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I suppose my point is; yes talking about prejudice and what makes someone diverse is important, but I was thinking more of those characters who are like 'I'm black! don't be racist to me!' 'I'm genderfluid, don't be offensive towards me!' they're just there to say what they are and educate everyone and aren't real characters. While that stuff is important, it's even more important to make a relatable and interesting character, and not literally every single story about diverse characters needs to specifically be about prejudiced, like if it's a fantasy or sci-fi or something super removed from our modern world, you don't need to even mention prejudice because it has no real-world basis. Like in worlds like that, a character's ethnicity or gender or sexuality shouldn't matter as much. A contemporary setting, I understand that, however there's a limit in something super far-removed from our current world. In a fantasy you don't need your diverse character to be like 'well-' all the time. From what I know of Star Trek they say peoples' racial identity don't matter anymore, it's become a utopia on Earth where humans have come together to betterment of the planet and universe as a whole which is why they have all these different races working on the crews
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Yeah, that's what I meant. In Halo it really doesn't matter because the story is kicking butt as a space marine. There's a compelling plot about religious fanatacism and doing morally dark things for the greater good but at it's core that's not the main point. Racism between humans is never addressed, sexuality is never addressed because that's not the story it's trying to tellAnd that's okay because there are others who ARE there to tell it
I'll need to checkthat out then!
I also saw some people on Tumblr saying they hate how publishers are discouraging white AND POC authors from writing about POC characters because they're concerned about evoking the wraith of PC people and that those authors should be allowed to write whatever they want, if they wanna put black people in their fantasy novel they should and the publishers should stop telling them because 'we have enough diversity' and I'm like 'are you sure it's the publishers though? are you sure?' Introduced me to some of my most favourite songs
I can understand not wanting it for real world stories even though that's still dumb but fantasy?? Again, maybe if they're in fantasy Scandinavia but c'mon
Okay I take it back you're not a space marine :p his rank is Master Chief Petty Officer which is a real rank...in the navy
Space Navy :P
It's a first person shooter so he ends up fighting with the Marines most of the time :p otherwise the games would have to be ship combat ((which I would not complain about because space battles are the best kind of battles))
My baby brother told me someone stole his Minecraft account so now he has to buy the whole game again and I feel bad for laughing so hard because it's not funny but like...how did that even happen he doesn't even play Minecraft anymore and hasn't for years lol
This soap smells like baby vomit and that's disturbing considering it didn't smell like this when we bought it
Mom told me earlier that she remembers when Pearl Harbor came out because it was the same weekend as Shrek and we were all going to see Shrek as a family but then Dad saw the poster and was like 'I'm sorry but you guys can go on ahead to see Shrek, I need to see this instead,' and Mom was like 'okay' and then afterwards they met up again and Mom was like 'well how was it?' and he was like 'one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life' lol
And I didn't even know we saw Shrek in theaters, Mom never told me that! The first movie I remember seeing in theaters was Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo was the first movie I ever saw in theaters. I saw it with my grandparents
Elizabeth ♛Smart Girls Love Trashy Books♛ wrote: "Mom told me earlier that she remembers when Pearl Harbor came out because it was the same weekend as Shrek and we were all going to see Shrek as a family but then Dad saw the poster and was like 'I..."I've seen parts of Pearl Harbor and it's an absolute abomination :P
I saw Finding Nemo with my mom and I can't remember why we even went. I do remember Sunday School the next day asking if we saw the movie and I and an older girl did and the two of us started debating over which part we liked the most She said that he said the only part he liked was the fact they talked about a small island that was also attacked prior nobody ever talks about, and some of the actual action scenes were nice, but otherwise he hated how it was mainly a stupid love story, he thought it was going to be a brutal and dramatic war film because that's how it was advertised
Michael Bay isn't exactly known for his compelling plots :P That being said if anyone ever made a movie based on the Just Cause games, I actually WOULD want him to direct it. Those games are basically "Michael Bay Simulator"
But he is your man if you want to see Transformers peeing :P
Nani the f***? :P
You've never seen that scene or heard about it? Bumblebee randomly pees on a guy :P
I never watched those movies :P But yummy
Lucky, we watched the first two in the Boys' and Girls' Club and it was so boring, and also embarrassing because the staff members would come in and be like 'is this movie actually PG-13?' because it had tons of sex randomly put in. I thought I could at least laugh at the badness but I couldn't, they were so bland and boring and I had a headache after watching them because the CGI made me feel overwhelmed
That's usually how Michael Bay movies are :PWait, there was actual sex? I know there's a lot of sexy shots of girls in booty shorts and stuff but actual intercourse?
