memento amoris

one of my favorite small moments in leviticus is the first church scene when naim looks back at ryan and he’s already looking at him and he doesn’t look away when naim looks. to lock eyes with the person you love across a crowded room and see they were already staring back is incredibly romantic on its own. but to not look away when you feel so much shame and secrecy about your feelings because you just want to keep looking at them is something so intimately romantic i’m going to scream.

the way the entity slashes ryan’s ear because naim had licked it before in the bus scene OH IM SICKKKKKKKK

big fan of characters with abandonment + attachment issues so profound that they leave claw marks in everything they touch but would sooner gnaw off their own leg than admit they just want someone to stay for once. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course.

*turns your ryanaim into cannibals*

my life will forever be known as pre-leviticus (2026) and post-leviticus (2026)

although i do wish naim and ryan’s relationship was more fleshed out, i also kind of like how we don’t know much of either’s backstory, how long naim has been the “new kid” or how long he’s known the people in the town, because it seems like naim is uncertain of ryan and their subsequent relationship from the beginning. he questions why ryan is acting different from the persona he puts on at school and is shocked when he sees ryan and hunter together. he seems to have very little information on the town. the lack of establishing that information puts us in the same boat as naim. i think the audience being unsure of what exactly is going on between naim and ryan really sets us into naim’s perspective even more. we are just as unsure and unknowledgeable about ryan as naim is.