Somehow The Mack Returned

Black. Grown. Tired.

[the-irreverend]

Clark has got to be one of the best-written horror antagonists in recent memory, and the thing I love most about his character is how the film makes you understand his hardships, while at the same time not using them to justify, excuse, or downplay his actions.

You really get a clear idea of how his own hardships inspire the bad decisions he makes. And at the same time, it doesn't pull any punches in showing you the consequences of those decisions, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the Captain Clark entity.

Yes, I don't doubt that he was going through a very difficult time in his life, but it goes without saying that it doesn't give him the right to lash out at everyone and make their lives difficult. And it sure as hell didn't give him the right to take out his frustrations on his spouse or Mary!!!

That's why I love (to hate) him so much! He's not some run-of-the-mill mustache-twirling villain. He's understandable, relatable, and even sympathetic! And at the same time, the film is smart enough to not use those things that make him understandable, relatable, and sympathetic to excuse the harm and hurt he chose to inflict.

P.S. Mary's crashout on him was absolutely glorious to behold!

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[pppuri]

Basement Land

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

They would make a goated orphydice methinks.

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[tethered-heartstrings]

[chaluke]

A funnybunny unespected kiss

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

Funny story... I thought this was from the actual show because I had no idea what the real art style is like, and it made me wanna watch it 😅

[sick-jan]

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[creatingblackcharacters]

[ferrethaver]

women should get even more childless

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

I’m competing for most childless and I think I have a real shot!

[creatingblackcharacters]

beyond angry right now about the killing of Kohen Wiley. and it's disgusting seeing people make excuses and even blame the MOTHER for her son getting killed and her friend getting injured by police shooting at them. and it feels like everyone is trying to dance around the fact that this happened because they were Black. all of this is because they're Black.

happy almost juneteenth. it hurts to be Black today, but it hurts to be Black every day. i want them to stop killing us and i want everyone to stop being okay with them killing us. at least it's comforting to know that other Black people understand what it's like to feel so much rage and pain and hopelessness.

sorry if this ask isn't one you're okay with, i just couldn't think of a better place to talk about this.

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Perpetual community mourning and rage, but there will always be love.

[wulfhalls]

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

[cumaeansibyl]

yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is "I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to"

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

This is so real. I actually do wear (pretty minimal) makeup, but I put it on in bed 😅

[rileymatthews]

color palette meme: evie + staffs requested by anon

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

I don't go here but I think she's a cutie patootie.

[mousegirlheart]

how being on the internet used to feel vs how it feels now

[whereserpentswalk]

"Creatives deserve to be paid" and "We desperately need community spaces for creatives that aren't focused on trying to make money or advance careers where we're allowed to make connections and experiment" are two statements that can and should coexist.

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

Is this about the Obsession production designer? I don't know the full details but I'm not understanding how some sort of contract guaranteeing additional pay should the film blow the fuck up isn't standard.

[whereserpentswalk]

I don't even know what Obsession is.

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

It’s a horror film that I believe broke the record for biggest gross against the smallest budget. The production designer spoke about how little she was paid for the work.

[whereserpentswalk]

"Creatives deserve to be paid" and "We desperately need community spaces for creatives that aren't focused on trying to make money or advance careers where we're allowed to make connections and experiment" are two statements that can and should coexist.

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

Is this about the Obsession production designer? I don't know the full details but I'm not understanding how some sort of contract guaranteeing additional pay should the film blow the fuck up isn't standard.

[rigormortem]

I've changed that was four reblogs ago

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

If gender doesn’t matter then why do you hate men?

First of all, I don’t hate men, I may have a certain bias against sharing space with them too often, but that isn’t because of how I think they are inherently. It’s how they’re socialized. Seriously, I’ve gone my whole life being told things like “all men cheat” and “men are more interested in looks and youth than anything else” and “cooking and cleaning and taking care of children are for women to do while men work for money” by both men and women who for some reason see this as an inevitability we must live with and bend ourselves to. And I’m supposed to be some sort of weirdo for saying “fuck that, gender norms are almost always dumb and usually at the expense of women”? Where is the logic in attaching myself to a person who won’t do basic household chores, will cheat on me due to some “biological compulsion” and will only pretend to care for me as long as I remain young and hot? That’s idiotic to me. Again, not saying all men are like this, but these are all behaviors that are shockingly normalized which results in a truly depressing amount of men that no straight or bi woman in their right mind should want to associate with.

And then there’s also those nonsensical bullshit sayings like “men are built to protect while women are built to nurture,” and like, is there really a meaningful difference there? To protect is to nurture, to nurture is to protect, these arbitrary distinctions are fucking stupid to me.

So in short, I’m not saying gender doesn’t matter, I’m saying it shouldn’t matter nearly as much as we try to force it to. And I don’t hate men, I just hate what society insists on turning them into.