smile kind of reminded me of it follows but i feel like it follows was much more coherent. i definitely didn't hate it follows the way i hate smile. smile relies too heavily on creep factor and visuals taken from other, better movies. i also hate the fake out ending. smile also reminded me of the invisible man but i also felt like because the invisible man was, for most of the movie, invisible it heightened the feeling of uncertainty that someone trying to leave an abusive relationship would have especially an abusive relationship with someone that rich. i'm just... i GUESS the smile monster could be a metaphor for childhood and family trauma but it feels more like the filmmakers were like 'smiling is creepy' and then tried to attached a very serious psych horror narrative to that for a level of prestige. like i feel like the it follows monster works as a metaphor for violations of consent because the victim becomes deathly afraid of their body being attacked in a way that their close friends don't even have the language for and all they can do is support her in the ways they can but that fear of violation literally creeps up on her. the smile monster as a metaphor for trauma by having it be passed via like killing yourself in front of someone? i get that part but what does that have to do with, like, her mom's overdose death...... i get that the monster senses trauma but like the woman was a mental health professional, any one of her patients could have snuck the monster in. also like the monster crawls inside of her but like aren't we to believe that in a way it was inside of her from the moment she found her mother dead? actually like now that i think about it how did the monster not find her until now if this is the lure? the whole point of the smile monster is to get her to kill herself and pass it on, right? why not have her do that in high school? she was much closer to her trauma, she was not an adult in active treatment with a support system, and the school would provide the maximum pool of potential victims. we know the monster isn't her personal monster because it has infected people completely unrelated to her so there's no way it was Always trying to get to her, there were easier routes if so. unless the point or the horror of it all is like yeah okay you can get treatment for your trauma and establish some sort of stability despite it but it'll still destroy you from the inside out....... in which case, eat my ass. like i know horror doesn't always have to have a triumphant ending, i may be an american but i'm no idiot. but i feel like this is.... distasteful as an ending. i feel like it's really mean-spirited, like sending a message to all the "crazy" people with trauma that It Will Get You. no meaningful engagement with the subject they chose to introduce just a slow pursuit and an ultimately meaningless race against time
I have decent ish savings and it's pretty cheap to live in my area rent wise, but I rly gotta crack down on my silly spending BC I wanna move out this year since my sister is feeling ready and comfortable with such an adjustment
I'll have to keep an eye out on places and see who's willing to take my dumb 28 y/o ass who has never rented before and a 23 y/o jfjfjjfjf
Id love to have moved out sooner but I'm nervous abt money so I needed someone I was at least familiar with before jumping ship
I've heard too many roommate horror stories from my best friend alone
non ikonics bringing up the ikon h*mophobia thing again is killing me because not only do we ikonics hold them accountable but it wasn’t even homophobic.... most of this damn fandom is lgbtq+ anyways and we never hid what they did but have actually tried to get them to apologize many times. plus, it was distasteful yes but the “bad” part was a mistranslation 😐 it’s pissing me off how the ikons are becoming targets from *that* fandom because of their embarrassment of having less views/votes. like why don’t u focus ur energy on supporting ur faves and not putting others down. plus, it’s not like their faves haven’t done bad stuff in the past and currently (if i get into that...phew i wouldn’t know how to stop) AND ALSO! the ikons have showed support to the lgbtq+ and i think the members that are for sure ally’s are hanbin jinhwan and bobby(??i don’t really remember) and they’re aware of all the bad stuff going on in the world... it’s really annoying me because us ikonics can do “expose” tiktoks or threads but we don’t because kpop is never that fucking deep 😐 again, if they really were being homophobic then i would be the first to hold them accountable and mention it but they fucking weren’t... next time they should educate themselves on the whole thing then “expose them” anyways sorry this is long how are you <3 :)