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Yes I am obsessed with Reneé Rapp, why aren't you?

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For the Gaze? Lol idk who wrote this show but they knew exactly who was going to be in the audience ha ha!

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Trying to get through this season of YJ like...

I haven't seen a "downfall" quite this frustratingly terrible since "Heroes" and I know what the issue there was. Anyways glad it's almost over this season is really pissing me off.

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I feel like I'm the only person who HATES Owen Hunt and thinks he's a misogynistic pig who acts like because he's a "dude" his opinion should be the only valid one in a "relationship." I also don't get why Cristina would have kept on with him-he wasn't going to change his mind about what he wanted in life (and again it was HIS WAY OR NO WAY) and she wasn't going to change about what she wanted in life SO...why? Just why? UGH the show should have just made him and Teddy endgame from the go BUT NOPE let's put at least three (Cristina, Emma and Amelia-idk if there are more but these I remember)women in this bastard's path and have them wrecked by this fucking pig before deciding "well we're on season 18 may as well let him end up with the person he was always meant to be with!"

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I feel like Lottie/Nat shippers should see this video just once

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Me at every heteronormative scene in Yellowjackets

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"It stopped raining in my head today"-The Steeple, Halestorm

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"Skins! Effy for life!"-Sophie Thatcher

As if I needed yet another reason to love her!!!!! (And shoutout to Courtney Eaton since she started the whole convo)

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Margaret Qualley in The Leftovers

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CHEERS!

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If you could hear my brain today this is what it would sound like so to anyone trying to communicate with me I sincerely apologize

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i know there is zero demand but if i start writing the substance fanfiction where the reader is dating sue but on the lead up to a night away she keeps coming across elisabeth instead and maybe elisabeth starts liking her too and it’s a tale of two people who are technically the same liking one person, then what? hmm 🤔

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Believe you me: I. Get. It.

guys i rewatched the substance and FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK

Margaret Qualley without fail just without fail guys

she's so fucking pretty and her acting is just so fucking good

so this is me trying to say i want to fuck her guys and its its its bad.

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I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how the repeated “YOU ARE ONE” in The Substance is inaccurate or feels misleading because Sue and Elisabeth are “obviously” different entities. (Film discussion with spoilers below)

I think that you can explore that interpretation if you’d like, but I can’t help but seeing this take as one that is MAJORLY missing one of the key points of the film—that everything Elisabeth is doing, she is doing to herself.

Sue IS Elisabeth. Elisabeth is Sue. Everytime she chooses to take more and more stabilizer fluid, everytime she ignores the rule to switch every seven days without exception, that is Elisabeth, choosing to spend more time as “Sue”. It’s Elisabeth knowingly disregarding her body and brutalizing herself in order to stay “Beautiful”.

She is actively deciding not to follow her own advice, not to “take care of [herself]”. Elisabeth HATES herself, whether she’s being Sue or not.

We see this in the way she hides away BOTH of her bodies in the dark room behind her bathroom. There is no differentiation in the way she treats her “Elisabeth” body over her “Sue” body—she leaves both bodies on the bathroom tile, drags them around on the ground, and then finally creates a hidden dark room to hide both away in when not in use.

It’s not until Elisabeth returns to her original body that she regrets her actions. She’s in a self-destructive/self-hating spiral.

Sue is, quite heart-breakingly, the externalization of what Elisabeth believes she must be in order to have value, of Elisabeth’s intensely internalized body dysmorphia. That’s why Elisabeth changes her mind about stopping the experience—she truly believes it when she says that Sue is “the only part of [her] worth loving”

The Elisabeth/Sue dichotomy represents the ways we willingly destroy our bodies to make ourselves “lovable” and fit into extreme beauty standards. That’s why Elisabeth cannot bring herself to fully stop “The Experience”, and why she, as Sue, brutalizes her original body to the point of killing herself.

That is quite literally one of THE main points of the movie. That Elisabeth, that women, that ANYONE is susceptible to this sort of extreme self-harm and brutalization due to the impossible beauty standards set by the beauty industry, the media, and society.

I have seen COUNTLESS tiktoks and “get ready with me” vids showcasing ALL of the seemingly hundreds of products people use to keep themselves “wrinkle-free”, to make their eyes stand out, to make their lips more luscious and full.

I’m not saying people can’t have a skin care routine they like or have fun with makeup, but I do think we should seriously consider the reasons behind why so many people believe they have to do these things in order to be accepted by others. Is it really a choice if you believe you MUST do something to be accepted? To be loved and have value?

That’s the real tragedy to “The Substance”. Elisabeth chooses to continue taking the substance, to continue the experience, because she fully believes she has no other choice. But she does. She is completely free to stop the experience anytime she wants. But in her mind, the only way she can be loved is as Sue. And so she can’t stop.

Elisabeth is also actively complicit in this message, being a part of the beauty industry herself. Her whole place in life, her position of privilege, her very identity, is predicated on the fact that she teaches other women how make themselves more “perfect” via her aerobics program.

She does the exact same thing as “Sue” when she stars in the new program. Elisabeth becoming Sue for “Pump it Up” can be seen as commentary on celebrities who make their fortune off of their “diet and exercise secrets” while using their money to look the way they do.

Elisabeth isn’t naturally “Sue”. She used the substance to become Sue, and is now telling people via “Pump It Up” that they can look like her with her exercise program, but this is a lie. Sue, and Elisabeth by extension, only looks the way she does because of the substance, not because of any amount of exercise or aerobics. Elisabeth was only able to get her job back by becoming Sue.

I think that’s why it’s so important to understand that “The Voice” Elisabeth talks to is right. There is no “she.” Sue is not another independent person. Sue is Elisabeth.

But when you visualize the actions we take to make ourselves “beautiful” as an external entity, it makes it easier to see the brutality in our actions, to see how ridiculous the things we do to ourselves are.

I think that’s why people have such a hard time grasping that Elisabeth and Sue are the same person, that they’re both Elisabeth, because it seems so absurd that anyone would ever treat their own body with such derision, cruelty, and brutality. So people come to the conclusion that Sue and Elisabeth MUST be separated people, because why on earth would Elisabeth do that to herself???

But the truth is that so so many of us, so many people across the whole world do what Elisabeth does to herself every single day in the pursuit of acceptance and beauty. We don’t even question it.

The Substance is a really interesting film in that it’s so on-the-nose and so upsetting in different places that I think some people choose not to think deeper about it. It’s a really uncomfortable, really furious film, and because so many of its themes are so in your face for the whole movie, I can see why people don’t want to dwell much further on its message. I believe it’s important to do this with film, though.

Even if it’s NOT that deep (I’m well aware I often make things deeper than they were intended to be) and even if a film has a lot of flaws, I don’t think it’s ever a bad thing to consider media carefully.

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We need The Substance fanfics so bad like Elisabeth sparkle x Reader and Sue x Reader 😩

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“oh yeah i watched the substance for the plot”

the plot in question:

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I wonder if James Cameron is a soothsayer or if he just picked this year out of a fucking hat-all I can say is: we are fucked. So royally fucked.