#n’jobu

[wannagilok]

Talagang, “Wakanda Forever!”

Nagsisilbing saludo sa yumaong aktor ni T’Challa, si Chadwick Boseman, ang blog na ito. Wakanda Forever!

Kilala ang Marvel Studios bilang isang kompanya na gumagawa ng mga pelikula tungkol sa mga superheroes. Kathang-isip lamang ang karamihan sa mga pelikula na parte sa tinatawag na Marvel Cinematic Universe o MCU. Bukod sa nakakaaliw na fictional plot, nagbibigay ito ng mga kritisismo sa mga nararanasang isyung panlipunan sa totoong buhay. Nagsisilbi itong salamin sa mga problemang kinakaharap ng karamihan. Isa ito sa mga dahilan kung bakit tunay kong gusto ang mga pelikulang ipinapalabas ng Marvel Studios, at isa na rito ang Black Panther.

Pumapatungkol ang pelikula ng Black Panther sa kuwento ni T'Challa, ang anak ng dating T'Chaka, na nag-aangkin sa trono bilang Black Panther ng Wakanda, isang piksyonal na bansa sa Africa. Nanganganib ang kanyang trono dahil sa kanyang pinsan na si N'Jadaka o mas kilalang “Killmonger", na inaangkin ang kanyang karapatan sa trono bilang isang royal descendant ng noong Wakandan prince na si N’Jobu. Dahil dito, nagkaroon ng isang serye ng mga pangyayari hanggang nagkaroon sila ng isang matinding labanan para sa titulong Black Panther. Sa kabila ng nakakaaliw at intense na mga eksena, nabibigyang-diin rin ang mga laganap na isyung panlipunan ukol sa mga persons of color sa pamamagitan ng representasyon, paghamon sa stereotypes, at komento sa kasaysayan.

Isang mahalagang detalye ang representasyon ng persons of color sa Black Panther lalo na sa mga Africans at African-Americans. Kapansin-pansin rin ang African at African-American na cast at direktor ng pelikula. Bukod pa rito, tumutukoy din ang pelikula sa Black Lives Matter movement.

Makikita rin ang komento sa racism sa pamamagitan ng paghamon sa mga stereotypes gamit ang kanilang mga karakter kagaya ni Killmonger. Representasyon ang buhay ni Killmonger sa buhay ng mga African-Americans na nakatira sa Amerika. Kadalasang nakakaranas ng diskriminasyon ang mga African-Americans lalo na sa Amerika kung saan kadalasang hindi maganda ang pananaw ng mga tao sa kanila. Habang lumalaki si Killmonger sa Amerika, naging rason ang diskriminasyon bilang pampalakas sa kanyang motibo sa paghiganti sa mga dumukot sa kaniya na mga mananakop noong bata pa siya.

Nagbigay komento rin ang pelikulang ito ukol sa racial inequality, diskriminasyon, at pang-aabuso na nararanasan ng mga Africans sa kanilang kasaysayan. Halimbawa na rito ang pagtago ng Wakanda sa kanilang yaman, kagaya ng vibranium, mula sa ibang bahagi ng mundo upang umunlad bilang isang bansa nang walang panghihimasok ng mga mananakop. Nagsilbi rin itong komento sa kolonyalismo na naranasan ng maraming bansa sa Africa sa kanilang kasaysayan. Maraming bansa sa Africa ang pinagsamantalahan, inabuso, at inalipin habang kinukuha ng mga mananakop ang kanilang mga likas na yaman at kayamanan.

Isa ring halimbawa ang unang parte ng pelikula kung saan makikita si Nakia na mayroong undercover mission upang iligtas ang mga ikinulong na babae na inabuso, inalipin, at ginahasa. Isa rin ito sa mga isyung panlipunang laganap noon at sa kasalukuyan na gustong liwanagan ng pelikula lalo na sa kababaihan ng Africa na nakakaranas ng pang-aabuso mula sa mga mananakop.

Sa kasalukuyan, nananatili pa rin ang diskriminasyon at pang-aabuso sa mga persons of color bilang isa sa mga laganap na isyu sa ating lipunan. Bilang mga tao, i-tatak natin sa ating puso’t isip na kahit iba-iba tayo ng kulay, kasarian, o race, tao parin tayo lahat. Hindi rason ang anuman na ito upang mangdiskrimina ng ibang tao.

