Our Generation didn’t have much of an answer. “When I get a tweet from a girl who’s like, ‘I’d love to watch the show, but I wish there were more women of color,’” Dunham told the Huffington Post. “You know what? I do, too, and if we have the opportunity to do a second season, I’ll address that.” But Dunham is the showrunner, writer, director, and star of Girls. I have the feeling that if she’d honestly wished for some diversity she’d have gotten some diversity.”

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The cool-breeze fabulousness that is TV Correspondent Kendra James, breaking down the bullshit that is Girls, from the hype to the casting of PoCs to how Oberlin’s educating its pop-culture content-makers. Check it out on the R today! (via racialicious)

posted 1 month ago with 283 notes from racialicious

tagged: #Y E S #lol at the people who are like WELL LENA DUNHAM IS SO TALENTED AND I'VE BEEN ROLLING MY EYES AT THE NEGATIVE CRITICISM #fuck you #check your fucking privilege #check your privilege you fucking dumbfucks #'complete accident' my fucking ass

• more words about GIRLS

squintyoureyes:

sugarbooty:

I just read a friends really great blog post about his reaction to Girls, and I thought he brought up a really excellent point:

“I would love it if [the cast of GIrls] were a diverse group of women because there would be so much more material to explore, but let’s be honest for a second. As a person from New York, [I know] it’s completely normal for a group of white friends to only hang out with other white people even in a borough that’s only one-third white. If I had a dollar for every time I was the only Black guy at a house party, I wouldn’t be looking for a job right now (If there aren’t minorities at the parties they go to or at places of work, then I’ll cry foul). I’m not naming names here but I’m pretty sure I was the only Black person a number of my friends socialized with. It’s unfortunate but in that respect, Girls is that much more realistic to me.”

Sean, a friend I made in NYC several years ago, is totally right; “unrealistic” is probably not the best word to describe the show, because I am sure that it is EXACTLY Lena Dunham’s very real experience. “Irresponsible” might be better suited to the issues I have with this show, on behalf of the producers AND the writers. The fact that they are patting themselves on the back for creating a show that is supposedly FOR women BY women and STARRING women that **seems** to promote feminist ideals on the surface, but is totally excluding women of color, is just ultimately NOT GROUNDBREAKING AT ALL.

yeah the problem isn’t really that it’s another white show about white people, as that happens all the time, but that it’s being held up as something we HAVEN’T in fact seen dozens of times before. That we should all support it and even subscribe to HBO to keep Girls on the air because rich white privileged voices like Dunham’s are SO underrepresented on television. Meanwhile I didn’t see any articles calling for people to subscribe to HBO so shows like Treme can stay on the air.

It pretty much represents everything that’s wrong with mainstream feminism: when they say women what they mean is white cis straight women, and a victory for white straight cis women means a victory for all women and ALL women should toss aside their identities and support it. No one ever says ALL women should, say, go buy Pariah on DVD on the 24th or watch Scandal on Thursday nights because I guess that’s special interest stuff and those aren’t victories.

I’m especially galled by the reviews that say Girls is breaking some kind of glass ceiling for women in comedy. Really? Are affluent skinny white women that underrepresented in comedy when so many of their equally talented WoC contemporaries are unknown or barely making a splash? Are Chelsea Peretti and Amy Poehler and Tina Fey chopped liver or something? It seems like we’re splitting hairs about how 30something straight white women might be represented but what about straight white women in their early-to-mid 20s, which sounds ridiculous and myopic when you really think about it but I guess that’s what counts for diversity.