#this is so hard to make bc it looks like i don't like the last row but i love them SO much

[garykingz]

girl I like your take (“Charles has a crush on Max but it’s completely different to Max having crush on Charles). Explore pls!!!!

Omg, nonnie, I could go ON about how different yet the same these two are with each other. Body language is absolutely everything with Max and Charles, though I'm sure everyone knows this. Max's yapping isn't everything.

Honestly, I genuinely believe with my heart of hearts that Max has an actual crush on Charles, there is, and it sounds like a joke but I'm being serious, no heterosexual reason for him to act the way he does around him. (This is coming from an aromantic, so it's not like I'm seeing something that's not there.)

I've made a post before about how I think some of these guys are not straight but bc of how F1 is built on dodgy sponsors(BIG MONEY) and can't forget the corrupt FIA, they can't just say it. That's a whole other can of worms I won't get into rn tho.

Anyway – the way I see is that Charles absolutely, without an ounce of doubt, knows Max has a crush on him. Like the OP mentioned in their post, how Charles' Christmas gift to Max was the F1 game with all of Charles' face on it, with the tag "for my biggest fan." Yeah, he knows. And he encourages it.

And not to say Charles doesn't crush as hard on Max as Max does on him, Charles absolutely does. He just tries to be nonchalant about it. But his giggles fail him every time Max opens his mouth.

I think the joint Vegas interview is a good example of this. Charles tries to be serious with Max but Max is clearly doing his damnest to make Charles laugh, which obviously, Charles does. Once again, the way Charles looks at Max in this, he knows Max is trying to make him laugh too. (Max also literally quoted Charles' joke from an interview that he wasn't even in, meaning Max WATCHED it in his own time.)

THIS ONE REALLY GETS ME, MAN. Max and Charles look at each other, Max lingers longer on him and Charles ???? Starts touching himself ???? Like he still thinks Max is looking at him??????? Max looks off to a screen that's on them AND LOOKS AT CHARLES AGAIN BC HES ACTING THAT WAY?? WEIRDOS.

Charles wants to be nonchalant and chill so bad but he's not slick. He's just as down bad as Max is and thinks we don't see it.

(GIFs belong to @pretzelgotze)

Or when Charles stopped mid interview to go speak with Max.

Or Charles, not getting podium at all, yet running for his life, leaving his radio on for Xavi to still ask if he's there, the car empty, because he wanted to be the first one to congratulate Max on his WDC in Qatar last year.

Or Charles ditching his little jeep for him and him alone to go and sit with Max, even though the car is NOT made for two people, he sits in it anyway and they both get driven away as they wave at the cameras. It's giving just married.

This is long as hell now, apologies, told ya I'd ramble LMAO

Anyway, conclusion: Charles tries to hide the fact that he has a crush on Max but his body language and giggling fails him every single time.

Extra conclusion: not to be taken TOO seriously but they are in fact my ken dolls that I make kiss

[beanghostprincess]

*discreetly drops straw hats tier list* they're my pookies and i love them all a lot <3 (the order is also from left to right btw)

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[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

friendly reminder that self harm is lying to you

[buffyspeak]

jenny humphrey gifs: 2/?

[lestatlioncunt]

a girlboss (sad) and the cause of half of her problems (a daughter)

[dykeinthedark]

straight up living 2024 adaptation of a separate peace: toxic doomed yuri edition

[hauntingblue]

Choose your favourite reaction

[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

Uni lecture is making me think about my future for a minute and auuuggghhhh the agonies

[maschotch]

I saw that you said you find fanon characterisations of Emily laughable - I'd love to hear you expand on this since personally I see her as quite an emotional character given some of the moments on the show (wanting to adopt Carrie, the obsessing over the "they're not like us" comment, her willingness to sacrifice herself for the team etc). I love hearing other people's perspective though and would love to hear yours

this is gonna sound like a cop out but i chalk those ~emotional emily~ moments to being either an intentional “crisis” to throw the others off track or just being ooc. especially because pretty much all of those moments happen after jj makes the comment that she doesn’t seem to let anything get to her? i think she worries that the others will catch on so throw a couple red herrings to keep them from getting suspicious 

because i really don’t like those moments: especially the “i need to know that i can be human” line. there are a couple more dramatic lines that i think fit her narrative much better (“we don’t choose who we fall in love with,” recognizing that carrie’s trying to be a good daughter, and others i cant think of bc its been months since ive watched the showakjhsgl). 

like. there are some inconsistencies with her character that im not a big fan of. “woods is like my second home” vs “im a city girl, taxi rides and martinis” or whatever tf she said. and then there are character traits that i don’t like and would rather ignore (when she’s thinking about having kids). but the same goes for the other characters as well. there are just some things i’d rather not think about so i don’t take it into consideration when i’m analyzing their character (hotch’s nationalism, derek’s early sexism, reid’s apparent straight-ness, literally everything about david rossi). 

