anissa might not be great at relationships but she’s surely not a “fuckgirl” and i hate these ppl crying like thundergrace was together and anissa cheated. she didnt. she might have ghosted grace which obviously grace didn’t like and yeah wasnt great but wasnt the end of the world ESP bc anissa is a superhero and has two jobs (at the clinic and the high school)!! shes also got her family and makes time to spend with them and go to church like!! thundergrace is great but if yall are gonna act like that about it go find someplace else to cry. anissa doesnt deserve your shit when shes got a PILE of her own on her plate
THANK YOU!
Also, this is just the beginning of Anissa getting blame for everything with Thundergrace. It’s gonna get worse unfortunately.
Tag: fandom thoughts
okay, so I came into Black Lightning already shipping ThunderGrace, because of things I had seen online of comic them, but since the show started I feel like I’ve gradually lost interest in them jhdskjsfd. MEANWHILE I am so here for Jen and Khalil (idk their ship name) and I didn’t even know Jen was gonna have a love interest when the show started
Same! I was really excited for Thundergrace at first and think they had a decent few episodes before dropping off in season one. I mean, just look at this past week’s episode: Anissa didn’t bring up Grace once, we didn’t see Grace, nor did we get Anissa thinking about Grace in any capacity. It’s very, very inconsistent. I want to care about them but Anissa has to start caring first.
As for Jennifer and Khalil, I want to walk away from them, but this season has somehow done a good job of trying to build them back up again and I can’t lie and say they’re not shippable lol.
Uhm, maybe you didnt see the part where anissa was busy trying to save two babies. She doesnt have to be thinking about grace every second or talk about her every minute. She has a life outside of grace.
People always bitching about wanting a ship to be a slow burn, and then start bitching about it being a slow burn when they get one.
Idk maybe I missed the moment in an episode that has all these takes seeing enlightenment and nuance in a character who gets mad when her roommate calls her bisexual and spews every hateful thing about us folks say then to only decide to use the label an epi later, announce to him at dinner, and tell her first date/one nighter to spit in her mouth (which felt so…out of nowhere since she had never done anything else sexually *adventurous* besides sleep with a man prior to that moment.) But all these takes about nuance (i had a convo w one person on twitter too) and not acknowledging her awful behavior to every person she decided to be with during her “exploration” is a miss for me. All I keep seeing is this praise for being able to not be a likable character and that’s fine, she doesn’t have to be. But when it feels like the characters biggest flaw is her bisexual orientation, that’s a problem.
The creator/writer may be bi herself but if this was supposed to be her doing positive rep for bi folks, I didn’t see it. It felt like Leila treated being bi like a carnival ride that she could get off of any time she felt sick enough or someone caught her on it and that was a mess to watch to me.
I love Coop and I’m proud post
Told the girl she liked how she felt about her (and assuming shared her first real kiss w her)
Said the word “gay” about herself with her chest for the first time.
She’s stood up for who she is to an unsupportive mother in saying those words to her.
Faced her own internalized homophobia, apologized for lying to Patience because of it, and faced the public with her girl
white girls really do that thing of like. if everyone hates the things they LOVE they call misogyny instead of examining the reasons why only white girls seem to love a particular piece of media. but then theyd have to stop thinking of their experiences as the universal standard of womanhood and we all know Thats Not Happening.
tropes that will always f*ck me up
- composed characters losing their composure
- kind characters snapping
- characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through hell
- character cradling their significant other’s face while they kiss
- character says something hurtful. later on in the movie they are in a similar situation and say something kind instead.
- self sacrifice
- griefstricken women (who under normal circumstances wouldn’t hurt a fly) lashing out and striking the person responsible for the loss of their loved one
- ugly crying
- characters struggling to talk because they’re about to cry
- characters reuniting with someone whom they thought were dead
- FOREHEAD KISSES
- F O R E H E A D T O U C H E S
As I watch my twitter timeline discuss white lesbians and white trans women attack and speak out of turn on the show Pose I am moved to just say.- Be mindful of how you speak about representation that is not catered to you. Just because you want to doesn’t mean you have to interject an opinion on everything.
I brought this here because time after time on here lots of us, black and brown women especially, have to deal with wlw fandom at mass nitpicking and dismissing representation that’s not overwhelming white and as of late femme and it’s tiresome and hurtful because more often than not we show up for y’all no matter what, but it’s hardly ever reciprocated. Allyship has to show up if we are to ever actually believe you mean it when you say you are one.,
Support wlw characters you aren’t attracted to!
I see y’all. This isn’t tinder. This isn’t about you. Stop swiping left on representation. We don’t have time for this!
And another thing that keeps slipping away from discussion the more we dig in this mystery is it’s been said that Spencer’s (and presumably Dillon, who is also a James) dad left when Spencer was six as we saw in the flashback, not pre his birth so Spencer would know what his father looked like before he left. He was asking for him in the flashback. Even if he’s been gone that long I don’t see him just forgetting what his face looked like.
Just Sha 