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turtle-paced · 10 months

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Ned believes that "the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" and that "a ruler who hides behind executioners soon forgets what death is". Do you think he would hold a female ruler to these standards? I know most people wouldn't expect a noblewoman to take a man's head off herself, but would Ned think she ought to witness the execution? Or would he believe that a lady shouldn't see such things? After all, he didn't take Arya and Sansa to the execution at the beginning of the series.

I think "the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" is an excellent early demonstration of how sexist and ableist the setting is. Because that part of the quote isn't all of the lesson.

"The blood of the First Men still flows in the veins of the Starks, and we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. "One day, Bran, you will be Robb's bannerman, holding a keep of your own for your brother and your king, and justice will fall to you. When that day comes, you must take no pleasure in the task, but neither must you look away. A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is." Bran I, AGoT, emphasis mine.

What Ned's talking about is rulers being responsible for their actions. Considering the consequences of their decisions. Universally applicable.

And how does it get boiled down in terms of quoteable quotes? "The man who passes the sentence must swing the sword." A line that does not even contemplate that someone other than a man might rule, and a line that does not even contemplate a person who is not physically capable of carrying out an execution might rule.

So to answer your question, Ned's a product of his society. He's not thinking about how an AFAB ruler should conduct themselves at all.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #ned stark #a game of thrones

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thedawningofthehour · 4 months

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Ok ok ok, i have finished chapter 40 now and i can unleash the unholy amount of screenshots I’ve taken.

ALWBSOEBWLSBIRNEOERB

The way that you write interactions between characters and especially this interaction makes me weak. I had to stop reading after this part yesterday and bookmark the rest for today. I think that the part specifically about her watching them all grow up and being so proud of them made me want to sob. If I believed in ghosts this is how I would picture my dead family members.

Also the fact the Draxums family members watch Galois is insane to me. Just the idea that he’s not biologically part of their family but they still watch him as though he was!

the noise I made when I read this cannot be translated to any noise in the english language.

HE’S REMEMBERING!!!!

this part as well with the last comment ^

I don’t know why but the “Do… whatever it is Blues do.” Comment struck me to my soul.

maybe it’s the way it was said but just saying ‘Blues’ seems so sweet to me (separate from everything else that’s happening of course)

You need to stop writing such quoteable quotes. (Please keep writing them, my soul needs pain every so often)

ALSBIEBEKSBSIWBDOEBRIWNSLDB

I haven’t really thought about Raph in this story much because it’s been a couple chapters sense he’s been a major part but dang. I love the leader duo so much and just seeing them interact like this is so sweet.

Ok…… so,

if I were Gale I would have thrown up by now. Like, I understand him needing this to happen for security in mind but dang. I think this goes several levels past ‘metal’

I think the comments from Draxum about taking Bradfords body apart to study just struck me as so inhumane and terrified me a little. That just seems so psychopathic. I get that he’s a scientist and this would be a breakthrough to see how double mutations worked but dang.

I think I actually screamed when I read this. I did not remember this decision being made and it threw me for a loop all the way to China or some other country really far from America.

I’m so upset right now, so I was just wrong on the poll. I see.

Hunginn and Munginn are genuinely my favorite characters. I love the way they interact with eachother as well as others.

I can’t even process this. It’s 2:00 in the afternoon for me, my brain gave me an eviction notice when I woke up and left when I read this.

always, love your work as always and I hope you have an amazing holiday season :)

(I am perfectly fine with people leaving comments like this but I do worry that someday tumblr will just decide to eat it so if you're going to leave a comment in an ask please back it up-I try to answer everything within a few days so if it's been a week or so just resend it because it probably got snapped)

I really love that Rise, even with its emphasis on the boys being Splinter's biological sons and that playing an important role in the storyline, made a point of non-biological family ties.

I loved that April was included as a Hamato. She wasn't related by blood, but she considers the boys and Splinter to be family and they consider her the same. She fought for what the Hamato clan was supposed to stand for, protecting the world, and that mattered more than who her parent's parent's parents were. She was one of them, because April O'Neil has always been an intrinsic part of TMNT.

Draxum is their second dad, Casey was immediately adopted into the family, Casey Jr was Leo's son as much as he was Cassandra's-there were no blood ties in any of that, they were just family because they wanted to be. I love that.

Draxum's family would have considered all the boys to be his sons no matter what happened, but considering Draxum's relationship with Gale-yeah, they're extra attached. Plus they feel awful about what happened.

