#tilda dillard

[handsome-edvard]

I’m watching S.W.A.T. and Hondo’s sister is Tilda!!!! lol not Tilda Dillard!!!! 😭

[listadisneylgbt]

Luke Cashe (2016-2018)

Se insinúa que Shades y Comanche estuvieron juntos, en una escena hablan sobre lo que son, y que “hicieron algo” en la cárcel, Shades lo atribuye a que tenían que hacerlo para no volverse locos, por la necesidad de interacción humana y confianza, pero Comanche dice que ambos lo querían. Comanche es asesinado por Shades por ser un soplón, Shades dice que lo mata porque estaba cegado por quererlo, y no se podía permitir eso, aunque luego se recrimine y cargue por haberlo matado. Luego, Mariah habla de ellos como “un romance entre delincuentes maricas”. Ambos son personajes secundarios, Comanche solo aparece en algunos episodios, mientras que Shades es un personaje recurrente, Shades también se involucra románticamente con Mariah, de forma más directa, en cambio su relación con Comanche es más indirecta.

Cheo Hodari Coker, actor que interpreta a Shades, habla de que ambos personajes tienen una genuina relación de amistad y amor.  

Mariah Stokes, antagonista principal de la serie, le revela a su hija Tilda que Jackson Dillard no era en realidad su padre. Le cuenta que era gay, que su familia temía tanto que fuera homosexual que hasta prefirieron que se casara con ella, una mujer negra con una hija, para ocultarlo. Si bien Jackson no aparece, su historia es contada con un gran desarrollo y de forma directa, y se representa muy bien el desprecio y tabú familiares sobre la homosexualidad, como dijo Marahia “La homosexualidad se evaporó”.

[proyectodisneylgbt]

Luke Cashe (2016-2018)

Se insinúa que Shades y Comanche estuvieron juntos, en una escena hablan sobre lo que son, y que “hicieron algo” en la cárcel, Shades lo atribuye a que tenían que hacerlo para no volverse locos, por la necesidad de interacción humana y confianza, pero Comanche dice que ambos lo querían. Comanche es asesinado por Shades por ser un soplón, Shades dice que lo mata porque estaba cegado por quererlo, y no se podía permitir eso, aunque luego se recrimine y cargue por haberlo matado. Luego, Mariah habla de ellos como “un romance entre delincuentes maricas”. Ambos son personajes secundarios, Comanche solo aparece en algunos episodios, mientras que Shades es un personaje recurrente, Shades también se involucra románticamente con Mariah, de forma más directa, en cambio su relación con Comanche es más indirecta.

Cheo Hodari Coker, actor que interpreta a Shades, habla de que ambos personajes tienen una genuina relación de amistad y amor.  

Mariah Stokes, antagonista principal de la serie, le revela a su hija Tilda que Jackson Dillard no era en realidad su padre. Le cuenta que era gay, que su familia temía tanto que fuera homosexual que hasta prefirieron que se casara con ella, una mujer negra con una hija, para ocultarlo. Si bien Jackson no aparece, su historia es contada con un gran desarrollo y de forma directa, y se representa muy bien el desprecio y tabú familiares sobre la homosexualidad, como dijo Marahia “La homosexualidad se evaporó”.

[rockofgelato]

Luke Cage + Onion Headlines Part 2/3

[thefudge]

why did you deliver yourself to the lion? 

tilda + bushmaster 

[dubmeister]

People stay talking nonsense about Mariah in regards to Tilda as if she wasn’t a survivor going through it and dealing with life the best way she could. As if she never explained herself or apologized to Tilda. 

Some high nonsense.

[misseshappygolucky]

I kinda ship Tilda and John.....

[wannabanauthor]

I think Shades knew

I think Shades figured out Tilda’s parentage the night he met her. That’s probably why he never asked Mariah why she never told him. After they were introduced and Shades went downstairs with Che, he was staring hard at Tilda. It wasn’t jealousy. I think he was trying to figure out why Mariah never told him. And then he probably realized that Tilda looked a lot like Uncle Pete.

He’s very observant and good and putting two and two together.

[grantyort]

I guess Mariah never watched Game of Thrones

Else she would’ve seen that lipstick poison shit coming.

[harrisbn]

Why they eating dinner and Shades is just lurking in the corner?

[meowthtwo]

I love Misty Knight so much... also I really like Tilda (I’ve only seen...one episode with her in it so far but she’s likeable) and I was really stressed when Bushmaster came to her store

[marisbugs]

call me by your name // tilda x john

⤗ ao3 (see for notes and inspirations)

Names have magic power. They protect, scaring away evil. They also haunt, becoming a curse. Johnson. Dillard. Stokes. Had things worked out differently, she would have had a completely different name now. But it’s hard to make history, and it’s even harder to rewrite it. What’s done is done.