[babatunjixoxo]

Works Masterpost

in order of creation

besides honor, a compromise Erik/T’Challa [non-con]

pendulum Erik/T’Challa/Nakia [ot3]

this one is happier Erik/T’Challa [one shots]

bloody waters  Erik/T’Challa [Canon Divergence long fic]

A Traditional Breeding  Erik/T’Challa [a/b/o]

Mating Run  Erik/T’Challa [a/b/o]

in reverse T’Chaka/N’Jobu [canon divergence]

we change shapes Erik/T’Challa [shapeshifting]

two old panthers, in love  T’Chaka/N’Jobu [canon divergence]

foreign  Erik/T’Challa

horns like a devil Erik & Loki [character study]

rules of kingship and other rites T’Challa/Group

all men must die Game of Thrones [Time Travel Fix-it]

a knight and his queen Cersei/Jaime [Canon Divergence]

guest of honor  Erik/T’Challa [AU]

blame it  Erik/T’Challa

familiar  Carol/Monica

nine times out of ten  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe, Wakandan Empire]

All Hail  Erik/T’Challa  [Canon Divergence]

double date  Erik/T’Challa | Tony/Rhodey    [Canon Divergence]

all for us  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe, Wakandan Empire]

chance meeting  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe, BDSM Universe]

take care  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe, BDSM Universe]

heartbeat | love lies  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe]

long distance  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe]

fallin' (ai, ai, ai)  Erik/T’Challa [Alternate Universe, University Setting]

wretches and kings  Erik/T’Challa

Black Panther Ships (attempt) Map 

do-re-mi  Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe]

praise for the mother (the third) Erik & Ramonda [Alternate Universe]

Brevity in Death Erik & T’Challa  [Time Travel Fix-It]

a game for 3 Erik/T’Challa [bloody waters omake]

heavy duty Erik/T’Challa

tell me why you gotta look at me that way Erik/T’Challa  [Alternate Universe]

Head of House Erik/T’Challa [non-traditional a/b/o]

Elevate Tony/Rhodey [a/b/o]

if hover-boards were wishes...  Erik/T’Challa

so, my darling Female OC/Female OC

Gatekeeper (Sing To Me)  Erik/T’Challa [One Shots]

school these kids (they can't read)  Erik/T’Challa [kid-fic]

homebound Erik/T’Challa [Canon Divergence]

night and day. Brunnhilde | Valkryie/Hela

S.I.H  Erik/T’Challa

the only thing to fear is never being scared Nakia/Shuri

this jackal doesn't need to hide Erik & N’Jobu [Time Travel Fix-it]

adjustment period T’Chaka/N’Jobu [Canon Divergence]

call Erik/T’Challa [kid-fic]

shape of you Erik/T’Challa [age regression AU]

Do You Trust? Erik/W’Kabi

Sorry for Now Erik/T’Challa

Nice To Have M’Baku/T’Challa

something sweeter Erik/T’Challa

fallin (temptation) John Walker/Lemar Hoskins

puzzle of us  John Walker/Lemar Hoskins

lost it to trying  John Walker/Lemar Hoskins

four letter words  John Walker/Lemar Hoskins

kneeling on broken knees (what's up danger?)  Erik/T’Challa

Broken Mirrors T’Challa [What-If....?]

fault line N’Jobu & Erik

pyre Erik & Rhodey

Not Friends Tony/Rhodey

longing T’Chaka/N’Jobu

dreamgirl Ramonda/Erik

stopping point  John Walker/Lemar Hoskins

one more time (walls down)  Erik/T’Challa [Resurrection U]

catch up (dangerous) Eric Effiong/Adam Groff [Sex Education]

two souls Lord Voldemort/Harry Potter [Canon Divergence]

look at this heart, can you see the floor? Erik/T’Challa/Erik [Dimension Travel]

[onetrueartform]

Killmonger is one of the top 5 MCU villains, if not the best. Such a magnificently well-written character. Jordan gives, in my opinion, his best performance in Black Panther.

Dude cloaks his naked ambition and desire to watch the world destroy itself (starting with Wakanda) in Wakandan nationalism and black supremacist rhetoric. Ryan Coogler uses the character to highlight and critique so many disparate right-wing ideologies and it’s sad to see how many people don’t recognize that. He’s not some “cool revolutionary”. He’s a terrorist who only cares about slaking his own lust for vengeance. He’s a would-be demagogue.

N’Jobu’s treason came from a genuine desire to help the world. Erik just wanted to watch it burn.

He’s also one of the few Marvel villains who makes genuinely good points about things, in this case how Wakanda operated prior to T’Challa sharing vibranium with the world.

