Not so random mess

ok i am not black but i am part of a culture whos spirituality has been reappropriated and whitewashed into stuff like "boho" and "hippie culture" alongside many other people (you can guess teehee). i found sinners' use of spirituality to be so fascinating (this is a gross oversimplification in a tumblr ask there is SO MUCH)

i think its so refreshing to see spirituality not only uninfluenced by christianity and colonialization but outright rejected by characters as well as being the thing that saves them from that FIEND who picked poor robin clean. All of them died regardless but Smoke and Sammie would not have survived without Annie's guidance (also annie got to reunite with her daughter!! I was sad she died but atleast that FIEND didnt get her)

And i think thats why I Lied To You was so out of this world. its such a celebration of so many things and the connection to spirituality is one of them. Esp in horror movies where cultures of black and american indigenous people are prominently used as villains for the story where theyre outrighr appropriated and demonized as pagan- and here is sinners with amazing rep for spirituality that is actually shared among cultures in the case of the grigot

Anyway all of this is a HUGE tldr but yeah just needed to show my love

It's really strange to me when a show decides that its main villain is no longer going to be a grown ass man and instead picks,,,,,a teenage girl,,,,

Thanks for the response. To be honest, when I sent out the ask, I thought you had more specific things to talk about for each of the negatives, but your response was fine. I'm kind of disturbed by the amount of overlaps in similarities between them though...

Anyways, I was just wondering about your reasons for your positive opinions as well. A lot of them look very varied, so I bet you have more diverse and very different reasons you like them that you could share.

Certainly~!

MLP: Love the music and the songs, and I generally enjoy the way most themes in the show are represented, namely the Elements and the Pillars by extension. I enjoy the latter seasons a lot more than I enjoy the earlier, though overall my opinion is more mixed than positive. I think that for whatever my likes and dislikes are, I could rant extensively either way.

Jordan Peele Films: Putting Black people in center stage in horror that doesn't have us dying just because. Amazing soundtrack and cinematography, while covering issues that not only affect the Black community but also those that come from within.

A24 Films: I've watched enough A24 films to say that I generally enjoy whatever they happen to produce or work on. Namely the color grading and intense visuals are what always stand out to me; watching them always feels like I'm being sucked into a new world each time.

Sinners: It's so hard for me to gather my thoughts about Sinners without getting overwhelmed almost immediately because there is SO much to talk about. The casting, the music, the themes, the spirituality, the ATMOSPHERE. One of the most important Black films that I think has ever been made, especially in the recent century.

Black Panther 1: Another important film to Black culture; this film truly captured the essence of Afro-futurism and brought so many Black people into the spotlight to be adored and truly shine. Though it ended bitterly, I appreciated the conversation that was had between Africans and African-Americans when it came to dealing with the effects of colonization and slavery.

The Piano Lesson: If you liked Sinners, then The Piano Lesson should be on your watch list for sure. A lively cast, wonderful soundtrack, and an amazing lesson on heritage and ancestry, and where a Black people's traditions originate from.

Goat: A Black furry movie?? Hell yeah I'm going to enjoy it! I thought all the characters were so charming, the messaging solid, and the animation was beautiful. I love to see a young Black boy be so in touch with his emotions, with so many Black women around him as idols and role models to look up to. It's nice to see Caleb McLaughlin have a chance to really shine after the way he was treated on Stranger Things. Also lowkey the movie feels like a transmasc/ trans man allegory but that's just me tho

Sailor Moon: She ain't the mother of Magical Girls for nothing. I was not prepared for when I first watched this show to have it talk about love in so many different ways. I know people say that Sailor Moon is about love and peace, but it really really is. Love between lovers, between friends, between siblings, between mother and daughter...I'd be lying if I said it didn't influence my writing.

Madoka Magica: I watched this show when I was young, and as morbid as it was, it really stayed with me. I think that many other magical girl animes have tried and failed to emulate the darker themes of the show, because they lack the layering and metaphors. Rebellion was an excellent movie for that reason.

