#columbo is like. everything to me

[camelspit]

I don’t know who the little detective guy u keep putting on my dash is but he seems cool. may the wings of fandom lift u like icarus 👍

losing my mind.. it is columbo from the 70s-90s hit show columbo played by peter falk.. he is everything to me

[autismsupersoldier]

every day of my life im thinking of this image

because i am a person full of love and i am worried i express it too much or to the wrong person and what if everyone thinks im a freak or weird or too pushy or have ulterior motives. its spilling out even though i try to keep myself upright and i am so worried that someone doesnt see that as genuine and thinks im weird weird weird. but on the other hand i just try to not care. i know its genuine and i trust the people around me to trust me that they can set a boundary with me about it if its too much. and not call me a freak. or something. i dont know

[utilitycaster]

My unpopular opinion is that Im0dna is a great example of "just because someone knows you the longest, doesn't mean they know you the best". They don't really underwater each other like other people in the party already do

Hi anon,

So the ask meme is done but I don't actually know if this was intended as part of that, as I also have the sort of personality that solicits unpopular opinions into my inbox anyway. (Also I am guessing underwater is a very funny autocorrect mishap for understand; I have been there).

Anyway, yeah. I think my favorite meta I've seen is that what Imogen and Laudna actually ask of each other is just to be there - because it is true that they have both lived incredibly lonely lives. For what it's worth I think loneliness/missing someone is perhaps the most common thread among Bells Hells, with a secondary theme being victims of circumstance/irrevocably altered by events beyond their control, and it frustrates me that a lot of framing of the ship ignores that Imogen and Laudna are not uniquely suited to understand this about each other. But it is true they have experienced loneliness that, in my opinion, is at least partially self-inflicted (also not unique) and that their response has been to be there for each other.

But it also means there's little room for change, because change threatens that status quo, and there's therefore no space to delve deeper. It's a little bit of the classic problem of if you start a romantic relationship with a friend and then break up, you might lose both the romantic relationship and the friendship. But it's more than that - Chetney and Imogen have zero romantic interest in each other and aren't even terribly close within the party, but when Chetney asks Imogen if she's okay Imogen is actually able to answer with some amount of honesty without pretending everything will work out, as she's not worried about making sure he feels comfortable. Deanna, who's known Imogen for less than a week, is able to address Imogen's constant use of psychic powers in a way that's not unkind but is in fact the honest sort of thing a best friend should be able to tell you. Or for another example, FCG's tendency to strongly urge people, including Imogen, to confront their pasts isn't always the most skilled, but it usually comes from a place of good intentions, whereas Imogen and Laudna's relationship feels...unconsciously transactional? I think we saw in the gnarlrock fight that they're just absolutely terrified of being in a fight and don't really know how to resolve conflict in a way that actually moves forward rather than smoothing things over. Like, it's not an unfair relationship - they're both getting the same companionship out of it - but there's not really space for one person to be angry at the other or to feel wronged. There's no room to breathe.

Anyway - I think the party split is really illuminating this! Imogen is benefiting immensely from this arc, as it both spotlights her relationships with other party members and gives her some time to process after being the central focus for so long. While I have to admit that Team Wildemount is the one I'm far more interested in for a number of reasons (fantastic guests, all the main PCs have cool plot hooks to explore, I love Uthodurn and Molaesmyr) I do hope that we get to see Laudna similarly have a chance to branch out (pun kind of intended).

[blujaydoodles]

hi guess who just watched hbomberguy 'sherlock is garbage and here's why' and finally realized why this Scarf And Long Coat silhouette felt so familiar

[skiploom]

Was watching an episode of columbo recently and these guys are theorising motives for murder ect and columbo is looking at a note found going "what a funny pencil to use" ignoring these dudes

Then later is like "ya see I think it was a woman because there was a note written in black eyeliner pencil and you know how i know that? Because my wife well whenever she reaches into her bag it's the only pencil she can find and she writes the grocery list with it" paraphrased but essentially that and I was just there like of course you're thinking about your fucking wife (affectionate playful) thinking about him Rosie

he’s just so damn cute isn’t he 😭😭!!!!!! he always needs to mention his wife and find any opportunity to talk about her.

