hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.
I love this fucking book
“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.
“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”
there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying
I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.”
And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”i loved the martian
me: I slammed my finger in a door today by accident
someone from england: “door”? like what is that? you just have these things anyone can use to get into your homes and your cars? your country is so weird? here we have these, like, rectangular holes in our buildings and stuff, and a slab of some hard material, generally wood or metal, that covers it snugly and stays affixed with hinges and locks
so far this episode has time travel man and aliens and a ufo i like it
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - International Trailer (x)
I am still SO FUCKING ANGRY that this movie is going ahead
No, wait, that sounds really cool. I would so fucking be INTO THIS
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW
Remember when people argued that Hollywood wouldn’t cast white actors for a historical story set in an African country?
Adding this onto that whitewashing defenders post.
This isn’t that crazy to me. For one, Egypt is a lot more like being in the Middle East where skin color varies quite a lot and it’s more of a tan than a black. Also. Did you see their character? What’s it say? Those are GOD NAMES. They could be fucking blue for all we know.
Hello, I have come to drop some knowledge on you. As a person from the Middle East I can’t even begin to touch your first comment.
“Egypt is a lot more like being in the Middle East where skin color varies quite a lot and it’s more of a tan than a black.”
You do realize of course, that the Middle East is a political region, with countries in both the continents of Asia and Africa right?
And “a lot more tan then black?” We’re not fucking tan. Really? Tan? I know a lot of us go tanning if you’re near the Levant, but holy shit. We’re not Tan Europeans. You’re right in that the dominant race varies depending on where you are and what your history has been, and how much mixing has been gone on, but allow me to throw this out to you:
The countries traditionally associated with the Middle East:
Aaaaand, the greater Middle East:
Also, depending on who you ask, Sudan is included too. The history of how the middle east became a thing is a long story that involves the fact that a lot of these countries have shared history, so I’m just going to dump this wikipedia page as a place to start, though certainly not as a place to end. Check the reference links at the bottom. Like, I don’t even know what to tell you. Let me drop some history with you. Egypt was literally the crossing bridge between Africa and Eurasia. It is a country with a history spanning over two thousand goddamn years.
After the New Kingdom, after the greek domination of the Late Period, and the Roman Empire, Egypt was also ruled by the Arab Islamic caliphates for hundreds of years, literally steeped in its culture from the late 600s on.
I mean, Egypt is part of the middle east, but oh my god, the earlier you get in its history, the blacker their population probably was. Literally, when you think racial diversity in ancient egypt, the farther back you go, North African ellis island should be the first thing that comes to mind. North African ellis island.
There is literally no reason to justify this level of white washing. NO REASON. And then, you had to go and spout this bullshit:
“Also. Did you see their character? What’s it say? Those are GOD NAMES. They could be fucking blue for all we know.”
You know when someone brings up a nonsensical skin color that they’re being racist as all holy hell. Blue skin? That comment really kind of backfires, since I guess you’ve never googled Osiris. Here is a book on art in ancient egypt, since your knowledge seems so lacking.
Sculpture, reliefs, and wooden coffins were enriched with warm and cool colors (slides 10, 18, 28, 32, 36, and poster). A similar sensitivity to color contrasts is evident in jewelry design (slide 17). Colors not only had aesthetic appeal but also had symbolic meaning. Blue and green were associated with water, the Nile, and vegetation. Yellow and gold stood for the sun and the sun god. Red and redorange had complex meanings involving the desert, power, blood, and vitality. Gender was indicated by color as well as costume. It was a convention to portray men with reddish-brown skin and women with a yellow-tan color (slide 33). Nubians and tribute bearers from central Africa were often colored darker than Egyptians, and people from some other nations might be colored lighter. Lighter and darker skin tones were also used to differentiate overlapping figures.
This timeline of art history in ancient egypt with information might also be of use.
And we do indeed have a fair idea of what the Egyptians thought their gods looked like, because they put their images literally fucking everywhere.
So yeah, no excuse for a cast completely made up of white europeans.
Even if I did get something wrong here, there is literally no goddamn excuse, for any of this. I hope this movie flounders in production and dies.
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it makes me wonder about girls menstruating during the hunger games.
that is the type of thought that keeps me up at night like
im so sorry
