Afro Fairy

they hate when you serve emotionally codependent coworkers that have clearly been in love since s1, but the writer named chris swears it’s all platonic

Sydney Adamu has been a gift and I’ll always be grateful to Ayo Edebiri, Chris Storer, Joanna Calo and the other writers and crew on this show that gave her to us and gave me the language as a grown woman to describe my own experience.

I was introduced to the terms ‘weathering’ and ‘high-functioning survival mode’ in looking more closely at the S5 trailer and - of all places - Matty Matheson’s GMA interview 😂.

I compiled this vid and I’m not saying that the writers of The Bear have read about these terms and delivered what looks like a final season constructed around Sydney’s psyche and her own struggle to let go and accept community. But I’m not not saying that either. Anyway…I can’t wait to find out.

For more info about weathering and high-functioning survival mode see resources below:

Guardian article: Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick

Ngl this was difficult to watch.

I think I was already sensible cause I saw @freedelusionshere post on some racist haters. I think I have decided not to pay attention to those idiots anymore, if you carry enough darkness in your heart to hate this character, may you free will guide you straight to hell.

Back to Syd, my queen and angel, and someone who I would carry in my heart forever. This post connected a lot with her stating that if she was able to fix the place and make it worth, only then she wouldn’t think of herself as a “waste of time and space” it seems she was conditioned from a young age to think this way. Is similar to Carmen, is just that Carmen doesn’t just value herself in the quality of his work but in his capacity to take constant punishment.

Is all more scary when we remember that Syd already has health complications and her mother died of an illness. She might carry that as a “I must survive this” cause her mother surely suffered from the same experiences as her.

Sydney Adamu has been a gift and I’ll always be grateful to Ayo Edebiri, Chris Storer, Joanna Calo and the other writers and crew on this show that gave her to us and gave me the language as a grown woman to describe my own experience.

I was introduced to the terms ‘weathering’ and ‘high-functioning survival mode’ in looking more closely at the S5 trailer and - of all places - Matty Matheson’s GMA interview 😂.

I compiled this vid and I’m not saying that the writers of The Bear have read about these terms and delivered what looks like a final season constructed around Sydney’s psyche and her own struggle to let go and accept community. But I’m not not saying that either. Anyway…I can’t wait to find out.

For more info about weathering and high-functioning survival mode see resources below:

Guardian article: Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick

Ngl this was difficult to watch.

I think I was already sensible cause I saw @freedelusionshere post on some racist haters. I think I have decided not to pay attention to those idiots anymore, if you carry enough darkness in your heart to hate this character, may you free will guide you straight to hell.

Back to Syd, my queen and angel, and someone who I would carry in my heart forever. This post connected a lot with her stating that if she was able to fix the place and make it worth, only then she wouldn’t think of herself as a “waste of time and space” it seems she was conditioned from a young age to think this way. Is similar to Carmen, is just that Carmen doesn’t just value herself in the quality of his work but in his capacity to take constant punishment.

Is all more scary when we remember that Syd already has health complications and her mother died of an illness. She might carry that as a “I must survive this” cause her mother surely suffered from the same experiences as her.

Sydney Adamu has been a gift and I’ll always be grateful to Ayo Edebiri, Chris Storer, Joanna Calo and the other writers and crew on this show that gave her to us and gave me the language as a grown woman to describe my own experience.

I was introduced to the terms ‘weathering’ and ‘high-functioning survival mode’ in looking more closely at the S5 trailer and - of all places - Matty Matheson’s GMA interview 😂.

I compiled this vid and I’m not saying that the writers of The Bear have read about these terms and delivered what looks like a final season constructed around Sydney’s psyche and her own struggle to let go and accept community. But I’m not not saying that either. Anyway…I can’t wait to find out.

For more info about weathering and high-functioning survival mode see resources below:

Guardian article: Weathering by Arline Geronimus review – how discrimination makes you sick

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"I'm tired of CGI and AI"

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"everything is so sanitized and puritanical these days"

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"I miss when movies were weird and fun and had real heart"

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"I just feel hopeless about the world and my place in it"

This is starting to feed a concern (maybe I’m delulu and wrong - hopefully), that having the season be one day is consciously or unconsciously, a way to avoid having to show detailed progression of Sydney stepping into the role of ‘The Bear’. Was ‘The Bear’ title just nice words in Goodbye to give Sydney’s character more prominence, after critics criticized the 3rd season for not featuring enough of Sydney?

If so it would also be a clever way to avoid having to have any more focus on Sydney’s life outside the restaurant, or address Sydcarmy or mention of it- ‘simply no time to develop all this, the restaurant’s flooding and they need to do a service!’ Umm

As have seen elsewhere handing off The Bear to Sydney when it’s in debt and about to close is giving peak ‘glass cliff’ phenomenon of women and black women in particular, the responsibility of a top position/job in an organization that’s about to collapse/ is struggling- it’s a thing.

I just… unless they have an upside that it stays open or Sydney gets some kind of payoff, what’s the message of Sydney’s story of Sheridan Road failing then this? Endless grind and struggle for her but ‘hey she’s a Bear!’ 😖

Whilst Carmy gets the peace out (eventually) arc? Happy for him but still 😬

That and the short season runtime, is giving ‘let’s finish this up with minimal space to tie up endless plotlines so I can move onto my next project’ 🫠