#sunday best black

[fieriframes]

[Like the flutter of your fingertips, like the flickering of lights. You've got your bright ideas but we've got bigger fish to fry. Found you out there on your doorstep, undressed to the nines. From your Sunday best, black and blue velvet dress, your head's a mess and so is mine.]

[classichorrorblog]

10 Witch Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[tthelady]

2.1 spoilers ahead!

Now that I had time to sit on what happened in 2.1 and gather my thoughts. I just want to say that 2.1 has been the best patch so far. In 2.0 HSR did a wonderful job showing all these different fractions within Penacony and how every single one of them had their own agendas. In 2.1 we got to see what their agendas were and how they were going to/are playing out.

The different POVs were a wonderful and amazing addition to the story. It was really nice being able to see and play the same story from another character's perspective.

Aventurine was by far the best character in Penacony for me. The way his story was told was amazing and being to play from his POV allowed us so much more insight into his character. The way his backstory was told, the way he planned to "kill" himself, and the way he finally came to terms with his own past, present, and future were so good some parts of his story genuinely brought tears to my eyes. Seeing Acheron come to the realization of his plan and taking away harmony's curse off of him and giving him a second chance and an out from the IPC I don't even have words to describe how much I loved that scene. There's also his and ratio's relationship I loved every second of their interactions. Their plan for ratio to betray him, ratio giving medicine to aventurine to use when he's close to death god every second of their interaction was amazing I could go on forever about them. I am very excited to see where his story will go on from here.

There's also the fact we got to hear Boothill's voice and holy shit I'm so excited to see him! The interactions between Acheron and Welt had me hooked I desperately need more interactions between them.

The way 2.1 ended has me so excited for 2.2. I never expected Gallagher to be excused of "killing" Robin it was an unexpected twist but I loved it very much. I have so many questions after that ending did Gallagher kill sunday? Is Gallagher truly responsible for the murders that have been happening in penacony? What happened to Robin? Where is Robin? Overall I can't wait for 2.2!!!

[nappy-by-nature]

Sunday’s Best #2

[sleepynegress]

On Greta Danesti...

I'm just taking this time to correct a certain anti-Black, (and anti-Romani) sadly typical fandom troll's misogynoir fuckery in the tag and establishing who Greta Danesti is in canon Castlevania animation lore. This is Greta Danesti's official character sheet:

She's the village headwoman of Danesti a few miles away from Alucard's castle. This is what her voice actress, Marsha Thompson looks like:

It's pretty obvious her character design took cues from the actress, who is Afro-British. In show canon, however, her family escaped from the Roman city of Carthage, which today, is located in the African country Tunisia. Alucard correctly speculated where her people are from while conversing with her, here (s4 e5):

Greta then confirms that her people did escape the Romans, but she now fully embraces her "family" in her village who are "from all over" and the responsibility of taking care of them.

This same troll used the g-slur to insist that she is Romani.

She is not. This troll used an early character design here, to make her case.:

And though it does have similarities to Romani clothing... It also looks like it takes cues from Tunisian clothing and likely local and non-local European clothing of the era with "fantasy" elements sprinkled in, as well, which would match the fact of her village's people coming from all over:

There definitely should be more Romani rep in media as it is so often whitewashed, but Greta is not Romani.

FYI, these women actors actually *are* of Romani descent: Fairuza Balk of The Craft, Oona Chaplin who played Robb Stark's wife in GOT (she's also Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter[!]), and Noomi Rapace from the Swedish movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says her father may have been of Romani descent, as well.

And because I can predict it, as people like to find ways of discounting blackness in every way...

Yes, there are plenty of non-Black indigenous POC in North Africa, including within Tunisia. Another fun fact... Africa has more indigenous human genetic variation among its peoples than every other people on the planet has with everyone else on the planet[!]. All this to say non-white POC AND Black people are indigenous to Tunisia.

