"those who tell the stories rule the world."

During their staredown, Jupe never had direct eye contact with Gordy.

As Gordy goes to him, yes, they might be looking at one another. And there's still aggression left in Gordy. But he gets close enough to have the tablecloth obscure their view of one another. That's when he changes.

That's when Gordy seems to come to his senses. It's quiet, nobody is running around or looking at him directly. He seems confused about what happened.

Then they move to do a fistbump. And Gordy lifts the tablecloth, letting their eyes meet again. His eyes dart over Jupe, then he is shot.

Now, in the context of the film, JJ usually only shows aggression when she is being looked at directly. Maybe Gordy was similar in that sense. Maybe this mere eye contact would have been enough to make him wreak havoc again.

I finally saw Nope. No spoilers, but I was SO HAPPY when I saw this homage to the Akira slide!

Still can't stop thinking about the scene where he talks about the SNL sketch. How he had to see the most traumatizing thing in his life turned into a joke by white actors. And he had to laugh it off.

How Hollywood turned him from the exploited into the exploiter, so when he stood toe to to with the animal again, this time he was the same as the showrunners who's carelessness caused his trauma to begin with.

Similarly, OJ's trauma over his father's death was underplayed by the Hollywood execs at the shoot. None of them had any compassion for him. But he stayed true to himself the whole movie.

I find it very fascinating the in-universe response to the whole incident. Like people were killed and maimed and/or horribly traumatized and it's just...laughed at and treated as a joke. A Mad Magazine cover parodies it and SNL makes fun of it (with Yeun's character portrayed by a white dude for extra insult).

The whole thing was devastating and it's...just a joke to everyone that wasn't involved. He clearly hasn't properly dealt with it and represses it so much that it manages to manifest subconsciously with the design of the aliens in his park. He tries to play it off but you can tell the whole thing haunts him to this day and there's no escape.

We are being surveilled by an alien species I call 'The Viewers'

@fictionnet event 08 — favourite book

no mourners, no funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck.’

with first kill, we see a relationship that isn’t all about coming out and the struggle of being queer. the problem outsiders had with their relationship wasn’t that they were both women or that one was a black woman, it was that they were dating their sworn enemy.

with the wilds, we got to see queer relationships and relationships between young girls evolve and develop during difficult times. it really harped on the concept of girl power and female relationships. it focused on girls being themselves and having safe spaces to discover who they are.

with killing eve, we got to see the dark side of ourselves being explored and once again, the problem people have isn’t that eve is dating another woman, it’s that she’s dating a psychopath and murderer.

with the haunting of bly manor, the queer relationship isn’t questioned, they’re too busy fighting ghosts. it’s a relationship not shown through the male gaze or fetishized at all.

it’s so nice to know that queer media doesn’t stop at shows like atypical or movies like portrait of a lady on fire. while yes, they are good pieces of media, there are so many new things out that more holistically represent the sapphic experience. it’s refreshing to be able to see yourself on screen when it was never an option before. this is why people are so upset about cancellations, our validation and representation is being taken away. it fucking sucks and you can’t fully grasp that until you have experienced it.