#rep they were black with ‘rep’

[iwatcheditbegin]

Okay are her in-ears glitter?!!

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

oh bluepoch is OUT for the gays with this one

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

ok but power rangers 2017 was good. y’all just don’t like fun

[doingitbrokenhearted]

Oh hey karlie kloss posted a story, I wonder wh—

Oh.

Anyways.

[bohemian-nights]

your attitude towards Black queer women is nasty and there's nothing stereotypical about a Black (possibly) lesbian character. on top of that, yall was on here the other day talm bout some "taking stuff from black men" but who woulda been seated for a yet another Black man chasing after a yt woman anyway and tryna use sex to control her??? franchaela are going to have a happy ending even if a little bit unconventional (we literally don't know how bridgerton's societal landscape will change by then) but what's the difference between them already living out quiet lives away from the ton and.....continuing to do that? it wouldn't be out of shame but out of what they want while it just so happens to protect them? what exactly would be different than what benophie woulda had to do??? who also had to go to the country to limit the risk of folks inquiring about sophie. it's the same thing and yet your issue seems to be that it's not a Black woman with a white man who harassed her to be his mistress and refused to see her as anything but that. i have no doubt the show will change that part of their dynamic but that seems to be something you want to stay in tact and you need to unpack that cause it's pathetic. you should want better.

They aren’t going to change shit because their MO isn’t to uplift Black women of any kind. So what you really want me to do is cheer on what will be a promiscuous Black woman chasing after or romancing a married white woman(her cousin-in-law) who will have to end up hiding out in the country for the rest of her life to escape persecution. You want me to pretend like it’s somehow the same/a better story than a Black woman being chased after, who gets the marriage, the adoring spouse, the children, doesn’t have to live in hiding or else she’ll be jailed, etc.

You don't care that they also ruined a Black man’s image too? Fine, but this isn't being done for us. We keep getting handed the “unconventional” which is why our image is always a fucking mess in the media.

If you want to play stupid play stupid, but I'm not playing dumb with you.

I’m not happy that they made Marina half-Black when they know she has to die to give Eloise a happily ever after. I’m not happy that they had Lady Danbury get raped every five seconds in Queen Charlotte and tried to play it off for laughs. Or that she remained alone with her children hating her. I wont even mention Guinevere, who is only there either to be a sexual experimentation or a side kick to the non-Blacks. Not to mention she like Lady Danbury is just another iteration of the strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man.

Alice is another side character so I'm not happy that the best we’ll get in terms of a Black-ish main character is Queen Charlotte who unlike the Bridgertons doesn't exactly have a fully functioning marriage. Lastly I’m not happy that they pulled this stunt after pulling the other fifty eleven stunts when it comes to their Blackish female characters. They do the bar minimum and give us the worst shit so no I’m not going to pretend like it’s all hunky dory.

I’m absolutely disgusted by the treatment we have received by this show. I’m tired of the disrespect. It’s one thing to add drama it’s another to add unnecessary trauma which is all they have given us.

I’m sorry, but it should tell you everything that they refuse to show a Black woman in a loving relationship with a man where shes desired and wanted. Every woman is afforded that but us? No ma’am I’m not falling for this bs.

Sophie should've been Black and this character they've created should’ve stayed in the rough drafts. No ifs ands or buts about it.

Actually read the books and pay attention to this show rather than listening to a bunch of psychotic racist ass non-Black women who are trying to sell you shit on a platter cause they don’t really give a damn since they have and will continue to get theirs.

[etirabys]

watching black sails and shaking my head the whole time so the boyfriend I'm watching the show with knows I don't think it's good poly representation

[dykedvonte]

If Ulysses has a million haters, then I'm one of them. If Ulysses has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Ulysses has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is with Ulysses than I’m against the world.

[spaceshipkat]

tbh i do find it funny when i, the person who literally majored in history in uni, don’t give a fuck about historical accuracy in fiction (especially when the fiction isn’t trying to be historically accurate—like idk bridgerton yknow?) while other people who haven’t touched a history textbook since high school get up in arms over it (especially when it’s something like that one character in Vikings Valhalla being a Black woman despite the fact the show gave an incredibly logical reason how that happened and is possible or idk the fucking Little Mermaid—WHO IS A FUCKING MERMAID—being Black like come on just say you’re racist and go)

[seaweedstarshine]

