azukidere

adumbrant

STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES

adumbrant

attentiondonor

stop depriving non-white actors opportunities to act and get recognized!

out-there-on-the-maroon

Voice actors often don’t know who they’re reading for or what franchise they’re in (that’s what the strike was recently about, so they’d know whether they were in a small first time game or the 4th installment of a major franchise, if they were replacing a beloved voice actor, etc.) so please don’t harass the actors, until recently they legally didn’t have the right to know who they were reading for and were usually not told until months or even years later.

Definitely go after casting, directors, and studios executives. Those are the people making the decisions.

thetidebreaks

Example of a VA not knowing (and getting screwed on top of it).

patrick-padre-ford

They still don’t have the right to know. They got fucking nothing out of that strike. They can know the code name (which might be a serial number or whatever) and if it’s a sequel. That’s it. That’s the extent of the “transparency” they won from the strike.

vecna

As a perfect example of this controversy, if you haven’t looked up interviews surrounding Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross, it’s worth it.

Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.

Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealed that they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.

Like people above have said: Yes, whitewashed casting is a legitimate and real issue. But unlike actors in film and stage, voice actors are often totally blind to what they’re auditioning for. They get fucked by NDAs and legal red tape bullshit. Go after the casting directors and execs and high-position game devs that knowingly make these decisions.

Source: agreedt

stillebesat

bidonicart

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aroace-disgrace

kaijuno

HR: if they work 40 hours a week u have to give them benefits

Big company: hmm okay. They shall work 39

soih

HR: if they work 8 hours u have to give them a half hour lunch and intermittent breaks

company: 7 hours and 50 minutes, it is

portentsofwoe

the law: if theyre employees you have to pay for benefits

company: lets staff through a temp service and wait so long to hire them in they quit out of frustration

lolotehe

the law: You must pay them this and no less.

company: I shall pay them that and no more.

officialweatherwax

The law: you have to pay your employees

Company: then we’ll replace them all with interns

black-geek-supremacy

The law: you gotta increase wages

Company: we’ll cut hours

paramud

the law: you have to give raises

company: mayhaps they would enjoy an extra five cents

kinetic-elaboration

the law: employees have rights

company: around here we call them “independent contractors”

itsthemissa

I swear EVERY SINGLE ONE of my employers has been at LEAST two of these at once.

warmhappycat

Me, banging pots and pans together: UNIONIZE

deceptionelle

UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG.

CEO’s are scum.

Source: kaijuno

fallen-snangel

chipsprites

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kristinareptilina

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stevenryn

gamesception

Source: chipsprites

elidyce

acutelesbian

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life.
Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

fat-thin-skinny

this fucks me up every single time

acutelesbian

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

fr3ight-train

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

thegreenpea

Source: acutelesbian

lizord-lord

Anonymous asked:

Anakin’s hair is hammered bronze, amber sunbeam chestnut honey, end of story

chokemeanakin answered:

BRUH WHAT KIND OF BLACK MAGIC IS THIS 😂😂

HOW DID YOU GET IT SO SPECIFIC I actually think I might cry I’m scared.

Okay ladies and gentlemen this anon wins 😭😭😭 WHAT THE FUCK I’m still freaking out WHAT???

shatouto

hi my name is Anakin Amber Sun’beam Chestnut Honey and i have hammered bronze amber sunbeam chestnut honey hair (that’s how i got my name)

himboskywalker

Today I woke up and put on my midnight black tunic with my black leather tabbards and tall black leather boots and my dark leather glove just to go talk with the council,which is really dumb because they’re just a bunch of fucking posers.

Source: chokemeanakin

antivan-surana

thequantumwritings

Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

Source: thequantumwritings