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laufire · 3 years

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List your top ten ships involving POC

I was tagged by @manic-nightmare. I already did this for @wonderdoves but I felt bad for leaving a lot of my faves out lmfao.

1. Aang x Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender).

[Caption: Zuko trying to keep the flame alive, Aang reaching from behind him as if hugging him, and the flame dying out.]

2. Avon Barksdale x Russell “Stringer” Bell (The Wire).

[Caption: Avon and Stringer shaking hands saying, “Us, motherfucker.”]

3. Brigan x Fire (Seven Kingdoms Trilogy).

[Caption: Fanart of the two of them. He’s a black man with light eyes, a serious scoul and some scars; she’s a black woman with bring red and pink hair and green eyes. Credit.]

4. Derek Reese x Jesse Flores (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

[Caption: Each resting on one side of the door, Derek says, “I was uh, thinking about that time we met. You found me outside the bunker.”]

5. Eleanor x Max (Black Sails).

[Caption: scene of Eleanor and Max on the bridge in the s1 finale, with Eleanor trying to apologize and Max looking away. It includes the quote, “The other day I had a moment with Eleanor.”]

6. Isabelle Lightwood x Raphael Santiago (Shadowhunters).

[Caption: Raphael drinking Isabelle’s blood for the first time in an alley. The gif says “a kiss”.]

7. James “Rhodey” Rhodes x Tony Stark (Marvel).

[Caption: Tony looks at Rhodey in his Senate hearing, and Rhodey has to hide his grin.]

8. Lyra Silvertongue & Will Parry (His Dark Materials).

[Caption: Lyra steals popcorn from Will.]

9. Noah x Rosalee (Underground).

[Caption: Noah helps Rosalee in the bathtub, taking care of her after she’s received bad news.]

10. Priya Tsetsang x Tony Ceccoli (Dollhouse).

[Caption: Priya turns around in the elevator and tells Tony, “I don’t wanna go back. I just found you, the idea of letting you go...”.]

I have no idea who I already tagged and I’m too lazy to look it up rn lol, so: anyone who feels up for this, do it on my behalf ^-^

#tag game #talking to the void #my thoughts #zukaang #avon x stringer #brigan x fire #derek x jesse #maxanor #raphabelle #rizzy #ironhusbands #silverparry #panjava #noahlee #priya x tony #ttl #captioned

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belladamenoir · 7 years

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Rosalee and Noah (1st pic is BTS)

#underground wgn #undergroundwgn #noah #rosalee-x-noah #rosalee #noahlee

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silvertons · 7 years

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#noahlee #aldis hodge #jurnee smollett bell #undergroundedit #underground wgn #noah x rosalee #by mikaylah #i'm so :((((#THESE SWEET KIDS

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fuckyeahaldishodge · 7 years

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UNDERGROUND: Aldis Hodge and Jurnee Smollett-Bell on Season 2 – Interview

ASSIGNMENT X – In Season 2 of WGN America’s UNDERGROUND, which concludes Wednesday, May 10, things have gotten even more dangerous for the main characters. Escaped slave Rosalee, played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell, is now working in the Underground Railroad with Harriet Tubman, played by Aisha Hinds, to help other slaves flee to freedom. Meanwhile, Noah, played by Aldis Hodge, who changed his own plans to help Rosalee, has spent time in prison and nearly been executed, all of which has a major effect on him.

Hodge and Smollett-Bell sit down to talk about their characters in UNDERGROUND’s second season, as well as what the show has to say to contemporary America.

ASSIGNMENT X: What would you say are the big differences in attitude for Noah and Rosalee in Season 2 from Season 1?

ALDIS HODGE: I would say for Noah, he has the same goal, different intention. It’s still freedom, but his idea of freedom is Rosalee, it’s no longer just being out of bondage, it’s Rosalee. So you’re going to see all these months of being cooped up in a prison cell [laughs] ferment through his actions and his choices. But he learns, he explores different situations. He’s put in situations emotionally that he never expected to be in. So we’re going to see his evolution over time with how he comes to understand life, because for him, life is very different in terms of trying to escape again, trying to understand what Rosalee means in terms of family and his overall goal of freedom.

JURNEE SMOLLETT-BELL: I think at the end of Season 1, it really dawned upon Rosalee that freedom ain’t free, and that when she says to Noah, “We’re not free until we’re all free” – we lost everyone. We lost the Macon Seven comrades, I lost my mother and brother, found out my oldest brother was lynched, and then I end up losing Noah. So when we meet Rosalee at the beginning of Season 2, she’s trying to put the pieces back together. And she’s been on the run with Harriet, being trained on how to navigate this complex [underground railroad] network.

AX: Is observing Harriet giving Rosalee new ideas about what it means to be a woman and to be free?

