My second fancast because y’all know I get bored sometimes.
Yvonne Strahovski – Lorna Dane (Polaris) Jessica Lu – Jubilation Lee (Jubilee) Andrew Garfield – Bobby Drake (Iceman) Rami Malek – Kurt Wagner (Nightcrawler) Rutina Wesley – Ororo Munroe (Storm) Natalie Dormer – Illyana Rasputin (Magik)
My personal view of Yvonne soured greatly after she spoke highly of 3rd Birthday in interviews about VAing “Aya” in that game, but I’m all for fancasts, so here I be reblogging!
Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:
Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.
Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”
Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.
Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.
Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.
Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.
Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”
Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”
My father learned English as his… i think fifth or sixth language? He grew up speaking French and Romanian, later learned Italian and Hebrew. He has a tendency to assume Latin-derived words in English have the same meaning as the words in other languages he knows, or try to conjugate a word in a way that should work in English, but doesn’t.
He also has words in his vocabulary that he must have learned at one time as a translation of a more commonplace word he was accustomed to using. For example, he’s very fond of “conscient”, which is an English word, but not one i’ve ever seen a native English speaker use outside of obscure academic literature.
There is a movie that recently came out called “Woman Walks Ahead” starring Jessica Chastain and Micheal Greyeyes that tells the story of Catherine Weldon, an artist, and activist who painted Sitting Bull in 1890.
The movie has a female director and the cast and production team was very conscientious of how they portrayed the Lakota people and their culture.
An exciting step in the right depiction, right?
Unfortunately, the decision has been made to give the movie a VERY limited (and seemingly random) release with only a handful of theaters showing it across the United States for the next couple of days (July 3 – July 5). On top of that, they released the movie on i-tunes and Direct TV with very little promotion beyond the interviews the actors have done, hurting what little theatrical release they might have had. Which is Tragic, this movie was made to be seen in a theater!
When you have a minority led project that portrays its Native characters as real relatable people and the distributors just happen to decide to shoot it in the foot by not giving it a wide release I can’t help but think… What’s really going on here?
So this is my plea out to all of you; if you live in any following areas and a considering your movie option for the next few days, please go support Woman Walks Ahead! If you don’t but still want to support the film, consider buying it on i-tunes or talk about it on social media! Reblog this post so people who do live near the right towns might be able to support the movie!
Phoenix, Arizona
Santa Monica, California
Washington, District of Columbia
Bradenton, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Southfield, Michigan
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
New York, New York
Solon, Ohio
Grapevine, Texas
Houston, Texas
The only way Hollywood is going to know that we want more movies with positive representation, female directors, female leads, etc is if we support the movies that aim to show it. I really don’t want studio and distribution executives to use this beautiful movie they set-up to fail as an excuse for why they don’t support minority lead projects in the future.
Thank you for your time and please pass on this post!
THIS is what I have been dealing with on a constant basis for the past six months.
In December 2017 I was first notified of my [Yin Yang Rats] design being sold unauthorized on the website AliExpress. I wrote a [Journal] at the beginning of the year explaining how difficult and time-consuming it was to remove. Unfortunately, my battle was not over as I have been chasing down thefted and altered versions of my design across the internet ever since.
I cannot even put into words how frustrating and disheartening this kind of thing is. This design is very special to me and I created it with everyone who loves rats in mind. It is an absolute disgrace to my artwork and an insult to me as an artist to see my work stolen, altered and slapped onto products without a second thought as to who made it or what it represents. Instead of being able to create new art, I’ve had to spend all my time and energy in hunting this theft down, writing DMCA Takedown notices, and corresponding with various legal departments. I am absolutely exhausted. My motivation to draw is lost. I’ve had to spend so much energy just to defend myself and the fight is far from over.
Recently, things took an even worse turn. One of the places listed here – MerchVibes on Etsy – submitted a counter-claim to my report of copyright infringement. The only way to proceed is with a court order. I am completely and utterly lost. My art has been stolen, altered, and sold without my permission and now I have to go to court if I want anything to be done about it. I’m looking to register this artwork with a copyright, but since it’s happening after the infringement, I don’t know how much good it will do. I’m also looking into what to do about getting a lawyer, despite having absolutely no money to afford one and no idea who to trust. It’s an utter mess I don’t even have the energy to elaborate on.
I am not the only artist that these places have stolen from. PLEASE let artists know if you recognize their art being used without permission:
I know it is unfair to put the burden of fact-checking on the consumer. You should be able to trust that the products you buy are legitimate. Unfortunately that is far from the truth of things. Please, please scrutinize companies – especially those online – before you buy products with artwork on them. Be suspicious if the store has a wide and conflicting range of art styles and images. Most of these places are even too lazy to crop off the signatures and copyrights of the artists. And please god if you are a tattoo artist or looking to get a tattoo, it is SO easy to ask the artist for permission or even commission a custom one! I put my artwork online so that I can make a living, NOT so you can steal it!
This is legitimately the kind of thing that destroys artists like me. I am losing profits, I am losing time, I am losing motivation and I am losing the will to even create and share my work. I do not get reimbursed for any of these things. I do not get exposure. This problem does not go away. I do not get to “win” anything. I will probably be dealing with this for the rest of my artistic career. If I want to continue to put up a fight against intellectual property theft, it is likely going to get expensive. I don’t want to resort to begging, but if anyone would like to help support me and the continued creation of my artwork, please consider donating via [Paypal] or [Ko-fi], or making a purchase from my [Etsy], [RedBubble], or [TeePublic] stores. Thank you ♥
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Please signal boost this, lets protect the artists! This is absolutely outrageous!!
This is so infuriating. I can only imagine what it must be like for OP and other artists having their art stolen. Definitely report back to the artist if you see their art (even if it’s been altered) used anywhere that you think my not be their own doing.
I was in a comic book store tossing up between two Captain America comics, when a neck beard came up to me and asked “first comic? no clue obviously” and I instinctually replied “first time speaking to a girl? no clue obviously”
I’m gonna work at it until this is my instinctual reply to this shit.
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