10 Mar
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Durand Fucking Bernarr! I cannot tell yall enough about the level of excellence this man put on! I laugh and I cried and everything in between. He turned a concert into a church experience and that was exactly what I needed right now. I didn’t spend my Friday night at a R&B show. I spent it at church. God bless you right now. This was one of the few nights I haven’t been grieving and it was just the reset i needed. God bless you @durandbernarr
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01 Dec
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My Spotify Wrapped was a little boring 😁 so I decided to do a wrap up of all the shows I attended this year so just assume I was listening to them heavy this year.
Shoutout to @charlottedaywilson, @iamyolaofficial, @iamluckydaye, @jazminesullivan , Frankie Beverly & Maze, @theisleybrothers, @rexorangecounty , @sammhenshaw, @hernameisbanks , @lovealexisley , @hiatuskaiyote , @mahalia , @whereismuna , and @kingprincess69 for making it a great year of shows.

I cant wait for my 2023 shows!
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29 Nov
116 Notes

thundergrace:

Judy Hale deserved better.

I don’t always think that’s true when people say that, either cause a character was awful and got what they deserved or they were fine and the writers treated them well enough.

BUT THIS TIME….

Judy Hale’s entire life was spent in service to others. Her only idea of love came from people who treated her like shit, used her, verbally abused her and disrespected her constantly (yes, including Jen. I love her and them but be fucking honest). She deserved Michelle’s healthy love and adoration. She deserved to go to Sonoma and start over. She deserved to be happy.

I may not agree that her death was a “bury your gays” moment but I agree it was a shitty decision that upset me regardless. That makes me no less pissed about it.

They had her happy ending right there and teased us with it only to go ‘lol kidding’.

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29 Nov
23 Notes

thundergrace:

“bury your gays”, like “queerbaiting”, has a specific use and a queer character dying does not automatically fit the trope. BUT I’m already on the frontline fighting the war to keep “queerbaiting” relevant so I’m not going to go off about “bury your gays”, do with it what you will. I will not debate you.

So, having said that, Judy Hale does not fit the “bury your gays” trope, as I understand it, but I’m still very disappointed by that ending to her story. The execution was beautiful. The performances were gut wrenching and amazing.

But “almost dying” is always a choice writers have with characters and their arrogance always leads to them to choose death because they want power over the devastation it brings the audience. They enjoy knowing they evoked the most powerful emotion out of us that they could and a character only almost dying softens it.

Liz took some wild swings in season 3. Those amazing and gut-wrenching performances did a lot to distract from it not being very good and made it enjoyable nonetheless.

I didn’t even think of BYG with Judy. I DID think that it was awful for them to do Judy’s character like that. It just felt like she had a life of being shitted on and lord was it entire life and somehow she still found a way to be positive:

Shitty mom who abused her. ✔️

Never knew her father ✔️

Abusive relationship ✔️

FIVE (yes five) miscarriages ✔️

Then to be told that she was not going fo have kids ever after so desperately wanting them.

The fact that it was Judy this happened to did not feel very beautiful to me. In the end, she was alone (yes by choice but still) and its seemed like it was more torture for that character who had a lifetime of pain despite being a beacon of positivity. Idk I wasn’t a big fan of the message it sent BUT those performances were AMAZING. So I’ll give them that.

09 Aug
31 Notes

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saintdollyparton:

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sassyblackfemale:

thundergrace:

In Texas, y'all pledge allegiance to the Texas flag???

We don’t! Never have!

Lol seems like you got lucky. It seems relatively new.

We did in school. (I’m 30, for reference.)

Yeah the two people I heard talking about it are definitely my age. Maybe every city didn’t do this…. anyway, how odd. It’s bad enough doing to the American flag in schools. Texas is so fucking extra about everything.

Makes sense because I grew up in Houston and definitely avoided any of that. I went to high school with Lizzo so I’m definitely not one of the youths lol.