INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 1.03 "Is My Very Nature That of the Devil"

MONKEY MAN (2024)

smthin about monkey man i think about is how unacceptable it is to show trans and gender diverse people getting angry and getting violent in their anger, because of how that's historically been used as shorthand for deviancy and villainy in narrative. when a trans or gender diverse person is upset with a system in film and resorts to violence, the audience knows not to side with them, but with the system trying to stop them

by contrast cisgender men and women have movies showing them enacting extreme violence (take this movie and every revenge movie ever) with the understanding that we are on their side

this is one of the only times ive seen what i'd call a mainstream film (albeit a mainstream film that's a passion project on a comparatively low budget that only got a cinematic release because of another film-maker with influence) depict -- in this case hijra anger and capacity for violence -- as righteous, as uncomplicatedly worth rooting for

very satisfying to know many people watched this statement, thank you dev patel and jordan peele

Some color studies I did with frames from the Monkey Man film. I really liked the artistic direction and a lot of the cinematography from this movie, that I just had to paint it.

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I saw Monkey Man yesterday and I tells ya, if I didn’t already have a crush on Dev Patel, I sure do now.

Ppl on letterboxd complaining that Monkey Man was not John Wick 43: yeah the trauma and social commentary was super heavy handed. Patel is more interested in a political, spiritual character arc than in the action and violence.

"why not end the cycle of violence" says man perpetuating it. yeah it's always time to end the cycle of violence when it's YOUR turn to experience the violence isn't it. interesting.

i’m watching invincible right now. the entire grayson family is fine.

Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck this. I've never hated an animated man like this before.

Hi! I just wanna say that I LOVE your artwork and your Thragg and Nolan are sooo nice

Can your draw some Nolan & Debbie please?

the wife guy ever

cast out of paradise

pushing my deblan propaganda on here again

(Nov. 29) Indigenous Group Wins Fight to Reclaim Ancestral Land After Being Forced Out 8 Decades Ago

In a major victory for Indigenous rights, an Ecuadorian appeals court has sided with the Siekopai Nation to regain ownership of their ancestral homeland in the Amazon rainforest. The Siekopai people were forced out of their territory, called Pë’këya, over 80 years ago during the Peru-Ecuador War in the 1940s. This ruling will mark the first time the Ecuadorian government grants a land title to an Indigenous community whose ancestral land is now a protected area. The Siekopai are on the brink of extinction with a population of only 800 people in Ecuador and 1,200 in Peru. In a statement, Siekopai Nation President Elias Piyahuaje said, “We are fighting for the preservation of our culture on this planet. Without this territory, we cannot exist as Siekopai people. Today is a great day for our nation. Until the end of time, this land will be ours.”

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

Death is too good for homelander. I need him stripped of his powers, cancelled on Twitter. I need hate edits of him on TikTok. I need him getting slandered on the news. I need him getting harassed in public and not being able to do anything about it because he’s a human now. I need him hating himself for what he’s become. I need him to suffer.

And I need Marie to find her sister, make up with her and then live happily ever after w Jordan <3

i hate this stupid job

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