i saw the raggedy ann movie 20 years ago at my baby sitter, Eva’s, house. i didn’t remember much of it except the monster i thought was called ‘The Big Lazy’. turns out its called The Greedy.
it’s this creature that is perpetually shape shifting and is sometimes wearing a bra and a girdle but any time it rises up out of the mush (the mush being its body AND the substrata it resides in and also its sustenance) its ass and tits both face the camera at the same time.
this creature has haunted me my entire adult life. i rewatched the film two days ago and frankly idk how people let their kids watch horror movies when The Greedy is actually pretty tame, to an adult. but man, when I was a kid?
the notion that i could get so fat i would turn into my own substrate AND sustenance and be trapped in a world that was nothing but my own body, punctuated only by perpetual loneliness, frightened me to my core.
and then it fucking happened lmao
also, on the re-watch, there was a couple of seconds where the Greedy had 4 hands, shaped like chicken legs, and now im not really sure if those were its real hands, like, under the syrup, or if it just shape-shifted some chicken-foot hands, even though chicken feet don’t really fit the theme of the kinds of food it eats. i’m pretty disturbed by the notion that the greedy might have a True Form underneath the syrup and that that form might have chicken feet for hands.
i feel like the only person who can talk me down right now is @iguanamouth . help me, bro, im freaking out
