#the writing on this show is phenomenal

[sapphosclown]

Cynthia’s coming out scene was so heart wrenching, and so beautiful.

First and foremost, I love that it was done non-verbally. As a neurodivergent viewer who sees how neurodivergent Cynthia is, it made the scene that much more impactful. That she was feeling so many things and thinking so many things that all there was to do was shut down. I felt every emotion with her and Ari did an absolutely incredible job portraying those feelings. Not even to mention how Nancy did not assume Cynthia was ignoring her or being rude for a second and completely understood what Cynthia wanted to say.

When Nancy asks what’s wrong, Cynthia says she doesn’t want to talk about it. Nancy, being Nancy, keeps pushing, and starts asking more specific questions. When Nancy mentions Cynthia’s mom, that’s the moment she truly shuts down— which leads to a whole other concept— but easily establishes that Nancy and Cynthia have a trust that has been built that we the audience, haven’t seen.

Nancy tells Cynthia “You can tell me anything” and we can immediately see Cynthia’s thoughts, “not this.” as she shakes her head with so much pain and fear. She wants to trust Nancy so badly, but she’s not allowed to. Nancy assumes “You don’t want to talk about it” and Cynthia shakes her head, but Nancy knows this isn’t a no, she knows “You can’t talk about it.” Which hurts Cynthia even more because Nancy knows her so well but she’s so afraid of admitting to this part of her.

And then Nancy suggests writing instead of talking. Once again, from a neurodivergent standpoint, this was so important to me. But watching as Cynthia slides the paper to Nancy, but not loosening her grip in a desperate attempt to cherish these moments before her best friend turns on her and she loses the last thing she has. But Nancy reads it. The silence is long, the pencil scratching on the paper is taunting Cynthia. And Nancy slides it back. Cynthia doesn’t hesitate in reaching for it and with one glance, it finally all hits her.

The fear, the anger, the despair, the pain, the relief.

It’s so much to bear and suddenly, she doesn’t have to bear it alone. Because Someone accepts her. Someone has proved there is no circumstance in which Cynthia will ever go unloved by them. And in that moment, they are safe to feel it all.

#The way i sobbed writing this and watching this scene #i really needed to unpack this scene before i absolutely lost my mind thinking about it #ari and tricia are so fucking phenomenal #my favorite scene in the whole show hands down. #cynthia zdunowski #nancy nakagawa #rise of the pink ladies #grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rotpl #rotpl spoilers #episode analysis #i guess #mostly just me saying things

[cycat4077]

Episode 9 of Fargo is titled "The Useless Hand". Perhaps it is a deliberate method of foreshadowing part of the final episode...

Ole Munch's speech describes Gator as the "Useless Hand". He is returned "without function". This is how Roy has ALWAYS viewed Gator. This is how Gator, as a result, has viewed himself.

But perhaps this will foreshadow the opposite. Perhaps the useless hand will become useful. Even though he cannot see, Gator still can speak. It is words and truths that can be most useful in the upcoming episode.

Perhaps Gator will find his purpose by revealing the truths of what his father has done.

In the Oedipus play, there are a couple of quotes that strike me as similar to Gator's situation:

You, with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with.

Gator is "blind" to his father's ways. He refuses to see Roy for the horrible person he is.

However, another line is also striking. Here, Oedipus speaks to a blind prophet:

Blind as you are, you can feel all the more what sickness haunts our city. You, my lord, are the one shield, the one savior we can find.

The sickness is Roy and his corruption. However, Gator is now the one who is literally blind. He may finally be able to see the truths of Roy's ways and perhaps even act upon them. Be a "savior" of sorts that help bring down his father.

Gator, though dubbed a useless hand, may finally serve a purpose, as he is awakened to the reality of his life through his blindness.

#fargo spoilers #fargo season 5 #fargo fx #fargo #gator tillman #i love the layers of this show #the writing is phenomenal #the symbolism and the metaphors and the parallels to literature and reality are so exquisitely done #fargo episode 9

[ainosgarden]

It's the most important part, the trying, 'cause who ever really succeeds in the end?

