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Quanxi and her girlfriends CHAINSAW MAN: Assassins Arc PV

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dany in her hrakkar pelt

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in a galaxy far, far away

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𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴.

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friendship bracelets with the silver sisters

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obsession was great. the themes are especially great when viewed thru a feminist lens. i think you could even go so far as to view it as a metaphor for reactive abuse (the way bear makes a wish for nikki to love him more than anything in the world / be obsessed with him, then lets everyone believe she’s just gone crazy put of nowhere, all while still not wanting to end his relationship with her. of course it’s not one to one but the subtle themes are there.)

i also enjoyed how the film showed what everyday violations of consent can look like…media often shows the most obvious, often-dramatized occurrences of it, but this depicted a more common way of it showing up.

bear did indeed take advantage of nikki while she was in a mentally unstable state. he was well aware her consent was compromised. all the while he is very insecure about it, knows what he is doing, becomes aware even that nikki is aware and it is hurting her, continues doing it. i love that this film names this. it even critiques “not like the other girls” anti-feminism through sarah, who sees it as nikki taking advantage of bear…then she ironically tries to take advantage of bear’s vulnerable state herself by coming onto him.

also on a smaller note nikki’s batshit incestuous gorey hansel and gretel story had great prose i enjoyed it. my partner pointed out that before the wish, nikki saw bear as a little brother figure. meaning the hansel and gretel thing very well could have come from real feelings of disgust, like it nearly feels like an incestuous relationship to her.

and the ENDING. a lesser film would have insisted that, in these circumstances where the wish can only be broken if one of them dies, the male lead must survive between the two. but there was no self sacrifice from nikki out of “love”, there was no moment of lucidity or jealousy or rage where she kills herself, bear is forced by the narrative to take full responsibility for what he has done to nikki. what’s more— he reaches for a gun, almost uses it, ultimately decides on overdosing on pills. my partner and i personally think this was intentional commentary on masculinity, by having bear consider, then reject, the way men typically choose suicide in favor of the way women typically choose it. just a fun detail and maybe we’re both batshit.

good movie. all of that said though i’m sure a lot of people will boil it down to “haha women are soooo crazy…”

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I found possessed Nikki to be interestingly relatable (not because I am a physically and emotionally abusive possessive, emotionally volatile entity lol) but because the scenes where she’s like “oh my God, I’m so sorry for being weird. Oh my God I’m so disgusting. I’m sorry I won’t do it again I’m so weird”. that hit home because when you are a deeply insecure woman with a ton of relationship trauma, you are constantly apologizing—or at least wanting to apologize—for your mental illness. Like if or if you act weird in front of your partner because you were triggered by something you get paranoid your partner is gonna abandon you so you start calling yourself disgusting and weird and apologizing excessively.

My friend pointed out how Bear is interesting as a character in the sense that he’s commentary on how pretty much any man can be susceptible to misogyny, even if they aren’t necessarily “bad guys” at the start. cus at the very beginning, bear really was trying to make sure Nikki was okay and going out of his way to try and distance himself so that he wasn’t taking advantage, but after a certain point he just allowed himself fall into it, and just kept getting worse from there

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Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

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immediately after an interaction: i have GOT to get more normal oh god i need to get more normal immediately i have to get more normal or they're going to hunt me down they're going to hunt me down and flay me for sport

during an interaction: and why not put a little spin on it? why not add some conversational zest?

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just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

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IRIS 💣UT

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Print restock in my shop : )))

(Btw the Kylo print is still renewing in the system since it previously sold out, so just DM me if it isn’t appearing on the storefront for you just yet and I’ll hook ya up)