The Brown Sugar Outlaw

I spend nearly 85% of my time on Tumblr, 10% on Twitter, and 5% in the real-world - how I still have a life is a miracle lol

[lokihiddleston]

THE BATMAN (2022)

[whatever-is-in-this-mind-of-mine]

The ships that truly matter.

[missramdini]

[cptnhsulu]

Our futures look different. You go back to your lake house, and I go back to prison. My sentence was life. This is just temporary.

[cuddlybitch]

I– I don’t think I’m Ash Tyler, Starfleet Lieutenant. Not really, not anymore. You’re not making sense. I feel him, inside me. His thoughts, his pain, his rage. Who? Who? I tried to shut her out, but when L'rell spoke the call, I resisted by thinking of you, the one I want to be human for. The one I love. I tried, Michael.

[nicoleanell]

[biconicclarkegriffin]

The thing is, if none of that had happened, I wouldn’t be here, on this ship, with you. 

[diversehistorical]

Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Letitia and Regina Taylor as Hattie in Lovecraft Country 1.09 “Rewind 1921″

[tgreiving]

To remember Tulsa, 'Lovecraft Country' went the extra mile: writing an opera

Sunday's episode features an original requiem about the 1921 attack on Black Wall Street, featuring soprano Janai Brugger. Here's how it came together.

[lovecraftcountry]

Lovecraft Country (2020 -)

1.09 | Rewind 1921

[thecsquirrel]

They wrote an Opera!  A Requiem. 

Misha Greene and the composer Laura Karpman used Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Catch the Fire” to write a damn Requiem.  

Y’all if that’s not Black Excellence then I don’t know what is. 

“For all of its gory, fantastical qualities, “Lovecraft Country” is, centrally, about the very real horror of being Black in America in the 20th century: Every tentacled monster in the HBO series has its roots in monstrous racism.

Sunday’s episode — though it involves portals, time travel and magic spells — culminates in a re-creation of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which received renewed attention last year after appearing in the pilot of HBO’s Emmy-winning limited series “Watchmen.” Composer Laura Karpman felt strongly about what sort of music would suffice to depict the event, during which white mobs terrorized the Black residents and destroyed the Black-owned homes and businesses of the city’s Greenwood District.

“I think we need a requiem at the end,” Karpman told the show’s creator, Misha Green. “I want to write a piece of opera.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-10-11/lovecraft-country-hbo-tulsa-massacre-opera-requiem

[bey0ndthisearthshit-deactivated]

[ellestra]

Deals with the devil

I knew it. I knew the moment Tic became so overprotective with water and resting. I knew he knew. And I knew he knew because of what he learnt going through the portal. I didn’t know he went to the future. The future when his son wrote Lovecraft Country instead of Matt Ruff. Or at least something much closer to Matt Ruff’s book than the series.

And knowing he’s about to become father makes Atticus to try to understand and make up with his own father. The finally talk and learn why Montrose was trying so hard to pretend to be straight. Leaving in fear of noose or a bullet as a black man was already too much. Adding the punishments for being gay terrified him. And he wanted family and love even though his fear and self-hate made his squander both.

Montrose also lets Tic know he’s dyslectic. But, yes, Montrose is still keeping one secret. He didn’t cheat on Dora but she did cheat on him.

Still, they made up enough to preform the spell together. Now that lives of his son and grandson are at stake Montrose helps with the magic from the pages he tried so hard to hide from Tic he committed murder. Something Tic is overlooking but then he also has blood on his hands.

They aren’t the only ones exchanging truths. Leti and Ji-ah finally meet. And it’s time for Tic to come clean about his time in the war. And for Ji-ah to explain to him what really happened and who she is. But unlike with his father his not ready to hear her. He rejects her again. He can’t believe it was real. He can’t believe he’s going to die. Not now that Leti is pregnant.

But Leti still hasn’t told him. She tells Ruby first instead. And Ruby in turn tells her she knows about magic and all that happened since Ardham. She tells Leti about Christina. And William. And Hillary. And promises of magic. Leti knows it’s stupid to believe Christina’s promises. And yet, she also goes to her.

Everyone makes deals with Christina. Ruby does it because craves the ability not to care about the white men monsters hiding everywhere. This way of walking around without worrying about pain and just get what she wants seduces her as much as sex in disguises with Christina does.

Tic does it despite knowing she is planning to sacrifices him for immortality during Autumnal equinox. She even admits it - well, the immortality part - during their exchange. He’s hoping he can use her own knowledge and magic he found to protect himself from her. And what he gave her is just a key to machine that’s broken so no harm, right?

But Leti makes a deal too. She tries to make it for Tic but Christina only agrees to give the invulnerability to her. Implying the Tic sacrifice is what she is planning. But it’s not going to be that easy. Both spells worked. Bullets bounce of Leti. Tic has his own shoggoth to protect him.

But Christina can come back from any death and she knows about magic more then any of them and they gave her even more pieces she needs. And now that the policemen of Chicago Lodge are dead she’s back being the big bad.

[kswhateverspace]

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LOVECRAFT COUNTRY | 1x08 - Jig-a-Bobo

[ellestra]

Caricature of self

It was so eerie to see the curse the white policeman put on Diana was the caricature of black girls made by white men. The images of the black tropes spy on her - from the ad on the wall to Uncle Tom’s Cabin book. And then she is followed by monsters only she can see.

But she fights back. She tries to escape first but they always follow. So she choses to fight. I loved her finding the guy who cursed her. Walk right into his place. Finding out what he did. And when he offers her a way out, something she could do, she just spits at him. And then goes, makes a trap for the monsters and fights them.

Unfortunately, the adults in her life fail her. They fail her as moral support for all the people she lost. They ignore her when she tries to talk to them or outright lie to her. Both about her mother and magic and leave her to find it out on her own. By trying to protect her they make it worse. Both by leaving her unprepared and by making her not trust them. And in the end Montrose let the monsters catch her.

They can’t protect her from the police. But Atticus accidentally avenges her. After all it was her refusal to bring orrery what brings them to Leti’s house. They all die and it’s not even there. If Dee wasn’t dying it’d be almost satisfying. At least she gets to outlive her attackers.

[netals]

Lovecraft Country S01E08 “Jig-A-Bobo”