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Casual racism in Inception fandom, news at eleven (link goes to

bossymarmalade). And then the author, after having the hipster racism pointed out to them, adds an ETA to their warnings that actually makes things worse (it went "ETA: Dialogue that can potentially be read as racist."). Well, fuck you too and good day.
The thing is, I know that there are corners in Inception fandom that are fun and rainbows and puppies - although where exactly that corner is to find might depend on your individual matrix of privilege, marginalisation, and kink/squick - and I know because I have people on my Dwircleflist who are squeeing like that and I would never begrudge them that. But for me, it was more along the lines of "that's where they mainly write that pairing I'm not into" and "wait, I didn't know there was a trend to give one of the characters an abusive past" and "if they want to make supportive text macros, can't they make the effort and get the names of the non-white actors right?" and so I stay away. (I also had an entry started on why I found the movie so disappointing, but it got too draining.)

Tangentially related: next time someone replies to a discussion of privilege with "well you can see it as a privilege, or you can see it the other way", disengage. You're living in different worlds. Seriously, I gave concrete examples. Like, people constantly asking you where you're from (because obviously dark-skinned people cannot have been born in Germany). Or when the first question during job interviews is if you can speak and write German fluently. Or when you're constantly being gawked at because you're so "exotic". And the reply was, I shit you not, "but I don't think I would mind if it happened to me. I mean, I could just as well complain that nobody ever approaches me because I'm so boring!" At this point I had difficulties even forming coherent sentences because of the huge big neon-blinking WHAAAAAATTTT!!!!!! in my head. I just mumbled that she was free to say those things if she ever found herself in a situation that non-white people encounter daily. I doubt it even made a dent. But I'm still ARRGGGH-ing.

Not much else to say. For the time being I have given up on all attempts at replying to comments -- I'm sorry, but there's no use in kidding myself [or you], is there? I manage to answer one in ten, at most. So better don't expect a reply, much less a punctual one.

Oh, and I went to the movies with my little sister, who is not so little anymore (in her early twenties) but will always be my little sister no matter what. We watched Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D and it was an almost completely enjoyable movie with a lot of thwarting of (bad) expectations. For example, several female protagonists and 75% of them are allowed to kick ass. No nudity. Not even a shower scene. Yes, I had nitpicks, but... it was already amazing that they were only nitpicks, not ARGH WTF YOU ASSHATS moments, you know? Besides, the action scenes were superb. Superb. It was action porn. In slow-mo.

Sidenote:
TRAILER: Tron: Legacy. Dingsi starts hyperventilating, says "I need to see this!" Sister goes "... huh. 'kay."
TRAILER: Saw: 3D. Sister: "OMG I need to see this!" Dingsi: "... uh, mhkay."

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Heh, my little brother is only a year younger than me, & nearly a foot taller to boot, but yes, little brother he will stay.

(Ohhhhh your first two paragraphs, so headdesky! OMG WHITE PEOPLE HAVE NO CULTURE IT'S SO BOOOOOORING POOOOOOOR ME.)

Yes! We are ONLY NORMAL! How will we ever cope ;_;

Not even a shower scene.

LIES! It was just not the shower scene some people expected =D (And wouldn't it have been awesome if that had been on purpose? I'm pretty sure it wasn't, but such delicious irony/trope-thwarting...)

She didn't actually take a shower so it didn't count as one! Hah!

Well, Mr. Does-my-axe-make-me-look-fat? was lacking a little fabric here and there... and he got kinda wet, too...

Dude, that axe/hammer thing. And the groaning. But he could sneak up on you in absolute silence when dictated by the plot. Must have put on his bunny slippers for that.

Ahahahaha, the mental images!

Yes, I had nitpicks, but... it was already amazing that they were only nitpicks, not ARGH WTF YOU ASSHATS moments, you know?

ARGH WTF YOU ASSHATS pretty much sums up my experience with the Resident Evil films (although I think you know that). It's nice to know that it's not as bad as it could be, though :)

I think that the RE movies are a rare case of films getting subsequently better with every sequel. Perhaps not in the sense of are they true to the games (probably not, but I do not have the knowledge to judge them on this) but details like less male-gaze fanservice, more surviving team members of colour... that sort of thing.

Oh? So they have changed significantly since the first one? Admittedly, it has been a while since I saw that but what I remember is mostly male-fanservice and the traditional dynamics of movie death.
I did like it at the time but nothing I have heard of any of the sequels since has even remotely inspired me to go and see them. (Okay, that big axe, maybe...)

I found the first and second movie to be entertaining but terrible, the third still had scenes that made me roll my eyes but it was noticeable that they were getting better about the fanservice and the inclusion of characters of color, and the fourth is a logical development along those lines. So I'd say you can just watch the last two and forget the rest -- that's what I did...

One day I will manage to watch the last two and get back to you on this (I like the first one OK, the second one makes my skin itch). Yeah, you can pretty much take it as read that they are in no way similar to the games at all - the only thing the two share are the monsters and the T-Virus. But that's a rant for another time.

details like less male-gaze fanservice, more surviving team members of colour... that sort of thing.

That sounds good. We need more stuff of that sort. (Argh, sorry if that sounds like I'm being slightly dismissive. I'm not. My brain just isn't working brilliantly today).