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Nope. The poem describes her as something that translates as brightly shining or effulgent, not as Caucasian; that describes Lupita FAR more accurately than it does any of the dusty white people in the film. That woman GLEAMS. Light bounces off her flawless moisturised skin.
Plus, my local independent cinema is one of only a handful of theatres in the UK to be showing it on 70mm film. (Not IMAX: film.) London, Edinburgh, Glasgow… And Barnsley!
*love. I do not LIVE that song. (These are the shoes currently in question; I absolutely WOULD step on whoever; the question of their survival would have more to do with my BMI than any vertiginous heels.)
Word. …coincidentally (because it was mostly inspired by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s novel Mo Dao Zu Shi, and the delightful TV adaptation thereof, with a thematic nod to your magpie books) I painted a willow pattern mural complete with magpies during Covid.
Tfw you get a comment on a Clex fic you wrote 24 years ago, and when you go back and reread it you feel kind of like Humbert Humbert, but also, TOM WELLING WAS TWENTY FOUR, DAMMIT, so while his character was putatively 15, surely it is understandable that neither we nor Lex really saw him as a kid?
ALSO, Jesus Christ, somebody please buy these people a map. Black people are present in Greek mythology. AFRICA is present in Greek mythology. English speakers? Not so much.
Quote this with your most "I wrote this for me, but you can read if you want to" fanwork …OR you could (like me) post something you made just for one particular person: A 72k MCR/bandom vampire story that I wrote (& illustrated!) for Jilli, after her mother died. archiveofourown.org/works/167916
#LunchDuJour: Chicken livers sautéed with leeks & mushrooms in a cream & sherry sauce topped with fresh coriander, spring onions & bacon, served with a side salad and some fresh olive sourdough.
Lunch du jour: air fryer whitebait, green salad, oven chips & home made roasted garlic lemon peoper dill dip.
I have not said he’s a racist. 🤷♀️ I have in fact continued to bend over backwards to say that I neither think he is culpable for the BAFTAs shitshow itself, nor malicious wrt his eventual official statement, but simply as ignorant as the BAFTA showrunners wrt the degree of pain caused by the N word.
Hang on - you’re telling me that on top of everything else, Emerald Ferrell didn’t JUST whitewash explicitly non-white dude Heathcliff by casting a human mayonnaise jar in the role, but she also cast A BROWN GUY as pasty white blond cuckold Edgar Linton?!?!?!
Look, I haven’t watched this new show, but the algorithm sent me a clip of this baby awkwardly introducing himself and telling a joke (which was good! I laughed) to his non-Klingon peers and I went full PROTEC Mode. He was precious. Will stab any of the other kids if they are mean to him.
Facebook Memories has just reminded me that I drew this nine years ago. Plus ca change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Jesus tapdancing Christ, Westminster is testing out the idea of embedding AI in schools, colleges, business & healthcare on my little Northern mining town, and it’s being spun as an exciting opportunity, rather than a shitshow.
It’s the coldest day of the winter so far, so Thor reflected for a bit, then scrambled up to where Miss Darcy was curled up like a smug little croissant over the radiator, & politely but firmly made the case that there is space for both of them, & that although he does not START fights, he wins them
Dear China: look, I fucking LOVE your terrible cheesy tropetastic micro-dramas. Love them. And I am very grateful for the subtitles. But please, I beg you, stop renaming all the characters batshit Americanesque names like “Rosalie Ross” and “Zephyr Chase” and “Amanda Yule.” 😭🫠
My cats are SO ENJOYING the two new catbeds I bought for them to make their cat tree more winter-appropriate! I’ve put a smol radiator next to the cat tree and used foil-lined card under & around the beds to insulate them and make them self-heating and now they are cosy cosy cosy!
#AlphabetChallenge Watching an old ep of Taskmaster & saw a challenge I could do! “Cook a meal that Alex has to eat, using one ingredient for each letter of the alphabet.” -Chilli with quinoa -Sweet yorkshire pudding filled with fruit & jelly & ganache -Limoncello cocktail (Ingredients below)
…welp, this photo that I just randomly stumbled across for a movie I didn’t get around to watching is going to send me in search of OT3 fic about Mr Fantastic. (Sorry, Ben.)