#the whale spoilers

[mediagifs]

The Whale (2022) dir. Darren Aronofsky

[littlemouserat]

I don’t know what I was expecting, but opening the film on Brendan Fraser masturbating to gay porn that cause him to have heart spasms was-um- not one of them.

[egophiliac]

we were fucking ROBBED

[skin-bible]

The whale opinions and spoilers I'm pretty sure has been said before but im not gonna look due to fear of finding thin$po blogs

To start I bounce between 220 and 230 so I'm not "fat fat" but im still overweight, and I have fat loved ones that I'm still listening to their experience experience

Casper didn't watch it with me because he was afraid it'd be triggering- and I'd say it would be.

Everything is shot inside the main characters apartment, Charlie. The main thing I want to point out is how people treated Charlie. He's towering tall and roughly 500+ lbs. He constantly apologized just for existing in his own space, to the point his nurse and friend, named Liz, kept getting onto Charlie for saying "Im Sorry" so much. He constantly shrinks back, and let people yell at him, going as far as blatantly calling him "Disgusting," from his daughter to a Christian missionary who was trying to "save his soul" because his body was basically damned. The fatphobia that he experiences in his own apartment was abhorrent, but that's what fat people experience on a daily basis. And Charlie claims he's never been skinny a day in his life.

Charlie was what's called being passively suicidal. He "let himself go," for example, by ordering 2 large pizzas per night just as dinner. When he was feeling any void or fed up with peoples fakeness, he would binge eat to the point of vomiting. Even after he was told he would not survive the weekend unless he went to the hospital, despite ending up having the money to do so, but he also outright refused most medical care (except a wheelchair, then an oxygen mask on his final day). Instead, he filled the hole by binge eating.

He did this because he lost the love of his life. He found out he was gay and got a divorce from his wife, who took full custody of their daughter despite his protests of still wanting to be in their life. The wife's excuse was "Do you know how hard it is to tell people you left me for a man?" The boyfriends name was Alan, who had killed himself due to religious trauma for being gay. And the missionary I mentioned earlier? He told Charlie that his soul could still be saved if he forsakes the love he still had for Alan in order for his body to become light and reach the kingdom of heaven. Which, Charlie stood his ground in remaining faithful to Alan in which the missionary calls him disgusting and leaves to return to his hometown (he has a backstory to leaving his hometown and going on mission work but, I couldn't care less to relay it).

So tack on homophobia along with fatphobia.

His daughter was chaotic, and was a mess because of her mom insisting she's pure evil; going as far as showing Charlie her distasteful Facebook post about how "there's going to be a greasefire in hell when he burns". But Charlie only saw the positive in her, and even held onto her essay about Moby Dick she wrote in 8th grade because he believed it to be the most beautiful essay he's ever read (which, says a lot because he's also a history teacher doing online collage courses with his camera off to save continuous ridicule until his final day where he asked everyone to write something true, which prompted himself to be honest with them as well). Every time Charlie thought he was going to die (due to cardiac issues with being overweight) he would either try to read it or ask to be read in his final moments. But you don't know who's essay it was until the very end (or, supposed to not know).

Which, he gets what he wanted. He finally got to spend some time with his daughter (although she fought him every step of the way), he loads her up with the $120,000 he saved for her the entire time he wasn't allowed to talk to her, and she read him the essay in his final moments breathing.

I'm putting it blunt because the ending still makes me cry, but yeah he dies.

I'm writing this because I'm off my meds and it's still making me cry. 8 hours, and 3 extra movies later. It's truly tragic, devastating, soul crushing, and sorrowful. My man Charlie is getting fucked in every way possible and he still only saw the good in people no matter how ugly they were with him.

[sheliesshattered]

watched the new Succession episode on Sunday, and The Whale on Monday

so it’s gonna be that kind of a week, huh?

[adreamf-spring]

Just watched The Whale and now I still feel like I need to digest it. I've left my pop corn bag half full and at some points I almost feared that my phagophobia was about to struck full force again. So far, the most disturbing movie I've watched lately. Closed, claustrophobic, stuffed, maybe reiterative sometimes and yet so strangely hopeful? I didn't expect to find so much trust, and hope hidden under this gigantic self destruction feast. I mean, "I don't believe people are able not to care" is a pretty strong line to insert in the most climatic point of the movie, no?

The movie wants you to feel sympathetic for Liz's character but I hated her. I found her patronising, controlling and even malicious at times. That wheelchair was pretty clearly a way to prevent Charlie from moving all together and the way she tried to dictate if and how his daughter can visit was a giant red flag about her character, at least to me. The missionary kid started well and antithetic to the stifling presence of Liz's character but then the way he exited the movie was so.. pointless? Like, literally what was the point of his character, just some half baked personal story that served to show how Ellie's character can actually care? Because yeah, I can see the point in that but definitely could be developed differently.

The rest: Brendan Fraser deserved his oscar, both for the ferocity of his hatred towards his self, his apathy, and his delicate, unshakeable hope.

[stingray-art]

Black Whale, 12.5x12"

I tried quilting for the first time! It was super fun and I learned a lot. It's nowhere near perfect but I'm really proud of it!

