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Well, my dad and I are having a phone call with my brother in an hour and a half. My dad is freaking out in a way I’ve never seen. I am also freaking out but that’s just normal for me

So in the saga of my unnecessarily complicated family I now sort of know the identity of my half-brother who is like 20 years older than me and was given up for adoption

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So in the saga of my unnecessarily complicated family I now sort of know the identity of my half-brother who is like 20 years older than me and was given up for adoption

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I don’t need an hour, I got a Sophie.

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SAS: Rogue Heroes 1.05

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Let's do this. A woman attacked me in a "rom-com meets slasher flick" kind of way. She died. We don't have to yell, we just have to move on.

@jennygreenweek: Jenny and Niko

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How haints work. They switch places with the soul of a man. But vampires is different. Maybe the worst kind. The soul gets stuck in the body. Can't rejoin the ancestors. Cursed to live here with all this hate. Can't even feel the warmth of a sunrise. SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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@stanfordsweater and I took a Train Adventure today— we rode an old train originally built in 1908 out to Grosse Isle Heritage Village. Very cool way to spend the day, and a very cool person to spend it with ♥️

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Kvernufoss, Iceland

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Yao as Bo Chow in SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Never done thinking about The Rashomon Job. Because ok, I think that, on balance, we can assume Eliot and Sophie spent a not insignificant amount of time at that museum gala flirting aggressively with each other (Nate's careful excision of this from his reconstructed version notwithstanding).

We also know that Sophie clearly did not remember/recognise Eliot until he pantomimed his behaviour and accent that night. This tracks for Sophie; she's not a faces person. She notices actions, tones, accents, and above all she notices physical signifiers of social relationships (class, professional, personal etc.). She can be pretty confident, from her own grifting experience, that that's all most other people notice too.

Eliot, on the other hand, is absolutely a faces person. It's something of a recurring bit. There's at least one occasion where he IDs a guy he saw for three seconds. He's a hypervigilant observer with a detailed and well-trained memory ("it's a very distinctive..."). That's part of what gives him an edge (and also must make the occasions where he briefly becomes famous deeply stressful).

(The bit in the opening episode of Redemption S3, were they walk into a party and Sophie notices the decor and dress and Eliot notices all the armed and dangerous security is such a good example of their respective ways of seeing the world.)

Taking all this into consideration, I think we can fairly happily imagine the following: that Eliot Spencer walked into a theatre in LA with an alcohol-soaked insurance investigator, an annoying hacker, and a disconcertingly odd super-thief, and was absolutely baffled to find someone he recognised from that deeply frustrating attempt to steal the dagger of Aqu'abi doing the world's worst Lady Macbeth.

And then she clearly hasn't recognised him, and he's not going to bring it up, because it's just a one time job, and also there's her whole thing with Nate happening right in front of his salad. And then eventually it becomes "wait, this is gold", and he's just sitting on this reveal until that night in the bar.

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Women goofing off in England in 1891.

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SAS: Rogue Heroes 1.04

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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Oh, we heard tale of a party.

Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Leverage 4x8- "The Boiler Room Job"

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I would like, if I may... to take you... on a strange journey.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

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"Akilah is obviously experiencing something that’s not normal, so I think that scared Akilah in the beginning. She didn’t want that connection, whatever It was. I think that being in the caves, having the visions, it forced her to confront those feelings and what she was facing, and it became really real to her that it wasn’t some random occurrence but it actually could be this mystical, magical darkness that Lottie speaks of. Maybe there is some truth to it. It feels like It’s calling to her. I wanted to see her explore that, so as scary as it was for Akilah all season long, I was glad she kind of explored that, but it was a sense of 'duty,’ feeling like 'if the Wilderness was reaching out to me, if It has some message it wants to give us through me, then I guess it’s my job to take that on and be the person who can get these messages for all of us if it’s gonna help us survive, or if it’s gonna help us get home,’ and I think Akilah kind of took that on. Lottie put that on her, but I do think that she took it on willingly as something she thought was necessary, and her way to help and contribute to the group in some way.” — Nia Sondaya

YELLOWJACKETS SEASON 3 APPRECIATION WEEK day 3, favorite arc: Akilah & The Wilderness