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans – ‘It's Impossible’ (dir. Gus Van Sant)

#feud fx #feud: capote vs the swans #naomi watts #this was a phenomenal episode for babe paley #i still can't believe ryan murphy managed to get #gus van sant #to direct this show #and what a beauty he created #the way he managed to capture that ornate emptiness #of the nyc high society in 1960s #but evoking such longing at the same time #before this episode i actually found the writing a bit tiresome #but the dialogues were great in this one #the last 5 minutes especially #cinematography #feud

[crippledgoddess]

Unpopular opinion apparently but I love that young royals isn’t going down that "the power of love will fix everything in the end" bs route and forcing an unrealistic redundant happy ending, those characters and storylines are the most nuanced and well written things I’ve seen from a young adult series in A WHILE

#firm non-endgame believer especially in these cases. it’s far more realistic and so relatable tbh #and y’all are forgetting it’s a drama not a romance and was never a feel-good show #i need to stop looking on twitter the takes are atrocious as usual #pipe down the writing was phenomenal. realism at its finest

[fangirlofallthefandoms]

Something something yes very unethical of Michelle to date her former therapist but can we talk about his dumb Trump impression because that had me not trusting him immediately.

#ted lasso #i know your not supposed to trust him anyway but yeeeesh #and poor ted oh my god #i would be ready to murder him #ALSO AS A PSYCH MAJOR IM VERY HAPPY THERES SO MUCH PSYCHOLOGY TALK 😭😭 #ted lasso spoilers #phenomenal writing from this show

[eremin0109]

As fitting as the ending was, I think I would've loved an alternate scenario where instead of loading the entire pistol into him, Dong soo would've been successful in putting Do young behind the bars again, for life this time, giving us a full circle moment of Do young ending up right where he was at the start of the drama.

#i just think that would've been neat #but like what we got was pretty fucking poetic so im not complaining #do young got what was coming for him #dong soo girlbossed his way to the top (and lost everything that actually mattered in the process) #the ending clearly spelled it out for us that choices have consequences you can't just be a terrible person and get away with it #and it was so tastefully done despite the lack of more runtime they absolutely nailed it #another feather in the cap for Shin ha kyun. take a bow sir! #idk about kyk's previous work (and i really don't care for it either) but his acting was absolutely phenomenal in this #do young's imposing figure slutty smiles and his slow seductive drawl will remain with me for the forseeable future #he's such a well done villian that the show doesn't let your sympathy for him doesn't overshadow the cruelness of his atrocities #*chef's kiss* writing #evilive #evilive kdrama

[im-poe-dameron]

the writing in this episode. the tension, the speeches, just all of it was incredible.

#i have never been more in love with a show #the writing was PHENOMENAL this week #andor spoilers #andor series #andor #ramblings

[nerdynikki94]

Honestly? Did I want more from DTAMHD? Yes, I did. I wanted something signifying actual progression for Dennis' character (even just a crumb of genuine growth) , and I sincerely don't think we got that. However... we did get a fascinating insight into the process of his mind. Dennis' level of self-denial is so ironic and profound. He can't acknowledge the inevitability that he's middle-aged.

(I swear this episode honestly has given me an alt hc, that the show is based in his mind; because logistically, a man of his lifestyle and malnourishment could not commit the feats he is constantly sailing through. TGGB & DTAMHD... back-to-back? What happened to his hand? Did he even sprain it? Or is he just the most dramatic brat in the gang - clearly the latter.)

It is important to note that he didn’t fix the actual problem. He momentarily masked the symptoms, but ignore long-term help with blood pressure medicine is not going to fix the issue, nor is it going to protect him from fucking keeling over in a stressful situation (when he's not in a contained and quiet Doctor's exam room) and his blood pressure spikes.

I'm honestly a little jaded at this point (16 Fucking Seasons of crumbs, y'all), but if one were to continue 'trusting the structure' this episode conveyed a lot.

