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artist-issues · 10 months

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I don't know if your still active or not, but here goes. I'm an American born and raised in america. My skin color is brown light. Every time I hear the word black people all I see is dark skin Americans from me. When I saw a character that was brown skin light like myself I saw no problem with it until someone on twitter said it was racist and made them darker. Why is that? Also I hate the little mermaid movie, I grew up surrounded by white people in schools, stores, everywhere. Not once I experienced racism. I refuse to join the whole "let's hate white people parade" and I hate when white skin Americans are starting to hate themselves. Sorry if my wording was wrong.

I think there's probably lots of reasons for people making everything about race. For one thing some people like to complain needlessly because it gets them more notice on social media. For another, some genuinely believe the lie that race matters.

Race doesn't matter. We're all people. Doesn't matter what shade of skin color you have or I have or anybody has. Geez, I don't understand why that has to be said so often.

It's like if somebody had a smaller pair of ears than most of the people in Hollywood and we all went, "well unless I see an actor in that role with ears as big as mine, I can't relate to them!"

That's just silly. It's just silly.

(Now obviously, when people have an issue with a "lack of representation in media," as they term it, they don't normally defend it as "I have to have someone of with some of the same physical attributes as me onscreen, in a lead role." What they really mean is not an emphasis on physical attributes, but an emphasis on a kind of person--a person who has some of the same experiences as them. Ancestrally, socially, ulturally--usually assuming there's some link between the physical and the experiences. Which is also silly. Because one, that's not a good correlation to make, and two, you don't have to have the same exact set of experiences as someone else to relate to them, or even to empathize with what they're experiencing.)

If you can relate to an insecure animated lion in the Lion King even though you're not a lion; if you can relate to a robot looking for love in Wall-E even though you're not a robot; if you can relate to a kid waking up with incredible spider powers and learning how to take responsibility in any Spider-Man movie, even if you're not a kid waking up with incredible spider powers--then maybe it's time to acknowledge that some things are just universal, and more important, than others.

We're all humans. That's the important thing for characters to represent.

You can relate to insecurity, to looking for love, to learning how to take responsibility--because all humans can. You don't need to relate to an outward appearance. You don't even need to relate to a culture--again, you're not a lion living on a ceremonial rock ruling over animals (like Simba.) You're not a robot built for cleaning up a higher being's mess (like Wall-E.) Yet you can still somehow relate to them--because humans can relate to anything that feels human.

Including each other, even when we aren't lions--or black--or white--or brown--or robots--or have ancestors who were oppressed--or have ancestors who were oppressive--

We can empathize with and relate to one another, because we're all made in the image of the same God.

People should stop zooming in on what makes their own experience different and alien from everyone else's, and then insisting that everyone LOOK AT IT in the form of "representation." Why do they want to scream the same "nobody understands how this feels except for people who are in the exact same racial-socio-economic-gender-political-age situation as me!"?

Why do they want to do that? Because being a victim, being different, being special, doesn't make you more relatable. It just raises you up higher than everybody else. It says "give me special attention, without accusing me of wanting special attention."

We don't want to relate. We want to be special.

We don't want to focus on what makes us similar anymore. We want to focus on what makes us different. We don't want to unify; we want to divide. We don't want to love each other in spite of past wrongs or current wrongs and differences--we want to hate each other for those things.

And if we're not in the people-group that everyone is calling "special" at that particular moment, we want to at least be associated with their "struggle" by calling for "representation."

That's the main reason why, I think, people cared about the shades of skin in casting enough to call one another racist.

#Controversial #thanks for the ask #asked #answered #live action Lilo and stitch #live action Nani #racism #we're all just people #meta #film analysis #writing #representation matters #representation #representation doesn't matter

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heymrsamerica · 1 year

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This is different.

#lilo and stitch #live action remake #colorism #lilo and nani #nani pelekai #hawaiʻi

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norel-ravenclaw · 9 months

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New hyperfixation: OPLA!

Yes, fellow rabid freaks, I’m taking writing requests~

Disclaimer: I’ve only ever seen the live action. Characterization may be off but I’ll do my best!

Give me details so I can give you exactly what you want!

((Peek at my pinned post for a couple rules and prompt lists))

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ben-the-hyena · 1 year

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Twitter and Tumblr about completely changing Ariel's ethnia and race in the live action adaptation : "die mad, fiction is fiction, and her origins don't matter in the storyline anyway, who cares where Ariel is from as long as she sings ? Anyone arguing is a racist because life is literally black and white and so are opinions on adaptations, color washing doesn't exist you're just a bigot"

Twitter and Tumblr now that Disney casted an actress who is more native Hawaiian than they ever will be but is not "dark enough" for playing Nani therefore "not a real Hawaiian and white washing" despite she is not white

#personally I won't even watch this movie because I boycott live action remakes but the double standard is pathetic #'i wished Nani looked like Nani' oh I thought they were just cartoons and those who wanted Ariel to look like Ariel were racist ?#because for what I know the Hawaiian aspect of the story (dealing with tourism racism) will be respected with a native in the role then #but omg she DARES being lighter ! look at this point they never cast an actress who looks like the source material (look at Belle...)#so let us just be glad they took someone of the fitting race without checking a quotat list. so what #so lighter skinned POC/mixed POC are not 'native enough' to you ? pretty racist #like i hate Pepa in Encanto but I remember being frustrated people were mad they DARED depicting ONE light skinned latina #lol #tumblr #twitter #Disney #fandom #hypocrisy #them bastards !#reaction image #race #the little mermaid #movie #lilo and stitch #ariel #nani #colors #black people #white people #racism #polynesian #it reminds me of people saying they were shocked a white guy was playing a pharaoh. it was Rami Malek who is Egyptian #or complaining they casted an Indian for Jasmine while Aladdin's place is ambiguous and it could be Indo-Persian for what we know

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owarinaki · 3 months

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What Did You Eat Yesterday? [2021] The movie recap 6 END

#きのう何食べた？#きのう何食べた #Kinou Nani Tabeta #kinoTabe #kinotabe live action #What Did You Eat Yesterday?#What Did You Eat Yesterday #Hidetoshi Nishijima #nishijima hidetoshi #Seiyo Uchino

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musings-of-a-baguette · 1 year

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Okay, I can’t believe I have to explain this, and I doubt I’m the first person to do so, but here we go:

ARIEL being played by someone with darker skin in the Little Mermaid remake is OKAY because, in the end, she’s a mermaid. Her skin colour is completely irrelevant to the story.

NANI being played by someone with lighter skin in the Lilo and Stitch remake is NOT okay because her skin colour and heritage is important to her story. Lilo and Stitch is the story of an Indigenous Polynesian family SPECIFICALLY.

“Oh but you wouldn’t get upset if a white character was played by a POC-” WRONG. It’s just that a white character’s whiteness is rarely important to the story. I can think of two exceptions to this right off the bat: John Smith from Pocahontas and Merida from Brave. These characters HAVE to be white, because cultural background plays a large role in their respective stories. It’s similar to how Tiana HAS to be black.

Stop comparing the justified outrage over Nani being light skinned to the bigoted outrage over Ariel being black. They are not the same.

#tumblr psa #social issues #the little mermaid #live action disney #disney #lilo and nani #lilo and stitch #halle bailey #nani #disney ariel

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captaincassianandorr · 10 months

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One Piece Live Action

#one piece #one piece live action #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #nani #buggy the clown #tw:clown #cassiangifsstuff #**

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absolutebl · 2 years

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10 BEST Low Heat BLs - Soft & Sweet (Safe to Watch with Parents)

Not sure I am the right one to answer since I'm the opposite of a prude but I'll give it my best shot. Please keep in mind that these are romances, so there will be at least a kiss (in most of them), I'm thinking Disney level, so they might also be okay for kids, but as I always say with kids, you know your kid best, you have to judge what they are okay to watch.

1. Cherry Magic

AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho

Japan 2020 - CrunchyRoll or Fan Subbed

The sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. It’s truly great. It’s not in my top 10 of all time list simply because the heat level is too low for me, personally.

No kisses for the leads, side couple kiss is v dead fish.

2. Light On Me

Korea 2021 - Viki

Korea does an elegant pastiche of traditional live action yaoi but all tropes are cleverly deployed to bolster one of the most riveting love triangles ever put on screen… and I don’t like love triangles. LonM strategically tailors classic BL tropes to 2 different semes resulting in pristine pacing, plot, and character development, explicitly serving narrative a-not just to tick boxes. LoM is a master class in this technique. (If you write fanfic or romance you should study this show.) Full review.

