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The good bits of 2017

There’s Probably more things that aren’t here, I loved making the list last year to prove it’s not all bad, and this year is just the same, not everything this year has been bad, there’s tonnes of good things

Feel free to add your own stuff as well

Good things from 2017:

- Pokemon ultra sun and ultra moon

- jacksepticeye’s #overnightwatch stream

- the eclipse

- The switch’s amazing intro to gaming

- The moonlight v la la land slip up

- The Wonder Woman movie

- Harry Potter and the portrait of what looked like a large pile of ash

- Lord Buckethead running against Theresa may

- Covefefe

- A talk on North Korea being interrupted by the guy’s kids

- Dear Evan Hansen

- The disaster artist brought the room to thousands of new people

- Pixar’s Coco

- And the subsequent removal of the frozen short from before coco

- Spider-Man homecoming

- NBC’s the good place

- Baby drivers amazing choreographic fight scenes

- Ted Cruz liking porn on his official twitter

- Dream daddy dating sim

- Donald trump’s twitter being deleted for 11 minutes

- Fortnite gave pubg something to fight with

- Mario odyssey and Zelda breath of the wild put Nintendo on all gaming top 10 lists

- Stranger things 2

- The new IT movie was amazing

- Star Wars the last Jedi

- Thor Ragnarok

- The emoji movie was so shit it was stupidly hilarious

- The snowman, cause ya know what is deffo scary and not at all a hilarious idea, scary snowmen

- Jodie Whitaker as the doctor

- Blue planet 1 & 2

- A series of unfortunate things gave us a better evil Neil Patrick Harris than doctor horrible

- Castlevania got a cool gruesome anime

- Doki doki literature club defied expectations and creeped out many

- American vandal helped Netflix poke fun at itself and the education system

- Sonic forces let us all create our own fursonas

- Mario and rabbids: kingdom battle surprised everyone with its goodness

- Dodie Clark’s You EP

- dodie Clark’s “in the middle”

- Critical role had an amazing ending filed with heart ache and epic magic

- The adventure zone’s first big story came to an end with plot twist after plot twist we all loved it

- Disney added it’s first gay character in le fou (not a good start but a start)

- Pokemon for the switch was announced

- Brooklyn nine-nine just got better and better #BiRosa

- Guardians of the galaxy vol 2 has an amazing soundtrack yet again

- The Lego Batman movie gave us the best batman film since the dark night trilogy

- bendy and the ink machine

- life is strange: before the storm

- the final fanf game? Maybe??? Probably not

The more serious good stuff:

- The royal engagement

- Hundreds of nfl players took the knee

- A treatment for ALS has been found

- A device has been created to help heal burn victims

- Stefán Karl stefánsson becoming free of cancer

- A new record was set by Peggy whitson for the most days spent in space

- Malala yousafzai started college

- All the women’s marches

- Everyone from the #meToo movement

Watching Heartstopper has made me realize that we’re trained to expect that the other shoe will somehow drop in queer media. That something terrible is just going to happen. (Someone gets outed or worse)

And Heartstopper presented us with an opportunity to create queer media without NEEDING for something terrible to happen. Honestly, it was refreshing. I’d like to see more content like this.

I’m honestly so glad that I still watch children’s television/ tv shows that have very general audiences, even as a university student. If not, I wouldn’t have decided to spontaneously watch Julie and the Phantoms after watching the beginning of the trailer. I thought that it would simply be a goofy show with one-sided characters and juvenile jokes. But I was hooked by the end of the second episode because of how it improved on so many tired and overdone tropes.

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did alice really think it was okay to do this to me?

who was your childhood crush, and why was it bill from eloise at christmastime?

i'm not gonna lie i've always leaned into my headcanon that sally, and therefore percy, was of latin american descent. but after seeing walker scobell in the Adam Project i can really see him doing a great job in this role! his comedic timing is fantastic and he has an air of maturity for his age, plus i've seen that he's been a pjo fan for a while, which is always great!

bottom line is he's a kid who just got cast in probably one of the next iconic roles of the decade, it's a big opportunity with a lot of pressure. i hope that everyone supports him accordingly, and that his experience with the project is positive. so exciting!!

can’t believe there’s going to be a new generation of pjo fans who automatically picture walker scobell when they think of percy jackson and not a hodgepodge of viria and burdge’s fanart. does that make me old

To All the Boys, some personal casting complaints

I read the books before the movie came out because I read that they were adapting the first book into a movie and the main character, even though she was half-white and half-Korean, was going to be played by a Vietnamese actress. I was a bit annoyed since Hollywood has a big problem of casting different ethnicities this way, pushing the assumption that all East and Southeast Asians are interchangeable (when they actually do choose to cast Asians at all).

