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dude i love ur blog smmm :o, its literally fuelling the hyper fixation i can never find anything on warriors 😭

Thanks!! I should get back to posting more about Warriors…

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Masai sketch

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"The ghosts of the city live underground" was a wild thing to write.

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Warriors ttrpg: your party has to make it home past crews of unpredictable fashion, tactics, and loyalties. each player has five stats: bronx (attack), queens (defense), manhattan (charisma), staten (agility), and brooklyn (smarts). survive the night.

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BOPPERS WE ARE TRENDING

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On the conclave scene

Okay, let’s preface this with a disclaimer: I am well aware that all of this could mean nothing. Let’s be honest, it probably does! All of this could just be Roger Hill-isms or caused by a non-permanent injury he acquired before filming instead of acting choices. You don’t need to read anything into this.

The thing about me is, though, that it’s my life’s calling to read more into things, so humour me with this. Let’s make something out of what I’ve found.

So yesterday I made a post about being pretty sure that Cyrus hesitated before climbing up on the wooden structure he held his speech on. I, of course, couldn’t just leave it at ‘pretty sure’, so I rewatched the scene and here’s what I found: He did! … Kinda.

In the video file I have, Cyrus’ first appearance is at 00:08:55, which is what I’ll be basing my timestamps on. This is after the Warriors walked through the crowd at the meeting and found their place. In this shot, he is standing on the ground. Direct contact with the pavement. Like all things should be.

After that, we get a full/wide (I actually can’t tell, forgive me) shot of him and the Riffs around him, showing the crowd in the background (00:09:19). Some interesting dialogue here is that two people, presumably Gramercy Riffs, encourage Cyrus, their lines being “Come on, Cyrus, we’re with you!” and “Go ahead, bro!”.

Cyrus then walks up onto the first platform, which is just a step up from the floor, and over to the ladder, where he hesitates (00:09:25). There, the camera perspective switches between Cyrus and the crowd a few times, which is just common practice (see action and reaction shots), but the next thing that happens is rather interesting: Cyrus blinks a lot while talking and his eyes flick over to the wooden structure once, an action that can be read as nervous. (I am of course aware that this could be Roger Hill’s personal movement relating to making up or remembering blocking, but let us stay in the world where all of these things are acting choices.)

A bit after that (00:10:01), Cyrus actually climbs the ladder. Now, let me tell you: I have no idea how most people climb ladders. I have joint problems and a visual disability, I wasn’t born to climb ladders. This didn’t stop me from noticing that he was way faster at pushing himself up with his right leg than the left, looking more braced on that.

Then, he clings to the ladder (00:10:04), not quite taking the last step. His arms are around the railing on his right side, turned to the crowd, as he starts talking again. The camera then goes to the audience, but when he takes his last step up (00:10:21), he readjusts his stance multiple times before getting settled (00:10:24), his hands staying braced against the handrails whenever he is not gesticulating.

The first time he is seen hands-free, arms up to encourage applause (00:10:46), he is also noticeably further back than in the last shot of him, remaining there for the entire duration of the speech until he is shot.

Also, it is interesting how he immediately starts to stand a bit slanted to the left-hand-side as soon as he is not gesturing (00:11:03), his left hand the first to arrive on the railing again, only standing up straight when gesturing which is expected from an orator. This could hint at this being a protective/relieving posture which he falls into as often as possible to stop pain, discomfort, or instability.

So, what did we figure out? It takes Cyrus one minute and 29 seconds to comfortably stand on the structure after he first shows up, he seems nervous and is encouraged by people to do it, and he seems to prefer bracing his left side. One can draw many conclusions from this, mine being pain or instability, but I encourage you to draw your own and tell me! I’d love to hear from you!

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not to think too much about disabled Cyrus, but let’s think too much about disabled Cyrus

firstly the evidence: 1, it would be rad. 2, there's a whole song making way for her, where at her own party she needs time to get where she's going. 3, "Cyrus said you can't survive alone, you need your team"

now here's how i've been thinking about how it affects everything. i think there's a tendency in non-disabled folk to unconsciously discriminate right up until the disabled person passes some threshold of afforded humanity, at which point all of these folk's unhomed theoretical allyship gets over-attributed to this one disabled person. they're put on a pedestal, usually metaphorical, Cyrus's happens to be real. now since Cyrus didn't ask for this, and since she's been around long enough and has worked hard enough to tell her own accomplishments from the sainthood her crew has invested in, what she chooses to do with her power is share.

but at the end of the day, she's still a Black disabled woman, and for all everyone says about how much they believe her, their narrative about her as a victim is just so perennially hair trigger. the reason it's so hard for a lot of them to even reconcile what happened is all that "look at this proof i don't hate Black disabled women" they wear is gone. for them it's like what was the point of those few seconds' patience they put in for her using mobility aids or needing sign language translation or whatever. and they take it out on the other women of color (maybe also disabled!)

a lot of this power to me is in the moment of a person used to their disability essentially saying hey, i know what we need, but i also know you're not gonna really listen to me yet, not the actual essence of what i'm saying, and that's ok but here's the practical stuff we need first and when you're ready to put in the work, my words are right here

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WHERE did my emotional support tab with disabled cyrus go. Need a dose of essay stat

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is the warriors fandom alive

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Warriors is now an official fandom tag on ao3, LMM and Eisa announced plans for a stage production, more people are joining and interacting, we've got polyamory fics, backstories, AND we're staring to get more AUs

Baby this fandom is CRUSHING IT!!!!

