minnie marie

i lost myself a while ago but i am close to finally finding myself again

[lexdelioncourt]

Tell me, if we one day get an episode, or even part of an episode, where Armand tells more of his story, of how he was chased down by slavers and sold to a brothel as a child, how he was abused so badly that he can't even remember his own name, how he was "rescued" as a teenager by a man who would go on to molest him, beat him black and blue, send him into more brothels so he can be exposed to everything including bestiality, so he can learn how to fuck better, and then loan him out to others (plus whatever else the show ends up adding from the existing book lore); how he was kidnapped after Santino burned down the palazzo; how he was made to watch all his brothers get thrown onto a fire and burn alive; how he himself was thrown onto that fire before being taken off, imprisoned, starved, fed his best friend, indoctrinated, and sent to yet another foreign land to lead a cult...

Tell me, if he tells us all of this, is it still going to be, "omg Armand is such a lying master manipulator!" Is it still going to be funny the way everyone throws his horrific past back in his face?

And the thing is, I don't blame the characters in the show for treating him the way they do. He has wronged them all in terrible ways. They could be so much worse if they wanted to be, and I still wouldn't blame them.

But I do have to raise an eyebrow at the very real people in this fandom who refuse to extend the slightest bit of empathy to this character, who has endured unspeakable trauma, when every other character is offered some. I side-eye the hell out of anyone who wants to downplay it or accuse him of lying about his abuse, because spoiler alert, his abuse is very much book canon, whether Anne wanted to frame it that way or not.

The Vampire Armand doesn't give a fuck if you downplay his trauma, or laugh about his abuse, or claim that he's lying about it to manipulate whoever. But the very real victims of abuse can see you doing that shit, and I bet they give a fuck about it.

[mymycorrhizae]

Was Dubai bullshit? What? Me breaking you down. You knew everything the whole time, didn't you? It was just theatre. No. No. I swear.

[the-thirteenth-prime]

I see half the fandom characterizing Adrian as patient and selfless, and I see the other half characterizing them as bitter and unaccommodating, and I also see the joking and non joking 'what if Rocky were the trolley operator' fics and ideas, and I've come to the conclusion that you all are missing the beauty of the superior third option that is Adrian also being traumatized and feral over their mate.

Thank about it. Rocky's a spitfire and bounces off the walls at baseline and they looked at that little autistic, bossy ball of energy and went 'yes. that's them. the creature I want to spend the next 500+ years with'. They have to at LEAST match their energy somewhat. And if you think you wouldn't be a fucking ball of PTSD and bitterness at your culture and society after fifty plus years of not knowing they were alive or dead, you're fucking operating on moon logic. Honestly, Adrian and the other families were probably begging for a rescue mission that never happened for various political and logical reasons; and while it probably would have ended in mass fatalities as well, so thank goodness that figurative and literal ship never got off the ground, the fact that it didn't happen probably burns more than a little, reasonable or unreasonable.

So one day Adrian gets some Eridian diplomat on their doorstep, and they're expecting the formal condolences at long last, but instead they go into this whole spiel of ' so. So! Turns out twenty two of the original crew died, but your mate survived! When did they die? Oh, early on, so your mate was submerged in crippling and literal deafening loneliness for over four decades; and now he's back and acting weird, and he's become codependent with this weird fragile squishy human being that's the only reason he came back at all, and he's refusing to send down the cure unless we make the blob an aquarium. Could you come to the space elevator and tell him to stop being so unreasonable?' If that were MY mate? I'd fucking lose it.

Just throwing things at this poor messenger and shrieking like " Oh! Oh!! So it's somehow Rocky's fault that you're refusing to take a few months out of the several hundred Eridian years we have left to ship the cure we already have to Threeworld before things actually become problematic to make sure one of the two saviors of our entire species doesn't die?! To give the sole survivor of the mission--my mate, who's been alone and in silence, with no one to watch him sleep, for hundreds of years--some sort of solace and peace?! And you're wondering why he's acting erratically?! Maybe you wouldn't be in this position at all if you'd sent the rescue mission for which we've pleaded for years at every single thrum! I don't care if this Grace thing is a literal giant space amoeba; get the fuck out of my house and tell the powers that be to give it literally everything it wants and needs!" And they're all 'be reasonable' and Adrian's like " I've been reasonable for hundreds of Eridian years, and you would not be in this situation if you'd actually sent a rescue mission and not simply wrung your claws and hoped for the best, so fucking live in the nest you made. All I'm going to do if you get me on the radio with Rocky right now is tell him he's doing amazing and give him advice on how to properly parboil the Taumoeba so that you can't even recover even the slightest scrap of DNA if you don't give the flesh blob that saved his life and saved OUR lives PLURAL goddamn vitamins." Like, they think it's bad that Rocky basically stands over Grace's sleeping body and hisses? Wait until they get the MUCH LARGER ERIDIAN doing that for Grace and Rocky. Wait until the much large Eridian leads the families of the dead twenty-two crewmates to the space elevator to riot because this sure sounds like a coverup to them!! This sure sounds like the deflection of blame on the sole survivor!! This sure sounds like the same paralysis that left them to die alone in space because you didn't want to admit failure!! Yes, I know, I'm weaving some sort of political intrigue plot that probably doesn't exist in canon. All I'm saying is that you all are missing the delicious implications of a mission that went radio silent for fifty plus earth years with no word from the government and no obvious attempt at rescue, followed by your partner coming home with the only being that's been around to watch him sleep since the rest of the crew died forty-some years ago, and people are calling him weird and changed. You'd be horrified. You'd be sick.

