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marylander trying to describe a tornado: imagine a crab cake

aioli is such a fabulous word it's not every day you see vowels doing so much legwork

thank uou for showing me your little white boy i do not like him can you put him away please

remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

ethel cain album cover

Can't hang out in your great-uncle's den anymore. Because of woke

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

Just an extremely Normal thing to say

Reminder they want to increase the budget for ICE from 3.5 to 45 billion dollars.

Reminder the majority of that will be for building new detention centers.

Reminder ICE are *currently* detaining tourists who can pay for a plane ticket home and people with visa issues that were already resolved, because they have to make quota so Trump can brag about the numbers going up.

Reminder most of these people were already in the immigration system - that's why they were easy to detain.

Reminder this is all at taxpayer expense.

Reminder these are people.

[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.

Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.

Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.

Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.

god i may be crazy but i think that bev put that rat poison on father Paul's water somehow

here, when sarah was checking on paul, bev filled a glass of water for him to drink

after on the same day there was a man that I forgot the name now that was fixing his sink and minutes later paul came inside the house and died from poisoning, just like joe's dog when bev poisoned it

and earlier on that episode bev was putting the poison back on the shelf. why would they show it suddenly?

pls tell me I'm not crazy I've never seen anyone talking about it

Ok i can't be the only one who's uncomfortable with how unanimously Arthur and John (not as much but it does happen) treat anyone they deem to be cultists as just subhuman and unworthy of mercy. Like I think the only time that mindset is challenged was during season 3, and even then it was more of a blanket statement about Arthur's missing compassion.

I don't know, just something about the vicious and unabashedly contemptful way they talk about even neutral or unseen cultists is really gross to me. Like yeah yeah it's become sort of a running gag in the fandom but it's a little unsettling to watch a protaganist leave people to die horrific deaths on the basis of being part of a religious group. And don't say "oh but they've killed and maimed!" He let Collins out of prison to work with him and employ his services as a reputably brutal and talented hitman who enjoys the hunt with zero qualms.

I'm not saying all the cultist characters are good people, but for a story with an axis of forgiveness skewed heavily in favour of characters who have commited cruel and gruesome violence against other people, it's seems like a weird line to draw so firmly

touch

The penitent one

wishing everyone a very good luck getting through january-march without killing yourself

it's really funny how the NYPD perp walked Luigi Mangione as an obvious power play so they could pretend they're badasses but instead they just look like they're leading Jesus to the cross

Mae!

proxy 𝓛𝓞𝓥𝓔

In my Blasphemous era rn

I love these angst riddled siblings so much I am crying seething rn grrrgrrr Oh and you know me, a bonus:

A small Tma avatar lineup :)