#ASP hates me so bad

[matthewrhys]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 5 premiere + callbacks

[anxiouspotatorants]

Actually you know what I need to rant about this: while literati is technically a good girl x bad boy dynamic it is written so incredibly well and avoids so many pitfalls and stereotypes that it makes a good girl x bad boy hater like myself (I’m only half joking — I don’t think any trope is inherently good or bad but I tend to dislike most pairings with this dynamic) fall head over heels for their story and relationship.

So much of what makes the two of them work is the contrast between how others perceive them and how they truly are. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who understand who Rory is as a person (Lorelai, Lane, Paris, Richard and Emily to a certain degree for starters), but she's constantly met with the expectation that she just does good and is supposed to make everyone proud 24/7. Stars Hollow as a group especially are big on this, as seen f. ex. through how Taylor takes Rory's one comment about an inappropriate DVD and twists the whole thing into a censorship crusade and makes Rory its poster-child even though she wants nothing to do with it and tells him so repeatedly. But instead of hearing Rory disagree with him (like he would Lorelai and Luke) he assumes that she actually agrees with him - and why shouldn't she when she's the perfect sunshine paragon of good who would never disagree with her elders? Also her grandparents treat her as incredibly fragile and childlike, like she must be too innocent to ever do anything wrong and so whenever she does something it has to be somebody else's fault (usually Lorelai, but occasionally Jess or whoever else was present). Time and time again Rory is treated like something innocent and naive and weak — but not by Jess. He sees her as a person.

And it obviously goes the other way too. Jess is treated like shit by pretty much everyone else. Either people hate him unprovoked or very much provoked (he did do a lot of pranks in his first few weeks and while I'm a Dean-hater I'm not blind to how much Jess picked fights with him), or they’ve simply given up on him. He tells Rory himself that every authority figure he had back in New York gave up on him too, from teachers to principals to his very own mother. But Rory doesn’t treat him like a lost cause, she treats him like the smart, brilliant and asshole-ish teen that he is. By having faith in him she also often holds him more accountable than others. Where f. ex. Lorelai or the other adults just roll their eyes, Rory physically drags Jess into doing his shifts at the diner. While others write him off, Rory chews Jess’ ear out for not helping Luke more and for willfully making enemies out of the Stars Hollow adults.

They don't put each other on pedestals or below each other. Jess doesn’t try to make a sinner out of Rory and she doesn’t try to make a saint out of him. There’s genuine respect between them. They expect each other to have integrity and treat others with kindness and honesty, and the rest is good old chemistry and common interests.

I particularly love how in so many of their scenes (especially pre-relationship) when they spend time alone they just get to be these goofy nerdy kids. They argue about controversial authors and dig through records shops and eat hot dogs and make fun of each other and try to make each other laugh. It’s not just sexual chemistry as it too often is in a dynamic like this (and often uncomfortably sexual when writing teenagers - looking at you Gossip Girl), and not just well written intellectual chemistry — they have platonic chemistry too. A hell of a lot of it actually.

While I don’t think ASP wrote them through a purely deconstructionist lens on the good girl x bad boy dynamic (if she did plan on writing the dynamic at all), there is something to be said about how where many around them treat them like stereotypes they treat each other like people. To so many people, Rory is a perfect small town princess, a little miss sunshine with booksmarts for days but too delicate and sweet for anything with grit and weight. To a lot of the same people and many more Jess is a pathetic brutish and maniacal lost cause, hell personified in a chainsmoking leather-wearing teenager. But to each other they are actual human beings. Kind and mean and flirtatious and scared and reckless and smart. Rory really thinks that with the right motivation and mindset Jess can be the kind who does (and at the end wrote) incredible things. Jess really believes that with a little more practice and support to step out of her comfort zone she can be the amazing journalist she wishes to be.

They don’t have this stupid «we’re so bad for each other but we can’t stay away» thing that too many trope users rely on and don’t even justify in the plot. Everyone else might think they’re not fit for each other, but they knew they were each other’s person from the very first day.

[maddy-ferguson]

french twist is so so bad worst episode of the show by far

[rush-the-stars]

only

pairing: sukuna x half-curse f!reader (referred to as girl, daughter)

wc: a breezy 900 (unheard of for me)

cw: incest? it's not explicit but heavily implied. sukuna technically sired reader and she's a weird half-curse. but they're like non-human and kind of god-coded so. if that makes it better (it doesn't, you say? my bad then). use of "father" to refer to sukuna. toxic power dynamic.

a/n: um. look away. avert your eyes. etc. etc.

***

"do you think it's amusing to defy your nature? to defy me?" sukuna's voice echoes against cold stone, hanging in the air between you. sitting upon his throne, he is a god of death here, perched above the bones and rot of it all. the darkness whispers, slithering around you like phantom wings that brush your bare shoulders, your cheek. it could be the caress from a lover, the fading touch of a ghost.

"not amusing, no." you reply icily.

"do not take that tone with me, girl." he snarls, standing.

"not a girl," you reply bitterly, lifting your head, eyes glinting in the watery light. hardly human enough for that.

"don't test me." he snaps then. "and if you're going to stand at the foot of my shrine, address me properly."

"apologies, my lord."

in a blink, he is in front of you. thankfully, you are so accustomed to this, that you hardly flinch. except when he grabs your face in one, large hand. he squishes your cheeks. his claws arch around the bend of your ear, into your hair.

despite it all, you don't truly fear him.

his hold nearly shrouds your whole head and he pulls you up, closer to his dual-sided face. you lurch, scrambling to hold his massive wrist, to keep on the tips of your toes.

"that is not my title to you." his grin is feral, mean.

your eyes flash dangerously. your claws dig into his flesh—strangely you have always been able to mark him with little effort. ever since you were small, you were able to draw his blood.

"apologies, father." you spit.

(if you think about it, his own flesh rebelling, or perhaps—you, his only weakness.)

he lets you go and you drop like a stone, unceremoniously, and at his feet. you look up at him. the thin, slip of fabric you adorn swims around you in a glossy pool of ink. it falls from one of your shoulders.

"such disdain from my only daughter." he sighs, "such attitude."

his eyes—all of them—roam your form brazenly. the bare skin. the dips and curves of your body. you feel it the way a rabbit must know the feeling of teeth; sudden and frightening, and then altogether too late.

"such animalism from my only father." you hiss back like a little asp, "such—"

your voice catches.

he leers down at you, "such what?"

the word dies in your throat. you hate to name it, whatever he has for you, you hate to give it life. you hate that you can not, in such basic, human terms, encapsulate what he is to you. or you to him. you hate whatever this is. you hate what he is, or what you aren't. or could be.

you hate, hate, hate—festering with it, true to your name.

his very own little curse.

you hate most to let him win.

you turn your face away from him, chin up haughtily. "your lechery does not frighten me anymore."

