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Asian History: Clarification on my use of the term “Medieval”

medievalpoc:

Some have criticized the fact that this blog’s url is “medievalpoc”, because I post things from “pre-1000s” up until the 1700s.

A common misconception about Art History is that the “only” way to…

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African American Documentaries »

Well dear readers, I have been watching a lot of documentaries lately (the product of waiting to go back to work) so I thought I would share the one’s I have seen and my thoughts with you. However, the list alone is a multi-page word document (when I commit, I commit; Oops) so I will start with the list of African American specific documentaries and go from there:

4 Little Girls (1997)

A Man Named Pearl (2006)

A Question of Color (1992)

A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom (1996)

African American Lives (2006)

African American Lives 2 (2008)

All of Us: Protecting Black Women Against AIDS (2009)

America Beyond the Color Line (2005)

BaadAssss Cinema: A Bold Look at 70s Blaxploitation Films (2002)

Banished (2006)

Bastards of the Party (2005)

Between Black and White (1994)

Black American Conservatism: An Exploration of Ideas (1992)

Black Is – Black Ain’t: A Personal Journey Through Black Identity (1995)

Black Like Who? (1997)

Black on Black (1968)

Blacking Up: Hip Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity (2010)

Breaking the Huddle (2008)

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2002)

By River, By Rail (1998)

Chester Himes: A Rage in Harlem (2009)

Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed (2004)Citizen King (2004)

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America (2009)

Color Adjustment (1991)

Crisis in Levittown (1957)

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty (2003)

Ethnic Notions (1986)

Eyes on the Prize Series (1987)

Fannie Lou Hamer: Voting Rights Activists (2009)

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)

Freedom Riders (2009)

Good Hair (2009)

Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks (2000)

Hoop Dreams (1994)

It’s a Damn Shame: Homosexuality in Hop-Hop (2006)

Jazz (2001)

Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity (1992)

Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)

Lady Day Sings the Blues (2005)

Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994)

Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994)

The N Word: Divided We Stand (2006)

Passin’ It On: the Black Panthers’ Search for Justice (2006)

Prom Night in Mississippi (2009)

Racism in America: Small Town 1950s Case Study

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer (2009)

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004)

Roads to Memphis: the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010)

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2005)

Secret Daughter (1996)

Sisters of Selma: Bearing Witness for Change (2007)

Slavery and the Making of America (2004)

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Soul Food Junkies (2012)

Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)

Strange Fruit (2002)

The Abolitionists (2013)

The Black List: Volume 1 (2008)

The Black List: Volume 2 (2009)

The Black List: Volume 3

The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 (2011)

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (1998)

The Black Wall Street

The Central Park Five (2013)

The Darker Side of Black (1996)

The Language You Cry In (1998)

The Loving Story (2011)

The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991)

The Mirror Lied (1999)

The Murder of Emmett Till (2003)

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2004)

The Two Nations of Black America (2008)

Two Dollars and A Dream (1989)

Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives (2003)

Underground Railroad: the William Still Story (2012)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)

Wattstax (1973)

We Shall Overcome (1988)

When the Levies Broke (2006)

With All Deliberate Speed (2005)

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lazysmirk:

The simplification of design and poetry of movement in this (very faithful) Russian interpretation of The Jungle Books makes it one of my favourite movies.

Lookit that Shere Khan. What a cunt.

Here on the internet. Just for you.

No subtitles but, if you’re familiar with the book, you don’t need them.

Aaahhhh i love this movie bagheera is so great

Now with subtitles.

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Over 6 health recipes!!! :p

I lost count at 450
So, Round 3!

