Some people: "Bucktommy shippers are weirdos"
Me, proving their point:
Would you guys mind putting on some tinfoil hats with me for a minute?
So during the dinner scene, Buck and Tommy are coming from the kitchen with their plates, and we see a pot on the stove.
Why am I talking about this?
Because the handle of pot it turned to the left.
But Buck is right-handed
Do you know who is left-handed?
Tommy!
So what does it mean?
It means Tommy is probably the one who cooked dinner.
If I take the headcanon even further, Tommy knew Buck had an exhausting day and went to Buck's appartment first and had dinner ready for him when he got home.
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Sephardic Jews from Thessaloniki in their traditional costumes, in the city’s old cemetery, before the war // a contemporary photo that shows where the destroyed cemetery once was, which is now Greece's largest university, built partially on top of and with land and materials (particularly tombstones) stolen from the razed site.
Thessaloniki or Salonika, once referred to as “the Jerusalem of the Balkans” due to its Ladino-speaking Jewish majority, saw roughly 96% of its Jewish population murdered during the Holocaust. This mass destruction extended to the city's Jewish cemetery, which had been the country's largest, established in the 15th century and housing hundreds of thousands of Jewish graves until its razing by city authorities who had long desired to repurpose the land and resented the inconvenience of Jewish presence. Despite its large-scale destruction during German occupation in 1942, which was initiated and carried out primarily by Thessaloniki authorities with Nazi consent and arrangement, some parts of the cemetery survived intact as late as 1947. Many tombstones were subsequently appropriated and used by city authorities and the Greek Orthodox Church. After the war, people were still carrying away Jewish gravestones each day and regularly looting the cemetery in search of valuables. The city's officials, led by their mayor, completed the cemetery's destruction and sold the tombstones to contractors for use as building materials in various projects; as such many were and are still found in various walls, roads, structures, and churches around the city. A 1992 commemorative book pictures Greek schoolgirls playing Hamlet with skulls and other bones they found in the cemetery.
“[T]he ‘rape’ of the cemetery escalated, marble flooded the market, and its price plummeted. Jewish tombstones were stacked up in mason’s yards and, with the permission of the director of antiquities of Macedonia and overseen by the metropolitan bishop and the municipality, used to pave roads, line latrines, and extend the sea walls; to construct pathways, patios, and walls in private and public spaces though out the city, in suburbs such as Panorama and Ampelokipi, and more than sixty kilometers away in beach towns in Halkidiki, where they decorated playgrounds, bars, and restaurants in hotels; to build a swimming pool – with Hebrew-letter inscription visible; to repair the St. Demetrius Church and other buildings...” Devin Naar, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
Most of the efforts to return found tombstones throughout the city are led by Jews, particularly Jacky Benmayor, the curator of the Jewish Museum and last Ladino speaker in Greece, who has personally recovered hundreds of tombstones including his own family's. Surviving Greek Jews never received compensation for the confiscation of the land under the destroyed cemetery, upon which now partially rests Greece's largest university, Aristotle University, which also used Jewish gravestones as building material for its long-coveted expansion finally made possible by the dispossession and annihilation of the city's Jews. In 2014, 72 years after the cemetery's destruction and appropriation, a small memorial was established on campus grounds to acknowledge the Jewish cemetery the school is built on and with; the ceremony just 10 years ago involved the first-ever acknowledgement of the atrocities and apology from a Thessaloniki mayor. The memorial has been vandalised multiple times since its establishment.
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Something I think about like. Once a week. Is that scene where Fugaku and Mikoto are leaving Itachi to babysit Sasuke for the night because they're going to "Visit Mikoto's parents"
Like...you mean...their grandparents...?
Just. Why is the preset here to leave a young child in charge of a toddler by himself. Instead of simply bringing them along.
Sure, if it was a decent enough trip maybe Itachi couldn't come because he had to be back in time for his mission the next morning but they couldn't have at least brought Sasuke?
Just overall. Why.
Are the kids not welcome in their grandparents home? If not, why the hell not?? They're like the most well behaved, polite kids ever. Even when Sasuke is complaining / whining about not getting his way (which tbh is so fair for his age) he pretty much immediately drops it when he's told no beyond some mild pouting.
Like. What beef do their grandparents have with these two???
The usual explanation in that sort of sitation of "Oh well the grandparents don't like their daughters husband so by extension aren't attached to the grandkids" also hardly applies bc. Fugaku was invited over to visit???
I realize I'm probably reading way too far into a throw away one liner. But like. That scene always makes me want to do a double take every time I see it. It just pulls so many questions up that I realize aren't super relevant but also. I want to know the answer to.
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It starts as a tingle at the back of his neck.
He feels it everywhere he goes; at work with Robin, standing in his kitchen late at night, getting the groceries. Steve tells himself it's just the change in the weather and turns the heating up in his house. Robin tells him he has superpowers, he snorts and leaves her to deal with the smelly old man that rents the same movie every week.
But then he feels it get stronger, it's cold and almost feels like... he's being watched. He finds himself looking over his shoulder more often, unsure if someone is actually staring at him or if it's just in his head. He has been smacked around a bit, something could be loose up there. He checks his rear vision mirror in the car at least 4 times before leaving his driveway and never stands with his back to the glass door at work. Robin notices but doesn't comment.
Some days he thinks he spots something when he turns around, a flash of black disappearing behind the bushes or behind the assorted biscuits stand in the grocery store. It unnerves Steve. Should he tell Hopper he has a stalker? No, he doesn't want to worry anyone. He's probably just paranoid. Plus, everyone is still recovering from the latest scrap with the upside down and.. Eddie's death. Steve hasn't seen Dustin smile for weeks.
His phone rings one night. He walks through the dark house to where the landline blares loudly through the empty house, the cold feeling prickling at the back of his neck as he stands with his back to the kitchen window. "Hello?"
It's Hopper. He tells Steve that Eleven felt something in his house. In Steve's house. The cold feeling spreads through his whole body. "What do you mean?" His voice is barely a whisper as he stares out into the darkness of his house. He regrets not turning the lights on.
Hopper tells him not to move and that he's on his way. Steve nods numbly without saying anything as the phone line goes dead. Is it his stalker? Is that what El felt? Steve used to walk around the house with his nail bat in hand after his first encounter with the upside down but he grew out of that habit. He suddenly wished he didn't.
The house was quiet, so quiet it scared him because he could feel something staring at him. He could feel it's gaze follow him as he slid along the kitchen wall and reached over to grab a knife out of the knife block, never once looking away from the darkness in front of him. "I know you're there." He says, unable to stop his voice from shaking.
There's no reply, but he can hear the distant sound of police sirens echoing in the night. Hopper's on his way, he just needs to wait a little longer, he's okay. It's probably nothing. El can feel the mice in the walls, that's it.
Then he hears it. The sound of shoes stepping off the carpet in the lounge room onto the tiles, like someone just took a single step forward and stopped. Steve grips the knife tightly and breathes out shakily, his heart beat loud in his ears as silent tears slipped down his cheeks. "The police are on the way. Get the fuck out."
If he wasn't so scared, he'd lunge for the light switch near the front door but that would mean turning his back on whatever stood in front of him. "What do you want?" He begs quietly into the dark. For weeks he's felt this cold gaze following him around, he's slept completely under his covers every night because he felt it watch him through the curtains, felt it watch his every fucking move.
He hears another step and then he goes completely still, his entire body shaking as he feels it exhale against the side of his face. How did it get so close so quickly? Had it been there the whole time? He's practically sobbing as whatever it is leans in close, there's no warmth coming from it's body. Steve feels so cold.
"I want you, Harrington."
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