#E Smoke

[temeyes]

so i remembered that Gaz smokes...

[yeehawnce]

MICHAEL B. JORDAN AS SMOKE AND STACK BEHIND THE SCENES OF SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[sorrydetka]

mark couldn’t tell the difference between helly and helena because he loves all versions of her, but hellyna hates herself so much that the love mark has for her transcending severance feels like a betrayal… because how can someone love another version of you that you can’t even stomach, let alone recognize? to accept that unconditional love means that helly and helena have to accept what to them is unacceptable

[hamletthedane]

I keep seeing ads for cotton candy flavored vape pods on tumblr and it made me wonder…

Why/Why not in the tags?

I’m interested because I feel like when I was in high school/college in the mid-10s, almost nobody smoked - even if you otherwise had some pretty hard vices. I think it was considered not really worth it for something with such a small buzz. But now, idk. Maybe the advertisers are right to target people here because it’s just that popular again??

(Reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc.)

[vardapilled]

Haint Blue and Indigo: The Colors of Annie and Smoke

This is by no means an extensive history of haint blue and indigo*, but I just wanted to dip a bit into how much is said just by looking at one layer of costuming for Sinners. In this case color—how it's able to convey just how deeply rooted Annie is to her heritage/history, and to me, how this case of colors shows so beautifully Smoke's connection to Annie and his love for her.

"There's that haint blue that Annie lives around as part of a spiritual color. So I took the haint blue and used it in her clothes. I wanted her to have these layers. You first meet her [...] She's a community person. She's a healer, a spiritual leader." - Ruth E. Carter, Costume Design for Sinners (emphasis mine)

Haint blue is a color seen painted on porches, doorways and windows in the American South. As the name suggests, it was believed (though the oral histories are difficult to come by beyond the 30s), to ward off evil spirits. Using haint blue, according to the Gullah-Geechee, tricked evil spirts into thinking they had come across water or sky, bodies they were unable to cross, therefore deterring them from crossing over the blue.

Annie's costume was infused with this color; the blue on her cotton blouse and her skirt belted with feathers and beads. When we're introduced to Annie, her home has a collection of blues: from the wooden panelling, scraps of fabric hanging in the background, and blue bottles strewn about. This infusion of haint blue in her home is also a deliberate choice as talked about by production designer Hannah Beachler.

*Corrections, whether through comments or reblogs, for this post are definitely welcome! I cite my sources at the end of this long post.

This type of blue is not a specific color but rather, it becomes Haint Blue when it is used for the purpose of warding off haints, a belief rooted in Gullah-Geechee beliefs. (Though for technicalites' sake, it is a range of blues -> blue greens). After the 1800s, this way of using blue trickled down from the Gullah-Geechees in South Carolina to places such Louisina where Annie is suggested to be from.

The Old Plantation (Slaves Dancing on a South Carolina Plantation), ca. 1785-1795. watercolor on paper, attributed to John Rose, Beaufort County, South Carolina

Blue has always had a fraught history with enslaved Native Americans and Africans. The production of indigo was a profitable commodity demanded by the British empire as early as the 18th century. This production of indigo however, while it oppressed, was also a way for Black and Native Americans to express their individuality, and for people such as the Gullah-Geechee, their spirituality. Annie continues to draw strength from her roots and it's incredible to see it so profusely in so many aspects of her character, including her clothes.

So here is where I deviate a bit from "canon" per se, or give some interpretation of Ruth E.'s and Coogler's "Smoke is blue." We talk a lot about how the movie does a great job of showing how, though Smoke wasn't completely "sold" on hoodoo, but that he did very much believe in Annie. And that trust between them goes beyond what Smoke's willing to communicate through words (he wears the mojo bag through the war, through Chicago, and removes it only when he's ready to die. How he let's her take the reigns when talking to Cornbread. How he follows through with his promise as painful as it was).

"Smoke is blue. Stack is red." - Ruth E. Carter explaining how Ryan Coogler first posed the characters to her as a jumping off point for costuming.

Whether or not it's a conscious knowledge, I like to think that he dresses in blue as an extension of that trust. That bond between Annie and Smoke and the protection that comes with it bleeds into something as "ordinary" as Smoke's choice of color. One can say that maybe the color reminds him of Annie, and I also think there's some argument to be made about the universe answering Annie's prayers of protection, wrapping Smoke in an extra layer, another ward against evil.

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Sources:

Blue Roots by Robert Pickney

Red, White and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life by Andrea Freeser

Haint Blue, the Ghost-Tricking Color of Southern Homes and Gullah Folktales

What the Color ‘Haint Blue’ Means to the Descendants of Enslaved Africans

Interviews of Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beachler linked in the pull quotes above.

[himulrai]

my favourite scene from @fluff-0ff's Last of the Primes!

+ the sketch for the last panel since the difference makes me giggle

[avephelis]

@t3rm1n0s yo this concert kind of ass

[nortedwayfinder]

Team Dark vs Classic Tails

Shadow left them alone for 5 minutes.

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Also shout-out to @breezey-with-an-e who left these tags literally as I was sketching this out 😂

[icarianarts]

[semioticapocalypse]

Frank Horvat. 'Au Chien Qui Fume, Jardin des Modes'. Paris, France. 1957

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[aropride]

the current "is smoking around people rude" discourse is really annoying on both sides as we've all gathered but like as a certified Weed Enjoyer i think what's getting missed (/intentionally glossed over?) is that some people have disabilities and allergies and lung problems etc that make being around smoke dangerous for them, and the least u can do is move away from people a little bit to smoke. like, there are disabled people everywhere & you have no way of knowing if someone around u has a condition that could be triggered by u smoking. and i don't think it should be the disabled person's responsibility to leave any situation where people might be smoking because i think disabled people deserve to be in public without having to worry about other people making that unsafe for them. but the past 5 years of the Ongoing pandemic have taught me that people either consciously or subconsciously do not care if disabled people are shoved out of the public if it makes things slightly more convenient for them. and like yeah people are being a little dramatic with assumptions that standing near a smoker will give u cancer or get u high but. if you want to smoke in public maybe step to the fucking side, i dunno. like sorry to be the Bitter Joyless Annoying disabled person but it's so fucking easy to walk a few yards away to smoke instead. and while i'm on my soapbox wear a damn mask the pandemic's worse now than it was in 2020 and soon You might end up being the Bitter Joyless disabled person with a lung condition

[bottomspock]

assorted 80s jamies

[lovelylittlelobster]

Today (June 12) is officially Hiveminds birthday according to his dossier, so I thought I would continue making birthday posters for characters, which means it's now Hiveminds turn!

But wait, that's not all!

I also finished the Hivemind voice line compilation just in time for today as well, so here's that as well!

[warm-glowing-warming-glow]

[serqphiim]

this was for a dtiys on instagram but i really love how it turned out so you guys get to see it too

[clodicious]

I'm still thinking about this, and I think that would be the moment he knows they are meant for each other, soulmates that can't be separated. Gothic agapornis if you would.