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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

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Mystery Inc. is on the case!!

I now understand why Dylan is Cole’s celebrity crush 😂🌹

So I’ve realized that a lot of reverse crushes au basically just switch Marinette and Adrien’s personality so I was wondering how it would go it they acted instead more the way they canonically do and here’s what I have so far (feel free to add your headcanons)

• Adrien being hopelessly in love with Marinette and, since she’s not awkward around him, they are friends BEST FRIENDS

• So he flirts with her all the time and she mostly just brushes it off but sometimes she flirts back since she thinks he’s not really serious about it bc they’re just friends joking around (basically canon ladynoir)

• and Ladybug having this massive crush on the guy she’s supposed to work with but it takes a long time for them to actually start working together because whenever he tried to talk to her she would get all flustered and start stuttering and run away but he eventually gets used to it and accepts that that’s just how she is and it’s okay because she’s nice and really brave when in battle mode

• for marichat it’s just chat trying to impress his crush but (unlike with Adrien) Marinette.exe stops working everytime he flirts with her and he’s just like !!!!!!!!

• and ladrien is just Ladybug laughing, bickering, teasing and joking around one of her best friends and finding it all hilarious because that dork has NO idea, and him wondering why ladybug is never that comfortable around Chat and deciding that he really likes that side of her and that he’s going to try to get her to be more like this with Chat

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