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i can’t stand “it’s not that deep” attitudes like even if it really really isn’t that deep just PLAY WITH ME. just fucking PLAY. have a meaningless but deep analytical conversation with me. just like think about shit for fun. does anyone else like to think about stuff for fun. it’s so lonely

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you cannot talk about the homophobic murder of jonathan joss without including in the conversation that he is indigenous.

american indian men are at the 2nd highest risk of death by murder compared to all other ethnic groups. in their lifetimes, 82% of native men report having experienced domestic violence. yet the overwhelming majority of perpetrators are non-natives (88% of native men and 92% of native women who reported violence said their attacker was non-native). what’s more, tribal governments are often stymied in their attempts to bring justice against non-natives, meaning that many of these cases go unresolved.

this was an intersectional attack. the fact that he is indigenous matters, even if the motivation was homophobic, because it made him even more vulnerable and disposable in the eyes of his killer.

as always, look into MMIWP to learn more, and speak up for us. miigwetch, take care

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Average 2020s movie being "too political": girl power! quick background kiss between two gay extras! one single black guy!

Average "non-political" 70s movie: the government is hiding a global conspiracy that is warming the planet and will kill us all and also the cops are evil

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hazel callahan's letterboxd

hazel's review for the rebecca remake was "wtf was this?"

anyways it's canon that she's a david fincher fan. so that's why hitchcock is here since he was one of fincher's influences. and my headcanon is that she's a bit of a cinephile.

hazel's top 4 explained

seven / se7en (1995) - classic fincher. neo-noir. great tension. tight knit script. perfectly encapsulates everything hazel loves about fincher. probably her first fincher film ever.

strangers on a train (1952) - best of hitchcock. greatest tennis scenes in film history ever. also very gay. perfect tension. she can see where fincher draws his influence from.

amélie (2001) - romantic comedy about an overlooked, overworked girl who does things for people. plays matchmaker and is afraid to take charge of her own story. but in the end, she finds love. relates heavily to our protagonist.

fight club (1999) - considers it her "red flag" movie. but really it isn't a red flag. the best of fincher with a great twist. enjoys the commentary on masculinity. dislikes guys who says this is their favorite film.

hazel's recent activity explained

rebecca (2020) - again, what the fuck was that?

rebecca (1940) - classic hitchcock. great gothic atmosphere. and also full of lesbian undertones. she enjoys it except for the manic lesbian trope. but hazel expected that from a movie from the 40s.

bound (1996) - she loves lesbians. neo-noir. 90s erotic thriller. she really, really liked it. another lesbian classic watched.

the girl with the dragon tattoo (2011) - probably screened during the david fincher club meeting. really enjoys the tension. lisbeth salander is added to a list of girls she has a crush on. likes how you can see fincher's neo-noir roots.

hazel's watchlist explained

céline and julie go boating (1974) - sapphic coded fantasy film about two women whose lives are entwined. curious about it. added when her french teacher said she would like the movie.

the city of lost children (1995) - directed by jean-pierre jeunet who directed amélie. wants to visit his earlier work.

born in flames (1983) - staple feminist film. she's trying to find a physical copy to watch. thinks it'd be useful to screen it for the fight club (pj needs it).

delicatessen (1991) - one of jeunet's earlier films. wants to see if there are similarities to amélie (spoiler: there are!)

titane (2021) - won the palme d'or when it premiered at cannes. heard it deals with gender and is also a body horror film. she liked raw (2016) so hazel thinks she might like titane.

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if you have paramount+ in the u.s. bound is on there if you wanna watch corky in action :3

reunion

i rewatched bound (1996) so i just decided to entertain myself a little bit. i don't really know what to classify this. so...yeah. enjoy? if you can't tell i love bound.

banner by @cafekitsune

accompanying bot: ♠️

"it's been a while."

you haven't heard that voice in so long. 5 years to be exact. or was it getting closer to 6 years? it became hard to keep track of time when you had things pile on your plate.

you're surprised to see the woman in leather, hair choppy with that signature pout of hers. there's a beer in her hand and her other hand rests on her thigh, thumb through the belt loop of her pants. she's at ease, confident. smug even.

but it's all for show.

you can see right through. you've always been able to see right through her. especially when she's jealous.

corky hasn't seen you in 5 years. you'd only heard about her prison sentence through your friends. and despite the fact that both of you had been together long term, she refused all of your visits. it was a breakup that was sprung onto you.

so you dealt with it by not committing. because the last relationship where you committed hurt you so deeply. the wound is still fresh and it was being agitated by your ex-girlfriend.

