#didn’t know how to caption this so here have the quote

[dramaism]

Don't try to hold it. I know you're suffering inside. Let it out.

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #vegaspete #vegas x pete #biblebuild #tonanons #tosnimeat #usernuria #mufaloedit #kinnpedit #didn’t know how to caption this so here have the quote #suffering means they were hiding who they truly are #and in the ep12 they finally let it out #yeah i’m completely normal about this as you can see by me making only vp sets #but really they were so fake in the beginning and look at them now

[stylespresleyhearted]

POV: AUSTIN BUTLER IS IN LOVE

(AND DOESN’T CARE WHO KNOWS IT)

masterlist here x

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enews Love is in the air! Austin Butler and his girlfriend shared the sweetest reunion outside the airport 😭 more photos at the link in bio

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fan34 omg i am so freaking jealous

user12 GOD HAS FAVORITES AND IT AINT ME

butlerfan It feels so good to see him be publicly in love and not hide it anymore

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austinbutler Happy day 🎂❤️

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fan13 LMAO THE OFFICE MEME RETURNS

tchalamet happy birthday gee! @yourinstagram

zendaya 27 has never looked better queen 💕

ashleytisdale I’m telling Jupiter LOL! Happiest birthday to you @yourinstagram you are a blessing in our lives 🥰🥰

ashleybee HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 💘💘💘

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yourinstagram 💋 smooches for @austinbutler

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glenpowell Austin Butler is one lucky lucky man

fan13 not glen in the comment section please

user13 this gets cuter when you realize she was actually kissing him through the glass 😭❤️

oliviadejonge absolute stunner 🥀

austinbutler Get over here right now

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enews Austin Butler and girlfriend spotted sharing a few cuddles and kisses while on a date! We all know how much they love their smooches 😚

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user21 one hand on her back, other in her pocket this man knows he’s fine

fan13 IM SO FUCKIN LONELY 😩

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austinbutler sweatin’ because my date is so hot

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ashleybee HAHA the caption 😂😂

yourinstagram lol u cheesy man 🫶🏻 ily

anthonyboyle He was probably so proud with it too 😂

keoghan ace mateeee 😌

ayoedibiri this is my favorite post you have ever posted

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austinbutler Took over lighting production during a visit on set and she killed it !!

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florencepugh I’m so mad you didn’t bring her on the Dune set

yourinstagram WHAT DO YOU MEAN I WAS THERE EVERY WEEKEND

florencepugh not enough. i needed you there every day.

yourinstagram Michael Mann said the job is mine 🤩

user13 y/n getting a job on the heat 2 set iktr!!!

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austinbutler I want to do with you what spring does to cherry tress - Pablo Neruda

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fan23 … is everyone else also transfixed on her awesome boobs or am i a perv ?

oliviadejonge gorgeous girl

tomholland2013 aren’t we lucky boys mate?

ashleytisdale 😍😍😍

ayoedibiri she’s got you quoting pablo neruda and i completely understand why

yourinstagram if your boyfriend isn’t also your photographer break up with him

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austinbutler 🕶️

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zendaya the coolest to ever do it

keoghan92 sickkkk

rileykeough Austin we’re gonna need you to release a book of all the photos you have of this gorgeous girl 🌚

ashleybee Her job is Cool Barbie

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yourinstagram was my turn to snap a photo of this handsome guy who makes me the happiest i have ever been ♥️♾️ ‘love could be labeled poison and we’d drink it anyway’

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austinbutler oh no

yourinstagram taste of your own medicine mister lol

keoghan92 my teeth can’t handle the sweetness

florencepugh not one bad photo of either of you exists

ashleybee Having a big sister moment because he’s winked the same since he was like 5

yourinstagram can we look at baby pictures again 🥹

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No disrespect intended to Austin’s current relationship, I respect their privacy but also I really wish Austin would post his gf, talk about her, all that good stuff I GET WHY HE DOESN’T 😭

also using Sydney Sweeney as a FC because I’m currently obsessed with her she’s awesome?? Brilliant ??? She is everything. Also I may have an idea for part 2 but it would be nsfw concerning leaked nudes and such but would anyone be interested in that? Lemme know! As always feel free to come chat 💬

#austin butler x reader #austin butler instagram #sydney sweeney instagram #austin butler instagram edit #austin butler fanfic #still working on callum as well just been so busy wahhhh #and im in love w sydney sweeney now #i watched immaculate she was great #i loved anyone but you #i love her work ethic

[doll-elvis]

did you like linda thompson for elvis? any insight to their relationship?

I recently got two asks about Linda so I thought I would just combine them here: warning this is long because as always I have too much to say 🤭

and thank you so much guys for the asks <3!! I really appreciate the opportunity to delve into these topics and have an open discussion, please share any thoughts or opinions y’all have, I would truly love to hear from you guys too

as for the first ask: this will probably be controversial but honestly I have mixed feelings about Linda Thompson, and it’s not so much over her relationship with Elvis that I feel conflicted about, it’s just some of the comments/posts she has made that have rubbed me the wrong way a little bit🤧

To start though I want to say I by no means hate Linda, Elvis loved her and there’s no questions I have for why he did- I think she is a really caring and nurturing person at heart. So if Elvis loved her, then I wish the best for her, and I try to live by this philosophy for everyone he loved… even if they do things I don’t like or don’t agree with

Also her book is one of my favorites out of all the girlfriends and it is genuinely beautiful (although I do wish the whole book was just about Elvis because I could not care less about Caitlyn Jenner lmaoo). You can feel the love and respect she has for him, and I will always admire how candidly she talks about Elvis whilst also being understanding of him and his complexities. Obviously Elvis was not a perfect human, but Linda writes in a way that really conveys her compassion/love towards of him even during the times when he was being quite frankly, an asshole 💀

I truly respect her for taking care of him the best she could, and still defending him to this day. I was honestly always relieved whenever the camera was on her in that Amazon prime documentary “Elvis’ Women” because she often set the record straight and didn’t allow for any sensationalized stories to be told about him

And one of my absolute favorite quotes about Elvis comes from her book and it’s when she said, “There is black and there is white, and then there is Elvis Presley”

As for some of the comments she has made (mainly on her Instagram), I cannot help but get the vibe that she is a touch narcissistic or as some of the Memphis mafia have said, “has a beauty queen personality”😖

Obviously I’m no psychologist but if y’all follow her on Instagram you might know what I mean. A couple months ago she shared a Instagram story that had a quote from David Stanley saying something along the lines of “Linda was the most beautiful girl Elvis was with and the best for him”

Now there’s absolutely nothing wrong with holding that opinion, she is incredibly beautiful and she cared deeply for Elvis, but I feel like sharing that quote had no purpose but to boost her ego. And David Stanley can choke for all I care, especially because some of the headlines he has been making lately

Linda also has a tendency to diminish the relationships Elvis had with other women, particularly with Sheila Ryan and Ann Pennington

(quote from Shirley Dieu about Linda finding out about Sheila Ryan ⬆️)

Linda was very young and in love at the time and rightfully angry about being cheated on. But at the same time I don’t think that justifies calling another woman a hooker, and that definitely doesn’t make it okay to tell everybody in the group that she was getting paid to be with Elvis, especially when it’s known that Sheila was the one girlfriend who demanded nothing out of him ⬇️ (y’all know I love Sheila I’m serious about defending her lmaoo)

She also recently made a post on Instagram where she shared some photos of her and Elvis and said this in the caption ⬇️

Am I too sensitive or does this rub y’all the wrong way too?? I wouldn’t call Sheila Ryan or Ann Pennington just “friends”. This may have not been Linda’s intentions but I find it disrespectful to reduce their relationship with Elvis to that, especially when Elvis cared so much about them

Even in the Amazon prime documentary “Elvis’ Women” she referred to Sheila and Ann as “dalliances” and also said the only women with any “holding power” in Elvis’ life was herself, Anita and Priscilla. But to name a few, Elvis almost married Dixie Locke before he got famous, he bought Graceland and intended to live there with June Juanico, he seriously considered marrying Ann Margret, he wanted Joyce Bova to live at Graceland (same with Sheila Ryan) and he literally proposed to Ginger Alden

Again, I might just be sensitive but that “holding power” comment totally rubbed me the wrong way. I have the feeling this is how she fuels her self-importance … by minimizing Elvis’ relationships with other women 🤧

as for the second ask: I think what caused the decline of her relationship with Elvis was that as she matured and grew up within the 4 1/2 years they dated, her priorities changed, and they no longer fitted to what Elvis wanted

Linda was pushing for marriage and by doing so Elvis was feeling pressured, and just from what I have read about him, that man didn’t want to be pressured by anybody

I honestly don’t believe Elvis ever intended to get married after his divorce with Priscilla, and despite proposing to Ginger, like many others, I don’t believe he would have taken the step to the actual altar. So by being very open about his affairs and wanting to be photographed with Diana Goodman and introducing women like Sheila Ryan at concerts as his girlfriend, perhaps that was his way of letting Linda know he didn’t “belong” to her and wasn’t planning on getting married🤧

(excerpt from “Elvis: What happened?” ⬇️)

This excerpt is from Albert Goldman’s “Elvis” so definitely take it with a grain of salt but I think it’s very interesting as it describes the course of his relationship with Linda ⬇️

In Linda Thompson’s book “A Little Thing called Life” she talks very openly about how their relationship essentially became “sexless”, and how she graduated to the role of caretaker as opposed to romantic partner. And according to Diana Goodman, Linda even acted as a third wheel when Elvis went on dates with Diana, and so I think by that point in the relationship Linda didn’t feel as threatened by other women because she knew her role in Elvis’ life: caretaker

This is just my opinion but I think Elvis stayed with Linda Thompson so long purely out of convenience. She was a woman who knew what he liked (movies, food, music etc. etc), she knew how to take care of him, and she had integrated herself into the group very successfully and got along with the people in his life, especially Lisa Marie. I have seen Elvis being quoted saying “I don’t want to teach another one” a few times, meaning he didn’t want to have to teach another woman how he lived, and how he liked things, he was simply comfortable with Linda because she knew him

But I think Elvis likely felt a little suffocated by her constant presence, which seemed to be the case with most women who he was with for long periods of time, and I believe that’s when he began pursuing women like Sheila Ryan, Ann Pennington and Diana Goodman. I also believe this is why he bought Linda an apartment out in California and a house in Memphis despite her living at Graceland: he was slowly trying to inch her out of the picture so he could do whatever he wanted with whatever woman he wanted. I forget what Memphis Mafia member said it but I remember a quote that said something like While Linda was out shopping in California, Elvis got with other women, that’s why he encouraged her spending

(excerpt from Linda’s book where she confronted Elvis after he began having affairs after the first year they were together ⬇️)

“once in a while I just need a little different stimulation, different company”

As for Elvis saying he could never picture himself marrying Linda, Ginger Alden’s book gives great insight ⬇️

Elvis could be very old fashioned about things so this definitely seems like a plausible explanation as to why he could never picture himself marrying Linda, she was likely too headstrong about it and it turned him off from the idea. As for flirting with the idea about having children with Linda, Elvis was very “obsessed” with the idea of having a son, and when he began dating Ginger Alden he also told her about him wanting her to have his son, and name him John Baron. So I don’t think his ideas of having more children was because of Linda or Ginger specifically, I believe he just wanted a son, and would likely tell whatever woman that he was intending to be with for a long time, his idea

if y’all have made it this far, thank you for reading <3!! I’m always open to discussion and just remember most of this is just my personal opinions so don’t take anything as the cold truth until you have done research and decided for yourself. I’m curious to read what y’all think about everything 👀

#thank you for the asks!! #this one is a doozy #linda Thompson #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #elvis history #elvis photos #elvis fans #elvis book excerpts #elvis asks

[igottatho]

News. Didn’t sleep much last night so I’ll have to do captions and more detailed stuff later, my sincere apologies.

