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sasha/entity | they/he/she | 20s | gods gay son AND his thot daughter

[amygdalae]

youre listening to killed with a brick FM

[blu3per]

three sillies chilling in a square, clearly up to no good!!!

[vengerburger]

been missing the scarvi characters a little bit

[prokopetz]

I guess the reason all that Backrooms stuff has never really fazed me is because I worked in on-site networking support for a while, and literally every city's downtown district is just Like That once you get off the beaten path. Not just the really big cities, either; the one I'm currently living in has a population of less than 250 000 – metro area included – and a downtown area about six blocks across, and the service corridors still manage to do some House of Leaves shit. At one point I was trying to map the route of a misbehaving network cable, started out in a shopping mall parking garage, and ended up surfacing in the basement of the casino across the street. Totally unsecured – apparently neither the mall's administration nor the casino's managers knew that particular service corridor existed.

[prokopetz]

Like, I once bumped into a fully stocked and operational Coke machine in an unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level. Its display lighting was the only illumination for a hundred yards in either direction. I don't even know what it was plugged into.

[prokopetz]

Somewhere below this city there's a room the size of a high school gymnasium filled floor to ceiling with rotting mattresses. I've seen it with my own eyes – and, more importantly, smelled it with my own nose. I can't recommend the experience.

[prokopetz]

(That last one isn't even mysterious. The room in question is within easy walking distance of the basement of a major hotel, if you know where you're going; I imagine the hotel started stashing their old mattresses there at some point rather than pay to have them hauled away, and over the ensuing decades the situation got out of hand.)

[prokopetz]

In response to a couple of recurring questions in the notes:

I don't have any experience with the weirder corners of university campuses – my work in that particular job just never happened to take me there. I did, however, once have to do a cable trace in the basement of a former Christian elementary school. It had haphazardly been subdivided into numerous tiny rooms, some as little as ten feet across, with no central hallways or apparent floor plan. Every single room was, for reasons that were and remain unclear to me, full of broken kitchen appliances. One room in particular contained an enormous industrial freezer unit that was larger in its smallest dimension than any of the doors leading to it. Was it delivered in pieces and assembled on site? Did they build the room around it? That one still bothers me a little bit.

No, I did not drink the Morlock Tunnel Coke. What are you, nuts?

[medievaljournalist]

wait here while my manservant fetches the anti-elf rifle

[goomyloid]

chapter 5 hype moments and aura

[ahhhdownwego]

I really tried to tip the scales in your favor

[pending-trans-action-2]

You losers like rick and morty, while I like em thick and portly

[maxadecillion]

just because you chose this for her doesn't make it less real

[starvariety]

oh and another thing that devastates me about Obsession is how much nikki is judged and blamed by those around her. sarah and ian repeatedly telling bear that he shouldn’t have to deal with her, that she’s not his responsibility, that they’re worried she’s taking advantage of him. as if they aren’t also her friends, as if they shouldn’t know her well enough to notice something is off. there’s no concern for why nikki is behaving the way she is, there’s just distain towards it. she starts acting out of character and so it must all be intentional. but bear doesn’t get questioned. bear isn’t gossiped about. nikki loses all her agency and autonomy, and all she gets for it is judgment

[jesterprivileges]

the most unsettling scene in obsession for me was during the call with the one wish willow number, and the guy on the other end asks if bear "wants to talk to her" and we can hear nikki screaming in the background.

i initally assumed that the real nikki just kind of blacks out after the wish kicks in. but the implication that when the "other" nikki takes over, the real nikki actually goes Somewhere Else and is in agonizing pain the whole time made my skin crawl

[ripley-stark]

i'm loving the takes that interpret bear as a metaphor for an ai artist. obviously he is primarily meant to represent the manosphere and men's entitlement toward and objectification of women, which is already twisted enough, but there are so many little details in the film that add to a more subtextual reading.

bear's friend group is four colleagues who work at a music store, a venue celebratory of the arts. both of the women seriously aspire to be artists. nikki is in the middle of writing a novel--a love story, ironically--and sarah is applying to art schools. by contrast, when bear confesses an aspiration to be a food critic, nikki remarks that he eats steak with ketchup. not only does this interaction reveal bear's goal to be relatively vague and poorly researched, it particularly calls out that he lacks the cultural tastes to contribute much criticism of value. whereas the women's interests are curated and honed over years, his just feels random and never even comes up again outside of that scene.

rather than take the opportunity to confess his feelings for nikki or put in any effort to get to know the real her, bear uses the wish to "generate" a version of nikki that reciprocates his feelings. nikki immediately begins making uncanny mistakes such as thinking bear's cat is her own, laughing uncomfortably loud at jokes, and making cartoonish expressions. her movements glitch. she speaks in long poetic monologues through which extremely macabre "relics" of nikki's tortured consciousness and writing style slip out.

at no point does bear offer any vulnerability to nikki nor does he even really seem to know much about her compared to ian and sarah, who both observe her behavior is not in keeping with her previous hobbies and her relationship with her family. bear instead vehemently maintains that their relationship is valid while fully aware of the despair he's causing nikki as he uses her body for his own happiness. her face is often cut out of the frame or cast in shadow, implying that he doesn't see her as a person or cannot confront the harm he has caused in using the wish.

bear's relationship with nikki mirrors the entitlement of ai "artists" thinking they can shortcut to creating something meaningful without curating their own tastes, developing technical skills, or being vulnerable. bear has created nothing but a horrifying simulacrum of who nikki was and robbed her artistry in the process. he has neither changed nor challenged anything about himself that could've made him appeal to nikki more or contribute to society but rather offloaded pain and destruction onto others. he is selfish, lazy, and cowardly from start to finish, refusing to take any accountability for his wrongdoing and the artifice of his existence.

[nessa007]

"Preparing [for the role of Nikki] was really fun. We got to watch a lot of fun movies, and kind of pick and choose, like a puzzle, what we wanted in the film. Moments that we took inspiration from, and made them our own." — Inde Navarrette for Fandango "We watched Get Out, and focused on a lot of the moments where characters are showing an emotion underneath but saying something completely different [on the surface], and how horrific that is. There's a scene where [Nikki] is saying, "no", and there is a [similar] scene in Get Out [which we took inspiration from]." — Inde Navarrette for A Shot Magazine Obsession (2026) Dir. Curry Barker Get Out (2017) Dir. Jordan Peele

[hotvampireadjacent]

Happy tom needy drinky day

[flabbergastedpigeon]

Recently finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and I just HAD to sketch this creep

[polartss]

the mockingjay

[msrhaxoz]

aura farming ☝️