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muppet profiles

the muppets trading cards (1992), pt. 3

#i love muppets

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tagged by both @ghosts-of-love and @le-scenariste (sorry lads i don’t check my notifs enough)

What does pinterest think of you ? Search up:

- aura

- album

- view

- animal

not sure which of these are just kinda stock options because i definitely do not listen to radiohead but ill take it bc cool cover

#sorry again i swear i LOVE tag games i just don’t check tumblr much anymore IM SORRY #i’ll get back to them all

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woahh finally doing this sorry mate @le-scenariste

Last Song I Listened To: Kneesocks by Arctic Monkeys (but technically turn up the music from lemonade mouth)

Favorite Color: blue, yellow, green

Currently Watching: well just finished The Anatomy of a Fall, phenomenal, but otherwise i’m in my niche video essay era

Relationship Status: single (effectively unavailable)

Current Obsession: again,,,niche video essays (and papa louie games, currently playing pastaria)

ahh who to tag idk anyone who wants to

9 people I'd like to know better tag game!

I was tagged by @mikathewriter, go check her out she's awesome!!

Last song I listened to: Back 2 Back by Hideki Naganuma, Sonic Rush OST

Favorite color: Purple!! I love it!!!

Currently watching: I don't watch too much media nowadays but I've recently read dungeon meshi

Relationship Status: the last chicken strip in the leftover box

Current obsession: Elden Ring grabbed my attention and piledrived me into the world's lore

Now I challenge @gio-goose, @softwaredevaki, @solbadguysmelons, @antiv3nom, @cosmichorrorsarestillnicerthanme, @watermelon-but-awesome, and I don't really have enough mutuals that I talk to so sorry for not listing 9 :P

#the relationship question reminds me that i saw a coworker the other day with her friends #she saw me later and said one of her friends thought i was cute #and she told her i’m gay #which like #yeah #but #i prefer to be mysterious and ambiguous about it #anyways! #tag game

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I definitely believe listening to Dave Malloy's work religiously has changed my outlook on life. It's the "I will try to forgive myself for being absent in public and bored before stars" it's the "this song's not over just yet, stars and moons rise and set and rise again" it's the "oh you fool, you fool, it's all within yourself" it's the "my life will get better than this, my life will get worse than this, but right now is just right now" it's the "I am fragile and ephemeral, so love me while I'm here" it's the "what a wonder to me, such a wonder to me" it's seeing god under the keys of the piano, "god on stage in this little jazz club" and the "true god i see when im sitting at home, eating an apple, wondering what mecca must feel like, and suddenly i remember to taste, right there at home and not so many miles away and empty."

#don’t mind me dave malloy posting #he’s just genuinely the greatest writer/composer of our time #and any time #dave malloy

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john darnielle / black sails viii / pathologic 2: the marble nest / ghost quartet, dave malloy / black sails xvii / the ostereia / black sails xxxiv / the illiad, homer / no second troy, william butler yeats / black sails xxxviii / planet of love, richard siken / catherine deneuve discussing belle du jour / hannah kent, from ‘burial rites’ / the worm king’s lullaby, richard siken / true detective 01x08 / rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, tom stoppard / pathologic / dark (2017-2020) / julius caesar, shakespeare / twin peaks 07x07 / heroes: mortals and monsters, quests and adventures by stephen fry / sherlock 04x01 / the city, c.t. cavafy (trans. edmund keeley) / la clairvoyance, rené magritte (1936) / sir gawain and the green knight (trans. james j. wilhelm) / arrival (2016) / the castle, franz kafka / dark (2017-202) / hamlet, shakespeare / the green knight (2021) / the silmarillion, j.r.r. tolkien / hadestown, anaïs mitchell

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"Laura Palmer Graduates" -Amy Wollard / "Starchild" -Ghost Quartet

#ghost quartet

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crazy how dave malloy read war and peace and was like 'yeah I know what this sounds like' and even crazier that he was fucking right

#will never get over this show #dave malloy the man that you are #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 #great comet #dave malloy

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aware that this is so niche but im getting emotional thinking about Joanie, the Captain's sister from Lost then Found who then also appeared in every other fic I've written since then. like. what do you mean she isn't a real person? what do you mean she only exists as a fully-fledged person in my brain and no one else's? what do you mean she doesn't even appear in canon at all??

