“Faye Valentine” is a pseudonym. She grew up in Singapore.

Part 1: Wuthering Heights with Vampires

Repeating what I said in an earlier comment, adding a racial/class component would be necessary, or at least inspired. Consider America’s history with human experimentation on the poor and minorities, the way segregation and inequality and the fear of strife from an abandoned other mirrors the juxtaposition of…

There were some rumors after Get Out released that Jordan Peele was being looked at to direct, and the speculation was that they were going to racebend Kaneda and Tetsuo to black. Which, well... if you’re hellbent on setting Akira in America, there’s no getting around that a story about wayward inner city youths,…

Words themselves can be assault. Look up “verbal assault” and have a nice day pls.

Moving the goalpost only tells me how much I’m right.

“Cracker” never preceded a lynching. You wouldn’t be in reasonable fear for your safety. Similar to how a woman calling a man an asshole is different from a man calling a woman a slut or bitch.

Assault can be verbal if it puts someone in fear for their safety. Learn the difference between assault and battery. The right to defend oneself from imminent harm is inalienable.

Calling a black man a “nigger” is assault. It puts us in imminent fear for our safety, because it so often immediately precedes actual physical violence. What he did was exercise his right to self defense through an act meant to deter without putting her life and limb at stake (an open-handed slap and a quick egress).

It was unreasonable for them to think it was a bomb, and the only factor that could have lead them to that conclusion is his ethnicity. You’re completely wrong, and your refusal to admit that you’re wrong and to change your thinking on the matter is why stupid shit like this keeps happening. You can’t take the middle…

This “Well it looked like a bomb!” thing gets trotted out by disingenuous anons every time this story comes up, so let me just say, unequivocally: lol no it didn’t. There’s a circuitboard attached to an LED display. You know, like your second picture or any other modern clock. No explosive material and nowhere to hide…

Hinduism is still widely practiced. Norse mythology is still believed in by (a much smaller number of) people, admittedly, but even then, you’re looking at an industry where (the perception is that) a Norse mythology believer has a much easier time getting in and controlling the depiction of their diety than someone…

Quick correction, Cecilia: Orisa is West African. Numbani is somewhere in the Nigeria/Ghana area.

A young mixed man (black dad, white mom, non-passing) was shot in the back by police while fleeing from a stop that they’d made because he’d been walking around in Samurai Champloo cosplay and carrying a sword just like that one. No discipline, no indictments; they got off scot-free because he was “waving it around”…

You want to know the funny thing? I spent years in SE and Shaw and the only time I’ve ever been mugged was walking around Old Bowie. You want to know what the issue there was? I saw trouble and I didn’t avoid it. Some neighborhoods are “safer” than others, but in the end, 90% of the time it’s about awareness and…

He says, talking to a kid from PG. Okay, man. And, yeah, Baltimore city residents went to Otakon. A lot. They showed up for the con but ESPECIALLY for the rave.

Sure, “DJCelts1", I’ll take your word for it. *eyeroll* I’ve never had a beer bottle and a “nigger” thrown at me walking around Baltimore, but that’s something I have to watch out for in even the “safe” places in Boston. Does it ever occur to you that race can effect the experience, hmm? I doubt it does.

I’m going to get laughed at for posting this, but up until this year, Baltimore drew thousands of Japanimation fans every year. They didn’t have a problem with spending an extended weekend in the city, and they mingled wih locals no problem.

Boston wishes it had Baltimore’s decency.

One can only hope that 3D scanning/printing tech gets good enough in the future that all we’d need is a single well-preserved specimen to avoid having to reverse engineer the manufacturing process by hand.