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Fact —>Early reviews proved largely favorable, although some critics and reporters didn’t know what to make of the macabre series and, moreover, gave it a slim chance of surviving long enough to close many cases. In its fall TV preview edition, influential Entertainment Weekly magazine, listing synopses of new series, wrote of The X-Files, “We know – this show’s a goner,” but then during the show’s second season, featured the series on the cover.
“There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied.”
- Fidel Castro
Via Benjamin Ramos Rosado
[....]and when the storm rolls through, i wanna take care of you, shelter you won't you come inside now, [...]rest your head here on by the fire, 'cause you can come inside, there's nothing to fear, lay on by just, lay on by the fire, we've got nothing to fear, love, we got nothing to fear, love, we got nothing to fear, love
("Fragments for my metamour (do i still call you my metamour)", Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home - Alex Alberto
Kyle Chandler reflects on working on Grey’s Anatomy for Entertainment Weekly Magazine for March 20, 2015
“One day, the truth will be clear to all, that there is no peace in the area with the existence of a fascist, racist state based on a reactionary doctrine and with the aim of serving the imperialist interest.”
— George Habash, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) 🇵🇸 (via commievoltie)
the great thing about the wire is the Tumblr Treatment™ will never ruin it because tumblr at large will never get into it for multiple reasons but mainly because it requires being able to follow minutiae and not have themes spelled out for you. even black sails which is the wire's one true spiritual successor fails this because they did try to appeal to viewers (especially in s1) and every character was delivering beautiful eloquent monologues every episode that drove home what the show/their character arc was about. the wire is just like "shit is what it is."
this is the ideal form for tv dialogue. you may not like it but this is what peak eloquence looks like
thinking about the season 2 interview where delainey said claudia was always very mindful, even at her angriest, not to trigger louis's ptsd by getting all up in his personal space, vs how 3x06 had ghost!claudia yelling two inches away from louis's face and smacking his forehead.
prev tags i believe op is referring to this interview with delainey:
Even as their relationship is experiencing what could be a permanent shift, Claudia is still taking care not to trigger her traumatized father. “Claudia has a lot of trauma [because] of Louis and Lestat’s relationship, so when she argues with Louis, it’s never a case of her invading his space,” Hayles says. “When she argues with him, there’s always distance between her and Louis. She’s scarred from Season 1. No matter how angry she is, she’s never really in Louis’ face like Lestat was. She’s still caring for him. She saw what he went through. She doesn’t want to put him through that, but at the tail end of it she’s furious.”
she's referring to their argument in 2x04 (relatedly, the only s2 episode in which a Black writer, a. zell williams, receives writing credit) where claudia stands a distance away from louis as they argue
its a very sweet and upsetting detail from delainey :'(
But neither Dessalines' army nor his ferocity won the victory [in the haitian war of independence]. It was the people. They burnt San Domingo flat so that at the end of the war it was a charred desert. Why do you burn everything? asked a French officer of a prisoner. We have a right to burn what we cultivate because a man has a right to dispose of his own labour, was the reply of this unknown anarchist
- james, the black jacobins
“If Latin America had not been pillaged by the U.S. capital since its independence, millions of desperate workers would not now be coming here in such numbers to reclaim a share of that wealth; and if the United States is today the world’s richest nation, it is in part because of the sweat and blood of the copper workers of Chile, the tin miners of Bolivia, the fruit pickers of Guatemala and Honduras, the cane cutters of Cuba, the oil workers of Venezuela and Mexico, the pharmaceutical workers of Puerto Rico, the ranch hands of Costa Rica and Argentina, the West Indians who died building the Panama Canal, and the Panamanians who maintained it.”
— Juan Gonzalez - Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
- Malcolm X
R.J. STEWART: We embraced the lesbian subtext with unbridled glee. Hearing that there were Xena nights in gay bars around the country cracked me up. That was perfect. Our general rule was ride the subtext whenever it makes sense. Everyone did that, so there was very little need to talk about it. Remember, we had a movie to make every week. Writers meetings were about breaking story and we did a hell of a job doing that, didn’t we?
In the olden days, when people asked me if Xena and Gabrielle were gay, I used to say, "I'll leave that up to the fans." But 30 years later, the fans have spoken. They're definitely gay now.
-Entertainment Weekly - Love, death, and lesbian subtext: An oral history of Xena: Warrior Princess (8/14/2025) [x]
