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angel / 20s / DON'T REPOST MY ART WITHOUT PERMISSION/ I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning, I break my legs, and every afternoon, I break my arms./ ig @_into_the_deep_

[groovyfran-png]

"Do you insert yourself as the top/bottom of your favorite ship?" No, I'm the cameraman

[saucefunk]

you, not me

[ofswordsandpens]

the thing about obsession re: the cat sandwich, is that the common interpretation I've been seeing is that its an instance of real Nikki's anger manifesting through the entity, but honestly I saw it more as an instance of the entity not understanding human conventions, and having a "cannibalism/consumption as a metaphor for love" moment. Like I genuinely could imagine the entity's thought process as:

Bear loves the cat -> consumption is one of the ultimate acts of love. by eating the cat, its essence lives inside him. -> he will love me for this wonderful gift I've given him :)

it sort of reminds me of Where the Wild Things Are, when the monsters beg the protagonist to stay with them. Please don't go. I'll eat you whole. I love you so.

[faemothra]

born from a wish

[staghunters]

Obsession (2026) dares to ask the question: Is it okay to read a passage of your hansel and gretel incest fic out loud at the social?

[sunnybugster]

people want complex female characters but can't even handle jax tadc

[mxillipuppy]

TH--THEYRE EMO?!?!

[arielseaworth]

“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”

- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré

[ceruleanheaven]

why does everybody hate me [remembers my behaviour and personality] why dont they hate me more

[dabizqets]

The best images on the internet

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[helenekuragina]

#and its like. 'what if ive decided its comfortable to be in the box' it is always going to be more comfortable to be in the box #they will reward you for staying in the box and punish you for trying to leave it #that doesnt mean the box is like. a good place to be — @butchfaith

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Sometimes you step out of the box, and you're free of the box, and you're out of the box, and you realize you are fairly box shaped. So you sit down, and you do a lot of introspection about whether or not you were always box shaped, or if you grew into the shape of the box after being forced into the box for so long, and whether or not there are stunted parts of you, that might grow, now that you're out of the box, or if you should just maybe wear the box around as a fashion accessory that conveniently makes life so much easier while living among those who expect you to be in the box, and in the middle of your naval gazing someone always shows up to try and put you back in the box.

And you realize that regardless of whether or not you actually fit in the box, it's dark in there.

[loycos]

My amazing digital circus theory is that theyre all AI, based on brain scans that were put into the system by putting a headset on in the old office of C&A. The real Pomni, Jax and co. are out there living their lives, having no idea that an AI that was trained on their brainscans exist somewhere on a computer. They moved on the moment they took the headset off. For the AI versions of them in the game, they have memories that are taken from real people from the real world, but they cannot physically exist in that world. What causes abstration is that realization of the AI that it is in fact not a real person, and therefore it does not exist outside of the circus- the circus is all there is for them. They physically can't leave the circus, and i suspect the ending will be about coming to terms with that and learning to make the most of their lives there- by being in a community that fulfills them.

[loycos]

i was right but also like. was it that obvious? i thought i was cooking... (i did not consume any media surrounding the show and am not interested in anything to do with its fandom). the finale was alright btw, satisfying but overly corny at times.

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[acefuruya]

the longer I sit with obsession the more empathy I start to feel for entity!nikki. this creature that was created solely to love one person with this all-encompassing intensity that needed to be stronger than anything anyone felt in the entire world. entity!nikki whose entire world was just one single focal point; she'd do anything for bear to love her. she didn't know anything when she came into existence, but she was willing to do anything to get this man to fall for her.

it must have been equally terrifying for her as it was for the real nikki to have someone else fight for control over what she perceived as her body. the scene where she's sobbing in the corner, terrified of her dreams is now more sad than terrifying to me. real nikki, who has just been raped by her once best friend hurting so badly that it seeps into entity!nikki's nightmares. entity!nikki who doesn't understand why the thing she wanted so badly is causing her so much pain. why she can't bring herself to lie in bed next to the man who is the center of her world.

and the worst part is bear doesn't even seem to like her. she's trying so so hard; she made a lovely memorial for his dead cat, she waited for him to come home all day without moving an inch, she made sure to be the most doting girlfriend at the party, and he's not pleased by any of it. he seems disturbed and angry and scared and she has no idea what to do to make it better. to make it worse, he keeps asking her to behave like the original nikki but he was the one who wished for her!! she can't be like nikki because nikki was simply not capable of loving bear even a fraction of how much she does!

she can't seem to reconcile it; he wanted her so badly he conjured her into reality and now he doesn't want her anymore. she doesn't know what to do. she tries everything. she obsesses over him, she threatens to hurt herself, she gets rid of that bitch sarah who keeps distracting him and trying to steal him away, and then dresses in her clothes for good measure and he still doesn't want her.

and then finally in a fit of desperation, she makes the wish and for one beautiful moment its all perfect. he's finally looking at her the way she looks at him. and then he's dead and she's lost everything.

her entire existence, from the moment of her conception to her death was painful, and confusing, and so very sad.

[stari-hun]

I like that the wishing willow in Obsession (2026) takes your implications in the wish while also following exactly what you said for others. Bear only said Nikki, he meant his friend Nikki, but he didn't specify and it still chose her. On the other hand, Entity! Nikki can't take care of herself because the phrasing "I want Nikki to love me more than anyone else in the fucking world" also applies to self love. It could've amplified her familial love for Bear or to Bear as a friend, but it didn't because Bear meant romantic love. Entity! Nikki can't be a good friend to Sarah or Ian which is why Sarah assumes they stopped being friends anymore because she can't feel that platonic love or affection anymore. She must've felt sexual attraction and lust towards Ian before since they were sleeping together, and that disappears because the part "more than anyone else" takes away all other forms of love from Nikki because Bear cannot fathom a non romantic love.

[casualobserver777]

Self-love is a fascinating concept tbh. I didn't think about it, but I do think there is also that there are other emotions besides love like self-hate that she is allowed to have. :/ rage and anger. Taking out all the love would amplify all of it, and mixing that in with a very shallow romantic love would be ...well, obsession ahah, but like demonic possession that we saw. I just never thought about the love being taken all out like that. That's very interesting.

[stari-hun]

Nikki has a tonnn of platonic feelings in the film and I love that they showcase it at the start before taking her away. She loves her friends, and she feels lust for Ian which are both technically forms of love as categorized by the greeks. It's also why she's so violent, she loses her love for humanity which is integral to empathy and compassion. The things she loses have to do with her love for others, Nikki is naturally a character that has a lot of love for the people around her. She's all "sunshine and rainbows" minus the rock

[elboxitracio]

Bear from Obsession (2026):

[acefuruya]

thinking about post-movie nikki who will forever be terrified of losing her autonomy again. nikki who will forever doubt every thought that crosses her mind, every emotion she feels, because is she sure she's the one in control? what if the entity is still there, lurking, puppeteering her to think these things, say these things, do these things? nikki, who will forever question if anything is real. if she is real.

[sleepdepriver]

The entity even made her kill her friends too so. Like. How the hell is she going to explain all of this to the police???