#weaver's week

[weaversweek]

Tony Slattery

A tribute to Tony Slattery in today's Week. He was thoroughly funny, then he was everywhere, then suddenly he was gone and he's been living in our memories ever since.

I've got words on five of the many game shows Tony did, including a thoroughly obscure Meridian local show, the original Trivial Pursuit, and Phil Swern's best music game.

And, riffing off something mentioned in University Challenge, how the cliffhanger got its name.

[isabelleadjani]

WINONA RYDER & SIGOURNEY WEAVER as Call & Ripley ALIEN: RESURRECTION dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997

[cinderduck]

Tale Weaver Human Designs!

[tearblossom]

[turtle-ly]

me when minor inconvenience

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

November: Grey Redux

Working Girl / Sigourney Weaver as Katharine Parker and Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill

When Tess decides to impersonate her boss, she also helps herself to Katharine's wardrobe, including this classic grey two-piece suit. It's like the next-generation iteration of Maggie's suit from Funny Face, which started the month of grey (revisited)--so this seems like an appropriate way to close.

In addition to the shouldamapads, the stripped-down cut is very typical of the 1980s: the jacket has no lapels and only one button, while the shirts have no visible fastenings. Note that Katharine wears a white shirt with the suit, while Tess's is a subtle cream or beige. Both pair the suit with a houndstooth overcoat and a taupe shoulderbag, and both wear pearl earrings (but different necklaces). Katherine adds taupe gloves and grey hose.

[macksartblock]

If I continue to burrow into the bargaining stage I will never hit depression

[harrietvane]

Anyway, Sigourney Weaver Prospero

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Okay so I've been thinking about Avatar the Last Airbender again lately and of course, the Wingfeather Saga and I wrote up a whole post about that the other day that's in my drafts but I NEED you all to hear this concept that just made me WHEEZE and start laughing out loud.

Toph in the Strander Burrows.

They have TUNNELS specifically made so that they can sneak up into people's houses and STEAL from them, can you imagine the CHAOS this child could wreak both on the unsuspecting populace of Dugtown and on the Stranders themselves by CHANGING tunnels that have been in place for a hundred years or more on a WHIM because she CAN.

Initially I thought of Maraly introducing her to them but now I'm wondering if it would be funnier if they're just NEMESISES. Like, lil Shadowblade Maraly chasing lil Blind Bandit Toph through Strander Burrows, popping back to the surface when Toph tries to lose her by CHANGING THEM or opening walls or something but Maraly knows EXACTLY where the tunnel comes out so she just goes there anyway. Toph keeps bending the metal in Maraly's knives she throws at her so Maraly starts making knives out of other materials (and like, it could be something semi-reasonable like bone, but imagine her just sending a letter to Kalmar like "hey I need some of those glowing stones from your basement to defeat my nemesis" ASKFHDGJFAL;KD).

Gammon is trying to figure out how to adopt Toph aklfjdgsfa;dksl he's hoping the girls will just work things out and end up friends (spoiler: they do, eventually, and THAT'S when they really get chaotic and Gammon regrets ever wishing they were friends).

oh my gosh they're even the same age it's meant to be

[weaversweek]

Only Connect 2025 final

Episode 504 of Only Connect was the 20th series final.

In the blue corner, Four Opinions, three nice lads who have not yet lost a game.

In the pink corner, Tea Totallers, three experiences quizzers who took the scenic route and clearly know their onions.

Who wins, who loses, and where did they get that picture of the flag of the Earth?

Plus! Yet more stats on University Challenge, joy from Claudia Winkleman, a spectacularly bad idea for BBC2, and Race Across the World takes on its most difficult challenge yet: the North Circular during evening rush hour.

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Ayumi Shibayama: The Beech Tree » 2023 Japanese Nationals

[spopfandomevents]

SPOP Appreciation Week art by harpinedoodles

[harboneger]

My favorite guys actually.

I'm in the middle of xstitching these but it takes a while yknow?

[halffizzbin]

Probably I should care more about the possibility of being overheard while I talk out loud to the spider who lives on my patio but 🤷🏻‍♀️

[magic-is-something-we-create]

happy birthday dusk! 🎉 sorry about what im going to do to your friend group over the next few years

anyway this is annie pov. her entire massive family came over to the timbers' tiny lil apartment to wish the recently retraumatized boy a happy eighteenth birthday and theres not nearly enough places to sit

transcript in ALT

[pepimeinrad]

I'm hooked on ANNO 1503 again - currently trying to get Metropol A - settling 100.000 people - done. kinda stupid thing that's consuming my time, because basically I'm just building this pattern over and over again...