#Michael is their friend because I say so

[lafragolina]

just kill me

#this whole article is bad but this was the WORST #not even for the reason you think (819 reasons) #Eliza you've already heard this rant but #if I can be way too sincere and long-winded for a moment #'always if I ask him something he helps' #how many quotes do we have from teammates over the years saying that exact thing #michael latta saying 'it doesn't matter if you're a top pair dman or a 4th line peasant; he'll do anything to help you' #christian djoos saying 'he's always there for you no matter what time or place. if something's up he's always there' #HHA saying recently nicke gave him his number and told him 'if you need anything just call me and I can help you' #carly in that interview when this was announced saying how nicke has been the support for everyone in that locker room from himself and osh #to guys who haven't been there long like strome and even pacioretty #I know holts and batya and andre and rasmus and jojo and tj and tom and karl alzner have all said stuff like this too #and that's just who I can think of off the top of my head #like. that's it. that's nicke. #if you ask him something. he helps. #for such an amazing athlete. for such a crucial part of making hockey A Thing in DC. #what his teammates want to talk about is his kindness #and that speaks so highly of him and is so genuinely admirable to me and worth aspiring to #I don't want to put anyone on a pedestal because we don't know these guys #but like. in terms of impact. nicke really genuinely made me try to be a better more thoughtful more actively outreaching friend #because I saw the way his teammates talked about him and that's how I want to be thought of. #I want people to know I'll be there for them. & not that I haven't been willing to do that but I've been more active about offering it #and part of that genuinely is because of his example #there's a million other things about his kindness I could mention before I even get to his hockey but this has already gone on far too long #so anyway #he is so dear to me #I hope he is happy and healthy #and that he knows how loved he is #nicklas backstrom #hockey

[hanzajesthanza]

when your friend is writing a fic or analysis it feels like this

#this is a real peak company scene the dynamics all are fermenting wonderfully #that cahir when dandelion yells at him gets up and takes his stuff closer to MILVA #that he just starts listing varieties of writing is so funny. a rhapsody? an epic? a romance? a canzone? #that geralt knows dandelion well enough to know what he's writing #that regis does a pogchamp face because he's so elated about the work #that milva is conspiracy theorist levels paranoid about the writing #also what i find endearing is that i think with regis' comment that half a century is a blink of an eye #is that he intended to. be there. and read the memoir when it was published #to him ig it's like your friend saying they're gonna finish their book in a year and you're like oh yeah cool #regis was marking his calendar to be there at the book signing #if dandelion had a book signing regis would wait in line and when he got to the front dandelion would be like?? #regis you dont need to wait in line we're friends i could just give you a signed copy #regis shrugs like he just wanted the experience of waiting in line. truly a michael goodplace type moment #the elbow-high diaries #f: a hansa's a hansa

[monkee-mobile]

the fact that MIKE NESMITH knew that the monkees would at one point just be so comfortable giving each other platonic kisses in their home if one of them asks is the craziest thing ever.

#the monkees #he wrote it in the damn 90s special!! #mike nesmith #peter tork #davy jones #micky dolenz #i’m sorry #i know i’ve posted about this before it’s just so important #the monkees say consent is good #you can always say ‘no thanks!’ and your friend should respect you #but is so common in their household micky doesn’t even blink when davy says ‘kiss’ #like they don’t even say ‘can i have a kiss’ or ‘do you want a kiss’ or ‘i want a kiss’ #nope they’ve gotten so comfortable davy just can go ‘kiss’ and that must mean he wants a kiss and is not referring to the band #and this was written by MICHAEL NESMITH #the special is very much an odd experience (mike you were not very good at tv writing but that’s okay babe it’s hard) but that is so good #and wonderful #that they give little platonic kissss #because of course they do! #he made the executive decision that at some point even DAVY stops looking for a girlfriend and just settles down to be a pissy housewife #in that lil apron in the beginning #they just are all livin together because they don’t need anything else!

