Always Be Kind Because You Never Know What Someone Is Going Through.

Crush (2022) was a legitimately sweet and wholesome movie that made me smile and laugh all the way through, but my overanalyzing brain took another message from it.

In the beginning and throughout the movie, Paige’s crush on Gabby is shown as a fantasy, there is an almost fan fiction like quality to it, but every interaction she has with her is awkward, even after she gets to know her, and the kiss itself is awkward and uncomfortable for both of them. It is so much better in Paige’s head than it was in real life.

But look at her relationship with AJ. How genuine it was from the start. How AJ readily accepted her random animal facts, how she helped her with her art, how she immediately went along with Good Cop Bad Cop at the party, their training together. Paige genuinely seemed to relax more and be herself more around AJ because she didn’t feel the pressure to be perfect, and it paid off. When they kissed, Paige acknowledged how much better it felt, more natural

My takeaway here is that living in your head about someone might bring more harm than good. They may seem perfect on paper, but real relationships are built through time and experience together, not constantly fantasizing about the other person. And Crush exemplified that perfectly with the dichotomy of Paige’s relationships with Gabby and AJ, respectively

No one:

1996 Lottie: absolutely towering over everyone else

Will fully confess that I didn’t think of any of them as their character names the whole time. They were Veronica, Robin, Buffy, Pope, Ethan, Jessica, and the girl from the Deja Vu music video. And a great cameo from Sansa Stark herself. The casting for this movie tapped every major teen show, told them all to serve cunt, and they did. So hard

do revenge honestly felt like a multiversal experience i was like veronica lodge?? skylar storm?? pope heyward ?? robin buckley?? ethan?? sansa stark?? DAPHNE FROM SCOOBY DOO??

- on childhood loneliness

@aphexxtween on tiktok/ @mazzystarjpg/ mastermind- taylor swift/ the virgin suicides/ @heavensickness/ if you’re anything like me- taylor swift/ pen15/ @mango-season

That backwards hat of Melissa’s was a dead giveaway from day one.

A subcategory of movies that makes me soft and very hopeful

Realistic, diverse, funny, heartwarming teen Rom-Coms that actually treat their main characters as they are, teenagers. Complete with wonderful chemistry between the lead and the love interest that is just so sweet every time

Rhaenyra and Daemon are now spit sisters

this is me trying by taylor swift // black swan by darren aronofsky // the bear by christopher storer // i, tonya by craig gillespie // normal people by lenny abrahamson and hettie macdonald // untitled by me // this is me trying by taylor swift // fleabag by phoebe waller-bridge // euphoria by sam levinson // eternal sunshine of the spotless mind by michel gondry // vicky cristina barcelona by woody allen // pearl by ti west // not strong enough by boygenuis // the Painter and the pianist ny lionello balestrieri // crying girl on the sofa by peder knudsen // dead poets society by peter weir // the prophecy by taylor swift // brutal by olivia rodrigo // lady bird by greta gerwig // gilmore girls by amy sherman-palladino // dreams of mickey mantle by bleachers // untitled by me // la la land by damien chazelle // little women by greta gerwig // right where you left me by taylor swift // reality bites by ben stiller // friends from college by francesca delbanco and nicholas stoller // the edge of seventeen by kelly fremon craig // i’m trying (not friends) by maisie peters // hoax by taylor swift

It’s been exactly one episode