#i TOTALLy forgot i made that gifset

[slitherpunk]

The Cartomancy Anthology! An anthology of 22 games in one, each inspired by a major arcana tarot card.

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[samanthamulder]

hellooooo

[mihotose]

yasusada on music station!

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[buckysteve]

in retrospect i do kind of regret deactivating my old blogs bc it’s so hard finding old gifsets and i’m quite proud of some of those

[42bakery]

ok. as someone who has only knows motogp is a race and has only seen a few gif’s. I am now captivated but can u please tell/direct me to a primer because i am missing the LORE! with marc especially can we start there!!

Hi anon 👋👋👋👋

I'm actually the worst person to talk if you want lore from Marc. I can tell you that people say that All In and The Rookie, both documentaries about Marc are good (Didn't watch any). I can tell you to look or ask to @usermarquez or @marcsmarquez (please don't bother Emma too much, she's not having the best moment at the time) for Marc lore.

Keeping with the documentaries, @kingofthering @marquezian or @kwisatzworld (They are more Vale orientated, but Marc and Vale history sometimes interact) did a compilation of all Marc documentaries. They also post about other documentaries they watch and make gifset, so I recommend if you want to learn about the sport in general.

Another way to learn about Marc that I would recommend is looking at Box Repsol (page or YouTube) and Honda (YouTube) because they used to make riders talk about themselves and do silly challenges, which sometimes they made them relax. There's even a interview where Marc interviews himself and ask the questions journalist doesn't ask but he wants to hear.

If you want sources in general, then MotoGP did their equivalent of Drive to Survive, it's on Amazon Prime and it's called MotoGP Unlimited. They follow all riders for the 2021 season and they do it mostly chronologically and no added drama all bullshit. The only downside is that it's in their mother tongue (Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and Portuguese (Did Taka speak in Japanese at some point?)) but includes subtitles (a bit incorrect to clean some images and to appeal the American market), but overall was good. I recommend you get used to need subtitles because those guys refuse to speak English when they are in the same room when they use Italian or Spanish to communicate with everyone (they also talk with their hands, but that's for another moment).

For general learning, there's Hitting the Apex, it's a bit old, but gives you a sense of what MotoGP is. And more recently MotoGP also did There Can Be Only One, which follows the more important riders or the ones called to fight for the tittle for the whole year. It has 2 season and can be found on MotoGP Videopass (you have to pay) or in YouTube. If you get Videopass (it's expensive, but you can watch all races all year long and races up to 2000s or maybe 1990s) you can search and find other MotoGP exclusive content.

I highly recommend for anyone to watch whatever has the DORNA seal of approval because 1) the racing scenes are directly taken from a real races and 2) DORNA likes to keep things real. No fake drama all bullshit, probably they will spin it to look wholesome.

Now if you want podcast or other sources I think I need to call Ash @motocorsas and @its-always-silly-season for that.

I'm sorry for not being able to help a lot more. If you would have asked me about Dani Pedrosa or Pedrenzo, then I'm totally your girl.

Sorry if I forgot to include any Marc expert of If I forgot something, I'm actually inviting all of you to help and guide this anon to learn about MotoGP and Marc.

[barbieaemond]

Love when some of y’all reblogs one of my very old gifsets that I totally forgot and it starts going around so I’m like hey buddy long time no see I wasn’t even aware I made you

[andoqin]

List of dramas that I am watching or want to watch, just for personal record reasons:

Cdramas:

The ingenious one (36/36): this drama has blown me away so far with its incredibly nuanced and sharp writing, its love stories between all the major couples and the absolutely magnificent cinematography. FINISHED verdict: HIGHLIGHT drama of the year for me so far. Smart, engaging, complicated, peak romance of all sorts, just what the doctor ordered tbh (overly long review can be found in my tags). 9.5

Chang Feng Du (40/40): I did not realise how close to the end I was. This drama is very pleasant and I adore our mains, but sadly except for a few highlights (the early beating gjs put on himself, the destruction of the gu family and the aftermath, the battle for wangdu) the writing hasn’t been able to keep the narrative tension up which is sad. FINSHED verdict: Very pretty and engaging in the beginning kinda loses me in the second half and then fizzles out emotionally, doesn't crash and burn but doesn't exactly stick the landing either 6.5

Gone with the rain (10/30): adore the gremlin4gremlin couple and from the spoilers I’ve seen not gonna adore much else

An ancient love song (1/16): incredible first episode and with only 30 min per ep and 16 eps in total this is gonna be a short fun ride I hope ( with lots of angst and tears naturally).

Here we meet again (18/32): started this for Wu Qian playing to type and Zhang BinBin being pretty but oh boy I’m struggling I just don’t care about the conflicts and in s surprising twist, I like the flashbacks to high school much much more, which is very funny if you think about the fact that the reason I started liking wu qian in the first place was because of her show stealing performance in the flashbacks of My Sunshine. I’ve been promised kisses in the near future so I’m gonna hold out till then but this might end up another drop.

