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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
justmelvin
onehellofascene

Dorothy Dandridge was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, she was my leading lady. Dorothy and I were constantly in search of ways in which to do things that people never saw before. Like two very attractive people kissing who are people of color.

Here we were trying to live up to the best of the cinema art, but because of the issue of race, we were not given the time in which to do it that other films would’ve been given under the circumstances. Otto Preminger shot that picture – huge, color, CinemaScope, big screen – he did that in 10 days. We could barely get the lines right before it was a take. We were lucky that it came off as well as it did.

The film was a huge success, I think, not just because we may have done a performance that was worthy of viewing, but I think it was a curiosity to see this film that was just us being us and love and caring. Black people had just never quite been seen in that rhythm before.

   —Harry Belafonte on Carmen Jones (1954), Black Hollywood: They’ve Gotta Have Us

Source: onehellofascene
water-dragin
geekandmisandry: “onion-bagels: “ sneater: “ adurot: “This image hurts my brain more than the original debate ever did. Brains are dumb. ” i wanted to like make sure this was legit and stuff so i took a section of the left and stretched it over to...
adurot

This image hurts my brain more than the original debate ever did. Brains are dumb.

sneater

i wanted to like make sure this was legit and stuff so i took a section of the left and stretched it over to the right and jesus fuck

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onion-bagels

rb for the last pic being the best demonstration by far

geekandmisandry

“This is why I draw in black and white” was all my sleepy, horrified boyfriend could say.

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water-dragin
literallyaflame

not to hop in on the Hottest Discourse but:

age gaps aren’t inherently bad between adults, but they are incredibly suspect in instances where one party has significantly more agency and experience due to their age. a thirty year old dating a forty year old, for instance, isn’t all that big a deal. but an eighteen year old should be VERY suspicious of a thirty year old wanting to get with them. they’ve had twelve years to establish themselves as an adult. an eighteen year old has had maybe a few months to do so.

i’m saying this as a person who briefly dated a thirty year old at age 19 (it wasn’t good lol), and also as a person with happily married parents who have a 12 year age gap. the difference is that my mom was in her thirties when she met my dad; she’d had plenty of time to find a career and a name for herself in the world.

stay safe, love urself, try to make good decisions but don’t beat yourself up if you’ve ever been the victim of an unbalanced or abusive relationship

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water-dragin
insomniac-arrest

I think stories vastly under utilize ‘the queen bee bitch’ archetype (think Regina George, Heather Chandler, every other high school drama show)

like, dudes get to be mean anti-heroes all the time, but The Bitch either has to ‘reform’ and become nicer or she has to lose (usually romantically) and be angry

The Bitch is almost never used productively and she’s rarely on the heroes side, her raw power as a force in the story is usually always negative- we never root for her

you know what I want to see, you know, just to shake things up? The Bitch archetype used as the berserker of a group

The Bitch computer tech who breaks into government facility while still calling everyone ‘bad sluts that need to be pay,’ The Bitch rogue anti-hero selling tainted drugs to the mafia, The Bitch gladiator with her posse of mean girls that defends the queen

let’s shake things up, let’s take the archetypes we already have and make something more interesting

Source: insomniac-arrest