it's okay, you're okay

just started watching TSHD and honestly it's a masterpiece because yoshiki is repeatedly having the worst day of his life living with a thing wearing his best friend's corpse meanwhile "Hikaru" thinks he's in a studio ghibli movie

“your friend is dead, and their corpse is inhabited by something only you can see for what it truly is" is already good horror. but "you begin to love the thing that wears their face"? the blasphemy of it. terror turning into desire. grief turning into longing. being enticed by what should repel you. it twists the knife deeper, because the horror is not based on deception anymore. the fear comes from recognizing the monster in its raw form and finding beauty there. you're not clinging to scraps of your friend, you're surrendering to something other, something wrong, and loving it. you're not holding onto a ghost of the past, it’s the monster itself that you choose

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

The way he just sort of tugs on it sometimes, like just closes his fist in it! 🫠🫠🥵🥵 Like, yes Shane, I understand you, sweetie! I too would give those golden curls a nice yank! 🥵😭😁

the initials of Heated Rivalry (HR) might look like they’re a reference to the characters’ names (Hollander & Rozanov) but it actually stands for Human Resources, which is what Hayden Pike called when he learned his best bud too pure for this world been getting cracked six ways to Sunday for over a decade by none other than the Russian embodiment of Disney’s Dicks on Ice

A big underrated aspect of why Armand fell so hard for Daniel I think is that for Armand it was the first time he got to experince love childishly. He’d done sex and romance and marriage and hundreds of years of commitment before but with Daniel he got wrestling on the couch and holding hands at the movies and driving with all the windows down and making out drunk and teasing pet names and leaving marks on each others necks and fighting and fucking and playing in the pool and laughing and crying over the stupidest things and I think for a guy practically made of stone who was made a child bride before he’d had his first crush that was a big thing for him. It’s also why Armand refused to steal the humanity from the one person who’d made him feel like a person in 500 years.

Nobody has ever seen and understood unactualized potential in a piece of media like the person who made Daniel old in the amc adaptation.

yikes, unfollowing him now. I was a big fan of his constant lying, gaslighting and evil behavior, but I had no idea he dated a 70 year old man who’s 445 years younger than him