on “colorblind casting” as a lazy shorthand for diversity

This show, man. It is out to personally get me.

So Roy Kent's sister, who is also the doctor who treated Dr. Sharon back in season 2, is played by Sofia Barclay (Yes, of the tax evading super rich Barclays). Sophia's mother is Farzana Aziz, who is supposedly the daughter of one of the richest men in India but I cannot find out who (alas for the time when google actually gave useful results).

This makes her half South Asian.

Which is what got her cast in We Are Lady Parts as Zarina, and now in the film Love Again as a sister to Priyanka Chopra.

So does that make Roy Kent half South Asian? We know that his dad is in his 60s and from south London and is (of course) a little bit racist, so would it be their mother who is South Asian?

Or, she's supposed to be white. In that ambiguous way that lets Priyanka Chopra also play ambiguously white roles while she hypocritically sucks up to fascists in India and talks about being a minority abroad.

I swear, this is what it would be like being a person of colour in a Bridgerton world. You never know what is real and what is supposed to be ignored. A multiculti ode to colourblind kyriarchy.

4-5-1 Season 3, Episode 3 TED LASSO (2020-2023)

The various types of vision found in fish species that has forced me to rethink the use of light and colour in my book:

Visible light is split up into various wavelengths, with ultra violet on one end of the spectrum and red on the other. Ultraviolet is the shortest wavelength and red is the longest. Water absorbs red more easily than blue, so at a depth of 1 metre, 25% of red light entering the water is already absorbed, and at 10 metre 85% of blue is absorbed.

To put that into perspective, if a fish is looking up at a red and blue object from 1 metre underwater, the red object appears grey. At 100 metres all colour is absorbed and fish can only see in black and white.

Types of Colour Vision

Tetrachromatic Vision: Fish that can see all four colours - Red, blue, green, and ultraviolet

Goldfish

Rainbow Trout

Zebrafish

Trichromatic Vision: Fish that can see three colours - Red, blue, green

Cichlids

Dichromatic Vision: Fish that are sensitive to red and see in blue-green

Catfish

Largemouth bass

Micropterus salmoides

Monochromatic vision: Fish that are colour blind

Sharks

Rays

Whales

Bonus Trivia

The lens of fish eyes is spherical, unlike human eyes. The lens is fixed in its shape, meaning it cannot be adjusted to facilitate focusing on nearer or more distant objects, instead, the lens moves forward and backwards.

Fish can see underwater AND on land, in contrast to humans who become near-sighted underwater.

Fish are better at seeing in low-light

Fish can see in the dark

Many deep-sea creatures have developed advanced vision where instead of distinguishing colours, they can see wavelengths, such as octopus.

Despite most fish seeing more colours than humans, vision is still their weakest sense. They are more sensitive to smell, sound and vibrations.

Many fish have speckling around the iris. This is due to how the iris consists of three layers, with the outermost layer made of guanine crystals. This reflects 90% of incoming blue-green light downwards rather than upwards and back towards the sun, so they're not visible to predators.

Everything in Les Mis BBC is like either cringe or a hate crime but the lazy racism of BBC “colorblind” casting aka always casting antagonistic or background inconsequential roles as black is like. Stunning. Been talked about to death but Thernadier might be the last straw like he’s famous for not writing well and being a lazy grifter drunk deadbeat but to top it off his ending in the book is becoming a fucking slave master in america. No words. Above that Toussaint. Cosette’s maid Toussaint really. Doubly nefarious when Toussaint is the name of the hero of the Haiti slave rebellion aka the very famous name of one of the few famous and the most widely known black historical figures in the French Revolution (arguably the most important figure overall) it’s like........... 

(^ u ^;) 

The bastard son and the devil himself is literally about how racism is wrong. I’m sorry but y’all white ppl complaining about it are dense af if you can’t see that

hatecrimed in my own inbox by people with no critical thinking skills calling me white. incredible.

Wow, The Last Of Us ep. 8 was just ... incredible! So terrifying, but cathartic and satisfying.

Exactly what I need and want in fictional stories T^T - the girl kills the abuser(s) all on her own and is welcomed in the safe arms of her found father figure.

