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letamreviews · 1 year

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Mini Review - The Blackening (2023)

i really like it (high tier?) 🤔

Quite a Black-ass funny-ass horror, but much more of an interesting Black movie than a horror. Like, the main horror is in the racist murderer at a cabin in the woods. Like,... I'm not even gonna explain that. You either get it or you don't. Which brings me to the main thing I wanna say. This really is for Black people. I wouldn't recommend it for people who aren't in some way "Black" (biracials, getcha ass in here).

I'm serious when I say this isn't for Euros. Like, y'all really shouldn't* watch this unless you were out of the blue invited by Black people or are yourself very involved with Blackness in some way. (whatever dafuq that means) Should full-on Euros who have no actual exposure to Blackness see this movie? Absolutely not. Everything's dangerous in the wrong hands, and some of y'all asses are gonna do the absolute wrong shit with this. Intentionally or not.

*Pre-Edit: I heard a room of Black people (including some cast members) completely disagree with me in Way Up With Angela Yee’s video (timestamped).

Now that I'm done talking to the non-Blacks, let's get on with it.

for the African Descended

Y'all, this some shit. God damn. So glad I just happened to see this in a small theatre filled to a third with mostly Afros. Got to enjoy the reactions almost as much as the movie. Is it great, though? As a Black movie, yeah. As a horror movie, nah. As a Black horror, yep. As a Black comedy horror, hell yeah. And to be real, I don't think non-Black reviews/opinions/criticisms should even be taken into account for this one. Like, I read 7 recent reviews on Letterboxd before getting to Darryl Buckhanan's and seeing all the convincing I needed. This ain't for everybody. And I'm glad it ain't. Let ma ass be. Real talk,... how many o'y'all would'a failed that shit? 💀

Real talk, I didn't trust this movie to not be for Euros because of the director (Tim Story). Here me out! Of his 23 movies listed on Letterboxd, I've only seen five: Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Think Like a Man (2012) (they just had to put Rihana’s abuser in this 🙄), and this one. While I enjoyed all of the other four, I 1) haven't seen his other Black-casted works and 2) strongly suspected Shaft (2019) of being made for Euros everytime I saw its preview in theatres. Never bothered to confirm that suspicion, but I don't feel the need to. Fortunately, that review convinced me of this one and I saw it yesterday.

Side Notes:

Would not recommend watching 3Peat Presents: The Blackening - Uncensored before the movie if you're already interested. If you ain't, then go ahead and ask yourself if you want a feature length film inspired by this 4 minute Comedy Central skit. (the answer is yes)

Already saw it and interested in hearing some of the cast and crew talk about it? Here ya go:

‘The Blackening’ Cast on How a Comedy Short Turned Into the Feature Film | TIFF 2022 - The Hollywood Reporter

list of Critqal's mini interviews with the cast

THE BLACKENING Hilarious Cast Interview | Grace Byers, Antoinette Robertson and Sinqua Walls - Jake's Takes

The Blackening "World Premiere" | Cast Q&A TIFF 2022 - Antoinette Robertson

We Can't All Die First! Dishin' All Things, Horror & Comedy with The Blackening Movie Cast! - Dish Nation

The Blackening Interviews: Dewayne Perkins, Jermaine Fowler, Tim Story & More - JoBlo Celebrity Interviews

The Blackening Cast and Writers on Subverting Horror Tropes and Cracking Up on Set | TIFF 2022 - Collider Interviews

The Blackening Cast Talks Chemistry Between Cast Members, Horror Movies + More - Way Up With Angela Yee

The Cast Of 'The Blackening' Speaks On Creating A Horror Film From The Black Perspective + More - Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM

Waitin' for my favorite Afro streamers to talk about The Blackening. fuckers better come on

Happy Juneteenth, mofos

Pre-Edit: I realized while listening to interviews and doing my Crew Data that this movie probably won't fully succeed unless Euros watch it too. That’s the business side of it. I’m speaking on more of a personal matter in comparison. meh 🤷🏿‍♂️ Shortly after typing the above, I heard a room of Black people (including some cast members) completely disagree with me in Way Up With Angela Yee’s video (timestamped).

Tests:

I’m gonna skip 4 crew tests and hold off on posting Crew Data for now. Here’s the test process for the other 16, though.

