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Read the Delectable Negro NAOW

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Why do y'all hate Pearline so much

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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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the only upside to people being racist is it will always ruin their art

sometimes its not right off the bat and sometimes not in a way you see for a minute

this post is about Sinners but also any other time a piece of media requires some Black authenticity that nonBlack people pretend is negotiable

you know when you are reading a good novel and something just comes off super wrong and before you know it you've put the book down and are googling their name to confirm, yep, they've got some weird social hang up or hatred

people who ignore the truth of the world end up with a lot lacking in their overall range. And the biggest example of this is how many people have destroyed their own legacy with their own hatred. we will always remember lovecraft for naming his cat the hard r slur when we approach his horror genre. every part of the book dune that is good comes from the writer and is wife and every part that sucks can directly be called homophobic, racist, or sexist. Like even if we didn't label them, the writers social failings show up in their work. everything I've ever learned about harry potter has been against my will but damn every issues she has in real life is telegraphed in her choices.

like you can go back and see how people's lack of intersectionaly set them up for embarrassment or how their lack of genuine love shows up. my brain is thinking on the white people make a book that has a Black character and the design is just offensive. Like they just failed, they did such a bad job but somehow they are shocked and offended. Children's books with Black little kids have struck me as so uncomfortable Ive dropped them and check the artist or writer and every time its a white artist. (Ive also been wrong, hope that helps its just about responding to the problem seriously not being perfect) Mind you, im just mixed, and the comments you can find for the book online will be Black ppl explaining this yet every white person is responding like this has never happened in all time. There just wasn't an honest effort to even respect Black ppl in the first place but the reaction will defensive for sure.

So yeah, everything has context but you CAN do whatever you want. I just know the people who are flooding tumblr with art of just the white vampire from Sinners are gonna crash out in five years when they dont understand why their pieces are unreadable to their desired audience and the only ppl who consistently engage with them are louder about their hateful views in the comments. What people allow in their comments is a reflection of what they really care about and it usually just holds true.

Like yeah sure you can but its weird and absolutely says something about your relationship with race. I'll tell you for free Michael B Jordan is too attractive for you to pretend you can't horn dog over anyone else and there are simply too many other good vampires. For this particular case, the hold onto rimmrick is mostly a reactionary one from people who are triggered when they are told no. The vampires in Sinners have a very clear parallel to violence and oppression that is not subjective. Some Black people have expressed clear discomfort with the focus of rimmrick in all spaces of the fandom and even uses of him being shipped. It is an effortless fix to make rimmrick content only show in spaces that ask for it but people will demand to have access to the shared space while refusing to care about the other voices in the group because they are used to being allowed to speak over them.

Let me help you out here. If you, in any vast fan fiction context, make Annie engage with vampires romantically you've taken her so far out of character you are just desperate. She is the lens of the movie that directly tells us how it works and directly expresses that it would keep her from her most important goal of rejoining her loss child. It doesnt matter if you think its hot, Sammie being bitten means his soul is enslaved forever by the rules the movie set up and that is clearly a punishment worse than death for all of the Black characters. Enslaving Sammie and calling it hot vampire art despite that being the central conflict and it never once being separated from racism is a choice you'll cringe about later. This is your hetalia. It's that obviously weird what you are doing. Not every negative reaction is someone picking on you.

You can play dumb and say its fiction and you're allowed blah blah, whatever dumb all catching absolutely statement you choose. (So I can't draw hot vampires anymore ? So I can't be attracted to- you dont care about Black people feeling safe no matter how much they tell you they need it. Just accept that about yourself and spare us the show)

