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The Card~

Has anyone stopped thinking about this since it happened? No? Me neither.

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ID: 1a. Shot from within Guillermo's room under the stairs as Nandor, in his usual belted coat but with his hair half up in a ponytail rather than a bun, holds the curtain aside with one arm. He announces, "You may keep your shit and do your human things in here." Guillermo, 19 years old with fluffy overgrown hair in a side part and a pimply chin, ducks around him to step inside. He is wearing a black lady gaga shirt over a white button up and jeans, has a duffel bag slung over his chest, and a backpack hanging on one shoulder. He stares into the sad little room, unable to muster any enthusiasm as he replies "Oh... Um." 1b. Reverse shot behind Nandor's shoulder, the tiny room's faded walls, bare yellowed mattress, and single abandoned pillow visible in the background. Nandor turns in profile to the viewer and imperiously demands, "I will allow you two minutes to settle your affairs, then I expect you to begin dusting the fancy room as it has begun to grow bunnies." Guillermo, having stepped into the room and pulled off his duffel bag, turns back to him with a nervous smile and says "Of course! Thank you, Nandor." Nandor replies, "You will address me as 'sir' or 'master,' Greenberg." Guillermo corrects him, "It's Guillermo. Sir." Nandor snaps, "Whatever." 1c. Reverse shot, Nandor standing in the doorway holding the curtain open, gesturing with his finger as he turns to leave. He scolds, "A familiar is not expected to be correcting a vampire! I will see you in two minutes; try not to die until then." From offscreen, Guillermo calls out "Oh, wait- uh, Master?" 1d. Close up on Nandor as Guillermo continues, "I got you something." Nandor whips his head back around in not-unpleasant surprise, starry eyes landing directly on Guillermo for the first time.

2. Wide shot of them both in profile, the entryway between the familiar's room and the main hall dividing the space between them. Guillermo, having deposited his bags, steps toward Nandor with a greeting card held out in both hands. Blushing, and with his eyes fixed on the card rather than Nandor's face, Guillermo stammers, "It's just a stupid card, I-I didn't really know how to... I mean, I just wanted you to know how grateful I am. To be your familiar." Nandor reaches out for the card with one careful hand, fingers splayed and head held back as if he thought it might explode. His fingers meet the card precisely where the two rooms meet.

3a. Close up of Nandor's hand holding the card, which has a smiling cartoon cheese block saying 'You're the Gratest!" to a cartoon cheese grater, which looks delighted and surprised. Offscreen, Guillermo says "Thank you for choosing me." 3b. Repeat. Nandor flips open the card to see Guillermo's handwritten inscription: "To be a vampire is my dream. But to be your familiar will be my honor. Thank you for this opportunity. -Guillermo". 3c. Close up on the top half of Nandor's face as he rears back slightly in surprise, cheeks flushed, eyes wide and shining with delight. The background turns a buttery yellow dotted with bokeh lights, the words 'my honor' repeating again and again throughout.

4a. Zoom out, shot from behind Guillermo's shoulder. Nandor flips the card closed and flips it toward his chest, free hand planting itself on his hip to feign indifference despite his fluster. He sputters, "Well, with all of your sappy time-wasting, you have only one minute left! Lateness reflects poorly on me as your master; you are not starting off on the good foot!" Guillermo startles to attention in the foreground, stammering out, "Right! Sorry sir, uh, master, sir." 4b. Shot from the hallway as Nandor steps out of Guillermo's room and sternly closes the curtain behind him, still holding the card to his chest with his free hand. 4c. Close up as Nandor hunches his shoulders protectively and raises the opened card up close to his face with a flustered and urgent expression, as if trying to read it in secret. 4d. Full body of Nandor from behind as he stands alone in the foyer, a long shadow stretching out in front of him as the room is lit green around him - Guillermo's color. A few bokeh lights float aimlessly around Nandor's head as he reads the card again, murmuring thoughtfully to himself, "...Guillermo...hmmm..."

