i feel like every time i get an email at work where someone is like “OMG HOW HAVE YOU NOT COMPLETED THE TASK I GAVE YOU AN HOUR AGO? I CAN’T POSSIBLY ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE TEN MILLION OTHER THINGS TO DO” and because i’m efficient i’m already in the process of doing their thing so it gets done a few minutes after they emailed me just once i’d love if someone would wait two hours or better yet the entire day they’d never have to contact me cos it would get done and it only perpetuates their bad behavior, because cause and effect and they think their annoying ass email bugging me made me jump to it and get it done

and then i destroy the world

wingedmonkey replied to your post: if you’re not going to open you stupid garlic jar…

oh my god dont kill yourself

It was like the jar was telling me I needed a boyfriend. No, fuck you, jar. I need a damn safety jar thing that my mom threw out. 

So the rice turned okay. Not great. The meat I used was all wrong and messed up the flavor and the rice itself was a bit hard, but other than that it has potential.

this arroz con gandules is going to turn out okay or i am going on a fucking spree

updates forthcoming unless i burn the apt down

maybe better than i expected

but i can’t help thinking about how much impact that scene from the trailer where katniss holds up two fingers and the district composed entirely of people of color seemingly emulates her would have if it weren’t giving me white savior feelings

because if katniss was played by someone like malese jow or not jennifer lawerence (who, as much as her comments on ‘i’ll dye my hair, lol, and get a tan’ are freaking annoying, i don’t hate) it would have been kind of cool to see this huge big budget movie with her as the main

at least for me

because that scene in the trailer, where in the book they remove all of katniss’ thick, dark body hair and make her to the standard of the pretty capital? that kind of smacked me in the face in the trailer, because they showed pretty hairless lawrence getting a leg wax and saying ‘you’re going to make me look pretty?’ 

so yeah

i guess, i am still pretty depressed about how the casting went around, especially since my main feeling coming out the trailer was, ‘thank god they didn’t put her in that bronzer/brown face like for the ew shoot’

Okay, so I had a post about the upsides and downsides of the unaired Wonder Woman pilot (one of those lists was considerably longer and had stronger points than the other), but tumblr ate it and I didn’t save it, so it’s gone. Woe.

But really let’s just focus on a few things.

• the costume looks like she bought it at savers on sale for halloween and i’m constantly fearful she’s going to pop out of the top and somewhere around the third act the pants disappear
• she has an entire business meeting about her boobs
• a black character (living in what she later calls the “ghetto”) dies within a minute of the show starting
• she lounges on her couch with a cat watching the notebook and mooning over some dude
• the episode basically ends with her updating her facebook status to single

Do I have to say that I’m glad this didn’t get picked up?

(Source: mia-culpa)

cerebralicious:

mia-culpa:

teamkilling-fucktard:

mia-culpa:

When someone compares a fictional prejudice against aliens (or willingness to put human needs above alien needs) to real racism against, you know, human beings who actually exist.

I AM NOT AN ALIEN, GOD DAMMIT, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[…]

And I’m not saying Cerberus isn’t bad. I don’t like them for a variety of reasons, but you can’t boil down their super secret conspiracy to put the human race above all others (something the Alliance does too, it’s more nationalism than racism if you’re going to compare to a real life thing). The fact of the matter is that they’re a terrorist group. They’re extremists. That’s why they’re bad. Not because you can read into a prejudice outline or story.

[…]

I think the idea of galactic unity is kind of dumb to compare on that scale too. Having a vested interest in human needs is not the same thing as having a vested interest in white needs. It’s this separation and othering that really bothers me. When you take it as it is and how it presents itself as an alien species, people actually different from humans, that’s not the same thing as human beings who are systematically devalued for their skintone and other “non white” features.

So yeah, no, still bugs me.

This? This is why we’re utterly screwed, as a species.

(Not the thing in which the OP appears to be complaining about making analogies to fiction, or at least about fictional issues being presented at the same intensity, which is just bizarre. Art holds a mirror up to life; and mirrors, by their nature, reflect.)

No. It’s that we have here the proud anti-racist, who has successfully figured that out, who is nonetheless resorting to the oh-it’s-not-so-bad-just-nationalism excuse, and then brings out the classic “but they’re aliens - actually different” argument, which is essentially word-for-word isomorphic to an argument someone could have delivered not all that long ago about how Africans are actually different, and that’s not the same thing as systematically devaluing other Europeans. No, not at all. “Now let’s sit around and congratulate ourselves on the enlightened realization that the Irish are people. Boy! Fetch the drinks, and hurry up about it!”

People can’t generalize for shit. Did we really have to do the whole “other races are people” and “women are people” and “gays are people”, etc., etc., as separate individual issues? Are we going to have to do “intelligent machines are people” and “uplifted animals are people” and “transhumans are people” and “aliens are people” separately again in the future?

