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aglitchinmatrix · 1 year

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Florence Pugh in The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 10 months

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They Should Have Never Given You the Word “Queerbait”

It’s been 5 years and I’m still thinking about this, so now I am going to vent a bit. I hate when there is a Black female protagonist who is queer coded and seemingly in a slow burn setting, and the viewers flag it as queerbait and disengage.

I feel like I have seen so many shows where people can take a character who is never even suggestively queer and nit pick even the smallest glimmers to validate reading them as such and they will be able to ship and create and support all of the ways this is a queer character and trust the writers to possibly give more.

But, when there are Black women in these areas, it falls down as soon as they aren’t given overt displays of wlw actions. I said its been 5 years, because I’m specifically thinking about Kiss Me First, but I also want to hit on Crazyhead, while I’m here because I feel like it got paid the same treatment in this regard. And both of those shows had such good writing, and as a Black queer woman WITH mental illness, both of these characters spoke to me and seeing them have potential for love stories for wlw stories was so rewarding, only to see the journey get bashed and the shows get cancelled.

So. Let me talk a minute. Starting with Kiss Me First. If you haven’t already watched it, you probably aren’t going to, so I’m not sparing potential “spoilers,” as I’ve said, its been 5 years.

Kiss Me First centers around this dynamic of an orphan, Leila, who recently lost her mom and is getting attached to a woman, Tess, that she met in this computer universe, who she also has befriended irl. Leila and Tess start off with some mystery, as you can’t tell what Tess’ intentions are for this woman, but you see very early on that Leila doesn’t necessarily trust people that are in Tess’ life. When Leila realizes that the person who Tess seems to care about the most is a dangerous and manipulative person, she does everything that she can to protect her.

The criticisms of the show were that people were “queerbaited” with the relationship between them because of the romantic and sexual relationships that these characters had with men and not with each other...

This is what is frustrating to me: So much of this series is realistic, INCLUDING the story arcs where these women are in relationships with men that don’t really serve them best. Real life queer people frequently have relationships with partners that they don’t really belong with before finding the love that they had been seeking. But, the moment it happens in media, especially with a Black woman, it is unbearable for audiences. They gotta see her eating box, or it ain’t real.

And it’s aggravating, because there is this fairy tale happening in which Leila literally is on a quest to save Tess. She knows that this guy is dangerous and her entire goal becomes making sure she rescues Tess from him. He lifts Tess on a pedestal and makes her feel like she is the most important person, but he is actually an abuser and preying upon this group that idolizes him, so Leila spends episodes working to get Tess out of his grasp.

In the end, they aren’t IN a queer relationship, but she has absolutely freed Tess and Tess is helping her to escape being framed by the enemy. They are “friends,” but if you have a queer eye, and are not racist, you’d be able to see that this is and was the entire time a fucking love story between these two women! If anything, they tossed in some dudes for the straights to pay attention. I’m livid every time somebody suggests that Kiss Me First is queerbait. To you, but not my Black, gay, bipolar ass. I loved it. I wanted to see them flourish. I wanted to be given the payoff, yes. But, I loved being able to see a beautiful love story between two fucked up people who were side by side at the end.

This happened in Crazyhead, as well.

Raquel is a target for an apocalypse and do you know how Amy saved her and the world? By telling her she loved her and giving her a kiss that brought her back from the brink of destruction...

Now... I will admit, the writers did a “no homo” type thing at the end... but the homo in me seen the homo in thee, so I wasn’t bothered by that.

I just think that it is an unfair measurement, to expect everything to be served up for you in order to support representation, and not being able to detect subtext or to envision the potential coding shows a huge amount of privilege. I adore the fact that so much queer content as of late gets spoonfed to you, but I also enjoy a slow burn, and it’s not right that Black queer women rarely get one because you give up if there’s not an automatic tonguing and huge declarations. And in the cases of these two shows, there were very clear expressions of love and several moments of intimacy, but I guess they needed to trib for true love.

