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[ernmark]

Restless ones by loamlands is very ... Jupeter ? I think it applies to both of them. (Mb I'm just projecting cause the band is p gay)

Apparently this song just doesn’t have lyrics available on the internet. That’s always odd when that happens.

#the penumbra podcast #music #femmefareeha

[saviourfinn]

femmefareeha :

He's apparently gonna come back ...legit the shit they put poc thru in this srs made me drop it for the time being bc yah no

oleandir :

ya the actor is on twitter tryna convince everyone to stick with it cause its apparently not gonna be permanent but like .... cmon ... why they gotta play ppl like this

hm.... i really hope they’re going to bring him back and that they’re not just baiting us, or else i’ll be even angrier.

and yeah, culber and tyler are suffering too much, esp Tyler it’s really hard to watch sometimes.

#femmefareeha #oleandir

[princessnijireiki]

@femmefareeha replied to your post “quentin tarantino's going to find a way to have a white guy say the n...”

Ppl are rlly saying tht... Like the politics of the Klingons are more ... Weird mb about bush & 9/11 but literally....that's so ugly claiming they aren't black nemore bc what ? The pigment ? When they literally flattened the nose bridges ?

I don't Agree w wht the article said abt discovery fully though

@pikeisaman replied to your post “quentin tarantino's going to find a way to have a white guy say the n...”

"Aren't black coded anymore" what the fuck they are especially black coded now

I’m gonna put this under a cut bc I word-vomited a little bit but short version: word pp are wiling over the klingons trying to pretend it’s not a racist reboot & that article... had issues.

the main defense I’ve seen for the new klingons is that they’re “supposed” to represent the MAGA/alt-right crowd with their militancy, religious zealotry, isolationism & xenophobia, etc. ... even though tbh I saw people right after the pilot aired saying the vibe felt more like reminiscent of ISIS/daesh, and I saw one person say that (possibly due to the more exaggerated mouthpieces; the prosthetic teeth are more prominent in this klingon design than they’ve ever been before) the accent & intonation in the klingon-language scenes-- which for sure has changed since the sort of standardized tng & ds9 inflections, like there are official klingon language tapes that were made in the ‘90s for nerds to teach themselves with-- sound more like they’re imitating a cliché “sub-saharan african accent.”

even before you take the redesign into account (which is... bad), there’s a lot of very loaded shit going on that very much points to increasing the correlation of negative stereotypes of ~primitive or ~savage blackness with these particular klingons. and it’s a ham-fisted allegory that I don’t think would be a progressive conversation even if the klingons suddeny were klan-coded or whatever, not just bc it undermines the previously established narratives of klingons, klingon culture, etc. over the last 50yrs, to idea of marking that kind of racism or “takeover” as an ethnically marked “other” & an outside problem rather than like... internal bigotry and bias even among “good” & “normal” humans... is not a helpful conversation.

even when tos tackled that kind of subject, like, the literal nazi episode featured human neo-nazis; episodes with aliens having their own racism to contend with had humans as outside observers noting that this was not going to be easily resolved & looks like absurd bloodlust once you’re able to be detached from the situation.

and even though you can argue that the tng & ds9 klingons were racist, too, bc there was a significant amount of brownface/blackface going on (I mean: this extends to tos as well, but brownface in star trek: tos is its own like... essay) trying to maintain a certain “aesthetic” for the species... and not to excuse that, but for one thing, it did get toned down over time, and for another, it wasn’t to this like goddamn... tar baby drow extent that dsc’s klingon makeup is on, and it wasn’t for sake of demonizing the species & the sort of conversations the show was trying to have about/involving klingons. like it wasn’t “they are savage + we coincidentally want the blackest makeup & widest prosthetic nostrils you have,” it was in the context of two series that explored klingon internal politics & culture and displaced diaspora, transracial adoption, rebuilding culture, etc.; there wasn’t a color difference between good & evil klingons, and there wasn’t a color difference between klingon & human skin color ranges to mark the klingons as excessively alien beyond facial prostheses and culture. they still looked like “people” to an extent, and moreso than several other characters did on those shows.

(tng & ds9 did ofc also have other racial-caricature characters that are v. much worth discussing and critiquing, like the ferengi, but again: another subject that could be a full-fledged essay.)

but so tbh if the dsc klingons had been presented as a new species... they would still be an aggressively racist set of tropes bound together in minstrelsy-looking blackface, and people would probably notice more that it’s fucking weird bc there’s no excuse of nostalgia or “reimagining” to slide this bizarre concept under the radar by labeling them as something familiar.

and as klingons, there’s a lot to be said for dsc going further backwards than tos did 50+ years ago wrt making them more caricatured in this racist way, and in so doing, less human than they’ve ever been on both an in-verse and on this meta, audience watching a screen sort of level.

as far as the article goes, I don’t agree with everything the author wrote, either-- though I really didn’t watch dsc after the pilot bc the klingons made me super uncomfortable and tbh... made me feel like I couldn’t trust what the storytelling & production values were going to be for the show, between that and kurtzman/orci still being involved (they took the reins from abrams more with star trek into darkness, which I thought was heinous, personally, and then one or both of them acted like v. dramatic over it when critique rolled in iirc).

