2. If you could visit anywhere in the world where would it be and why?
3. What is something you love learning about?
Hello Dee
1. Super hard question! I can't pick just one. But I remember when I was maybe 18 I wasn't feeling too well at that time and I went on a beach vacation with my mom, my brothers, their respective partners and a family friend. We rented a house just next to the beach, and it had a shared garden and a pool, and one night we were drunk and playing games, and a huge storm rolled in, and we danced in the rain in the garden and it was a whole mess, but I hadn't felt this happy in months, and it was great.
2. I wanna go to Japan, because I'm a basic weeaboo yes, but mainly because it seems so beautiful and I'd love to be able to hike there.
3. PEOPLE. HI. I'M A PSYCHOLOGIST. PLEASE TELL ME EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU. I WANNA UNDERSTAND HOW YOU, I, WE FUNCTION. WHAT MAKES US WHO WE ARE. WHY. HOW. WHEN. WHERE. ARE YOU OKAY.
anyway. after rewatching paddys pub home of the original kitten mittens im still left astoundingly upset at how joyce and dees relationship develops over time. watching them together in these earlier seasons, theyre so so unbelievably good for each other, in the sense they only they would fit together in the way they do. the bit about the lady eating an entire aleeve of chips ahoy is such a cute little moment between them. despite the fact that they would never have willingly become friends with each other, despite how theyre so so fundamentally different people, they still bond. they still have so much they share. under the surface theyre soulmates just as much as the rest of the gang is, they just happened to get into a lesbian situationship and then never recovered. which. like. it happens to the best of us i suppose
HE HAD IT COMING LMAOO. is it bad i started laughing when the mansion blew up (only bc i already knew it was gonna happen) when his younger two daughters started singing i joined in i literally said βur both gonna dieeeeee cuz ur daddy is gonna blow you guys up πΆβΊοΈβ IM EVIL ππ
Dude I feel the exact same way, like the internet sucks in so many ways but also the amount of people it has introduced me to that I would never have met, and the love that comes off the back of that is something so ridiculously special. Itβs given me an incredible connection to my heritage that I would have never had the opportunity to get in this way, and I have so many friends from all over the world that I feel so privileged to have the opportunity to know it just makes me all π₯°π₯°π₯°
Also I love you lots and lots !!!
Exactlyyy and when I see you interacting with these other people I love here, I'm like wow we're really all in this together and sharing the love! It really makes me feel so emotional because it's so random that we're all here now from wherever we're from bonding around and beyond this specific thing in this corner of the Internet and like ahhhhh π₯Ί I love how I love you and you love these people I love too and they love you back and this is so good π
Iβm sure it hasnβt escaped your notice but I was just rewatching the high school reunion eps and Charlie is the one who argues that Dee deserves a place on the freight train after the guys tell her to get lost πππ something about how the freight train never denied a loser in need? He genuinely likes herrrrβ¦.. anyway thatβs it thatβs the ask
thank you SO much for this ask....not only are you so fucking right but you've also set off a HUGE avalanche of feelings about their interactions in these episodes. it is doing SO MUCH with their attitudes to each other & to social status & how those things intersect
(don't even get me started on this bit ^ the way it instantly communicates that charlie not only understands the importance of the social hierarchy & knows his exact place within it, but also accepts it as just. a fact of nature. addresses it openly, frankly & straightforwardly. he is so aware of & so resigned to his place in the world dude it fucking kills me. it's so much sadder than if he was oblivious or delusional about it. he started internalising this shit from the moment he was born anyways)
dee & charlie are the only ones in the gang who display this ^ kind of desperate, sycophantic admiration for the cool kids. it's the same desire to fit in that drives them both every day in their normal interactions with the gang. and they both get it. charlie understands & accepts what's driving dee to bully him, because it's the same thing that normally drives him to bully her
and then when she wants to join the freight train!!! god thank you for drawing my attention back to this moment. first off, he simply wants her around bc he genuinely does just enjoy her company. secondly, he's taking pity on her bc as discussed, he knows they suffer from the same sickness
and thirdly, there is a dash of something more uh...let's say more selfish in his motivations here, too
if you look at the 'initiation' scene, mac & frank are visibly laughing β charlie isn't, though it does seem like he's enjoying it. possibly taking it slightly more seriously than the others. mac & frank are having fun torturing dee in a very surface-level way, while charlie is getting some deeper psychological satisfaction out of bringing her back down to his level
as for this exchange which ends with them just wordlessly staring at each other......
this is just sexual behaviour idc idc!! this is charlie being jealous of both dee and adriano!!! partly disappointed that they're not gonna bang, partly smug about it
like, this is lowkey possessive behaviour. they are back on the bottom together again.