Morninsam - Sam

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

HE IS JUST SO SPECIAL TO ME!!!!

John Doe headcanons

• the first time he feels an eyelash get into Arthur’s eyes, he PANICS and Arthur finds it very amusing

• Arthur can frequently be seen with only one sleeve rolled up because John doesn’t like the feeling of fabric on his arm

• the king in yellow doesn’t have a gender because eldritch beings are beyond that, but John feels a strong connection to being a man/masculinity because of his connection to Arthur’s mind

• John would like to go to the library and just read poetry books to Arthur

• sometimes when Arthur is too tired to cook for himself, John forces him to get up and uses HIS hand to cook for Arthur. It usually doesn’t go well, but he’s well intentioned and Arthur’s got low standards

• sometimes Arthur holds Johns hand, just to acknowledge he’s listening to him, and John always gets distracted by it. He will never admit that he actually really enjoys the subtle affection

• Arthur tries to teach John piano. There’s a lot of fighting because it is hard to instruct someone how to play when you can’t see

• when they finally go and see a film, John talks about it like an excited child for HOURS afterwards

PLEASE tell me your headcanons for him or Arthur LMAO I’ve got such bad brain rot

coda my beloved

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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