#even jimmy wanting to be curly so bad he cannibalizes him can have romantic implications if you squint

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J/imcurly is so interesting to me. I don't personally ship it, and I don't think what happens between them *should* be read as romantic, but I can totally see how Jim's obsession with Curly and Curly's dogged desire to keep Jim appeased could be interpreted as a twisted form of romance. It's a ship so vile, so radioactive and cruel and yet it genuinely works within the narrative and it has LAYERS and I want to study it under a microscope