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Godddd I’m so obsessed with chris it’s crazy he’s such a freak . he’s so bitchy for no reason he manages to make the weirdest outfits look hot as fuck he’s one of the smartest people on the planet he loves the people around him and really he’s just so unapologetically himself I love it so much

REWATCHED REAL GENIUS AND IM JUST SOOOO FUCKING OBSESSED WITH THIS FILM AND CHRIS KNIGHT HES SO SILLY I LOVE HIM

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REWATCHED REAL GENIUS AND IM JUST SOOOO FUCKING OBSESSED WITH THIS FILM AND CHRIS KNIGHT HES SO SILLY I LOVE HIM

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BENJI DUNN + ETHAN HUNT in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

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There’s a particular background character in Mission Impossible I’m fascinated by.

It’s the woman in Fallout who nods encouragingly at Ethan as he’s about to jump out of the window.

I imagine she - let’s call her Caroline - has always been fascinated by spies. She watched all the Bond movies (her favourite is Dalton). She devoured Spooks. She longed to be a spy - but didn’t know how to become one. So she settled down into her nice quiet office job and her nice quiet life and daydreamed of being a spy.

By the time MI6 and MI5 recruit openly, she’s too old. She thinks it’s too late.

Then one day a man comes running through her office. She’s seen enough movies to know he’s talking to someone on comms, and she thinks - this is one of them, isn’t it? An actual spy, right here.

She looks at him as he perches on the edge of the window, unsure what to do. Her instinct tells her he is one of the good guys.

She nods encouragingly.

I have faith in you. You can do this.

He nods back.

Thank you.

Then he jumps. She runs to the window to watch him run. He obviously landed badly but he’s still going. She watches until he’s out of sight.

The next day she quits her office job and sets up a private surveillance and investigation agency.

Her friends all try to dissuade her. She’s too old, too untrained, too ordinary to do this. But she is determined. If he can jump out of a window, she can do this.

And it turns out, she’s rather good. No-one pays any attention to grey haired middle aged women. She practically invisible. If she gets caught she just acts all confused. She takes self-defence classes, but she’s finds out many bad guys immediately back off when a schoolteacher voice tells them to stop messing about and behave.

After six months she hires Vicky. Vicky is 72, tall and skinny. She likes to pretend to not understand her mobile phone in public. In private she hacks into government agencies and leaves rude messages.

Caroline installs Vicky in the corner of the office with six monitors, a huge coffee machine and a complete box set of Led Zeppelin.

One night, as they lounge in the office and sip brandy, Vicky points out how many of their clients are actual spies who just don’t trust their agencies.

‘MI5 keep asking me to work for them. I always refuse,’ Caroline says. ‘We’re getting a reputation as people who won’t tell the government what we’re doing and I’d like to keep that.’

‘In that case,’ Vicky says, ‘we might want to hire someone who knows these agencies, but has no reason to trust them. Someone they’ve disavowed. Like this woman.’ And Vicky hands Caroline Ilsa Faust’s file.

Ilsa joins them on a strictly case-by-case, freelance basis. Caroline understands that urge to be free of all ties. But it’s through Ilsa she finally finds out who the man who jumped from the window is.

Ethan Hunt.

And with him - Benji Dunn, Luther Stickell. Caroline tasks Vicky with keeping an eye on them. Make their path smoother, if possible, without letting them know. It’s Vicky who lets them know the CIA will be hunting them at Abu Dhabi. And it’s Caroline who tells Ilsa where she can find Ethan and his team.

It’s Benji who lets Caroline know Ilsa is dead. Through encrypted messages, one of a list of ‘let them know’ Ilsa had left behind.

It’s the first time Caroline has lost someone. And now she understands - this is her world now.

A few weeks later, two men come into her grubby little office in Enfield. She manages to hold down her gasp when she sees them.

Ethan Hunt and Benji Dunn.

‘We’ve heard you may be able to help us,’ Ethan said, then takes a closer look at Caroline. ‘Have we met?’

‘You were jumping out of a window,’ she says.

‘That doesn’t narrow it down,’ Benji says, going over to look at Vicky’s set up. He’s impressed.

‘I remember,’ Ethan says. ‘You were very encouraging. I didn’t realise you were…’ he waves his hand around at the little spy agency.

‘I wasn’t, then. You inspired me.’

‘Yes, he does that,’ Benji calls out.

Ethan studies her for a moment.

‘It’s been a difficult time. I’m not sure who I can trust right now.’

‘You can trust me,’ she says.

He smiles.

‘Yes, I knew that the minute you encouraged me to jump out of a window. Tell me - how are you at finding submarines?’

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rebecca_ferguson: Went through my phone the other day and found Ilsa and the gang hiding here and there. Thought I’d share them. #throwback #missionimpossible

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so many male characters are held back by the fact that they're not wearing earrings when they so clearly should be wearing earrings

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That feeling when your body is requesting something but you're not sure what so you just start eating and drinking random stuff to try and figure it out

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three person poly relationship made up of two people who are already dating trying to coax someone with horrific self worth issues into a loving relationship. stray cat style

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Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2 Episode 20 "Horizon"

Season 3 Episode 3 "Extinction"

Season 3 Episode 5 "Impulse"

Season 3 Episode 15 "Harbinger"

Season 3 Episode 24 "Zero Hour"

Season 4 Episode 3 "Home"

Season 4 Episode 17 "Bound"

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on the topic of ethan being deeply mentally unwell im kind of fixated on the idea of him having a really bad understanding of what he needs to apologise for. like an objectively horrible situation that is completely out of his control will happen and he’ll be like I’m so sorry I couldn’t manipulate time and space to change the outcome in your favour…. but then he will like. lie to julia for years and not apologise for that lmfao. like I think ethan’s understanding of his own responsibilities towards other people is extremely fucked because his job is just like “go do the impossible” so he internalises that as “if I can’t get out of an impossible situation I’m a failure” and that leads to him catastrophising the scope of his actions and paradoxically downplaying things that are reasonably actually in his control. so he’s walking around saying sorry to people for a hurricane destroying their house but remains unaware of the fact that he should actually be apologising for like ghosting his friends for six months or something. like he wants to atone but he’s insane so atonement is like please let me make up for the fact that I can’t control the weather. you know what I mean

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Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning | 2023

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Drew my man Rocky from Project Hail Mary

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Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING dir. Christopher McQuarrie

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Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION

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Some hitchhikers!

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THE CHAFF PROJECT

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

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Every time I think of this scene I want to start sobbing I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful things ever written.