#same ole same ole

[sleepynegress]

On Greta Danesti...

I'm just taking this time to correct a certain anti-Black, (and anti-Romani) sadly typical fandom troll's misogynoir fuckery in the tag and establishing who Greta Danesti is in canon Castlevania animation lore. This is Greta Danesti's official character sheet:

She's the village headwoman of Danesti a few miles away from Alucard's castle. This is what her voice actress, Marsha Thompson looks like:

It's pretty obvious her character design took cues from the actress, who is Afro-British. In show canon, however, her family escaped from the Roman city of Carthage, which today, is located in the African country Tunisia. Alucard correctly speculated where her people are from while conversing with her, here (s4 e5):

Greta then confirms that her people did escape the Romans, but she now fully embraces her "family" in her village who are "from all over" and the responsibility of taking care of them.

This same troll used the g-slur to insist that she is Romani.

She is not. This troll used an early character design here, to make her case.:

And though it does have similarities to Romani clothing... It also looks like it takes cues from Tunisian clothing and likely local and non-local European clothing of the era with "fantasy" elements sprinkled in, as well, which would match the fact of her village's people coming from all over:

There definitely should be more Romani rep in media as it is so often whitewashed, but Greta is not Romani.

FYI, these women actors actually *are* of Romani descent: Fairuza Balk of The Craft, Oona Chaplin who played Robb Stark's wife in GOT (she's also Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter[!]), and Noomi Rapace from the Swedish movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says her father may have been of Romani descent, as well.

And because I can predict it, as people like to find ways of discounting blackness in every way...

Yes, there are plenty of non-Black indigenous POC in North Africa, including within Tunisia. Another fun fact... Africa has more indigenous human genetic variation among its peoples than every other people on the planet has with everyone else on the planet[!]. All this to say non-white POC AND Black people are indigenous to Tunisia.

I feel I have to say that because there is a lot of anti-Black anthropological fetishization of North Africa. Egypt is a major example of that (see: Rami Malek, an indigenous Coptic Egyptian who self-identifies as African man of color and has likely had to clarify that *often* because people keep wanting to mislabel him as an Arab, but I digress...) And sadly, there is a decidedly anti-black movement to totally disconnect certain North African countries' identities from a continental African one, and to largely see it as mainly a part of the MENA world (it is both kiddies, BOTH). Here is an informative article (linked in the image) about that struggle:

So, this got heavy...but between the post insisting that Greta is NOT Black and the one saying she's not bisexual because that same troll is purposefully and maliciously being obtuse about how words go together... I figured clearing some things up and educating folks might be helpful. BTW, the fact of those issues in the article makes her blackness all the more resonant as rep in pop culture. And hey, poly folks have disagreements, just like the het folks do... -Still bi. I'm gonna end here with two images from the linked article of anti-racist Tunisian protesters (MENA and Black):

P.S. I also side-eye those keen to make her muscular... I mean yeah she wields a big-ass hammer and shortsword/dagger, but the tendency to masculinize black woman characters deserves a hardy eye-squint. Especially, given that the show has *no problem* making muscular women look like that and they DIDN'T for Miss Greta.

See: Zamfir and the Berserk-style sword-carrying Vampire warrior, Striga. Both of whom had that flex going on.

#tumblr gonna tumblr #misogynoir #greta danesti #greta x alucard #castlevania #I hate when wrong-ass trolling info is spread in the tumblr fandom tags about black women characters #and sadly it happens A LOT purposefully #if you don't like black women just stick to the characters you like instead...you really gotta put in effort to actively HATE as a hobby #same ole same ole #meta #one kinda hate ALWAYS comes with another #which is why solidarity makes sense #troll is anti-black & biphobic #so this is becoming a thing? #doing my best to make sure the black girl character tags have GOOD info about the characters #first uhura and now greta #sunday wip procrastination blah #block that “gretasworld” troll #btw the producers say she's not a spin-off Grant Dynasty so...that's why he's not mentioned

[anonkp]

One last San Pedro shoot?

SPOILER ALERT FOR NCISLA S14E19 (I think).

NCISLA filmed in San Pedro awhile back. One of many such days in the last 14 years. I've been lucky enough to catch a few. I must admit I was tempted to steal one of these signs- after all, I figured they weren't gonna need them in a couple more weeks, right? (I didn't.)

There was no sign of Eric Christian Olsen, but I did watch Chris O'Donnell filming an interesting scene with Jere Burns, who plays Pembrook.

Apologies for the poor photo quality- my phone at the time was approximately 200 years old.

It starts at an ambulance, surrounded by cop cars, police officers, and REACT team members. Pembrook is in the ambulance on the phone when Callen approaches and they have a quick conversation.

Then Pembrook gets up and walks to a waiting SUV that appears to be driven by federal agents. He's clearly injured, maybe a gunshot wound to the shoulder?

Pembrook gets in the SUV and Callen hesitates before coming after him. He bangs on the window and yells something to the effect of "Why didn't Hetty tell me?" or "Why didn't Hetty pull me out?" The SUV pulls away leaving him looking frustrated.

So in other words, absolutely nothing new or surprising

Also, apparently Dani and Caleb were filming that day too, so no Densi.

