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Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary as "men who persevere against impossible odds and find courage in the depths of despair"

Versus Obsession and Backrooms "men will willingly stay in a literal horror movie situation over confronting their mistakes and taking responsibility for their actions"

#haven’t seen iron lung yet but #yes

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.

officialdietcoke

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)

#RIGHT #like she literally refers to him as her little brother!!!!!

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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.

#right #like it’s not a monkey paw situation

nessa007

so i just saw obsession

allthingswhumpyandangsty

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

crooked-mile

#me #f1

sammyhalo

Achilles❤️‍🔥🦶❤️‍🔥

#oh this is adorable #gm

casakhelone

Achilles & Patroclus (2021)

Of all the art I've made, this is one of my most beloved pieces. I also created a plate version for a double-sided acrylic standee that had one side in the red-figure and the other in black-figure style painting.

Also I've never really spoke about it before, but I always wanted to make a Hector and Andromache piece to pair with this. Never got around to it, but maybe one day I will.

#such talent!!!!#otp: patrochilles #gm

brycesgirl

💚💚💚💚

#love this #harry

djglory

realizing nothing can fill my void other than doing everything i said i would do for myself

frayed-wind

[ID: A screenshot of a Tiktok of a person with a slightly concerned expression overlaid with the text: “when you’re at a fanfiction writing contest but your opponent is thirteen, english isn’t their first language, and they got in a car crash on the way there”. End ID]

#REAL #LMAO