“Lemme tell ya, ‘Star Wars’ always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space. It’s a franchise that’s so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something,” Boyega said in the documentary. “You can always tell it’s something when some ‘Star Wars’ fans try to say, ‘Well, we had Lando Calrissian and had Samuel L. Jackson!’ It’s like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough. It’s like, they just scattered that in there, bro!”
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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
I think…you might be right
what the fuck
mg toy designers coming up with new weapons:
heart on a stick:
stick on a heart
star on a stick
clamshell
“lets just make SOMETHING shaped like a heart who gives a shit”
“An insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all” one of the most beautiful sentences possible with the English language.
nothing could have prepared me for the context