Here’s a sumup for Feb 22, 2024:

Norway has divested $500 million from Israel bonds. A huge win for BDS movements. More info and the original tweet thread can be found here.

Hundreds of protestors begin again in the Bay Area, directly to Biden’s fund raiser in SF. All of the standalone images are from this event, as reported by Kqed, found via Instagram here. Descriptions for images are attached to each. Entire post contents are as follows: “kqednews Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza gathered Wednesday night near a fundraiser in San Francisco for President Joe Biden's 2024 campaign. Hundreds of activists filled Alta Plaza Park as part of the demonstration organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Protestors chanted "free, free Palestine" and "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and urged the president to end U.S. aid to Israel. "How dare he visit San Francisco only to rake in cash, ignoring residents of a city which passed a ceasefire resolution with a supermajority?", said Suzanne Ali, a Palestinian Youth Movement member, in a written statement. "While Biden charges donors $100,000 for a ticket to his cocktail party, bombs labeled 'Made in the USA' are raining down on civilians in Gaza for the fourth consecutive month, killing over 13,000 Palestinian children and counting." "We are demanding that there is a permanent ceasefire now," said Party for Socialism and Liberation member Ramsey Robinson, who spoke at the protest. "That's our money, stolen from the people, stolen from the taxpayers, and we want to let Joe Biden know that we know that." President Biden is reportedly making multiple campaign stops in San Francisco and Los Altos Hills between Wednesday and Thursday. But Robinson thinks that other than "the tiny number of the super rich," Biden isn't popular in the Bay Area. Read for more details at kqed.org/news”

Girl Scouts have received funding from Raytheon Tech and has made “stay neutral” merch. We hates a neutral ass bitch, sorry Girl Scouts, not sorry. Full story, from @prem_thakker : “Wow—Girl scouts wanted to make bracelets to help aid Palestinian kids. @girlscouts leadership threatened them, saying they must "stay neutral." After it was pointed out there've been similar efforts for Ukraine, they pivoted, saying the troop didn't follow "approval processes:” Prem then displays another image which says: “The last sentence hit her hard: "Unfortunately, if this direct violation of the organization's governing documents and policies continues, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri and Girl Scouts of the United States have no other choice than to engage our legal counsel to help remedy this situation and to protect the intellectual property and other rights of the organization." "I got a little scared; I'm not gonna lie," she said. "I wondered, what are they going to do to me?* For years, she had strived to give these girls the opportunities she had missed out on herself. The troop had formed a sisterhood, growing up together since kindergarten. Abuhamdeh reached out to the other parents. They decided the organization's values didn't align with what they were trying to teach their daughters.” I’m unclear where this image/quote was taken from, presumably from the original reporting of STLtoday.com

There’s additional tweets from Prem, which talk more about Girlscouts & weapons contractors here. The images at source are screencaps (from the girlscout website) which I’ll share here:

The last two images are the most important; the first depicts an image of a Palestinian boy holding a blanket he has apparently salvaged from rubble. The tweet from @Times of Gaza reports at 2:50 am of Feb 22, “Day 139 | During the past 24 hours: 9 massacres committed by the Israeli occupation • 97 people killed • 132 injured.” At 10:52 am @Times of Gaza reports: “UPDATE | 23 people killed in the Deir Al-Balah airstrikes. The death toll is expected to rise.”

This continued loss of life is irreplaceable and my heart mourns for them. FREE PALESTINE please God.

Eta: I added text to all images for my comrades who need it. I also added a couple new images for Girl Scouts info (I had to remove a redundant img of the Kqed insta, in order to include this info). Please LMK in the notes if it’s more helpful/ easier for yall for img notes or directly in my post. My brain is fried, I’m sorry this is such a haphazard post.

Biden and Raytheon info will have to wait til tomorrow. I also hope to get some info/ articles up about Israel and diamond trade - responsible for a huge portion of Israel’s GDP and stolen exploited resources from the Congo.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #news #current events #bds #boycott #divest #sanction #fuck Israel #israel lies #israel crimes #israel is a terrorist state #stop Israel #palestine lives matter #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #San Francisco #Bay Area #joe biden #Biden Raytheon #Raytheon technologies #free congo #congo genocide #save Congo

[bookishtheaterlover7]

Hi booky!

Marketing anon here.

So I don’t think whether or not CE is really married is really important at this point (RE: he’s in HW where the majority of relationships…I suspect have strings being pulled in the back).

The fact is that’s the narrative they are going to with and want to sell, so he is just pushing that narrative along. He/they want you to know and think he’s married. I personally believe that’s the important part about all this. But he and others around him are intentionally keeping it vague and I think it’s working to their favor because it plays into the whole privacy thing they were going for.

Saying “my wife is from PT” basically implies he married a woman from PT. That’s not giving anything exact but it’s also implying he married AB, the woman he’s been linked to most recently and she’s from PT. But at the same time, there millions of woman in PT/from PT. Who’s to say he’s not married to one of them, especially if they haven’t come out and said it was with each other? 🤣

So he confirms without actually having to confirm and if I had to make an educated guess, I would say that’s as good as you’re going to get it. Don’t quote me on this though.

I know some team real blogs were saying it’s normal for someone to not say their partner’s name, and that’s true for the most part. Think about how when you meet someone random - and you mention your partner. Do you necessarily say your partner’s name? Probably not, especially if you don’t know the person like that.

The thing is, with CE/AB the plausible deniability and vagueness is a pattern.

It’s not just him once saying my wife in passing, it’s also him not mentioning her for two years, then suddenly mentioning a nameless GF, then eventual nameless wife.

Same goes for her.

“My husband” “my dog” “pictures of the dog but no tags of the husband even tho everyone knows whose dog that is”. Even her trolling best friends do the most and only troll by posting suggestive backgrounds and no direct tags. If you’ve paid attention this entire time it’s very easy to tell there’s a reason they’ve done this for this long. TBH, I had my suspicions at first they were just trying to protect privacy because they hadn’t gone public yet and people were already harassing them. But after they went fully public the same charades continued all the way past the wedding and into the new year? That’s when my suspicions were more or less confirmed - that this was intentional orchestration and some form of strategy. Weird, yes, but not unheard of. In fact, my suspicions are that other celebs have done something similar to this too (re: Leo DiCaprio and Gigi hadid, bill hader and Anna Kendrick). I think in Hollywood there are so many strings being pulled all the time. Nothing is coincidence. Nothing is coincidence in marketing in general. Things are planned out well in advance and I mean this wholeheartedly.

He posted two stories with her and he never says her name out loud (does everyone remember that?), he doesn’t tag her (well she was deactivated, but he doesn’t mention her name in the videos in captions either).

She never refers to him by name and the one time PT reporters tried to talk to her she refused to talk to them. She lets in tags of herself but never anything confirming or alluding to anything directly to him. Notice how before they went public she was letting herself get tagged in basically everything related to their dating rumors and she was keeping all their dating comments in but deleting and untagging others? Now she’s doing the opposite and I feel that may be intentional too. Maybe.

The one time they attend the same premiere - did you notice he didn’t take pics with her? She got her solo pics and then disappeared? She then posts a pic of herself at this premier but doesn’t tag him, the movie, or the cast? Is it ungratefulness or is it strategy? Think about it.

His friends/her friends all post separately from the same place and it’s only this most recent PT sighting he’s in a photo with Joana (weird right?)

You get suggestive follows and likes but no real interactions that can be legitimate.

I believe that’s why TMZ has been acting so shady throughout all of this. I think they know something’s up.

I think everyone knows the big thing at play here is plausible deniability. It always has been.

Wearing wedding rings - ok but anyone can wear a ring TBH? It doesn’t really say too much.

Lastly - in my line of work marketing and PR work the same in some ways but also different. My company puts out press releases (which I help write) when we announce things like winning industry awards, acquisitions, partnerships, rebranding. But we don’t do a ton of really innovative stuff and PR is pretty low maintenance here. So while the methods and processes are the same, I imagine PR in HW is much different, more complex, and more creative (lol). I don’t have any answers for why they do what they do, but I can tell you the vague wording they’ve repeatedly use definitely means something. I don’t think it’s just coincidental.

What I’m trying to get here is that marketing and PR in any industry is going to involve a bit of “fudging the truth and stretching the line to make things seem a certain way to fit a certain narrative. It’s absolutely manipulative when you put it that way but it’s also business. It’s not personal. It’s why I don’t let it get to me and I just let it be. Don’t lose sleep over it. All things will unfold as they should.

Have a great night!

Hey, Marketing An🫶n!

Good to see you again! ☺️ And as I expected, you're insightful. And gave well-articulated thoughts. So, thank you 😌

Have a good night! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

#An🫶n asks #Marketing An🫶n to other An🫶ns #Marketing An🫶n #Marketing An🫶n answers #booky reacts #booky answers #chris evans #chris evans fandom #Insights

[ingravinoveritas]

Don’t know why but anytime Anna posts on Twitter her little quotes of her and Michael I just immediately cringe. Your telling me she didn’t know from the start she’d be in Staged? Like it was a last minute impulse decision to put her in it like we didn’t know from the start that she probably weaseled her way into the show because she was in the house with Michael when he’s filming and she had forced her way in. PUH-LEASE!! Like girl if your going to be lying in your tweets at least make them believable. I don’t think anyone who saw that tweet and knows who she really is and how she acts believes for a second that she didn’t know she was on the show. Another thing too, she just has to keep mentioning that she was on the show. Like girl if she didn’t keep talking about it every second of every day we wouldn’t have noticed you honestly. That’s how invisible and plain you really are. She just blends into the background and putting her in with David and Michael in the promo pics in staged 3 was definitely a choice that wasn’t executed as good as she had hoped cause she immediately blends in with the background and all I see are the two guys and not her. Literally why she’s called APAT. She’s plain and tall those are her only discernible qualities

I read you loud and clear, Anon. It's the funniest (though not "ha ha" funny) thing, too--in my post earlier, one person mentioned how AL only posts pictures with her and Michael/none of David, and I specifically talked about her posting the same recycled pictures in her Insta posts promoting Staged...and then only a few hours later, she made this post on Insta with the same exact pictures. And sure enough, one of them was the promo picture you just mentioned:

I agree with your assessment, Anon: My focus also went to David and Michael, and AL immediately faded into the background. Part of this could be because of the forced perspective of the picture--i.e., AL looking farther away from the boys than she actually is because of how the picture was shot. But I think it's mainly due to her lack of presence--mainly in the third season of Staged overall, in which she not only had less screen time than Georgia, but less screen time than in the first two seasons of the show altogether--as well as her lack of on screen "presence" in general.

(I did have to laugh at her caption on Insta referring to her, David, and Michael as a "detective trio" in this picture--maybe a reference to Crowley/Aziraphale/Muriel?--but completely off base and rather ludicrous here. Also, interestingly enough, The Telegraph chose to use this picture of all things in their negative review of Staged 3...)

Turning to the Twitter comments you mentioned, here is the exchange that the Anon is talking about (between AL and Simon), for those who might not've seen it:

Obviously this is deeply cringey, but in the interest of accuracy, I think it's important to note that Michael/AL/David/Georgia did an interview about Staged in Radio Times in 2021, and if what was said there is true, it does appear that it actually was a last-minute decision to cast her in the show:

With that said, however, it's also possible that two things can be true: 1) That AL knew a pilot was going to be filmed and tried to passive-aggressively push her way into being in it; and 2) That she actually didn't know she was in it until the last minute.

From my perspective, it's actually worse that she was cast in it so last minute. Because either Michael didn't consult with her/confide in her about the show at all until he had to, or he resigned himself to her being in it purely out of "practicality." It makes it look as if it wasn't that Anna was the best person for the show or that Michael or anyone was excited or thrilled to be working with her--it was that she was just there. So if AL was lying, you'd think she would've come up with something that makes her and/or her and Michael's relationship look a lot better than it does.

And it does appear that AL seems to talk incessantly about Staged in an effort to emphasize/remind us that she is actually in it. I don't know if anyone remembers the TV show Married...With Children, but it reminds me a great deal of Al Bundy scoring four touchdowns in one game of (American) football and spending the next several decades talking about his "glory days" in high school. I don't think anyone is saying AL can't promote a show that she was in, but it's the very fact of needing to remind everyone by repeatedly posting the same pictures and interjecting the same types of comments on Twitter that makes it start to become obnoxious.

(Also, we've seen Simon compliment Michael/David/Georgia's acting in certain scenes, something they brought to a particular moment in the show, and yet in his response to AL he chose to compliment...the charcuterie board. Make of that what you will...)

So yes, hopefully this helps to straighten out a few things, but as I said above, I agree with pretty much everything you've written here, Anon. Thanks for writing in and sharing your thoughts! x

#anonymous #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #staged #or 'brokeback mount him' which is what i am referring to staged as from here on out #so much happening here #i don't even know anymore #'Simon writes what he sees' #that seems more and more accurate as time goes on #anna lundberg #discourse

[heartsoftruth]

THIS is what I have to go through as a Dutch LH fan.

Colleague B to Colleague R: I haven’t seen the race but I’ve heard Hamilton was out after 2 laps?

Colleague R: You mean 1 corner.

Colleague B: HA. HA. Good for him. With his fashion nonsens and annoys ways. Pisnicht. (Dutch slur that’s hard to translate but it’s very degrading towards gay people. I think the most accurate translation would be near the f-word for gays).

So I was listening to this like: 😨😳😨😳😨. Normally everyone in the office knows I’m THE Lewis fan in the company and sometimes taunts me a little. For example another said: “did you watch the entire race or switched off after L1?” Which I find nothing wrong with, but this one clearly didn’t know I was a Lewis fan.

So my other colleague R said to him: if I was you I would shut up otherwise your ass will get beaten up within 2 minutes by the shortest employee (me 😂) or our company.

Me: I’m putting my ears in.

For me it was not worth having a discussion with him. When someone uses words like that having a discussion with someone is useless. It’s like a wall you’re having a discussion with.

282883 hours later.

Colleague B: I heard we have a Lewis fan among us.

Me: *stays typing. Working hard*

Colleague B: or no?

Me: Don’t come knocking on my door after you’ve called him (slur) this morning! *stays typing but fuming on the inside*

Colleague B: *walks towards me* Yeah ok but here. This is what I mean. This is why he’s so annoying

Man comes with an image OFF FACEBOOK with one quote: “I wouldn’t rank him”

Me: ???? Whats the full quote?

Colleague B: Yeah you see!!1!!1 This is what he says about Verstappen huh!1!!1!11

Me: Ok? First of all: this is an imagine on FACEBOOK from *read Facebook group name* without any context 😅😅😂

Colleague B: *reads the 2 line caption* here!

Me: that’s a caption not context. I need context. A full quote 😑

*man walks away to make a call. I look up the full quote. Let my other colleague read it (who doesn’t give a shit about F1). Man walks back*

Me: ok colleague B. I have send the full quote to you. Wonder what you think of it now. Hmm. *after a minute or 2* Well? Have you read it? Context hmmm? 😙

Him: Yeah well!1!1!1! I just don’t like the guy. Also all that BLM talk and how he tried to force it upon everyone!1!1!1 And then when Max didn’t do it he got so much criticism and also from Lewis

Me: *already knew what she was dealing with when he came with BLM but proceeded to talk anyways* First of all there was a whole damn hashtag for Max (in Dutch) #Dontkneelforidiots. *adds sassily* context!!!

Colleague: exactly!!!

Me: no that was to SUPPORT Max for NOT kneeling! Besides isn’t it logical Lewis wants to have the entire grid kneeling and tries to convince them? Isn’t a message WAY stronger when 100% kneels instead of 75%? No matter what the cause/message is? Isn’t it way more powerful and convincing to see everyone do it? Now it only shows more division.

*him silent as fuck for a moment* “Yeah well also he’s complaining so much about Max winning now and how F1 is boring but when he was winning 7 years in a row (corrects himself) 7 times we didn’t hear him.”

Me: Also incorrect. Even when Lewis was winning he said his dominance is bad for the sport/bore fans. Mind youuuu: Red Bull even threatened to leave this sport bc of his dominance and I’ve never heard Mercedes say anything like that. Besides Lewis HAD competition and never had it as easy as Max and let’s not forgot that the gap between the #1 and #2 in 2022 hasn’t been that big since 2013. Who won in 2013? Another RB driver: Vettel.

And the ONLY reply I got from him was: well 4 years ago I wasn’t watching F1.

Me: well yeah that’s my plus I’ve been watching F1 for a while so you won’t be able to get me.

#this is long #but yeah… #once in a while a max fan like this will pop up and 😑😑😤 #lewis hamilton #f1 #personal

[raytoropussysupremacy]

Okay, so my partner and I just watched The Midnight Curfew, the unauthorized documentary, and the vibes were BIZARRE. I don’t see a lot in the tag for it, so here goes, it’s long, sorry:

Gerard is basically the only band member that’s talked about (shocker) and they’re painted as a tortured, mentally unstable genius and nothing else. One of the interviewees admitted to -punching Gerard in the face- to get them to calm down and seemed? Proud of it? And they called Gerard’s abscessed tooth an “overblown toothache” and said it caused them a lot of drama and hardship because they were in so much pain that it was making it hard to record and the interviewees were -annoyed- about it..

Mikey was mentioned as “Gerard’s brother, so I guess he HAD to be there, he was awful at bass, didn’t know how to play bass at all.” And then later in the documentary “Mikey saved the recording session from all of Gerard’s drama by being calm and just playing bass”.

Ray wasn’t mentioned significantly, but there -were- recordings of him talking about the beginnings of the band. Edit: I thought this was uncredited, but it was just really hard to tell through the captioning. It was credited, it was just his voice though? Like it was taken from a separate interview?

Frank was surprisingly mentioned almost not at all, his enthusiasm for the band, his scorpion tattoo, how his connections in the scene really helped with promotion, etc. none of that was mentioned. Basically nothing about the music itself was mentioned.

The owner of Eyeball Records called My Chem a nerdy band (confusing; they are, but that’s not their sound) and then said that once nerds started doing school shootings, we as a culture were forced to pay more attention to them so it didn’t happen again. And that My Chem seemed like the school shooting types of nerds??? Coldest take in the universe, what the fuck are you talking about.

Another interviewee (I can’t remember them all, sorry, they also look really similar) called their music ‘emo’ which is one of my biggest fucking pet peeves. Emo is not! 👏🏻 A! 👏🏻 Music! 👏🏻 Genre! 👏🏻 The bands that have been labeled as such do not sound similar at all, try again! Also My Chem have explicitly said, early on even, that that is not a word they associate with their music. They’ve used ‘violent pop’ and ‘rock’ as categories in interviews.

Also the documentary starts and is intermittently punctuated by a lilting, extremely posh-sounding English person that makes the whole thing feel like a David Attenborough nature documentary. Their perspective is very detached and it sounds like they’re writing an article based off secondhand knowledge, it’s very fucking weird.

The interviewees also talk about the band leaving Eyeball Records and signing to a major label and the vibe is ‘sad bitter exes’. The documentary feels like Divorce Court at this point. Not an actual quote but it was like “My Chem did what they had to do in order to break out and be bigger, and it stung. It was devastating, I cried about it, but I’m happy for them!! If I’m not what they need that’s fine! It’s….fine.”

And obviously the funniest part was everyone saying that they don’t know how the band are going to top themselves, and they’d better not overthink it or they’re going to crash and burn. This came out shortly before Black Parade, so RIP to these men’s egos.

I would love to know more people’s thoughts on this thing, weirdest hour I’ve ever spent in my life so far.

#the midnight curfew #MCR documentary #My Chemical Romance #Eyeball Records #school shooting #school shootings #for people who blacklist that tag #keep yourself safe #personal

[slashhinginghasher]

Monster ch. 3 - Confession (John Tyler x OFC)

Shorter chapter this time around in an effort to update before the six month mark.

Chapter summary: Confessions are made (or: traumatized gf vs. bf who gets hard when she cries)

TW for discussion of past violent miscarriage in this chapter

Opening quote taken from The Wolf In Your Darkest Room by Matthew Mayfield (another very John Tylerish song)

Read (and comment) on Ao3 here

~

I am your future

I am your past

I am the secret out at last

You thought you found my limit

But you don't seem to know

No, you don't seem to know

How far I'd go

~

The old radiator wheezed unhappily in the corner as John circled Ieva’s meager apartment. It was slightly larger than the sad little hole he’d called home back in Texas, but most of that extra space was taken up by the presence of an actual kitchen instead of a mini-fridge and hotplate.

He started in the bathroom, sponging himself clean by the shower and inhaling the delicate florals of her soaps and shampoo. The bathroom cabinet contained a handful of cosmetics and skincare products, which he recognized as nicer than the drug store brands but still cheap. Conspicuously absent was any type of medication, not even a cough drop or an ibuprofen. A personal choice, or a habit forced on her by unsympathetic rehabilitation programs?

John had been tripped up by the spelling of her name. For nearly an entire frustrating week, he’d thought he would need to wait until the Times article was released to find her (Janine had complained bitterly and at great length about Ieva’s no-show in the days after John was abandoned). Thankfully, inspiration had struck, and he soon found himself five years deep in her old high school’s social media accounts. Eventually, he’d found a complete digital copy of the yearbook from her senior year and had been able to proceed from there.

(It was a wonder the incidence of stalking and assault among young people wasn’t higher than it already was. They didn’t just leave gaps; they left chasms.)

Bolts of fabric in various blues, purples, and teals were tacked to the ceiling in the main room, giving the place a faintly underwater feel. A dizzying array of rugs, worn but clean, were scattered across the concrete floor. The entire apartment, in fact, was well kept, albeit a bit cluttered around the corners. That was a pleasant surprise for John, who preferred an orderly home himself; so few people these days appreciated the beneficial properties of a tidy space.

If he’d thought she’d be easy to find once he had the name pinned down, he was sorely mistaken. Unlike her careless peers, Ieva did not appear to have any social media accounts, at least none connected to her real name. The Murphys, when carefully questioned, didn’t even know what state she lived in. She had driven in, which eliminated Hawai’i and probably Alaska, but the entire contiguous United States was hardly a helpful starting point.

John drifted over to the full-length mirror on the wall, sparing a moment’s admiration for the sight of his toned, naked body before crouching to inspect the table of tattooing equipment next to it. The careful organization of it, the bottles of ink and the needles in their little plastic cases, reminded him of his shrine back home. It was easy to imagine her kneeling in front of the mirror, nude and etching her own form of prayer into her skin under the flickering light of the candles that crowded every flat surface of the room like mushrooms. His cock twitched at the thought.

Growing more desperate by the day, he’d searched for her name with increasingly unlikely combinations of words, drawing on every feature of hers he could think of, going ten, twenty pages deep into the search engine results until… at last. A single photo deep in the archives of the webpage for a tattoo convention in Illinois, featuring Ieva half-smiling in a small group of equally inked and pierced people and captioned with the holy grail - the name of a tattoo shop in another city. She went by her initials on the shop website; that was why she hadn’t shown up in his earlier searches. He contacted the rental office that same day to end his month-by-month lease on the caretaker’s house. He gave the Murphys a half-baked excuse about writing inspiration taking him on the road again, and by the end of the week, he was leaving Virginia for good.

The walls of Ieva’s apartment were plastered with drawings on various types of paper, wild scribblings that were too elaborate or detailed to make good tattoos (or so John thought, though he was no expert on the subject). One in particular, hanging at eye level by the bookshelf, caught his attention: a dark, crowded forest with a four-legged creature pacing just beyond the treeline. The animal’s body was silhouetted by the branches of the trees, the only clear detail the sharp white points of its eyes. John felt a prickle on the back of his neck as he studied it. He felt watched. Seen.

He rented a cheap motel room near the tattoo shop. It only took a couple days of careful observation (not stalking) to find her apartment building. Ieva’s neighborhood was bad, the sort of place with trash on the sidewalks and bars on all the windows that weren’t boarded up. John found himself looking into nearby real estate, already planning to move her to a safer neighborhood if she wouldn’t let him remove her from the city altogether. He had planned to case the inside of the building before finally making contact. But when she returned early from work, trudged right past him on the sidewalk without even noticing (why hadn’t she noticed him?), he couldn’t stay away any longer.

He had to touch her.

John had planned meticulously for every possible reaction. Best case scenario: she leapt straight into his arms, admitting that she’d been muddled by the visit with the Murphys but had left him her name as a calling card and had eagerly awaited his arrival, knowing that he’d be able to find her. (Highly unlikely, but a man could dream.) Worst case scenario: she rejected him outright, fought him like his past conquests, and he had to keep her bound and gagged in her apartment before he could smuggle her back to the motel.

He’d expected her actual response would be somewhere in between, and he was right, but felt somewhat hollow in his victory. While the complete physical surrender was appreciated, John had no idea what to do with the sad, unmoving lump of girl that lay curled in on herself on the bed. Ieva wasn’t crying anymore. He had to watch her closely to make sure she was even still breathing.

John sighed and moved to inspect her nightstand when he noticed a flash of red plaid poking out from under one of the pillows on the bed. He fished it out, jealousy twisting his stomach for a moment before turning to electric excitement. It was a man’s flannel shirt. His flannel shirt - he recognized the cuff he’d mended after snagging it on one of the Murphys’ wooden fences. He had a polaroid in his briefcase of Ieva sound asleep in his bed, wearing that exact shirt and nothing else, and now it was here, tucked under her covers like a child’s favorite blanket. Did she wrap herself in it at night? Did she touch herself while wearing it, pretending it was him? God knew the polaroid had provided ample masturbatory inspiration for him over the past weeks.

Riding that swell of confidence, he stretched out beside her. Their combined spend was still glistening on her thighs. John wanted to lick her clean; his mouth watered at the thought. He rolled her onto her back, and they both jolted in surprise when their eyes met. John hadn’t expected Ieva’s eyes to be open with how still she was, and Ieva–

“You’re still here,” she mumbled, almost to herself. “Why are you still here?”

He kissed her lips, dipping his tongue briefly inside, then her chin, then her throat, following the delicate line of her neck downward. She pulled away, shrinking back into the mattress to escape his questing mouth.

“What do you want, John?”

John furrowed his brow at her. Wasn’t it obvious? Was she playing some sort of game?

“You.”

He sucked her nipple into his mouth, giving a teasing almost-bite before releasing it.

“Here.”

The other one now, rolling the tight bud between his teeth.

“Just. Like. This.”

Each word was punctuated with a hot, open-mouthed kiss down her stomach. Ieva squirmed and made sounds of protest as he circled her navel with his tongue, but John would not be deterred now that he was so close to his goal. He was almost panting as he dipped lower, ghosting over her pubic bone, tongue darting out to–

“Stop!”

Ieva kicked out, catching him in the chest. John rocked back on his heels and she scrambled backwards to press against the wall. Her hair was a tangled wreck, eyes wild with a desperate confusion.

“Why are you here? And don’t don’t don’t say you missed me!”

“I want you.”

It really was that simple. John wanted her, and John would have her. She wanted him too, even if she seemed to have temporarily forgotten that fact. She gave him her name, gave him her trauma when no one else was allowed; that meant something. She just came four times in a row on his cock. If he didn’t know better, he’d swear she was trying to anger him on purpose with this ungrateful act. But he did know her better. Didn’t he?

Ieva was shaking her head, frantic.

“Why?!”

“You understand me.”

“No I don’t! I don’t even know you! And if you knew anything about me you would not be here, you–”

Ieva cut off with a yelp as John dragged her off the bed by the arm and threw her bodily into the bathroom, slamming the door shut behind her. He wasn’t quite sure what he intended to accomplish with that, but he needed to think, and he couldn’t do that with those big blue eyes boring into him. He just… he needed a minute, some space to clear his head before he did something he’d regret.

John was excellent at reading people. It was his greatest asset, more so than a handsome face or physical strength. Hell, it was what had drawn Mary Barlow to him in the first place, setting him on the path that led to this apartment and this tragic, perfect girl. Had he really miscalculated so badly? Had he been blinded by a pretty face and a sweet, dripping cunt and started seeing connections where they didn’t exist? Was he wrong?

No. No, what they had was real. He was sure of it. Ieva was just young and scared and didn’t know how to process these feelings. And that was John’s fault, partially: he had taken too much from her without giving in return. Orgasms weren’t a sufficient replacement for honesty. He had withheld information at the start because he was afraid of her rejection, but they had reached a point in their relationship that called for total transparency.

The shower had turned on and then back off while he paced. When he opened the bathroom door with an armful of Ieva’s clothes, she was perched on the edge of the toilet lid, wrapped in a towel and her shivering arms.

“Get dressed,” he ordered, tossing the clothes at her. He pulled on his own clothes without waiting to see if she obeyed. He fetched their shoes from the entryway and rifled through her closet for a coat. Later, he would go through everything again, slowly, taking in every texture and color and pattern, but right now he was single-minded in his mission to move to a more controlled location.

He hoped she wouldn’t take the impending conversation too badly. He hoped she’d understand. But if she tried to run again… well. He could still work with that.

***

“Are you kidnapping me?” she asked in the car.

John smiled faintly and tightened his hands around the steering wheel. He did not answer her.

***

All motel rooms were the same, fundamentally. Sure, the cheap paintings on the walls might be themed to the locale, the linens a different color, the scratchy carpets varying in their shades of brown and grey. But the transience was the same, the sense that you were stepping into a sort of waiting room on the sidelines of your life every time you crossed the threshold. A motel room, for the duration of one’s stay, was a self-contained universe. The events that took place within those walls belonged to the occupants, and them alone.

John slipped the “Do Not Disturb” placard over the doorknob and took his time doing up all the locks. He closed the blinds and turned up the thermostat, holding his hands over the vent until he felt the warm air blowing out. He toed out of his shoes and draped his jacket neatly over the chair next to the little table in the corner.

This was normally the part where the women started to panic, if they weren’t already when he dragged them through the door. Their eyes would dart wildly over the locks on the door and gauge the distance to the window. He let them make a run for it occasionally, catching them with an arm around the waist just before their fingers touched the doorknob or the latch, but not often; it wasn’t worth the risk of a passerby catching a glimpse of the struggle. Sometimes they barricaded themselves in the bathroom, as though the flimsy wooden barrier would prove to be any more than a momentary deterrent. They babbled and swore and pleaded and tried to fight him off with the cheap furniture.

Ieva was doing none of those things. She simply stood in the middle of the room and watched him trepidatiously. There was tension in every line of her posture, the hunched shoulders and folded arms, the nervous fingers and unblinking eyes.

She didn’t look for weapons or exits. She only looked at him.

John found himself uncharacteristically tongue-tied. He knew full well that he was stalling; he wouldn’t have to say the words he was dreading if he never broke the silence in the first place. So instead he did what he had been dreaming of for months, what he wanted to do every day for the rest of his life: he cupped Ieva’s face in both hands and kissed her.

Someone had once told John he was incapable of love. That was patently untrue. He loved that Ieva had to stand on the very tips of her toes to reach him. He loved how the curve of her skull fit in his palms, and how small her hands felt when she grasped at his arms for balance. He loved the softness of her lips, chapped though they were. He loved the taste of her as he massaged her tongue with his. He loved the warmth that suffused every inch of his body in a way that went far beyond arousal whenever she was near. He loved the high color in her cheeks and the tears in her eyes and the fine tremble in her limbs as he reached for the buttons on her coat.

He took his time undressing her, unveiling her so slowly it was like he was seeing her body for the first time. He trailed the pads of his fingers along every bared expanse of skin, desire written in the goosebumps that followed like braille. When she stood before him in nothing but her panties, he stepped away. He pulled his belt free of the loops with a decisive snap that made Ieva jump, then sat against the headboard with his legs stretched out straight before him.

He set the belt on the nightstand in case he needed it, but he didn’t think he would.

“Come here,” he said, patting the bed next to his thigh. His voice was soft, but carried an unmistakable undercurrent of command. As soon as Ieva was within reach, he grabbed her by the hips and lifted her to straddle his lap. The little gasp she let out went straight to his cock, and he had to undo his button and zipper to relieve some of the painful constriction against his erection. Maybe he could fuck her before… No. It had to be done and it had to be done now.

“You never asked me why I was in prison,” John murmured, brushing his thumbs over her nipples. “Not once.”

“You didn’t want me to.” How perfect they were together, that they could read each other so well without words! There was a catch in Ieva’s voice that sounded like she was about to moan or cry. Maybe both.

John caught the sweet scent of jasmine as he trailed his nose along her jaw, nudging aside her still-damp hair.

“I raped fourteen women,” he whispered, letting his mouth brush the shell of her ear, “and I only got caught for two.”

Ieva went statue-still in his arms. John kept his face buried in the crook of her neck, arms around her waist like bands of iron in case she tried to bolt. But she didn’t. She just sat there, rigid and unmoving, and it was killing John to be patient. When she finally spoke, her voice was hoarse.

“If I had fought back,” she said slowly, and she didn’t have to specify when, “would you have hurt me?”

John’s fingers spasmed reflexively against her back.

“Yes.”

Another excruciating beat before she inhaled shakily.

“Do you still want to hurt me?”

“No,” he said immediately. Then, in the spirit of honesty: “Not like that.”

Another woman might have asked what he meant by that. Another woman might have begged him to clarify the ways in which he did want to hurt her, so she could assign motivations, however incorrect, to match the picture of him she held in her head. But Ieva didn’t, because she understood him and she trusted him and she knew that his motivation was - and would only ever be - love.

John felt the muscles of her throat flexing under his mouth, filling him with the need to suck and lick and bite. He was starving for her. He arched his hips up to grind his bulge against her.

And she recoiled.

John snarled, an animalistic sound from deep in his chest. He tried to pull her back in, but Ieva had braced her forearms against his chest and was holding herself apart with a surprising amount of strength. She was no longer looking him in the eye.

He was reaching for the belt when she opened her mouth again, and the expression on her face was so terrible that he immediately stopped.

“There was a girl, back near the end of things. I don’t remember her name. Ruthie. Ruth Anne. I don’t know. I always thought she was so much older than me but now I don’t know if she was even eighteen.” She shook her head. “Anyway. She was fucking Randall, so I saw her a lot. She got pregnant. Was so excited to tell him when it started showing.”

Ieva swallowed hard.

“She was stupid. She was so, so stupid.”

Anger laced through her words, the type of directionless hurt that you never knew whether to aim it at yourself or someone else.

“He was pissed, obviously. He beat the shit out of her. I didn’t see ‘cause I was in my– the other room,” (John did not miss that stutter) “because I was smart enough to stay away from him, but I could hear it. Didn’t think much of it at first because people were always getting knocked around at the Tower. ‘S what happens when you put a bunch of junkies in one place. But she crawled into the room when he was done with her. Had her shirt pulled up and you could see it all red and black and purple where he’d kicked her. And she just kept screaming ‘my baby, my baby, my baby’.”

John could feel Ieva’s nails digging into him through his shirt.

“That’s the only thing she’d say, ‘my baby, my baby’. And she was starting to bleed already between the legs. Off her fucking head, grabbing at her stomach like she could keep the thing in even though we both knew it was too late.”

The tears rolling down her face were mechanical. She didn’t seem to notice them.

“She must’ve been in so much pain. I was coming off a high, twitchy and the whole world hurt and there was this bitch screeching like nails in my fucking head and bleeding all over my mattress. And I hated her. I hated her for making my ears hurt and for ruining my bed because I’d have to start sleeping in the bathtub again after that. I just wanted her to shut up. So I stabbed her in the throat.”

Her voice was strained, starting to break.

“Randall had all the knives and the only thing I could find was this broken old pen. And I had to do it a whole bunch of times, over and over,  because I didn’t get it deep enough or I missed the vein. Over and over and over. Whole time she’s shrieking and sobbing and begging me to help her, and there’s so much blood she looks like she’s already been murdered twice. I was so mad I was almost blind with it and I just kept going until the screaming turned into gurgling. And then I just sat there and I watched.”

Her mouth was trembling.

“I should’ve held her hand or something while she died. She was so scared. I don’t even feel bad about killing her but I was so cruel about it. I’m a monster. I should have held her hand.”

Ieva looked up at John and it was like a dam breaking.

“How can you even look at me? I’m filth all over.”

With an agonized wail, she collapsed against his chest.

“Oh, baby,” John crooned, bundling her into his arms. “Sweet girl.”

The endless platitudes were there - you were a child, you were sick, there were extenuating circumstances, it wasn’t your fault, she would have died anyway - but John didn’t say any of them. She wouldn’t want to hear them. He just held her instead, pressing kisses to her hair and making soothing noises while sob after gut-wrenching sob wracked her fragile frame.

This was it then: a window into the thing that made Ieva, Ieva. A massive, suffocating pain that had built itself up inside her so tall and so wide that she couldn’t even fathom having room for something else. Such a heavy burden, carried alone for so long. John was no knight, but he knew that his purpose now, his raison d’etre, was to rescue this girl from her Tower. There would be no castles for people like them, but… His fairytale analogies were running out. A snide little voice in the back of his head that sounded suspiciously like Mary Barlow was whispering about wolves and little red-cloaked girls, but he pushed it away. Fuck everyone’s golden princes and storybook morals. Sometimes beautiful things came from experiences that hurt, and were all the more beautiful for the blackened soil they grew from.

At some point in the evening, Ieva whispered something against the soaking wet patch she’d made on his chest. John couldn’t quite make it out, but it sounded a lot like “Please don’t leave me.”

#john tyler #tell me your secrets #john tyler x ofc #my writing

[themoralgoats]

W. what happened in the moral orel discord ........

Ok for a little anonymity (and to lighten things up for myself) I’m referring to everyone involved other than myself as Moral Orel characters and said characters’ pronouns. Insanely detailed explanation below

For context of what you’re about to read, I’d like to mention that

“Dottie” and “Agnes” stan Clay, like Danielle, hate Bloberta, make these things very clear (like the way they are about it could peeve someone who doesn’t necessarily disagree with them on those feelings) and as you might guess have been what’s been on my mind during multiple posts here complaining about clay stans.

This server was taken off Disboard and had invites turned off due to constant raiders in every public Moral Orel server. They’ve stopped but the owner of the server officially vanished off the internet beforehand. This helped kill the server notably, which probably contributed to the length of the following drama. At the moment any member is allowed to get invites to give friends, and as of today it would be back on disboard (and probably open) if we were technically able to.

Ok so Reverend Putty suggested for defenders of Danielle (the character; to avoid confusion I’m not nicknaming anyone after him, Clay, Shapey, Orel, or Bloberta) that Danielle “did everyone wrong”. Dottie replied saying that he did that “and slayed”. Agnes agreed saying he’s hot too, and the two had a back and forth about how cool Danielle is.

The next day Reverend responded to Agnes saying that he’s not that great, especially compared to a certain background character that’s somewhat of a meme in the server. Agnes said said character is an overhyped background character with no lore, unlike Danielle who does and is also attractive, blond, queer, and mustached with the latter statement having a lot of emojis. She and Dottie had another, shorter back-and-forth of agreement about how Danielle is awesome and the bg character sucks.

Five days later Joe replied to Putty’s message with (and I quote) “L opinion argue wit ya grammy + Danielle did nun wrong in my eyesight 😍 😍 🤭 🤭”.

A day or two later (aka yesterday at the time of me writing this) Reverend Putty responded to Joe by saying he must be blind to not notice him manipulating Bloberta, Clay and Orel on top of every other shitty thing he’s done. Agnes replied with a gif with an L + ratio caption and Dottie said Bloberta deserved it. Agnes and Dottie had their third described back and forth about how blobs sucks, particularly in that she cheated on Clay and forced him into marriage. Reverend Putty said he still stands by his statement that the background character is superior to Danielle and that all the latter’s “lore” revolves around his relationship with Clay.

I argued (on Reverend’s side) that by the logic that what Danielle did is ok because Bloberta “deserves” it, Clay also “deserved” to be manipulated by him and since he still manipulated Orel, pretends Shapey (his son) does not exist, and set the Figurellis’ house on fire, Danielle “deserves” to be labeled inferior to the “godly” (my quote) background character. Agnes and Dottie had their fourth and final recorded here obnoxious back and forth. I was having an incredibly bad day and am an insecure pussy in general so I didn’t get exactly what they said, but I do know they were being assholes and at the end genuinely suggested the fans of the background character (who, I reiterate, is little more than a meme to most of us “fans” of him) wanted to seem 🤩unique🤩.

A mod I’m naming after censordoll came in a while later (a few hours into the next day in my timezone) telling people calm down and be nice. Florence came in and said that she loves Danielle but he sucks and then listed some shitty things he did, and concluded you can love a character and acknowledge they suck. Dottie came back saying it’s true after someone responded to her comment about bloberta forcing him into marriage with “erm”. Censordoll then reiterated that Dottie was being an asshole about it and the way she voiced her opinions could be interpreted as ruse, partly thanks to a concerned message she got. Agnes turned it into what Dottie was suggesting about them once again supposedly getting attacked and censored for voicing an opinion and (her own idea) that the mods were gatekeeping the server. Censordoll said she’s the only active mod and she doesn’t know how to put things on disboard. Cue some arguing between Censordoll and Agnes. Florence called Agnes out for twisting the story and Dottie for again claiming people are getting angry at her for just expressing opinions on characters. Some Danielle Morality and General Character Discussion later things have finally calmed down.

A few hours later (this afternoon in my timezone) people get their last arguments out and Censordoll announces a warning system and there was a bit of discussion about someone else hopefully gaining ownership of the server. That’s all for now and I hope for the next few months.

#im sorry @ anyone who was actually there and is reading this this must sound so fucking cringe

[squib-2006]

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I am going to rewatch one episode of ninjago a day until I ether give up or finish, I was going to watch one yesterday but my mom was hogging Netflix and we only have one screen on our acount. So this is a bit late.

I will put my thoughts down as I watch it and rate each episode out of ten.

Day 2

Season 1 ep 2 home

I miss the previously on ninjago I know in the new seasons they combine it with the intro but it just isn’t the same

Also original intro was amazing. Yet another problem with newer ninjago, we don’t have stylized intros. Which leaves the new intros just glorified recaps, plus the newer whips aren’t as good as the old ones. I would never skip and old intro but I almost always skip a new intro.

The Netflix captions say Kai is talking but it’s jays voice. Might just be a Netflix issue though.

Ah the sacred Flute oh how useless you will be in 2 episodes only to be used once in the finale and never to be seen again

Last episode don’t wu have to go through a hallway to get to the tv room. The anatomy of the monastery is weird.

My favorite master wu quote is said in this episode, “what is weird? Someone who is different, or someone who is different from you?” When I first watched this episode it stuck with me because of stuff going on in my school at the time. When ever I would feel down about bullies I would think about this quote and try and not care about what people say. Because the just thought I was different than them and what they said doesn’t affect me, and that I shouldn’t focus on it.

Also the rest of the ninja are being jerks

The compilation of Zane braking social norms will never not be funny

I laugh at sad romance scenes too sometimes

Ah good old sensei wu angst

THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND. THE MAIL MAN

One of the best characters ever.

Props to him for walking up that mountain

It always confused me about how the ninja had fans back then and how Kai got a fan letter. Like I know he has no other family to get letters from but still he could have been writing to a pen pal or something

And I thought Cole and his dad weren’t talking. And how does the mailman know to give it to Cole here and not at the dancing school he told his dad he was at

Rocky and Cole were the best friends and I love there friendship

Wow Zane good job at making me sad

Rocky is a baby at heart and I want to squeeze him

Baby Lloyd liking trap doors is funny when you think about what happens in season four. I guess you can call it karma

Oof Cole can’t cook for crap

Why is Zane wearing a pink apron so funny to them? I never got this joke as a kid. I just didn’t really find boys wearing pink and people laughing at them a funny trope.

Also sensei wu you were just preaching about how difference makes people unique but know you are laughing at Zane for wearing his apron. Shame on you

Wow what a waste of the wonderful food Zane made for you

Falcon my beloved how I miss you

Also the theme that plays here is one of my favorite themes of all time. It’s just so calming.

This whole interaction is fudging adorable

The girl = go ballistic line might be a stereotype but it manages to make me laugh every time

Stop bulling zane guys not cool

I love how there skeptical of zane actually finding Lloyds secret headquarters but the trust him so they follow him anyway

I wish the tree house was a Lego set that would have been so cool

Also the snakes are idiots. Who makes a tree house that is only supported by three branches

That snake fell with cole’s voice

This thing is so unsound I’m surprised people walking on it didn’t make I collapse

Cole gets the first award for being the first brainwashed ninja

Poor lloyd

Well Cole it’s a good time to build up resistance to jays lightning it’s not going to be the first time you get shocked

Jay is incredibly lucky

Flute ex machina

Rip Lloyds treehouse

Also rip the monastery

Kai I love you but blaming Zane will not help anything

Wow everyone jump on the blame zane train I guess. You jerks

Wow Lloyds first imprisonment

Honestly I could care less about the snake B plot

You deserve to feel bad you were jerks to Zane

Hugs :D

The bounty is the best home they ever had. Also it has survived multiple travesties against it.

Food fights with the whole family

Poor Lloyd. Guys just go and grab the little gremlin already

Final thoughts

I think this episode was good. It had funny moments and good dialog, but suffered from a boring B plot involving the snakes and Zane bullying. Also the whole fight scene with Cole had no consequences and no one ever brings it up again. Over all I give this episode a solid 7.5/10

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago rewatch #day 2

[twdmusicboxmystery]

Social Media Clues via Big Sky

Okay, so this is kinda small potatoes, but call it a social media weirdness for this week. (Actually, it was posted last week.)

At first, it caught my eye because Jensen Ackles. I watched SPN and I'm a big fan of his. I definitely don't follow what he does anywhere near as closely as TWD, but obviously I follow him on IG, etc. But if you notice the caption, it mentions "new sheriff in town."

Now, normally, I wouldn't read into that. His buddy Jared Padelecki (also of SPN) does the new Walker Texas Ranger show, and Jensen produces, I think, so I thought this was in reference to that. But, futher down, it says @bigskyabc.

That caught my attention. Why would there be a “new sheriff in town” quote paired with Big Sky?

If you’ve followed me for very long, you’ve probably seen a few of my Big Sky posts. I've talked about it a few times as having TD symbolism in it. ABC is a sister studio to AMC, so they routinely give actors from TWD jobs there.

Overall, what I see in Big Sky is intriguing, but also pretty small potatoes. I think they use similar themes as in TWD, and it does shed some light and also let us know that we aren’t imagining the things we see in TWD (not that most of us have thought that for awhile) but I also don’t recommend everyone go watch it because maybe Beth will show up there or something. No, not at all. It’s just a small side thing that’s…kind of interesting.  

Anyway, I wondered why Jensen had tagged them. Then I swiped to his second pic. This is why:

Now, I think that's great for Jensen! I'll totally be more excited to watch Big Sky moving forward if he's in it. (Yeah!) But once again we have a tie between not just TWD, but BETH and Big Sky. Obviously, he's going to show up as a sheriff of some kind, and they're using the "new sheriff in town" line to sell it. I'm just saying.

More clues to TWD themes in Big Sky. And throw in Jensen Ackles to boot. I’m totally down!  😁

One other thing, and we’re not totally sure it’s related, but worth mentioning at least. Here’s a short conversation we had:

@galadrieljones​:

The thing about Jensen just made me think about how Emily tweeted recently about moving to Montana. I don’t think it’s related, because Big Sky is not actually filmed in Montana, but it does take place here. The show Yellowstone is filmed here, the big ranch where it’s partially filmed in my county, toward the park. Our friend Anne works on the production, but Yellowstone has nothing to do with Big Sky. Idk why Emily would ever imagine moving here lol unless there was something she was filming here. Isn’t she from Nebraska?

@twdmusicboxmystery​:

I didn’t think about her Montana tweet. I don’t know what it means either but (and maybe this is a stretch) if it’s a coordinated marketing effort where the hints are concerned, I could see her Montana tweet pointing toward Big Sky. Not because Emily will necessarily have anything to do with that show, but because it’s part of the AMC umbrella and they’re using it to drop hints. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Very convoluted, I know. 

But the other thing I was thinking about is that, a LONG time ago, Jensen and Michael Cudlitz put out a funny pic together. I bet I could find it. It was right after Abraham died and MC left the show as a character. 

Bc Negan killed him and JDM played the dad on SPN, it was just this funny picture of the two of them. Truly just them being funny and entertaining the fans. But if Jensen is working for ABC now, and we know MC does work for them and AMC both in front of and behind the camera, and may return in the Tales spin-off, there are some interesting ties here.

I really don’t have an overarching theory or anything. Not saying Jensen will be on TWD. He’s a busy guy and probably not. But since JDM joined the show, I’ve always thought it would be fun to have both Jensen and Jared guest star. Just as minor characters who get eaten by walkers by the end of the episode. They’ll both totally love that, I think, and if they shared the screen with JDM for even a minute, all the crossover SPN fans would jump for joy. Lol. It would just be fun. That’s all.

@galadrieljones:

Omg I would die if this happened lol. I’ll also say when I first read this I read it like, characters from “Lost” will be in the spin-off. Unrelated but there are a lot of crossovers. Kim Dickens being the most obvious, but Cudlitz was also in an episode of Lost in season 2. He was in one of Ana Lucia’s backstory episodes, played her partner on the LAPD. Question—Is AMC affiliated w ABC? I didn’t realize Big Sky was under the AMC umbrella?

@twdmusicboxmystery:

It’s more that AMC and ABC are under the same umbrella. Sister companies bc the same studio owns both of them. That’s why you see actors go between the two channels. Emily, Lauren Cohen, MC, and the actresses that played Asha and Cyndie (Oceanside) have all done ABC shows during times when they weren’t active parts of TWD. I think the studio does that to give them work until their characters are needed on TWD again. And that’s exactly why it’s so suspicious that Emily had done multiple small show for ABC, but not taken any other major parts for other networks. It shows she still has a contract here. And all the other characters who’ve done this have reappeared at some point, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@galadrieljones:

Oh okay. I got it. Kind of like how old characters from the WB days have made a lot of appearances in CW shows, SPN in particular. Ah. That’s actually very interesting!

Maybe there will be “Lost” characters in the spin-off then, as Lost was in ABC (just kidding but according to the insane time traveling universe in Lost I wouldn’t be surprised lol).

@twdmusicboxmystery:

Okay, so obviously we’re all having some fun head canons about our favorite shows. But the first part—the fact that Jensen actually used the phrase “new sheriff in town” can’t possibly be a coincidence, in my opinion. If anything comes of these other connections (and truly, nothing may) it would just be icing on the cake.

Thoughts?

#beth greene #beth greene lives #beth is alive #beth is coming #td theory #td theories #team delusional #team defiance #beth is almost here #bethyl

[leqclerc]

Hi! I’m just curious to know as to why you (and a lot of ppl here on tumblr actually) dislike/hate carlos? I was quite surprised to see the animosity as I thought he was an all-around liked guy. Just wanna know your thoughts towards him

Hey!

Honestly, there’s lots of reasons why a person might dislike a driver. Sometimes it’s as simple as I don’t vibe with him. Also, before we get into it, I’d just like to highlight that I can’t speak for everyone. This reply will be pretty subjective, presenting my own thoughts and perception. What I think may not be necessarily applicable to everyone and all that.

For me, personally, he was never a driver I paid much attention to pre-2021. I didn’t really have any strong feelings about him one way or another, he was just there, one of the 20 or so guys on the grid. I was always focused on some other driver and/or team, so he was never really on my radar. So it’s not that I had anything against him per se, it’s more that my focus was elsewhere/I was rooting for someone else - e.g., Pierre during Monza 2020. In hindsight, I think my favourite “iteration” of him was as a McLaren driver. He seemed to be in a good place there, and fit the vibe of the team quite well, is a great friend to Lando and was a great teammate.

I only really started paying more attention to him once he joined Ferrari because, well. He’s part of “my” team now, the one I follow closely; he’s teammates with my favourite driver. That means he’s undeniably there, both on the grid and also across Ferrari’s social media content, which I occasionally consume; he’s often around Charles or involved with something to do with him. Seb and Charles were always my dream Ferrari pairing. I’ve never hidden the fact that they’re the drivers that mean the most to me, the ones I’m most interested in. Hell, they make up 90% of the content on my blog, lol. But even so, I tried to go into this new era of Ferrari with an open mind and give both him and the new teammate pairing a fair chance, watch their videos and interactions and see how I feel about it, develop an opinion.

So...that’s basically what happened.

My frustration or dislike or whatever you want to call it boils down to several different things. I’ve talked about this enough on my blog so I’ll try to keep it concise but the Ch*arlos narrative Ferrari is so doggedly selling, complete with very odd captions - “more than a bromance <3″ - just doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t enjoy it. More broadly, some of their (on camera) interactions kind of got me like :/ I won’t go into all the details now but yeah the vibes, for me, aren’t great.

