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I was going to post that sam would be the type to say "um ACTUALLY christmas was originally a pagan holiday" 🤓☝ but he literally did it in the show lmao
#so funny bc it's usually characters who are atheists who say this on tv shows...diversity win! your character who prays everyday says it!#personal
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What makes White Collar hold up so much better than other police procedurals:
It was part of the "pretty happy shows with gorgeous ensemble casts and a charismatic weird guy" USA network era but it somehow used that to be about stuff that is so REAL
What is justice? Is our system fair? Can you be a criminal and still be a good man? Can you be a good man and still work for the system?
The bad guys are rich assholes, and people defrauding families out of their homes, and unethical pharmaceutical companies. People manipulating energy supply out of greed resulting in blackouts which are showing *harming a dog,* aka how to show something is monstrous in a pg show written by a white person. Class exists in this universe in more ways than having a cardboard concept of a "rich guy."
The bad guys include police, FBI agents, prison staff, judges, senators. Those people cause real harm, obstruct justice, plant evidence, kill people. It's shown how the system protects them and harms regular people.
The harm that causes the main character to go from wanting to be part of the system, to subverting and working against it, is him finding out about an act of police corruption, brutality, and murder--and what's more, that if he became a cop, that's what he could become.
The harm that causes the main character to be outside the white picket fence is that the system failed his family after that act. What happened to Neal's mom? Why did nobody besides Helen step in? They had to check in with US Marshals, did nobody notice this kid didn't have an adult fit to parent?
So Neal turns to found family. And let's be real, heavily polyamory coded found family at that. But he keeps chasing the idea of a girl who will be everything. But he's got all this attachment trauma so he never does. But because found family is real family, even the people who freaking played the characters are still connected a decade later
#white collar tv show#white collar#neal caffrey#white collar usa#white collar (2009)#white collar meta#also like#not to mention the cast was relatively diverse#there was actual queer representation#and i see so many people coming back to it for comfort who loved it originally#it was fun exciting pretty crime show when I was 18#32 year old polyam person taking care of and being taken care of by found family#living in 2024#after living through 201620202023 that slide of years#it hits#uh#different
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Black fashion on screen, from the '60s to now: always slaying, always setting trends 📺
#Black Fashion#Black#Sitcom#TV#TV Show#Tia Mowry#Tamera Mowry#Mia Isaac#Bashy#Tyler James Williams#Erik Alexander#Raven Symone#Kerry Washington#Bellah#Fashion#Timeline#60s#70s#80s#90s#90sKid#90s Kid#Millenials#Millenial Fashion#Decades#Creativity#Diversity#Media#Cinema
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Callum Turner and Austin Butler MASTERS OF THE AIR, PART EIGHT
#masters of the air#mastersoftheairedit#apple tv#appletvedit#callum turner#austin butler#mota#motaedit#perioddramaedit#perioddramasource#perioddramagif#mota spoilers#masters of the air spoilers#john egan#gale cleven#buck cleven#bucky egan#mystuff#mine: other#love how EVERYONE thought this was a diversion#and it wasnt lmao#also get up you loony shouldnt have been funny but it was lol
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Are you a hot young white sensitive man comfortable skipping between straight and gay roles to show you have range? Then you might be Hollywood/the internet new obsession!
Not complaining but… let’s try to put some Black, Brown and Asian people on this list next year?
#movie#film#tv#hollywood#internet boyfriend#drew starkey#harris dickinson#timothée chalamet#josh o'connor#mike faist#kit connor#andrew scott#paul mescal#jeremy allen white#barry keoghan#Oscars#golden globes#sag awards#bafta#celebrity#Diversity#Hollywood blind spot#Like I wish after the success of moonlight we could gotten more sensitive black man#moonlight#also Steven Yuen in beef#Beef
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i'm so happy you brought back up the topic of rick's shitty writing of anyone even remotely non white / "white passing"
with that being said, do you think the shitty script he gave to annabeth in the show has to do with him just being deeply uninterested in adapting his story to include characters of color? bc it seems like once rick encounters a character that cannot be easily erased all ethnic or racial identity of to fit them into an usamerican specifically white ass narrative, he gets lost.
i just keep thinking how the only thing that "changed" about annabeth as presented in the show was her race but her plot relevance and her characterization got downgraded severely. meanwhile percy, whiter than before (wheres the mediterranean god look......................................), got half her functions. like i just look at rick in context and i wonder if he just gives so little fuck about characters of color he cant even write a decent character arc for an adaptation of a very established persona
thoughts? thank u!
