instead of watching a colorist disney remake while they profit off of hawaiian land, go watch and support films made by indigenous hawaiians. thread linked in reply.
iñaki godoy it seems i’ve grown quite fond of you though there are no sexual urges or desires you come to me as a long lost friend whom i once picked apples with in papa’s orchard.
i actually think it doesn’t fucking matter at the end of the day and i’m glad people want to share things that they love with the world. like whateverrrrr.
i hate watching the quotes on this slowly just turn into comics and text posts like you guys really need ur visuals to spell it out for you in words its crazy
i can’t wait for people to find out that reducing women in media to just “girlbosses” and essentially stripping them of all their complexities and detail can be just as misogynistic as demonizing them for absurd reasons.
I hope the importance of having Native Hawaiians behind the scenes in key creative decision making and storytelling roles is emphasized to everyone now. We can tell our own moʻolelo and have nene for years. Here are some Kānaka Maoli films/filmmakers to support.
#indigenousfilm
just got shown this screenshot and Holy Shit. not only is he defending his appropriation but saying cultures who dislike their things being stolen and bastardized are “gatekeeping and making themselves seem inhuman and odd”. that we create the prejudice we experience.
and in tandem with supporting hawaiian film- open your pockets! pay up to your nearest polynesian! get involved with mutual aid! learn about the occupation of hawai’i and go to to learn about how you may be able to get involved with red hill efforts
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Ukrainians put together a list of resources on how foreigners can help. There are all reputable organizations doing good work. Spread far and wide:
three days ago, i received a life-changing question in my curiouscat inbox. i didn't see it until last night, but it's absorbed my mind entirely since. "What species is the duolingo owl?" let me share my thought process on my answer to this :)
i'm a kid. a disabled one who's tired of ablebodied people treating disabled people being the ones dying as "very encouraging", or "would've happened anyways" (real words i've been told) because we're seen as lesser. i'm a human, not a damn data point.
#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
@naynaysalterego
as far as i am aware, he is hawaiian. the part of david should be played by a darker hawaiian man though, and as others have pointed out it seems kahiau has a history of saying the n-slur.
wrong; the big three are NOT those. BDS has stated over and over that while boycotting these three is appreciated, there are set targets considered the highest priorities. carrefour, puma, etc.
this happened literally yesterday but i’m so unbelievably obsessed with it and have referenced “homestuck kinnie drowning discourse”, specifically cultural pillar yaoi, irl twice already.
@Mysticriver97
@trocchio33
mixed natives are still native! and i’ve also heard that the actress for nani is supposedly not indigenous at all. it’s very disappointing. and i agree, these characters’ brownness is important and neither of these actors should be playing these characters.
( antiblack racism )
biggest fuck no ever. so boldly whitewashing all 3 nonwhite actors and further caricaturing jacob’s usopp on top of that with the donut lips? this is absurd. oda & the OP team routinely have the opportunity to remedy past bullshit but adamantly stick to it.
i don’t really have much of an issue with people proclaiming them nonbinary, but i think it’s important to know it’s… a little different than that. these are intersex lions! some are born with these hormone imbalances due to genetics, and some got diseases later that caused it.
i don’t even know what else to say. every sentence of this is like whiplash. you are not preserving our stories. you are bastardizing and disrespecting them. you are not helping natives.
yep. yep yep yep. speaking as an indigenous one piece fan, in my opinion you’re right on the mark. it’s obvious oda is Trying to do something but it’s very blatant where he falls flat and spews bullshit, esp when it comes to arcs like skypeia and fishman island.
I know one piece gets a lot of praise for tackling real world issues like war, colonization, etc but like..how well does it ACTUALLY discuss those topics, more specifically with colonization in skypiea bc..there were def quite a few scenes that made me go 🤨
characters that get flattened to the Smart Responsible Girlboss that keep the male characters out of trouble i love u and u deserve better 🤞sasha james, meryl stryfe, barbara gordon, lup taaco, yosano akiko, i can go on.
seeing a lot of people who aren’t indigenous saying “oh but she’s native!” and ignoring the blatant colorism happening here. sydney agudong should not be playing nani.
describing people as being less or more severely autistic is just… not a thing. also the charity he has chosen, SAARC, does ABA therapy, as well as supports and works with autism speaks.
@nachoyacho
though she is supposedly native (which i am hearing from some she may not be actually) she should not be playing nani. the sisters’ experiences as brown natives is important to the story. it’s not about being “native enough”, but having the features of these specific characters
bless this sweet girl, i pray she can soon live in a free and recovering palestine where she can see birds every day. nothing can undo all the damage already done but we can fight hard for the future to be bright.
@BloomMoonbeam
wait this makes me so happy 😭... i never finished mlp but to see a disabled character be who they are without having to conform to things around them is So exciting
still can’t believe the first thing miguel did when meeting miles was throw a bin at him like wow what a loser 😭 for a grown man you sure are bad at acting like one…
obviously this flattening of characters happens with more than just girlbossification but i wanted to pinpoint one thing i see often that drives me nuts. these characters deserve their complexity. it makes them so much more interesting.
with So many new people listening to TMA because of hermit archives, i feel that there’s.. been a lack of conversation and critical thinking that needs to be had about problematic things within the podcast. namely, the portrayals of asian characters like jude perry and the- 1/
impromptu long thread about the birds (or bird-like creatures at least) in trigun and their evolution on noman's land because i love birds and i want to talk about them:
seems my concerns were not unfounded. sammie works for single vision inc., a roadside zoo with NUMEROUS usda complaints. the way these animals are being housed and cared for is extremely inappropriate and unethical.
