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I dont like to make certainties about the end of shows etc but I really genuinely hope that John and Arthur get to stay together in some fashion. One, it wouldn't be annoyingly tropey, two, THEY DESERVE IT LET THEM BE HAPPY HARLAN pls

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arthurs truly in every field. music AND architecture. inspiring

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Some of my art fight attacks this year!!

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Spider-Snare for Cringe_Shark (artfight)

Antarez (artfight)

Arthur Lester for @cookieins

Pythas for krefi (artfight)

Sigrid for DiddlingAndFiddling (artfight)

Eversor for @izel-scribbles

Moth guy Jon Sims for @cosmicbeaniii

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🎶 If you don't know why the bell tolls, you'll only hear the chimes 🎶

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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my brain is so full of Jarthur rn

have some thumbnails

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STOP LINKING ATTRACTIVENESS WITH MORALITY (“notice how the person with the bad opinion is ugly?”)

STOP LINKING WEIGHT WITH MORALITY (“lmao look how fit all the people with Good Opinion are, Person I Hate is Fat”)

STOP LINKING AGE WITH MORALITY (“people with Good Opinion just don’t age I swear!”)

STOP LINKING HEALTH WITH MORALITY (“Well xyz health problem is what Person I Hate gets for being shitty!”)

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

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Something I've been thinking abt since the new ep:

One of Arthur's most defining relationships is arguably his loss Faroe and one of johns most defining relationships was lilly

So arthur lost a daughter and John gained a mother

And both happened off-screen and away from the other

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Lilly being like a mother to John makes me SO FUCKING HAPPY GOD honestly makes the storyline so much more interesting and compelling, especially if you remember John was described as a child earlier on and how he's a foil to Arthur gajakkdhdhah

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side note, I am sooo deeply obsessed with the reveal of John's love for Lilly as an explicitly nonromantic thing- as familial. I personally feel like that beautifully removed expectations of her owing John anything, and instead allowed her (accidental) gift to him to be just that: a beautiful gift of humanity. the way he feels about her is not something he expects her to return - after all, she is a stranger - it was a gift. she gifted him life, gifted him a name. she was instrumental in his birth into John Doe, and she owes him nothing for that. he loves her, yes, and she gave him a start, and that's enough.

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o branwen we’re really in it now

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I'm thinking more about Annabelle's confrontation with Henry, because the way Luke (and AJ too) play it means so much to me. It's so realistically scary. So many details I adore in that short minute, because it says so much to me as a queer semi-woman:

Henry calls Annabelle "darlin'" straight off the bat. Of course darlin' is a common stereotypical southern term of endearment, but compounded with Henry's affection for Annabelle, and Annabelle's confused, "oh shit does he mean me" reaction, there's a sense I get that he's already verbally claiming her as his beloved. Without her consent. She's very much not endeared.

The very third thing Henry says is "give me your foot". With zero context. He brushes aside Annabelle's denial ("that's not mine"), and when she doesn't want to, he forces it on her.

Annabelle's reaction throughout this is constantly trying to diffuse the situation, downplaying her reactions. Forcing the shoe on her is already harassment, but she just says "I don't like this". She only pushes Henry's hands away as much as necessary so he wouldn't touch her in an act of very understandable panic, and then she puts her hands down like she's trying to calm them both down.

Because the reality is that historically, queer women face violence from cishet men, as both queer people and as women. Annabelle's reactions scream to me that she's aware that Henry, a man and a police officer, has so much social power over her, an eighteen-year-old young woman. It's not about being a bank robber or not (Henry clearly doesn't care either), or that she can shoot well; it's that she's a woman and he's a man, and the common sentiment was (and still is, in many circles) that women are men's belongings. Queer women aren't queer to those men, because queerness gets in the way of their "rightful" claim over women. Henry doesn't have to explain himself, because he feels entitled to have her even though she doesn't know who he is. He refuses to listen when she repeatedly says she's not interested out of entitlement and arrogance. He doesn't even consider that she might not be into men at all!! He forces the shoe on her, like putting shackles on her to claim her as his. He can be as violent as he wants, and she knows it'll be his word against hers if she makes a scene. So she tries not to.

Just. I really love that they didn't shy away from the realities of being queer women. So far most gay couples in sfth are in settings where being gay is accepted, like Ditch, like Bubbamiah. But Annabelle and Butch both don't get to be queer women (or non-men) in an ideal setting with zero homophobia and sexism, and those two intersect very nicely (and realistically) here.

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Inspector. Diary. Dear

Letter on the front Dear diar Dear Inspector. D- Dear - My dear, dear, Inspector. Deers. Deers are running around my forest currently in our gardens. It usually is a sign of- HA HA HA HA HA HA AAAAAGH INSPECTOR! LISTEN TO ME, INSPECTOR!

Inspector Whitstable. INSPECTOR! ARE YOU LISTENING?! LISTEN TO ME! I'M WRITING HERE! I'M SORRY :( that.your.friend.died I'm REALLY sorry! laughter I was speaking to my son. The only one al alive. The only man alive a leftFUCKING HELL The only man alive left in my family. Please turn over no-no, turn it over! My son said there was a book. A book with leather engraved engravings. I have left it here for you. Inside this package. Perhaps you could read it.

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And it keeps happening every 20 minutes.

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lemon

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