#oh she'll be fine

[wonderpommey]

“I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.” J-M Barrie, Peter Pan

Help! Roman seems to be irremediably stuck in the denial stage.

He denies Logan's death and his subsequent grief, rewrites the fact that he’s partly to blame for Logan souring on Gerri and in fact wasn’t he helping the old gal actually, he can’t face up to the unsavoury dealings that the realities of being in charge entail etc.

He’s also completely unable not to see his own plight in others; Rushing over to Kerri, {the jilted shadow chosen one who displays her uncontrollable pain because Logan promised her the world and taking her side against the older arguably wronged woman who’s exacting her revenge} is the thing getting his most pained whines of this episode. His most selfless act is also his most self-centred one... "Oh this I can understand, I too was dad’s to fuck. He also promised me things he didn’t make good on and when I lost him, I didn’t even get the comfort I deserved from the person I’ve wronged”.

This season is hailing honesty as the single redeeming feature for enduring relationships within that universe. 

Connor and Willa of all pairings have gotten there. 

The sibs manage an imperfect version of it. 

Shiv and Tom keep trying to say something real to each other.

Roman and Gerri? No, she doesn’t care about getting fired, it’s fine. He didn’t hurt her at all. They, who have always used the shadows of business talk to live their romance, are utterly failing at honesty and openness.

Unless Roman starts facing up to reality in general, this will end tragically for him. Do pills and transferring caring skills to random Logan-approved people help keep a genuinely loving personality at bay?

It’s all incredibly ominous by the way the mounting tension of the dangers facing Roman. The guard dog arriving, the nazi watch, the blowup at Shiv about Mencken, conveniently ignoring his role in Gerri’s fragility (of course nazism and masculinity are the only things that allow him to ignore what he’s done). There are also outspoke references to paedophilia in the obit and the Gauguin paintings. Roman is fine, he’s smiling, he’s moving on, he’s 'pre-grieved'. And frankly, who notices the cracks? Ken maybe…

Yeah there’s no way this doesn’t end taunting a progressive crowd, T-posing for his sins.

Gerri will be fine reassuringly. Roman is proving with every minute that passes that not allowing herself to be wooed by him had been the right call all along. She’s proving how the tiniest sliver of impropriety could have been her death - including at Roman’s hands. And she’s acting every bit as smug as she should.

But of course now she loses CEO and he gets the leverage of knowing Logan was going to fire her. They both have prejudicial information about each other they’re not currently using...

So was a sham marriage better than a romance that wouldn’t say its name? In succession? Welcome to our era of fearing the answer…

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oh im so Stoked - i got myself a little home hyacinth Kit! she's growing! look at her! Wow!

[moghedien]

I'm like, actively not looking forward to the next episode because I know what's gonna happen but let me just say

I have not seen a single show only fully grasp the situation that Egwene is in right now and the sheer hopelessness and horror the situation. I am kinda looking forward to seeing them figure that out

[theprinceandthewitch]

I'm pretty much done with TOH lol.

A braver and more energetic soul can try giving this show a constructive critique... because I will actually, wholeheartedly lose my humanity while writing out the script.

There is like... a problem this show has that permeates the whole thing: It says its going to do one thing, but then does something completely different. Like how the first two episodes of the series make you believe Luz is going to learn how her inability to separate fantasy from reality is actually inhibiting her growth as a person... only to make her a chosen one and to give her everything she ever wanted without Luz changing the way she treats people.

[sir-adamus]

Gwen's awkward behaviour with Rio and Jeff makes sense when you consider that she a) has no other friends and her Peter's Aunt May was regularly at her home, there was enough familiarity that she was on a first name basis with May, and b) the only other adults in her life are her work colleagues in the Spider Society and everyone is on a first name basis there

she's 16 and has exactly no idea how to approach Miles' parents because her social circle started off extremely limited and then went straight into the outright bizarre after she ran away from home - it makes sense for her to have a skewed sense of what would be polite when introducing herself to a friend's parents

[bumblingbabooshka]

Picturing Tuvok spending every second of the Seven years it takes to get back home going "Melding with T'Pel again will fix me" whenever he notices he's doing or thinking something (he perceives as) out of character, strange, ignominious - and then when he finally gets back and melds with her he realizes that nothing's been fixed per say and is like ":/ Fuck."

[paragonrobits]

Finn: So, um, since we are officially Knowing Each other in a not exactly platonic sense- Huntress Wizard: The voices of the world tell me that the term is 'friends with benefits'. I feel this is both insufficient and... somehow does not convey the emotional ties involved but linguistics ain't my field. Finn: Me neither. Which is why it's kind of hard to say but, since we're feeling close enough that it's changed things, you're going to have to be prepared for some... hm. Finn: Perils, let's say. HW: In what sense. Finn: You know I've got people in my... well, it's not BIOLOGICAL family, but 'family' is the only word that comes to mind? People who care a lot about me, and might feel really invested in people that get intimately involved in my life? HW: Ah. Like your brother, the magical dog. Finn: Well, yeah, but you've already met him and got that sorted out, and that's not EXACTLY what I mean. And you NEED to be prepared because I am genuinely a little scared for you. HW: I've noticed a very serious tone shift here. Why does the ground suddenly stink of fear and horror? Huntress Wizard, feeling a sudden sense of unspeakable doom: And why do I hear... boss music?? Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, looming ominously directly behind her: Finn: OH NO IT HAS BEGUN. Princess Bubblegum, speaking in horribly icy tones: Good evening. Marceline, strumming on her guitar in a needlessly malevolent fashion: So. We hear you're INTERESTED in Finn. Princess Bubblegum: So we'd like to ask you a few... QUESTIONS. So that we are assured of his safety and emotional well-being. Huntress Wizard: Ah. So THAT explains the boss music.

[incomingalbatross]

Snow White retelling where the thing chosen to expand upon is Snow White being explicitly, textually unkillable. I think you could have fun with that as a foundation for Plot And Worldbuilding.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13, trying to prevent yaz from spiralling when they get separated: i need you to do a deepdive into eschatology

[rhosgobelbun]

In s7 when dean was cutting off his cast cause the "other shoe" dropped and sam "ran off" I bet the entire time he was muttering to himself, "should of realized something was up when he brought me cake. CAKE. *mocking* 'its close enough, right?' Its close enough my ass! going on 30 years old and that boy has not once mixed up pie and cake. Even after I got him back from Stanford he knew the difference! Pie. Cake. One a.. Pie like filling and the other a.. Cake. Like filling. 'CLOSE ENOUGH' *cuts fully through the cast* pffft yeah right!- son of a bitch that smells terrible *gags*"

[bonnies-burrow]

"C'mon, let's lock her out!"

[beckiboos]

Not gonna lie. First playthrough she TERRIFIED me

[beetled-juicer]

I feel like I can finally say the beetlejuice trailer sucked ass and I hate it

what have they done to him :(

[milkweedman]

Coincidentally my usable warp is like exactly as long as my dining room. Point is tho, i am finally done thank fuck

[dear-kumari]

Adding "sexy vamp's cleavage necklace actually magical slave collar" to a document of increasingly unflattering notes on how the TDP franchise writes girls and women

[ciagent8]

i haven't posted in a while

ive been busy..for a bit !!! if you recognize me erm. no you don't.

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