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do they just like

pretend everyone else likes feet or hair or McDonald’s playplace mascot statues or whatever exactly as much as they do

That's why we're seeing a surge of trad-wives wearing "day collars" and explaining what it means to their viewers on TikTok, but instead of explaining that it's a practice followed by some people who enjoy BDSM with a very established meaning and understood dynamic within the BDSM community, they've rationalized it as "an additional signifier of godliness and commitment (read: submissive) to their husbands."

What these people want is a 24/7 D/s, possibly master/slave dynamic, but with none of the etiquette or safety protocols the BDSM community has spent decades cultivating.

In terms of the trad wives, I've seen everything from those little Tiffany necklaces that get secured on/need to be cut off, to actual leather collars with leash rings on them.

One of the latter purported to be a pastor's wife and was quoting Bible verses about submission to the husband and how, actually, kinksters stole day collars from them.

While Annie is explaining the lore she states that once a person is killed and brought back, the soul is trapped in the body and denied the afterlife.  She then states that killing a vampire frees the soul once more. This seems to imply that the soul isn't bound to the curse, and once the vampire is killed the soul is freed. 

However, Annie then states that she wishes to be killed BEFORE she's allowed to return as a vampire so that her soul may not be trapped. That SEEMS to imply that her soul will be unable to return to the afterlife despite being freed from the body, which would directly contradict her statement that the kindest thing to do for a vampire is to kill them and free their trapped soul. 

This either means that a person's soul, once cursed by a vampire, is forfeit of gaining an afterlife but is still better off destroyed rather than an eternity of being trapped in the body of a monster.

OR Annie simply wanted to die before she turned because she didn't want Smoke to hesitate and possibly be unable to kill her(because she still SEEMED to be alive, and he loved her too much to lose her). Which seems more plausible because Otherwise there is no reason to say "free the soul from the curse".

Another layer of confusion is that when Remmick explains to Sammy why he wants him, he states that he wants to see his people again and that he's trapped here. This either implies that remmick has no other options to seeing his ancestors again in vampire life OR death, and couldn't simply take his own life to free his soul.

OR it just means that because he's a cursed monster he would never think to kill himself and instead resorts to taking and manipulating others. 

Now specifically the reason I believe he got to the afterlife is because While Remmick is dying there is also heavy symbolism that his soul is being freed. The scene is very sentimental and we linger on his emotions. Irish music can be heard while he looks into the sunrise like his ancestors are finally calling him home. and once he dies his body disappears instead of dropping as a corpse like the other vampires. This distinction is clearly meant to imply that Remmick is being freed from his centuries long isolation, and the music implies that he's not only freed, but reconnecting to what he's lost.

In conclusion, bro is dancing a mean little jig up there with all his homies ☘️🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼☘️

the hare staring at me from across the field: which one of your lives is this?