#becoming Bennett

[terrellsandefur]

Q&A following BECOMING BENNETT screening at Macon Film Festival

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[zeb-z]

Arthur Bennett was chemically made in a lab for me to go insane over I think. he’s got a guilt only an older sibling could have and a drive for vengeance that is half driven by his own self hatred. yet still he strives for peace. he’s desperate to cling to any humanity, any hope. he’s aware he’s fallible. it doesn’t save him

[red-might-be-dead]

'your emotions towards him just become heightened, thats what happened for me and deacon' OKAY ARTHUR BENNETT OKAY I SEE HOW IT IS

[eldrigeonsss]

Silly Arthur costest

[pseudokap]

thoughts on vampistol but transfem arthur bennett and deacon keller. bi4bi t4t. do you see it

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Okay I literally never do this but episode 7 was so good I gotta do an episode review.

Spoilers ahead obviously

First things out of the way: FUCK FUCK WHY IS SHE HERE FUCK OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST. When she slammed Mark into that crater I legit began hyperventilating (albeit very lightly). I was so not ready for her to show up and oh my god, the terror conveyed in Zazie's voice acting was legit. That fight scene absolutely kicked ass though, I got hyped as hell when Mark dropped that "no". Now that she's in the show I really hope she doesn't garner any fans because WOW they are gonna be in for a shock. And lastly FUCK YEAH ALLEN KICK HER ASS.

The breakup scene was fantastic. The episode focusing on so much of their relationship kinda made it clear something was gonna happen but when Mark changed up his schedule for her I was like "oh that's really nice" and then she showed up. As I said that was all fantastic, from Cecil's panicking to Amber's terror the presentation was great. Although now that they're broken up, I really hope they go somewhere else with Amber that isn't... that storyline.

REX IS THE GOAT. I love how he just tells Mark "pick a day and we'll cover for you". An absolute bro for sure, I'm loving his character arc. Can't wait for everyone to learn his origin and be like "oh shit" like after Eve's special. Speaking of which, do ya think we're gonna get a Rex-focused special about his origin like we did Eve?

Donald talking Rick down from the ledge and learning about himself in doing so was fantastic. We stan Donald. And man, am I glad they replaced Justin. Like, I know they had to after his actions came to light but also if I'm being honest I despised Rick's voice. Justin was good for silly characters but if I had to listen to him try to do the emotional segments I would've pulled a Rick (sanchez) and put my head in a lazer.

Still don't like Immortal's sad arc. Don't get me wrong, they're doing an awesome job with everything post Kate's "death" but the fact that we literally never saw anything more of their relationship than a shower fuck kinda makes it hard to feel anything when he talks about how sad he is.

Last but not least, OH SHIT OH FUCK IT'S HIM IT'S... *checks notes* Langstrom Sleazy...?

Look I'm sorry I like Angstrom and that end reveal was AWESOME and I am so scared and excited for what's definitely gonna be the plot of season 3 but also I can never remember his fucking name for the life of me and I have no idea why.

Anyway with Anissa here at least that means Thragg's not far behind. Hell we might see him next episode what with the whole prison thing.

[arenagods]

MANU BENNETT as CRIXUS in SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA (2011)

[professional-bulshitter]

just went back to watching community again and I cant-

so this time it's about 'Regional Holiday Music' 3x10,, and adhagsjjsb it's so fucking good because in a manner it sort of addresses all the wants of the characters right? because to convince them to join the Glee club they need to be incentivised and the incentive in this case is what's so interesting to me:

because 1. it starts with Abed and we all know Abed and how he's all he wants is to be together and loved and he chases the belongingness that he didn't find before in the study group right? but also literally the only thing that cory had to do to get him on board was talk about making him and his friends feel better and be together,,, but also it's literally because media of any kind be it behind the screens or people singing is so much simpler for him to understand cause they are catered and made in such a way that they are easy to perceive and take in without it being more complicated and involving other people's feelings in it

which is Great on its own but the second person to get 'caught' is Troy (because obv Troy will follow Abed wherever he goes, because even when he can't follow he'll wait for Abed to come back to him and tell him about his side quests or just be there for him, but I digress-) but also it's because there's this one thing he's always wanted to be a part of and could never but then comes Abed giving it to him on a silver platter and letting him do the things he wants even if it is by providing him with a loophole

and then third is pierce who even though I loathe him, i do understand (ish) because at the end of the day he's a man out of time and place, he's within people he doesn't understand and who don't want to understand him because all he wants to do is relive his glory days instead of rooting himself in the present (which in large part the study group help him with) (he'll never be my favourite character or even a liked one but I see him and I feel sad because of what he is and always will be and the way he came to be this way) all he ultimately wants is to be 'cool' maong his peers even though both of them operate on different understandings of cool (and yeahhhh)