[bylertruther]

y'all are gonna hate me for this one but i think it's worth nothing that eleven levels up and develops more as a person whenever she breaks up with mike, and how the vines were tightening around her as he was giving his speech and roping them back into a romantic relationship/context (not his fault btw no mike slander here + it's complicated), but when she's reviving max the source that she pulls her power, focus, and resolve from are memories where max is reminding her to be her OWN person, that she doesn't need anyone else, and she is more than enough as she is with "not hopper. not mike. you." and "there's more to life than stupid boys."

she performs a miracle by believing in herself and the one and first ever person that ever taught her to do so. the girl who viewed her not as a superhero that happens to be a girl, but a girl that happens to be a superhero, too. the girl who encouraged her to grow and change and put herself first. that's who and what give her the courage to fight on.

like literally how much more clear do they need to make it that her romantic relationship with him is holding her back? just look at seasons three and four as well as how the flashback they used for mike's speech was of her in the woods which is undoubtedly a nod to the fact that he doesn't see her as she is now and is stuck in the past while she desperately wants to move forward.

i just. !!!!! i'm sorry but Be Serious Please we can admit this and be real about it. it's okay. it does not make either of them a terrible awful character okay We Can Say It! It's Okay! and i focused on el's perspective here, but the show makes it exceedingly clear that they are not compatible in this way at all and that this relationship is something that makes them both feel worse about themselves in serious ways. they don't have a strong foundation between them to fall back on and they won't be able to move forward and fix things between them until they forge one. everything is shit because at the end of the day they don't feel secure or comfortable with each other in a way that actually matters.

#they jumped into being bf and gf without ever becoming friends first and it shows and we can and should say tht :/ #platonic besties e|mike ok sure but maybe once they learn how to be friends first? 🤨 #maybe once they learn how to not idealize n lie to each other and feel safe with each other and learn how to actually talk? #they have cute moments when it's lighthearted n carefree but when shit gets real or hard it all just hits the fan #like. they have Issues ok these are not little tiny issues not when it affects their self worth and self image THAT fucking bad lmao #mike literally feels worthless pretty much like he's just some loser with no redeeming qualities that someone wouldn't like unless they #needed him somehow for something and eleven didn't even know what it meant to LIKE things and have your own tastes and felt #like she didn't know who she was and felt like she was a monster and completely other because of this box that they'd put her in and #then chastise her for whenever she dared to be a human being and step outside of it or do something they didn't like #i just. i like eleven and michael so much that's why it bothers me whn ppl act like those issues are not serious. they are. #they're not real people they're characters but it's like . they are my blorbos and that makes all the difference. u kno? :/ #mine #mike #eleven

[hephaestuscrew]

The amount of platonic love and tenderness in Michael's farewell letter to Louisa is off the charts. And one of the signs of that love is the kind of focus Michael places on small mundane things about Louisa. Like the detail with which he describes the ways she laughs: "your short little laugh. Not quite a bark, but a shift so sudden that it has to be genuine. [...] So real, never forced. No melody to it, really, but still musical. Sometimes short and guttural. Sometimes a cackle, like notes going up a scale". Michael describes Louisa's laughter in such a specific way that shows the attention he pays to her and the way he holds her ordinary mannerisms in his mind. He doesn't describe her laugh with the kind of typical compliments that could be seen as generic - it's so clear that these descriptions are specific to Louisa and his memories of her, and there's so much love in that specificity. 

Then there's the story of Michael bringing whiskey back from the kitchen without even realising, and the way he remembers Louisa's expression when she noticed: "everything, everything I needed to know was there, every freckle and contour. There was no judgment. Your face was open, your eyes soft and understanding, your mouth bent into the smallest knowing grin, your expression just barely pinched, just a touch of pain". There's something so profound to me about the level of attention he pays to the details of her expression, and how those small signals communicated something important between them without words.

These are two characters whose relationship has been repeatedly confirmed to be purely platonic (and remaining platonic) both within the podcast and by the show creators. It means so much to me that as part of that platonic dynamic, Michael pays such close loving attention to Louisa, and he remembers these ordinary details even when he's dying and hasn't seen her in months, and he says things like "your face, I could fall into it, like it was a calm lake or a pool. I could fall into it and float."

#Greater Boston #Greater Boston podcast #Michael Tate #Louisa Alvarez #You know that post that's like 'mortifying ordeal of being known and all that #but sometimes a friend mentions something small about you #and you feel like your heart is being cradled in their hands'? #That's what I think about when I think about Michael starving to death after months of isolation #and yet still holding in his mind the specific sound of Louisa's laugh #and the way she looked at him in a moment of vulnerability #Sometimes I think about Michael saying 'It will be that look that welcomes me to whatever’s next' #or how Michael is always afraid but not with or of Louisa #and I have to sit down for a while... #If you'll allow me a ramble #I think often having a high level of loving focus on someone's small characteristics #- particularly on things like their face or their voice - #is seen as inevitably a romantic indicator #and I think that assumption dismisses the experience of looking at - or thinking about - a friend #and feeling so full of platonic love at their ordinary details #not because of how they look or indeed because of any of those individual details themselves #but because those details are a part of someone you love and so they become suffused with love #And that's something I hear in the way Michael talks about Louisa's laugh #Their friendship is so beautiful #Even if he didn't call her his best friend or say he loves her in his farewell letter. you'd know it from every other sentence #Greater Boston podcast spoilers #Greater Boston spoilers #the empty man posteth

[midnightcowboy1969]

this is how Michael & Joey watch movies when Nicole's not home

sorry for putting rich & mike rlm on your dash

#but anyways #it's interesting how quickly Michael & Joey become comfortable in each other's spaces (again) #it's the touching and Michael resting his head against Joey's shoulder #it's like yeah they fight and they're tolerating each other they say #but there is still a visible sorta love there which came about rather early so you get the feeling that they're not just tolerating #and this sorta love thing they have comes about early #because they're not just learning to like each other #they're learning to love each other again #and in doing that they're reentering the dynamic they had before the break up - which did involve being handsy #and there are these existant roles which is the reason this happen so quickly #i feel like i make no sense #I mean it's just that when you have a best friend and you're apart for a long time and reunite it's like time has not passed #we can continue from where we left off #this space they left when they parted is still there when they reunite #they just gotta find it again #maybe fix it a little

[quietwingsinthesky]

what if. Amy “fix-it” because hallucifer makes sam so paranoid about dean leaving for no reason that sam gives in and follows him and is witness to the whole thing

#hallucifer: wow. big brother really trusts us. (beat) so something’s up right? we know it’s never this easy. #sam: (visibly restraining himself from saying shut up. about to grab his scar.) #hallucifer: (aware he’s about to be banished) don’t listen to me if you want but. I’m just trying to help. #don’t blame me if you look in the papers tomorrow and find a obit for your brain-eating girlfriend. and… what was her kid’s name again? #sam: (touching the scar. not pressing down. face all screwed up.) || hallucifer: :3 it’s not like it’ll hurt anyone #if he really does trust you he doesn’t even have to know we’re following him. *and* you’ll know your brother still trusts you. #even when I’m here. maybe he won’t even punch you again. that still hurting? #sam: (grimace. because yeah. it does.) || hallucifer: door number two - he thinks you’ve lost it and he’s going to stab that woman to death. #so what’s it gonna be Sam? ready to gamble your friend’s life on if Dean gives a shit about your opinion? #[and that’s the point where sam goes to follow dean. still doesn’t talk to Lucifer. not there yet. but oh hallucifer is sooo pleased with #himself about this. because he’s Sam. and he picks up on what Sam doesn’t. and he could see all of Dean’s little giveaways that Sam was #turning a blind eye to. and now here’s the perfect opportunity to put a wedge between them and get sam to trust him more <3) #GOD. FUCK. IM UPSET NOW. WHY WASNT HALLUCIFER IN THAT EPISODE. MOST OF THE EPISODES? #such a good fucking concept. squandered. #anyway. idk if sam saves Amy but he DEFINITELY here’s Dean’s little speech to her about how she can’t change. #hallucifer with faux sympathy like (sigh) damn. well. i always told you what he was like. Michael. Michael-sword. no difference. #both of them want us dead the moment we step out of line. #and Sam just frozen there in horror with Lucifer’s voice sinking in. and he believes him. how can he not. with dean proving him right #hallucifer #spn #sam winchester #amy pond