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someoneoffthestreet · 1 year

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no, the Mario movie doesn't pass the Bechdel Test- but (imo) Peach does pass the Mako Mori* and Sexy Lamp** Tests and I think we should acknowledge that

*Mako Mori Test: a female character has an independent plot/character arc that does not simply exist to support a male character's arc **Sexy Lamp Test: a female character cannot be lifted out of the story and replaced by a sexy lamp or similar object

#the Bechdel isn't the be-all end-all of the tests and is arguably the least important of the three #but getting all three *is* the ideal #(and I'm *mostly* sure she passes the Mako Mori Test but someone could probably challenge that)#The Super Mario Bros Movie #mario spoilers #Princess Peach

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mantisgodsdomain · 5 months

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Apparently there's a fic reading challenge thing this year, but after doing a quick skim of the goals... we don't think we'll be touching it with a ten-foot stick. Some of these goals put a VERY bad taste in our mouth. The idea of a "diversity checklist" isn't supposed to be... literal, we don't think? No? We're remembering that one quote about "listening to people of color being like eating your vegetables for white activists" and we're feeling like it may actually have been understating whatever the hell is going on here.

#we speak #also really funny to be seeing shit like “read fic from a fandom with under 250 works”. buddy we're WRITING for one of those #but also like. “read a fic where the main character is BIPOC”. “read a fic where the main character is neurodivergent"#“read a fic that passes the bechdel test”.#like we get the INTENT we guess but we're not in the target audience AT ALL #and a whole fuckin lot of the goals here are very romance focused up against us a guy who deliberately filters out ships #we're also really concerned that “passes the bechdel test” is a bar for fic but also we know The Scene here #and “passing the mako mori test”. is indeed a difficult one to find in a lot of fandoms #as someone who tends to like female characters we notice this. A Fucking Lot #we are so insanely picky with fic bc even with ao3's tagging system we need to slog through dozens of fics to find one good one #and a lot of the time we. REALLY don't have the patience for fic that doesn't have decent depictions for the gals #you have no clue how much zel da fic especially we drop for being Really Fucking Weird About Gender (in a bad way)#sometimes we forget that people exist in bigger fandoms that actually have fic reading habits like this #we feel like we're in another dimension. what do you mean you guys live like this #also what. does “deals heavily (and healthily) with a mental illness” mean. you guys arent just reading this to eat ur vegetables right?#...right???#anyways reading through things like “read fics with all the major LGBTQIA2 identities” is giving us hives #if you read our fic then we beg of you read it because it sounds like it has a nice plot not just like. because Some Guy is ace or intersex #please. gender identity should NOT be that much of a priority. read through and flag on the weird gender shit and go “oh thats queer!”#or “oh thats like me” or “oh (whatever)” but please. there are so many things here more relevant than shit like sexuality.#we need to go read through our fics and make sure we dont have any overly modern lingo in there #if you want to know about a characters sexuality or gender identity figure it out yourself from. fuck we dont know. psychic beams.#though we rationally know the reason that things in modern queer spaces are so often Like This its still poison to our brain #and we want nothing to do with it #negative chatter

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olderthannetfic · 4 months

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Until I read the comments on that one post I had no idea the Bechdel Test was a joke and wasn't supposed to be a serious measuring stick by which you gauged if something was feminist or not. Everywhere I'd ever heard it brought up, it was brought up as a very serious thing, and it was a failure of media if it didn't pass it. I remember the debate about Mako Mori from Pacific Rim and if she was a character you were "allowed" to like as a progressive person despite the fact that Pacific Rim doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, the discourse, the discussion of if the director was sexist for not writing in another woman for her to chat with about non-men related stuff, the camp of people trying to insist that having a fully realized character arc and being as developed as any of the male leads = good writing even if she doesn't talk to another girl...

And I've also had the remark about my writing not passing the test, just not to my face. I searched my fanfic's name once, curious to see if anyone was discussing it outside of tumblr and AO3, and found a Tiktok complaining about it not passing the Bechdel Test. The top comment was "motherfucker YOU don't pass the test but we still watch your ass". I cackled and moved on, but neither the commenter, poster, nor I had any awareness this wasn't Feminist Media Critique 101 theory and was, in fact, a goof.

Right now there's a segment of fandom debating if Blue Eye Samurai is feminist since when Mizu and Akemi talk, they do bring up men, since, y'know. Women aren't considered people with rights in their era in Japan and thus it's something they mention instead of only talking about being cool girlboss badasses who never bring up gender. If something doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, a smug segment of the internet high-fives itself and congratulates one another on being More Feminist Than Thou.