Anyways, I love Kiss Me First and Crazyhead, and I consider them representation FOR ME.

#Kiss Me First #Tess x Leila #Crazyhead #Raquel x Amy #Nesha Rants #black queer representation #black female characters #commentary #Tess KMF #Raquel Francis #Simona Brown #Susan Wokoma #Disability Pride Month

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starxcxboy · 8 months

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— Behind Her Eyes (2021), a Netflix original limited series created by Steve Lightfoot, based on the novel by Sarah Pinborough.

#behind her eyes #netflix #2021 #steve lightfoot #sarah pinborough #tom bateman #simona brown #eve hewson #robert aramayo #thriller #erik richter strand #beauty #actors

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ozu-teapot · 1 year

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Behind Her Eyes | TV | Erik Richter Strand | 2021

#Erik Richter Strand #Behind Her Eyes #2021 #TV #Eve Hewson #Simona Brown #Robert Aramayo #Tom Bateman

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beautyarchive · 18 days

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Simona Brown in episode 4 of The Night Manager (2016).

#simona brown #the night manager #actress #john le carre

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bohemian-nights · 1 year

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A skinny brown girl on a skinny brown dragon 👩🏾🐑🐉

#house of the dragon #nettles #hotd spoilers #netty #hotd #nettles fancast #simona brown #no weapon formed against nettles shall prosper #my baby #nettles asoif #nettles x daemon #houseofthedragon #👩🏾🐑🐉#nettles supremacy #hotd fancast #bnmoodboard #hotdedit

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purpledragongifs · 4 months

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Kevin Ryan as Patrick Ryan and Simona Brown as Roz Walters in Guilt, Episode 4 Made by purpledragongifs. All gifs are 540px wide. Please do not delete credits.

#Guilt #Kevin Ryan #Kevin Ryan Gifs #Patrick Ryan #Simona Brown #Simona Brown gifs #Roz Walters

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sunsis · 1 year

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If Bridgerton is real about diversity they’ll cast Simona Brown or Crystal Clarke as Sophie Beckett in season 3

#Shonda has yet to cast a dark skinned Black woman as a love interest #If Sophie is not Black I’m not watching sorry not sorry #crystal clarke #bridgerton #sophie beckett #simona brown

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evermorehqs · 7 months

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CATCHING MY BREATH, STARING OUT AN OPEN WINDOW

Tiana Broussard is based on Tiana from The Princess and The Frog. She is a 29 year old cursed human, restaurant owner, and uses she/her pronouns. She has the power of spontaneous shifting. Tiana is portrayed by Simona Brown and she is open.

CATCHING MY DEATH, AND I COULDN’T BE SURE

Tiana knew from a very young age exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up, her dream carried so much passion and determination it almost leaped off of the page to life whenever she spoke about it. Opening her own restaurant with her father, cooking side by side, bringing people together. When Tiana lost her father to ill health, that dream was momentarily shattered, because how else could she go on without her daddy? He was everything to her. But Tiana’s Place was more than a porch dream, it was a lifetime goal for both of them, and Tiana was damn sure she would succeed in it, not just for herself but for her father. Through setbacks, and heartbreaks, hard work and tears, praying and a lot of late nights Tiana finally reached the summit; now it was time to make it work. Nothing was ever handed to Tiana, and no amount of wishing or hoping could get her where she needed to be. She had sacrificed so much of her life, worked countless crappy jobs, saved every single penny and broke glass ceilings to get Tiana’s Place up and running, only to find... here was where the real work started. Staffing, insurance, bills, vendors coming at her from every angle, and just barely making enough to keep the restaurant afloat, much less have any excess spending money. Working twice as hard and doing almost everything herself to cut back on costs, she was too proud to admit she needed help, too afraid to lose her dream. She just wanted to succeed for herself, for her daddy, for the both of them. Maybe it’s time to put faith into the cosmos and like every other chump in Evermore, make a wish.