"seems like you two have history." the femme with her arm around you is looking at corky. up and down.

"a long history, actually." corky takes a sip. "can i talk to (y/n)? alone?"

the femme looks between you two. and she shrugs. "i'm not going to get stuck in the middle of this." she puts her hands up in surrender and leaves.

"real smooth, corks." that nickname. corky hasn't heard it in so long. you're looking at her with disdain. which...she guesses was deserved. after all, she left you in the middle of the night and she took the job even when you told her she shouldn't.

corky doesn't say anything. despite the music and the chatter, there's a thick silence between you two. she's just looking at you, taking you in. she had worried that she would forget what you looked like, what you smelled like, how you dressed.

but did you forget her?

"what? you got nothing to say?" you take a sip of your water. "i'm not surprised. considering you just left in the middle of the night. no parting words. and then when i come to visit you, you refused to see me." there's anger laced in your voice. a rightful anger.

corky can't bring herself to deny what she did. it was wrong of her to do so.

"this place is boring anyways." you set your glass of water down and move past her.

there's a sudden harsh grip on your wrist. and when you look down, it's corky's free hand holding it. she pulls you back and your bodies collide. they mesh together. they mesh well. you've always known that.

"i did what i had to do baby." that nickname. her voice. it makes you weak. and your eyes glance down, looking over her pink, pouty lips. she's looking at you with fierce intensity.

"did what you had to do, huh? bullshit corky!" there were so many things you had to say. and yet...nothing came out. you had rehearsed this moment in your head over and over and over again. "you didn't have to do anything! i really thought you cared about me."

"and i did. and i still do." she pulls you closer. "i've always cared about you (y/n)."

"so why? why did you just leave? and then reject me?"

corky's eyes flicker, breaking the contact. "i had my reasons."

"you had your reasons?"

"i had my reasons!" she makes eye contact again. "i had my reasons. and i didn't think—"

"didn't think what? that'd i'd see other people? that even though you rejected me, i would be sitting and waiting for you!"

"maybe." corky admits. "perhaps it was an expectation i shouldn't have placed on you. but i really did think about you every day baby." when you inhale, you can smell that cheap cologne she always buys. it reminds you of the nights you spent in her bed, your bodies against each other, and her jacket around you. you used to be enveloped in it. it felt like a blanket was being wrapped around you for the first time in years.

"so why did you reject me?" you whisper.

"i don't know." corky swallows. "i didn't want you to...see me in that way."

"corky." you sigh.

"(y/n), baby, i understand. but please. believe me when i say that i wanted to see you." corky inches closer. any more and you guys would probably kiss. her grip on your wrist loosens and her thumb rubs circles in your skin.

despite your anger, there's a part of you that wanted to hear her out. even through the anger, even through the heartbreak. and you can't ignore the blatant truth: you've missed corky. that's why you didn't get into another committed relationship for the past 5 years.

you hated that you had a soft spot for corky.

"you need to explain yourself." you say. "completely. and utterly."

corky's lips are curling into a satisfied smirk and she looks down. she always did that when her cheeks flushed pink. and she looks at your through her bangs. and she says,

"how about we go back to my place?"

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happy bottoms blu ray release day! or is that tomorrow? anyways it’s out. finally so the movie isn’t just restricted to digital 😭 my fears of it being obsolete like willow are quelled finally.

but also that deleted scene with hazel and tim was actually so fucking good. i question why they deleted it.

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Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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having free will and being gay is realizing that ruby cruz/lizzy caplan’s annie wilkes would coexist with the friend group of the l word and i think lesbianism would fix annie.

don’t trust me

i also ended up making a bot—

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all i could think about during that scene

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pass/fail: the orange test

saw thunderbolts* and i believe in the mcu again. the movie was good and if you want to see it, go see it. thought this could be a cute little post because the orange test will never not be fun to me.

anyways i need more ava starr pls and thank you

divider by @cafekitsune

yelena belova / black widow

"you want me to...peel you an orange?"

yelena, at best, is confused about the idea of an 'orange test.' she doesn't exactly have the best relationship with tests. but when you explain that it's just an action that shows someone they care about you and see you...she does laugh. she laughs and says it's ridiculous. but then a few days later she'll slide over a plate of peeled oranges, separated in segments and looking mostly uniform (because she ate the non-uniform pieces). if you forgot, she'll remind you why she did it.

