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To be fair to Phryne she's trying her hardest. He just keeps smirking at her then leaving. He's actually getting a kick out of being the only one who can say no to her.

That Jack Robinson is sex on two legs is a given at this point, but there's just something extra about him in S2E11 that's got me all warm and fuzzy inside. I spent the entire episode practically drooling over him, he is A LOT 😮‍💨😮‍💨. Let's not even talk about those smiles of his. Phyrne's made of sterner stuff coz, I'd have let him have me six ways to Sunday if I were her 🤭.

I can just imagine the writers cackling with laughter when they decided to write in a Phrack duet with Jack playing the piano. They knew it would be such a tease coz what do you mean they sing "we're merely mammals, let's misbehave" whilst sitting so close to each other, doing that eye banging thing they've got down to a science and nothing happens?! They should have been "misbehaving" & phracking all over the place. Heck, even Dot knew to tell Cece and Bert to keep it down coz "Miss Fisher had company, constabulary company" said with that knowing look in her eye, one that Cece and Bert shared as well. Everyone expects & even gives them room to phrack as much as they want, so it's not for lack of opportunity 🤦🏾‍♀️.

#hot stuff Jack Robinson

#S2E11

#we were robbed

#the bears and the camels do it, so phrack should too

#you just know they'd phrack & misbehave so well

#I bet there's a piano phracking fic out there somewhere

We're all alone

No chaperone

Can get our number

The world's in slumber

Let's misbehave

There's something wild

about you child

That's so contagious

Let's be outrageous

Let's misbehave

You know my heart is true

And you say you for me care

Somebody's sure to tell,

But what the hell do we care?

They say that bears have love affairs

And even camels

We're merely mammals

Let's misbehave 🎶

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I reference this meme so often and nobody ever gets the reference. It's so distressing

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Just discovered a business called the Bookshop and it is not a bookshop but a bar. Hell has an earthly location and it is Uplands in Swansea.

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Ngl the phrase 'happily married on Grindr' to my sinical arse translated as 'closeted Tory MP/Republican Senator letting you know he won't leave his wife'.

Satan's Bottom is so much more wholesome. He's quite cheered me up.

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I remember one of my very first A-level* Politics classes took place on September 11th 2001 and during the conversation about it we all agreed that what had happened was an unimaginable horror show, and what the US would do in retaliation would cause orders of magnitude more suffering, and probably destabilise the Middle East.

We did a lot of marching, including the largest global day of demonstrations there had ever been at that point. Got called terrorist sympathisers for arguing that our government's actions would increase the threat of terror at home/that suffering and death were still unacceptable when visited upon Muslims, and called conspiracy theorists for pointing out that some of those advocating for mass slaughter had very well documented ulterior motives.

Oh and 'gay' was the go-to word for 'crap' or 'loser' amongst most people in my age bracket.

Anyway I've been listening to this track a lot for some reason.

*A-levels are academic courses taken in the UK between ages 16-18 to prep for university, either at a High school or a separate collage.

It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 1.04 ▪️ Death at Victoria Dock

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People online can also get very intense about the One True And Correct Way to care for animals and insist that anyone who doesn't or can't follow that advice is abusing their pets.

I found this when trying to work out how to look after my gran's tortoise and found a lot of the online tortoise communities were very hostile to the idea that actually my gran's welfare and interests were my priority when interacting with her pet. So, no I wasn't willing or able to build a room sized terrarium in her 1-bed flat for a tortoise who had been free roaming there for 40-years (and is incidentally completely fine, she now free roams with me). Nor was I about to re-home my gran's pet whilst she was in hospital because she 'shouldn't be allowed a pet she can't look after'.

I suspect there's a fair few people who are doing their best in difficult circumstances with a pet but - as with kids - if you become ill, or lose your job, (or just get old), their needs can become overwhelming. As can the shame of feeling like you're falling short in your duty to care for them.

I feel like a lot of those "my dad and the cat he didn't want" posts and the "I got a pet and it improved my mental health" posts are both affected by the same bias, which is people don't tend to publicly post about regretting animals. It's a milder version of how people don't tend to announce they regret having children. Like I believe people are sharing their actual experiences when they discuss positive relationships to the animals in their life, but I also think there is a conspicuous silence of people who don't broadcast that they did a mediocre job of taking care of the dog they wish they hadn't got.

