porcelainshewolf:

ladymacbethbitches:

leftpawedpolarbear:

What if Katie McGrath played Princess Arianne Martell in the fourth season of Game of Thrones?

Arianne Martell…. is not a white person.

Katie McGrath… is very much a white person.

sorry people but this shit is not difficult.

That would be completely unacceptable.

”The women are the strong ones” whispered George R. R. Martin as he wrote an entire series about how powerful men’s poor handling of their extremely tedious manpain fucks up the lives of literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON around them.

(Source: abitharpish)

lady-brown:

So I understand that not everything in the tv adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire will be true to the books. But why is it so easy to waste precious airtime to flesh out a character that was only called “the red-headed whore” with no other significance to the storyline than her reputation for beauty, yet so difficult to actually include characters integral to the series? (Tyrion found both Chataya and Alayaya to be beautiful as well.)

Oh, I know. It’s because we can’t have powerful WoC on television for the world to see. Chataya owned and ran her own upscale brothel, had the nobles of King’s Landing as regular customers, and along with her daughter Alayaya, became instrumental in Tyrion’s visits to Shae. So someone please tell me why these two parts have been whitewashed?  If the parts needded to be condensed, why couldn’t the one woman have still been a PoC? If their roles were too minor to matter, explain Roslin’s elevation from “red-headed whore.” And since Hollywood likes to go with the “no PoC auditioned” excuse, explain this lovely woman who made it onto the show as a background character and could easily have played either of the Summer Isles women.

It honestly saddens me when this is done. It’s the Hunger Games all over again, but not many ASoIaF fans seem to notice or care. Not only were Hunger Games fans angry when Cinna’s description was left open to interpretation and filled by Lenny Kravitz, they were upset that Rue, who is clearly described of having dark skin and hair was filled by Amandla Stenberg. So why isn’t there the same angry backlash when roles meant for PoC are given to white actors and actresses? It’s because they’re thought of as belonging to white actors to begin with and PoC should be happy with any parts they see fit to give to us. Like olive-skinned Katniss being played by Jeniffer Lawrence, people were quick to come to the defense of the casting directors. In the same vein, these people shot down the fans who despaired that their hopes of having an identifiable character had been dashed by the Caucasian-restricted casting call. These may be fictional worlds, but the choices made in reality reflect the gross abuse of white privelege. It needs to stop.

eafiu:

Spoilers from A Storm of Swords, so tread carefully.

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I’d been spoiled for RW, so when I read that paragraph I nearly shit myself. Those poor readers who spent years trying to work out what that vision meant only to find it was completely literal :(