SMOLLETT-BELL: Absolutely. Harriet takes Rosalee under her wing, and really trains her up with the intention of Rosalee going back to get her family. But Rosalee wants to make a detour and get Noah first, so that Noah can come and help as well. But really, it’s because Rosalee has realized she cannot be a whole, complete person without having her family completed. And I think the difference between Season 1 Rosalee and Season 2 Rosalee is, Rosalee has become a soldier by Season 2. And she’s running into danger. That’s what soldiers do – they’re on the front lines, running into danger. In Season 1, she’s running away from it.

AX: Do either of you have anything as physically horrific this season as some of the stuff that happened last season?

HODGE: Absolutely.

SMOLLETT-BELL: It’s more. It really is more.

HODGE: We can’t be specific about what exactly the things are.

SMOLLETT-BELL: Yeah. I can’t be specific, but it was definitely more challenging, it was more physically challenging than I’ve ever been in my life, and it’s not just because I was pregnant.

AX: Congratulations!

SMOLLETT-BELL: Thank you.

AX: When did you have your baby?

SMOLLETT-BELL: [In November.] It was a boy. His name is Hunter Zion Bell. But I was pregnant throughout Season 2, the entire time. And we were racing to finish.

AX: Did they have to dress you to disguise this, or is Rosalee pregnant also?

SMOLLETT-BELL: Why do you think I’m in pants? [laughs] Yeah, we definitely were trying to navigate television magic, with all of that connected [costuming to hide the real-life pregnancy].

AX: It seems like it would make more sense for Rosalee to be in pants anyway, because Underground Railroad, running, running’s easier in pants …

SMOLLETT-BELL: Yeah, although there were women who ran in long dresses, long petticoats, and ran in corsets in that time. But yeah, character-wise, there is a real legit reason I am in pants.

AX: And do you have to deal with prosthetics, because Noah got pretty badly banged up in Season 1?

HODGE: Yeah. There are some prosthetics going on. We go back to the scars, we go back to the tattoos a little bit, but in terms of new wounds, new afflictions, I can’t speak on that right now.

AX: With Anthony Hemingway directing four episodes again this season – he also directed four in Season 1 – did some of this just feel like you were on one long movie, because you were coming back to the same director again and again?

SMOLLETT-BELL: Did Anthony only do four? I thought he did more. It’s hard for me to keep track.

AX: He’s also an executive producer, so he might have still been there when he wasn’t directing …

HODGE: He was there the whole, entire journey. Especially when there were guest directors, he was always a sounding board in terms of, if we needed guidance off another director, he was making sure that our characters storylines were on track, which was fantastic, because he understands the fiber of the show I think more than even we do at times. It did feel like a mini-movie, because things moved so fast. We only did about three-and-a-half months of shooting, almost four months, and typically for a series, you get five or six months. So everything moved really, really fast, a lot of work to do in a very small space [of time], and it felt like a very high-pitched action film.

SMOLLETT-BELL: Yeah. And I think having Anthony on set just created a comfort and a security – I know for me, there were times when it was like, okay, juggling the whole physicality of it all, with our amazing stunt coordinator Tierre Turner, the physicality of it obviously was even more challenging for me [due to pregnancy]. And there were just times where I just trusted Anthony [laughs], and I was like, “All right, I can do this,” or “All right, I’ll sit this one out,” or “All right, put me in.” And I think he’s so incredibly passionate. When I wrapped, we wept, because it was like we had gone on such an intense excursion together.

HODGE: I’m glad to hear that, because I almost got choked up. I did get choked up when I wrapped. And I was like, “Am I losing my thug card? What is going on here?”

SMOLLETT-BELL: [laughs] No, no. I know. I absolutely cried. Because it felt at times like we weren’t going to be able to finish, and we did it. We completed it. We had to fight everything from Hurricane Matthew to the clock ticking.

AX: Do you think with what’s happened in the U.S. recently, the conversation about UNDERGROUND has gone from, “Well, what would I have done?” to “Well, what should I do?”

HODGE: I will say that I think [viewers] will start tying in the relevance of what’s going on there to what’s happening in the country, and that conversation will resound. If it does at all, I think people will tie in the relevance their actions, and how they need to be more prominent in their involvement with the future of their country.

SMOLLETT-BELL: Yeah. And I think you’ll see – in 1858, we lived in a very divided nation, and the enemy to justice is silence. When we are silent, and when we give our power away, that’s when injustice prevails, and that’s when hate can be so easily spread. But I think we all have to become soldiers. We can’t sit this out. AX: What would you most like people to know about Season 2 of UNDERGROUND?

SMOLLETT-BELL: The stakes are even higher. Like we said earlier, about Season 1 was about running away from the danger, and now we’re running into the danger, so it only made for a crazier story.

HODGE: Season 1 was absolutely fantastic, but Season 2 is the best we’ve ever been. And there are going to be a lot of people asking, “How does it get more exciting? How does it get more thrilling? How does it get more dangerous?” Trust me, it goes there.

This interview was conducted during WGN America’s portion of the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter 2017 press tour at Pasadena, California’s Langham-Huntington Hotel.