I am not sitting higher than anyone on any morals I write dead dove cartoon porn online I get it. its never been okay to throw dark fetish shit in the mainstream spaces and pretending you dont see it as a valid trigger is racist. This isnt a "fandom" thing this is people who admit to having no ethos on the topic of racism to begin with being defensive and wrong about racism. A good portion of these fan fictions you guys keep throwing into the tiny spaces meant just for Annie that make her romantic with the vampires are just race play. And thats not like a passive thing you can just do to your brain hello. And if you are about to tell me it is not race play you better be able to define the words race, culture, ethnicity, and nationality comfortably and with the ability to utilize them or else you dont even understand enough to speak on these topics. I do not understand why people feel so comfortable saying their opinion on racism and then just saying shit like "well no one every told me" later in the debate. You shouldn't have acted like you had the same right to the discourse just because you were pissed off , some topics must be talked about with care and respect or you are participating in causing harm.

people who wouldn't be comfortable talking to a Black person in a Walmart will swear they have every right to their culture if they decide they want it. This is often an issue where Black culture is treated like it isnt real but it's also just mean spirited and classic aggressive white people bullying. We've seen a million times online where a group is told, hey thats racist and like clockwork they double down. If they can pretend any negative response is discourse enough other white ppl won't even engage and then they just get to have way with the space.

People can't go to the Sinners community and see random people begging to fuck a caricature , desperate to ignore the much MUCH M U C H hotter Black vampire, and read fanfics that puts the Black characters in love with their literal killers and oppressors (this isnt debatable the movie is very clear) and keep returning there.

But like I said, people will do what they want and they'll play stupid and tell themselves its really just unfair people won't let them be happy for no reason whine whine whine

and then inevitably, you'll see them spiral out at some point. putting yourself in a position where you have to keep telling yourself you aren't racist or you dont care trains you not to listen, not to notice, and not to understand. So you'll keep making art that lacks meaningful culture and one day when you make something that really matters to you that little bullshit you kept letting slide gets in there too and it RUINS your art and further pigeons you into a narrow set of behaviors.

So, karma or whatever I guess

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Thoughts on Sinners (2025):

I would like to thank god and Wunmi Mosaku's titties

Me when I saw Bo Chow:

This is probably Ryan Coogler's horniest film to date, and I love that

Holy shit, the sound mixing 🙌🏻

After hating on the White Americans, the French and the Spaniards in the Black Panther films, Ryan Coogler really turned to the Irish and said, "don't worry, I didn't forget about yall too!!"

3 words - Choctaw. Vampire. Hunters. Ryan Coogler, I demand a prequel

No but the Choctaw Vampire Hunters were hilarious. They can't be bothered to put in the labour to help the kkk couple. They really went, "you invited it, you deal with it. Godspeed." And peaced the fuck out ✌🏻 good for them

And the scene of the kkk couple inviting the Remmick the Irish vampire into their home while holding guns to the Choctaw pple even tho the Choctaw pple were trying to warn them? Perfect symbolism for how White pple would rather shoot themselves in the foot than listen to people of colour

Jayme Lawson's married ass getting her pussy eaten out by the male ingenue character, I support women's rights and women's wrongs 🫡

Me when the White music kinda slapped:

When Cornbread started going on about love and unity when he returned from peeing in the trees, I nearly yelled, "oh my god he's in the sunken place!!"

When the Irish vampire started river dancing during a tense moment:

The contrast between Sammie's music bringing pple/spirits of different times and cultures together while Remmick's is front and center in his ghoulish dance scene

Also the vampires only singing Remmick's songs but not songs from their respective communities even tho he preached about love and unity. Remmick speaking Cantonese only to threaten the Chinese shop owner.

The vampire hivemind being a metaphor for how White supremacy erases the uniqueness of different cultures to create the singular culture of whiteness

Remmick the victim of forced anglicisation of Ireland, Remmick the settler on Indigenous American land, Remmick who violently attempts to exploit a Black man's music to hear his (white) Irish kin again. Ryan Coogler, your mind

Sammie's music 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Annie's hoodoo religion being a bridge to the ancestors and the homeland. But while Sammie's music invites danger becos it can be exploited, Annie's spiritual beliefs helps them in contrast to how hoodoo has been demonised and dismissed

When the credits started rolling:

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why is axelboneboy jumping onto different posts to defend remmick? lusting after that predatory white man.... please find another hobby

They are antiBlack is all

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People shipping Remmick and Sammie is weird af. All I see is a white man tryna take something from a black man. “I want your songs, I want your music, I want your stories.” Nahhhhh mf you got your own songs, music, and stories. White people always stealing somebody else’s culture.

