so many posts appreciating rose tyler for how down to earth, unapologetically working class she looks and they are all right but also it's incredible how that continues as bad wolf. for a moment she's the most powerful being in the show. and it would be so easy to make her strange and smooth and elflike but this is 2005 and so she's crying. the strongest being in the universe is a teenage girl in sweatpants crying and sweating, hair frizzy, her voice breaking as she speaks. incomprehensibly powerful, larger than life and still so very human
"oh but your favorite shows are going to be delayed by the strikes" my favorite shows consistently get cancelled after 2 excellent seasons bc of the exploitive corporate greed that these strikes are fighting against
dorian only thinks his portrait is beautiful because he sees it as a depiction of his fleeting youth and identity, but the truth is the portrait is actually a reflection of basil, the artist, who put too much of himself in it. it’s not dorian who is beautiful, but rather basil’s pure love for him, which in turn is a reflection of basil’s soul and true nature. by loving dorian, and embracing his love through art without shame, basil has created the most precious thing, even if it is fleeting. much like romance, all art is quite useless, but it touches the human spirit nonetheless, and that’s important
My great great grandparents got to America by tricking Austrian aristocrats into thinking they were witches and stealing from them witchcraft has always been a grift and god bless the people who are good at it but most of you are not