but like I disagree with him that enterprise is a direct copy of tos, though that’s what it was aiming for-- ent was like weirdly conservative & felt like exactly the post-9/11 bush era media that it was... I think tng gets a bad rep as time goes on bc of people wanting to distance themselves from pc politics when it did a lot of groundbreaking stuff. ds9 was the bomb but a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge that it never got its due bc of having a black captain and a lot of poc or poc-coded aliens in the main cast, and that tbh part of why it doesn’t get pointed out as the “cool star trek” is bc not only was paramount not trying to make a sisko movie like that, st fandom is as racist as any other & won’t build internal buzz either vs. clamoring for a new tos movie in ‘09.

the conversation is just... not what the author presented it to be, I don’t think, but it’s better-written & better-thought-out than I thought any article defending tarantino for star trek would have or could have been. bc a lot of fans are just at very least not vocalizing or verbalizing... the fact that the franchise has internal issues on top of its issues reaching out to / profiting from “mainstream” audiences, like there’s that lack of critical awareness. and when you get that reality check of, ok, abrams never wanted this & tried to sell a plot about missiles & drone strikes with benedict cumberbatch as a genocidal eugenicist übermensch orchestrating poc suicide bombing shit in “the wrath of khan 2.0,” all dedicated to 9/11 first responders, like... that’s already happened. that fuck up is already here. so then, yeah, that’s a damn good point in favor of giving someone else a shot who actually says they want to be here, and who at very least won’t do & presumably isn’t interested in doing that specific dumbassed shit all over again.

I still don’t want him in charge, but like. it was a good argument, ngl.

#femmefareeha #pikeisaman #replies #long post // #sorry i just like... feel Very Strongly about klingons #i feel strongly about star trek in general bc i grew up with it yk? but the new klingons have turned me off of dsc entirely. #and i suspect tarantino wants to do some shit w. klingons or w. expanding old tos themes that never got fully fleshed out #and i proooobably will not fucking trust him with that either #like i don't... want... this. #but it's a fair point to say that whether or not tarantino sucks that like... abrams was confirmed to suck AND didn't give a damn. #so until & unless tarantino proves otherwise it's not actually a step DOWN so much as a potential lateral move in suckitude #but it will make paramount a fuckload of money in the process. #star trek

[thelaurenshippen]

I'm listening to you hosting the Werk It panel and honestly as a fan of The Bright Sessions it was really cool to hear you get inside baseball with three other really interesting creators!

Thanks so much! For people that are curious, you can now listen to the panel I moderated at WNYC’s Women in Podcasting conference. That was such a nerve-wracking and rewarding experience. Those women are so intelligent and kind and interesting and it was incredible to get to talk about the craft with them.

#answered #wnyc #events #podcasting #ugh #am I a person who says 'the craft'? #is that really what I've become #but that's what it is #I'm leaning in y'all #(I'm v v v tired) #femmefareeha

[spacecravat]

@femmefareeha replied to your post “from your local tired half asian, yes, half asians can look white...”

Also...comic book artists always drawing mixed ppl.as looking white/looking exactly like their white parent....is racist

yep :/ though they also manage to draw 100% not white characters looking 100% white, because comics are often unfortunate

@idiagnoseyouwithgay replied to your post “from your local tired half asian, yes, half asians can look white...”

Its literally So Not Hard to cast ppl as the right race I cant believe this is still a problem. I see it all the time in fancasts/character aesthetics on here too and its :T

yeah, this post was actually specifically about fancasting a specific sw character as white lmao, though it’s a problem everywhere (like rip annihilation, a movie i’m definitely not going to see now even though i kinda liked the book)

#replies #femmefareeha #idiagnoseyouwithgay

[hauntedfalcon]

@femmefareeha replied to your post “I want you to consider two things Rian “no room for Lando in the...”

Bohdi n Lando r a codebreaking old man couple n kiiiiiiiiss

oh my God oh my God Maz was describing two people

#femmefareeha #Star Wars for ts #The Last Jedi for ts

[ajaegerpilot]

femmefareeha replied to your post: femmefareeha replied to your post: ppl out here...

Lol yeah Dev man has good art n all tht but MNM

even then colour me skeptical! i’ve admittedly not seen many screencaps and obvs don’t plan on watching it but!! if ppl like the art thats good but i dont think i do! also when i tried googling devilman screencaps like i kept seeing wonky shit which is To Be Expected but uh.. idk. if anyone wants to point me in the direction of a particularly beautiful chunk of episode thatd be cool but art is subjective and etc! also time for unpopular opinion i dont think nge was all that great Either i like the gay angel but shinji ..hmm.. I dont like that boy..

#femmefareeha #replies #i just dont buy that anything along these lines are that cool and even if they are that they're worth it..... #you know whats cool that anime with that sheep that tells that wolf that he's gonna kill him now Thats Cool #shinji did that thing when asuka (?? the redhead) was asleep and i never rlly Got Into nge but like at that moment i was very 'fuck u show'.

