#naomi rise

[berserkerbarbie]

🛒|  All non stage photos of Moeko in ザ・タカラヅカ VI 宙組特集

[rottengurlz]

try to be gentle when you are ripping me apart 🔪

w/ @kashisun

[nowritingonthewall]

Happy International Women's Day!

[silsdragonart]

Hiccup!! This time as her dragon self. She's got a lot of power in that teeny tiny body but everything is perfectly fine. Nothing's abnormal here what do you mean she's leaking power? definitely not! Hiccup is totally normal!

[terraclae]

Crystalspine Clark and Nalfina

plus a version without the makeup because I just like it

[nyaskitten]

Arc Dragon of Focus ... welcome back Mask Makers...

[usikuagani]

My bud @mermmarie tag me in this fun color swap challenge! Funny thing is Naomi is just a few shades away from Mikey's color anyway

[agentoffangirling]

as a south asian why the hell did they make aladdin and jasmine south asian. I am so confused. Isn't jasmine's name literally persian

Okay okay so there's a bit of a story for this

And to quickly answer your last question, yup, Jasmine is one of the forms of Yas/Yasmine, our jasmine flowers

So back in the 90s, and still a little bit today, many production companies such as Disney didn't really see a difference with the Middle East and South Asia. When Disney decided they wanted to make an adaptation of "Aladdin" from "One Thousand and One Nights" (slight tidbit here, the story of Aladdin is not part of the original book. A French guy added it in and for some reason, set it in China? One Thousand is a Persian story, most of the stories in there are Persian, so this choice was. Interesting), it's not like they suddenly hired a bunch of Middle Eastern experts to consult on the film. No, they just created a desert-y landscape and lumped in Persian, Arab, and South Asian all in there

This is why the palace of Agrabah heavily resembles the Taj Mahal on a more Arabic-sounding name. Rajah, Jasmine's pet tiger, is an Indian word for king. Names such as Jafar and Jasmine are Persian in origin, while a lot of the clothing is Turkish-inspired. Villains such as the Captain and Jafar have a lot more stereotypically Middle Eastern features (hooked nose, bushy eyebrows, etc [and it's a convo for another day about how the "good" characters don't have these exaggerated features])

This melding of several cultures is what led up to the live-action "Aladdin" in 2019. The creators of that movie wanted to be more respectful of the region, and so this time, they did hire consultants and the like to help ensure it would be much less offensive ("where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face", nice going 1992)

And for the most part, they did that. Except for Jasmine

Jasmine is played by Naomi Scott, a half white half Indian woman, and look, it's pretty obvious she only got this part because she's well known. I would also like to point out that the casting calls for the characters in general once again lumped Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern people, however, almost all of the cast is Middle Eastern, and several of them are Persian (Sultan and Mara, notably)

So while everyone else is wearing clothes more indicative of the Middle East, you have miss Jasmine over here dressed in sarees and Indian-inspired clothing because costuming department went "oh! She's Indian now!" Agrabah is also a lot more similar to South Asia than the Middle East, further deepening this issue

To an outsider, "Aladdin" is Indian. To them, there's some Arab inspo, but they would mostly think it's set somewhere in India or South Asia. That's what the casting and costuming department in "Rise of Red" were working with, and so they just opted to go the whole South Asian angle. None of the actors who portray Jasmine, Aladdin, and their kid are Middle Eastern, they're all South Asian. The clothes they're wearing are very obviously from that region

And if I'm being completely honest, that's exactly what I expect from Disney. Why would they bother to do research for extremely minor characters with two lines? The problem here is what I've been talking about above, is that Hollywood is constantly thinking South Asians and Middle Easterners are interchangeable when we're not. If I see a MENA character on screen, more often than not the actor is South Asian. This is a continuous problem no one from these places wants to see happening, and yet it is because Hollywood doesn't actually care. The more it's done, the more they think it's okay and so they continue to blur the lines between several different cultures

So, on an ending note, Jasmine and Aladdin are Arab, if not Persian, and the idea that we are interchangable with South Asians harms both our cultures

[serqphites]

these are so on a date with naomi core<3

[paintedkinzy-88]

stares at dragon leo. stares at “flying” by cody fry. stares at dragon leo. stares at “flying” by cody fry. stares at dragon leo. stares at “fl

… are you giving me yet another song to add to my Blue Nimja Teetle playlist?

Yes, yes you are, apparently, cuz this is perfection thank you—

[emanuele-fr]

Bought a pretty umber dragon from ah, realized only later he is a Naomi descendant,

Then I asked someone if I could buy an umber/sable/umber, also realized later he is a Naomi descendant,

[azurebolt-fr]

News of how the expedition's been going reached Paradisium. Eir can't help but feel that whatever's coming next is probably not gonna be very good for her

[katanadepapel]

I imagine this ROTTMNT couple in the genderbend version, so I did it!

Leonardo's name (in all TMNT versions) would be Hamato Leonor and Naomi's name would be Noah Mendes💙🩵

Hey, what did you think?

[here-there-were-dragons]

nothing has convinced me my taste in dragons might be bad quite like trying to run a cheap dragon sales thread

[taringill]

OC by: @chicaart08

Her name is Naomi

[nkp1981]

The cast of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker photographed by Bryan Derballa for "The New York Times", 2019

Part 2: https://shorturl.at/epDQ2