Manifeed

She's kind of a philosopher, my mother.

BONUS:

whenever I watch a really cool film about blackness full of beautiful and talented black actors and telling very black story - or like. ANY media centered around POC with little white presence, tbh - I’m always so excited to see some cool analyses or gifsets from tumblr about it and am inevitably disappointed when I see only a couple posts with like maybe 24 notes each.

unless there’s some famous British white boy in it for more than 0.2 seconds in which case it’ll boost it up to like ~75 on average with over 70% of the posts being thirst posts about the white dudes.

i shouldn’t be surprised when this happens at this point and yet I still manage to be disappointed

Normani 🥵🥵🥵

“While this trope has faded away in modern cinema, it’s hold on the human psyche still remains. If Jaws made us fear sharks, these films made us fear our own phones. If it’s night, and you’re all alone, and you receive a call from someone you don’t know, that ring is a chill down your spine. If you choose to answer, the possibilities are endless. It could be a simple wrong number or a telemarketer, or maybe it’s the unknown, a faceless presence in the dark watching you, waiting to strike. That fear never goes away.” (x)

Black Christmas (1974) dir. Bob Clark When a Stranger Calls (1979) dir. Fred Walton A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) dir. Wes Craven Scream (1996) dir. Wes Craven Scream 2 (1997) dir. Wes Craven The Ring (2002) dir. Gore Verbinski The Babadook (2014) dir. Jennifer Kent

sevyn streeter via instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CepjkyJrqp4/

janet jackson by yuri elizondo, 1993