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the reason the “ricky would go back to nini it’s always been her” argument annoys me so much is because there’s no evidence for it but so much for the exact opposite which is ricky regretting even getting back together with her at the end of s1 in the first place. and it’s CANONICAL evidence like genuinely what do you think he meant by regretting letting her ever slip through his fingers? if he never let her slip through his fingers him and nini would have never gotten back together people do realize that right ….
all because y’all insist he “chose her over gina” when that didn’t happen either like gina left and told him to stop contacting her and then they had their goodbye scene RIGHT AFTER he had just gotten back together with nini when they both thought it was the last time they would ever see each other. do you just wish he was going to dump nini on the spot after confessing his love to her when he 1.) started regressing as a character already and wanted to be with her bc of his fear of change so he wasn’t breaking up with her regardless; he needed to grow as a character first. and 2.) he thought he was never seeing gina again. they never not the chance to start something and neither of them even made a move before she was told she’s moving and told him they didn’t need to talk anymore (which is what pushed him to nini - not gina’s fault it was understandable she felt as though she should give up on continuing their connection but it still pushed him to nini).
#to be honest we should be glad s3 ricky is the ricky dating gina#the ricky with character growth#potentially controversial opinion but even if it were the case he ‘didn’t choose her’ the first time who tf cares sometimes u make the#before you make the right one. y’all love lives must SUCK with way you view romance and love no offense#esp if ur shipping r*ni when they only got back together bc of ricky’s fear of change and nini felt smothered by him by the end of their#and he didn’t like who he when he was with her by the end of their relationship#they were MISERABLE why would ricky ever go back to that#hsmtmts#rina#ricky x gina#ricky and gina#gina porter#ricky bowen#b speaks
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Bye bye poor beautiful Danny Boy (AKA: I just rewatched Deadly Secrets. Poor love got one of the worst exits in the show, outside of just 'disappearing' like the earlier series. Fucking Callum 😒)
#dan casper#chris jarvis#alex walkinshaw#dale smith#smithy#why give him so much power you beautiful idiot?#talk to Gina when she got back or even Smithy#not some dodgy dickhead who has only been there five minutes and doesn't know you - and is working to his own agenda#dan - and chris - really got the shitty end of the stick a lot of the time :(#deadly secrets#sam callis#callum stone#such a laaaaaaaaazy ending for him :(#and to top it off it was dan who found the baby not will#but dan is the one who has to stand there whilst will gets congratulated#hmph!#this period of tb is really annoying and contradictory quite often - like heaton giving his opinion on how to deal with callum to smithy#only to do the opposite with neil and upset him for NO FUCKING REASON when neil's done nothing dodgy or off to him!#the bill
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hi gina :) i was thinking about this and i wanted to share it with you. i was talking to my friend the other day about larry, and how larry is not meant for everyone. years ago when i entered the fandom, i was sooo obsessed with harry and i knew absolutely nothing about larry. i didn’t even know that larry was a thing. inevitably, when i did find out about it, i was definitely taken aback by it. but i still kept an open mind about everything. i did my research and four years later, i am still a larrie and my opinions have only grown stronger. i feel like some of these solo stans want to see themselves in harry’s ‘gfs’ so they ignore larry and the possibility of him being gay/queer. i will admit that at first i did get pulled into the delusion of harry getting with fans (townes) and i liked that i felt like that could happen to me. though that delusion was VERY short lived and i came to my senses after i found out about larry (and realistically, this is real life and not a wattpad fan fiction). the music industry and closeting is a very complex thing and some people just can’t seem to grasp how cruel the world can actually be. for a while, i actually believed louis was a father because i never looked into it due to people deeming it ‘disrespectful.’ once i actually looked into it, i saw immediately right through it and my opinion has not changed since then. the reason i am a larrie, even through all of the denials and stunts is because i did my research and i have a full and complete understanding of closeting, the stunts, babygate, etc. even if they for some unknown reason decide to split in the future, that will not change the fact that they were at least together at some point and that louis is not a father. he could blab about the kid allll he wants and there will not be a single moment where i believe a word he says. the people that get it, get it, and the people that don’t, don’t.
Yes, I agree with you. I really think there are so many fans who look at things the way you once did and don't want to dig into the facts and have their fantasies ruined. It's really sad to me, but I'm just done fighting about it.
These days, I'm here for the music, my friends, the fics/writing, and to know tour info so I can get tickets. Once upon a time, in addition to all of that, proving that Larry was real, fighting for Harry and Louis to know they were supported, and hoping a coming out was around the corner were all major reasons I was in this fandom. Things change. Fandom is very different now. I'm not interested in stubbornly holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore.
None of that means Harry and Louis aren't together or never were. It just means that their love story isn't the main focus for me these days. And that's because they no longer seem to want it to be.
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Gina Carano Sues Disney Over Mandalorian Firing; Funded by Elon Musk – The Hollywood Reporter
But no seriously I want gina/ Elon to lose BIG TIME
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Trans folks are peeing in bottles & avoiding water to dodge harassment under Florida’s bathroom law
Residents have taken it upon themselves to police restrooms, traumatizing trans folks and often incorrectly enforcing the law.
Both trans folks and gender-nonconforming cis folks say they face rampant harassment in public restrooms under Florida’s anti-trans Safety in Private Spaces Act.
