Take Me Away.

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[tzatairovic]

our mj<3

[kinardnatural]

So I went into a BTVS Dailies rabbit hole, because I wasn't even aware that it was a thing despite having watched it since I was 7 and was deeply into the fandom in my teens.

What do you mean Buffy is a lot more flirty with Spike under the rug scene for Dead Things?

What do you mean Buffy raises her hand to touch Spike's cheek and then withdraws it right before saying "I'm sorry, William", when she breaks up with him??

Or when Buffy bites into Spike's arm during their under-the-rug sex scene

The "You don't know what it's like to lie to your friends about who you're sleeping with"

"Sweetie, I'm gay, I do know" when Buffy breaks down in front of Tara.

It's so fascinating to watch the dailies, but also frustrating for them to do so many takes over and over and over again, especially with the sex scenes that they didn't even use. The actors could never catch a break.

[n1-adora-fan]

Seeing the dailies is so crazy. Like yes spuffy did fuck down a house in Smashed. But they cut her riding him. Yes they fuck in DMP, but some of the other takes are crazier. And yes they have sex in Dead Things but she bites and scratches him. We got so much and somehow there’s WAY more

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

[quietwingsinthesky]

painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.

[quietwingsinthesky]

op approved tags. you’re the only person here who sees my vision

[evilvampire]

I still can’t believe Buffy overthrowing a metaphor for the exploitation of impoverished workers with a literal hammer and sickle got past the network censors… iconic

[the-staticbender]

[spacerockband]

i like drawing him miserable

[aphony-cree]

"How can you sleep with that monster!" says the monsterfucking gang when Buffy fucks a monster they don't approve of

[ilovemosss]

btvs's ted but it happens during s4 instead of s2. riley is like you should :( try to get along with him buffy :( your mother loves him so who cares what anyone else thinks. meanwhile, as this subject is discussed At Length in giles's apartment (a sanctuary If she ignores spike) e spike is sat there like untie me NOW lemme at this man he is Not good enough for joyce. hE mAkEs hEr hApPy who gives a fuck! and buffy has to sit quietly for like 3 minutes outside while she reckons with the fact that she just had to agree. with. spike. which is of course her nightmare

[nessa007]

Moments where the real Nikki breaks through the wish OBSESSION (2026) Dir. Curry Barker

[badjaune]

obesssion!!!

meat packaging idea was inspired by official art from studioheartbreak drawn by Ami Thompson !

[vampireistic]

i absolutely love how nikki is nearly always bathed in shadow (whether it’s fully in the dark or with a single light behind her with her as the faceless darkness). she’s quite literally become a shadow of her former self. no autonomy, no personal thoughts or emotions, just a carved image of what bear desired.

[zero-skies]

you wished for this.

[gimmielovemp3]

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)

[shouts-into-the-void]

One thing about Obsession (2026) that I enjoyed was that it almost asks you to feel empathy for the entity possessing Nikki as well as the real one. Like, obviously the things she's doing are horrific and fucked up, but I think the scene where Bear is asking her to "just be Nikki!" and she eventually just desperatly screams "I can't be Nikki!" does a really good job of showcasing the entity's inner feelings. She's been created with the sole purpose of loving this guy more than anyone else but no matter how perfect it is or how much he claims to love her, its not her that he loves, its Nikki. And any time she stops pretending to be Nikki, he reacts (albeit rightfully) with disgust and horror. She can't be Nikki because Nikki would never love Bear, and so Bear will never love her.

[serendipitous-posts]

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.

[turnipoddity]

not me