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We was never gonna be free. We've been running around everywhere looking for freedom. You know damn well you was never gonna find it. Until this.

Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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the women of Sinners

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Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler | 2025

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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SINNERS 2025 | dir. Ryan Coogler

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can't stop thinking about how Remmick had a black eye after fleeing the Choctaw vampire hunters. Forget stakes and holy water and garlic; they were just straight up beating his ass

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‘you put that cig out, you can hold her’

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

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fiyero's point of view of part one is hilarious. He leaves elphaba and glinda to themselves for one day and now Elphie is wanted by the government and glinda is technically a prisoner/is kissing up to the wizard and super sad about Elphie. The throuple is in danger and now he's left to hold the braincell.

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team green this team black that fuck all that noise i'm team dragon. sunfyre's cries of pain and meleys looking guiltily at rhaenys as she died broke my heart way more than any of these blond bitches' deaths will i just know it

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the audacity of s2 ep4 of HOTD to do that to me!! i cried!! i screamed! aegon and sunfyre’s relationship paralleling rhaenys and meleys - sunfyre so green and inexperienced vs meleys who has seen it all. the battle. The betrayals. The absurdly excellent way the showrunners highlighted just how DEVASTATING dragon warfare is, how the victims are from BOTH sides regardless of whose dragon is on the field. The symbolism of the inherent selfishness of the Targaryen reign. THE WAY AEMOND POINTS THE KNIFE - THE ICE & FIRE KNIFE - AT AEGON’S BODY AFTER FIREBALLING HIM OUT OF THE SKY. (the way sunfyre wrapped himself around aegon, as if attempting to protect him. The fact that one living thing, at least, considered Aegon a Kind and Good when no one else ever did). Meleys giving Rhaenys one last look, one last goodbye. What a fucking BANGER.

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the real joy of s2 ep4 of hotd is the personalities imbued in all the dragons. The look Meleys gives Rhaenys just before they die, the feeling that both of them are seasoned warriors like brothers in arms. The way Sunfyre appears to play push Aegon (as if they are friends more than anything) and wraps himself around Aegon’s mangled body as if to protect him while Sunfyre himself lays dying. The way Aemond tells Vhagar to chill the fuck out and she just flops back onto the floor like she couldn’t give a shit what they do! All the dragons had personality. It was both lovely and heartbreaking all at once. it makes the downfall of the Targaryen house all the more devastating and bittersweet to know these relationships between ride and dragon are being lost to history and time.

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i think we are all forgetting something when we talk about how toxic patrick, tashi, and art are — or when we decide one is “worse” than the other. they all have moments of seeing right through it, seeing each other’s toxic behavior for what it is, and STILL want and need each other in this possessive, envious, visceral way.

1. in the way beginning, tashi is clearly flirting more with art than patrick, and patrick is visibly annoyed. art sees right through it and even challenges him like “okay, let’s leave”, and has this little smirk on his face because he knows patrick won’t give up on tashi.

2. tashi immediately sees the visible tension and love between art and patrick, and literally orchestrates their first kiss. she sees right through their repression, and even calls herself a “home-wrecker” but still entangles herself with them, especially patrick because he’s clearly the better tennis player at that point and that is tash’s ONLY true love. tennis. that’s what she desires most in him, and patrick knows that. he even calls her out on it in the dorm room scene. but they have this mirroring fire in each other that neither of them can give up, not until patrick breaks the balance and bails — tashi’s injury is literally a metaphor for the balance shattering between all three of them when patrick leaves her.

3. before this, patrick sees right through art trying to break them up, and even admires that quality — maybe even feels smug and flattered because art is jealous and feels left out from both tashi and patrick. patrick has known this all along, we saw it in the “tick-serve” scene, where he even swears to tashi he won’t tell anyone but he still tells art, who is desperate to feel a part of them and patrick wants that, too — even keeps that close intimacy with art that we see in the churro scene (swoon swoon swoon).

4. haven’t you noticed that arts desire to be great is only ever tied up in patrick and tashi? how he needs to beat patrick to win tashis affection, how he needs to win in tennis so that tashi can live through him, how he lives up to his potential in the ending only because tashi and patrick push him to it, in their little fucked up ways? he knows this — he even admits that he’s playing for tashi, that he knows she’s living through him. he even admits he’s playing a fucked up little game with patrick when they’re in the sauna. yet he still does it. again, he knows what’s happening, sees right through them — still does it, still loves them.

5. when tashi calls patrick to come pick her up he knows it’s not just to tell him to throw the match — and despite how she battles him about it, they still have sex in the car, because he already knows. he’s so fully aware of her and her game and he’s so willing to be caught up in it, the same as art.

just some examples of how they all have moments of clarity and agency and yet they still choose to be entangled in one another because they’re all fucked up in their own, individual ways, and they’re all living through each other for their own specific needs. arts is to be seen as worthy, as great, but only through their gaze. tashis is to have the career that was stolen from her. patricks is truly to be in love and in lust with both of them, because we even see that from the beginning that tashis love alone will never satiate him; it has to be arts love, too. that scene in the sauna when he thinks he’s lost it from art is the most sad and fucked up we ever even see patrick. on top of tashi asking him to throw the game — he’s so defensive of arts feelings.

in short this is an actual love triangle (and i would go as far as to see it as a polyship). you can’t erase one without the whole thing unraveling, and you can’t say one character was the “worst” without picking apart the motivations and pointing to the fact that their bad behavior was never a secret or left unchecked.

even at the end, patrick signals to art that he slept with tashi — art knows and they still have that intimate completion at the end, all three of them. art living up to his potential and embracing patrick fully (id argue this could even be a metaphor for embracing his bisexuality), patrick having both tashi and arts affection again, and tashi playing a phenomenal tennis match through her little white boys — in such a visceral, emotional way that she cries out like she did in the beginning and the last frame is her smiling.

in a fucked up way, they all get what they wanted out of each other.

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I like the fact that all the characters' relationships with tennis was reflected with their personal relationships (which solidifies the tennis = relationship ideal)

Patrick is pure talent, he barely trains and that makes for a certain instability in his life sometimes he's the greatest but the fallout will be huge – he's the one who had the biggest fallout with the other 2, and only sometimes gets a "win" (sleeping with Tashi and/or playing against Art)

Art is quiet in a way, his bad isn't as apparent because he waits for the opportunity instead of being upfront about it like the others, most of his career and abilities are shown off camera, his injury happens off camera, his family is very out of the picture as far as we know, his grandmother died in between time skips; Art is the blank slate, he allowed Tashi to live her carer through him but she still went for Patrick, relating to the fact he has a professional career he trained for but has never been able to win against Patrick, who's doenst need to work for it

Tashi, like in the hotel scene, is the inspector, even before her injury she was able to point out mistakes done by Patrick in the game — that's why she's able to read them both in that scene – she's been forced to be the observer in the field but still holds power over things go by being the coach and trying to bargain with Patrick to throw the match. She's the one watching and making the shots both in and outside the field it's a matter of how well they receive her "commands" (reflecting on the conflicts the boys have with her)

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on that note it’s crucial to understand that there is no twosome from the challengers trio that could ever work. like patrick and art alone are repressed tashi and art alone are resentful tashi and patrick alone are toxic it simply does not work they always need the third to balance each other out this is is a throuple movie a threesome movie you’re literally not understanding

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because they all love and hate each other to varying degrees like patrick loves tennis and tashi and art but art the most and art loves tennis and patrick but he loves tashi the most and tashi loves tennis the most but none of them can have the thing they want most so they use one another to get closer to it and in the aftermath end up resenting each other for what could have been