They then get really angry if you disagree, even though by this metric, Sleeping Beauty (the original animated one, where Aurora has only 16 lines of dialogue) is more feminist than Blue Eye Samurai.

*DYING*

Okay, so, nonnie....

Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) was a long-running comic and major piece of lesbian media. I grew up buying compiled volumes at the bookstore. To be honest, that kind of 90s-ish lesbian culture isn't really my scene despite me being bi, but it was very nice to have this slice of life-y somewhat realistic, occasionally somewhat parody, look at the queer communities around me. It's up there with Tales of the City for me in terms of being a window into a particular culture and time and place.

If anybody is interested in queer history, in addition to looking up factual info, I think a read of the complete Dykes would give a really good overview of how people were thinking about things and what issues came up a lot. You'll see things like Barnes & Noble increasingly putting feminist bookstores out of business in the 90s, attitudes towards porn in lesbian circles—all kinds of cultural issues of the day.

I drifted away as I got later in my teens and found more genre fiction I cared about, but at one point, this comic was a very welcome antidote to the glurgey coming out stories that made up a lot of the more realistic media.

Anyway, here's the comic itself, reproduced in its entirety because I think it's important to actually understand the context.

This is from 1985, so the era of Rambo, Conan, and Death Wish, each of which you can see being made fun of here. It's based on Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace's actual rule for seeing movies.

That's it. That's the origin of this whole stupid test.

"LOL, fuck 80s action movies". That's it. That's the joke.

The fact that blockbusters still routinely fail to pass in the 2020s is shameful, but that was never the point of the strip.

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torturedpoetemotions · 9 months

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The Kenough Test

A test to determine if the women in a film about men are treated as well as Ken in the Barbie movie

In order to pass this test the following criteria must be met:

There are roughly the same number of women as men in the film

The women regularly interact with each other throughout the film

They have personalities, emotions, and interiority and are presented sympathetically to the audience

None of them are villainized, even if they are functioning as antagonists

At least one woman in the film passes both the Bechdel and Mako Mori tests

#barbie 2023 #women in film #women in media #the kenough test

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wasted-women · 5 months

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ROUND 1C, MATCH 3 OUT OF 8!

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Tara Maclay

Cause of Death: Shot in crossfire

Propaganda:

Ok so idk if she actually counts but I'm submitting her and please throw her out if not. Here's why I think Tara was fridged: the sole purpose of her death was to further the plot and cause pain to other characters. Now, because it's Buffy, these other characters were women. So her death was only to cause pain to her girlfriend (ex-girlfriend? They were broken up but mending) Willow, cause her to relapse into magic, and then make her essentially the big bad of the season. All of this was then to cause Buffy, the protag, to have to fight her best friend and be told she needed to either stop her or kill her. So while Buffy and Willow are both women, Tara's death was solely to cause them pain as significant other and protagonist and to further the plot. (It's also bury your guys and Joss Whedon sooooo). Tara literally was killed sloppily for no other reason than as a plot device in a desperate "well we already killed our protag and brought her back to life, how do we raise the stakes from here" ploy necessitated by crappy writing. If she doesn't count, again please throw her out, but I feel like she counts as fridging esp when looking at how Joss Whedon rights Buffy in this season to essentially bc a self insert of man pain but as a woman.

this is the only lgbt example I can think of but it definitely counts imo. link to death scene here (scene starts a minute into the video, with obvious trigger warnings for death and blood and gunshots): https://youtu.be/01NxsKojYyM?si=dxZvcvOhp3x6S8ha

Stuffing a woman in the fridge is one thing, but stuffing a queer woman who was one half of a beloved same-sex couple on a TV show famous for its strong female characters for the sake of drama while enforcing negative LGBT+ stereotypes in the process is really something else.

Her girlfriend, Willow essentially plays the role of the man in the relationship. Tara dies to facilitate her villain arc. Xander is also sad about her death and he is a man.

Mako Mori

Cause of Death: Exploded in a helicopter

Propaganda:

The Mako Mori test has been proposed as a "better" version of the Bechdel Test (which I'm well aware of the bechdel tests point and common misuse) she has a full, rich arc that is not romance oriented in the first movie. Also she pilots a giant robot. In the second movie she's textbook definition fridged.