Hidden Love (5/25): this one promises to be v sweet and kinda short but oh my god I have so many dramas on my plate rn so this might end up the first drop.

Till the end of the moon (22/40): I think I watched ep 1 when it started but then I got busy and now I am just staring at gifsets and crying, it’s definitely on the list to watch tho.

Heroes (6?/38): I started this a while ago, was really into it and then got busy… dammit. I might just rewatch the beginning so I can remember most of the set up for sure but man the visuals on this were so good, aaaa liu yuning.

Blood of youth (0/40): the last 12 months really have spoiled us with interesting looking wuxia dramas and this one is definitely on the list, I have been gifbaited once again.

Ray of light (0/30): usually hs dramas are something I avoid, but because I will not be watching the longest promise, for reasons, and bc @storge is a gifmaking temptress, this has made it on the list.

The legend of anle (0/39): Lmao trust YOUKU to screw up the release with bad subs only 1 ep even for vips and no released schedule… but at least I can put this on the backburner for now. Lmao should have known not to trust a youku dilreba drama, the tl has soundingly spoken and I'm gonna avoid this.

Ancient Detective (0/24): I was recced this by a friend when I mentioned my love for wuxia dramas, and since it’s almost shockingly short for a cdrama it’s on the list. EDIT: this got @purplehanfus seal of approval so it is def going up the list and since it's complete I'll probably at least watch it before the ongoing ones.

Butterflied love (0/22): see I barely made this post and already forgot about the screencap that got me started on writing it, the screencapa look great, but the drama is on mango, so who knows when I’ll truly be able to watch this

When I fly towards you (0/24): Well, I wasn't interested bc modern youth drama, but then I heard it described as "updated It Started with a Kiss" and... I'm weak? ISWAK was pretty much my crack gateway into asian dramas and while IDK if i could rewatch it today, something in me will always love this kind of story. Maybe it's like a quick palate cleanser in between since apparently eps are only about 30 mins.

Mysterious Lotus Casebook(0/40): CHENG YIIIII, in a possibly bromantic role? Or maybe het romance, I'll take it all. Plus I've already seen he's bleeding copious amounts as per his contract, so that's most of the checklist done.

Lost You Forever (0/??): because nature abhors a vacuum I apparently must have?? A minimum to watch pile and this actually and genuinely looks good??? A Yang Zi drama in 2023??? The mind boggles. Anyway I've been reading the recaps with delight, and am def going to watch this when part two airs in a couple of months but until then I have a thankful reprieve...

Kdramas:

See you in my 19th life (4/12): since kdramas release so slowly this is on the backburner but it does have some great gifsets that keep enticing meee

King the land (2/16): I am watching this for junho but it is kinda hard bc I have so much else on my plate and while I don’t mind a classic romcom type story I feel I need a bit more of an emotional hook

Story of the nine-tailed 1938 (0/16): so so many gorgeous and hilarious gifsets so little time. I loved season one so so much and the fact that this focuses on the brotherly relationship?? Extremely smart writing decisions were made!

The red sleeve (0/16): I blame @dangermousie for this she keeps reblogging angsts junho on my dash and I am but god’s weakest warrior.

Love tractor (0/8): gay himbo farmboy falls in love?? You bet this is on the list

Lady durian (0/?): ok this is only on the list for crack reasons but, daughter in law is in love with mother in law and both women are like 40+ truly kdramas have entered a new era and I kinda wanna be here for that

EDIT: Revenant (0/12): Kim Tae Ri in a spooky drama? POSSIBLY POSSESSED KIM TAE RI??? how could i forget to put her on this list, plus it was written by the Kingdom writer and I adore that drama plus it's only 12 eps which is smart in this case so... let's hope i get to it at some point D:

My dearest (2/20): I checked this out because it's got pretty much everything going for it from a production standpoint and boy did the first two eps deliver. This has got 2 seasons though so I'll probably wait until the second season is airing, since it won't be too long till season 2 or so the internet tells me.

My lovely liar (0/16): minhyun learned to act and I wanna see it happen!!

Jdramas:

Our dining table (2/10): ok this category is gonna be a bit shorter bc I haven’t watched too much drama recently but omg the gifs for this I am just crying thinking about it they look so cute??

Jack o‘frost (0/6): people have recced it and it’s short so here it is.

Utsukushii kare s2 (0/4): Season 1 was an unexpected delight so I hope s2 works just as well.

She loves to cook and she loves to eat (0/10): the manga for this is amazing (and hungry making) so I hope this adaptation holds up.

