#honestly I could watch this forever

[llamasofchaos]

Watching Smithers completely lose his head over watching Alex being marched into the compound in cuffs and a hood was nice. It felt like season 2 was setting up this relationship between Alex and Smithers, and so to see him get so upset about what happened to Alex was really satisfying.

In season one they set it up so that it seemed like only Mrs. Jones seemed to care about what happened to Alex, and then in season two it seemed like only Smithers was paying attention to the impact Point Blanc had on Alex.

But in season three literally everyone except for Blunt is paying attention and is grieving for the mistake they made. Even Crowley is incredibly upset at the state that Alex is in and we haven't gotten to see much of them.

[einaudis]

ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. ANDREW HAIGH

[luminousstardust]

sorry but laura and marisha acting their hearts out every week and giving us the queer performance of a lifetime…. with the love AND the drama AND angst AND occasional fluff…….. literally roleplaying themselves to TEARS because they care about these characters so much gets to me so bad. as a wlw who’s lived through every iteration of queerbait and horribly shitty representation it just feels so good getting to watch imodna get together mid-campaign and not just at the very end so we get to watch them GROW with each other and NOT BE PERFECT and have ISSUES that come with their whole end-of-the-world thing but trying their very best to work them out because they want nothing more than the other to be happy and safe…………. yeah i’m never going to be the same again.

[uncanny-tranny]

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If you hate your body, do not achieve the body you want out of hate.

I know what you're thinking: starve yourself, run yourself into the ground, faster cardio, no carbs, no sugar.

You're reaching a perceived level of health at the expense of your actual health. If you expedite the process without doing the internal work, you're fucked. Now, I know there's some people who are finally happy and, uh, thinner body and I'm not talking to you, okay? Please, separate yourself from the equation and listen to what I'm saying.

It is so much more rewarding if you just improve your lifestyle. I just got my 10,000 steps on this beautiful day. I didn't do it to burn calories, I did it because I get to. I'm gonna go train legs now, I fucking love squatting and deadlifting! I love being strong! I have more time today, so I'm gonna take my time to cook a delicious, nutritious lunch. I'm not grinding, I'm not fasting, I'm not just having protein. I'm not doing burpees in-between my sets.

When you do this from an extreme standpoint, you're abandoning your quality of life. Therefore, you'll be more resentful. And because you're so resentful, you'll constantly be looking for validation, and it will never be good enough, and you'll be chasing a body that's impossible to reach 'cause your standards are too high. Just chase health! It's so much more rewarding, and you don't have to answer to fucking anybody!

[anonymouscreampuff]

sometimes you just gotta draw sad old men

ft marcy and the vampire king(who technically is an old man)

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

"trio built like a sitcom" is just SUCH a good tag I love it

I MEAN LOOK AT THEM, ALL THEY NEED IS A LAUGH TRACK AND A COUCH

[bunnihearted]

regardless of the "learn how to be alone" dravel, being lonely actually is really bad for your mental health and can be very painful :p

[junglejim4322]

One of the best rules I ever put in place for myself since I was a teenager is I strictly and with no exceptions do not check up on or look up or ask about anybody I don’t have contact with anymore unless I have the express intention of getting back in contact with them again. No exes no ex friends no family members nothing. I do not check if they’re doing well or dating someone or even if they’re alive because there’s no reason I need to know that would do me any good and it amazes me how much significantly faster I got over things when I started sticking to this and how quickly I stopped thinking about things that happened or people entirely after. I don’t even just mean things that ended badly though that’s where it made the highest difference but anyone who is no longer in my life even for completely innocuous reasons too. I don’t need to be thinking about what they’re doing or what they’re up to or how things would’ve been if we still knew eachother because they don’t have anything to do with me anymore. Etc

[juney-blues]

99% of conversations on anarchism about here are hampered by people having no clue what anarchists are talking about when they refer to "the state", including, it seems, the anarchists themselves.

