orangepeelshortbreadcookies

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Hey people who select nominees for Emmys, please explain to me how Pedro Pascal dying in S2E2 of The Last of Us is qualified for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but somehow Diego Luna isn't?

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

franchaela married hehe

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

These are just the 3 guys from A Flock of Seagulls.

The Holy Trinity of "Blondies serving cunt" in The Sandman universe 💅

Those three should have a 3some seriously

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Andor What a Festive Evening | 2.06

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Chapter 8

Business Lesson 13: Shark Tank

Summary:

One co-founder attempts to pitch their projections to a promising investor…

Ratings: G

Relationships: Charles Bridgerton & Miles Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Sophie Beckett | Sophie Baek/Benedict Bridgerton

Characters: Miles Bridgerton, Charles Bridgerton, Gregory Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton, Sophie Beckett | Sophie Baek

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Family Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Crack, The babies are back and more chaotic than ever, Children being cute and being children, kids logic

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Chapter 7

Business Lesson 12: Brand Empowerment & Personnel Structuring

Summary: If at first you don't succeed...

A/N: For Benophiefest 2025.

Turns out I'm not yet done writing this particular childlike nonsense.

Characters:

Miles Bridgerton, Charles Bridgerton, Gregory Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton, Sophie Beckett | Sophie Baek

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Family Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Crack, The babies are back and more chaotic than ever, Children being cute and being children, kids logic

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

I enjoyed watching their scenes from the start. The actresses played well off each other and the writing was sarcastic and fun, but I didn’t actually ship it until this scene in the rain. And to be honest it’s not the scene itself that got to me, it’s how it was presented and when it was presented in the narrative.

The writers send a wounded Kleya off rudderless into the forest and by having the scene bleed into Partagaz suicide it sets a tone which slowly chills your stomach. You get this melancholic imagine burned into your retina as Kleya disconnects herself from the machines monitoring her wellbeing and then steps out into the rain. Especially melancholic as the scene plays out beneath the hypnotic lull of Nemik’s manifesto which starts off on “there will be times when the struggle seems impossible, I know this already, alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy-” That is what we leave Kleya on, that is the note on which she unhooks her lifelines and walks out into the dark void on. Only for it to be directly followed by Partagaz killing himself. It sets quite the dark tone in you mind. Instantly as we close out on the muffled blaster shot you worry not for the dead fascist, but for the roaming spy out in the cold. Worry real fucking bad that she too is about to walk the perimeter of self-harm town. What is there to stop her?

Fast forward to where we’ve got Vel at the same time. Vel is being an adorably sentimental little lesbian and is pushing for Cassian to reconnect with Bix. Sure the scenes is there to punch us in the gut as we as the audience already know that such a reconnection is not on the table and that Cassian will be dead soon. It does however also work as a good snapshot of what Vel’s mindset is like and the emotions she harbours. For her that human connection is something worth pushing and striving for. It’s made clear she is still pretty broken in her own grief, but to her human emotion and love are worth pursuing even in the face of all the darkness. Maybe she doesn’t see it for herself, but she pushes those around her towards it.

So we have a lost and emotionally unmoored Kleya with potentially suicidal tendencies and you have an equally lost Vel who is shown to still treasure, champion and maybe even yearn for love even though she herself have suffered grief because of past experiences. Those are the two ships that are sent off into the Yavin night with the sole purpose of crashing into each other. Two people in different stages of grief, but with an equally deep need for tenderness.

I don’t know which one we are supposed to assume saves who through the rainy encounter. But Vel gets a reason to care, a reason to comfort and a reason to be put together. Kleya on the other hand gets a safety-net, compassion to catch her in its webs as she’s free falling. A familiar person who anchors her to the moment, the cause and to herself. Suddenly the latter part of Nemik’s manifesto makes a comeback in your mind, “remember this, freedom is a pure idea, it occurs spontaneously and without instruction”. Which maybe isn’t just referring to freedom in its more traditional sense, but also as a synonym for human connection. Care, compassion and love are all spontaneous acts and cannot be killed no matter how many restrictions or legislations you try to apply to them. In that moment, in that scene, you feel it - the unstoppable flow of human connection occuring without instruction.

Whatever that connection between them is actually supposed to be canonically – well it’s up for interpretation, but personally it bumped the pieces into a position where I suddenly raised my eyebrow at what had come before. It was the metaphorical equivalent of being handed a blacklight in an Amsterdam hotelroom. I can now suddenly see what was always there, but which wasn't visible to my naked eye before. Am I pleased I now know what’s there? Maybe not entirely, because who needs more rare!pairs in their life?! Not me necessarily, but here we are and there’s no putting it back once you’ve seen it. Because you realise that for these two the show was actually just the prologue. Whatever their story is, it actually began there in the rain and the end - well it is yet to be written, but does appear to involve each other.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Chapter 7

Business Lesson 12: Brand Empowerment & Personnel Structuring

Summary: If at first you don't succeed...

A/N: For Benophiefest 2025.

Turns out I'm not yet done writing this particular childlike nonsense.

Characters:

Miles Bridgerton, Charles Bridgerton, Gregory Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton, Sophie Beckett | Sophie Baek

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Family Fluff, Fluff and Humor, Crack, The babies are back and more chaotic than ever, Children being cute and being children, kids logic

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

The new live action Lilo & Stitch now ends with Nani giving up custody of Lilo in order to go to college to pursue her “dream” of becoming a marine biologist. They even got rid of Ohana, the movie’s literal heart. The government separating an indigenous child from her only living relative is a horrific history and trauma yet all the magazines and reviews are trying to frame this new ending as a good thing because Nani still “visits often” as if it’s not a very brutal story that has separated people from their family, language, home and culture.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

TONIGHT!

A new episode of Game Changer launches on @dropoutdottv at 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Starring host @samreich and guests:

Jeff Arcuri

Gianmarco Soresi

Josh Johnson

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Headcanon: Mon Mothma, during the first few months being on Yavin, has some trouble acclimatising which ultimately leads to a minor meltdown where she goes: "Maybe I should have bangs. Maybe I can cut my own bangs." and the result:

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Smoke and Annie were and look the same age. I know you lot aren't USED to seeing dark skinned Black women as love interests (especially plus sized ones) on screen but seriously, get a fucking grip. There was NOTHING to suggest she was any grown man's mama or sister. That is called bias.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

I'm actually very sane and composed and not at all fucked up over how Bix choosing to leave Cassian to give them each a better chance at succeeding/surviving is the opposite to Vel and Cinta's "We're worth more to Luthen separately than together"/"You're the only reason I'm here" bargaining for a scrap of space and time between missions to fight along side each other, and how both of these opposite choices will still ultimately kill at least one of them anyway.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

i don't want the ghorman project. i've thought it through all night, and i don't want it

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

You didn't seem to mind the promotions.

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

If Saw Gerrera was a sommelier