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Wyman The Walrus

@wymanthewalrus

Sam / He/Him / 28 / Bi? Idk anymore / United States / I write and worldbuild / This blog is usually about history and memes / surprised I have to add this but terfs are not welcome here
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c-qui-lui

The fact that absolutely no-one on tumblr is talking about the Emilia Perez movie is just.

It has everything this hellsite loves. The music. The queerness. The Selena Gomez. It has Goncharov vibes but make it Mexican. Wake up y'all.

EDIT : Not gonna delete the post because it's good to let people know of what's wrong with the movie. Look at the tags and notes to learn more about the issues surrounding the movie 👉

(and everyone chill and educate people before you attack them)

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sgt-papricka

Reasons why this movie is hot garbage:

  1. The director does not speak spanish or english, all the dialogue is google translated french to spanish and it absolutely shows (Latam is collectively saying wtf)
  2. The director decided he "did not need to research Mexico" as he "knew enough" leading to racist stereotypes
  3. The casting director said they "had to hire Americans" because "there is no talent in Mexico"
  4. The film was not filmed in Mexico, it was filmed on a sound stage in France
  5. Selena was hired for her star power and "latinidad" but her spanish is utter ass, like, has become a meme on Mexican tiktok because of how bad it is (a very famous Mexican actor/director called her out and she played victim, he had to apologise)
  6. On the star power, the director is pretending to "not know who she was beforehand" but the role was changed from a Mexican woman to an American who moved to Mexico to adapt to her terrible spanish
  7. The main character is a Mexican narco who transitions, this role is played by a Spanish actress, Spanish accent and Mexican accent is WIDLY DIFFERENT, the equivalent would be to have a British actor using their british accent while playing an American
  8. Narcos are kind of the cause for disappeared people in Mexico and the story goes that after she transitions she wants to help what she caused in the first place but now with less power ?
  9. The spanish actress scolded Mexicans for being put off by her playing a Mexican and not being Mexican by implying that suffering is human, idk her tweet is weird [please note that Spain colonised Mexico and there is a lot of racism from Spanish people towards Mexicans/Latam in general so, a Spanish actress shutting down Mexicans for their feelings with examples based on Spanish artists is condescending]
  10. Zoe's accent is also ass although she's suposed to be a lawyer who has been living in Mexico for 20 years ?
  11. The film is kind of zionist ? Paints Israel as a trans person's haven for sex reassignment surgery so a bit of pinkwashing to boot
  12. The film will not be shown in Mexico until after awards season because Mexicans and Latam in general are super put off by the whole thing.

It sucks that a trans story line with a trans actress is so wrapped up in a bunch of bullshit racism but, it is. All of the praise coming out of Cannes and Hollywood is pretty obviously Americans and europeans who DO NOT know Spanish because, for us Spanish speakers it is incredibly ass, like, doesn't make sense ass. The director (European) the main actress (European) and the other two mains (Americans) are not hearing any critisisim and being pretty condescending towards Mexicans.

Watch it, don't watch it, I'm not your mom but, this is just a psa.

Reblog so English speakers learn about this. Emilia Pérez is an insult to Mexico from its script to its casting to its advertisement. This is a perfect example of colonizers exploiting our suffering for entertainment while giving nothing back.

This is why we may never make peace with the French

Just letting all my mutuals know that F Emilia Perez , it’s worst that Gustavo Fring Spanish ,

But what they both have in common is that aparrently they can’t hire someone to translate from English to Spanish that it’s not google drive or ChatGPT

I had never heard of this movie before this video popped up on my YouTube recommended (it’s a pretty basic run through of the film’s issues). Aside from all the very obvious things wrong with this movie, the other thing that sucks about it is that it’s very much Oscar bait. It doesn’t exist as a film so much as a grab for awards. The video I linked compares it to Traffic, wildly regarded as the worst Best Picture winner in the history of the Oscars (but could potentially be the second worst in a few months).

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THE BIG MONKEY HAS LANDED With the Gigantopithecus fauna I finish no. 40 in our formation piece series. While being very challenging, this composition was a joy to figure out, and not just because of the animals. The verticality of these karst landscapes always fascinated me.

Besides the greatest of apes this fauna is filled with an enormous amount of mammals, not to dissimilar to La Brea in diversity maybe. But instead of tar we mostly have to thank rodents, specifically porcupines, for the preservation of these fossils. Their need for calcium makes them...

..hoard bones in their borrows and caves. If not eaten they have a good chance of fossilizing despite the warm and humid climate. As you can see this size chart by Discord member JW , only a fraction of this diversity made it in, but I tried to cover nearly every major clade.