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Obsessed with how literally nobody is on the same page during grays papaya. Half the group is trying to scrounge together money for franks and coconut champagne. Ajax just wants to know who the fuck this woman that started shit with the orphans and then began flirting with Swan is. Mercy is ready to start shit cause she’s being questioned. Swan just wants them to get on the fucking train, please for the love of god can we find another train, guys we are being actively hunted please we can sort this shit out at home

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On the conclave scene

Okay, let’s preface this with a disclaimer: I am well aware that all of this could mean nothing. Let’s be honest, it probably does! All of this could just be Roger Hill-isms or caused by a non-permanent injury he acquired before filming instead of acting choices. You don’t need to read anything into this.

The thing about me is, though, that it’s my life’s calling to read more into things, so humour me with this. Let’s make something out of what I’ve found.

So yesterday I made a post about being pretty sure that Cyrus hesitated before climbing up on the wooden structure he held his speech on. I, of course, couldn’t just leave it at ‘pretty sure’, so I rewatched the scene and here’s what I found: He did! … Kinda.

In the video file I have, Cyrus’ first appearance is at 00:08:55, which is what I’ll be basing my timestamps on. This is after the Warriors walked through the crowd at the meeting and found their place. In this shot, he is standing on the ground. Direct contact with the pavement. Like all things should be.

After that, we get a full/wide (I actually can’t tell, forgive me) shot of him and the Riffs around him, showing the crowd in the background (00:09:19). Some interesting dialogue here is that two people, presumably Gramercy Riffs, encourage Cyrus, their lines being “Come on, Cyrus, we’re with you!” and “Go ahead, bro!”.

Cyrus then walks up onto the first platform, which is just a step up from the floor, and over to the ladder, where he hesitates (00:09:25). There, the camera perspective switches between Cyrus and the crowd a few times, which is just common practice (see action and reaction shots), but the next thing that happens is rather interesting: Cyrus blinks a lot while talking and his eyes flick over to the wooden structure once, an action that can be read as nervous. (I am of course aware that this could be Roger Hill’s personal movement relating to making up or remembering blocking, but let us stay in the world where all of these things are acting choices.)

A bit after that (00:10:01), Cyrus actually climbs the ladder. Now, let me tell you: I have no idea how most people climb ladders. I have joint problems and a visual disability, I wasn’t born to climb ladders. This didn’t stop me from noticing that he was way faster at pushing himself up with his right leg than the left, looking more braced on that.

Then, he clings to the ladder (00:10:04), not quite taking the last step. His arms are around the railing on his right side, turned to the crowd, as he starts talking again. The camera then goes to the audience, but when he takes his last step up (00:10:21), he readjusts his stance multiple times before getting settled (00:10:24), his hands staying braced against the handrails whenever he is not gesticulating.

The first time he is seen hands-free, arms up to encourage applause (00:10:46), he is also noticeably further back than in the last shot of him, remaining there for the entire duration of the speech until he is shot.

Also, it is interesting how he immediately starts to stand a bit slanted to the left-hand-side as soon as he is not gesturing (00:11:03), his left hand the first to arrive on the railing again, only standing up straight when gesturing which is expected from an orator. This could hint at this being a protective/relieving posture which he falls into as often as possible to stop pain, discomfort, or instability.

So, what did we figure out? It takes Cyrus one minute and 29 seconds to comfortably stand on the structure after he first shows up, he seems nervous and is encouraged by people to do it, and he seems to prefer bracing his left side. One can draw many conclusions from this, mine being pain or instability, but I encourage you to draw your own and tell me! I’d love to hear from you!

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I've gathered the data, but before I'll tell you what I've found (and ask you to collaborate on making sense of this), here are some photos of Rembrandt:

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I am, of course, using this as an excuse to take countless screenshots of Rembrandt

wait I wanna make a post but I need to rewatch a scene for this

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wait I wanna make a post but I need to rewatch a scene for this

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Hellooo the Warriors (musical) fandom! I love you guys so much, BUT I would love for you guys to tag your fanfictions on AO3 appropriately.

Would it be okay if you guys tagged it as the musical instead of the movie? I love you guys so much and I’m glad that the fandom is being reawakened but they’re two different stories. I mean, they’re similar but still. It’s different!

Love you all :3

Also watch The Warriors (1979)