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I'd be so susceptible to cult recruitment rn

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as a girl i should be able to speak directly to the moon

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ill fated

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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Thinking about how despite needing to be invited in, Remmick always forces himself into where he is explicitly not allowed. He doesn’t understand racial tensions in Jim Crow Mississippi but also can’t comprehend Normal Fucking Boundaries. He hasn’t been human for so long that he either forgot, or he just doesn’t care.

He is a predator in every sense of the word. Every vampire that he or his followers create are made without their consent or knowledge of what vampirism entails. Every time he’s invited inside he achieved it through lying, manipulation or coercion. And he thinks it’s fine because he has a borderline religious mission to save souls from death and assimilate them into his cult of personality.

I counted the amount of onscreen romantic relationships that Remmick either ruins or forced himself into - I’ve come to a total of 5 couples.

1. This happens basically offscreen so I think it’s left up to interpretation, but Remmick did not turn Joan. He sits comfortably in a chair and watches Burt (influenced by Remmick) violently force himself on his wife to turn her into a vampire. And I have reason to believe that, considering the way he speaks to Grace.

2. After turning Bo Chow, Remmick learns of the existence of his wife Grace and their daughter Lisa. Threatening Lisa’s life by itself should have (and would have) been enough for Grace to let him inside, not even mentioning the safety of the whole town. But he doesn’t. What he does is flip through Bo’s memories like files, and find an extremely intimate and personal one of Bo and Grace having sex. And because this is a memory, this isn’t from a third person perspective, this is Bo’s perspective of going down on his wife that Remmick has voyeured himself to. And he lets Grace know it too, in her and Bo’s native language. He tells her that he knows how to have sex with her because he thrifted through her dead husband’s memories, all while Bo stands next to him. I can’t even tell if he was just trying to anger her to let him inside, or if he Genuinely Thought that he was Entitled to the bodies of all of his followers - they share all of their memories, what’s yours is his and what’s his is yours.

3. Pearline is turned into a vampire (by Remmick IIRC). So now Remmick has access to her memories, including her having sex with Sammie, whom he’s obsessed with. So that’s Fuckin Great. And then she dies. Sammie never forgets losing Pearline, he names his band after her. There’s also no mention of him ever marrying or having a family IIRC, so he might not have ever moved on from her.

4. He turns Cornbread, who dies a second time, leaving his wife behind.

5. Annie is about to be turned into a vampire and Smoke follows through on his promise of mercy killing her if that ever came to pass. Then Smoke is killed in a shoot out with the Klan - the same Klan that Remmick had said he was going to ‘rectify’ and Never Did, because he wanted to go some place where he was explicitly Not Invited.

The only relationship that comes out somewhat unscathed is Stack and Mary, but Stack will always have to live with the fact that he is separated from his best friend, his identical twin, forever - and he only has Mary to blame, but he also only has her eternal company.

We talk a lot about the racial assimilation of Remmick’s cult, but not about the boundaries of the relationships he destroyed.

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I was doing a chibi commission and then felt like drawing him

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every day of my life i'm grateful that the same people who assign strict top/bottom and/or dom/sub dynamics to characters haven't gotten their hands on sadomasochism, at least within my purview, because Can you fucking imagine

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hello! i'm open for commissions!! please read everything through carefully. it is not FCFS, but I have 5 slots open for simplified style and 5 more for the rest. I'll close the form whenever I've filled the slots.

a small note that I am also con-prepping so it may take a bit more time than usual for me to provide updates, but I will be sending everyone a tracker list to keep track of your commission progress.

shares are appreciated, ty for your support!!

COMMISSION FORM

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Joan Tierney

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let's roleplay a scenario where i suddenly collapse and you're the only witness but you're too anxious and fatigued by all the suffering that surrounds you to be inconvenienced by going to check on me so you just leave me there and hope someone else stops to help and are haunted by the guilty uncertainty of your inaction for decades to come

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'yeag' is a typo to YOU but to me she conveys a feeling that 'yeah' does not

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I think it would be incredibly emotionally fulfilling to hit someone in the back of the head really hard with a shovel

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(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

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pausing torture to let the victim know i don’t personally get anything out of this sexually and if i did get off on torture they are nottt the one i would pick bc i find them kind of repulsive lol but anyway yeah i’m not like some kind of pervert this is old fashioned love of the game. you know you’re like kind of unresponsive and shitty to talk to. like i’m giving you information about my life this is a conversation. you should work on that it’s really unpleasant. Anyway so this one is called the “scavengers daughter”

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my darling my darling my life and my bride

(redraw)

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in wigan its all we have left