Aim for the heart

mind you before sinners we didn’t have definitive proof that it was possible to successfully make a movie in 2025

guess who just got kicked out of pride today for, you guessed it, being italian

WHO THE FUCK IS FRANK IERO

i am so fascinated by mcr’s relationship with warner like they’re not releasing new music and their remasters are timed weirdly and they’ve been doing a grand guignol tour with varying plots and characters for a year now and there’s a fucking ventriloquist dummy and gerard will go on stage after that part of the show is over and talk about how their label sucks ass. what goes on.

this sucks im going to kill (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) the president of the United States. (end statement)

POV Frank Iero

there is nothing rarer and more beautiful than liking every song on an album

there is nothing rarer and more beautiful than liking every song on an album

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.

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

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)

honestly sometimes there's no better feeling than rereading a fic you've written and coming out of it going, "yeah that actually this DOES slap. exactly what i wanted to read. fucking nailed it."