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They could never make me hate you…

This is my friend's commission

Old staticmoth/valentino art dump

Satin Ball Gown of Queen Louise of Denmark

c. 1881

Evening Dress by Christian Dior

c. 1954

I have absolutely no faith in Hollywood, but the fact that they had the audacity to look at the script of an horror story like this and want to rewrite it completely is very telling.

This movie is about a man who knows he has no chances with the girl he's crushing on, forces her to love him back through magic, and then refuses to break off said magic, trying to work around it instead when the wish starts to get twisted. It's clear time and time again that Bear does NOT want to render the wish null, just fix it so it still suits him. Nikki breaks of the spell at several points, one of them to confirm that he had no chances with her, and he still forces her to stay with him. And Hollywood looked at that and went "You have to change that, he should be the hero". In a movie where the lack of consent for everything romantic and sexual that's happening is the point, and what makes it horror.

It says a lot of things, and neither of those things is positive.

Incredibly based director for staying true to his vision, none of that "his poor unreciprocated fee fees uwu" bullshit, much less ultimately rewarding him with a "real" relationship with Nikki. Not only it's made clear that Nikki was not willingly consenting (and again most probably never would have, since she compared him to a little brother, and the dodged confession from Bear scene is also very telling), Bear is also a piece of shit through and through, who squandered dozens of chances not to be, but chose instead to double down on being an irredeemable piece of shit. While you can initially make a point about him not knowing that the wish would actually work, or that he doesn't know how to fix it, or what have you, you can no longer make that point later.

Jessi Kirtley as Others in Operation Mincemeat! (Act 1 & 2)