I HAD A FEELING SO PECULIAR

❀ Kida Nedakh: Old souls, the two of them, Tiana finds comfort in Kida's company. Sometimes she is sure there is more than meets the eye with the other woman, but whatever it is, she knows Kida is a true friend. ❀ Adam Janssen: There’s a guy to put a sour taste in your mouth and his restaurant isn't even that good! And one day Tiana will give him a peace of her mind, and a lesson or two in cooking. ❀ Johnny Loughran: Its not that Tiana is bugged out by Johnny’s constant chatting about adventures, its just that maybe she’s too much of a homebird to let her guard down and be as spontaneous.

THIS PAIN WOULD BE FOR EVERMORE

#disney rp #simona brown #the princess and the frog #princess and the frog #tiana #female bio #open bio #open female #has powers

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vintagewarhol · 1 year

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#behind her eyes #tv shows #netflix #steve lightfoot #eve hewson #tom bateman #simona brown #robert aramayo #illustration #vintage art #alternative movie posters

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goldencarrot · 2 years

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#Simona Brown

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harmonyverendez · 29 days

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Adele Ferguson x GenderFluidOC!

When Cameron first met Adele, the beautiful young woman was taking a stroll around, she had headphones over her ears. So of course she didn't hear a word they said.

They threw a small pebble they picked up from behind the trees and threw it at her shoes, luckily it softly tapped her and she pulled the headphones down from her ears.

“ What?”.

Cameron couldn't seem to take their eyes off her, she was extraordinary and beautiful.

“ You didn't fancy taking a walk with the others?” they asked, biting their lips.

Adele chuckled and it made their heart clenched, they even had soft butterflies in their stomach.

“ No,” Adele answered.

Cameron smiled, they didn't blame her at all. The walk wasn't something they did with the groups either, but there were days when they did.

They got down from the tree and walked closer to the dark-haired female, she was at least no… she was five foot and one inches.

Small for her size.

But Cameron didn't mind, they looked at her as she looked at him.

She fluttered her eyelashes for a split second.

Flirting?.

“ Come on, let's go inside”.

Adele smiled, making their heart flutter once more.

Oh, these feelings.

Over the past month Adele and Cameron's relationship has bloomed for the best, they joked and laughed with others.

Others were envious of their relationship, but neither didn't care.

Cameron sure didn't.

But things slowly went downhill, Adele talked about night terrors and astral Projection.

What the heck was Astral Projection?.

So they asked her for more details, and slowly and carefully Adele went into details.

Cameron was shocked when they learned about it. Because they didn't have night terrors and they voiced it.

“ But you can try, I believe you don't have to have night terrors to Astral Project” Adele had said.

Cameron shook their head and just smiled, but later that evening they did research and did what she asked.

For the first few tries,nothing happened. But why did you expect? They wasn't having night terrors.

But on their fifth try they managed to get their soul to leave their body, it shocked them to their core.

And those Lucid dreams? Wow! Outstanding.

They told Adele about it, and the young woman was happy for her friend.

It was until one late night when the two were engaged in a talk when Adele had the idea to Astral project to the forest and take a sight at the wail.

Cameron happily did what she asked, they would do anything for her.

So that night they laid on the bed and held each other's hands, they were nervous and so was Adele.

They smiled at her and let each other hand go, they both then counted their fingers and slowly their souls left their bodies as they flew out of the bed, room and outside.

Where they would travel through the forest and finally reach the Wail, the souls then turned around and went back to their original owners.

When the souls reconnected, both sat up with a gasp.

Cameron's heart was racing rapidly, they rubbed their chest and took deep breaths.

Adele happily jumped out of bed and hugged her friend.

They Happily hugged her back, the hug lasted for a few seconds until both pulled away.

They stared at each other and slowly leaned closely and their lips touched gently.