[goozeghost]

shout out to this song (make love make music - castlecomer) for not only being a bop but also giving me the idea for this drawing. (see also: this song (fire alarm - castlecomer) as well)

(lineart under the cut :)))) )

:)

#booster gold #blue beetle #batman #michael jon carter #ted kord #boostle #because its my drawing and i said so #batman's face makes me laugh so hard every time i zoom in on it #Live Batman Reaction #anyway i finally watched Batman the Brave and the Bold s2e18 #and i gotta say. triple B squad? very cool. #i love Batman having the most unconventional friendships with the STRANGEST people #i think its funny. let the emo have some friends! #let him be friends with the 2 dorkiest mfers out there! why not!!! #i think they watch Football together and by watch i mean Batman sits there in silence while Ted and Booster argue about who knows more

[topaziraphale]

I have such a fun post cooking but I need to get home first to finalize it because I need screenshots :(

#guys im buying into evil heaven!aziraphale. im buying into it. i think it's gonna happen. if not fully fledged #PART of it will happen #derpy speaks #imagine...... aziraphale in an entirely white suit like he wslas dressed in when he got discorporated #but he had different colored eyes now. new makeup. his ring is different. he looks otherworldly. #and he's pleading. BEGGING crowley to come with him. because he can make it all better again. #and crowley looks at him in absolute horror as he realizes that he's losing or has already lost his best friend. permanently this time. #everyone say thank you to michael sheen for being probably the GOAT for modern television in #subtle acting #no one can match the powerhouse he is when it comes to microexpressions. he does it so PERFECTLY. #so much intent behind the slightest change in his eyes #he does NOT do these expressions frivolously. they ALL MEAN SOMETHING. #you give him the proper direction? and he will DELIVER. we can NOT overlook his facial expressions in the last 3 minutes. #nor the credits #bonus: flagging down an honorable mention to anthony starr's microexpressions. not quite at the level of sheen but this is me being picky #i'm literally pitting two absolute KINGS of acting against one another

[straydogged]

hmm! oh no!

#once again having a 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 moment #that. that guy I dated in grade 10 actually like. really did treat me terribly and lowkey #hmm no I won't say that because that slams into a brick wall of triggered high school parts that I do Not want to get into #anyways. feeling not so great about this. fuck you michael and fuck your creepy friends

[emilnikos]

really rough panel redraw that i've been crying in the general direction of for over a week now

#sometimes you just gotta say fuck it! im done #it did turn out better than i thought it would though #so yay #morbius #morbius the living vampire #michael morbius #panel redraw #now i just need to NOT FUCKING LOOK AT IT because i know i will hate it more . #sorry michael my best friend but you are too ugly for my world... *kills* #🧪evil art

[shitty-eyepocalypse-domains]

spiral domain that doubles as a fun little piece of writing:

you are taking a long walk in the woods. the woods are getting... different.

at some point your math teacher or your geeky dad or some girl on youtube--someone told you that fractals are everywhere in nature. hidden in every plant, woven into the bones of the universe. here, those bones are... nearer the surface, mathematically angled joints pushing through the skin of these woods. it shows in the branching patterns of the trees and plants. the angles are too precise to be real. you touch a tree and it is not plastic. it is not wood either. it gives under your touch and the tree's whole spindly fractalizing body ripples. the colors around you are too sweet and the sound you hear is definitely not the wind in the branches... it is like singing, but not at all like that which comes from throats. it is getting louder, the trees' limbs cracking like knuckles as they grow more and more angular, the colors getting brighter and light coming from places that are not the sun as the ground begins to curl in on itself like a collapsing dream, like a fibonacci spiral--wake up! wake up! you are so lost... was there ever a path? the music--the sound? the song? whatever it is, it fills your head leaving no room for anything else.

run!

or sing harmony if you like. the choice is yours. run from this place and its shifting fractal skeleton or become a bone yourself.

Holy sweet Jesus this was amazing, thank you. I love that yall are aspiring authors (cause so am I) and I love when you go off on a domain cause they slay.

