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priest santino send ask

AYOOO YESSS

Priest Santino 🙏 amen father

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pls follow me for more John Wick crap in 2026

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I watched some tutorials on how to draw and listened to one artist saying that its better not to draw the features but the vibe and I drew Wick from 0 in like 1 hour.

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ouuu… the urge to muse winston from john wick knowing damn well the john wick rpc is like. nonexistent LOL..

actually. hmm. tagging this with the jwrpc. if you’re an active wickverse rp blog please interact and give me proof you exist… maybe when i do/if i create a winston blog we can be mutuals :)

i love that cunty old man. his sassy ass means the world to me. he’s all like “yeah you thought this was over? SIKE! DIE”

[thewhumpcaretaker]

OMG IT'S RAINING AND THAT MEANS, a soggy Santino D'Antonio appeared on your doorstep, injured and wet from the rain. What do you do? :]

Well number one, I would have a small crisis about the nature of our universe and a lot of questions about where he came from and what year he thinks it is and whether the US and Italian governments know about him and recognize him as real (if not we gotta get him a fake ID before he gets deported or something) and where exactly in the timeline we are (what kind of relationship does he currently have with a man named John Wick?) BUT THAT ASIDE...

He is of course welcome to come inside, he can have a bath to get warmed up after the rain. Idk shit about how to dress wounds in real life but I will call anybody he needs and then tuck him into bed with a nice cup of tea while he waits. I have a weighted blanket too - he can have that if he's stressed by everything that has happened. I'll put on some nice quiet classical music as well, something relaxing.

...And then I'm back to grilling him about the nature of the universe again. "How did you get here? If you appeared suddenly, what was the last thing you remember before appearing on my doorstep?" "Are you familiar with an actor named Riccardo Scamarcio?" "We gotta go to New York and see if the Continental is really there."

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Ballerina Analysis

No spoilers summary: a fun romp, but, depending on how you interpret it, could break the themes of the canon in a really severe way. OR could be amazing! Just depends how you read it.

Spoilers Below the Cut:

We’ll make this a compliment sandwich. First, I really liked Eve. I know some people thought she was a bit of a blank slate, or too similar to John, but I thought she was great! Most characters in John Wick are a bit of a blank slate, with few lines, and are mostly open to interpretation based on the imagery associated with them and the way they carry themselves. With that in mind, I read Eve as curious and open to life in a way that John is not. She wants to find her place in the world. There’s vengefulness, but I don’t see the same shame and fear of being a monster that he exhibits. She’s not afraid of herself. She’s ambitious rather than just ruthless and she wants to make something of her life for her own sake, not the way that John found his self-worth through Helen loving him. But she does still have that animalistic quality, like the way that she carries herself shows that she was raised away from ordinary people and is hypervigilant.

That said: the film suggests something that would break the whole series if true.

The idea that “the door is still open” when John first talks to Eve, that she could have left the Ruska Roma, and that John himself could have left when he was younger, is antithetical to the entire conflict of the series. He is a man who was raised in violence, by a system he could not escape, and began trying to escape only once he became conscious of his potential to be more than that, and even then, he got out only in the final moments of his life. They all were raised that way. They are all trapped. That is the point of the High Table. The idea of creating a second group that is more controlling, where people are somehow more trapped, to make the High Table look better…it undermines the main conflict of the series in my opinion.

And it is all in service of creating this notion of choice, that Eve “has a choice.” As if she needs to be empowered by the Ruska Roma instead of examining and exploring the ways such an organization would in fact disempower her, and the way her loyalty might be misplaced. The conversations with Winston and The Director at the beginning, where they speak to Eve so formally and give her a choice to join or not, strike me as shying away from the reality of how a child would need to be controlled and indoctrinated from the beginning in such an organization. And the fact that Eve’s best friend could leave, knowing so much about the Ruska Roma…no. She would be killed, based on everything else we know about the series. It rings false, it seems sanitized and hollow.

However, we can interpret all of this “choice” business as false. Maybe John blames himself for not leaving as a teenager, when in fact, he never could have left, both because of the violence that had already been ingrained in him mentally by that point, and because there would have been a lot more backlash than he assumed if he tried to go. Maybe Eve’s sister is right when she says that the Ruska Roma really doesn’t give people a choice either. And the main villain (I forgot his name already) is definitely right that these systems will go on even if one person dies or one person escapes.

Eve doesn’t even really have a choice in her fight with John, at least not of her own accord. If the film wanted her to have full agency in that fight, she should’ve been given some line that persuaded him to spare her or done something that pulled at his heartstrings, but no. She really didn’t. He just…beat her in a fight and then chose to have mercy. It was out of her hands. Her only choice was to take the opportunity he offered her and go ahead and keep trying to get revenge. But whether she got that opportunity in the first place? That wasn’t up to her, it was up to John.

That is a much darker world than the “you have a choice” that seems to be explicitly intended. But I actually like it a lot better.

When read that way, the film does hold true to its themes: that perhaps you are trapped, that perhaps the world is full of people stronger than you who would seek to use you as a tool, but the choice you have is whether to keep fighting despite your own damnation, clawing for freedom to the very end, and if it kills you, so be it. Even within systems too large to take down, which threaten to destroy you, you can hold onto self-love and love for others and do your best. That…that I really enjoy. If that’s the meaning, I loved this movie. I had to twist the lines around in my head to get to that interpretation, but shhhhh, I’m thinking of it this way now.

[thewhumpcaretaker]

Just watched Ballerina - what kind of Eve x Reader do we want?

Which kind?

You protect Eve

Eve protects you

Voting ended onJun 29, 2025

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Santino, come back I miss you AUGHH 💔