traveling1861 asked: I don't understand- how was The Impossible racist? It was just about a families struggle and survival after a horrific disaster...

Dude. It’s about a white family trying to escape after a horrific diasater, in freaking Thailand!

This wasn’t fiction, this was a real thing and have you not notice how there are essentially NO Thai people in the film and the ones who are, say nothing; they are left completely unheard even though it’s them who have to deal with the devastation. That family can just bugger off on a jet home at the end of the film but it’s the people of Thailand who have to deal with the real shit. They’ve had their friends and family killed, their livelihoods destroyed and their home completely decimated. And yet Hollywood still manages to make it all about white people.

This isn’t a one off this happens all the time, POC and those of non-white ethnicity are very commonly shunned in the world of film. I just was left gobsmacked that a film based on a real and recent tsunami that killed about 160,000 people in East and South-East Asia still shoved the people it effected the most, not even into supporting roles, but as extras! The severe lack of tact and just the plain problem with bloody ethics is just outstanding.

The original family were Spanish! They had to secure white actors to get a budget so they changed their nationality! Isn’t that in itself a little fucked up? Spain is still a 3rd world country and very much unaffected by the Tsunami but they still couldn’t even let them be Spanish because, as I said, according to them, white people only care about other white people, Americans only care about other Americans.

Sorry I didn’t mean to target you if that is how it felt.

But I am kind of stunned you felt you needed to ask that question.

The Impossible Insult

This is totally out of the blue but I just remembered the film ‘The Impossible’ and got really freaking rageful.

I think that film is positively revolting and was honestly shocked and appalled at the lack of protest it received. Because it is a film that essentially gives an 8th (possibly more) of the world the middle finger and says, ‘We don’t care about you or where you live, we just want to know when the pool bar will be reopened’.

But here’s a thought; if you struggle with what is so totally wrong with film’s like ‘The Impossible’ then let’s take it from a purely movie goers  perspective.

Hollywood, probably (yeah no definitely) the most influential and widespread media producer in the world, has settled upon this concept that white people (to which it would argue to be it’s ‘mass audience’, a false in itself) can only have the capacity to care about other white people. Even worse if you happen to be American as this usually stems to the further idea that Americans only have the capacity to care about other Americans.

Now as a member of the audience, especially applicable if you are white and American, how does that not piss you right off? How are you not monstrously insulted but that? That this unrelenting media source advertises, to the world, that you are close-minded and selfish individuals.

Does’t it make your blood boil? That Hollywood demonstrates you to care more about freaking animals then other human beings simply because of trivial shit such as the colour of their skin or the language they speak. Because, I’m not like that, and I know most people are not like that. One of the many reasons films like ‘The Impossible’ make me feel so disgusted is because I think, ‘how dare you insinuate I’m anything like that. How dare you insinuate I don’t care’.

So here is an idea, next time a film like ‘The Impossible’ comes along don’t just mindlessly reach for your wallet in the cinema foyer. Think. Put that $7 back in your pocket and walk the fuck away. Demand more credit as an audience member and a consumer, demand some God damn respect and respect for, in this instance, people who have lost so much and couldn’t even be given a chance to tell a story that was theirs.

If you don’t respond then we are going to continue to just get the same rehashed shit on our screens rather than actually hear some incredible stories from all over the globe. And we are going to continue getting unjustly treated as, not only dumb, but also as arseholes.

dan-marie:

Mm. I’ve been seeing people post their full images lately ; v ; I’m a little embarrassed to post full image really, but I just wanted to post up a bigger version of spots I liked. I have a lot of mixed feelings for this drawing. There’s a lot of things I really like, but I almost feel ashamed of how it all came together. I had so much trouble trying to meet the size requirements. I draw so small… > n <

I wanted to try to manipulate the mood of the drawing with the colours, but I’m not really sure if I was successful. I think in future projects, I’ll just do safer things. 

scribbleshroom:

‘Xena’ (Though clearly not Lucy Lawless, d’oh!)

My first, one layer, sketch request complete.

If you would like to get your hands on one then head over to my Facebook page, like it and share it, then message me with your request! =D

I still have a few spots open so hurry!

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That simple. =)

Wobble Monster Be Gone!: Health Again →

wobblemonster:

Going to the doctor’s Wednesday to get some of this looked into but I was wondering if I could get some advice here too.

I keep having periods of really fast heart rate, I can feel it pulsing around my body and hammering against my chest (even when it slows afterwards I can almost hear it in my…

Reblogged from my fitblr.

Anyone know what might be up with me? =(

This is about my some day daughter already stained with insecurity, asking me “Mom, will I be pretty”. And I’ll wipe that question from her mouth like cheap lipstick and say:

(Source: theongrayjoy)

myshrinkingviolet:

morristibbs:

blizooka:

broseph-joestar:

hannasnonsense:

Telling someone they’re not good enough is not okay

Telling someone they’re not good enough is not okay

I don’t care if you’re joking. I don’t care if you think ‘It will push them to work harder.’ Because it isn’t a joke, and it will not always make someone want to work harder to prove you wrong.

Sometimes they accept it as a fact, then they live with a mindset of “Why try when I’m just going to fail?”

It’s not okay.

This is something my dad never understood, and has asserted that he told me I wasn’t good enough in the hopes that I “would work harder to prove him wrong”

But why would I work harder when the only person whose opinion ever actually had any weight to me told me I wasn’t good enough?

thanks mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this shit is all i got growing up and mom never fucking understood how miserable she made me

This only begins to shed a bit of light on why my anxiety can get as bad as it does, especially now… <:( I don’t even feel like I can repeat some of the things my mother has said to me. And you know it’s bad when people tell you over and over to move out and get away from them as soon as you can. You know it’s bad when people are in disbelief when they hear what they do say to me, even when they hear it themselves. It would be nice if it was easy enough to ignore it all and say to hell with it to everything they have said, but it’s different when they are your parents, it’s different when you have grown up with it your whole childhood, it’s different when you are forced to live with it every single day of your life.

modcloth:

Always and forever, Katharine Hepburn is the ultimate in trouser style inspiration.

Hooooooot

awkwardsituationist:

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces. 

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This means sharing on Facebook btw. I’m not necessarily saying you won’t get a free request if you share it on Tumblr for instance but you’ll probably going to have to message/badger me about it (it’s much harder to keep track of that sort of thing here than on Facebook).

See the latest status on the Facebook page (via the link above) for more details and an example of the sort of sketch I’m offering.

(I will quickly specify that I’m not comfortable drawing anything that could be considered NSFW on this occasion).

It would mean a lot to me if you could spread it around.