Daenerys Targareon

Cause of Death: Stabbed by her lover for becoming a tyrant

Propaganda:

I'm just. I can't believe she hasn't been submitted yet. Classic example of end game fridging, where she *had* to be killed by her male lover to bring him pain and Man Tears TM. Clearly it effects him (sad) more than her (dead). Now obv Dany had a whole plot prior to this, but her death itself is such a classic example of fridging that I have to submit her, it legit only happened for a stupid "plot" to bring Jon ManPain. It was a death so stupid that GOT, what once was a cultural touchstone, isn't talked about except in how bad the end was

#wasted women poll #round 1 #round 1c #tara maclay #buffy the vampire slayer #mako mori #pacific rim #daenerys targaryen #game of thrones #game of thrones tv #poll bracket #poll tournament #character polls #polls

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wildwoodart · 1 year

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Why not watch Pacific Rim (2013)? We’ve got:

Raleigh Becket: Actual Golden Retriever

Mako Mori: So cool she has her own anti-sexism test

Stacker Pentecost: Coolest dad in the universe

Chuck Hansen: Probably would have been a Frat Boy if not for the Apocalypse.

Newt Geizler and Hermann Gottlieb: Chaotic dating. It’s honestly a miracle their lab hasn’t blown up.

#pacific rim #pacific rim 2013 #raleigh becket #mako mori #stacker pentecost #chuck hansen #newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #gay scientists #please don’t watch the sequel lol #read the prequel comics instead

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tsunflowers · 2 years

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remember when people liked the movie pacific rim and particularly the character mako mori but they realized the movie didnt pass the bechdel test and thought they had to make up a new test for it to pass so they could still say it was feminist. that was a dark time

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just-trying-my-best-everyday · 2 months

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I think it's time we made a test for male characters like the Bechtel test or the Mako Mori test.

Hence I propose: the Alex Louis Armstrong test. Requirements are:

1) Does he show his emotions in a healthy manner?

2) Does he treat others around himself kindly and caringly?

3) Does he strip at least once?

#alex louis armstrong #the man you are #fma #fullmetal alchemist

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queerplatonicshipshowdown · 9 months

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Round 1 starts Monday, September 4, 2023!

Here are your match-ups (links under the cut):

Preliminaries:

Balloon and Suitcase (Suitloon) from Inanimate Insanity vs. Test Tube and Fan (Fantube) from Inanimate Insanity

Round 1:

Chance and Shadow from WOE.BEGONE vs. Zolf Smith and Oscar Wilde (Zoscar) from Rusty Quill Gaming Podcast

Karina Lyle and Ryan Goldsmith (goldenrose) from Tiger & Bunny vs. Barbie "Malibu" Roberts and Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts (Barbie^2) from Barbie

Lord Viren and King Harrow (Virrow) from The Dragon Prince vs. Balloon and Suitcase (Suitloon) from Inanimate Insanity

Ainsley Ainsley, Antone Postminger, and The Gap (horseycule) from Legendlark vs. Kurusu Kazuki and Suwa Rei (Kazurei) from Buddy Daddies

John Doe and Arthur Lester from Malevolent vs. Caspar von Bergliez and Linhardt von Hevring (Casphardt) from Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Ronan Lynch and Richard Campbell Gansey III (Ronsey) from The Raven Cycle vs. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Taibani) from Tiger and Bunny

Rosé, York, and Grendan from Drawtectives vs. Bakugou Katsuki and Kirishima Eijirou (Kiribaku) from My Hero Academia

Adagumo no Yaorochi and Sukune Katano (YaoSuku) from Le'en Project vs. Hardwon Surefoot and Moonshine Cybin (Hardshine) from Not Another D&D Podcast

Crowley and Aziraphale (Ineffable Husbands) from Good Omens vs. Jonathan Sims and Alice “Daisy” Tonner (JonDaisy) from The Magnus Archives

Hooty and Lilith from The Owl House vs. Jane McKeene and Katherine Deveraux from Dread Nation

Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran from Wheel of Time vs. Jennifer Walters and Patsy Walker (patsyjen) from Marvel

Camilla Hect and Palamades Sextus (Campal) from The Locked Tomb vs. Kazuma Asogi and Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Asoryuu) from The Great Ace Attorney

Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley (Stobin) from Stranger Things vs. Bells Broussard and Emma Robledo from Sidekick Squad series

Daisy Tonner and Basira Hussain (Daisira) from The Magnus Archives vs. Percival King and Ramsey Murdoch (Ramsival) from Epithet: Erased

Sakuko Kodama and Satoru Takahashi from Koisenu Futari vs. Jughead Jones and Sabrina Spellman from Jughead Jones

Gon Freecs and Killua Zoldyck (Killugon) from Hunter × Hunter vs. Mako Mori and Raleigh Beckett from Pacific Rim

