#I hate tamala

[random-trash-roli]

[hassianlovebot]

something i'm really excited to see in future palia is how they handle character development and character growth! i want to see reth get away from the cartel! i want to see eshe become a better person and mom! i want to see kenli grow a spine! i want to see nai'o learn that he doesn't need to take care of everyone at his own expense!

i'm not sure how they'll do it or what direction it'll be in but i'm so excited to see the characters change for the better (or for the worse 👀). just,,, OUGH

[wakandamama]

I may have a very conflicted and complex relationship with the Black church, general Christianity and other things, but when Tamala Mann hit my ears with that

'🎙🎶Take me to the King🎙🎶'

IT IS OVER FOR ME. I transcend, I cry, my problems are gonna be gone for the whole 4 minutes I listen to that broadsholder woman SNAG

[smallestflowtree]

7/9

Pins collected: 4/9

[hassians-sernuk-boyfriend]

okay so I've been part of this fandom for about a month now and here have been my tongue in cheek observations witnessing everyone

this fandom is surprisingly small

opinions run hot on Tamala

if you can't respect Najuuma you are forcefully evicted into the abyss

people here love the words "mommy" and "daddy"

half the population here is in fact, mothers with amazing senses of humor

the hate for characters runs deep, but our love runs deeper

everyone in the fandom is incredibly kind, talented and creative despite Exhaustion

everyone here is simultaneously the most outgoing and the most shy person in the world and the result is a confusing but delightful clusterfuck of enthusiastic words that barely make sense and I love that

Everybody wants to fuck Reth and also most of us don't actually want to Fuck Reth but the Fuck Reth vibe is still the lifeblood of the family. This truck runs on Soup whether we like it or not.

Let Us Date Sifuu.

[yohanpalia]

fatness in palia

(its gonna sound like i hate palia bc ppl dont understand the concept of nuance, so just to be clear - i decently like the game so far. things can be both good and bad, and some ppl, like me, enjoy analysing and criticising things without hating on the things.)

it rly bugs me that the only properly fat character so far in Palia is someone whos obsessing about his sandwiches and talking about how he always makes sure to eat properly, and *also*, is someone in a position of power who does bad things (the quest where we grew crops for him is the most clear example ive seen so far). basically - the biggest fat man is a bad person who is obsessed with food.

delaila is big, but also falls into a stereotype - shes a countryside mom (often fat in media), and parent characters are generally easier for mainstream fatphobic media to design as fat bc theyre not intended to be attractive in the same way the younger characters are (or older men, see hodari and ashura). i also want to point out that she reads as having a little more of a curvy body type compared to kenli whos more of a big ball, and that none of the female characters read as having the same type of facial fat or double chin that kenli has (which is indeed why im calling him the only properly fat character). its almost as if that kind of facial/chin fat is considered worse on women than on men or something :)) wink wink.

ashura and sifuu are big, but read as "strong and muscular", not "a fat person". which any fat person will know is a significant difference in how you're perceived. (there is also an aspect here ofc of that irl, masculine-presenting "bulky and strong" ppl are often more positively perceived than feminine "bulky and strong" ppl, and that masculinity being seen as desirable in itself affects why "bulky and strong" is seen as desirable where "just fat" isnt, but this is a sidetrack rn.)

elouisa and caleri are... chubby, i guess? i was happy the first time i met caleri bc she had a visible double chin. but, after a bit of playing, seeing that there werent any fatter characters than this who were supposed to be seen as attractive or even good nice people, that enjoyment weighs little. i also again want to point out that both elouisa and caleri have very "smooth" faces, and mostly "conventionally attractive" features, essentially. they are chubby/curvy, but not in ways that would be considered *too* far off from the fatphobic, ageist, sexist beauty standards of society. they also have basically hourglass bodies.

the characters that we are mainly "supposed" to find attractive in this game - the romanceable ones - range from very skinny to "fit". there is even a romanceable skinny robot, notably not a romanceable fat robot (hekla is round, reads as the fat mom stereotype, and is not romanceable - einar is tall and slender and kinda built like a dorito, and, oh, presents more masculine... even robots arent free from misogynist and fatphobic design). there is also a non-romanceable character that apparently both characters in the game and many players find hot, which is a non-fat man, hodari. i note this bc he's presented as an attractive character, and is not fat.

