Oh god, yeah, I've taken classes on three languages now but the only one that I speak/read/comprehend enough of to read papers in is English. The US education system just isn't geared toward teaching secondary languages, which is really frustrating and difficult and needs to change.
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MMm, yeah, I grew up in a really small town in the American South and I didn't have a lot of opportunities to travel and I didn't grow up with cable or internet, and these are all things that make your world a lot smaller and a lot more locally/regionally focused.
I know, and I'm trying to pay more attention to what's happening in Venezuela (and Central/South America and Mexico, in all honesty) but it's hard to find a place to start and it's hard to suddenly realize that this is what you need to do. It's definitely a weird blind spot- I realized the other day that I know…
The thing is, it's not always willful ignorance. Sure, there are people who don't know things and don't learn and are proud, but every instance of someone not knowing something is not an instance of willful ignorance. It's just not knowing. Are you talking about the coup attempt in 2002? Because I was in elementary…
Because long, large tragedies escape reporting fairly easily and quickly and it's hard to find information on things you don't know about when the problem is so big and has been happening for so long. Same reason people don't know about the conflict in the Congo or the ongoing attempts at indigenous genocide in…
Because long, large tragedies escape reporting fairly easily and quickly and it's hard to find information on things you don't know about when the problem is so big and has been happening for so long. Same reason people don't know about the conflict in the Congo or the ongoing attempts at indigenous genocide in…
I cannot fully express how much I love this yes yes YES.
I GET TO BE AN ART DIRECTOR AT A CAMP THIS YEAR I HAVE BLUE HAIR I AM LIVING MY WILDEST "who cares i can't wait to be this lady" dreams at 21.
Mm: so: minor fiddly point: the actor playing Dong, Ki Hong Lee, isn't an unknown at all; he's really well known in teenage girl circles for playing Minho in The Maze Runner.
I think that's a fair-critique-of-the-critique (whoah), but I think the problem is that these casting and representation choices don't exist inside of a vacuum— I think some people are worried about the distinctness (ethnically/culturally/nationally) of Asian people being lost and other people are worried about Asian…
A really common critique I hear of Dong is that the actor who plays him is Korean, whereas the character himself is Vietnamese, which reinforces the idea that Asian actors, cultures, and identities are basically interchangeable. I think that's a really fair critique, but I still really like Dong? I think he's a…
I grew up without a lot of money and so my parents didn't have the resources to put me in something like ballet even though it was something I desperately wanted and now I'm old (21) and I'm also fat and I really can't watch ballet without crying because I'll never really float or fly like that, I'll never be wispy…
Oh my god, seriously though, always look up Japanese woodblocks of animals whenever you're sad. Whenever you are sad. Just do it. I have some amazing prints of rabbits misbehaving that my roommate got for me when she went to Japan they make me so happy.
oh my god oh my GOD OH MY GOD
it looks like the sims 2.
THAT BICEP GRAB THOUGH
I can't get over how great that Power Girl redesign is— also that Chun Li! These are fantastic and I love that the soldiers continuously look like soldiers and that cute girls look cute and sexy characters look sexy (that Morrigan! So good!). They all retain themselves really well while being engaging and not embarrass…
Girl real.
I wish there were plus-size Cinderella clothes. It's so easy to find tough femme plus-size clothes and that's great but like...shape-flattering be damned I want to look like a goddamn meringue and I'm a grown ass woman and I'm a size 22.