#is this. does this make sense

[thatneoncrisis]

what do you think about the overlap of remmick and john, as two characters who were fucked over by colonial powers just to end up BEING colonial powers

OOOOOOH good question intriguing question i LOVE shit like this thank you

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i think the nature of theirs stories have made it so they are both participating in the systems that cannibalized their people, homelands, language and resources, but they go about it differently just bc of scale

remmick is like, one guy. a vampire yes, one who can do vampire hivemind shit, but hes one fucking guy. he was getting his ass beat by those indigenous vampire hunters, the damage he is capable of is on a person to person scale. he actively benefits from white supremacy as he is white passing, theres still lingering anti catholic and immigrant sentiments in the US during the 30s but for all intents and purposes he can "go stealth" in a way john cant he can reap the benefits of exploiting more at risk communities. his goal is also small fries- gluttonous and sadistic yes, but most charitably he wants sammy so he can see his family again since vampires are locked out of heaven

john. has committed a genocide on a scale unknown by man. he then proceeded to ressurrect a fraction of the population, all from his own home country, and then actively gatekeeps or destroys or manipulates any information about the world pre resurrection. his goal is also just blatantly the most petty vindictive shit on the planet. no, it is by no means reasonably to hunt down the distant descendants of people you were mad at, people who literally dont even benefit from the evils committed by those original guys anymore, bc you cannot stand the idea of any of them possibly being happy or alive. ultimately i think john represents a corrosive power fantasy. he has the power and tools to reshape society in any way, and he just replicates the one that actively fucked up the world in the first place. theyre all speaking english, they doing feudalism, the main religion is basically different christian sects, they terrorize non house settlements jsut bc they have the manpower and resources to do so.

i think this is an area wherein the locked tomb being understood as "raceblind" is kneecapping its ability to dig into this sort of shit. race as we understand it is jsut another invention of these kinds of world powers turning people against one another so there can be a steady supply of second class laborers, someone who is lesser than so there is no chance of meaningfully arguing why they do not get to reap the benefits of the imperial core (the people who make that core function in the first place). why do slaves need human rights if they arent human, ect ect. im not saying tlt would automatically be better if like, gideon was literally a slave (shes not, there is a material difference between chattel slavery and indentured servitude), but the way house citizens understand and interact with civilians on other planets is so.

we see it through individual lenses of ideology, pal wants to help everyone on new rho bc he values all life, pyrrha wants to cut and run bc she values the people close to her, crown is empathetic to the suffering of others but still clearly has other priorities. new rho is given to us via selective clips, a literal childs eyes. we understand this is a place with the exploitation of sexual labor, the teachers FIRST THOUGHT upon meeting pyrrha and learning thats not nonas dad is that shes pimping out a girl she thought was 14. this is horrifying, but i always go back to the sixth, where its some great honor to be designated to the informal sex soldiers in their military where they just go out and fuck other bored recruits in the reserves.

its goddamn bonkers when you think about it for longer than a minute- their society is still suffering the slow collapse of dwindling numbers, how long until they expand whos allowed in the gene pool out of desperation? how long until they find its easier to have some desperate non house citizen, wither through material coercion like money or transport, or more insidious means? the cohort has the power- it is The Power, and i dont really believe in a situation where a bunch of dorks raised on huckleberry finn are able to keep this kind of rot from festering. theyre the most morally rigid house, beyond like the eighth or whatever, but they still have child soldiers and use dead bodies for indefinite labor. i may trust palamedes and camilla but i do not trust "the sixth" to be better than the standard john has set. kind of a blessing everything started imploding before they could get to that point, if it hasnt already happened

uh anyway sinnners is more able to blatantly dig into these kinds of dynamics by banking on the audiences existing ideas about racial tensions and communities. the brothers made their club as a safe space for their people, and extended it to people who have already established a bond or face similar treatment. im sure the chows didnt have a place to cut loose in a town like that, id easily buy they were the only asian family there, let alone specifically chinese. it was a space that could recognize those differences but understand what was important, what this would mean to people who really had nothing to look forward to than labor for people who barely consider them human