its nice to see an older(?) female character presented as attractive - tamala, however she is very skinny and with an hourglass type build. this is still... nice, i guess, but in the context of the lack of "attractive characters" that arent really skinny, or muscular, or hourglass shaped.....

another related issue is that a very skinny character, jel.... literally says things like "i havent eaten for 3 days". wow! thats lovely! especially together with kenli obsessing over food! and together with an average size character, jina, also mentioning she forgets to eat. that made me feel gross to read, and i dont think its a good choice to put "lol forgetting to eat, relatable content" in the dialogue of characters who are very skinny. this can be a bad reinforcement of society's abuse ("just starve yourself and you'll be skinny and beautiful!") for people with eating disorders and for ppl who struggle with their weight and with their relation to food in general. but *especially* when the biggest character is, in contrast, talking about how hes obsessing over his sandwiches and whatever (and again - is a bad person and also not supposed to be attractive, while jel and jina are supposed to be attractive and romanceable). this is also obviously a reinforcement of prejudice against fat ppl - that fat ppl eat too much, cant control their eating, are always thinking about food, etc etc, while skinny ppl ~forgot to eat lol~.

all in all, if anyone reads this, i just hope ppl can acknowledge and be aware to the fatphobia that has gone into the design of this game, *just like basically every other game*. im not saying palia is worse than other games, bc frankly, most games are like this, and its gross and weird and i hate that. but its still valid to discuss that problem in the context of one game, without implying that its an issue that only affects that game.

i hope that at the very least, they will eventually add in more body types to the character creator that also represent bigger people, and that potentially, we might see some attractive fat characters as npcs in the future. and no, their faces dont need to be slimmed down compared to their bodies to be attractive! they can have unsmooth faces and double chins and wrinkles and still be attractive! and they can have all that and not be men, and be attractive! and they dont need to have hourglass bodies nor to be muscular and strong to be attractive, either!

[toasterdrake]

palia characters playing minecraft hcs

hopefully i got everyone but if not please do tell me 🙏

jel: spends most of his time dyeing armour and designing banners, has really efficient redstone farms set up to that end that everyone mooches off

tish: builds and decorates the most beautiful elaborate houses in the server. knows every building trick in the book. built the main lobby mostly by herself

reth: thought he was a genius when he first figured out the recipe for cake. never looks up anything and insists on discovering all the food himself

hodari: always deep in a cave somewhere with stacks of shulker boxes (courtesy of najuma). supplies the entire server, trades with tish a lot

najuma: in the nether within an hour, working towards an elytra. spends most of her time there and has an insane base

auni: goes exploring so far the only way he ever gets home is by dying and respawning in the lobby. keep inventory was enabled for him

badruu & delaila: too busy to play rip. their tech goes to auni and nai'o anyway

nai'o: built the farm empire of his dreams, but entirely without redstone so he never has time for anything else lol

kenyatta: plays during her shifts at city hall. helps najuma in the nether. hates that she organises her inventory so well

eshe: doesn't play. kicked everyone from the last server so they restarted without her

kenli: owns the server, logs in sometimes but always manages to ruin someone's project so he doesn't play as much as he'd like

einar: fishes 24/7. what can i say

hassian: lives in a dirt hut and is entirely content with that. spends most of his time taming wolves

sifuu: enchants everyone's armour, weapons and tools. sickass base. hunts for rare spawns

caleri: has a library where she manually documents every book she protects irl as a minecraft book

elouisa: dead-set on finding herobrine. subscribes to every conspiracy theory about the origins of mobs and dimensions

jina: invested in the lore. plays story mode because the usual game is too boring for her

hekla: watches over jina's shoulder and offers suggestions

chayne: doesn't own any tech

ashura: rebuilt the ormuu's horn in the lobby. kinda just enjoys the game and being online with people instead of gunning for anything in particular, but he does fish

zeki: set up a villager farm asap. its the main hub of activity in the lobby. pretty much has every farm possible going actually. charges for use so the others built their own

tamala: essentially lives the life of a minecraft witch. kicked a real one out of a hut and made it her own. set up a dungeon mob farm underneath

[sungrave]

Did we explore nail polish territory yet

Kenyatta paints her nails all sort of "badass" ways and Eshe hates it because she keeps her well manicured nails in a french tip style but no nail polish, just nude well maintained nails.