I feel I have to say that because there is a lot of anti-Black anthropological fetishization of North Africa. Egypt is a major example of that (see: Rami Malek, an indigenous Coptic Egyptian who self-identifies as African man of color and has likely had to clarify that *often* because people keep wanting to mislabel him as an Arab, but I digress...) And sadly, there is a decidedly anti-black movement to totally disconnect certain North African countries' identities from a continental African one, and to largely see it as mainly a part of the MENA world (it is both kiddies, BOTH). Here is an informative article (linked in the image) about that struggle:

So, this got heavy...but between the post insisting that Greta is NOT Black and the one saying she's not bisexual because that same troll is purposefully and maliciously being obtuse about how words go together... I figured clearing some things up and educating folks might be helpful. BTW, the fact of those issues in the article makes her blackness all the more resonant as rep in pop culture. And hey, poly folks have disagreements, just like the het folks do... -Still bi. I'm gonna end here with two images from the linked article of anti-racist Tunisian protesters (MENA and Black):

P.S. I also side-eye those keen to make her muscular... I mean yeah she wields a big-ass hammer and shortsword/dagger, but the tendency to masculinize black woman characters deserves a hardy eye-squint. Especially, given that the show has *no problem* making muscular women look like that and they DIDN'T for Miss Greta.

See: Zamfir and the Berserk-style sword-carrying Vampire warrior, Striga. Both of whom had that flex going on.

[lautakwah]

what i wouldnt give for feixiao to have black hair.....

[dearhaunt]

i would describe my personal style as being .. goth who runs a chocolate shop/confectionery

[daz4i]

WHAT DO YOU MEANNNNNN BLACK SWAN + DR RATIO RERUN IN THE SAME PATCH. WITH LINGSHA TOO. WHYYYYYYYY

[horror-thriller-brackets]

Propaganda:

Black Butler: adheres to a ton of the classic gothic literature tropes you're familiar with - the occult, orphans, sexual violence, incest, outsiders/foreigners/underdogs having advantages due to their status, creepy children, the dead holding sway over the living, secret relatives you didn't know you had, etc etc - and does it with refreshing panache. Series is ongoing and continues to build upon its nearly 20-year existence with each new arc.

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

🐰My Easter Day Lucy the Rabbit Appreciation Post🐰

[vs-redemption]

For your soft Sunday. Had some random thoughts about headcanons on older brother Yami from Black Clover.

-Will tease you constantly. He’s one of those.

-You could ask him a serious question like “do you think this outfit makes me look big?”

-And he’d go “you look like a dead whale.”

-Causing you and Yami to start a cat and mouse chase.

-You have to admit, he’s better now than when you two were younger.

-Anything you found disgusting, he’d use it against you. You don’t like worms? He’s holding one in front of your face. Have a fear to dogs? He’s pushing you towards one.

-Even though he’s super annoying, he loves you wholeheartedly.

-If anyone tried to hurt you, Yami’s drawing his sword, ready to protect.

Soft Sunday: Yami Sukehiro

Gosh, those headcanons are SO Yami. He can definitely be obnoxious in a relationship. He will tease and taunt, but that's just how he showed affection. That's his love language. I can certainly see him calming down after a while though. It surprises him when he starts to settle down and be more serious. No matter what though, he WILL always protect you!

I think Yami would also be pretty handsy. He loves having his arm around you and isn't afraid to press kisses to your temple no matter who is around.

Yami might seem like an unconventional partner, but he is husband material.

[savagebeautyqueen]

🤎

[shrineofprophecy]

Sparkle has a normal obsession with birds

It does show that part of her is lonely, or at least, she knows she can't have fun on her own. She really is like a little kid who is always begging for attention and wants to play during her waking hours but not everyone is up for it.

Anyway, Sunday is about to get some sunglasses as a gift soon-

[threnodians]

is this enough for argenti’s lightcone, black swan and her lightcone, jiaoqiu and his lightcone, and sunday and his lightcone? 😅 🥲 😭 💔 🤞🏻

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Sunday Best Elektra Satin High Neck Camisole in Black from Aritzia (n/a), Animal Instinct Satin Cargo Pant from AKIRA ($30 - on sale) & Chuck 70 Plus Sneakers in Light Pink from Converse (n/a)

[onherway]

June Is A Creature by Janiesgotapen