#Black actors in fantasy

[successfulblackparenting]

Impact of A Black Mermaid On Black Children

The movie Black Panther proved that there is something about seeing Black people dominate the big screen that excites our community. “Before Halle Bailey became The Little Mermaid, Shameik Alti Moore (Miles Morales) became Spiderman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, said Dr. Corey Emmanuel of Omnimedia.” In both instances, the original characters were depicted as white. These pivotal moments…

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

All the Black Femmes || Arcane

Mel Medarda: Toks Olagundoye, Imogen Faires

Ambessa Medarda: Ellen Thomas

Sevika, Apothecary: Amirah Vann

Shoola, Jules: Mara Junot

Sky Young, (Additional Voices): Kimberly Brooks

Other Additional Voices: Debra Wilson, Kimberly Bailey, Shondalia White

[42wv]

FFXIV x Yu-Gi-Oh! 5DS Signer Dragons (and bonus)

[heisokay]

[machetelanding]

Carrie Fisher (with Peter Mayhew in the background) signing autographs for young Star Wars fans in 1977.

[mr-laveau]

Learning More About a Vampire Sire || [A4A] [Audio RP/ASMR RP]

We’re down south and settled in New Orleans once more to sit with Uriah and Cher as they paint his portrait and that’s all this audio is...hope y'all enjoy!

[psychei-luv]

i finally finished it noooo. won't be functional for the forthcoming days due to drama hangover.

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like whaddyou mean the clamity is gunna be a healing scene bw ziqi and his younger self??who will pay my therapist's billssss arghhh.

this is definitely one of those very very rare xianxia? style cdramas that i would recommend to watch for the plot as well as the characters and romance. like the revelations were bombbb. foreshadowing, what foreshadowing. my brain doesnt care

my precious 4 bamboo masters. i want a sequel so bad. even a tinyyyy episode preferably with long haired ziqi wearing glasses hehe

unrelated, but it's my current mission to get two cats and name them ziqi and miaomiao like a normal fan does

[psalm40speakstome]

Love Game In Eastern Fantasy

I know there has been much talk about the micro expressions but my absolute fave was like in the very first few episodes where he LITERALLY BLINKED and changed his eyes.

[vicontheinternet]

You should’ve see my face when I read ‘feminine’. This is why you will never get me to join that fandom. Do they not know that Shonda Rhimes is a BLACK woman who has made it her mission to be the sole reason why loving v Virgina doesn’t get overturned that woman lovers her a swirl. You’re not going to get a same race relationship out of her for main character. Also Micheal is John’s cousin why would he be white.

And let me stick this one here talking shit about this fandom I’ll drop this screenshot here. Let’s not try to remember what twitter thread or tweet this was from it’s two years old. Saying that Simon was a dark skin lead is crazy and they knew that not what op meant by dark skin women

[libraryofnika]

⋆˙⊹ Non-Arcs Kindle Haul ⊹˙⋆

Hauled some new books on my Kindle 🙈 They are a combination of Fantasy, Queer, Romance, and Horror which are one of my fave to read ✨ All of these are already released!

Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love #2)- Dark contemporary romance, with gory/ horror content. Gave the first book, Butcher & Blackbird a 4 ⭐ A Novel Love Story- A contemporary romance with magic realism in which fmc/ reader finds herself in her favorite romance book series. A Darker Mischief- The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other -- a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all.

The Actor and His Secret- A queer romance where a movie star and a book publicist had a one-night stand! Only For The Week- African American Romance Novel, sister of the bride (who's also the ex of the groom 🙈) X best man! Crossroads- Cowboy, childhood friends-lovers romance!

A Feather so Black- Fantasy Romance series with Celtic Mythology! Also tagged with a love triangle with a morally grey love interest. The Sky on Fire- From the acclaimed author of the Chorus of Dragons series, this propulsive new standalone fantasy is Dragonriders of Pern for a modern audience. I think I've heard that this is gonna be a full high fantasy novel with no romance. Empire of Silence- Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

Scarlet- Historical fiction series set in Revolutionary France with vampires and fantasy elements. The Deer and the Dragon- Urban Fantasy with Mythology with angels and demons. Tender is the Flesh- Dystopia fiction where the government has legalized eating special meat- humans because of the virus of animal meat.