I wouldn't be surprised if it's Rick (and the writer's room, since it actually seems Rick isn't all that heavily involved if much at all with the script itself based on some interviews) just has internal biases that he refuses to reflect on. It would be a consistent trend with the uptick in offensive writing in the books themselves (see: the troglodytes in general, all the Jewish kids in CHB being in Hermes cabin, etc etc). Rick seems to want to engage with these topics but refuses to actually assess how he's approaching it and his own biases while also overemphasizing his engagement with the topics. It's a kind of big talk/words vs actions type thing to me.
[this got a wee bit long so throwing it under a cut]
I was having a couple of conversations about this topic recently - one being group reading/discussion of WottG and how, allegedly, the slightly different characterizations in that book are inspired by the actors in the show. Annabeth is repeatedly and frequently described as motherly and maternal in the book, plus some other misc characterizations that make you tilt your head and go "Wait, what about Leah made you want to write Annabeth this way?" and concerns about it leaning into stereotypes. (It's also strange, because in the show Sally is MUCH more aggressive and less maternal, and this is painted like it's supposed to be a girlboss thing cause her being too soft and motherly was too weak or something? But now book Annabeth is now being described as all soft and maternal??? What. What is happening.)
Another conversation that i had with my therapist (cause we talk about pjo a lot lol) and later repeated and discussed more with other folks on discord more specifically regarding the show was a lot of discussion about the casting. Particularly casting choices and how the writing either is refusing to take casting into consideration to respectfully approach how things would be changed to avoid problems or are actively changing the script for characters in a way that is potentially if not downright offensive. Clarisse is the number one example i bring up because a lot of people say that the reason a plus sized actress wasn't cast for her was to avoid the "fat bully" trope. The thing is, there is ALSO a POC bully trope that is just as bad if not worse, so if they were actually taking offensive tropes into consideration one would expect them to avoid that too (especially since Percy was cast as a pasty white boy - which just makes it all look worse)? (Also other plus-sized characters like Dionysus and Gabe were also cast as skinny, same with Tyson. So it just seems like they don't want to cast plus-sized actors either.)
But also they're rewriting stuff that actively puts the casting decisions into worse tropes. Like hey, why is Percy (a white guy) the one who knows the "real" versions of all these myths and is expositioning them to Annabeth (a black girl), who in the books is supposed to know more than him? Why does he know better than her for some reason and have to guide her? Why is Percy teaching Annabeth about pop culture and how to be a kid? Not to mention stuff like the show constantly encouraging the viewer to doubt or distrust characters like Grover and Clarisse and Annabeth as red herrings as to who the traitor is. Plus there's no adjustments to stuff from the books like Annabeth initially being somewhat aggressive/antagonistic towards Percy, or Clarisse's aggression and bullying towards Percy to try and circumvent those being bad tropes in the contexts of the casting.
And there's an ongoing trend of characters who are antagonistic towards Percy in the books being divided into two groups: those who continue to be antagonistic towards Percy in the show, or those who are tweaked to suddenly become kinda silly-goofy and significantly less threatening. Gabe, Dionysus, Ares, and Hades are all examples of characters that should be antagonistic towards Percy but are softened SIGNIFICANTLY and played for laughs in the show. Echidna is played as a twist antagonist because she initially because she approaches the kids as very sweet and helpful. And they're all cast as white! Meanwhile other characters like Clarisse, Luke, Zeus, etc, are still antagonistic towards Percy (plus also like Annabeth initially and again, Grover being painted as a major red herring). Plus some new additions like Hermes, Mr. Lin Manuel Miranda himself, being wholly introduced into the plot when he's not supposed to appear until book 2, and all he does is sabotage the quest. Like, it's weird! That's a weird writing decision!!!! I get wanting to get that sweet sweet LMM cameo money, but, why is Hermes an antagonist here???????? he's not even supposed to be here yet!.
We also have stuff like Poseidon (who, like many of the god/major kid pairings so far seems to have been cast to match each other appearance-wise) saving the day for Percy and being this weirdly good dad, versus the books where we get the iconic "I am sorry you were born" line and Percy and Poseidon's tension is part of their arcs. Notably, Poseidon does this by ceding to Zeus, who is actively about to start a war. While Gabe is rewritten to be a total loser, Sally is MUCH more aggressive and her yelling and screaming at young Percy is supposed to be sympathetic for some reason? If Gabe were acting like Sally does in the show, he would actually be significantly more like his book counterpart! The show is making active decisions to paint these characters the way they do!
