Hey, does anyone know of some really excellent mixed-race actresses? Preferably under 30.
Favorite Artists: Gustav Klimt
Q’orianka Kilcher as Captain Faraleth—Captain of the Rangers of Ithilien, daughter of Denethor II and younger sister to Boromírë. During the war, she was placed in command of the Rangers of Ithilian, where she encountered Freyda Baggins and Samwise Gamgee. Though she was not immune to the pull of the Ring they carried, she released them to complete their quest. When she returned to Minas Tirith to report to her father, he sent her to command the defenses, where she fell the Witch-king’s Black Breath. Her father, in his grief, nearly subjected them both to death by fire, but Gandalf saved her from the pyre.
After the war, she married Ewunia, bow-wife of Rohas, whom she had met while recovering the Houses of Healing. They lived together in Emyn Arnen until their deaths.
(part of the series YOU LOOK UPON A WOMAN, a project which reimagines Lord of the Rings with a cast of women of color)
lord of the ringsraceswaprule 63you look upon a womanthis is a thing i madealso I know she's Quechua-Huachipaeri whereas Julia Jones is Choctaw/ChickasawI don't want to erase those divisionsbut Irene Bedard is just slightly too old for Boromir and the only other Native actress I could think of didn't suit the roleI kind of like the idea of a very young Faramir; a Faramir who really is held up to this unrealistic standard; who is expected to be Boromireven though Boromir has had years more to become that manwho is just slightly too young to really stand up for himself (herself) and who knows no other world by one that has been thrust into warfara Robb Stark Faramirbut this is Tolkien's universe so not everyone diesit would also make her more of a prodigy; enhance the 'specialness' that Tolkien seems so keen on
“Lee wasn’t working that day, so he was just lounging. He’s 6’4”, so he’s a lot of boy, and he was wearing cowboy boots. I was kind of staring at him, because he painted such a picture, and the director came over, and I was completely in this land of admiring Lee. And Bharat [Nalluri] goes over and tells him, ‘Can you leave the set? Amy’s distracted by your masculinity.’ I was so mortified. But he’s so much fun, too. He’s got such a zest for life. He’s a really good actor. So that’s my gush about Lee Pace. I hope I’m not blushing.” -Amy Adams, on the set of Miss Pettigrew
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I have been staring at this ask for a week now, anon, trying to figure out if I actually had an answer that wasn’t a keysmash and a gif of an explosion.
For all the time I spend trying to articulate the ineffable about my faith, Jesus is the one topic I’m wary of. My idea of him is so wrapped up in what I am and what I love and what I long to become, that it makes it difficult to speak on the subject without actually inviting you inside my head. But I’ve never actually tried to articulate any my feelings, so maybe it’s about time I did.
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so-sherlockianmade rebloggable by requestasked and answeredI really should have a creative religion tag; for all I post about itah welloh and by the way?''You are broken and sharp-edged and fallible and I love you so much that I will break against you and let you devour me like carrion crowsand I love you so much that even then I will not leave you.''is probably my favorite thing I've ever written on this subjectjesus is my co-pilotreligion
Anyone who wants to learn more about links between science and faith should look up Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is both a Jesuit monk and a research astronomer and planetary scientist. He works at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo and he's talked about balencing science and faith quite a bit. He had a radio program on the BBC called A Brief History of The End of Everything (among oters) and probably has the most soothing voice I've ever heard. He's kind of a hero of mine.
You've been mentioning that people forget Christ when they talk about Christianity. Could you share your feelings about Jesus? (I'm just super curious because I'm not a very religious person but you make everything about Angels and God and all that stuff sound so fascinating and beautiful...)I have been staring at this ask for a week now, anon, trying to figure out if I actually had an answer that wasn’t a keysmash and a gif of an explosion.
For all the time I spend trying to articulate the ineffable about my faith, Jesus is the one topic I’m wary of. My idea of him is so wrapped up in what I am and what I love and what I long to become, that it makes it difficult to speak on the subject without actually inviting you inside my head. But I’ve never actually tried to articulate any my feelings, so maybe it’s about time I did.
