Fun fact: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. From 1603 onwards, large numbers of honest-to-god fricking Japanese Samurai came to Mexico from Japan to work as guardsmen and mercenaries.
Ergo, it would be 100% historically accurate to write a story starring a quartet consisting of the child or grandchild of Aztec Noblemen, an escaped African slave, a Spanish Jew fleeing the Inquisition (which was relaxed in Mexico in 1606, for a time) and a Katana-wielding Samurai in Colonial Mexico.
please dont lie to me
AND….
Oh, I’ll wait anxiously those four “!!!!” …. ۹⌤_⌤۹
グータッチGIFトレス フレーム数ミスって微妙にヌルっとしててキショい出来
Including Rebel Without A Cause, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Paris Is Burning, Happy Together, Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Pariah, The Imitation Game, Carol, and finally Moonlight.
Don’t forget La La Land’s whitewashing and straightwashing, Emma Stone and Ryan Goslings’ contact with whitewashing, the erasure of the gay history behind Rebel Without A Cause. Also remember films like Blue Is the Warmest Color, Tangerine, Pride, The Handmaiden, Love Is Strange, A Single Man, and countless others that have fallen through the cracks, though some have won, and finally, how Moonlight beat a movie that was always going to look like this.
See also: Moonlight and the Biggest Snub of All with The Color Purple, La La Land Straightwashed Rebel Without A Cause Decades Later.
Bonus: Actors who made bank and rep off LGBT roles:
I’m still pretty over the moon about this.
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Listen, the Lion King 2 is great and very voltron
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