Don't Remind Me

wifedrawals

is there anything more romantic than someone turning you into a more happy, free, and violent thing at the cost of everything that made you human

olive is circulating again! i hope even now after she’s gone she knows how many people saw such an often misunderstood little creature and sent so much love her way. i love being reminded of this post and read through the tags all the time, it gives me hope in the goodness of people, especially during shit times. i love you olive!

magically breaks you into your component parts (several smaller girls rather confused how they got here) in hopes of kidnapping the part of you representative of your truest self and grooming it to have a hopeless crush on me while the rest of you can't defend it but in fact there is no truest self only a series of contradictory masks and phases so I end up having to go on like a series of dates with each one one by one and it turns out that component parts aren't entirely capable of existing on their own so we end up getting really weird and codependent.

#i always think about how beautiful it was for ryan coogler to cast buddy guy as older sammie #i often think about how people like to espouse the idea that we are "so far removed" from jim crow and segregation when creatives like buddy are still alive #a lot of the activists and figures are still alive! #idk the fact that he's living proof of the continued effects of chattel slavery on black americans is so bittersweet because he remembers such atrocities but he's also able to bestow wisdom and history for art pieces like sinners

Ryan Coogler said in an interview, btw, that part of why he thought of Buddy Guy was because his uncle loved seeing him – he'd get dressed up and go see him play live when he got the chance.