5a. A few horizontal black bars indicate the passage of time. 5b. Shot inside a wardrobe, the door cracked open to let a beam of light fall inside. Stowed between hanging coats is a small wooden chest with the lid raised halfway up. Inside are a few hanging pendants, a roll of parchment, a golden fork, a discarded shirt, a few expired coupons, a folded letter with Nandor's name written on the front in Farsi, and Guillermo's card. It is front and center, illuminated by the beam of light, and clearly well-read, the spine creased and corners slightly dog-eared. Offscreen, Nandor calls, "Guillermo! You have destroyed a spider house, now where will she sleep??" Guillermo stutters out a confused apology, "I-? I'm sorry, Master!" Nandor continues, "That is one demerit for you, and one more year as my familiar!" Carved surreptitiously into the shelf in the wardrobe is the word 'end'. It's the end of the comic. /end ID

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The Bear and the Invisible Cat

I love this show so much because it’s been two months since I saw it and I am just having a random epiphany about my favourite little metaphor nugget now. In Season 2 episode 4 of The Bear, Carmy sends Marcus to Copenhagen to stage with a chef friend. He lives on a boat and one of the things he must do, day after day, is “feed” a cat we never see. Every day, he fills water in a bowl labelled “for coco”. In the infamous episode 6, we see a young Carmy in flashback telling his brother three things about Copenhagen. One of his three things: I fed an invisible cat.

When we start to learn any new skill, especially an art, we always start by doing small, repetitive daily tasks — in cooking, it’s peeling, washing, chopping; in music, it’s scales; in sports, there are drills. At that stage, there are not a lot of observable markers of our progress. We cannot see the cat. Maybe the water in the bowl is gone by end of most days. On some days, maybe it’s untouched. We’re still required to empty that bowl and refill it the next day. Even on days when we get every thing else wrong, getting that one, small, seemingly inconsequential thing done, becomes a matter of such exquisite discipline. That’s what it takes for Carmy, for Marcus, for any of us to become “good” at doing anything.

We all have to feed an invisible cat.

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Sometimes you got to lie to get the job!

Credits: Sydcarmfiles Twitter

Shoutout to the original poster for real 🤝!

Thank you to @dizzycat2000 for pointing it out: See post here.

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James McAvoy delivering the most crazy-making monologue from Martin Crimp's adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac."

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Carmy was really like if my girl wants a star she can have a star. If my girl wants chaos menu she can have chaos menu. If my girl wants a chef's jacket she can have a bespoke monogrammed 2k designer one. Whatever she wants she can have it because that's what husbands do for their wives

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Also shout out to Mr. Adamu, sir, there is a white man picturing your daughter to get out of his panic attack as we speak. Yes, he is traumatized and Italian

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Yeah if the makers of this show did not want me to ship them, they need to start blocking the scenes with these two differently. For starters, maybe don’t put them under a f****ing table

What the absolute fuck is their problem?!?!? (Affectionate) (But also derogatory)

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“THEORIES ABOUT THE UNIVERSE I am trying to see things in perspective. My dog wants a bite of my peanut butter chocolate chip bagel. I know she cannot have this, because chocolate makes dogs very sick. My dog does not understand this. She pouts and wraps herself around my leg like a scarf and purrs and tries to convince me to give her just a tiny bit. When I do not give in, she eventually gives up and lays in the corner, under the piano, drooping and sad. I hope the universe has my best interest in mind like I have my dogs. When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself: “Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt.”

— THEORIES ABOUT THE UNIVERSE by Blythe Baird

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Obviously there’s no way to be sure butttttt—from the general layout of the room it appears that the table Syd and Carmy fixed in episode 9 is the SAME TABLE that Claire is later seated at in the finale. Just, you know, fyi

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the bear + tumblr text posts (1/?)

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Remember this if your imposter syndrome starts getting you down

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My current read tells, among other things, this beautiful story about how Persian Zoroastrians (aka Parsis) settled in India and made our culture sweeter ❤️ #NowReading #NicolasWild #SilentWasZarathustra #CyrusYazdani #ahuramazda #parsi #bookstagram #booklr #bookstagramcommunity #bookstagrammer

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Thug life stands for The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everyone. 13/10 the best book I've read in 2017. Yet. In other news, if I want to introduce myself to Tupac, where should I begin? #bookstagram #booklr #bookstagramcommunity #angiethomas #thehateugive #thuglife #blacklivesmatter

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Love it when someone sends me photos of something they liked in my book. This one is from @clearly_craycray , who has reminded me why I need to get off this app and write ❤️ ......................................... #SomethingHeWrote #bookstagram #booklovers #humour #romcom #comedy #romance #booklr #booklrcommunity #bookworm #nerds #dilli #delhi #bookstagramcommunity #instagood #instadaily #novel #photooftheday #igers #igersdaily #wordporn #writer #writing #writersofinstagram

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When you ask for a sign and the universe delivers brilliantly. (From Sex Object by Jessica Valenti)

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What do you think this cloud is shaped like?