Mamie Johnson cared for her as if she was her own although insisted that she shouldn’t forget who her real mother was. Tilda nodded obediently because she knew she had to, because she knew it was the right thing to do. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t force herself to love a strange woman from the photo she kept in her bedside table, secretly wishing that one day Mamie would earnestly call her her daughter.

She sorted out her priorities when she grew up. Her love for the Johnsons didn’t lessen but she understood why Mamie kept telling her that her birthmother was Mariah – she didn’t want Tilda to forget her roots, forget who she was and where she came from. Because it’s so important to know that you’re not alone, that generations after generations of your ancestors are backing up every step of your life. No matter what people they were, what they did – family came first. Always.

That’s why she decided to follow in her father’s footsteps. She set herself a goal to become as generous and selfless as Jackson Dillard was – to help people without awaiting something in return. With her life, she wanted to honour his memory, to do him justice, to crown him with immortality. And maybe – just maybe – to win if not love, but at least respect of the woman who was called her mother even if she never actually acted like one.

She should have known that this undertaking of hers was doomed from the start – their relationship with Mariah was doomed. Every time when it seemed that they’d moved one step forward, something always took them two, if not three, steps back. So was the life, apparently. However, even after all these years – after she’d left her in somebody else’s care and then moved on to forgetting her entire existence – they still kept trying. Because family came first, didn’t it? Always.

It all fell into place when Mariah told her the truth. At first, she refused to believed it for it would have been so much easier if it turned out that the woman’d made it all up, said it out of spite to get under her skin, to drag her in the mud, to hurt her, to humiliate her. But the look on Mariah’s face spoke louder than words; she saw shame in her eyes, she saw suffering and disgust, and, more importantly, anger. At Pete, at Mable, at herself, even at Cornell. And at her, nearly most of all at her. Something inside her broke, but at least she understood now. Everything that had ever happened to her finally made sense. The picture became whole. The last piece of the puzzle pierced right through her heart.

Jackson Dillard turned out to be the same fiction as the loving Johnsons – the family she had never been a part of, not really. Thus, Tilda Johnson as well as Tilda Dillard were fakes. Only Tilda Stokes was real.

Mariah had hoped that changing the name would help her to run away from herself, from her shameful past, the shady family business, even shadier history. Naivety that wasn’t typical of her always so calculating mother. For some reason, Tilda realized much faster that you couldn’t run away from the thing that coursing through your veins. There was no escape.

Everyone had their own cross to bear, and it just happened that her own was imprinted right under her skin.

She hadn’t had a clue that it was possible to hate so strongly, so deeply, so furiously. She always thought herself to be above prejudice, above all that Shakespearean family feud, vendettas and stuff like that that her relatives, who she’d never wished to have anything in common with, were engrossed in. And look at her now. The irony of fate in all its deadly glory. She wanted to climb up the wall or better – crawl in a hole and never see the light of day ever again. She didn’t feel like she deserved anything better. The child of incest and rape – a Stokes twice over.

She knew, however, that she would muster up her willpower sooner or later. She would keep on doing what she had been doing, what she thought was right, and would console herself by thinking that none of that mattered (but of course it mattered, it all mattered). “Family comes first”. Bullshit.

A bit more of that – and she would throw up.

Looking at him, she couldn’t help thinking about all the things her family was to blame for: the McIvers’ murder, the massacre at “Gwen’s” – all of them were just the tip of the iceberg of the sequence of crimes, each of those had ruined someone’s life. And she – oh, she was one – no, two – hundred percent responsible for it. If he wished to kill each and every one of the Stokes family, he should definitely start with her. A pure product born out of filth and vice hardly deserved the right to exist.

“I’m so sorry,” she said and she didn’t lie. She truly was sorry – and not only for those innocent who’d died. She felt sorry for those who’d survived as well, doomed to live day by day with the excruciating pain of loss. She felt sorry for John. And a little – for herself.

But she wasn’t going to indulge her weaknesses and drown in self-pity. She just wanted to erase that cursed name from her life, well aware that it was impossible, that for that to happen she’d have to turn herself inside out, to replace every cell in her body. She wasn’t going to repeat her mother’s mistakes, but maybe, she didn’t have a choice. Maybe, she was doomed.

“I just can’t figure out why you still haven’t killed me.” Tilting her head a little, she looked at him without fear, curious.

