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IM SATTTT

I just love when two fine people do fine people shit likkkkkeeeee

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i miss my lil vampire show so bad, i've been living off of youtube reactions but its not the same....

I just feel hollow and lost like where are my babies?!?

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Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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My favorite threads posts about SINNERS

This movie is currently my whole personality… y’all gon’ be sick of me! 🤣

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The funniest part of Sinners was when the Native Americans just said “yeahhh good luck with that”

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SINNERS (2025) dir. by Ryan Coogler

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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

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I can't get over how Sinners is such a rich text on assimilation and whiteness and the dangers of "civility" and music as a way to look both forward and back

And it's also a phenomenal vampire movie where a lot of hot people get covered in blood and there's a B plot about eating out girls

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knowing in my heart that smoke killed remmick bc he knew that if he didn’t, he’d hunt sammie down to the ends of the earth.

versus smoke refusing to kill stack, bc smoke trusted his brother would keep his promise not to turn their little cousin, but he would not, absolutely would NOT, trust a white man not to go back on his word. even if they’d traded sammie in for their lives, remmick would have turned the rest of the juke joint just because he could 😂

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Sinners does have a lot to say about appropriation and assimilation by having the main villain be an Irishman looking to physically take a black man's body to relive aspects of his own culture - but also takes a chunk of the ending to kill a bunch of Klansmen without bothering to hear their "side" or reasons bc FUCK EM lmao

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There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true, it can conjure spirits from the past…and the future. This gift can bring fame and fortune. But it also can pierce the veil between life and death.

SINNERS (2025): Trailer #2

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"That ain't your brother."

Smoke: I don't believe in magic, ghosts, demons. Just power. Jedidiah: You keep dancing with the devil, one day, he's going to follow you home.

SINNERS (2025): Trailer #2

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Brothers in Black Vampire Horror

Smoke & Stack: Sinners (2025) Louis & Paul: Interview with the Vampire (2022 - )

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That was the last sunrise I ever saw. Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. // It was the last time I saw my brother. It was the last time I saw the sun. It was the only time I ever felt free.

Interview with the Vampire (2022 - ) // Sinners (2025)

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black vampires + witches

akasha, queen of the damned (2002)

louis & claudia, interview with the vampire (2022-)

tara thorton, true blood (2008-2014)

blade, blade (1998)

marcel gerard, the originals (2013-2018)

sarah fox, my babysitter's a vampire (2011-2012)

alex & camryn, twitches (2005)

rochelle zimmerman, the craft (1996)

bonnie bennett, the vampire diaries (2009-2017)

vincent griffith, the originals (2013-2018)

marie laveau, american horror story (2011-)

macy vaughn, charmed (2018-2022)

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Claudia in paintings pt3:

Light of the Harem by Frederic Leighton Woman Reading by Rupert Bunny La Donna della Finestra by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Suzanne by Auguste Levêque Judith and her Maidservant by Artemisia Gentileschi The Captive by John Everett Millais

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in your room

your burning eyes

cause flames to arise

will you let the fire die down soon?