One of the reasons i got so attached to Columbo is bc of his love for his spouse it’s so so sweet…. his spouse just HAS to be real, i know he lies about a lot but his love for them is def not fake!!

(man who has lil floating hearts around his head)

[the-acid-pear]

A MIMIR MUCHACHOS a mimir...

[advoir]

Columbo is coded neurodivergent. Every case becomes a special interest. He literally loses sleep over the smallest detail until it has an explanation. He says things like, "There must be something wrong with me. I seem to bother people, I seem to make them nervous." He has a logical reason for everything he does, but his behavior is read as quirky or awkward. He's naturally very considerate, but often clueless about social etiquette. He wears the same clothes every day because everything else feels wrong. He doesn't like to try new foods.

It's nice to see a neurodivergent-coded adult with obvious social "deficits" appreciated, even celebrated, for their contributions.

[thestalkerbunny]

What makes Columbo and other howcatchems appealing is that they make the punishment feel less like someone prying things apart to uncover a mystery that just exists, and more like divine consequences put in motion by the killers own hand.

Or in other words: its depicts Fucking Around->Finding Out.

I personally like how calm he is during all this. Don't get me wrong, I love wild running fast paced detective shows like the next bitch-but something about the slow pace of a pursuit predator amuses me. They can scramble all they like to cover their tracks, establish the alibis, throw off the cops, destroy evidence-but they know they have nowhere to run once he closes in with a absent minded 'ahh....and one more thing.' Because he doesn't need to hit them or draw a gun or chase them. They've run as far as they can when he closes in-they corner themselves out of smugness or pride and it's their downfall.

That and most of all the criminals are the wealthy elite who think they can get away with anything and everything because they're 'too smart' for the system.

A pursuit predator-Stalky making the most absolute insane statement about Columbo.

[investingestincest]

TW /// MENTIONS OF SUICIDE

(Rambles)

I don't know if i can ever forgive antis for running so many artists off the internet because they found them gross. There are so many artists that come to mind but one that sticks with me the hardest is Columbo who was literally ran off Twitter for the most vile reason. I often see tiktok artists redraw that one Monster fanart of Johan and Nina that Columbo made. This was what pushed me to watch the anime in the first place and I get so sad when I remember what happened. They deliberately tried to ruin the artist's life and outed them knowing that this could get them killed. They wanted them DEAD over DRAWINGS. The length some would go to ruin someone's life is terrifying and so fucked up.

Don't even get me started on doxxing. At what point in your sorry little life do you decide to dig someone's private info and leak it to the whole world. And still claim to be more righteous than another ?

Not to mention those who harmed themselves or committed suicide because of harrassment.

I remember how a 13yo artist on twitter committed suicide because of the harrassment they faced (Not proship related). You know what those bastards did ? Went to their last post and filled it with nothing but mockery. They were editing the comic to make amogus jokes. A 13yo child.

I blocked and reported over 700 and yet there was still more. I've never felt so sick in my entire life. They had just gotten the confirmation that they pushed a child to suicide and their immediate reaction was to laugh about it. They killed a child and they laughed ?

This isn't even the first time this happened and I think that's pretty much what made me realize that antis (or just internet fiends in general) didn't actually give a shit about anyone else or the content that they "hate" in general, they just use it as an excuse to show how vile they truly are because what sane person would do that ? Instead of blocking and moving on, you put someone's life in danger for a fucking drawing ? For what, an ounce of validation from strangers ? Is this what it takes for these fuckers to ruin someone's life ? Validation from online strangers ? Laughing with your online friends about how you ruined someone's life, with others who'd probably do the same to you without a second thought if they deem you as problematic in their mind ? This is seriously all it takes ? Their moral backbone is as real as the fictional character they try so hard to defend.

