radcanis

What if she was right? What if I was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful? Buried alive and suffocating to death on the other side of a television screen?

It's like describing a dog to someone who's never seen a dog. And then asking them to draw it.

"Bear is the villain, okay. There's some, like, grabby headlines out there where it's like "Michael Johnston doesn't agree that Bear's the villain." And I'm, like, NO WAY! Hold on a second, Bear is the vil-lain. He made his choice. Maybe he didn't know [the wish] would work but the choices he made after that, he clearly shows that he was incapable of thinking about anyone other than himself." — Michael Johnston (Bear) talking about Bear's character on The Brandon Davis Show! OBSESSION (2026) Dir. Curry Barker

Tannenwald, Spruce Forest

“the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. he's attracted to independent women. he's like an exotic bird collector…he only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage”

in the fleeting glimpse we get of real nikki, she’s shown to be in pursuit of her passions with a drive bear never had, she doesn’t care what others think of how she lives her life, and above all she’s fiercely independent. that’s what draws bear to her in the first place, but in reality bear isn’t in love with nikki, he’s in love with the idea of being loved by her, and the validation it brings him. bear doesn’t try molding himself into someone nikki could love, instead he forces nikki to become someone who loves him