-skipping down to the part about the autopsy'

I mean, Gale is no stranger to gore. It doesn't come up much because I usually describe Gale doing machinery stuff in his chapters, but Draxum's specialties lie in the squishier sciences. He's absolutely dissected animals and performed grotesque experiments that go against god's will while chatting up his son. He reviews autopsy reports while drinking his morning coffee. He'd do it at the dinner table if he wasn't the "put your devices AWAY AT THE TABLE dinner is FAMILY TIME" kind of dad. So the blood and guts absolutely do not phase either of them. Draxum's got grosser stuff just sitting in jars on his shelf.

Now normally, yes, Draxum would treat the autopsy of a sentient being-especially one of his former comrades-with a little more respect. He'd still do it, obviously, his duty to science outweighs his personal comfort. He'd just do it with the reverence a donor deserves, and give whatever's left of them a proper burial or whatever. (depends on their wishes-like, Draxum would be totally cool with someone stringing together his skeleton and using it as a teaching aide)

But Bradford tried to kill his son. Twice. He intentionally deceived Draxum with the express purpose of getting closer to Galois, used him to get a 'cure' for his partner and then planned to double-cross him and rip his head off in view of his father just to force Draxum to live with that. He wanted to torture the kid.

Honestly, Draxum couldn't defile his corpse enough. He'd have tossed his remains in his septic tank if Gale hadn't freaked out and demanded they be thoroughly destroyed. It's probably a good thing he was already dead, Draxum would have taken a long, long time killing him.

I don't actually mention Leo making the decision-because for him, it was already made. He chose in 39 that if he had to join Draxum to stay with his brother, he was willing to do that. All his conversation with his grandmother and hearing about all the bullshit going on outside did was reinforce that it was something he needed to do.

I worried that people would be a bit blindsighted when they got down to Leo actually doing the thing. I hope it didn't throw people for too much of a loop.

Huginn and Muninn are so fun to write, fr. Their dialogue just comes to be so easily. It's actually a challenge to get them to shut up and go away so I can get back to the plot-centric characters, because they will happily yammer on for 2500 words about nothing.

Happy holidays! It was feeling like December was pacing at a reasonable pace, and now I blink and it's less than a week until Christmas. I still need to wrap my presents. :P I currently just have a giant Amazon box right in front of my door, I have to push it out of the way to accept DoorDash orders. I'm hoping the weather forecasts are wrong and we get SOME snow in time. Come on, December is the only time I want snow, I do not want it January-May but you insist on giving it to me then, world.

#doth asks

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author-a-holmes · 1 year

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Good Lines Tag

Thank you @avrablake for the Tag. I've not seen this one before but I love it, so I'm going to pass it onto a few people...

Tagging forward, with no pressure, to; @faelanvance @charlesjosephwrites @authoralexharvey @acertainmoshke @queen-kass-the-writer @sylhorn @ashen-crest @world-of-fire-and-flight-admin @afoolandathief @fictionalbullshitter @artbyeloquent @ettawritesnstudies @sleepyowlwrites @duckingwriting @kaiusvnoir and @tisiphonewolfe. Also anyone else who wants to play, consider this an open tag.

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What's a line that you're tremendously proud of writing, and what's a line that's just out-of-context ridiculous?

CW for the snippets: One talks about death and dying. The other talks about womens monthlies.

Line I'm Proud Of

It's a line Andric Roche says to Lizzy in Changeling, and I remember writing it, pausing and going. "Wow. Where did that come from?". It's stuck with me as a very quoteable line, and it's one of my favourites in Changeling.

"Survival is always about chance, Lizzy. Everything in the world wants to kill us. Even time."

Out-of-Context Ridiculous

I wasn't sure what to share for this one, but then earlier this evening (May 9th) I was doing a bit of writing practice with some characters from a future book and one of them spat out a line that's just perfect.

"Are you asking me to... to speed up my moonflow?!" she hissed out, and something on her face or in her voice must have warned Nik how close he was to igniting her fury because his hands raised fully, palms out, as he shook his head.

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actual-sleeping-beauty · 4 months

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bestie i have a q for you - most quoteable thing you've heard recently at work: go 💜

also just gotta say i hope you have a great day and i appreciate all your unhinged messages so much even if i take 34792387489237 years to reply x

ugh unfortunately the residents haven't been super quotable lately. one did ask me while i was working christmas eve whether anyone would be working on christmas day and i was like, "no????" she responded, "well you still have to work on christmas." and i was like, "no, it's a federal holiday?????" to which she replied, "well i've had jobs where i had to work on christmas," and i just went, "okay, but susan, this is a part time receptionist job."

#nice ask week #lola tag #give my ask to rose

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mickgaydolenz · 2 years

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Reverse uno!!! Which au that we discussed together has been your favorite so far? Also thank you again for what you said, it was so sweet 😭😭 I love that we started talking, it's been so nice!!

Also: bonus question what is your favorite thing Micky has said on the show? 😂

reign i too am so glad we started talking, it has been so nice and fun 🥹🥹

okay so we all know how much i love the nunees, so anything with the girlies is top tier for me. BUT i do also really, really love your modern au because it’s just soooo full of possibilities and like you said it’s been really fun to see other people engage with that au too! Chrissy means everything to me though so like she’s up there!!

((this may or may not count as an au but i’m very invested in the @vintagecocacolainthesun and @by-thunder monkees takeover adventure))

oh my god what a hard question, micky has said so many quoteable lines…. okay the ones that live in my brain 25/7 are:

gosharoonie, all of his james cagney impressions (i will straight up just say you dirty rat to myself all the time), you a marshal is telling me??? a micky dolenz monkee??? to go to a common ordinary bar and hire common ordinary criminalsssSSs???, any and all of his little noises, and (this isn’t technically from the show BUT) when he calls davy cute and sexy a thousand times (my friends and i will literally just insert it into conversation and we’ll all stop and chant it like a weird little mantra)

#thanks reign 💖💖💖💖🥹🥹🥹🥹#so glad we can have fun on this platform together 😊🤝😊#the monkees #rhubarb asks

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transsextual · 2 years

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no offense but if you walk away i'll walk away first tell me which road you'll take i don't wanna risk our paths crossing someday so you walk that way i'll walk this way. the future hangs over our heads and and it moves with each current event until it falls all around like a cold steady rain just stay in when it's lookin this way. and the moon's hangin low in the sky. forcin everything metal to shine. and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case they argue walk this way, no walk this way. and laura's asleep in my bed as i'm leavin she wakes up and says i dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave baby don't go away, come here. and there's kids playin guns in the street and one's pointing his tree branch at me so i put my hands up say enough is enough if you walk away i'll walk away. (and he shot me dead!) found a liquid cure for my landlocked blues it will pass away like a slow parade it's leavin but i don't know how soon. and the world's got me dizzy again, you'd think after 22 years i'd be used to the spin and it only feels worse when i stay in one place so i'm always pacing around or walking away. i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quoteable phrase, if you love something, give it away. a good woman will pick you apart a box full of suggestions for your possible heart and you may be offended and you may be afraid but don't walk away, don't walk away. we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background from a televised war and in the deafening pleasure i thought i heard someone say, if we walk away, they'll walk away. but greed is a bottomless pit, and our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss and the whole world must watch the sad comic display if you're still free, start runnin away cus we're comin for ya! i've grown tired of holding this pose i feel like a stranger each time i come home so i'm makin a deal with the devils of fame sayin, let me walk away... please. you'll be free, child, once you have died, from the shackles of language and measurable time and then we can trade places, play musical graves, til then walk away walk away walk away walk away. so i'm up at dawn putting on my shoes i want to make a clean escape. i'm leaving but i don't know where to. i'm leaving but i don't know where to.

#land locked blues ;-;#speak

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faustandfurious · 3 years

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oh do you have any shades of magic thoughts? sadly i was actually a little underwhelmed. it was by no means bad but i felt like the execution always was pretty surface level both in concept and characters. i wanted more actual parallel world exploration but at times i felt like the different worlds might as well just be different countries. i also basically only cared about holland. the kell & rhy dynamic had potential but i don't think there was enough time dedicated to examine this.

SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SHADES OF MAGIC TRILOGY, AND A WARNING TO STOP READING NOW IF YOU LOVE THE BOOKS AND CAN’T STAND WHEN PEOPLE SAY NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT THEM

Shades of Magic attempts to be a whole lot of things: A Regency Era novel, a swashbuckling pirate adventure, epic fantasy, the new Mistborn, a memorable and quoteable piece of literature. Unfortunately it fails at most of them.

Schwab tries to make everything so cool, all the characters so badass, all the locations so moodboard-inspiring, and all the quotes so instagramable that there is very little soul left in the story.

“Badass” is not a personality trait. Sentences don’t magically become more profound just because you repeat them.

The action takes place around 1819-1820, going by the fact that king George III dies over the course of the trilogy. Lila Bard is born around 1800 and grows up in an England shaken by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, yet this has zero impact on her character at all because she is ridiculously disconnected from her own time and birthplace, even more so than what can be accounted for by the canon explanation that she hates her own London and has a thirst for adventure. Basically Schwab teases Regency Era England in the first novel and then relegates it to the role of generic prop, its inhabitants wholly unimportant for being non-magical.

Shades of Magic has the same glossy, polished feel as the newer James Bond films, all about snarky one-liners, high-stakes games of life and death, glamorous people with weapons hidden under equally glamorous high fashion, and a less than successful pretense at emotional depth. But James Bond works because Bond himself is allowed to be a morally grey character, a hired killer masquerading as the good guy only because we recognise that his opponents are worse. The high-flying lifestyle of fast cars, cirrhosis-inducing amounts of alcoholic beverages, and pretty women, somehow only serves to emphasise the fundamental emptiness behind the facade. James Bond, the perfect agent, is forever trapped in the shadow world of espionage and can never truly return to anything resembling a normal life.

The closest we get to that kind of moral ambiguity in Shades of Magic is Holland. Schwab is definitely at her best when she manages to write her villainous characters in a way that lets the reader feel sympathy for the circumstances that led them to villainy. Holland, like Bond, is motivated by something beyond selfish desires: patriotism. He has grown up in a dying world and he would do anything in his power to save it. Contrast this with Lila, whose main goal is personal fulfillment through adventure, and Kell, who spends a lot of time feeling sorry for himself for being raised by the royal family in a world where magic and prosperity are plentiful, and it’s hard to like the main protagonists when they get on their high horse to judge Holland for his actions.

I think Lila would have been a lot more interesting if her borderline psychopathic tendencies had been allowed to cause more problems for her, to a point where she might have been forced into some actual character development instead of remaining the Manic Pixie Knife Girl from start to finish.

I think Kell would have been a better character if his coat hadn’t been his most interesting feature. As it is, Kell’s coat has more personality than Kell himself. Ultimately, Kell is only interesting as Holland’s character foil, as the boy we see through Holland’s eyes, who knows nothing of real tragedy and suffering.

Rhys and Alucard aren’t necessarily bad queer representation, they’re just boring because their emotional chemistry isn’t given enough space, so what we are left with is a situation where Alucard seems to have a much stronger friendship with Lila than with Rhys who is supposed to be the love of his life, and Rhys in turn has a more significant relationship with Kell than with Alucard. Now, I’m not saying that people shouldn’t have friends in addition to a romantic partner, but I do think people should have a strong friendship with their romantic partner. Lila and Kell don’t come across as friends, and neither do Rhys and Alucard. Based on emotional connection, it would have made more sense for Lila and Alucard to end up together, and for the brotherly relationship between Kell and Rhys to be given more screentime and greater depth.

There’s more to be said about the worldbuilding, which I think deserves its own separate post, but for now I’ll say that neither Grey nor Red London were particularly memorable as anything other than Generic Fantasy Cities. The only place that stood out, in it’s own, chillingly horrifying way, was White London, and I really wish we could have spent more time there instead of being stuck in the somewhat bland and underdeveloped kingdom of Arnes.

That being said, the story is fun in the places where it doesn’t drag. Holland’s story arc, especially the ending, was excellent, and so was the initial premise. However, this definitely isn’t Schwab at her best - Vicious is a much better novel where her morally ambiguous characters really get a chance to shine.

#anonymous elf #answered #shades of magic #literary criticism #book reviews #pouring salt #v e schwab

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rachelkaser · 3 years

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Stay Golden Sunday: Take Him, He’s Mine

Dorothy foists a needy Stan off onto Blanche, only for it to backfire. Sophia and Rose try to start a sandwich business.

Picture It...

Sophia tries to convince Rose to join her in a new business venture: A sandwich stand on the beach. Rose seems open to the idea, even if Sophia is very pushy about it. Dorothy enters, excited and dressed for a date with her new squeeze, Jeffrey the naval commodore. Blanche enters and tells Dorothy that Stan’s unexpectedly arrives. He asks to speak to Dorothy, and she tells him she’ll give him a minute.

BLANCHE: Dorothy, guess who’s here? DOROTHY: My date! BLANCHE: Your husband. DOROTHY: I don’t have a husband. Call the police. STAN: *appearing in the doorway* Your ex-husband. DOROTHY: I’ll call the police.

In the living room, Stan breaks down crying and tells Dorothy he lost his business. Dorothy is sympathetic, but tells Stan she doesn’t have time for him right now. He begs Dorothy to keep him company for the night, and Dorothy goes into the kitchen to ask the Girls a favor: For one of them to do it instead. She hones in on Blanche and bribes her with a promise to introduce her to Jeffrey’s sailor friends. Blanche tells Stan to wait while she gets dressed.

Rose and Sophia are making sandwiches in the kitchen, substituting potatoes for tomatoes in their BLTs. Dorothy comes home from her date with Jeffrey, which was a huge success, and laments that she stuck Stan with Blanche. As if on cue, Blanche comes home from a, to use her word, “bizarre” date. Dorothy expertly guesses what Stan’s odd idea of a night out was, including a meal he ordered for Blanche at a cheap Indian restaurant. Blanche says it actually wasn’t so bad, and they’re going out again the next night. Dorothy’s a bit uncomfortable, but doesn’t object to it.

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Sophia hustles Rose out of the house at 5:30 am, waking Dorothy in the process. They’re trying to beat a rival sandwich vendor named Johnny No-Thumbs, who Dorothy accurately pegs is mob-connected. However, she has other worries: Jeffrey dumped her under the guise of shipping out on a top-secret mission. Blanche unexpectedly comes home from a date with Stan to a now-pissed off Dorothy.

The next day, they’re shopping in a grocery store, and Dorothy is giving Blanche the silent treatment. She believes Blanche slept with Stan the previous night, which Blanche denies. Blanche protests that Dorothy was the one who asked her to go out with Stan, and that it’s unfair for Dorothy to be angry at her just because she didn’t have a terrible time. Dorothy realizes that she’s not acting right and apologizes to Blanche . . . at least until Blanche says she’s going out with Stan again that night.

*Blanche’s grocery cart taps Sophia’s* SOPHIA: Ah! I hurt my back, I’m paralyzed! BLANCHE: Sophia? SOPHIA: Oh, it’s you. Look where you’re going.

They cross paths with Sophia and Rose, who’re getting supplies for their sandwich business. Blanche is worried because Johnny No-Thumbs leaned on them, but Sophia says she’s going to call in her own connections. Meanwhile, Dorothy continues to rage at Blanche for going out with Stan, making a scene such that other shoppers get involved. Finally Blanche gets exasperated at protesting her innocence and storms off.

Later that night, Sophia is trying to school Rose on proper business practices, including the valuable lesson to “Quit being an idiot.” Dorothy is coming in and out of the kitchen, seething that Blanche is still out. Sophia tells a “Picture It” story about coming to America, only to prove Rose forgot the aforementioned lesson. Dorothy grabs her coat to go to Stan’s hotel room and confront him and Blanche. Right after she leaves, there’s a ring at the bell: Two thugs walk in, saying Johnny No-Thumbs sent them.

ROSE: Sophia, it’s for you!

In Stan’s hotel room, he’s got company and tells her to hide under the covers when Dorothy knocks. Dorothy tells him she’s just there to talk to “her,” pointing at the bed. She goes on a long monologue about how hurt she is that the woman under the covers would put dating Stan ahead of their friendship and is mad at her for not being honest about sleeping with him. The person in the bed throws the covers back: It’s a 20-something blonde who laughs in Dorothy’s horrified face.

Dorothy returns home to see Sophia and Rose with flowers. Sophia’s own mob connections came through and got Johnny No-Thumbs to back off. The two are also getting out of the sandwich business. They tell Dorothy that Blanche is in the living room. Dorothy goes out there and sincerely apologizes, saying her emotions were very confusing and she shouldn’t have taken it out on Blanche. Blanche accepts her apology and says her word for those weird feelings is “magenta.” They make up, and Blanche asks Dorothy why she ever married a man like Stan. Dorothy says Stan used to be handsome, charming, and there’s one other reason:

DOROTHY: And, of course, I was four months pregnant.

“Stanley, you truly are one chromosome away from being a potato.”

Stan makes his second season debut in an episode where he really only appears at the beginning and the end, despite him being the source of conflict. We get another instance of Blanche and Dorothy getting into conflict over a man, as well as a B-plot of Sophia’s get-rich-quick schemes, the latter of which Rose is also drawn into. Each of the Girls has something to do this episode, and the handling of some fairly complex and incendiary emotions elevates it above a simple love triangle episode -- though not by much, if I’m being honest.

Bea Arthur gets to put on a masterclass of conflicting emotions. Even before Jeffrey dumps her, she’s still uncomfortable with her ex-husband and her best friend getting close, but it really reaches a fever pitch afterwards. She’s upset, can’t really articulate why, and even admits that she doesn’t fully understand what she’s feeling. I really appreciate it when a show doesn’t hold my hand and spell out what a character’s feeling, letting me figure out why Dorothy might be bent out of shape without having her say it outright.

ROSE: *about selling English muffins disguised as Belgian waffles* I was cute then, so I could get away with it. SOPHIA: Don’t worry, you get cute again when you hit 80. How do you think I’m gonna peddle this slop?

The “magenta” scene is probably the best of the episode, and the most quoteable in day-to-day life. If there were ever a single word that describes feeling a mess of emotions all at once, it would probably be “magenta.” I don’t even hate magenta, like Blanche does, but I still use it sometimes.

Stan is a . . . tricky character. On the one hand, Herb Edelman’s charm and chemistry with the actresses, Bea Arthur especially, makes him fun to watch and he makes sympathetic a character who might otherwise be pretty unlikeable. But on the other hand, his actions are pretty unlikeable here. Sure, he’s going through a personal crisis, but he imposes himself on his ex-wife (whom he left after 38 years of marriage for a younger woman with nary a goodbye, let us not forget) and refuses to take no for an answer when she refuses to spend her evening comforting him.

It’s a bit odd that, other than a couple of lines exchanged at the very beginning of the episode, we don’t see Stan and Blanche actually interact. Considering their burgeoning friendship is the conflict of the episode, I think it would have added something to the episode -- not to mention I feel we missed something by not having Rue McClanahan and Herb Edelman do any scenes together. Also, where is Stan, who just lost his business, getting the money to take Blanche on the dates that he is?

STAN: I lost it, Dorothy! DOROTHY: *looking off to the side* You never had it, Stanley!

Then again, it’s probably a good thing that we don’t see too much, because the lack of information is what gives Dorothy’s suspicions their impact. I wish she trusted Blanche a bit more and didn’t immediately jump to thinking the worst of her, but I can also see why it’s hard for her to believe Blanche can have a platonic relationship with a man -- any man. And I also appreciate Blanche standing up for herself, even reaching a point where she’s not going to humor Dorothy anymore.

The B-plot marks the second get-rich-quick scheme the Girls have partaken in in three episodes. It’ll be a recurring secondary plot on this show, mostly instigated by Sophia, and this is the first time she’s roped someone else into it. She and Rose make an hilarious pair, especially with her constantly taking advantage of Rose’s naivete and dimness. The ministory about Johnny No-Thumbs attempting to lean on them and Uncle Vito from Palermo leaning right back with a threat to “Johnny No-Knees” is the most amusing part of the episode.

Still, I do have some logistical questions. Rose has apparently got her job as a grief counselor back and is no longer a waitress at the Fountain Rock -- no explanation for that, but whatever, I can suspend my disbelief. Presumably that means she has to work normal hours, so how does she have time to man a sandwich stand with Sophia?

SOPHIA: Lesson number one: Quit being an idiot! ROSE: Okay! SOPHIA: Lesson number two: The law of supply and demand. Before you supply the sandwiches, you demand the money. Lesson number three: Quit being an idiot. [...] ROSE: That’s a really moving story, Sophia. But what exactly is the point? SOPHIA: The point is, you already forgot lessons one and three: Quit being an idiot!

Also, this marks, I think, the second time in the series that Sophia tells a “Picture It...” story. It’s a blatant lie, of course, but Estelle Getty makes every one of these enjoyable.

Episode rating: 🍰🍰🍰 (three cheesecake slices out of five)

Favorite Part of the Episode:

ROSE: Where are you going? DOROTHY: To either get ice cream or commit a felony. I’ll decide in the car.

#golden girls #picture it #stay golden #stay golden sunday #dorothy zbornak #sophia petrillo #blanche devereaux #rose nylund #take him he's mine #s02e03 #stan zbornak

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loverofallthingssmart · 3 years

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here's an excerpt from what I wrote today because I liked it: /// "Hey. What are you doing?” Tam’s voice came from next to her, and she peeked up to see him crouched beside her. / “Having the time of my life,” she told him, her voice cracking on the last word. / “Are you?’’ Tam gave her a half-smile and settled down. “Because I’m sure everblazing not.” /// -your secret giver

ASDFGHJKLASDGHAKALJAHAFASJA SCREAM?

omg i love it!!??

literally every part of this is so quoteable im literally in love with this like this just made my excitement SHOOT up (also my serotonin levels?....also super high after reading this)

“her voice cracking on the last word” BRO OK THE FACT THAT I LITERALLY IMAGINED IT IN MY HEAD SO VIVIDLY LIKE WOW A+ IMAGERY I LOVE IT

“Because I’m sure everblazing not” I LOVE THAT LINE SO MUCH OH MY GODD

also..is—is that who i think it is? 👀 because if so 👀

anyway, once again im just AAAAAAAAH

thank you thank you thank you you’re the best giver anon!! <3

#ask me anything #the gift that keeps on giving #AAAAAH i loved that excerpt #except now im worried on where the major character death is coming into play #hmmm 👀👀#thank you giver anon!! i love it!!#keeper of the lost cities #kotlc

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mwritesink · 7 years

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im imagining you just showing up next to demoiselle and passing over a secret agent folder of AUs and meta like "so....you don't know me but i've brought The Goods"

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bex-pendragon · 4 years

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💖 the west wing?

Omg, this is so hard! This is another show where the entire ensemble is so good. But if I could only pick one, I think it would be Toby Ziegler. He’s one of those loveable curmudgeons who is always stressed and grumpy, but is actually a big softie on the inside. And he has so many quoteable lines.

On the other hand, CJ Cregg is the best. I kind of want to be her when I grow up, except I hate public speaking. But still. She’s the best.

send me 💖 + a fandom and i’ll tell you my fav character

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kessielrg · 4 years

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If you could combine any 6 Care Bears and cousins and make them the lead of a series which 6 bears/cousins would you pick (3 bears + 3 cousins = 6)

This is... one heck of a question. But, since I’m biased af, you KNOW I’d have Oopsy as a lead again for some future series. (you’ve seen me scream in kast chat, you know how bad it is.)

For the other bears, I’d go with True Heart and maybe one of the more used bears too, like Grumpy. Most likely Grumpy.

For the Cousins, I’d like to think that, if there’s True Heart, then Noble Heart is not far behind, so I would include him. As for the other two, I think I’d go with the two mentioned in my last Care Bears fanfic (it is called Starcross, if you must know), Treat Heart and Playful Heart.

As for their dynamics:

True Heart and Noble Heart are obviously the down to earth parent figures. They’d be the ones that hammer in the moral of this week’s episode, and provide some awesome, really-quoteable-in-real-life spurts of wisdom once a season.

Grumpy is forever the disgruntled, but well meaning, handyman and uncle figure. A lot of the lessons revolving around him would encourage showing patience to those who are bothering you (read: Oopsy Bear) and that your emotions, even grumpy ones, are perfectly valid.

Treat Heart would be like the older sister who thinks she knows everything. She’d probably sell your soul for a cornchip if you forgot her birthday that one time seven years ago. Her lessons would involve humility and accepting others’ help because of this. Most of the time, Treat Heart seems a bit frosty, but every now and again you’d get a cute ‘ah, she really does care!’ moment.

Playful Heart, on the other hand, has (what we would call) middle kid syndrome. Possibly a good representation of kids with mental disabilities. Lessons centered around Playful Heart would probably involve seeking adult help if you are stuck, knowing when to have fun and when to be serious, and so on.

Oopsy is then placed as the youngest kid, the one who is having a hard time finding themselves in their mixed family unit. Still a klutz when plot demands, it is also treated like a disability/handicap. Oopsy’s lessons would involve being yourself, finding who you are, and sometimes you just can’t be someone’s friend no matter how hard you try.

I think I just phrased this like I’m trying to pitch a kid-friendly sitcom. Ah well. You get the idea.

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#carebearbro #care bears #headcanon #and no #i was not thinking of this sitcom dynamic #when i was writing starcross #well #maybe that bit about true and noble heart #but other than that

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