I liked the depiction of a terrifying person like David as someone who believes/claims (not much difference!) to be a chosen leader who has to make tough choices because his people rely on him and expect him to take care of them. So he lies to them about what they are eating (their own family members), believing/claiming that he's looking out for them. (All the while he's getting much bigger food rations than anyone else, etc. ...)

And then it becomes clear what an abusive predator he really is. It's ambivalent how much of it is him already having abusive and predatory tendencies, and how much of it escalated because of the pressure of being a leader in impossible times. (In the end it's all the same!) Of course the latter doesn't excuse abuse in any way, but there are mechanisms in hierarchies that encourage abuse (I've seen it happen somehow especially clearly in "anti-authoritarian" organisations where people in "leadership positions" acted abusive partly because they thought they had to ...).

I saw people discuss that David sucked as a leader, because his settlement was starving while other groups in the area were doing fine. In a way yes, obviously, and I think it's a lot to do with the other groups being equal and not really having a fixed "leader" to decide everything, so everyone is able to do their best and contribute. While David wanted to control everything and dismissed other people's efforts, so everyone was just scared and waiting for him to tell them what to do.

Anyway, I kind of wished they'd have included a shot of David's mashed up head after Ellie was done with him ^^

And David's line that "everything happens for a reason" became really funny in the end :3

its such a bizarre feeling when ur suddenly necessitated to acknowledge a thought process that a. u didnt even notice was there because its so natural to u and b. that other ppl dont think like that

I know it would probably be a logistical nightmare to also make this accessible to the actual people represented, but I think it would be cool to have a game where the whole point is that every character has different limitations, that make it impossible or at least incredibly difficult to get past the whole game without switching them every once in a while, and the way you switch is by going to another character and asking their help with something.

Like you start out the game with one character and go "oh huh, the colour sceme of this game is really cool, really interesting use of such a limited palette", play through the puzzles for a while, and then encounter something where you're supposed to arrange some slightly differently coloured puzzle pieces to the right order by shade or something, and it's goddamn impossible. No matter how many methods you try, it's just not clicking, no matter how logical your solutions seem, no matter how clearly they can't be arranged in any other way that'd make more sense.

And maybe you go online to ask people "hey I'm stuck in the colour puzzle, what the hell am I supposed to do to get past this?" and someone tells you to go find one of the other playable characters and ask for their help. Which sounds patronising and stupid but you're stuck so you might as well give it a try. You go to one of the other characters, choosing the dialogue option to go "hey I need a hand with something, I can't do this on my own", and when they go "sure, let's go", your controls now switch to the other character.

And the colour scheme switches immediately. The aesthetic limited palette has changed to a far wider range, there's details in the environment that you hadn't noticed, like the muted faint flowers on the ground are actually bright red, the greyish shirt that your first character was wearing is actually striped with orange and green. The first POV character is colourblind, this whole time you haven't been able to perceive the difference between green and red. Solving the colour arranging puzzle with the other character is a breeze.

And this is the repeating theme of the game - every character has their own limitations, and while none of the puzzles are easy, you learn to think "maybe I should ask someone to help me with this" whenever you've been stuck for an unreasonable amount of time. You need to grab a buddy along for the quests, or you'll need to go back to get one eventually, and the way the game is structured somehow ensures that you can't just tactically dodge the limitation puzzles beforehand. Deaf character's POV doesn't have the audio clues that different pieces of the same puzzle make a different clicking sound, the puzzle with garbled numbers on it stops being garbled when you're not playing the character with dyscalculia.

You slowly get to know the whole cast, and occasionally help them out with things, too. You know which character could probably help with something you're stuck with, but while they'd be glad to come help, they're unfortunately stuck doing some task that could take you 20 minutes but is going to take them all afternoon, and you can offer help. Sometimes the helping-a-buddy-out minigames don't come with any direct transactional reward, you can just help a friend with something just because you can.

