#jon bernthal

Jon Bernthal and Lupita Nyong'o 👑👑

It never fails. Racists are so predictable. Any time a Black woman gets a role that's been previously played by White women, the racists have to whine and bitch about it. Helen of Troy isn't real. Athena isn't real. Any woman of any ethnicity and nationality could play these roles. It's never that serious.

In 1950, Orson Welles cast Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy in his avant-garde stage production, Time Runs (also known as The Blessed and the Damned), in Paris.

Because Helen of Troy is a purely mythological figure—the legendary daughter of the Greek god Zeus and Leda—and not a documented historical person, performers of diverse ethnic backgrounds are frequently cast to reinterpreting her character on stage and screen.

Zendaya is playing Athena but it's not the first time a non White woman has played this role. Athena has been played by Audra Day.

(lyrics in blue)

I've been thinking of the worst way to go

I've decided it's being alone

I've been going through some changes

The ones that I can't control

CHORUS:

I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop

I've been praying that your love wouldn't stop

But if it does, I'll understand, I'll understand

(relates to this scene bc he's talking about making a plan for himself to spite Mikey because of how Mikey made him feel so bc he felt this absence of his brother's love [what he, Carmy, read as absence btw not the actuality of the situation] so feeling this, he went and created this narrative in the way he views the world and that narrative is one of being rejected/uncool/some inherent flaw in him that can't change and all the baggage from earlier seasons).

I'm a child of divorce,

*insert gif/image on Cicero and Carmy briefly talking about how his (Carmy's dad) stuck Donna with the restaurant. Couldn't find it so...*

I've seen the war..

I've seen it end..

VERSE 2:

I've got cold hands and cold feet I can't commit to anything

(of course when he announces he's leaving the restaurant in Goodbye)

It's the only way I've learned to live It's the only thing that I can't give

*couldn't think of anything for this lol*

BRIDGE:

I'm not afraid anymore I'm not afraid anymore I'm not afraid anymore to watch you walk out that door

*also don't have the gif/image for this but I was going to place the "All Good" text to Mikey at the end of s5 for this.

These lyrics are more relevant to s1-4 more so than s5 but I figured I'd do this anyway cause two things i'm interested in aligned lol

@afrofairysblog tagging you bc you're bear fan and a Momo fan as well!!

All except for one man who thankfully didn't get the memo 🙌