#this episode makes me go feral

[jone-slugger]

Kathryn Janeway: QUEEN, ICON, GODDESS.

[bellabrady]

things about 4x14 that live in my mind rent free:

eddie's blood on buck's face

eddie reaching for buck TWICE

buck going underneath the fire truck to save eddie despite the fact that one of his biggest traumas was almost being crushed by one

buck's determination as he reaches for eddie and pulls him out

the way buck easily picks eddie up

eddie trying to reach for buck again

eddie using his last bit of strength to ask buck if he's hurt

'i need you to hang on'

buck breaking down in front of chris after finding out eddie will probably be okay

buck dropping his phone in relief when bobby texts him the surgery went well

buck staying with chris no questions asked

'i was just the guy standing there who couldn't do anything to protect him.'

buck running to eddie when he woke up

eddie's soft smile when he says 'hey buck' and the relieved smile buck gives him in return

buck telling eddie it would've been better for chris if buck got shot instead of eddie because buck isn't his dad and eddie internally being like 'what the fuck'

buck being the one to take eddie home from hospital

the WILL

'no one will ever fight for my son as hard as you.'

'because, evan'

'you act like you're expendable. but you're wrong.'

the way buck looks at eddie after

buck opening the door for eddie

the smile buck gives christopher and eddie at the end

[daddyhoothoot]

The caressing 🥹

[essektheylyss]

It really is so fun that Essek started mentioning "my partner" like every three lines because he probably doesn't actually get the chance to talk about it that often.

I think there can often be an impulse when you really care about someone to want to shout from the rooftops all the great things you feel and notice about them, and Essek isn't really in a position to do that. The people who he can talk freely to already know him and Caleb, and the people who don't know them likely aren't safe to tell real personal details to. It's one thing to fabricate a parental relationship knowing that there isn't someone to trace that to, but it's an entirely different thing to tell someone honestly about the people you love when any small detail might put them in danger if it fell into the wrong hands.

The Hells are safe to say that kind of thing to—perhaps mostly on a meta level, in that the DM is aware that they are the protagonists—and they also characteristically tend to offer a listening ear to anyone they meet, and I think it's delightful that Essek actually recognized and responded to that.

[theultracharmingladynoire]

We call everything on the ice "love".

[gottagobackintime]

I can't stop thinking about how emotional Ted got during his little speech about his friend who had to watch the Super Bowl alone twice. And how he should have been there. It's been 25 years since he didn't watch football with his friend, and he gets upset when he talks about it. Surely there is more to it than what we're lead to believe by the silly comparison. His body language and way of talking (and the background music) reminds me of the scene in season 2 episode 1: Goodbye Earl when he talks about the dog that he took care of when he was younger. Go watch that scene and then go back and watch the scene from the latest episode from the moment he says "'Cause I wasn't there. 'Cause I "didn't care."" And then note when the music starts when he says : "I should've supported him." The way he's looking down, not meeting anyone's eyes. I don't think he's really talking to the team at that point, he's talking to himself.

I want to know what Ted realised as he was telling that story, because his mood changes, or he lets his mask fall, I don't really know. But you can see the change in the way he looks at the people in the room, and how he gets more and more emotional. To the point where he's not even really looking at the other people in the room. You cannot convince me that is a man who is simply upset about not watching two Super Bowls with a friend 25 years ago.

[dazaistabletop]

Idk what to focus on sweater Chuuya or hot Mori or flannel Aku or the fact that they all look genuinely happy or-

[decidedly-not-heterosexual]

You are henceforth invited to watch (or rewatch) Amok Time

I made this infographic for my friends that aren't super familiar with Star Trek! It would make me so happy if you used it for your own watch parties <3

Info pulled from this amazing post

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Me when the Gukgaks

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Your stunt double was murdered right in the middle of your kitchen.

Not just any stunt double, either. The one that spent 40 years, an entire lifetime, taking hits and rolling under cars and throwing herself into open fire as you. The one that's not you, but at the same time is maybe a better version of you, the you you would be if you had been just a pinch braver, just a pinch more likable; the one that's not you, but at the same time was the same character as you, and maybe she actually is you, in some ways (after all, you two are so similar that she was killed in your place, wasn't she?).

She was your stunt double, yes. But she was also the one who took your falls, who propped you up, who made sure you didn't spend your lunch break alone. You shared a role, you shared an apartment, you shared a girlfriend.

She took care of you in every way you can take care of a person.

And now she's gone.