Annoyance aside, I think my biggest gripe is his attitude. Like I said, I follow Ferrari pretty closely - and even if I didn’t, I mean, social media’s a thing, and the F1 app loves to bombard people with article headlines, lol - so I end up seeing a lot of articles/quotes even if I don’t specifically go looking for them. And even last year I started noticing this pattern of him saying stuff like “I could’ve been on pole/could’ve won the race.” Monaco is probably the most prominent example of this as he kept bringing it up even, like, six months afterwards, that would-be Monaco pole. Now, he’s likely not the only driver to do this. It’s just that he says stuff like this was a frightening consistency, lol. And the problem is...data is available online, so claims like that can easily be debunked, and often are.

This continued into the 2022 season. If you do a quick search for some of his quotes from this year, it’s pretty much more of the same. If he’s to be believed, he feasibly could’ve won every race from Australia to Monaco. Regardless of data, and regardless of circumstances. And that, to me, is more off-putting than anything else - the attitude and, dare I say, ego. Yeah, of course all these guys are (at least outwardly) proud and confident in their own abilities. They wouldn’t be performing at such a high level of motorsport if they weren’t. But some of C’s attitude specifically makes it sound like he’s, I don’t know, a multiple time World Champion, which...he is not. Ferrari has made a solid car this year, one that’s firmly in the championship fight. Okay, so it’s not exactly to his liking and he’s finding it difficult to set it up correctly and extract the maximum out of it, unlike his teammate. He’s made mistakes. I get that. I might be even able to empathise with him. But I can’t find it in me to do that because of things like that. And I’ve had other people tell me similar things. So yeah, that’s pretty much where I stand currently.

#replies #anonymous #finally had some time to type this out #like i said these are my subjective thoughts and ruminations. i can only give my perspective #this is *not* me going after him or his fans #discussions and predictions #.long post

[sizzlingpatrolfox]

there wasn’t that much jikook interacting in the new bangtan bomb and I’ve seen jikooks on twitter gloss over that by still sharing content from 2019 and prior even though the bangtan bomb is more recent. I’ve noticed whenever jungkook/jimin act outside of a jikooker narrative, they tend to just skip past it or circle back on their narrative to change it to whatever they want. Jungkook seemed glued to Taehyung and others more than jimin at the white house and jimin was kind of doing his own thing too which didn’t really fit the whole “satellite Jeon” agenda

I'm afraid "satellite jeon" stopped being a thing in like 2018 😅

I find it kind of sad... Like, people don't need to be doing all that. They had almost 0 interactions and they, or in this case Jungkook had sweet moments with other guy. That's it.

This is actually how it used to be before 2018, they had moments here and there but mostly they didn't. Out of 100 hours of content maybe there was half an hour (and that's me being generous) worthy of jikook and Jungkook was openly affectionate with everyone but not with Jimin. 2018 and 2019 were different and then late 2020 or 2019 for some, it started going back to how it used to be before those years 🤷‍♀️

And yes, taekook first pretending to be besties and then mending their relationship had a huge effect on how jikook is perceived, whether peace&love ot7 4evahh jikookers want to admit it or not, it had a sort of a negative impact. I've talked before that taekookers lost it back in 2017 because taekook and jikook had never coexisted at the same time. Taekook used to be closer first, then they weren't and jikook was, now the tables have turned again. Vmin and jikook never had a problem existing at the same time, and this is only because Jimin is Jimin, and there's always been an abysmal difference between the way he treats V and how he treats JK. But for some reason Jungkook just cannot find, or simply doesn't want to find that balance. Or maybe he's actually found the perfect balance and that's how he has 6 boyfriends.

Much to think about.

Most jikookers just weren't fans around those days so they don't know anything else except seeing jikook in every released content, that's why they've been such sore losers since last year😭 and I felt that way until recently too, but not anymore. Jikook in every content only happened for a little while and it has stopped more than a year ago.

That's why they keep saying "jikook were so loud and domestic and couple in 2021 and this year" then they proceed to quote and talk and post about the same old moments from 2019 or before. This is what I was talking about when I sad that time doesn't move forward for some people and the internet allows you stay still in time, because the things that have happened are always there, even if in real life they are actually gone. I just saw someone call jikook the DVD ship and I giggled a little ngl

Trying to make it sound like they were attached to the hip the whole video or the whole day, like someone's purposefully editing out their moments, acting like they had super meaningful interactions just because Jimin was talking and you won't believe this.. Jungkook was listening.. doing all that it's pathetic. We all watched the same video. Posting a photo of them standing next to each other in an arranged formation and captioning it "THE BOYFRIENDS ALWAYS TOGETHER" won't make it real.

Anyways this is hilarious I can't stop watching it.

"You said that I look good?" Jimin's dead eyes one single blink. Hello.

[higheldertala]

revolution of the daleks salt commentary

guess how many times they say the word dalek in this episode? (answer at the bottom)

funny how ch*bnall delegated the daleks as the holiday special villians and yet he still can’t get the ratings

this isn’t a specific ch*bnall problem, but i cannae stand the daleks sorry to be a fake fan :/ please can we put them away, seriously what more is there to say?

i hate how this episode was marketed as the doctor being out of the action and therefore the companions would be saving the day… but this is a ch*bnall episode so of course that didn’t happened. anyway on with the episode.

we don’t need to rip off star wars do we now? like why is this needed? nothing about this episode is based off or parodying star wars. you could just have a ‘previously’ or a ‘two years ago’ caption. thanks for reminding me how shit resolution was tho.

also to answer the question about whether i give a fuck about what happened to the reconnaissance dalek two years ago… no i don’t. tough shit for me i guess cause there’s 70 minutes of this :/

why is the text orange? choices were made here.

character work is when you have a side character say ‘i have a family’ then die.

also yeah this woman poisoning this guy is very contrived, like how would this woman know this guy would stop at this specific spot? also who does she work for? i assume robertson, but how does he know about the dalek and the transit? also when this guy goes missing when transporting an alien death machine wouldn’t that raise some alarm bells? god were only two minutes in and the plot is already falling apart, that must be a record.

you know how i complain about things happening off screen and the characters just saying the thing that happened offscreen, well for once i would actually prefer it they had done this this time instead of spending 10 whole minutes of this of characters i don’t give a shit about.

yay more social commentary being spelt out right in front of you(!)

also on my daleks are overused point, like it’s annoying how people just forget about the daleks in universe. not a ch*bnall specific problem but annoying nonetheless.

i’m sorry but it’s crazy that no one checked these dalek drones for secret guns they had.

i can’t believe how long the start of this goes on for without showing any of the main characters, but what’s pacing lol. a whole 8 minutes in til we see the doctor.

aside from the writing cliche of putting a character in prison when you don’t know what to do with them, this lasts all of a few minutes, god it’s pointless.

‘you can’t eat the cage. believe me, i’ve tried’ this is the funniest bit in the episode. even more funny the subtitles say ‘SIGHS’ from the pting.

these prison scenes are so dull. i presume that’s the point, but there’s so much more you could do with this concept.

on broadcast i thought the doctor was gonna recall a serial from classic who which would have been a much better decision. choices were made when ch*bnall decided to quote jk terfling.

first lense flare of the episode.

‘she was barely in here for a couple of minutes and yet she coded the entry lock to our dna’ and the point of this dialogue was….?

follow her? where? also she’s presumed dead. also going back to the timeless children, why the fuck would they let ko sharmus go out on his own and not one of them go out for the doctor. again no fucking loyalty but i digress.

also i wish at any point we were shown that yaz is the most desperate to travel and/or wants to be with the doctor.

‘what if she needs us?’ she doesn’t, you literally don’t do anything.

‘how many times has she saved us?’ i repeat myself from last episode, but like once lol.

how do they find robertson? is he conviently in sheffield? did they travel? i suppose it doesn’t matter and i don’t have the energy to care.

‘so we’re going to have to find another way’ so you mean sit around and wait for the doctor to come back. actually laughable that this is all the fam can achieve (nothing) without the doctor’s presence.

‘this is hard innit?’ YOU HAVE BEEN COMPANIONS FOR TWO SEASONS. literally the worst companions ever, please leave.

so with jack saving the doctor from prison, am i wrong in saying that the fam have never saved the doctor from any situation? lol. im pretty sure every companion has had at least one instance of saving the doctor during their tenure. or like at least 90%.

the prison scenes literally take up 5 minutes of screen time.

how does this tech guy know how to do successful alien cloning? like nah sorry im gonna need a bit more for this one.

lol another ‘i have a family then dies’ side character, does chibnall not know how to write any other way?

‘you don’t have a room, you’ve never had a room’ im sorry does she think jack slept on the fucking floor? i don’t believe this for a second, why does she say this???

i love how jack’s entire reaction to learning that the doctor went against his warning and gave ashad the cyberium is the single word: ‘what?’ and then this is never mentioned again during the entire episode.

‘i fixed it. eventually. just about. sort of’ no you didn’t, the cyber wars still happened and decimated the human population that ain’t fixing it :/

i guess it’s in character, but for the doctor to be really closed off even to an old friend like jack is so weird. like she doesn’t even mention running into the master or anything.

not my point, but ive seen someone make the point of that jack has also had memories taken from them from the time agency, essentially identical to the doctor’s situation and that this is literally never brought up in the episode.

honestly crazy that ch*bnall wrote for jack for two seasons and still he is reduced to background furniture. i swear he writes bad on purpose.

‘i was in prison for being me’ chr*s ch*bnall wrote this with his own two hands im crying.

more lense flares! also why is the camera at an angle. ive made a post about this, but the directing is so bad this episode and like most other episodes this era.

‘i was in space jail!’ she sure is Quirky™️ isn’t she?

yaz shoving the doctor is very funny. honestly where is that suppose to have come from.

i love the delivery of ‘10 months’ as super serious when so many other companions have waited years to see the doctor again, honestly it makes the fam come across as so wet.

chr*s ch*bnall literally wrote ‘oops’ (said by jack) as a response to that.

also the sad music as if someone’s died.

god this scene is awkward.

how did possessed leo get to osaka? did he just walk past customs with a squid on his back?

‘she’s good. yeah we all are’ …..um no comment.

‘yeah they killed me once, long time ago, no big deal…i can be killed but i come back to life pretty quick,’ why does he tell them this like that? it feels so unnatural.

‘partially her fault’ how is it partially the doctor’s fault? it’s a stretch to say that at the least.

‘partially a friend of hers on earth called rose but she’s trapped in a parallel universe now’ literally all of this is unprompted, why does he need to tell the fam any of this, especially since it would be a sensitive topic for the doctor surely? but hey it wouldn’t be a ch*bnall episode without our constant exposition dumps.

‘i saw the way you shoved her’ i hope ch*bnall never picks up a pen again.

i’m sorry i know this is Emotional Scene™️ and whatever but i don’t care about yaz as a character. none of this is earnt in any way, shape or form. i need the set up if you want me to satisfied with the payoff.

