ad astra per aspera

“maybe i should break it off with m y s e l f." icon by birdfish-co!

[planetpossum]

reblog and dashboard spam bc my cat is laying on my feet and i love him

it will happen again

cat tax:

[lleyksie]

brown bears ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

[ezekiel13]

I want to write my fanfic <- isn’t writing my fanfic

[unknowndandelions]

More Iron Lung art because I couldn't get it out of my head

'This is not an expedition. It is an execution.' - Iron Lung

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

aftercare for posting on ao3

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

your fic was good you did grammar good you’re the kind of freak people like everything’s cool dude :^)

[gaysie]

t shirt that says I MISS EVERYONE I WAS EVER FLEETINGLY CLOSE TO SO MUCH THAT IT KILLS

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[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.

[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”

[roriannesmoon]

And then, even after all that, we still have male reviewers and audience members insisting that he did ‘nothing wrong actually’ and that he’s just ‘misunderstood’. What they really mean is that they all saw themselves in Bear and didn’t like what they saw so they’ve decided to contort themselves into pretzels to justify his actions rather than doing any sort of self introspection.

[maxadecillion]

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

[djotime]

Obsession 2026, dir. Curry Barker

[gingamanslikings]

🍃💨 Then went to the theaters and saw Obsession in theaters, it was extremely good.

[smilesbag]

i feel like people are overlooking the moment at the beginning of obsession where nikki straight up asks "do you like me?" and once bear lies and says no she replies "ok, good." for starters, it was a chilling moment to me because this is such a classic experience of having a close guy friend, only to realize that he wants more from you. girls aren't dumb! nikki isn't dumb! of course she knows that bear is into her, she has eyes! she can see his stuttering and sheepishness and she's just dreading the moment she has to turn him down, to tell him that he's like a brother to her. just before she had told him that she doesn't feel real love in her life, and i don't think it would be a leap to attribute a small part of that feeling to her fear that her friendship with bear isn't as simple as she wants it to be.

it's also a chilling question from nikki because once she walks away bear knows that she doesn't feel the same way about him, and he makes the wish anyway. he is incapable or unwilling to take a hint and see that she doesn't feel the same way. and that question is the last thing she says to him before he ruins her life forever. it's unfair.

[nessa007]

so i just saw obsession

[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.

[schnoobums]

IRON LUNG (2026) dir. Markiplier

[isabelopaque]

When someone likes the thing you made for them

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!