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Stolen from @/krolevarqa on Twitter

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I watch Eurovision every year, but it's a first time ever I can say that jury vote actually saved Eurovision.

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bonk

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I know the ESC was mid because I woke up and it wasn't even trending on the official gay live reaction site.

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Not Israel rigging their votes this year 😑 I didn’t want Austria to win with another opera song but I was cheering for them towards the end bc at least he won fair and square

I could have written this message myself, believe me.

Austria was out of my top five (still, congrats!! Entry was high quality 🥳) but at the end I was like "Yeah! Everyone but not them!!! 🥶"

PS: all in all, my favorite was amazing Albania 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 I was rooting for Tirana 2026 🥲

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I’m a little late to the party, but here’s one of my favorite Eurovision costumes this year (his song was good too)

I wanna draw Ziferblat but there’s more of them so I gotta take longer to cook

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I'm so disappointed with the sound mixing keeping the audience entirely quiet to the tv viewers. I want to hear the party! Imagine if we hadn't heard the audience during Rim Tim Tagi Dim last year, it would have been a DEAD performance, and the show this year would have been even better if we got to hear everyone

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they really are muting the artists as soon as they say thank you huh

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Seriously what happened to Eurovision this year ?! Where is the weird shit that would make people dance ?! Where is the metal group ??? Where are the 30/40/50+ singers ?!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REAL EUROVISION ?!?

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!!!!!

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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

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I reckon Porthos was the quiet hero? of the quartet of Musketeers. Or he was underrated anyway. The others all get talked about for various reasons; but Porthos often gets overlooked. But he was a workhorse; a reliable generalist and a great strategist. You could always depend on him. It was often him that would see a plan before anybody else. Or danger. S3 of MUSKETEERS was a mishmash, but it was nice to see the Porthos character get his just desserts. Especially as Dumas' Porthos did well in the army and so did the real life Porthos that he was based on.

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I was thinking about Porthos again last night. He's such a good adaptation imo, he's big and strong and is sort of 'the stupid one' but mostly by reputation. His intelligence is just quiet and background. I like that in the dreaded s3 athos finally just says oitloud 'he's the smart one actually you should notice that now'.

This version of Porthos has lots of agency, he uses people's impressions and misimpressipns of him, it's him who choses to keep quieter about it. I find H Charles acting choices excellent. You can kinda see Porthos choices, and confidence and competence, and when he loses confidence or is frustrated by the fact that he has to work so hard to be seen as more or equal to the others, in the line delivery and way he acts in situations.

I'm thinking of all the complexity he packs into "i know who and what I am" and his demand that he is French, or the early s3 scenes with Sylvie where he just follows his orders and is visibly fed up with evrything, or the bit with the judge when he's being tried for murder where he has a split second beat before he says 'enjoying Paris at night' early on where he's maybe calculating that the judge isn't going to listen to a word he says sand there's no pint biting back.

And we also see his intelligence in his fighting. When he fights, how he fights, when he backs up the others. When he fights the red guard he's showing off his skill, when he fights with musketeers he's careful and shows off his strength, with his 'real' fights he's strategic but confident and uses what's to hand. I'm simplifieing and making things fit but he does fight differently in the different situations.

He's just such a great character and there's so many layers and things to think about and tturn over. There's Dumas OG Porthos who Dumas clearly loved to bits, and while I think the show as a whole failed in lots of ways at adapting satire to Serious Business they seemed to have a lot of love for the material too, and there's H Charles acting choices, all these people loving the character.

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Porthos - The Musketeers, s1

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2. The Avengers Assemble.

(The Musketeers Season 2, Episode 10 - Trial and Punishment)

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Porthos // The Musketeers (2014) // S1E5 // Homecoming