"such a brave girl you've become." he laughs and suddenly all his arms are moving, reaching for you, and you've known them your whole life. he lifts you the same way he did when you were child. and now they linger, gripping the curve of your waist. the plump place of your thigh. "do you want me to praise you?"

"i thought i was here for punishment." you remind him, snippy and sharp, but careful to go lax in his grip.

when you fight and squirm, it excites him. so you play dead. you freeze like the rabbit, too.

he steadies you back on your feet. he stares at you for a long moment in a way that you cannot parse; all his eyes peering at you, prying at you, like they're trying to see under your clothes. under your skin. inside of you.

"for you, they might as well be the same thing."

he isn't even being cruel now, just honest. he's not leering at you. the frankness is worse, the honesty is damning. you lurch away from him, breaking the hold he has on you. your stomach turns. you bare your fangs at him, growling in warning, warbling like a curse.

he doesn't flinch.

"my praise of you feels like punishment to you, no?" he says lightly and you try to glare at him, but you fear horror is seeping through your expression.

he laughs again, rough. horribly fond.

"come," he says, turning away from you. he expects you to follow, "you reek of humans. you're done trying to live among them."

"you can't—"

"they'll never understand you. you will never belong to them." he says simply, and then he glowers, "and it's beneath you to try. come. i will not ask again."

he begins to walk. when you don't move, he looks over his broad shoulder, eyes darkening.

"they drove you out—they tried to exorcise you and i had to save you."

"it was only because of that six-eyes use—"

"i don't care. you should be ashamed and i should've finished the job for them since you are so weak—" he snarls.

(you—)

your head falls, chin dipping. perhaps in misery, maybe in surrender.

"now come, daughter of mine. you'll stay where you belong."

(—his only weakness.)

[unfathomable-mortal]

Tristan Dugray: The One That Got Away

First things first, Tristan was an ass. There's no sugar coating it, no defense against it.

The thing that intrigues me is that his character clearly had a purpose. He didn't just show up throughout the entire first season just for the sake of having rory be in a love triangle, partially he did. He was going somewhere. There was mentions of his family life, particularly his parents and his grandfather. Then there was his messy dating history and troublemaker persona.

That's more than dean was ever given and he stayed for 5 whole seasons.

ASP said in interviews that Tristan was supposed to be Rory's "christopher" and they were supposed to be an on and off thing throughout rory's school and later college life. Which makes sense because later when Logan comes around, he's basically tristan 2.0.

Now if it wasn't for CMM's abrupt exit from the show, rory and tristan would've started dating in either season 2 or 3. Another thing I heard is that jess was written in to be a filler character for him. If jess wasn't there, then we probably would've seen Tristan outbidding Dean at the bid-a-basket festival (he's rich. duh) and they had already kissed once in season one and their kiss at the end of season 2 would've been like a kind of resurgence. It also would've made sense for dean to be insecure over tristan given the history in the previous season. Also, paris and rory have a falling out over francie in season 3. I could see it happening because rory starts dating tristan.

It's pretty obvious rory was going to date a "bad boy" at one point. That's why Jess was introduced as a stark contrast to dean.

Now, even though he's a jerk, he's so much fun to watch on screen. CMM play's in a way that's so charismatic like one example I can give is Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. You hate these guys but you still wanna see them. A lot of the love that these characters get from fans not excluding myself stems from the fact that they're played by conventially attractive actors. I think it's important to point that out. jess and logan also falls into this but dean's character decline becomes so sour that nothing can save it.

It would've been so much fun to see this story but then again if that happened, paris and rory never wouldve became friends and we never wouldve gotten the jess storyline (with which we struck gold) So, I guess its better that tristan left.

I think of it as a very entertaining alternate reality.

[teddypickerry]

Hiiiii! What are your least favorite ships?

hi angel baby :) not sure if you mean of all time but gonna assume you mean gg since that’s literally what my account has become (slutting out for jess).

THE WORST OF THE WORST GG SHIPS.

+ 1. rogan. this is definitely a controversial take, which is what i’ve done for just about my whole life so i’m ready! logan and rory are probably the best and worst relationship in the show. it doesn’t make any fucking sense, i know. they seemed the healthiest at times but in general i’ve never been able to get behind them. even when wee 13 year old me watched it for the first time. logan brings out the worst in rory. he doesn’t challenge her, he makes her feel like she needs to settle, and encourages her departure from yale. he just never understood her in my eyes. he never got the driven girl or respected her. they were turning into what rory never wanted to be. and oh yeah, logan’s a dick.

+ 2. paris/francie. who the fuck wrote that fan fiction? this is why i fear AO3. okay but the tension was there, the competitiveness was there. i digress, PARISANDFRANCIE4LIFE.

+ 3. balcony buddies. JUST BECAUSE YOU PROCREATE WITH SOMEONE DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO BE WITH THEM. lorelai’s age regressed ass needed to stop going back to her first fuck. and that’s the truth. side note: christopher only playing daddy when he wanted to go back to lorelai??? how did they never comprehend that???

+ 4. rory/dean. do rory and dean not have a ship name? why could i not think of anything? anyways, the only reason i didn’t rant about my amish haircuted boy first is because as BAD as it was, it was kind of sweet in the beginning. as the number one dean hater, i hate saying this. dean was the WORST. and anyone who supports a man who cheats on his wife and gets mad at her, can unkindly leave my class. the door is open bitch! butttt before the donna reed, before the **madness**, they were kind of sweet. for like maybe two episodes. he was a cute first crush that brought out something other than academics for her. but if they wouldn’t have gotten back together the first time (or the second time) i might genuinely enjoy their innocent first relationship.

+ 5. max/lorelai. um. the man proposed mid argument a couple months into their relationship. not sure what else to say except he and lorelai just didn’t fit. you knew they weren’t going to last. there wasn’t one scene they had where i was sure of it my first time watching. maybe they could’ve much later on if lorelai had matured (which obviously she didn’t, thanks ASP).

~ honorable mentions! ~

+ jess & shane - i doubt she even knew his last name. there’s literally nothing to say except why?

+ paris & prof. fleming - yuck.

+ luke & nicole - WHY. THE. FUCK.

+ luke & rachel - the lack of chemistry is astounding. jess had more chemistry with that apple in his magic trick. rachel and lorelai however? ;)

+ dean & jess - STOP READING LARRY FANFICS AND GO TO BED!

[frazzledsoul]

So whenever people used to say Gilmore Girls was their "comfort show", I never quite got it.

