She Even Poked The Holes So I Could Breathe

Ray’s harmonizing with Gerard in Thanks for the Venom is one of my absolute favorite things my chem has ever written.

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

people love the idea of the mean girl nurse pipeline because it problematises medical abuse as a personal perversion rather than understanding it as a product of broadly held ableist values and its like, if this was only about ontologically evil teenage girls choosing to enter a profession because of their unique sadism then you really wouldnt expect to see the exact same forms of abuse pervading all arrangements of paid, unpaid, formal, ad hoc, and familial caretaking as well -- its more comforting to believe the nurse was just a preexisting bad person than that most of the world broadly hates disabled people and will abuse, neglect, and gaslight them if given power over their care

Wanted to add that this is one of the reasons I find it very very amusing when I see some viewers (usually boys/ young men) glorifying Neil’s detached and cold nature, like something one should incorporate in their own relationships. When the whole point of the movie is definitely not that and can even be a warning to adopting such an attitude in regards to relationships.

If i may, Neil dodges the invisible. The Heat is like a hydra with ghostly eyes operating all around him, haunting him. While trying to escape this, Neil must live coldly, like a ghost as well. But he is still alive and that is no way to live. The ghost lifestyle cant be sustained so long as his heart audibly beats

I’m such a “yay <3” person like unironically a hip hip hooray type of personality

Wanted to add that this is one of the reasons I find it very very amusing when I see some viewers (usually boys/ young men) glorifying Neil’s detached and cold nature, like something one should incorporate in their own relationships. When the whole point of the movie is definitely not that and can even be a warning to adopting such an attitude in regards to relationships.