Can we really only get over racism by becoming a bunch of pathetic human chauvinists because we can’t stand not having an out-group to shit upon?

Well, evidently, yes, yes, and probably. Or so it would seem.

You do realize, that by defending the idea of aliens and sentient robots more than actual human beings who exist, you’re part of the problem I was referring to when it came to comparing people to aliens. I’m so glad that ALIENS and ROBOTS deserve more of your time than human beings.

 “but they’re aliens - actually different” argument, which is essentially word-for-word isomorphic to an argument someone could have delivered not all that long ago about how Africans are actually different, and that’s not the same thing as systematically devaluingother Europeans.

Way to miss the point. By stating this argument, you’re saying that being African is the same thing as having a prehensile tail and only breathing nitrogen. Can’t really see anything wrong with that? Really? Because that’s my issue more than anything. These so-called metaphors are really offensive, because they set up an anaology where the “racism” is about actually different people in hugely different ways. The analogy isn’t “we think we’re different but we’re really not” — it’s “we’re vastly different on a biological scale”. It’s specism, not racism, when it comes to Aliens or Robots and saying otherwise is an offense to real world racism.

Not only that, my point about the Nationalism, isn’t that it’s necessarily good, just that it’s a more accurate descriptor when it comes to Ashley. The theme of Mass Effect is that everyone should come together, something Ashley learns in the first game and overcomes by working with aliens on the crew. And my point wasn’t that it’s good to put humans first above all else. My point was that Cerberus’ attitude isn’t the problem. The problem is their terrorist actions. Extremists are always bad, because they’re extremists not necessarily because of their ideology. Especially when you compare their ideology of wanting the human race to survive and thrive in this distance galaxy to systematic racism and oppression in the actual world.

People of all races are human. Making a story where you explore how humans would react to a really different type of alien from themselves (District 9 is a good example) is interesting on it’s own merits and I’m not saying there can’t be a thematic resonance within the story itself about real world issues, but making the direct comparison between another species and racism is akin to calling an entire race of people animals. It’s messed up to say the least.

(via cerebralicious)

teamkilling-fucktard:

mia-culpa:

When someone compares a fictional prejudice against aliens (or willingness to put human needs above alien needs) to real racism against, you know, human beings who actually exist.

I AM NOT AN ALIEN, GOD DAMMIT, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Well, that’s the point of it being there in the first place. It’s supposed to remind you of real life events. It gives the story even more depth if you’re able to compare it to real prejudice in the real world. That’s what it’s based off of, that’s why it’s there, that’s what they want you to do. Prejudice is prejudice, whether it be in the real world, or in a piece of fiction. Simply looking at it as just a piece of fiction totally removes the power from the piece of fiction. The more real and relatable the events in the fiction are, the more powerful they are, and the more people can connect to it. Someone who doesn’t like other cultures and believes that they are superior can easily relate to groups like Cerberus and people like the Illusive Man, and people who sympathize with those who are descriminated against, and especially those who have been descriminated against can easily relate to anyone in the game who has been descriminated against, be it humans as a whole, or any other race. And it works both ways. Not only do people have to be able to relate themselves to a piece of fiction for it to be worth anything to them, but they have to be able to relate the fiction to themselves, or the events around them. Thinking about prejudice in a universe like Mass Effect as realistically as possible can honestly help you not only understand, but cope with events in the real world. That’s why people run to books, movies, TV shows, music, and video games when they’re upset. Because they can relate to it. They can compare a fictional situation to a real-life one. And that’s what makes the piece of fiction powerful in the first place. Honestly, not comparing events from a piece of fiction to real life is doing said fiction a disservice. Sometimes, comparing yourself to an alien can be the best way to deal with things.

At least, that’s how I see it.

I am not saying all space analogies aren’t used in that kind of vein (that, truly, truly offensive vein) and are sometimes even done in a way that doesn’t make me feel pissed off, because you’re saying me having a different skintone is akin to me being a different species. It’s majorly fucked up.

And I’m not saying Cerberus isn’t bad. I don’t like them for a variety of reasons, but you can’t boil down their super secret conspiracy to put the human race above all others (something the Alliance does too, it’s more nationalism than racism if you’re going to compare to a real life thing). The fact of the matter is that they’re a terrorist group. They’re extremists. That’s why they’re bad. Not because you can read into a prejudice outline or story.

And I repeat, it’s really offensive to compare being of a different race to being a different species.

I think the idea of galactic unity is kind of dumb to compare on that scale too. Having a vested interest in human needs is not the same thing as having a vested interest in white needs. It’s this separation and othering that really bothers me. When you take it as it is and how it presents itself as an alien species, people actually different from humans, that’s not the same thing as human beings who are systematically devalued for their skintone and other “non white” features.

So yeah, no, still bugs me.