A Quiet Place

Okay, well. This is the first thing I’ve been able to write in several months, and I didn’t think I’d come back to writing with a short, peaceful story about Remmick’s fate/ending, but here we are. 

(I first wrote it in French, so if there are French readers, the link for the original version is here.)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sinners (2025) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Remmick (Sinners 2025) Additional Tags: Bittersweet, Soft, Optimistic (kind of?)

I have a question, for science/writing purposes (okay, smut). What is the consensus among fans: does Perpetua have makeup on his face OR is his skin, naturally, entirely streaked in black and white?

I admit I prefer the second option, because I really write him like a being who comes from another world, but readers might find it strange. What do you think? Thanks in advance if you see this and answer.

DONC. J'étais assise à côté de lui pendant un genre de banquet/dîner, et je lui disais ses quatre vérités. (Je ne me souviens plus du contenu de mon discours.) Quoi qu'il en soit, je concluais en assénant un :

"Et puis de toute façon, tu te crois tout permis parce que tu es un mec."

Silence de l'intéressé à qui j'ai fermé le clapet. Puis :

"C'est vrai", admet-il.

Je pousse ma chaise et je me lève, passant derrière lui pour m'en aller. Quand soudain - et j'ignore comment - le monsieur me retient par la main (précisément par l'auriculaire, this is oddly specific, allô docteur Freud).

I heard someone say that lots of people could identify as Frankenstein's Creature because he represents the outcast, the marginalized. And, of course, people who've been mistreated and/or neglected by their parents can see themselves in him. All of that I agree with.

But, as a PhD student, Victor is the character who made the biggest impression on me. *hear me out, please* Above all, he's the embodiment of the researcher I absolutely don't want to become: self-centered, cruel, incapable of considering others except when they're useful to him.

However, the passion, the obsession with an idea born when he was very young, the will to do anything to finish his work, (the need to impress his peers,) all of that I can understand - and relate to. Maybe I'm not alone?

Also, I want to watch a recorded version of the play - not a chance I see this live, simply because London is in another country than mine to begin with.

And I want to read Marlowe.

Brightburn is a horror movie imagining what would happen if Superman became evil, because he was actually sent to Earth by his planet to, and I quote, "Take the world". The movie was produced by James Gunn and written by one of his brothers and his cousin.

I can't help but wonder if James Gunn thought about this when writing his latest film.

Stumbled on it by chance and cried. I knew the song but this version is magical.

I'm still amazed by Noel Gallagher's melodies. How does he do it. HOW.