#A STANDING OVATION

[drboo-mcstuff]

Finally finished a marvelous performance!

[personinthepalace]

Standing Ovation for Allie Dart! - The Comedy About Spies 24/5/2025

from Chris Leask's instagram

[yuutaguro]

[papamin au 🐅] please clap for nanamis talented son 👏

[aenhanse]

Jack O'Connell as Remmick SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste]

♥️

because this has seemingly made like no noise on the timeline, lets give it up for the legendary robert townsend–

(📸 credit: @ciegeinc)

–and his guest star appearance, as well!! so cool seeing him. i fucking love this show.

[taeminie]

I care about you. You're my friend. If you don't like him, how could I like him? Gelboys (2025) dir. Boss Kuno

[villa-kulla]

the 'this is vincent benitez and if you don't clap for my most special boy i'm going to kill everyone in this room and then myself' pipeline (popeline?)

[deepsdive]

❝      i      don't      ...      really      have      a      concrete      answer      to      that.      ❞      admits      begrudgingly      amidst      a      frustrated      sigh.      abundantly      aware      of      the      fucking      cliché      he's      being      right      now      ―      really      living      up      to      stereotypes.      instead      of      delving      right      back      into      another      breathy,      long-winded,      response,      he      actually      takes      her      query      to      heart.      (      let's      it      settle      for      a      few      minutes.      )      what      did      he      want?      what      he      wanted      and      what      he      could      have      were      hardly      ever      the      same      things.      meant      what      he      had      said      about      not      wanting      to      hurt      her      more      than      he      already      had,      and      he      just      knows      that      spilling      his      emotions      out      to      her      would      only      end      badly.      he      could      feel      everything      for      her,      but      the      fact      of      the      matter      remained      ―      he      couldn't      be      with      her.      really,      truly,      be      with      her.      ❝      i      wanna      like      ...      just      see      you.      i      definitely      don't      want      you      to      go      see      other      people.      but,      you      see      ―      ❞      pauses      to      fully      face      her,      hues      scanning      over      cherubic      countenance.      ❝      i      know      how      that      makes      me      sound.      i      know      i      sound      like      a      selfish      piece      of      shit,      and      you      don't      have      to      agree      to      anything.      seriously.      like,      it'll      suck      if      you      don't,      'cause      i      do      like      you,      but      i      know      ...      my      lifestyle      is      just      not      for      everyone.      ❞

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤtries      her      best      to      listen      with      intent      and      ignore      the      hurt      that      fills      her      body      to      the      brim.      the      more      he      talks,      the      more      she      feels      like      she      had      read      the      entire      situation all      wrong.      it      was      her      that      cuddled      up      to      him      after,      but      he      hadn’t      moved      away      …      and      in      her      mind,      that      added      up      to      more      than      a      fling      (      wasn’t      he,      in      how      own      way,      agreeing      it      wasn’t      a      fling      ?      ).      ❝      sooo,      you      like      me,      but      you      don’t      want      to      be      with      me      ?      or      don’t      want      to      be      just      with      me      ?      ❞      words      come      out      in      a slow      draw,      as      if      she’s      stringing      the      words      together      in      her      mind      as      they      come      out      ;      trying      to      make      sure      she’s      understanding      and      not      putting      words      in      his      mouth.      ❝      what      does      that      even      mean      we      are      then      —      do      you      want      to      see      each      other      but      also      see      other      people      ?      or      only      see      other      people      ?      what      do      you      want,      lachlan.      ❞      if      he      didn’t      want      to      beat      around      the      bush      or      have      femme      lead      with      assumptions,      then      she      needed      an      outline      of      how      she      was      supposed      to      feel.      obviously,      leading      by      her      emotional      compass      had      led      isolde      astray.

[queerslurheritageposts]

can we get some big cheers for women faggots!

EVERYBODY GIVE IT UP FOR WOMEN FAGGOTS!!!!!!!!!!

[creatingblackcharacters]

The funny thing about it is, even if Yasuke were there and wasn't a samurai, he was gone be a Black samurai when we played this Assassin's motherfucking Creed game TODAY 😤. Imagine, out of all the things that coulda bothered you about the inaccuracies and leaps of logic of that series, and THIS is the thing that's gonna stop your enjoyment. Mm. We know what you are, and so do you.

Anyway, all rise for the scheduled applause of Yasuke the Black Samurai this fine morning 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[justskyla-art]

rhinestone eyes

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Onstage during the 'Ahsoka' panel on Day 2 of Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 | April 19, 2025

[nyarlathotep-thecrawlingchaos]

I did not think I could love Van Gogh any more and then I discovered this exists.

And he most likely painted it out of pure sarcasm and cynical assholery??

Are you KIDDING ME.

Like "your stupid classes literally bored me to death, allow me to provide an anatomically accurate depiction of exactly what they did to me" it's BEAUTIFUL.

