[ofwraithsandwords]

m a s t e r l i s t // to be updated regularly . . .

ABOUT.

My Ko-fi

HEADCANONS.

Hellsing

Alucard

Seras Victoria

Pip Bernadotte

Alexander Anderson

Gen. (General)

Baldur’s Gate 3

TBA

FANFICTION.

Hellsing

Plutonian Sun Updates | Link to AO3 (Long Fic)

The Djinn’s Kiss (Integra x Djamilah [OC])

Holly Blues & Typhoons (Integra x Seras)

Equinox (Integra x Seras)

Baldur’s Gate 3

A Mountain Cradled (Halsin x Djahima [Tav])

OCs.

[mimi-maru]

[ofwraithsandwords]

The only person who made any sense in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was Circe. Everyone else can die horribly.

Except for Odysseus, he can go home I guess

[kinoselynn]

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

[snailsfall]

[ofwraithsandwords]

Look how they massacred my boy

[mcpayne]

THE FANGS????

[mileenaxyz]

🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[lesbianshepard]

can't stop thinking about how Remmick had a black eye after fleeing the Choctaw vampire hunters. Forget stakes and holy water and garlic; they were just straight up beating his ass

[tio-trile]

Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

[soranatus]

SINNERS By comic artist, Rombutan

[ofwraithsandwords]

As soon as I get my motivation back to write fanfic I swear I haven’t forgot about that Andercard fic I promised months ago it’s over for all of you.

[ofwraithsandwords]

Whoops.

[ofwraithsandwords]

I'm late to this, but I finally got around to watching Sinners (could easily be my top 5 fav films/media of all time) and I have a lot of thoughts, but there's one thing that I really need to get off my chest because I've been seeing how people think Remmick is the "lessor of two evils" or is just a tragic character (and he is, but that's not all he is). In particular, I want to talk about how Sinners handles the "Master Vampire" (I'll use MV for short), which is Remmick, the other vampires he creates, and what family means.

In the movie, time and time again, we're introduced to the concept of "family". Blood relatives. Close friends. Community. Shared culture. Even shared trauma. All of these things encapsulate what "family" could mean to someone, and how that same concept could mean something totally different to somebody else.

We see how Sammie and his father do not see eye-to-eye. We see how the Smoke-Stack twins show up with a shared dream and hidden suffering, but still move in different circles. We see Mary confronting Stack about him not showing up to her late mother's funeral who cared for him, Annie accepting fake currency from children within her community for medicine, Delta Slim going to the same place to play and drink every Saturday night for ten years, and there are still more examples than just that. All these people have their "families", different though they might be.

And then, we have Remmick.

I want to make something absolutely clear: Remmick has no family. He had no family at the beginning of the movie, and he had no family at the end of it either. Maybe he knows that and he's just desperate to fill a void that can and will never be filled because of what he's become. Or maybe he doesn't and he's just batshit pun intended insane. Either way, he'll never get what he so desperately wants. And it's because he doesn't just turn people into vampires; he turns people into him. Or at the very least, they reflect him to a certain degree.

In Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, and even Hellsing, the MV holds the most power, especially if they're old—vampirism is a hierarchy, after all. When they create new vampires, those newborn vampires are essentially the MV's thralls. They retain a part of their personality, mannerisms, and memory, but they are at the mercy of the MV's will. You see this when Remmick decides to wait in front of Club Juke with Joan and Bert, two Klan members that wouldn't have been caught dead talking civilly to black people, and has them play a little ditty with him as Mary goes over to talk with them. And then how they speak to her: Remmick: "But it's no good to you." (About the gold coins her gave her.) Joan: "It's no good to her."

Remmick: "You came over here for fellowship and love." Joan: "Fellowship and love."

Remmick: "That's awful. Ah..." (About Mary's mother passing.) Bert & Joan: "Just awful." (Then Bert does pretty much the same exact "ah" as Remmick did.)

Then later on in the movie, Remmick reveals to Sammie (after he and everyone else he turned recites a prayer in unison): "The men who stole my father's land forced these words upon us. I hated those men, but the words still bring me comfort." We understand then that Remmick was also a victim of colonization and forced to convert to Christianity ages ago. It is in this way that he believes he is "saving" everyone at Club Juke by turning them all into vampires and summon forth the spirits of the past, present, and future through Sammie: to create an unassailable community—an eternal "family".

The tragedy here is the fact that it is, once again, the classic Cycle of Violence being perpetrated. Remmick was a victim of colonization, of strangers coming into his home and forcing their way of life upon him and his family. Now, he is doing the same thing to everyone in Club Juke, the vast majority of who are poor and black while at the mercy of Jim Crow law with the exception of Grace, Bo, and Mary, though they are still part of the community. The not-so-subtle irony is that he has become the oppressor—a white man who thinks he can take whatever he wants and do whatever he pleases at the expense of others.

TLDR: By turning everyone at Club Juke into vampires as the Master Vampire, Remmick is taking away their agency and enslaving them whether he knows it or not, effectively creating imperfect clones of himself while simultaneously stealing their personhood. In this way, Remmick will never be able to get what he truly wants, and would likely continue to turn others in an attempt to fill and unfillable void.

[discojams]

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[flopstat]

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day

[flopstat]

[the-quasar-hero]

>Predominately Black led piece of media becomes popular.

>Among the characters there are one or two White characters with minor and/or distinctly antagonistic roles.

>White tumblr users focus entirely on said White characters.

>Tag of Black led piece of media is filled with posts about White character(s)

>Rinse. Repeat.

[the-stormwagon]

I think the most charitable interpretation of this is that people connect to characters that are like them, and that the experiences of Blackness is so alien to them that the White characters are the only ones that White people connect with. Combine that with the fact that Tumblr is so White as a platform, and you get this issue.

It’s still bad and racist, but it is understandable. People should still do better though. (I’m not trying to justify, I’m trying to come up with an explanation)

[the-quasar-hero]

Please don’t make me say it.

[tartrazeen]

We don't need you coming up with an charitable interpretation.

[buckys-robot-arm]

Prev tags too good to leave in the tags