The B Plot: The pressure cooker. The metaphor parallels the building pressure Dennis quick-tempered bouts of rage. So, to toss out a little 'cat-in-the-wall' conjecture here: The pressure cooker is Dennis, but we all saw him eat that bloody diamond in the end and we all heard Mac's speech about coal turning into diamonds under massive pressure. Dennis' experience is a theory of pressure, he daydreams it all in the span of a minute or so. He's roleplaying with hypothetical obstacles. There's no risk. Maybe Dennis, isn't the pressure cooker, but the coal.

If I were to try and take anything hopeful out of this episode, it would be the way the narrative is showing us that this episode acknowledged that Dennis isn't ready yet. It's not his turn to break. It's going to take real, substantial pressure to get that diamond.

It was a hell of a misdirect (and honestly a little bit of a slap in the face), but if these characters live in the real world, where people are bound by the laws of mortality, then Dennis should have his time.

Genuinely, who fucking knows?

I'm not hating on the episode. We all know this is the trashy dick joke sitcom. I just thought that if Mac & Charlie could have moments of genuine heartbreak, culminating in deep catharsis, that maybe Dennis could have that too.... but no.

Can't wait to see the sunny dudebros miss the point & proclaim Dennis Reynolds - SA victim, traumatized individual with an emotionally tumultuous personality disorder - the new Andrew Tate.

I'm sorry, but yeah. I'm a little miffed. It was all a dream, and everything goes Dennis' way. Y'all I'm fucking tired. This was a great episode for Glenn, but a fucking frustrating episode for Dennis. I may have wanted a little macden, but all I cared about was seeing Dennis face the limitations of his mortality, to see that he's failing his body and his brain. He didn't have to actually take the medicine (I wouldn't expect him to), but Goddammit, everything seems to work out in his delusional favor. So, of course he's going to continue being delusional, and probably only change for the worse.

I'll say it: I wanted a broken Dennis, and we did not get that. He didn't even crack, the unbearble and apparently now canonical Golden God. That episode's title was intended to tease sunnyblr.

Excuse the plethora of tags. I just kept getting more irritated.

#what i take from the episode is further insight to the lengths of Dennis' repression which adds to my fic #iasip s16 #i will say this: i can't dislike this episode solely because of how phenomenal glennjamin's performance was. #I'd say I'm retracting the title of macden 'truther'. I'm still a stan. but this ep made me realize dennis is too coddled by the narrative #with TGGB he's constantly winning. even the game he doesn't stay to watch the end of. his body performing near miracles. wtf #the real reason I'm seriously bothered is the sunny dudebros. they already idolize dennis #this ep has only made it worse because the obvious point of Dennis' actual delusions will go right over their heads. #anybody with a grounded sense of reality can tell you that dennis did not solve a problem #he dreamt up a scenario in some kind of toxic meditation session. he's getting older. and his denial is metastasizing #Dennis' denial isn't sustainable. I'm kind of cutting off my investment in that regard. he's a fucking mess & he's currently being idolized #dennis reynolds #definitely not my favorite episode. not bc of lack of macden. a little bc Den needs limitations. mainly bc 'it was all a dream' is cheap #ranting.excuse me for wanting 1 of my fave characts actually have his poor health.self-destructive coping mechanism/trauma acknowledged #can't believe i was actually afraid i wouldn't be able to write because too much might happen in DTAMHD...! 🤣 #it should've all happened. but instead ended w/him getting charges pressed when he tried to break into ceo's home #ngl. this one hurt. I'm ready for Mac to give up on Dennis. i just wish this fucking show would let him. #excuse me while i go bawl like a baby watching MFHP. because I'm heartbroken that Dennis' BPD makes him push Mac away. #let's just say that realization has been bogging me down in my personal life the last couple of days. & this bummed me out. #Robert McElhenney. I'm outside the studio screaming at you to just let Mac move on & actually meet someone! #I'm not saying he deserves a relationship. but fuck... after 40 yrs of repression can he at least have a fling & fall out of love w/Den? #Dennis won't ever let him meet someone. & he'll never treat Mac like he actually cares about him.bc his own vulnerability terrifies him.😭

[dykefever]

when people are like emily was the hero of gilmore girls ! im silent . im not saying a thing. did we not watch her being the most narcissistic mother ever . did we not watch lorelai mirror that. i love this show. i would never hail any of them. anyway.