The law, which took effect last July after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed it in May 2023, requires people to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth at state colleges, prisons, airports, beaches, city parks, and public schools. The law only applies to facilities run by the state, but theDaily Beast reports that multiple transgender and nonbinary Floridians say they have nonetheless been confronted, harassed, and intimidated in public restrooms located inside private businesses.
Gina Duncan with LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Equality Florida says that the “general public is misinterpreting these bills.”
Duncan recounted the experience of one transgender woman who was denied entry to a restroom at a local cinema, which would not be covered by HB 1521, by a man who she said had decided to monitor the bathrooms and challenge “anyone who, in his opinion, appeared to be transgender.”
Seven people told the Daily Beast about the increased harassment they’ve faced since HB 1521 took effect. Rajee Narinesingh recounted being asked to leave a women’s bathroom in a restaurant by another diner who told her, “You don’t belong in this bathroom.” Narinesingh, who has been assaulted multiple times for being transgender, described the physical symptoms of panic she experienced in that moment.
“When you have traumatic things happen to you and the chance that it can happen again, that fear is real, and it’s palpable,” she said. “After years and years of struggling and horrific things happening, dealing with discrimination and injustice over and over again, it builds up.”
Cielo Sunsarae and Lex Damm-Loring’s experiences also illustrate the impossible position that trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people in Florida find themselves in under HB 1521. Sunsarae, who is nonbinary and transmasculine and was also a 2023 candidate for LGBTQ Nation Heroes, said they were confronted in a women’s sauna at their gym in November by a woman who demanded to know whether they were a man or a woman. Even if Sunsarae had not been in a private gym, they would have been in compliance with the law — but that did not stop a stranger from harassing them for their appearance.
Likewise, Damm-Loring, who is a trans woman, opted to use the men’s bathroom in congruence with the law while attending a December 2023 performance of The Nutcracker at a local state college. She described a father entering the bathroom with his young son while she was washing her hands. “Daddy, why is there a mommy in here?” the boy asked, a question Damm-Loring pointed out was ironic since it’s what GOP lawmakers think the law prevents.
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Revisiting information from Tom Bower's book Revenge and current events in the House of Windsor.
Misan Harriman: All Roads lead back, to Soho House & the person Rachel described as her "gay husband," Markus Anderson.
Anglo-Nigerian photographer, Misan Harriman, was instrumental in Meghan’s 2014 post-Trevor re-brand from Deal or No Deal Briefcase Girl to faux philanthropist/humanitarian.
Allegedly he's also gay, along with the other "boys" in MEgain's Soho House Circle. All in "contract" marriages with female "beards" like Rachel Meghan Markle. All liars.
According to Tom Bower's research (Revenge p. 63), Meghan was determined to use One Young World as her launching pad to celebrity philanthropy.
She was unknown to the OYW founders and event staff so she contacted Misan Harriman to ask for an introduction to his friend, tennis star, Boris Becker.
Becker was already scheduled to speak at the Dublin conference and Misan pitched the idea of Meghan's participation.
Becker referred Meghan to HIS AGENT, Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne.
If I remember correctly, in Gina's pre-wedding articles and interviews, she mentioned that Meghan contacted her office in 2014 to express an interest in helping with the OYW conference(s). I had no idea that Meghan and Misan were friendly while Meghan cohabitated with Celebrity Chef Cory.
MEgain did not choose Misan for her engagement photographs. Misan has only been in the photography business for five (5) years.
Soho House members, the York Sisters, invited Misan to capture the moment Edo proposed to Beatrice. (sigh & smh) SAME Eugenie who told the press, "we really like her..." when someone (OMIT & Jessica) gave Camilla Tominey permission to publicize their affair. Camilla repeatedly writes that William MUST forgive Sparry. Tominey cares nothing for the Wales family or the country. Her interests are rooted in greed and irresponsible reporting to sell papers.
Notice The Meghans began paying Misan during MEGXIT. He captured the stills and video footage for Megflix. He is also paid by Invictus. There's a lot of cash flowing into Misan's bank account via The Meghan and their archeficicial business ventures. IRS, where you at???? 🤔
I'm not sure why I included the following in my original 2022 post: "Allegedly, during Harry's 2 nights in Tornto (babysat by Jason Knauf), just before he flew to the US-FL IG, Meghan (while cohabitating w/Cory & just back from spending Mother's Day weekend w/Cory's parents) Meghan told Harry about her interest in helping him with the Invictus Games."
One thing that stands out to me is how much both Meghans lied during the engagement interview:
Sparry & MEgain admitted (on international television) that they were secretly dating for 5-6 months BEFORE Tominey received the story.
Do the math. If they met in July of 2016 and had 5-6 months together in secret, Camilla's article would have been published in December or January, not October/November.
Camilla's article was published at the time of their Toronto (soho house) Halloween party with Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank: October 2016 = only 3 dating months.
If they began dating during Sparry's Spring promotional visit to Toronto for Ingriftus, then YES--- they were "together" (like spooning bananas) for five (5) months before MEgain leaked the details to Tominey
Sparry is just as much of a compulsive liar as his wife. He lies about the unnecessary details:
"we had to announce your megnantcy for the tour because you were showing..."
"It's true, you did blend in-----‐until our farewell week..."
I have future content coming about Victoria Hervey and Dan Wootton's despicable behavior during kategate. At the moment I wish she would stop extending open invitations for Sparry "to come home," when he's repeatedly been clear that America is his home & America is where he feels safe.
In my opinion, Sparry and MEgain deserve to be married to one another FOREVER!! Initially I viewed Sparry as her victim but just because Sparry is mentally & emotionally unstable and intellectually "sub-educational" (as Lady C would say), does not excuse his character issues: lying, cheating, stealing, grifting to achieve fame and fortune in America. People all over the world with low IQs know the difference between right and wrong. There is no excuse for Sparry's crimes.
Royal Families cannot expect their people to look past bad behavior. Charles got what he wanted, "Camilla." Despite the good press she receives, the majority of the world sees Charles as spoiled and feckless. I do think he will be surprised to learn just how many Brits wish he & Camilla would just go on a permanent holiday.
In a world of meritocracy, we have watched Meghan Markle, Sparry, and Andrew get away with murder. Zero on the job consequences for bad behavior------>Out of touch with everyday people.
Andrew & Sparry have caused permanent damage to brand BRF. When Charles chooses tone deafness over humility and shame, they are begging the people for a Republic.
Normal people pay a price for their unwise decisions. Selfish Charles chose Jesus' resurrection day to rub Andrew into the faces of the British people and global royal watchers.
People won't take these moments of pure contempt for the will and opinions of the people and just let it all go due to cancer. Charles is still seen as a feckless king who will ultimately destroy this monarchy because it appears he cannot or will not manage his household.
Go to church Andrew & Fergie, but not in front of the cameras and not at the expense of the taxpayers. These are not difficult situations for Buckingham Palace. Does anyone have a working brain? It's as if Charles is deliberately destroying everything his mother & father worked so hard to preserve.
I agree @sassyfrassboss and don't get me started on Sarah's health related virtue signals. Why is it so difficult for Fergie to stop talking? And why won't Andrew go away and live out a solitary life? No one wants to shake hands with Epstein's pal. No charity wants to be represented by Epstein's pal. Consequences.
Andrew is reviled and despised because he refuses to accept responsibility for his unwise choices. He has no remorse for choosing "sleazy e & co" over his family and his country. It's not complicated.
I have drafts of future content about the York's. Surmise it to say, Andrew and Sarah are just not bright people. What's worse is they are selfish and refuse to step out of the limelight to give their daughters & grandkids a fresh start.
Unfortunately, like The Meghans, Eugenie was willing to exploit the identities of other people's children while concealing the face of her own child with stickers.
Ultimately Eugenie used the Jubilee to change course. She finally held up the child to show his face. Cute child. What's not cute is the elitist mindset that "blue blood makes us extra special."
After visiting Davos, Eugenie was quick to parrot her elitist, WEF talking points. There was no critical thinking about the issue(s) (like, "hmm, my husband wears glasses"), just a regurgitation of elitist talking points.
No one wants to see Andrew on Easter Sunday or for that matter at any other holiday. Seeing him jolly on parade is a slap in the face to all who had a deep affection for Queen Elizabeth's virtues and basic human decency. It's past time for him to retire from public life.
Rolling up to Easter service as though the York's are respectable members of society who serve Jesus Christ is absolutely shameful.
Not because of a liar named Virginia and her fake photo, but because of Andrew's REAL Central Park, NYC photos and the video footage of Andrew coming and going from Epstein's NYC home. Not to mention their big Epstein dinner with guests like Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos and Woody Allen---- to name just a few.
Andrew used tax payer's money to travel in support of Jeffrey Epstein upon his release from prison.
A man who was convicted of sexually assaulting under age girls served about 12 months in prison and upon release he threw a NYC party for his royal pal Andrew! The Palace was "too honorable" to reply, "No thank you. Have a nice life." Andrew seems too self centered to concern himself with the commandments to "avoid even the appearance of evil" and to "honor" his mother & father's legacies.
#misan harriman#mythcarriage#tom bower#revenge#one young world#amber heard#The Meghans#spare us#megxit#worldwide privacy tour#duke and duchess of sussex#like a spare#brf#Meghan's post-divorce rebrand to philanthropy#human remains cannot be buried on private property without state permits#Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne#Duke and Duchess of York#Andrew Duke of York#Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York#WEF#The end of the Windsor Mountbatten Monarchy#markus anderson#gina nelthorpe cowne#liars
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Miami Vice S1E16: Smuggler's Blues
Sonny and Rico fly to Colombia with Eagles frontman Glenn Frey.
The first time I watched this one was before I'd watched Wiseguy, so I don't think I had much of an opinion about Glenn Frey other than TAKE IT EEEEEASY, TAKE IT EEEEEEASY
Anyway I actually really like him as an actor and I think he does a great job of playing a super burnt out aging hippie Vietnam vet here
This is also the second (and unfortunately the second to last) episode directed by my best pal Paul Michael Glaser, so it's thoughtful and well-paced and fairly homoerotic, which is all one really needs for a solid Vice episode
The DEA does not come off well at all in this episode:
Sonny tells a callous and "results oriented" DEA agent who blames casualties on the "politics of contraband" that "the politics of contraband does not involve killing children," and then straight up calls him a fascist
And later a Rico expresses a sense of surprise that they're involved in such "a big operation, moving people to Cartagena," and a DEA agent responds with "not people, just you two"
...which is all fair because the DEA is terrible, although we're still in the portion of the series where (Sonny especially believes) "regular cops" are still positioned as good, so a bit of pot-kettle going on there
Trudy SO wants to go to Cartagena and make a drug deal but the DEA agent tells her she is staying in Miami and posing as Rico's wife. : (
We'll see later in Prodigal Son that PMG is really good at directing Don Johnson, but it's very clear in this episode that he's also extremely good with Philip Michael Thomas
There's a bunch of moments in this one that are very Starsky & Hutch -- the fight in the alley could literally be ripped from an S&H episode, and the later scene where Sonny and Rico have a wordless conversation in matching doorways feels very S&H as well
The lyrics to the Glenn Frey song Smuggler's Blues straight up narrate part of the episode, to the point where it feels a little silly. Trudy sure does have a suitcase when you're singing about suitcases
We don't get to see if their hotel room only has one bed but I like to believe
So. I think this is the episode where Sonny, who is very good at ignoring his own feelings and refusing to process anything, suddenly realizes that he might care about Rico More Than Is Normal or Acceptable. When Tubbs is captured by the Colombian police, he lets him go fairly quickly, and without pushing back too much on Jimmy-- until they get back to the hotel. He doesn't freak out until he has the time and space to process, and then he snaps. Jimmy asks if he's going to just take on the entire Colombian police force, and Sonny says 'maybe,' and he tries to strangle Jimmy. When he calms down, and Jimmy offers him a cigarette, he breaks the filter off. And then as he and Jimmy sit and discuss loss, Sonny genuinely looks like he is (and frankly he could be) crying. He tells Jimmy that Rico is the one guy he's "gotta wait for," and then when Rico gets out of jail, he sees that Jimmy has left and Sonny has completely trashed the hotel room.
You know.
Normal coworker kind of behavior.
Thank you PMG for always supporting your loyal queers
There is an unremarked upon and incredibly ominous small boy who follows Grocero (the drug dealer) around throughout the episode, and I'm sure the intention is something-something the way the drug trade fucks up kids bla bla BUT what it actually comes off as is just. David Lynch Red Room shit. Haunted child.
When Trudy is captured later and Castillo is deciding who is going to try to defuse the bomb she's strapped to, twice Gina asks for it to be her, and twice the entire rest of the team ignores her. It's a really interesting little moment, especially coupled with the DEA agent shutting down Trudy's desire to go to Colombia earlier-- Gina and Trudy are often given short shrift, but it's not usually remarked upon. These lines didn't need to be included-- Gina and Trudy could've just been excluded from the missions as they often are-- but instead this episode actually highlights the ways they're sometimes dismissed and prevented from fully participating in things the men of Vice are never questioned on. I'm not 100% certain, but from what I recall this may be the only time this tendency is lampshaded in this way-- I suspect because this episode was written by Miguel Piñero, which is to say: Calderone himself.
Piñero was a playwright and poet known for piercing portrayals of modern society and its ills (especially with regards to the treatment of Black and Hispanic populations). He died very young, but in that time was nominated for or received a number of prestigious writing awards and helped found the Nuyorican art movement. I do not think it's a coincidence that this man saw some things (Vice's iffy track record with women, the abject uselessness and evil of the DEA, even the portrayal of the Colombian police captain not as corrupt but desperate) more clearly than many of the other writers on the show. It's also worth noting that Piñero was bisexual, and in a relationship with gay painter Martin Wong at the likely time of writing this episode-- which is to say I don't think Sonny's "oh. Oh no." moment about Rico ought to be brushed off as "straight writer accidentally makes something homoerotic because they don't think or care about women."
Tubbs blesses himself when he hears that Sonny and Trudy are okay-- he is not generally portrayed as particularly religious, but he probably had a Catholic upbringing, given his background, and it feels like a very real reaction.
The episode ends with Tubbs waxing philosophical about why anyone would do any of this shit and deciding that "the bottom line is money," and Castillo agreeing, "usually is." That's it folks! That's the show!
So uh. Is Jimmy dead
I know in a later episode some other smuggler will be like "yeah Jimmy told me all about you guys" to Sonny and Rico but like. Someone forgot to wrap up Glenn Frey's storyline here
He gets shot and then we just never see him again
R(?)IP Jimmy
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Opinion on chumisa? She’s gorgeous but haven’t heard much of her
So, keeping in mind that I tend to just skim over reviews and I don't really get hyped over actors a lot...
I really liked her. Like, she was very, very good.
And it's pretty incredible considering the video I have of her that she's only barely started the role, but there we are: Chumisa Dornford-May feels like she came into the production already having a good idea of exactly how she wanted to play Christine and how she wanted to act certain scenes and string it all together to show her character's arc, and she went and did it. Now all that's left is for her to refine it.
Some highlights: from the get-go I loved how she played 'Think of Me'; I think it's very tempting to go the happy, joyful route a la Gina Beck, and I like that interpretation! But she acted the song in a way that was more appropriate to the lyrics she was singing, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes wistful, sometimes distant and grieving. It gave me a great sense of Christine as not only a good singer but a good performer too.
In terms of whether she was a Phantom or Raoul girlie, I'd honestly say neither, though if pushed I'd say she maybe leans a little more towards Raoul. Her Christine in the lair scenes was not necessarily afraid or angry at the Phantom, but she did feel rather resistant to him, especially compared to some of the other Christines in the role right now (e.g. Lily Kerhoas and Colleen Rose Curran). There were moment where she would melt a little, seemingly going, "Oh, this is kind of nice", but much of the time, she appeared more wary than anything else, unsure of what the Phantom was up to.
I also say she's not quite a Raoul girlie because she acts similarly in the rooftop scenes. In particular, her 'Why Have You Brought Me Here' was played like she was trying very hard to convince Raoul of what she saw and was angered that he kept trying to calm her down rather than actually attempting to understand her. Her Christine doesn't just want to tell Raoul what's going on, she wants him to believe her. She was also noticeably less giggly than other Christines during 'All I Ask of You', at least in this performance, and I liked how it kind of flips the dynamic between them: whereas earlier it was Christine trying to convince Raoul, now he has to be the one to convince her that all is goodness and light, and I'm not fully sure she bought into it.
What else? Oh, in 'Twisted Every Way', she did something that I first saw Yang Chen Xiuyi do in the Chinese production, which was to turn very hopefully towards Raoul when he says, "Christine, Christine, don't think that I don't care..." It's like she thinks, or wants to think, that Raoul is going to back down and call off his plan, which makes it all the more devastating when he doesn't.
And finally, by 'Point of No Return' and 'Final Lair', her Christine had definitely reached her limit with the Phantom. I really enjoyed how you can see Christine working out that it's the Phantom onstage with her during 'Point of No Return', slowly drawing out her phrases as the wheels in her head spin and then committing to continuing the show to catch him. (Never mind about the stuff after.) She delivered a truly contemptuous, "Please, Raoul, it's useless" in the 'Final Lair', and I think she gave a truly angry kiss to the Phantom. It felt very similar, interestingly, to her dynamic with Raoul on the rooftop; she seemed to be using the kiss to desperately try to convince the Phantom away from his current path (using the power of making out to stop the cycle of abuse and trauma!). Such was the quality of the video that I'm pretty sure I saw tears on her face during the kiss, and Chumisa Dornford-May played it, I feel, like it was due to the overwhelming catharsis of emotions she was experiencing: anger, grief, betrayal, terror, all of it being released into this one grand moment.
The only flaws I really noticed had to do with her singing. Most reviews have pointed out she belts some of the score; I didn't notice it too much, but I definitely heard it during 'Wishing'. It wasn't the worst place to belt - she did it during the last stanza, where Christine is usually singing pretty loudly anyway, likely to add volume to her singing - and I didn't mind it too much, but it was jarring. There were also a few parts where her voice was a little quiet, and small scenes where Christine was not the focal point but she could done a little more in her acting, or just paused and let the scene "breathe" a little (which, in fairness, is something most actors new to a role will do, rush through the show).
But honestly, those were minor nitpicks in what was otherwise a really great performance. And this is her early in her run? I can only imagine what she'll be like with a few more months under her belt!
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saw someone on tiktok say that gina was cruel for introducing ricky to her mother as a friend. let’s unpack that shall we? while i do not necessarily condone her introduction of ricky to terri, i understand. gina has been in love with ricky since thanksgiving of last year. during that time frame ricky consistently rejected his budding feelings for her. due to his fear of change, now i’m not negating his fear. i understand it. but in doing so he was harming gina. be it, unintentional, he still hurt her. each time she began to think he was starting to accept his feelings/return her feelings he brought up nini or was with nini. or made a mockery of them i.e the whole chocolate fiasco.
though not voiced, it of course when ricky finally acknowledges his feelings for gina it could feel like a dream for her. because this is what she’s been waiting on for a year. so it’s completely reasonable that she’d not completely ready to unveil that he’s her boyfriend to her mother. the same mother that she called when the heartbreak of his rejection. the same mother that watched her bawl her eyes out about him. (terri is no saint but at the end of the day she’s seen her daughter in immense pain due to her “unrequited” crush on ricky.).
leading to my second point, terri may be a godawful mother. but she’s still gina’s mother, and gina STILL wants her mothers approval to some extent. despite how we as a fandom may feel she does care about her mothers opinion to some extent. so when gina completely shuts out their relationship to terri, it’s because she knows her mother may have some preconceived notions about ricky. gina truly didn’t want to tell her mother until she herself was sure ricky wouldn’t run and ricky knew within himself he wouldn’t run.
during ep 5 of season 4 we see how ricky feels that he never thought he’d ever get gina. that once he finally accepted his feelings he never thought she could possibly return them. in that exact same aspect gina did not think ricky truly would return hers. she was hopeful but she wasn’t sure. she knew he had feelings for her but she also knows ricky has a track record of running. to her she needed this relationship to not be some dream. she needed proof he’d stay and fight for her. him showing up at the end of ep 5 proved to her that he WOULD fight. that he is willing to fight for her. for them.
in the end she ultimately told terri about their relationship because although gina to some extent cares about terri’s opinion, her frustration in that moment with the ricky disagreement and her mother actively trying to pair her and mack together is what pushed her to finally just tell her mother about them.
my point is, both ricky and gina had insecurities going into this relationship with one another. it was handled beautifully by both. but gina’s isn’t as clearly and explicitly talked about as ricky’s. they both felt that the other could never reciprocate and they both were scared to lose the other. what we aren’t gonna do is villainize either of them for making mistakes. plus to me ricky bowen and gina porter can do no wrong.
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Gina to Ricky: you’re not a maybe you’re a yes
Also Gina to Ricky: I don’t want to hear peoples opinions on us so let’s just keep it a secret
People in this fandom with no critical thinking skills: SHE DOESN’T LIKE/CARE ABOUT RICKY!! SHE REGRETS HER DECISION! SHES GONNA HURT RICKY LIKE SHE HURT EJ!
…be for real.
Gina knows her feelings about Ricky. She wants to keep their relationship hidden because she knows people will be nasty to them (just like the way the irl fandom is treating her/them right now!) so she wants to preserve their relationship and keep it between them. Live in happy little bubble for the time until things die down.
Like you actually believe that this girl isn’t head over heels for him?? Yeah okay.
#hsmtmts#ricky x gina#rina hsmtmts#rina#gina porter#ricky bowen#please be serious for 5 seconds#y’all are proving Gina right and the seasons not even out
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Fav re-reads:
Escapade (I cannot seem to get bored of it, I love h&l's relationship dynamic, the whole vibe, impeccable. This is my comfort fic, I always go back to it)
got the sunshine on my shoulders (I'm a sucker for louis praise and this fic has a lot of it. Angsty and a bit heartbreaking but I love it sm)
Danger I Can't Hide (I read this because of your recommendation Gina, and holy shit. I'm speechless every time I so much as think about this fic!)
Haven't re-read them yet but I most definitely will:
Through Eerie Chaos (I cried way too much nearing the end considering that it has a happy ending😭) (also all of MediaWhore's works are gems and should be framed)
may we all have a vision now and then (I just read it today but I already plan on rereading it. It's a short one (4k) and I didn't expect to like it so much, but it made me so emotional! Harry is pretty and he should be called pretty every goddamn hour of every goddamn day!! Thank god for Louis)
Generally, I think if someone's looking for amazingly written works you cannot go wrong with: MediaWhore, Velvetoscar and CelticSky's works. There are obviously many more amazing and talented authors, but these tree are my absolute favourites if anyone cares about a stranger's opinion on the internet 🤍
So glad you loved Danger I Can’t Hide. I’m on re-read #4 and it’s only been a few months since I read it the first time. 😅
Escapade by dolce_piccante
got the sunshine in my shoulders by hattalove
Danger I Can’t Hide by CelticSky
Through Eerie Chaos by MediaWhore
may we all have a vision now and then by @gaycousinlarry
(I’ve re-read those last two multiple times, as well!)
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when I first got into half life I was still very much a furry.
so here have fur-life doodles
Also yes this AU started out as a furry AU.
gina and gordon are both hyenas but gina is a striped hyena
vvv some lore and explanations for shit vvv
you may notice I didn't choose obvious animals for some characters. most people would probably make adrian a shepherd dog of some sort since his last name is literally shephard. I don't like using domesticated animals for furry designs tho. its too easy, its overused and kind of a weird concept if you think about it. how the hell were these guys domesticated.
instead, I like to go for less popular choices and more uncommon animals.
I chose a close relative of sheep for adrians design because i think its a bit ironic that the shephard is a sheep. also they have cool color patterns which I really like :D
as for gordon being a hyena,
this was originally just a random idea I had. just tried choosing a cool animal. but when I developed this idea I realized that I could do a lot more with this. hyenas are seen as scavengers that aren't very strong and they are also seen as not very intelligent cough cough the lion king cough cough
this is completely false. spotted hyenas are highly intelligent and social creatures and they take down their own food for the most part. they are strong. have you seen their jaws?? they are capable of breaking bones with their bite. I wouldn't dare to mess with one.
the more I thought about this the more I felt that it was very fitting for the guy that is considered a goofy idiot by most of his coworkers (every fucking scientist at black mesa seems to treat him like hes just an intern and like he has 0 skill) to be a hyena. hes completely misjudged by everyone around him. and during the resonance cascade he showed the world that everyone was wrong about him.
at the same time, his actions might've strengthened those stereotypes in some people that saw him. I mean, he kind of did turn into a killing machine back there. even if he was saving my life I would be wary of him. you just cant trust someone that kills without hesitation. the resistance might also be more divided in their opinion about him (something I'm still keeping for my AU because the canon resistance is boring as fuck sorry) and not everyone thinks he is the savior of mankind.
also like, LOOK AT HOW SPOOKY THAT LOOKS
gina is also a hyena because during development she was literally just female gordon. like, she was supposed to be the female player choice. to keep that theme at least somewhat i made her a hyena aswell. to make her design more unique i made her a striped hyena though.
colette is a lynx (a siberian lynx in the doodle but I later decided on her being an iberian lynx instead)
alyx and barney don't have that much story behind their designs aside from me wanting to have an avian character and not just a bunch of mammals.
eli is also a cheetah obviously and i was thinking of making kleiner something like a slow loris cause they look funky and he is very funky
also on a side note: gordon furreemans head looking like a radiation symbol was an accident at first because i was trying to draw him more cartoony and then I noticed this and now he has a radiation symbol for a head. also that doodle is where my current angular lookin style originated.
#half life#art#my art#furry#furry art#fur life#gordon freeman#adrian shephard#barney calhoun#alyx vance#gina cross#colette green
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Top 5 sapphic movie recs? :)
Thanks for the ask! In order, from 5 to 1:
D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy and Amy
Mosquita y Mari (2012) - Yolanda y Mari - the one movie i would show my kid self (if i could time travel)
Bound (1996) - Violet and Corky
Imagine Me and You (2005) - Luce and Rachel
Saving Face (2004) - Wil and Vivian - the one movie I would save from a fire (if i could only save one)
[captions top to bottom: Lucy and Amy with guns drawn in D.E.B.S. Yolanda and Mari hanging out in Mosquita y Mari. Violet reaches out to hold Corky's hand in Bound. Luce laughs as Rachel fishes her wedding ring out of the punch in Imagine Me and You. Wil looks at Vivian's hair and then stares longingly at her face in Saving Face.]
Highly reco all of these! More spoiler-free ranting, worksafe gifs, and trailer links under the cut. (one mild SPOILER ... but good news: none of these women die, like not even a little bit!!)
starting the list at Number Five:
D.E.B.S. (2004) is Comedy, rated PG-13, and a campy delight. I buy the chemistry between Lucy (L below) and Amy (R ), and it's a cute enemies-to-lovers story. It doesn't take itself too seriously. And as the gif text says: Charlie's Angels but it's actually gay!!!
Best to watch: when you want something campy with some fun spy action scenes. Kissing plus. Also: Jordana Brewster!
D.E.B.S. (2004) trailer
Number Four:
Mosquita y Mari (2012) is an unrated Drama (PG-13-ish IMO) that's one of my all-time faves*. Mari (L below) and Yolanda (R ) are high schoolers and they are INTO EACH OTHER. You can practically see the vibrations in between them. It's about two Chicanas and it touches on family and money and immigrant stuff. (*If I could go back in time and show my kid self one movie - out of all the movies in the world - it would be this one.) There is a lot of intimacy between them, but there's nothing explicit.
Best to watch: when you want to reminisce about high school and that friend you had feelings for. Grappling and holding hands and snuggling. Also: gorgeously shot scenes that set the mood, even with no dialogue.
Mosquita y Mari (2012) trailer
coming in at Number Three:
Bound (1996) is a Heist movie, rated R, and amazing. The directorial debut of the Wachowski sisters. Chemistry for MILES between Violet (L below) and Corky (R ). Also a strong crime/thriller/heist plot, aside from all the chemistry. I don't find the violence to be THAT explicit but that's my opinion.
Best to watch: when you want to see a very sexy heist movie and don't mind some violence. Rated R for a reason (both sex and violence). Also: Jennifer Tilly and her voice! Gina Gershon in a white tank top! Both of them in leather jackets!
Bound (1996) trailer
Number Two:
Imagine Me and You (2005) is a Rom-Com that's rated R, and super cute. It's love at first sight but there's some angst. Rachel (first gif below, L) is trying to resist her attraction to Luce (R ). I feel like this movie doesn't really deserve the R rating. Anyway, it's cute and fun.
Best to watch: when you want some decent angst, but a happy ending. Lots of intense making out. Also: British accents! a flower shop! Dance Dance Revolution! Piper Perabo and Lena Headey!
Imagine Me and You (2005) trailer
and at the top of my list at Number One:
Saving Face (2004) is another Rom-Com that's rated R, and it's PERFECT TO ME. If I could only grab one movie to save from a fire - out of all the movies ever made - it would be this one! It's childhood friends - who reconnect as adults - to lovers. Vivian (L below in the first gif) is a dancer while Wil (R ) is a doctor, technically a surgeon. There's family and immigrant stuff, and they are both Chinese-American.
Best to watch: when you want angst with a happy ending, with some good mother-daughter stuff too. Flirting, making out, intense making out, hand holding, and yes a bedroom scene. Also: authentic Mandarin! a comforting mother-daughter relationship! a race to the airport scene!
Saving Face (2004) trailer
Lightning in a bottle stuff here, seriously. Lynn Chen (who plays Vivian) had never been in a feature film before. Michelle Krusiec (who plays Wil) had never had a lead role before. Alice Wu wrote AND directed the movie, and this was literally her FIRST MOVIE. You would never guess any of that watching this movie. They all knock it out of the park!!
Any questions about any of these movies, send in an ask!
#movie reco#intense movie reco#saving face#mosquita y mari#debs#bound#imagine me and you#i could talk about any of these movies for a solid hour#like if you put a gun to my head and said give a presentation with no notes these are all candidates for that#ask answered#beatriceeverytuesday#thank you original gifmakers#you are worth your weight in gold#thank you for the asks!
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I love Elementary as a Holmes adaptation, but I have to ask about the copaganda. Not so much the overall presence/depiction of the NYPD as the generally benevolent venue for Joan and Sherlock to solve crime, but rather the occasional ep that veered off into wtf-level acts of police mouthpiecing: for example, the ep where Joan and Marcus flip the eff out after discovering that Marcus' girlfriend works in Internal Affairs. I'm curious whether stuff like that came directly out of perspectives native to the writers' room, or if it was more dictated from external sources as a cost-of-doing-business requirement. Similar to, "Microsoft will give your production money AS LONG AS you show your characters using Microsoft products to positive ends", was there a "you can depict the NYPD and call it by name AS LONG AS you include such-and-such lines of dialogue/story about how Police Are Great And Admirable And Beyond Reproach"?
(I get that you may not be able to or want to answer this question, but I caught the ep with Marcus' girlfriend yesterday and it's just so...vehement, in some really fucked up ways. I can't not ask, even if you don't answer. Thank you for keeping your askbox open!)
ON COPAGANDA
Great questions without an easy answer. Personally, I'm usually very cautious about outright copaganda, though I have a very close friend who joined the CHP and rose pretty high in the ranks, and I respect the hell out of him and what he did. That said, I think police are people and run the gamut from great to awful, like anyone. Worth noting, my buddy comes from a cop family, his older brother is a cop, and I know someone from a citizen group who basically said his brother was NOT a good cop at all. The opposite.
I've mostly had pretty good experiences with police, but when I was young, I was pulled over for driving while poor. I had a weapon in the car (a wooden club). Things got very tense. And I'm pretty sure that if I weren't so damn pale, that night might have gone way worse.
My friends who don't share my skin tone have, generally speaking, a much worse time with the police. I once gave a friend of mine shit for keeping his dealer tags on his car long past when he got his plates. His response: "It's another way to prove I own this car without having to reach into my glove compartment." My response: "Oh. Sorry. I'm an idiot."
So if you want to see what I think of the police... well, I wrote Bell and Gregson as good cops. I also wrote "End of Watch" and created Gina Cortes. I think, on the balance, ELEMENTARY showed good cops and bad, including shitheals like Captain Dwyer and outright villains like Frank DaSilva.
As for Shauna, in my opinion, Bell reflects the rank-and-file dislike for IA, and the fact that he blows up their relationship over it is supposed to be a huge mistake. Shauna is ultimately a good person, and Bell's prejudice costs him what could've been a wonderful relationship.
And yet... Gregson and Bell are heroes. Pretty much straight up. Sherlock and Joan work for the police, more often than not. And this is portrayed as a good thing. We had NYPD consultants on the show, and though they were mostly very helpful with making the cop stuff realistic, and I liked them a lot, they weren't super thrilled when we did stories about bad cops. I can't ever remember steering away from those stories because of their feedback, but... yeah.
On the balance, I'd say while ELEMENTARY did have our share of copaganda, we did try to create a more nuanced portrayal of police that most network procedurals.
I totally get it if you think differently.
And thanks for watching!
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Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket - List of the Ladies!
As promised below is a full list of all 130 women in the Hot Vintage TV Women's Tournament! Thank you to everyone who submitted their favs!
Just a brief bit of cleanup before the list. Thank you for all the submissions. If your submission didn't make it into the bracket or some of your propaganda isn't used know that I still appreciated the submission even if we weren't able to use it. Some things got cut for being outside the bounds of the tournament, some things got cut because the links were broken, etc. Anything I wasn't sure about got brought to family and friends for a second opinion. I did my best to keep as much in as possible but some things just ended up leaning too far outside of our criteria. If you notice some stuff that seems outside the criteria slip by it's because I tried to be very generous so as long as something wasn't obviously outside of our time period or rules I usually gave it a pass.
Anyway, I am working on the bracket as we speak and apologize in advance cause I don't think there's any way to make round 1 completely painless, as you'll see we have a pretty stacked line-up so I'm excited to see how things work out! Enjoy and see you all on Monday April 15th for round one of the Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket!
Eartha Kitt
Dawn French
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Nichelle Nichols
Loretta Swit
Joan Bennett
Mary Tyler Moore
Yvonne Craig
Barbara Stanwyck
Lara Parker
Bea Arthur
Barbara Feldon
Rue McClanahan
Lynda Carter
Kellye Nakahara
Jan Smithers
Elisabeth Sladen
Diana Rigg
Janet Hubert
Carol Burnett
Jackée Harry
Betty White
Gillian Anderson
Anne Francis
Peggy Lipton
Eliza Dushku
Joan Chen
Terry Farrell
Gina Torres
Catherine Bach
Tina Louise
Carolyn Jones
Dawn Wells
Vivica A Fox
Mariska Hargitay
Deidre Hall
Aimi MacDonald
Carol Cleveland
Valerie Harper
Lisa Hartman
Julie Newmar
Fran Drescher
Melissa Joan Hart
Mira Furlan
Nana Visitor
Claudia Black
Courteney Cox
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jane Krakowski
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sherilyn Fenn
Eve Arden
Elizabeth Montgomery
Marlo Thomas
Lucy Lawless
Joanna Lumley
Barbara Eden
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Grayson Hall
Eva Gabor
Siân Phillips
Shannen Doherty
Lisa Robin Kelly
Debbie Allen
Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon
Rachel Bilson
Karyn Parsons
Jane Seymour
Jonelle Allen
Julia Duffy
Lalla Ward
Miranda Richardson
Mag Ruffman
Penelope Keith
Carole André
Amanda Tapping
Lucille Ball
Nicole de Boer
Jeri Ryan
Penny Johnson Jerald
Katy Manning
Charisma Carpenter
Morena Baccarin
Katee Sackhoff
Janine Turner
Marcia Strassman
Farrah Fawcett
Kate Jackson
Jaclyn Smith
Lily Tomlin
Melissa Leo
Sabrina Lloyd
Joan Collins
Diahann Carroll
Jennifer Aniston
Pamela Anderson
Alexandra Paul
Chloe Annett
Hattie Hayridge
Thalía
Itatí Cantoral
Connie Booth
Linda Cristal
Doris Day
Angela Lansbury
Dorothy Provine
Vivian Vance
Suzanne Pleshette
Bea Benaderet
Gracie Allen
Amanda Randolph
Anna May Wong
Sheila Kuehl
Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Mullen
Phyllis Logan
Annette Crosbie
Geraldine James
Audrey Meadows
Peggy Ashcroft
Holland Taylor
Emma Thompson
Judy Parfitt
Francesca Annis
Mädchen Amick
Joely Richardson
Alex Kingston
Cicely Tyson
Lauren Graham
Kim Cattrall
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