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the whimsical irl lesbian tom levitt 🎹 she/her 🍎 adult 🍪 real big into the tv man and the pretty cannibal lady ☕️ some art but im mainly here to yap and lurk

[pink-sharkz]

Consider. Skywishes and Star Catcher as Cadance's parents

[daeneryxx]

MEN HAVE 0 MEDIA LITERACY AND THEY DON’T TAKE OBSESSION SERIOUSLY I HATE THEM SO BAD

[fujinosaltacc]

just finished obsession and wow it was so good

[leighzuh]

Bear hate aside, Michael Johnston did a PHENOMENAL job and I feel he's quite underrated and overlooked. For me Bear was super-nuanced character and surely not your typical 'horror villian'. I liked him so damn much in the beginning, really sympathized with him (his cry for the caaaat 💔), and felt pure disgust in the end - such a pussy, with the buggest capital 'P' imaginable!

And his voice! Wow-wow, the voice acting alone deserves huge praise! Also, looks - I see both Hugh Dancy and Anthony Padilla from Smosh (especially on his real-life pictures), and his beautiful expressive eyes and the whole type worked so well for Bear.

Pic sourse - IG, it's from deleted scene or something (looks amazing btw)

[nessa007]

Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette being interviewed for Obsession (2026) via Collider / Film Dude Sean on YouTube

[princesssprinklecake]

for the rest of my life i will mourn nikki freeman. the writer she may have become. the love stories she would have written. all the places in the world she could have explored. the people she could have helped. all of these things she could have done, ruined because a man was selfish and greedy. because he was self-seeking and truly did not care about her as a person, but as an idea. as a concept. he loved the idea of nikki freeman. because if bear truly loved nikki, he never would have put her through that.

[minixor]

reading the original screenplay for obsession. i see why they cut this because it’s so in-your-face but godddd nikki (originally nicky) was basically telling bear what would be the moral of the movie and he just can’t absorb any of it

[sanguinesylph]

god I need this guy dead its not funny anymore

[gelybean]

ɪ’ᴍ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰʀᴇᴀᴋʏ ɴɪᴋᴋɪ ❤️

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‘Obsession’ was amazing and Inde Navarrette’s was such a revelation! 😭💖 One of my favorite horror movies of recent years hands down!!

[tildexart]

i dont eat i dont sleep i do nothing but think of you

[kuviraissues]

not your nikki

[viccalderaa]

Not me

[vampireistic]

i absolutely love how nikki is nearly always bathed in shadow (whether it’s fully in the dark or with a single light behind her with her as the faceless darkness). she’s quite literally become a shadow of her former self. no autonomy, no personal thoughts or emotions, just a carved image of what bear desired.

[dishvnored]

I was never with you.

[ai-em-maes]

[shouts-into-the-void]

One thing about Obsession (2026) that I enjoyed was that it almost asks you to feel empathy for the entity possessing Nikki as well as the real one. Like, obviously the things she's doing are horrific and fucked up, but I think the scene where Bear is asking her to "just be Nikki!" and she eventually just desperatly screams "I can't be Nikki!" does a really good job of showcasing the entity's inner feelings. She's been created with the sole purpose of loving this guy more than anyone else but no matter how perfect it is or how much he claims to love her, its not her that he loves, its Nikki. And any time she stops pretending to be Nikki, he reacts (albeit rightfully) with disgust and horror. She can't be Nikki because Nikki would never love Bear, and so Bear will never love her.

[susiephone]

i love that Obsession didn't do the "oh if you'd just asked her out she would've said yes" thing.

like that kind of "you didn't need magic, you could've gotten what you want the honest way" dramatic irony can be effective and i see why a lot of writers use it for "be careful what you wish for" plots like these, but i love that Obsession is like, "no. she doesn't like you like that. there is no version of this where you end up dating her, and you need to get over it."

and nikki clearly did value bear's friendship and care about him; if he'd been honest with her about his feelings, she probably would've tried to let him down easy and remain friends - but of course, it's unlikely that he would've been willing to remain friends. bear's both too cowardly to admit the truth to nikki (which would've prompted her to reject him outright and at least given him closure), and too obsessed with her to just quietly accept that it wasn't gonna happen (which would've let him maybe start to get over his crush and move on). he's both convinced they belong together and unwilling to be direct in doing something about it, and he doesn't get even the barest comfort of knowing the real nikki loved him all along. she didn't. she liked him, but she didn't love him. and he swapped her out for a version of her that "loves" him... but doesn't like him. and he still wanted to try and make that work, even knowing the real nikki was trapped and miserable inside the shell of her body, being used by the thing he willed into existence. the tragedy doesn't happen because what he wants is within reach and he doesn't realize it - the tragedy happens because what he wants is impossible, and he refuses to see that until it's too late.

[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.

[selectkus]

Just a little more Cadence. My imagination is running out…