I have 2 other sections of health recipes you can check them out below

Round 1
Round 2
This list was taken from HERE
A list of recipes on my blog HERE

There are over 100 under 10 minute health recipes here and over 200 meatless recipes at the bottom of the list. 
Hope you Enjoy!
Breakfast
Salad Entrees
Soups
Fish
Chicken and Turkey
Lean Meat
Vegetarian Entrees
Side Salad/Dressings
Side Vegetables
Desserts
Meatless Recipes
Here is a list of over 200 meatless recipes for you: 
Breakfast
Salad Entrees
Soups
Vegetarian Entrees
Side Salad/Dressings
Side Vegetables
Desserts

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*screams* THAT REBLOG. THAT IS HOW I AM GOING TO LACE EVERY SINGE PAIR OF SHOES FROM NOW ON SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM

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Sordid Fairy Tale: Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make

embersalamander:

From Springhole.net [x] [x]

Food-Colored Skin

Not only is purple prose obnoxious; sometimes it’s downright racist. For some reason, writers have a fondness for describing dark complexions as “chocolate” or somesuch.

But wait, people like chocolate! What’s so bad about likening a skintone to something almost everyone likes?

The problem is that food-colored skin is a phenomenon mostly limited to dark-colored complexions. And it’s more than just a little creepy when strangers keep likening your skintone to an inanimate edible object. Plus, in some places “chocolate bar” is a playground taunt used to goad black children.

Not a very tasteful choice in similitudes at all.

Skin Color Only Described When Not White

In many stories, the color of a character’s skin will only be described when the character doesn’t have a fair complexion. This typically happens because the writer is white and subconsciously thinks of xir own skin color as the default and everyone else’s as the outliers. Even JK Rowling, whose books frequently focus on tolerance and equality, is guilty of this.

The solution is simple - just describe everyone’s complexion, and all will be well.

Written Accents

Written accents are offensive because they essentially tell the group whose accent is being written that “your way of talking is weird; my way is normal.”

Not only are written accents offensive to the group being represented, but they’re offensive to read because you have to spend extra time trying to sort out what the writer was trying to say.

If you want to write a character who is supposed to have an accent, use grammar and slang associated with people who have that accent. You could also just mention that they have an accent. But don’t butcher the spellings of the words. “He’s got himself in a right pickle, he has” is fine, but “‘E’s got ‘imself in a right pickle, ‘e ‘as” is not.

Things Appropriated From Other Cultures

Many new writers are bound and determined to make sure their characters have meaningful and unique names. I see many people who have clearly scoured the bowels of online baby name sites to find the perfect Vedic/Japanese/Aztec name for their white character.

This sort of thing is a form of cultural appropriation, which is a pretty huge faux pas. For the uninformed, cultural appropriation is when a member of a dominant culture takes something from an oppressed/minority culture and uses it in a shallow, trendy, or superficial way - and there’s really nothing more shallow or superficial than trying to make your character stand out by giving xir an “exotic” name instead of giving xir a memorable personality and story.

Likewise, people give their characters katanas and throw youkai into their stories for no other reason than “it’s more interesting” than Western culture. Throwing things from another culture into your story for no other reason than you think it’s “more interesting” reduces that culture to a cheap gimmick, which is pretty rude and offensive.

“Harmless” Stereotypes

The Japanese plant-lover. The wise Native American. The sexy Latina. There’s nothing bad about loving plants or being wise or sexy, so why would anyone find these offensive?

For one thing, it can create unrealistic expectations and assumptions about these people. Many Asian-Americans find themselves having to explain to people that no, they don’t know squat about gardening, really. Many Latinas would rather people didn’t expect them to be hot and spicy lovers based on their race. And contrary to what some think, Native Americans aren’t really born with a magical connection to the Earth and tend to find assumptions that they are quite irritating.

The Supercrip

There are two varieties of supercrips: the first is a disabled person who is treated as a hero just for doing everyday things that most people take for granted. It’s quite frankly condescending, and many disabled people would thank you to knock it off.

The second type is the character who has amazing skills or abilities because or in spite of xir disability. While a writer might be trying to say “just because a person has a disability, doesn’t mean they can’t be amazing!”, what the audience hears is “disabled people often have amazing abilities to make up for their disability,” which unfortunately isn’t true.