[saintvamp]

Just admit that sushi pizza is an abomination like its not like the sushi can be cooked into the pizza it has to be put individually after the pizza is cooked which like ... That's fucked up

Sushi pizza is... an abomination.. you are right... but we are the country with most japanese population outside japan and sometimes things mix... badly... im looking at you strawberry chocolate sushi

#food #femmefareeha

[augustheart]

Lol same abt mick ... Rather it was a specific mutual who liked the roguefam in comics n it endeared me to m/ck n L3n but lordy flash fandom rlly made me dislike l3n a Lil n m!cks fandom got reallllllll dumb after s2

OH MOOD i used to really like len (and he’s still a lot of fun to write) but this fandom rly ruined him for me and now whenever i see him i’m just :E and i liked mick because i’m also An Mentally Ill but then fandom used him as a tool to be racist and acts like he’s never done anything wrong and uh Yikes

#femmefareeha

[saviourfinn]

femmefareeha a réagi à votre billet “Do you like call me by your name?”

A random ass ask lol (completely unrl8d but its been having sponserred ads on my face lgbt focused podcasts l8ly n srsly.... Too much I can't...)

turns out it wasn’t so random lol

#femmefareeha

[menderash]

femmefareeha replied to your post: testarossa512tr replied to your post: how DARE...

If it makes you feel better you are definitely not alone with feeling like that dlc is shit , I know one or two other indigenous folks who see it as shit too. I don’t vidya game but yeah

URGH yeah that’s comforting. it’s just weird that i know so many people who are into bethesda or just fallout in a real big way but i’ve never heard abt how awful this dlc was. i guess no one talks about it ‘cause it’s just that bad!!

#femmefareeha

[thisisusedits]

OK here's a change of topic, what do you think about the choice of the newest episode to be only in flashbacks? Like the fact that one of Randall's kids was born on Halloween is interesting actually and I hope its touched on next episode (if it wasn't in the past? I can't remember )

A much appreciated change! 

I personally really liked it, I’d love to see more episodes like it, or more like Memphis where it was focused more on one of the mains. Not all the time, but it’s nice to shake things up every once and awhile.  

I don’t think that it was mentioned before but I could be wrong? I’d like to see it touched on again since this show has included different character’s birthdays a few times already so it seems like something they’d bring back up. It’d be awesome to see how they celebrate them in the Pearson (Beth and Randall) household as opposed to the ones we’ve seen in the past.  

I hope I didn’t ramble too much and thank you for the message! 

- Alaina.

#answered #also the psyduck icon? beautiful #femmefareeha

[logarto]

femmefareeha replied to your post “i love corny detective stories so much”

Did u start bc I spam tagged it ?

yeah haha! there was one artist in particular and i loved their style

#femmefareeha #ive been looking for a new podcast anyway

[princessnijireiki]

@femmefareeha I never crossed paths with it in like 20yrs of internet experience… even though what's really funny is I had a brief creepypasta phase where it was a hyperfocus & I read my way almost completely through an archived plaintext database…

but I think it's probably bc I hate horror games??? like I know of slenderman but I've never watched any playthroughs or played the game myself, and I can handle reading about the monsters just fine. but like silent hill trailers are my maximum intensity level there yk? I just… hate 1st person shooters & horror scenario games, they give me Anxiety, ugh

#femmefareeha #replies #i can watch horror movies i can read horror books i can look at art & comics & read creepypastas #but most video games' generic protagonists automatically put me into like a self-insert mental state #AND I DON'T WANNA BE CHASED BY MONSTERS!!! #i need a very compelling backstory & reason to do anything Scary in games like that #i'm just like ''fuck that guess i'll just sit in this hallway 'til i die bc i'm not going in that spooky ass room you goddamn demon.

[highwarlockkareena]

Have you seen the l8st star trek discovery ?

I have! I liked most of it, but wasn’t sold on the explicit for the fapping Klingon fetishers sex scene… What were you thinking of?

*edit wow I’m awake I meant to reply privately…

#femmefareeha #Thanks for asking! #star trek discovery spoilers

[spacecravat]

@femmefareeha replied to your post “@scriptscribbles replied to your post “dear doctor” is officially...”

I'm hopelessly endeared to the tardigrade n this group of scientists who care about this roly poly baby....Michael esp . I was Charmed by tht but I wanted to ff thru the klingon stuff...also the seru stuff bugged me a little but I liked tht nicer csptsin lady implied at least tht Michael isn't concretely the reason for the war

yeah, i think if they got rid of the whole klingon war aspect i’d like disco a hell of a lot more? (and, again, i wish they’d set it after voyager, because the mushroom teleportation makes way more sense post-voyager ANYWAY) because the crew (barring lorca) seems cute even if saru was a bit of a dick this ep, it’s just the dreariness of Dark And Gritty War is not the aesthetic i want, and the klingons are a mess

#replies #femmefareeha #discovery spoilers #tv blogging #star trek dsc /