#lovecraft country

[iamindifferenttolamp]

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[velvetvixenchronicles]

mood 💄💋

#black women #black beauty #fashion #black fashion #fashion aesthetic #black femininity #beauty #aesthetic #blog #lovecraft country #moodboard #black girl moodboard #mood #current mood #actress #black actresses #jurnee smollett

[heartshapelocket]

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[sweeetestcurse]

Jurnee Smollett as Letitia "Leti" Lewis in Lovecraft Country 01/??

#horroredit #jurnee smollett #letitia lewis #leti #gifs #lovecraft country #my gifs #queue

[shujubeelamoglia]

Jurnee Smollett

Photography by Mark Lim

#jurnee smollett #jurnee smollet bell #lovecraft country #birds of prey #black canary #lou #spiderhead #letitia lewis #dinah lance #underground #hands of stone #true blood

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Jurnee Smollett as Letitia Lewis in Lovecraft Country (TV Series, 2020).

#jurnee smollett #letitia lewis #lovecraft country #perioddramaedit #20th Century #1950s #dayna pink

[bohemian-nights]

Longing 🕯️

Lovecraft Country(2020); The Little Mermaid(2023); Sanditon(2019-2023); Tom Jones(2023); Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story(2023)

#lovecraft country #tom jones #the little mermaid #sanditon #queen charlotte: a bridgerton story #ruby baptiste #sophia western #princess ariel #queen charlotte #perioddramaedit #perioddrama #georgiana lambe #periodedit #bnedit #bngifs #tlmedit #the little mermaid 2023 #🧜🏽‍♀️ #diversehistorical

[melaninpov]

Lovecraft Country S1E6: Meet Me In Daegu

“Ji-ah there’s nothing you can tell me, that will change the way I feel about you” - Atticus

#jonathan majors #jamie chung #atticus x ji ah #atticus #ji ah #lovecraft country #kumiho #moviegifs #movie gifs #filmgifs #film gifs #hbo max #black actors #asian actors

[best-character-named-x-poll]

have you done your daily click

#best character named x #poll #poll game #ruby supernatural #ruby rose #ruby rocks #ruby baptiste #ruby lucas #ruby the red fairy #supernatural #spn #rwby #d20 acoc #dimension 20 #a crown of candy #lovecraft country #once upon a time #ouat #rainbow magic

[lvcygraybaird]

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (2020)

Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

#lovecraft country #lovecraftcountryedit #scifiedit #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #perioddramagif #perioddramacentral #perioddramasonly #mygifs #mygifsets #myedits #tw Jonathan majors

[ratleyland]

Wunmi Mosaku

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[hgedits]

Everybody there was like us.

A League of Their Own (2022 - 2024) Ted Lasso (2020 - 2023) Lovecraft Country (2020) Perry Mason (2020 – )

#a league of their own #Ted lasso #lovecraft country #perry mason

[thundergrace]

On the flip side of that coin, though, it’s been Black women in the entertainment business who’ve said the most injurious things to her about queerness, with no regard for her sexuality. For reasons Ellis can’t quite put her finger on, people fail to recognize she’s part of the LGBTQ community.

“There is an assumption made of me — a presumption made of me. Is it because I’m a Black woman from Mississippi? Is it because I’m older?” she muses. “I don’t know what the mechanics are that goes into them not processing, or them not just being able to believe that in the same way I am Black, I am queer. This is who I am.”

#aunjanue ellis #black actresses #qwoc #queer Black women #king richard #lovecraft country #quantico #pride month #wonderful article

[black-seance]

Black Horror and Portrayal of Occult

Black horror has consistently been entranced with magic and mysticism, portraying African cultural aesthetics such as Vodou and ancestor worship. Many Black horror movies include themes of possession, occult, and ritualism which are portrayed differently from other horror because of a unique and stigmatized cultural lens. 

Eve’s Bayou is interesting in its portrayal of Vodou and mysticism, as supernatural aspects of Black Southern life seem to be normalized. There are a range of different powers at play within the film, such as with Aunt Mozelle who is simultaneously blessed with foresight and plagued by a curse that has killed all her past lovers in varying gruesome fashion. The film’s main character, Eve, is also clairvoyant herself, and recruits the help of a Vodou lady in order to kill her promiscuous father. Eve is played by Jurnee Smollet, who also happens to star in Lovecraft Country, another show which centers itself around the occult. 