And then I found out that Kitty was being played by a white actress (I have not found anything that Anna Cathcart is Asian at all, so I was further upset that in Disney’s Descendants, her character’s grandmother was played by an East Asian actress, further driving the idea that she’s part Asian). I was pissed, because that’s the other issue with Hollywood casting Asians, when they choose not to at all and cast white actresses instead.

But I tried to be excited nonetheless because I was/am deprived of Asian leads and Asians as romantic leads in US films, and I’m Viet, so that felt like a bonus.

In the first movie, I didn’t really care as much because of that representation hype and because they never discussed race at all. (Literally the only elements of Korean culture they includes was food) Which I guess I understand, if you’re trying to normalize the idea of an Asian-American lead, just don’t point it out. And the advertising did that work for them. Also, it’s supposed to be solely a love story, so I guess it’s unromantic to talk about race.

But in the sequel, it stuck out a lot more to me that Lana Condor and Anna Cathcart are not Korean to me when they dressed up in hanboks, traditional Korean dresses. And, less so, the scene with Lara Jean and Gen, where she mentions jung, a Korean word that describes the connection between two people that can’t be severed. As nice as that scene was, the whole jung bit felt too thrown in there for my taste because we never meet Lara Jean’s grandma, who introduced the term to her and, more importantly, we never see Lara Jean try to connect to her Korean culture.

It just felt weird to me to see a distinctly Vietnamese face and then a white face use elements from Korean culture, that was more than food, in a movie with zero Korean leads. Personally, I didn’t like that Korean culture was portrayed by non-Koreans as plot point.

That is to say, you can always argue the for the subtle integration of Korean culture in the plot and development of Lara Jean.

If it were up to me, I would have tried to cast Korean actresses, and everyone knows by now that there is no short supply of them. Or adapt to the culture of the lead actor/actress, since they could more accurately portray that culture, in my opinion. (I wouldn’t have done so in this situation because South Korea and Vietnam’s history with the US are very different and not at all interchangeable) (This is coming from the fact that I usually see actors and actresses of one ethnicity play side characters who are of another ethnicity and their culture is never all that important to their character development or plot. It’s more of whoever’s in charge seeing East Asian actors as interchangeable)

That will always be a part of why live-action adaptions are so hard to get right, in my opinion.

Personally, I will always believe the books were better, especially since they had the room to address and highlight Lara Jean’s race and ethnicity in a consistent way. (warning: book spoilers from when I read it around 2 years ago):

Halloween in the first book, Lara Jean said that she usually dressed up as Asian characters (ie. Cho Chang [a ridiculous name btw] instead of Hermione Granger) in order for people to recognize her costume. I think Peter and her decide on a couple’s costume, so that year people actually recognized her even though she didn’t dress-up as an Asian character.

New Years in the second book, Lara Jean and Kitty (and maybe Margot, I don’t really remember) dress-up in Hanboks

ending of the third book, Lara Jean spends the summer before college away from Peter and in South Korea (we don’t get to “read” it and it’s kind of brushed over)

I know it’s not a lot, but I remember feeling so seen and understood when Lara Jean addressed how she was always categorized and reduced to as an Asian. I think it really exemplified the other-ness she felt in small town in Virginia.

But the first movie didn’t address that at all, which I guess I’m okay with because of how irrelevant it is to the main storyline, the love story between Peter and Lara Jean. Especially since they never addressed race at all, it could have felt forced if it wasn’t consistent.

As I mentioned before, it felt so out of place for me to see the two non-Korean actresses dress-up in hanboks.

For the last point, I don’t know how the third movie will portray the ending, my guess is that they either won’t or really push that Lara Jean really hates the idea of the trip because it’ll push her away from Peter. I personally hated that she even disliked the idea of the trip when her dad first told her because I believe in the whole “don’t go to college with a boyfriend” idea.

Feel free to disagree with me, I pretty sure I have a pretty narrow (and selfish) view of how different ethnicities and their cultures should be portrayed in media.