Stanford Pines and Fiddleford McGucket (Fiddauthor) from Gravity Falls vs. Jem Carstairs and Will Herondale (Heronstairs) from The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye (royai) from Fullmetal Alchemist vs. Stanley Barber and Sydney Novak from I Am Not Okay With This

Maz Kanata and Dexter Jettster from Star Wars the High Republic vs. The Doctor and Missy from Doctor Who

Fennec Shand and Boba Fett from Star Wars vs. Curt Mega and Tatiana Slozhno from Spies Are Forever

Lapis Lazuli and Peridot (Lapidot) from Steven Universe vs. Gwen Poole and Quentin Quire (Gwentin) from West Coast Avengers

The Doctor and Jack Harkness from Doctor Who vs. John - 117 and Cortanna from Halo

Ellie Miller and Alec Hardy (Millardy) from Broadchurch vs. Moomintroll and Snufkin (Snufmin) from Moominvalley

Beth Tezuka and Plum (PlumBeth) from Bravest Warriors vs. Allan and Weird Barbie from The Barbie Movie

Edgin Darvis and Holga Kilgore from Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves vs. Jolteon and Crap Gorps from Dogs In Love 2

Starscream and Skyfire (Skystar) from Transformers vs. Anne, Marcy, and Sasha (Sashannarcy) from Amphibia

Robbie & factoryAI from Void Terrarium vs. Perle and Dejean from Our Bloody Pearl

Matilda and Drea from Everything's Gonna Be Okay vs. Taion and Eunie (TaiEunie) from Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Nepeta Leijon and Equius Zahhak (Meowrails) from Homestuck vs. Jessie and James from Pokémon

Roxas and Xion from Kingdom Hearts vs. Tang and Pigsy (Freenoodles) from LEGO Monkie Kid

Zelda and Link (Zelink) from Tears of the Kingdom vs. Shin and Noi from Dorohedoro

MK and Mei (goldendragon) from LEGO Monkie Kid vs. Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop (Bishova) from Marvel

#tournament bracket #round 1 #I am bolding the Doctor Who ones so that I remember to change the actual bracket

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playsgods · 5 months

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* ◟ : 〔 MELISSA BARRERA , CIS WOMAN + SHE / HER 〕 SAVANNAH JUÁREZ , some say you’re a THIRTY THREE YEAR OLD lost soul among the neon lights. known for being both INGENIOUS and INCREDULOUS , one can’t help but think of FLEURS CAPTIVES by NICOLE DOLLANGANGER when you walk by. are you still a PRIVATE SECURITY GUARD , DEFECTIVE ASSASSIN for SENTRY SOLUTIONS , RED EYE , even with your reputation as THE FOIL? i think we’ll be seeing more of you and THE CONSTANT FEAR OF DISCOVERY ( LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDERS , YOUR BACK ALWAYS TO THE WALL ⸻ YOU WILL NEVER KNOW PEACE , SOLDIER , NOT WHILE YOU'RE STILL ALIVE ) / A WARM EMBRACE YOU'VE LONG SINCE FORGOTTEN , FOR THEY'VE FLUSHED OUT YOUR WEAKNESSES FOR A CREATION OF THEIR OWN MAKING ( FROM THERE , PAIN IS THE ONLY LANGUAGE YOU WILL LEARN TO SPEAK , TO ACCEPT AND FOLLOW ) / A PILE OF BODIES , AND A RIVER OF BLOOD THAT NEVER RUNS DRIES ( THEY'VE MADE A KILLER OUT OF YOU , AND THAT IS A HISTORY THAT CAN NEVER BE SCRUBBED CLEAN ), although we can’t help but think of BUCKY BARNES ( MARVEL ) + MAKO MORI ( PACIFIC RIM ) + ARYA STARK ( GAME OF THRONES ) whenever we see you down these rainy streets.

*　　　　&　　◞　　　　𝐢　　　　.　　　　𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒　　　　.

　full　name　:　savannah juárez , born maya estrada. 　nickname(s)　:　sav / savi. 　age　+　bday　:　33 + april 3rd. 　gender　+　pronouns　:　cis female + she / her . 　sexuality　:　pansexual + panromantic. 　birthplace　:　mérida , yucatán , mexico. 　languages　:　spanish , english , russian , french , american sign language + conversational levels of japanese , mandarin & german. 　accent　:　has no traceable accent in any language. 　current　location　:　east harlem , manhattan , new york city. 　occupation　:　private security guard with sentry solutions. 　loyalty　:　herself , her found family 　family　:　gabriel estrada — father ( estranged ) , daniela estrada — mother ( estranged ) , maria estrada — sister ( estranged ).