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Hi, I'm a black Sinners fan talking about Sinners discourse again. Mainly about Remmick. Last and final post about Sinners discourse because ooh lord some of you niggas need it

No you don't have to agree with my following opinions and takes

No one can control fandom

No one is trying to control fandom

No you can't dictate what people like and do with their free time on the internet and that goes for both sides

No us black people don't have to shut up about our discomfort despite how "used to it" we are

No us black people won't shut up about our discomfort because we have free will and are autonomous humans like you

No black people are not public enemy #1

No white Sinners fans aren't automatically illiterate because they're white

Yes white Sinners fans should be mindful of the fact that they can't empathise with black media on the same level as a black person would just because they're fucking white and they've literally never lived as a black person

Yes black people will have to put up with most of the fandom favouritising Remmick and Sammick

Yes you non black sinners fans will also have to put up with us not being so happy about it

Yes Remmick is a beautifully written character who is rightfully enjoyed by the public because Ryan Coogler is a genius and fandom is fandom

Yes a lot of black people recognise that Remmick goes into a lot of tropes that many fandoms, especially in Tumblr spaces, favour therefore he will be well-liked. I like him. I like him quite a lot actually and I never said I didn't, I don't think a lot of us did actually

Yes the Remmick favouritism actually does delve into race and racial partiality more than you think it does in some areas of people and that's okay too

Yes you can not consider yourself to be racist and end up actually being kind of micro aggressive about black voices and black media without realising it and that's okay

Yes black people will still be uncomfortable with Sammick no matter how much you want us not to be, it's gonna fucking happen and just like us, you'll fucking deal with it

Yes seeing your favourite character (more so the fandom's actions with them) being hated on is tough but just ignore it and manage your internet time wisely because you can create a space for yourself to enjoy what you enjoy just fine as long as you just press the block button

Yes the implications with Sammick if you really think about it is kind of fucking weird so there are obviously people who are going to dislike it and call out its weirdness

Yes you can still like it despite that because no one gives a shit unless you give them leverage over your emotions

Yes I do actually understand why Sammick is well liked because I'm a queer man who likes to ship so I obviously get what the appeal is

If you enjoy Remmick and you're like, "I agree with all of this so why are you coming at all Remmick fans!!!!!" This post obviously isn't for you, and it obviously isn't for all Remmick fans. I'm a Remmick fan?? I'm a fan of all the characters because they're there for a reason and I love that. Sinners (2025, dir. by Ryan Coogler) is the most beautiful piece of cinema I've seen so far in 2025 and it's definitely one of my favourite films right now and will continue to uphold that spot.

So for the final time, stop acting like niggas actually have leverage over you and your takes because you're the only one giving them that leverage. Just move on because this discourse is annoying and stupid. Like Remmick! Love Remmick! Like Sammick! No one is here to tell you what to do! I won't even tell you to shut the fuck up because you don't have to. It's your fucking blog so who am I to tell you what to do on it. Post what you want, comment on what you want, reblog this and say whatever the hell. My blog is my blog and your blog is yours I'm just saying you white Sinners fans actually be tripping sometimes

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Might become Dr. Umar

I’m so annoyed that most fics are either Remmick or Sammick. A movie centered around BLACK people, BLACK music, BLACK culture, and BLACK struggles. Yet I’ve been reading the same fics over and over again for the black characters.

Also, this isn’t a safe space for Sammick. It’s weird and racist. Idc if you’re black and you ship it, you have incredibly low racial self esteem. The white vampire going around ENSLAVING people to a hive mind to STEAL their culture, primarily Sammie’s music…. It gives race play. This is your ship? Are you not ashamed? Are you not embarrassed? If you want a hauntingly romantic vampire romance with racial overtones, go to IWTV.

