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wunmi mosaku • via instagram • @/dionnesmithhair

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Costume appreciation series: Sinners (2025) dir Ryan Coogler

Costume Design by Ruth E. Carter

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☁️ New Update ☁️

Something spicy-ish for the wait, as a peace offering for my absence, and because I need to clear out my drafts. Everybody wins.🙂‍↕️

Rating: Explicit

Category: F/F

Fandom: Pitch Perfect (Movies)

Relationships: Chloe Beale/Beca Mitchel

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daily affirmations:

i am kind

i am in control of my emotions

it does not bother me when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

everyone in the house has the right to be in the kitchen

i am kind and in control of my emotions even when someone is in the kitchen while i was planning to be in there alone

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☁️ New Chapter Updates ☁️

I’ve been MIA but I’m still here. Lot of changes at work that are exhausting me a little more each time but we’ll be alright. That said, I realized just this morning that I did not post my last two updates on Tumblr so for anyone who hasn’t read them yet, it’ll be a nice little treat.

Ours Was A Love Built in Autumn - Chapter 9 - A Love Not Lost

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Category: F/F

Fandom: Pitch Perfect (Movies)

Relationships: Chloe Beale/Beca Mitchell

(This next one is a new WIP for a Beca/Emily fic I teased before.)

Frequency - Chapter 1 - Forced Entry

Rating: Mature

Category: F/F

Fandom: Pitch Perfect (Movies)

Relationships: Emily Junk/Beca Mitchell

When We Serve - Chapter 6 - Strangers

Rating: Mature

Category: F/F

Fandom: Pitch Perfect (Movies)

Relationships: Chloe Beale/Beca Mitchell

I’ll try to be better with updating when I can but until we get more people at work, it’s going to be a little rough. That said, I’ve got a week off next month coming up soon so I’m hoping that’ll be enough of a break for a while. Also, I don’t know what I did but I finally got those bloody AO3 links to work properly. Small victories.🥲

Thanks for being here and thanks for reading.

🩵☁️

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Y'all not understanding that Mary is a White-passing Black Woman is frying my brain fr.

The best way I can equate her narrative throughout the beginning is when you're a little girl and gender doesn't really matter. You play with girls and boys equally because you're all kids. And then one day the same boys you played tag with don't want to play anymore. You're only allowed to play with "girls" toys and wear "girls" colors. Adults tease you at best and outright reprimand you at worst because you still want to run with the boys who, two years ago, were your favorite playmates.

Even worse is when those same boys tease you and exclude you too, all because now you're a girl instead of just another kid.

Mary has a Black mother, grew up among the Black folks and coloreds in their hometown. Which is why she had to leave the town and the state to find opportunity. The same way Smoke and Stack went to Chicago to make something of themselves.

When Stack says, "For one night, we was free." That includes Mary.

For one night she got to be with her one true love, for one night she got to be among her people, with what remained of her family after her mother died. That's why she was so vulnerable to Remmick. Once that one night was over she'd be forced to go back to Arkansas living as a White woman, constantly longing for a home she can't return to, a love that keeps pushing her away to protect her, and praying that no one ever found out her roots because that would spell the end for her.

And she didn't go out to talk to Remmick and Klan out of White arrogance, she did it because she wanted to use her unwanted power of passing to help her family for once. Because they are her community and if she can do anything, even sus out the weird "musicians" lurking in their parking lot, she was going to do it for them.

Lastly, let's not act like Mary was the only reason Remmick was able to turn one of the twins/anyone inside the sawmill. Cornbread left shortly after her to go piss, and that's why he missed Stack getting bit by Mary and dying. Say she hadn't gone out, he'd have still had to use the bathroom and would have been let inside after being bitten without anyone thinking to stop him because they wouldn't have known not to trust him.

The whole point of Sinners is that they were all damned. Take Mary out of it, Remmick would still be drawn to Sammie. Cornbread still would have been bitten. And even if the threat of Remmick never materialized the Klan would have been there minutes after dawn.

Stop applying modern beliefs and feelings about race on a time period where one drop, passing or not, made you vulnerable under Jim Crow.

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Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Tell us what you know about fight club?

Literally nothing. I’ve never seen Fight Club 🥲

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*baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws*

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Naw, I can’t believe some people don’t find Mary compelling… you can criticize her character for a lot of things, but NOT BEING COMPELLING?

I knew what I’d find pursuing Mary discourse online, but Lord, there’s nothing I hate more than seeing a female character get the “people say they want complex female characters but can’t even handle [insert]” treatment. 😭

She’s honestly one of the most fascinating characters in the movie. As a white passing woman, she gets to enjoy white privilege. However, the cost is that she has to sacrifice her mixed race identity to fully integrate into white culture, which you can see her struggle with. Being white means she can’t be with Stack, can’t maintain her childhood friendships with the black/non-white people she grew up with, can’t even go to black spaces to listen to the blues. Everything she was raised with, everything that compiles together to become the core pillars of her identity, has to be swept under the rug in her pursuit of safety. A pursuit that isn’t even of her own doing! I think it’s such a key detail that we first meet Mary almost immediately after the death of her mother, her non-white parent. She’s teetering on the edge of assimilation, has lost the final concrete thread of black heritage connecting her to her mixed race identity… and then BOOM. There’s Stack and the blues. Is it any wonder that she clings to him? Yes, she loves him, but that love is also completely tied up in their history together, a past where Mary was able to exist as she is and embrace all parts of her heritage without having to pretend to be something she’s not. For Mary, being white means living with a level of comfort and safety that black women were NOT afforded in America during that time period. However, it also means living a lie, which Mary obviously has zero interest in doing.

BUT what makes her EVEN MORE fascinating to me is how you can read in that very attitude exactly HOW much she’s benefited from her white privilege! She’s stubborn to the point of obstinacy, throws herself into situations without any forethought, walks around with a surety in every ounce of her body language that immediately identifies her as someone who’s NEVER had to worry about being targeted for violence like other black characters do. Annie is her perfect foil - someone who has been forced to live in the world cautiously, to accept pain with an aching type of futility that comes from knowing exactly how unfair the world is and exactly how little power she has to do anything about it. I think Annie’s quiet strength is such a beautiful foil to Mary’s passionate rebellion - a type of rebelliousness she’s been allowed to cultivate ONLY because she LOOKS WHITE! The layers here are so interesting.

I love her character because of how well she embodies both sides of this struggle. She never asked to be born white passing, but she IS, and no matter how connected she is to her black heritage, she’ll never NOT benefit from it because it’s the first thing about her that people see. Other women in that period would kill for what she has, but she wants nothing more than to throw it all away to be with the man she loves. It’s tragic and it fits SO WELL with the message Sinners is bringing to the table by having Remmick as the primary antagonist, a white Irish immigrant who also balances that weird line of “white-but-not-really” during the time.

Plus, Hailee Steinfeld and Michael B. Jordan have fantastic chemistry and absolutely nail these roles.

How are you watching them UNCOMPELLED? 😭

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you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

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It’s too soon for me…

I cant escape from you, because the only true thing I will ever feel, is my love for you.

DICKINSON (2019 - 2021) cr. Alena Smith

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Update soon plsss

I will. We’ve been losing people at work so it’s so much busier right now. I’ve been doing more movie and show binging because I’ve been too slumped to write much but I will get things going again very soon