Do you really think that the fictional character will appear in your living room one day and thank you for ruining someone else's life ? It baffles me how they think the internet is a lawless barren land where you can do whatever. Like this won't have consequences ? This isn't the 90s, your information and everything that you post is preserved in archives and can be dug up if you end up getting prosecuted. Besides, if someone finds out about what you did, reports you and you end up in court, what do you tell the judge ? That you were "only trying to protect a fictional character from the icky proship pedos on twitter" do these guys even hear themselves sometimes ? I'm so fucking tired of this bullshit man...

[watchmorecinema]

Something I don't like about the current state of the MCU (and DCU) is just how much work it all is. Some pretentious European movie from the 70's didn't require 30 other movies to provide context. You can pretty much watch any James Bond film in any order, there's not a lot of continuity to deal with. LOTR is an incredible series with a long plot but it's still only 3 movies; you only had to watch 2 other movies before Return of the King.

But with the MCU there's just so much! I think most people were following along fine until Endgame, but then it started to branch out too much. We get a new show every week, the multiverse idea just means that there are more and more threads to deal with and I just don't feel like it's working towards anything at all. Like, is She-Hulk required viewing before The Marvels? What context am I missing if I watch Quantumania but I didn't see any of the movies beforehand? Before Endgame there was certainly an issue with too many of the movies feeling like Origin stories, but at least they didn't require a lot of context. But now I'm so far behind that it just feels like a chore to catch up.

DCU has it worse since they keep rebooting everything. If your movie is meant to setup 5 future films and those films never come, then your movie isn't even good on its own. Apparently the next Avengers movie is going to be a soft reboot the MCU, so it's like why bother?

The films have finally grown all the same issues the comics had. Too many plotlines going on at once, constant retconning, and a focus on big events instead of just telling good stories one at a time. I would be so happy if we just kept getting standalone films that didn't really tie into each other so I could just watch them whenever. If they just made a new Batman each year with no plot carrying over I'd watch them all. Why did Columbo get popular again out of nowhere? There's 70 episodes and no plot to carryover so you can just watch one and get a complete story. Literally the best comic book projects to come out recently were fairly standalone or at least didn't need a lot of context. Werewolf by Night, Across the Spiderverse, The Batman and TMNT didn't need 30 movies of backstory and they didn't spend a lot of time just introducing characters for future movies. Spiderverse of course is different in that it is a sequel and a 3rd film is coming to finish the story but 3 movies is a reasonable number of movies to carry a plot over!

And what really gets me is that I did like the MCU a lot up to Endgame. I was pretty much watching them all as they came out in theaters. It was so much easier to do then. I think there are good stories to be told in the comic book superhero genre, but I don't think Hollywood can carry a plot over 40 films and have it work.

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

A storm is brewing and since I'm stuck indoors, I thought I could have some fun. Big emphasis on fun, for my sake and everyone else's. Please. So, without prolonging this too much, I'm down for some theories and speculations today and when I do it, either call me Columbo or a clown, but what's important is that I do it in style.

I've observed that these days, some idols have been a bit careless with their watches. Are they using them simply as expensive accesories? Do they need to know the time or they have their managers to do that for them? Oh, to live an idol lifestyle....nothing but idleness, right?

Or is it? The suspects today are Park Jimin, Choi Minho and Lee Taemin. My assistant to this case @peppertaemint and her reliable sources brought to my attention something we've briefly talked about a few weeks ago. Actually, we made some jokes. The situation was as follows.

Was the Rolex broken and the guy didn't know? It seems a bit silly given that the watch is not cheap at all. And usually, with an item like that, you do cherish and take care of it. It's a status symbol (I'll expand on that below). Also, Minho is known for posting on Bubble at specific times. His birthday or SHINee anniversary. It's not part of the fandom's collective imagination. They don't need to invent their own math in order to come up with the number they want. It's pretty straightforward.

Now, what does 11:55 mean? Nothing for now, but it's close to 12:09 which is Minho time (thank you pptm again). Anyway, the jury is still out on this one. It might just be that Minho needs to fix his watch.

But well, well, well, what do we have here? Taemin himself showing the same negligence as his boyfriend Hyung.

