#very uppity

[lesbianrecorderplayer]

Anne Sophie Mutter's performance sounds exactly like someone called Anne Sophie Mutter playing the violin

[andrew-rannells-mustache]

I’ve been Completely Normal about hickeygibsontozer lately and instead of writing coherent words about it I made this chart on (my interpretation of) their fucked up dynamic:

More clownery under the cut (specifically pertaining to Gibson and Tozer’s Whole Deal)

Canon Era: Billy mends Tozer’s clothes sometimes. He acts annoyed when Tozer asks him to do it but also acts annoyed when Tozer asks Armitage to do it instead so like ??? They do not interact in any capacity except to plan the mutiny but by god do they share an insane amount of Homoerotically Charged Looks™️.

Post-Rescue AU: They all live together in an incredibly tiny flat in London. They share a bare mattress and Hickey always sleeps in the middle but sometimes Billy will use his long legs to touch Tozer with his cold feet and Tozer can never tell if he’s doing it intentionally or not. When Tozer leaves for work in the mornings Billy will sometimes begrudgingly give him a little kiss on the cheek but more often than not it’s only after full on frenching hickey right in front of him. Tozer doesn’t know Billy’s last name and at this point it’s obviously too late to ask but he’s also not sure if he should call him Billy since it’s a more intimate nickname so he tries to address him by name as little as possible.

Modern AU: They text each other* to discuss Hickey when needed, Billy doesn’t put Tozer into his contacts until like a year and a half after they’ve met.

*Example of text exchange below (Tozer’s green, Gibson’s gray, the “him” in question is, of course, Hickey):

[oifaaa]

I mean they have to make sure he’s British and connect him back to his culture and hating the poor is a very British thing to do.

Dc writers accidentally make their upper class English character extra English by having them actively hate the poor is the funniest thing they could have done

[eek-a-tron]

Behold the most "Selina Kyle vibes" editorial EVER

Like SRSLY

Editorial: Daria Werbowy photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue, 2006, from AnneOC. Comic refs: Adam Hughes here & Darwyn Cooke's style guide here.

[nopeferatu]

idc what people are whining abt, i actually really enjoyed the netflix avatar series. the costume and set design was really beautiful, the effects were great, the performances were great. i think people are weirded out about the pacing and i understand that, but at the same time, they're working on netflix's budget and i think they did a great job utilizing the important material in book 1 to tell as well rounded of a story as they possibly could. and like sure, i get that it was jarring to see them start at the VERY beginning instead of starting w katara and sokka finding aang like the original show does for ex, but like. idk! i think they shouldn't feel obligated to hit every plot point beat for beat and i don't think we lost anything by establishing aang's background early on. actually, every single scene with master gyatso made me fucking bawl lol. aang's loss is soooo much more palpable in this show than the original one imo bc it lingers on that pain a lot more. there were a few story choices that kinda made me scratch my head a bit, like the fact that teo wasn't introduced as part of the new Northern Air Temple population and what effects that had on aang, but i'm really not mad about it. anyways i give it two big thumbs up and i hope it gets renewed for another season

[mod2amaryllis]

many strangers on tumblr tapping into a conversation I've been having with my therapist for seven years

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

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so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

[mrdizzy]

Mr uppity's way of saying "Mr perfect" is like how Timmy turner's dad (from Fairly odd parents) says "Dinkleberg"

YOURE SO RIGHT

[piplupod]

got to interact with puppies for the first time in my life.... my flannel has holes torn in it bc they played tug-of-war with it and my shirt and pants are mud-stained but i am possibly the happiest I've ever been :]

[californiaquail]

my therapist wanted to take me for a walk today? ft. his dog and some cows and donkeys

[skitskatdacat63]

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[meatriarch]

this little block is like, perfectly how i imagine my pretty nymph dresses <3

[spacedustmantis]

ok. i think it's haircut time tomorrow. or not. idk

[walterdecourceys]

i'm ngl i am slightly afraid of what the mechanisms fandom has become. i'm still passively insane about the mechs ofc but i do not want to interact with the current fandom it's. hm. Uncomfortable

[eternalchant]

this bitch.

[foxyfrolic]

//plot twist Sionna's vulpine stature is a metaphor for autism