"L.O.V.E" | Next (Will Be?)

this took longer than I'd like to admit

remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

HES SO FUCKING CUTE OML

EHEHERE DONNIE WITH GLASSES IS SO CUTE HES JUST SO TINY

he's reading

Looking 👀RESPECTFULLY👀

Happy Birthday!

To me :^)

Well, technically tomorrow 2 June, but I somehow finished this today.

I thought I'd have finished the Krang infection comic by now so I could have a happy birthday ending, but we're not there yet.

I uh never draw backgrounds or like to colour, but I love fully coloured pieces and well here we are. Trying my best to create something out of my comfort zone.

As a bday gift to myself I'm going to watch the new spiderverse tomorrow evening!

it's so fucking scary how close the election is. dear god, PLEASE FUCKING VOTE.

WE HAVE 8 DAYS, 8 DAYS UNTIL THE RIGHTS OF OVER HALF OF THE COUNTRY ARE DECIDED FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.

please, vote by mail, vote at the polls on the third, vote early, JUST PLEASE FUCKING VOTE. i have never been more scared and terrified for my future, and millions of people across this country feel the same way.

god, vote this man out. vote out this fucking coward. don't vote for yourself, vote for george floyd who didn't make it back to his family that day. vote for the immigrant children put in cages and separated from their parents. vote for women who deserve a choice for their own body. vote for the millions of people who will lose healthcare in the middle of a pandemic. vote for the lgbtq+ community who can't get married. vote for the fucking climate. vote for the over 200,000 PEOPLE WHO DIED BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT COULDVE BEEN PREVENTED.

please. fucking. vote.

FUCK YES THEY MAKE ME FEEL POWERFUL

you can’t raise an entire generation on stories of “chosen ones” and young heros who band together with there friends and overthrow corrupt governments and evil figures and systems, gen z was raised on stories of heros doing what is right and fighting for what they believe in and who were willing to do whatever it takes to make change happen and then expect them NOT TO DO JUST THAT?!?! like wtf did you expect?!? and on top of all that we don’t fear death so there it literally nothing stopping us