i think this makes marys mistake sooooooo compelling. shes a white passing woman in a room full of her black friends and acquaintances. she said her mother practically raised the boys, she must be acutely aware of how differently she is treated. she keeps pushing stack about why he didnt pursue her, as if extreme racial violence is something that is easily overcome via the power of love. if he does truly love her, which i think he did, i really would understand the choice to leave her be so both of them arent under scrutiny and, you know, possibly lynched. i think mary is kind of emblematic of liberal dream of a post racial world. where you can jsut plug your ears and say I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE really loudly and then act confused as to why black* people may be apprehensive to a bunch of random ass creepy fuckin hillbillies want to party with them so bad. like remmick tries puling that card too, he chastises them over building a place that is supposed to be "inclusive" but will not allow people who could VERY EASILY disturb that peace inside. he keeps trying to put the ball in their court, prey on them being the better person, when its jsut the fact of the matter that they have no reason to trust his intentions. but mary i feel has this urge to appeal to them, to prove that racial divides arent necessary, money is money ect. and while i dont believe in self segregation as a long term solution, it is quite frankly deeply ignorant of her to keep pressing the issue. and then she gets them all killed. lol. also fun fact i didnt know that was fucking Hailee Steinfeld good lord. *including the chens i have to keep tossing in qualifiers well be here all day

so uh tlt and sinners understand the kinds of drastic shifts in personhood being the product of systematic exploitation and assimilation entails. its monstrous it cannot produce anything only take, recreate, and or eradicate. the slogan "kill the indian spare the child" especially comes to mind, the belief that western ideals and thinking, literature, fashion, language, government and economy are the only true way to be human while anything else is like, a hedonist corruption. something striking that stood out to me was remmick compelling his new congregation to dance with them, forcing them all to step in line to his music, relive his glory, in stark opposition to the earlier scene of them all dancing their own way to the same song with sammy. by contrast john uh. he doesnt even do that. hes kind of united by an identity of being kiwi and not maori. thats the way i read it, everything in his new world IS just neoclassical bullshit. i think about how harrow and gideon dont even know what maori IS as like, a concept. and something that really connects with me as a black american. the people i idnetify most strongly with did not like. exist as a group over 500 years ago. i dont know what it is to be west african, i cant speak the language i dont know the culture ive never set foot on the continent. who would i be if the transatlantic slave trade didnt happen. who would harrow and gideon be if they got to grow up in aotearoa. and thats something that solidifies the divide between john and remmick. remmick can only find ways to manipulate the system in his favor, john just made it that way from the start, to uphold some distant ideal of what he remembered the world to be

i think both stories treat the structures and mechanics of colonization and resource exploitation as a sort of disease that will inevitably eat its host and die. johns empire is not sustainable- he keeps killing planets, keeps displacing their population, his houses have notable population crises, having PAPER is a fucking luxury and their most powerful members are quite literally fueled by death- what happens when theyre out of people to die. rimmick is a vampire, it is very notable that vampires arent like zombies, theyre not brainless they cannot afford to turn the majority of people on earth into them or they fucking run out of food. what remmick was doing, not just killing those people but explicitly converting them, puts more and more strain on his ability for each on of them to survive if they ept multiplying at that rate. would they have stopped once remmick got sammy? whos to say. i sure as hell dont believe him

[lanternlightss]

you think venti would call nameless bard “my sky” ?

[petshopbutch]

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

[renewashere]

"grunkle stan. what"

[scramratz]

If they do start rounding queers up it won’t be with the gestapo, but the police, and the crime won’t be written down as being queer, but public indecency, the indecency being queer in public, but that’s the quiet part no one will say out loud.

[fraternum-momentum]

give me your complete and unwavering devotion.

