hi!!!!!!!!!! im sorry this might sound weird but there was this one (old) pic of mat on your pinterest profile picture before, i think it was a scene of a movie, i failed to find that photo anywhere, could you possibly share it?):
of course !!!! here you go :))) (btw im pretty sure it's from a movie called 'the bubonic play' !)
i’m sad -> i look at images of my ~40 year old man of choice -> i twirl my hair and kick my legs -> i think crazy thoughts -> i feel okay -> rinse repeat
alison brings up the concept of transness to the ghosts, expecting this to be a difficult and strained talk with the ghosts struggling to understand what she's talking about, only for thomas to interrupt with, "changing your gender? what, like it's hard?"
“(Gay ass gasp!) What have I done? Please send correspondence to Ms Minogue apologizing in the sincerest possible terms for stealing her beautiful words. The shame is almost too much to bear! What have I done!?”
thomas is such an interesting character because everything he does is so affected by his trauma. and even though there’s layers to that trauma, all of those layers stem from or ultimately come back to one event (his death). his trauma is complex, but at the same time it happened in a millisecond.
we don’t see other characters react the way he does to sudden loud noises (save for the captain at times, but that’s just him I think) or have the obviously deeply flawed thought processes he has. he’s stuck in a cycle of almost recreating the build-up to the traumatic event or searching for the same thing over and over again (women who look like Isabelle did, frankly). obsessing over things, but especially women, to the point where at times he is actively trying to convince himself he’s in love.
we see this very clearly in season 3 with his rapid switching of love interests between two women who happen to look alike, and he even twists Mary’s words so it affirms to him that what he is experiencing is infatuation and not a very, very long lived and deeply ingrained trauma response.
his lack of boundaries is not okay by any means, but ultimately I’ve met so many people with complex trauma (which I also have) who have shockingly similar thought patterns. his understanding of love is both immature/underdeveloped and tainted by the pain his mind associates with it by default.
final note for this rant: the fact thomas touches his wound when romance or death are brought up is such a clever detail regarding all of this.
rip thomas thorne. you would've loved listening to music with do not disturb on headphones connected volume all the way up staring at your ceiling from your bed in the complete dark
There was once a time, young Ghosts fans, where any one of us could say William or Teddy and know exactly who we meant. That is an experience you young ones may never fully understand
This episode of Off Menu is so chaotic 😭 First they were talking about drinking monks' diarrhoea and now they're imagining Mat being wanked off by the guy at a vegan fish and chips place