They Really Let This Mf Clock Into Work Lookin Like This

I love it when characters who are romantic partners don't have to live together.

I love it when characters who are romantic partners don't have a traditional domestic relationship.

I love it when characters who are romantic partners are part of one another's lives in nontraditional ways.

I love it when characters who are romantic partners show their love in ways outside of a stereotypical understanding of romance.

I love it when characters who are romantic partners refuse to change their relationship to suit what other people think that kind of relationship should look like.

no line in cinema has understood me in the way that “I love you too. but I shouldn’t have married you” from Fantastic Mr Fox has understood me. The idea that she wanted a family and a good, safe life, and she wanted him too. But no matter how hard she loves him, he can’t change. She’s never ever going to be able to get exactly what she wants and her child will always have a complicated relationship with his father and there will be this quiet realisation they have to live with. I love you so much, but this was our mistake. and now we’ve made it theirs too.

Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

If you watched and loved The Bear and feel like crying some more you should watch Boiling Point (2021)

"You and I are perfect for each other. Never believe anything else."

Dark in Dusk In Winter Color Palette Meme Request for @demadogs

What’s the right way to live? Some days I feel like I know, but I really don’t know for sure. I just know that when bad things happen, good things happen too. And that we always meet someone and share something with them. The world is fascinating and beautiful.

House of Hummingbird, 2018 dir. by Kim Bora

Ayo Edebiri is special to me because bluntly speaking, every time a young actress of colour blows up in Western media spotlight it's usually a light skinned woman or a biracial person with very Eurocentric features and beauty. It's almost like clockwork every time, and the standards of beauty are carefully upheld by colourism even while maintaining a guise of "diversity". But in Ayo's case, it's really great having a gorgeous and talented dark skinned actress be successful, beloved and hailed as a sapphic icon in a way that does not feel like audience paying lip service or being performative.

Like idk how to articulate but it's just so goddamn rare seeing an actual young dark skinned woc thrive in fandom spaces and in terms of commercial or critical success. I really hope people can learn to accept dark skinned young women in comedies, romances and mainstream show business more often because everywhere in movie and shows fandoms, from edits to fanart to fancasts to *actual* casts are BRIMMING with light complexioned actresses of colour. And dark skinned women are expected to grovel and be grateful for getting those crumbs of representation.

It worked. You're here. The Bear, S03E10

The Shining (1980) Hannibal (2013-2015)

LITTLE FOREST (2018), dir Yim Soon-rye