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[chillinglikeashilling]

Lord forgive me for paying attention to the YT comments section but I really want people who claim Annie was treated as a less 'desired love interest' than Mary to remind me which of them was told she didn't have any business being near them by both Micheal A and Michael B Jordan.

"Oh but Mary is shown to be the focus of desire and Annie isn't"

Are we forgetting that the first thing Stack tells Mary to do is kick rocks? That one of the first things we learned about their past relationship is that he left her in the middle of the night without any communication at all?

Yes Smoke also left Annie but that to me is representative of the fact that both twins always chose each other over either of their respective lovers, or anyone else in their lives. At the very least we know from the fact that he married her that Smoke considered Annie someone in his life, who was not Stack, that he could build a life with. She made him a mojo bag so it's not like Smoke left in the middle of the night.

And it's not like either twin is best friends with the other's lover but Annie clearly gets so much more consideration and respect from Stack than Mary does from Smoke. Smoke would clearly rather Stack and Mary never even have been together in the first place but even from (what was supposed to be) the opening night of the Juke we see Stack and Annie working together to manage Smoke and the business. Annie is being paid to cook there sure, but to me it's clear that she was always supposed to have a huge role in the business.

I'm not saying the movie is perfect or that people can't have their own opinions but even if we're appealing to the respectability argument- Annie is the only person in the main cast apart from Sammie with very little 'sin' on her record. For one thing she's the only woman of the three love interests who isn't cheating on her husband for whatever that's worth to folks in a movie called Sinners.

And even the comparison of the love scenes feels disingenuous to me. I've seen some people say Mary is the one shown to be desired between her and Stack while Smoke is shown to be desired by Annie and I want to remind everyone that again Mary is the person chasing Stack. He saw her that morning and said go back to your white husband. Annie and Smoke are reuniting as a couple that went through a horrible loss that can rip modern couples apart, without the additional stresses of being sharecroppers on top of that.

Additionally I don't think it's a coincidence that the love scene between Smoke and Annie happens before the sun goes down and the one between Stack and Mary - which I remind everyone leads to Stack dying!!- happens after nightfall and after Mary has already been turned by Remmick. Sammie and Stack both talk about that day before the sun went down being one of the best days of their life. Given the connection and parallels between the twins I would assume that the same would probably be true for Smoke.

So one of the best days of his life involved getting to reconnect with his wife. Getting to fold her into a business he and his brother were building not just for their own financial freedom and independence but also as a safe space for their community. A community Annie was a central part of.

One of those love scenes happened between a couple that had a real chance of reconciling if Remmick hadn't shown up and it's not the one featuring Mary.

[thedreadvampy]

we interviewed like, literally the perfect candidate today (for another job I'm on the panel for, sadly not for my team) but also they work with Sam so I was like 'NO. I SHOULDN'T ask Sam 'hey is [name] sound?'

but because I have no boundaries instead I went into his room as soon as I got home and went 'THE INTERVIEWS WENT WELL. BY THE WAY WHO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO YOU LIKE AND HATE AT WORK.' which inevitably triggered a guessing game which. is just asking 'is [name] sound' with extra steps

(they are, evidently, as good as they seemed)

(which is lucky. already finalised my scoring so.)

[aipurjopa]

my gear set.... from the parchufies commission.... yay!

for context this is like... a friend of a friend of a friend's server where there's lifesteal plugin (that they somehow got working for 1.21.4 idk how this stuff works man). but anyways i log on and immediately get killed like 3 times and then died 3 times to stupid shit then i gave up and dm'ed the friend who gave me the ip and begged for a gear set 😭😭😭😭😭

this is going so terribly for me. iirc tho they have a different heart crafting recipe so that's good ig. also apparently netherite is not allowed but people use it anyways but my friend didn't want to break any rules so i didn't end up getting my netherite set but whatever....

[elemental-plane]

i need everyone to know that the second i read that noshir was gonna be back at the cr table for downfall i audibly went "Oh No." he pulls absolutely NO punches and i am so excited to see what he does this time

[idontmindifuforgetme]

i really am the kind of bitch who loves reading textbooks huh

[thornshadowwolf]

I don't remember why but I dreamed about looking up the common religions in different regions of Thailand last night

[darabeatha]

Me thinking about writting an angel servant-

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Merry Christmas Eve my friends ✨🎄 📚❄️

[tlatia-the-radiant]

- @askthecaptiangeneral

I will club you to death with your own fucking femur

[gojohatemail]

WHO SAID THAT!?!?

