Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

Jedi Ben told me to read Nextwave ages ago, and it's been on my list, but I keep forgetting to get my hands on it. But that cover seals it for me.

 

As well it should.

 

Best Nextwave moment has to be when they have that alternative reality vision that is driving them insane, though there are just so many brilliant “WTF” moments in that series.

 

Thank Odin I don't have to answer that.

 

Good, good - you can't not like it.

Ellis, Immonen.... Awesomeness

 

It's like Shakespeare... but with much more punching. And it's own theme tune.

 

Really great little "miscellaneous diversity thoughts" post from Kieron Gillen.

 

from http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/marl...l-be-an-african-got.html?mid=fb-share-vulture#, thought it could be of interested here

 

I was on the latest Star Wars Day at Sea cruise and saw lots of boys dressed as Captain Phasma, which was awesome. I also saw a little boy dressed as Rey, which warmed my heart so much. My sister-in-law said the same boy was also dressed as Elsa one day. <3

Of course, there were lots of girl Reys, little Leias, and even more Princess Darth Vaders.

 

Princess Darth Vader sounds like everything I want in a canon villain. Imagine if Dooku was played by, like, Helen Mirren?

 

Yeah, I would really like to see female villain like a princess Darth Vader or a bounty hunter in a film.

Captain Phasam is really cool, but needs a larger role.

 

This sounds seriously cool, but I would be remiss not to complain about my pet peeve there:

On an unrelated note, I want to put out an open call here for people who are into the whole fanfiction scene to speak up, because I've been having Thoughts on the subject again that are relevant to this thread.

 

I read the EU for twenty years. That all turned out to be fanfiction.

trollololololololol

 

So it looks like we have our first Asian main character, in Episode 8!

(Besides LGBT, that was like the last big unchecked box, I think)

(Unless she's CGI, but I have a feeling she's not)

 

We also have our first Laura Dern main character.

 

We found out about Gwendolyne Christie in a similar announcement--I wouldn't make any assumptions about "main characters" yet.

 

Wouldn't one of the guys from Rogue One qualify as a main character?

 

If Laura Dern plays Captain Phasma's mom, and never takes off her helmet either, I will be overjoyed.

 

Benicio del Toro would look amazing in a set of Mandalorian armor.

 

Benicio del Toro looks even more amazing without it.

 

Disney XD put tonight's episode up to watch and wow.

Spoiler

Hera code switches. It's possible taking on her accent is meant to denote she's speaking Twi'lek, but I love the idea that she's just...code switching around other Twi'leks.

 

Spoiler

Given the rest of that conversation, my takeaway was that she made a point of losing her Ryloth accent to spite her father but falls back into it when she's immersed in it.