[lust-lizard]

clap if you think they should suffer (color swap under cut)

[follows-the-bees]

Even when they are out of sync for the middle part of this conversation, they immediately come back to each other and they hear each other and don't push. Stede gives Ed agency and they go through so many stages in just a few minutes: playful talking, flirting and romance, serious talk about them as both individuals and a couple, and then tentative coming back together, and ending with their playfulness that is an underlying part of their relation/friendship.

This scene is beautiful and shows how much these two work as both friends and a couple, how they communicate and respect each other.

YWFTW#2 and the Positivity Sandwich (long post)

The scene begins with optimism. Ed is rightly showing off his fish framed inside a combat narrative reinforcing his developing confidence. Ed’s body language - ‘behold!’ - also signifies self-assurance. Meanwhile, Stede’s positive nonverbal conversation cues are exquisite - his eye contact, facial expressions, and little gasps of delight build Ed’s self esteem further, and reinforce his absolute delight in Ed’s tale. Stede shows further interest by a follow-up question, ‘What are your plans for it?’ before positively reinforcing the rather obvious answer with, ‘I like that, good plan’.

We get verbal mirroring from Ed next which reinforces the pair’s intimacy - ‘I like that shirt.’ Stede’s positive praise allows Ed a way in to flirt, turning Stede’s language back around as a compliment. And Stede plays along, with a verbal callback, ‘This new thing?’, because they are in tune with knowing which memory is playing in both their minds as they stand in the moonlight.

Ed continues to pull at that memory telling Stede, ‘You wear fine things well’, cementing the phrase in their couples lexicon. The repeating of it here, this time by Ed, and Stede’s clear understanding of the significance, reinforces where they both pinpoint the beginnings of the romantic stirrings of their relationship.

We then get the kiss that never happened the first time, and it’s beautiful. But we then get a tone shift as we realise they are not quite on the same page.

Stede deepens the kiss whilst Ed stiffens and pulls away. This is the beginning of a more cautious part of their conversation. After so much positive body language, and lexical mirroring and callback, their language become disjointed and unsettled.

There are a number of overlapping and unfinished sentences:

Ed: Can we take it ssssslow? Stede: Yeah. Sorry. I didn’t… I wasn’t thinking… Ed: No, it’s alright…. I just need to… um…[clears throat] Stede: No, I know.

Ed: [Big sigh]

Broken sentences and hedging don’t seem to be going anywhere as they both scramble for mental purchase. Ed also uses a number of nonverbal fillers to signify discomfort - throat clearing, sighing, long pauses. And ‘Can we take it slow?’ is so tentatively asked it signifies Ed’s continued struggle with agency.

The next part of the scene subverts much of the positive features of the first section. Ed again uses a phrase from their couples lexicon, as he did with YWFTW to initiate the kiss, but this time to slow Stede down. He tells him they’re both ‘whim-prone’ as Stede said, and this time Stede’s nonverbal conversational cues become negative. There is no eye contact, and his face falls at his words being used to block their relationship progress, and he remains completely silent as Ed says ‘sometimes it’s nice just to be patient and wait’.

In a further subversion, Ed latches on to the fish he’s holding, not now as a tale of triumph, but one of caution. We’ve seen time and again Ed thinks best in metaphor, and he has clearly learned something about himself on the boat today with Fang. But Ed still isn’t fully clear what his needs are. When Stede asks if Ed is ‘the fish’, Ed says ‘We’re the fish…’ suggesting he still has doubts over whether Stede wants to be caught. But then he descends into hedging again: ‘I guess. Maybe. I think…’. Ed still lacks confidence and clarity in expressing what is causing him to hesitate, he just knows what he feels.

And Stede is amazing because he doesn’t push any further. The veil of sorrow covering his face lifts into a ‘Huh.. okay…’ And this is where we get the positivity sandwich because Stede now takes the conversation and finds a way to lead it back again, layering the cautious part of their conversation between two positive interactions.

Stede takes Ed’s hand tentatively asking ‘Is this alright?’, but he allows Ed the agency of completing the handhold fully. Stede then waits to see what Ed will do next, and smiles with such affection as he admires Stede’s hand and place his own on top, adjusting the position with care. Now at what point this becomes a game is unclear, but I think Stede now putting his hand on top certainly indicates playfulness. Neither speaks, but Stede’s nonverbal cues are again exquisitely reassuring as Ed now cottons on to what is happening by raising a finger; Stede mirrors with a thumb, and Ed tilts his head and bests him.

It’s symbolic of the conversation at the start when they mirrored and synced up. The game shows Ed he’s been heard and Stede isn’t upset. It’s an example of how much they can be in tune with each other in the right circumstances (‘We can be a lighthouse’). And Stede’s pitch-perfect ‘You won’ with all its layers of meaning reinforces the positivity with which the interaction concludes after the wobbly middle, allowing them to walk away together happily in relaxed conversation.

[archduchses]

he has completely won me over this press tour 🤩