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As a critiquer, your job is not to “make this piece of writing better” but to understand what the writer wants to achieve and help them to achieve it

Applies beyond writing as well.

As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices.

Children of Men (2006)

 Dir. Alfonso Cuarón

Debra Granik discusses Leave No Trace, the power of minimalism, and learning from our ancestors.

“I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent.”

Lady Eboshi was awesome.  You know why?  Because she looked at a town full of abused and exploited women and said “Fuck this shit”

And they said “Look lady these girls are just trying to earn a living”

But Lady Eboshi didn’t take that shit.  She said “Well I’ll buy them and if they want they can come with me.”

“Lady you are hysterical you can’t afford…”

“Fuck you.  I’m paying for all of it.  And you know how?  These ladies are going to work for me.  I’m going to pay them to make iron for weapons and you are going to buy those weapons.”

LATER

“Your town is so big and succesful the Emperor wants it.  You better sell out now because all of those natural resources are protected by the Gods so you might as well…”

“Fuck the Gods.  Fuck the Emperor.  Fuck your shit.  It’s my hot town I’ll do what I want.”

She also took in men who’d been crippled and were cast out to be beggars and gave them work they could do and plenty of respect and care. Lady was feminist as fuck. 

SHE TOOK IN LEPERS. 

LEPERS.

L E P E R S.

See above for why Lady Eboshi is one of the best characters ever. Technically, she’s the antagonist after you learn San’s story and how Eboshi is hurting the environment, but she’s not villified by the story or by any human characters in the town because of her humanitarian efforts. She’s an antagonist for San and Ashitaka at some points, but in all others, she’s nothing less of a hero. Even at the end, when her town is ruined, she just smiles and says “This time we’ll build a better town.” with the implication she’ll make a prosperous town for her people without harming the environment.

tl;dr - Lady Eboshi is the best

Princess Mononoke is such a great movie for not creating a single defined villain in it. Everything is more complicated than it seems and everyone is trying to protect SOMEONE. Seriously, this movie is a masterpiece of storytelling in that sense, on top of being one of my favorite (animated) films of all time.

Studio Ghibli antagonists are more well-rounded, believable and likeable than most stories’ *protagonists*.

If you’ve never felt this erasure, you are very lucky indeed.

if you are white and do not understand that there are negative effects to casting white people in asian roles…… you are part of the problem

I think that we’re under this constant pressure to achieve success in our twenties because, as women, our youth is seen as our prime but there are so many women who go on to do great things later in life like Ava DuVernay didn’t pick up a camera until she was 33 and now she’s in her 40s and her career is just beginning her next feature film has a budget of over $100 million

“For young black horror filmmakers, if you have a script, reach out and I’ll try to help it get made. Monkeypaw Productions is my production company.” - Jordan Peele

Black screenwriters send in your scripts!!!!

Jordan Peele’s Twitter: @JordanPeele 

MonkeyPaw Productions Twitter (though it doesn’t look active: @Monkeypaw_Prod

MOVIE CLUB l MAR 2017

In honor of women’s history month, I wanted to highlight some wonderful films directed by women. :)

My 2017 aesthetic is movies about black people getting stellar reviews and crushing it at the box office

Season 1 of the webseries, Féminin/Féminin, is finally on the interweb ya’ll.

I stayed up so late last night watching all 8 episodes and geeking out over how good it is. It starts off a bit slow, but episode 4 and onwards are flawless.

WATCH IT HERE

Why have I heard next to nothing about Dizzee Kipling?

Y'all are so on Netflix’s dick about the original shows, but I’ve barely seen The Get Down acknowledged at all. The show as a whole is incredible and honestly every character is such a gift. Given the critiques I see most often I would think that tumblr would pick this show up and obsess over it the way it has with others in the past.

People love to talk the talk about representation and how so many movements stemmed from poc and queer culture, but when we get a show that focuses beautifully on exactly that I see nothing.

Why am I not drowning in fanart of Dizzee/Thor?

Why can I scroll through my dash without having to sift through novel length meta about Zeke?

Why is no one obsessing over Mylene?

This show is explicitly about the influence of black, latinx, and queer culture on music and art. It’s about what tumblr is constantly discussing and wishing for acknowledgement and representation of, so why is there so little love for it?

WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE GET DOWN?

people with the same name as me are cute but they need to remember who is in charge

Hashtag Freddie Kingston