Reminder: Americans lose access to a free and open internet next month. Do not be surprised if some voices on here disappear. Do not be surprised if other countries begin to follow suit.
Or you could try to do something about it, like calling your representatives or taking to the streets if all else fails.
I think I’ve answered something like this before, and I think my response was along the lines of – who knows? At this point I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they ended the thing with the entire series having all been dreamt up in Clarke’s head. She’ll wake up, in her cell, her dreams drawn along its walls and they’ll announce it’s time for her execution and that’ll be it. The last shot: Clarke, floating in space, frozen, amongst all the dead bodies of the 100 and various ‘grounders’ who were just other Ark citizens.
I like the idea if only because it completely erases everything that happened as just an absurd fantasy that made no sense – which it was. Not a happy ending, but if the show decides to end on one, I’d rather the whole thing turn out to be a dream.
Will it end this year? There’s a good chance of that, since the network is no longer interested in its ratings/ad value, pushing its premiere toward the summer. It’s not competing for anything. That JR is tweeting so much again suggests this might be his last hurrah with this show he’s so proud of. But that’s speculative. We’ll know when we know.
In the meantime, @entirelytookeen has published a new chapter of (my) Destruction Within Your Mouth – a far superior version to the canon and I need to catch up.
my opinions on racism will always be limited as I’m from a position of white privilege, so whilst it’s so important to call out racial inequality and oppression when I see it, it’s also important for me to recognise that my voice should not shout over those who have actually experienced racism and have a far better understanding of how it operates then I ever will
“…As the plot unravels, it seems that Rose is willing to take Chris’s suspicions seriously and, as the title indicates, get out.
And I believed her. I believed her even after Chris discovered a box in her room filled with pictures of the other black men and women she’d seduced for her family before getting to him. My brain jumped to the next “logical" conclusion. Clearly Rose’s mother had hypnotized her daughter into being part of their scheme, making Rose forget each time she’d lured a black person home for them.”
“I held onto that theory until the final possible moment, when Rose turns to Chris as they’re supposedly attempting to escape together and says, “You know I can’t give you these keys.” It was a familiar sensation, one usually played out over a longer period of time. But here, condensed into one 10-minute span, I recognized the sinking feeling of being betrayed by a white woman you’ve stanned for, loved, liked, or even simply been mildly okay with. It’s that feeling when you find out that, after enjoying her in Easy A and finding her bubbly personality lovable, Emma Stone was fine with playing an Asian woman in Aloha. Maybe you went through it with Scarlett Johansson when you found out that she’d accepted the lead role in Ghost in the Shell, an adaptation of a Japanese anime series. It’s the betrayal you feel the first time you realize that women who are labeled pop-culture feminist icons, like Tina Fey, are perfectly fine with gunning for blackface laughs at your expense, or blaming your idols for white girls’ lack of self-esteem. (Beyoncé is many things, but she is not the reason you hate your body.)”
“For some, it’s the 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump, or finding out that the leader of your local NAACP chapter is literally a white woman in disguise. For others it’s finding out that Taylor Swift’s been coasting on America’s fear of black men for years. I feel it every time I realize there’s a white women on my Twitter timeline who will tweet in earnest for Planned Parenthood while sparing only a perfunctory tweet for Black Lives Matter or the Standing Rock Sioux.”
“…White women have always played, and continue to play, a large part in upholding the supremacy. They have not held the best interests of people of color. Putting full trust in them has often been to our detriment. Rose’s willingness to put herself and, essentially, the survival of white bodies above the well-being of black people was as unsurprising as it was terrifying. In Get Out, whiteness trumps all, and the true horror is leaving the theater knowing that, in this case? It’s not just a movie.”
Someone actually wrote a good (scratch that, great) article at Cosmo. Hell has officially frozen over.
this was an excellent article wow..
Cosmo might be on the path of actually being worth something.
Not that anyone needs my input on Black Panther, but I thought it was the best thing Marvel has ever produced, yet it belongs entirely to its makers and its audience and is a Great Film, no matter how you label it.
There are many campaigns to help others see it and it’s great to support them, I hope you can.
On a slightly related note, I’m seeing campaigns for A Wrinkle in Time as well – critics have been hitting this one very hard, a little too hard in my opinion (the Guardian review made me so cross I had to go outside) and it’s easy to forget this is a film targeted to young people. Whatever flaws it may have, it can still inspire.
Here is a link to Mari Copeny’s GoFundMe for AWIT to help kids in Flint, Michigan see the film. Mari is ten years old and does a lot of fundraising for Flint (she’s also set on being POTUS), so please offer her some support if you can.
A modern Western that tells the story of two sisters, Ollie and Deb, who are driven to work outside the law to better their lives. For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
The Doctor Is Out 