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I despise the “quirky biracial Black girl” trope even more after finding out Nikki from Dork Diaries, and all the original Cheetah Girls were all meant to be Black girls

Like I literally didn’t care for Dork Diaries cuz I was tired seeing white girls be the sole focus of these stories, along with their best friend of color. Finding out that the series was written by a Black woman who based Nikki off of her own daughter, but editors told her that Black girls don’t sell pisses me off

Turning Black girls biracial because you can’t envision a monoracial Black girl as silly, cute, or going through average teen problems is a skill issue

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Something that I really liked in that fight with Sidewinder in BNW was the Jerry rigged explosive Sam made in the junkyard. It felt like a reminder that Sam Wilson is an expert at mechanical and electrical engineering. Prior to the Wakanda version of the suit (which includes the Stark version), Sam was the only one repairing the suit and Redwing “because he didn’t trust anyone else” to do the repairs.

Joaquin is an expert as well, the fact he repaired the suit that was damaged in the fight with John Walker and used those to work alongside Sam.

Another callback moment was the close up fight when Sam had the knife, just like on the bridge in CA: Winter Soldier. He always has a knife at the ready to handle close combat.

The way Sam uses the shield as a projectile not only to incapacitate the people he’s fighting but also attaching it to Redwing to act as long range cover. The Celestial Island battle overall showed off Sam’s tactical/pararescue skill: how he destroyed the Japanese missiles, took care of the Japanese pilot whose plane got shot down, giving Joaquin commands and immediately relaxing that Joaquin was in danger before it happened.

BNW’s fight sequences conveyed a lot about the characters especially Sam and enjoyed them.

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Ngl, y'all might have to start noting in your posts where you rightfully critique Black liberals etc. that you aren't looking for racists to be a part of your crew bc.

Y'all will make valid points and IMMEDIATELY here come the Holy Shit We Hate N*ggas Brigade to support you and um. I mean. Unless you WANT to be supported by Nazis who hate everything else about you in order to be right about that Black person (which means... Well... You're right in the company where you belong...) y'all might want to start taking that into consideration.

All I know is, it's gonna be real hard for me to want to share space with "progressives" when I walk in and I notice that such and such allowed an entire Klan lynching to occur in their notes and said and did nothing 😐 like thank you, I know that I will not be safe here with you and I would rather devote my energy elsewhere!

(and yes, nonblack people can share this. I am talking to you.)

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Cover Page Tiana x Naveen | by me :)

@danareadsbooks thank you for the idea!!

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Unpopular opinion (Probably):

Pearline served no purpose in the movie beyond teaching Sammie how to go down on someone with a clit. And while that's a very important life skill to have, it doesn't warrant having an entire character that can be replaced with a lamp (or radio if you want to keep Pale Pale Moon on the soundtrack).

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Adriana Smith’s neonate was delivered today, 3 months early (around 28 weeks).

She will finally be allowed to rest and taken off of life support.

Her family’s fundraiser is nowhere near its goal, and now they have tremendous NICU costs to look forward to based on how her son was able (or unable) to develop under the duress of all those life saving drugs they pumped his mom full of.

Please allow this mother’s spirit to rest and support their family as they’re finally allowed to grieve poor Adriana being used as an incubator for the state.

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Justifying illegal invasion/genocide by using *checks notes* a fictional novel written by a rape and brown face apologist??

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Seeing this serious, battle-hardened gangster smile while holding his baby girl, being able to be with Annie for all eternity, and finally finding peace makes my heart melt.

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while I do think there are definitely films with gay reputations higher than how gay they actually are and there are very real instances of queerbaiting....there is truly nothing more irritating to me personally than gay film/tv fans saying a movie or show "wasn't gay enough" and all they obviously mean is "I personally couldn't jerk off to this cos there was no kissing or sex". an obvious example of this is how a lot of white gay ppl discuss Moonlight (2017). But I also just watched Burning Days (2022) a super compelling political thriller about a closeted police prosecutor who moves to a small Turkish town to investigate corruption and gets caught up in a blackmail scheme by the mayor because he's gay and trying to stop the shady shit going on. The tension between the lead and the handsome bisexual journalist who's trying to warn him about all this is SOOOOO palpable I was barely blinking when they were on screen just 👀. They don't technically "get together" because the film isn't a romance but essentially the whole plot is driven by how the prosecutor is so easily marked for ostracizing because he's gay. Tell me why one of the top reviews of this film that has a gay main character in a plot driven by hostility to him being gay and one of the top reviews is "could've been gayer" can ppl please either grow the fuck up or just go watch porn if all you wanna get out of a film is shallow portrayals of intimacy. youse are so boring the way you'll just dismiss the queerness of something wholesale if that queerness isn't the most obvious form of intimacy, or if it doesn't make you horny. and isn't it so interesting how these comments are most often made about LGBT films focused on people of colour??? Transparent. Exhausting.

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cleo + pope - much ado about nothing - girl defiled smau

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The Post-Post Credit Scene:

I think it's Sammie being placed back at the best day of his life and it's Pearline, or Smoke that he looks up to see.

Because he's passed on.

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undersuit is for... aerodynamics!

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Sammie and Pearline watching the other preforming

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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I loved that the writing for Sinners was always on Annie's side.

When she was helping out the kids whose mother wasn't well, helping them out basically free of charge. Smoke tried to get her to change her mind, but she stood her ground.

When she told the twins that they should offer a discount to the juke joint patrons because they had worked so hard, they deserve a break. She had a point!

Every part of the vampire mythology, she was right about.

And... Smoke respected Annie's choice at the end and fulfilled his promise. The writing made it crystal clear why that was what she wanted and who could blame her? The other option would have been hell to experience, especially after all she had been through! Smoke would've been so selfish if he didn't, and that would've been a terrible ending for both characters. (I mean, Smoke did still save Sammie, which was great, but he needed to respect Annie's wishes first for his arc to really stick the landing.)

Sinners was Team Annie. That was great to see.

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It really makes you sit and think that it took the bloodiest war on "American" soil to accomplish the bare minimum belief of "Black people shouldn't be slaves", and even then it was an incidental outcome. We would literally still be slaves if Lincoln and his advisors didn't think it was necessary to break the Confederacy. It was THAT close. That's how badly white supremacy (and the capitalism it cycles with) wanted to maintain itself here.

There has not been a single forward movement in our Emancipation or Civil Rights that didn't face extreme violence and require organization and the threat of violence to fight against.

So when people seem to think that "we can do this nonviolently", I chafe because it makes me wonder if we're even looking at the same history. Kwame Ture said it best; in order for nonviolence to work your enemy has to have a conscience. We can be nonviolent all we want but we are not gonna get that back 😬 sorry.

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Just thought about it, but there are people who legitimately believe that Black people get to go to college for free. Which means that they thought we just WEREN'T going, due to being less than capable. And that everyone that DID go didn't actually earn it because "it's free/DEI". 😐

And it's crazy because the only reason we have increased tuition in the first place is because conservatives were afraid that poor, nonwhite kids would go to school and wise up and get competitive (maybe even become- EGADS- commies!)

Damned if we went, damned if we didn't 😐