Tish would have the most delicate little gel nails because she would love the colors on her nails but it's hard to maintain when you are tinkering all the time. Gel flower nails ��� 🌺

Kenyatta paints Naio's toenails because he would love to partake but his hands do heavy work all the time and it would come off too soon and he doesnt have time for anything serious like salon quality nails. They have a little date night where Kenyatta does his toes for him and he gets all giggly every time he showers before going to bed because he loves his little colorful nails

Kenli has a stash of nail polish he uses every now and then but wipes it off immediately after it dries because he cant show this sort of goofiness as esteemed major and husband

Reth wouldnt paint his own nails but would do Tish's for her and he would do his date's/SO's

Hassian paints his unironically and gods forbid you mention it in any way

Sifuu doesnt paint hers but used to do her wife's and she would be horrible at it and they would have had the best laughs at it. She wouldn't do Hassian's because it hurts too much but he would do his in a way to remember his momma

Najuma wouldnt do her own, she thinks it's a waste of time and comes off when she mines anyways (Hodari tried to paint her nails when she was little and it chipped all the time and she couldn't sit still for long enough to dry) Sometimes Auni brings her nail stickers and nail polish to try and be friends and she doesnt know how to tell him she doesnt want them

Elouisa paints hers as a protection against the paranormal, colors and shapes has meaning. Caleri has beautiful but discreet salon manicures now but they used to do each other's nails when they were little.

Ashura doesnt do his but loves seeing and complementing everyone on their choice of color and design.

Jel likes doing his own but Tish takes him to the salon with her to get ✨ professional ✨ designs and he always has some dark but elegant designs each new week

Delaila would love to get into it but doesnt have the time. Badruu got him press ons but it's not the same. I love to think every now and then her family forces her to have a spa day and get some simple but cute gel nails .

Badruu might not do his now but when he was a bard he had the wildest colors ✨

Zeki has press ons, sometimes he wears them unironically but i totally see him as a laying on my bed on my tummy with my feet in the air and spend an embarrassingly long time to try different press ons and mix and match them

Tamala does her own very intricate porcelain nails. 100% impressive and gorgeous but so pointy you automatically cover your sensitive areas in case of stabbing

Jina lets Hekla does hers after Hekla finds out from the humans that they like nail polish and it's very popular between young people. She secretly likes it.

Einar would 100% do anyone's and his as well

Chayne sometimes has a very pale color on his but mostly he keeps his nails clean and pristine so he wouldn't accidentally compromise healing in any way.

Hodari wouldnt paint his (but would do yours) but every now and then when he accidentally slams something on his fingers and his nails turn purple he jokes that's his way of partaking

[proteovaldez]

Here is my least favorite gal. I hate her, but sadly she’s hot. I will not change my opinion. But here, the Tamala stand can enjoy her.

[destinyc1020]

I saw clips of the color purple and Colman wasn’t embodying mister like I was waiting for??? He didn’t make me hate him like I did Danny glover. Maybe cause Ali from euphoria is so engrained in my psyche lol idk. Also I ain’t know Ciara, Whoopi , Tamala Mann or David Alan Greer was in it—I’m not surprised with David, a lot of people didn’t know he was a theater person before he did comedy/movies. But I will be watching this movie!

Yea giiiiirlllll....I said the same thing!!!

Like, I LOVE Colman, but Danny Glover literally made me HATE his character. You know someone's acting is hella good when you literally HATE them, and can't stand to see them onscreen during the film rofl 🤣

Danny Glover WAS Mister.

Plus, I feel like the mere version kinda rushed through a few things tbh. Maybe that's why it didn't have the same intensity.