In Taemin's case, I wouldn't be surprised he just didn't care that his time was wrong, but then what is going on? Do 2Min need to buy new watches? Did the Rolexes skip quality control and somehow these 2 idols are victims, scammed of thousands of dollars? Is it a trend? A secret code between them? I'll say that all of the above should be taken into consideration.

Finally, the third victim (?) of faulty watches, Park Jimin-ssi. In his case, we're dealing with a Patek Philippe. It's the type of watch that a media mogul like Logan Roy would appreciate, or at least that's what Tom Wambsgans thought.

Logan did not care at all about the watch and it ended up as the equivalent of hush money for a kid that they all made fun of when they offered him a million bucks if he scores at a game. Oh, I miss Succession so much.....

Back to Patek Philippe. As Tom said in his rehearsed funny line, everytime you look at it, it tells you how rich you are, aka a status symbol. Or in Jimin's case, it tells you Jungkook's birth hour?

Like Minho, we also know that Jimin has his Jimin hour, he knows his way around the date calculator and so on. And given all the investigative work already done by other people (like the thread I linked), would it be so outrageous, so hard to believe that it was intentional? I don't think so. It's a sweet gesture and it shows Jimin's attention to details. He did talk about Jungkook's birthday and was among the reasons why he was livestreaming.

Pre-recorded or not (or whatever excuses/conspiracies weirdos like to engage with) Jimin wore the watch in his home and it somehow it was Jungkook's birth hour. Could it all be just a massive coincidence? Maybe. Could the Patek Philippe be faulty? Maybe, but damn, these idols should stop buying expensive watches then.

Is it such a harmful and delusional theory that needs to be buried because some fans are either pussies or plain stupid? No. This fandom loves numbers so much when it involves 20 other pairings within BTS. I think it's fine to talk about an additional one. I'm not the biggest fan/follower of the number theories, especially when it comes to I-jikookers (they work those numbers like they're trying to fix the books), but it doesn't mean that everything is absurd or completely ridiculous.

I'm not ready to close the case, my work as a detective is not done yet. I'll put it on hold, who knows what other evidence I might find myself in posession of in the future?

[her-pale-shadow]

(cw for murder, and for my worst text post yet)

Suspect: Lieutenant Columbo!

Columbo: I'm sorry ma'am, is this a bad time?

Suspect: I'm in the middle of kinky gay transgender sex with my girlfriend!

Columbo: Oh I apologise! I really do. It's just that I was just in the neighborhood, and I thought I could get your help with a question I had about the death of your wife.

Suspect: What question, I thought the case had been wrapped up?

Columbo: Oh I just have a small thing that's bugging me. And I can't move on until I get an answer for it, that's just how I am. And I was wondering, ma'am, if you could help me understand it. Then I'll be out of your hair, I promise. And you can have all the kinky gay transgender sex that you like.

Suspect: Very well, since I doubt you'll stop bothering me otherwise.

Columbo: Gee, this is such a nice bedroom.

Suspect: It is, yes.

Columbo: And all these sex toys. Is this a vibrating tentacle dildo? Wow. I don't have the budget for one of these.

Suspect: Lieutenant.

Columbo: My dildo at home is just a plain black thing-

Suspect: Lieutenant, you had a question.

Columbo: Hm? Oh yes, of course. Well personally I don't know much about kinky gay transgender sex. But my wife, she loves it. She can't get enough of it. She's having kinky gay transgender sex all the time. And she tells me that there's this thing called masochism, where people actually enjoy being hurt.

Suspect: Yes, that's quite so.

Columbo: Boy, that really is something, isn't it. Well I suppose you would know all about it, ma'am, because your wife was a masochist, wasn't she?

Suspect: She was, yes.

Columbo: Yes, I remember that when she died she was wearing, what did you call it?

Suspect: Nipple clamps, lieutenant. My girlfriend here is wearing some now.

Columbo: That's right, nipple clamps. Oh wow, so she is. They must really hurt.

Suspect: They do.

Columbo: Yeah. Hey, these are really nice knots in the rope tying your girlfriend up. I always have trouble with knots.

Suspect: Lieutenant, you're not here to talk about my knots.