I am not saying non black propel can’t interact in this space. I am not even saying absolutely no Remmick fics. No one died and named me god. I just find it so odd that in a movie focusing on black people and highlights other POC, the white oppressor is the one people chose to fixate on.

Yall (🖐🏻) got literally every other fandom space catered to you and then go on to colonize this one…

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NAH WTF IS WRONG WITH WHITE SINNERS FANS

Imma only be reading Sinner fanfics from black people, cos I just saw a remmick fanfic where it's an x reader, but the reader is the daughter of a plantation owner. WTF. This is the straw that broke the camel's back. Between ignoring the black characters of sinners, centring the white ones, unironically making stereotypes of the black characters and misunderstanding the movie entirely, I've just seen so much trifling behaviour from non black sinners fans. This goes without saying, this is obviously not all white white people or non black people.

And for those interested I shall be making a master list of these fanfics. Time to name and shame 😡

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Hello, I have a list of Sinners takes (more so critiques and issues about the current state of the Sinners fandom). It's going to be a long one, so sit tight! For a full disclaimer, I am a black person—listen to my voice and other black voices. This list has three items.

(Before anyone says anything, yes fandom is fandom. People are going to do what they want and that's within their will. I'm not coming here to forcibly say that you can't do anything, but I'm here to preach my word and perhaps it'll make you ponder in your own time.)

SPOILERS AHEAD.

Short answer? I hate it. But you aren't here for the short answer and neither am I. There are a couple of different reasons why shipping Preacher Boy Sammie and Remmick together, in my opinion, is wrong, and that's what I'm here to discuss. I first heard this take when I had just gotten out of the movie theatre and went to favourite Tumblr tags. I see someone saying something along the lines of, "Oh, Sammie and Remmick were so down bad for each other/Remmick wanted Sammie so bad." On TikTok, there's a video of a person saying this quote:

1. Sammick.

"Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen this take on Sinners yet— but Remmick was down bad for Sammie. Another thing that movie lacked was queerness, and I'm gonna put my queer little lens on and I'm gonna say that dude wanted Sammie. Yes, he wanted his musical talent, but I do think you could interpret it willingly that he was also just down fucking bad for him. Because that look in his eye, oh, 'Is that my soulmate? That's my soulmate.'"

Not only am I black, but I am also queer, and the following statement could not possibly be queerphobic under any circumstances: it is dangerous to romanticise the point of Remmick and Sammie's relationship and what Remmick was supposed to symbolise. If you know things about history and have ever wondered, "when did the Irish become white?" Your "when" should be directed to a "how." There's a book titled How the Irish Became White. Irish people were victims of colonialism and oppression, as they were othered by the rest of Europe due to their appearance, culture, language and religious practices. When they came to America, they would often be excluded in a lot of white spaces, and be painted with racist imagery in the media. The suffering they endured is incomparable to black people, as all oppression is, but it was still bad.

Now, back to the question of how did the Irish become white? It's simple. They became their oppressors to other black people. In the time of slavery, many Irish slowly integrated themselves into whiteness by showing their distaste for black people and actively participating in anti-black racism. They became overseers of plantations, practically carrying out the master's orders onto slaves.

This is something the movie was trying to tell us. Remmick is jealous and hurt because he is an Irish man who has been forced to cut himself off from his culture, and is being forced to forget himself. He wanted to see his ancestors again, and so he promised many a place of sanctuary and freedom, love and acceptance, when all he was doing was playing the role of his colonisers. Colonising Sammie's sound for his own benefit. He is a branch of white supremacy that's talked about much too little, and that is the white supremacy that's infatuated with black culture. So infatuated that if you called them racist, they would gasp, and like Remmick, say, "We believe in equality." Remmick isn't in love with Sammie, he is acting out of hurt and executing it like his oppressors did. It is supposed to show the hypocrisy of this rhetoric. You aren't changing your life and you aren't changing others, you are forcefully making them a part of your image because you've forgotten the sight of a mirror. You've forgotten the height of your father and the song of your mother. And from @/snarlmalden

"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."

