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I May Destroy You: 1x09 “Social Media Is a Great Way to Connect”

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1. Arabella seeing various messages on her social media, both very positive and negative

2. Kwame and Terry watch Arabella talking with a fan. kwame, mocking Arabella: “Oh, it’s my pleasure! Make sure to tell your friends to follow me and make me more powerful!”

3. Terry tells Arabella’s doctor: “Why would we tell her to stop vaping if it doesn’t take a professional to see that the stress from the phone will kill her faster than any puff of nicotine ever will?”

4. Arabella in Devil costume and Terry and Kwame in angel costumes having a paint and wine night, Arabella live-streaming and Kwame looks annoyed

5. Arabella in Devil costume and Terry and Kwame in angel costumes. Arabella: “We all make [mistakes]. Do we make deceitful, destructive, narcissistic, sick, inconsiderate mistakes? No.” Terry: “So, on my birthday, when you locked him in a room with Jamal, what was that?

6. Arabella drawing a letter A with a line crossed out and then superimposing an X

7. Arabella’s therapist, Carrie, says: “The business models of these networks incentivize us to behave in certain ways, in ways that promote speaking, often at the cost of listening.”

8. Arabella hugs Kwame

9. Arabella looks at a photo of an ultrasound: “Ten weeks. I just went and done it, and then I forgot, never really thought about it again.”

10. Arabella deletes her social media

[witchesroad]

But you’re not under my bed. You’re here with me, so you don’t scare me. And I’ve gone underneath, underneath into the darkness, and that darkness is now in me, looking at you, so I might seem a little bit more frightening than the last time you saw me.

I MAY DESTROY YOU (2020) dir. Michaela Coel

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"Prior to being raped, I never took much notice of being a woman. I was busy being Black and poor. Daring to observe the hazard my gender may pose to my freedom and survival feels like a betrayal to the council flat I was born and raised in, where hardship was no respecter of genitals and a little brother was as starved of food and love as his sister. When I think about the Met Police Force, and the chronic racism that cripples it, the fact that I opened my mouth to tell them someone did a little rape in there, feels felonious in itself. The bible says “you cannot serve two masters.” Am I too late to serve this tribe called women? Do I actually understand what it is to be a woman struggling? A little rape in the mouth is a walk in the park when other girls are currently being stoned to death for having mobile phones, are bleeding to death after genital mutilation, are looking at a womb irreparably destroyed by militias systematically raping them during times of civil conflict and war. Are these facts a humbling reminder not to be so loud about my experiences, or are they a reminder to shout? Can my shout help their silent screams? Is it time to serve a new tribe? I hope one day to know."

~Arabella Essiedu, I May Destroy You (2020)

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A few of my favorite fictional women poll (round 2)

Round 1

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I May Destroy You - Amore, stupro e relazioni tossiche tra Londra e Ostia

Vale la pena di vedere ‘I May Destroy You – Trauma e Rinascita’. Soprattutto perché l’attrice che interpreta la protagonista, Michaela Coel (Arabella Essiedu), è stata vittima di stupro mentre recitava nella serie Netflix, ‘Chewing Gum’ (ora non più disponibile sulla piattaforma) e questo telefilm di Bbc/Hbo è l’occasione per raccontare la sua traumatica esperienza (lo trovate su Now Tv e Sky).…

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Michaela Coel as Arabella Essiedu in I MAY DESTROY YOU (2020- ) 

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I May Destroy You - 1x07

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Michaela Coel as Arabella Essiedu in I May Destroy You

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I May Destroy You: 1x08 "Line Spectrum Border"

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10 gifs from the show I May Destroy You, where Arabella is talking to several women in a support group.

1) Woman in support group: I took Bob aside, I said “Can you stop?” Barely finished speaking before he’s looking horrified, saying he’ll never talk to me again ‘cause it’s safer.

2) Woman in support group: “Lookin’ at me like I’m crazy. / Arabella: Well, Bob probably does think you’re crazy.

3) Arabella: He thinks this is all a little uncalled for, and this “personal space” thing is all going a bit too far. And he’s very confident in his view, because

4) he’s gone exploring to see what boundaries and violations these women might be banging on about, because Bob’s thorough.

5) And in these explorations, Bob found the line that separated him from everything else. Rather than crossing it, he tip-toed on it,

6) and he experienced this feeling, being on the boundary. On the border. On the line. Of being neither in one place or another.

7) And saw how in this grey area, where nothing was quite clear, no one could be clear.

8) They can’t articulate, follow our words, they couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was that we felt he did that was so wrong.

9) So yeah, Bob thinks you’re crazy. Yeah, he thinks he’s the smartest man in the room, who knoweth all the things, because Bob has observed the detail.

10) We have to start observing Bob, telling him we do see the detail. We see you, Bob.

11) And if we see you that means we are right there with you, tip-toeing in line right behind you.

12) And in that place, where rules, clarity, law, and separation cease to exist, we will show you exactly what we mean by “violation”.

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I wanna live a solid friendship like the one that Arabella and Terry have.

I MAY DESTROY YOU (2020- )

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please watch i may destroy you by michaela coel

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Tagged by @arathesane. Thank you. <3

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters, then tag five (or however many!) people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favorite.

Tagging with no pressure: @keypix4, @wehadfaces, @armeniuslaurant, @wickedheadache, @sapphicscholar, @wistfulwatcher, @pauvrecamille, @kpg-1126, @cecret-with-a-c, @randomthingsthatilike1, @nakedmonkey, @itsperfectlyreasonable and anyone else that is interested: consider yourselves tagged.

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I May Destroy You S01E12 (Ego Death)

Book title: January 22nd by Arabella Essiedu