Sharks, Spooks, &, Social Anxiety

The human equivalent of Kilroot | Em | 26 | exhausted | icarus (derogatory)|

[amygdalae]

The European mind cannot comprehend the humble 10 hour car ride

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[copperbadge]

THE ORANGES

[seelpitorwhatever]

Don't care, didn't read, plus your blade did not make a cool shwing sound when you drew it to show that it is as sharp as mine

[toothsalad]

i think the funniest thing I have ever forgotten to tell someone was that the boat he was applying to work on mandates their employees do the hokey-pokey

[toothsalad]

imagine you are me. your friend and temporary coworker, a reserved guy who walks with the grace of a jaguar and lives alone in the forest, is applying to work on another boat. he has it narrowed down to two choices, and he thinks he likes the style of one of the captains over the other. he is going to pick that boat. you feel very strongly he should NOT pick that boat. why, he says. you don't know how to answer, except to say that he would not be a good fit. he says he wants something easy and laid back. you watch him go, and it is only two weeks later that you bolt upright in bed and Remember

[austimpowerz]

MOODBOARD FOR WHEN SHIT IS FUCK

[laqueus]

[church-of-lilith]

favorite part of weapons was the sequence of june diane raphael slowly gaining on julia garner in the periphery of the liquor store. getting closer with each turn she took, one step closer to beating her ass in that red track suit outfit… absolute cinema

[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.

[cicatrixtwigs]

I also loved that their friends reaction wasn't "wow another crazy jealous bitch" but "Bear she's clearly going through something and it looks like you are taking advantage of her"

[deadpowol]

[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.

[starvariety]

if i think too hard about nikki’s experience in Obsession i feel physically ill. imagine one second you’re just walking up to your house after a night out, and then the next, you’re looking out of your own body, but you’re not longer in control. you’re a prisoner to a terrible, unnatural version of yourself that only exists because of a choice someone else made. when you scream, nobody listens. when you claw your way out for long enough to explain that this isn’t you, nobody listens. when you beg the man who trapped you in this situation to put and end to it, to set your free, he just. doesn’t. listen. and then when you do finally regain control, all your friends are dead, and you are covered in their blood. because of a choice someone else made

[redeyeliner]

Obsession (2026) really made it clear how the loss of your autonomy as a woman is absolutely terrifying, more often leading to losing your sense of identity along the way.

How some people miss the point of this movie is beyond me.

[ofswordsandpens]

I need to see it again to pinpoint the details but I really like how the opening scene of obsession (2026) is Bear practicing his confession with a diner waitress... like already you have a woman (who is not Nikki) fulfilling the role for her, saying the response she thinks Bear would like to hear, but the moment this woman gives her own opinion, offering genuine advice to Bear (something along the lines of buying Nikki something she likes, like her favorite candy, flowers, etc)... Bear disregards it... but then ends up using Ian's recommendation from this same conversation (calling Nikki "Freaky Nikki")... like god its all already right there

[cutter-kirby]

this is a moment in the original script that I wish they'd kept in the final version of obsession. the absolute disgusting way that real nikki appearing just becomes routine for bear and he completely ignores her in order to keep her. it's so horrifying the way her torment turns into something he hardly acknowledges

[gimmielovemp3]

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)

[ersahtz]

Isn't this obvious? Like early on they say nikki told sarah she (nikki) sees bear as a little brother

[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

[kii-tty]

[godisafujoshi]

Anthony Bourdain

[evenlyevi]

Moonlight Dandelions (in color) - original bw ver!

[punkitt-is-here]

this duck LOVES pink drink

[punkryuki]

[sawdust-emperor]

Her just pouring the puree straight over the duck's head because she knows there's no getting that duck out of the cup is killing me