If They Want To Paint You As The Villain Then Pose
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If they want to paint you as the villain, then pose.
Overview
This is an edited film still meme featuring a dark-haired woman in a regal fantasy gown and silver accessories, reclining casually on an ornate carved dark throne under moody cool blue lighting, with a calm, unapologetic expression. Overlaid on the image is the text 'If they want to paint you as the villain, then pose.' The meme conveys an empowering message of leaning into unfair negative labels that others try to assign to you, rather than expending energy defending yourself against false narratives.
Origin notes
The base visual is a scene still from the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film Labyrinth, featuring actress Jennifer Connelly as the character Sarah Williams in a fantasy dream sequence. The edit adding the empowering text is credited to creator 'The Frog Mage' via on-image watermark, and this version was reposted on the X (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg as an RSS-shared meme. A small 'NOT SAD' watermark is also present in the bottom left corner.