⊹₊⋆𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 ⋆.

I need someone to draw their OC with Patrick like that, or anyone with Patrick. I just need more of him...

𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 + 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐚 = 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚

🩸+ 🪽= 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐧

𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦. 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐝𝐥𝐲.

I’m going into story mode, so if you don’t want to sit reading my experience, that’s understandable. But I guess it’s a funny story, you might say.

It was July 27, 2024 with only four more days left on Tubi. And within 4 evenings I’ve watched both the 1st and 2nd movie.

Now you might be asking, “Why did you have yourself watch it?”

Well, because at the time I was in high school, and I was curious. Everybody in my English class was talking about it one time and I exaggerated, “Why is everybody talking about it?!” Since it had been a mystery for a while. Somebody recommended it by saying “You should go watch it.”

And so I did.

That summer evening, I only had my yellow neon lights, buried in a big gray blanket, and Bugles to munch on. I had no clue that it would change things for me. When I began watching it the main character, Patrick Bateman, looked familiar, and I paused and said,

“Hold on, wait a minute…” Then I looked up the cast and what other movies he played in, and I said to myself “Oh my god…that’s the same person who played the Dark Knight.” The realization struck me and then I started to melt while I watched it. 🫠

It was a combination of either laughter, dread, or captivated, I will admit. I mean, who doesn’t admire the art and acting that is so convincing from Christian bale? Bateman’s mask is so convincing that it’s hard to resist.

The best analogy I could give for this movie at the time is that, just like vampire movies, it’s a metaphor for the challenges that you get over in your adolescence, being a teenager overcoming adolescence.

At the same time, it’s hard because, like I said, the mask is convincing. It’s like being on a trance and forgetting the diabolical things that have happened.

This movie, American Psycho, is the kind where those problems are kind of sexy. All the psychotic stuff and the killings he does, like the Paul Allen scene, make the audience go, “Oh, we want more of that,” even though the point is to overcome the evil.

When really, we don’t actually know what he actually did and he is just a silly guy.

But for me, the movie was a metaphor that I was a teenager who had a hard time making friends because everyone is focused on social status and doing things like relationships or doing drugs or taking risks, just like the movie. I overcame that as a teenager and never did any of those things because I accepted the fact that I don’t have to do those things to be cool or accepted. I just did my own thing. I accepted the fact that I’m not perfect or elite, and I’m human, who makes mistakes.

That’s the irony. The plot of the movie doesn’t take you anywhere or have you learn anything unless you’re somebody who doesn’t mind watching an hour movie for no reason. You’re stuck with a narrator who doesn’t help give much info and doesn’t accept those things since he is different, as in realizing he’s not human but wants to be. To fit in is his whole thing, yet be recognised as an individual in a world where he is ignored, mistaken, and shown no care for. He wants to fit in to have a high status but commits crimes to have a sense of individuality that separates him from his homogenous society.

Gotta talk about CreatureBate and the fruits I think represent them....

1- Bateman

I think Patrick reminds me most of grapefruit. Citrus are often associated with cleanliness, perfection, and refinement in a sort of way which I don't understand. He is sweet, very put together looking at first, but closer a surprisingly bitter and sometimes off putting thing. There's something uncannily resembling meat that I see looking at cross sectioned grapefruit, that fits Bateman's other side very well. Also is a bit ironic, because Patrick who most definitely takes Valium and other psychiatric drugs would ideally not be allowed to eat grapefruit, due to the enzymes within the fruit nullifying the effects of some such medications.

2 - Creature

I most heavily associate her with peaches and nectarines. Other stone fruits like plum and apricot too but primarily peaches. Mostly disregarding the intimate and erotic symbolism of peaches, she is very soft, physically and mentally, but biting down into her is a stony center that's different to get through. She is constantly bathed in warm colors, pinks and yellows and oranges, and in the right moments has almost an intoxicating feeling about her.

3 - 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒎

Mallory honestly feels more like a pear. A pear doesn’t immediately stand out the way a peach does. It’s humble, approachable, and often overlooked. People don’t expect much from it at first until they actually try it. And if Bateman is a grapefruit, it makes sense because Mallory has never tried one and probably never will. She doesn’t seem like someone who would choose something that has a reputation for an unpredictable taste.

But pears also bruise easily. Not saying she’s weak, just sensitive. She notices things like moods, strange behaviors, and patterns most people tend to ignore. She absorbs the world deeply, and that affects her.

In addition, pears have a soft, sweet flesh, but full of tiny gritty stone cells. There’s something unexpectedly sturdy hidden inside something gentle.

Basically, Mallory is kind and soft-hearted, but still assertive, like confronting a strange man, staying alone in the store until midnight, and keeping going even when she’s terrified. 🍐⋆˚࿔