#(which at this point is just greg)

[babygirlificationn]

The Edgeworths :)

[bitchthefuck1]

Tom's line about Shiv being selfish and "find[ing] it very hard to think about me" is actually so telling because while it's absolutely true that she rarely takes his position into consideration, Tom never once thinks about what he can do to help Shiv unless it also benefits him.

Every single time he makes a move or sacrifice that might help her, it's always something that he thinks will give him a leg up. He volunteers to take the fall for cruises, not for Shiv, who is in no way implicated, or even for Waystar, but because he thinks it'll ingratiate him to Logan, and the second it seems like he might have to actually follow through on that, he immediately tries to get out of it and even throws Shiv under the bus. Meanwhile, for all that Shiv disregards his interests, there are a number of things she does that only help him, and she's the one who actually sacrifices something and undermines her position with Logan to beg him not to let Tom go to jail.

It just makes it so clear that no matter how much he might love her (and I think he does, in his own compromised way), for him their relationship was always built on the underlying assumption that it's her job to prop him up, but it's not his job to help her.

[gregoftom]

be serious omg

[ilkkawhat]

11.07 Bump and Grind

[nygleskas]

missed jermstone 2nd year anniversary (twas feb 21st) this is so so sad ....sorrey gideon i luv youuuuuu 💗💗💗💗 everyones obligated to look at him

[snoppy]

I'm sorry but I think its good that tom is saying stuff that makes you all uncomfortable. I think everyone is a little too willing to make him the hurt innocent underdog

[artekai]

Greg Serrano

[currentlyonstandbi]

[aceredshirt13]

something something teenaged weird girl archetype carrying a torch for the man who gave him a place and a person to call home and only years later when he’s older does that man see him in a new and unexpected light

[yousaytomato]

I'm finally watching taskmaster nz season 2 and David has already made me absolutely lose it like 3 times holy shit

[mildmayfoxe]

got forced to make a bl*esky acct (multiple people asked me if i had one) so i did except only the like.. most annoying posters i know are on there. there's a couple cool people too sure but they're not really posting and they're super drowned out by one of my old tw*tter mutuals who posts about a hundred things an hour i don't care about

[callixton]

i think one of the reasons i can enjoy alex and greg’s dynamic so comfortably/much is bc people teasing them abt it doesn’t feel homophobic

this sentence sound insane unless u were in my brain when hyperfixated on noughties era double acts but also the comedy scene did just used to be homophobic to anyone with close to a similar dynamic

[gregoftom]

succ twitter makes me want to eat paint i fucking hate it and i find it funny that tg are the only ones who are ever put on blast, like, ever. ever. and roman/gerri shippers do the exact same thing, they are also a bit miffed that their ship is sidelined bc yeah, it was an interesting dynamic! would be nice to see more of that and where it was going! they are also upset that some good scenes are deleted. but they are literally Never screen capped and put on twitter like haha look at this idiot, thinking their ship meant anything. thinking they have any right to be excited about something or disappointed by the lack of it. look at this insane fool who read something that wasn’t there.

and the text will be shrugging like, well i was.

[gregmarriage]

having greg be the one who sees shiv and nate together and feeling immensely obligated to tell tom she’s cheating on him is wild. because of course it’s greg, because it adds to the drama and the flavour of it all. and the fucking scene where they’re arguing about it in the snow and tom pushes him and hits him and tells him to shut up about it is pure cinema

[artbyblastweave]

I'm not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they're all hardlight-projections, and even before that's solidified as a plot point they're otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don't really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father's fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It's reflective of Greg's misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it's a benign but visible example of how Steven's life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He's got his mother's superpowers and he's wearing his father's shirts.

[aurpiment]

Dreamed that there was a mundane-setting TTRPG I’m going to call “Greg and Maureen” where the players are visiting a non-player character couple their characters are friends with. But the couple is going through a rough spot! The objective was to investigate their relationship and either to help their marriage or hasten their divorce. It’s always small town and you’re always staying at their house. Players could add a little flavor of how they knew Greg and Maureen and even choose some minor traits for them before the game.

I’d played the game with another group before, but I didn’t know there were multiple paths. There’s a note Greg writes confessing to something, but depending on the dice roll it’s a different note. The content of a major plot point depended on a 2d6 dice roll.

In the dream, I’d previously played a version where he confessed to cheating on Maureen with another woman, so I thought Maureen should see the note, but in the game we were playing, my friend Celia found the note, which actually said that Greg was dishonorably discharged from the army for a gay relationship (he’s bisexual) before he met Maureen, and that he had lied about having had an honorable discharge. So for a while I came off as an asshole because I kept saying that Maureen needed to know the contents of the note so that she could confront him about what he did to her, and my friend seemed to me to be unusually blasé about what I thought was an affair.

There were other possible notes. In other timelines he had never had an affair, never been in the army, never even loved her, etc. There was another possible note where you learned he’d lied to her that he was good at track in high school (imagine an impressive mile time, which my dream mind supplied as 6:40, though that won’t even get you into varsity level) when he was actually bad at track in high school (14 minute mile). This was a lie he’d told, like, once, and he and Maureen almost never talked about running or high school sports.

In every possible timeline, Greg was Utterly Wracked with guilt about his secret. Yes, even the high school track universe.

Also, if players had decided that Greg was white before the game, you could unlock a timeline where his secret was that his distant ancestors had been in league with THE Devil from Christianity between like 1830s and 1910s. (The devil was just their accountant. He was ashamed of them for non-devil reasons.) In this timeline, you could actually meet the devil.

You didn’t find a note in every timeline, so sometimes you had to work off other evidence. I had only ever played mainly investigating Greg, but you could also focus on investigating Maureen. I think the other players and I just suspected him of hiding something every time, due to our biases. Sorry Greg! Guess we weren’t real gregheads.