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I didn't even know that there was going to be a live-action Avatar movie, let alone that it was going to be directed by M. Night Shyamalan, but this casting news?

Oh, HELLS NO. Shyamalan, you did not cast a host of White actors to play the Avatar characters. The very blatantly and awesomely not White characters. Fuck that. Jesse Mccartney as Zuko? Say what now? You're telling me that Dante Basco, who actually voiced Zuko, is an awesome POC actor, looks age appropriate, and has marital arts training wasn't available? This is Earthsea all over again.


Getting this news on the same eve that I argued with my parents over whether or not I could put a Black Santa on our front lawn is also uncool. Dad first tried to tell me that I would look racist for having a Black Santa, then my mother attempted to kindly explain to me that Santa just wasn't Black, and then the reason switched to the fact that everyone else in our hick town is too racist and we don't want people vandalizing us just because I had the strange notion of deviating from the White Santa norm. Then, I was accused to pushing a Liberal (I know, me, right?) agenda and next I would want to make Santa into a gay cross dresser, too. *FacePalm* I probably didn't help my case by saying, "Yes, a gay, cross-dressing Santa would be AWESOME."

I love my parents, but damn it. -_-; They've been living in this town too long, only interacting with people like them, and I think my machismo Italian father conveniently forgets on a regular basis that he has a daughter who is half-Latina and therefore has to look at the world in a different way than a person with White male privilege can. .


In other non-racist news, an AWESOME casting surprise. John Glover, a.k.a PAPA LUTHOR, is going to play you-know-who's real father. If it's true that Mama P. is actually his mother, then consider my mind blown at the sheer hotness of John Glover/Cristine Rose. Hot damn!

Since everyone else is doing it...

The character pairings meme...


( In which we discuss HP, QaF, Bleach, Naruto, FFVII, Angel, and Avatar... And what I like and dislike about the individual ships... )

Finally moving into Book 2 and...

Okay, I give in. I LOVE Avatar! I blame YOU, f-list! *Shakes fist*

I was wary of an anime provided via Nickelodeon, and I still feel a tad silly for sinking into an obsession with a kid's show. Nonetheless, I was pleasantly surprised, and I don't regret starting it. Avatar is just so witty. The characters are awesome. And the animation is consistently good. *Glares at Bleach animators* Damn show is addictive.


And ZUKO! Zuko is so the new Draco Malfoy. Sexy, whiny little bastard with daddy issues and a chip on his shoulder. Awesome. And ZUKO/MAI!!! That there is a pairing that hits my kinks. Who can resist the bad-guy-n-girl!love? No one, I say! Bah! And all the kissing! I'm so not used to that after all these damn Japanese animes with their subtext-over-providing-me-kissage.