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if my feelings about angels are a mobius strip and my feelings about catholicism are a neverending storythen my feelings about jesus are the big bang--bright and capable of birthing worldsyou see this is why I can't comprehend a christianity without a christbecause he's the nexus; he's the originhe's the spark that sets the whole damn world on fire; you can't write about the fire without acknowledging himasked and answeredreligion
Ajuma Nasenyana.
this is lovelyit looks like the cover of a book...oh no labyrinth feelsSarah as the living book; the writer and the character bothhigh priestess of the liminal spaces where a dissatisfied girl can bed the wild-fae sorceress queen who captured the castleand made the erlkonig kneel to herbut still had to return to her bedroom because stories endwhelp that was a thing just thenart
Tom Hiddleston — Only Lovers Left Alive
For a notchristian perspective (the short version of my faith amounts to a sort of “humans worshiping have always been worshiping real deities genuinely” polytheism) gods are immanent in or revealed through the natural world (rather than outside or beyond it) so any conflict of science with faith is a remnant of a worldview that splits the spiritual and the physical. I grew up in with that dualistic belief, but I try to put it down whenever I notice my own crappy assumptions. <3 I like your impromptu forum (and I hope the culture of all-of-us can move the “testing hypotheses and making predictions” part of scientific worldview safely away from the “shitting on faith” and “denial of the reality of everything not yet mechanically understood” parts :)
guys I seriously can't with thislook at all the deeply complicated and intricate ways humanity can construct a worldviewlook at all the different ways to constitute the metaphysical/physical relationshippppI am in lovvveeeeeasked and answeredreligionpolytheism?lokisgiftis not god in the height of heavenscience
re: science and faith for me, the two are completely mixed together. outside of church the time when i feel god's presence most fully is when i'm looking to the stars, but there are other things, too. He's called an intelligent creator for a reason; all the equations and hypothesis that hold our universe together didn't happen by accident, and god's fingerprints are in all of it.*weeps softly*
there's that carl sagan quote I'm too tired to find right nowbut it's essentially this; that science is just as much a source of spirituality as art and literature and the deeds of great men and womenokay but seriously guys I'm going to go to bed nowit's 2am and I've got homework to dosciencereligionparadisicaalis not god in the height of heaven
Re: science and faith anon, because wow it is so great to see a blog where people are talking about this stuff respectful of each other - I'm not exactly a poster child for religion anymore, but I grew up in public schools and catechism classes, and being exposed to both science and faith simultaneously, my natural inclination or experience was that they are naturally cohabitable. For example, I've always loved the (Catholic for my part, idk about other faiths?) use of kairos vs chronos...since I grew up with a concept of god’s experience of time as different from and totally incomprehensible to humans, it made sense to me that what science shows us to be billions of years of galactic and planetary evolution, is to god the work of a week. Organizing it as such is a way for humans to find a middle ground between our view and the divine perspective. And I’ve always found the order of creation in Genesis interesting, in that regard - how closely it basically parallels scientific evolutionary timelines, ie creatures of the sea -> land and humans made last, around the shortest time. Anyway, though I currently have trouble for myself with the language of Christianity, I still have this kind of faith-based feeling towards the universe and science, esp. with all the current dark matter and Higgs boson stuff - whether we seek to understand through religion or science, there is something great and mysterious out there :)
For those who aren’t familiar (because I wasn’t) kairos v. chronos is explained here.
For the anon: As a Jew, I believe in evolution, but I believe that our creation is when G-d took the animal/humans we had evolved into and made us HUMAN, in italics. I mean that our sense of justice and love and beauty and honour and pity and sorrow and compassion and grief and hope and grace and joy and ambition and glory and all those human things are G-d created, and stem directly from G-d. I believe that our bodies evolved separately, but that we wouldn't be HUMAN without G-d's hand.GUYS
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