#...if he had a hand in that

[sleepynegress]

Love this interview... I have been semi-checking in on Zawe's journey since before certain stans were feeling some kinda way about her recent familial additions. I do for certain Black actors/creators especially, who seem to be moving in interesting ways in entertainment/film media...

-A remnant from a period when I used to go to screenings and blog about films (and was published a few times in a major national newspaper)... So, I knew of Zawe through the grapevine of her mentorship, i.e. she is the reason why Rege Jean Page of Bridgerton fame got to work in U.S. markets, as she sponsored him. And she is known, as one of those "good eggs" who will be accessible and help/advise especially young actors of color. ...But, I have some other stuff to say. This isn't about proving that she's an amazing human being. It's about a certain brand of misogynoir that some of these people far beneath her in self-knowledge, self-love, and just plain grown-ass-woman-personhood...keep letting fly in what they *think* are compliments, but actually are just trite microaggressions. Saying things like "as long she makes [T-blank H-blank] happy then she's alright" as if he's the centered human and her attachment renders her worthy somehow. Babies, as long as SHE'S happy. Yall. He's marrying up.

WAY UP and the fact that he knows this? Actually elevates him. She's been there.

She tells a story in the above interview that reminds me of Uzo Aduba's anecdote about her name , - of an incident when she was called to an early job (at 6!) and someone there said she wasn't pretty because of her gap and her Ugandan mother took her on past this person and into the room, ANYWAY.

... She learned a specific self-knowledge and self-love, that is necessary in very white western spaces that constantly pressures a narrow sense of worthiness and beauty, especially from Black women, something a lot of these small-minded stans don't even have a notion of seeing beyond. Zawe is biracial, and her features, aside from her skin tone are very African. So while she benefits from colorism, featurism is something I've seen those bigoted stans, pick on as well. She knows those features are what makes her beautiful and knew that, w/o and before her partner saw that too. And people who aren't blind narrow-minded ignoramuses can *also* see that. This is why I assert the fact of featurism needing to be in the conversation of light/dark privilege conversations. Lips, nose, gap, and even the set of her eyes are ethnic beauty markers within quite a few spaces in the Black African diaspora... My mom was an absolute stunner because of her gap.

Even the old school white model Lauren Hutton got there because of her gap. Uzo Aduba, who I have already mentioned has a deeper skintone and has similarly large round striking eyes, gap, and a non-pinched-nose *rightly* played Glinda in NBC's production of The Wiz a few years back, with Dorothy saying she's so beautiful *because* of those features, not despite them as a very narrow white-washed gaze would wrongly assert.

And while we're here that includes sizes and shapes too. I'm saying your boy is enjoying all that plush. A lot of yall need to read or reread Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman, for comprehension.

Anyway... All this to say I know Zawe is and will be fine regardless.

P.S. Maya Angelou *also* had height, and gap and was very much known for her beauty/magnetism as a woman when she was alive. :

#she's as steady in herself as ms. whoopi goldberg is and was back when ALL the comedians even some Black men were picking on her #for her African features meanwhile she pulled whoever she wanted and kept working and has her EGOT #I could also get into the notion that particularly worldly white folk with redhair are more inclined to understand #being picked apart or fetishized for a feature... and can have a leg up on empathy #especially I think when also in the spotlight #she also mentions sinead o'connor who also subverted standards and being an irish woman with her oppressive history pushed back with her ar #zawe ashton #interesting watch #meta #blah #getting ish off my chest #some of yall were comforted by the lie of a certain standard beauty being the only milkshake bringing them to yard #even beyond the misogynoir #grown ups in partnerships and marriages etc value other things and see beauty much differently when they mature. #I'm talking about grown ups some folks never grow to that point sadly #Youtube #I'm so glad she didn't quit acting #and I see TH giving his old theatre school buddies and Black women a word or boost or whatever he did. #...if he had a hand in that #love yourselves because of & not in spite of what you have going on

[oaxleaf]

love myself a cockroach of a character. i look at them and go ”how is that fucker not dead? they should be dead. they should be dead ten times over. how are they not?” and 90% of the time the answer is a combo of sheer stubborness and homosexuality