Super excited about these titles. I'm soon to be making my non arcs tbr for next month so hopefully some of these will be listed ❤

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[miraluking-respectfully]

man while i'm on my felix kick it fucking sucks that they keep not knowing what the FUCK to do with this character when he's actually very strongly characterized. i went off about this last night but like, underutilized aspect of felix: he's like, a really good leader?? and i'm not talking an uber-inspiring protagonist-type leader like the PC; i'm talking an extremely functional organizer of people that you especially need in a military context. it's kind of hard to clock at first if you're not paying attention, especially because you're introduced to him while he's desperately trying to stave off a mutiny; but considering he's on a shithole iceball with a group of restless 18-to-25-year-old recruits who, as far as they're concerned, are trying to kill an immortal enemy, the fact that only one of them winds up ultimately raising a hand against him is impressive. he boosts morale, he makes good tactical calls on his own while not being too proud to take assistance, he metes out swift discipline without being needlessly punitive. and when the squad splits up, people keep in touch with him!!!

like, felix is extremely good at his job, and that aspect of him kind of deepens the tragedy of his permanent stagnation in rank when you compare him to other soldier comps like Rusk or even early-game Jorgan. i'm not a fan of fictional or real militaries but this character's skillset as an officer has been a repeatedly underutilized resource narratively & it makes me want to eat glass

[v1tfrma]

Team Edward forever my mind will never be changed

[silasjart]

Does tumblr like world building stuff? Well, I’m about to find out!

Taking inspiration from mr.goatman on TikTok and Instagram , I wanted to start sharing stuff from my book’s universe and why not start off with the power system? One thing I honestly just forgot to put in were the consequences of magic. Magic almost has a mind of its own. If one over uses it, it will retaliate. Furthermore, magic is not infinate and can run out, so caution is needed when it’s used. If one depletes their magical energy to nothing, they will die. The signs of overuse is extreme pain to the core. Another thing I didn’t mention, I don’t think, is that it’s easier to use magic on elements that already exist since magic connnects to magic, which is why earth, air, and water are the easiest to wield. This makes lightning, lava, smoke, ice, and lava more taxing on one’s magic supply.

[machetelanding]

The men who brought Darth Vader to life.

[newblvotg]

[grycensharp07]

I had this thought that it’d be neat if Lars and Mads played vampires together in something, then I came up with a story idea for it (four actually but this is the one that’s the most visually interesting) and then I decided to draw it to get it out of my system. They’re demonic bird puppies for story reasons and so I have an excuse to not feel bad about my horrible ability to draw likenesses

They’re Dracula’s heirs (their last name being Draculsen) through it’s unknown if he’s actually their father (Blood Heirs) or if he just bit them and passed his power along (Made Heirs) and they don’t know if they’re actually siblings but that part hasn’t ever mattered to them. Tønnes is believed to more likely be Dracula’s blood heir due to having the same copper-brass eyes as him though. They can turn into these eight foot (friendly fluff) demons because of Dracula’s inheritance, and they’re more or less chill nice people instead of evil overlords. They’re respected but somewhat controversial rulers due to their not taking to the bloody ways of vampires and preferring pacifistic approaches as a first resort, but they’ll make exceptions for tearing piece of shit wastes of air and their armies to pieces, along with any assassins sent to kill them. They also wish to push human-vampire relations toward being that of equals rather than predator and prey. Other vampires also think it’s weird that Ejnar has no interest towards lustful endeavours or the orgy parties and Tønnes has steadfast refused any arranged marriage attempts since it’s not as simple as falling in love traditionally for him and would rather any relationships he would get into involve a genuine connection between both parties. So for their detractors there’s not that much of an issue with succession to their benefit if one of their assassination attempts actually succeeds. Also Ejnar owns a female dragon he named Udholdenher and Tønnes owns a male griffin he named Musik, yes it’s impractical since they can both fly on their own but they love their big babies so much it doesn’t matter. Their big babies also get to rip apart would be assassins as a treat.

And as a joke let’s just say there’s a Benedict Cumberbatch vampire who’s the Made son of Carmilla and he’s basically their weird gay coded Barbie villain who’s obsessed with them, believing it’s time for a new reigning line of vampires and wants to trick them into biting him for a legitimate claim of power and masochist reasons. His name is Emil Augustine Carmillsohde and his demonic bat form would look like a hammerhead bat once he acquires it through emotional blackmail

Also I wasn’t expecting to finish and post this a few days after Lars’ birthday so take this as a happy little coincidence

link to my master post of Palestinian resources and individual families in need to either donate to or reblog, the people who rely on these links for aid would greatly appreciate it: https://www.tumblr.com/grycensharp07/745868866895446017/help-me-get-my-handicapped-child-out-of-gaza