fourth is Annie which, is very very weird to me because we never really get to know what her song was, what her one wish/incentive was,,, but also is it really that hard to assume that she would cave in when confronted by one of the first few people that she could safely feel as if in the company of friends with? also and this is a straight up hypothesis but I do feel that Annie didn't really get a song to convince her because it wasn't that hard to do it because it didn't really matter because at the end of the day it started with Abed telling her that he stayed for that experiment despite being angry because she was his friend,, and this was her way if reciprocating that (because it was just that given, be ause some things don't need to be explicitly stated to be explicit) (but then why did troy have one? because he was technically going against his entire belief system and the way he identified and looked at himself and that is life changing in some manners and he was still the second one and yeah)... maybe

the fifth one was Shirley and this one is rather simpler because at the end of the day, she traces and finds herself within her belief system rooted in Christianity (which while not for mez i can understand the way belief systems can be very all or nothing for some people) and she just wanted to educate and empower children and people with things that she herself feels empowered by (she goes about it entirely the wrong way ofc because forcing religion on others is never an answer but I don't think nad never have that she's coming at it from a malicious position or intention

then we have jeff and like Annie it's very curious that he doesn't get something that he wishes to incentivise him (at least that's the way I understand that episode) instead, we get to see what Annie and further the audience thinks or is supposed to think about Jeff. He's still that impenetrable (hehehe) person that no-one can actually understand because yes he's an asshole but he's constructed in a very stereotypic asshole kind of way so that's all we get to see from him at that point in time (that's all we're supposed to perceive him as which is why unlike others he never joins in on the song) instead all we get is that he also succumbed somehow. but we're never told what made him submit and give in,, we're always made to look at him from a distance (at least till that point in time and show trajectory) and he might be the main centre of the show (ish arguably more around Abed but plot more centered around him (also I'm very very biased cause I deeply resonate with Abed)) and yeah

and then Britta who again doesn't get a song at all because,, and again throwing arrows in the dark here,,, ofc she has a bad voice and narrative voice isn't really imp to Cory and his performance but also because much like Jeff, there's an induced sense of distance, wherein she technically is supposed to be the main female protag at that point (at least that's the intention it seems to have started with) but in many manners, she's reduced to just that, they make her dumb and so unlike the other main heroines (and I will never not be angry with the way they changed her character post season 1) that at the end of the day that's all she ends up being (again till that point in the show's trajectory)

and yeah ,, and then then at the end of everything, Abed gives up on what he wanted for the group as a whole because he realises that this is not actually happiness that it's creating in everyone, because it's forcing them into roles that they've been tricked into and that's never what he wanted,,, yes he wants them to be together but not at the cost of the happiness of even one of them or all of them and yeah

also anyone that says community is just a silly little show, it is. But it's also so much more because the way it talks about created families and families of choice and being an outsider and trying to find belongingness,,, and in the end finding a place that lets you be the trainwreck that you are and helps you embrace it, is insane and great. And I love the way community as a whole does all of that while feeling so organic and experimental but also insightful and a well thought out piece of media with actual things to say and yeah

(also very unconnected to anything I've just said but I truly despise Shirley's song with everything in me,, I'd ironically and unironically listen to all of the rest of the songs in this episode but not that one (yes including whatever was going on with that Annie mean girls esque but make it worse and yeah)(they are bops honestly 🤷‍♀️)

i will go now but yeah I love community (also also last thing but this is the only way that I'll ever be able to fully digest random musicals in any show because community just does it better, I said what I said.)

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This cross necklace, adorned with pearls, has been seen several times over the years. In 2011 it was worn by Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias, and in 2013 it was seen on Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. In 2016 it was worn by Annabel Scholey as Contessina de' Medici in Medici, and in 2020 it was spotted on Sai Bennett as Princess Mary (Daughter of Henry VII) in the second season of The Spanish Princess. Finally, in 2022 it was worn by Romola Garai as Princess Mary (Daughter of Henry VIII) in Becoming Elizabeth.

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[terrellsandefur]

BECOMING BENNETT screens today at Macon Film Festival during the Doc Shorts: Unique Short Stories block at 4:30pm @ Georgia Sports Hall of Fame

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BECOMING BENNETT is an inspiring tale of a girl who grew up to be the man he always wanted to be. One camera, one light, one take... this raw and courageous interview explains the life-altering change and transformation taken to become the person Bennett has always been.

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Produced & Directed by Joseph Guay

Produced, Filmed & Edited by Nick Peruto

Starring Bennett Sandefur

Produced by Bennett Sandefur

Produced by Terrell Sandefur

[luck-of-the-drawings]

ANCIENT wip that i finally got around to splashin color onto. NO idea where this colorin style came from n it WONT happen again!! anyway i LOOOVE the general dynamic between arthur n emizel. both are so cool and so awesome and yet SO silly...