Camerone grabbed her waist and pulled her close, Adele happily signed into the kiss and closed her eyes as she felt bliss and desire.

The kiss was passionate, gentle and full of love.

Slowly they pulled apart and looked at each other. They never felt that they would have feelings for each other or even catch them.

Cameron laughed as they grabbed her hand and softly caressed it.

Adele chuckled and leaned her head on her now lover's chest.

She mumbled something slowly that they couldn't hear.

Cameron looked confused but opened their mouth to reply. “ What did you say? I didn't hear you?”.

Adele nuzzled and closed her eyes before she went to sleep.

“ I love you ”.

They kissed the top of Adele's head and sighed.

She was tired, so of course she didn't mean that.

They would love to see her face when she awakens and realizes what she said.

They slowly rose to their feet and picked up Adele, her body was light so they could easily carry her to her room.

They tucked her in and kissed the top of her forehead, but not before saying three words that would have made her heart melt.

“ I love you”.

And slowly they closed the door and walked back down the hall to their room.

They then got in bed and went to sleep after a few minutes.

“ Do you have to go?” Adele whimpered one day as her lover was leaving the place.

Camerone cooed softly and leaned down to kiss her lips softly but pulled back to answer. “ Yes, I did my time already. I'll be back before you know… well I never be back, but I'll come visit you. You… I tell you want, I call you everyday, sounds good?”.

Adele nodded and ran her hand through Cameron Auburn brown hair and stood on her tiptoes to kiss their cheek.

“ Yes, that sounds good. And you better, or else I miss you terribly”.

Cameron chuckled and kissed her once more, Adele melted into the kiss.

Neither pulled away for a long period of time.

But they knew the longer they stay together, the more pain they'll be in.

A little while later Cameron's phone rang and they pulled it to their ear and answered.

“ Hello little doll, how are you?” they answered.

They heard their girlfriend's voice and leaned on the wall for support, if they hadn't they would have collapsed.

It felt like their knees were going out.

“ Hey..” Adele breathed into the voice. “ I miss you love. How are you?”.

Cameron bit their lip and sighed softly. “ Fine, but lonely without you. ”

“ So how is it there? Do you have any new friends?” they asked after a few minutes.

There was a pause for a while but Their girlfriend spoke up.

“ Yes, I made a friend… he's very funny. I think we help each other” was Adele's reply.

Cameron clenched their hand but shook it off.

They felt anger but they weren't mad at her, she was allowed to make friends but why was they so angry?.

“ should I be worried?”.

Adele and someone else laughed on the other end and they felt stupid for asking, it seemed they were making a big deal out of nothing.

“ No” was Adele's response.

They talked for a little while before Cameron hung up and rubbed their forehead.

They could feel something was about to happen.

Every nerve in their body was going off, something was wrong.

They could feel it.

They needed Adele here and now.

Before it was too late.

I was supposed to have Oc, Adele and Rob all in the asylum at the same time, but I decided against it.

Leave me a comment if I should do part 2.

I would love to do part 2.

Thank you.

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#Adele Ferguson #my post #harmonyverendez #behind her eyes #Louise #dr. david ferguson #robert aramayo #Simona brown #eve hewson #romance #genderfluid #tv show #tv series

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bebemoon · 1 year

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“renaissance girl gang leader”, requested by @vampirkaninchen .

(hair) valentino couture autumn 2o16

jade cropper side-slit leather skirt

ann demeulemeester “joris” leather gloves in black

beaufort london “rake & ruin” eau de parfum

rotate birger christensen lace-up faux leather midi dress/top

simona vanth borges “radica” clog & “tango” brush-off sabot heel in burgundy (couldn’t decide so have both^^’)

renaissance-era italian parrying dagger (“designed to be used alongside a rapier, the waves in the blade may be intended to act like ‘speed bumps’ in breaking the impact of a blow from an opponent's blade.”)