okay mchanzo fans (and overwatch fans in general) i’m gonna have to stop you guys for like a quick moment here because these blatantly racist fics are apparently going to keep happening and some of you might want to distant yourselves from That Mess with the help of these facts
calling hanzo “handsoap” IS racist because you are mocking someone’s language and native name. this is personally frustrating because i have experienced name calling from other kids and ADULTS about my name to the point where i stopped giving it out and wanted to change it to something Comfortably White
stop calling japanese characters weeaboo/otaku. they aren’t fucking compliments
you know how uncomfortable it is to watch you guys call a brown man of indeterminate origin a mutt/dog? it’s REALLY uncomfortable
stop white washing poc
making the darker skinned character the more muscly/dominate one is….you guessed it…….gross as hell
why are yall obsessed with who bottoms and tops???
google translate is not your friend. it’s a program.
if you don’t know how multilingual people use language then just?? don’t use Law & Order as a reference guide. they don’t know either. if they’re speaking in another language just put it in italics or brackets i don’t care i just can’t take it anymore
hanzo was a yakuza boss who killed his brother in cold blood why are you casting him as some wilting flower that stutters at being in the same room as another man
mccree has the highest bounty we’ve seen so far and has been on the run FOR YEARS and yall are still basic enough to think he’s stupid because what? he has a southern accent? he participates in vaquero culture?
btw vaquero culture IS a thing and i wouldn’t be surprised if it stayed a thing decades from now
I wouldn’t really call Sangwoo a winner. He is experiencing a lot of pain through PTSD and worrying about Yoon Bum abandoning him, but he is just very good at deceiving and hiding his pain while Bum can’t do the same. It wasn’t that Sangwoo refused ton back down, but he broke and killed his parents while Yoon Bum’s breaking was a bit different, you can even almost say Bum was stronger since he didn’t resort to something so primal to cope with his trauma.
Sangwoo didn’t build a good life for himself, he had “a good life” already. He had a house, he had food, he had a car, his family had money and he just had very shitty parents to add to that.
Bum on the other hand was broke to the point where his uncle had to beg a woman so he doesn’t have to pay a bit more than two thousand dollars to her.
They were both beat, yes, but Yoon Bum lived through it while Sangwoo turned things around for himself and became unhealthily “proper”.
Between the two of them, it’s actually Sangwoo who is broken to the point where he doesn’t function as a human at all anymore while Bum has moments of clarity and has wavering morality. If anything, Bum is the winner for being able to stay as a human while suffering from all of this, even as it was painful.
Sangwoo on the other hand just gave everything up and his inner child shrivelled inside him and hid somewhere. Something inside him broke irreversibly. Sangwoo lost the ability to feel anything, whoever’s fault it was, and I really don’t think that counts as a win or a good life.
However it does seem like that, so you are sort of right.
Sangwoo looks like he is perfect. This is how Sangwoo tricks everyone into thinking he is the cool and charming guy they want to get with, and it seems like even though people who read KS are aware of this, they still get tricked by the very same façade.
heres a zine i made for my local lgbt resources centre! theyre running a program to educate businesses, schools, charities, and the public about lgbt issues.
it was difficult to squash everything into 8 pages and i hope i did a decent job!!
Y’all seriously need to learn to fact check things you see on here.
1.) it wasn’t Disney who turned down Coco but DREAMWORKS.
and to those who STILL erroneously insist that Disney/Pixar turned down The Book of Life
2.) People getting mad at this:
Marigolds are traditional to our culture as well as to the holiday, ESPECIALLY in petal form. Not the best example but that’s like getting mad at different Christmas movies for using mistletoe.
3.) “Oh it’s the same plot.” Has anyone looked up the plot for this movie other than outright bashing it from the trailer? “The footage, raw though it may be, spun a compelling story about Miguel, a sweet kid who loves music despite the fact that his abuelita banned music long ago, thanks to an ancient drama involving Miguel’s great-great-grandfather—a dashing musician—who walked out on the family. That musician, Miguel discovers at the start of the film, is his town’s most famous son: deceased film star and music supernova Ernesto de la Cruz. On the eve of Día de Muertos, Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum in order to borrow the famous skull guitar that hangs there so that he can enter a talent competition and convince his family to embrace music again. Once Miguel touches the guitar, he becomes something of a living ghost. His family can no longer see him, but Miguel can now see all of his dead ancestors—who look like fantastically decorative skeletons—crossing over a bright bridge made of marigold flower petals from the Land of the Dead. Looking for help and answers, Miguel travels to the Land of the Dead—a dazzlingly vibrant, stacked metropolis inspired by the Mexican city of Guanajuato—himself and sets off an adventure with trickster skeletal companion Hector to find the rest of his family, de la Cruz, and the answer to how he can fix this curse.” You know how insistent Pixar is on always making original films. So don’t you think that they would continue that?
4.) “But the white director who thinks he knows everything because he’s been to Mexico.” That’s right, a white person who is not of Mexican/Latinx culture can not truly KNOW our culture simply by visiting it. And Lee Unkrich knows this fact. Which why he assembled a group for the sake of making sure the movie is culturally accurate, rather than him taking on that role
you know, a team of actual latinx. Including someone who was a huge critic of Coco, and is a critic of Disney, Lalo Alcaraz. He is most famously known for his response to the action of Disney attempting to trademark Dia de los Meurtos (which will be our next point). It’s not Alcaraz selling out. It’s him working together with the movie so it’s not just Disney trying to bring in more Latinx fans but rather creating what Unkrich’s true mission: “a love letter to Mexico.” This team along with many other Latinx creatives (like Adrian Molina who was originally just a writer and then promoted to co-director) and a fully latinx cast (again, as insisted by Unkrich), are working together to make it a Latinx piece of media. ( http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/pixar-coco-gael-garcia-bernal-dia-de-los-muertos-miguel )
5.) We all know and got rightfully angry at Disney for attempting to trademark Dia de los Muertos. This was due to the similar original name the movie had. As expected, it received intense backlash to which Disney quickly revoked the request to trademark. Unkrich was the first to vocalize that this was a mistake. This even leading to that point most likely has to do with him being a white man not of our culture, but this humbling experience is what really knocked that message into him and he began recruiting people like the ones in the above point to make sure that the movie itself is true to the people, culture, and holiday, in ways he himself could never fully grasp.
6.) It’s about the Day of the Dead like The Book of Life. My response to this is easy: look at how many movies are there about Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine’s day, Saint Patrick’s day, etc.
7.) Gutierrez himself doesn’t want it to be a competition but as two wonderful films about one aspect of Latinx that will hopefully lead to more in the future.
I love The Book of Life, and is one of my favorite movies if I’m being honest. When it first came out I was filled with such pride and joy for many reasons. One of course for it being a gorgeously rendered film, but for it being such a positive and beautiful representation and celebration of Mexico. As someone who grew up only seeing white main characters, with people like my family and I as only side characters, it brings me such joy to see more media being produced in which Mexicans are the focus along with our culture (which is agreeably much more diverse than what is being tapped into). We still got a long way to go as Mexico is still only one group of Latinx culture, but we are witnessing the stepping stones of Hollywood beginning to reach out and representing this community by working with people of those cultures. The Book of Life will always have a special place in my heart, but I’m not letting my love of that movie keep me from supporting Latinx creators that are putting out Coco. I’m finally getting the representation that I craved as a kid and loving it.
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