#well i won't deny it

[rhaenella]

Ed Speleers’ facial expressions masterclass: the annoyed look

Downton Abbey 3.9 "A Journey to the Highlands" (Christmas Special) — Jimmy Kent

You 4.10 "The Death of Jonathan Moore" — Rhys Montrose

Star Trek: Picard 3.5 "Imposters" — Jack Crusher

[anastacialy]

alright as much as everyone (including me) has been nitpicking and critiquing season three of bridgerton i have to hand them one thing and that's no other season has made me this insane

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

thoughts on freemance?

I have a few thoughts but to sum it up, i'm not a huge fan personally? I dunno, I'm not a fan of the trope where. every women character in a game/movie HAS to be the love interest/in love with the main guy character, and in HL2 it comes across as forced to me, and everyone seeming to want them to get together by making weird remarks to Alyx especially is odd to me.

No disrespect to people who ship them together, I'm just not a big fan of it personally.

[merge-conflict]

if i have a controversial rogue opinion it's that i think taking johnny at face value when he says rogue will do whatever he says (implying he has all the power) is to believe what he tells himself which as we know isn't always...accurate. and the impression i get from some off-hand comments i've read that she was somehow forced or obligated to help him is i think sort of robbing her of her own agency? like yeah she has shit taste in men but she could have turned him down if she wanted to and she didn't really want to. it's a flaw that says something about how she values loyalty and the people she loves. there's nothing even in johnny's memories that suggests she's hopelessly heartbroken or that helpless to resist, hell santiago is the one telling her to consider the offer. she's got johnny's back, but you very obviously get the sense she doesn't need him in her life and has her own shit going on, you know? anyway maybe i'm misunderstanding folks i just love that she built her own empire on being ruthless and savvy and yet still has a soft spot for her old shitheel ex (but only after he grovels and embarrasses himself a little). ok thanks for reading my tedx talk.

[nostalgia-tblr]

oh wow i was ONLY JUST mentally wondering "do the lokius shippers hate the thorki shippers?" but not wanting to just ask on tumblr In Case Drama and now an answer comes straight to my dash! what perfect timing!

[incesthemes]

ok but i'm so confused about 12.07. what do they even think lucifer is gonna do. he wants a crowd of devoted followers so he gathers them to a rock show to presumably convert them to his satanic religion or whatever. and... i'm not seeing the urgency and dread that the episode is treating this event with. "we have to save the concert-goers" from what? being turned into satanists??? isn't that lucifer's explicit stated goal here??? he's not gonna KILL his converts because then he wouldn't have anyone to worship him. hello that's the whole point of getting new fans to come to the show

"yeah but they don't know lucifer's intentions" but the SHOW ITSELF is treating this concert like some kinda big dangerous thing. this is so messy and there's absolutely no stakes to justify the tonal urgency it's pushing. so i'm just staring at the screen like what are you guys doing

[sezja]

All DNIs are fundamentally pointless because they rely on people checking each and every blog they engage with (and who has the time), and because they require the willing cooperation of everyone involved, which will always have mixed results

But "anyone who is really problematic in my eyes" has got to be the most useless thing to put in a DNI. What does that even mean? How do we know what you define as "problematic" in the first place, when that word's so watered-down these days? We can't read your damn mind.

[lovers-instead]

Sapphic YA Book Rec: Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden

1996 follow-up to Annie on My Mind, this time featuring 2 girls who compete for the lead role in their high school theater department.

Links to download:

Internet Archive (to borrow)

Anna's Archive

Singlelogin.re

LibGen

[italianpersonwithashippersheart]

You know what bugs me about the 911 - buddie situation? It didn't have to be like this. All they showrunners had to was deny it. Tim should have said in that stupid interview after season 2, that it wasn't going to happen, the next showrunner should have told the cast to refuse to answer question about buddie, or maybe said something along the lines of, "well maybe in a different universe it might have happen" or even a joke about how "unfortunately they are straight, lol". All the way back in s2 and s3. That is it. That is all they had to do.

But they didn't. They knew the buddie fandom was getting more prominent, so they stayed vague hoping to keep them around. Meanwhile, they have half the writers and other crew memebers putting pile of subtext into buddie's relationship. And then force these same writers to write these rushed underbaked women to throw at them in the hopes that people just forget about buddie. And when that doesn't happen they write the character off.