so i guess i can’t be too surprised when every fucking hotchniss fic is about emily getting pregnant and shit like that. it comes with the territory, but it just “humanizes” her in ways i don’t like. it feels very gendered, like something the writers tack on as an afterthought because “oh yeah, she’s a woman, of course she wants kids.” it’s not really something i blame fic authors themselves for: especially when half the time people use her as a self insert. i just don’t like it

the emily prentiss i like is the emily prentiss that goes to sin-to-win weekend in atlantic city, the emily prentiss that can beat jason gideon at chess, the emily prentiss that can beat spencer reid at cards, the emily prentiss that is just as nerdy and geeky as spencer and derek respectively, the emily prentiss that spends nights at the office drinking with hotch and dave, the emily prentiss that can walk through grotesque crime scenes without batting an eye, the emily prentiss that kept a major part of her life secret from the profilers of the bau. 

she’s tough. not that you can’t be tough while being feminine, i just refuse to give cm writers any credit for their overt “girlboss” moments because they’re so fucking half-assed that it’s ridiculous. “when a girl something something she wants you to shut up and listen” or however that stupid quote goes.. like.. that is NOT a girlboss moment. it’s the kind of forced feminism you see in media that upholds more gender stereotypes than it breaks down. 

some people like those moments. and that’s fine; i’m not gonna say they’re wrong for liking it. it has a similar vibe to the “man-hating lesbian” thing.. sometimes they’re just joking around, sometimes they have trauma that genuinely justifies a fear of men, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s an immature way of thinking that disregards the actual point of feminism, and i would ask them to question what they really mean when they talk about female empowerment

sjkdh ok im getting severely off topic now and i’m not trying to say the “get emily pregnant” gang is anti feminist or whatever, i just don’t like the evidence they have for it. and that’s fine for some people: taking something they know is shitty writing and using it to tailor their character into something better/more interesting (like the way i use all the shit jj says and attribute it to her upbringing, which in truth rarely gets mentioned). people are fine for that. it’s just not for me. i see a different strength in emily and i’ll choose to reconstruct canon in a way i see fit

[skrunksthatwunk]

not rascal's deadbeat owner coming around when im not home and telling my roommate she's taking him for a week (our break is 4 weeks or so, implying he's gonna be back here even though That's Her Cat Not Ours) and then just picking up the new toys i bought for him and taking them with her without even asking. hey. hi. those are mine

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

i remember once seeing an ad for scar reducing creams and ended up deciding no that's not reasonable to buy if it's literally self inflicted. but because of this now being in a visible place (can probably hide until summer, but after it's too warm to wear long sleeves... oh gosh. :< ) I feel like I probably should do research on how to minimise scarring at least for visible cuts for the sake of others.

and maybe invest in a nice light summer cardigan :) you know those pretty lacy ones, I bet I could pull that off, and I've wanted one for ages so this might be my motivation :)

....I should also do research on how to hide them before they've healed, because I've got a simulation next Tuesday. If necessary I talk to the person running the sim and get permission to be in long sleeves for that

oh gosh why did I forget. I'll have to be in short sleeves for placement. oh gosh oh gosh I am an idiot

[sanstropfremir]

A member from 17 (svt) named jun released a solo (not his first one I think) called limbo and when I was watching the video I got reminded of some other male idols and aesthetics but I can't put my finger on it. It is quite different from hoshi's spider a little edgier? Sci fi/goth vibes??? Not sure haha. Would love to get your thoughts!

well, i applaud a male soloist for picking the kai print instead of the taemin one, i suppose? standard disclaimer i don't like svt, and this is just another in the pile of things i don't find particularly compelling from them. i understand the draw with the concept of limbo to use a lot of 'inbetween' or indeterminate spaces, because obviously that literally comes with the name, but you do have to do something interesting with that? i'm not totally clear on what the concept of this is supposed to be except like, vaguely vampiric? which i think is certainly the start of an interesting idea, as vampires are inherently in a state of limbo between dead and alive, but it needs way more conceptual development than that. and also, if you want vampires in limbo, epitaph is right there. i think it's kind of fascinating that there's now been three different groups that have done limbo themed cbs in the last year, which i suppose is befitting of our post-pandemic reality, but even cix's extremely barebones 458 mv has more obvious and unusual thematic dressings. obviously it's a well made mv bc they've got hybe money and none of the sets or designs are bad per se, it just doesn't have a strong enough connecting thread for me. i'm sure his fans are happy though

[bsaka7]

im back in my "i just want to get home from work and write an entire fic" era #endofsummer

[harrylights]

gonna get sappy here for a hot sec (quelle surprise)

[sheerioswifties]

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