I have lost the ability to watch Super Dark Times without reading Zach as an unrealised gay teen in love with his best friend and confused about his sexuality. I know deep down that most of the moments that triggered this read have other explanations, but try telling my gay little brain that.

SUPER DARK TIMES [THE FROST — MITSKI]

this movie's had my brain in a vice grip all week

fuck it it's fine

A sense of some fire getting close a super dark times fic

(chapter 4 up)

Josh and Zach do teenage things like crushing milk cartons, learning to drive, and realizing that being in love with your best friend fucking sucks sometimes fucks with your head and with your heart in ways you never thought possible

“Whatever,” Josh says, sighing it out like he’s exhausted. Like Zach’s exhausting him. And when he gets like this there’s really nothing that can pull him out of it. Since they were kids Zach kind of thought of it as quicksand. It pulls him down and holds him there, and just keeping his head above is about all Josh can manage. Like it’s not really something that either of them can help. “Just don’t—” Just don’t leave me. But of course, that’s an impossible thing to say to your best friend. It’s too big; it means too much. Josh doesn’t know how to drop all his defences like that, just sometimes he fucking wishes he could, wishes he could just say it and leave all this weirdness behind them. He can’t though. He can’t even get his mouth to begin to shape the words, so he finds the other strap of his backpack and says, “See you, man,” instead.

super dark times (2017) dir. kevin phillips

them:(

sorry for misinterpreting this movie as a queer romance gone wrong

Zach put his hands on your face and told you it was going to be fine. And you knew that you could trust him, because haven’t you always trusted him before? But this is the first thing that’s ever happened to you that’s too big to solve. This is the first time that Zach can’t clarify the situation for you, when you look over at him for help.

Zach put his hands on your face and held you together and told you it was going to be fine. And then he disappeared.

(or, Josh and Zach meet up again, by mistake, several years later.)

a Super Dark Times fic

read it on ao3

my toxic trait is that i actually love psychoanalysing movies at a really amateur level. getting possessed by freud for a few minutes. like yes that light fixture in the shape of a snake is a phallic symbol which represents the underlying homoerotic tension between these two repressed ass characters. oh the set designers put in there because it looked cool? bullshit. don't try it with me

Not enough discussion about the difference between Josh “incel, school shooter-esque”Templeton and Zach “sensitive boy” Taylor because to me that’s one of the most interesting and important parts of the film.

saw a cute edit of two guys on tik tok from a movie called Super Dark Times so i immediately rushed to watch it with absolutely no warning or context and needless to say i am now a bit 🤭traumatized🤭

some quick (~25 min each) portrait sketches from the last few weeks

whatever happens to me, i know it's for the better.

A sense of some fire getting close a super dark times fic

(chapter 6 up) !!!

Josh and Zach do teenage things like crushing milk cartons, learning to drive, and realizing that being in love with your best friend fucking sucks sometimes fucks with your head and with your heart in ways you never thought possible

They go into Zach's room instead, even though they’re not tired yet. They lie on the bed where they talk to the ceiling where he still has a few remaining glow in the dark stars, but they don’t touch. Instead, they muffle their laughter against their knuckles . . .