This fandom!
I have fan bracelets finished for Annie and Katniss. I started one for Rue, but my eyes decided they'd had enough for the day, so I'm planning to finish that one this coming week. That's the good news.
The bad news is that the fandom is racefailing again. Remember the racefail from the first movie, when Katniss and Prim and their father, and the rest of the people from the Seam by extension, couldn't be part Native American because they had light-colored eyes and Prim had blond hair like her mother? And Cinna couldn't be black because he had green eyes? And Rue couldn't be black because she reminded Katniss of Prim, even though the text specified that Rue's coloring was dark? And no characters could be Asian because the West Coast fell into the ocean and it is apparently impossible for Asian people to live anywhere else in North America? Bad times! Also, does anyone remember that I'd always pictured the people from District 4 as Creole or otherwise multiracial but resigned myself to seeing them played by white people in the movie because of the whitewashing of the Seam and the fan outrage over that not being enough whitewashing for some people? Well, some of the non-failing fans have started campaigning for a biracial actor with stunning green eyes to play Finnick. This guy fits the description amazingly well. And the racefailers insist that he can't play Finnick because . . . well, because they have re-written Finnick's description in their own minds to change "sea green" eyes to blue and "bronze" hair to "blond" or "bright red" and skin described as "tan" and "golden" to "tanned" or "pale" or in at least one case "freckled." Also, District 4 people apparently have to be Irish because their names sound Irish, and they can't possibly be less than 100% pure Irish even though the author herself stated that everybody is mixed by today's standards and non-Irish people never get named Annie or Margaret. Ugh! This is getting to be worse than the Last Airbender nonsense for revealing white US fans' willful obtuseness about defaulting to white.
Anyway, I need to concentrate on the fact that Mags, whom I do not and never did imagine to be white, will have to be in the second movie. FUCK YEAH, MAGS!!!
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The bad news is that the fandom is racefailing again. Remember the racefail from the first movie, when Katniss and Prim and their father, and the rest of the people from the Seam by extension, couldn't be part Native American because they had light-colored eyes and Prim had blond hair like her mother? And Cinna couldn't be black because he had green eyes? And Rue couldn't be black because she reminded Katniss of Prim, even though the text specified that Rue's coloring was dark? And no characters could be Asian because the West Coast fell into the ocean and it is apparently impossible for Asian people to live anywhere else in North America? Bad times! Also, does anyone remember that I'd always pictured the people from District 4 as Creole or otherwise multiracial but resigned myself to seeing them played by white people in the movie because of the whitewashing of the Seam and the fan outrage over that not being enough whitewashing for some people? Well, some of the non-failing fans have started campaigning for a biracial actor with stunning green eyes to play Finnick. This guy fits the description amazingly well. And the racefailers insist that he can't play Finnick because . . . well, because they have re-written Finnick's description in their own minds to change "sea green" eyes to blue and "bronze" hair to "blond" or "bright red" and skin described as "tan" and "golden" to "tanned" or "pale" or in at least one case "freckled." Also, District 4 people apparently have to be Irish because their names sound Irish, and they can't possibly be less than 100% pure Irish even though the author herself stated that everybody is mixed by today's standards and non-Irish people never get named Annie or Margaret. Ugh! This is getting to be worse than the Last Airbender nonsense for revealing white US fans' willful obtuseness about defaulting to white.
Anyway, I need to concentrate on the fact that Mags, whom I do not and never did imagine to be white, will have to be in the second movie. FUCK YEAH, MAGS!!!
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