I was watching Sandman, and I could rant and rave and rant and rave about how excellent it is as an adaptation. The beautiful cinematography, the beautiful dialogue, the music the acting one after another bam bam bam.
But I was taken aback by something and idk what else’s to do but to try and articulate myself on my little tumblr blog.
I was having an incredulous conversation with my sister about this show’s great actors until I realized…. I genuinely haven’t seen so many (dark-skin) black women (with natural hair even!!) in one show. The show wasn’t about racism or suffering but it flexed this unique casting with such ease. I ended up joking that every 3 new characters was a black woman.
There were no stereotypes. Just black women allowed to BE in their full complexity and beauty. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
And I wonder… will I ever get used to this trivial joy? This casual little gift? I wish this small joy for everyone of every stripe. But a little selfishly I want every little black girl to know there is no one way to be, they can look and feel and be anything they want, no box can hold their brilliance.
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(A drawing of Rose Walker, the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman version. She squints and seems to be cringing. Her thought bubble says "This Bitch".
I assume she is listening to her uncle talk.)
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i am just finding out now that vanesu samunyai got shit from reddit fuckheads for her performance as rose and??? baby if you're going to lie about "bad acting" to cover your ass as to your criticism of an actor that boils down to nothing but racism, you should at least make it believable
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I personally relate to Rose Walker because she wears the collared shirt + sweater + skinny jeans + jacket combo I wore during my grad studies.
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The Vortex
Rose is wearing the outfit she wore in the comic, bestie was just in her night gown ready for bed.
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