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I’ll name my first child #will wood and the tapeworms, my second child @sweatywagonmakercroissant, and my third child Jim.

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@mystic-mae i support you 4ever dont listen to floofae :3

one thing that I keep coming back to about nikki's character is that to me, there's a sense of infantilisation after the wish is made. we know from the get-go that whoever or whatever has overtaken her autonomy is young, fresh, learning as it goes (see: confusing her grief over sandy as sandy being her cat, and then having to correct herself) but additionally, i feel we see nikki regress in a misogynistic manner. wishing she was in work, even though she couldn't wait to get out of the place, so she can be with bear. not wanting him to leave her side at the party. the delivery of 'actually? no!' outside bear's car sounding like a petulant child when she's first under the control of the wish. the frown. the tantrum in the restaurant and the baby-like crying in the middle of night. the needing bear to tell her to shower, to check that she's not ill, to give her permission to make decisions about her own wellbeing without his input. the needing to be scolded when she puts together sandy's memorial before she can recognise the immorality of it. when bear tells her off for making the sandwich and says 'you cannot do that!' like a parent. yes, wish nikki is a brand-new being, but also, wish nikki presents herself as someone more dependant, incapable, and childish, despite nikki being an intelligent, accomplished writer, because it automatically assumes the woman bear wants is someone entirely reliant on him. the ideal woman is a submissive and mouldable one.

One thing about Obsession (2026) that I enjoyed was that it almost asks you to feel empathy for the entity possessing Nikki as well as the real one. Like, obviously the things she's doing are horrific and fucked up, but I think the scene where Bear is asking her to "just be Nikki!" and she eventually just desperatly screams "I can't be Nikki!" does a really good job of showcasing the entity's inner feelings. She's been created with the sole purpose of loving this guy more than anyone else but no matter how perfect it is or how much he claims to love her, its not her that he loves, its Nikki. And any time she stops pretending to be Nikki, he reacts (albeit rightfully) with disgust and horror. She can't be Nikki because Nikki would never love Bear, and so Bear will never love her.

I fear I either missed or misheard (or forgot about) that line, because I can’t remember the entity saying she can’t be Nikki…

It’s the scene right before she walks backwards from Bear, and after the scene where the real Nikki smashes a bottle into her face at the party. Bear’s yelling at her just to be Nikki in his apartment, while she (the entity) repeatedly tries to tell him she can’t be. Then she snaps and screams full volume she can’t be Nikki. After Bear gets scared, she switches to saying she CAN be Nikki

nikki breaks my heart so bad because in the brief moments we see her before the wish kicks in, she's so cool and funny, clearly kindhearted, very driven about her future (telling bear about how she was going to quit her job to focus on her writing), and also very sure of herself as a person. ive seen people describe this movie as "mean-spirited" and I think thats so apt because it was a 2 hour long tragedy of the torture of this innocent girl, taking away everything she's ever had, including her own sense of self, putting her through unimaginable horrors, and leaving her with nothing except the three dead bodies of her friends, with the one who she trusted most being the one who did this to her. nothing for her to look for hope in, because she has nothing before her except a lifetime in prison or in an institution. it would be one thing if the movie ended on a note like weapons, where everything was over and there would hopefully be recovery somewhere down the line, but here, not only was the evil not committed by a random stranger but her closest friend, but she doesn't get any chance at recovery either. so goddamn tragic. on that note, if anyone can come up with some sort of fix-it for nikki please link it to me because I will be crying about this girl forever.

LITERALLY BRO AND PPL STILL SYMPATHIZE WITH BEAR?!?!??????? AUGHHHH

People who sympathize with Bear are my enemy.

oh and another thing that devastates me about Obsession is how much nikki is judged and blamed by those around her. sarah and ian repeatedly telling bear that he shouldn’t have to deal with her, that she’s not his responsibility, that they’re worried she’s taking advantage of him. as if they aren’t also her friends, as if they shouldn’t know her well enough to notice something is off. there’s no concern for why nikki is behaving the way she is, there’s just distain towards it. she starts acting out of character and so it must all be intentional. but bear doesn’t get questioned. bear isn’t gossiped about. nikki loses all her agency and autonomy, and all she gets for it is judgment

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be an tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

"sex should be less stigmatized and talked about more" and "you should always make sure people who dont want to consume sexual media that you present dont have to see it" are two statements that can and should coexist. by the way.

Meanwhile, in unrelated news, I hope Christopher Eccleston is having the best day ever.