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This is the best exhibit in the entire British Museum.

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WHO IS RUNNING THE BIG FINISH INSTAGRAM??

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I think I put too much vanilla extract in my cake.

#fragrant soup

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Do you know the dwelling(s) either of your parents grew up in?

Yes, I live(d) there

Yes, I’ve been inside it

Yes, I’ve seen it from the outside

Yes, I’ve seen it in a photo

No, I have never seen it

#I've seen the block of flats my mum and auntie grew up in #but they gentrified the area since then and they're not council flats anymore so there's only rich people in it now :/

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Im curious.

#I don't know what happened in Line of Duty after Lindsay Denton died #probably nothing important

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Every single time Gene Hunt and Alex Drake argue the sexual tension is insane. Off the charts. Looking like they're two steps away from shagging right on Gene's desk. And every time the entire rest of CID is just staring at them like

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collection

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This is a triple barrelled attack.

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Had to throw this together after being struck with inspiration.

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Young me (aged 16) (about to learn a fact about feline anatomy in the most psychic damage inducing way possible): oh a polyamorous Red Drawf fic haha that's fun. wait why is his penis like that

#red dwarf

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It says both that they are just THAT insanity inducing, and that I am doing my job right (dragging other people back into the insanity so I don't have to suffer alone) 💖

For me a core feature of Galex's relationship is that Alex wants to be seen as strong and unflappable and respected and always in control, right. And Gene wants to be seen as a kind of unquestioned alpha male in charge who never shows any weakness and who deserves the blind respect and obedience of the rest of the team even when he yells at them and verbally abuses them. And they do see each other that way, to some extent. But they also both know that to some extent all of that is bullshit, because they've willingly allowed each other to look deeper.

Because, see, to me another key fact about them is that Alex actually really likes being looked after, and Gene actually really likes having someone to look after, and this is each of their deepest and most personal vulnerabilities that they only really show to each other.

And then almost never directly and outwardly acknowledge, because that would mean acknowledging their own secret hidden layers.

They're perfect for each other. But they're horrid for each other because they're both equally shit at communicating or admitting weakness.

This is a long rambling post I just have a lot of thoughts. I just love them.

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Gene and Alex get together and then speedrun their relationship to get married before Chris and Shaz do because they're too competitive to come second at anything.

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For me a core feature of Galex's relationship is that Alex wants to be seen as strong and unflappable and respected and always in control, right. And Gene wants to be seen as a kind of unquestioned alpha male in charge who never shows any weakness and who deserves the blind respect and obedience of the rest of the team even when he yells at them and verbally abuses them. And they do see each other that way, to some extent. But they also both know that to some extent all of that is bullshit, because they've willingly allowed each other to look deeper.

Because, see, to me another key fact about them is that Alex actually really likes being looked after, and Gene actually really likes having someone to look after, and this is each of their deepest and most personal vulnerabilities that they only really show to each other.

And then almost never directly and outwardly acknowledge, because that would mean acknowledging their own secret hidden layers.

They're perfect for each other. But they're horrid for each other because they're both equally shit at communicating or admitting weakness.

This is a long rambling post I just have a lot of thoughts. I just love them.

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So funny when job sites send me emails like "we found a perfect job for you!!!" and then I look and it's something like accountant or maths tutor. Babygirl I am borderline innumerate 💖

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One of my favourite common tropes in A2A fics is when Gene and Alex are fully living together and considering long term plans of spending the rest of their lives together, and Ray, Chris, and Shaz still haven't even noticed that they're a couple.

And then one of them finally finds iut and immediately tells the other two, and the other two are never like "yeah, makes sense", they're always boggled and astounded. I'm just really pleased that most fic writers agree that those three are all reasonably competent individually, but you put them all together and they all become incredibly stupid somehow.

#a2a #ashes to ashes #galex #gene hunt #alex drake #ray carling #chris skelton #shaz granger

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For me cleaning the toilet is the easiest one to do in terms of fighting the executive disfunction demons. Because all of these others have so many steps of like. Decide to do it. Stand up. Pick up all the things I need to pick up. Walk to a particular location. But cleaning the toilet skips most of those because I'm going to need to go to the toilet at some point anyway. And then once I go to the toilet I'm already at the toilet, the toilet brush and the cleaning products are already in the bathroom in full view and in arm's reach, and I might as well clean the toilet while I'm here. Simple.

(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)