*　　　　&　　◞　　　　𝐢𝐢　　　　.　　　　𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃　　　　.

　 —　childhood stretches behind you like a trail of landmines ⸻ one wrong step and the whole thing is set to explode. there is a vague remembrance of a happier childhood , of a loving mother and father , a baby sister who'd just begun to take her first steps. you remember the warmth of their embrace , the happy squeals of children's laughter. leading a pack of neighbourhood children , causing trouble and mayhem , a mind sharp and full of imagination. well no one could have imagined where it would one day lead. cold tunnels and the makings of a machine , they grab you in broad daylight , and that's the last of sunlight you'll see in a long , long time.

　 —　seven years old and the perfect test subject. you don't know it yet , but it is the curse of genetics that births you with a target on your back. your mother heralded ⸻ genius , your father utterly brilliant. a duo of unmatched aptitude who brought forth ideas and change. what a terrifying thing it was , to leave all that possibility in the hands of a couple that would strive to better society and the world around them. who believed in equality and using their abilities for the greater good. and while they could not use your parents , they could certainly make do with you.

　 —　small limbs strapped down to a metal table ⸻ you remember how it chilled you to the bone. cutting and carving , they break you down down down , and then they begin to rebuild. in a shape most suited , a sharpened tool to be used. here your childhood is awash in red , in lengthy stretches of pain and power. ( the more you lose , the more you gain. not for yourself , but for those who expect the most from you. unwilling and unyielding , but you crumble just the same ).

　 —　soldiers have no use but to follow orders as they are given. ten , fourteen , time passes in flashes of glitching lights and your scars proudly earned. at least that's what they tell you ⸻ praising , encouraging. the words a twisted knife to turn and turn and turn , to thank them after they've sliced it free. missions counted by the lives you've taken , and never once do you come back incomplete , unsuccessful. beautifully crafted and wonderfully honed , their creature of death and desolation that will always deliver.

　 —　twenty four years old and ready to report , you are blood stained and clutching at life in a mission gone astray. wounded to a point you've never been before , there is a face on the billboards that catch your eye and call forth memory. buried beneath the teachings of your handlers , beyond the brutality of your youth. your mother's face is a glowing beacon in the dark of the night. hidden within the shadows and standing beneath its light , there is a ⸻ spark , recognition. who is she , who is she , who is she. why does your heart ache and your head split , blood pounding hard as it pools ? your handler finds you and drags you home , but this is where you learn to remember , begin to forget to forget.

　 —　freedom comes ⸻ swift and sadistic. an unexpected plunge into the deep end as your fight tooth and nail to experience. to experience. twenty six years old , and your never forget your mother's face. as you spend every single second you do not have on missions researching and obsessing. daniela estrada and her family ( your family , something haunted screams ) , and the curiosities of the daughter they'd lost , the daughter that remained. you can never go home , but red eye cannot remain home either. one last mission , and you cut out your chips and trackers. you break something free , not yourself , not yet , but this is a start.

*　　　　&　　◞　　　　𝐢𝐢𝐢　　　　.　　　　𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐒　　　　.

　 —　has been on the run from red eye for the past seven years ! a lot of this time was spent with sav running around the globe , hopping from place to place to keep ten steps ahead and under the radar , but also kept busy simply exploring. with twenty years spent under the organization's thumb , she's been sheltered from much of anything that they deemed unimportant for her to know. so much of this time has been sav busy with her travels and ... soul searching ?? aiewjfnawef

　 —　currently works for sentry solutions and has been for about two years. while she was trained to be a lean mean fighting machine , she's discovered self - fulfillment in being able to finally use her skills for good. she enjoys fighting , she's good at it , but now she can finally do it to protect and not harm.

　 —　incredibly intelligent ! her parents were noted as both having genius level intellect , and sav was something of a child prodigy inheriting the best of both of them. and well , red eye very much took advantage of what she had to offer. from using her mind to help in their own research , to sending her on missions that required a keen mind. even after losing her left leg from the knee down , she aided in the development of her own prosthetic.

#lawlessintro #siri play breaking free at max volume

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swordofsun · 8 months

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I don't normally make If You've Complained About X You Should Watch Y posts. I try to just make my own little posts and reblog gifsets and cool art and if it intrigues you it intrigues you. If not all good.

