hi yes welcome

i’m going to start saying “sorry i was stimming” in an indiana jones voice forever now

“We were hooking up all through raiders vut they never showed it”

love being a flaky little bitch in fandom. oscillating between polar opposite interpretations based on my mood. just being unreliable as an interpreter.

Pride in space (part 1)

You can buy these posters here !

part 2

also I promise this is unrelated to anything else I've been posting about but like. We're not doing the "rainbow capitalism" complaint this year. Sorry. I know pitching this particular hissy fit is really important to some of you. But years when the conservative movement du jour is to have a literally identical tantrum about any company that's putting rainbows on drink cans or reusable grocery bags because they view that as "supporting groomers and pedophiles," we don't get to throw fuel on that fire. Even if you disagree with the fire on an ideological level, it doesn't matter to the fire! This year, feel however you want to feel about any given company making their logo into a rainbow flag, but I promise the "boycott Anheuser Busch because they're supporting Deviants by making our beer gay" people do not give a shit whether you're supporting their cause from a gay standpoint or a homophobic one, they just care about the net result, which is that by getting outwardly mad about this, you are lending them support

Just because it’s better than the alternative doesn’t make it good lmao. You think they really care about us? Fucking dumbass.

So like. I don't give a shit if they actually care lol. But when one side is saying "it's okay to be gay" through gritted teeth and the other side is saying "I want to kill this guy and anyone else who says, for any reason, that it's okay to be gay" with a smile on their face and a gun in their hand, not only am I not going to complain about the first person's begrudging support, I'm definitely not going to start handing fresh ammo to the second person and cheering them on for Shutting Down The Phony!

Because, again, guess what: to the right wing, there isn't a difference between someone who says "happy pride" because they want to make a dollar and someone who says "happy pride" because they actually care about gay people. Whether or not you're actually a witch doesn't matter, to the stake they're burning you at.

Weird genre of person is when fans of media with actually complex and interesting characters get scared by any level of moral ambiguity whatsoever like why are you buying purity at the nuance store

so uh I don’t think I’ve seen anybody ever mention the ambiguously affiliated native american man smack dab in the middle of the rec room scene

& for all the people who didnt know, star trek already has a very rocky past with trying to portray native american characters

chakotay from voyager was an attempt to try and create an inspiring and ground breaking character for native american people the way uhura was for black people (like the way whoopi goldberg cites her existence on the show as a huge influence on her), but because of the situation it Really didnt work out

in their effort to write a good native character they got a native american on as a consultant which is a great idea! the only problem is the man (jack marks, his fake name he used being ‘jamake highwater’) they hired was later exposed for racefaking and building an entire career on his fake native identity and publishing books and documentaries and working on other things, like star trek.

marks became a massive name for native american stuff but at the same time there were many native americans who said they doubted his ancestry since his works were painfully stereotypical and insincere. he received well over $800k from federal grants put aside for native american people and took dominance in the media as a Native American Expert On Native American Identity, while pushing out work putting natives as weak caricatures and stereotypes.

marks was the consultant for making chakotay be a good native american representative, and so chakotays character ended up stereotyping native americans and being contradictory in itself. while i before would say “well, they tried and they just had bad luck that they chose someone who ended up being fake,” i just now in looking at it see that they hired marks well after his racefaking was exposed and marks himself admitted to it - the exposé was published in 1984, marks stopped claiming to be cherokee but continued to profit off of his established ‘indian presence’ and later said he pretended to be cherokee to get into the writing industry, and marks submitted his notes for chakotays character backstory in 1993… nearly a decade after being exposed.

where uhura inspired black women like whoopi goldberg to become actresses, chakotay is a confusing mess that reinforces age-old stereotypes about native americans and keeps native media rep locked into caricatures of ndn identity. while it is good there was a main cast native character and there were definitely good aspects to his character and writing, the ridiculousness of his native american identity has gained a lot of criticism from actual native americans. the poor writing and decisions dont even hurt too much, its that we (native americans) were robbed of the chance for a powerful, inspiring, and main cast member on an incredible scifi series by a fraudulent racefaker and a production crew that hired him on either without doing a background check or without caring that he was exposed for it.

so star trek has already failed harshly in their attempt to make a diverse starfleet, particularly in the case of native american characters, so im not surprised by this questionable production decision and i would invite the fans defending it or not seeing the issue with it to educate themselves. star trek has had amazing diversity and powerful messages, and thats honestly why chakotay and the decision of hiring jack marks as the consultant hurts so much.

star trek has done amazing things but there will still be mistakes and places where they fail to write as diverse as they aimed and its messages of understanding and progress are what should inspire us as the audience to see those mistakes, acknowledge them, and work for better writing and representation in the future and not allowing these mistakes to fall through the cracks or even be defended as “good diversity” when they are clearly not.

tl;dr chakotay was written badly and partly as a racist stereotype through what is at best ignorance and at worst purposeful apathy on the star trek production side when they hired an exposed racefaker who got native american federal grant money based on his fake identity. star trek doesnt have perfect diversity, especially wrt natives, and its important to be knowleadgable and critical of this when we discuss native american characters, themes, and identity in regard to the series.

if you would like to do research on this situation, feel free to google ‘jamake highwater’, read chakotays wikipedia page, and follow the citation links to more in depth content.

for those of yall that r new or dont know a lot about voyager heres why we dont fw chakotays writing

Bro I fucking love the DB Cooper case nothing about this whole situation sounds real. None of the passengers on the plane realized they were being hijacked until the plane landed two hours after it was supposed to and the fbi showed up with suitcases full of money. The note about the bomb almost went unnoticed because the flight attendant thought she was being sexually harassed so she didn't read it. One of the main suspects was the first trans woman in Washington to have a sex change operation. A reporter who was so dead set on his suspect that he brought him to court was so upset about being wrong that he went catatonic and was treated with electroshock therapy and it WORKED. There's been multiple "I'm DB Cooper" death confessions. He never even SAID his name was DB Cooper. Either he got away with a million bucks in today's money and the most iconic and harmless crime American history or he impaled himself on a pine tree while falling a zillion miles an hour in the dark while clutching duffel bags full of cash and either option is equally hilarious. He wore a clip on tie. He committed an act of sky piracy. What in the fucking looney toons

wait ok mutuals what do you guys call your parents???????

Hey! What the fuck is going on in here

no where else

There's having sock puppet accounts, and then there's putting on a puppet show.

I'm sick and tired of hearing ice-cold takes that Batman's a Mary Sue.

So what? So what if he's an engineer, martial artist, gymnast, strategist, forensic scientist, hacker, racecar driver, pilot, detective, actor, CEO, etc.

Bruce Wayne is NOT a Mary Sue.

He's Everything. Bruce Wayne is the Barbie of the DC universe.

Anyway here's my pitch for a new batman logo:

generate a random wikipedia article

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

and through it all, the crowd is still chanting 'cha cha cha'....

Tom King is introducing Diana’s WHAT

on my knees begging DC to actually do stuff with the Wonderfam characters we already have before doing something like this

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