I am sending you an internet hug.

I feel like Kanye missed a golden opportunity here. . .

Speaking of Iman, at the Black Panther premiere.

Francis Bean Cobain’s post is beautiful. I just celebrated my first sober birthday back in January, and I feel a lot of the same feelings she expressed. I fought hard for my sobriety and my sanity, and hope someday that my story will help someone else, just like I know her words will.

As someone who doesn’t quite look like one specific ethnicity, it gets really old to constantly tell my story. It usually naturally comes out if we befriend one another. It just makes me feel like I’m a science project or something.

I’m like 99% certain that quote is pulled from the sequel where the director of the Southern Reach spends time interrogating the Biologist.

What I am hearing is “White is the standard model of character. Unless otherwise noted, and even when noted, go with the white actor.” 

I would say this is the bigger issue. In this case, the character may have been described as asian in a line somewhere, but it doesn’t seem like it is of any importance to the character. But the bigger issue is that if race is not described, it is always assumed to be white. If it is a generic character, they will…

Wait, your boyfriend is Oscar Isaac? That seems pretty cool.

“I did not know that stuff,” he said before asking us to explain the gist of the issue.

Me too. Maybe this would’ve worked well for me if he’d stuck with his anonymous/sketch-like approach to the characters, but switched to Grand! And! Florid! tone and diction when getting into the world-building and Mysterious Stuff? Or maybe that would’ve been awkward and jarring, idk, I’m not a writer, I just know I…

I think it’s partly that the default is white actors and partly because they probably got better funding/distribution/the green light from the more famous actors. So, an excellent reason to put some POC actors in the pipeline in this and other projects - you do have to get more diversity throughout the industry to get…

Ex Machina was the downright creepiest movie I’ve seen in years. Only Get Out has come close since. Both deserved the accolades.

You are about 70% correct, and 100% an asshole.

Honestly I’d give it another go if it wasn’t for all the other stuff I can only watch in the hours between the time my child gets to bed and I must!

Hey, I stand corrected - great movie, seen it exactly once. Thanks!

I read it after reading an Io9 thread that was split on whether the first book was good. I had the first book sitting in my apartment so I decided to read it for myself. It wasn’t bad, it certainly wasn’t bad, but was it good? What I’ll say is this: When I read Three Body Problem, the first in a three book series, i…

Let’s just make that all of America. Myself included, because I was not creative enough to imagine multiple races while reading The Hunger Games, smdh.

Given the circumstances of the way this movie was made (it was put into production before the first book was released and the physical descriptions of the characters that note their heritage don’t appear in the first novel), I think the issue here is more that Hollywood has a problem with picturing every major…