The Mighty Whitey

The Mighty Whitey is a white person (if not physically, then culturally) who finds xirself faced with the task of saving a marginalized group (often as not from other white people). The character is usually male and ends up becoming the leader of the people he just liberated, and he usually ends up with a hot ethnic-looking gal to boink. (Think Jake Sulley fromAvatar, and you’ve got the Mighty Whitey in a nutshell.) The Mighty Whitey will learn the ways of an ethnic group, and xe will become even better at them than the people who have been studying them all their lives.

What makes this trope so horrendous is the attitude of white supremacy: it implies that non-white people cannot solve their problems without a white person to help or even lead them, and that white people will always be better at everything.

Also, becoming a leader of a people whose culture you have only known/studied for a few months - or even a few years - is one of the most ridiculously puerile fantasies in existence.

Getting Mental Illnesses & Different Neurologies Wrong

Want to create a chilling plot twist? Just the killer the hero’s evil alternate personality! That’s called schizophrenia… right?

Wrong. And this type of thing is incredibly insensitive and offensive.

Aside from the fact that schizophrenia does not create multiple personalities, most people with schizophrenia and multiple personalities are quite harmless. Yet thanks to their portrayal in fiction, many people expect them to be dangerous, which makes their already-difficult lives even more difficult.

Occasionally, some people go the other direction and portray these people as innocent or even mystical. That’s positive discrimination, and that’s also bad because it creates unrealistic expectations.

Whether it’s schizophrenia, multiple personlities, autism, Asperger’s, psychopathy, sociopathy, or anything else, you’re going to use a mental disorder or alternate neurology of any kind, make sure you research it. And whatever you do,NEVER give your character a mental illness just to make xir more “interesting,” because that’s ableism.

Trying to Create an Aesop About Discrimination Without Actually Understanding the Discrimination in Question

Most people think they have a pretty good bead on what racism is all about - it’s about segregation, ugly slurs, and pointy white hats. Same goes with sexism - women can get jobs and vote now, so it must be over, right? Ha, if only.

In real life, these people are very rarely overt - in fact, most racism is extremely subtle, so subtle that the offender doesn’t even realize that what they’ve said or done is offensive or hurtful and will vehemently deny the possiblity that what they said or did could have been offensive. (A common response from these people is “I can’t be an X-ist! I have X friends!” Yeah, if only.)

Some examples of subtle discrimination:

  • Telling rowdy children to “stop running around like a bunch of wild Indians!”
  • Describing a non-white character or person as “exotic.”
  • Dressing up in Halloween costumes depicting ethnic stereotypes.
  • Insisting that a woman who does not want children right now will “change her mind” in the future.
  • Asking a woman why she’s still single if she’s so attractive.
  • Asing a woman who is angry about something if she’s on her period.
  • Insulting males who don’t live up to expectations of perceived masculinity by accusing them of acting “girly” or calling them gay.

If you want to learn more about what real discrimination of all kinds look and feel like, I recommend readingMicroaggressions. (Language warning.) Also, check out this handy-dandy list of links to privilege checklists so you can check your own privilege before writing off into the sunset.

Trying to Satirize a Thing Without Understanding Why it’s a Thing

The film Death Becomes Her satirizes the perceived vanity of performers who spend mind-blowing amounts of money on beauty products and plastic surgeries to stay young. Funny film? Yes. But it’s rather sexist in that it treats this perceived vanity as something that just happens to some women for no real reason. It ignores the fact that we live in a society obsessed with youth and that our consumerist culture has commodified it and tries to make us feel inferior every day for not buying it from them. It ignores the fact that the men in control of the entertainment industry constantly pressure women into getting plastic surgery and enhancements, even flat-out refusing to hire women who don’t meet their exact standards of beauty, regardless of their talent.

Killing Off LGBT Characters to Make an Allegedly Non-Hateful Point

There’s this thing that some writers do - they introduce an LGBT character, try to build some some sympathy for xir, and before you know it they’ve killed off this character in a manner that’s reminiscent of that old and noxious “too good for this sinful Earth” trope that pervaded Puritan literature.

