Lunden De’Leon
Model, actress, owner of a record label and film company.
My latest tattoo, and so far my biggest. The qoute is from Alice in Wonderland and is a coversation between the hatter and alice, ive had this qoute on my wall for a year now waiting to decided where to have it and how to do it. The pocket watch is my artists take on the white rabbits and is set to 6 o’clock, the time at which the mad hatter is permentantly stuck. This tattoo has many meanings for me, i love the book, i love the movie (all versions), i love carrol and all the contraversy around him, my middle names alice, and i truely belive the qoute is one to live by. Done at Babylon Tattoo’s Doncaster by Luke.
Your post about Yrra Cynril reminded me all over again about what they did to Amanda Waller of the Suicide Squad. Above you can see an earlier picture of her from the comics… and the lady they cast to play her in the Green Lantern movie (and consequently possibly other DC movies hereafter). The movie version didn’t bother me so much at first, but then DC rebooted everything. If you’re not a comics fan, laymans terms is they erased all the history built up by issues and issues of stories and renewed and revamped all the characters. This included interesting changes like alterations to origin stories, Superman getting space armour to replace his old latex cliche, and a lot of lady characters getting… dressed up. You’ve featured images of Starfire post-reboot before. Comic women have to be “slutty-looking”, it’s the law.
Amanda Waller was cool because she was a strong black woman who didn’t take shit. She was big like in the picture above and of all things they decided to scrap that and give her “sex appeal”.
Anywho, here’s one of the first images you get to see of her in the Suicide Squad series post-reboot.
Big, black, beautiful, confident, powerful woman? PFFT. DC forgot they were catering to a bunch of adolescent white males for a second there. Add some clevage, make-up, and remove twenty dress sizes. And, of course, lighten up her skin because, hey, there’s black and then there’s too black, amirite?
Completely meaningless and stupid change. Forget bleach, they must have treated her in a vat of acid.
Comics don’t tend to have a universal consensus between all artists on colour, but this is the whitest she’s ever been.
R.I.P. Amanda we knew ye well.
CC: Perfect commentary is perfect, submitting this so we can mourn Amanda in peace.
I got nothing against Angela Bassett, because the woman could pull off The Wall with no problem acting wise, but CCH Pounder should have been the live action role considering she WAS the voice actor for Waller for the animated show.
And the fact that a badass fat black woman like the Wall lasted for so long? And now they took that away??? I can’t…..
yei, a tangled violin
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cellobass actually. Painted by Claire Keane.~ Jane
My second tattoo and my favorite. This was done in British Columbia Canada at Ink and Honey Tattoo’s by Janaya.
When I was younger, I always had to wear a medical alert bracelet. It was frustrating because they’d always break, get caught on loose strings, scratch anything i bumped into (as a 7 year old kid, that happened all of the time) etc. So as a Christmas gift from my parents, I got this done. I absolutely love it, the bow is definitely me, and the writing is a solid and readable font. I couldn’t have asked for a better tattoo! Janaya does beautiful tattoos, her shading is gorgeous and I can’t wait for my next!
Another example, this time from mythology. In the Greek myth of Perseus (the one who killed Medusa), did you know that the princess Andromeda he saves is black? The same Andromeda who was chained to a rock and almost devoured by a sea monster as punishment for her mother’s boastfulness. THAT Andromeda. Yes, Andromeda in the myth is a BLACK WOMAN. She’s from ETHIOPIA (her father Cephus is brother to the kings of Libya and Egypt). She’s black. Heck, Perseus stops in Ethiopia on his way home and ends up saving her there. So, I did a simple Google image search of ‘Average Ethiopian Woman’. The image on the left came up; it’s a composite of multiple faces of various Ethiopian women morphed together to form an ‘average’. Andromeda would historically look like the image on the left. But check out the images on the right: THAT is how the Ethiopian princess has been portrayed throughout the ages - as a white woman. In sculpture, paintings, and film she’s almost always portrayed as white. In fact, I’ve only ever seen two pictures of Andromeda as black, and at the time I didn’t even recognize her because the total whitewashing of her and her culture is so pervasive. Not only has Andromeda from the myth been whitewashed, her people and culture in the myth have been as well.
TayTay:
Let’s be real. Who wouldn’t wanna save that gorgeous dame on the left from a wacky broad with snakes for hair?
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I once found a half eaten peanut butter sandwich on top of some books in the stacks, so I couldn’t help making one about the coffee shop. :) -Christy.
Have been working in a public library for 19 years. Have found chip bags, malt liquour cans and bottles, juice bottles, a box of Aunt Jemima pancake mix, various cans of vegetables and such and candy wrappers.
