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November 27, 2016
Last chance to vote for Crooked Kingdom in the final round of...
Last chance to vote for Crooked Kingdom in the final round of the Goodreads Choice Awards. I did. SHAMELESSLY.
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-young-adult-fantasy-books-2016
Happy Birthday, Bruce Lee
Today would have been Bruce Lee’s 76th birthday. It feels a bit corny typing this out, but as an Asian American man who is about the age Lee was when he passed away, it’s hard for me to imagine how badass a life one would have to live in order to have the impact he has had – as a martial artist, a pop culture icon, a philosopher, and a proud, visible Asian man.
As a way of paying respect, Irene (@prom-knight) and I made a short story in Twine together. It’s a slice-of-life story about living and learning with Bruce Lee, and we hope you like it. Also, it’s free! So please reblog and spread the word of the Little Dragon.
Download Bruce Lee Is Your Roommate
Please check out this sweet thing we worked on! It is very near & dear to us, and I hope y'all enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed making it.
So there's a movie coming out about the holodomor
I just want to get a few things out of the way because I know tumblr and how they react to this.
-yes the cast is white Irish/Englishman portraying Eastern Europeans
-Yes they speak in very English accents
-yes there is a somewhat forced heterosexual subplot
But please. For the love of God. Don’t. Boycott it over this. This film is about genocide. About the systematic killing of Ukrainians. There has never been a film about this, it’s never taught in any history book, and to this day Russia denies it ever happened.
This movie is so critical, and as a Ukrainian I am begging you not to shit on it and go full sjw for not accurately depicting the people of the region. Believe me we, Ukrainians, do not fucking care that the representation is not 100% accurate. Seriously, every Ukrainian in the comments of the trailer is begging people to forget about the English accents and are just relieved people are finally learning about this. we want our story heard and we want the world to be aware of Ukrainian suffering and take interest in the nations current state of affairs. Please support Bitter Harvest when it comes out in February.
This is the trailer in quiestion:
PLEASE don’t shit on this movie because apparently the cast isn’t Slavic People.
I can’t even tell you how much it means to us, Ukrainians, that Hollywood makes a movie about GEMOCIDE IN UKRAINE that so many people don’t even know about! I don’t care there will be a romantic plotline, I don’t care that it wob’t be 100% historic accurate. I just want people to know that Holodomor happened, that it was the man-made genocide, that it was the crime communists don’t want to take responsibilty for still.
The cast isn’t Slavic but the makers are. The film production was financed by Ian Ihnatowycz, a Canadian whose parents fled post-war Ukraine. Writer, Richard Bachynsky Hoover, and director, George Mendeluk are both are Canadians of Ukrainian descent.
Ihnatowycz: “I wanted to make this story understood more widely so making it English language with a known cast will hopefully help make it more appealing to a western audience.” (source)
November 26, 2016
intergalactic-dorks:
The names of cities and streets in six of crows are gold if you know dutch....
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The names of cities and streets in six of crows are gold if you know dutch. Because you got ketterdam and ketter means “someone whose believes or way of life deviates from common faith or religion” so yeah kinda obvious why because it pretty much a city filled with sin. But my favorite is geldstraat. Which is a fancy expensive street. Geldstraat literally means moneyroad. Yeah.
November 25, 2016
I want Captain Holt’s thoughts on Lemonade as a bonus...
I want Captain Holt’s thoughts on Lemonade as a bonus scene.
November 24, 2016
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November 22, 2016
saltybatman:
endless list of favorite characters → nina...
endless list of favorite characters → nina zenik
↳“She was a member of the Dregs, an employee of the White Rose, and occasionally a foolish girl, but before anything she was a Grisha and a soldier.”
mydarlinginej:
“wait,” he said. the burn of his voice was...
“wait,” he said. the burn of his voice was rougher than usual. “is my tie straight?”
crooked kingdom // leigh bardugo
anonymous said: kaz brekker or kell? (mmc)
