#wild seed

[ophianoi]

GREASER & JUVENILE DELINQUENT CINEMA (PT. I) — The Wild One, 1953 — Dark Harvest, 2023 — Rebel Without A Cause, 1955 — Wild Seed, 1965 — Crime in the Streets, 1956 — The Outsiders, 1983

[buckmink]

Technically 3 times if you count Iosif in Fledging since his name is the Russian form of “Joseph”

[unladyboss]

WHAT'S ON TV IS IMPORTANT. WORMS. SEASON 4 THE BEAR

When cousin Chantel leaves to go get hair we see a glimpse of what Sydney was watching on TV

It looks like Bob ❤️ Abishola with Vernee Johnson on screen with the lady who plays Abishola, Folake Olowofoyeku.

It's important for two reasons.

Bob ❤️ Abishola is this kind of couple

AND

Folake is a sci Fi fan whose favorite author is Octavia Butler

Her fav book of Octavia's is WILD SEED.

Tremendous book. Which is loosely similar to Sydney and Carmy's story.

The man sees the woman's talent and wants her to help him build more and more of his thriving colonies etc

He's hard to be around and the woman leaves and builds a much more successful colony than he could

He finds her.

shes about to off herself if she has to be around him so he changes and compromises so that she can live and thrive etc...

I CANNOT BELIEVE THE DEEP DIVE they sent us to confirm SYDCARMY

Through one second glimpse on a tv!

Maybe I was looking too hard but it's there!

[arwyd]

Hello character named Joseph in an Octavia E. Butler novel, I am sure you are going to live a long and happy life and definitely not die in a painful and horrific manner

[grimm-lynn]

narrative, kill this guy please.

[blackinperiodfilms]

Habits were difficult to break. The habit of living, the habit of fear … even the habit of love.

Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed (1980)

[clarafordahwin]

Having a hard time articulating this. But I think one of the reasons I love Octavia Butler's work so much is that, as much as her work is about systems of power, she first empowers her protagonists before she disempowers them. She let's the reader be freed from seeing most realistic depictions of abuse, and then sets up a fantastical form of power to explore the themes in. This makes her books simultaneously disturbing and empowering.

Thinking specifically about Wild Seed and Dawn. Lilith has protection from physical and sexual assault. Cool! Now to deal with an alien race that has a complex plan to coerce humans into breeding with them. Anyanwu is powerful enough that no mortal man can harm her. Cool! Now here is an immortal man that can track her wherever she is.

[rusblk]

Doro from Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind is literally interrupting my life.

I was never really attracted to traditionally masculine characters, but he's like the best male character ever. Masculinity at its worst, in fact.

I am just going crazy over him ... why is he so sexy