willa •͈ᴗ•͈

just call me stiles. i'm 17 and use he/she. this is my blog specifically for All Things Willard* but i do enjoy other things such as the wild west.

*not 2003 willard. he doesn't exist to me.

feel free to dm or send me asks or otherwise interact with me in any way. the fandom around this movie is extremely dead & im trying to find friends who like it :')

very often, i see people fundamentally misunderstanding willard's relationship with ben. he never hated ben, he feared him, even respected him, and this is one of those things the book expands on (people, PLEASE read it.)

i believe willard saw the rats as something he could finally control in a life that kept spiraling out of his control and going wrong. ben, however, could not be controlled, and this is why he scared willard. willard still loved him but his mistreatment of ben came from trying to hold onto his control. and after socrates died, the respect they had shared for one another disappeared. ben believed willard could have done something, not to mention how he'd been poked and prodded just the same by willard himself. and for willard, while he tried to let ben fill socrates' place, it became clear his life was spiraling out of control once again.

For his companion I have decided on Ben Suleiman. Ben Suleiman is the rat I previously called Solomon. I don't know why I changed his name. It is almost as if he forced the new name on me. (80)

Sleep is temporary death. For Socrates life is good. He likes it when I play with him. Therefore I should wake him up, bring him from death to life. (42)

She said, “Yes.”

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I hate Jones. I hate him very much.

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I hate Jones. He has killed the only creature in the world I ever really loved.

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