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.
Ohh the attention to detail of Robby looking absolutely Dead Inside in his attending ID pic because it would have been taken when he was promoted immediately after Adamson’s death
I'm sorry I'll never be able to get over "I thought I would be married with two kids in college by now. Maybe have some property with a pond. We can play hockey on it in the wintertime. And yet, look at me now. No wife, no kids, no pond."
My experience with Good Omens Season 3 has been interesting. I hated it, find very few redeeming qualities from a story or characterization perspective, that much I've made very clear, so anyone who enjoyed it, please scroll past. This post is not for you.
And anyone who's still really struggling with the grief, please scroll past. I do not wish to inflict anymore pain on anyone than what's already been done.
A cut for good measure.
For me, the finale took the fandom away from me. And I don't mean that in the sense of the divide, or the resentment or anger. I mean, it's made it difficult for me to reblog fanworks, to read fanfic or even find joy in fanart, and even not feel overwhelming guilt when posting about the almost half a million words I've written on AO3. It's taken the part of my brain that once enjoyed this thing and burnt it to ash.
And I want to support my friends who continue to create art and write stories. I want to compulsively reblog them, scream in the comments when I read/see them and support every beautiful person I've met in this fandom. But I can't. It feels as though when I do it I am enabling an abuser, who made promises, lifted the hopes of so many and then cruelly squashed them.
I know disappointment in fandom is common, either in the creators being found out for being trash, the works being filled with problematic themes and takes or just a shitty ending or downturn. But this feels different. It feels like the monster who created this thing destroyed it in the most vicious way to hurt the fans. It feels cruel and deliberate and very personal.
And my mind can't forgive that, even with fanworks that keep this thing relevant and alive.
And I know, separate the art from the artist, but my joy in it has been so extracted that the logical part of my brain now overshadows the other:
You don't need this anymore. You're lucky you can walk away and it won't hurt that badly.
But it does, because I am walking away from a community that I cherish.
So if you read this and you're on my teeny tiny part of the fandom, I guess this is my apology to all of you who have art or fics or anything GO related crossing my dash. I am cheering you on from the sidelines, but my grief has made it extremely difficult to support more than that, and I am very, very sorry.
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