This sends an absolutely terrible message to LGBT people - that the only way they can escape the shame and the hate that so often comes with being LGBT is if they die. LGBT youth are at a higher risk of committing suicide already - clearly, this is not a message we want to be sending.

Forgetting Women of Color in Female-Oriented Entertainment

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Charmed. Pan Am. Sex in the City. All of these female-aimed shows exhibit distinctly monochrome casting choices. Sure, Charmed was sort of justified in that the three leads were supposed to be sisters. But Pan Am has no excuse - and there were plenty of non-white stewardesses in the 60’s.

Multi-Racial Groups Always With a White at the Helm

This wouldn’t be a problem if it didn’t keep happening all the time. But invariably, whenever there’s a multi-racial group or team of some kind, the leader will invariably be white. The implication is that while non-whites are good enough to have on a team, they still aren’t leadership material.

The Fairytale Gypsy

You know the character type - they live in wagons, wear colorful clothing, read fortunes, and play a mean fiddle.

The trouble is, what you see in fiction is a romanticized version of a very ugly reality: “Gypsy” is actually a racial slur for the Roma and Dom people. The reason they’re nomads is because racists have a habit of routing them out whenever they try to settle down, and their eclectic fashion comes from having to wear whatever they can get. Also, they’re no more magical than you or me.

Their portrayal in many fantasies perpetuates the myth that these people are fairytale creatures who vanished along with Long Ago And Far Away, rather than real people who suffer systemic oppression today.

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nevver:

Remembering Futurism

So…although I’ve seen plenty of futurist art, I never stopped to actually read about futurism.

My hard and fast opinion of futurism…I do not like futurists.

But boy do I like their art.

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tobediff:

Section One of Part Three!  Some interesting approaches to wrinkles in clothing.

Holy shit, someone translated Hitokaku tutorials into English?! GIEF TO ME

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thorinian: elementary fic recs; All of them are Sherlock / Joan, although a lot of them focus on their friendship. Only a few feature them in a romantic / sexual relationship. Enjoy! FOR THE SANE MAD AND THE BRAVEST MONSTERS ∆ RATED T ∆ 6368 WORDS↳ He sees her, and his heart breaks. A LOPSIDED SYMMETRY OF SIN AND VIRTUE ∆ RATED T ∆ 25610 WORDS↳ “Joan thinks she should be less surprised by his sudden, “Watson, we’re getting married!” and yet, here she is, cooking her egg and trying not to be astonished.” Infants are vanishing, and Sherlock and Joan go undercover as a married couple to find their kidnappers. THE ART OF NEGOTIATION ∆ RATED T ∆ 6767 WORDS↳ For them, negotiation is less about boundary setting and more about upping the ante. PALER THAN GRASS ∆ RATED T ∆ 10175 WORDS↳ Joan tries to date, and Sherlock gets in the way. SHERLOCK GOES TO SCHOOL ∆ RATED T ∆ 21514 WORDS↳ A crime too close to home sends Holmes and Watson to the seamy underside of … American education. MORNING, SHERLOCK ∆ RATED T ∆ 4980 WORDS↳ A morning-after imagining. It happened, but who will recover quickest? Can Joan and Sherlock concentrate on solving the case? WALTZ ACROSS NAIVE WOOD FLOORS ∆ RATED T ∆ 4101 WORDS↳ “You’re wearing my underwear again, aren’t you,” Joan says. A SECRET HISTORY OF SHERLOCK’S SOCKS ∆ RATED T ∆ 3810 WORDS↳ Joan is only able to see something of the real Sherlock after she notices his socks. ALL WE CAN ASK FOR OF A PUZZLE ∆ RATED M ∆ 4395 WORDS↳ “I go where he goes, remember?”
For good or ill, Joan keeps her promises. SOLVE FOR X ∆ RATED T ∆ 5788 WORDS↳ Their relationship  as it stands has one mathematical certainty: It will end in twenty-five days. At that time, her sojourn as his sober companion will end. Either Watson will pass out of his life forever, or Holmes will have to devise another option. THE CASE OF THE MAN WHO WAS WANTED ∆ RATED M ∆ 5536 WORDS↳ In which Sherlock fantasizes about Watson even more than usual, has a few awkward conversations, and finds himself in a very pleasant situation. BONUS ELEMENTARY / BBCSHERLOCK CROSSOVER: THE DUPLICITOUS DETECTIVE ∆ RATED M ∆ 27816 WORDS ∆ WIP↳ A dynamic detective, a disgruntled doctor, and a damsel who isn’t in all that much distress, thank you very much. In which a case of identity involving Sherlock Holmes himself threatens to turn several worlds upside-down, the Watsons are left to clean up the mess, and Irene Adler? Well, she just does what she wants.

