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Bruh I just painted this little pebble on the left and showed it to the little dude back at home and now he’s crying in the corner tf do I do now

It’s been more than a year since “The Voyage” came out and tbh it’s still one of the works I’m most proud of having written so far

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Remmick after Sammie refused to join his racially blind Irish revival vampire BORG collective:

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I had to wait a whole year to post this 😂

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crack headcanon that kaeya sends varka vaguely threatening and ominous letters asking when he's going to bring the horses back. 'how can i be a cavalry captain with no cavalry, varka.' 'day 4647363 of having to travel to dawn winery on foot' 'I'm beginning to forget what a horse looks like. sometimes I still hear their whinnies.'

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😂😂😂😂😂

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He was speaking Cantonese but as a Chinese person who speaks both dialects 100% agreed

when grace chow said that white devil spoke chinese ! and started making a molotov cocktail, that’s exactly how i feel when white ppl speak mandarin like she got it perfectly

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The Blues scene with all the generations of music being summoned at once and everyone dancing in a trance and the Irish river dance scene with the haunting music and the hypnotising dance and the other Blues scene where the singer's belting and the dancers feet smacking the ground coordinated perfectly with the violence in the other room were literal masterpieces like these three scenes deserve an Oscar in Directing Cinematography and Music they were incredible

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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

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Poor Sammie played literally his first gig and immediately got the worst fan to ever exist

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Nobody seems to know exactly what “Pick Poor Robin Clean”, means, btw. Having read people argue about this for like an hour now, my vote is that it’s a pre-blues Black folk song about hustling someone at gambling (you’re “picking them clean”, but also they’re now broke enough they’re going to have to kill, pluck, and eat songbirds to live) with an optional dirty dozens style verse about fucking their entire family (just for extra pizazz). I’ve seen a few people claim that it was a minstrel show song that escaped into wider popular culture, like “I Wish I Was in Dixie” (the narrator of that song is a stock character of an ex-slave homesick for the Good Ol’ South- no, you’re not the only person who didn’t know that); but I couldn’t find any actual evidence for this. Classic “this weird song is a hundred goddamn years old” problem. But it would have been circulating at the time Sinners is set. Here’s the legendary Geeshie Wiley singing a version of it; that’s a very crunchy old recording, of course.

(And as a treat for me, here’s a contemporary musician, Rhiannon Giddens- whose mixed Irish & Black heritage and musical influences seem apropos here- singing Wiley’s Last Kind Words Blues.)

But anyway, I think that moment of intense, total bewilderment as the vampire trio sings this bizarre, corny-ass song on our protags’ doorstep was very intentional. This is NOT an Irish song. It was certainly intended by the trio as a disarming, “look, we can hang, we can play your music” kind of thing, and somebody (Stack I think?) hums along. But they do not sing the verse where the narrator refers to himself with racial slurs, and they do not sing the verse where he playfully threatens to fuck someone’s grandma…it comes across as sinister and violent to the audience, because we know these people are undead but most of us don’t know the song, but to the characters who don’t know they’re undead, it’s just a creepy, weirdly sanitized, very white version of a song they probably do already know.

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I also wanted to say that I really respect Grace for what she did during the film’s climax. For as much as I was like “NO!” when she invited the vampires in, i completely get it.

Like yeah, maybe it was a bit rash and a bit foolish for her to just invite them in without giving the others an extra second to be prepared, but I better not see ANYONE bash this woman after we saw her not only kill the love of her life but also let herself be burned alive for the sake of protecting their daughter.

No running, no hiding, no hesitating - just fully allowing herself to go down in flames for the sake of the two people she loves the most. 100% badass.

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Hopped onto Tumblr right after seeing “Sinners” and people are thirsting over a creep who puts the “cult” in cultural appropriation smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Also did anybody ever go back to that grocery store and tell Lisa what happened to her parents? I mean surely she deserves some kind of explanation after all that right?

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if someone is talking about how much they love their parents do not jump in and start venting about your issues with your parents. if someone is venting about their issues with their parents do not jump in and start talking about how much you love your parents. peace and love amen swag city

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The portrayal of white people who have been violently separated from their own culture stealing the power of black culture and music to try to get reconnected was SO literal and somehow not at ALL heavy-handed or trite. Fkn remarkable.

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i know i shouldnt be suprised but sinners being out for less than a week and already tumblr is fandomifying and 'poor wet pathetic cat'-ifying the main white man villain of the movie is so... disapointing??? like did the fucking point of the movie really go over your heads that badly or are you just willingly ignorant and stupid?

AND BEFORE ANYONE STARTS; im not saying you cant like remmick, he's a very interesting character, a great villain, and jack o'connell gave a great performance playing him, nor do i care if you think hes sexy, I think hes sexy

but i think to come out of a movie where vampires serve as a metaphor for how black american communities have the life sucked out of them by white people via cultural appropriation (remmick wanting to use sammie's gift to summon his own ancestors) and forced assimilation (all the turned vampires singing and dancing along with remmick's irish folk song and dance juxtaposed with the blend of cultures during sammie's song in the juke joint) and for your main take away to be 'aww the main villain is just a misunderstood sadboy' or 'idc abt the atrocities he looked sexy doing them (when the atrocities in question were racism)' then youre just being so disengenuous and antithetical to the whole point of the film?

and dont come at me with the 'let people enjoy things' bullshit, sinners is a movie FUNDAMENTALLY about racism and racial dynamics in the united states, and i do think focusing on your little y/n x [whiteboy of the month] fics and 'hes so babygirl' posts do actually stunt your own critical engagement with the message this movie was trying to convey to its audience

i think its also a disservice to remmick's character; the moral nuance that comes to light when you consider his position as an irish immigrant to the US, a victim of the colonialist british empire just like the black main cast (although in a very different way) and how, whilst his desire to reclaim his ancestry and heritage is understandable and even relatable, his pursuit of sammie and willingness to kill literally everyone else at the juke joint is allegorical for how, regardless of their own marginalisation, white people will prey upon and steal from black culture(s) and destroy/disenfranchise black communities to serve their own interests, and the movie is NOT subtle about this either, delta slim literally lays it out for us "white folks like the blues just fine, they just don't like the people who make them"

idk im yelling into the void here, the ppl im complaining about are never going to give a shit about racism or even just critically engaging with art when theres a new cute whiteboy to write fluff and angst about, but its just soooo annoying to see, yet again, how fandom spaces, which SHOULD be about uplifing and celebrating art in all its diversity and complexity, once again is nothing more than people ignoring anything that actually makes them have to confront reality and filing off the serial numbers to slot characters into pre-determined fanon molds so they can pump out incorrect quotes and coffee shop AUs en masse until the media iliterate heat death of the universe

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Can’t help but feel like this display is missing something 🤔

What do y’all think?

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the different ways that jay calls people "old sport" depending on who they are is so funny to me.he calls nick old sport like it's a pet name but when he's calling tom old sport he says it like it's a very hurtful slur and i think that's awesome