One thing you will notice is the absence of birds. This is in part because of taphonomy, one part maybe because procupines don't like to chew on bird bones and another appears to be THAT THE BIRDS WE HAVE ARE NOT PUBLISHED ON YET, ARRRGHHH. (this is a call out post)

I am immensely surprised and saddened that no one seem to have noticed my favorite part of this piece so far. We looked so long for a fitting pose and reference during the stream.

And considering how much I struggle with drawing cats I'm quite pleased with this Megantereon.

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they inventeed a new science called "dont let the balloon hit the floor" scientests are being vaery careful and bapping that thing before it can fall jumping over the couch and shit

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queerprayers

i don't know what gay draping themselves sensually while bleeding out needs to hear this but st sebastian survived the arrows. let yourself be tended to and let the holes scar over. we have work to do. you need to harangue every empire in your path, to prophesy to your archers. you must become irene and nurse others bleeding back to health. yes spoiler alert we'll all be beaten to death if we keep it up but so it goes. we've never claimed to have a practical religion, just one that looks good suffering in paintings and then comes back to life. the second bit is longer and harder than the first. may as well start today

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lastvalyrian

All that talk about the US tiktok ban really combines my two both loathed aspects of current events posting by being both US centric and tiktok centric

Really goes to show that tiktok is the America of social media and America is the tiktok of countries

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There's a phenomenon in left-wing circles where initially reasonable statements and concepts get repeated ad nauseum until they not only lose their meaning but transform into deeply bigoted ideas.

The idea "there is no single white culture," is true because white is a concept created to describe the powerful position in Western societies. There are many different cultures, who's members are often white. But this idea became "white people have no culture" which is just not true, deeply dehumanizing, and harmful, especially to people who look white but experience marginalization because of their culture.

Another example might be cultural appropriation, which perhaps should be understood as a misrepresentation or exploitation of the cultural practices of another, especially where the person exploiting does so for personal gain, without acknowledgment. But now, people have basically transformed this into "when somebody does something from a culture they weren't raised in" or "when a particular race or ethnicity behaves in a way that's different from how they normally do" which promotes racial and cultural stereotypes and attempts to control the behaviors of people based on their race, ethnicity, and culture.

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kindermaus87

Adding to this, the sentiment that white people "have no culture" is based in the idea that culture is a deviation from whiteness. "Cultural" food, "cultural" dress, etc., is all shorthand for "things done by people who aren't white". To say that white people have no culture is to further other non-white people, making them the deviation from the "norm".

White people do have culture. Rich white people, poor white people, white people from Canada and the U.S. and Great Britain all have cultures that are different from one another. Claiming that they don't is a tool in the furthering of white supremacy and we (leftists) gotta knock it the fuck off.

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nothorses

what happens when people learn the buzzwords without unpacking the underlying ideology is that they take words designed to challenge the status quo that they don't understand & reinterpret them in the context of the white supremacist values they do understand.

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homoidiotic

ameircans talking about red note like they have never spoken to anyone from another country ever about anything

A lot of us haven't (or at least don't realize we are when talking to people online if it's not obvious or explicitly stated)

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pitbolshevik

that's embarassing why would you admit that

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Donald Trump during his inauguration address on his coming executive actions :

He announced a national emergency to shut down the border, sending the US military to play border patrol, mass deportations, designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (creates the authority needed for US military intervention in Mexico), and using the same law that justified WWII internment camps to clear the country of "foreign gangs."

He announced another national emergency to make it easier to drill for fossil fuels, loosen fossil fuel export restrictions, and eliminate car pollution rules meant to encourage electric vehicle adoption.

He announced the creation of an "External Revenue Service" to collect new revenue coming from tariffs on trade, and also Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (which will not be an actual Department). Some vague promises on inflation and social media censorship (unclear what he'll actually do about it).

"Bring Law and Order back to our cities," cutting DEI policies to create a "colorblind" society, proclaiming that "there are only two genders" as a matter of government policy, reinstating military veterans who were dismissed for refusing COVID vaccines, and plowing more money into the military while also being a "peacemaker."

Intends to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," discusses the Panama Canal and says "we are taking it back." Promises that the US will "expand our territory."

Make America Healthy Again stuff for RFK, landing astronauts on Mars (Musk cheers), etc., etc.

The Trump admin sent this list to House Republicans listing some of the intended executive actions.

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Reblog to either add or remove an arrow.

Genuinely cannot tell if this is satire or not.

I honestly don't even know what face value meaning I was going for so you officially understand this picture better than I do.

And, yes, it is a Homestuck reference. I have no idea who this Sebastian guy is.

August 18th is butch lesbian appreciation day 💘

January 20th is the feast day of St. Sebastian. Ora pro nobis 🙏🙏🙏🙏