Jon Wood's Bad Wasabi: Art-o-stration

bluetrafficlight:

femmeforeverybody:

“One of the organizers came up to me and said that there was someone who wants to meet you; and he says that he’s you’re best, biggest fan and I’m thinking it’s a Trekkie! [laughs] and so I said certainly and I got up and turned around and maybe 10 or 15 feet coming towards me I see Dr. Martin Luther King and I remember thinking whoever that little fan is, he’s going to have to wait, because here’s Dr. King, who walks straight up to me with this big, magnificent smile on his face and says, “I’m the fan!” because I’m sort of looking around for someone else, and he says, “I am your best fan, I am your biggest fan!” and I… I was at a loss for words, and if you know me, I am never at a loss for words.

I just couldn’t say a thing and he began to tell me how important my role was, what an inspiration it was. And you have to understand we were in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, people were regularly being attacked by dogs, and marchers were being hosed on the television every night, real life things, and here I am in this futuristic thing on TV and he was so complimentary, he told me “I was so important and the way you have created this role,” and I am just looking at him and looking at him and I remember I just kept hoping he’d never stop talking. Because his voice is just… you know the voice. And I finally just start saying, thank you so much Dr. King and I am shaking his hand and still shaking from nervousness and I said thank you so much and I am really going to miss my co-stars.

And at this his face totally changed, and he said “What are you talking about?!” and so I told him I would be leaving the show, because; and that was as far as he let me go, and he said, “STOP! You cannot! You cannot leave this show! Do you not understand what you are doing?! You are the first non-stereotypical role in television! Of intelligence, and of a woman and a woman of color?! That you are playing a role that is not about your color! That this role could be played by anyone? This is not a black role. This is  not a female role! A blue eyed blond or a pointed ear green person could take this role!” And I am looking at him and looking at him and buzzing, and he said, “Nichelle, for the first time, not only our little children and people can look on and see themselves, but people who don’t look like us, people who don’t look like us, from all over the world, for the first time, the first time on television, they can see us, as we should be!”

http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/daily-astrology/martin-luther-king-mlk-uhura-nichelle-nichols/

My favorite fact about star trek is that Nichelle was paid more than any actor because the broadcasting company were racist. 
Gene Rodennbury had Uhura as one of the main crew members, but he was told he couldnt do that due to the fact that Nichelle was black, but he was allowed to hire her as an extra. 
So EVERY episode he hired her as an extra, and it turns out she made more money than any other actor on the first series 

Chess Set by *Mr—Jack

Avengers Card Iron Man by *frogbillgo

Noice.

onslaught14:

britains-eyebrows:

redandyellowmakepurple:

dameofspace:

hihiroshihi:

Wow that only took them 700 or so episodes to learn to do.

ohshit

Team Rocket finally found their swag

i literally stood up and clapped

[cuddling] fabulous

Can we just appreciate the way Meowth avoids that attack?

look at them they’re so proud of themselves

like they’ve been practicing this for months and they’ve finally got it right

Meowth is so sassy omg

Looks like Team Rockets swaggin’ off again!

(Source: eolo)