There have been so many situations on the show that have seemed cribbed so heavily from my life that I had a lot of trouble enjoying see them play out on the show. They culminated in painful incidents that I didn't want to experience twice. I've also fought the narrative on many occasions, because what ASP wanted me to think wasn't what I believed. I didn't believe that characters I liked more had to be hurt so Lorelai and Rory could feel better about themselves. I found very little comfort in that, and I've rage quit the show a couple of times in response, only to come crawling back. I don't find a great deal of the show to be a panacea for what bothers me about the modern world.

However, I think there is a period when it doesn't feel so dark, and that's season 2. I feel Stars Hollow is more defined as an actual community by this point, and Jess shakes up the show in just the right way, and most of the drama he causes is petty AF and not something that's uncomfortable to watch. Jess and Rory are adorable, Luke and Lorelai are adorable, and Luke somehow gets even more sexily grumpy when he has actual family members to bounce off of. I don't love the way that drama culminates in Jess leaving town, but I feel no one's relationship is seriously damaged as a result of that drama (which it seems to be after S3).

But you know what I don't love? The goddamn Christopher drama. It's not as if it wasn't bad enough to have to hear Lorelai tell Rory that Christopher is going to come and go as he pleases and they just have to put up with it because they have no option with him other than to be doormats. But we see so much bad behavior in this dynamic that ASP praises during S2, from Lorelai throwing herself at Christopher the (1) time he does something remotely paternal, to her deciding that she's been waiting for him to change for twenty years the minute he finds someone else who asks him to (maybe if you hadn't been such a doormat in the first place, Lorelai, things could have worked out, but let's be honest: you didn't want him until someone else had him) to her calling Christopher for help because Luke rejects her raging at Jess as the final word in the situation to my absolute favorite part, the denouement, where Lorelai decides it's okay to fuck Christopher because he's fighting with Sherry and we have to watch her giggling over it with Sookie (WTF) and then parading Christopher all over town as her shiny new boyfriend and telling everyone she knows about her burgeoning relationship before Christopher has even broken up with his last girlfriend....and then ASP wants me to feel sorry for her when Christopher finds out Sherry is pregnant and decides he can't leave. Gross, gross, gross. Ick, ick, ick. And yeah, I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for Lorelai in that situation. She got what she deserved. And I hate that it's juxtaposed with Rory and Jess's first kiss, not only because that starts a pattern of behavior of Rory's infidelity, of her treating Jess shabbily because she can't let go of her other relationships, of Rory and Lorelai cheating at the same time. It shouldn't have been like that for them and it's disgusting that it was. I don't find comfort in any of that at all. I think that's why I can't really pinpoint any episode this season as my favorite, because the Christopher drama overshadows so much of it.

Before we got there, though? It was pretty cozy. Maybe the real reason I can't pinpoint a favorite is because so much of that coziness is a continuum, not confined to any one episode, and I enjoy the whole of it, before it all goes to hell.

[allycat75]

That ASP discussion, just like the site itself, was absolutely useless, Boston Dumb Fuck!

You know why? BECAUSE YOU ARE PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM!!!!

You just had to flash that awful piece of metal that binds you to the same evil that was being discussed. Know that all of the fears and violence that Secretary Cardona was expressing from Muslim and Jewish students around the country, it's on you, too. As he said, antisemtism is becoming normalized and your "marriage" is tacit approval of her beliefs and behavior. You have no right to sit and listen and look concerned when you know you have blood on your hands.

I happen to be one of those people who is afraid to show my faith, or mention I am Jewish. Just today, I drove past the location of a violent act that left a man dead, all because of his religion. I have seen too many Swastikas graffitied on walls near my market and coffee shop. This is my home town. My safe place, and I am not protected.

So live in that fairy tale world you have created for yourself- pick your apples, carve your damn pumpkins and crunch your fucking leaves, but don't forget to collect your partipation trophy for being a good rich white boy. While the rest of us shrink in our beds, afraid to roam the streets we call "home".

Have you no compassion to at least stay out of the discussion knowing what you have done? Was it necessary to pour salt and lemon juice over the multiple cuts you have given over the past year or so?

Everytime you shoved that hideous ring in the camera, you may as well have been saying, "You know who knows a lot about this subject? My little wifey. She sure hates the Jews, probably Muslims, too. She is an equal opportunity deplorable. Golly gee, such a peach!".

You looked like shit, by the way. Not sure if you wanted to look serious and concerned, or if that is just a sign your soul continues atrophy. Tell me, does it hurt as your soul is leaking away? Is it a sharp, stabbing pain? Or is it more of a dull ache? Or does it not hurt at all, more like a tickle? Oh well, no matter. After one or two more stunts like this and it will be gone and you won't feel anything at all.

We know there is something we are missing. We know you were forced to do this. We know you don't even like her. But I am beginning to not give a shit when you pull insensitive stunts like this. It makes me sad we will probably never know why you decided to self destruct this way. But what makes me the most sad, is that, one day, you will tell us everything, lay bare every gory detail, plead for forgiveness and for your soul to return, with heavy tears in your eyes, and I won't believe a word of it. You may be a bad liar, but you are a liar just the same.

Do you have the stamina to climb the cliffs of insanity it would take to earn that trust back? Not based on how you looked today, and not based on how much weed you seem to be smoking.

Please, for your sake and ours, stay away for awhile. If this is the "you" you have decided to be, no one wants to see or hear it. You are becoming as cruel, arrogant and lifeless as that little wifey so maybe you should just let the rest of that soul slip away and give in. I don't know who else would have you at this point. Like the Secretary said, you need to be unapologetically yourself. And right now you are an asshole!

When Miguel thanked you and your clout chasing partner at the end for all you are doing, did you feel a pang of guilt? I almost sensed you were about to cry because you know what a phony you are. I really hope you were because that means you are still with us. But it may have just been my misplaced wish you still cared for humanity.

[wonderlandleighleigh]

96 Thoughts while rewatching the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Pilot.

1. Midge graduated college early, got married and had her first kid in like a year and a half holy shit girl.

2. That fat joke not great. But ASP is ASP.

3. monogrammed butter pads. Like Disney World!

4. lol the bleaching.

5. Why did the man have to be Joel?

6. Midge why was Joel a gift from god? He was not. He was not a gift from god, the best thing he did for you was help you recognize Lenny when you eventually got thrown in the same cop cruiser.

7. The airplane gluuuueeeeee lol

8. The suit they put Luke in is too big on purpose, to try and make him look older and less attractive and it uh...doesn’t work.

9. Against a tree. Ugh. Not comfortable.

10. “we’re very happy” I love Abe so much.

11. So many angry Jews about shrimp.

12. YOU SHOW ME WHERE IN THE BIBLE WHERE GOD SAYS YOU CAN’T EAT SHRIMP.

13. I wish I lived where there was a dedicated butcher.

14. Poor Midge has no idea that she and Joel are skint because he hasn’t told her shit. God dammit.

15. Spending hours on that brisket. Hours to get it perfect.

16. He hates you, Joel, because you’re a terrible comedian and you don’t deserve a better time.

17. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.” You’re gonna find out, asshole.

18. Penny Pann cannot use an electric pencil sharpener. She is so fucking dumb. How did she figure out sex if she couldn’t figure out- you know never mind.

19. The music slaps.

20. Remember that no matter how in love Joel is acting in this moment, he’s been fucking Penny for months.

21. MONTHS.

22. He winds up so angry about Midge handling everything for him, but he let her. He enjoyed it. He barely had to lift a finger.

23. Oh Susie.

24. Oh Midge.

25. I owe my soul to the company stooooooore

26. “I should be kissing the brisket!” Fuck you.

27. Jackieeeeeeeeeeeee

28. Blugh.

29. Blugh Joel.

30. Susie knows what’s up.

31. “I was great.” Holy fuck.

32. One standing ovation everyone goes home pregnant. lol

33. We’ve never met Aunt Bertha. I want to. I deserve Aunt Bertha.

34. Fuck, Midge’s routine is so brutal. Paranoidly staying awake until Joel drops off, and then doing her entire routine and sneaking back into bed. Getting up before the sun is up to redo her whole look and then pretending to be asleep. Jesus, not thank you.

35. COMPLETE WITH FAKE EYELASHES UGH.

36. She really thought this was supposed to be her life forever. That this was it.

37. Morning Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. E-

38. Rose and the forehead. Ugh. Just the - the physical expectations...so much yikes.

39. lol schnorror

40. Oh Imogene.

41. Again. The every day physical demands are insane. And Midge puts this on herself for the most part, but I do get the feeling that Joel...didn’t help.

42. “I made curry but I also ordered Chinese.” BITCH NO! NO! YOU MAKE DINNER HE EATS WHAT YOU COOKED WHETHER HE LIKES IT OR NOT AND IF IT IS TRULY UNPALATABLE YOU ORDER OUT TOGETHER. God damn, the shit this woman would go through just to make this horrible man happy. Fuck’s sake.

43. Poor Midge, realizing that Joel is stealing material. Thinking at first that someone stole his stuff.

44. THERE IS AN ENTIRE ENORMOUS BOWL OF LEMONS ON THE TABLE! Are they wax? Jesus that’s so many.

45. “It’s fine, everybody does it.” Feh.

46. “When I found out June Friedman stole my meatloaf recipe I almost stabbed her in the eye with a fork.” Big Lorelai vibes.

47. “You’ll learn.” Fuck you, Joel.

48. Midge made another brisket when Baz asked for latkes....

49. Midge is never on time. Just FYI.

50. Joel not getting his way gets shitty. We start to see how terrible he is here. The cracks of her being berated for things she can’t control. Like ted the moth.

51. He’s not a comedian, Midge.

52. LOL Susie. “THE CLEARYS ARE HERE?!”

53. The jerkoff motion lol. Love it.

54. Who here likes Hillbilly polka?! Me! I do!

55. SPOKANE!

56. Watching Joel bomb is rough. I absolutely hate this scene. If there’s one thing this show does well, it’s showing people bomb. And how bad it can be. It really is like chewing tin foil. Like nails on a chalkboard.

57. No one cares about your holey sweater, asshole. You cannot tell a joke.

58. It is so hard to watch. It is so hard to watch. Holy shit. Holy shit just stop stop Joel stop no no no no no no no no no.

59. And of course he blames Midge for his bad performance. Everything is her fault. He cannot take responsibility for his lack of talent. It has to be her fault.

60. And she’s trying to be supportive. She’s trying to be kind about this. And he’s just...awful.

61. Like i get that this was a bad night for him, but his lack of ability to deal with his life is atrocious.

62. And he’s leaving her because suddenly this isn’t what he wants, even though he’s been relying on her for their whole marriage. He loves it when things go right. He cannot deal when things don’t go his way.

63. “Nobody’s happy, it’s Yom Kippur.”

64. “he was in Buchenwald, throw him a bone!” lol I love this line. It’s a particular bit of very Jewish gallows humor that’s hard to come by in pop culture, and it’s what sold me on the show when I watched it for the first time.

65. She had no idea this was actually his dream. He never told her. They never talked about his dreams, or her wants. They don’t talk to each other.

66. BECAUSE YOU KILLED IT. It’s true.

67. “Do you know what a dream is?” What a terrible - god dammit.

68. YOU NEVER TALK TO HER ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS YOU PIECE OF SHIT! YOU NEVER TALK AND SO SHE HAS NO IDEA! You fucking asshole. God damn. 

69. You cannot expect your partner to know everything without telling them. That’s just moving the goal posts around day after day. Jesus.

70. “I will be better. I will do better.” Poor Midge. god dammit.

71. He is so awful. I cannot believe I sit through scenes of this terrible man. He is the fucking worst. And he has been from fucking jump, and he’s only gotten marginally better.

72. “SO YOU”LL TELL YOUR PARENTS FOR ME?!” WHAT THE FUCK!

73. Joel Maisel is the WoooOOOOooOOOOOOooorst!

74. “I’m sorry.” You’re not sorry at all.

75. Though I think that was the only time he ever really said it.

76. I love how much Abe loves television.

77. “What did you do?” Ugh. Ugh.

78. “That was about deli, too.” lol

79. omg Rose. Her character development is amazing.

80. “You cannot survive this.” Yeah she can.

81. Girl I’d get drunk too.

82. favorite gif:

83. It’s a Pyrex. My Pyrex.

84. Joel did not want to be challenged. He wanted to be coddled.

85. Midge her shirt was on inside out because she put it back on after fucking your husband girl.

86. THEM TITTIES

87. LENNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

88. For how much of an unforgiving hardass Susie can be, she also is very sympathetic to Midge when she’s falling apart

89. One standing ovation, everyone goes home pregnant.

90. lol eating chips on Yom Kippur mood.

91. 10 in the morning?!

92. You’re not my wife.

93. Their chemistry from jump was just amazing. He was only supposed to be a bit part and...yeah. They just...the way they look at each other, even from the beginning.

94. And she just waits patiently for him to finish his schtick. She knows he’s just gotta work through his little song and dance to get to her answer. They have a rhythm from the beginning.

95. THE FUCK BOY SHRUG.

96. Yeah. He loves it.

[idkiwasntsupposedtobebackhere]

super popular gilmore girls takes i disagree with:

”younger jess didn’t deserve younger rory, older rory didn’t deserve older jess”

they both went through rough patches that caused them to hurt people and not be the best versions of themselves but they still were the same people all their lives, there’s no ”chilton rory” and ”yale rory” here. and THE WHOLE APPEAL of rory and jess is that they don’t judge eachother and don’t see eachother the way the rest of the world does. now speaking off…

”chilton rory>yale rory”

rory gets too much shit. can we stop idealizing her child self and start realizing that being a young adult is hard. also words like ungrateful, spoiled and priviliged are thrown around and eh… rory actually seems appreciative of her very humble past and has many lovely qualities like not caring about other people’s opinions and making her own judgement. and you do know that ”she threw away everything her mom gave her” is the argument emily apologists use right? rory remains who she is even after she is thrown into a world of privilige overnight, which is admirable. ofc she has her moments but in general.

”lorelai hated jess because she saw herself in him”

my girl lorelai isn’t self relective enough for this, she hates jess bc he’s a threat to the perfect life she wants for her perfect daughter (a life she didn’t get). she thinks rory is just like her and will go wild if she doesn’t shield her from it. she doesn’t get that rory will have her own experiences that she’s not familiar with and won’t understand. but she will. not everything in rory’s life will have something to do with lorelai’s. which leads me to…

”rory’s love interest xyz represents lorelai’s love interest xyz”

rory and lorelai’s love lives don’t mirror eachother, asp, because they are very different people who want very different things in partners and in life. someone being the best guy for lorelai doesn’t equal a younger version of that guy would be the perfect guy for rory. forced parallels are forced. because of her cold and wealthy childhood, lorelai wants a simple, humble life with a stable and loving guy. rory is drawn to intellectualism and travel, the unknown. different to what both lorelai wants and what the grandparents want (marriage between two freshly ivy league graduated people). i think you know what i’m sayinggg

”rory should have said yes to logan, she loved him”

if logan didn’t understand that this wasn’t something rory wanted, they didn’t have a stable enough foundation to build a life on anyways. yes, she loved him but she didn’t want to get married at 22. i don’t know why people wanted this for rory when it’s just as bad of an idea as dean or lane getting married young.

”jess was disrespectful to lorelai so she had the right to hate him”

ok he was but lorelai feeling entitled to talk to jess about how lucky he was to have been dumped with his uncle a couple of hours ago was just bad. that was not her place, and she shouldn’t have been surprised that he didn’t respond well. and it’s the way she goes about her disliking of him. i just can’t understand people who think an adult yelling at and openly snarking at a teen is anything but immature. i just watched the episode with dean’s ugly bracelet and her calling jess a ”little jerk” to his face is just crazy

”team lorelai/team rory”

i feel like people think that i don’t like lorelai because i’m on jess’ side when they fight but he’s just the exception. i think lorelai can be emotionally intelligent and i’m on her side with her parents, luke, her other bfs, sookie & michel etc. generally i enjoy her more than rory. but unlike a lot of the people who like lorelai, i don’t think she’s always right when she’s fighting with rory. it’s pretty 50/50. i don’t really have an opinion there. i don’t see them as being against each other. and during The Big Fight, i think everyone involved acted horribly. except for jess❤️ ok that’s it.

[penniedreadfuls]

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5 OF THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL

Spoilers after the read more. Some non spoilery context.

I read the tmmm reddit and there is someone who works on the show, a sound guy, who has just confirmed that a popular theory is wrong.

It's not about Lenny, but it certainly adds to my disappointment in this season.

The flashforwards are all real. No dreams, no fake outs, they are real.

My source. And from what I've seen before he is legit.

Honestly ugh. I knew season 5 was probably gonna be bad. After the poor handling of Shy Baldwin, the writing was on the wall.

I've loved reading all the fan fic, talking to you all, and writing All Things are Temporary. (The fic is getting finished no matter what, don't worry) but I can't help but feel that watching TMMM has been such a waste of my time.

MidgeLenny aside (although why not give more screen time to one of the best things about the show), there is just so much POTENTIAL being wasted. We spent more time with Alfie getting to the airport than Lenny. I HATE what they did with Mei. Sure, the Watsonian interpretation of yes, she's following her dreams BUT the Doylist interpretation is what was the point of her character if this was what they were going to do. What was the point of setting up the drama of her fitting in with the Maisels in 4x8 if IT WAS NEVER GONNA MATTER.

Okay, end rant. I'll probably read the recaps and look at the gifs for future episodes.

I'm still gonna say, I LOVE being in the FANDOM for tmmm. Participating in it has brought me more joy than the show.

If that isn't a condemnation of ASP's writing, I don't know what is.

YOU folks are the BEST.

<3 Rachel

[fe-fictions]

Can I please request Female Alear comforting Gregory and Alcryst separately after they had a nightmare. They are my top two favorites.

(Yes of course!! What a cute prompt idea!!!)

Alcryst: It’s obvious that he’s deeply shaken by the nightmare that had jolted him awake. But he did not want to alarm you, and he didn’t want you to think less of him despite also waking you up with his thrashing.

“I-i-it’s nothing. I’m sorry I w-woke you.” He stuttered through an apology, his face pale and his fingers quivering. 

You’re quick to his side, rubbing circles on his back even though he can’t bring himself to look up at you.

“It’s not nothing if you’re upset. You don’t have to apologize…you know that.” You reminded him gently, giving him a soft smile when he managed to glance your direction for a half second. “Do you want to talk about it?”

Alcryst sighs deeply, clearly not sure if he was willing or able to talk about anything at all. You drew closer to him, pulling him in so that his head rested on your chest, and you wrapped your arms tightly around the Brodian prince.

“It wasn’t…a-anything I haven’t said before.”

“Another nightmare about the war?” 

He did not reply, but the quiet nod was the only answer you needed. You sank into the mattress with him, pullin ghim into you as tightly as you could. Alcryst, at first, only remained in your arms, taking in the feeling of your comfort.

But then a shaky sigh escaped his lips, and his arms wrapped around you in return, tighter than ever. He clung to you, burying his face in your chest and accepting the litany of kisses and cuddles you would never dare keep from him.

“Do you want to go for a walk? Play some chess, maybe?” You asked him quietly, “I know that it’s easier to recover when you can focus on something else.”

He shook his head. “...No. This is good.”

You stroked his hair. 

“Thank you, Alear…”

“Anything for you, my love.” You giggled softly, “If I could take away those awful dreams, I absolutely would.”

“No, no…this is perfect. I promise.”

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Gregory: The first thing that happens is a sharp gasp.

He rocks the whole bed with the sudden jolt, covered in cold sweat and all but shaking. His gaze is not focused ona nything but the darkness in front of him, and the feel of his heart thundering in his chest as he struggles for air.

Naturally you wake up within moments, and it does not take long for you to piece together what happened.

The trauma he suffered his whole life was bad enough- but the struggles he endured throughout the war…the decisions he had to make, and the lives he would take…

It was not something that he would wish upon even the worst of his enemies. Being incapable of escaping his memories, even in the depths of sleep, was something that tormented him terribly.

And it was a fact you knew quite well.

“Hold on, darling.” You whisper in the dark. He cannot see you clearly, but he feels your warm hand press to his back before you slip away. The bed shifts as you get up, and he is left alone.

But only for a moment.

Within a single breath you have returned, with an armful of the softest plush animals. You pressed one of them into his arms. You would step away two more times, with each return harolin another delivery of plushes.

“I’m being careufl,” You said softly, “I don’t want them to be damaged.”

“It’s fine.” He hates the crack in his voice, but he knows that you don’t care. 

You slide back onto the bed beside him. He rests his head on your shoulder, still in the silence of the dark.

“Want me to light a candle?”

He nods.

There is another shift, some shuffling, a murmured fire spell, and then…there’s light.

Your gaze is warm, but your smile is pinched- giving away your worry. His head touches your shoulder again, and one of his arms slips around your waist, to draw you as physically close asp ossible.

You kiss his temple, covering his hand with your own.

“I’m here, Gregory. I’m not going anywhere.”

“I know.”

He’s gruff, and husky, but he’s wide awake. And thankfully, mercifully, so are you.

“Wanna talk about it?”

You feel him shake his head again. “Not yet.”

“Okay.” 

He feels you thread your fingers with his, interlocking them carefully. He squeezes your hand, drawing it to his lips for a chaste kiss.

He can feel your heartbeat speed up.

“Hey, now- I’m supposed to be comforting you. Now’s not the time for wooing.”

It does earn you a smile, and a clipped, solitary chuckle. But it’s a sign that he’s not completely spiraled; tonight was just a little gentler on him than usual.

"I can’t help it. I want to make sure you know how I feel.” He mumbled, “Thank you for looking after me, again.”

“I know you’d do the same for me. It’s not even a question.” You assured him, hugging him softly. “Should we try to go back to sleep?”

“Not yet.” He fiddles with the plush in his other hand. “Let’s stay like this a while longer.”

“Certainly. Just let me know if you need more stuffed animals- I’ll cover you head to toe.”

A promise you would be more than willing to deliver on after Gregory called your bluff. He knew he had a lot of stuffed toys, but surely not enough to be buried in.

You were quick to prove him wrong, which also helped to free him from the night terror’s clutches. After all, how could anyone stay upset when they were snuggled beneath a mountain of soft toys?

And, of course, covered in their beloved’s kisses?

[karinyosa]

Hello fellow asp enthusiast lol not to ask you like…. Half of your ask meme but 4, 5, 6, 13, and 14??? I would love to hear asp thoughts

no no believe me this is the ideal situation since i have a limited number of asp mutuals so THANK you for all the questions i am rubbing my hands together gleefully

4. favorite part?

i’m bad at favorites but one part that always gets me is the section where gene talks about “his” moment in history, which in his words is supposed to be the moment where if asked generally about the world or “the world today”, a person will think of this moment/era. and his is of course devon during the war, aka his school days. i just found that very poignant, and i think it’s so in line with everything we know about gene, how he continues to live in this very specific traumatic time bubble and how it has never really died for him, it’s just as present as it always was, he remembers it just as clearly as he always has and (as the explanation implies) always will. it haunts him, it is alive for him still, he carries it around inside, etc etc. it hits me in the heart a bit

5. favorite quote?

“[E]verything at Devon, the playing fields, the gym, the water hole, and all the other buildings and all the people there were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”

goodness does this one hurt/hit! again i’m bad at favorites, but after i read this in middle school i was like i think i know exactly what he’s talking about in fact i think he’s hit the nail on the head. i was obsessed with that quote for quite a while and made this art piece that was a watercolor painting of devon at sunset and then i had a cut-out sketch of gene i’d done on looseleaf that i pasted in the middle. and yeah that’s exactly how i feel about it

6. brinker opinions? love or hate him?

LOVE! i cannot lie i love that boy and i also think he sucks 🫶🫶🫶 he has that lovable smarmy rudeness, which i can’t find flatly hateable. and i mean, he’s a funny guy, like he writes those poems and i think they’re very much written to be at least kind of funny. i’m not an apologist in the sense that i don’t think he did nothing wrong, but i find him a fun and interesting character with fun and interesting flaws. he also has a level of conviction about everything that he believes that is kind of endearing to me, especially when he does that 180 at the end of the book about his war opinions. he’s all, i LOVE the war everyone should come do the war with me, and then by the end he’s like i fucking hate the war. lol or at least he thought it was stupid and was sort of disillusioned about it. which was especially interesting in the context of that allusion to his Complicated relationship with his father, plus the fact that gene was AWARE of how complicated it was. i love the camaraderie implied by those two’s wariness of each other’s parents lol. and i love to think about their relationship after devon. i like to think brinker continues his 180 away from his father’s politics and expectations and becomes the loud bisexual that the spirit of gore vidal inside him is willing him to be, and i think down the line he’d be a lot more open and liberated about his sexuality than gene. but i mean, gene’s a low bar to beat in that department. i am a capricorn brinker truther

also, i'm a firm believer in the idea that all of the main four are queercoded in various ways, and i find him interesting to place in the tapestry of queerness/map of gay drama that asp paints. i'm majorly mixing metaphors but whatever. brinker is obsessed with monopolizing the attention and time of gene, while also feeling the need to present himself as morally superior to the object of his affection, to the point where he takes on literally the role of a judge. like there is something deeply wrong with him but not just in the silly asshole way and i think we haven't talked about that enough. i imagine his relationship with popularity and having kind of a curated public face/persona is more similar to gene's than it seems, and i think they understand each other in ways that neither of them were necessarily able to do with finny, which is why their friendship remains strong even at the end the book. plus i've always thought they knew each other before the events of the book took place. there's a lot of shared history there and i think that would cause them to continue to share their lives even after enlisting. this went on a tangent i didn't intend, but i have a very detailed idea of their lives after the war lesjdkksdlj

13. appearance/voice headcanons?

finny:

has heterochromia, parts of his eyes are different colors

very melodic voice, a bit higher than average (the melodic part might actually be canon)

dimples

tan for a white guy, freckles

bad at volume control, always ends up talking Loudly. if you take him to a diner, the next table over will hear his entire half of the conversation, terrible in libraries, etc

never wears his uniform fully properly. it's always folded up or modified in some way or he's just not wearing part of it

i think he has curly hair, but the color changes in my head all the time

gene:

brunette bowl cut bitch. the early 2000s movie was so right about the bowl cut. hair is wavy

pale, sunburns easily

i always draw him with these big downturned glassy eyes, always looks a little teary

ill-fitting clothes (hand-me-downs from his brother)

BAD posture that makes him palpably little next to other people

i think he has a weird like tired quality to his voice that i think dane dehaan also has. not raspiness but that kind of low, slow, round, weirdly nasally sound. is that a tired quality? idk but he and dane dehaan both have it

this is not a headcanon this is completely canon but his ass does not have a southern accent or at least not a very strong one. he was playing it up to get attention

brinker:

in ms/hs i headcanoned that he had some form of a buzz cut or crew cut at devon because he was such an enlistment enthusiast

gene described him as athletic looking which in middle school i could only conceptualize as buff. so now i just imagine him stocky, wide, and chubby, with a brief period of weight loss during/after the war

lipless. notably so

i think he cares the most about fashion out of the main four in that elitist rich people private school way, so he’d have all the right pieces and brands, everything would fit properly

enunciates very sharply. has like, a teacher voice lmao

blond but like of course he is

leper:

light brown hair, kinda dorky middle part

very quiet, breathy voice. people ask him to speak up often

overgrown hair. grandma always says he needs a haircut

i am a tall leper truther. i think he’s a beanpole and i think he’s the tallest one. i had a friend who thought the opposite

layered the fuck up in terms of clothing

the book mentions him wearing “spectacles” when he goes off to find the beaver, which were probably just snow goggles or something, but i like to think he wears glasses

leftie with an always-stained hand (paint, pencil lead, etc) and badly bitten nails

lots of knitwear from gramma

14. what would you change about the book apart from [REDACTED]?

you know i’ve admired and liked a separate peace for so long and spent so much time dissecting its various intricacies that i just haven’t been in the mindset of looking for/noticing things i want to change about it very much. if anything, i think leper’s ptsd or “madness” or whatever it was was handled poorly and with an obvious lack of understanding of what that was and how it worked, although to be fair the mental illness knowledge at the time was probably lacking in general. leper’s actions and choices at the end of the book are explained away by generic tv movie craziness when i think it could’ve been a lot more interesting to explore the implications of leper having more obvious agency in those choices, leper actively choosing to be vengeful towards gene (he definitely had reason to be!) and battling with that internally during the trial. his explosions of emotion would’ve been more impactful to me if that had been the case

i would’ve of course loved for the book to be canonically queer, just so we could get a more explicit exploration of each character’s relationship to their queerness and how it colors the book’s pet topics of repression, rivalry, devotion, and coming of age, but i don’t even think it’s necessary because you can truly just read the book as if it were queer and nothing need change. like it all works, no leaps in thought or reading-into required. i mean it certainly helps to do those things, and i think reading into things is often part of a good reading experience, but it is literally about gene’s repressed desire for finny and the unintended consequences of that repression, among other things, but very explicitly that. plus there's the ass paragraph and the characters’ relationships with family, etc etc. like gene LITERALLY stops himself from telling finny how much he means to him at the beach and that could just as much be about gay love as straight boybestfriendship, in fact i think the case is stronger textually for it being queer than not. no straight person can read asp and not have at least one moment of, hmm this seems gay, but you can absolutely just read it as gay without issue. as much as i would love to see the "canon" version of their queerness, i am also very comfortable with the amount of freedom we have to take it in many different directions ourselves, and i think there's something very poignant and true about asp's queerness being heavily implied but never outright confessed

[rambheem-is-real]

Pareshanura Part 3

Part 1, 2

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“Ok, darling, I’ve got it.” Daya speaks into his cell phone as Dhruva walks into the station. Daya glances at Dhruva, then ends the call with, “I’ve got to go, see you later.”

Dhruva frowns at Daya. “Who was that?”

“A friend of mine. She runs an animal shelter, and she called me to prosecute a man who abused his pet bird. I assured her I would put him in jail for it.” Daya shrugs. “I don’t care about the bird, but you gotta do something if a pretty woman asks you to, y’know?” He smirks at Dhruva, whose frown deepens. 

It was totally a work related call. And Daya flirted with him all of the time. There was no need to get upset over a ‘darling’, or a ‘pretty woman’, Daya probably referred to everyone like that. Dhruva chooses to walk over to his desk and start sorting out the day’s files instead of responding. 

He didn’t care. 

He really didn’t. 

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The next day, a woman comes into the station wearing a purple and black floral patterned blouse, and jean shorts. She’s carrying a box of... something. 

Dhruva closes the file he had been reading expectantly, waiting for the woman to see him and come over to state her business. Instead, she walks straight over to Daya, as if she owned the place. 

Daya’s face brightens when he sees the woman. “Bangaram!” 

The woman grins and sets down her box, sitting down on the corner of his desk. 

“Adedede, you didn’t have to come all this way, I could visit you at your shelter!”

“Well, I wanted to come over. And give you these.” She opens the box, and Dhruva cranes his neck to get a peek. It’s a bunch of sweets and snacks, but in the middle there’s a reheatable container of what looks like soup. 

Hopefully she was getting married and gifting him all of this. Peeda odilipothundi. 

Dhruva shakes his head. What had gotten into him? The woman hadn’t done anything wrong, and yet he was cursing her. Daya was allowed to have friends. 

“I brought you your favorite!” The woman states, opening the soup container. Her voice is melodious and sweet, Dhruva notices. “Authentic fish curry!”

Dhruva takes it back. Daya is not allowed to have friends. Especially ones that give him fish curry. He still remembers the time they had been patrolling on the beach, Daya going out of his way to talk to the fishermen and have them make some fish curry for Dhruva after he had said he never had it. Dhruva had always recalled it fondly, and they had been back to the beach for not-dates several times after, with Daya taking care to make sure Dhruva always got fish curry whenever they were there. 

“Shanvi bujji,” Daya starts, and Dhruva hates how his eyes are shining. “Did you make this?” The woman, Shanvi, nods, smiling. “I thought you were vegetarian! Did I finally convert you?”

Shanvi laughs. “No, I had a friend of mine make it. But don’t worry, it’s made exactly as you like it.” 