[swordymacaroni]

sukuna owning a hostile cat. hostile to the point that any person who tries to get close to the feline ends up with horrendous bites, or at the very least, scratch marks.

one day, the cat goes missing for a good five hours, and when he slinks back into the house, sukuna's quite surprised to see him all soft and pliant and sporting a bright red lipstick mark on his furry forehead.

[otaku553]

A self indulgent Koala redesign :)

Going for something cute that has the ability to look normal among mid to upper class civilians in case she needs to mingle with nobles, but just a bit more militaristic and practical for fighting! Thinking of doing a layer by layer breakdown for her outfit as well

[buggachat]

btw I am OBSESSED w this new character, Diane, who wears clovers and has a running gag about weirdly lucky things happening to her. i am eating her scenes up and i want more of her. new favorite minor character

[castielsupernatural]

ok so two things could happen here

misha and jensen have crazy chemistry on the boys and i am inducted into the community of real person fact re: cockles

misha and jensen have NO chemistry (this one is funnier to me) therefore proving that dean winchester in charge of the jensen vessel was personally lusting after that gay angel proving that dean was played romantically interested in cas SPECIFICALLY for the show and vice versa aka this is how destiel can go canon again

[manchesterau]

x/x

[stimmingandstruggling]

i’m still figuring out how redbook works so i can’t share the video here yet, but y’all.

a woman made a post on tiktok talking about li hua, a pseudonym students in china learning english would write under to american “pen pals.” these letters were never sent. apparently it was crazy common, hundreds of letters have been written from li hua.

and people have started saying they feel like li hua is getting a response.

this woman posted this on tiktok and the comments were full of people writing responses, apologizing to li hua for not being in touch for so long. and one american mentioned how when they were a kid they dug holes in the beach and thought if they dug deep enough they could reach china all the way on the other side of the world, and that just awoke some MEMORIES. like, i did that. i dug holes in the sand and wondered how close i was. “as children we dug holes at the beach to try to get to you. we wondered what you’d be like our whole lives.”

the same woman made a post talking about THAT on redbook, saying it feels like we’ve both been just struggling to reach each other for so long. “i suddenly realize, this meeting was actually a two way effort. it’s like you’ve done a lot of hard work and come a long way before a date, and the wait was too long that you gradually started to forget the original intention of embarking on this road, and began to doubt, is your date real? suddenly one day, they really appeared in front of you and tell you i also made an effort to see you. and that’s a wonderful thing.”

idk that just made me cry a bit. i’ve seen a couple people refer to the feeling of being a little kid at the playground again, awkward and clumsy and sometimes hurting each other but everyone just eager to meet and share what they love.

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

best depiction of the batfam will always be "You grew up to be the person who would have saved you" but it applies to them each respectively and that's why none of them can see eye to eye and also get up their own asses about things and go to such great lengths to defend their personal brand of justice. Because they can never stop trying to save themselves from their own history.

[grasslandgirl]

i'll never get over how fascinating eliot's characterization as a hitter. obviously he's trained- military, hand to hand, weaponry, martial arts- that's to be expected. but so often I think in media about like. the Best Hitters in this genre and etc they're characterized by like? not getting hit. they're sooo good that the avoid every punch and catch every kick in mid air and dodge bullets and etc and that's not Eliot at all. he lets himself get punched in the face. he gets kicked and bowled over and uses that shift in momentum to his advantage. he gets knocked to the ground and the guys he's fighting think he's down for the count for only one moment before Eliot Spencer gets back up. because he always gets back up- but that character trait is Only compelling IF he gets knocked down enough for it to MATTER. and he DOES! and his fighting skills- they're not innate, they're not a natural inclination to fighting, its training and knowledge- he can talk about details and styles at length, he can (and does!) teach the others how to take and throw a punch, which speaks even more to his skill and knowledge and ability. he's the hitter because he's been doing it so long. because he fights to survive and he isn't afraid to get hit and lose the fight to win the battle. god. Eliot Spencer. character of all time

[renewashere]

this reminded me of them

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