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the olivia rodrigo subreddit is amazing today

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Always

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It wasn't there 😔

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"Leave me alone"

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"Commander--! Do you want to play with me--?" | Raskasar

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I'm a Vtuber fan from Israel and these are my oshis

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someone complied all the times mousey has sang tengo la camisa negra and the result is what can only be described as a heavenly sync

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it is true both hamsters and dogs love tummy rubs...

art by FreeFraQ

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you're gonna sit there and tell me... on god we're gonna teach y'all some media literacy today.

SPOILERS

did none of you watch Barbarian? mid-movie plot twist to some off the wall bonkers supernatural-adjacent fuckery that was only BARELY foreshadowed is Cregger's schtick.

Gladys wore a wig because she was trying to hide the fact that she's 98% bald, not because she's doing drag ffs

she wore makeup like that because the movie implies she's incredibly old. like, ancient enough to not know how modern makeup is used type of old

she's kidnapping children to steal their youth because it's HOW SHE PROLONGS HER LIFE have none of you seen hocus pocus

Justine is a bad person. Defending women's wrongs? this is unironically that. not every woman in every piece of media has to be secretly the sweetest person alive or have good motivations under all those layers of shitty.

Most of the main cast is shitty, even aside from the tragedies they suffer.

Paul commits POLICE BRUTALITY (while fucking sober, mind) and his father-in-law the chief agrees to try to cover it up

speaking of, we're told that the police and feds are looking, but like. none of them thought to track what direction the kids were running? it's giving 🤌 nothing. incompetence abound.

Archer STALKS AND HARASSES A WOMAN.

also? at the end when the kids are just... there? in the basement? he's very "not my kid, not my fucking issue." and after the chase when the spell breaks, he takes his son and leaves. doesn't give a shit about the other kids or the torn apart corpse. just fuckin books it.

also, he raised his son in such a way that his kid is ALSO shitty.

James may suffer being houseless, but he also just... didn't give a shit about the kids? even during his lucid moments, he makes it clear he's in this for the money.

One of the few main characters that winds up being even remotely a good person is Marcus, and he ends up getting killed because he's too polite to send away the woman who is clearly trying to manipulate him and his husband.

Gladys killed a gay couple because one of them is the principal who was requested to check on the family of the one kid who didn't apparently get fucking kidnapped- whose house she happens to be fucking squatting in

also, THE GUN DOESN'T SAVE THE DAY. ALEX DOES.

jfc if anything, the gun saves two fucking self-centered assholes, but it kills two people in the process. Paul and James don't get to wake up from their mind control when Alex breaks the spell, seeing as their minds are spilt across the floor

if you really think about it, neither Justine nor Archer does more than maybe cause a distraction- and that's me being charitable. Alex actually knows what's going on, he makes his own plan, he risks his own life, and he's the reason anyone is saved. neither Justine nor Archer even knows what fucking happened, just that it stopped happening. if anything their interference makes shit worse (i.e. killing two people)

But hey, kids can be assholes, too. sure, Alex wanted to save his parents, but he was willing to sacrifice everyone in his class to do it!

Why was he willing to sacrifice them? OH RIGHT they were also shitty and bullied him- especially Archer's shitty kid

the characters have layers, and the director kinda writes to like... avoid metaphor? none of these characters is representative of anything except themselves.

Justine isn't a composite character of ~*women*~ she's a manipulative alcoholic who was inadvertantly framed for a pretty serious crime. she suffered a tragedy and was harassed by the town, but her life was kinda a fucking mess even before the kids skeedaddled. Gladys isn't an allegory for queer culture, she kidnaps kids to steal their youth (unironically, a common trope). Archer isn't a symbol for all dads, Alex's dad was just a nice fucking guy. Marcus and his husband aren't "victims of homophobia", he was a guy just doing his job who was too nice for his own good.

if this movies says anything, it says "fuck cops" while still somehow managing to humanize one of them. wild.

