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That moment when a character you love changes something about their appearance, and you start to feel your affection for them waning. You’re then forced to grapple with the fact that you really ARE that superficial, and try your best to look past the hideous mistake they’ve made to love them anyway.

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yayy bedtime!! *curls up in my blankies and thinks about my faves being tortured* ^_^

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Midwestern nerds who fall in love every two business days.

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i had a vision

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just watched the voyage home and i fear it may be the movie of all time

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I love that psychic powers are still "allowed" in science fiction. They're an acceptable part of the aesthetic. Like you can't have magic, but you can have brain magic, because it's more Science.

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Anyway this is the funniest thing they could have done with Rogue. This should be a recurring joke, he should appear in a screen periodically to deliver a helpful message and say hey, I'm still in superhell, thanks for the superhell, I still love you though, in superhell, and the doctor should just be like. Cool thanks hot guy in superhell who loves me, and just continue to not rescue him from superhell. He's hot but not that hot I guess.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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The most heavenly sound in the world in when you watch an old Rock Afire skit and you can hear the VA's crack up at each other's jokes

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you’re my pal, hutch

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I need to scream into the void about this scene from ACFS! It’s one of my favorite scenes from any media ever. Both of the boys are just fantastic in this episode, but DS/Hutch really shines here. There's an air of calm he projects that tells a much different story than his expressions. His voice is steady and soothing as he holds his friend through what has to be terrible pain and watches their backs as Starsky clings to him.

His face and eyes, however, tell a totally different story than his voice. In reality, he's barely holding it together. There's even a brief moment, that's very difficult to catch in a screencap, where tears well up in his eyes and he has to quickly blink them away.

By the time he gets Starsky to his feet, the tears and expression of devastation are gone and replaced with his best impression of casual concern. He even subtly takes his friend's pulse under the pretense of a comforting, steadying touch on his wrist. Starsky sees through it, of course, and makes a joke. As always, even when he's on death's door, he does everything he can to protect his partner.

It's a brilliant and poignant scene. This show doesn't get nearly enough credit. Very few actors can stir up such real emotions in me. I can feel what they're feeling. I can hear what they're thinking. I keep coming back to them again and again because of it.

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Honestly guys we don't talk enough about how fucking SUBVERSIVE the Gay Submarine Scene™️ in mi8 was (pun intended). That was the type of scene in an action movie where usually the Hot Woman who's there for eye candy for the audience of straight men is gratuitously stripped down in some way and looks indignant or helpless as the Action Movie Men oggle her (a simplified explanation of The Male Gaze). But instead of a woman who's only in the movie for 5 seconds it's ETHAN HUNT, the MALE STAR of the action movie. He's stripped down to his boxers and bashfully admired by several burly men. Captain Bledsoe was very obviously flirting with him. And this isn't even MENTIONING the role that KODIAK played. Her and Ethan's banter was indistinguishable from two sweaty buff male leads in a testosterone-filled 80s action flick who are very obviously eyefucking during their rivalry. Those types of scenes are gay enough as they are. Except in the Gay Submarine, one of the masculine male roles was played by a WOMAN, complete with muscles and short hair and that tired yet eager stare that screams 'dominant,' FURTHER scrambling up the gender roles and throwing them out the window. There was nothing heterosexual about how she and Ethan interacted, just like how there was nothing heterosexual about how Ethan and Bledsoe interacted. The Gay Submarine Scene™️ was queer. it was Lesbian. it was transgender. it was homosexual. it was butch. it was beautiful. AND IT WAS IN A MAINSTREAM ACTION MOVIE SERIES INSTALLMENT SEEN BY THE WORLD. Those types of movies ALWAYS have The Male Gaze scenes. Not Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. This movie had The McQ Gaze, and the hot woman being objectified was internationally beloved Hollywood movie star and president of movies Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, showing off his tits and the curve of his ass in a distinctly non traditional way. Amen. Tony Scott is smiling down upon us, I just know it.

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i don't wanna live in a small cottage in the forest, I wanna live in Hutch's house

so comfy

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It is simply not fulfilling to enjoy media in the height of its popularity. You need to show up so late to the party that everybody else is gone and the hosts are asleep so you can rummage through their trash for chip dip and stale hors d’oeurves to eat alone in the dark like a dirty little raccoon secret

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what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

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Never going to get over the fact that I went into the Mission Impossible films expecting Ethan Hunt to be this macho man that’s peak “made by men for men” and instead got absolutely slapped across the face by the fact that he’s in fact not that… he’s just this sad little guy who loves his friends a little too much and runs more than any one person should