“You heal me,” he chuckled. Then added after some contemplation, “And I like you.”

Frowning, she shook her head. She cared about him, but she wasn’t ready to receive the same care in return. She didn’t believe she deserved it.

“You wouldn’t have said that if you knew the truth.” She closed her eyes and took a deep breath as though she was about to jump into ice cold water – or the flames of hell. “My father… My father isn’t Jackson Dillard. It’s Pete Stokes.”

When she opened her eyes at last, afraid of lingering silence, he stood so very close to her, not even moving. She didn’t know what to think, but there was no anger in his eyes – at least, not at her. He traced his finger down her cheek tentatively, and her body shivered. She swallowed.

“I’m a pureblood Stokes, an abomination…” He didn’t let her finish, putting his thumb to her lips.

“You wouldn’t have said that if you knew the truth.” His smile was scarcely perceptible as she looked at him examiningly. “I like you the way you are.”

And maybe, it was all she needed to hear.

She offered him a poison, but also a chance to have his revenge, to redeem himself. She didn’t want him to die, but after all, death was the ultimate freedom. The roads we take all lead to it eventually.

Deep down, she hoped she would be able to save him.

She was right, but now the load of responsibility rested on her shoulders. It was her turn to administrate justice, pledging her soul to the devil. But what had to be done had to be done, and no one but her could put an end to all that was started so long ago. Cornell killed Pete, Mariah killed Cornell, and it was only logical that now she killed Mariah. The circle was complete. Out of all the damned Stokes, only she remained alive.

“You miss me?” Conditioned air nicely cooled her skin, hot with Jamaican sun, and she grinned – maybe, too widely for it to be dismissed as something trivial.

“No.”

She snorted, sweeping her quizzical eyes over John who was sitting on the couch – a feeling of déjà vu was almost palpable.

“Liar.”

“Guilty as charged,” conceded he with a half-smile.

She sank into a chair across from him and watched him – more likely, scrutinized him with her doctor’s eye. He looked healthy – or, at least, much healthier than when they saw each other last. Nightshade actually helped him, it seemed. Tilda half-expected it to kill him, seeing how the previous overdoses had caused his body almost irreparable damage. Perhaps, he really was special.

“It’s over, Johnny,” finally said she, looking him in the eye. “Mariah is dead, and the last Stokes has died with her.”

Except for me, she wanted to add, but she’d meant what she’d said – she was tired of atoning for her mother’s sins, especially now, when she could so well do it herself in hell, right where she belonged. Tilda had enough those of her own; she didn’t need to overload herself.

He nodded slowly.

“The last one, huh?” asked he, challenging. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes. “”Who are you, then?”

“I don’t know,” she snorted a good-natured laugh. “Why don’t you name me?”

Something in his eyes changed, and if it had happened before, she would have surely wanted to run away, but now she was, in fact, ready to dive in headfirst. Mariah was wrong yet again. Tilda would never be alone.

John reached out his hand, and she leaned forward, reducing the distance between them. He pulled her close to him, basically forcing her to fall. When she caught her breath enough to look up, her eyes lingered on his lips inadvertently before travelling to his own. They were so full of emotion that her breath seized up again; but perhaps, it was due to his heartbeat that she felt with her skin – and deep under. Their hearts seemed to get in tune with each other. She wondered if he felt it too.

“You’re entrusting me with large responsibility, huh, T?” He didn’t ask, merely stating it as a fact. His voice was low. “But I think I can come up with something.”

“Really?”

“Uh-huh.”

Deep down, she realized that the climax was inevitable – that their hearts were beating too loudly, their pulses were too quick, the distance between them was disappearing too rapidly; a discharge of electricity overwhelmed her, nevertheless, rooting her to the spot, and she wouldn’t be able to escape, even if she tried.

She didn’t.

He lifted her up as if she was something evanescent and delicate, took her to the bedroom and laid her down on a double bed. For some reason, Tilda wasn’t even surprised to see the black sheets – it was minimalistic, elegant, and, first of all, dramatic. Her lips curled into a soft smile.

He took off his shirt, but there was nothing new for her to see; his stomach, his chest, his shoulders, his tattoos – she had already seen it all when she healed him, trying to bring him back from the dead. Her eyes were trained to look for injuries, and her medical practice had taught her to regard a human body just as a machine with so many functions she was supposed to keep operating. He, on the other hand, watched her rather eagerly. She allowed a low chuckle past her lips and slipped off her thin shirt, letting it fall on the floor beside the bed. Then she bent over to remove her jeans, but he gently pushed her hands away, urging her to lie down again. She silently obliged, somewhat intrigued. He traced his fingers across her arms and shoulders and down her chest and stomach; he kissed her collarbones, then shifted, moving down. Taking her jeans off of her as if she was made of the finest porcelain, he kept on caressing her legs, her feet, every now and then leaving heated wet kisses on her delicate skin. With a fleeting touch to her inner thigh, he moved back up, tracing the curves of her lips with his thumb.

