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[image description: a drawing of Magnus as he stands, slightly slumped over and leaning against a ledge behind him, in front of a bright magenta background. He’s a broad, muscular, light-skinned man with shaggy dark brown hair, thick sideburns and a patch of hair on his chin. He’s wearing dark sunglasses with one broken lens, a red jacket with the sleeves rolled up and unzipped to show his bare chest, and dark red pants. He’s looking at the viewer with an intense smile, and he has bruised knuckles and blood trickling out of the corner of his mouth.]

i don't stand with shipping nikki from obsession with whoever the other girl is because it doesn't sit right with me to be like cutesy shipping lol about a movie where the premise is that a woman is being forced into someone else's idea of romance against her will

i dislike the whole “horror is so back” narrative people are throwing around recently with obsession and backrooms. both are great movies, but horror was also so back with the long walk. and sinners. and the substance. and nosferatu. and literally anything directed by jordan peele. horror as a genre will always have its flops. but there will always be those few that revive the hype.

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

One thing about Obsession (2026) that I enjoyed was that it almost asks you to feel empathy for the entity possessing Nikki as well as the real one. Like, obviously the things she's doing are horrific and fucked up, but I think the scene where Bear is asking her to "just be Nikki!" and she eventually just desperatly screams "I can't be Nikki!" does a really good job of showcasing the entity's inner feelings. She's been created with the sole purpose of loving this guy more than anyone else but no matter how perfect it is or how much he claims to love her, its not her that he loves, its Nikki. And any time she stops pretending to be Nikki, he reacts (albeit rightfully) with disgust and horror. She can't be Nikki because Nikki would never love Bear, and so Bear will never love her.

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.

i am once again thinking about how the rockyadriangrace situation is basically just another amyrorydoctor situation. this couple are deeply in love and despite a long separation due to powerful universal forces beyond their control, they will always come back to each other. and there's an alien there too. one half of the couple is codependently attached to the alien. remaining half of the couple had reservations but has quickly come to accept the alien.