Columbo: Of course not, of course not. Now where was I? That's right, your wife was wearing nipple clamps. Yeah, that really confuses me.

Suspect: It makes sense to me. Like you said, she was a masochist, she enjoyed wearing them. I saw her put them on before I left.

Columbo: Yes, but you said that you left well before the murder.

Suspect: Obviously.

Columbo: Obviously. Then why would she still have the nipple clamps on when she was killed? The dog ears and the collar I can understand, but the nipple clamps? If I was her, I'd have gotten uncomfortable, and I'd have taken them off.

Suspect: ...Ah, I remember.

Columbo: Ma'am?

Suspect: Yes, before I left I ordered her to keep the nipple clamps on. A sadistic thing.

Columbo: Well that explains it. Yes, that clears everything up. Thank you ma'am, I'll leave you and your girlfriend to your kinky gay transgender sex, I hope you enjoy it. Oh, but there is just one more thing.

Suspect: Yes?

Columbo: Well I found your wife's tumblr blog. Amazing things these tumblr blogs. And she posted right here, it says 'You're in her "DMs", she's planning to murder me for my money, we are not the same.'

Suspect: ...

Columbo: I thought that was quite the coincidence.

Suspect: It was a joke, Columbo. People post jokes on tumblr all the time.

Columbo: Of course they do, you must be right ma'am. Goodbye.

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 3

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ve been counting down my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

We’ve reached the Top 3 of the countdown!

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “It is the brain, the little grey cells, on which one must rely.”

Number 3 is…Hercule Poirot.

Earlier in the countdown, I spoke of Agatha Christie – a woman many consider the greatest mystery writer of all time – and one of her two most popular creations, Miss Marple. I mentioned then that another of her characters would appear later in the list. Well, ladies and gentlemen, now is the time: this is Christie’s other most popular character, if not her most popular PERIOD, Hercule Poirot. Poirot is arguably the definitive example of the “Gentleman Detective.” Inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin, the character initially started off very much in the Holmesian vein, in terms of personality and methods. Very quickly, however, he began to evolve into something else entirely, and ultimately became a figure who easily rivaled Conan Doyle’s famous creation, stepping out of the shadow of past inspirations to stand on his own.

Hercule Poirot is also an example of the classic “unlikely detective,” much as Miss Marple would be. (Poirot predated her by at least ten years.) However, he is drastically different in many ways. For one thing, there is their core philosophy: Miss Marple is essentially a very cynical character. Underneath her kindly and humble demeanor, she’s a jaded lady who is no longer surprised by horror and death, having seen so much of it. Poirot, however, is sort of a romantic idealist at heart; he believes that good is something to be rewarded, evil something to be punished, and feels that crime is something out of the ordinary. Of all things, it reminds me of the difference between two famous superheroes: Batman and Superman. Batman is someone who feels crime is commonplace and tries to fight against it, while Superman feels people are inherently good and tries to uphold it. Poirot is a small, rather foppish fellow; obsessively neat and tidy, with a fastidiously-tended moustache, who dresses in the finest of fashions and makes a point of keeping good hygiene prime in his mind. Poirot is indicated to have something like OCD (something later adaptations would latch onto with a passion), being highly meticulous, at times even to a fault, and obsessing over making sure everything in his life is neatly arranged and organized. While Sherlock Holmes typically relies on deductive reasoning and physical evidence to solve capers, Poirot is arguably the first proper criminal profiler in literary history: he looks at a scene and determines what doesn’t fit the picture, his obsessive persona quickly finding incongruities, and then tries to figure out the kind of person who would commit these crimes, and why they would do it. He often uses bluff and deception to outwit his opponents; much like Columbo would do many years later, his demeanor is sometimes his greatest weapon, as folks rarely feel threatened by this rather stuffy Belgian with an egg-shaped head, and thus underestimate him entirely.

The behind-the-scenes relationship Christie had with Poirot was stormy, to say the least. Even as the character evolved, and his popularity swelled, Christie grew increasingly dissatisfied with her own creation. She was once quoted as saying she had come to see Poirot as an “egocentric little creep,” and that she only continued writing for him because he was popular with the readers. Much like Conan Doyle had tried to do in the past with Holmes, Christie eventually decided to kill off her character…but unlike Conan Doyle, she actually succeeded in keeping him dead! The final novel, “Curtains,” was highly received, and Poirot’s literary death so rocked the world, the New York Times even published an obituary: to date the first and only time the prestigious news agency did so for a fictional character.

Of course, this was not the end for Hercule Poirot. By the time Christie killed him off, he was already a well-known and adapted character, appearing on radio played by Orson Welles, and on film in what many argue is one of the greatest mystery movies ever made: the 1974 adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express.” There he was played by Albert Finney. Later actors to portray the character have included Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Alfred Molina, Jason Alexander, John Malkovich (who was AWFUL in the role, for the record), and, most recently, Kenneth Branagh. The character was also one of the titular co-stars of the anime “Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot & Marple,” which I spoke of earlier in the countdown.

By far the most successful onscreen portrayal of the character, and the one most people (myself included) consider the definitive take on the Belgian gentleman detective, is David Suchet (pictured here). His was the star of a very long-running TV series simply titled “Poirot.” The series initially started out as a straightforward adaptation of all of Christie’s Poirot stories, but – as time went on – it began to take more liberties with the source material, and added a few new dimensions to the detective by emphasizing elements of his personality that Christie had only briefly brushed the surface of in her work. Whether you love Suchet, the books, or any of the other great interpretations of Poirot most, it’s clear that “the little grey cells” continue to serve this fellow well.

Tomorrow, we’ll feature our penultimate gumshoe, with Number 2!

CLUE: “I Am Vengeance.”

[dailycharacteroption]

Hybrid Class Review: Investigator part 1

(art by BlackAssassiN999 on DeviantArt)

Overview

And we’re back with another class review in the form of the investigator, a fun class from first edition that proved interesting enough to be later included in Second Edition as its own unique class!

As a hybrid class, the investigator is a fusion of the concepts of the alchemist and rogue, combining the skill and street-smarts of the rogue with the analytical mind (and alchemical extracts) of the alchemist!

But investigators are no mere fusion, for while they share bones mechanically with the two classes, investigators are conceptually their own beast, the master detective as applied to fantasy settings where murderers and thieves use magic to cover up their crimes and the killer isn’t always a human or even humanoid.

The presence of these master detectives in a campaign changes up the sorts of challenges that the party can expect to face, as well as how they approach more familiar conflicts. Sure, the investigator can be surprisingly effective in combat, drawing upon how fictional detectives often fight by thoroughly analyzing their opponents and take them apart like a Mr. Potato Head, but their real focus is in using their various skills and expertise to analyze a situation and reach conclusions that would be lost on an untrained eye.

While not exclusive to investigators, their presence in the system opens the doors up to more complex mystery games, where progress is achieved through not just skill checks, but clever and outright lateral thinking on the part of the players, and even in games that are more straightforward action and combat, their presence and the mindset that comes with them can lend useful information to the party with their observations.

What’s especially interesting is that much like the bard class, the investigator archetype may be typically used for it’s intended role as a detective, but it also can and has been used to represent all sorts of characters with cunning and deductive mindsets which they leverage, not just criminal investigators. Without archetypes I’ve seen it used to represent brilliant tacticians and military commanders, scholars with a knack for combat, and more. And with archetypes, we can see everything from brilliantly competent butlers or Moriarty-style criminal masterminds.

Of course, no great detective character is without inspiration, and it would be remiss to not talk about how major characters will inspire your very own flavor of investigator. Perhaps you’re inspired by Holmes’ deductions and observation, or by Columbo’s ability to catch people in their own lies just by being annoying enough to frustrate, or perhaps later versions of Hercule Poirot’s analysis of psychology. The detective mystery genre has had a lot of characters from many walks of life and skillsets, and that can be reflected in both the mechanics and the portrayal of your own character.

That will do for an intro, but as always, look forward to seeing me break down their abilities, archetypes, and such throughout the course of the week!

[spel16]

Hi!

I’m looks for mutuals :D

Figured it probably won’t happen unless I ask

Some stuff about me:

-17 yr old game design student (I’m a an odd place where I’m still definitely a kid, but I’m in uni so I’m also an adult? I don’t really care about age when making friends!)

-aro/ace and don’t know about gender yet (though I seriously doubt I’m cis, given how much thought I put into it on a daily basis)

Some of my current interests are:

-video games! (Balatro has taken all my free time)

-video game development! (If you’re making a game I’d love to give you feedback!)

-anime (the list is long but at the top you’ve got stuff like frieren, bocci the rock, one piece and Hunter x Hunter, a bit of everything as long as it’s fun!)

-shows (currently watching Leverage and I’ll always love Columbo, even did a cosplay of the guy!)

-pixel art! (I’m planning to make a side log for it though I’m still a bit scared to share anything ;w;)

-and anything that interests the person I’m talking to! I love to listen to people talk about their special interests! (One time I listened to someone talk about boats for multiple hours long straight, normally I don’t care about boats that much, but if it’s coming from someone who cares about it I can’t help but lend an ear!) so feel free to message me about any special interest you got, I’d love to lend an ear!

-And if you feel even the slightest temptation to do so right now don’t hesitate do it! My dms and ask boxk are open! And I’ll never get annoyed over getting a message!

That’s about it, thanks for reading and I hope you have a lovely day :3

[columboscreens]

i’m always telling everyone who will listen about the Valid Queer Reading of any old port in a storm so i’ve been really enjoying your recent tags! i think it’s so interesting that when the episode starts we see that adrian appears to have the genuine respect of his peers but it def doesnt go both ways, since we also see him unrepentantly spying on them, lmao. columbo’s genuine interest in the thing adrian’s dedicated his life to is definitely what leads to the genuine bond they seem to share by the end, but do you think there’s more to it than that? what do you think it is that makes the two of them click so well?

thanks! i think that part at the beginning is meant to establish just how punctilious and highly respected carsini is at what he does. and like you said that is what ultimately connects the two, the mutual respect for each other's work ethic and dedication to perfection in their life's work.

that quick establishment of mutual respect means that throughout the episode there is, uniquely, almost no animosity between them, save for carsini at the beginning somewhat bristled at columbo's repeated intrusions. but once columbo shows a genuine curiosity about wine, he warms to him very quickly, and instead of bitter spats they have very friendly exchanges; they literally just become Friends. they drink wine together, joke together, explore The Catacombs together. hell, carsini's even glad to be caught(!)--he actually admits he's way more comfortable with the notion of columbo arresting him than he is the notion of having to date his secretary of twelve years. and, of course, he compliments him at the end.

yeah. freedom is getting your crush to handcuff you while giggling and serving you fancy italian dessert wine. we know

the two seem to truly enjoy each other's personalities. columbo gets a kick out of carsini's dry wit and exacting nature, carsini gets a kick out of columbo's...well everything, it seems. even when columbo pretends to close the case and ask him out to dinner (read: A Date, designed to trick him, but still A Date), carsini isn't out there gritting his teeth in an attempt to drive him away. he's genuinely ELATED, he's in a HURRY to get there, he gets MAD when the table is bad and INCENSED when the WINE is bad. he wanted everything about that meal to be sensational. why? not just because he's meticulous, but because that's amore

don't trip over your dick lover boy

waiter this dreamy italian hunk was going to bestow upon me a goodnight kiss until you dared serve him this LIQUID FILTH

speaking of which, i think, too, that the initial bit establishing that they're both italian is important as sharing heritage can sometimes very quickly bridge gaps.

especially when actual prejudice against you was the norm not too long ago

most importantly, these two have phenomenal interpersonal chemistry. you ever start talking to someone and find a rhythm with them so easily that you surprise yourself? these guys are just always on the same wavelength. their banter is subtle, funny, and distinct. theyre so nauseatingly in love with each other that every time they trade shiny-eyed smiles it looks like wedding photography.

so yeah, that's why they're so obviously in love that it sickens me. but don't take it from me...

like them and miss them and even want to kiss them