The Disney princesses help Tiana get ready for her restaurant’s debut.
OH NO, I MIGHT HAVE ALREADY REBLOGGED THIS?
WHOOPS DON’T CARE
Photo spread for an imaginary Sherlock Holmes of the Harlem Renaissance.
Wentworth Miller as Sherlock Holmes.
Idris Elba as Dr. John Watson.
1925: Harlem, New York City.
Sherlock Holmes is the light-skinned, blue-eyed son of a Black mother and White father, a man who has grown up with a foot in both worlds. By necessity, he is an astute observer of those around him, and frequently ‘passes’ as White. Holmes puts his powers of observation and his chameleonic tendencies to good use as a private detective in New York City, where he moves back and forth between downtown (White) Greenwich village and uptown (Black) Harlem, investigating illegal gambling rings, brothels, and speakeasies, where he is not above sampling the wares himself.
Dr. John Watson is a Black doctor who served in an integrated regiment during the First World War. One of the few commissioned Black officers in the U.S. Army, he occupied a respected position in the Forces, only to return to the harsh reality of a segregated society when the war ends. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Watson moves to Harlem in order to establish a private practice, where he can serve the up-and-coming Black middle class of New York City.
In a divided city, Harlem is where the classes and the races meet:
A major element of Uptown allure was its enormous social fluidity; in this urban free zone …the elite not only frequented public restaurants, but basement speakeasies, where they mingled not only with non-Social Register customers but with people of color.
From Hide/Seek (p. 28):
Prohibition…closed bars and dance clubs in white areas, but permitted them to fluorish in black neighborhoods like Harlem. Many white citizens first came to Harlem during Prohibition, crossing a profound racial divide that made Harlem essentially a black city in the midst of a white one. There, they first encountered Harlem’s personalities, social mores, and artistic culture.
The culture these white tourists found in Harlem was notably more tolerant of sexual difference, giving many whites their first taste of an unashamed, well-integrated queer culture. In venues like the Cotton Club, openly queer performers regularly entertained, and as the evening’s entertainment was already in violation of the law under Prohibition, it encouraged a sexual openness unavailable in other parts of the city.
Harlem thus became the center of many white homosexuals’ existence…For many white queers, Harlem was a ‘sexual playground’, and its poverty, un- and under-employment, and racial tensions were less germane to their experiences of the place than its erotic possibilities…
Fresh from the Army, Dr. Watson is thrust into this fervent neighborhood, into a Harlem where black and white, male and female, queer and straight, collide and converge. But his own understanding of himself, his race, and even his sexuality, is challenged when he meets Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating the death of a pair of singers at the Cotton Club. Originally called in to identify the cause of their deaths, the staid and sober Watson is thrown into a world where nothing is as it appears at first glance: a world where black is white and white is black, where the police pay pimps for the right to the street, and where moonshine flows like milk and honey. To make matters worse, the whole investigation is led by Holmes, a brilliant, crazy man who plays the dangerous game of passing as white in the city that never sleeps.
Thanks to AfroGeekGoddess for suggesting Wentworth Miller as a possible Sherlock Holmes in this canon.
yep.
I would watch the hell out of this show.
A Little Bit On The Pikachu Gundam Side: A Japanese model builder fused two things of righteousness into one supreme artifact that future lifeforms from distant planets will discover millennia from now and realize how completely awesome the human race could be at times.
(via Modelers Gallery, Kotaku)
This is funny to see on my dash today because we were talking about incest taboos in Anthropology today
INCEST HAS BEEN A PLOT POINT
ON SUPERNATURAL
HAS… HAS IT
I’m horrible
You’re wonderful
<— your silly hat
PERFECT.
CAN YOU TELL YOUR BLOGGER TO PUT MORE SERIAL KILLERS IN HIS STORIES? I THINK WE SHOULD BE ~FRIENDS!~ XOXO
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[Image - Utena pushing herself off the ground.]
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[Image - Utena pushing herself off the ground.]
[Text - (780): Ive either hit rock bottom or become my own hero.]
PRODUCER: THAT GUY YOU LOVE TO MAKE FISTSHAKE.GIFS ABOUT
STARRING: A MODERATELY ATTRACTIVE WHITE ACTOR, ANOTHER MODERATELY ATTRACTIVE WHITE ACTOR, AND SOME BACKGROUND LADIES I GUESS
SYNOPSIS: WHO GIVES A FUCK
fandom’s new favourite show you guys, txt it
#the strength of will it is taking not to tag this ‘superwholock’ #you don’t even know #coming soon: the runaway YA hit ‘Quirky Female Protagonist’ #by An Author Who Was Probably In Fandom #with supporting characters Sexy Mysterious Guy and Approachably Handsome Childhood Friend #and tertiary characters with a sampling of ‘Other’ characteristics #’Reads just like Joss Whedon!’ says Other Author Who Used To Be In Fandom
B A S I C A L L Y
What is Versicolor Week?
A lot of times in fandom, ships involving PoC are overlooked, despite being just as viable — if not more viable — than ships involving two white characters. Versicolor Week intends to combat that by celebrating the ships that involve at least one PoC, broadening their audience and hopefully leading to some change in fandom when it comes to ships regarding PoC.
What ships are allowed?
Anything, as long as one of the characters involved is a person of color. The ships above are just a small sampling of the pairings that span across every fandom, and as long as one of the characters is a PoC, then it doesn’t matter what ship it is, whether it’s het, slash, or femmeslash.
What can I do to participate?
Anything! Graphics, fanart, fanfiction, fanvids, music… the list goes on and on! You can post whatever you want, as long as you make it and it adheres to the ship rules laid out in the paragraph above. All I’m asking is you don’t post it until at least April 1st. If you can’t participate, at least reblog. Some of your followers might be interested.
What else do I need to know?
When April 1st rolls around, all you need to do is tag your Versicolor Week posts with ‘versicolor 2012’ and I’ll reblog your work onto the blog I’ve made specifically for this week. This is a multifandom week, and while I’m in a fair few fandoms, I’m not in all of them, so tagging them with the fandom it belogs to would be a huge help.
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