[panthershuri]

reminder that the mission n’jobu was killed while planning was breaking eriks mom out of prison

[jaguarhabit]

FROM A PASSAGE IN BP & PHILOSOPHY: In 2006, The Louvre Museum invited African American writer Toni Morrison (1931–2019) to curate an exhibit, which she chose to create around Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, which she sees as articulating unspoken realities of historic and contemporary imperial conditions. Morrison states:

When you look at it you see the raft has been cut away from the main ship and they are just left to survive or drown. And they were all lower class or enslaved people or laborers, and there’s this one figure at the top […] looks like a young black boy pointing, maybe he sees a rescue ship, maybe not, but that whole notion of misery and being cut off from the colonial ship struck me as symbolic of what the whole [exhibit] would be about.

While Morrison’s exhibit doesn’t directly relate to Black Panther her observations nevertheless highlight an interesting perspective, especially in relation to Killmonger, as his arrival in Wakanda mirrors the Géricault painting. Indeed, Killmonger is like the boy in the painting, a boy cut off from his home yet also searching for his home and trying to not just find it, but reclaim it, like Killmonger does with the mask and like he does when he fights T’Challa and becomes king. Similarly, Morrison’s thoughts on the exhibit enhance this perspective. As she states:

The history of slavery in America has been mangled, cleaned up, made sanitary and polished. For me, the act of re-imagining and imagining is a kind of saying goodbye, paying my respects, putting flesh on memory, putting flesh on anonymous people, keeping them intellectually and emotionally alive, it’s as though people looked away, so I thought it was time not to blink, to look at it the way it really was.

Morrison’s focus on migrants as a historic population – identity and migration as a condition inextricably bound to the wielding of power and bringing that discussion into the heart of “Western” material consciousness, as it were – is a form of truth-telling. By confronting the structures of Western identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) and by focusing on people marginal to those structures yet necessary to the binary nature of those artifices, it is a revelation of the hidden heart of the museum’s presentation, its way of existing. The figures in The Raft of the Medusa, women, the poor, lowborn, and enslaved, are outsiders, those whose labor and exploitation made the museum and the narrative of the museum possible and whose lives were rarely seen as worthy of the museum’s attentions.

Killmonger also engaged in truth-telling – at the museum, when he questioned the director about the history of the artifacts and how they were obtained, and in Wakanda, when he confronted the council and when he forced T’Challa to reckon with Wakanda’s past (not just T’Chaka killing N’Jobu, but also Wakanda’s history of isolation). In fact, T’Challa begins to question the past after he sees Killmonger wearing the mask and wearing N’Jobu’s ring, which causes Zuri to admit the truth of what T’Chaka did to N’Jobu and what T’Chaka and Zuri did to Killmonger as a boy. Killmonger’s mask is largely symbolic for Killmonger – as he says, he’s just “feeling it.”

[justwaytomuchfun]

Now exams are over and I was re-watching clone wars,rebels and some of the films and I actually re watched force awakens (I actually like it don’t Judge me) and I remembered the hype around rey’s parents before big daddy palps entered the scene and I actually thought of Something ‘the palpatine problem’ I mean the whole Rey is palps grand daughter thing so I took a step back to look at the trilogy and found something that could have saved the rise of skywalker and the problem that led it there,

The real problem is just the film or the entire trilogy wasn’t even planned to have palpatine , it was a last minute retcon because backlash from Snoke’s death ,if palps was truly dead but Rey was a palp clone it would’ve been fine-ish but honestly I prefer her being a nobody kinda similar to daddy kenobi and have kylo and her be a reflection of anakin and obi wan (the chosen saviour of a legend and the basically nobody tied to the saviour’s) and be a mirror by how unlike how obi wan unable to save anakin to Vader ,rey would be able to save Ben from kylo,

kylo could have kept his badass villain status for a movie instead of becoming big daddy palps errand boy and Rey could’ve brought him back to the light somehow (I don’t write scripts ) possibly because rey could empathise with Ben because she has no Jedi code to prevent that type of connection, unlike obi wan who embraced the Jedi code and while he did understand that it wasn’t always right (clone wars S7 )he still followed it as he tried to kill anakin on Mustafar believing he was never coming back not believing in his redemption (although after the youngling slaying I don’t really blame him to much)

similar to black panther and killmonger and their fathers while T’challahs father T’chaka murdered his brother N’jobu to keep the secret of wakanda T’challah tried to save kill monger after their fight despite all he had done (R.I.P Zuri) and while killmonger still let himself die the parallel still stands for what Rey and Ben could’ve been

also it would have been a great bit of connective tissue to the prequels to tie up the saga even their final duel could’ve mirrored the Phantom apprentice from clone wars (I know it came after but still) as a clash of ideals and sabers an incredibly ‘elegant duel from a more civilised age’ instead of hitting each other with glowing baseball bats because of ‘reasons’

That was a big ass tangent I’m sorry

[tjadakaa]

Literally never gonna shut up about how T’Chaka did NOT need to kill N’Jobu in Oakland that night. Also the POV we got was skewed towards T’Chaka and Zuri’s retelling so we’ll never even know what actually went down.

