#clare kendry

[pilarsofsalt]

bonus shout out to whatever the fuck I've got going on with myself

[edettethegreat]

A Separate Peace 🤝 Passing 🤝 Giovanni's Room

"I love you, I hate you, I hate that I love you,, also you're dead so. no need to unpack all this"

there's no demand for memes about any of these books, but they've been on my mind

[problematic-character-tournament]

ROUND 1 — Match 15 of 138

Clare Kendry (Passing)

Problematic because: "morally grey in the sense that she clearly enjoys putting people in Situations" Propaganda: "there are no possible words to describe what she's got going on. but trust and believe she's got SO MUCH going on. in short, if you haven't read Passing: she's a black woman (<-heavily implied to be mixed race actually, half black half white), but she can contextually pass as white. she marries an ultra-racist man and finds the uncertainty of if he'll discover her race to be both amusing and deeply life-threatening. she drags other people into this game, and since she's not the pov character we don't know what her motives are on that; it could be that she finds it entertaining, it could be that this is her way of reaching out for help. she's got so much going on and her motives are always a bit of a mystery and I love her."

vs. Q (Star Trek)

Problematic because: "He has the general flaws you might expect of a character who is omnipotent; a massive ego and unwillingness to consider the needs and desires of anyone he sees as beneath him (that being anyone who isn't also a Q and some who are). People are mostly playthings to him, and if you actually manage to get his interest that just means he will make your life even more complicated." Propaganda: "He's so fun! Dealing with him in person would be a nightmare, but watching your favourite characters deal with his antics is always a good time. And John de Lancie inhabits the role with so much humor and charm it's just impossible not to love him whenever he's on screen."

Who should advance?

Clare Kendry

Q

Voting ended onJun 4

[eleancrvances]

nella larsen, passing (1929)

[willowpotatox]

I just read Passing by Nella Larsen and this is the gayest shit i’ve ever seen in my life

“For I am lonely, so lonely…cannot help longing to be with you again, as I have never longed for anything before; and I have wanted many things in my life…It’s like an ache, a pain that never ceases…and it’s your fault, ‘Rene dear. At least partly. For I wouldn’t now, perhaps, have this terrible, this wild desire if I hadn’t seen you that time in Chicago.”

[blackinperiodfilms]

Passing | Official Trailer | Netflix

Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. 

As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare, and PASSING becomes a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities. 

Written and Directed by: Rebecca Hall

 Watch Passing, only on Netflix.

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Alexander Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, Tessa Thompson – Passing ’21 Official Trailer – John Bellew, Clare Kendry, Irene Redfield. Dir. Rebecca Hall. Netflix Yt/trwq3CNCMkU. In select theatres October, and on Netflix 10 November ’21.

[naomililac]

I stay relating to the toxic female leads in the books that I read in my English classes.