[musclesandhammering]

Ok, so like…

1. Universes were stacked on top of each other before the multiversal war.

2. Loki’s Yggdrasil tree in the finale encompasses the whole multiverse.

That’s like… very hard to reconcile. And I’m lost as to, like.. what the loom did to those stacked universes, if it held all the universes or just 616 and its branches, if branches and universes are the same thing…..

If anyone could connect the dots between these two things for me, that’d be great.

[star-trek-pop-quiz]

Star Trek POP-QUIZ #25

( 05 / 04 / 2024 ) Happy First Contact Day!

Question 1. What is Zefram Cochrane's birthplace? a. Iowa b. Alaska c. Montana d. Unspecified

Question 2. TRUE OR FALSE Cochrane is the only character to utter the phrase "Star Trek" in the franchise.

Question 3. How many ( known ) unofficial First Contact's have Humans had with Vulcans? a. 1 b. 2 c. 4 d. 8

Bonus Question: Which year/s did this happen?

Question 4. What is the name of the Vulcan captain who made First Contact? a. Sarek b. Skon c. Stron d. Solkar

Bonus Question: How is this Vulcan related to Spock?

Question 5. Fill-in Question! Which song did Cochrane play to the Vulcans upon First Contact? Hint: 2 words -- O____ D____

Bonus Question: When was this song released?

Score: __/ 5 + 3 bonus ( Answers under cut )

Question 1. c. Montana

Question 2. True.

Question 3. b. 2

+ 1930: TOS ( "The City on the Edge of Forever" ) 1957: ENT ( "Carbon Creek" )

Question 4. d. Solkar

+ Solkar is Spock's Great-Grandfather.

Question 5. Ooby Dooby by Roy Orbison. ( Give it a listen! )

+ 1961

"Don't try to be a great man; just be a man, and let history make its own judgments."

[doedipus]

I played a pretty long strive session pretty much for the first time since the patch, and man, I can tell that the new stuff is very strong, but I can also tell that it's gonna take a wicked long time to sort out all the spaghetti

[chemicalarospec]

My summer plan is to get my 4 year old second cousin to teach me Chinese

(her early years were Chinese-exclusive. She's now speaking more English, I think she's in day care? Are 4 years olds in day care? Is she even four years old? Anyways I'm pretty sure she's still a slightly better Chinese conversationalist than me so yeah.)

Also she loves me so it's going to be great (the actual relationship is I will be babysitting her. I will try to not impart too much of my worldly knowledge on her but no promises I won't indoctrinate her into the transgender cult (tell her about my gender))

[thefinemen]

Feed the Monster: High-Speed Knowledge Absorption for Ruthless Growth

Feed the Monster: High-Speed Knowledge Absorption for Ruthless Growth Tagline: In a world drowning in distraction, the most dangerous man is the one who learns faster than the rest. Acharya Chanakya didn’t conquer with weapons. He conquered with intelligence. In today’s world, the battlefield has shifted from the ground to the mind. The men who outlearn their enemies, outlead the market.…

[herearedragons]

damn I completely forgot to share my answer.

anyway my candidate is Kana because I feel like he fits a lot of the same boxes the Watcher does. he's a foreigner who came to the Dyrwood seeking something. he already has a reason to go to Caed Nua, so his personal goals are tied to Maerwald, and adding an Awakening to that could be fun. he's already beefing with the Leaden Key. his whole thing is striving to uncover the past to build a better future. he represents truth and history and hope. also he has that somewhat insecure-but-optimistic attitude that would make him fit right in as a protagonist, I think. AND he idolizes the Engwithans just a little and it would be fun to see how experiencing their darker side firsthand would affect him

found myself thinking about an AU where there's no custom Watcher, and one of the companions gets the Awakening and Watcher powers instead. kind of like BG3 origins I guess, in the sense that a companion can take Tav's place in the story

anyway. with that in mind