#Get On Up

[melaninpov]

Chadwick Boseman 1976 - 2020

3 years ago today, we lost a talented brother

[raurquiz]

#remembering #chadwickboseman #actor #tchala #captainamerica #civilwar #blackpanther #infinitywar #avengersendgame #whatif #21bridges #marshall #messagefromtheking #godsofegypt #fringe #justified #csiny #lawandorder #GetonUp #Da5Bloods #MaRaineysBlackBottom

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Viola 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

August 11,1965

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

11 Agosto 1965

[busterkuris-reviews]

Get On Up

3/5

Chadwick Boseman is great as always. The fourth-wall breaking bits are mostly whatever, but there’s one moment where you see James Brown in a bad light and Chadwick gives a guilty look to the camera that’s just perfect. The costuming and hairstyling team also stepped up well in creating Brown’s many looks.

Outside of that, it’s a pretty typical musician biopic, formula hitting all the standard beats. Tate Taylor’s directing is sleek but it’s easy to see that there’s nothing really going on under the hood. It gives a token nod to racism existing but reaches for nothing more thematically, and even that doesn’t really go anywhere when it treats white people saying slurs as a joke. Big old meh.

Letterboxd

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[djevilninja]

How can you sit yourself down for a rest, When you know that I'm trying my best To dance with you, girl? To dance with you, girl.

The Esquires - Get on Up

[itneedsmoregays]

Happy 10th anniversary, Get On Up!

The James Brown biopic Get On Up was released 10 years ago today!

We still miss you, Chadwick.

[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

[zeezeepearl]

ok im going to #seriouspost for a second here. I don't think Harry Potter is a manifesto. I think it was a flawed passion project that millennials latched onto because of the fantasy of sticking it to their mean teachers and arbitrarily categorizing themselves (hogwarts houses; it's the thinking millennial's astrology). I think the fact that the series got popular when and how it did was very much a product of its time.

I don't think Harry Potter is the biggest symbol of JKR's bigotry. I think the most flagrant sign of that was how she responded to critics. I watched her become radicalized in real time. I watched how she doubled down on her racism when she was called out for the ways she promoted her tragically mid fantastic beasts movies. I watched her chase marginalized teenagers with a double digit follower count off of twitter for daring to criticize her thought process, and no one with any kind of power standing against her because she was the one who was paying them. This isn't to say Harry Potter is without flaws. This is to say she really didn't give a shit about that. Getting rich and powerful is a hell of a drug, and she had enough sycophants that she had no reason to care about what her critics were saying.

She was convinced that she was a martyr; a voice for the unheard; a leader for the ages, so of course her detractors were the bad guys. And I think we should take this to heart. We should see this as an example of how easy it is to get radicalized; if you think of yourself as a paragon of virtue, you are going to think that whatever you see as good and right is an objective fact. Most people don't know this, but the majority of terfs start out as trans allies. You are not immune to propaganda! You are not immune to falling into dangerous ideologies!!!

This is why the most important thing you can do as an activist is to listen. Do NOT think you're above being wrong; do NOT develop a god complex; do NOT form an identity out of being right all the time. Involve yourselves in the groups you claim to speak for. Listen to trans women; share resources that help trans women; familiarize yourself with the diversity of experiences that trans people have and the struggles they face.

No, none of you are as bad as JKR because you don't have her money or her power. You will likely never have the capacity for harm she does. But check yourselves. Do not affirm yourselves into thinking you always have the moral high ground. Watch yourselves; humble yourselves; check yourselves for signs of cult behavior and internalized prejudice. You are always learning. You will always be learning. Do not allow yourselves to get a power trip from brushing off marginalized voices.

[rascal-rose]

they say ch 3 is gonna be a real

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

we need more divorcebaiting. how strongly can canon imply (without technically outright stating) that these two characters are bitterly, acrimoniously divorced? essential we explore this

[raurquiz]

#remembering #chadwickboseman #actor #tchala #captainamerica #civilwar #blackpanther #infinitywar #avengersendgame #whatif #21bridges #marshall #messagefromtheking #godsofegypt #fringe #justified #csiny #lawandorder #GetonUp #Da5Bloods #MaRaineysBlackBottom

[great-and-small]

The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???

Naked mole-rats:

[possumtion]

They’re back!!