Magic and mysticism is also very present in Blaxploitation horror, such as Scream Blacula Scream with its revival of Blacula via Vodou, or Sugar Hill, which makes use of the Vodou zombie trope through a thrilling tale of revenge. You also have the film, Abby, a horror film in which a woman is possessed by the Yoruba sex spirit, Eshu. Blaxploitation horror also includes portrayals of Black vampires and ghosts, heavy with themes of retribution, racism, and other social issues. These Blaxploitation films, while not really the best portrayal of African occult practices, are unique from other horror in that the horror is specifically of Black origin, again, an example of how Black horror looks at magic and mysticism through a cultural lens. This is in contrast to Western horror flicks, which seem to revolve around the general white sphere and look at magic and mysticism through a strictly gimmicky lens (vampires not as cultural figures, but as marketable boogeymen).

Themes of magic and mysticism can also be found in films such as Get Out, Candyman (both the originals and the sequel), and His House. Get Out’s usage of the mysticism is much more subtle than the rest, but it can be found in the beginning with the usage of the song, Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga, a Swahili song which Jordan Peele states is mean to represent Chris’s ancestors warning him to “get out”. Candyman’s usage is a bit more obvious, with magic and mysticism represented through the oral passage of Candyman as urban legend, which is explored in the 2021 sequel as a simultaneous representation of oral traditions of old, as well as generational trauma from racialized killings of Black men. Lastly, His House makes use of the apeth, otherwise known as a Night Witch in Dinka culture, a creature by which they must repay a debt to after abducting a child and getting said child killed. 

#his house #get out #black horror films #horror movies #horror films #lovecraft country #candyman #sugar hill #eves bayou #blacula #blaxploitation #abby

[sweeetestcurse]

Jurnee Smollett as Letitia “Leti” Lewis in Lovecraft Country 02/??

#horroredit #jurnee smollett #letitia lewis #leti #gifs #lovecraft country #my gifs #queue

[sleepynegress]

Your post about Loustat paralleling Ruby and Christina makes so much sense. I haven’t rewatched lovecraft in a while though what specifically would you say makes them relate?

Whew! Where to start. I feel I probably need to play catch up for Ruby/Christina's dynamic on Lovecraft Country because that's probably the one fewer people who follow me are familiar with so... This is Ruby and Christina:

Ruby is a rock/blues singer in the 1950's Chicago, and like our man Louis, she has done most of the work holding up her family. Also, like Louis, a lot of the challenges she faces are deeply racist, and because of her gender full of misogynoir as well, more than today because of the past setting of the story... Her shade and body type also come into play when compared to what her sister, who is lighter-skinned and thin could get away with in life. Christina is the daughter of the leader of a centuries-old white male-dominated magical cult, in which she is clearly the most talented in wielding magic but she has no say-so and cannot inherit the same privileges because of sexism, something that is *always* intersected with racism which that cult has deeply ingrained traditions in. Despite it all, these two fall in love. The biggest similarities I see in Christina and Lestat are...

both... are not just white but white-white blonde hair blue-eyes.

have a measure of self-loathing because of some trauma devolved from whiteness (Lestat stalked and tortured and piled into a bunch corpsed reflections of himself) and (Christina always considered a "protected" possession beneath white men and not an equal because of her gender)

are powerful supernatural beings, a wizard (I just feel that's the more likely adjective over witch for her) and a vampire

are narcissists

woo and manipulate, seduce, their partners into being with them, by lending their own privilege to give them protection or higher status, via whiteness

both are desperate to connect with their Black partner in ways that are impossible because of innate privilege deferential w/in the times they live and their own psychological shortcomings - Lestat opening the relationship and Christina going through the pain of a "lynching" to try to understand Ruby's day-to-day fear

are ultimately toxic to their partner and all other healthier relationships they have - Ruby's family especially Leti and Louis' family, most importantly Claudia

genuinely love their partner but just don't have the capacity or ability due to past traumas, narcissism, and that huge gulf in empathy for their very different lives.

The biggest similarities between Louis and Ruby are.. that they are broken by racism and the responsibilities of existing and maintaining for others while they are invisible in their plight. Both are uniquely beautifully human, vulnerable beyond what any other people in their lives "see" and that makes them both entrancing and vulnerable to the Lestat and Christina.

These are both queer interracial dynamics that take a really empathic and honest eye to render well, especially in this day and age. Both of these cultural spaces are riddled with discomfort, judgment, and fear, which mostly lead to dishonest depictions; and self-censoring, but they have subverted that for the most part.

Both I would say have been exceptionally well done and if really looked at critically beyond the chemistry and romance, I do think some interesting wider sociological conclusions/implications could be gathered from them. I think that's in part because of the freedom of the genre space. When it's supernatural or fantastical in some way, often the heavier issues are rendered more honestly. I'd absolutely love to read a dissertation really breaking it down.

#I hope that answers your question #ruby x christina #louis x lestat #meta #racism #sexism #misogynoir #fandoms intersecting #lovecraft country #interview with the vampire #iwtv #ask #thanks for the ask nonny! #loustat #rhistina #lgbtqa+ #lgbtq #queer #bisexual #pansexual #gay #interracial