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DEV PATEL Monkey Man (2024) dir. Dev Patel

#monkey man #blood tw

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people really believe michonne's character revolves around a man and it's ???? have you been paying attention? because nothing in the story really even justifies thinking that.

Oh yeah, that's definitely bullshit. Nothing of Michonne's development in the early seasons came from a romantic attachment. Her friendship with Andrea and her connection with Carl laid the foundation for her to grow from an emotionally distant loner to a fully integrated member and eventual leading voice. The narrative hammers that home constantly.

There's a clear distinction in her not being considered 'a first lady' (which Lori was explicitly called in s2) or simply being side-support, with Rick and many other characters looking to her because she knows what tf she's doing. "Radiating shit-knowing". She has her own opinions, and she challenges and communicates with others when she disagrees.

In that aspect, Michonne and Maggie parallel each other, with their growth from level-headed advice givers into leaders (and it's so funny, because the 'story revolving around a man' criticism almost never lands on Maggie as much as people love to attach that to Michonne, despite Maggie's story being continuously, unfortunately connected to the man who murdered her husband).

Her love for and romantic connection to Rick is integral to Michonne's story but it has never been her sole arc, and anyone thinking that is just mad that Michonne has always been a layered, complex character in her own right and that Rick values her, as her own person and the love of his life. Because no other character can do what she can, and that includes being so necessary and essential to Rick, and the overall TWD universe, and that's the real issue a lot of these weird fans have with her.

#.answered #michonne grimes #richonne #baby it's the racism #michonne's story includes rick #it doesn't center him or overshadow her

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bru & dee's friday movie night — nope (2022)

#nope #flashing gif

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Doubt (2008) — dir. John Patrick Shanley

#doubt

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some of my favorite photos by Bill Ray for LIFE Magazine

Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1966

#photography

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Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 10: A Dream of a Dream + Aesthetic 19/∞

#shogun fx

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BIANCA LAWSON as KENDRA YOUNG Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2.09 | 2.10 | 2.21

#btvs #kendra young #one thing bianca's gonna do #and that's give us an iconic character

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TRUE BLOOD

Sparks Fly Out | 1x05

#true blood #lafayette reynolds

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Lucien Laviscount Shakira – "Puntería" (2024)

#lucien laviscount #tagged in #blood tw

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MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

#monkey man

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I didn't really like the helmet grab by Michonne in towl. I didn't think it was necessary for them to make her do that even though I know they were trying to show how angry she was. Am I overthinking this?

forgive me but I actually think you're not thinking enough. You're not thinking about what's happened from michonne's perspective. even if you were, you're not extending her any empathy because writing off her as just "angry" does not cut it here

....Michonne had to carry on believing rick was dead for FIVE YEARS, raising their kids despite that grief and then when she was given the smallest hope he was alive she gave up another 2 years with her kids, risking her life in the wastelands, surviving chlorine poisoning, and enduring more fucking trauma with nothing keeping her going but the fact that she loved him and would not give up looking...... AND THEN she finds him against all those odds and rick had the CAUCACITY to try and trick her into ABANDONING HIM and insinuate that she DOESN'T TRULY LOVE HIM UNLESS SHE DOES??? of fucking COURSE she rips that dumb fucking helmet off his head!! she wants him to say that nonsense to her FACE, hear how insane it sounds, and be greeted with the only appropriate response to an assertion so ludicrous: silence.

When my dad and I watched that episode we both agreed rick actually got off easy for trying to pull that shit after what michonne had been through. My dad even left the room when rick was bragging about his stoopid plan to trick michonne into leaving to jadis because my dad is very sensitive to second hand embarrassment and rick was so fucking idiotic for trying to do that to michonne and thinking it would work.

ALSO.....something that I've ranted about before is this idea of an empathy gap between how people see white characters and characters of colour (ESPECIALLY Black characters) because such is the racism of the world that people simply don't empathise or even sympathise with characters of colour because they've been conditioned not to. Years of racist media conditions you to empathise with white characters almost instinctively even when they're wrong. In this case, rick was wrong. Totally wrong, despite his intentions. He was dishonest, condescending, and inconsiderate. Michonne had every right to be angry and every right to show him how angry she was. The fact that you're uncomfortable with that maybe means you haven't really paid mind to what michonne has been through and maybe you haven't done that because she's a Black woman. Personally, I loved that scene so much and I also love all the scenes in ep4 where she's pissed off because michonne isn't just rick's love interest she's a protagonist in her own right and she's NEVER not once accepted less, even from him.

anyway, hope you don't think I'm being mean! I've just seen weird discourse about that scene that is so unnecessary. It simply wouldn't be a thing if people actually cared about michonne as a character, rather than just as one half of a ship.

#twd: the ones who live #exactly #it was hilarious #he deserved that shit #michonne was 100% justified #he was wrong and knew he was wrong

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so it's lesbian visibility week anddd I've been so wiped by doctors/medication fees I think I might disappear 🙃 going to leave links here in case any of you would like to help out a mentally ill lesbian of colour. thanks, and no pressure

paypal | ko-fi | beem

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BET+ promo budget is exactly 5 dollars which explains why the show only has a bit of buzz around it, but Diarra From Detroit is a great watch, def recommend if you're looking for an engaging dark comedy-mystery series.

#BET is keeping tyler perry's lights on #and tyrese in syndication checks for every baby boy airing #when they could be promo-ing some actually good shit

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THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (2024) Costume Appreciation, Part II [ Part I ] Costume design by Eulyn Hufkie

#twdedit #towledit #tvedit #the walking dead #the ones who live #twd: the ones who live #costume design #costumeedit #** #*gifs #**tv #eulyn really did her big one

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Teyana Taylor photographed by Emman Montalvan for Cultured Magazine (2024)

#teyana taylor

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#miss congeniality

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Inject this shit into my veins!!!

Decades worth of Knicks Legends from different eras celebrating what may be the craziest Knicks win I have ever seen.

New York Forever

#video #nba #new york knicks #like this was wild