let me love things okay?

side blog when i can scream and cry and laugh and "be extra" about whichever kind of media or character is fueling my desire to stay alive while navigating this tiring times G ~ 28 y/o ~ they/she ~ italy

[gatoiberico]

sleeves that large can s-leeve you speechless

[feirnvxyk]

Maomao & Shisui Cosplay 🪷

Photoshoot IB art: lesly.oh

Maomao - feirnvxy

Shisui - Alinka

Ph: Cipher

Art: lesly. oh

[newtypezaku]

[seashells-mylove]

And you best believe the emperor went straight to Gyokuyou to update her

[gatoiberico]

rummaged through old folders and found some stuff I never posted 👀

[foxyflowerrei]

Shisui coming out

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

“At the bottom of the deep sea, lying in the silence of night, I wait… for the day I can be myself again.“

[revenantghost]

Truly a most fearsome beast

[adhd-mess]

It’s honestly funny to me how Koushun meets this woman who threatens him and is all scary and shit, sees that she is of Ran clan descent the clan his grandfather had killed, and is like “yeah I’m going to ask her to be my consort and then I’m going to fall asleep but it looks I’m gonna kiss her”

He is so…him

[writing-in-mermish]

Watching Raven of the Inner Palace and encountered this iconic interaction:

Character A: I pity you

Character B: How dare you! You don’t even know me! *proceeds to drop the most tragic backstory and details of their current miserable existence*

Character A: … Now I really pity you.

Character B: FUCK YOU!!! *breaks shit*

[burning-beloveds]

despite the [incredible - amazing - heart wrenching] themes of sinners, the pure ✨joy✨ i feel whenever i listen to the soundtrack is just the cherry on top of one of the most beautiful and important movie of our generation imo

[mikelogan]

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim

[capinejghafa]

We was never gonna be free. We've been running around everywhere looking for freedom. You know damn well you was never gonna find it. Until this.

SINNERS (2025) dir. RYAN COOGLER

+BONUS

[mhevarujta]

Remmick, Ryan Coogler's vampire in Sinners, is written so well. You have a white, Irish vampire from the time of the colonization of Ireland by the english who is trying to deal with his own loss and 'hunger'. He wants to use Sammie. He wants to take away Sammie's music, his tradition and to use it for his own gain.

We have one more white oppressor who presents himself as a saviour. He inflitrates a black community, coming with the promise of... equality, community and freedom from death. But those promises come to fruition in a very specific manner. Remmick is the leader, for all the equality he promises. HE is the one who sets the tune the rest are singing. HE is the one whose pain is felt by every member of this 'community'. Every person that is turned connects to him in a hive-mind of collective memory and experience that HE controls and is able to use to his own convenience. Moreover, this is a collective that does not exclude the KKK-alligned family that was part of the plan to slaughter an entire black community.

Remmick represents a seemingly politically correct, predominantly white globalization. He presents himself as well-intended. He may even BELIEVE that he is. But what he offers is the death of individuality, of culture and tradition.

[hopeless-eccentric]

going wild thinking about the use of Rocky Road to Dublin in Sinners. It’s a really tight microcosm of a lot of the film’s themes just by itself. Credentials: I’m a retired Irish dancer, I went to worlds and the whole bit. My family is appalachian and I grew up on bluegrass

It’s played on a banjo, an instrument with origins in West Africa formally invented in the US by enslaved people (and then popularized in Irish music through Irish American immigrants, largely in the South and Appalachia). Even the instrument telegraphs an attempt at cultural exchange morphing into theft and exploitation, especially because the history of the banjo has been purposefully obscured by white people

It’s got a strong down beat, making it the musical opposite of the swung blues sound (emphasis on 1/3 as opposed to 2/4). The scene is clearly meant to evoke klan imagery, and giving it this marching feel ABSOLUTELY contributes

It’s in 9/8 meter (with some mixed—it’s a uniquely weird song), making it, traditionally, a slip jig. Historically, this is a light shoe dance for women only (he’s dancing hard shoe in the movie) meaning that Remmick’s attempt to reclaim his own culture has been botched, obscured, and lost as he’s been alienated from it and co-opted into the symbolic hive of American whiteness/cultural orphanage/cultural patricide.

The song itself is about a guy cutting a shillelagh (a walking stick/club with a folkloric purpose of warding off evil spirits) to protect himself on his journey to Dublin, but winding up using it against a few Englishmen mocking him for his Irish accent. It’s a parallel to exactly what Remmick was not able to do—protect himself from monsters, and protect himself from colonization. It also highlights that this number is being used to threaten violence against the leads

It’s such a clever combination of inverting swing/jazz sounds and showing ways Remmick is missing the point. Since he sold his soul for power, comfort, and conformity, he’s only able to access a shadow of his culture, while misunderstanding and misrepresenting major pieces of his own traditions. Even his attempts to culturally “share” through the banjo is plowed over by his use of it and Black bodies and voices for his own individual pleasure and as a threat of further violence. It’s such a smart pick

[pinkhysteria]

SINNERS (2025)

[ohmovie]

YAO as Bo Chow SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[aretasreads]

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