#arthur lester #he’s about 15% scar tissue by now i can’t not include him #also: #izzy hands #i know he’s dead and buried now #but i haven’t watched ep 8 yet and anyways he still had like five fakeouts before that

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

#when penelope scott said ''you promised you'd be tesla but you're just another edison'' she was so right. she gets it #edit: now that this is getting popular i just want to say please don't deify/martyr tesla #yes he was dealt an awful hand but he also had some very bad opinions especially towards the end of his life. like eugenics #he was clearly struggling with untreated mental illness and was also a product of his time so i'm not trying to cancel him or anything lol #but people in the notes saying ''my poor baby boy tesla did nothing wrong'' is weird. you know that's weird right. #daze.txt #100 #500 #1k #5k #10k #20k #30k #40k #50k #60k #70k #80k #90k #100k #speechless btw. about the 100k notes thing

[keymintt]

a comic/zine about coyotes

#art #comic #coyotes #comics #my art #digital #zine #idk what else to tag this if anything #i just think coyotes are so fucking cool and excellent queer symbolism. if you think about it #< he has thought about it so fucking much #shoutout to the handful of ppl who kept me company on stream last night too hehe #sorry if you get a version with typos they should all be corrected by now. i unfortunately have adhd and made this in two days #busted out all the illustrations for this in...one night for phx zine fest lmaO #our group found out two days before we were tabling that we got taken off the waitlist. had fun today tho #greatest hits

[wombywoo]

aftercare ❤️‍🩹

#call of duty #cod #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #soapghost #my art #see the boy's fine he just had a gnar wipeout trying to stick a kickflip #fail king 😌 #meanhwile Simon's doing that mr darcy thing with his hands #can't get the feeling of your phantom grip out of my palm #your blood's still under my fingernails because it might've been the last thing I had left of you... #etc...

[sirenetica]

My beautiful boyfriend @spellboundcities made art of the wonderful DDVAU (made by @xmaruu11 and @kitsuneisi respectively) and, obviously, i took that as a CHALLENGE!

So here's some fanart for a wonderful AU!

#are they holding hands? are they not holding hands? the better question is ARE YOU A NARC? /ref #i looove this au #i binge read every single thing i could when i found it months ago #and then my beloved partner #my darling angel #had the AUDACITY #to draw fanart BEFORE ME! /lhj /nsrs #so i could not let that stand #ddvau #ddvau fanart #desertduo vigilante au #trafficshipping #hermitshipping #technically but not technically? #gtws fanart #grian fanart #my art #the textposts were supplied to me by my beautiful boyfriend #with brown eyes #he tells me what to do and i say yes sir #on it boss

[bluegiragi]

open wide.

early access + nsfw on patreon

#punk!soap the man that you are #pretty man's favourite choker is simon's hand #also to clarify #he's beat up bc he got into a fight at the bar #that ghost had to drag him away from #and now he's making sure he gets his energy out in a productive way. in the bathroom #:D #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #ghostsoap #giragi art

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Tfw you realize you’re so predictable a winning bingo card was made about you in less than an hour and there was never a way for you to win the game because you ARE the game

Where’s that post where someone was saying Brennan was probably stressed out during the entirety of his scene in “Pencil’s Down” because he was ready for it to be an elaborate scheme targeting him specifically? Because I’m pretty sure that’s the same shirt he was wearing so there’s a non-zero chance those were filmed on the same day, which is why Brennan was probably already on-set/available on such short notice. And since the set is still intact, that means this was filmed immediately before his Pencils Down scene and it is absolutely reasonable to assume he was waiting for it to be another elaborate setup.

#like it’s definitely possible that he was called in and wore the same shirt because it’s all they had on hand for him #but it’s funnier to imagine he came off of getting psychologically tortured #only to immediately be put into a 100% normal #non-rigged episode of game changer #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #game changer #dropout #dropout tv

[bizarrelittlemew]

Stede facing the crew after finding out about their (attempted) murder of Ed

#ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 2x3 #stede bonnet #izzy hands #rhys how fucking dare you this devastated me #experiencing shrimp emotions about this #it's like he can see how they felt they had no other choice #but he has nothing to say to them #just that fucking look containing a mix of emotions i can't convey via text

