phaetonea
my body’s made of crushed little stars and im not doing anything
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knowing in my heart that smoke killed remmick bc he knew that if he didn’t, he’d hunt sammie down to the ends of the earth.
versus smoke refusing to kill stack, bc smoke trusted his brother would keep his promise not to turn their little cousin, but he would not, absolutely would NOT, trust a white man not to go back on his word. even if they’d traded sammie in for their lives, remmick would have turned the rest of the juke joint just because he could 😂
Woke up, still obsessed with Sinners.
Seriously, if you ever wanted to ask/wondered:
What and why our music means so much to the Black community, the roots from the past to the present
Why it's so deeply insulting to deal with the cultural appropriation and disrespect of Black music, given the depth of that meaning
How we use language, history, and context to determine when somebody ain't kinfolk despite pretending
How you might be allowed to forget that you're white, but we aren't allowed to forget that you're white, and that frames our interactions with you
How your allyship can fall oh so uselessly flat, no matter how well intentioned you may be, if you refuse to understand your position within the game
Why what scares you as fantastical is often a living nightmare for people of color, and how that history and social context can weave a horror story that hits close to home (I have a whole lesson on that!)
And more, go watch that movie 🙏🏾
also imagine being so racist that an indigenous man tells you that you have a literal monster in your house and you fucking ignore him only to have said monster play tennis with your carotid artery two seconds later
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.
if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.
you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.
even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on
do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?
i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate
anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend
literally one of the best movies i’ve ever seen. walked out of that theater shaking (bc the movie was SO scary and good) and crying (bc i love music and i love black culture)
SINNERS (2025) dir. by Ryan Coogler
Literally Patrick and Art
falling into spring and in love 🌿
me when my mom makes me upset
look at those legs oh my golly…. this is my favorite post on tumblr
patrick always got his legs spread wide open and thighs on full display... this WHORE
everyone go watch “They Cloned Tyrone” RIGHT NOW. this is NOT a drill
with the state america is in right now, music is genuinely one of the most comforting things for me. thank you kendrick lamar for making music that makes me feel heard and not insane in this fucking country
Salutations. This is your Uncle Sam. And this is the Great American Game.
woah…
sometimes I feel bad that men will never experience the joy of taking your bra off after a long day
all of the tags are literally killing me 😭 theres so many
sorry yeah we queer coded your boyfriend. he’s arguing with his brash and emotionally reserved rival over something trivial for comedic effect. they have a special, vaguely suggestive bond that sets them apart. hm? oh uhh. yes they are blue and red
i need to put him in my pocket and feed him little treats 😕😕
like do his parents know he’s here??? he’s too little to be out by himself this late… god…
this just gave me the ick 😭 but yeah he would do that. and he’d fix your chromebook if it wasn’t working
leo Valdez the type of guy to shut off your chromebook and then run away when he likes you
born to be tashi duncan’s controversially young girlfriend, forced to thirst over her on tumblr 😔
mbdtf is genuinely one of the best albums ever, like i can’t even express how good it is with words, it’s just that good of an album
why is “keep on livin’” by le tigre labeled as “cry for everything bad that’s ever happened” on spotify 😭
challengers is the revival of bisexual cinema
ATP x Bisexual flag
why so rodent
boy why so meerkat
YEAH BABYGIRL NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG
me thinking about any person i’ve ever been into (minus the getting naked)
Embarrassed myself a few days ago and since then I've been periodically going like this
Ignore the part where he gets naked that's not part of it.
i know they’re tired of my ass 😭
My ancestors looking down at me as I talk about how much I love white men
i see a taylor swift lyric in a fic and weep
a piece of me dies every time im reading a fic and taylor swift lyrics pop up😭 then i realize the description of the oc or “reader” are very white coded like OH! that’s not…
tashi duncan and doechii my life is complete
mother!!
[ bullfrog by doechii ]
im so ill
MIKE FAIST AS DODGE MASON IN
PANIC 1.10 — JOUST