#obviously it is done up to be comedic but like. the parenting isn't actually good no matter #which way you swing it #i actually love emily as a character she is so funny the actress is phenomenal #but idk if i've made this post i've been meaning to but it's like. it's crazy how asp we #writes narcissim into her shows #idk she's like intentionally doing it either #but ya know . i' might make a cohesive post abt that at a later date #laura says some things #gilmore girls

[jemmo]

i don’t know how else to describe eternal yesterday, and the profound affect watching it has had on me, other than it’s the most quietly heart-breaking show I’ve possibly ever seen. It presents its subject matter so simply and plainly in a way that makes it feel huge, overwhelmingly huge, painfully huge. It’s premise is not for supernatural drama, it isn’t played up, not laughed at or exaggerated or used to give things more unnecessary emotional weight, it simply gives physicality to the real experience of letting someone go, to having to let someone go, to having to let go, and the indescribable pain of it that you can’t truly know until you’ve experienced it. It’s a glimpse into this short period of time, less than a week, that is so private to them, and is so concentrated with emotion, that truly does feel like time stopped, holding on, the fear of the moment passing, so instead the pain of it is just dragged out. You think of course they should do this, fight for every last second they can have together, but then you come to realise this life after death, this impossible extension, its a curse just as much as it is a miracle. We always wish we could know when we are going to lose someone so we can take that chance to say goodbye, but is that easier or harder? how do we wrestle with the pain of holding on but the pain of letting go? its a situation we cannot win, its simply a situation that has to happen, and we have to let time tick on. 

there’s so many moments i want to bring attention to in this series but i’ll hold back and just talk on the 4 that feel the most special to me. first, a personal one, because in so many ways oumi reminds me of myself, and never has that been more true than the line “honestly, i feel comfortable when i’m alone. and i hate myself for being comfortable”. i cant think of another character that has embodied this anxiety i have in myself so much, and so simply, this ridiculous contradiction of being so at peace in your own company and despising that peace sometimes, wishing it wasn’t so peaceful, so maybe you wouldn’t be alone, maybe you’d do something, go out there, find people and things to do, and yet all that time maybe you’d be thinking “i’d like it so much better now if i was at home by myself”. its kind of ridiculous, and maybe people like us do need a koichi to be the company in our lonely peace, but yeah... i just have never felt so seen by a show before.

secondly, that final conversation oumi has with his father, because this whole time the situation feels so insular. even though other people know, and other people love koichi, and koichi loves other people, this is about oumi and koichi, and no one can truly understand the immensity of what those two are feeling in that moment. its like i said, you cant understand it unless you’re in it, unless you’ve experienced it. and yet, at the end, this minorly present, distant father comes in and says “what you’re going through, i went through that too”. and its the kind of conversation that doesn’t happen because they’ve both experienced this supernatural phenomenon of a love one existing after death, it happens because they’ve both lost people they’ve loved, and that something thats universal, and the people watching don’t need to have experienced anything supernatural to empathise with that. its when the audience truly realise that this story might be insular to them, but the story has also been told infinite times by countless people, and such the emotion of it is both theirs and everyones.

third, i think my heart actually crumbled to pieces when koichi said someone could have 2 number 1s. its his phrase, he loves mitchan the most, mitchan is his number 1. and its only given more weight when oumi says it back, and even more so when we hear his ending lines, about always wanting to be number 1 to someone, and that someone being his number 1 too, and how much of a miracle that is. for that same person, knowing he has to leave that person he loves the most, to say you can have 2 number 1s, saying to oumi its ok, you can move on, in the future you can have people that are precious to you, thats so fucking beautiful, and is an act of such love i cant even put it into words. you can feel so guilty sometimes for moving on from a loved one, for even feeling like you’re replacing them, so that gesture, that permission, that almost request, to not lose happiness and love because you’re losing them, to let yourself be happy again, because thats the biggest gift you could give to those you lose, thats just beautiful. 

and finally, the moments in episode 6 where koichi is starting to disappear, and when people start to walk into rooms and not see him, i don’t think i’ve ever seen such a good metaphor for what its like to have a same-sex partner and for them to never truly be seen as your partner. because when that nurse walked in and was just talking to oumi, like koichi wasn’t there and yet he was, and oumi got so mad because thats the most important person in his life how dare you not see him, how dare you ignore him. i think it was him saying ignore that connected it for me, because thats what its like when you walk in with a same sex partner and you’re not recognised or seen as a couple. I thought to myself if this nurse walked in and oumi was sat with a girl, how he’d instantly be asked if its his girlfriend, but no he’s sat with a boy so you dont even bother asking, either because you dont think to or dont want to. we get flashes of it throughout the show with people not knowing about their relationship or the relationship between the teachers, how the gay is hidden. and with koichi gone but not gone, he’s like a ghost in oumi’s world, and i feel like that’s what it can feel like sometimes, walking around with someone you feel like no one else can see when theyre all you can see. theyre there but no one draws attention to them, no one wants to acknowledge them or it, the relationship, the ghost in the room, to the point you want to scream they do exist, how dare you think they dont. and when oumi gets angry on koichi’s behalf, thats what happens, thats what it can sometimes feel like experiencing homophobia. its horrid and angering and you want to scream because how dare they do that to the most important person in the world but theyre at peace with it. koichi has accepted his fate much like someone learns to accept hate and harrasment, they become at peace with it. and you can get angry all you like but that doesn’t change anything, that doesnt stop it from happening, thats what it feels like. you get that when you lose someone, you get angry when other people have moved on when you cant, you wont, you dont want to, you think why dont people care anymore, how can they be so unfair and unkind and unfeeling, which is why its shocking that themes of loss can mirror these queer experiences, where a partner can feel invisible to everyone even when their heart is beating. thats why i think this blending of actual loss and actual invisibility with queerness being hidden and unseen is just heart-breaking genius.

this show is heavy, and has honestly brought out in me one of the most condensed visceral reactions to media ive ever had. i feel sad, i feel drained, i feel broken. ive cried so much, and my sadness is physical, my heart hurts, it feels heavy. and yet... i do feel at peace. i feel at peace with this sadness because its something you have to learn to do in life. these experiences are inevitable and ive always tried to avoid these heavier shows, things i know will hurt and make me sad and feel things, where there isn’t a core of happiness, a good ending to keep you together. but sometimes it has to be embraced to see the beauty in it, because as koichi said, despite what happens, despite the tragedy and sadness and loss, at the core of the story if two people meeting and falling in love, and how that simple, human connection, that we all have, is a miracle, so treasure it. 

#jemmo sad hours #im literally writing this through tears #i just needed to rant otherwise the sadness would eat me up and id become a ball of depression for a week #this show is just stunning #and such incredible performances by the leads #that scene in the last ep of them holding each other and koichi sobbing #honestly ive never seen anything so intimate and touching and heartbreaking that was just phenomenal #im so grateful for this show and its message and the love and care everyone involved put into it #these plots can so often be overdone or cliche or sad just for sadness sake #but this felt simple and pure and raw in a way that trusted the story and characters and performers to covey the emotional weight with #understated sincerity and i adore that #nothing extra nothing unnecessary just how it feels to be in love and lose that person #they know they dont have to overplay that #they know if its acted and put together and produced well that it will say everything it needs to #im in love #and ill never rewatch this show again bc i cant take the heartbreak but ill treasure it forever #eternal yesterday #made by jemmo

[seconddoubt]

hi how's your summer going? read any good books? had delicious ice cream? some craft project you're working on? have you sat round a campfire with friends? do you have any juicy gossip or a new celebrity you're obsessed with?

