Too Nasty About Characters

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just a heeeaaads up that some of these art commission scammers are upgrading their technique

The only time someone should be mentioning their fanart in your comments section is when they are

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Yep, happened to me. It was just legitimate-sounding enough for me to follow up on the first comment. As soon as I got the second, insta-block.

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This director Bassam Tariq and Mahershala Ali were supposed to do the Blade movie together. Blade has been shelved by Disney/Marvel (fuck them), so Bassam and Mahershala made this film together instead. Mahershala putting all those wasted years martial arts and sword training to use.

On this day, 6 August 2011, two days after London police killed Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old Black father of six, relatives and local residents marched on Tottenham Police Station. Police then assaulted a demonstrator which sparked a violent response from local residents. A multiracial crowd set fire to two unoccupied police cars, clashes with police took place, and people began to expropriate goods from shops and set fires. Later that night, looting spread to nearby chain stores and shopping centres. The following day, looting and attacks on police began breaking out across the capital, in areas such as Enfield, Islington, Walthamstow, Hackney, and the West End. By Monday, there was rioting and looting across London - mostly of chain stores, but also of some small businesses. Disturbances also began in other cities including Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, and Bristol, with numerous shops set on fire, until dying down on Tuesday. A BBC reporter asked women looters why they were targeting “your own people”. The women replied: “It's the rich people, it's the rich people, the people who have got businesses and this is why all of this has happened, because of the rich people. So we were just showing the rich people we can do what we want.” There was huge outrage at the rebellion from the media, which contributed to a severe crackdown by authorities. Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, arranged for courts to be opened 24-hours a day to process cases. And the rush trials resulted in sentences described as "grossly disproportionate" by a later report. 3000 people were prosecuted, and two thirds of defendants were sentenced to a period of imprisonment averaging over 17 months. People convicted of comparable crimes the previous year received average sentences of just 3.7 months. For example, one mother of two was jailed for five months for being given a pair of shorts looted by a friend, and two young men were jailed for four years each for posts on Facebook. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10596/mark-duggan-riots

On this day, 3 August 2014, the Israeli military struck the street in front of the Rafah Preparatory Boys School A in Gaza. The school, which was run by the United Nations, was sheltering around 3000 people during an Israeli invasion. The UN had contacted the Israeli military to warn them about its location 33 times, including one occasion just an hour before the attack. Robert Turner, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza said: “They know where these shelters are; how this continued to happen, I have no idea”. Eyewitness told Human Rights Watch what they saw: “I saw dead bodies all over the place, and wounded, mainly children, and the ice-cream sellers. One of the ice-cream sellers, Abu Harb, his body took the most of the shrapnel. He was an older man. He was always there with his cart.” It was one of multiple military attacks but Israeli forces against UN-run schools during the invasion. Learn more about Palestinian history in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/palestine

gonna tell my kids this was doctor who

I dont go here but i happened to watch Backrooms and... it's got me thinking about Othello. Clark's character struck me as, like Othello, deeply sympathetic even as he is driven to unreasonable violence. This is 100% on the strength of Chiwetel Ejiofor's acting (no surprise for me to learn that he's played Othello twice), and very little to do with the writing. For me personally, if Clark had been a white man I would have hated him.

My most generous read of this movie is: Mary is more of an antagonist than she appears. Making Clark role-play with her because they "have a few minutes left" in their session is unethical at best and i was deeply suspicious of her at the beginning and expected her to become more openly villainous as the movie went on. In the Othello parallel, Iago is not just the Backrooms (as metaphor for trauma/isolation/capitalism/white supremacy) but also Mary, even if she doesn't have Iago's explicit intention. White people often make things worse by trying to "fix" things they don't understand.

I dont go here but i happened to watch Backrooms and... it's got me thinking about Othello. Clark's character struck me as, like Othello, deeply sympathetic even as he is driven to unreasonable violence. This is 100% on the strength of Chiwetel Ejiofor's acting (no surprise for me to learn that he's played Othello twice), and very little to do with the writing. For me personally, if Clark had been a white man I would have hated him.