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"What's so bad about being with me?"

Ooohh yesyesyes cause they kept showing wish!nikki in shadow over and over, like she herself was an actual shadow, nothing more than a Nikki-shaped silhouette, empty of an actual person, just a vessel for bear to pour his rotten love into, a black mirror for it to reflect back at him.

And to me this is his lowest, darkest point in the film. This is the moment when it’s confirmed for him that not only is his girlfriend not the real Nikki - which tbh might have felt like a bizarre relief - but that the real Nikki is in there and suffering horribly, which is probably his worst fear realised. And this moment is when he gives in to the darkest and worst version of himself and asks Nikki, the real Nikki, ‘would it be so bad?’. He knows it IS so bad, but I think he’s so scared and broken in that moment that he is at his weakest and most cowardly, and we know he was already pretty weak and cowardly.

So it’s interesting for me that this moment, when he gives in to the situation for a second and considers accepting the magic and allowing Nikki to keep suffering (which, now he knows he wasn’t imagining things, would make him actively her abuser), he takes on this shadowed appearance that the wish-induced spectre wearing Nikki’s skin so often has. He takes on the evil; for a moment, he is no longer a passive co-victim of his wish, but in control and in collusion with that power. I don’t think he would actually be able to do that to Nikki, and we saw that he was ultimately willing to die to save her from his actions, but still. For a moment.

Plus, this foreshadows that he would become like her, before the end. When wish!nikki makes her wish, she makes him a shadow of himself too. Two shadows in love, two empty vessels reflecting each other. Part of me still thinks the film should have ended like that, but that’s just me loving a dark twisted ending.

tttopoftheworld

This and also the build up to it. Like you can clearly see that bear to certain extent has no problem being with wish!nikki. And the implications that he wouldn't even bat an eye if wish!Nikki didn't inconvenience him. He only started to think about getting rid of her after wish!Nikki and real Nikki start fighting for control.

pigfartsviatardis

Gotta say I disagree, sorry! I think Bear had a LOT of problems with the relationship, did more than just bat his eye, and was in fact drowning in fear and panic over the whole thing. I don’t think he saw Nikki as an object or an inconvenience. To me, that’s part of the tragedy of it; that he was not some awful entitled asshole, but just a painfully normal person, and he truly loved and cared for Nikki… but he fucked up, and then he continued to fuck up, and he let her down horrendously, and it ruined both their lives.

licantropa

but bear does view nikki as an object, because if he didn’t he wouldn’t have wished for “[her] to love him more than anyone else in the fucking world”

and he is an entitled asshole, in the literal scene before the one in the drawing above (great art by the way), he could’ve just taken a sip of his beer and not done the dare, he could’ve just straight up not gone to the party. like the customer service guy on the phone told him, he now has a moral obligation to take care of nikki, and he isn’t doing that. his cat died due to negligence and his “relationship” to “nikki” is where it’s at for the same reason. you can clearly see him start to get bored of being with “nikki” during the lovey dovey montage, and if he wasn’t an entitled asshole he wouldn’t have gone to see sara, which got her killed!

#guh. the shadows... tasty #marsh rbs

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evilwizard

keep your head up, fellow wizard! it’s incantation, not incanttation!

wait

hold on

wait

little wolf

#stunning #particularly enthralled by the wolves #they look so good #marsh rbs

licantropa

a lot of people put emphasis on the fact that “no one would/could guess that the willow wish was real”, but that’s not the most important part of that scene. it’s what bear wishes for and why he wishes it that leads to the events of the rest of the movie.

bear did not have the confidence to ask nikki out, and he takes it out on her. he gets nervous, so she has to pick up his slack and love him more than anyone else in the fucking world. he makes it about what he perceives she lacks, which is romantic interest in him.

he could have wished for anything in that moment, and out of frustration with himself, nikki pays the price with her autonomy.

#agree agree agree #also maybe im ascribing too much. idk intention? to his actions #but like. feeling some type of way about how bear puts it on nikki to ask after the gift in the first place. not great. idk #like. she didnt remind him so now she doesnt get to have her gift #makes it land less as a nice thing he was doing for her and more as a test that she fails in his eyes #or maybe she already failed with her initial ew no / makes her nervous response to him not telling her what he got for her #so now its ''fair'' for him to lash out against her using it #and like who cares if he never believed it would work #he committed enough to the willow being for nikki to tell her he has something for her #but then whether intentionally or not she refused to engage in his little games #so instead hes going to use the willow for himself in a moment of frustration #that alone is enough to call it lashing out and the wish being for *her* to change only makes it worse #sorta like she said no to his gift so now she doesnt get to say no to his feelings #both through him not confessing even when she outright asks and through the wish #marsh rbs

@artemissie's dhirhan!

[character uses he/they pronouns]

#marsh tries #af 2026 #out here using silly style rules for vampires that i established for a vsmp project that has never seen the light of day <3

marshmurmurs

ah. the trenches were actually a grave. got it

#*hacker voice* i'm in #and have learned nothing. closer to 95% done im realizing. i can speedrun the rest #will still probably have to call af done early tho :[#marsh rbs

ah. the trenches were actually a grave. got it

#me. earlier today: yeah ill just finish up this attack and then ill go ahead and start backing up my files #anyway that was a mistake evidently #we are in fact in the actively attempting to perform necromancy stage #also. incredibly cruel that my laptop is doing this to me again when i was like 90% done with the art #you couldnt have waited??? we were doing so good #says marsh

ceruleanheaven

i dont even know where the bit ends and i begin

#marsh rbs

ladyofthebookcase

hello allo person in a fandom. let’s play a game. in front of you are two characters. your challenge is to okay and you’ve already started shipping them. well the crusher machine is going to activate now goodbye.

#marsh rbs

ok now this is just getting ridiculous. wdym im listening to cheating death stories from styx and the moment the song ends firealpaca crashes

#''thats what i get for cheating death'' and then firealpaca dies #what are we even doing #my boulder hashtagmyboulder #says marsh #anyway sisyphus sfs art by gwendy ns2d studios

found that one site i really liked as a pronoun cheatsheet again, this was the main thing holding me back from committing to adding one to gils pronoun list, i'm unstoppable now >:]

#and like. i can justify it just as much as any of the others ive given her #it was already on the table as a could do with just general association with their chosen one title #and tbh i wouldve run with it on that alone if i hadnt forgotten what my emotional support pronoun site was called #i fear the object pronouns always get me </3 #like with one pronouns specifically all the other. i dont know if conjugations is the right word but its the only one i can think of #all the other conjugations are fairly self explanatory however without seeing like the whole list i would not know off the top of my head #if theres a different word for like. one went to vs went with one #there isnt for like. it and one ive learned. many other pronouns do differentiate tho #anyway. add in the recent instances of believe in oneself / to save oneself is to know oneself? im sold #sitting at they/he/she/it/one in no particular preference order #any pronouns with extra steps <3 #tho anything beyond this point will explicitly be me just making shit up #i say already Looking at sea/sear #says marsh

yourfriendphoenix

Art Fight Day 9!

Totally DIDN'T forget to post on time yesterday at all. Nope.

Evangel belongs to @/sleepy_detective on AF

Rovian belongs to @/Eight_of_Aitch

Luny belongs to @/Voicez_the_Lunatic

Flor belongs to @angelic-pudding-art

#!!!!#the lighting on luny is sick as hell!!#marsh rbs #eyestrain

heyfruitcake

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

ignitelimelight

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government