More Malevolent Doodles And A Wip

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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

The devil’s in the details

Just an extremely Normal thing to say

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discord liked my silly hc designs for older Faroe so I thought I'd share them here too pls let me talk about her I luv her so much ywy

there is a sick and sadistic part of me that wants the show to end with arthur absolutely despising john. and i truly do mean pure hatred and vitriol

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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