[protoindoeuropean]

So, he has a new series out so I was reminded of my obsession with Ding Yuxi again and in watching some YT video about the new series I was again struck by how fascinating it is to me how different his looks can be. For example, when I watched the first series with him in the main role (The Romance of Tiger and Rose; which yes, I'll readily admit, I agreed to watch in a large part because I saw him on the poster and was like, well, I wouldn't mind seeing more of this 😏), there were two ~versions of him – in the historical and the modern setting:

And like yeah they all wear those wigs in historical dramas so that's not particularly remarkable, right. Little did I know that this was just a tiny tip of the iceberg

Because then when I went to look him up afterwards on YT etc. and the first pictures I saw were these:

about which I was at first like, is that even him? Like the face is just ... not the same in these? But ok, what do I know, anyway ... And then I watched an interview where he has yet another different look, and that seemed kind of in between, so that "bridged the gap" in a way. And then! – in that same interview – they juxtaposed him with another of his earlier looks:

and it's like, who tf is this person ?

It's just, idk, really amazing how much just different hairstyles, lighting, makeup, accessories will do. Obsessed

Other interview looks are nothing extreme

And obviously there's supposed to be more variety when looking at the different roles

But still, sometimes I'm just like, this is one person .....

And like, sure, these looks obviously aren't impossibly different, but comparing the different ends of the spectrum can be pretty wild

In any case, the one that brought all of this about was this latest one:

and idk at this point I shouldn't be surprised anymore. And yet ...

Anyway, I do actually love his acting too lmao

It really is ... delectable 😌

[fadelikeclouds]

Bad Buddy Thoughts

I finished this drama a few months ago, but I’m only now writing down my thoughts because life. All in all, I really really enjoyed it.

The way Pran and Pat have been raised to hate and compete with each other is depicted comically in the beginning with their parents acting petty over trash can placements and asking for better blessings for their sons. And even the scenes with the elementary schoolers Pran and Pat come off as funny (the amount of sass these kids exhibit with their facial expressions had me cackling). But then the narrative reveals that they don’t hate each other. Pran saved Pa from drowning, Pat and Pran were in a band together in high school, and now, in university, the two of them are working together to keep their two faculties from fighting. And from that point on, I was hooked. What was really going on between these two?

Then we find out that Pran has been in love with Pat since high school, and everything that was comical just starts to be heart-breaking. Because what is he supposed to do with his feelings when he's in love with someone who he isn't even supposed to be friends with?

There’s pining, secret friends to secret “I’m going to make you fall for me first”. They are flirtatiously antagonistic with each other in such a delicious way. Being in love doesn’t overwhelmingly change their dynamic, it just adds some sweetness to it. They still compete with each other. They still tease each other. They still throw their tin can phones across to each other to chat. It feels like they always loved each other, and the story is just about how they find their jumbled path towards the other.

[bibleofficial]

need you to know i genuinely enjoy your blog - part of what makes it great is that its clear that you go outside and party and fuck!! so many people in this website just don’t fuck 🤧

omg !!! ❤️❤️❤️ don’t replicate my sin u will go to hell

[archersgaymerblog]

Very interesting to me seeing the difference in posts abt the Fallout show in the FO4 tag versus the FNV tag. Feel like I’m learning a lot for someone who’s not gonna watch the show LMAO

[starbuck]

sometimes all it takes is noticing one interesting narrative construction to take a film from “it was fine i guess” to “i feel like these guys having terrible, fucked up sex would compliment the themes really well”

[mayonneise]

okay i think in addition to just. really enjoying the look of stuff shot on film i just am not a huge fan of like. super diffused lighting

[inkandpaintleopard]

So how was your summer break?

I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS, adjusting and stuff

I mean, it was… I just felt happy. I mean y’know I don’t know how much I’m allowed to disclose over the open internet, but like… long story short, it was the first summer in while where I felt ok with not being productive 24/7. No summer break has felt as long and good as that one since 2020. I was at a place that I’ve always loved, but I have a way brand new appreciation for. I mean I literally got lost in the neighborhood alone at night holding valuable items, and I felt completely safe. I also went to a cool movie making place (a bunch of my family works in The Industry™️) and received cool life advice that I’m still thinking about. It was definitely an Experience. The first day back at school has never felt so odd and foggy, and the night before had never felt so much like death

Woah you probably just wanted a “it was good” or something. It was good. I watched Despicable Me 3 like five times. Then I bought it so I can watch it like five hundred more