‘we lost each other’ either this is intentional from jack to soften it for yaz or chris ch*bnall doesn’t actually remember jack’s story. the doctor knowingly abandoned jack and jack knew this. yeah sure at the time jack didn’t know this and they moved past this but still weird choice.

also this is stupid because yaz does fuck all in two seasons so what the fuck is she missing. also rose’s speech in parting of the ways is 1000x better, here yaz is like ‘i miss it cant tell you why tho’ :/

‘the joy is worth the pain’ i guess this is a nice poetic line but this is my salt commentary so im gonna bitch about it :/ i think the conversion is a lot bigger then this and it’s a lot more complicated. like jack knows first hand what travelling with the doctor did to a.) himself and b.) to both rose and martha, was travelling ‘worth’ all the trauma they both suffered? idk saying ‘be happy even thought it might hurt’ is definitely one perspective i guess… idk where i was going with this. i think martha’s conversation with donna (and sarah jane’s to rose) is a lot more realistic. also yaz is like 21 here, i would of hoped jack would have had a more mature take on this situation, more than just ‘be lucky you’re going to be traumatised’.

‘are you feeling insecure? cos you seem to need a lot of praise’ literally no idea where ch*bnall pulled this line out of his ass from because im pretty sure insecurity has never been a key trait of jack’s. starting to think the chris ch*bnall who wrote torchwood was an entirely different person (aka i want to know how much of ch*bnall’s torchwood scripts were edited).

i hate the green lightning :/ why do they love doing this?

why the fuck are we letting robertson into the tardis??

‘this is about daleks. please stop using that word’ i second this motion. you know what im gonna count how many times they say dalek in this episode.

wait did they really put daleks on downing street cause that would be pretty funny. or aren’t tv shows allowed to film on downing street i don’t know.

‘you do love a beanie’ i know she’s suppose to be Socially Awkward™️ but god… the dialogue is always so awkward, i have never believed the doctor and fam as friends, let alone companions of two seasons.

‘four minutes til osaka’ it’s so funny ch*bnall takes time to signpost that we taking a four minute break from the plot to talk about feelings.

it’s quite funny tho because has the doctor and ryan ever had a one-to-one scene before?? honestly don’t think they have (correct me if im wrong). lol ch*bnall will never convince me these people are companions and not background furniture.

the awkwardness of this conversation makes it look like the doctor is in physical pain at having to make small talk to her so-called ‘friend’.

ch*bnall literally wrote ‘and how does that make you feel’ with his own two hands. i honestly don’t understand what people get out of defending this era.

‘if i’m not who i thought i was, then who am i?’ hey chibnall we did this last episode remember? you wrote it so you should.

‘you’re the doctor, same as before, same as always. right same doctor same ryan nothing’s changed’ weird how she’s perfectly okay with this advice from the fugitive doctor, but not with ryan.

nice advice/ consoling from ryan but again this is never earnt between the characters so ehh.

omg just thought ryan should had just said in response ‘i should say a reassuring thing now shouldn’t i? i’m still a bit socially awkward’.

‘thank you ryan for being my friend. thank you for being mine’ ….footage not found.

‘did you really have to bring him?’ again i second this motion.

this lighting has plot purpose but it’s still ugly as fuck.

‘you're feeding cloned dalek creatures liquidised humans’ this era never gets any less patronising to its viewers. also disappointing that doctor who veteran j*** b******** would accept such shit dialogue (or such basic characterisation for that matter).

‘there's something else that's bugging me’ umm… the quality of writing?

‘thanks yaz! missed you yaz!’ god this dialogue is so forced.

and now the dalek lights are red in case you didn’t know they’re now evil(!)

glad to see even jack now immediately backs down from conflict against the doctor. we hate it here.

this plan bad, as im sure you all know.

if they keep on saying the word dalek istg.

‘your bodies are too slow for daleks’ this is one of weirdest lines of dalek dialogue i’ve ever heard.

the extreme close up of the dalek, something something directing bad you know the drill.

‘yeah i can’t be spotted by the daleks!’ proceeds to park right in front of them.

‘maybe i can make a claim on insurance’, okay so that was a funny joke i admit.

bad guy of the episode goes to side with the bad guys, pretends to be shocked.

one of my favourite pieces of physical comedy is when the daleks rotate their heads to look at each other. i’m sure this probably isn’t even intentionally funny, i just find it hilarious and sassy of them.

‘you never forget your first death’ and jack is so hung up on this because…?

so is jack just carrying an abundance of bombs on his person or…?

‘no alien ship is safe from us two bad boys’ oh graham 😂

aw graham got left hanging, he didn’t deserve that 😔

if the daleks can locate the tardis now how come they didn’t before?

‘im captain jack harkness and im immortal’ imagine being happy with writing this dialogue, imagine being happy performing this dialogue. i have to ask. also why is ch*bnall obsessed with mentioning jack’s immortality when it bares no purpose to the plot. like yes ch*bnall i do remember jack is immortal you don’t need to keep telling me.

also like jack risks getting any one of them shot because he has to make Quippy Line™️???

ch*bnall loves solving the day by making the villian extremely dumb.

jack saying goodbye through ADR… hmm i want to know the tea.

i don’t know why the doctor frames ryan wanting to leave as ‘missed my time with you’ when ryan literally just gave his reasoning as it is because he has grown as a person and now know what he wants to do with life.

i mean ryan leaving does have its arc throughout the series so im not gonna say it’s not there but also im gonna not applaud a fish for swimming so.

‘she needs you’ there’s only so many times i can make the same joke… and im gonna keep making it, no she’s doesn’t lol (im sorry😅).

i will say that graham’s exit isn’t as good. not that that it’s unjustified, it’s perfectly fine but yeah less of an independent choice and more just following ryan.

nice leaving gift of psychic paper, just don’t tell them that others got a k9 😂

‘i could always use the tardis to go back arrive an hour after you guys, change the timeline. then we'd have more time together’ why is this doctor so bothered about companions leaving to this degree, she never even looked at them twice when they were on board. also the doctor has never reacted like this to any other companions and it’s not like the fam are that special lol.

also i noticed in the credits there’s a ch*bnall side character named after me lol. i think i’ll stick to my welsh biker girl thanks x

concluding thoughts: this episode definitely has some (2) nice emotional scenes in insolation, but 22 episodes in to start putting actual emotional development is just too little too late. jack ends up being almost a caricature of himself featuring all his Greatest Hits™️ of lines and quirks. nothing new is added to his character which is a shame. honestly the depth of emotion in torchwood s3 and s4 is so profound that seeing jack reduced to the gimmick of quirky sidekick is insulting to longtime viewers. aside from the start the doctor and jack barely interact which is also frustrating. the prison cliffhanger/ scenes are extremely pointless and add nothing to the plot or character as usual. the fam are the fam. not a big fan of dalek stories nowadays so i don’t really care much about it.

they say the word dalek(s) 91 times in this episode.

#series 12 salt rewatch #this is late because i didn’t want to do it ✌️ #and we are done with s12 yayyyy!!! 🎉 #dw commentary

[percontaion-points]

Court chapters 64-67

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Chapter 64

“There’s not a lot more to tell,” my uncle says. 

Macy looks down at her sleeping, shivering mother and answers, “Oh, I think there is.” 

He sighs. “She didn’t want you to know. Neither of us did. We wanted to keep you away from the front lines.”

MACY, YOU WERE EIGHT. 

“So why didn’t the queen do something?” Macy asks. “If Cyrus didn’t kill Mom because he feared retaliation from the Witch Court, why didn’t Imogen parlay that into a pardon for Mom?” 

“She did do something,” Uncle Finn explains. “She got him to commute her sentence from death to life in prison.” 

Macy’s laugh is harsh and painful to hear. “And she thinks that’s fair?”

The stupidest part about this conversation is that Macy is acting like her father (and everybody else) literally went “Rowena has been sentenced to be tortured and imprisoned for all time! Oh well, there’s literally nothing we can do about that!” She’s getting angry at her father when he literally tells her a single sentence about what happened, immediately followed by a “and then”. This conversation would have been over already if she didn’t stop interrupting him to get angry every two seconds!

“You’ve had ten years to free my mother. It’s my turn now, and I won’t fail.”

Sweetie, you came into the vampire court and were caught within seconds. You’ve literally already failed. 

“And here I thought I was going to need an insulin shot to get through the cute little family reunion. Looks like a ball gag would have been a better choice.”

Chapter 64 summary: Finn tells them that Rowena owed the Crone a favour. But when called upon, Rowena failed at her task. We don’t know what this task was, but I think it was to spy on the vampire court. She was to be put to death by Cyrus, but the witch queen is Rowena’s cousin, and she managed to reduce the sentence to life in prison. Throughout the entire thing, Macy keeps interrupting to be outraged that her dad failed, despite him telling her over and over that they worked for YEARS to even get that much. She’s an immature brat, and I’m fucking over her bullshit. 

Chapter 65

And falls into line with the rest of us as we follow Cyrus to the front of the dungeon and upstairs, where I’m afraid the real torture takes place.

Chapter 65 summary: The previously unknown Vega sister shows up. Finn identifies her as Isadora; Hudson still doesn’t know who she is. 

Anyway, when nobody wants to go with her, Cyrus shows up. He tries to get somebody to go with him, but when there’s still no takers, he kills a random freshman girl. The group then follows him upstairs. 

Chapter 66

I just wish I knew how to stop it.

Chapter 66 summary: As they go to an unknown location, Cyrus decides to point out how fucking stupid Grace has been since the get-go. With the prison, but especially when she literally walked into his court. Grace knows he’s right, but doesn’t verbally acknowledge him. 

For some reason, this needs to take 5 goddamned pages. 

Chapter 67

Cyrus cuts him off mid-sentence by plunging the metal rods deep into Liam’s chest. Macy screams. Jaxon rattles his restraints as he tries to break free. And the rest of us stare, speechless, as Liam freezes mid-argument. 

[Image description: A screenshot from Avengers: Endgame of Thanos. He is a large, purple alien with a wrinkly-chin, wearing black armour. He stands before a battlefield that’s on fire, although this is blurred with distance. It is captioned with “I don’t even know who you are.” End description]

Because Isadora is Cyrus’s secret weapon for stealing magic and right now, she’s taking every single drop that Liam has.

Chapter 67 summary: Cyrus chains them up, and Grace tries really hard to keep his attention focused on her. It’s nothing but a Hail Mary to allow her friends a chance to figure things out. 

Cyrus then quotes, word for word, something that the bloodletter had said about the gargoyle army. Surprise, they were sold out. However, I can’t pretend to be surprised that it was some random background character. A “friend” of Jaxon’s who was barely mentioned in passing. Cyrus stabs him with these metal rods, although it doesn’t kill him right away. 

Isadora then goes over, puts her hand on the rods, puts her other hand on “daddy” (the books word, not mine), and begins to channel all of Liam’s energy into Cyrus. 

#Crave series #Court (Crave 4) #Chapter 64 #chapter 65 #chapter 66 #Chapter 67 #Macy (Crave) #Finn Foster #Rowena Foster #HEADDESKING #i'm done goodbye #padding padding everywhere and no story to be found #Cyrus Vega #Isadora Vega #random background characters are random #i don't even know who you are #what is this bullshit?