#shao x dizzee

[samxsteve]

the get down appreciation week ♫ day four  ↳ favorite scene

[musicalkings]

I’M ALIVE

[robbierottens]

There needs to be more shao/diz content okay

[sheenabooom-blog]

I’ve been waiting for one of the amazing authors to write a ‘Thizztastic’ fic… but i decided to fill the void with drawing the ot3 dancing together… i dunno why i made it gif style… thought it made it more interesting? Also i’m sorry if i made thor so derpy looking T_T i try

[sonatine]

Because Ra Ra is in real estate and now owns half the old neighborhood, he keeps tabs on things. He doesn’t give Zeke shit for not coming home, but he won’t pass up a chance to let home come to him. Even when Zeke goes out to Berkeley for a doctorate where he splits time between Mylene’s Malibu home and his shitty grad student dorm in Oakland, he comes home on his birthday to find his common room chock full of Kipling siblings and spouses and, in Boo Boo’s case, children. It’s a stupidly fun night. Zeke spends most of it blinking back tears while everyone else exchanges money for how many times will Zeke cry bingo. Thor is so thin that they worry he's got it but it’s just the flu, but Yolanda is diagnosed with cancer the next year and Zeke spends most of his weekends in the waiting room of the chemo place with a pile of books across his knees, ostensibly searching for scholarly data but really scratching rhymes in the margins of moldy paperbacks. Mylene takes the day shifts with Yolanda, recording her solo album during nights. Regina is on her third husband and fifth cabaret contract. She moves out to Vegas the next year for a solo residency gig with everyone’s blessing, though he suspects there’s bitterness that will never truly heal— but the girls still go out there every New Year’s, so what does he know. What does he know of bitterness. Ra Ra tells him obliquely of Shaolin’s doings —  Les Inferno burned down, but a second location opened up under new management, L’asphodèle — there’s a new DJ coming up in Yonkers — Cadillac never collabs with anyone north of Van Cortlandt but it seems he’s willing to make an exception. Zeke graduates as a Doctor of Political Science and crosses that stage in his luscious robes and thinks of being on another stage with Shaolin.

read on ao3

[skittlesandchampange]

The most underrated part of the the get down was when shao just like adopted Napoleon after he found him.

[owlbear-rue]

self care is rereading all your favourite the get down fics and crying

[figuerezekiel]

[fly-dizzee-d-blog]

Re-watching That 70's Show is really eye-opening to how different life was for white people (minus Fez) compared to black people. I love both shows, and I'm not trying to say one is better than the other, just the stark contrast which is really evident after watching TGD. The two shows really are the perfect example of white privilege and systematic racism, and it's really heartbreaking how much harder life was/is for black youth compared to white youth.

[samxsteve]

the get down appreciation week ♫ day one  ↳ favorite male character(s)

[musicalkings]

SHAO AND DIZZEE INTERACTED

SHAO KNOWS ABOUT DIZZEE

BYE

[lost-andfound]

like family, like love, like blood

Dizzee moves differently around Thor. Shaolin tracks their movements with sharp eyes, used to catching every detail from his life on the streets. Dizzee stares at Thor like he’s a piece of art that lies just beyond his reach, like a sculpture by Michelangelo or one of those other dead white guys that Shao can’t be bothered to remember or to give a fuck about. They’re like, they’re magical around each other, like they’ve entered a different goddamn dimension or some corny shit like that, like they orbit around each other like planets, like, like… fuck, it’s hard to describe if you’ve never seen it. And Shao can’t help but see it. Every fucking time Dizzee brings Thor around (which ain’t too often, since Dizzee treats Thor like he’s some sort of precious jewel who’d be tainted by spending too much time around other people) he drinks them in like a dying man, follows them around the room with his eyes. It ain’t often Shao sees a fellow alien, let alone two that seem to know each other like they know the night sky. The rest of the crew don’t get it–they think Thor’s just some white boy that Dizzee writes with–but Shao knows. Shao sees.

Thor’s something special.

And god, watching them watch each other in that shy, hungry way? It hurts. It really fucking hurts because, yeah, that’s it –that’s the way he watches Books when he thinks nobody’s looking. Shit, thinks Shao one night, smoking a blunt and lying on his mattress with Mylene’s annoying-ass voice telling him he’s not good enough running on a loop through his head, I’m fucking ruined.

[jesperfaheyd]

The Get Down, an ending

[caption: eight gifs of The Get Down, where scenes from the actual show are repurposed into new scenes. 

1: Shaolin yells at Zeke: “What fucking choice do I have?” He walks back to stand in front of him as Zeke replies: “You have me.” 2: The Kipling parents stand side by side with stern looks on their faces. Winston says: “You understand how damn lucky you are your ass wasn’t just thrown in jail?” Boo-Boo replies: “I understand.” Then he’s shown sweeping the street (implying he’s doing community service etc). 3: The Get Down Brothers are hanging out with Tanya. Shao says: “What? You a fucking Mylene Cruz fan?” Ra-Ra points at his girlfriend with a grin, while she looks smug. Zeke says: “Shut up, Shao.” as Shao says to Tanya: “No fucking way.” 4: Dizzee running in the tunnel (like he was in his final scene) before he’s pulled into a side tunnel. Then, a shot of him and Thor resting their foreheads together. 5: Shao hugging both of the Zulu Queens. Then him and Zeke holding each other close. 6: A shot of a TV showing clips of (Arlenis Sosa as) Mylene. She’s smiling at the camera in front of a wall with a cross on it. The narrator says: “The daughter of a pastor from The South Bronx became a disco star overnight.” Her waving as fans yell: “We love you Mylene!” Her talking and blowing a kiss to the camera: “To my family watching at home: I love you. Bye! ¡Gracias!” 7: Regina grinning as she asks: “Did you just say you like me?” Yolanda looks over her shoulder and says: “I did not say anything.” “Ay, you did!” Regina presses while Yolanda smiles shyly. “No fucking takebacks.” 8: Shaolin DJing while the rest of The Get Down Brothers chant: “Shaolin’s the DJ, who we call conductor, cause Shaolin Fantastic’s a bad mother--”] 

[taehyngsv]

i miss shaolin i miss zeke i miss boo boo i miss ra ra i miss dizzee i miss thor i miss mylene i miss yolanda i miss regina GOD I EVEN MISS FAT ANNIE AND CADILLAC I NEVER REALISED WHAT AN IMPACT THE GET DOWN HAS HAD ON ME AND I HOPE NETFLIX AND THEIR WORKFORCE FULL OF CRACKERS CHOKE

[skittlesandchampange]

Shao may be a bad motherfucker

But I’m a sad motherfucker

[dizzrkipling]

Only from exile can we come home