But I do think that if you've ever complained about genre TV not having enough women (either as main, secondary, or background characters) or despaired at seeing a genre show consistently and reliably pass the Bechdel Test let alone having every female character pass the Mako Mori test? You should give Wheel of Time a shot.

You don't need to have read the books to enjoy the show. If you bounced off the books the show is different enough to be worth checking out. It's pretty fun.

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driftwithme · 9 months

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Pacific Rim worldbuilding details:

The only one in-world PPDC videogame was created during the golden era of the jaeger program. It was shaped as a mini games type were you could fight kaijus with your chosen jarger, solve puzzles as a j-tech or escape from a collapsing lab as a k-scientist.

The number of teens applying for the PPDC was always high. Especially kids left orphaned. Most of those candidates would end becoming j-techs or part of the strike force or some other thing. It's why Raleigh and Chuck are the favorite of the young public.

There are a few jaeger movies made to promote the PPDC and the jeager effort. That was not even their idea, but some directors got too excited about it.

The amount of songs name dropping j-pilots and jaegers is insane. Back at the golden age of the jaeger program there was a betting pool about it. It became common again after Pitfall.

The PPDC never gave consent for any movie or anything else explicitly made about real life j-pilots. Even during the rockstar era it felt too invasive.

The influence of Mako Mori's blue bangs hairstyle post-Pitfall is and always be a cultural changing moment. You bet that everyone wanted to be the rookie raised by the Marshall himself that shut the breach and piloted with Raleigh freaking Becket.

Kids growing up post the kaiju invasion would forever remember the kaiju drills and evacuation protocols. They would hear people talk about a world without kaiju and feel robbed, feel mistreated and abused. They could never imagine a world without kaijus --or jaegers.

There's an insane amount of pets named after kaijus.

There's also an insane amount of cars modified to have a kaiju-look.

Back school kids would literallt bully others over hypothetical drift tests and compatibility. That was a very serious thing that happened. Nerds would suffer hearing they'd probably be compatible with a kaiju or find a "kaiju partner" and kids would get called "kaiju girlfriends or boyfriends" and such.

There are whole ass game shows based on testing the "drift compatibility" ofna certain duo or group, where the people involved had to guess what an individual is thinking or about to do.

Kids calling principals "Marshall" is, as you might think, very common.

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I know about the origins of the Bechdel Test, but I do think it's inaccurate to say it's not meant as a criticism of movies that don't do that. I think that when people stop thinking in binary terms of "is this feminist?" or "is this anti-feminist?" and instead look at things more holistically, that you can recognize both that a character like Mako Mori is great, a step in the right direction for female characters in action movies and especially WOC, go forth and stan her and write all the fanfic you want.... but yeah, it is also a valid criticism of the movie (and many others like it) that she doesn't talk to or have relationships with any other woman in the film.

I think one thing to help people realize just HOW much of women's lives are being left out of media representation when we never talk to other named women about something other than a man in movies, is to just think about your own life. I talk to my mom every day, and if we are not talking about my stepdad or my brother-in-law (and I don't think we've ever had a conversation that wasn't at least IN PART not about them or another man), then it passes the test. I'm a professor and when I talk to a female student about her homework or project (which is, again, something that happens pretty much every day I teach), that's passing the test. If I order food from a female cashier and she has a name tag, that's passing the Bechdel Test! It's literally just constant for the vast majority of women on the planet, and that's what's being left out of our stories.

Like, I like the takes I've seen about how part of the joke in Dykes to Watch Out For is that this is *particularly* alienating to lesbians - as a lesbian myself I agree - but I also think it should be frustrating to straight and bi and ace women as well, because like unless you are like exclusively interacting with your husband or male relatives every single day + you work in a workplace where you are literally the only woman, you are almost certainly passing the test constantly. That's a pretty big part of women's lives that Hollywood is leaving out!

