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GAY. WAR. LOVE. HISTORY.

#blog synopsis

really hate seeing people with cool urls in my notes and thinking “fuuuuuck why didn’t i think of that”

#em’s diary

crimson-femme

Curve Magazine, November 1999. Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999) dir. Yvonne Welbon.

#dykeposting #queer history

crimson-femme

Shadows (1985), Fatale Media

#dykeposting #butchfemme

bellamyblcke

they want to fuck each other so bad it makes them enact increasingly complex crimes against each other in order to prove that they’re actually the one with the power that they’re one DOING the fucking & not the one getting fucked over

#villaneve

filmtvtoday

KILLING EVE S4E3 | A Rainbow in Beige Boots

#‘they hook up?’ still fries me #killing eve #villaneve

batmanego

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (clutches my head and remembers that poem about All my dead friends and the frightening door

batmanego

“all my dead friends” by marie howe

#words #poetry

i know there will be good days and bad days but these bad days are bad in the most indescribable sense

#it’s like one minute i’ll be so happy that he was so loved enough for people to mourn him and do things in his honor #and the next i’ll be angry that they’re moving on with their lives even though i know he would’ve wanted that and it’s only natural to do #and the next feel guilty about obsessing over his death and not just getting over it #questioning if i even knew him well enough to be this sad etc etc #it’s so confusing #so heartbreaking #i have no idea what to do and i don’t know if anything really can be done #em’s diary

sophiethatchersource

New promo picture of Sophie Thatcher as Elle in Her Private Hell, out July 24th.

#so excited for this #sophie thatcher #her private hell #films

predatorgirlguts

unsafe insane and nonconsensual

rockstarcotta

#70s devil’s minion

louclaudia

"thank you for loving him, for loving him the way he needs to be loved"

#what were the writers smoking when they put this in #tvl #tvl critical

i didn’t know how much i’d be grieving until i started seeing grief everywhere

#lost somebody who was very close to my inner circle just a few days ago and it’s finally hitting me #i don’t know how much of this grief is mine and how much is from the people who knew him better than me expressing their pain #but i know it’s beginning to take its toll and i don’t know how or if i can ever be ready to embrace it #i can’t believe he’s gone #em’s diary

girlfictions

Yiyun Li, from Things in Nature Merely Grow

#oh this one hit me at the worst time #words

failvillain

claudia says she hates my guts move on next scene. you say you love me move on next scene. you say you stalked me for 52 years move on next scene. i was in love with a boy once he killed himself he was my first love move on next scene. armand was there move on next scene. I'm telling you we started hanging out offscreen move on next scene. my mom and i killed our whole family move on next scene. I'm on an apology tour syke move on next scene. i have a body double oops hes dead move on next scene. i was in aa with your guitarist move on next scene. i don't have transformational trauma now im in cahoots with my maker move on next scene. god forbid we let the weight of anything settle

#omg i didn’t know the script leaked too #tvl #tvl critical

tv-kiki

with few exceptions we have only seen black characters graphically get brutalized. they had closeups of louis’s body and face after lestat tried to murder him showing the extent of what was done, we saw just how burned and disfigured he was after her suicide attempt, claudia’s death is one of the most graphic i’ve seen on any tv show, we got closeups of their ankles slashed and shots of louis being kicked in the head and claudia being shoved into a box of live rats by the coven members. the majority of louis’s scenes in episode 7 were of his decapitated head on a pike, forced to look at his body as it flailed, begging to die, forced to apologize in something so close to a saw trap that it was bordering on copyright infringement while being painted as cruel and deserving of the abuse and then branded by armand.

we didn’t see any shots of lestat’s head in the bowling bag. we saw him burn, but it was portrayed as comical. we did not see bruce as he died, we did not see lestat get torn up by the wolves, we did not watch nicki die. in the majority of the scenes where a white character is injured, the action is cut away, out of frame, out of focus, mostly implied.

the extent of what we saw of the brutality of black characters now feels almost fetishistic. at the end of episode 105, lestat is floating in the air looking dreamy and louis is beaten to a pulp on the ground; episode 207, lestat is put together in a suit with his hair done and louis and claudia have been severely beaten. like, after this season, the rest of the show just looks weird.

#at the very least the show used to have a black writing staff to make some of those choices feel more thoughtful in its first two seasons #not saying they’re not horrific or that there are no issues with them but there’s definitely a reason the audience reaction has shifted #and it’s so unfortunate that tvl’s racist writing has recontextualized the earlier seasons in this way #because in the novel lestat endured quite a good deal of brutality himself #albeit obviously not a racialized brutality but brutality nonetheless #and none of that has been adapted whatsoever even though it would’ve made for a really interesting gothic horror story #i would say the writers don’t care but this goes so far beyond negligence atp i think they’re doing this intentionally #tvl #tvl critical

blackjame

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Dave Harris, 2019. Harris' stellar debut collection of poetry takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity.

I'm A. Zell Williams and Kearney Blvd. was the first place I called home, hints the name. I'm a playwright, TV writer, podcaster, a dog dad,

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