[cancerian-woman]

Bonnie and Qetsiyah are the only two women among all of tvdu to get cheated on and are constantly villainized for reacting to what happened to them. Now, my only issue with Qet is how they reduced this powerful and prominent women to only caring about Silas. As for her reaction she got both Amara and Silas together. Nobody was missed from that period. A nice case of fuck around and find out. The Bennett witches never got to have emotions outside of serving everyone else or being these grand creators of something so I loved how they introduced Qet. Amara and Silas both got what was coming. What made Qetsiyah any different from Klaus or Silas? She’s just a woman lol. Bonnie got cheated on and no one wanted to tell her and IF she didn’t overhear the discussion she wouldn’t even have been told in the first place, yet plenty of fans have this argument that Bonnie should’ve been more understanding to Jeremy’s feelings or that because of the Gilbert device(another thing created by a Bennett witch mind you lol..) she deserved to be cheated on in the first place.

These discussions about cheating and what should’ve been done would be so different if it was Elena or Caroline, Katherine blah blah blah :P

Edit: i lied lol, i do have something else im mad about. The lack thereof with Bonnie and Qetsiyah but Bonnie aint allowed family.

in the end all this Silas-Amara and Qetsiyah triangle did was center another Bennett witch in this never ending petrova mess.

[mayahawkeswife]

“i can stare at your back all day” and it’s just me aggressively staring at rhea ripley’s back every time i saw her live (not even lying especially nxt 8/22)

^^ two extra examples 😍😍

[bennettmaximoff]

Bonnie fans can simply state how certain ships would have worked well canon wise and that some storylines would have made much more sense if they were given to Bonnie, and there go Caroline and Elena stans getting defensive and accusing ppl of just being upset that Bonnie wasn’t the main character and didn’t get all the male attention.

The fact that all they can attribute to their faves is sleeping with or dating multiple male chars is sad. Carelena can be shipped with every single male character in sight, but don’t you dare ship Bonnie with characters like Klaus or say how she should have went to NOLA because you just want her to be a fix it witch for him and the Mikaelsons. Bonnie to them isn’t someone they can use as a self insert, so she automatically isn’t allowed to be paired with anyone other than her canon ships or in another ship that exists to boost their own.

[melmedardasworld]

It is interesting that modern Bennetts are presented as being so dedicated to keeping the balance of Nature, yet every time, they do something insane that shapes the entire supernatural world and disrupts everything.

They are out here messing with the rules of life and death and space and dimensions and worlds with those dimensions.

Emily designed the "Gilbert" rings as tools for resurrection. Another witch turned humans into supernatural beings by making them Hunters and also designed the daggers to put down an Original. Bonnie summoned her ancestors from the Peace realm (no one ever did that) through her psychic abilities. She could also interact in the realm of Limbo. Then we have the prison worlds that need Bennett blood.

Qetsiyah with the other side and immortality spell. She disrupted the original path for supernatural beings after death by creating an alternative Purgatory. Which, in turn, also opened the doors for the Schism between the travelers and the witches as we know them to happen. That inadvertently led to the surge of different types of magic branches to be explored by the witches coming after Qetsiyah. Cause the way the show introduced it, only pure magic was used. With the other side, we got spirit magic.

If the writers had the balls to expand on Qetsiyah and give her the whole Markos/Travellers curse storyline to her family unit, then tied it wit her descendants aka the Bennetts, I’d be so down for that. We could have gotten the Bennett lore of how things came to be with magic, the rules of nature and more.

Because the show keeps harping on this whole concept around ��keeping balance of Nature”, and it’s just (often biased) dead witches regulating how a living witch should use their magic and even punish them if they don’t follow their rules. It's an interesting concept to show how flawed it actually was coming from the witches’s perspective, because ya’ll didn’t have to do all that.

Because there is also the enigma Nature that existed since the beginning of time and where magic comes from. It is this unbiased and unconscious entity keeping things in check and operating smoothly in a way. It course corrects even with all the vampires, werewolves, immortals, etc. in the mix that were created by these same witches. I honestly think that given time, these creatures and existences would just be seen as ‘normal’ to nature and part of the whole supernatural cycle. I mean, look at the Immortals. The only side effect Nature had was the birth of the doppelgangers popping up to balance immortals ‘dying’ in a sense, and it was done an over with.

Also, with this plot it could have been a perfect chance to showcase the infighting that still happened between witches or even the Bennetts and introduce more distant family members for Bonnie who did or didn’t follow the rules. It was already established that Bonnie’s family comes from the Travellers so why introduce the Parkers / Markos for that? Heck, they could’ve even made Markos Qetsiyah’s brother… since they had plans to introduce her family unit, but didn’t and we got another cycle of Stelena and the love triangle.

At this point, does Bonnie’s line serve nature, or have they conquered it in such a way with their feats that it bends to their whims?