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The Vampire Diaries 6.04 — Black Hole Sun
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teyonah parris and john boyega do some asmr | they cloned tyrone promo
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Mfs on twitter talking about they can fix Anissa, but celebrating Amber bring tossed aside.
I know exactly what type of ppl you are
#amber bennett#fandom can be such a toxic place for Black women#but any marginalized identity really#fucking cesspool of racist neckbeards
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I will truly never give af about Mark x Eve. Boring, lame ass ship
Amber Bennett deserved better from everyone and everything.
#amber bennett#even though anyone could seevthis coming from a mile away#i truly hate that she’s become another addition to a long list of Black female characters fucked over by writers and fandomv#the disposable black gf trope is so tired and lazy
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Invincible Spoilers ahead!
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I respect the break up they’re giving Amber & Mark, but it really does break my heart. They’re just two kids who wanted to experience collage together 🥺🥺
That montage of him flying her around the city??? They deserve a universe where they can just be young and in love.
I was holding out hope that they’d work it out somehow, but Amber’s line about having no agency made it clear that it can’t work. I just wish they’d gotten a few more moments of levity before it feel apart
On the other hand, that cheeky scene about animation being hard and the tricks to get around it was funny and enlightening.
I always thought that this season’s animation looked off/weird compared to season 1. I wonder why that is
#invincible#invincible amazon#mark grayson#oh this is very funny and cool#i didnt realize how much theyre drawing from the comics
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Invincible Spoilers ahead!
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I respect the break up they’re giving Amber & Mark, but it really does break my heart. They’re just two kids who wanted to experience collage together 🥺🥺
That montage of him flying her around the city??? They deserve a universe where they can just be young and in love.
I was holding out hope that they’d work it out somehow, but Amber’s line about having no agency made it clear that it can’t work. I just wish they’d gotten a few more moments of levity before it feel apart
On the other hand, that cheeky scene about animation being hard and the tricks to get around it was funny and enlightening.
I always thought that this season’s animation looked off/weird compared to season 1. I wonder why that is
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VANESSA BELL CALLOWAY as Imani Izzi
Coming to America (1998), dir. John Landis
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I don’t even remember how long ago I wrote this. It’s probably been over a year, but I’m posting it now and expanding on it bc I keep seeing shit that pisses me off.
At the time I wrote this, Critical Race Theory was under a microscope, but since then educators have been investigated and even punished for teaching certain topics, libraries and librarians have been under attack, there are targeted efforts to suppress the histories of marginalized people (Free Palestine!!!). Now more than ever we need to take care with the way we discuss and analyze Black media.
The tweet that sparked this current rant was about being tired of “gang stories” dominate Black media in the UK. 🙄
There is so much internalized anti-Blackness in the way we discuss Black media and it truly worries me sometimes. Is everyone okay??? It’s like ppl are so preoccupied with stereotypes about Black ppl and crime, that they outright dismiss the stories that have been created and all the nuance & intention they carry.
The first two series of TopBoy could literally be used to teach a class on the sociology of crime. The show is so incredibly well done, the characters are fully-fleshed out and human, their arcs are interesting and thought provoking. And yet all that richness and depth gets reduced to “gang stories”… I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
I understand people want variety (I do too). But do yall seek out variety??? Do you keep up with Black projects that are coming out, on maybe smaller platforms? Or do you just complain and uncritically judge the shows that are immediately popular?
There are a grand total of 2 “gang stories” that have come out of the UK in recent years (Top Boy, Blue Story) and because they were the most popular, that means that all the representation we have is crime media. There are other genres out there!! Did you look?! Do you actually care beyond complaining and making unfair/inaccurate assessments about the state of Black media? Get a grip!!! We’re losing the plot!!!
I feel like we have a very distorted understanding of how much of Black entertainment media is centered around struggle.
It always annoys me to hear other Black folk say,
“I’m tired of all these slave films, I’m tired of all these movies about ‘The Struggle’.”
Because in reality, if you take some time and do a quick survey, there really aren’t very many movies about slavery and “the struggle”. There’s even fewer that are historically accurate and handle these topics well.
Like within the grand scope of Black entertainment media (media made by Black people about Black people), non-slave and non-struggle films far outnumber movies about slavery and racial discrimination.