Admittedly, part of it may just be they got overzealous with their casting (not inherently a bad thing! diverse casting is good!) and then proceeded to not consider how that casting affects the way the characters are perceived. It also doesn't bode well for certain guesses we can make going further into the show - Thalia is very at odds with Percy initially. She's a very aggressive character. They fight a lot! Also Annabeth's description already implies that they're tweaking Thalia's character to be more "tough love" versus the books where she's significantly more of a bleeding heart when she first meets Annabeth. Like, I'm very happy about Thalia's casting, her actress seems amazing, but also I'm VERY concerned with how they're going to approach her character to make sure it doesn't end up wildly offensive. Athena is similar - we can guess based on casting decisions so far that they're going to try and cast Athena as similar in appearance to Annabeth/Leah. The show has already painted Athena has antagonistic and uncaring towards her daughter. If projected trends continue, these things are not gonna be great.
And the show does seem to rarely want to engage with these topics - like the scene with the cop in the train. You can tell what they wanted to address by having Annabeth be the one to confront him. The thing is they were too cowardly to actually have that conversation! They paint the kids as being unreasonable and getting unnecessarily upset when they aren't directly being accused of destroying a room, therein painting the cop as the one in the right in that situation. The implication seems to be a little bit they were going for "Oh, this is Annabeth's hubris getting them into trouble" but. that's such a bad way to do it! That's like the worst way you could have done it! (This is also a trend in books from HoO onwards, more or less - Rick tries to engage with certain topics, often using characters of specific demographics, and then proceeds to do a really bad job of it.)
There are also some aspects that are just like - in the books, Luke being a middle-class blond-haired blue-eyed pretty white boy is relevant! Because the fact that he has privilege from that particularly in how he's perceived is part of how he came to where he is and why he acts the way he does. Percy not having those same privileges, and having aspects like constantly inherently being labeled as a trouble-maker just based on his atypical (neurodivergent) behavior and coming from a lower socioeconomical background play heavily into his character!!! Percy being both a poor and disabled kid (and implied potentially POC) plays DIRECTLY into why he feels so strongly about standing up for other disenfranchised kids (in SoM, explicitly including other disabled kids and kids of color). It directly relates to his experiences and standing up for kids who are like him because he didn't have that, versus Luke whose perceptions and goals are very self-oriented. Now, in the show, we've essentially swapped Percy and Luke's appearances, and that paints a very different narrative. And that's important to acknowledge!
#riordanverse#pjo#pjo tv#pjo tv crit#rr crit#Anonymous#ask#wottg#< for some minor discussion of Annabeth in the recent book#racism //#percy jackson#< tagging percy but not gonna tag everybody else cause i mentioned like half the cast lmao >->o#this is an early morning ramble so forgive if it's not super well put together#it's very aggravating though because. like. the casting is GOOD for the most part (sighs deeply at Tyson)#(im sure his actor is fine or whatever but i will eternally be mad about the disability erasure with him)#the actors are GOOD! theyre good at their jobs! and particularly the kids seem to know their characters VERY well!#and the amount of diversity we're getting is really nice! it's really cool that the show is very diverse!#but the script is SO BAD!!!! it shouldn't be on the actors to make up for how bad the script is!#especially with how it's painting characters offensively!#im sure a lot of it isnt intentional but that doesnt excuse that it DOES exist#long post //#< lots of long posts the past couple of days lmao
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about interests#submitted dec 16#representation#media#tv shows#movies#representation in media#diversity
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Carina DeLuca | Grey's Anatomy -Season 14 Episode 14
#greys anatomy#carina deluca#stefania spampinato#greys abc#my gifs#Carina on greys#filmtv#tvandfilm#tvfilmsource#filmtvdaily#dailytvfilmgifs#cinematv#tvedit#tv shows#tv series#I'm posting her eps in order but completely skipped this one...#probably bc I hate the quality#Greys is not really visually diverse#so I'm always getting confused as to what episodes I've done since they all kind of look the same
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After watching this first two episodes of the Percy Jackson Disney+ show, my main takeaway (outside of Percy taking on THREE Ares kids with no training and not even being wet) is that Luke was done so, so well.
The actor EMBODIES him. Even before I saw him acting, one picture was enough to convince me that this man WAS Luke, despite looking nothing like him. His friendship with Percy feels so much stronger. I'm already feeling the devastation from the inevitable betrayal. Just. He's so well done.
