dollie

“i play with puppets i’ve never had a real girlfriend in my life and i get nervous around people which triggers my asthma” still trying to figure this app out she/her

[hazel-elliot]

[lizzzy317]

Nigel Represents Alex's Unrepressed Self (Queerness and Sadism) in Like Minds

Just watched Like Minds for the first time. Going into it, I really did think that Alex/Nigel were like a couple or like murder husbands, and were going to kiss or whatever. That not happening makes the theme of Nigel representing what Alex wants to be even more clear to me. Alex is scared to be what Nigel is, but also needs him to balance out his own impulses that he represses.

Because Alex might be bi and repressed, but Nigel was straight gay, and way more open to affection than Alex was, in his own twisted way... Nigel kills himself, causing it all to implode, and showing how Alex's repressed feelings (not just with his sexuality, but also his violent tendencies) are how the plot moves. I know that sexuality is not a big theme in this, but the tension and queer undertones are hardly undertones with Alex and Nigel.

I dont want to make it seem like repressing queerness is the same as repressing evilness or literally being homicidal. But it does expand on that theme of Alex needing Nigel, even if he doesn't want to admit it at first. Plus, with Alex being totally complicit, and Nigel being a true part of his identity, it makes sense that he could represent not only the homicidal side of Alex, but the non-repressed queer side.

4/5 stars for this on my first watch, but likely more like a 4.5 on a rewatch

(literally the hidden devil on his shoulder (not in a literal sense, but to show his own hidden desires that he might demonize))

[enz0-nik0]

date idea: i stare at u like this

[vepaioa]

life goal: impregnate a beautiful androgynous british man with freckles

[unlikeminds]

reminder we have a discord server for like minds made by the very lovely @synthesixia

Check out the like minds (2006) community server community on Discord - hang out with 14 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[dolorakys]

join our emo band

[unlikeminds]

can i just say thank god we dont have profile views on tumblr that would be intensely embarrassing for some of us (me) especially being in such small fandoms

[dolorakys]

look ar him just munching on his dinner.😢😢he’s zero years old

[laurelwen]

The Four M's of Alex Forbes

Like Minds Masterpost - Humor

[midnight-mooney]

Fandom so small I had to start making posts

[synthesixia]

nigel & alex like minds au wherein they're foreign policy agents working against each other, trying to pry information out of the other in their most vulnerable moments

[vepaioa]

sharing hobbies with the bf

[banancrumbs]

this one was supposed to be a 4 pages comic?

i >think< it was like… nigel deciding to sleep with alex? going to his bed and just laying there like a cat, something on his mind? and alex being so so pissed yet just accepting it

[ancobrainrot]

Yeah I’m stressed and I wanted to make teenage dirtbag au and so what

[vaflko]

Finished! Nigel Coulby and Alex Forbes in Hogwarts. Dedicated to @laurelwen Thank you. So... What do yall think?

[synthesixia]

if you hate on my girl susan mueller to uplift alex & nigel as a ship, go ahead and lock your doors tonight.

[hairbrushed]

trucks for girls

[vepaioa]

you make me sick, because i adore you so

i love all the dirty tricks and twisted games you play on me