“How can you be so lethal when you are so gentle?” She clutched at the sheets, her blood bubbling with excitement. “I know… You’re Erzulie, that’s right.”

“Then you’re out of luck, aren’t you?” She grinned, propping herself up on her elbows. “I’ll try not to murder you in your sleep.”

He shook his head, unfazed.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as you come when I call for you.”

It was the only thing that really mattered anyway.

[i-got-the-feels]

Things I don't see enough people talking about from Luke Cage Season 2:

Mariah's (limited) goodness

•When she tells Donovan to kill everyone before they have a chance to betray her excluding people in attorney-client privelge and Sugar because "His wife gave me clothes, I'll never forget that"

Bushmaster when he lets John McIver breathe

• "Let her go" - John to Sheldon after Tilda saved him. and whatever flirty thing they have going on

• "Than you for keeping my aunty safe" - John to Luke, a person whom he sees as an obstacle to achieve his life-long goal of killing Mariah and getting Harlem.

How Mariah, Bushmaster and Luke haven't still moved on from their families shadows

John

•"Call me Bushmaster"

•How every SINGLE time he corrects when someone calls Mariah as Dillard and calls her Mariah Stokes. STOKES instead.

Mariah

•"My name is Dillard but I am still haunted ny the name Stokes"

•"You are the one obsessed with Dillards. Dillards are fantasy. Stokes are real" - Tilda to Mariah.

Luke

"You name is what i gave you, Carl"

"Like Willis?" - interaction between Luke and his father after he met him years later.

The discourse on Vengeance

Luke's father

Vengeance belong to Lord and how man is vengeful and spiteful.

Bushmaster's uncle

When one seeks vengeance one must dig two graves.

Bushmaster

But you must find peace in your heart. Me say war.

You cannot drown in your sorrow. You can only burn it

The discourse on Family

Mariah

"Why celebrate someone you hate? " "That's what family is for. That's what makes us special."

Luke

"Family? All that means is low expectations, disappointment and death. "

On sense of responsibility towards others and community:

•"The world maybe my problem but it is not always my fault" - Luke Cage

•"You can't  stop the tide.you can only save as many people as you can from the flood." - Ridley quoting Ridenhour

•"It can be a lot to take on everything. You need to realise Harlem was here before you and will still stand long after you"

•"Every siren is not for you" - Claire Temple

Mariah and Tilda

"I killed Cornell because he loved Pete more than he loved me"

Alfre Woodard's acting in this scene as she tells her that she tried to love Tilda but could never do so because she saw Pete's face in her. And she did try, truly, when she told Ridenhour to never let Tilda the truth but she herself broke down.

But Mariah did her best-and once she let herself be who she was she said to Tilda, when in prison - she doesn't remind her of Pete now and that she gave her the greatest gift of all because no one can hurt her now "Nobody will hurt you, because you won't be hurt worse.Nobody will betray you because you will never let them close enough"

Tilda being who she was meant to after years of denying who she is - and says she is ready to be who she is at Cornell's grave before she kills Mariah. What she doesn't know is her mom said the same thing before she killed everyone and burnt a man alive in Gwen's so she is more like her mother than she thinks.

Shades

His hands shivering after interacting with Mariah after Gwen's reminds me of him telling to Comanche "Ice runs in her veins. Ice"

And him telling her "You told me about light, about being hernan and not shades but you are the one who sold your soul and for what, the last name you hate?" again you can see Mariah tried to do her best and was genuine in her intentions (something even Luke's father said- you tried to do a lot of good, even if it was with blood money, something she has shown her anger over when she hallucinaties Mama Mabel and Pete and screams "Every nice thing I try to do and move forward is ruined because of something you did in the past"

And like I assumed, Shades didn't stop killing because of his guilt for killing Comanche his friend, yes that guilt is there but he cannot kill more because killing Comanache was for nothing - because Mariah broke rules and brutally killed innocent people. And he hasn't killed anyone innocent or who hasn't snitched -" Candace was guilty when she took the money and snitched. Comanche snitched. Cornell was being rabid and blowing cover. The street has rules."

Misty's growth

• Misty, someone who questioned Ridenhour for reducing Mariah's sentence offers her immunity to catch Bushmaster.