But overall, awesome film. 👌🏾

[palialaina]

Tamala never ever gets to ask me for another favor. Honestly.

It feels like it's been forever since that whole mess with the beauty cream... It probably actually has been. I don't even remember what day that was now.

But anyways, she sent me this letter earlier

And okay, I knew she was full of it, but I can't help being curious, okay???? So I went out there, and she gave me three bouquets to give to the people who'd suffered that whole... thing.

She did give me some sob story about being sick with something dreadful, and how I'd never look at her the same if I knew what it was. And like... I'm not stupid. I saw the letters in her room when I got Caleri's book back for her. She was trying to find youth potions, or something like that. Or she did find them, and maybe there was some sort of karmic pushback.

Either way, I feel like she probably deserved it. I don't hate Tamala, but I'm not sure I'll ever like her.

Anyways, so I took the flowers around, and Jel was wonderfully dramatic about it. Didn't blame me, at least, no, that was all Eshe. Jel just said he'd never forgive Tamala, but also he said he'd display the flowers, so he's just.. you know, my dramatic man.

Eshe said they were acceptable as an arrangment, and also that she was impressed I had the gall to show my face. Like. Eshe. Honey. I've been showing my face for months.

Zeki was probably the best about it. He didn't refuse the flowers, but he did let me know that he had a prank in the works for Tamala, and I kind of want to be in on it.

In any case, once I handed everything out, I went back to tell Tamala that no, they were actually all still pretty annoyed with her experimentations. She just said they had no taste, and then gave me a thing of the beauty cream.

I locked it up. I'll never use it, but I have to admit, the jar is pretty. Maybe Tish has some heavy duty gloves I can use to scoop that stuff out and wash the jar?

Hm...

I went seed hunting again, and got enough to do this behind my temple. I need more seeds, but it's hard to get the little buggers! I had so much softwood from this... at least I can sell it all, but man...

This is the ass of a fuzzy butthead. I want to make something to eat, and what does Jellybean do? She puts her tail right in the way!

I love her and her sibs so much, but sheesh! They make cooking more of a challenge than it should be.

Also, I've heard some mutterings that the Maji Market might be coming back soon. I wonder how Eshe and Kenli will shake things up to make it different from last time? I mean, I'd love another round of chappa chase, but like... If it's the same market, it won't draw a crowd again, I don't think. And really, Hassian should be able to join in!

I'll have to wait and see, I know, but man. I'm excited!

[hassianlovebot]

i wanted to say thank you for your nice comment on my tamala gifset.. i was legit scared i'd get nothing but negative comments since the majority of fans seem to hate her

oh no problem! your set was beautiful!!

and yeah i get what you mean. i mean,, i guess i kind of understand the hate but some of it seems so,, weird too? like hassian is my favorite character my special little blorbo even, and tamala leading him on and breaking his heart like that sucks no doubt!! but also like,,, i support women's rights and women's wrongs!!! she's hot!!!!!

ajkdhg but seriously even beyond her being really attractive, i think she's also really interesting and i'm hoping that the devs have more planned for her! her using magic is SO interesting and i can't believe some people are ignoring that just because of what happened between her and hassian! i mean don't get me wrong, people are allowed to dislike characters, it's all fiction it's whatever yknow? but i also kind of thought people got past that whole "if a character is evil or morally not the best, that means you can't like them or you're fucked up" like,,, what happened to liking hot lady villains 🤨

[spectres-fulcrum]

Also Tamala gives me Mother Gothel vibes. DDLV Mother Gothel cause I've never properly seen Tangled.

(I actually was drawn in by Ursula. My character will still give Ursula the benefit of the doubt. Gothel? Hell the fuck not. It was actually really interesting storylines. She would do almost anything for Ursula-steal and lie to the villagers even. Gothel got hate and fire in my eyes.

Scar is in the middle. I give him chances but not too much power.)

So my initial hatred for Tamala is not without precedent??? Idk.

[castle-dominion]

c6x10 audio commentary liveblog

les mis

lol typecasting drinking

XD gave me a heart attack

THEY GOT QUADRUPLETS

"she might have had more screen time than nathan"

with all the shootouts & fire THIS took the most planning?

