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i don't know if anyone ever pointed out the parallels between the passenger (2023) and steal away by robbie dupree (the music that play in randy's car at the beginning of the movie) but i've been listening to it non stop for the past two days so i have thoughts:

– "c'mon and hold me / just like you told me / then show me / what i want to know": benson literally hold randy captive and dictates where they go. and randy often need to be told what to do

‐ "why don't we steal away / into the night / i know it ain't right": the entire premise of the film is randy being forced to "steal away" with benson after the murders. the line "i know it ain't right" show randy's moral dilemma and discomfort with the situation, even as he's unable to escape it. and obviously it apply to benson's actions: he knows they're not "right" but he still does it.

– "i caught you glancing my way / and i know what you're after": this could apply to benson's initial observation of randy at the fast-food. benson saw something in randy (his meekness, his inability to stand up for himself) that made him choose randy as his "passenger" he "knew what randy was after" in terms of needing to change, even if randy didn't consciously know it himself.

–"no second chances tonight": indeed, benson gets no second chances. by the end of the film (timeline wise, it's tonight) he commits "suicide by cop," ending his life and his violent spree.

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benson you have to stop. you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your bitch is too bad. they'll kill you

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Randy’s little flinch here ouuggghhhh

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the passenger is like an anti cowboy-movie. this town is big enough for the both of us. this tiny, dilapidated puddle of a town is deep enough to drag the both of us under, to swallow us, leave us drowned in obscurity, bodies just below the surface. swathes of dead grass, deserted, crumbling roads, tiny shitty house after tiny shitty house filled with people who had learnt to tread water or find the shallows. but not us.

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murderbot is the funniest thing in the world because it's constantly like "stupid fucking humans" and "oh theyre all gonna get killed and i dont even care, whatever". my sibling in The Company you killed yourself for these people

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Being told to ‘go outside’ fixes nothing. I’m at the beach and still thinking about Ranson fucking nasty. I can’t be fixed. There’s no hope for me.

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the passenger | my angel- adrienne lenker

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hitting benson with the butch lesbian on t ray

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Willa Fitzgerald ♡ Strange Darling (2023)

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idk i gotta make this 30 year old cis man non binary

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some more

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You know what captivates me? How long Benson keeps his hand on Randy's face in the car. Why yes I am putting the scene under a microscope and it even looks like he moves to stroke his face a second time or maybe his hair and I -

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i like the unconfirmed early 2000s to mid 2010 setting to passeneger. makes it plausible that when randy gets really overwhelmed by work he goes home and plays cooking/fast food flash games on the computer so he can have a do-over in a controlled environment where he doesn’t have to smile or talk or worry about getting something wrong or bothering anyone. the same mindless repetitive tasks he takes reprieve in without all the added pressure. it takes months after theyve quit for him to admit this to benson who is delighted by how remarkably pathetic he finds it

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If I were to post a fic, what sort of plot/dynamic/etc would you want to see from me? It’d be ranson ofc.

Either leave an ask or comment!

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randy and benson are not having sex. they are thinking about having sex and feeling a deepseated multilayered selfhatred. laying awake positively agonising over it. and then doing things that are twelve times more intimate and romantic and perverse than sex

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vampire benson biting randy pookie??? oough any biting <3

love u and ur art is amazing !!!

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Mmm Benson nolastname with bright red lipstick on, painting Randy's neck with it.