RIP Krakoa 🌹 I can’t lie I’ve been kinda behind since midway through Fall of X I’m gonna catch up before my first SDCC this summer but I hear Vulcan didn’t see much action anyway. Anyway my hand slipped and I found myself looking into the eyes of my canonically psychotic son the best Summers brother who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life, (he’s done lotsa wrong things but I love him more for it)

[booksandpaperss]

reminder that it’s not good sapphic rep if the sapphics are props for the mlm or het ship hope this helps ❤️

[ennuijpg]

😵💫😵💫😵💫

[pynkhues]

AMC said themselves, they don't want to make something for everyone, but rather shows that are everything for someone

Oooh where did they say this? Because a) I love that as an ethos and b) IWTV is EVERYTHING for quite a few people, so it definitely fits that bill. Rolin said that to a fan on camera, I remember, that he's never had the experience of knowing that for a small portion of the world's population, they are making *the* show

I think it's actually a Rolin interview where he says that specifically is AMC's approach, and I can't find that exact interview now (typical, haha), but Dan McDermott who's Head of Original Programming at AMC did say basically the same thing in an interview with Vulture back in 2021:

We’re not all things to all people. We’re more about super-serving specific audiences [with] content that they already have a demonstrated affinity for. To use retail as an analogy, there are big box stores out there that the whole family can walk into and everybody can get something for themselves. And then there are more highly curated boutiques, whether it’s Nike or Lululemon or a Gucci, that are all about craftsmanship and bespoke, highly curated offerings. We clearly are in the latter category, and we think that’s our advantage. We’re not competing with the Netflixes and the Disney Pluses and the Amazons. They’re in an arms race to find mega-ginormous content that they can spend a fortune on. That’s not our business.

The whole interview is actually an interesting read though in how AMC is thinking strategically, if you're interested in that sort of thing, haha.

[dvasva]

genuine question for anyone who wants me to actually vote for biden: why are you only concerned about the things project 2025 outlines now? black and brown people have said many times over the past 4 years that these things, this list of horrible things that trump will do if he wins, are already happening and have been happening at an alarming rate under biden in southern states and republican controlled states. whenever we say 'hey this is a thing thats happening already and biden has the power to stop it from happening here but he doesnt' we get the response that its republicans we should blame, maybe we shouldnt have voted for them, maybe we should move, its a state issue not a federal one, youre dividing the party, you're falling for propaganda, actually when biden does it its ok because the policy makes sense. dismissive of our concerns even though everyone who was dismissive before when it was only affecting southern brown people and southern queers is panicked about it now.

it feels like the concern only comes now because itll affect yall. if you were not worried about this and openly critical of bidens lack of action when all of these project 2025 policies were being implimented and pushed in red states, when trans rights and gay rights were restricted, porn was slowly being redefined to include trans people and subsequently banned, when cop cities popped up and bordern agencies took more power and abortion rights were obliterated while miscarriages were criminalized. when biden signed a law ceasing all asylum seakers from crossing the border, a thing that is word for word on the project 2025 list. i genuinely want you to ask yourself 'why do i care about project 2025 now? am i only concerned with the things that personally will affect me?'

honestly it feels disingenuous when people say 'itll get worse, though' as if the state of things as they are for the majority queer folks and of poc, especially black and hispanic folks, who live in this country (as the majority of poc live in southern red states) is not already really bad, word for word using the policies on the project 2025 docket. You don't mean 'it will get worse' you mean 'it will get worse for me' . and, inevitably, just like what happened when clinton wasnt elected in 2016, when trump won, young brown and black people, especially women and queer people, will be blamed for not voting for the democratic candidate, even though overwhelmingly white people will vote for trump. it will fall to us again because we didn't 'do enough'.

So, genuinely. Why are you only concerned right now?

[shrineofdolls]

I'm so weird when it comes to shows and what i binge watch

after i took a break from watching Various Winter Anime i ended up binge watching all of Mirai Nikki back to back with Popples (an 80s cartoon made to sell Toys)

i highly recommend pairing both of these shows together if you'd like to melt your mind and forget what logic is

[autisticagathasblog]

It's kind of crazy how Dot blatantly has an eating disorder, and despises she is in the narrative because she is a fat girl and then it's just ignored. so silly so silly so silly:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[breadandblankets]

So glad Duke is a niche character, can you imagine if fandom tried to give his parents the Jack and Janet Drake treatment?

I'm so worried that DC will Catherine and Willis Todd them if that happens I'll start biting

if anyone says mean things about Elaine and Doug first of all how dare you second of all I will seduce your mo- *I am dragged off stage by a comically large hook*