Space Void

Pillion’s Ray is a LOSER. he says he is discreet but that makes no sense because all of his friends are gay leather daddy bikers and all he does is gay leather daddy biker kink shit. His apartment is barren and empty and has no indication of any rich inner life, it’s like an airbnb. He has a tiny piano facing a wall and some books and that’s it. There’s no art anywhere in his apartment, nothing that would expose him as anything other than an Intellectual.

But he has ELLEN WENDY ROSIE tatted on his chest. his top 3 favorite female talk show hosts. He is a FAGGOT! And it is inscribed on his body but no one is allowed to ask about it. “No.”

The thing is, Colin is obviously the loser here, right. From the first frame that’s how he is portrayed. Colin is abject, he’s a freak, he’s pathetic and desperately lonely, he lives at home. But Colin is surrounded by family who love him and we see these brief scenes of his coworkers liking him. He has this vibrant home life and parents who support him unconditionally. And what is he actually doing in these opening scenes that are so cringeworthy? He’s doing his hobby that he’s very talented at and that he loves to do. And it’s framed completely different when we see him doing it once more at the end. Who cares how other people see it? Colin doesn’t care if people think he looks stupid in his barbershop quartet. He doesn’t care if anyone actually puts change in his bucket. He’s doing it because he knows enough about himself to know what he loves.

What the fuck does Ray know about himself? When does he experience joy? Biking is his hobby but I don’t know if he even likes it. Colin is the one we see experiencing a transcendental moment of joy when he steals Ray’s bike and rides it for himself!

Throughout the film, various characters comment on how hot Ray is and how crazy it is that he’s with a guy like Colin. Because Ray is portrayed by Alexander Skargard and Colin is portrayed by Dudley Dursley, and because of the way Colin is framed for most of the film, obviously we understand this sentiment. But in the end we realize that Ray has fucking nothing going for him. That is why he can only handle a relationship if he controls every aspect of it, all the time.

Giving a partner the reins means vulnerability. Vulnerability means exposing the fundamental emptiness of his life. The threat of that exposure is so terrifying to him that he flees the fucking country rather than face it.

Colin’s mother asks, several times, what “discreet” actually means. (She never gets her answer, of course.) I think this is key to a central theme of this film. What does discreet actually mean? In the gay community we understand this to mean on the DL, in the closet, maybe having a wife and kids, a separate life. But when Ray says he’s discreet, he means something different.

Rest in Peace, Tony.

I'll always remember your smile.

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-Replacing his vitimens with poision

- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.

- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.

-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?

- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.

Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.

So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”

If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).

If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.

Hope this helps someone.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON