I can not stress enough that the scene where Percy sends Medusas head to the gods is literally what made me fall in love with Percy as a character bc think about it hes just started his first quest, he's in more danger then he's ever been in his whole life, knowing almost every monster and God is currently out to get him personally, and the most important person in his life has been kidnapped by the god of the dead - so what does he do? He chooses to actively makes the situation worse by sending a middle finger right to the gods bc yeah fuck the gods
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It's important to remember that the interview with the vampire cast was wrongfully forgotten. Like idk how you could watch the confessional scene and not immediately give jacob his flowers
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Things that were said during Zerxus' encounter with the Lord of the Hells:
"Give me your hand."
"I heal him."
"What have they done to you?"
"This man is beautiful."
"Why do you remind me of [my love]?"
"Let's get you cleaned up."
"No one has shown me kindness-" "That's gonna change."
"I [tend to him] with the utmost care."
"Will you kneel with me?" "I will."
"I lay my hand on his chest."
"I have been burning for so long."
"Don't you forget me." "Not for all of the ages of the world will I forget you."
"I have to leave you."
"There will always be a part of mortals that recoils from me." "Then you made me wrong."
"Come find me."
"You come back into your body on the floor with the tight muscles of someone who has been spasming in a state of religious ecstasy"
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You reminded me of how horrified I was when I first saw that ep and Louis just left the baby on the FLOOR?! I forgot about it almost instantly, bc of the vampire drama otherwise, but how did Grace process that?! HOW WOULD YOU PROCESS THAT?! Did they ever talk about it again?! WTFFF. Like considering how this had to look to outsiders is INSANE.
Yeah, exactly, like...
Ok. so. AS A MOM. (I'm obviously biased, ahem)
(You know, the brainwaves between mothers and babies align when constantly close, so that sixth sense people sometimes talk about, that's real. And a mother does hear the tone of the crying very keenly. It's instinct, in large parts, that's nothing learned.)
But that is also why Grace is so disturbed when she hears the baby cry, because that tone... that tone signals distress.
She left the baby happily enough with Louis, no problem, you go, looks good. She fully trusted him.
And then she gets back... and not only is the baby distressed, it is laying on the floor, all alone, and her brother has fled.
Something has happened.
She doesn't know what it is, she very possibly cannot imagine either, but it isn't good. We're <10 years in, so the aging is not yet a real problem, imho, but Louis is obviously not coming by often, and there must be a lot of rumors by now, about the Azalea, and that townhouse.
At that moment, the trust is gone.
(I know that there was this post a while back re eating the baby, but ... Mama Du Lac would have gone after them with a torch if he actually ate the baby, imho. Grace right beside her. They knew where they lived.)
But the trust is bad enough, imho. Her (mortal) brother would have never. And she is right about that!
And I think a part of Louis knows that, too, and it is also a part of what hurts him here so deeply. And what widens the rift even more.
And I, personally, would have resented that change in my brother, and I think that simply is what happens here, too. Grace knows in that instance, that she has lost her brother. And so her behavior towards him changes, and her attitude in regards to his life (style). But that has nothing to do with homophobia.
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Okay but I really wanna talk about the scene in this week's episode of Amphibia where Anne (and by extension Sasha) were fighting with kpop playing in the background because that scene was so fucking COOL like I'm not the biggest fan of kpop so I'm not sure who the band was or anything but the song SLAPPED and the ANIMATION WAS FANTASTIC AND THAT LITTLE FLASH TRANSITION THING BETWEEN ANNE AND SASHA I WILL NEVER GET OVER IT
Update: the band was blackpink and I do know who they are but did not know it was them so haha Whoops
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every time I fumble w my phone’s charger cable I think about emailing steven moffat a pipe bomb
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directors using colorful or "impossible" lighting to convey mood and meaning and beauty my beloved. directors making night scenes impossible to see for the sake of realism my beloathed.
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It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.
They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.
The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.
The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.
Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.
Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.
Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”
MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”
Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet's delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.
“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!' ” MacLean said.
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