#jonathan sims #the magnus archives #the archivist #tma #tma podcast #the eye #the eyepocalypse #shitty eyepocalypse domains #shitty eyepocalypse domain submission #the spiral #esmentiras #the distortion #michael shelley #helen richardson #i say aspiring because when talking about me in specfic i never actually write anything smh #yeah its a problem whoops #its why so much of my shit is crackfic i can only write when im not expecting it to be brilliant #well thats enough trauma dumping for today friends :p

[birdeagle]

the helen distortion hyperfixation hitting like a truck loaded with concrete currently

#god FUCK i love her so much #ive been thinking about the utter contrast between helen and michael as the distortion #the idea that michael didnt hide its monstrous-ness nearly as much as helen because it WANTED people to see what had been done to it #as if saying 'look at what she (gertrude) did to me' #but then helen as the distortion acts almost human at times with her want for friendship and seemingly more human mannerisms than michael #at least in my eyes #but you only realise when its too late that it was all an act and she is still very much Not human and Not your friend #also the fact that both times michael died it was because of something as human as emotion. god. michael is such a tragic character #first time it was trust the second time it was the anger and bitter want for revenge #anyway ramble over #chats

[stillcosmic]

the only good part of kyle’s coma last season was liz and alex’s convo and then alex’s convo at kyle’s bedside

#kyle valenti #alex manes #kylex #liz ortecho #rnm #im saying this because i hope they learned from mistakes for whatever is coming with alex #we’ll obviously get the big stuff from michael and im not worried about that #we know they’ll deliver there #but i hope we get a scene or two with his friends having feelings #at least maria and kyle #and GREG! #we have to see that bro at some point #pretty sure kyle is part of alex/Michael’s plot in 10 so probably a moment from him at least #he’s probably playing doctor there

[archangelraphael]

Do you ever think how angels existence is and will always be defined by their broken home and their devotion to abstent god no matter how much they try to grow out of it

#they literally have no free will.... #not even the archangels #all their personal relationships with other angels were and most times are defined by their service to heaven #not even rebellious angels like balthazar can escape because then they become 'the one who rebelled against heaven' #like cas and anna. you are my friend. we lived together through so much because of our service to heaven #and i despise you because you left me there #and now i am being hunted alive because i escaped #lucifer is nothing but the first to betray god. michael is nothing but god's good son #even gabriel who escaped to live among other gods is nothing but the coward who ran away from heaven #angels can try and find ways to cut connections to the place that they once served but at the end #all the choices they made on their own will still be connected to heaven somehow #im not saying this well but like. they cannot exist outside of it. #they cant!!! #shut.up.maggioli #spn angels #archangel

[applebunch]

michael was haunted by leon but nica wasn’t... nica not being haunted by leon did not mitigate the suffering she underwent... thinking abt it forever

#nica stamatis #leon stamatis #michael tate #greater boston spoilers #yadda yadda made a unprived post abt it already #''haunted'' having a very specific definition that does not apply to all grieving characters #and michael was haunted by leon because. although leon loved all of his friends and family. his relationship with michael was. different. #that relationship wasn't MORE than the other ones in any way. it was just. different. #leon's soul very quickly became tethered to michael's. once he was brought back. #leon apparently felt a special need to help michael in specific. despite the fact that michael wasn't the only one struggling #and we. still haven't gotten an explanation for why it was HIM and not ANYONE ELSE #and until the writers come out and say that it isn't that deep #i choose to believe tha it's because of this stuff #being haunted is DIFFERENT from what nica was going through but it isn't WORSE #being haunted is ONE unhealthy way to take the death of a loved one but it isn't the ONLY WAY or inherently the WORST way #by far the most miserable characters in the podcast are a restless ghost and the brother he haunts #so haunting CAN be REALLY BAD #but it is not INHERENTLY the WORST #interesting distinction to me. given how. you know. scary haunting is. you'd IMAGINE it'd be inherently the worst #like there's a sliding scale of ''bad'' and ''worst'' and haunting's at the end of it #but not only is it NOT. there is no sliding scale! because that's not how this works! #most of michael's suffering was done at the hands of ~supernatural influence~ and nica's was extremely magic-free #but they were BOTH still really really really bad!!!!! #grater bluecheese