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i have been saying for so. long. that shrek is a lesbian love story in disguise, and every time i do, people LAUGH in my face… so i’m gonna just jot my thoughts down here.

so shrek is a butch lesbian, okay? (bear with me.) he’s confident in himself and his identity. whereas fiona is a comphet lesbian, and her being “trapped/hidden away in the tower” is actually just a metaphor for her being in the closet. her parents locking her away is them trying to suppress her identity to fit the mould of what the “perfect princess” should be.

then she meets shrek, thinking he’s going to be her prince charming but— wait a minute, no, that’s no prince charming?? what’s going on?? whatever. so they set off on their journey and slowly but surely fall in love with each other.

shrek teaches fiona that it’s okay for her to be herself and by the end of the movie, when fiona turns into her ogre form permanently, it’s supposed to represent her fully accepting her identity and be truly happy in her own skin.

anyways, i definitely didn’t make all that up so i could convince my friend to watch shrek by telling her it’s a gay movie. (please play along.)

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debating whether i should continue listening to hatsune miku or the magnus archives… much to ponder…

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devil baby!

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i need to find some sort of abyss or perhaps an endless void and just scream into it.

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you ever just sit and think about sharkboy and lavagirl? yeah, me too.

anyway, here’s a (not very detailed) analysis of those two characters and their significance to max in the movie.

So it’s made very obvious to us as the audience that certain characters in Max’s fantasy world are entirely (and might I add, very subtly) based off of people in his own life:

Except for Sharkboy and Lavagirl, right? WRONG. In that universe they are fictional characters made by Max who (in my opinion) were created by him to cope with his shitty life. The reason I think this is because Sharkboy and Lavagirl are personifications of Max’s own insecurities and imperfections.

Sharkboy, personality-wise, is very much like Max; he’s emotional, short-tempered, emo. He also has experiences that mirror Max’s own life, for example: him losing his father. Sharkboy losing his dad is a direct parallel to how Max feels about his own parents, who are too busy fighting with each other to pay their (obviously struggling) son any attention, and even unload their problems onto him. a nine year old?! anyways, Max’s parents’ negligence of him and his problems is his equivalent to them “drifting away”. (much like Sharkboy’s dad did on that lifeboat!!)

Moving on to Lavagirl!! Lavagirl feels like she’s not a good person; all she can do is harm people, and destroy things. She burns. This is kind of like how Max feels about everything in his life; his parents’ marriage, any potential relationship he could form in school, his dream journal- all ruined because he wasn’t good enough. It’s his fault. And that’s what Lavagirl is supposed to represent, that feeling of not being good enough. 

So it would make sense for Max-a nine year old child-to process the world through this lense of superheroes and supervillains. He feels better about his own problems knowing that there are these “heroes” out there with the same problems. But he takes it too far.

Max is a creative kid, we know this. It was obvious since the beginning!! He started building a robot on his own for gods’ sakes?! He uses his creativity as a way to cope, like we’ve seen with him creating Sharkboy and Lavagirl. But the adults in his life are telling him to stop: stop dreaming, and stop being creative. They say this because they can probably see where this is going.

So this mentally ill child is told to stop using the one and only coping mechanism that seems to be working for him, and he tries. He really does try. However, because no one ever bothered to find/teach him a healthier way to help him cope, he goes the complete opposite direction. All of a sudden Sharkboy and Lavagirl are actually real!! and they need Max, and he’s thinking “finally I’m needed, I’m wanted.” when in reality he’s just FUCKING CRAZY AND DELUSIONAL. But that’s what happens. The End.

Oh and I failed to mention, Max probably also has autism and it helps him to view the world using fictional stories/characters. And his unfinished robot is a metaphor for the pressure that is put on him to stop being creative.

ok bye!