Originally submitted for a mini event in @greedislandchallenge <3

[nittroy]

When space whale design so good you can't just steal it to your own cosmoopera story so you have to draw your first fanart in years and revive your tumblr art blog to post it

[other version and image description under the cut!]

Ezra version ♡

[ID: A horizontal artwork showing Exra Bridger from season 2 of Star Wars: Rebels and the group of space whales, Purgil. The purgil are floating in space and one of them, closest to the viewing point, is positioned so that its eye coincides with one of Ezra's eyes. Their eyes are shining teal blue. Ezra is depicted in a somewhat abstract way, he stands waist high and the space behind him, but behind the whales.

In the second version of the image, Ezra is in the foreground, while the Purgil is only in the background. He is standing and holding his lightsaber, looking somewhat lost in thought. ]

[emolionsrawr]

*at a grant nash BBQ*

buck: *staring off into space*

eddie: he's about to say something really funny or absolutely horrifying

tommy: what?

hen: just wait

buck: did you know these two orcas trained other orcas to kill sharks by taking out their liver and testicles?

eddie: yep horrifying

tommy: wait, really?

buck: yup, off the coast of africa there's these two orcas called port and starboard and they hunt sharks to eat their liver and testicles, they tag team them, one goes for their fins while the other takes out the liver, so far they've taken down five great whites, they even killed khaleesi, who was being tracked and traced for research purposes

tommy: oh my god really?

hen: *looks at tommy and smiles*

eddie: *whispers to hen* he's perfect for him

hen: *whispers back* i know!

buck: yeah! port and starboard have even started teaching other orcas to do the same! so far port and starboards record of how many sharks killed in a day is seventeen!

tommy: oh my god, that's insane baby, what else have port and starboard done?

buck: well they also hunt copper sharks and some fish, they even chased the great whites away from africa for seven weeks! but this isn't even the first time orcas have done something like this, in the early 1900's there was this orca called old tom who would help whalers hunt baleen whales, he even tugged the boats into the right position to get the whales, this happened in the port of eden new south whales in australia, you can actually go and see old tom's skeleton in eden killer whale meuseum, and on his teeth you can see marks from where he would pull the roaps! and old tom even has missing teeth because the whalers had this thing called "law of tounge" where they would strap the dead whales down so old tom and his pod could eat the lips and tongues, on the night where he lost his teeth logan, one of the davidson whaler friends tried to bring the whale in instead of pinning it down for old tom to eat, and old tom was pissed and tried to stop him, and he lost teeth, old tom died from starvation, when old tom died they thought he was 35, but the davidson family swore old tom helped three generations of their family with whaling, old tom was actually in his 90's when he died, they called old toms pod the killers of eden which-

tommy: would make an amazing true crime shark podcast name

buck:

eddie:

tommy:

hen:

buck: *tears up* you get me

[frostymj]

Gillian using the Voyager A to protect the Protostar through the wormhole under the nacelle like it was her baby.

That's perfect. Makes me wanna cry, it's so beautiful. 🥲

Love this show.

[asleepinawell]

"how's it going?"

what they say: fine

what they mean: I'm inside a dead whale that's speared on a stalactite on the roof of an underground cavern and i keep having to change outfits while inside it and surrounded by rotting whale flesh and also we climbed in its blow hole which is not the worst orifice to have gone through but was still not ideal oh and the whale is full of explosives

[celestialrealms]

Fun fact: In Barbatos's intimacy storyline in Nightbringer he ends up living with Solomon and MC at Cocytus Hall temporarily. Here's a highlight from his 40 intimacy call:

The way he makes Solomon sit in the corner. 😭 You cannot convince me he didn't raise this man.

[gravelsong]

I know I'm already saying how much I love this new issue but just. This scene is sooo good. Instead of dismissing Earth as disgusting and not worth living on, even the decepticons are absolutely stunned by how beautiful the planet is. Not only is it amazing, but after countless years of war and death, finding a planet so filled with life and wonder must be a breath of fresh air, something so new and amazing to explore. Despite their admiration for earth's contents, this doesn't change Shockwave's mind about bleeding Earth dry. In fact, it only enforces it, with this beauty going towards a cause as equally beautiful in his eye

[egophiliac]

Egooooooo we will get the continuation of ch 7 this monthhhhhh (at the end of the month as usual🥹) (squeals like lilia subordinate but in a fan girl way)

me, emerging from Deadline Hell to this most excellent news:

I was NOT expecting it so soon! I think this may actually be the shortest time between story updates yet?! (at least since the early days...episodes 3 and 4 feel so long ago now...) give me the Silver backstory, I'M READY.

oh, and because I wasn't losing my mind enough already,

AHHH WELL GOOD THING I ONLY WASTED HALF MY KEYS BEFORE I GAVE UP ON CERBERUS ORTHO, I GUESS

(I am just going to be absolutely useless through all of June, I'm so sorry)

[thewhalesheart]

ch 02 : p 21

could a spirit lose their way?

Prepare yourselves for rapid fire page uploads.. I’m multiple page uploads behind on here, and I apologize for my disappearance! I hope that the quick uploads today can make up for it!!

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[azertyrobaz]

Maybe Grogu knew