Very low heat, Korea in peak chaste form (pre their 2022 “oh, boys can kiss” epiphany). But there is dildo humor.

3. My Love Mix Up

AKA Vanishing My First Love AKA Kieta Hatsukoi

Japan 2021 - Viki

Completely adorable absolute chaos bi disaster muffin falls accidentally and completely in love with his classmate, hijinx and friendship result. What’s great about this BL is that it deals with things like homophobia, asexuality, and one sided affection in an extremely gentle and palatable way. Perhaps sometimes too subtle, but I believe this is a great show for younger audiences, particularly if you want to spark conversations about identity, sexuality, authority, truthfulness, and consent. Oh and it’s funny.

No kissing at all.

4. Seven Days: Monday-Thursday & Friday-Sunday

Japan 2015 - grey

Never doubt my ability to recommend this show. One of the best live action yaois ever made, with perfectly structured angst, fantastic characters and acting, and no problematic tropes (rare in Japanese BL).

The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.

5. Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart (movie)

Korea 2020 - Viki

Set in the music industry featuring a talented singer and the pianist who falls in love with him (and his music), subtle and achingly adorable. High production, low heat, short run, very tame, and Korea, so more of a western style. It’s not the most logical story though. No coming out, exists in the “Korean BL bubble universe” where everything is just fine and dandy with the gays.

Kisses but they tame and no sexy.

6. He’s Coming To Me

Thailand 2019 - YouTube

Boy and ghost boy fall in love, must solve ghost’s murder. Peak pining but also pretty tame, features my favorite sweet but important coming out sequence. The third in my precious triumvirate of unbeatable Thai BLs, that are only nominally BL because the story, acting, and production values are so good. (Together with UWMA & 1k*).

One (maybe two) soft romantic kisses. Nothing else possible.

7. Restart After Come Back Home

AKA Risutato wa tadaima no ato de

Japan 2020 - grey

Atmospheric study in rural Japan meets complex family dynamics built on a romance framework of city boy meets country boy, grumpy/sunshine. It’s beautiful and icy sweet. Slow moving in places but ultimately worth the patience. Full review.

Low heat, low angst, very pretty.

8. My Ride

Thailand 2022 - GaGa

Thai BL grew up with this pulp - a truly lovely and special little show featuring the extremely rare pairing of sunshine/sunshine AKA a cinnamon roll couple. Mature explorations of relationships using one of the softest, sweetest and most innocent friends to lovers vehicles. Kindly, overworked doctor meets broken-hearted motorcycle taxi driver in an “other side of the tracks” slow burn romance. The support cast is excellent, making for great friendship groups and family dynamics. With honest queer rep that adds to, but doesn’t impede the story, and genuine conversation about the nature of class, wealth, and classism, not to mention communication, honesty, and respect for boundaries, you can’t go wrong with this show. In other news, I am a sucker for a single dimple. Full review.

One sweet kiss at the end.

9. Mr. Unlucky Can Only Kiss

AKA Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss! AKA Fukou-kun wa Kiss Suru Shikanai!

Japan 2022 - Viki & GaGa & indie subbed

Mr Chronically Unlucky (another adorable chaos muffin) and Mr Always Lucky end up dating after they meet at uni orientation. It’s JAPAN yet they kissed in the first episode. What freaky alt-reality did I enter into? That’s all they kiss tho, over which I was a touch disappointed. Still I spent far too much of my time with this show biting my knuckles and squealing “THEY’RE SO CUTE!” It is very slapstick Japanese style comedic (light) BL reminds me of Cherry Magic. So if you like that style of BL you’ll adore this show.

Amusing story: I paused mid the most tooth-achingly adorable first date in the entire universe and Viki was like “something missing?” and I was like “MY HEART YOU BASTARDS”

One kiss beginning and some shirtless lust.

10. What Did You Eat Yesterday

AKA Kinou Nani Tabeta?

Japan 2019 - grey

A not really BL about middle-aged gay couple who live together, one of whom loves to cook and the other who loves to eat. That’s it. That’s all that happens. There’s a bit of coming out drama, but hardly really drama. It’s all very repressed but also incredibly restful and calming. Like classical music.

No kisses, some casual domestic affection.