"when nathan handed the baby to seamus it would start crying as if it read the script"

Julian my beloved "julian come on now don't look at them"

"skill set" crying, smiling, sleeping, stop crying when you pick it up...

Terlesky chose to film this on the lift, good for him

This group of people

NF: Seamus, I notice this every episode: your eyes POP

"howling at a moon" & I never wanted to correct him

"I made the database"

& the cobra's CRYING!

Ah two boys two girls

For a guy who's not a dad irl he's really a good dad on screen

they LEGIT HAD THE BABY CRY WHEN THEY HANDED THEM TO DEVER

NF: Ooh quads! Babies: we are not off-road vehicles

SD: Jon Huertas needs 20 minutes then he takes a nap NF: then he needs to get changed

baby POV XD

Good toss & coat dodge

TAMALA JONES

JT: it would be hilarious to say this technical jargon in a baby voice

Usually he can CATCH the perps when he's chasing them

They run by & seamus is in there oblivious

Despondent, good word

the high five was the baby's idea apparently

Apparently a lot of the stuff with fillion in the obs room is ad libbed.

He couldn't put in a good word BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT YOU ROPED BACK INTO THE LIFE EITHER

I love it when they get caught watching

Kristen Ariza, friend of Dever, did a play together which katic saw

straight laced gates cooing over the baby

A different side of everybody <3 thank you terri miller

Richmond & Andrea, the tech ones. Thank you for your service.

Three men & mustang

Boxes within boxes

In a situation where I don't have to go home hungry

Mum: I love Dever's laugh

Ah yes the relationship <3 I love these two. all the writers went "aww"

XD the us post service stole the prop mailbox XD XD XD

I NOTICED IT TOO, THEY WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT NOTHING IN THE BACKGROUND

JT: we'll put a pingpong table there one day I'd love to have a pingpong table there just for a time

still day one! SD: I don't change clothes nearly as much!

"that's the crying one"

there WAS a doll, $1 500 fake baby that you keep dropping, Nathan

Wanna have a baby?

Two grumpy babies, two happy babies, one was grumpier than them all

"bpice of ice cream's going up, by the time you're old enough to eat it you won't be able to afford it"

Ooh that ball is in the writer room huh

JT & his fun bits, glad this guy is here JT: & I'm glad all those years of WB cartoon watching paid off

AC: How long have I been gone? Love SS & MQ

This is the face of your future

I love watching this with my mom

WHEN THEY HIT PING PONG BALLS TOO HARD THEY LIGHT ON FIRE?

OH. RELIEVING YOURSELF. I SEE.

acme wine preservation kit

diaper connoisseur

oh no i hate the lottery riff

baby needs an education & this was edver & huertas

Lol the lottery ball machines didn't even work

Yeah how do they come in that order?

triple six fix

The guests are always so great

Come in, cry your eyes out, thanks you were great

Commercial!

Five down a hallway, sounding like a herd of elephants.

Yeah the background is so hard, where were you from this exact moment? nf: seamus write a song sd: ~background artists~ nf: not now

"We took the baby up in the helicopter that night" "but only for 20 minutes"

I started by touching... I touched everyone in this scene

lmao the newsie store "we turned him into a little white boy!"

scripted parenthetical

Jim, that's the one who got slammed by dever a billion times

[c00kiesandcream]

I hate Tamala (the Palian that broke the wolf man's heart) but I love Tamala (the character in the game Palia)

Tamala would be almost universally liked if she were a man and y'all know it

[fiddlesolo]

Hi! I used to watch castle when I was younger but school got busy and the show got lame. Could you tell me What happened with the cancellation/Twitter thing?

Toward the end of S8 we found out that they fired Stana Katic and Tamala Jones but all of the men were still employed. They claim it was for budget cuts but Stana was the star of the show so I think the real reason came down to her asking for a wage equal to her male costar and the alleged drama on set between the actors. Stana carried that show on her back for eight years and then they just tossed her aside. Twitter found out about it and lost their minds. Everyone attacked the show and ABC so fast that they canceled the show like right away 😂😂😂😂😂