“𝔑𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢”

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will indulge the other.” — Mary Shelley

[unhinged-soapbox]

At a certain point during watching a bunch of Dracula adaptations, you ask yourself: Is it me? Am I crazy? Did I miss the subtext? Am I bad at reading Dracula? Am I the world's greatest fraud?

And then you go back and reread some sections and feel immense relief.

[edwire]

What if you were BISEXUAL and your wife was BISEXUAL and there were hot vampires and they were also BISEXUAL

🦇commissions are open!🦇

[tiffycat]

hot girl summer vs jonathans's no good very bad business trip

[crimsondepth]

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[lady-dulcinea]

Obsession (2025)

[seasonofhorror]

THE CRAFT

1996, dir. Andrew Fleming

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[requiem-on-water]

"The Soul's Journey" (2025) by Chiharu Shiota | Ph: Charles Roussel

[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.

[writerxwren]

I'm sorry WHAT starring WHO???????

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT MICKEY AND MINNIE ARE THE FIRST BOOK ACCURATE JONMINA IN AN ADAPTATION

ALSO WHY IS THE NEW COPY $250???????

WHAT IS HAPPENING

[oldpaintings]

L'heure du bain au bord de la mer, 1896 by Ernest Ange Duez (French, 1843–1896)

[skinlessbanana-deactivated20160]

[ily-a]

OBSESSION 2026 | dir. Curry Barker

[lady-dulcinea]

INDE NAVARRETTE as Nikki Freeman in Obsession (2025)

[spookshollow]

[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.