#casper 2022

[eviefrie]

it’s soooo fucking frustrating sometimes how fandoms fixate on shipping instead of anything actually interesting about the media. it happens so consistently and it’s especially frustrating when the tv show/movie/whatever has an actually interesting plot and themes and all anyone posts about is their blorbos kissing 🙄 for example, the goncharov fandom

[daltony]

Posted by Stefan Kapičić on IG.

BEHIND THE SCENES @bettercallsaul with one and only LALO!

@daltonyco it's been a blast working with you. 🪓

stefankapcic #casper #lalosalamanca #tonydalton #bettercallsaul #amc #Netflix #finalseason #season6

[schumi-nadal]

During the 2022 Laver Cup, Rafa and Roger are looking at Matteo and Casper while the boys are interacting together:

Rafa, still struggling in English after X years on the tour: They're cute. I would put them on a boat.

Roger: You mean... you ship them?

[sneverussape]

“tobias?”

“no, mam. s’me.”

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snapetober 2022 - gentle touch

[beehindblueeyes]

Finney is Special and The Grabber can’t stand it-

Been wanting to make this particular post for awhile now and I’m finally getting around to doing it. There’s something about the way that the grabber HATES Finney by the end of the movie… there’s a look in his eyes that says he’s going to Relish killing him…but not for his usual reasons. This thirteen year old boy was so annoying, was so bad (not in the ways he wanted) and disruptive that the Grabber just wants to be rid of him. He skips the games , the pop and circumstance and moves straight into buying a tarp to burry him. He’s done! Something about it is mildly amusing in that he bothered him so much he just…gave up. The rest is actually fairly interesting. I’m going to try and dive into that.

CW!-

Referenced canonical CSA

Manipulation/abuse tactics

Generally predatory behavior

He won’t let him play pretend-

There’s something about the way Finney acts from the moment he gets in the basement. He never visibly cracks. Despite being alone, hurt, and in the dark. There’s no whimper, cry or shaking. He just stares at the man barely able to see at all. Finney is never… vulnerable. The only time he is , is when he’s asleep with his back to the door and the grabber takes this opportunity to watch him.

There are tears in his eyes, his voice is soft and fragile. He seems supprimer Finney is upset at all but… the kid won’t go along with it. Short, strick, to to point answers, and he questions him! Drills holes in the mans story over and over again… and again! Only shows vulnerability when the door closes and he shutters and backs against the wall absolutely mortified. I just wanted to look at you…

It’s that Finney never believes or play into his act! He’s not disarmed by the soft voice, teary eyed version of the man who promises never to hurt him or make him do anything he won’t…like. The man that tells him nothing bad will happen here. Finney doesn’t play the game from the very beginning, the whole act the other boys fell for.

Finney won’t let him be the good guy. The nice man who brings food or would like to know his interests. The nice man who promises to take him home. Finney never lets The Grabber play his other game, the game of many faces. Many roles. Nice, mean , sad and bad. Finney forces them all to be the same person when he just keeps pushing! He keeps with the questions, wirh the lack of belief and annoys him- placing cracks in his mask, in his act. Making the soft voice go deep or the normal voice go dark. Forcing the growls, the anger, the bad to the surface.

Finney won’t let him play pretend.

Manipulation, dissociation and abuse-

Oh the grabber has multiple personalities! The grabber has this or that dissorder the grabber- please shut. Shut. No no no. Shut.

It’s simpler and far worse then that. What I prepose, is that he is just simply like that. No greater cause, no rhyme or reason. He’s just a crime of passion killer who happens to be deeply disturbed. He may have some trauma in his past but to paste all of his stuff onto this just feels wrong.

No, I prepose that the grabber is mentally sound. it makes it all the more scarier that he is doing it out of his own fruition, he knows what he’s doing- in fact he’s great at it! It’s not multiple personality’s it’s textbook emotional manipulation abuse tactics!! His goal is to get the boys to separate the part of himself who is nice to them and the part that does all the bad things to them.

He wants trust. He WANTS them to sleep wirh their back to the door, or sit right on the mattress like a good little boy when the door opens… or he wants them to go upstairs, wants them to be bad. He does everything to get them in the palm of his hand… they may think they’re doing everything by their own free will but really they’re doing exactly what he fucking wants. They’re playing his game. 

The different masks are a physical representation of the roles he puts on for the boys. Each one has a different purpose. Depending on the face and what part of it he’s wearing. He’s doubling down on the “that wasn’t me it was someone else” by having them not only associate the voice changes but the literal face changes as well.

No mouth- capture. Likely kill as well. Faceless, nameless, no association besides being the first and last thing you see.

Smile(full)- general. Good mood. Brings you food and other things, asks a question here and there, curious and bubbly. Trustworthy/nice

Smile(bottom only)- vulnerable. So you can really see his eyes. That connection of actually seeing his eyes, seeing his tears or his brows furrow, gaining trust. Being “honest”. The kind that gets information out of you…likely more

Frown(full)- disappointment, anger, violence, punishment. Ranges from childish upset to… well…guess.

Frown (bottom only) - rage, panic , his own fear translated into many things

Top only- well this one,,, is special like finney.

I’m even more inclined to believe it’s an act and a tactic rather then disorder from how easily Al shifts out of his voices or attitudes. After getting finney back to the basement after his escape, he snaps at his brother in a voice we’ve never heard before. His regular, although irritated voice. For the first time we hear him not putting on any front, just— annoyed, tired and defeated. Finney didn’t play, he didn’t talk and now he’s escaped! He’s done. No more games. Just annoyance from this point on and I-

Also there’s the thing where, he treats his masks like Michael Myers. Where he’s essentially immobile without them, around the kids at least. To this, I think alongside him ignoring the phone calls from the boys it’s a way for him to ignore his guilt. As, while I believe him to be doing this while largely being stable minded, - there’s still that disconnect. Like with most killers. But I think, apart of him knows it’s wrong and if he does all this to ignore it, never truly shows his face to the kids, doesn’t listen. He can push away the guilt (this can be a whole other post, let me know if you want it)

[blogmoderne]

[phagocytics]

Leaving these here at my doorstep until the next time the Casper fandom revives itself

[tennis-out-of-context]

[caswarrenart]

Hike drawing of Two Step Falls on the Baptism River, Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota, on Anishinaabe land

[vioash]

had a dream that when will was still stuck in the upside down, he managed to find the grabber's house and he saw the ghost boys, it was honestly kinda funny bc they got kinda scared after seeing a kid with a bowl cut holding a DAMN GUN

[eviefrie]

hey on the topic of dracula daily leading to learning things that you wouldn’t have otherwise,

in assassin’s creed syndicate (2015), the character evie frye has a vampire-themed outfit. the outfit is called “bloofer lady” and for the past seven years, i have had absolutely no idea why it was called that. and i truly did not expect to get an answer to that question in yesterday’s dracula daily.

[soronya]

Casper Ruud reaches the US Open final.

[schumi-nadal]

A random moment during the Laver Cup 2022:

Roger: Why does Stefanos look so sad?

Matteo: He took one of those “Which tennis player are you?” quizzes.

Rafa, confused: And...?

Casper, sighing: He got Daniil.

[constantly-in-a-state-of-change]

Love halloweentown. I gotta watch it again soon.

If y'all have halloween movie recommendations, go ahead and leave some in the comments!

[makitesuli]

Grace & Casper Van Dien at TIFF 2022

[willowitcher]

Which Disney Halloween Flick did you run home to watch after trick or treating?