bringing this back. don’t follow me if you watch him. don’t interact with me. his contributions to the appropriation and bastardization of the w creature are upsetting. there’s no way he hasn’t been told before.
but. to me duo is 10000% the spot-bellied eagle-owl. it meets every qualification with flying colors. the belly plumage even matches duo's- barring or spots! its beak and feet are orange and its eyes are grey too, which all match and are things the GHOW does Not have.
the cruelness in the replies and qrts towards op is fucking crazy. over an honestly extremely real hyperfixation experience that all these people clearly know nothing about.
also? the GHOW looks old and wise. that is not what duolingo is. the duolingo owl is a little fucking weirdo who might be up to something nefarious, and i think the spot-bellied eagle-owl encapsulates that imagery much better. the thread ends here, thanks for reading ^____^'
it’s like. Bad. sometimes i go into a rage because somebody is talking about one of those certain characters and i feel fr insane but like. it’s ok i’m normal 🫶
to make this a bit clearer (and i shouldve included this in the first tweet), army sos is the charity that supports nzis. they offer support to soldiers, including those in volunteer battalions. one of those battalions is the azov battalion, a group with clear neonIzi ties
it seems new mag fans ALREADY need a reminder that you should not be drawing jon designs with a third eye. he’s commonly depicted as a desi man, and incorporating a third eye into his design when trying to make him look spooky/monstrous is disrespectful of hinduism.
because of duo's face shape and ear tufts, tytonidae (barn owls) were automatically ruled out. that leaves us with the typical/true owl family, strigidae. i don't know of any barn owls with ear tufts, and they have a distinct heart-shaped facial disc that duo does not have.
and fuck every single diabetic that isn’t unequivocally pro-palestine. how can any of you look at this man, knowing FIRSTHAND the agonizing, horrific pain he and many others must be in, and decide to “stay neutral”, or to side with israel.
logically? he's based off of the great horned owl. a large owl wide-spread in the americas, who meets all our criteria and is even found in guatemala, where the founder of duolingo is from. it's popular, the hooting owl so many think of at first mention of an owl.
i will be ultimately disregarding the opinions of both the duolingo fandom wiki, and the french. because this is absurd. i can see his ear tufts! they are right there on his body do not lie to me. look me in the eyes and tell me duo looks like a spectacled owl i fucking dare you.
heyyyy so since i see a lot of folks talking about subway surfers lately because of the pride designs .. can we maybe talk about this character outfit 😭😭 afaik it is from 2014 but that doesn't make it any less weird
people in the replies/qrts going “oh i’ll just get him and paint him the right shade” don’t do that. just don’t. by doing that you are still financially supporting funko. they won’t see that you repainted him. they’ll just see that you gave them money. be smarter.
i think it’s important to show how even sex, as transphobes like to yell about, is not nearly as concrete and binary as they claim. they can get fucked. but also it’s a little frustrating to have the fact that they’re specifically intersex ignored, y’know?
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bringing back a topic from weeks ago upon request— oda’s decision to assign law la dama de la noche was so fitting. it only blooms once a year— overnight, wilting by dawn— and has become a symbol of luck and perseverance, but also of the impermanence of life’s good things. (1/4)
“better than most zoos” is perhaps the most bullshit sentence i’ve seen this week. the majority of these animals are NOT pets and should not be kept in a household situation. this is inappropriate animal care on several levels and there’s no way they’re all getting adequate care.
i block every person who makes this kind of tweets because it’s The most annoying broad stroke attempts at psychoanalysis and categorization and it’s always absolutely absurd
Oh so you’re a dark mode, warm showers, can’t-have-your-feet-hanging-out-of-the-blanket kind of person? How does it feel to be incredibly touch starved?
@iDateReyna
oh, neither can i. as a kid i would always run with some “magically bigger on the inside” explanation because i could not possibly picture them as huge cabins.
was wondering why the bed felt uncomfortable and realized i had accidentally left a hammer underneath my bedsheets. this is the worse version of the princess and the pea i think
@misschikadee
i haven’t heard anything about that, honestly. i don’t keep up with him at all but as far as i knew he wasn’t native at all. tbh even if he is cherokee i would still find what’s being said here pretty disrespectful.
i legit do not want to hear nor do i care about what harry potter house your oc is in . we as a society need to move on from thinking about hp there are so many better things to do
there's a list of things i have to consider about duo's appearance:
- ear tufts
- mask-like shaped facial disc
- a barred (or spotted? couldn't decide) breast
the ear tufts quickly narrowed me down to three genera: bubo, megascops, or asio.
it’s weird to me that so many trigun fans (especially looking at you white ones) jumped to nsfw/petplay art after the dub line about vash only being loved “for the tightness of his leash”. are you all really so focused on vashwood or vashmeryl porn that you don’t explore the-
it was at this point that i attempted to find if duo had a canonical height, and came across something truly evil. the duolingo fandom wiki. noting him as "similar to a spectacled owl" and "an owl without ear tufts, according to the french". this is blatantly wrong.
this is not scary 🍅🍅🍅 i love reading about deer. they’re strange and quite resilient fellas at times. them sustaining very serious injuries one way or another and just continuing on anyways has been documented on many occasions and it’s so neat :)
it’s kinda weird how i was like “hey w*nd*goon is appropriating my culture by the use of that creature in his username/logo/merch” and mentioned that he’s engaged in some weird right-wing shit and everybody’s like Oh wow that sucks! and goes right back to engaging in his content
there's one thing i had to face here. the wording was "what bird do i THINK he is", not "what bird is he."
there's two options on my plate. there's the bird i think he is most logically based on, and there's the bird i personally think he totally is. i might as well share both.