You'd be pissed the fuck off at every body of power that let this happen.

[rosettyller]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[artralichoard]

I like to imagine a sleep deprived and pissed off Ryland Grace uses his teacher phrases but in his "ragefull, yelling at collegues and getting kicked out of acadamia" voice.

"1. 2. 3. Eyes. On. Me." *said with such intense glare and direct eye contact it made one person tear up in fear*

"WE RAISE OUR HANDS TO SPEAK!" *even Stratt follows the rule the rest of the meeting*

"I can wait..." *said in a normal volume in a room of screaming frustrated scientists. they all quiet immediately*

"SEE ME AFTER CLASS!" *he then stormed off and now the poor sod that pissed of Dr. Grace is standing outside his office door like he's entering the execution chamber*

[yurimom]

obsession was great. the themes are especially great when viewed thru a feminist lens. i think you could even go so far as to view it as a metaphor for reactive abuse (the way bear makes a wish for nikki to love him more than anything in the world / be obsessed with him, then lets everyone believe she’s just gone crazy put of nowhere, all while still not wanting to end his relationship with her. of course it’s not one to one but the subtle themes are there.)

i also enjoyed how the film showed what everyday violations of consent can look like…media often shows the most obvious, often-dramatized occurrences of it, but this depicted a more common way of it showing up.

bear did indeed take advantage of nikki while she was in a mentally unstable state. he was well aware her consent was compromised. all the while he is very insecure about it, knows what he is doing, becomes aware even that nikki is aware and it is hurting her, continues doing it. i love that this film names this. it even critiques “not like the other girls” anti-feminism through sarah, who sees it as nikki taking advantage of bear…then she ironically tries to take advantage of bear’s vulnerable state herself by coming onto him.

also on a smaller note nikki’s batshit incestuous gorey hansel and gretel story had great prose i enjoyed it. my partner pointed out that before the wish, nikki saw bear as a little brother figure. meaning the hansel and gretel thing very well could have come from real feelings of disgust, like it nearly feels like an incestuous relationship to her.

and the ENDING. a lesser film would have insisted that, in these circumstances where the wish can only be broken if one of them dies, the male lead must survive between the two. but there was no self sacrifice from nikki out of “love”, there was no moment of lucidity or jealousy or rage where she kills herself, bear is forced by the narrative to take full responsibility for what he has done to nikki. what’s more— he reaches for a gun, almost uses it, ultimately decides on overdosing on pills. my partner and i personally think this was intentional commentary on masculinity, by having bear consider, then reject, the way men typically choose suicide in favor of the way women typically choose it. just a fun detail and maybe we’re both batshit.

good movie. all of that said though i’m sure a lot of people will boil it down to “haha women are soooo crazy…”

[furiosa-femininst]

Lmao I just went to the TV Tropes page for Obsession and I love this bit of trivia

“Hey man, your main character isn’t sympathetic enough, could you fix that?”

“Okay sure, I’ll make him MORE unsympathetic since you idiots missed the point”

[acefuruya]

nikki breaks my heart so bad because in the brief moments we see her before the wish kicks in, she's so cool and funny, clearly kindhearted, very driven about her future (telling bear about how she was going to quit her job to focus on her writing), and also very sure of herself as a person. ive seen people describe this movie as "mean-spirited" and I think thats so apt because it was a 2 hour long tragedy of the torture of this innocent girl, taking away everything she's ever had, including her own sense of self, putting her through unimaginable horrors, and leaving her with nothing except the three dead bodies of her friends, with the one who she trusted most being the one who did this to her. nothing for her to look for hope in, because she has nothing before her except a lifetime in prison or in an institution. it would be one thing if the movie ended on a note like weapons, where everything was over and there would hopefully be recovery somewhere down the line, but here, not only was the evil not committed by a random stranger but her closest friend, but she doesn't get any chance at recovery either. so goddamn tragic. on that note, if anyone can come up with some sort of fix-it for nikki please link it to me because I will be crying about this girl forever.

