#I shan't stop you

[phillipcarlyle]

PT & Phillip ~ office aesthetic

[powerbottomblake]

I have developed that same specific brand of hatred that makes homophobes call every gay relationship in media toxic and underdeveloped and forced but for straight relationships instead I'm fighting the war on toxicity on the side of toxicity if the hets are anything less than exceptional i'm gonna be a hater and i'm gonna be docking points in my reviews based on the inanity of that heterosexuality

[missmugiwara]

Me with my writer pals, seeing they're all slowly falling in love with a certain rubber pirate captain:

[amiracleilluminated]

why do i keep seeing bg3 takes that take me the fuck out

[onekisstotakewithme]

🔥 TWW

I have many opinions on TWW and some of them are fairly unpopular so uhhhh here goes.

I'll get the biggest one out of the way first: for when it happened, I actually don't find the shuttle leak storyline out of character for Toby, nor do I hate it. If it had happened back in season 4, sure, and I'm mad at the post-Sorkin writing team for their slow destruction of Toby's character, but by end of s6, start of s7, it's not out of character for him. Could it have been better executed? Sure. But where he is as a character, unfortunately, it doesn't feel supremely terrible to me.

Second, the best Donna is season 1 Donna. A bit of an audience surrogate sometimes but in a not-overly-clumsy way, funny and spunky and just a bit quirky... and her dynamic with Josh is SO fun in season 1. I'm almost through s1 in my rewatch and I'd genuinely forgotten how much I enjoyed Donna. I feel like she really got flattened out once they really committed to the will they/won't they with Josh, and then was worse because of the whole season 6/7 disaster (that was a mess!), PLUS they had her make some very dumb decisions to advance the plot that did not feel realistic (the dumb shit with Cliff Calley, the accidentally voting for Ritchie).

(more under the cut because apparently I'm not done!)

I know season 5 was the weakest season overall, BUT season 4 was the weakest Sorkin season. I'm not saying season 4 needed to be all about re-election, but I feel like there was a better balance to strike between the "rush through all the election stuff by episode 8-ish" and "stretch it out into a season and a half long affair" (as in 6-7). It also just, despite everything it took to get to this point, felt INCREDIBLY rushed and unsatisfying. it didn't feel like there were any stakes! I wanted to see the whole debate, I wanted to see a genuine election night with stakes, dammit! And I think, much as I love Will, that dedicating so much time to THAT storyline was part of the problem. This also wasn't helped by the fact that Ritchie was a caricature and a Bush expy which worked when the episodes were airing but just makes him look cartoonish and one-dimensional now. Like Arnie Vinick may be a unicorn of a Republican and impossible to believe in now, but at least he's a person and not a cardboard cutout. Anyway! It feels like for all the build-up to the difficulty of getting re-elected post-MS scandal, it was just. they won, shuffle them offscreen again.

Okay, fuck, this is getting long.

I don't MIND Annabeth but I find the whole Leo-Annabeth flirtation thing REALLY weird and honestly out of left field. That scene in the elevator where she says they shouldn't be spending too much time together 'because of the tension', I was RIGHT THERE with Leo like 'what tension?' Like I'm sorry, I just don't see it!

Okay a few more bullet-point gripes just because

I got used to it eventually but I'm still not a fan that CJ got promoted to COS. Like yeah by the end she did a damn good job and she has one of the best relationships with Jed, but c'mon. she loved being press secretary, and she was a damn good one.

CJ's dark hair in season 7 is not a good look on her, I'm sorry CJ my love, but it doesn't look good. The only non-canon part of the flashfoward is that she definitely does NOT still have that hair.

Amy was fun when she first appeared, but in seasons 6 and 7 her character definitely got worse.

For the most part, I actually wanted less election plot in season 7 and more focus on the west wing (and I say this as loving both Matt and Arnie!)

Gina Toscano/CJ is a great ship also. I rewatched "six meetings before lunch" last night and remembered that I ship them.

Episode specific: the B-plot of Requiem makes absolutely no sense to me and I've watched the episode about 6 or 7 times now (the whole 'meddling in the speaker race' plot).

And finally: Danny should've been in every single season, as a regularly recurring character. I know that Tim Busfield was busy with other commitments but Mr. Busfield, I'm begging you.

TL;DR:

[yaekiss]

looking at comifuro catalogues and I SPOT DOL MERCH???? argh I wish I could go... I don't think anyone makes DOL merch here orz

[wfhwfhwfh]

The only possible way for me to post art is if I turn on my shitty hotspot (which is 99% used up always) on my shitty phone and, with speed, determination, and courage, get on Tumblr as fast as I can on my IPad. I then add the tags and photos and post. I wait. I'm swimming in sweat and walking on a floor full of snakes while my heart rate excels to around 115. The world and I are in an endless cold war and the post fails to do its job and I HAVE TO, WITH SPEED, NO DETERMINATION AND NO COURAGE, type out the whole thing again. It usually works the 5th time and takes around 10 minutes for it to successfully post.

Anyway here's my dog Nacho

[meiozis]

double lip ring donghyuckie in the fact check mv……Resident hyuckfucker what are your thoughts .?🎤🎤🎤

clearing my throat and leaning closer to the mic before screaming into it full force

the way he lives in my mind rent free would be enough to put a landlord into a coma, and that was even before fact check hyuck even entered my life.... the little cut on his cheek........ the double lip ring........... what if i was in agony thinking about kissing him with a hand on his face and smoothing a thumb over that little cut. what if i was completely inconsolable thinking about how that little bit of cold metal would feel when kissing him. im going to eat a brick right now

(also resident hyuckfucker 😭😭😭 ily <33)

[goatsandgangsters]

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this this in 6 different liveblogs but I’ll give it its own post then 

I’ve been saying “neek-o-lai” for years and they’re not gonna stop me now. it’s too late. I’m not getting on the “nick-o-lai” train.

[fruchtfleisch-art]

WIP WEDNESDAY

[spaceratprodigy]

ehehehe glad to be someone's jesse faden mutual (cat ears included). if only i actually used my fbc mug VFBJFJFFK

The way I just screamed reading your tags on the other post MY FRIEND HOW COULD YOU TELL EMILY POPE WAS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER 😩💕💕

[vroomian]

jedi yrz's clone commander trying to do paperwork on to find yrz has chewed through four months of backlog overnight in a fit of offended competence

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway really said “I’m gonna hunt him down no matter what the cost. No matter how long it takes. If you wanna call that a vendetta-” like ma’am you KNOW that’s a vendetta there’s no IF

[himbeaux-on-ice]

truly if i have a brand (besides misc. memes) it might be coming out of hibernation at random times to post about the habs, getting overly earnest about the toronto maple leafs every single year, and 'the max pacioretty content you didn't ask for'. bone apple teeth

[cyberpawn-arc]

Still adding to the cbp collection btw

[lynxgirlpaws]

you all actually have irl friends?