I don't think I can do this to myself anymore. It's not about them becoming canon, I enjoy the memes and the meta but I have not believed that buddie would actually be canon in a while. What I can't do anymore is sit through another half baked rushed relationship with random side characters they have little to no chemistry with, while the show lie to me about how good of a relationship it is only for them to inevitably break it off when the fans aren't into it.

It's what happen with Shannon, with Ali, with Taylor, it's what Lena was probably initially there for, It's definately why they got rid of Lucy after trying so hard to have her in the season and the team, it's what happen with Ana.

I don't enjoy these storylines. I know the writers can do better, which means they are obviously not into it either. Or they'd be better at this. I don't find these stories entertaining.

The people in charge of this show need to get their act together and decide the fate of buddie, and if that fate is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN then they need to force their staff to stop writing all that damn subtext and put some effort into their "real" romantic relationship. They also need to accept the fact that is going to make the fans unhappy, and that some of them will stop watching.

Because you know what, they wrote themelves into this damn corner. And now it's too late. They fucked up. There is no woman that will make a better romantic partner in the eyes of the fans, it's too late, even if they manage to write this super well (which I doubt, given what we already saw) the fans are not going to be happy about it. It's too late. You should have spoken up sooner.

They can't have their cake and eat it too.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

few things feel weirder than being the one transgender person in a small classroom when the (well-meaning) cis man teacher realizes he forgot to ask everyone their pronouns

[cool-as-steel]

ohhhhhh the reason this feels familiar is that it is is Kind of shaped like tombs of atuan. except none of the things that are cool and mesmerizing about tombs of atuan are the focus here.

[rotzaprachim]

this is from 2014.

Denouncing the current violent escalation between Israel and Hamas Friday night, Mahmoud Abbas said: “The only solution to the current crisis is a diplomatic one, but I don’t have a partner for a two-state solution,” Haaretz reported.

[alaynestcnes]

Jon and Dany are clearly the song of ice and fire and George's intended endgame - he's even said the books are about them meeting. You must be dumb and blind to ignore what the author has LITERALLY SAID!

[commsroom]

Happy belated birthday! Just wanted to hop in again saying I love your posts about Wolf 359. They’re all so good.

I’m on a relisten again and am at the end of season 3. And I’m thinking about how fascinating it is that Hera remembered the Thanksgiving with her at the table physically. And in a post if yours I read recently or you posted recently you talked about Hera getting a human body and I think that scene kinda hints at maybe wanting to be physically there? Idk.

If you’re up for it you can share your thoughts on this. I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and leave you with some of my Wolf 359 thoughts.

Sending you good vibes over the internet.

thank you; you're always so sweet!! 💙

we're absolutely on the same wavelength here, too!! that scene in particular is a big reason why i feel like hera would want a body - what it says about her self-perception, sense of physicality (even without experience to contextualize it), and... as a result, that she experiences physical loneliness. and, notably, that all of those things are subconscious framing in what she misremembers. i've posted about that scene before here, and in my... way too long essay about hera here, which i'll try to paraphrase a bit. and in other places, too, probably! i think about it a lot.

so: i think there's a big difference between existing differently (which can be isolating in itself, but... through lack of understanding) and feeling like she's always being kept away from the others - somewhere else, physically. she clearly conceptualizes herself in that space as within the hephaestus, separate from it and the systems she runs, the same as everyone else. that's the difference between "other people need to change their attitudes" and... well, other people still need to change their attitudes, but there is also something fundamental about her circumstances that she's unhappy with and needs to change.

(and, obviously, like... because you know i see hera as a trans woman, i think some of the parallels you could make to medical transition are pretty clear in that framing, too.)

minkowski says “you weren’t here with us [...] we were over here, and you were over there” but minkowski would never actually say that - from her perspective, hera was as there with them as she's ever been. but if hera doesn't feel that way - if - like the sound design suggests - she's always hearing their voices the way they hear hers... if she's always felt that she's somewhere else... then it's hard for me to imagine there's a way to resolve that without giving her the autonomy to physically interact with the others, to be seen the way she sees herself - and that's something i think is really highlighted in the finale, too.

[negativepeanuthoarder]

Looking at twitter has me all:

[bat-the-misfit]

oh no