Sad Land

24 (mentally ?????) Im here, Queer, and ready to commit a crime follow my cats Instagram @that.cat.tia

[eggyolkperona3000]

Master doc that contains different resources and support for many countries including Palestine, Congo, Haiti, Hawai’i, etc ((op is underneath the link))

Master Document

Master Document

[xenonsense]

[ID: Tweet by Nanu's eyebrows 🇹🇹❤️🔱… @ Seaweedlagoon which reads: "I'd appreciate if you guys would spread around my master document that not only contains support for Palestine but other countries as well, I'm updating it with resources for Puerto Rico, Lebanon and Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow!" With a link to the above doc/End ID]

[totallynotcensorship]

know what? am actually gonna pin this. this is too good

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[hollis-art]

in the face of an apocalypse, you do what you have to do.

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowersosa]

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[hauntedhotline]

So Clark was obviously the real villain of the story— he’s an alcoholic who at the very least verbally abuses his wife and he ropes two of his young staff members into helping him map the backrooms when he knows they’re dangerous. I’d even argue that he has no concrete evidence that the still lives aren’t cognizant or feel pain and yet he hurts them without hesitation, something Mary objects to. Also, if still lives are memories or impressions of living people then symbolically the red haired still life in business attire represents Clark’s law student wife who instinctively runs away in terror from Pirate Clark. They’re mimics of their real world counterparts. In the end he refuses to take accountability for anything he’s done his refusal to change is what kills him— Pirate Clark, the literal amalgamation of the worst parts of him, eats him alive. And you can’t even really be mad at the monster then because it’s just doing what it’s wired to do.

[soleicst]

man that backrooms movie was crazy. because yeah, it’s about the backrooms, but it’s also about the BACK ROOMS of a broken man’s mind and his warped perception of those around him, ending up harming everyone he comes into contact with until the broken animalistic part of himself (The Pirate) kills off the last sane part of him. but its Also about how those with authority and power (ASYNC) leave people to fend for themselves as that feeds their power and control over the situation. but it’s Really About Mary and outgrowing the hold that her mother’s mental condition and behavior had over her and that no one’s the same after trauma and how the traumatized versions of themselves take over their and others lives (The Pirate killing Clarke and the Backrooms People, the different parts of Mary’s life succumbing to the Backrooms including her copy), and though you can overcome your trauma that broken part of yourself will always exist in that pain. but the REAL REAL meaning is don’t go into strange rooms that appear in your basement after you’ve been drinking

[stormbreath]

I really did like the ending of the Backrooms 2026, actually. The twist that the Backrooms is a space that you can physically exit but a part of you mentally will always be trapped in is a great subversion and really effectively inverts the concept. The main scientist character looks directly into the camera and reveals he is still caught in the same nostalgia trap that Clark was, stuck in a repetitive motion and going nowhere. Mary got out but she's still in there. You can leave but you can never escape

[crimeronan]

i see some people worried that obsession will sideline nikki's true feelings & the fact that she's been turned into an unwilling puppet for a man's pleasure, in favor of just doing cheap yandere scares. n focusing on what's creepy To Men.

pleased to report the film is Very Fucking Aware that this is a horror movie for nikki as well. and that i'm so haunted by her storyline i.... want to write fanfic.

[malinaa]

love love LOVE that not-nikki’s face is obscured in so many shots like yes that is a Body Without Its Original Inhabitant ‼️

[acefuruya]

nikki breaks my heart so bad because in the brief moments we see her before the wish kicks in, she's so cool and funny, clearly kindhearted, very driven about her future (telling bear about how she was going to quit her job to focus on her writing), and also very sure of herself as a person. ive seen people describe this movie as "mean-spirited" and I think thats so apt because it was a 2 hour long tragedy of the torture of this innocent girl, taking away everything she's ever had, including her own sense of self, putting her through unimaginable horrors, and leaving her with nothing except the three dead bodies of her friends, with the one who she trusted most being the one who did this to her. nothing for her to look for hope in, because she has nothing before her except a lifetime in prison or in an institution. it would be one thing if the movie ended on a note like weapons, where everything was over and there would hopefully be recovery somewhere down the line, but here, not only was the evil not committed by a random stranger but her closest friend, but she doesn't get any chance at recovery either. so goddamn tragic. on that note, if anyone can come up with some sort of fix-it for nikki please link it to me because I will be crying about this girl forever.

[ofswordsandpens]

I need to see it again to pinpoint the details but I really like how the opening scene of obsession (2026) is Bear practicing his confession with a diner waitress... like already you have a woman (who is not Nikki) fulfilling the role for her, saying the response she thinks Bear would like to hear, but the moment this woman gives her own opinion, offering genuine advice to Bear (something along the lines of buying Nikki something she likes, like her favorite candy, flowers, etc)... Bear disregards it... but then ends up using Ian's recommendation from this same conversation (calling Nikki "Freaky Nikki")... like god its all already right there

[starvariety]

if i think too hard about nikki’s experience in Obsession i feel physically ill. imagine one second you’re just walking up to your house after a night out, and then the next, you’re looking out of your own body, but you’re not longer in control. you’re a prisoner to a terrible, unnatural version of yourself that only exists because of a choice someone else made. when you scream, nobody listens. when you claw your way out for long enough to explain that this isn’t you, nobody listens. when you beg the man who trapped you in this situation to put and end to it, to set your free, he just. doesn’t. listen. and then when you do finally regain control, all your friends are dead, and you are covered in their blood. because of a choice someone else made

[livingursa]

[dailyflicks]

I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the entire world.

OBSESSION (2026) dir. Curry Barker

[acefuruya]

I genuinely appreciate how obsession doesn't try to frame bear as morally grey but just fully leans into how deplorable he is. a lesser movie would have tried to give him redeeming moments along the way but no, at every single crossroads bear makes the wrong choice. when the customer service rep asks him if he wants to cancel his wish, he says no, and asks to alter it. when nikki, the real one, begs him to kill her, he asks her "if it would be so bad to love him", and right at the end, backs out of killing himself and tries to throw the pills up. he is the villain, not another victim, not a confused, cowardly boy, the villain.

[furiosa-femininst]

Lmao I just went to the TV Tropes page for Obsession and I love this bit of trivia

“Hey man, your main character isn’t sympathetic enough, could you fix that?”

“Okay sure, I’ll make him MORE unsympathetic since you idiots missed the point”

[roriannesmoon]

And then, even after all that, we still have male reviewers and audience members insisting that he did ‘nothing wrong actually’ and that he’s just ‘misunderstood’. What they really mean is that they all saw themselves in Bear and didn’t like what they saw so they’ve decided to contort themselves into pretzels to justify his actions rather than doing any sort of self introspection.