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sirens was so. devastating and beautiful and awful. like what if the story was wrong? what if all those sailors who crashed their ships into the cliffs did it just because they saw something beautiful and wanted to claim it. and when they couldn’t, they made the girls into monsters. you pushed me off a cliff, you broke my heart, you ruined my life you did this to me … and all they were really guilty of was not loving someone the way they wanted them to. not being the idealized blank doll they were supposed to be.

maybe the only way michaela could protect simone (from her husband? from being blamed for someone else’s guilt? from her own fate?) was by sending her away.

maybe the sirens are trapped on their island, forever sought after by men who refuse to admit that it was their hands on the wheel when the ship changed course. maybe the sailors have more power over their fate then they want to believe. maybe it’s just easier to blame someone else… to turn them into a monster.

maybe the sirens were singing just to sing.

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Milly Alcock as Simone DeWitt SIRENS | 1.05 Siren Song

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I wasn’t built to be employed. I need to stay up until 4 am like a normal person

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i was so angry at everything when i was 13. and i was right

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citationless behavior

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BAILEY BASS as CLAUDIA INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE  |  1.05

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Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. 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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"There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future." SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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some fd bloodlines textposts for the soul

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GUARDS!! console me

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The clouds carry too many memories.

— J. G. Ballard, from “The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D,” Vermilion Sands (Jonathan Cape, 1973)

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murder-suicide can be a happy ending. if youre deranged enough

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i heard that guy doesn't have a library card let's kill him

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so it's too long to upload here but I finally got my iwtv louis and claudia end of the after video up on YouTube! I made it ages ago but had tons of issues with logins so it's been collecting dust!

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things you will regret having said to your daughter

Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire / Lord and Lady Capulet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet