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i am 26 and afraid of dan and phil

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I would automatically go towards figure skating Lance bc of the aerial silk routine scene we saw and hockey player Keith bc he needs to smack sum but I really like ur idea of coach shiro and Olympic trainee Keith. I can kinda see Keith being all dainty and precise. Also knife shoes. Literally Keith in shoe form

why make a choice when we can have both!!! >:3 (It's late otherwise I would've done double figure skaters too)

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Free bumper sticker design for any Floridians who want it

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My mother congratulating me as if I was the one who proposed???

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Saw Taylor post that she was engaged and was so confused that I was like “has she been hacked? Is this AI?” bc I really never thought she’d ever say anything if they got engaged

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here u go you hungry wolves

(this was originally from 2021 but I fixed it up a bit 😭)

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It just felt like an angst kind of day :)

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tumblr is the only app left that doesn't feel like i have soul eating leeches attached to my eyes when i use it

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I’m finally finishing Downtown Abbey and when Mary tells Bertie about Marigold,,,my god Edith is a better person than I am because I would’ve jumped across the table and slapped that smug look off her face so hard she’d have tasted blood

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roommates au

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Them ending the video saying “maybe we’ll make a realistic day in the life in this house” when we all know that’s a huge lie,,,,why must they make us suffer so

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Ep 6 was pretty good

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Reply like it's 2016

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As a huge Bertha fan, my hot take for this season of Gilded Age was George is completely in character for his behavior towards Bertha. The people who are upset that his behavior is “atypical” because he’s always been such a “feminist supporter” are missing the entire point of this plot line.

George had a right FOR A VERY BREIF MOMENT to be upset with Bertha. I think his anger was correct because Bertha was wrong and she needed to hear that. But he also cares about his status in society and how people see him (even when he says he doesn’t. Pretending you don’t care about how people see you by throwing money at everything is still caring that people see you are richer than god). This is why he doesn’t interfere with it when he could despite his promise to Gladys. Once that passes, it becomes equally his fault.

Now! This is where my hot take becomes relevant! Because retroactively he is entirely blaming Bertha’s desire for status without recognizing he did the exact same thing. So he deflects. And as his business starts to fall around him, he blames others. He fires his main advisor and blames him for the failure that, again, is his own making. He cannot be told he is wrong, we see it in his business all the time so it is entirely in character for him to do what he did to Bertha.

“But swift-sparks that’s wrong! He was always on board with her being an iconic woman before!” Yes. When he had power elsewhere and didn’t have to face the negative consequences of his own actions. As he loses his power in business, he seeks power at home and the equal dynamic they always had before is suddenly no good for him. He sees his own failures in Bertha because they are so similar and he is mad at his own failures.

Bertha does try to fix it by going to visit Gladys and helping her but George refuses to see or speak with Gladys past that moment (that we see) because that would mean confronting that Bertha was able to fix something while he failed over and over again.

At the end of the day, he is still a man in the 1880s. He has done this to countless other people before in the show and now he is doing it to his wife. They were a team before when it suited him. When they had no power or standing (and he could focus on work while she helped push them up in society which also benefited him) he was fine with it. When they were beyond rich and their problems could be solved by him being rich, he was fine with it. That isn’t the case anymore and now he can’t stand it.

The people upset at this very in character character shift are missing that this is EXACTLY THE POINT. What woman hasn’t experienced meeting a man, romantic or not, who they think actually respects their autonomy and being let down when they all eventually uphold misogynistic standards? Bertha is going through that right now.

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tbh george is more angry at himself and taking out on bertha than anything at this point. he was the one with power to stop her and he didn’t and he feels frustrated because he may got it wrong and ruined gladys’s life (he didn’t) and bertha is - and always will be - his mirror and he doesn’t always like what he sees.