#i've read good books. the runners by olga tokarzcuk and the castle by kafka were phenomenal. now im rereading the witcher series so i can #eloquently point out to my brother everything i hate about the netflix show. even if they're not gonna follow the story to a tee they could #at least match the vibe. the atmosphere the philosophies presented. at the very! least! the traits in the characters and their relationship #that actually endears us to them but they had to be some stupid game of thrones meets marvel with every line a chewpid quip filled w as muc #cussing as possible whether it makes sense for the character or not #uhm sorry didn't mean to rant #i've also been knitting and am in fact not yet watching the og star trek as i'm rewatching the most memorable episodes of ds9 and writing #reviews for them in a little notebook. stuff i get up to with the time gained not being on tumblr

[peterofthedrakes]

do you want to know something? i actually. really love The Librarians. its one of my favourite shows. i love it a lot its really good.

i drew this for a friend of mine but also Cassandra Cillian is a wonderful character who i love so dearly.

#art #digital art #graphic art #artists on tumblr #fanart #peterofthedrakes #the librarians #cassandra cillian #i will defend the librarians to the death #yeah its a bit cheesy and they had ZERO budget so the special effects arent. great. #but the writing is genuinely really good #and the characters are all phenomenal #also like #its just really fun to watch #its a good show!!!

[sophieswundergarten]

@nobody33333333 Look! I actually completed my notes on the day the chapter was posted for once /s

Asjasdgkjaafdgkjakhjafkhjdfa!!!! ALREADY LOSING IT!!!! SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY YOU UPDATED TODAY.

The contrast of Curtain being like "Hmm. I have been betrayed yet again. Oh well." and trying to treat it like a mild inconvenience because he's, like, horribly desensitised, versus Sticky who's like "It's all over. We lost, the others have been captured, it's the end. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and squish me like a bug" is actually kind of funny in a very sad way

 HEY CURTAIN. MAYBE PART OF YOUR ISSUE IS THAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO CHILDREN AS "BACKUPS"

"Not when he himself knew how it felt to be unwanted and alone" He's still wrong and I want to smack him, but also I feel kind of bad now

It's very funny and also sort of heartbreaking that he actually finds Reynie's joke "very funny", even though he had to puzzle it out first

THIS MIGHT BE THE FIRST TIME IN LITERAL YEARS HE'S ACTUALLY LAUGHED, AND IT'S FOR SUCH A HORRIBLE REASON.

Bods, your trick with unreliable narration is spectacular. I am always getting caught off-guard by how deluded Curtain can be

"And he would stop at nothing to make sure that Kate Wetherall was never alone or abandoned again" YES YES YES YES. OH MY WORD I AM ELATED I AM OVER THE MOON THIS IS AMAZING I AM SO SO SO VERY EXCITED I LOVE THIS

It's so, so painful and fascinating how you detail Curtain's projection onto/identifying with Sticky making him actually hurt and vulnerable. There's a depth of character and complex thought that isn't seen in the show

Not a huge detail, but I love that he refers to them as "his brother's children" in that way :)

BUT HE PUSHES HIMSELF AWAY BECAUSE HE CAN ONLY THINK IN THE BINARY OF WINNING/LOSING. IF HE ACTUALLY HAD A BRAIN THEY MIGHT HAVE GOT SOMEWHERE OH NO

And once again you've taken canon show plot points and made them so much more painful with your own details. He's not just grieving the loss of Nicholas, he still isn't over losing Pedalian. Or his wife, or even Kate's mom or Milligan or Garrison. He may not have permanently lost all of those people, but he's still frozen in the process of mourning what he once had because he won't let himself feel it

"No. Curtain couldn’t forgive them. / And he would never forgive himself." Well, that's a lot more gut wrenching than I was expecting it to be. His main hangup isn't that he's angry, it's that he's guilty

Oof. That cut off in the middle of Curtain’s rant is beautiful.