[cozylittleartblog]

autism shrimp man (i love him)

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #kinger #doodles #art #tadc fanart #HAD to draw him. love drawing him. i love big stupid eyes i draw my sona like that ALL the fucking time #(he got them autism raptor hands. i hope that doesn't sound like an insult whjbdsfhbj) #there's some screenshot somewhere of him curled up on the ground exactly like that and it kills me every time i see it #WORM MODE #i only have like two more pieces of tadc fanart in my brain currently but it's nice drawing and posting semi regularly again wheeee

[yaolmao]

simp

#I HATE COLORING I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE #my friends bought me an Apple Pencil and omgggg I’ve never had pressure before in my life #this changes everything #I can actually put my hand down on my iPad to doodle?? #I’ve gotten so used to hovering my hand like what is going on #anyways 15!chuuya is actually amazing #I’ve made a recent discovery that I’m a lot similar to Dazai than I thought and idk how I feel about that cause he’s such a brat #ive gotten to the point that I’d actually talk to him on those character ai’s and it’s actually so embarrassing like it’s nothing #like the actual bsd dazai but I’d actually rather talk to a robot than a real person about my problems #I like kids being kids so I’m always down to draw 15!skk #chuuya nakahara #dazai Osamu #bsd #bungou stray dogs #skk #soukoku #myart #I’m gonna post and pass out now

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 4.5: Morning Period.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #mdzs au #Yunmeng Jiang training arc AU #This is 4.5 because it was originally all supposed to be part of the same comic #This part wasn't as punchy and I was close to scrapping it but I figured I'd at least give it a chance. #Despite the fact I already had it in pencils...cleaning it up took a very long time. Still hate it. Sunken cost fallacy enacted: It lives. #Okay quick commentary (I'm very late to post today) #While this is supposed to be a 'snapshot' of routine - Wei Wuxian slept in. Normally he is up earlier. #Meaning he delayed the dueling part of the day. Hence LWJ's hand gesture. #I also imagine that LWJ and JC have a bit more of a friendship in this AU since they spend a few hours in the morning sans WWX #I always enjoyed how JC and LWJ on paper seem like they would get along but Do Not in canon. Let me have a world where they do.

[navree]

my adventures with superman turning deathstroke the fucking terminator into an anime twink is the single greatest thing i've seen in the history of animation i have not been able to stop laughing

#personal #my adventures with superman #honestly the second this guy showed up with his hair covering an eye i started wondering if t'was slade #and it is! it's twink slade! i had to pause the episode to try and stop giggling #i do love it i do love twink slade i think he should be a recurring character #with his white hair and his gold eye god bless him #also how early is this supposed to be in his career he is getting his shit absolutely rocked by livewire #(makes sense he does repeatedly get his ass handed to him by teenagers including his own children) #(but still come on twink slade) #he is hot tho i'm immediately on board with him being in this show

[thesernotthedroidsurlooking4]

Percy honking and yelling at the driver he nearly hit, with full confidence, even though it was actually his fault… peak New Yorker behavior

#they really said New Yorker Percy rights #pjo #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson #percy jackson spoilers #he even had the hand gesture of pure irritation down

[bodega-catto]

#gojo just had to go and kill the hand that fingered him #gojo satoru #jjk #satosugu #geto suguru #jujutsu kaisen #sugusato #gego #IVE USED THIS PIC LIKE 10 TIMES BY NOW OML LMFAOOOOOO #BUT WHAT CAN WE SAY #I was gonna use the pic where he says his la words #but I had to do it RIGHT NOW and I’m on my phone so

[ghost-bxrd]

Just rewatched the scene in Gotham Knights where Dick tries to have a heart-to-heart with Jason on a rooftop and Jason, true to character, shoves him lightly because he doesn’t do emotions, thank you.

And Dick, the dramatic queen, pretends to fall off the roof.

Honestly honey, you out of everyone should know not to scare people with that 😭😂

#some dark humor for the audience lol #also Jason’s panicked little Dick? DICK! had me in tears #sweet boy was terrified he accidentally killed Nightwing lmao #meanwhile Dick: #whoop de doo look at me walking on my hands! #jason todd #dick grayson #Gotham knights #batboys #ghost talks #ghost games