I think with the onset of the Black Lives Matter movement, we saw a number of films emerge that told stories of police brutality, slavery, and other incidents of racial terror on the Black community. But I feel like people forget to put that era into context and don’t realize that that period was the first time we were seeing serious efforts to tell those stories on screen in a dramatized format. Those films brought attention and publicity to events and issues that white media would have us forget. And is desperately trying to have us forget, as evidenced by the current histeria around Critical Race Theory.
Films like Fruitvale Station, Detroit, The Hate U Give, shows like Underground, Roots were firsts in a lot of ways. They brought attention to individuals and parts of history seldom talked about. And despite being well intentioned, there are serious critiques to be made about a few of these projects (THUG I’m side-eyeing YOU!)
And I can understand as Black people we don’t want to be re-traumatized with dramatic retellings of a reality we are already intimately and painfully familiar with (these films are for non-Black people more than anyone else). But I want us to place our anger in the right direction. There are too many times where the “I’m tired of slave stories” ends up blowing back harder on Black creatives than anyone else.
In my opinion, there isn’t any over abundance of struggle narratives in Black entertainment media. It’s that struggle narratives end up being more highly profiled by broader white media (read: all dominant media outlets and institutions).
Dominant white media institutions only uplift Black stories that either teach them something about racism or reinforce negative racial stereotypes. Slave films sweep awards seasons. Denzel got nominated for Malcolm X, but he won for playing a corrupt cop in Training Day. Monique gave us years of laughs as she portrayed a playful, and fun loving relationship with her daughter on The Parkers (a role she could’ve easily won an Emmy for), but her Oscar came for playing a toxic and abusive mother in Precious.
If there’s something to be upset about it, it’s that. Its that Black film and television isn’t valued by dominant media when it portrays our simple everyday humanity. They need to see us suffering the terrors of racial capitalism in order to feel and sympathize with our cause and even self flaggelate.
#black film#black television#black media#black british#top boy#blue story#underground wgn#the hate u give#fruitvale station#roots#media representation#blackgirlcinephiles#black girls on tumblr#i feel like ppl either dont think or dont know how to think#either way#the takes are stupid and insulting and im tired
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I feel like we have a very distorted understanding of how much of Black entertainment media is centered around struggle.
It always annoys me to hear other Black folk say,
“I’m tired of all these slave films, I’m tired of all these movies about ‘The Struggle’.”
Because in reality, if you take some time and do a quick survey, there really aren’t very many movies about slavery and “the struggle”. There’s even fewer that are historically accurate and handle these topics well.
Like within the grand scope of Black entertainment media (media made by Black people about Black people), non-slave and non-struggle films far outnumber movies about slavery and racial discrimination.
I think with the onset of the Black Lives Matter movement, we saw a number of films emerge that told stories of police brutality, slavery, and other incidents of racial terror on the Black community. But I feel like people forget to put that era into context and don’t realize that that period was the first time we were seeing serious efforts to tell those stories on screen in a dramatized format. Those films brought attention and publicity to events and issues that white media would have us forget. And is desperately trying to have us forget, as evidenced by the current histeria around Critical Race Theory.
Films like Fruitvale Station, Detroit, The Hate U Give, shows like Underground, Roots were firsts in a lot of ways. They brought attention to individuals and parts of history seldom talked about. And despite being well intentioned, there are serious critiques to be made about a few of these projects (THUG I’m side-eyeing YOU!)
And I can understand as Black people we don’t want to be re-traumatized with dramatic retellings of a reality we are already intimately and painfully familiar with (these films are for non-Black people more than anyone else). But I want us to place our anger in the right direction. There are too many times where the “I’m tired of slave stories” ends up blowing back harder on Black creatives than anyone else.
In my opinion, there isn’t any over abundance of struggle narratives in Black entertainment media. It’s that struggle narratives end up being more highly profiled by broader white media (read: all dominant media outlets and institutions).
Dominant white media institutions only uplift Black stories that either teach them something about racism or reinforce negative racial stereotypes. Slave films sweep awards seasons. Denzel got nominated for Malcolm X, but he won for playing a corrupt cop in Training Day. Monique gave us years of laughs as she portrayed a playful, and fun loving relationship with her daughter on The Parkers (a role she could’ve easily won an Emmy for), but her Oscar came for playing a toxic and abusive mother in Precious.
If there’s something to be upset about it, it’s that. Its that Black film and television isn’t valued by dominant media when it portrays our simple everyday humanity. They need to see us suffering the terrors of racial capitalism in order to feel and sympathize with our cause and even self flaggelate.
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