[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.

[serendipitous-posts]

Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

[animepopheart]

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[justplaggin]

My feelings are genuine. So, Sakura, thank you. Excuse me? Thank you for protecting Hinagiku.

[justplaggin]

We'll make spring bloom. Spring for everyone. People who wish tomorrow never comes. People praying for tomorrow to arrive. We'll shower them all in cherry blossoms. Only the seasons are equal to the guilty and the innocent alike. We'll give them a wonderful season. That will be our revenge on the world.

[praisebewookies]

testaments au where the war against gilead runs impossibly long and daisy is off fighting in it with becka and agnes and shu is akin to the war widow she left behind who lives in a refugee camp in the mountains where she runs a school teaching escaped gilead girls and women to read (which she taught herself to do ofc because nothing can stop her)

Inspired by this poem:

bonus points if shu is raising her and daisy’s adopted daughter

[021525gaygate1132]

I feel like a lot of people are missing the point that these girls live in an ultra-fascist patriarchal society where they are viewed primarily as future wives and breeders, and where religion dictates nearly every aspect of their lives. That's what Gilead is.

People keep discussing the kiss as if it happened in our world, where a kiss between two girls might not carry the same weight. But this isn't our world.

In Gilead, being queer isn't merely frowned upon. It's dangerous.

That's why I find the "it was just a comfort kiss" interpretation interesting. Because even if that's true, it's still a kiss. In a society built around controlling women's bodies, relationships, and sexuality, that kind of intimacy means something.

I'm not even saying the scene proves they're destined to be together. What I'm saying is that the choice itself matters.

The writers could have given them a hug or a conversation. Instead, they chose a reciprocated kiss in the final stretch of the season finale.

Whether the moment was romantic, symbolic, or something in between, I think it's meant to have consequences. Otherwise, why choose a kiss at all?

If Agnes were a boy, fans would be going absolutely wild. Why is it that when a man kisses a woman (or vice versa), the moment is almost immediately framed as passionate or romantic?

Fans would already be rooting for them to run away together and start a new life far away from Gilead if this were a guy/girl pairing. Honestly, even if they were both boys, the fandom reaction would probably be very different.

“ Oh, it was just a comfort/pity kiss.”

I love my friends dearly, but NEVER in my life have I kissed a friend just to comfort them.

I understand the argument people are making, but if I were Becka, I would absolutely feel some type of way after that moment. Maybe for her, this truly is a closing of their 'relationship', but is risking that level of emotional and physical vulnerability really worth it if the relationship is meant to stay strictly platonic?

And honestly… if the kiss is never brought up again in season 2, was it even worth including at all instead of a conversation or a simple hug?

If it's platonic, why doesn't it look platonic?

[frownyalfred]

for the people who think it’s cliche to write Bruce going to galas in fics because they think it’s overblown: it’s not, I promise.

galas happen ALL the time. they’re fundraisers or silent auctions for non-profits or charities, they’re a networking event for club members, they’re for anniversaries or commemorating important milestones, they’re for police or military organizations to give awards, they’re for election campaigns or high profile donors in a certain charity league. hell, sometimes people have galas just to make money off the tables and schmooze.

the problem is assuming that a “gala” is one very specific thing. these days, a gala can refer to a variety of scenarios where people are dressed up and speeches and/or music feature at some point. it can be black tie, but it isn’t always. sometimes it’s an afternoon gala (yes these exist) or the environment is a bit more relaxed, so the dress code is “formal.”

so when I say that someone as important as Bruce Wayne is probably invited to a dozen galas every week, that’s not an exaggeration. the better question is, will he go, and why?

[bloodsoakedbuckley]

my truth is that eddie has always known. from the day they met. but there was the wife. and the repression. and then the child that he handed over like his own heart. and it all stayed in its box nice and safe. sometimes he would lift the lid and look at it in there. a well. a bullet. lightning. and sometimes he would shove it deep in a corner and forget about it. looking for it in someone else. the wrong someone(s). and then there was texas. and buck poured his heart out all over the floor of the home that saw it all. and eddie left. packed up the box, now bursting at the seams, and carried it with him so he could keep going. then tragedy brings him back and its too much and he cant look at it. buck isnt ready. he isnt ready. ready for what? its been so long hes not even sure what he keeps in there anymore. now hes scratching at the lid. sitting alone with it. acclimating to its radiating warmth. he stops dating. he embraces joy. he looks at the box and lets himself learn its shape. then buck is lost in the desert. and eddie almost misses his chance. but buck is okay. the box tips and spills and spills and spills and spills

eddie knows