UNDERGROUND: Aldis Hodge and Jurnee Smollett-Bell on Season 2 – Interview was originally published on Aldis Hodge Online

#aldis hodge #leverage #underground #WGNUnderground #Underground WGN #WGN Underground #straight outta compton #supernatural #turn

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zalrb · 6 years

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OK! So.

The first thing I did for this post was look for gifs of romantic relationships between black people on relatively popular TV shows outside of 90s sitcoms

I’ll add all three of Issa’s love interests because Insecure, for the most part, navigates romance through black relationships

(and I do note the serious lack of dark skinned couples)

Compared to:

Now to the point, I high key wish there was as much investment in onscreen relationships between black people as there is regarding interracial, specifically wm/bw, romances and more critical thought as to why it’s so rare to see black love in television shows.

While it’s very much still progressive to see [...] leading women who unapologetically wear their Blackness onscreen, pairing them each with a Black man of similar or complementary virtues is apparently a no-no [...] It appears that the only place Black couples can be seen regularly on prime time is via reality TV. Shows like Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta and VH1’s Love and Hip-Hop almost exclusively showcase Black men in relationships with Black women. The only problem is, nearly all of these relationships are based in gross disrespect, betrayal, dismissiveness, and even violence. And since these are real-life couples, it further promotes Black love and Black rage as different sides of the same coin.

Like I get the fact that fandoms are anti-black and that when white male characters are paired with black female characters, they go crazy because how dare a black woman sully a white fave and they’ll find every excuse to render the ship non-romantic or toxic or abusive or whatever else, I get that, but legit, it’s as if people fail to see the systemic anti-blackness in the fact that a well-written, earned love story between two black people is so rare to find in television in general (but teen television specifically) and most of the time if a black relationship is portrayed, it’s along the lines of:

Bonnie and Jamie share one kiss in 3x20 and then Jamie is just never heard from again and he was clearly a rebound after Jeremy and after Jamie, Bonnie and Jeremy reconcile and then it’s on to Enzo.

Or Edison and Olivia

where his purpose was basically to reveal to her how much she wants to be with Fitz.

Michaela and Aiden were engaged when the show started but it turns out he didn’t really love her and she didn’t really love him

she’s attracted to Caleb but oh wait, he’s a psychopathic murderer

A one night stand with Marcus that doesn’t lead anywhere.The framework here is basically Michaela has a idea of her “perfect black man” but the only relationship that actually fulfilled her that we had seen on the show is the one she had with Asher.

The erasure of black love is even in background details like how in The Good Place when you see the “soulmates”, it’s white couples or interracial

same in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s either white couples or interracial couples

(and I didn’t even put gifs of all of the ww/bm relationships there are)

Another example of this is when it comes to the representation of LGBTQ relationships.

So often, gay lives in America are coded as white, and the forces that shape the lives of queer people of color – say, how immigration affects being Chicano and gay in Calfornia, or how police surveillance affects being black and gay in the New York – are ignored, as gay identity is usually swept up into whiteness.

For instance, in The Get Down we have a predominately black cast, a narrative that explores the rise of hip-hop and disco through the perspectives of black teens but when it comes to Dizzee exploring his sexuality, the show goes to a white space as if New York in the late ‘70s didn’t have a black gay scene. Even in Black Lightning, we see Anissa with another black woman for all of two seconds and then that relationship is shunted to the side in favour of an interracial one,

which is why Damon and Ricky in Pose were such a refreshing dynamic to see (as well as Chiron and Kevin Moonlight and Kena and Ziki in Rafiki but those are movies and I’m focusing specifically on television).

There is a dismissiveness or a refusal to look at the fact that the only way to see black characters in loving relationships or relationships that are meant to have substance is when they’re married to whiteness or non-blackness:

Added to that, I feel like there has been this unspoken yet spoken idea that for [cishet] black women to be desired and loved onscreen, the goal is to pair her with a white man.

To find a black woman as a love interest for a white man in which a stable and loving relationship follows is rare when relationships with white women are staple. A black woman paired with a lead white male in a giant franchise is almost non-existent in media. Uhura is breaking stereotypes and showing that black women are desirable, in which one is so desirable that the most popular and loved Star Trek character, Spock, falls in love with her.

Clearly the above section is from a tumblr post defending Uhura and Spock specifically but I think the ideas here permeate the way bw/wm relationships are viewed as being the Golden Standard for black female characters because she inhabits a role white women usually inhabit, because popular, typical white leading men are intrigued by her, there’s a form of validation there that I think we should unpack because I find this idea myopic because whiteness is still centered. I’m ready to move on to more Nakia and T’Challa, Ziki and Kena, Damon and Ricky relationships as being staple relationships, to seeing functional, romantic, lustful, healthy, playful nuanced black relationships onscreen.

And this isn’t a call to stop shipping interracial ships, I have quite a few myself, I love Ashburn and I love Micasher and Silvermadi and Sasil and Jesus and Lafayette and Alisha and Simon and Chris and Jal and Kevin and Raymond etc. I have breakdowns and “love letters” to a lot of these ships, but this has been bothering me for a while so I decided to just post about it.

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