Circus choreography!! Yes!! I love how you keep sneaking in backstory references!

Akadskjhdkjhdsakj. I know, I know, you keep reminding me that this is all dictated by the show and it’s not really your fault, but it’s definitely your fault that I’m so dang attached to your version of these characters now and I am going to replace all your scissors with palette knives

Oh my word, of course the Grays somehow missed Milligan having a bunch of flares in his pocket

Oh boy. Jeffers. I still feel a little bad for him, and, honestly, if all the other Grays hadn’t also thought it was Curtain speaking, I really think he would have been fired over this

WAIT. It’s the rock throwing kid!!! Once again, your J&J dialogue is absolutely immaculate and I can very much see them saying this. But I have so many questions about this kid

(Especially because he’s chucking rocks at a seagull. Rude)

SQ!!!!!!

He has no idea what horrors await him

Erika!! I still quite like her. She has to put up with a lot

THE BIRD STUFFED ANIMAL

Oh no, and he really has never left the island before. This is awful. I am so sad for him. Especially because we don’t see him basically at all in S2 and so you have pretty much free reign to Put Him Through Things and I Am Scared, Bods

“He must have been pretty tired” Oh my goodness yes. The man must be exhausted. I hate knowing that he’s just going to fight with Nicholas when he wakes up :(

“It felt more like looking in a broken mirror” No. Oh heavens this is so painful I am regretting being excited about this chapter now I am SAD /j

And, once again, they are both somehow thinking a lot of the same things about each other, but horribly warped and self-deprecating

I do so deeply love the little overlapping argument they have, though, from an audience standpoint, and you did not disappoint with your spin on it!!!!

Adfjjdas I love that Curtain actually listened and took that acid into account. He was probably just like her when they were little

And somehow Curtain is still reacting to the pretend Nicholas he has built up in his head that’s being puppeted by his own self-doubt and shame!!! JUST TALK TO HIM FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE YOU IDIOT

“his close associates or family members (SQ and Garrison)” EEE!!!!! I know there are so many other horrible, awful things going on but I love that he still includes her mentally as important (Even if he’s being a bit stupid about it)

“Maybe he was finally getting through to his brother” NO!!! THE DRAMATIC IRONY AND INEVITABLE BETRAYAL

(I do have to wonder, though, how much of that speech was genuine, and Curtain was just lying to himself that he didn’t feel it at all…)

“Maybe Nicholas hadn’t lost his brother to The Sender” Another insanely poetic and cutting line. I love your style of writing so incredibly much, Bods

Okay. Okay. But “So familiar that Curtain himself almost instinctively stepped forward to catch Nicholas in his arms. But he held himself back and scoffed as Nicholas hit the floor with a loud thud” and how Milligan tried to catch Curtain in Chapter 7, and that little narrative hint about how it might have changed the outcome, and then this :(

Also, following it up with “It was only fair considering Nicholas had sent those children to make him pass out” Oh my word he’s so petty. Sibling Behaviour

ELEVATOR TIMER???? Either I didn’t notice that (Entirely possible) or you invented it, and either way, that is AMAZING

Secret Back Entrance!!!!

Marie Curie’s notebook, Bods!! The idea that Garrison is just subtly packing up and hiding during All That is insane.

(I wonder if Nicholas reminded her at all of how Curtain used to be a bit)

I adore how Number Two immediately goes after Curtain in whatever way possible. That is exactly what I would expect from her and it made me so happy.

Also!!! The kids running off to check on Mr. Benedict as a unit with Rhonda and Number Two’s reaction is so lovely. I cannot get over how you write them

WHOOO!!!!! I always get such a rush when you publish a new chapter, Bods. (And I was secretly hoping that you might have something ready today, because it’s my birthday and this was so, so fun to read) I’ll never know how you do it, but the fact that I can read something that is written from a tv show I have seen several times, which was in turn based off a book I have read even more times, and you still give me the ability to look at it with fresh eyes is a wonderful gift.