In the meantime I’ll just write non con content and bless the problematic fave who gave the ship to meeeee. Thanks Daan💜

[tchallasbabymama]

I got a real ass question, y’all…

Because I’m stumped…

Or maybe I’m just 🍃…

So, I’m writing (as usual), and got to a scene where T’Challa explains the whole Killmonger thing to my OC…

Simple, right?

Wrong!

I’m stuck because wtf did they think happened to N’Jobu? What did T’Chaka say? He couldn’t say he was dead because then he would’ve had to at least fake a proper burial…and he couldn’t say he just up and went missing because then it would look suspicious if he didn’t dedicate time and resources into “finding” him.

So what was the lie?!

Is it in a deleted scene or something? I haven’t seen those in a while 😅

[marvelvsmarvel]

MCU Cast Hateful Eight Type Screenplay Adaptation

Setting: Late 80s / Location: Madripoor

Rogues Gallery:

Clint Barton Jeremy Renner

Brock Rumlow Frank Grillo

Wade Wilson Ryan Reynolds

Prince N’Jobu Sterling K Brown

Natasha Romanoff Scarlett Johansson

Ulysses Klaue Andy Serkis

Akihiko Hiroyuki Sanada

&

Nick Fury Samuel L Jackson

Synopsis: A big foreign player (N’Jobu) is making waves in the West Coast underground scene with rumored potential of a government threatening revolution because of an unknown and highly advanced new substance (vibranium). Rarely stepping out of the shadows this Bay Area Kingpin is willing to conduct a demonstration in the infamous Madripoor for interested yet nefarious buyers. However, many find his sudden rise to power as a threat to all and have hired or assigned various skilled individuals to eliminate this growing threat.

Director: James Gunn / Rating: R

Intrigue: I love no holds barred every man for himself storylines but this specific story with this specific cast would be a lot of fun for a bajillion reasons. Crimelords are not without their posses like how N’Jobu has his loyal War Dogs (not Zuri), Klau and his mixtape crew, and Akihiko his Yakuza; mercenaries sometimes need a spotter like Clint and his brother Barney (post-circus) and Rumlow and Jack Rollins (pre-SHIELD). Speaking of SHIELD this would be a fun origin story on how such gifted people got on SHIELD’s recruiting radar or more specifically Nick Fury’s. I love the idea that Clint and Natasha met on a few dangerous occasions before SHIELD and errgh his marriage. It also gives a vendetta to Clint and Akihiko for his direct targeting of him in Endgame. Another opportunity is to round the story on how Klaue and N’Jobu met spurring the events of Black Panther. And of course Wade is there to get paid and there to get laid. Additional cast includes Ming Na Wen as SHIELD Agent Melinda May, Michael Jai White as Wakandan War Dog, Rain as Ninja Assassin, and Nathan Fillion as Barney Barton.

I am reminded that the MCU consists of many great actors and actresses on every level from the films to the tv shows to the streaming services in between. Some have only been brought in for a single film (Brown) while others have not been afforded the best writing (Renner). Either way a film like this is fun, action packed with a lot of blood and martial arts, and would be an absolute killer! Were it an actual film...

[sonofnjobu]

Just sitting here realIzing Njobu not only hired a colonizer to steal from his homeland, he used the same colonizer who canonically tried to kill Tchaka in the past. He had to have known Klaue wud leave bodies and just didn’t care. But then got mad, getting outed by Zuri. Dude you workin with ur brother’s would be killer that’s against family code! if T’Chaka had just brought Erik home with him I wouldn’t have much to be mad at him abt, u betray me like this and then pull a GUN OUT!

It’s a shame how many children have to deal with the sins of their fathers. It causes nothing but pain.

[mbakusthrone]

Re watching Black Panther and realizing that when N’Jobu senses the Dora and he looks outside the window, he’s not looking for intruders, he’s checking on his son and possibly realizing he will never see Erik again.

[wakandas-vibranium]

Would W’kabi still have been on Erik’s side if he knew N’Jobu was the reason his parents were dead...

[cameraxscreenxmarvel]

Dad…wake up 😢😭

The Lion King (1994) || Black Panther (2018)

[kadtherine]

n’jobu : no tears for me ?

erik :