Satine’s costumes in MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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Satine’s costumes in MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann
i PERSONALLY would like to FALL IN LOVE please!!!!!! and have the SAME PERSON fall in love with me BACK!!!!!!! could i get some MUTUAL AFFECTION out here!!!!!!!!!
i think it’s good for all of us to learn (myself included!) that momentary thrill of moral superiority shouldn’t guide our activism but like. genuine care for other people. all cops are bastards yes but what sort of language are you using when you talk about prisoners? we all want the socialism but have you helped your roommates with chores? when’s the last time you helped someone in your community? in your general living space? mood okay, kill all pedophiles … do you really care about victims of sexual assault and want to warn people about a predator or are you looking for the Zing of telling people off with little care to how your words may affect them ….?
thread on twitter to mutual aid funds
this really is how it be
HUGE list of free (!!) books by black authors and revolutionaries. includes writings by toni morrison, james baldwin, assata shakur, angela davis, malcolm x, audre lorde and frantz fanon.
25 Black-owned bookstores you can support right now
while i don’t claim to be a “book blogger” by any account (more of a cranky publishing-person blogger most days), i know a lot of people have followed me through my book posts, so i’m taking advantage of that captive audience to boost these bookstores. shop them through their own websites and if you’re local, look into curbside pickup to minimize shipping costs and overhead. okay that’s all thanks bye stay safe.
the lit bar (a personal favorite and the bronx’s one remaining bookstore)
hariett’s bookshop
semicolon bookstore
mahogany books
uncle bobbie’s
loyalty bookstore
dare books
listening tree books
underground books
multicultural bookstore
pyramid books
black dot bookstore
brain lair books
medu bookstore
wild fig books and coffee
frugal bookstore
olive tree books
detroit book city
cafe con libros
revolution books
sisters uptown bookstore
source booksellers
hakim’s bookstore
sankofa books and cafe
turning page bookshop
In light of current events in the U.S., we’ve refrained from our regular Book Club post, and instead will use this space to amplify awareness of #BlackLivesMatter.
I see you finally got wise and made a statement, Pixelberry. The only problem is that the content on your app doesn’t reflect anything this post claims to stand for.
Quite frankly, I could spend all day describing the unacceptable treatment of the black characters in your stories. Seeing as our real life situation is terrible enough, let’s just hit the highlights, shall we?
Your most recent indiscretion involves none other than Rafael Aveiro of Open Heart, an Afro-Latino man who you sidelined and then wrote out of the narrative completely in favor of giving more screen time to a white male despite the fact that he already had an overwhelming amount of screentime in comparison to every other love interest in the story.
Another notable case is that of Shane Parker of Platinum, the MC’s best friend and optional love interest. When the player promises to attend his film screening that is important to him instead of attending the knockoff Met Gala and later optionally stands him up, Shane is portrayed as bitter and unsupportive by the narrative. In addition, he also suffers because the other two love interests have a bigger role in the story and consequently receive more content.
As if those scenarios weren’t damning enough, your treatment of black characters, but especially black woman, who aren’t love interests is ABYSMAL.
Let’s revisit Open Heart. Aurora Emery, a fellow intern at the beginning of the story, is immediately placed in an adversarial position to the MC. She is also targeted by the main group for the egregious crimes of being good at her job, being related to a woman in a higher position than her and not being instantly friendly to the MC. She is later made to apologize for these things and has been consistently made to do so as of the most recent chapter (Book 2, Chapter 9). Ellen Thompson of Wishful Thinking is put in a similar situation.
Kiara of The Royal Romance is consistently villainized for showing interest in a popular love interest (Drake Walker) and is made fun of and referred to as weak for being traumatized.
Xanthe of A Courtesan of Rome is made to be yet another black female rival to the default white MC for no discernable reason and has a black scholae owner and a freed black slave (who is a love interest that they make sure to tell us is illiterate) sell her into what we now know as human trafficking because she was, once again, mean to the MC.