But I think it's important to view it as just one piece of the discussion about feminism and women's representation in film, not the final judge on if a film is feminist or not. Which it wasn't intended to be - as you said, it was mostly a joke on the extreme maleness of 80s action movies. Honestly, I do not miss those days on Tumblr where people were obsessed with declaring certain movies/TV shows/other fandoms they liked as "feminist" or "anti-feminist" and the really bizarre granular discussions people would have between two works that BOTH had a long way to go in terms of representing women. I remember people in the Fullmetal Alchemist fandom would use this to argue about if the original anime or Brotherhood/the manga was better - when both have some fantastic female supporting characters, but are ultimately male-centered stories where even a lot of those women's lives and stories are centered around their male love interests and family members. It's better than a lot of shounen, but if that's your bar for feminism - either version - you have a long way to go (and need to watch WAY more anime because there's sooooo much of it that is female-centric). I also remember people coming up with other tests that were blatantly silly: like I thought the Mako Mori test about "if a woman has a motivation/story that isn't centered on a man" was fair because it did point out a legitimate criticism, but there was that ridiculous "Tauriel Test" where it was "a woman who is good at her job." And it was entirely about someone just disliking that movie critics and feminist commentators alike were down on the Hobbit movie trilogy, which a) were bad movies, sorry you have bad taste, b) are absolutely not where you should focus your attention if you're so concerned about women's representation in film, Tolkein has always been a sausage fest! And her big thing was being mad that people thought Judi Dench's M in Skyfall was a better female character, and so she arbitrarily decided she was "bad at her job" and Tauriel was "good at her job" even though that's completely subjective and can be challenged in both cases.... but also, once again, why are you looking to the fucking JAMES BOND franchise for movie feminism! There's nothing like comparing the relative "feminism levels" of JAMES BOND and LOTR to make it obvious that this is 100% about validating your subjective taste preferences by giving it a "progressive" excuse, not actually about feminism and not actually caring about women's representation beyond how it makes you look good. And yet SO many people took that transparently stupid post seriously. I'd see professional articles mention the Tauriel Test as "one of the new tests" like there was anything serious about it.

And then on the flip side, over-reliance on the Bechdel Test alone led to some clueless conclusions especially in anime fandom, given that anime has an abundance of shows that exclusively feature female characters in school clubs being cute, where those characters are nonetheless two-dimensional archetypes designed for the male gaze. Someone like fandomsandfeminism did a presentation at an anime con that called one of those types of shows "feminist" and some Japanese user eviscerated it, but that just led to the equally shallow fandom analysis of "everything a Japanese person says about anime is automatically more valid" and "any Westerner who wants to criticize anime on feminist/progressive grounds is culturally appropriating and ultimately coming from a place of ignorance, even if they literally have a degree in Asian studies."

Wow, this turned into a rant about the history of bad "feminist media criticism" on this website. Sorry about that, I think I had a point in here somewhere. I guess that the Bechdel Test is indeed a joke and those origins should be understood, but also, I don't think it's wrong to say that it identifies a real problem and one that people could probably take MORE seriously than they do - but as just one part of the conversation, not the Feminism Litmus Test, and certainly not as a dick-measuring contest about whose fandom gets them more progressive brownie points.

I think as long as we grasp that the joke is "The bar is so far under the ground that we might as well go home and eat popcorn there", it's fine.

The real issue with the test is that people started thinking a pass was meaningful.

If you say something like "X% of 2020s movies can't even manage this weaksauce level of women existing", that's a meaningful statistic. Even if you got a couple of data points wrong, you're not factually wrong enough for it to matter because X is going to be some massive, massive percentage, and the overall trend is so clear.

But a pass is nothing to celebrate, and that's where we went wrong.

Like you say, litigating which of two big franchises that barely do anything with women wins on tumblr points is idiocy.

I think people are so unaware of what media that genuinely centers women even looks like that it's hard for them to even begin having a discussion.

I personally have been a massive fujoshi type from adolescence, and media that centers female characters isn't actually what I typically want. (Though media that is by and for women and that doesn't give a fuck what men think of this is.) I am also not much of a fan of slice of life in general...

But when I was coming out and figuring my shit out, being able to go buy collections of Dykes to Watch Out For was incredibly valuable to me.

Ditto the other lesbian comic books that were just sitting there in the bookstore. I'm sure if I went back and reread them all now, I could find things to nitpick or ways they were more for lesbians and less for me as a bi girl, but the really distinctive thing they did was let me exist in a world where media isn't all 80s sausagefest action movies where women are not people.

In fact, they were a world where men don't matter terribly much—not because they're dramatically rejecting men in some facile and reactionary way but because... who cares? They just had other priorities... and this was normal.

It feels like people who've never taken a vacation from really mainstream media just have no concept of what it would feel like to exist in some other space.

And I think that's a pity even if, like me, they later choose to go read mostly BL later instead of focusing on female characters or they genuinely love trash 80s action movies despite everything wrong with them. It's not just sexist media that's the issue: it's that feeling like the fish can't see the water it's swimming in.

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