Other Options

A Tale of Thousand Stars (Disney style ultra romantic kissing, implied sex)

La Cuisine (couple soft kisses at end)

Silhouette of Your Voice AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru AKA I Hear the Sunspot

Oh Boarding House (kisses are perhaps too good)

Great Men Academy (GREAT but not BL)

2 Moons original (boring)

His the series (boring)

First Love Again (multiple kisses)

Ingredients (emotional support grocery store commercial)

Love Class (that plot)

Tinted With You (historical)

Nobleman Ryu’s Wedding (historical)

Behind Cut (confusing)

Old Fashion Cupcake (but that ONE kiss is a DOOZIE, there’s a lot of thirst in this one)

Others That are (technically) Lower Heat but I’m not sure I’d rec for other reasons

HIStory My Hero (odd)

My Dear Loser: Edge of 17 (side couple)

The Untamed (censored bromance, violence)

Word of Honor (censored bromance, violence)

My Esports Genius Brother (China is so weird around censorship)

Friend Forever (sigh, it could have been good)

Absolute BL 1 & 2 (parody, not a story)

DNA Says Love You (very complex, slow start)

Bad Buddy (bully, forced outing)

Bite Me (boring af)

Love Sick (side character issues also v long)

Nitiman (poor ending)

Given (terrible singing)

SOTUS (bully)

2gether (I have issues with Green)

Mr Heart (stalker)

Color Rush (suicide)

Where Your Eyes Linger (whipping boy)

Puppy Honey (side couple)

There is A LOT of low heat stuff. It’s way more common than high heat.

More Like This:

BL series to get my very conservative, very religious mother to watch? (PGish: sweet & clean)

Heat & Angst in BL + Terms Explained

Why Such A Limited Range of Sex Acts in BL?

The opposite: HIGH HEAT BL and 11 BLs with the BEST Chemistry

Recs are dated Aug 2022 no responsible for BLs airing after that date. But please do rec in comments.

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paddysnuffles · 1 year

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ellynneversweet · 1 year

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Look the Disney live action remakes are, as a general rule, not even worth acknowledging, and there’s something wrong with adults who take the time to argue about them, but I didn’t expect Netflix to come out swinging with a steel chair.

#for those who have missed it #there’s going to be a live action Lilo and Stitch for some reason #Disney has made a probably tone deaf casting choice for Nani (ie an indigenous Hawaiian actress who seems kinda light skinned)#(it’s tough to tell because depending on the photos she’s clearly someone who tans easily)#anyway #the people who object to this and the people who objected to casting a black Ariel are fighting #‘mermaids aren’t real though!’ was winning right up until Netflix dropped promo stuff for a Cleopatra doco #featuring a Cleopatra who is VERY MUCH not Macedonian Greek #Twitter reaching dangerously high levels of representation discourse

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artist-issues · 1 year

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Once More For the People in the Back:

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the evils of colonization.

It’s about a literal alien monster with no home coming to a planet and town where he doesn’t belong and being adopted as one of their own. Even after he destroys everything they love and build. Spin that into a metaphor for how terrible colonization is, if you can.

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the hardships people with dark skin inherently face.

It is about the hardships of people who lose family members and have to adjust to loving someone new. Nani is struggling to keep Lilo because she’s an 18 year-old orphan trying to play mom to a little sister who just needs someone to be her friend. She’s losing job opportunities because Lilo is trying to accept a destructive monster into their family with destructive results, not because she has dark skin.

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the evils of racism.

Lilo & Stitch is about an alien learning the meaning of family. Lilo explicitly demonstrates a hatred of tourists (not white people, just tourists, because Cobra Bubbles is implied to be a tourist in the same scene.) in one scene and that scene was deleted because it took the focus away from other scenes which made the point of the film more clearly. If a bad light is put on tourism, it’s to emphasize that Lilo has a problem with people leaving—”I remember everyone that leaves; I need someone who won’t run away; You came back; nobody gets left behind.”

And finally, drumroll please:

-Lilo and Stitch is NOT about celebrating diversity.

Celebrating diversity is a fine message. It’s just not the one Lilo & Stitch is delivering. You’re thinking of Ice Age 4, where all kinds of animals make up a family; or Zootopia, where all all kinds of people can perform different jobs in society.

No. Lilo & Stitch is about what family means, and that is: unconditional love. Loving you at your worst and helping you to be better.

