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"Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? Younger, more beautiful, more perfect. One single injection unlocks your DNA, starting a new cellular division, that will release another version of yourself. This is the Substance. You are the matrix. Everything comes from you. Everything is you. This is simply a better version of yourself. You just have to share. One week for one and one week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days each. The one and only thing not to forget: You. Are. One. You can't escape from yourself."

The Substance (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat

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THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

You're the only lovable part of me. You have to come back. You have to come back. Come back.

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THE SUBSTANCE  2024, dir. Coralie Fargeat

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"The Substance" is about a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me, it's so very very about eating disorders- bulimia, in particular.

Elizabeth wants to stop, but she can't. She wants the 'good parts' without the 'bad parts'. A lot of people with bulimia view the binge-eating as the issue, and the purging as a natural consequence- part of recovery is learning to keep eating normally even if you binge. You have to love / accept yourself in all parts, even when you eat and you're fat and you're old and you hate it. But I don't think we ever see Sue eat, do we? We only see her exercise- we only see her burn calories, not take them in. Food is a source of horror to her, from the dream with the chicken leg to having to clean up after Elizabeth. She has no issues throwing the food out. To me, she represents purging/ restriction/ the goal of thinness, while Elizabeth represents bingeing/ losing control/ the body and habits that haunt you.

Hearing them scream "You have to control yourself!", Elizabeth wanting to stop but being unable to, Elizabeth describing Sue as "the only part of me that's loveable", Sue calling Elizabeth fat and old, the binge-eating not even being properly shown because it's too shameful to acknowledge head-on, Sue having to 'deal with the consequences' of Elizabeth's binge eating, the constant reminders that you can stop at any time but you can't undo the damage you've already done, the teeth damage (common with purging), the fucked-up finger (can happen with purging), the desperate desire to split the part of you that is thin and pure and capable of control from the part that eats and wants and needs, Sue teling Elizabeth 'eat slowly' and failing to give her the nutrition she needs, so much vomiting until she's throwing up her own self, both of them only achieving something close to happiness when Elizabeth is freed from her body completely...

woof. What a movie.

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Aziraphale's favorite color is yellow

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look at you, you're gorgeous!

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So, about the "You made me chicken soup" scene. Most people find it funny and think Hannibal gets slightly offended, but the first time I watched it, I thought it was actually sweet.

Will wakes up to the smell of food, sees what Hannibal has brought and is genuinely surprised. Chicken soup is what you prepare to your loved ones when they're sick (like Reba does for Francis in season 3). He's not used to having people taking care of him. That's why he tells Hannibal "You made me chicken soup", and Hannibal is somehow taken aback by his reaction, and pauses before answering "Yes", in a total different tone. Like he understands the meaning his gesture has for Will. I don't think he's annoyed by the fact that Will is reducing his fancy dish to a simple chicken soup. That "Yes" is an aknowledging of his affection for Will to Will.

And he turns away, as if he'd been caught off-guard too.

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Iris Van Herpen spring/summer 2019

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EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde

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Time Travel Tomarry, except reverse the fanon roles of angsty gloomy Tom Riddle and sunshine and lollipops Harry Potter, and remember which one is canonically the charming (albeit two-faced) sunshine and lollipops, and which is the gloomy (+ socially awkward) angsty one, Harry Potter.

Everyone would have such back-the-front perceptions of them, and the only ones who would know the true them would be each other

how cute

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MARGARET QUALLEY as Sue The Substance (2024)

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"The Substance" is an incredible cinematic achievement and I cannot stop thinking about it. I feel that this is only my first tribute poster to it.

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THE SUBSTANCE (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x08 - “Su-zakana”

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Can you stay with me

Always

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You know how Degas did studies of ballerinas? This is… kind of like that!

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Reading in this place always makes me feel like a hobbit.