Barbie (2023) ✦ Dir. Greta Gerwig

i'm truly concerned that people don't seem to understand this as a concept so: not consciously setting out to write a racist portrayal of a character doesn't mean it's not a racist portrayal of a character. many of our biases are so deeply ingrained as to be unconscious, so if you're not willing to do the work of examining your own motivations for writing a character a certain way before you do it, maybe don't be surprised when someone else does it for you?

I’m aware that most of the Teen Wolf fandom agrees that Dylan is a good actor, or if not just good, the best actor on the show bar none. Which, okay, I do agree that Dylan is really good at carrying emotional beats, his comedic timing is usually spot on, and Stiles is very animated thanks to him. I don’t think that he’s head and shoulders above the rest of the cast in terms of ability (side note: my personal favorite actor is Tyler Posey, the best I’d say is Crystal Reed, who is also playing one of the best written characters on the show, but I digress), there are times when I feel he misses his mark and comes off as almost cartoonish in his delivery, and there are times where he doesn’t work for me. So, I don’t quite get when people herald him as a golden god of acting, but, you know, it’s my take. 

There seems to be a lot more to say about Dylan’s acting because he’s actually gotten a chance to flex his acting muscles on screen, Dylan has been afforded the opportunity to display his range as an actor, while others, chiefly Tyler Posey, have not. 

Now I’m not going to state that Tyler Posey is the best actor on the show, because he’s not, at least not at the moment, but I do think that he’s the actor who’s shown the most growth since the pilot (I’m looking squarely in the direction of Tyler Hoechlin when I write this, whose best bit of acting has been sarcastically raising his eyebrows). Tyler’s performance has really resonated with me, I just like Scott. What I like about how Tyler plays Scott is that there’s a natural warmth about him, he feels really down-to-earth, genuinely earnest. There’s also one aspect I can’t quite articulate, it’s his ability to click with his scene partner, it feels natural. 

The thing is that.. I feel Tyler isn’t being given the chance to showcase his growth or to even push himself, a lot of the scenes that should be his are given to Dylan, even though Tyler has really stepped up his game and is able to wring emotion out of scenes just as effectively as Dylan. It’s upsetting because as the lead he should be given the challenging scenes, the scenes that push him to his limit and beyond. So, while I’m happy that Tyler landed the lead role on a television series, I’m not happy with how it’s panned out for him or for his character. 

tl;dr I’m tired of seeing people hand wave Tyler’s acting as “bad” without taking the time to point out that he’s made demonstrable improvements. He hardly ever gets a fair shake. 

^why it bothers me when people refer to Dylan as the “break out” star whose expanding role “just makes business sense” while ignoring that, out of all of the cast, his character is one of those that’s been given the most opportunities for growth and development

it’s not as if he’s accidentally a fan favorite. that type of business opportunity occurs because of investment 

dylan has been invested in by the narrative

tyler has not, so yes, exactly, it’s unfair to simply say that tyler is a bad actor when the narrative doesn’t really, well

give him the opportunities to expand his skills or show his range 

i’d say it’s bizarre that fandom continues to ignore the weirdness of a protagonist being shoved out of his own narrative in favor of chattering on about dylan “simply being the better actor” but lol

people of color taking a backseat is the norm. it’s what the majority of fandom accepts and expects. its ‘natural’ to a narrative to the point where they can throw out other narrative rules just to enforce it.

scott/posey, the main character, can only be so in name only. they still require most of the shows energies and consideration to go into stiles/dylan.

amazing how far people will milk this “but she’s so badly written/just a love interest!!!” concern trolling when defending their hate, ahem, I mean “wariness”, of female characters

yet we have deputy parrish, who was being shipped with stiles even before s4 started, simply based on the actors photos, and who gained immense popularity as “prince deputy” after approx. 2 minutes of screen time, got headcanoned as derek’s high school sweetheart, camden lahey’s army buddy, both stiles and derek’s love interest, etc. even when all we know about him is that he was in the army and was “drawn to” beacon hills

so excuse me if I have a hard time believing you hate a female character who is written way better than generic white guy tm, has more backstory/screen time than him, and is a love interest to the same fucking guy you ship parrish with, even though these two have never even met, for some other reason than blatant misogyny lol b y e

talk some sense to me...

The Colours in your eyes captivate my mind<3

For @scottappreciation's scottmccallweek day six: Close-ups

Haunting Memories

For @scottappreciation’s Scott McCall Week 2023 — Day Five + Six: Colors/Aesthetics + Closeups

ᵀʰᵃᵗ ᶠᵉᵃʳᶠᵘˡ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵒᶠ “ᶠᶦʳᵉ” ᵃⁿᵈ “ᶠᶦʳᵉ,”

ᴸᵉᵗ ⁿᵒ ᵐᵃⁿ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ᶦˢ ᵐʸ ᴰᵉˢᶦʳᵉ.

ᴵ, ˢᵗᵃʳᵗᶦⁿᵍ ᵘᵖ, ᵗʰᵉ ˡᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵈᶦᵈ ˢᵖʸ,

ᴬⁿᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵐʸ ᴳᵒᵈ ᵐʸ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ᵈᶦᵈ ᶜʳʸ

ᵀᵒ ˢᵗʳᵃᶦᵍʰᵗᵉⁿ ᵐᵉ ᶦⁿ ᵐʸ ᴰᶦˢᵗʳᵉˢˢ

ᴬⁿᵈ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗᵒ ˡᵉᵃᵛᵉ ᵐᵉ ˢᵘᶜᶜᵒᵘʳˡᵉˢˢ …

For @scottappreciation's scottmccallweek day five: Aesthetics/Colors

scott appreciation week (day 4) → the shape you take

people get hurt here. people fall down and stay down and I don’t like the way the song goes.
— richard siken

“Once I had a child
He was wilder than moonlight
He could do it all
Like he'd been here before”
— Vashti Bunyan, “Here Before”

For @scottappreciation’s Scott McCall Week 2023 — Day Four: Relationships

conversations with a future veterinarian

for @scottappreciation

gotta be careful calling Scott your brother ‘cause in two episodes time he’ll rock your shit like only a sibling could 🙏🙏

For @scottappreciation’s Scott McCall Week 2023 — Day Three: Fight Scene

Scott + traits for @scottappreciation week