And the game's whole goal isn't to just illustrate how different people have different strengths, and sometimes things that are easy for you are hard for someone else, and vice versa, but to condition the player to think "maybe I should just ask someone to help, instead of wasting time struggling on my own."

yeah OK sorry. I tried the colour blind casting historical romance genre. Your gifs were charming, but I can't. My brain just starts melting from the logical inconsistency of it. It's great that actors of colour are getting more roles and I guess if you like those kind of dresses nice for them to look pretty in them and no judgement on people enjoying it as escapist fluff (whomst amongst us has not read tags we were too embarrassed to kudos).

But the politics of it just leaves a foul taste in my mouth.

the Wednesday series is so silly goofy for even IMPLYING that gomez and morticia wouldn't know how to cover up a murder properly, let alone that Wednesday would be unironically scandalised by learning her parents had killed someone. like...do the clowns writing this show actually understand the premise/ethos of The Addams Family? why does this show constantly have them allying with/grovelling at the feet of institutions?? why bother making a show about Wednesday and by extension the Addams family if you're not going to honour their competent oddness and satirical anti-establishment roots? and that's before we even get into the weird ass colourblind racism all throughout this show. I cannot believe there's a scene in this show where morticia addams, a white woman, tells a Black man he has "no idea what it's like not to be believed." I can't believe that the ringleader of the bullies who is bigotedly abusing the "outcasts" is a young Black boy. The antiblackness is insane. like, really? it's so obvious there are next to no poc in significant creative roles on this show which is so fucked considering they not only made Wednesday Latine, but made her ancestory an integral part of the series. I feel like a broken record at this point, but surface level diversity in casting means absolutely nothing so long as the people holding creative control are white. It's just elaborate puppetry, and too many of you fall for it everytime. All this show does is use actors or colour to pay lip-service to the "whitewashing" of history, while the show itself is written and directed almost exclusively by white people. As far as I can tell there is one director of colour, Gandja Monteiro, who directs 2 mid season eps. Every single other person in creative decision making roles is white. It's an absolute JOKE.

The amount of foolishness I have seen on social media relating to Jamie Lloyd's Romeo and Juliet and then Rapunzel is so annoying/funny weird that people making fun of older people believing everything they see on Facebook and WhatsApp group chats need to shut up.

They believe everything they see on tiktok and twitter getting their info from people who don't read and/or spread misinformation intentionally.

White People getting upset over the casting of Avantika Vandanapu as Rapunzel in the Tangled live action. But wait a Tangled live action was never announced. Meaning white people and others were getting mad that a Avantika Vandanapu fanpage I think made a fancast video and photo edits of her as Rapunzel

Now with Romeo and Juliet so many people think that it's a movie, and a remake and are talking about Hollywood. When it's actually a stage play happening in London West End and is set to go to Broadway too I think.

Even the ones that do know it's a play are still doing the most, they don't care about theatre because they are unaware that colourblind casting and even genderbent casting in Shakespeare plays happens all the time look at the posters for upcoming productions at the globe theatre

Twelfth Night in central park starring Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald

The only reason they are paying attention is because of the stunt casting of Tom Holland and the only media they consume is superhero movies. People from different countries saying they won't watch, you don't live in England and you're not rich you ain't flying here to watch a play. You do not even watch plays.

So much racist stupidity over the past few days I had to rant

Like what ever. Maybe I'm too much of a socialist to let go of my politics while i watch a tv show. But it's not a bad thing is it? I'm asking the right questions. Were they using colourblind casting to distract from the imperialism?

colourblind casting does not work when the roles in question are inherently influenced by racial connotations and irl contexts 

I dunno.. you give me colourblind vibes

i want to let all of you slugs know that i am very close with a powerful wizard. we have been close friends for a very long time. i was set to become his apprentice actually, when i was sadly cursed by the blue fairy. we have been emailing back and fourth and he is taking your threats very seriously. he has already started casting spells on my name and is mailing me all sorts of potions and resonant charms. his name is Stanford Offerton the Deleterious. ask any wizard and they’ll tell you he is not to be messed with. not to mention the blue fairy will undoubtably go after anyone who should harm me, as i owe her my name, and it is never wise to rob a fairy of her prize.

i admit i am frightened to learn their may be more of you, especially since you might also be in human form, but more than that i am angry. and i turn my fear into action.