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elementary fic recs;

All of them are Sherlock / Joan, although a lot of them focus on their friendship. Only a few feature them in a romantic / sexual relationship. Enjoy!

  • FOR THE SANE MAD AND THE BRAVEST MONSTERS ∆ RATED T ∆ 6368 WORDS
    ↳ He sees her, and his heart breaks.

  • A LOPSIDED SYMMETRY OF SIN AND VIRTUE ∆ RATED T ∆ 25610 WORDS
    ↳ “Joan thinks she should be less surprised by his sudden, “Watson, we’re getting married!” and yet, here she is, cooking her egg and trying not to be astonished.”
    Infants are vanishing, and Sherlock and Joan go undercover as a married couple to find their kidnappers.

  • THE ART OF NEGOTIATION ∆ RATED T ∆ 6767 WORDS
    ↳ For them, negotiation is less about boundary setting and more about upping the ante.

  • PALER THAN GRASS ∆ RATED T ∆ 10175 WORDS
    ↳ Joan tries to date, and Sherlock gets in the way.

  • SHERLOCK GOES TO SCHOOL ∆ RATED T ∆ 21514 WORDS
    ↳ A crime too close to home sends Holmes and Watson to the seamy underside of … American education.

  • MORNING, SHERLOCK ∆ RATED T ∆ 4980 WORDS
    ↳ A morning-after imagining. It happened, but who will recover quickest? Can Joan and Sherlock concentrate on solving the case?

  • WALTZ ACROSS NAIVE WOOD FLOORS ∆ RATED T ∆ 4101 WORDS
    ↳ “You’re wearing my underwear again, aren’t you,” Joan says.

  • A SECRET HISTORY OF SHERLOCK’S SOCKS ∆ RATED T ∆ 3810 WORDS
    ↳ Joan is only able to see something of the real Sherlock after she notices his socks.

  • ALL WE CAN ASK FOR OF A PUZZLE ∆ RATED M ∆ 4395 WORDS
    ↳ “I go where he goes, remember?”
For good or ill, Joan keeps her promises.

  • SOLVE FOR X ∆ RATED T ∆ 5788 WORDS
    ↳ Their relationship  as it stands has one mathematical certainty: It will end in twenty-five days. At that time, her sojourn as his sober companion will end. Either Watson will pass out of his life forever, or Holmes will have to devise another option.

  • THE CASE OF THE MAN WHO WAS WANTED ∆ RATED M ∆ 5536 WORDS
    ↳ In which Sherlock fantasizes about Watson even more than usual, has a few awkward conversations, and finds himself in a very pleasant situation.

BONUS ELEMENTARY / BBCSHERLOCK CROSSOVER:

  • THE DUPLICITOUS DETECTIVE ∆ RATED M ∆ 27816 WORDS ∆ WIP
    ↳ A dynamic detective, a disgruntled doctor, and a damsel who isn’t in all that much distress, thank you very much. In which a case of identity involving Sherlock Holmes himself threatens to turn several worlds upside-down, the Watsons are left to clean up the mess, and Irene Adler? Well, she just does what she wants.

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