Frieren: I like the way this show discusses time and evolution. One of few animes I was able to watch without cringing from some unnecessary perversion or questionable comments. Beautiful animation and yet again giving us more strong female characters. Though I will say the fanbase as of late is absurdly racist and incredibly entitled.

Apothecary Diaries: Honestly...I'm going to take a risk and say I don't think there's anything wrong with this show. Like at all. So many well written female characters? Multiple conversations about sexual assault that aren't fetishized in the source material? Doesn't excuse p3dophilic culture for the sake of the time period?? Subverting the "time period accurate but contemporarily questionable age gap" trope by having Jinshi be YOUNGER than he says he is?? Respect for sex workers ?? Y'all can't tell me shit about Apothecary Diaries ooooooo that's my shit right there.

The Owl House: The first animated series I've seen that said "actually it's really disrespectful to tell people to forgive the colonizer, kill that man". Also the first animated series to effortlessly give us multiple non binary characters, one of which is the main character.

Persona 4: The best of the worst in terms of the 3 newer Persona games we have. I enjoyed the story and narrative of this game the most, and I liked the many side quests they offered. Though it definitely has some glaring faults, especially as the game progresses (*cough* Naoto *cough*).

The Mononoke Movies: The third movie is out and while I haven't watched it...yet...I enjoyed the first two for bringing us so many nuanced and well written female characters in such a stressful time period in Japanese history. The visual metaphors and story layering is so captivating, and I love the designs of the characters we get. One of the themes that comes up again and again is bodily autonomy, and I think the way the movies handle that conversation is something more people should pay attention to.

Garten of Banban: Already talked about this before but I find it cringey and fun, and very refreshing to the mascot horror genre. I like that it doesn't try to be anything it isn't, and I like that it doesn't shove a message down your throat that completely contradicts what the game is doing.

Cinderella (50s ver.): Stay tuned~ This gets its own post!

The Wiz: The Black version of the Wizard of Oz, the music and casting was phenomenal. It is whimsical and a little morbid but very empowering all at the same time, such an interesting genre that Black people are not often a part of. Honestly, this is something I'd have to make my own post about...or maybe some other type of long form content..

POSE: Ugh, this show is such a refreshing piece of queer media to consume. We get to peek into the lives of Black and Caribbean Hispanic trans women at the height of the AIDs epidemic in 80s New York. It is so emotional and thought provoking, and provides so much nuance to the different things people had to do to survive while trying to fight for their dreams. I can't get enough of it and most importantly...it has a happy ending~

Infinity Train: The four seasons we got were very well done, each one covering a different theme of separation and moving on. I would say if Death the Tarot Card was a show, it would be Infinity Train. For a limited number of episodes that are less than half an hour long, each season packs a punch and always wraps up nicely.

Bojack Horseman: Satire done right. Comedy done right. Bojack Horseman does a lot of things right, especially with its main character. I wrote a post on this page where I compare Bojack to Jax from TADC when it comes to how the show handles "bad character does bad things and then experiences consequences". Such a lovely cast overall and something I'm always going back to rewatching.

i do think it's interesting, all that said, that flowery also kind of models himself after rudy. it seems like rudy is one of the few people that asgore still pays attention to; asgore clearly has romantic feelings for rudy, but moreover, rudy supports his schemes while toriel does not, rudy was asgore's friend from long ago, and i don't doubt that rudy may have taken precedence over asgore's light-world children in occasion if his neglectful behavior is anything to go off of. flowery seems to have learned a lot of his misogynistic perspective on asgore and toriel's situation from asgore, as well (recall that flowery is, while a living thing, not alive the way a lightner is, and would be just as unaware of the specifics of things as queen and tenna; this isn't to make excuses for him, but rather to inform the situation at large;) i can easily see why he would form a more favorable opinion of rudy, and why he would see acting like the rudy of asgore's stories as the best way to get asgore's attention in spite of the fact that he primarily sees asgore as something like to a father figure. the rudyisms are largely a façade, gestures and words mimicked hollowly in a bid to gain approval from asgore, and they're a lot more downplayed when he's not around. around the party, he acts more like kris' popular, snarky, pompous older brother instead.