#ncisla #chris o'donnell #no news here #same ole same ole

[teethflavoured]

she finally did it

#teethdraws #frye #splatfest #same ol' vs bucket list vs save the day #frye onaga #splatoon #splatoon 3

[ladykeyleth]

See if I can send a message to Keyleth. We're back. We're at the surface of the Malleus Key. Just trying to find a way to get back to you.

#criticalroleedit #critteredit #critical role #keyleth of the air ashari #keyleth #marisha ray #cr spoilers #c3e92 1h15m35s on twitch #mgifs #it fills me with so much joy that it's been 40 years and she's still the same ole Kiki #I didn't gif it but Matt's delighted giggle at his own shenanigans was so <333 #the man GETS HER so damn well

[beif0ngs]

HOW IT STARTED VS. HOW IT'S GOING

#One Piece #opgraphics #Monkey D. Luffy #Joy Boy #*mine #I'M GONNA CRY 🤧 #HE'S STILL THE SAME OL' SILLY GOOFBALL WE ALL FELL IN LOVE WITH

[splatoonusna]

The theme for the 16th Splatfest is in! It asks: "What would you do at the world's end?" Same Ol', Bucket List, or Save the Day?

It's an ominous theme, but fortunately hypothetical, so you can participate worry-free. This event runs from 5/17 at 5pm until 5/19 5pm PT!

#splatoon 3 #splatoonusna #nintendo #nintendo switch #splatfest #same ol vs bucket list vs save the day

[unwri-ten]

Based off of a conversation I had with an irl

#mapapa putangina ka nalang ih #its on the same level as saying 'sana ol' in 2024 like cmon #teniseeart #cotl lamb #cult of the lamb #cotl narinder #cotl narilamb #cotl modern au #sort of

[tradingjack]

From the firmament above, a blood-red eye looks down upon us.

#entered a fugue state at 3am and when i woke up after sleeping 12hrs later i found this on my computer #probably didnt help i was listening to every devil-related soundtrack kensuke ushio has made lmao #vash the stampede #trigun #trimax #listen listen listen. i love me a good ol goofy pathetic loser #but lord. do i also love it so so much when that same loser turns Absolutely Fucking Terrifying #you really fucked around and now you're gonna find out #manga #illustration #artists on tumblr #drawing #my art #comic #fanart #fuck me up el diablo

[gaybitcheddiediaz]

911 + random screenshots (more)

#switching it up w some screenshots but it's all going in the same tag lol #hen will be next I swear it's just that all the shit I have in her folder is regular ol text posts so they didn't work here #eddie diaz #chimney han #athena grant #evan buckley #maddie buckley #911 buddie #buddie #buck x eddie #911 memes #911edit #911 abc #eddie #chimney #athena #buck #maddie #tpm #memes #mine

[stupjam]

breaking news: the end of the world? shiver sips tea. frye gets a little emotional. bigman assuming his super hero persona bigman MAN? part of the Alternate Deep Cut series. https://www.deviantart.com/stupjam/gallery/89680123/man-big-man-s-alternate-deep-cut

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatfest #alternate deep cut #same ol' vs bucket list vs save the day

[estbghost]

behold, new txt reference!

#he got some slight spruce ups #still same ol goober you all know and love #ocposting #salposting #objectum #object head #oc

[koumori-1999]

hes listening to what i've done on full volume

#very first bayverse fanart im posting and its a shitpost #....its fitting #optimus prime #megatron #transformers bayverse #gijinka #humanformers #my art #fanart #shitpost #you can tell i got lazy with this but its just a shitpost so #...you know. at first the big ol eyebrows were just a thing i drew for TFP optimus but it kinda stayed with my other designs lol #same with the nose

[milyoasis]

hyperfixating in 2 random background characters... what lack of teasers does to a mf.

But seriously, they look way too drippy to have just 10 seconds of screentime x(

#murder drones #fanart #art #uzi doorman #serial designation n #serial designation v #They don't even have names #So I gave them one! #+Lil headcanon that they're siblings #(same eye color + Bryan was the one who said “she's kinda cute though” when Rebecca was on the spotlight) #it'd be weird to say that to your prom date LOL #oh well #silly ol' BG characters at the end of the day

[splatoonusna]

What would you do at the world's end? - It's a tough question! Whether you settle in with the Same Ol', try to live life to the fullest with your Bucket List, or exhaust every option to try and Save the Day… follow your heart!

The Splatfest begins 5/17 at 5pm PT!

#splatoon 3 #splatoonusna #nintendo #nintendo switch #splatfest #same ol' vs bucket list vs save the day

[woosh-floosh-art]

You have a feeling it's going to be a long weekend...

#art #fanart #splatoon #splatoon 3 #big man #homestuck #splatfest #shiver hohojiro #frye onaga #same ol' vs bucket list vs save the day

[beelzebby666]

I write ficlets as thank yous for donations on ko-fi! Pay what you want and send me a request via dms and I'll write you a thing. Here's some examples: 1, 2, 3! I mainly write for Trigun atm but I can also do any of the fandoms on my interests here!

Additionally, donations without requests are also obviously very appreciated. I'm currently dealing with a pretty high car payment and my insurance is ridiculous too, on top of paying for things like gas, food, and what my pets need. I'm trying to look for a different job and into getting back into school finally so any extra help means a lot. 💕

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Bills, y'know?

#fly writes #new pinned same ol problemo