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3. While Smoke and Stack dress similarly in the beginning of Sinners, their suits seemingly pay homage to the typical looks of the Italian and Irish mobs, with Stack dressed like an Italian mobster, while Smoke is dressed like the Irish. In the film, Mary points out that they ripped off both the Italians and the Irish in Chicago before coming back to the Mississippi Delta.

10. Throughout the film, you'll notice that Smoke's hands shake, which is why he has trouble rolling a cigarette for himself toward the end. Up until this point, Stack would hand him cigarettes he rolled, and after he died, Smoke wasn't able to do it on his own. This is why, after Stack's death, the next time we see Smoke smoking is when he takes a cigarette from Bert after he shoots him.

13. Bo and Grace's characters, and the fact that they run a grocery store, is a nod to real history and how Chinese immigrants came to the US and settled in the Mississippi Delta. At the time, the stores owned by Chinese immigrants served the Black community, when the white community would not. According to The Untold Story of America's Southern Chinese, more than 70% of the Mississippi Delta population in 1940 got their groceries and everyday goods from a small Chinese community made up of only around 743 people.

20. Buddy Guy, who stars as older Sammie, is a well-known blues guitarist and singer, and his upbringing is similar to Sammie's in Sinners. Raised in Louisiana, he was the son of sharecroppers, and he picked cotton as a child while living in the Delta. Eventually, he taught himself to play guitar, recalling to the New Yorker in 2019, "I'd go sit on top of the levees and bang away with my guitar, and you could really hear it ... That's just how country sound is. A little wind would carry it even better." Now, he owns a blues club in Chicago.

The story clearly outlines how Remmick first came to America in 1911 from his native Ireland. The ship he crosses the Atlantic on is named The Celtic Hare, but it's clearly meant to be a stand-in for the ship that Dracula famously crossed the sea on in Bram Stoker's Dracula, named The Demeter. It's another example of how Sinners' vampire lore sticks fairly closely to the traditional vampire tropes first laid down by Dracula and the original Nosferatu.

The other two newspaper pages that can be found on Spotify reveal just how Smoke and Stack made their money: bank robberies. The first page is from their hometown paper, and outlines the outcome of a bank robbery, along with a description of the brothers' personalities as recounted by eyewitnesses, including Stack's smooth-talking, commanding nature, and Smoke's more abrasive, violent streak.

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In the movie it's talked about how smoking stack played the Irish and Italian mob families against each other.

My apologies if this post shows up twice. Tumblr ate it the first time I tried to post, so I had to recreate it.

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My honest reaction to that information:

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Personal demon 💜

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I’m looking forward to completing your training. In time, you will call me master.

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"I thought maybe I could say something. Tell you what a rare and wonderful thing you are to find amidst all this... darkness."

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I watched a video explaining how to recognize when something is written by AI.

And all of the tips described my natural writing style.

It was like, "AI has a large vocabulary and perfect grammar."

Uh oh.

"And if you see even a single emdash... IT'S AI!"

Goddammit.

I spent like an entire month building the muscle memory to type a proper emdash instead of using a double dash.

I love emdashes!

My writing style is all about trying to replicate the cadence inside my head in written form. So I try to use ellipses, asterisks, commas, periods, line breaks, and the beloved —emdash— to get people to read my writing a certain way.

And it turns out that stylistic development checks a lot of AI boxes.

Just know that I love writing too much to let some robot do it for me.

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More of Black Codex by Matt Rhodes! ❤️

They really did let Solas do all the heavy lifting, and than carry all the guilt. 😭

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late evenings at work

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I was leaving the doctor's office and saying goodbye to everyone and the office manager said, "Enjoy your weekend. Happy Fahhh..." and then she just went quiet.

She realized mid-sentence that I didn't have any children and that I didn't have a father. It was like she hit the pause button on her brain and wasn't sure how to handle it.

I walked out pretending I didn't hear it.

I figured telling her it didn't bother me and drawing attention would have felt more awkward.

I am very fragile. I won't deny that. But I don't think people understand emotional fragility when it comes to grief. I don't need anyone to pretend I didn't lose my parents. I like remembering they existed.

And there is this thing where people will refrain from talking about their own still-alive parents to keep me from being sad. I am okay with parents not being dead. That isn't necessary.

It's like when people feel like they can't complain about how tired they are around me. YOU CAN! Being tired sucks!

I get upset at the tragic circumstances. Being reminded of the trauma and pain and my brother's neglect and abuse.

But I like talking about my parents and how kind and supportive they were. I like talking about my dad's bad dad jokes. My mom's love of HSN jewelry. They were cool people and I don't want folks to forget who they were.

So I guess my advice when talking to people in grief is to avoid talking about how a loved one died.

Instead, talk about how they lived.

Be curious and interested in who they were as people.

Hopefully that makes sense.

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latest vs first emmrich 💚

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I participated in the Vaderkin exchange @vaderkin-is-a-lightning-rod. I made art for @unlikecharlie. I did two prompts. One of Vader and Luke sharing a soft moment. And then another of Anakin reuniting with his mother in Force after his death.

The two images aren't connected by a story, but they could be.

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This parade is one of the most thrown-together low-energy events I've ever seen. Our high school float parade had more enthusiasm.

The best part... Trump is bored out of his skull.

Though every once in a while he stands up and salutes.

It's really weird.

Also, they just paused the presentation to thank a sponsor.

Classy.

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Tragedy is when the apes fight until everyone is dead. Comedy is when the apes fight until everyone is married.

Check out the bonus panel on the site!

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print!

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silly little supernatural people love these thingies so i made a few last one is a little treat mostly for me because i love them lol

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This lighting looks so good on him