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the-assignment · 1 year

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Blog #4 : Eve's Bayou

I don’t think that a lot of people would consider Eve’s Bayou a horror film – but I would whole-heartedly disagree. It’s just a different version of horror. It’s not blood or gore or jump scares or a mystical entity coming to kill everyone in their sleep, or wielding a chainsaw, or a knife – but it is, without a doubt, horror.

It’s everyday horror. It’s the horror of lost innocence, and the horror of growing too fast into womanhood, the horror of a breakdown of a family – the horror of decisions and consequences.

For starters, the father (Samuel L. Jackson) is truly terrible and the real monster and horror in this film. Dude is legit just cheating in plain sight! There is no masking what is going on from the get-go. The opening party scene and the wildin’ dancing he was doing with another man’s wife – in front of his *own* wife. And friends. And Family. It was nuts.

Then cut to the scene where he gets caught by his youngest daughter actually cheating with the other woman and you understand just what this character is about. Add that into the various ways in which he ropes in or disregards his family while he’s cheating. Like again, leaving the youngest daughter in the car! All while he makes “house calls” to the ladies of the community – and we be knowin’ what they be doin’.

Like. He’s truly terrible. And I think this behavior sets the tone and propels the events of the story forward.

The catalyst of the story, is to an extent, left ambiguous. What we know for sure is that there is a kiss between the father and daughter (super gross). (Not to mention the behind-the-scenes grossness that at the time of filming, Meagan Good was only, like, 14 and Samuel L. Jackson… was not). The audience is given two different version of events about what occurred – that of the daughter (he kissed her) and that of the father (she kissed him). And while there are certain clues throughout the movie that could aid or guide a person to think one way or the other, it is left to the viewers to decide which version they agree with.

But to that I say – it doesn’t really matter who kissed who – because who initiated the kiss is not the same as who is at fault for the kiss. And there is a difference.

The father was 100% at fault for that kiss. Part of the great discussion we had in class about this film centered around the idea that he was pulling away from the family at the same time as the oldest child and daughter began to mature into womanhood. We see this throughout the film from the first scene where she wanted to differentiate herself from the others, her getting her first period, and when she started to change her look and wear makeup.

I felt like this transformation of the daughter – while a normal part of growing up – morphed into something truly horrifying. A young girl in a rush to grow up and who would do anything to keep her father and her family together.

And this event transformed the lives of the entire family. The oldest daughter was sent away and the father died. However, the youngest daughter – only ten years old – believes that the magic she performed to get back at her father (as she believed her sister) killed him – forever changing her life as well.

While the movie was not a typical horror / slasher fic – it shows that true horror can exist in the daily lives and decisions each one of us faces – and has the ability to affect those around us as well. It shows the horror of the loss of innocence and growing up too fast.

#the-assignment #homework #ucla #blog #horror #horror niore #eves bayou

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ryan-sometimes · 11 months

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As a lesbian, it’s happened twice already that one “guy” stands out to me and I think “huh maybe they’re kinda cute and interesting, I wanna get to know them” and then I get to know them better and it’s a closeted trans girl who I somehow sniffed with my little nonbinary lesbian nose

#assigned egg by ryan

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werewolf-transgenderism · 9 months

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terfs celebrating that the international chess federation has banned trans women from competing in women's FIDE competitions, because it's sooooooo feminist to argue that women are so biologically inferior and nowhere near as smart as men and thus can't play chess on the same level. girl that's not feminism that's literally just misogyny

#this.... jeopardy.... like girl you are arguing that you are biologically not as smart as someone assigned male at birth.....#terfs are like 'feminism is when I say women are stupid and weak but in a trans exclusionary way'#it's CHESS you only use your BRAIN it's a STRATEGY GAME

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six-of-cringe · 6 months

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Once when I was in college I needed a picture of my fish for an assignment, but the fish lived at home so I text my brother to send me a picture and he asks "how close of a picture" and I say "pretty close" and he sends me this

#hysterics every time i see it. like all up in his fuckin business got damn!!!!#quite literally he did not understand the assignment. he wasn't messing around either #not soc #fish #close fish

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callisteios · 1 year

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Would you like to find out what you would be the god of? Take my new uqiz to find out

#uquiz #have fun with it please #assigning the 30+ results was fucking exhausting #you can get #spins wheel #mascots #emojis #longing #microelectronics #and so many more!#quiz #tag game #etc #mine #callisteios #i will add more answers. when I have inspiration and or energy #muted

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secondbeatsongs · 1 year

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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

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uwudonoodle · 2 months

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Storytime: My brother Dave used to manage a Little Ceasars, and he hated it. So when my mom asked him what he wanted on his birthday cake, he jokingly said the Little Ceasars guy being stabbed with his own spear. My mom, who doesn't always get sarcasm, didn't even question it. She lovingly made him exactly what he asked for. It's my favorite cake ever.