It was possible to believe otherwise when she was just an absence on the other side of a phone (even though you knew, right from the start, that something was so, so wrong). It might even have been possible to believe it was all a colossal joke as you were cradling the iron trophies she was so proud to host in her bones. But luminol is unforgiving: you turn off the light and there it all is, her blood, her life slipping away from her right there on the tiles of your kitchen, and the message she left for you, the one thing she knew you'd understand right away, and there's no denying it anymore.

You are Charles-Haden Savage, and your stunt double was murdered in your place right in the middle of your kitchen.

Your hands still tingle with her ashes.

[peekaplay]

SPOILERS FOR II 16 ACT 1!!!

also might flood your screen with images (genuinely there are so many of them I'm so sorry)

ITS PAPER!!!!! OH MY GOSH THERES SO MUCH MORE CONTENT OF HIM IM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!! I ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE SOBBING AHJGKLAHWJGKAJGKHALGJKHAWJKGHAKJGHLAJKGLKA LOOK AT HIM!!! /GEN /VPOS

*THROWS 16 DIFFERENT PAPER SCREENSHOTS AT YOU AND RUNS*

haha 16 screenshots l- like the episo- *passes away*

(help I have like 40 screenshots of him so far, no I am not okay in the SLIGHTEST)

[im-no-jedi]

Hunter’s Spidey Sense™ tingling in “The Crossing”

[allmyandroids]

I love you, my very hadsome and fine man 🖤✨️

[sparring-spirals]

i just love it when characters Say Things. u kno. just a real sucker for characters. Saying Shit.

Imogen saying "She's not any person. She was special. She was chosen." (Chosen, once, twice, thrice, for an early end). Ashton saying "Do I look like a person who doesn't know that?" (That things often have unsatisfying ends). F.C.G saying: "It seems kind of hard." (being alive, finding purpose). Orym saying "It always mattered." (F.C.G's life, what they chose to do with it, them). Ashton saying "I have had a lifetime, of bad hits." (Hits, and falls, and losses, that I am weathering. But I am telling you where I am drawing my lines, here and now.) Imogen saying "Laudna, you're safe!" (we chased off the shadows, you're not alone, you're safe, we're here).

F.C.G saying: "Well, I have to live."

Ashton saying: "Unfortunate, but true."

im just. such a fan of characters saying things, all the time, about all kinds of things, with all kinds of meanings. God i just. love it. when characters say shit. u feel me.

[alatariel-galadriel]

Okay, I’m re-listening to the Murderous Mask and Peter’s “run away with me” monologue is recontextualized SO MUCH in light of recent events!

When Juno asks if Sasha/Dark Matters were in on the heist, Peter says no—“it pays to have powerful friends”. That struck me as odd up until recently, because we quickly learn that Peter…doesn’t have friends or allies or, well, anything, really. He works solo and burns through identities too quickly to make or maintain those kinds of connections. But now we know he’s in deep debt to a pharma corp, which are some of the most powerful forces in the solar system, even rivaling Dark Matters.

All well and good, except Peter also says “You can leave Hyperion City behind, I’ll leave my powerful friends behind. We’ll sell the mask and live a life of thrills and decadence across the galaxy, always running, never looking back.” And that…we know that’s wrong. We know Peter can’t leave Slip behind. So what gives?

I don’t think Peter ever actually thought Juno would leave Mars with him in the Murderous Mask. It’s why he left his name on a note in Juno’s couch (before he even makes the proposition) instead of just saying it. He knew Juno would say no. He was always planning on coming back, of course, but if Juno runs away with Peter, he could be used as more leverage against him. Another person for the corporation to balance Peter’s debts against. …but it’s a nice idea, right? Being able to finally leave behind the pressure of ever-growing debt and run off with the detective who he’s fallen for so quickly. Running away was a dream, and there’s no harm in keeping the fantasy alive because he knows Juno won’t leave Mars. I don’t think that ever really changed until the aftermath of Miasma—when he thought Juno had died and he lost everything again, only to miraculously recover it. Anything seems possible after that. But reality would’ve sunk in eventually, even if Juno hadn’t left that night. Let’s say they had run away together back then. It would be the same situation that made Peter leave in season 3: he’s still in ever-growing debt and Juno would be just new collateral for Peter’s creditors. It’s too dangerous, and Peter can’t bear to lose him again.

All this to say that I firmly believe that if Juno hadn’t left that night, Peter would’ve. Better to throw away something precious yourself than watch someone else shatter it because of you.

They were both always going to leave. Juno just reached his conclusion faster than Peter, is all.

[jestiric]

nines my favorite doctor for the sole fact that hes just fucking insane like no other regeneration is