Jakebe T. Drake-Lope @jakebe@awoo.space
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
6. Dear White People
One of the very first times I *actually saw myself* in a character on-screen. Lionel Higgins remains this deeply personal character for me because of it, and it also captures the messy breadth of the Black American experience so, so well
5. V/H/S 2
I'm a huge sucker for found-footage movies, and this edition of the anthology is the best. "Safe Haven" is the short film that gets all the kudos, but "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" is just one of the most terrifying things ever to me
4. Cloud Atlas
This is such a beautiful movie. It fundamentally shifted my view of humanity and our eternal struggle against our worst impulses.
Even today, when things are so bleak and uncertain, this gives me a quiet and unshakable hope.
3. Requiem For A Dream
Another movie that makes me cry every time. Ellen Burstyn is so amazing in this, and I've never forgiven Julia Roberts for winning the Best Actress Oscar that year instead of her.
Also, the movie @ThePenDrake@twitter.com and I disagree most about.
2. Threads
The very-accurate tag is "The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war." Brutal. Unflinching. The scariest movie ever made.
One of the movies I feel the itch to rewatch every few years even though it puts me in such a dark mood, it's that good.
1. Babe. This movie made me a vegetarian for six years.
It makes me cry the way some folks do at the end of sports movies. It also made me a lifelong fan of James Cromwell, I'll see *anything* he's in
Turn all of my friends into THEIR fursonas, natch
RT @Dat_Corgi@twitter.com
YOU WAKE UP AS YOUR FURSONA
WHATS THE FIRST THING YOU DO?
GO
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Dat_Corgi/status/1506797592566329348
There is a LOT in here that I relate to. As recently as last year, I've told those closest to me "I feel like I don't know who I am", and this feels *very close* to that reason.
I'm still learning how to choose myself. It's still scary, every time I make that choice.
RT @laurenancona@twitter.com
I’m not sure I’ll ever get to explain this to some folks that knew me IRL the first ~39 years of my life…but this is me trying to reason about a complex & frankly just wholly crappy nuance of late-dX neurodivergence, if only to myself:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/laurenancona/status/1502418520738574337
I learned this lesson by watching "X (2022)"
RT @sinsbymanka@twitter.com
Be yourself and let everyone else die mad about it.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sinsbymanka/status/1507071278309646348
I'm playing the very first(!) Phoenix Wright game, and some rich dude just two-pieced me for asking about a potentially shady art transaction I noticed he might be involved in. Then he *dared* me to call the police.
This feels way too prescient
RT @spotted_menace@twitter.com
Morning bump! https://twitter.com/spotted_menace/status/1506724190644277258
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/spotted_menace/status/1507010236221034502
RT @blgtylr@twitter.com
The other fairytale that enraged me as a child was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. First of all, she is in their house. That story as told to American children? Very unsatisfactory. Are we to cheer that she broke into their house and ate their food? She is a criminal.
RT @dieworkwear@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1506137134712778753
RT @weirdaldaily@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/weirdaldaily/status/1506041514270601223
RT @SceneOnRadio@twitter.com
The Dakotas have four U.S. senators. Manhattan, roughly a 13% share of two senators. #democracy https://twitter.com/VickreyFan/status/1504183382204321802
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SceneOnRadio/status/1504471945730949138
RT @ElieNYC@twitter.com
It's really, really hard for people who work in activism to get people motivated to show up, put their bodies on the line, and run through walls when OUR OWN ELECTEDS won't get in the trenches and FIGHT.
But... whatever.
RT @JimSterling@twitter.com
You get them defending Chick-fil-A for this shit. People can't have principles over a mediocre *sandwich* of all things. There's no hope of getting them to care about Disney. https://twitter.com/Ameliahansford/status/1506603319447683076
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1506603680505675790
A digital jackalope living in a black man's body. Pronouns: he/him/his. I love my blackness, and yours.
Joined Sep 2017
