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Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma Bridgerton 2x05

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Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

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“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”

— David Lynch

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Two of my favorite small moments in Sinners

Smoke talks to a little girl when he’s asking for her help to keep an eye out for his truck. He takes a moment to teach her what money and value means. To help her understand that she is bringing something valuable to the table and that she should always know her worth and negotiate for it. Not just take what is given to her. Just the way he spoke to her. It showed the ways black kids in that era needed to be uplifted and guided to understand their place in the world, taught their freedom and worth.

When Delta Slim is talking about how he knows all those men that were working in the field, and he had to watch his friend get lynched. In the middle of describing that he starts shaking, he starts humming, he starts singing the blues. And we can see how that pain and brokenness is channeled into the music we know as the blues. It isn’t something that can be separated from that experience that pain and the roots is what created the blues because it was one way to transmute the pain into expression.

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thinking about the vampire remmick in sinners coming from a same place of oppression as the people he's terrorizing, thinking about him using the music that his oppressed ancestors played to perpetuate the cycle of domination that they were a victim of, thinking about him trying to use his background to make sammie think they're on the same side when he's trying to take his gift for himself and use it for evil, thinking about him using his talents to destroy communities instead of healing them and bond his people together the way sammie does, music as the vessel of love through generations of black people against a white man that wants to take it for himself, vampirism in the movie being represented as a continuation of the south's racism, one that wants to appropriate the culture ("your memories become my memories") by using it to destroy the community, ryan coogler... genius i'm afraid

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something about smoke being rejected since childhood because everyone was certain his father's evil lived on in him. something about annie being the only one to call smoke 'elijah' and how that makes him soften. something about how just before they're truly reunited, annie says 'i dont want any of that smoke on the baby'. something about annie being the one who sets smoke free from his past and his sins and lets him be human instead.

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im thinking abt sinners and The Scene: how Sammie played so beautifully that the house caught fire and showed the people inside, but he wasn't the center of it - there was so much movement in that scene!!! so much to SEE - no two people danced the same way - you're focusing on the spirits of the old and the new and how Together everyone looked even without four walls around them.

And then you have Remmick and his song. There's uniformity in the dancing!!! in the singing!!!! in the movements!!!!!!! Those same people who were dancing so freely and expressively!!!!! Now following remmick step after step!!!!!

Whiteness as vampirism!!! Leeching away individuality!!!! culture!!! freedom!!! ughhgghh this movie !!!!!¡!!! so good !!!!!¡!!!!!!!

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the women of Sinners

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"No miseries worth complainin' about."

WUNMI MOSAKU as ANNIE SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.

he’s perpetuating a cycle that he claims to hate and resent, and I think the movie is pretty damn clear about the fact that he doesn’t see anybody as valuable or useful to him except as prey and as pawns—otherwise he would just, you know, focus solely on people who actually consent to being turned. but he looked sad in that one scene and he’s an apparently attractive white cis man so people are gonna bend over backwards justifying all the harm he did.

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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redditor joins tumblr and is shocked and upset by the concept of a gifset

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Parker? Ooh, you are so out of your depth. You read her completely wrong. As a thief? A glorified pickpocket? Parker is magnificent. She has no weaknesses. She's laser focused. She's been three steps ahead of you the entire time. And you gave her half an hour to set it up.

Beth Riesgraf as Parker in The Grand Complication Job (S03E05) Leverage: Redemption (2021-present)

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You all right? It's a feelings thing. I hate those. LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION | 3.01 | The Weekend in Paris Job

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Leverage: Redemption (2021-present) The Hustler Job (S03E04)

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Leverage: Redemption 3x3- "The Scared Stiff Job"

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John Roger’s return is bringing us the best season of Leverage Redemption without a doubt. Every episode has been funny and dramatic in a real balanced way, filled with character development and exploration, and so deeply captures the heart of og Leverage!