The Poppet Sisters

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Part of investigating my own Irish identity inevitably forces me to reckon with Ireland's colonized soul. When I attempted to find literature about pre-catholic Irish folklore for a comic I'm working on, the best resources were decades out of print books and texts in dead languages.

Meanwhile, head into any Barnes and Noble and you'll find a plethora of Irish myth representing the revised Catholic interpretation of those myths. With few exceptions, the cultural identity of pre-colonial Ireland has long been erased.

When people say Irish people were, at one point, not considered white, the takeaway shouldn't be "well of course they're white, look at their skin" it should be that whiteness is the social construct supremacists use to "other" those they don't consider themselves. Ireland had to be violently colonized with war, famine, and christianity for them to eventually be considered white.

What this means in the present is that I, half-Irish living in North America, am disconnected from my ancestry in a way that I may never be able to reconnect to, because the Ireland that I miss in my soul has been replaced with a colonized history, a colonized culture, and a colonized soul.

Sinners (2025) is probably gonna be the movie of the year for several reasons, and one of them is how Remmick, the irish vampire, acts as the perfect antagonist to the film's themes.

In what is perhaps the film moment of 2025, Sammy plays I Lied To You with such passion and spirit that the past and future are connected. The threads of blues, of identity, of culture travel back to ancient ritual ceremonies and forward to rock and roll, EDM, and rap. It's not just black american culture represented either, we see peoples representing east asians and west africans alike. In one beauitiful moment, everything is connected.

It's this connection that Remmick wants desperately for himself.

In a later scene, Remmick does his own version of this moment using the song Rocky Road to Dublin, but it's... not the same. Despite his multicultural attendance, the song is entirely a celebration of Irish culture and ONLY Irish culture (and post-colonial at that!) He has no ability to reach into the past or future because he himself has been so violently disconnected from his own heritage. Remmick is no longer irish, he is now white.

The vampirism in the movie is whiteness. It's the loss of cultural identity in favour of the mass. It's the appropriation of others to replace what is missing. It's to collect but not connect.

That's why he want's Sammy's ability: he's trying to fill the void caused by his assimilation into whiteness, but he can only think to do it by enacting the same violence enacted on his people. By taking.

Becuase we have been viewed as either “fresh off the boat”/forever foreigner, or model minority, we tend to be closer to Whiteness. So close that we don’t even realize how much it’s hurt us before it’s too late.

Bo just went to get the car to escape and ended up turned. He never even realized he was falling into trap, he was just trying to adapt for the safety of his family. And when Remmick uses Bo and Grace’s native tongue to literally sexualize it. It echos back to how whiteness sexualizes us and our culture, from the Qipao to our women.

Really big personal ick cuz I saw some white guy saying to an Asian girl. “I could colonize you.” 💀

But anyways. Bo’s turning echos how many first or second gen Chinese immigrants have to adapt in relation to whiteness in order to survive. Giving up customs, language, food, etc… in order to assimilate.

For a personal example: I’m kinda embarrassed to get Chinese food as a Chinese adopted kid cuz my dad always make fun of it, when I was gifted porcelain bowls in a Chinese style he often tells me to get the “normal” plates for me to eat from.

And The vampires dangle Grace’s daughter over her head. Literally threatening to consume our future generations through assimilation. I am an example. I’m adopted by white parents and have been discouraged from learning my native language and indulging in any aesthetics or food for it being “too weird.”

It’s so powerful that Grace is the one to confront the vampires a Lesson the Black and Asian community needs to learn is that WE GOTTA CONFRONT IT we can’t fucking stand by as they turn our neighbors. The Asian American community has to start deconstructing the whiteness we have been subjected to, and the global Asian community, ESPECIALLY mainland Chinese who hasn’t lived overseas has to UNDERSTAND us, because WE are seen as representatives for YA’LL and it ain’t fair. Overseas Chinese don’t understand what it’s life to be a minority, because they have the majority similar to whites in America.

The black community has to clean house as well. That’s a discussion for ya’ll, and I salute F.D. Signifier for starting that convo with his videos on YouTube.

Anyways, Grace literally goes for her vampire husband and takes him down. She cleans house. She comforts the whiteness threatening to destroy her future in her daughter. And I’m sick and tired of mfs blaming Grace for letting them in, WHEN WE GOTTA DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM- WE CANT LET THOSE BLOODSUCKERS GET OUR KIN-

Anyway. We gotta confront whiteness and clean house within our communities of this disease before it eats our future and wipes away our past.

