what is goodie my gang

[hey-foreieys]

I think Vox tells people he's from New York but he starts sweating when somebody asks about it. I think he'd like to talk about the glitz and glamor of NYC but everyone is like. Are you SURE. He talks like he knows it, at least the version of new york a well-to-do white fellow would know, but he's also a liar and a poseur. He might not have been to nyc until later in life OR never at ALL. But nobody can know that. He's probably like. pennsylvania dutch or something. Just barely creeping into the appalachia and I think it kills him that he's not from big fancy new york

[galaxymermaid6]

A detail I absolutely LOVED in Obsession was the music cutting out whenever the real Nikki came out. It was like the audience was waking up with her.

[ceruleanheaven]

nikki begging bear to kill her and all he does is ask whats so bad about being with him. one of the most nauseating scenes ive ever witnessed

[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.

[modernmusess]

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

[champmorado]

it's funny to me that while toy story 5 is going on and bonnie is having trouble making friends, andy is probably like two states away and going through hell on earth on indeed.com

[existencebringsonlypain]

triangle IS CANONICALLY AND EXPLICITLY A GAY BAR. which MEEEEEEANS

IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, JAX IS OUT TO HER FRIENDS!

[revengeguac115]

this is my copium fr

[katificer]

[lazuli-starlight]

Actually. Yeah. Pretty much.

But to extend the metaphor a bit further, Imagine Caine is a person living isolated in the middle of nowhere without internet. He's desperately lonely, so he raises a bunch of ducks he captures from a nearby lake because they are his favorite animal.

The Ducks keep dying. He does not know why. The ducks peck at him whenever he tries to pet them. He does not know why. He tries to build the best possible coop for them, but they keep plucking their own feathers from stress.

He loves them, but no matter what he does, no matter what he tries, the ducks are miserable and keep dying and want nothing to do with him. But he doesn't want to let them go, he has nothing else in his life. He has nobody else in his life.

Now the metaphor breaks down when you remember the humans can actually talk to Caine, unlike ducks. But honestly that only would help so much, Caine had pretty much zero context to comprehend most of the things the humans talked about as being important to them.

Caine pretty much saw most of the human's complaints as being a case of Preferences rather than "I need things to change so I don't abstract from the stress". And given Caine does not really understand things like nuance and Unspoken Meanings, he was not going to get that unless somebody spelled it out for him directly in those terms (Caine my beloved AuDHD disaster dentures).

Caine literally had to Google humans in their natural habitat before he had even an inkling of what they were actually upset about.

Caine isn't innocent, he was very self-absorbed and at times willfully ignorant. But a lot of the harm he inflicted was genuinely born of true ignorance and inability to comprehend. Really, his main problem was he arrogantly thought he knew best and thus it didn't occur to him that he was far more ignorant than he realized he was.

[aww-heckity]

And the thing is, he did listen and TRY to give the humans what they wanted. The issue is, humans are complicated beasts who don’t always know what we want. Zooble feels uncomfortable in their body? Bam, they can make their body whatever they want, problem solved! What do you mean they’re still complaining. I did literally everything for you. You complained about not liking the kind of bread I gave you so I let you eat any kind of bread in the world and you’re still upset. What.

[thejohnlockedfemboy]

Happy Reaping Day!

May the odds be EVER in your favor 🏹

[thejohnlockedfemboy]

I hope that everyone has another wonderful Reaping Day! And a special happy birthday to Haymitch Abernathy.

[tadctheories]

I thought it was a bit strange that Pomni was so calm after Jax abstracted, but I have a theory on why that is.

The first thing that Pomni mentioned after Jax's abstraction was regarding containing Jax.

While Gangle, Zooble, and Ragatha focused on the emotional fallout of Jax's abstraction, Pomni focused on the practical aspect of his abstraction.

Pomni listened to Ragatha talk about Jax and Ribbit and consoled Ragatha when she blamed herself.

She then told Ragatha, told her what she meant to her, then left.

It doesn't seem like anyone checked in on Pomni and her feelings. I'm not blaming anyone for that since the timing of Jax's abstraction was traumatic for everyone, but her unchecked behavior is likely what led her to pursue Jax.

Put simply, I think Pomni hatched the idea to pursue Jax during her conversation with Ragatha. The reason she hugged Ragatha and told her how much she meant to her was because she anticipated that she might abstract while chasing Jax.

Look at these two hug scenes. They parallel one another. Pomni initiated the hug and then the other person reciprocated. Both happened after they gave their backstory regarding Ribbit. We're supposed to link these scenes and compare/contrast them.

Most importantly, Jax knew it was a goodbye. The hug was the last interaction between Jax and Pomni in the series.

Pomni never planned on leaving Jax's side. I truly think that if Zooble didn't grab her, she would have abstracted with Jax. I don't think Pomni has a death wish, but I do think that she loves Jax so deeply that she never wanted to let him go. Her feelings were reinforced by the fact that he FINALLY opened up to her about EVERYTHING.

Even when Jax and Pomni are pulled apart, Pomni keeps looking back to Jax for the rest of the series.

She stayed with him in the tent.

She cried when his background was mentioned.

She even started learning the piano for him.

Truthfully, I don't think Pomni will ever give up on Jax, no matter what form he takes.

[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[jorongbak]

Queenie leaving Caine alone with Kinger and Uncle Scratch for just two hours and.. Don't tell mom- PLEASE DON'T TELL MOM-

[smallpwbbles]

I love seeing Jax in the recent ad just acting like we didn’t watch him brutally abstract and reminding me of this meme

[smallpwbbles]

Sorry I had to draw this real quick.

[tmfarse]

hmmm I wonder what these two pieces of media have in common? 🤔👀🏳️‍⚧️

Original screenshot:

[zombiotical]

greznedge

[revengeguac115]

i know she said it as a joke but I kinda think Lilly sounds like a pretty name for Jax

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

anyway i dont think we talk enough about the fact that if you pause the real-world slideshow and read the text onscreen, Anne Best is a college graduate who already has a Junior Software Development job, which means she is absolutely over the age of 20, meaning she was already born when Kinger and Queenie popped into the Circus. Meaning Kinger and Queenie had memories of at least one of their daughters as a little girl and never got to see her again. you know just for the record

[revengeguac115]

oh my god, Kinger looking into Ragatha or Pomni’s eyes and seeing his daughter…