bucky barnes / the winter soldier

"i don't understand the point of this."

it's a trend on social media. you have to explain the significance and why people are really into it. bucky doesn't know what to think of it. he chalks it up to one of those trends that he's just too old for. but he'll do it regardless. the orange comes out whole.

ava starr / ghost

"you came to the right person."

one of the ways ava might have entertained herself when she was younger was with art. she views fruit carving as another medium for art. so when you ask her to peel you an orange, she peels it with a knife. with precision. she slices the orange to make a crane! isn't that cute? will also generally cut your fruit into cute shapes. there's something soothing about focusing on something mundane. it makes her feel normal.

john walker / u.s. agent

"i can totally do."

you might have overestimated john's capacity for peeling oranges. he's more of a insert thumbs into the fruit and then split it open. then he'll give you the portion, unpeeled. it's not what you want but it is funny. and besides, it's the thought that counts, right?

alexei shostakov / red guardian

"you know, yelena used to ask me to peel her oranges and make them fun. it was the only way to get her to eat fruit."

surprisingly is very much like ava. alexei can peel an orange no problem. uses a knife (a bigger one, not the smaller one for delicate lines like ava) and then slices it to make fun shapes! but it's not as detailed as ava's. he also ends up using the orange slices for a lecture and to talk about a story. and then you guys get to eat it!

bob

"that's kind of cute...actually..."

bob's no stranger to peeling oranges. he uses his hands and does it without question. he likes helping, he likes being useful. and even if it's something small like peeling the orange because you can't or because you don't like the smell of the citrus on your fingers, he'll do it. on the contrary bob would like the citrus smell. he tries to cut the orange into cute shapes like ava but messes it up.

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been seeing some terrible takes on poc watchers of yellowjackets calling shauna racist. “it’s not shauna that’s racist it’s the writers.”

the writers are still conveying these ideas to us THROUGH shauna. shauna exists ONLY within the writing of the show.

SHAUNA is RACIST.

stop trying to dampen and deflect. because the writers are racist shauna is too. i stg ppl will do ANYTHING in this fandom to stop poc from saying the white (arguably) protagonist is racist.

“the arc was so unexpected” IN THE BEGINNING OF S3 WE LITERALLY SEE SHAUNA ANTAGONIZE MARI FOR NO REASON. if you’re a woc you might recognize shauna’s behavior as a typical behavior for white women when they’re racist. she purposefully antagonizes mari until mari snaps back then goes crying to nat over mari “being a bitch.” it actually frustrated me to see how nat didn’t even take shauna doing worse things to mari seriously, which highlights the writers’ own preference for white characters.

do you expect anything else from a white girl who grew up in a small town in new jersey during the 90s?

stop being purposefully dense. and stop trying to soften the violence that happened on screen.

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shauna shipman you will never beat the racism allegations.

yellowjackets i know your writer's room is mostly, if not all, white people.

mari being pit girl? okay fine. full circle moment. i have accepted and liked this theory since i saw the pilot.

but season 3? is such a fucking shit storm that reinforces everything non-white fans have been saying for such a long time. treating non-white characters as disposable and sidelining these characters for white ones.

and also. did NO ONE think it would be weird if shauna was the antler queen and then the hair she's collected is mari's? is that not WEIRD when you consider the VERY LONG history of white people using the parts of non-white people as war trophies, as decorations, as literal objects?

i stopped watching when i heard lottie died because i'm just fed up with the way the non-white people are treated in this show. treated as plotlines, as disposable, as trophies. never as people. doesn't even get into how this bleeds into fandom discourse. and yellowjackets has always been racist, but s3 really is just mask off about it. and i feel like we should sit down and actually talk about it.

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btw i don’t think we needed this to reinforce that shauna is a shitty character. racism doesn’t equal “complexity.” unless you’re white i guess.

yellowjackets i know your writer's room is mostly, if not all, white people.

mari being pit girl? okay fine. full circle moment. i have accepted and liked this theory since i saw the pilot.

but season 3? is such a fucking shit storm that reinforces everything non-white fans have been saying for such a long time. treating non-white characters as disposable and sidelining these characters for white ones.

and also. did NO ONE think it would be weird if shauna was the antler queen and then the hair she's collected is mari's? is that not WEIRD when you consider the VERY LONG history of white people using the parts of non-white people as war trophies, as decorations, as literal objects?

i stopped watching when i heard lottie died because i'm just fed up with the way the non-white people are treated in this show. treated as plotlines, as disposable, as trophies. never as people. doesn't even get into how this bleeds into fandom discourse. and yellowjackets has always been racist, but s3 really is just mask off about it. and i feel like we should sit down and actually talk about it.

