#Elijah Post

[whispertree-coll]

what is it like having a partner system ?? how did you connect in that way ? [we saw you mention having one we believe sorry if wrong/invasive . ] - :] anon

🦢 Hello, :] anon. We do not think it's invasive, don't worry.

Our partner system is @cassettecoll , and we have known them for about four or five years now, if my math is correct. They were the main person who helped us discover our system and communicate with each other better.

For us, the term partner system is inclusive of the feelings that are similar between all of us, but shift in exact definitions. We, collectively, love their collective. The form that love takes can change, though; For example, while I am romantically committed to Aerwyn, Elwood sees them as a paternal figure.

🌰 (god damn you talk so formally anyway thats my momma :3)

🦢 The point is, while those exact definitions may change, we all love them, and the word "partner" encompasses all of that to us. We are partners in all aspects.

Similarly, we have a sibling system, @thefishbowlcollective . This term is more specific, but we collectively view them as family of some kind. We met them about three years ago if I had to estimate, and love them dearly as well.

Occasionally we will sort of "claim" time to spend with our partners in the Cassettes, or they will request time with us. A few of us have been struggling with sharing time, but we are getting used to it steadily.

🌰 as for the connection itself, it's kind of hard to say? it's been so long that we've known each other, before we even had the words for having a partner system, that it feels like they've always been here. ive said this before but i don't know what i'd do or where i'd be if they weren't here, and i don't want to find out.

sorry for the sap but we are the trees aren't we? :3

[thegreatsharkleve]

Dating Sim: Elijah Route

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Following up a career and era-defining fantasy franchise leading role with a steadfast commitment to playing weird little freaks.

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"they make me insane" and it's my own ocs

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The affection between Black men in Sinners!

Smoke and Stack hugging and saying ‘I love you’ before they part ways in the corn field

Stack’s excitement and cheering as he listens to Sammie’s music while the two of them cruise down the road.

Delta Slim playing with Sammie and mentoring him by explaining the historical and spiritual significance of music to their community.

The way Smoke and Delta and all the others place their bodies in between Sammie and Remmick when the cards are laid before them, holding out an arm to stop Sammie from sacrificing himself; insisting that they’re going to die before they let Sammie leave through that door.

The protective and desperate way Smoke clutches onto Sammie in the final act; Remmick burning up in front of them and Smoke wrapped around Sammie to shield and comfort him and provide another barrier between them and the vampires just in case.

Stack showing up, telling Sammie he’s been following his career the whole of his life, collecting his albums because that’s his little cousin! He’s known him, they’ve known him, and isn’t it amazing to see how far he’s come?Supporting him from a distance, but supporting him nonetheless.

The option Sammie is given at the very end, and the way his choice is honored. Because as much as Stack (and Mary) love him, theirs is not a possessive love. It’s the selfless kind, that they will not try to hold onto Sammie past his time, but instead make sure he knows how important and loved he has been in life.

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Sinners (2025) text post memes - part 2

(part 1 | part 3)

[thegreatsharkleve]

Elijah dresses like he fell through a series of thrift stores located on the Californian boardwalk that were stocked almost exclusively with the wardrobe cast offs from the 80s version of Magnum PI. The only shoes he owns besides sandals are a pair of cowboy boots, one (1) pair of worn out sneakers, and fluffy pink bunny slippers. 

His fashion aesthetic could be called “Bad To Look At” and one of my FCmates sends me every metallic dye her retainers bring her because she knows they’ll be used for questionable excellent fashion decisions

Every day is island time. Meandering around chain smoking and remembering to shave every other day, matrix dodging the Mythril Eye dress code.

 A Jimmy Buffet exterior and a Dead Kennedys soul.

so far on my wanders around ffxiv blogs here I’ve found a bunch of pretty characters with very fine glams. Which is good and all but is anyone posting about their weirdo characters or tiger dads or what.

[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.

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and he left you to watch the door??

“you think i can’t handle it?”

😒

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[whispertree-coll]

Having memories that deviate wildly from your source can be amusing at times. Many artists have drawn my source counterpart and Japhet, but more often than not, my source counterpart is beating him within an inch of his life. The Japhet in our system and I are very close, she is practically family to me, and in our memories she was the one to initially defeat me.

I quite enjoy the art regardless of content, and Japhet is excited to see anything in crown's image, so we still quite enjoy looking. But lovingly regarding art pieces where my source counterpart is mangling his body is still quite funny.

[thegreatsharkleve]

I did a "draw your character in your outfit" meme a while ago x 2 and I don't think I posted them here. Elijah and Baiju in two outfits I wore while moving

[snailsfall]

I needed some motivation

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Some recent simmies! ꉂ (≧ヮ≦)

[cr4btank]

“hear me out” and it’s the worst man in a horror podcast (im guilty)

[museofthepyre]

“I could stare at you for hours, my dear... I have.” Outside the window… peeking through the blinds.

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I am not versed in this style so I’m not entirely happy with it but… oh well. Love this freak.