#Percy Jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson disney+#luke castellan#Also kinda mad about how they wrote Annabeth#She didn't even tell him to guard the area#She just said stand here and left him with no instructions#Spoilers#pjo tv show#pjo series#percy jackson series#percy jackson show#Also Sally Jackson was done really well#And something about the diverse casting really brought the world to life for me#Maybe because with all caucasian actors it feels like another world for me#Because I don't see caucasian people on a daily basis#In fact the first time I ever saw them was this summer at a resort#And then it felt so weird#Because obviously I KNOW people can look like this#But I've never seen it in real life before#It was sorta like a “oh my gosh people can look that soft???”#Cause most Arabs have sharper and harder features than caucasian people
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Lucas tells Simone he decided to stay in Seattle instead of going to Chicago. ❤️🔥 💋 🥼
Grey's Anatomy ep 21x01
#greys anatomy#lucas adams#simone griffith#lucas x simone#lumone#simone x lucas#grey's anatomy#grey's abc#romance#black woman#cute#kiss#drama#shondaland#bw#hulu#diversity#abc#tv show#black love#alexis floyd#niko terho
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Everyone please watch Mr and Mrs Smith I know it’s not morally ok to give Amazon the streams but we don’t get Donald Glover and Maya Erskine to be sickos together for one more season I’ll perish
#this isn’t the primary thing the show is focused on or why it’s good#but the racial dynamic on the show i can confidently say hasn’t been explored on tv before and really reminds you why you need to see#diversity. when it’s not done for points but instead in meaningful way#mr and mrs smith
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they're like the powerpuff girls for really miserable bitches
#crewhead posting once again sigh#lookism#lookism webtoon#lookism manhwa#jake kim#eli jang#johan seong#can we get reality tv episodic spin off for them#incredible dynamic they need to be studied inside a laboratory#losers who have suffered every misery you could think of who are also coworkers who are also care about e/o in some fucked up manner#such diverse backstories yet united on the commonality of being doomed in every way possible#lapsed catholic ex juvie single parent at 15... MY GIRLS#also yeah they committed crimes. whay about it#best part of the comic#seong yohan#kim gimyung#jang hyun#lookism spoilers
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People need to start understanding the difference between actually harmful or "bad rep" vs just rough around the edges but still complex and nuanced rep that doesn't quite line up with your own personal experiences or the over-sanitized ideal of what you think "good rep" should be
#just saw someone in their headcanon post say they know it would be bad rep if this certain character actually had this disorder#but that's just it! it really wouldn't! if anything it'd be a really realistic portrayal of the effects without making it a big deal#or villainizing the disorder itself#like yes this particular character has done bad things but never was it implied to be because of those symptoms#he's a very detailed and complex character beyond that and etc etc.#same show gets a lot of bad rap for supposed “bad rep” that i've seen more people connect and relate to and fall in love with more than any#other cause it's not sanitized it's allowed to be messy + real + reflect experiences people usually never get to see authentically portraye#and sometimes that means it's gonna be rough#but anyway#like it's the difference between purposefully perpetuating a dangerous stereotype#vs wanting every “diverse” character to be a perfect cookoe cutter angel who can do no wrong and never gets deeper than a kiddie pool#books#movies#media#tv shows#media literacy
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Yeah those about to die may not have been great on a technical level but i had a great time and they made Domitian a sly evil twink. I love that.
#and it gave me sapphics#and it was diverse#love that#tv shows#those about to die#ancient rome#rome#roman history#domitian
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What we should learn from this is that we desperately need more diversity in Doctor Who writers
#hire more women writers. hire more bame writers#both kate hereon and briony redman are white I believe#but whilst I'm thinking about Rogue I'm getting on my more general More Diversity Behind The DW Camera soapbox#the list of women who've written for Doctor Who is. it's not good. the list of women writing for the TV show specifically is worse#doctor who#the first black doctor deserves if not requires stories written by black writers come one
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I must admit some real surprise at there actually being gay men in the terror. like yes it's a naval ship from the 1800s obviously there's gay men there, like statistically it makes sense. but honestly I assumed tumblr was doing the usual thing of projecting queerness onto every blorbo regardless of canon and had done my typical mental adjustment when starting a show to be prepared for no queers so I wouldn't be disappointed. what a pleasant surprise though
#diversity win! some of the characters that are doomed to never make it out of here are gay!#listen tumblr fandom spaces for tv shows can be uhhhhhh imaginative#(not a criticism i know i love to read queerness into media that doesn't have it)#so when ppl are on their old man yaoi you gotta take it with a heafty teaspoon of salt#anyway#mutuals look forward to more terrorposting when i finish watching it#samantha talks#amc the terror#the terror
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