#charlie you’ve done it again #breaking my HEART #joanie <3 #lost then found #bbc ghosts

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Hope your top surgery went welllll! 💚

thank you sm!! it went wonderfully :D

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sending speedy recovery wishes your way!!!

thank you so much!! i’m feeling pretty good right now (i’ve slept sO MUCH)

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Sending you good wishes for your surgery!

thanks so much my friend <33

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hello congrats on the top sregry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope it goes well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

thanks so much!!! all went rly well, i’m home and recovering now!!

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30 minutes,,,hopefully

top surgery in like 10 hours lads

#they moved 2 people in front of me bc them combined is not as long as me alone #they did not ask abt drugs thank god #my nurses are incredible i love them sm #they said if i have to wait any longer they’ll gladly go down to the liquor store and get a knife and do it themselves #oh apparently they’ve lost my doctor cool <3 #anyways leave me messages for when i wake up that would be nice

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top surgery in like 10 hours lads

#i am so beyond ready #they’re gonna ask abt drug usage and my poor parents are going to find out i smoke weed #i haven’t in like. 2 months #but still #maybe i can just ask them to come back after i finish all the pre-op stuff #we shall see!

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you can read my other thoughts on the finale here so i’m not gonna just say all the same things again but

the ending was always gonna be divisive with people loving it or hating it, liking it but wishing some things were a bit different. it’s the ending of a beloved show and nobody is ever gonna agree on what the right ending would be. it sucks to have folks outright rejecting it but it also sucks to see people like “you are wrong for having any criticisms whatsoever” like, i’m all for being able to discuss aspects of media and what we liked and didn’t like. it’s not always a bad faith interpretation, or cynicism, or being poor at understanding the writing and intention. and i love meta and analysis that doesn’t completely pick apart something and refuse it any grace or leniency. i think sometimes we’re way too hard on stuff that is ultimately heartfelt and from a place of love and joy, and unraveling them dampens the magic.

anyway. that aside. i love this show so much. there are things i’d have done differently, pacing choices that made it fall flat in places, but it’s not my show and these guys know their characters and love them as much as we do. and the ghosts and mike and alison never stopped being family - which is, ultimately, the biggest thing that matters. not the house, not where they are, but how they’ve helped each other for the better. alison and mike spent their entire lives making sure the ghosts were never forgotten, always went back to catch up. they got to enjoy all the fun and love of visiting family without the stress of living under each other’s feet 24/7 - and relationships with family often improve tenfold with that breathing space.

the show ended where it started with the plans to turn it into a hotel, but this time instead of the ghosts panicking and being like “drive her out, kill her” they loved alison enough to take all of that change on, safe in the knowledge that alison would never ever just abandon them. that’s such a neat way of showing how they’ve all helped each other. like, robin’s seen that house and the houses and land before it change so much but he felt so good about this change, literally said he felt christmassy finally, because they could do this. for her. for their friend, their family member, their alison.

they existed before alison and they’ll exist after her, but in the meantime they get to enjoy being her family and also know they’ve given them a more stable, secure, less stressful living arrangement that works for them all. they aren’t fully dependent on alison anymore and alison was no longer fearful of leaving and losing them because she knew they’d still be her family no matter what. i’ve seen some people interpret this as “they’re saying having a baby meant her found family weren’t important anymore, they have to go be a traditional family alone” and that was my kneejerk response too, but then i sat with it. and actually, alison goes from being a (presumed) orphan with no family besides mike and his side, to having all of that plus the ghosts, people who love her and always welcome her back to visit whenever she wants. how lovely for her to have her very own family she can go and see, who did such a kind thing for her, however bittersweet a decision it was initially.