Another problem with Sammick is how uncomfortable I find that people are with black love and queerness that doesn't centre white people. This also has to do with how people treat Stack and Mary versus Smoke and Annie (mind you, the main couple of Sinners). People will hate Annie, ignore her, and rather pay attention to how sexy the relationship between Stack and Mary is. It doesn't come out of nowhere. It isn't an original thought. People are uncomfortable with black love that doesn't involve a white, white passing or light-skinned person. People are uncomfortable with black film that doesn't involve or centre a white, white passing or light-skinned person. More on that later.

I think queerness in the media is extremely important, I say that as a queer man. It should be absolutely become more of a commonplace thing that it isn't phenomenal if we have a queer movie or queer main character. However, black queerness is an entirely separate conversation than the one that Sinners is. Like I prefer to keep saying, Sinners is a conversation. It's a discussion. It's also a mirror for you to reflect on how you respond to all of the things that are presented before you. As a black person, a white person, an Asian person, an indigenous person, a mixed person whose black passing or someone who exists in the one drop rule. Black queerness is something entirely separate from the message of this movie that I agree, should be tackled and talked about. However, what you need to understand that for this movie specifically, it would be too much for the runtime.

Black queerness isn't something that should be belittled, and all queer conversations should be good. They should be quality. The only way they would be able to discuss black queerness in a slightly above mediocre fashion would mean they would have to pull much less attention from the other messages in the movie. This movie already says so much about our struggles, and a problem I keep seeing with white queers is that they always want to insert themselves into our conversations. Into our struggles. Into our oppression. It is not The Oppression Olympics, and you don't have to be included in every single conversation of another oppressed person. It is okay to know where you stand, and to butt out when necessary.

I can't talk about Jewish struggles because I'm not Jewish. I can't talk about physically disabled struggles because I'm not physically disabled. I do not need to insert myself in other forms of oppression to prove that I am oppressed, and someone else's oppression doesn't take away from mine. These kinds of people are what Remmick's character is for. The hypocrisy of it all. The misplaced anger of it all.

Everyone deserves representation, And like my boyfriend said, things don't have to be queer to be enjoyable, and if you can't enjoy good, meaningful non-canon queer media, then stop inserting yourself in that media. Stop interacting with that media. You do not need to protest a film that did nothing wrong if the worst it did was not include you in its conversation. It's okay not to have a seat at the table.

2. Christians seeing Sinners and missing it.

I don't shame religion or religious people. I am not anti-religion. However, I'm seeing a lot of specifically black Christian people missing the meaning of a movie that's talking about them. So let me put it in a few phrases that I'm posing as questions.

Back in that day, they wouldn't let us read nor write. They didn't want us to. However, they gave us bibles and let us (and even encouraged us) to have our churches and experience the gospel for ourselves. Why do you think that is?

Back in that day, they would take our practice of Christianity or relationship to God and deem it wrong or immoral, and they put the fear of the devil in us if we had practiced it. You know, something similar to the phrase, "If you keep dancing with the devil, one day he might follow you home." Why do you think that is?

Back in that day, they would call our practices, our music and our culture devil worship. A sickness. Something deeply wrong with us or the world we grew up in. So they sought to change our ways and make us fear it. Forget it. Hate it, even. So much so that we end up seeing movies trying to tell us things they've hidden from us so discreetly that we're calling what we saw in there the devil, rather than the truth. Why do you think that is?

Where do you think the hate came from?

And where else does it go?

Preacher Boy didn't choose the devil. He chose himself. He didn't deny himself a God to worship, but he knew that some words can't save you from an evil that was placed in you. An evil that was taught to you. A hatred that was taught to you. That's why, when Preacher Boy began to pray, Remmick recited the prayer with him. He knows your words. He's the one that spoke them to you in the first place.

That's all I have to say about that.

3. The centring of whiteness and why I think Sinners hates you.

I don't hate Remmick. I think he's a very important part of the conversation of Sinners, so I don't hate his function in the story. I love it. But I'm coming to realise that a lot of you don't understand the point of why he's here.

