I was pretty apprehensive about this series but we've just finished watching episode 6 and I think that people were determined to hate on it before they saw it. I’ve seen three episodes. For me, while it’s not as good as Daredevil or Jessica Jones, I’m liking it far better than I liked Luke Cage which I found to be really boring. Cottonmouth and ( Read more... )

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“The official Martian reports have been very conservative,” the science officer said. His name was Chan Bao-Zhi, and on Earth, he’d have been Chinese. Here, he was a Belter from Pallas Station.
 - Abaddon’s Gate, The Expanse, James S.A. Corey

I've written a lot about diversity and representation in the world of The Expanse and that theme continues ( Read more... )

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It's a long weekend here so my husband and I were sleeping in this morning.  While we were lying there and chilling out, I was telling him that I was planning to read Caliban's War (book 2 of the Expanse) today and how much I was enjoying the series. I just rewatched the first season of The Expanse last week because I would really like to try my ( Read more... )

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On my post iZombie: how skin tones appear to have affected shipping

I can’t reblog this comment by @preachersdaughtersthief, but it goes:

#this is really like a superficial analysis but it hits the nail in the head#you sure AS FUCK know if Ravi was white they’d be the biggest ship in this fandom#as if platonic relationships have ever stopped people ( Read more... )

Previously.TV has a thread about this issue called

Why the Demarcation? - Liv’s Love Life, but I realised that unlike me, a lot of people don’t really enjoy reading a lot of text, so I’m going to present this graphically.

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iZombie is one of my favourite shows on television.

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I wrote this the other night after watching the Oscars:

Hmmm. Chris Rock’s intro monologue was interesting but why was it only about black and white.

Black and white actors.

What about Latin and Asian actors. I understand why the focus was about black and white but it occurs to me that diversity means more than just two coloursSomeone on tumblr ( Read more... )