Part of investigating my own Irish identity inevitably forces me to reckon with Ireland's colonized soul. When I attempted to find literature about pre-catholic Irish folklore for a comic I'm working on, the best resources were decades out of print books and texts in dead languages.

Meanwhile, head into any Barnes and Noble and you'll find a plethora of Irish myth representing the revised Catholic interpretation of those myths. With few exceptions, the cultural identity of pre-colonial Ireland has long been erased.

When people say Irish people were, at one point, not considered white, the takeaway shouldn't be "well of course they're white, look at their skin" it should be that whiteness is the social construct supremacists use to "other" those they don't consider themselves. Ireland had to be violently colonized with war, famine, and christianity for them to eventually be considered white.

What this means in the present is that I, half-Irish living in North America, am disconnected from my ancestry in a way that I may never be able to reconnect to, because the Ireland that I miss in my soul has been replaced with a colonized history, a colonized culture, and a colonized soul.

Sinners (2025) is probably gonna be the movie of the year for several reasons, and one of them is how Remmick, the irish vampire, acts as the perfect antagonist to the film's themes.

In what is perhaps the film moment of 2025, Sammy plays I Lied To You with such passion and spirit that the past and future are connected. The threads of blues, of identity, of culture travel back to ancient ritual ceremonies and forward to rock and roll, EDM, and rap. It's not just black american culture represented either, we see peoples representing east asians and west africans alike. In one beauitiful moment, everything is connected.

It's this connection that Remmick wants desperately for himself.

In a later scene, Remmick does his own version of this moment using the song Rocky Road to Dublin, but it's... not the same. Despite his multicultural attendance, the song is entirely a celebration of Irish culture and ONLY Irish culture (and post-colonial at that!) He has no ability to reach into the past or future because he himself has been so violently disconnected from his own heritage. Remmick is no longer irish, he is now white.

The vampirism in the movie is whiteness. It's the loss of cultural identity in favour of the mass. It's the appropriation of others to replace what is missing. It's to collect but not connect.

That's why he want's Sammy's ability: he's trying to fill the void caused by his assimilation into whiteness, but he can only think to do it by enacting the same violence enacted on his people. By taking.

Becuase we have been viewed as either “fresh off the boat”/forever foreigner, or model minority, we tend to be closer to Whiteness. So close that we don’t even realize how much it’s hurt us before it’s too late.

Bo just went to get the car to escape and ended up turned. He never even realized he was falling into trap, he was just trying to adapt for the safety of his family. And when Remmick uses Bo and Grace’s native tongue to literally sexualize it. It echos back to how whiteness sexualizes us and our culture, from the Qipao to our women.

Really big personal ick cuz I saw some white guy saying to an Asian girl. “I could colonize you.” 💀

But anyways. Bo’s turning echos how many first or second gen Chinese immigrants have to adapt in relation to whiteness in order to survive. Giving up customs, language, food, etc… in order to assimilate.

For a personal example: I’m kinda embarrassed to get Chinese food as a Chinese adopted kid cuz my dad always make fun of it, when I was gifted porcelain bowls in a Chinese style he often tells me to get the “normal” plates for me to eat from.

And The vampires dangle Grace’s daughter over her head. Literally threatening to consume our future generations through assimilation. I am an example. I’m adopted by white parents and have been discouraged from learning my native language and indulging in any aesthetics or food for it being “too weird.”

It’s so powerful that Grace is the one to confront the vampires a Lesson the Black and Asian community needs to learn is that WE GOTTA CONFRONT IT we can’t fucking stand by as they turn our neighbors. The Asian American community has to start deconstructing the whiteness we have been subjected to, and the global Asian community, ESPECIALLY mainland Chinese who hasn’t lived overseas has to UNDERSTAND us, because WE are seen as representatives for YA’LL and it ain’t fair. Overseas Chinese don’t understand what it’s life to be a minority, because they have the majority similar to whites in America.

The black community has to clean house as well. That’s a discussion for ya’ll, and I salute F.D. Signifier for starting that convo with his videos on YouTube.

Anyways, Grace literally goes for her vampire husband and takes him down. She cleans house. She comforts the whiteness threatening to destroy her future in her daughter. And I’m sick and tired of mfs blaming Grace for letting them in, WHEN WE GOTTA DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM- WE CANT LET THOSE BLOODSUCKERS GET OUR KIN-

Anyway. We gotta confront whiteness and clean house within our communities of this disease before it eats our future and wipes away our past.

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS