"your top 15 favourite tv shows can say a lot about your personality!"
Thank you so much for the tag @morkofday 🥰
How could I rank my top shows? They all mean so much to me and are all from different times in my life and from different genres... I can't compare Gilmore Girls to Moonlight Chicken! So without a rating here we go!
Gilmore Girls
The show I watch to feel cozy and comfy! Most of the times I do a rewatch of my favorite episodes in autumn/winter and just enjoy Stars Hollow and all the quirky characters. And I am a huge fan of Lorelei... not her love life, but she is a strong and independet woman and I love that.
Moonlight Chicken
What can I say? I love EarthMix and GeminiFourth! And the story was more of a family drama and something different than the usual GmmTV stuff. The story of letting go of the past and starting a new future, which is scary with all its obstacles, really captured me and I still think of it from time to time.
Pushing Daisies
I love this bitter-sweet story of the unlucky pie baker and the love of his life never been able to touch each other but love each other nevertheless. The criminal cases were interesting and I enjoyed the colorful scenery, but nothing could top my love for Lee Pace. This man...
Unknown
My new favorite show. I loved it from beginning to end. And I don't want to let go of them. The hurt is still too fresh to talk about them 😭 Their story was so well written and the actors were so good in portraying the characters and their inner monologues and thoughts and I love it so much!
Love for Love's Sake
The one show I will never be able to get over. The feelings I felt after it ended were not normal! I was heartbroken! This series means so much to me and Myungha will be forever one of my favorite characters ever! The story is unique and beautiful and so deep! Damn, that is such a good show!
It's okay to not be okay
This show that broke me on so many levels. The amount of tears I shed! It was really a journey and I loved the characters and their growth.
Queer as Folk
I was obsessed with this show and him, Brian Kinney! The topics they showed were, and still are, so important and relevant. It is not just some gay men fucking, but different stories about the community and their problems, fears, breakthroughs and their every day life. And Debbie will be forever this iconic mother figure for all of them and for us too.
The Untamed
I don't know how many shows broke me, but this one... this one hurt so good! It is such a masterpiece of a series. What is good and what is evil and aren't there multiple ways to get to the same goal? There is so much love in this series and so much pain. At its peak I cried for 15 minutes straight... One of my all time favorites, but I couldn't rewatch it yet. The pain is still too real. I convinced my best friend to watch it and now she is mad at me and can't go on with it, because the same scene broke her too and now she is afraid of more pain to come. I understand her so well!
A Breeze of love
Most of the times there is this one show a year that blows me away and I can't get a grip in life afterwards. This year is somehow different as there are already two shows that had this effect on me, but for 2023 it was this here. It is such a simple story and there was nothing special about their story, but I adored it to the max and I rewatched it multiple times. I can't really tell why I love it so much, I just do.
Eureka
This is one of the shows that can easily play in the background when I am doing other things, because I know it by heart. The amount of times I rewatched that is not normal and even though I don't really like the last season that much, the first three are hilarious and just so good!
Friends
And another one I know by heart and could rewatch all the time. This show feels safe and there are so many memories connected here. I watched it after a bad breakup to give me some comfort or when I had a huge fight with my best friend, those friends were there for me. And even now I watch a few episodes when I feel down, because they can lift me up so easily.
Once Again
Aaaand we have another one that broke me! Hurray! Guess I love cozy and comforting shows and those which totally destroy me. Great for me! This one had me sobbing during the whole last two episodes. I have my problems with time travelling, and I don't say it was a good execution here, but I just don't care, because the story is unique and special and I love it.
Be My Favorite
The one that broke me and healed me withing hours. The beginning might be a little bit cringy, but it easily became one of my favorite shows out there. It feels so good to see the character growth and all the love that comes within. I still think about them very fondly.
A Tale Of Thousand Stars
This back hug alone made it one of my favorite shows of all times. But for real, this started my EarthMix-love and I am still not over them. The story is beautiful and the scenery is stunning and the pining is perfect and I have so many emotions about them and this show!
Star Trek - The Next Generation
Since I can remember I am a little trekkie, but only TNG. I love the cast and their adventures. I had a huge crush on Wesley when I was a kid. I watched his episodes so many times, it would be embarrassing, but that was what little Josi's heart wanted... Favorite character is by far Q. All of his episodes are hilarious and brilliant!
It was really difficult to break it down to only 15, because I love TV shows and there are some that I wish I could have put up here, but the rules are the rules.
I am as always lost who did this and who did not, so feel free to ignore me, if you don't want to or already did it! I am tagging @wen-kexing-apologist @pose4photoml @twig-tea and @troubled-mind
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Maisel: An 18 year old Esther announces at Yom Kippur that she’s changing her last name to Weissman-Bruce. Chaos ensues.
So, little personal author fun fact... While my situation was different from Esther's growing up, I very likely would have taken my step father's family name had I not gotten married right out of high school. So stepfather/daughter stuff like this is definitely has a place in my heart.
Love the prompt! Enjoy the chaos ❤️
Yom Kippur 1976
"I changed my name."
The table fell silent for quite possibly the first time in family history. Certainly the first she could remember.
"What?" her mother asked finally, swallowing down her bite of food.
"I changed my last name. I'm not Esther Maisel anymore," she repeated.
More stunned silence followed.
"When?" Mama wondered.
"Just before fall registration. I had been thinking about doing it for a while and it seemed like as good a time as any. Save the hassle of changing it later with school records, signing up for classes, eventual diplomas…"
Papa Abe nodded sagely to himself at her logic. "I do not miss the clerical errors of academia. The number of spelling mistakes I caught at Columbia…"
Pop finally got over his shock enough to speak. Unfortunately.
"What do you mean you changed your name? You're a Maisel."
"Not legally anymore," Esther countered into her wine glass. "At least not according to a lot of paperwork I had to file."
"Don't get smart with me, young lady. This is serious," Pop warned.
"Too late," Chiam muttered under his breath, prompting his mother to choke back a barely stifled laugh.
"What'd she say?" Grandpa Moishe adjusted his hearing aid.
"Esther changed her name," Ethan replied casually, returning to his chicken.
He was the only one who wasn't surprised.
Because he was the only one who already knew.
Grandpa Moishe nodded, satisfied with the answer. "Oh. Good for you, pumpkin."
"I always thought the matching sibling initials was a weird trend," Grandma Shirley chimed.
"So what are we calling you now? Deborah?" Grandpa asked.
Esther groaned. "God no, there's so many Debbies on campus already."
"Are you one of those transexuals, honey? Because we'll still love you no matter what," Grandma Shirley promised.
Ethan nearly spit his drink across the table, earning a pat on the back from Kitty beside him.
"Just as long as you don't go parading around in an ill fitting suit," Grandpa amended.
"Nope. Still Esther Grandma. Not that kind of name change," she replied.
"How do you two know what a transexual is?" Ethan wondered, fighting back a laugh.
Grandma Shirley's eyes lit up at the chance to tell the tale. "We saw that movie! The one with all the singing and the thrusting. It was very sparkly. I think there were aliens at one point?"
"I don't know. I fell asleep around when Meatloaf showed up," Grandpa admitted, unimpressed.
"We thought we were going to see that new boxing movie."
"It was not about boxing."
"The songs were catchy though!"
"Very catchy."
Susie barely concealed her amusement as she looked pointedly across the table at Mama.
"That's so going in your act," she muttered knowingly.
Mama gave her friend a look. It was true, but not the time.
"You can't just change your last name," Pop insisted indignantly.
Her stepfather scoffed. "Why not? I did."
"Stay out of this, Lenny," Pop barked.
"We're in my house," Lenny reminded him.
"And she's my kid," Pop spat back.
Lenny tossed down his napkin and started to stand, the limits of his patience finally reached.
"Oh shit," Uncle Noah breathed, preparing for a scuffle to break out and looking a bit too excited about it.
Mama put a hand on Lenny's arm in an attempt to keep the peace. "Joel–"
"I changed it to Weissman-Bruce," Esther blurted over the mounting chaos, bringing the table to another uncharacteristic standstill.
"What?" Pop looked like he might have an aneurism.
"Really?"
Esther turned at the awe in her stepfather's voice.
"Yes."
Lenny swallowed, his eyes getting misty as Mama squeezed his hand, looking between the two equally touched.
Oh shit. Of all the people she expected to cry during the course of this conversation, her money had not been on Lenny.
Herself, maybe.
Grandma Shirley had been the front runner. But Lenny…
"Cool. Welcome to Team Hyphen," her little sister Lilah quipped, looking up from her book.
Esther couldn't help the breathless laugh that escaped her. "Thanks Birdie," she whispered.
"We'll teach you the secret handshake later," Ari offered, earning himself a light smack on the back of the head from Mei.
He gave Esther a wink across the table all the same, the lovable little mensch.
She smiled and gave him a nod in agreement.
It would have been so easy to resent her half sibling, to blame him for the way her relationship with their father had disintegrated over the years, for taking him away from her and Ethan.
But she was smarter than that. She'd learned pretty quickly that the kids aren't the ones responsible for their parents' choices.
And frankly she'd take her little brother over Pop just about any day of the week these days.
"You traded my name for his?" Pop growled, gesturing derisively to Lenny.
Mei turned to glare at him. "Joel–"
But Lenny wasn't the only one done with putting up with Joel Maisel for the evening.
"For fucks sake Pop, not everything is about you!" she cried.
"Language, young lady," Grandma Shirley gasped.
She barely registered the rebuke, venting, "It's not like I'm the only one left to carry on the family name for the next generation or some bullshit. You've got two sons. That's their job!"
Ethan looked up mid-bite. "It is?"
"That and dispatching really big bugs," Kitty confirmed in mock sympathy.
"Esther!" Grandma Rose reprimanded.
She rolled her eyes. "Grandma please. I was raised by two of the most foul mouthed entertainers in the country and had Susie as one of my primary babysitters. That is not the worst thing that has been said by a member of this family by a longshot."
"Why am I getting dragged into this?" Susie wondered through a bite of kugel.
Ari looked up. "Wait, what's our job?"
"Procreation and extermination, apparently," Ethan chuckled.
"College first," Mei reminded him in a veiled warning.
"What brought this about?" Mama wondered gently.
Esther exhaled a sigh. "I just…I'm going to be a scientist someday. And Mama, as much as I respect the work you've done to build your career, I can't walk into every classroom, interview, and workplace and hear 'oh hey just like the foxy comedienne who tells all those dick jokes! Say, you kind of look like her too'. I just can't. It's already hard enough getting anyone to take me seriously. I have always been a Weissman anyway. Papa Abe has said so since before I could read. It will make things easier and it just…felt right. So I did it. I didn't know how to tell you before."
"It's okay sweetie," her mother reassured her, taking her hand.
"So why tack Bruce on the end? People know his name too, you know. Why not just leave it at Weissman?" Pop demanded.
Her mother glared at him.
"You wanna know why?" Esther laughed mirthlessly. "Because he's earned it. I've earned it. Lenny has been more of a father to me in the past 14 years than you ever have been."
"What are you talking about? I've been there for you!"
"You've been in Chicago on and off for almost my entire childhood!"
She shook her head, so fed up she wasn't sure if she wanted to laugh or cry.
"And you know what? I get it. You felt like you had to follow Mei when she got her residency because of true love or whatever and yeah Mei is amazing. I get you not wanting to give up on that. And then Ari came along and that made things complicated. I get that part now. But as a little kid all I knew then was that Daddy left. Again."
To his credit, Pop did look genuinely pained by her reply. "I split my time as best I could..."
"For a while, yeah," she admitted. "But it only took a few years before it felt like you stopped trying. Even when you were here it never felt like you cared. You'd check in with Ethan but sometimes I wondered if you even remembered I was there. And don't say you didn't know how to talk to me because you never even tried. Meanwhile, Lenny…"
She blinked back tears thinking about all this so openly. "God, even when he was going through hell fighting for his career, dodging obscenity convictions by the skin of his teeth, staying sober when it would have been so much easier to fall off the wagon, he always was there for us when we needed him. He always cared. Always. And he never once stopped trying to do right by our family. He's the one who actually taught me how to ride a bike instead of just saying 'here watch your brother do it'. He's the one who helped me with my debate homework when the thought of public speaking made me want to hurl and let me talk his ear off about music and dumb science fiction novels and what Karen said in home economics and didn't laugh when I had to wear headgear for six months. I had braces by the way. But you wouldn't know that because you ran off to Chicago and left us."
"Esther…"
"I visited. I called. I'm here now. I–"
"So that just makes it all okay? I'm supposed to feel grateful? Honored to share your name because you decided to waltz back to New York now that Ethan's back stateside?"
She shook her head, getting up from the table.
"I'm still your father."
"No. No you're not."
"Esther."
"I need some air."
"Esther!"
"Joel." Mei put a hand on his arm. "Let her go."
It was Susie who eventually broke the silence, reaching for another piece of challah.
"You guys always did know how to throw one hell of a break fast."
The fall air was a welcome reprieve from inside as she collected herself on the fire escape.
"Room out here for one more?"
She smiled slightly as Lenny came to sit beside her on the cool metal.
They let the sounds of the city fill the silence between them, Esther eventually letting herself slump against his shoulder.
"I didn't mean to tell everyone like that. It just…"
"It's okay, sweetie," he murmured, wrapping an arm around her.
She nodded, sniffling as she wiped at her face with the back of her hand. "I don't care what he thinks. As far as I'm concerned he lost his fathering privileges a long time ago."
"You're an adult now. You get to decide what your relationship with him looks like."
She nodded again. Somehow it didn't make her feel better.
"What you said back there…"
"I know you haven't always been perfect but at least you've always tried. You did the work. You never stopped trying to be there for us. And you've owned up to your mistakes. I don't think he's ever done that."
She swallowed, looking up at him shyly.
"Is…is it too late to ask if I can call you Dad?"
Lenny smiled softly, hugging her tighter. "You can call me whatever you want. But Dad would be pretty fucking great."
"I've wanted to for a long time," she admitted. "I did once. Not to you, just to myself for a little while. Trying it out in my head back when you and Mama first got married. I slipped up and called you dad when I was talking to him over about… I don't know, some plans we had for the weekend or whatever. He took it about like he did back there on a smaller scale. I still wanted to call you Dad but I was little and wasn't brave enough to stand up to him. I was afraid I'd slip up and set him off. I guess I grew out of that."
"You and your mother sure know how to throw down a tirade when someone pushes you hard enough, I'll give you that," he chuckled. "But I'm proud of you for standing your ground. I mean it."
"He just makes me so mad sometimes. The way he just pretends everything is fine and normal no matter how long it's been."
"Oh I get it." Lenny shook his head. "We've had a tenuous truce over the years for the sake of you kids but…"
He let out a sigh through his nose.
"For what it's worth, I've always considered you and your brother my kids, no matter what you called me. Just as much as Kitty and Lilah."
"I know."
"You gonna be okay?"
Esther nodded. "Yeah."
He leaned over to kiss her hair before getting to his feet. "Love you."
He paused at the window before climbing in.
"I'm not saying you have to forgive him or let him in your life in any capacity you don't want to…But try not to stay too mad at him forever. It's not good for your health."
She heaved a tired sigh, knowing he was right.
"Maybe just a little longer?"
Lenny chuckled. "Okay. You've earned it."
"Hey...Will you let me know when he's gone so I can have some honey cake?"
Lenny nodded. "I'll send someone out with a big slice in a few minutes. That way you don't have to fight Susie for the last bit."
She smiled genuinely at that.
"Thanks Dad."
Lenny nodded, looking a little watery again at hearing her say it.
Finally.
"No problem kiddo."
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