You are so skilled!!! I can’t wait to see what you’ll do next, especially with the hints you keep dropping about certain things. And we’re almost at the end of S1!!!! I can’t believe it. You have been setting this up with such an amazing build up that I looked back and couldn’t believe how much you’ve written!! This new chapter gets you to 164,237 words. That’s longer than The Two Towers. You’ve basically written an entire novel already, and you’re not even finished yet!! One of these days I’m going to have to take up bookbinding just so I can create a physical copy for myself to actually hold.

Thank you, thank you, thank you once again for sharing this amazing piece of writing :D

And I hope you have a lovely day

#And I think it was short enough this time that I don't have to weird text breaks!! #Nice #I hope it's not too short #Still going insane over the stunning visuals this created in my head though #All the intercut scenes of all the different humans going through so many different things #Please also know that if I ever get excited about a Show thing I forgot (Or even in general) #It doesn't detract from your writing at all #I'm just excited over how you worked it in/made it new with your phenomenal language art skills #Thank you so much for this!!!! #s.o.s.

[bitchthefuck1]

The fact that Roman was originally supposed to be a "Joffrey type" is genuinely so funny to me when you see how Kieran Culkin played him and how he actually turned out. God bless everyone involved with that change, you will always be famous.

#and like. the fact that the whole Gerri thing was purely a product of jesse Armstrong seeing their chemistry in the edit and being like okay #we need to use that what the fuck #like the writing in this show is obviously phenomenal theres no doubt about it but the little elements and changes that the actors brought #in just take it to a whole new level #like every single person involved in this is just doing such an amazing fucking job (except nicholas braun) and it really is a testament #to the kind of art you can produce when brilliant people are giving it their all #succession #roman roy #succession season 4 #jesse armstrong #kieran culkin emmy now #kieran culkin

[rapha-reads]

Just finished The Romance of Tiger and Rose (just before going to class, I don't know how I'm going to focus now), I'm crying and laughing and weeping and cooing, I'm a mess. This is a God-Tier level drama, so clever and funny and tragic and dramatic, the acting is phenomenal, the writing is precise and excellent, the decors, the costumes, the music, everything is so well done, I'm not going to recover from this one. I need season 2 now.

This show is stunning, the main characters have a beautiful dynamic and so much chemistry, the supporting roles are all so interesting, there's a perfect ratio of comedy to tragedy. Seriously, I hope it won some awards, this is art. This is a masterpiece.

#the romance of tiger and rose #chuanwen zhong de chen qianqian #chen qian qian #han shuo #cdrama #zhao lusi #ding yuxi #rapha talks #rapha watches shows #one of the best thing i've watched lately #when the writing is just so perfect that it's all you can think about and then it's served by phenomenal acting and lights and music and... #i definitely recommend this one to everyone who likes clever silly dramatic stories #also zhao lusi is a queen #she was so perfect as bai fengxi in who rules the world and here she's just the best

[aromantic-eight]

In this age of essays detailing why [Blorbo Story] is the most perfect flawlessly written divine gift of a story to ever grace fandom, I am occasionally reminded of the simple fact that for most people, "flawlessly written" means "I liked it a lot". And honestly I feel like it would do me good to remember it more often, for when I'm on either side of that statement.

#drom refuses to put things in major tags #brought to you today by my foray into honkai the third #and its fandom's assertions it is a phenomenally written story #i LIKE the story #the characters are fun and the emotional beats make me feel things #'technically well written' and 'coherently plotted' it is not #but honestly i look back on all the stories I've interacted with fandom for and that's always the case #flaws always seem smaller and more forgivable when you're having a good time #it's also why shows often suddenly attain a ton of flaws after it falls off a fandom pedestal #it always had them it's just people didn't care before #bc shockingly every story is flawed #even if some are written with better technical skill than others #fandom #writing