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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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The real reason Murderbot never lets anyone use its name is because it has no idea how it would react to hearing the edgy grimdark ass name it gave itself spoken with any kind of warmth or affection. It’s pretty sure it might actually spontaneously combust.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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One of the things that I think is so important to SINNERS is that, okay, obviously we have the overt racism of Jim Crow and the klan and the imminent threat of lynching.

And then we have this vampire, and there is this very obvious and literal feeding on black culture. Remmick straight up says he's going to take Sammie's stories. And also give (impose) his stories.

But here's the thing, okay, here's the fucking thing about that post-credits 1992 scene.

Here's Sammie. And he's done it, he's made his career as a musician, with all the power of his ancestors and his descendants, tapping into that magic.

And here's Stack and Mary, vampires, having all his albums but having stayed away because of the promise to Smoke. And Stack just says he thought acoustic was better than electric (tbh not sure if he said "reel" or "real" guitar)

And so... Sammy pulls out the acoustic and plays that same song he played that day, driving around with Stack, when they were free.

And here's the thing! Stack and Mary just... appreciate it. Feel the music. Remember.

Why couldn't Remmick?

Literally he could have been chill. He could have been normal when Mary came out to judge them, he could have legitimately just given them some gold and come into the juke and asked if Sammie could play again and just vibed. He could have done it. Even being a weirdo with bad vibes, that money could have gotten him in.

And THIS is how SINNERS draws the distinction between cultural appropriation and appreciation. Remmick wants to steal Sammie's power. He wants to take it for himself, he doesn't actually care about Sammie's roots or Sammie's life or loves, he just wants to take Sammie's gift for himself. He talks about sharing and love but it's bullshit because he's not actually interested in Sammie's history or culture! And you can see this as he vamps all these people and makes them dance to his tune!

But see, later on? When Stack and Mary come to visit? See, that is their culture. That's their family. That's their history. They don't have to vampirize Sammie because they're just there to appreciate him and his talent.

And isn't that why Sammie plays for them, and why they accept that he doesn't want to be vamped? He can share his gift because they ask, they don't demand, they don't try to steal it.

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my humble first attempt at a murderbot. i think i accidentally took 400 billion creative liberties but that's ok <3 i hope the fandom accepts my offering. please vehicular manslaughterbbot fandom im.baby 🙏

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Pin-Lee tries to help!!!

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THE FROG AND THE SNAKE

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Yes there's a typo in the first option but I am not redoing the whole thing

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This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964) ...

IS the greatest and quite remarkable one shot scene of them all.

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Source

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The secunit

It destroyed it's governor module

Yes

YES

The secunit is out

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That one scene from Network Effect by Martha Wells.

Ngl, drawing that last panel was kind of satisfying. I wish I had skills to draw what happens right after but alas.

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I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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Exit Strategy