Happy Ides of March to Ceasar getting stabbed!

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shandsformation · 2 months

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hmmmm

#animation class assignment was to make examples of anticipation with 3 characters #grabbed these losers KJHSDGS #also finally an excuse to animate them!!! dies #transformers #tf #maccadam #my art #elite trine #starscream #skywarp #thundercracker #animation

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jinaxxo · 6 months

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the dunmeshi party if i were to be the lord of the dungeon.. just a glimpse into my dark reality..

#gonna try to draw izutsumi farlyn kabru and mithrun before my classes give me big assignments again 😭#sorry i havent been posting for a while :')#would also LOVE to draw the winged lion as a calico critter too if i get the chance cuz i think he'd look ridiculous lol #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi fanart #my art #personal #digital art #fanart #manga #calico critters #sylvanian families #laios thorden #marcille donato #chilchuck tims #senshi #senshi of izganda

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thatonedudeinthecorner · 18 days

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His ass does not pay attention enough to know all of their genders. Toph wears baggy clothes, he squinted at her and went “yeah that’s a boy. Or boy adjacent. Probably.” and moved on. Ally???

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the-assignment · 11 months

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Blog 6: The Final One

I can’t believe it’s here. Not only have I reached the end of my last term as an Undergrad EVER (graduation is in 6 days!!) but this is my last blog post for my Afrofuturism class. As such, I wasn’t sure what would be most fitting to end this experiment on. Call it hope for my future outside of UCLA or an ode to the way time is often malleable in Afrofuturism, but I decided that it’s important to look forward… by also looking to the past (because honestly what even is time).

One of my final lectures was about the current state of the Afrofuturism genre and its future. But in looking at how far we’ve come, we need to acknowledge Afrofuturism’s past…. And unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot going on to be honest. One of the things that surprised me, is that it wasn’t until recently-ish, a few decades, that Afrofuturism artists and works began to really emerge. In the beginning, there were only a few movies and books and authors, and like, one director. When one of the pioneers of the genre, Octavia E. Butler passed, it might have even felt or looked like Afrofuturism was done and over with. But that, fortunately, didn’t happen! In fact, it really started to take off within the last few years. When Black Panther came out - and by Mainstream Marvel no less! - it set a new fire and hope that Afrofuturism could inspire and continue - and it has. Many artists (Missy Elliot, Janelle Monáe, Kenrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Alabama Shakes, Reggie Hudlin, Okorafor, Nnedi (with Wanuri Kahiu), Boots Riley, etc.) through various mediums (music, music videos, lyrics, stories, movies) have produced great works of Afrofuturistic art and it’s only getting better. Especially with the past influences to draw from (Sun-Ra, George Clinton, Samuel R. Delaney, Derrick Bell, etc.) and the new forms of technology (which can be both good and bad) to help achieve a futuristic aesthetic.

However, as discussed in one of my final lectures - the future of Afrofuturism (and I’d argue art in general) is a caution of relying solely on AI for these things. This is why, in my opinion, the WGA strike is so important in a lot of different ways. For the sake of good and soulful art - and for the care of people. Because Afrofuturism started and will continue to be a way that cautions and warns and shows people that we need to think about and invest in people that we often disregard. We as a society have to make sure we are taking care of each other and the things we care about: equality, justice, food and housing security, fair and liveable wages, healthcare, safety, etc. Parable of the Sower was set in the year 2024 - and we are almost there. And while I don’t think that it will be exactly like Lauren’s world, I do think that we are moving closer and closer to it. Closer and closer in having to fight for the right to live (I think most of us are actually there - just not in the extreme ways in Parable), closer and closer to constant violence and a need for hypervigilance, closer and closer to new and legal (if not completely unethical) ways for modern day slavery.

But we can also get closer and closer to helping others and finding our own place to plant our own seeds. We can get closer and closer to helping others plant their seeds. And soon, if we work together, and take care of each other, and help and watch out for each other, and make sure we’re paying attention and fighting for the things that we care about, all the seeds that we were able to plant - of community, and love, and hope - will grow. And I want to make sure I’m part of that harvest.

#ucla #homework #the-assignment #assignment #blog #tananarive #afrofuturism #parable of the sower #octavia butler #graduation #hope

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liberalsarecool · 14 days

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