The fact that the social worker is black, or male, has nothing to do with that main point. The fact that the Grand Councilwoman is female has nothing to do with the main point. The fact that one alien is skinny and one is fat has nothing to do with the main point. The fact that Nani and Lilo have dark skin has nothing to do with the main point—just like the fact that Stitch is blue has nothing to do with the main point.

Those factors might help in a peripheral way—(blue is the color the human brain associates with supernatural creatures; dark skin = Hawaiian = believably being brought up on the philosophy of ‘Ohana) —but you could still change any one of those things and it would remain Lilo & Stitch.

By contrast, with a film that is actually about celebrating diversity like Ice Age 4, if you change the hedgehog into another mammoth you lose the point of the story. Or in Zootopia, if you make Judy and Nick both bunnies you lose the point of the story. Diversity is a fine point. Whatever. But it’s not the point of Lilo & Stitch.

FORGET what you are hearing on Twitter in relation to the Live Action Movie. You can say what you want about how much you wish a certain shade of skin were representing the characters you love.

But if, to make your point, you try to argue that the original had ANYTHING to do with specific shades of color, demonstrating colonization and racism evils, or representing the hardships of POCs trying to get a job, you are being disingenuous. Or worse, you’re just tossing the real point of the movie carelessly over one shoulder so you can wedge a cause that it was never championing in where it doesn’t fit.

Try and make your point about how skin color and representation matters all you want, but you can’t honestly do it using the example the original movie set. The point of the original movie is just bigger and better than “skin colors should be given more attention.”

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optimisticslytherin · 1 year

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Yo its wild how people are justifiable calling out the colourism in the casting of Nani, by then trying to imposing the colonisers tool of blood quantum on Sydney and saying her being a 1/4 hawaiian means she isnt hawaiian enough. F*ck off with that shit. Among indigenous peoples, blood quantum was used as a tool to "breed" out the native population, a form of genocide to eradicate and assimilate.

For Maori, it doesnt matter if you are a blonde, blue eyed white girl, if you know your whakapapa, if you know where your people came from, where your land is. Your Maori.

I genuinely believe Sydney should step back from this role and push for a darker skinned Native Hawaiian to take the role, because Nani's existence as a dark skinned Hawaiian with features that are unequivocally native, played an integral part of how she lived and experienced life through the lens of colourism and how that colourism made her life harder. Darker skinned indigenous women are more likely to get there kids taken away by social services, are more likely to have reports made against that by "do good" neighbours, find it harder to get and keep jobs and then add being the single parent of a child and that becomes even harder.

#Nani #Lilo and stitch #live action #blood quantum #colourism

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gale-gentlepenguin · 1 year

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Plus one of the main implicit messages of Lilo and Stitch is how destructive colonization and tourism is to the Hawaiian natives. So Nani's casting alone has already ruined the movie since it seems like they're just gonna make her a Hawaiian islander instead.

What’s Nani’s casting? I don’t know what happened there.

But what I do know is I’m pissed because they removed Cobra bubbles.

#lilo and stitch #lilo and stitch live action #what did they do to Nani?#cobra bubbles

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oscarbeenwild · 1 year

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Be so fucking for real

#lilo and stitch #lilo and stich gif #lilo supremacy #nani kuwanu kao #lilo and stitch live action #disney edit #disney #disney live action #disney lilo and stitch #movieblr #usertelevision #useroptional #userrobin #whitewashing #colorism

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owarinaki · 3 months

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What Did You Eat Yesterday? (2021) The Movie recap

#What Did You Eat Yesterday?#What Did You Eat Yesterday #live action #movie #きのう何食べた？#きのう何食べた #Kinou Nani Tabeta #Kinou Nani Tabeta live action #kinoTaba live action #nishijima hidetoshi #hidetoshi nishijima #kakei shiro #yabuki kenji #kenji x shiro #Seiyo Uchino

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theblueeyedbelle · 1 year

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Can’t say I’m thrilled about this casting. She just doesn’t look like Nani.

What are your thoughts? Lots of arguments that colorism is at play here and on principal I’d have to agree, but I’m also white and not here to gatekeep what it means to be “Hawaiian enough” for this role. I’d much rather hear from native Hawaiians on this topic.

Overall, I (like many if not most) am just over these cheap live action remakes.

#disney #lilo & stitch #nani pelekai #disney live action #lilo & stitch live action #disney animation #walt disney animation #disney films #disney film #disney animated films #disney movie #disney movies #the blue eyed belle

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