Yeah, if I'm remembering correctly one of the villains disguises herself as a hot girl for the main character to bang and they start doing it but halfway through she reveals herself and they stop. There's also these little robo-dogs that have sex with each other and also hump peoples' legs
To be fair nobody was really liking it, even the actual teen boys were ignoring it and doing their own thing. It was purely background noise for us
From what I've heard they were horrible so I don't blame any of you
Okay but can more people talk about that scene in the ending of Lilo and Stitch where the head alien sees the CPS guy who used to be a CIA agent and they recognize each other from an older event and they're basically like 'long time no see a small universe' I don't know I just really liked that scene, like there was a story there, and there were many different predictable directions that could've gone but I like how they were both like 'yeah I remember you' and then move on
Lifetime seems to be making a movie about that V.C. Andrews' book Ruby. Is this that series Mom keeps telling me about where each girl in the series is named after a jewel and it takes place in a New Orleans bayou and it's trashy like the girl learns she's in love with her cousin? Sounds like a Lifetime thing and the ads look like a bayou. I wonder what she thinks of that
Mom told me about some movies she wanted to see that everyone says are like super garbage, horrible pieces of cinema and she's like 'I don't care I want to watch them for myself and see!' and I got excited because I like doing stuff like that but then she told me the three she planned on watching and I was like 'Mom you need to stop listening to forty-year-olds! listen to the cool hip twenty-somethings, they didn't hate those movies!' To be fair one was extremely split in reception, but one I hadn't heard anyone complain about at all, just praise, and the other one people thought was really lackluster, mediocre, and boring but not the worst thing ever so I was disappointed, I thought she was going to suggest some genuinely horrendous pieces of cinema but instead I just questioned which reviews she was reading
What are some of the movies?
The mixed one was Suicide Squad, the one I hadn't heard anything negative about at all was Birds of Prey, and the one people thought was lackluster was The New Mutants
I've only heard negative things about Birds of Prey but as you know, people get offended by women merely existing in this day and age :PNever heard of The New Mutants
Yeah I think you two just run in some very weird circles. And that's a new X-Men movie
Very weird circles is putting it so mildly it might as well be a saltine cracker :P
Saltines have some kick to them :P
So do these circles :P
I found an author who says she's a fan of Kurt Vonnegut and takes inspiration from him and that made me so happy to see, I always feel strange saying older authors inspire me because people were problematic back then and thus people will jump down your throat for it and even despite that I don't know how well-known he is among people my age so I was glad to see another fan of is. He doesn't just give me writing advice, he gives me life advice. Though I must say I don't consider him a genuine inspiration purely because even though I make use of his writing advice I'm not trying to write similarly to him, I just think he has good advice
Well the kind of day I had, I went shopping with Mom but that was fine, but then I took a wrong turn and had to run all the way down the length of the strip mall to the back where the bus stop is because Mom was like 'I'll meet you there' but she wasn't there so after a while I realized she must've just gotten on the bus without me so I had to wait for who knows how long for the bus and then get on it then get on our bus home and of course the 3W bus ride took forever like it felt like I was on that thing for two hours like usual because of the route and then when I got home Mom was like 'where were you?' and I was like 'where was I?! where were you?! ' and we realized what must've happened and Mom said she figured I'd find my way home eventually and I said I had to take the bus home, I had no other option
We have a piano in the teen room of the library and I will never forget when this one kid sat at it and started playing Faded and it was so good I thought someone was playing it on their phone until the dubstep/singing part never came in and was like 'whoa'
This latest update of Microsoft Edge fades out your tabs that aren't loaded and the ones that are look normal and I have to say I actually quite like that, it makes it so much easier knowing what's been loaded up already and which ones aren't
In downtown I saw two girls out on a picnic, and also a guy dressed like a yellow mime holding a sign that said 'Love Everyone!'
Also someone roller-skating
I can't believe I spent all this time worrying about my Spotter training and then completely forgot about it today until I got a reminder email from them
Someone dumped a bunch of hair into the bathroom sink and now it drains extremely slowly
I found out that Willy's Wonderland movie was made from an old Five Nights at Freddy's movie script just like The Banana Splits Movie was How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!
And the director and writer were like 'well just because it's about evil animatronics doesn't mean I coped off FNaF' which is true evil animatronics isn't the most original idea except in this movie it says the animatronics move and fight because they're possessed by vengeful spirits, the franchise was once the place of a famous murder, there's a scene of someone getting stalked by an animatronic in the vent, the basic plot was about an employee who has to just do their job in the midst of these killer animatronics, and another character decides to end the whole thing by burning down the establishment. Right, you didn't take inspiration from FNaF at all
Even Sarah Siren looks like Ballora from Sister Location since they're humanoid ballerina animatronics
My middle brother was an extra in some movie apparently
I forgot sparkling water was still carbonated so I chugged some of it. I regret that.
I regret that immensely.
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But then there's some characters whose diversity is important to them but that's not their only trait, like Magnus and Alex. They're both LGBT and that's a crucial part of who they are but it's not their gimmick.
In something like Star Trek, which is our universe in the future, I feel they could bring up the issues of racism and prejudice against minorities in the past while still keeping the characters fleshed out. I mean, maybe they do. I haven't seen it. But for a lot of real world people, being a minority is an important part of who they are and they face a lot of struggles over it so completely ignoring that in fiction seems dangerous
Not every single story needs to address it but it shouldn't go ignored either. If you're writing about Vikings in Norway in 850 then there's probably not going to be black people. But if you write about a Viking in Morraco in 1150, it'll look mighty suspicious if everyone is white