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everyone slept on this show and then it got cancelled but please consider that wunmi mosaku, most beautiful woman on earth wunmi mosaku, was kissing girls in lovecraft country. so if you like yuri and liked Sinners, well...

HER. SHE.

#lovecraft country #ruby x christina #wunmi mosaku #wlw #femslash

See Me, See Me Now 🩸

“do not fear me … I have crossed oceans of time to find you ”

dark romance is calling wunmi 🩸 lovecraft country:

Sinners: Stack biting Annie to turn her into a Vampire

#dark romance #dark romanticism #gothic horror #wunmi mosaku #stack x annie #ruby x christina

wunmi playing the love interests in two ships that make my bisexuality rage is just…idk i need to right the wrongs done by these two ships. fic idea loading…

#smoke x annie #ruby x christina #annie sinners #ruby baptiste #wunmi mosaku

#ruby x christina #loustat #lovecraft country #iwtv #interview with the vampire #toxic yuri #toxic yaoi

#lovecraft country #ruby x christina

I want to be Ruby and Christina’s third.

#lovecraft country #ruby baptiste #Christina Braithwhite #wunmi mosaku #ruby x Christina #yuri #probably toxic yuri #sad sigh #I had a wet dream about Christina #she was putting me through the headboard

Your post about Loustat paralleling Ruby and Christina makes so much sense. I haven’t rewatched lovecraft in a while though what specifically would you say makes them relate?

Whew! Where to start. I feel I probably need to play catch up for Ruby/Christina's dynamic on Lovecraft Country because that's probably the one fewer people who follow me are familiar with so... This is Ruby and Christina:

Ruby is a rock/blues singer in the 1950's Chicago, and like our man Louis, she has done most of the work holding up her family. Also, like Louis, a lot of the challenges she faces are deeply racist, and because of her gender full of misogynoir as well, more than today because of the past setting of the story... Her shade and body type also come into play when compared to what her sister, who is lighter-skinned and thin could get away with in life. Christina is the daughter of the leader of a centuries-old white male-dominated magical cult, in which she is clearly the most talented in wielding magic but she has no say-so and cannot inherit the same privileges because of sexism, something that is *always* intersected with racism which that cult has deeply ingrained traditions in. Despite it all, these two fall in love. The biggest similarities I see in Christina and Lestat are...

both... are not just white but white-white blonde hair blue-eyes.

have a measure of self-loathing because of some trauma devolved from whiteness (Lestat stalked and tortured and piled into a bunch corpsed reflections of himself) and (Christina always considered a "protected" possession beneath white men and not an equal because of her gender)

are powerful supernatural beings, a wizard (I just feel that's the more likely adjective over witch for her) and a vampire

are narcissists

woo and manipulate, seduce, their partners into being with them, by lending their own privilege to give them protection or higher status, via whiteness

both are desperate to connect with their Black partner in ways that are impossible because of innate privilege deferential w/in the times they live and their own psychological shortcomings - Lestat opening the relationship and Christina going through the pain of a "lynching" to try to understand Ruby's day-to-day fear

are ultimately toxic to their partner and all other healthier relationships they have - Ruby's family especially Leti and Louis' family, most importantly Claudia

genuinely love their partner but just don't have the capacity or ability due to past traumas, narcissism, and that huge gulf in empathy for their very different lives.

The biggest similarities between Louis and Ruby are.. that they are broken by racism and the responsibilities of existing and maintaining for others while they are invisible in their plight. Both are uniquely beautifully human, vulnerable beyond what any other people in their lives "see" and that makes them both entrancing and vulnerable to Lestat and Christina.

These are both queer interracial dynamics that take a really empathic and honest eye to render well, especially in this day and age. Both of these cultural spaces are riddled with discomfort, judgment, and fear, which mostly lead to dishonest depictions; and self-censoring, but they have subverted that for the most part.

Both I would say have been exceptionally well done and if really looked at critically beyond the chemistry and romance, I do think some interesting wider sociological conclusions/implications could be gathered from them. I think that's in part because of the freedom of the genre space. When it's supernatural or fantastical in some way, often the heavier issues are rendered more honestly. I'd absolutely love to read a dissertation really breaking it down.