“Murthy!” Daya barks. “Fetch me a spoon!”

Narayana Murthy rolls his eyes and shuffles over to bring him the spoon. Dhruva felt bad for him on most days, he was one of the few sincere officers working here and had the misfortune to have Daya of all people as his boss. 

Daya tastes the curry, and almost moans. Dhruva’s fist clenches. “Bangaram, this is so good!”

Dhruva intervenes.

“So, how do you two know each other?” He asks, making his way over to the pair. 

Shanvi turns around. “Oh, you must be ASP Dhruva!” She holds her hand out, and Dhruva shakes it. “Big fan of the way you handled the Siddharth Abhimanyu case.”

“Thank you.”

“And as for your question, well,” she turns to give Daya a fond look, and Dhruva fights to keep a frown off of his face. “We met when someone kidnapped all of the dogs at the shelter, and he helped me get them back. He’s a very caring person, and loves animals as much as I do.”

“Really,” Dhruva asks. Daya winces and gives him the nonverbal cut it out symbol, but Dhruva doesn’t care. The lies he told this woman were not his problem. 

Dhruva suddenly remembers yesterday’s phone call, and realizes the ‘darling’ on the phone must have been Shanvi. He internally scowls. 

“Yeah!” Shanvi goes on, oblivious to the situation. “He’s been a very good friend to me. You two are working together, right? How has the experience been for you?”

Well, Dhruva thinks, two can play at this game.

“It’s been a pleasure to work with my darling Daya, of course.” 

Shanvi’s eyes go wide. There’s a choking sound, and both of them turn to look at Daya, coughing out some curry gravy. He stares at Dhruva. 

Well, Daya kept flirting with him and making him lose his cool, so can’t Dhruva do the same back?

“Your... darling Daya?” Shanvi asks. Is she jealous? Good. 

“Yeah.” Dhruva lets his fingers slowly skim up and down Daya’s arm, feeling the goosebumps left in his wake. “We have so much fun together, right kanna?”

Daya swallows, and nods. 

“Oh my god,” Shanvi gushes. “This is literally the plot of one of my romance books.”

Dhruva snaps out of it. “What?” he asks, confused. Why was she not jealous?

“You guys are so cute together!” she continues. “Are you living together? You two should adopt a dog! From my shelter!” she lowers her voice, but not her excitement. “It would be great PR!”

Daya recovers from his initial tongue-tied state, to Dhruva’s regret. “Ah, we’re not living together yet, but I see that happening sometime in the near future.” He winks at Dhruva. “With all of the nights he spends over at my place-”

“Thank you for the sweets,” Dhruva cuts him off, addressing Shanvi. 

“Of course! And you’re welcome to have some too, I didn’t mean to accidentally exclude you.” He nods at her in appreciation, and takes a kaju out, finishing it off as Daya walks her to the door. 

He comes back grinning in disbelief, and Dhruva suddenly remembers how much of a fool he’d been acting the last few minutes. 

“Did you seriously just flirt with me, ASP garu?”

Dhruva refuses to answer, going back to his own desk. 

“Did she make you jealous, ASP garu?” Daya calls from the other side of the room, and Dhruva buries his face in his paperwork. 

I hate this man, Dhruva thinks fondly as he hears Daya’s delighted laughter. 

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tl:  

bangaram - term of affection, literally means gold

Peeda odilipothundi - The sin will leave (sin referring to Shanvi)

bujji - little one

kanna - also little one

tagging @voidsteffy @yehsahihai @eremin0109 @bromance-minus-the-b @hufhkbgg @thewinchestergirl1208 @rasnak2 @lovingperfectionwonderland @eenadu-varthalu @flyinlove @alikokinav @burningsheepcrown (actually your recent art motivated me to finish this part lol) @fangirlshrewt97 @iamhereforthefanfics @lil-stark @hxnky-pxnky @budugu @tulodiscord @justmeand-myinsight @the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see @juhiiiiii @iam-siriuslysher-lokid

[somuchyoudontknow]

Adding to your vision, you said the invitation was written in red text. I had a vision of Alba recently, she was leaving a house or building. But to leave she adorned herself in a red dress. Like she wanted to go out with a bang. Do what you want with that information.

Thank you so much. It confirms something that I have been picking up for a while. I think I am going to post it now.

Idk if people remember I picked up Chris was angry two or three days before Joana's birthday. Then I picked up great anger two-three days after Comin Con. People who have been following me would remember.

Actually, I picked up both the times that Alba had done something that had made Chris very angry and she kept bringing it up to have her demands fulfilled. It is something very similar to her shower porn. If it gets out, it would be a great humiliation for Chris since her name is associated with him. Shower porn only humiliated her but it was also a cause of a lot of hate and embarrassment for Chris too. People posted her nudes even on ASP's page.

I think since her dress was arranged in just two weeks (she started following that dress designer on the second day of Con) and given her styling it seems her appearance was not planned ahead. Given the timing of Chris' anger it seems to me she used something she had filmed about herself to ask for her appearance at the premiere and Chris was not happy at all.

I think whatever she has, it only involves her. I have a thought but I could be wrong about this if she has filmed something in one of his homes with the help of her bff Justin, it would look very bad if it comes out. It's just a guess I am not sure about filming in Chris' house.

I have been picking up she is very angry due to something and she is planning to humiliate him and to mock his fans too. It is kind of an energy "Look it has been real all along and you are all fools and here is the proof".

Even if an engagement announcement comes out, she is not going to stop. She might leak it. because the situation has not turned out to her liking. It did not become real for her since she always wanted the real deal. She wants to embarrass him and it seems like she has made up her mind.

Again, I could be wrong about this. I hope if there is something, Chris' team take full control and stops it from getting it out.

[locallibrarylover]

is it evil to give u the most general media for the ask game and just say theater…? i’d yes i’d also love to hear abt whichever one you’re currently thinking abt the most

wait this is sooo fun... going to limit this to musicals though. to make it easier for me

favorite character: susannah son. absolutely hands down.

second favorite character: there's so many. this is going to be a big tie but monty navarro, sweeney todd, mary coral, & trina weisenbachfeld.

least favorite character: miss asp i suppose.

the character i'm most like: can i say troy bolton. or mary coral

favorite pairing: another tie because i can't choose between susannah & sheila (love in hate nation) and stu & mitch (yank!)

least favorite pairing: uhhh i couldn't tell you off the top of my head.

favorite moment: coat reveal in joseph... oh & and the god's heard her prayer / rain specifically from the broadway revival of once on this island (THE CAR!)

rating out of 10: theatre is bad sometimes but it's my favorite thing ever so i could never in good conscience give it anything less than a 12.