Eat from me, devour.

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[just-queue]

[pureanonofficial]

Catch me I'm falling Flying head first into fate

NEXT TO NORMAL

[ahhcloudy]

"please look closely and find her before she fades away"

natalie goodman <3 my heart hurts when i think about her bro

[madisoncounty]

We tried to give you a normal life. I realize now, I have no clue what that is. 

[bipolartwo]

The Invisible Girl

[musicalgifs]

When the world that once had colour fades to white and grey and black. When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back.

[arcticwolf144]

Gabe as a manifestation of grief also contains all his family’s longing for what he could have been. I love the idea that, when he and Natalie have their moment at the very end, it’s because she for the first time wonders what it would be like to have her older brother with her. Her family has just fallen apart, it’s just her and her father alone in the house and she’s feeling a whole mess of emotions as to what her life will look like from now on. And maybe it would have been comforting to have a sibling at that moment who had grown up with her and could perhaps understand what she was feeling. I know this is probably a bit of a reach but I love the interpretation that this is why Gabe touches Natalie’s hand here and she feels it. Because for the first time she’s missing him too.

[st4rfvckerr]

did you guys know i love her so so so so much :) (and Henry too. i guess)

[arcticwolf144]

I cannot stop thinking about the undertones of guilt in Diana’s last interaction with Gabe, and even slightly in Dan’s. It’s a bit noticeable in the proshot, was VERY noticeable in the last show I saw. Like this is their SON, he was just a baby who wanted to be loved and remembered and in different ways they both equally failed his memory and turned him into this destructive force which he should never have been. I always saw the London staging of The Break as Diana in part realising what she helped turn Gabe into, as well as acknowledging her own pain.

And don’t even get me STARTED on how they’ve warped Gabe’s memory for Natalie and twisted their relationship which could’ve been affectionate (her brother as her guardian angel or something). And this on top of the MULTITUDE of ways they failed Natalie…and yet it’s Gabe she blames for most of the show. Something about Gabe taking the antagonist role when he’s actually the only innocent in the family because he’s not real and the only thing he did “wrong” was die.

Anyway never not thinking about all the ways this family failed each other it KILLS me.

[whitesunlars]

it's me, i'm girls

[dasiesanddarkness]

the way Superboy and The Invisible Girl is Natalie literally begging her parents to see her pain and give her the support and love she needs but both of them dismiss it because in their eyes Diana is doing worse and requires more support

and in I’m Alive when Dan says “it isnt always about your comfort, it’s about helping your mother” and Natalie says “as always” because it has never been about her comfort, it has always been about helping Diana and she has always been left to figure it out on her own

and then in Song of Forgetting when Natalie hugs Dan, initiating contact with someone other than Henry for the first (and i think only) time in the show because she’s in so much pain because her mother forgot who she was and he hugs her back until Diana starts to remember when they met and then he pulls away and once again doesn’t offer her the support she needs because he’s too focused on Diana

and how throughout the show Natalie still acts as her mother’s protector (“that’s bullshit, she trusts you!” right before Didn’t I See This Movie, yelling at her dad when he breaks the music box, and driving her to the hospital during I’m Alive reprise) because she still cares about her so much and wishes she would get better so she can have a good relationship with her

and at the end right after I Am The One reprise when she walks in and Dan starts sobbing and she becomes the one that takes care of him by reassuring him and turning on the lights because she knows that he needs it and she’s so used to putting her own pain on hold

the way Natalie struggles the entire fucking show and it’s always second to her parents’ struggles

[radicalcrashout]

''take your meds'' said the people in the fridge

[wwolfeus]

[lizziedias]

I feel like, going there and watch them perform N2N would’ve healed me but really…

[alex-sondheimsversion]

“I’m gay” “I’m straight” “I’m trans”

Ok and I’m alive??? I’m alive??? I am so alive??? And I feed on the fear that’s behind your eyes??? And I need you to need me it’s no surprise??? I’m alive??? So alive??? I’m alive???

[merlepsblog]

Whitaker either should start charging the hospital for his chaplain's services, or they need to give him a little service animal vest

[noonwalkdiary]

i don't have an astigmatism. my sight is just blurry because of the love. love softens things around the edges

[pureforestspirits]

honestly, the main reason why neteyam’s death scene hits emotionally for me is purely due to neytiri’s reaction. i’ve never really been attached to neteyam as a character (sorry…), but i’ll always cry at his death, because what follows are the screams, pleads, and sobs of his mother. it’s devastating.

i was in absolute awe when i first came across the scrapped cut of the “parents from hell” scene, in which neytiri goes even more fucking berserk on the sea dragon. it was very dark, but i don’t blame her for it, and i would’ve liked to see it in the final cut for atwow. i understand why it was removed though — i’m sure a lot of people would’ve misinterpreted it and started demonizing neytiri for her grief.

this franchise is full of complex, flawed, and utterly traumatized characters; i really wish people (namely the notorious tiktok fans…) would adopt less of a black-and-white perspective on it all.

on that note… neytiri and spider empathizers… do we even exist 💔