It reminds me of S1 when Ridley said "You doubted the sytem. You didn't keep her (Candace) in witness protection" shows that while she is disillusioned with the system (as seen when she went to plant evidence at Cockroache's place and then quit) after time she decides to be the person who trusts the system.

• Her whole relationship with Nandi. How initially she raises to her bait but later she doesn't. She just says her truth and doesn't entertain Nandi or her excuses further and doesn't give her the reaction she wants (also actress playing nandi, hi, please know I am single)

Luke and Mariah

•This interaction between Luke and Mariah that show their relationship with each other and Harlem

"I have done more for Harlem more than you will" - Mariah

"Harlem doesn't honour you. It somehow survives you" - Luke

•This one that shows that Luke's anger has simmered down a bit and he is going back to who he was without the weight of the rage.

"Mariah, what would you do if roles were reversed?"

"I would give you to dogs the second they started barking"

"There is only one thing stopping me from doing that. Unfortunately, I was raised better than that"

• When she tells Luke that, "You were the one to Catalyst to find who I really am" that remind me of the Season 1 moment when Cornell tells her Luke can't be shot, "He can't t be shot. Does he have gills? Can't he drown or burn?"

• The scene of her dying and he stayed with her - as much as it was to show compassion, it was also to ensure she does indeed die this time.

"You are not gonna save me?" ( reminding us of all the times she knew he would save her - because that's just who he is, a protector)

"I am done with saving I can but I can keep you company"

"Thank you. It burns"

"Good."

"We are not yet done here, Luke" and guess what they weren't because

•"Harlem's paradise is the crown jewel of Harlem. It should go to someone who loves Harlem as much as I do. He thinks that being in the roost, he can control and change it . In the end it will change him" (reminds me of the faucet metaphor Shades used)

On Luke looking like he may cross the line

•"You can use anger as a tool but you disable yourself when you use it as crutch. Sometimes you gotta stomp the cockroach, I get it. But when you enjoy stomping it? "- Claire Temple

•"Don't let the darkness and anger consume you. Don't make your calling your curse" - Luke's father to luke

Who is Luke once he crosses the line

•"Harlem doesn't need a sheriff it needs a king" - Luke to Mariah saying "Harlem needs a king, I am glad its you"

•Brokering peace. Diplomat. Sheriff. Hero

•His this interaction with D-dubs

"I thought you weren't the king.

"I am not. I am the rook"

On why Luke did it

•"You can't shoot me, burn me, and most importantly buy me."

•"Thats the thing about power. It does not matter where it comes from but how you use it" This interaction with Sugar, a scene I believed he decided to cross the line.

On How he knows Luke isn't completely lost to the dark

• This scene

"If you gonna be a crime boss, no two ways about it, not in this shop. This place is Switzerland, it has to be" - D- Dubs

"Mr cage we need to talk" - Donovan

"Not here" - Luke Cage.

My favourite quotes/moments that are well-written and acted out

•"You will eat, but not taste. You will sleep but not rest" - Anansi. The grief, the anger, the rage, the sadness. Well acted.

•"I promised (myself) I wouldn't live with anger" - Claire Temple after Luke punches the wall in anger. Her hurt and sadness that she has to leave because he is walking down a path that she cannot walk with him (yes, that is a reference to padme and anakin)

•"Past is gone. You cannot change it. All you do is build something for next generation"- Anansi

•"But more war isn't answer to war. Otherwise, its just, its just chaos" - Luke

•The story of man at the top who thinks he is safe because he has everything and can see everything without knowing that he cannot see his own demise from people at bottom of the hill- people whom he thinks he controls.

• The Luke Cage x Iron Fist fight sequence - love the lighting and the music.

• Misty x Cooleen action sequence - Misty feeling like herself and powerful after a LONG time.

The Season 2 and the show was beautifully written and while I am pissed I don't get to see how Luke turns out now that he crossed the line, I am glad I got to see how much I saw.

Season 1

[thefudge]

Fuck, she tastes too good, he thinks with chagrin as the sun rises over the city and pours honey over her skin.

[dubmeister]

if this bitch doesn’t gtfotown

this is meant to be a like counter parallel to mariah saying she didn’t love tilda bc everytime she saw her face it remind her of pete’s

BUT THIS DOESN’T EVEN COMPARE. 

it don’t make sense. 

cornell was not pete’s victim. his being able to gloss over pete’s atrocities doesn’t mean jackshart. he’s not the aggrieved party.

[misseshappygolucky]

Oh shit! This scene between Mariah and Tilda....Holy shit.....wow. The acting was incredible.