and yeah, it’s true that the ghosts have less of alison there to take care of things like personalised entertainment, but that’s the whole point of them leaving - alison wasn’t in a position where she could worry about entertaining them all the time whilst also being with her husband and raising a newborn. it wasn’t fair to keep asking her to run around after a houseful of ghosts when looking after yourself and a small child is hard enough. she could have stayed and ended up resenting them, getting frustrated and angry the way they did with mike’s mum, potentially souring that relationship with the ghosts. instead she moved out and gets to go back and see them and love and enjoy them fully without that responsibility 24/7. i’m sure she took them new things, gifts, let them watch tv and read books, i bet they had requests for whenever she visited which she was more than happy to supply. and i bet they always had new anecdotes and things to catch her up on.

the more time i have, the more i warm to it all. it’s easy to say “they should have stayed together at the house” but this show is about being human, about life and death, how existence is both cruel and kind and beautiful and unexpected and it changes you and you change it. they did stay together, just not under the same roof. home is more than just button house, more than just a dream because dreams change as we go, and belonging is about more than just a destination. alison found home and belonging in the ghosts, and they found it in her too. the rest is just bricks and mortar.

#beautifully said as always #bbc ghosts spoilers #bbc ghosts

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had some more time to think, and i want to make it clear that i’m not actually disappointed that alison and mike left. yes, initially it felt a bit jarring considering the end of 5x06, julian’s speech, deciding to stay, loving it there etc etc. i also couldn’t imagine the ghosts being okay with the hotel but then i reconsidered and thought of how they’d get over it, realise what perks it has, be nosy and interested as always, and know they had proposed it for alison’s sake. sure it would have been a dream if they could just stay all together and compromise on space, but i suppose the whole point of it was family are sometimes just a bit shit at that however well-meaning and the only solution is to get some space from them. mike’s mum was there to hammer that point home, even if i think it was rushed. and i moved out of my family home a few years ago so i know all this to be true, i visit my family all the time and that space apart doesn’t stop you being family, of course it doesn’t.

alison and mike had to put their needs first and prioritise attention to mia, rather than what the ghosts want to watch on tv or turning pages of books, and it is very in-character of the ghosts - who have grown so much thanks to alison - to be the ones to propose they leave. it was also lovely to see that they kept their room and visited into their old age. all of that is tonally very on-brand with the idiots and their work.

my gripes come from the pacing, which is so hard to do in 30 minute episodes but something i feel slipped in s5 particularly - time spent on certain things that could have been better allocated elsewhere. and i just would have liked a little bit more weight on the goodbye, maybe, let it linger a bit. of course you can then argue that, well, it wasn’t really goodbye, just see you later, but still. end of an era and all that. do we really need to see what the interim was like, what they did? no, we can infer that, it’s the same old alison and her ghosts they would always be. i just wanted literally another few minutes with them as they were. idk if that makes sense.

i thought it was weird that alison so readily agreed, but then it’s like, well maybe she knew it was just time. they all knew but she wanted to keep them all a bit longer, hang onto that dream. the ghosts being the ones to encourage her to go rather than hope she’d stay was the final push she needed to accept things finally were going to change. everything changes. the ghosts know that more than anyone because they’ve seen so much of it.

i did absolutely love the parallels of them leaving vs arriving, alison’s outfit and the car on the drive. so many shots were call-backs to the first episodes and i loved that dearly as a bookend.

ultimately, the ghosts weren’t forgotten and they didn’t get sucked off. they were visited for decades, got to have loads of new experiences with a hotel no doubt, got to watch alison and mike’s kid(s) grow.

i have a lot of feelings and it was bittersweet and imperfect in places but ultimately it was one of the kindest endings they could have given everyone bar alison and mike simply just staying, which in the long run just wouldn’t have been viable.

fuck. ok

#bbc ghosts spoilers #exactly this!! #obviously it was a shock and not what i expected to happen at all #and there just genuinely weren’t any. really funny moments imo #s5 had some of the best humor for me and this episode had really none which was a little disappointing #but i do think it was a suited ending #but yeah no basically exactly this #i do think they could’ve opted to learn boundaries as they had with allison #and mind their business and all #but this feels like the 2nd best option beyond that i suppose #bbc ghosts #six idiots #them there