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HI I HAVE A DP3 THEORY ABOUT WOLVIE :3
so the fact that we officially have cassandra nova as our antagonist for the movie is think what this might do is not just bridge the gap between the XMCU and MCU but also…..maybe…bring in the X-Men 97 universe.
Recently within that show (SPOILER WARNING NOW GO AWAY) lethal sentinels attacked genosha and within the comics… cassandra sent that attack. DO YOU SEE WHERE IM GOING WITH IT????? This Logan was said to have let down his world and a different logan we know and love is already dead. Could this be an entirely different Wolvie? COULD IT BE X-MEN 97 WOLVERINE???????? idk i’m talkin out of my ass lmao
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now that another dp3 trailer is out- how do i get cast as gwenpool????? i know ryan reynolds is on here i swear i have all my credentials. meaning im a fem autistic who dyes their hair and reads a concerning amount of comic books…..
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HI I HAVE A DP3 THEORY ABOUT WOLVIE :3
so the fact that we officially have cassandra nova as our antagonist for the movie is think what this might do is not just bridge the gap between the XMCU and MCU but also…..maybe…bring in the X-Men 97 universe.
Recently within that show (SPOILER WARNING NOW GO AWAY) lethal sentinels attacked genosha and within the comics… cassandra sent that attack. DO YOU SEE WHERE IM GOING WITH IT????? This Logan was said to have let down his world and a different logan we know and love is already dead. Could this be an entirely different Wolvie? COULD IT BE X-MEN 97 WOLVERINE???????? idk i’m talkin out of my ass lmao
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HI I HAVE A DP3 THEORY ABOUT WOLVIE :3
so the fact that we officially have cassandra nova as our antagonist for the movie is think what this might do is not just bridge the gap between the XMCU and MCU but also…..maybe…bring in the X-Men 97 universe.
Recently within that show (SPOILER WARNING NOW GO AWAY) lethal sentinels attacked genosha and within the comics… cassandra sent that attack. DO YOU SEE WHERE IM GOING WITH IT????? This Logan was said to have let down his world and a different logan we know and love is already dead. Could this be an entirely different Wolvie? COULD IT BE X-MEN 97 WOLVERINE???????? idk i’m talkin out of my ass lmao
#BUT I MEAN#IT COULD??????#i dunno tbh LMAO#but it would be fun :3#gwen speaks!!!!!#marvel#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool#wolverine#x men 97#RYAN FIEGE HIRE ME.
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now that another dp3 trailer is out- how do i get cast as gwenpool????? i know ryan reynolds is on here i swear i have all my credentials. meaning im a fem autistic who dyes their hair and reads a concerning amount of comic books…..
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Deadpool & Wolverine | Official Trailer
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now that another dp3 trailer is out- how do i get cast as gwenpool????? i know ryan reynolds is on here i swear i have all my credentials. meaning im a fem autistic who dyes their hair and reads a concerning amount of comic books…..
#this isn’t a joke#PLEASE#please please please#ASK ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME#I AM THE GWENPOOL#ILL EVEN START WORKING OHT YGH#anyways#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool#marvel#grabbing fiege by the hat pls let’s just talk#gwen speaks!!!!!
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HeWO i was wondering where you found/if you have the full of the painting/image (? I think it's a painting) on the top left corner of the "if monkey man has 1 fan it's me" image you used on your post lmao it's beautiful and am in need to use it as a wallpaper
Damn right i do!
The art is by Entei Ryu/@BadZrwlt on twitter where its originally posted, and they are also on Art Station. Unsure if they have a tumblr but regardless go check their other stuff out too it’s amazing!!!!!
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Just watched Monkey Man and I can't recall the last time I've seen an action movie that was that overtly political. Like, it's set in India (the movie is in American/Canadian coproduction) and so it's somewhat distanced from the NorthAmerican context, but it's still very much a movie with a major plot point of the hero organizing an army of Hijras to murder the shit out of the chief of police, a corrupt conservative religious leader, and a bunch of transparent stand-ins for the BJP.
Also, it's really good.
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DEV PATEL as THE KID
Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel
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i just saw monkey man and wow it had everything
a character saying "you ever seen john wick" before we see two hours of senstive john wick
dev patel petting puppies
commentary on femicide in india
nicki minaj reference
girls cheering when dev patel took his shirt off
trans women attacking bad guys in vishnu costume
allegories to the ramanya at every turn
veiled commentary on modhi's politics
beating a man to death with a high heel
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I love how in Monkey Man, when Dev Patel is fighting the brothel owner, he's just fighting because the guy started it. But as soon as he sees the little girl there? The implication? He instantly goes batshit and is ready to kill this motherfucker, chase be damned.
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Having Baba Shakti tell Bobby to break the cycle of violence in like such a patronizing tone and then just stab him… cinema is back I fear
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In addition to my Monkey Man post from earlier, the always kind & sweet Aparna Verma (author of The Phoenix King, check it out) asked that I do a thread on Hijras, & more of the history around them, South Asia, mythology (because that's my thing), & the positive inclusion of them in Monkey Man which I brought up in my gushing review.
Hijra: They are the transgender, eunuch, or intersex people in India who are officially recognized as the third sex throughout most countries in the Indian subcontinent. The trans community and history in India goes back a long way as being documented and officially recognized - far back as 12th century under the Delhi Sultanate in government records, and further back in our stories in Hinduism. The word itself is a Hindi word that's been roughly translated into English as "eunuch" commonly but it's not exactly accurate.
Hijras have been considered the third sex back in our ancient stories, and by 2014 got official recognition to identify as the third gender (neither male or female) legally. Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India have accepted: eunuch, trans, intersex people & granted them the proper identification options on passports and other government official documents.
