#meanwhile Smoke and Stack and Grace and Annie and Bo and Pearline are right there??

[tactilegalaxies]

Oh my god, this. I just finally watched Sinners on Wednesday and I was so excited to splash around in the fandom puddle. And then I opened the tag and it was… bizarre. The ratio of reader self-insert fics about Remmick to everything else was so off I closed the tag. And almost no thirst for other characters on this, the famously most horny of the websites.

There was some appreciation for the women of the movie, but I don’t think I saw anything about the Smokestack twins. Which, like… how? I mean, this is the actor who caused the famous “broke my retainer by clenching my teeth too hard at that one Killmonger scene” post. Make it make sense!

the current state of the sinners tag really ought to be the nail in the coffin for anyone who still doubts fandom has a really weird unwillingness to engage with characters of color and will hyperfixate on any white guy available no matter what the source material is actually like. this is a movie that gave you michael b. jordan playing morally dubious well-dressed identical twin mobsters with a deliciously fucked up codependent-enmeshed relationship and the tag is overwhelmingly full of fic about self-inserts having sex with the white villain who's in the movie for like five minutes total and has one line of dialogue alluding vaguely to a potentially sympathetic backstory. i haven't seen a single twincest fic yet. i like remmick and his disney villain swag just fine and i'm not even personally into twincest but you just cannot convince me remmick ships would be dominating the fandom responses in a world where smoke & stack were played by a white guy of comparable conventional attractiveness to mbj lol who would that even be