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RIRI WILLIAMS/IRONHEART IN BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022)

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– The priority for the foreseeable future must be damage control. – Tall order when Mutants everywhere are taking to the streets. X-MEN ‘97 – Bright Eyes (S01E07)

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ldpdl, ethnicity, and the false monolith of blackness

there's this false tendency to think amc louis being made black is pandering, or a means of removing louis from his oh-so-detailed /sarcasm/ background in the books. i also find that people tend to not even understand what show louis's ethnic background is, despite rolin jones the showrunner and even the fictional louis both coalescing around this multigenerational explanation of the gens de couleur in new orleans, and how jim crow disempowered them.

I came around to his ethnicity a sort of interesting way which is through Lestat. [ … ] I was like lets give him a legitimate a third attempt at figuring how to be with somebody for the rest of his life and how to not repeat your mistakes. [ … ] I started from there so it had to be someone with some money cause he had to be with his own folks and I thought he wanted someone who could fight back and who could be a challenge and would force him to restrain himself. And nobody at AMC was interested in 7 seasons of the regretful plantation owner, so we made Louis come from a lineage that did have a plantation and did own slaves.

rolin jones in the s1 post-finale episode of the podcast names how he came to this understanding of louis's character. lestat, after failing to make a bride of his mother, and a concubine of nicki, was seeking for someone of a similar background, or the most approximate equivalent. he would not have been interested in louis if louis was an anglophone baptist black man descended from upper-south arrivals into new orleans, nor would he have been interested in louis if louis was a poor black creole honestly s1 does not give a good reading of claudia's ethnic bg in new orleans, but since she cannot understand french, we can presume shes either a poor creole removed from her cultural background with her vampiric adoption narrative in mind, or was also of an anglophone baptist black background like claudia was. louis coming from this fallen sort of gentry, the free gens de couleur, similar to that of the tvl lestat who came from this barren aristocracy dating back to the crusades, was key to lestat's long-term goals with louis.

Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great grandfather but did not have his standing. But then decades of Jim Crow and the electrified light of a new century had vanquished any idea of a free man of color. - AMC IWTV 1x01

louis was of the first generations of the gens de couleur to be born, raised into, and face the institutional and personal ramifications of being viewed as black in america. this fuels much of the character's rage as he moves through storyville, trying to continue the similar modality of exploitation to the contrary of pretty baby with brooke shields, majority of the brothel circuit was statistically black girls + women being sexually pawned off to white men but ultimately failing to do so bc of the anglophone white american class that now rules over him. [tom anderson, alderman fenwick, finn o’shea starting out as louis’s subordinate then ending w/ him entering whiteness by having a sporting house throwing torches at louis’s brothel in s1e3]

By 1850, the free population of color, beset by the hostility of white supremacy, was economically diminished and residentially segregated. The Americanization of Louisiana, and in particular New Orleans, was completed before the state became the sixth to secede from the Union in 1861 in the struggle over the perpetuation of slavery. [link] The Democratic redeemers who came to power in 1877 lost no time in redefining the Negro's "place" in Louisiana life. They immediately restored the color line in the New Orleans public schools and offered silent support to de facto segregation practices in places of public accommodation. With the assistance of two landmark decisions by the United States Supreme Court, the redeemers soon dismantled the egalitarian legal apparatus put together piece by piece under the Radicals. Finally in 1890 they began to write their "final solution" into Louisiana law with a series of "separate but equal" statutes. Soon New Orleans Negroes were again segregated in virtually every public pursuit. [link]

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Eating again bitch!?!

#fat people problems #why is this meme judging me #lol #funny memes

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"you're so good at reading between the lines" thanks it's the anxiety!!

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boyfriends <3

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New seconds of Claudia on the bike ride

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never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

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good morning to all the people that are too tired to try, you can always do it another day

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every episode of iwtv is like louis is stressed the fuck out and lestat (it’s probably his fault), posing gayly in the background, is like “can we have sex”

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sorry i cant today i have to sit in my room take a deep breath and think about every mistake i have ever made

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“Louis has been increasingly anxious and morose, because of what we did. He says he’s never known fear like that in his life, like he felt before we left, the vulnerability, the sheer terror. And he says, there’s no relief from it now that we’re on our way. Even though he’s miles away from Lestat, whose body is bled dry and rotting in a garbage dump sometimes Louis can’t break free from his grasp. I can practically see Lestat in front of me lunging (?) in the doorway?… he is the subject of all of Louis’ thoughts.”

Big thanks to @lestatdelioncoeur & @bluebellglows - we’ve nearly got it all now!!

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Mentally floating face down in a river

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CLEAVAGE

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Smols smols smols I am gonna make Claudia when I am less swamped at my day job :P

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snoopy of the day

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this is what s2 is about right