Ava Cunningham of It Lives In The Woods, who was featured in your sad excuse of a Black History month roll out, is given an absentee mother and an inconsiderate father. In addition, she’s determinantly made to deal with the trauma of having her close friend (the MC) killed with her personal weapon.
But wait, there’s more.
In addition to the tone deafness involved in the treatment of the characters above, your MC is almost always coded to be white. This makes the playing experience extremely uncomfortable for black players in the following scenarios:
An older white man sticking a gun in the main character’s face
the inability to sympathize and be mentored by black women in the workplace (Aurora Emery, Ellen Thompson, Xanthe to an extent)
being told that a black Desire and Decorum MC’s mother was going to be sold if she didn’t stop seeing Vincent
The Veil of Secrets MC being forced to be rude to Scarlett following the affair
Having a paywall to save a Ginny, a black child, from slavery
Being referred to as the help in The Nanny Affair
High School Story: Class Act immediately being accused for injuring another student without proof
every bullying scene in It Lives In The Woods
Enduring Brian Crandall’s verbal abuse in High School Story
the Mother Of The Year MC only being able to call Vanessa “kinda racist” when she referred to a potentially black child as a guttersnipe
…to name a few.
So when you make these posts during times of unrest and include statements like, “We see you. We hear you. We stand with you,” it comes off as disingenuous and insulting to the intelligence of black Choices players everywhere.
You wanna stand with us, PB? Then start in the office. Examine the way that your characters are treated and the circumstances we encounter. Make changes to these issues and be smarter and more considerate going forward.
Then, and only then, can you say that you hear, see OR stand with us.
Link to free e-book The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
*sets up a nice hot bath just for you*
just for me? well...thank you. *starts climbing into it fully clothed*
*begins slicing in carrots, and various other vegetables into the water behind your back*
Miss Honey was made principal of Crunchem Hall, which had to add an upper school because children never wanted to leave. And Matilda found, to her great surprise, that life could be fun, and she decided to have as much of it as possible. After all, she was a very smart kid. But the happiest part of the story is that Matilda and Miss Honey each got what they’d always wanted: a loving family.
if you’re white and are protesting, please, please listen to this. if you’re white and have white friends protesting, let them know
this all blows in the face of Black and brown people protesting
If you fall into any of these categories, please unfollow me
- the "all lives matter" crowd
- the “i don’t care about politics” crowd
- "blue lives matter" people
- "violence is never the answer” people
- "i don't see race/colour" people
- the "white people experience racism too" crowd
aaaaand here we fuckin go.
strap up
Antifascism being declared terrorism in America means it’s time to choose a fucking side.
oi guys for the love of fuck, i’m not gonna be nice about it
if you’re a non black poc, or worse, white, do not fucking make this about you. do not make it about aesthetics. do not make it about anything other than it is.
rebloging myself bc someone asked: the point of this post is beyond whether you can or can’t reblog it. the point is whether you should or shouldn’t.
if you’re a non black poc, or a white person, what you’re called to do now is to stand in solidarity.
see someone making BLM into a relatable aesthetic? call it out
see a post with donation links? reblog it and donate if you can (x), (x), (x)
the MN freedom fund itself is bringing attention to other fundraisers. check their twitter.
most importantly know this doesn’t end in the internet, that is not enough. family or friends saying anti-black bullshit? say something. read on the subject of racism and anti-black state violence, prison abolitionism, etc etc
if you’re not from the US learn about what is happening in YOUR country re: black communities and learn how to help them
do not speak over black people
deplatform racists
go to a protest (with the necessary precautions)
sign petitions
do not donate to anything shaun king posts because he has a history of asking for money in the name of BLM and then the money vanishes. the mn freedom fund has made the clarification already
etc etc etc
listen to black people, and stand with them. interject in the situations that you can, and educate yourself and others. as riots and protests spread know many states and cities freedom funds will need donations. check with national bail fund network, or free them all.
don’t ask me if you can reblog, ask yourselves how can you contribute. you shouldn’t be asking if you can help, but how. it doesn’t begin by reading theory, it begins by caring about people