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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

All of this!

Sinners is what happens when directors are allowed to experiment with the genres like a horror musical that puts you in a trance and makes you question your existence while also being campy and funny but also breathtakingly beautiful but also haunting and terrifying? Yes please I literally did not want to leave the theater I wanted to just stay there and keep watching it over and over

This relateable little treasure came back to the library today.

I'm going to my friend's wedding today! Even though it's a lovely, down-to-earth gathering in her mom's garden, and even though my friend and her partner are the sweetest people imaginable, I was feeling pretty insecure that all I was able to get from their registry was these little kitchen towels that they liked. It's really easy to SAY 'the effort and love of a gift is more important than the price/quantity' but boy oh boy capitalism loves to dig in its heels and ruin nice things. I'm proud of how the little folded towel rose, card doodle, and wrapping all turned out. I'm trying to remind myself that when my friend opens it, it's going to be easy for her to see that she's loved

I made a thing! I usually only do digital art (aside from rock painting from time to time) so I'm happy this turned out fairly nice. I definitely have room to grow, but overall I'm happy!

I love tumblr. I saw a post done in that ai ghibli style, and just to make sure it was ai, i checked the comments. No comments except for an obvious bot and a reply to the comment simply saying 'bot' in case a newer/younger user wouldn't be able to tell. We all knew to block and report without giving it attention or traction. We do our best to make sure ai will never thrive here. Yay us 🩷

Yesyesyesyesyes

We all agree she deserves the Knives Out treatment where she get's dozens of seasons with each season covering a new case right!?

Y'all my county's library system held a sticker contest and I'm actually super happy with how my submission turned out!!

Wanted to show the "magic" behind the profile photo. I wondered what it would be like to create a profile based on my childhood nickname (Bird) and it quickly got out of hand. I picked a reddish egret for the reference bird because our similarities - like how I squawk a lot, and walk like a broken marionette

This is my corn snake, Pumpkin🧡 I got him from BeWild Reptile Rescue! He makes me so happy. He's been here for about three weeks and he's settling in really well.