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Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

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screaming

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something fun about all those "could granny weatherwax defeat kira" "could the infinity train fix izzy hands" sort of tumblr polls is like. there's a smug answer that's just "it depends whose story they're in," like, bugs bunny always wins if the genre is a looney tunes short but if he's in some sort of grimdark action drama then he's just a rabbit and gets shot by a hunter. but the other way to look at those polls is that's the whole question: whose genre rules have priority? there are some characters whose genre rules take priority over whatever story they're in.

here's what i say, granny weatherwax would always defeat kira precisely because granny can't exist in the death note universe without her own genre rules taking over; there's no "if it's a light yagami story then light wins" here because if granny's there it isn't a light yagami story. bugs bunny always wins because whatever story he enters becomes a looney tunes short, he cannot by his nature exist in any other context. the answer to "which our flag means death character could survive black sails?" is stede bonnet and only stede bonnet, because if any other ofmd character enters black sails they become a black sails character and most black sails characters die. but stede is the one who carries the romcom aura and that's part of who he is, if stede enters the world of black sails then black sails is now a romcom, and he's absolutely fine

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THE GOOD PLACE (2016–2020) S02E10 | Rhonda, Diana, Jake, and Trent

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Oh no, you got isekaied into the last media you read/watch. You are now a background character dead center in the plot. Are you surviving.

Yes

No

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I watched the 6.45pm one as a teenager then streamed it as an adult and never noticed any changes. I always assumed it was like the Star Trek episodes in the same timeslot and ran shorter than the US version because it was on the BBC so there was no ad breaks.

I'm now trying to work out if my memories of it have been confused with my memories of rewatching it in my 20s because it's definitely something that could have happened.

This will bug me forever or until I can check to see if my uni library has a radio times archive that provides details of the two different showings.

Every family has a different way of calibrating their parenting and decisions around media. Our neighbors who are horror fans (and named their kids after protagonists) have a whole programme of horror media they’re working through academically with their 5 and 8 year old, while we wouldn’t do that. But our 5 and 8 year old have watched LotR with us. But some neighbours still have their 8-year-old on “children’s media only and no video games”. And plenty of people at school let their kids watch superhero franchise media (I find this shocking and vulgar, far more damaging than historical 90s sword-based television.) everyone probably judges each other slightly, and all of the kids seem to be growing up pretty much the same and basically fine - as loved kids pretty much always do.

However, Dr Glass asked if I had an opinion on Buffy. Growing up fairly TV-free myself, I never really watched it and don’t care especially about it. I know the characters and found some bits satisfactory (and was personally quite into Anthony Stewart Head, as part of my lifelong good taste) but wouldn’t change the channel to watch it. But Dr Glass, having chatted to the horror fan neighbours, asked if I thought we ought to be doing similarly with Buffy?

I said absolutely not. I said Jurassic Park would be fine, though.

He said but Jurassic Park is visceral and realistic, while Buffy was practically CBeebies.

I said Jurassic Park is necessary education and good for the soul, and I saw it when I was 8 and found it exciting, and it lit my imagination on fire. Whereas Buffy, while not being particularly high-quality, did give me actual nightmare fuel, in terms of being “disturbing” rather than just blood-splashy.

Dr Glass said what did I mean - it was on at 6 pm - it was a kids’ show.

I said it might’ve been, but that our kids seem to be mapping along the same lines as myself or worse - Bug, 5, upon watching the mumakil smash through the Rohirrim, squealed with delight and said they’d never loved anything more - and were fine with splashy historic violence, but “teachers are secretly monsters” content would mean children climbing into bed with parents at 3 am.

Long story shortened, it TURNS OUT Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a censored British version that played in the evening on UK television, for children and teens, and the American/uncut version aired as late-night adult material.

Which we discovered, when Dr Glass shrieked “what do you mean they ate the principal”

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If you have a little basket or box for 'things that should be in another room' you can take it with you when you go to that room and then when you go to the kitchen to make a snack you can take all the coffee mugs back. This technique has not made everything tidy but nothing in my room is growing green fuzz and that is an ADHD win.

trying to clean your room can be really daunting and stressful, but you don't have to clean the whole room all in one go.

If you pick up just one thing off the floor, wipe away a little bit of dust, take any dishes to the sink, or anything of the sort, then you have successfully cleaned a bit of your room! It doesn't have to be done all in one burst and every little dent you make will result in a slightly cleaner room