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yellowjackets i know your writer's room is mostly, if not all, white people.

mari being pit girl? okay fine. full circle moment. i have accepted and liked this theory since i saw the pilot.

but season 3? is such a fucking shit storm that reinforces everything non-white fans have been saying for such a long time. treating non-white characters as disposable and sidelining these characters for white ones.

and also. did NO ONE think it would be weird if shauna was the antler queen and then the hair she's collected is mari's? is that not WEIRD when you consider the VERY LONG history of white people using the parts of non-white people as war trophies, as decorations, as literal objects?

i stopped watching when i heard lottie died because i'm just fed up with the way the non-white people are treated in this show. treated as plotlines, as disposable, as trophies. never as people. doesn't even get into how this bleeds into fandom discourse. and yellowjackets has always been racist, but s3 really is just mask off about it. and i feel like we should sit down and actually talk about it.

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didn't expect this post to blow up like months after i posted it. but i'm reblogging @fandomnoire's reblog specifically because tashi's treatment is proof of the fandom's underlying racism. even art's perceived popularity over the other characters is entirely due to the fact that he is "the right" white boy. he's a wasp.

patrick is meant to be jewish and i've seen people lean into a feminization of him, thus also leaning into stereotypes about jewish men.

and obviously tashi. tashi deserves her own blog post. if this is how she's being treated now, imagine if they had originally gone with their plan of casting a monoracial, dark skinned black woman. as she was intended to be.

fandom is a replication and regurgitation of ideology.

we best remember that. and that's not just me using academic jargon to justify my criticism. this is a very real thing. and the way people even talk about these characters is reminiscent of very harmful ideology and leans into white supremacy. i'm just going to say it bluntly.

i'm not saying you're racist for liking art. or for writing the stuff me and everyone who has reblogged and commented on. but you should examine your biases if you think it's okay to treat tashi as a disposable black girlfriend when she's anything but. if you think it's fine to eliminate the homoeroticism between the two male leads.

i literally stopped writing for challengers because it became obvious my work wasn't appreciated by the fandom as a whole if it didn't center on art and/or if my reader wasn't white. (granted i wrote things ambiguous but the reader in my head will always been a non-white person) the notes disparity between my tashi pieces and my art pieces just made it extremely obvious.

is this a safe space? bc i kind of wanna talk about how i get a lot of recommended reader fics but then i see a visual like this and immediately get turned off.

and like this conversation about centering certain beauty standards with readers isn't new. it's been happening since forever. but i've noticed some uptick once i started looking for stuff in challengers.

the centering of whiteness with fanfiction in general is an issue that me and other non-white people had discussed at length for years. and part of me just wants to say that we should strive to be more inclusive. like there should be no reason for specifying non-white readers, especially black ones, and for us to have our own separate category because some writers can't fathom that non-white readers exist. hell, even in terms of body weight, ability, hair or no hair, GENDER.

i'm not innocent either. it's an easy trap to fall into if you're writing something x reader and you're using yourself as a stand in for the reader. and i'm not here to criticize or shame. i just wanna propose being more inclusive. and that starts with using less images of faceless white girls from pinterest.

maybe it's selfish of me to ask this. but i've been reading fanfiction on the internet for over 10 years. and i can definitely say as a non-white girl, fanfiction did contribute to my insecurities as a non-white person, in feeling insecure in my appearance. nothing has changed it seems.

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seeing white fans of the show on twitter demonize simone kessell for...unfollowing her costar and telling ppl to take their dislike over what happened to lottie in s3 to reddit...right, right.

doesn't matter if the show literally killed off one of their main characters of color just so the white ones can have a mystery to solve. doesn't matter that the show treats its non-white characters as disposable and is really just leaning into horror tropes at this point. one woman of color voices how it made her feel blindsided and suddenly, she's the problem?

i can't. this fandom is a joke actually. and also, why are we all up in their business anyways?

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gently taps the mic

yellowjackets fandom has an issue with white woman innocence. and a general issue of propping up whiteness.