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weapons was awesome i especially liked the part where the screen turned blue for a while and then the whole movie stopped and a manager of the theater came out and apologized to us. really immersive

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sometimes a horror film is a very clear metaphor for the way the white suburban nuclear family facilitates violence. sometimes a horror film is an excuse to watch children tear someone limb from limb. sometimes it's both.

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I keep thinking about Weapons and how much it fucked me up. In my mind, Alex in Weapons filled the same niche as Andy in Child's Play. In relatively little time, Weapons made me feel sick with dread and made me want to jump into the screen to help that poor child get away from the supernatural fuckwad ruining their life. Getting a kid actor to portray such an immense sense of unhappiness and fear was staggering and crazy impressive, and by far the thing that's stuck with me the most since watching the movie opening weekend

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I keep seeing the take that Weapons is about a school shooting and having just seen it last night, I don’t get that vibe at all. Like, to me, the themes of children being an oppressed class - the narcissism of the older generation not viewing children as living, thinking, feeling human beings but as either props for them to use when they’re fighting a pointless battle or as tools to enrich themselves somehow - and how that hurts everyone in a community in the long term is far more prevalent. The children are taken from their homes, in full view of their parents’ security cameras, and still no one was alerted. Rather than come together as a community and try to work together to find their children, the parents seem to isolate, to the point where the mother Archer approaches doesn’t seem to recognize him. The angry parents, Archer especially, all focus their rage on Justine even though the evidence against her is incredibly flimsy, simply because she is one of the only factors that ties them together and she is an easy target - she’s not a parent, she can’t TRULY care about the children, not like their FAMILIES do. Meanwhile, Archer didn’t realize until it was far, far too late that his emotional distance from Matthew was turning the kid into a horrible little shit. None of the parents or even the police ever gave even a thought to Alex - the OTHER thing that ties all the missing children together - who suffered for months IN HIS OWN HOME. Justine has to point out that the paths the children took as they left didn’t intersect at the radio tower, but at the Lilly home, because the thought never even crossed Archer’s mind. The danger was never the outside threat of the school, it was in a single family home on a quiet suburban street. But because Alex is a child, and not their child, the other parents pay exactly zero attention to him in the grand scheme of things, even though it should have been obvious to multiple people that something was seriously WRONG in Alex’s life. And this isn’t even bringing Gladys into things, when she herself is basically the personification of an abusive and/or neglectful home life. The police, the other parents, the school - they failed Alex miserably because they didn’t view him as a person, but as window dressing for their own grief.

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just watched weapons 2025 and i really love how unapologetically pro-teacher it is. it really shows the difficult situations that teachers are put in, especially when it comes to unfair demands from a community that refuses to work with you. justine may not be the most well-adjusted person, she has an alcohol problem and gets sexually involved with coworkers and married men, but she’s not a bad teacher and recognizes when alex is struggling even before the 2:17 am disappearance happens. she could’ve skipped town but chose not to because she wanted to find out what happened. maybe her actions in investigating alex are overstepping and read as creepy to outsiders, but the thing is that she’s completely right. as an educator who’s given full responsibility for her kids for such a large fraction of their time, isn’t it right to look for answers? teachers are expected to play a huge part in raising kids but parents get to take the credit for everything good.

but after the children disappear the community is quick to blame her without questioning themselves or if they had missed things going on with their kids. matthew bullies alex without receiving consequences because his dad doesn’t pick up on it. the behavior and care of children in schools should be a conversation between teachers, parents, and the children themselves but instead the parents drop full accountability onto teachers and refuse to take any responsibility for doing that when something happens to their kid.

my mom works in an elementary school and this movie reminded me of her stories of parents making excuses for children who bully others, or being frustrated with teachers when their child isn’t progressing, but at the same time not taking on any of the work at home. weapons does a great job of showing how an inbuilt lack of community between families and educators results in children falling between the cracks and abuse going hidden.