Ok this list is in no way exhaustive (well except for me being exhausted just trying toward this down) and probably subject to change ( I haven’t even looked at thaidramas or twdramas I gotta stop for now) but hopefully this will keep me on the ball and maybe I can add to it whenever a new tempting gifset crosses my dash…

[zykamiliah]

i had to watch ep 12 really fast because there are so many gifsets and screenshots in tumblr qwq

well i really don't have anyone to talk about my impressions of the anime and the finale, so here it goes

more than anything, i loved the journey, how every episode was a parenting adventure for those three.

the ending was fitting, if a little bit rushed and contrived (really, of all things to take to an armed assault in the assassin's stronghold, they forgot to wear bulletproof vests? but anyway, not important)

i liked rei's character development too, i loved that by the end he became his own person.

THE WAY I YELLED AT MY SCREEN WHEN F*CKING OGINO. MAN JUST DIE ALREADY. WHAT WAS HE MADE OF, A WALL OF BRICKS? GODS. His death was so so so satisfying.

i love that the french toast somehow became this symbol for their little family, or more accurately, the way it symbolizes their effort to be a family, to keep trying to change and improving themselves. and they achieve, specially rei, and the french toast becomes their specialty.

I LOVED GROWN UP MIRI 😭♥ i totally get why kazuki gets sentimental, i would too

sarcastically laughing at the anime team's commitment to NO HOMO-ing 'til the very end. was there really a need to say that kazuki had gone to meet a woman the night before? tbh i feel it's a bit insulting to the fanbase, because i know that a lot of people that watch it will at least see them in a decidedly romantic light, if they aren't outright shipping it. but then i think about amatonormativity about the fact they ARE a family and it doesn't matter that if kazuki and rei are sexual partners or not. food for thoughts. i would love to hear other people's opinions on this

what a journey! it was very fun. i cried my eyeballs out every damn episode. totally worth it

[brynnasaurus]

Favorite TV 2023

Succession + The Bear: I can’t choose between my fucked up, messy children. Both shows were just so phenomenally brilliant this year, I cannot be held responsible for the amount of gifsets I have reblogged from both. 

Reservation Dogs: Gonna miss this show so, so, so much. I will never stop recommending this show to anyone who will listen. It’s so lovely, so warm, so funny, so human. 

Somebody Somewhere: Res Dogs might be over, but this show is here to take up the mantle of quiet celebration of small midwest communities with big, beautiful hearts and goofy senses of humor. Don’t sleep on this one, guys!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Am I putting SNW this high on the list partly because I still feel bad I forgot it on last year’s list? Or because it’s an absolute delight that made me fall in love with Star Trek again? Why not both?! They did a goddamn musical episode, guys! Spock had a whole song about math!!!!!!!!

Slow Horses: Secret MVP of the Apple TV lineup. Pure pulpy fun.

Doctor Who Specials: Despite being an active part of Superwholock on this here website back in ye olden times, I fell off with Doctor Who somewhere in the Capaldi years and never checked back in. Even when it was announced RTD, Tennant & Tate were coming back I must admit I rolled my eyes a bit, assumed the worst, and didn’t give it much thought. And then approximately five minutes into the first special, when Ten Fourteen first sees Donna, I immediately started crying and realized that maybe I needed this, they needed this, we all needed this, and that despite all of its inherent silliness, Doctor Who still has the ability to be just absolutely special in a way few other shows can. I’m back in, baby, and totally psyched for what Ncuti Gatwa is going to do.

Jury Duty: Was very nervous about how this one was going to go, to be honest. The premise seemed a bit mean-spririted, and in less thoughtful hands this could have really gone a different way. But it wasn’t agonizing at all - it actually turned out to be an endearing celebration of kindness and human decency, and honestly we could all do with more of that these days.

Barry: But hey, if an endearing celebration of kindness and human decency isn’t up your alley, then boy is Barry is the show for you! It really was bleak AF in its final run but it turns out Bill Hader is an even better filmmaker than he is a comic actor (and he is an amazing comic actor, to be clear!)

How To with John Wilson: This show has always been so weird, so surprising, so surreal, so authentically New York. You never knew what kind of journey you were going to go on with John Wilson and his camera, but you always knew you were always going to have a great time - I will miss it very much.

Honorable Mentions: 

Watching Through My Fingers: Beef, The Last of Us

Sometimes a Nostalgia Play Can Be Good, Actually: Party Down, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Justified: City Primeval

Sometimes All You Need Are Shows that Make You Smile: Starstruck, Shrinking, Only Murders in the Building, Minx

Always a Fun, Goofy Time: The Righteous Gemstones, Star Trek Lower Decks, What We Do In The Shadows

Feels Weird Putting a Show That Hasn’t Finished Its Season Yet on a Best of List (what if gets bad at the end?!) but I’ve Been Loving It So Far: Fargo

Batshit Insane (Complimentary): Mrs. Davis

Kinda Dumb But I Love It Anyway: The Gilded Age

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Special Shoutout to Billions, which never really makes these lists but I thought had a super fun final season and has always been reliably entertaining for its whole run.

Previous Years

[eddiediaaz]

fuck it friday saturday

thank you @leothil for tagging me! it’s my first time being tagged in one of these hehe. i’m no writer tho, so i could share which (creative) gifset i worked on this week? it’s far from being done! this is basically just some quick concept i did to help me choose scenes for the lyrics and see how they all look together. there will be 6 gifs in total and i’ll for sure color them, refine the blending, and have different typography. oh and remove the viewfinder from the door because it’s so annoyingly in the middle of buck’s face lol

and there’s also this gif i made literally months ago and totally forgot about it until yesterday. i should continue this gifset this week!

i’m tagging @tawaifeddiediaz @evanbuckx @swiftiebuckleys @bucksghost @rogerzsteven @gayedmundodiaz​ @fatedbuddie​, if you want of course (no pressure)! 

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

TWO TOWERS THOUGHTS!!!!

there are more of these bc the two towers is probably my favourite of the trilogy, despite the distinct LACK of boromir 😔

BUT i did notice a few things that baby birb totally ignored or forgot about!!! find out what they are........below 😈

one of baby birb's fav shots of aragorn was when he's lying across a rock tracking merry and pippin bc it reminded me of that one episode spongebob squarepants where the lads end up riding a rock to the customer's house 🤣 'it's not a boulder, it's a rock! a big, beautiful ROCK!!' lmao

baby birb ALSO loved all the shots of everyone running. as a smol individual, i had to run EVERYWHERE to keep up with the Tall Folk 😒 sure it was nice seeing THOSE feckers sprinting for a change!!

am still very confused about why anyone listened to grima what's his name, ur man's half the way to gollum u know 👀

tangential to the running scenes: i love aragorn's doofy run where he's flinging his one arm about like a silly. reminds me of my OWN unhinged run 🤣 (it is possible that these films are more deeply imprinted upon me than i thought 😅)

'LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!!!'

legolas's FACE every time he has an emotion. delightful

knowing that viggo mortensen broke his toe made me laugh at the helmet kicking scene tbh, i know it's meant to be poignant but that EXTREMELY REALISTIC scream of pain got me going like 🤣

shout out to treebeard holding merry and pippin in his tree hands. i kept thinking 'what if he just. smashes them together like barbie dolls 🤣'

ORCSES. HOBBITSES. i actually love gollum-smeagol, he's too pathetic for me to hate. HE'S LITERALLY SAT THERE SINGING HIS LIL SONG AND EATING A RAW FISH. LEAVE HIM GO HE'S NOT BOTHERING ANYONE ;A;

that gifset ruined everything for me. 'this forest is old......very old....' old as balls. that's just the line now. i no longer acknowledge the original. 😔

cheeky gandalf!! 'u wouldn't part an old man from his walking stick!! 🥺😳😘🤭🙄' (<- this is how birb thought using emojis worked a scant five years ago. be GRATEFUL i was not on tumblr back then, for the carnage would have been GREAT AND TERRIBLE!!!)

i love love LOVE the scene of the trio beating the shite out of the bg guys while gandalf walked slowly toward the king. u just see legolas punching a dude in the face, aragorn ZOOMING round in front of gandalf and off to the side, it's hilarious 🤣

whEN THEY TOSS GRIMA DOWN THE STAIRS LIKE JGY 👀

so many ICONIC lines!!! 'boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!!'

'it's the beards 👀'

U DROP ARAGORN OFF A CLIFF???? OH! OH! JAIL FOR ORCS!! JAIL FOR ORCS FOR 1000 YEARS!!!!

rip eowyn, she's so lonely and sad that the slightest validation from a hot guy she's known for five minutes was enough to make her fall stupid in love with him 😔

(i am also stupid in love with him, but it's different when i do it bc. um. uhhhh. 👀😳)

god he IS great tho, isn't he??? he's so dirty and greasy and wet and soggy, i love him and his dirty face and his dirty clothes and his dirty hands i love him i love him i lo

legolas got SO ANGRY about the orc telling them aragorn went over the cliff, he took it SO PERSONALLY. this makes birb want them to kiss each other 😊

they can kiss gimli as well, i don't mind!!

also the king awkwardly patting legolas on the shoulder like he's a slightly homophobic dad trying to comfort his gay son after a break-up, 'i still care about u but im super uncomfortable so im just not gonna say anything ok?? ok. manly head nod. im out 😐'

OPEN MOUTH KISSING??? BEFORE MARRIAGE????!!!!!!! OBSCENE!!!!!! LEAVE ROOM FOR THE HOLY GHOST!!!

side note: poor elrond, here he is trying to make sure his daughter has a good life and all she wants is to marry the dirty ranger like

'u think u know a girl, u raise her for 2000 or whatever years, organise her birthday parties and buy her a pony and teach her how to control the river, and then in the end she leaves u behind and marries a guy with a fraction of her lifespan, dooming herself to future suffering and despair smh 😔'

also arwen's face when aragorn is breaking up with her,,,,,'what did daddy say to u?? this is bc of what he said, isn't it?! i can't believe he's still interfering with my love life!!!!' ;A;

that lil ~half caress~ aragorn does to legolas's hand when he's returning arwen's necklace to him????? it's like??? idk super romantic??? it made my stomach go SWOOP?? if i stare at a gif of this scene i feel a bit dizzy??? is that weird. am i. weird 👀

i want them to make out with each other, sorry lads 😔

the annoying thing in all these medieval fantasy type stories, when there's not enough men for the war, they're always conscripting 10 year old boys, while the teenage girls and young women without any kids are hiding with the elders and children. LIKE. HOW can u justify sending little 8 yo haleth son of hama to the front lines?? LOOK AT HIM!! HE'S TINY!!! surely a 15 - 21 year old young woman would have a better chance of NOT DYING than a wee lad!!! they're peasants, they're used to hard labour!! do directors/writers etc think it's more ~realistic~ or sth?? do ppl think NO WOMAN ever took up a sword in a crisis??? even if certain things are Not Done (and in some places, even under penalty of DEATH), the Rules tend to fly out the feckin window once there's an emergency!!! I THINK 10,000 ORCS MARCHING ON HELM'S DEEP COUNTS FOR AN EMERGENCY???????

all im saying. is if we're all going to die anyway, then EVERYONE should get a sword. even the kids. ESPECIALLY the kids. it went really well in the walking dead when the lil girls each had a pistol. i promise i can be trusted with weapons i p romi s

the best thing in medieval-style warfare is when the two armies stand across from each other and shout insults back and forth for a bit, like 'you're ugly!' or 'you're smelly!' or 'i slept with your sister, and it weren't anything to write home about!!'

please could somebody fetch gimli a ladder, ur mans can't see above the fecking wall like nnO NO NOT THAT KIND OF LADDER

legolas and gimli counting their kills will never NOT be funny to me

MY KING A BEAST!! LOOK AT HIM GO!!! HE RODE A FUCKING LADDER AND CRASHED INTO A BUNCH OF ORCS LIKE A KILLER WHALE GOING AFTER SEALS!!! ;A;

god when he shoves open those doors and ARRIVEs it's so so so fucking hot. god he is sso hot. he's so hot i love him i love him i

lol they sneak out the side door like 'hee hee hoo hoo, no one shall see us~' 🤣

'TOSS ME!!!!!' *yeets the dwarf*

legolas SHIELD SURFING!!! HANG TEN, BRO!!! GNARLY WIPE OUT!!! 🤙

im sorry

imagine being such an asshole that u make the fucking TREES angry??? like, u make the trees hate u SO FUCKING MUCH. that they literally come MARCHING OUT OF THE FOREST to commit mass property damage???? 👀

when i watched the scene i shouted 'TILL BIRNAM WOOD DO COME TO HIGH DUNSINANE!!!!' out loud but nobody laughed ._.

come onnnn it's funny right??? esp since we know that 'no man of woman born' can kill the guy in the next film!!! iT'S FUNNY, RIGHT??? ;A;

sam and frodo tumbling down the stairs also made me laugh but i paid for it immediately after when sam goes 'it's your sam. don't you know your sam?' fucknig KILL MEEEEE PLS

the most iconic, most beautiful, most painful line of the film-----the one that always makes me cry, the one i couldn't forget if i wanted to, the words that stand between me and DEATH------

'That there's some good in this world, Mr Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.'

GOD. IM FUCKING DEAD 😭😭😭😭 beautiful delivery as well, shout out to samwise gamgee for being the best man to walk middle earth, i will now lie in a puddle of my own tears _(:3」∠)

[argentinagp]

Director’s commentary for your current pinned (alex thailand!!) gif set, please!!! I still think of that gifset like, daily…it’s so good 😭💙

hiii!! 😭 i also think of that gifset daily it is one of my fav creations i made

director's commentary of thee alex gifset i made

What I like about it

I like the first gif A LOT and i like how i managed to okay with the colors! And of course the idea and the meaning of the gifset!

What might have disappointed me in it

the notes but wbk, from the work part hmm maybe i could done the texts a bit more tidy

What was difficult to do

It is a pretty easy gifset for me but the lines so they are in the same place as the following one in the next gif

What turned out just as planned/perfectly

the whole thing im 100% satisfied with it and i really like it!

What may have been a surprise

How I included the thailand colors! it was totally improvised, i was gonna go with yellow and blue bc of alex outfit in that video!

Why I decided to do it/What inspired me

The amount of joy and warmth that video with ted and alex gave me specially the part i giffed were they go to thailand, all the kids waving the little banderines with the AA23 and the words ted and alex said!

If I learned anything while making it

hmm that i need to use more my abilities as a gifmaker bc i forgot i can actually make good things

If I think I've improved since then/how much I'd improved at the time since when I've started

Not really!

thank u so much for the ask! 💞

send me a gifset of mine and I will give you a directors commentary

[besidesitstoowarm]

"Doomsday" thoughts

i'm realizing i forgot to mention my WIFE freema agyeman in last episode. i'm so sorry baby. i can't wait for s3

anyway this episode fucks severely and kind of reminds me that a lot of diehard ten/rose shippers don't like. GET what makes them work, bc they don't get what makes rose work. i think i've said it before that not only do moffat haters not understand his era, but davies lovers often don't even really like it for the right reasons. or like, reasons that are based on the text instead of the tumblr interpretation of the text. this isn't to disparage davies likers or ten/rose shippers or whatever, just make sure you're remembering the episodes as they happened and not as 1080p gifsets you reblogged 8y ago

anyway! this was a great finale to s2 and to the rose era in general (i'll make a season retrospective w more detail). it's just some goddamn great doctor who, davies is masterful at weaving deep and impactful character work into the classic balls-to-the-wall insane doctor who shenanigans. let's explore, shall we

i love the idea behind the "genesis ark" like tell me that doesn't sound like something that already exists in dw canon. calling back to needing rose's touch bc humanity– the human ability/desire/habit of crossing boundaries, inherently filling every space, colonizing to be less generous– has a power to it. the bit as well about "cybermen will remove sex and class and race and creed" is a critique of centrism bc our differences make us human! they're beautiful! the great equalizer is horrific, imposed violence

i'm sorry if this seems homophobic but i don't think a straight person could have possibly written the dalek-cybermen interactions in this episode. "the daleks have no concept of elegance" "this is obvious" sorry it's just pure cuntiness on a level i have never seen a cishet achieve. i'm not stereotyping davies as just "sassy" or whatever he's deeply talented in all facets but bitchiness is indeed one of those facets

continuing the anti-establishment theme, yvonne walking into the cybermen hell saying "oh god, i did my duty" is deeply telling. the cyberman she becomes crying an oil-slick tear and fighting back saying "i did it for queen and country" is kind of sad and kind of horrifying. it's about the layers

rose gets to flex w the daleks by telling them what she did as bad wolf. "i met the emperor....and turned him into dust" yes!! yes!! get their asses baby!! "both sides had secrets" all the time war seeding is so tasteful and delicious. it works as both bread-crumbing info that will be revealed eventually and as background worldbuilding should they decide to never get into the nitty-gritty. they obviously do in "the end of time" for one and then eventually the 50th but davies plays it just subtle enough that if they never did get deeper into it, i don't think it would have felt like a cocktease

i love the pete-jackie stuff sorry. i love stories about people finding/refinding/etc love in their 40s. they're not the version of each other that they each know but they're close enough and they do love each other. their big hug made me emotional

and of course. the ending. what is there to say about the ending that hasn't been said a hundred million times already. murray gold is a fantastic composer and he CRUSHES it. the fact that ten was ready to sacrifice rose without her consent (which he will later do to donna! themes!), the fact that she fought the narrative and refused until tragedy took over, as it inevitably must. bad wolf bay. "i love you" "rose tyler, –" as tears drip down his face. oh i am just so sick. they were codependent and unhealthy but you really can't deny how much they cared for each other, and even tho i KNOW they meet up again and get their "happy" endings i just. oh it hit. phenomenal acting on both parts, incredible score, oh it just destroys me. a beautiful end for the season and for rose

side note, i did not recall that "runaway bride" was the next story. i totally forgot that we get the season-long gap before seeing donna again. i can't wait to get back to donna, she brings out the best in ten (being divorced and a pathetic wet beast)

season retrospective up soon!

[buildinggsr]

Hey! In your GSR + jealousy, you missed when Grissom finds out about Sara dating Hank. During the 3x2.

Dear anon,

thank you for your note. Yes, honestly, I forgot it. I updated the post, you can find it here.

However, down here is the possible reason why I didn't include that clip in the set originally. 

[Here come my unsolicited and odd 2cents about this topic]

Fact is, the episode in question revolves around the credibility of CSIs in a case where a Hollywood sex symbol is involved. It’s a high-level case and that's clear since the group hears the Hollywood star's attorney on TV saying that the evidence the CSIs have collected is compromised and contaminated – which is not, of course, she's only trying to clear her client. 

From that moment, all of them will be under the scrutiny of Dr. Phillip Gerard (Grissom's mentor), who starts wandering around the lab looking for any possible mistake the members of the team could make.

So, given this premise, Grissom turns his I-have-to-protect-my-family-colleagues-and-lab mode on, fighting to show everyone’s reliability ("they're good people", he says to Gerard), and in order to do this, he needs – and pretends – their help too. No one has to make mistakes or the whole thing blows up in the air ("Warrick, you have to find [your shirt covered in the blood from the accident victim," Grissom says, "otherwise, it'll look like you've got something to hide." / “Oh, CSI's on trial now?” / “CSI's always on trial, Warrick; you know this. Burden of proof is on us.”]

So this is Grissom's state of mind when Gerard appears in the room mentioning Sara's "relationship" and trying to use it to invalidate her work [“I wish she'd mentioned her relationship with the EMT who moved the bra.”]. What Grissom feels in that very moment, in my opinion, is not pure and simple jealousy – like in the other moments of the gifset. He feels let down, instead. It's a matter of trust, rather than one of heart. As if he has just found out that Sara would be really able to put her heart before her reliability on the job she's so good at. And this thing is worse than a broken heart, in his eyes. There must be no room for heart matters in the situation the lab is facing, regardless of who is involved.

This reminds me of what Morgan says about Hodges in "Forget Me Not" (13.15), while she takes blood from Sara's arm.

Morgan: I don't think you want to be around Hodges and a sharp object right now.  Sara: How come? Morgan: ... Sara: He thinks I cheated on Grissom. Morgan: Might as well have cheated on God. In Hodges' eyes, you pretty much did.

This is more or less what, in my opinion, abides in Grissom's mind the very moment the doubt starts to worm his way into his mind. As if what Gerard insinuates contaminated the goddish (?) idea Grissom has of Sara. In fact, he has such a high opinion of her, he feels she is so much like him, that he has never thought that she could do something like put her personal interest before her professionalism. The fact that there might be the slightest possibility that what Gerard implies is true is something totally unexpected to him. He's not ready for it. 

Coming to know that she has a relationship with some other (handsome and younger and wtf) man, doesn't help. 

Also, the look Grissom shoots at Sara before leaving the room with Gerard (to discuss the matter in the privacy of his office) doesn't appear to me as a look of a man who has just found out his girl has another man. (He knows he can be difficult, he has often borne the weight of this with her, and every time Sara has made him notice he had made/said something wrong his disposition was different). Now, instead, he looks angry, in the simplest meaning of the word. Humanly full of disapproval. So not as a lover, but rather as a human being.

Like some kind of pact had been made between him and Sara, and Sara broke it without bothering to warn him. Not putting personal business before the job is Grissom’s way of living, and he had always thought Sara was someone doing the same – this made him feel closer to her. So, the news Gerard takes out of his hat makes Grissom feel like he can't recognize her, as though all of a sudden he doesn't know who she is anymore – or maybe he never really had known her?

We were doing just fine, our minds are alike…what the hell happened?! 

What Grissom and Gerard discuss in Grissom's office after that scene, we don't know. In the following scenes, we see, in order: Grissom having a sharp exchange with Catherine; Grissom reprimanding Warrick about the aforementioned shirt covered in blood; Grissom noticing Gerard, his mentor, acting like a d**k.

This last event leads to a moment of confrontation between Grissom and Gerard as they walk in the hallway of the lab, during which Gerard includes some "sweetheart deals" among the reasons the CSIs are not doing their job the right way. As he does so, Grissom stops him abruptly and changes the subject (just in the same way he has done in the scene with Sara when she starts to justify herself about her relationship with Hank). 

Now, the only moment a "sweetheart deal" has come out before that moment is the one involving Sara. So Gerard must refer to that. But that line always concatenates questions in my mind:

of what “sweetheart deals” Gerard is talking about? The one between Sara and Hank, or the one between Grissom and Sara? 

were the latter, why should he talk about the two of them? 

why does the accusative disposition of Gerard and the Hollywood star’s attorney towards Sara increment from just saying she has a relationship with Hank to trying to insinuate that she would do everything “to please her boss” (Grissom)? 

last but not least, who’s the d*****bag who told them about the brushing the cheek thing??

So, are the “sweetheart deals” Gerard mentions referring to what he and Grissom have discussed in Grissom's office after the "panic moment" with Sara? I think it is highly unlikely that Grissom ever mentioned what he feels for Sara to Gerard (does he even know what he, deeply in his heart, really feels for her at that moment? He probably does, but even a year after these events, during episode 3.22, “Play with fire”, he says that he doesn’t know what to do about their relationship). So in no way do I see him talking about this with Gerard in the middle of a high-level case. Is it possible that Grissom, being Gerard his mentor and Grissom knowing him for a long time, ever mentioned Sara to him, before the girl became a hot topic for him? There’s no way we’ll ever know.

Just like Grissom tries to put aside the “sweetheart deal” during the Gerard and Sara moment, and during his own confrontation with Gerard, however, he tries to put himself aside in the relationship with Sara. He’s too focused on the case to face these kinds of things and so do something honorable: “Whatever happens in court, it's not because you're seeing this guy. You deserve to have a life,” he says to Sara before she goes to testify. She wants a life with you, idiot.

However, his effort lasts like a millisecond, because in the very following episode he just goes crazy over the fact that Sara is away from work with the guy and resolutely calls her back to her duties. Funny thing is that when Sara repeats his words about having a life, he says “did I?”, pretending he’s not even aware of what he had told her.

Finally, there’s one thing that I like about this episode. When Gerard arrives in the room, before he does his mess, Grissom and Sara are discussing in front of the sheet on which the homicide was committed.

(Sara is examining the bloodied bed sheet. It hangs from the ceiling. Grissom walks in and stops next to SARA. He holds a flashlight like a pointer and uses it on the sheet as he talks. SARA holds a file folder that she references.) Grissom: Okay... so the flowing pattern is from the v*ctim's neck wound. This other pattern, though... Sara: The waffle pattern -- I know, I'm trying to figure that out. Grissom: No, no. Here-- the bl**d spatter.

Well, that waffle pattern Sara mentions is what in the end nails the Hollywood star. And who does the job? Grissom. Like, despite everything, he keeps listening to her in his mind. Like he can do nothing but hold Sara in high regard. Like he can do nothing but love her.

That’s it. I just thought it was a good idea to write about this, to have an additional reading of the moment.

Take care and be safe. Best, L

[santaswiftie]

hello bestie this is so fun!! but i think you should definitely make a reminder post that we have to send the gifts to you and not post it directly because i personally totally forgot about it until i saw the last gifset ask you answered and i fear i may do it again and some other people might as well! 😭

OMG 🤦‍♀️🤣 okay everybody, hear me out!!

You have to send me your gift once you finish it, don't post it on your blog!

I mean, it's alright if you do, I won't kill anyone haha! But when I came up with this idea, I thought that it could be more exciting and kind of different if I posted the gifts, thus maintaining anonymity for longer (unless you want to reveal your identity right away in the post) then, you can wait for the blog to figure it out, reblog the post saying it's yours or don't reveal yourself at all, in case you don't want to.

Besides, all the gifts will be posted at the same time so no one is left waiting, and every single one of you will have to come here (like a cozy living room) to find them! Once you know who made yours, I'll tag and mention both of you in the post!

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

not me thinking about "You're more important than a thing!" and then Grizzop protecting Sasha with his life because she was so important to him

98 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

#4

watching some due south and fraser/rayk videos on youtube and crying over how beautiful the show and this ship in particular was and just remembering some things in no particular order:

“Do you find me attractive?” "Very much so, yes.”

the underwater “breathing” thing

zero personal space

the smiles at the end of mountie on the bounty

I will beat you to death with this empty gun

zero personal space the extended edition with extra grabbing

betting on air

LoooOOOuuuu Scagnetti

being in synch

the entirety of Asylum

Love at First Sight discussion with Meaningful Camera Shot(TM)

punching each other

who left the empty butterdish in the fridge

THEY LITERALLY RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET TOGETHER

98 notes - Posted January 10, 2022

#3

Zolf “Archive of Our Own” Smith

137 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

#2

Me at everyone who loudly didn’t like the movie: It just wasn’t the movie you wanted and that’s okay, now sit down and drink some hot chocolate it’ll be fine. Me though? I am getting the champagne because this movie had everything I wanted: Keanu Reeves with a rubber ducky on his head, a character that has blue hair and pronouns, Neil Patrick Harris playing a total slime ball, a love story that literally changed the world, Carrie-Anne Moss looking hot, Trinity being badass and a cat.

213 notes - Posted January 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

things i have seen made for goncharov so far:

- several university papers - fake DVD cover - several movie posters - several gifsets - fake video reviews - so much fanart - so much fanfic that the ao3 tag has now more fic than the avatar blue people movie - a flash exchange i have to remember to sign up to - a google doc with people writing out the movie - there is a discord server were i’ve seen the link but have not joined bc i am a scaredy cat and new discords scary - pages long meta - shit posts - shit posts by famous people - posts warning people about the dangers of fandom past so that no one gets the idea to start a fundraiser to make this a real thing - almost forgot (thanks for reminding me in the tags): A soundtrack - several playlists - we managed to get a new york times article i think?

anyway i am so damn amazed at this fandom about a made up movie on tumblr. its so exciting and makes me so happy at all the creativity and shared chaos and people just having fun with a story

1,020 notes - Posted November 24, 2022

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