But let's get into some of the history surrounding the Hijra community (which for the longest time has been nomadic, and a part of India's long, rich, and sometimes, sadly, troubled history of nomadic tribes/people who have suffered a lot over the ages. Hijras and intersex people are mentioned as far back as in the Kama Sutra, as well as in the early writings of Manu Smriti in the 1st century CE (Common Era), specifically said that a third sex can exist if possessing equal male and female seed.
This concept of balancing male/female energies, seed, and halves is seen in two places in South Asian mythos/culture and connected to the Hijra history.
First, we have Aravan/Iravan (romanized) - who is also the patron deity of the transgender community. He is most commonly seen as a minor/village deity and is depicted in the Indian epic Mahabharata. Aravan is portrayed as having a heroic in the story and his self-sacrifice to the goddess Kali earns him a boon.
He requests to be married before his death. But because he is doomed to die so shortly after marriage, no one wants to marry him.
No one except Krishna, who adopts his female form Mohini (one of the legendary temptresses in mythology I've written about before) and marries him. It is through this union of male, and male presenting as female in the female form of Mohini that the seed of the Hijras is said to begun, and why the transgender community often worships Aravan and, another name for the community is Aravani - of/from Aravan.
But that's not the only place where a gender non conforming divine representation can be seen. Ardhanarishvara is the half female form of lord Shiva, the destroyer god.
Shiva combines with his consort Parvarti and creates a form that represents the balancing/union between male/female energies and physically as a perfectly split down the middle half-male half-female being. This duality in nature has long been part of South Asian culture, spiritual and philosophical beliefs, and it must be noted the sexuality/gender has often been displayed as fluid in South Asian epics and the stories. It's nothing new.
Many celestial or cosmic level beings have expressed this, and defied modern western limiting beliefs on the ideas of these themes/possibilities/forms of existence.
Ardhanarishvara signifies "totality that lies beyond duality", "bi-unity of male and female in God" and "the bisexuality and therefore the non-duality" of the Supreme Being.
Back to the Hijra community.
They have a complex and long history. Throughout time, and as commented on in the movie, Monkey Man, the Hijra community has faced ostracization, but also been incorporated into mainstream society there. During the time of the Dehli Sultanate and then later the Mughal Empire, Hijras actually served in the military and as military commanders in some records, they were also servants for wealthy households, manual laborers, political guardians, and it was seen as wise to put women under the protection of Hijras -- they often specifically served as the bodyguards and overseers of harems. A princess might be appointed a Hijra warrior to guard her.
But by the time of British colonialism, anti-Hijra laws began to come in place folded into laws against the many nomadic tribes of India (also shown in part in Monkey Man with Kid (portrayed by Dev Patel) and his family, who are possibly
one of those nomadic tribes that participated in early theater - sadly by caste often treated horribly and relegated to only the performing arts to make money (this is a guess based on the village play they were performing as no other details were given about his family).
Hijras were criminalized in 1861 by the Indian Penal Code enforced by the British and were labeled specifically as "The Hijra Problem" -- leading to an anti-Hijra campaign across the subcontinent with following laws being enacted: punishing the practices of the Hijra community, and outlawing castration (something many Hijra did to themselves). Though, it should be noted many of the laws were rarely enforced by local Indian officials/officers. But, the British made a point to further the laws against them by later adding the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871, which targeted the Hijra community along with the other nomadic Indian tribes - it subjected them to registration, tracking/monitoring, stripping them of children, and their ability to sequester themselves in their nomadic lifestyle away from the British Colonial Rule.
Today, things have changed and Hijras are being seen once again in a more positive light (though not always and this is something Monkey Man balances by what's happened to the community in a few scenes, and the heroic return/scene with Dev and his warriors). All-hijra communities exist and sort of mirror the western concept of "found families" where they are safe haven/welcoming place trans folks and those identifying as intersex.
These communities also have their own secret language known as Hijra Farsi, which is loosely based on Hindi, but consists of a unique vocabulary of at least 1,000 words.
As noted above, in 2014, the trans community received more legal rights.
Specifically: In April 2014, Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan declared transgender to be the third gender in Indian law in National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India.
Hijras, Eunuchs, apart from binary gender, be treated as "third gender" for the purpose of safeguarding their rights under Part III of our Constitution and the laws made by the Parliament and the State Legislature. Transgender persons' right to decide their self-identified gender is also upheld and the Centre and State Governments are directed to grant legal recognition of their gender identity such as male, female or as third gender.
I've included some screenshots of (some, not all, and certainly not the only/definitive reads) books people can check out about SOME of the history. Not all again. This goes back ages and even our celestial beings/creatures have/do display gender non conforming ways.
There are also films that touch on Hijra history and life. But in regards to Monkey Man, which is what started this thread particularly and being asked to comment - it is a film that positively portrayed India's third sex and normalized it in its depiction. Kid the protagonist encounters a found family of Hijras at one point in the story (no spoilers for plot) and his interactions/acceptance, living with them is just normal. There's no explaining, justifying, anything to/for the audience. It simply is. And, it's a beautiful arc of the story of Kid finding himself in their care/company.
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just saw Dev Patel’s Moneky Man…..and I too would like to be nursed back to health and trained by a loving and supportive group of beautiful transwomen…
#no but seriously everyone needs to see this movie#right now#it’s incredible#i cried#monkey man#dev patel#GO WATCH THIS MOVIE RIGHT NOW
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the fact that i can’t watch dune 1 and 2 back to back rn without timing it with a theater is a fucking crime
#and it might just kill me#i need to inject 6 hours of scifi into my bloodstream#it’s all i can think about#dune#dune 2021#dune 2#dune 2024
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