I see so many posts on the Sinners tag that only talks about Remmick, why to empathise with him and how he's just [insert defence], or how hot he is. However, what I don't see is these same people showing that they understand the point of the movie or why he's there to begin with. What he's there to symbolise. What it says about you.

You can say white supremacist phrases, have white supremacist takes, and fall victim to micro aggressions without considering yourself racist. You can do all that and still post "black lives matter" when asked of. I never see as much praise for Annie, the leading lady, as much as I do Mary. So much of it comes down to sex appeal, and I've seen actual people say Annie sucks and how nothing she did worked because she was the one who died. She was the one who didn't conform to Remmick. These are the same people saying Sammie chose the wrong path by not giving up his guitar, but there will be plenty more on that later.

I feel like there's an underlying bias towards Remmick with many particularly white and queer Sinners fans that they themselves are unaware of. Do I blame them? Yes. Do I understand why? Also yes. You, a white person, cannot empathise with a situation that I, as a black American experience in day to day life. To be born black is a taboo, a curse, or at least that's what's been taught to us for centuries. Not just us, but you too.

This morning, I go on TikTok. The first video I see is from a woman (@hereciasmansion) who went to see Sinners for a second or third time in a 70-milimetre IMAX screen, one of the only eight (?) in the United States. This one was in Indiana. After crossing a state border over the course of two hours, she reaches the theatre and watches a very magical experience. The visuals were phenomenal and the staff were kind.

However, at the very end of the movie, at one of the final scenes when the Klan members came to Stack and Smoke's land that they bought from them to shoot it down, Smoke carries out his word of if they trespass, they will be shot on sight. The Klan member was shot and lying on the floor, bleeding. Smoke looks at him and asks if he has a cigarette. The Klan member yells to him, "Go to hell!"

And what does this woman, sitting in the theatre see and hear? After sitting through a good two hours and fifteen minutes of a spectacular movie, after seeing all that it's about, a white man looks at the black couple next to him and repeats the same words: go to hell. Suddenly, above her and who she was travelling with, all hell breaks loose. She says,

"In that moment, looking around at everybody's faces, and hearing the conversations happening around me, I watched the crowd segregate itself. The 'I just came here to watch a movie' crowd separated itself from the 'they doing too much' crowd, which separated themselves from the 'I just wanna know what's going on right now' crowd."

I would recommend watching her entire video, which I will link here. But, to summarise, if you've seen the movie, you know that Klan member dies. Smoke finishes him off. When that moment happened, the entire theatre sans the people involved in the conflict, began applauding. In that moment, she knew that everyone was applauding for different reasons. In her words,

"There was a group that was clapping because, in their head, a character in a movie died. But then there was another crowd that was clapping because it felt like the character on that screen was in the movie theatre sitting next to us. And what felt like a victory on that screen, most of us are never gonna see."

These spaces that we create for ourselves might be the closest thing black Americans get to freedom, and yet you come into our spaces expecting a movie with black people in it rather than a black movie. You expect objects instead of life. You expect a shallow pool rather than the ocean. You expect a white lie instead of the black truth.

How much did you understand what you walked out of? How much did you catch the point? How much did you have to look at yourself to understand what was happening, if you even reflected at all?

I'm leaving this quite open ended because I'd like to spark a discussion about this. I'd also like to spark a discussion with yourself, especially if you're a white Sinners fan. I think I've said what I wanted to say in bulk, but there will always be more to say and more that I will say. So I will leave it at this statement:

Sinners is a mirror, though to some, it's just glass.

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1980.

Notoriously corrupt politician James Watt banned the Beach Boys from 4th of July celebrations in Washington D.C. because they weren’t “patriotic, family-based entertainment” like Wayne Newton. 

He was later charged with 18 separate felonies for bribery, graft, and influence peddling while serving as Secretary of the Interior.

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i want yummy bugrer

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this line delivery has lived in my head for 10 years

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wgatever .

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whole foods employee catches me stealing valuable artichoke water and tries to apprehend me but i quickly jump through one of his gauges and escape