[exploreprofuse]

28 episodes in and I still fucking gasped when Kirk put his hand on Spock's shoulder and analysed his ears. Not because it particularly surprised me, but because it was so casually intimate.

His hand slides, just slightly, down Spock's arm.

He leans in as he crosses over from one ear to the other.

This ship is truly something special, and if I wasn't desperately avoiding spoilers I'd immediately fall down the rabbit hole of production timelines and interviews and analysis articles and every last scrap of fan theories and fanfiction I could find.

[soundofbloom]

Don't just stand there. Push!

[belindas-chandra]

Doctor Who (2005-2023)

S2 Christmas Special: The Runaway Bride

[dailycatsblog]

[squarebracket-trickster]

"Readers have SHORT attention spans! The average reader takes just TWO sentences to decide whether to put a book down! You have to HOOK them in the FIRST sentence! GRAB them by throat and don't let them BREATHE—"

... have... have we considered that perhaps the average reader just, like, knows what they like in a book? I mean... first sentences are famous for establishing things like *checks notes*... genre, tone, POV, pacing, character, voice, uhhh... writing style...

The average reader is putting your book down because they discovered it's in first person (or not in first person). The average reader put your book down because they wanted a cozy read, or they're sick of cozy reads, or romance, or grimdark, or assassin princesses, or vampires, or or or. The average reader put your book down because they just didn't like your writing style—no, not because it was boring... they just, get this, didn't like it.

The average critical reader put your book down because it had six grammatical mistakes in the first two sentences.

The average reader will read quite a ways if the premise intrigues them, they like the genre, the writing style doesn't get on their nerves, and the characters pop off the page. In fact, they'll probably read the whole book, so long as it delivers on its plot promises and doesn't drag in the middle section.

The average reader will, however, stop reading after just two sentences if it's clear by the second sentence that the only thing they'll like about this book is the opening line.

[squarebracket-trickster]

Idk, I just think like, painting a demographic of people who, you know, pick up full length books to read for fun, as having short attention spans doesn't make too much sense. At least not as much sense as the alternative: words tell people things; namely, the contents of this book.

In general, though, I think we jump to blame short attention spans too often when there is a far more logical explanation. "It takes 0.06 seconds for viewers to scroll past a post." Yes, that is typically how long it takes me to discern whether this post is about something I'm interested in. There's a trillion posts out there, probably a billion books, of course we've gotten fast at sorting through content. That's not an attention span issue. That's just efficiency.

[rebeccasteventaylor]

And another thing - Lane is expecting Ethan Hunt at the opera and therefore Ilsa is probably expecting him, if not then at sometime and she’s allowed for him in plans and she has ideas of how to use him (deliberately luring him to Morocco and then telling Lane he knows about Morocco) and then imagine her shock when Benji turns up.

First of all there’s a random guy in the sound booth attacking the other agent, Ilsa saves his life (I like to think deliberately although not sure about that) and THEN he screeches up in a stolen car to save Ethan and incidentally her and THEN Ethan drags him to Morocco and totally blocks Ilsa’s planned seduction (physically or mentally or emotionally of Ethan) and then he TOTALLY fails to fall under Ilsa’a spell and doesn’t believe her…

And after all that, he tells her he misjudged her. And she must be wanting to scream ‘no, you’re right! You can’t trust me!’ and you can see the confusion on her face and for the first time in this whole adventure she feels shame…

It’s just - Ilsa’s whole thing with Benji is ‘who the fuck is this guy, why does he see right through me, why is he both fucking up my plans and making my plans work, why is he cutting through my self defences and making me feel things?’

(And Ethan somewhere in the background seeing someone else going through the whole Benji journey and nodding in sympathy)

[rebeccasteventaylor]

Imagine being Luther and your best friend and the only reason you have for staying in the IMF has gone on the run.

IMF has collapsed

And the tech guy who you chose specifically because he gets Ethan in a deep and fundamental way and is pretty good at the tech and seems to have some kind of calming influence on Ethan meekly joins the CIA and Luther thinks ‘well, at least he’s in a safe place’

Ethan knows how to run and Benji won’t be any trouble.

And Luther think ‘that’s it, I’m done, I’m retiring’

And then months later Luther get a call from Brandt, who he’s never quite trusted because he lied to Ethan and he’s a fucking analyst and he nearly fucked up the entire Julia op.

‘There’s a shoot to kill order out on Ethan’

‘Good luck catching him’

‘And there’s a shoot to kill order out on Benji. Who’s being lying to the CIA’s top people for six months. And who ran off to Vienna and joined Ethan and got caught up in the assassination of the chancellor and is now on the run from the CIA’

And Luther just sits there and stares at the wall. Benji, who was supposed to a calming influence on Ethan, who was supposed to be the quiet sensible one, who was supposed to be the inside man and stay still and not do anything - is just as fucking wild and dangerous as Ethan.

And thinking about it, Luther realises - he didn’t see this coming and he really should have done…

‘I’m coming. Do nothing until I get there.’

‘I’ll send a helicopter for you.’

‘I’ve got my own fucker ‘copter, thanks. Don’t move.’

And Luther rushes off, wondering if perhaps in choosing Benji to be Ethan’s constant companion, he’s made them both somehow - worse.

[thatfragilecapricorn30]

damn. david was so right for this.

[puppydogwhitaker]

PSA to fic readers, it is so hard to freak a fic writer out with your comments. we are just as crazy about the fic as you are.

tell me you love it. tell me it made you slam your laptop shut. tell me you brought it up at your college lecture about kink. key smash in all caps. quote the passage that made you think. i promise, we’ll love it.

we spend hours thinking about it, writing it, editing it. there is no such thing as over enthusiasm when you’re talking about our fics to us. we are sooooo weird about them, i assure you. you are just matching my freak. the freak bar is already set so high. feel no anxiety about enjoying something and letting the creator know.

[my-dailydreams]

[vethyourhalflingmother]

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

[fromwolfsandgods]

Chaotic good

[swordshapedleaves]

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn't just mean cheeky!

[dragkingandreweldritch]

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism

[dracogotgame]

Always reblog for malicious compliance

[thememedaddy]

[noknowshame]

every time I go camping with my dad he gets annoyed if I won’t drink alcohol so this time I’ve decided to put a definitive end to that by uno reverse peer-pressuring him into doing magic mushrooms

[noknowshame]

dad quote: …..I feel like a moth…..

[noknowshame]

dad quote: I wonder how my life would be different if my father owned a speedboat. no. lets start with the basics. I wonder how my life would be different if my father loved me. and owned a speedboat

[noknowshame]

other highlights of the night:

took off his glasses and hearing aids because apparently he didn’t need them anymore

saw faces in two trees and made up an extensive dialogue between a 19th century british explorer and his frenemy a lowly ornithologist

explained to me in detail the entire plot of a movie called the incredible mr. limpet

went down to the docks (we’re camping at a lake) and began directing imaginary photoshoots

had to be physically stopped from enthusiastically waving down a police officer

polished off the night by listening to sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band. claimed to feel the disembodied presence of john lennon (we’ve all been there)

importantly, I was also high on an equivalent dosage and was fine

[mymystrade]

If only we could’ve actually had the Lestrade Spin Off.. the information that we could’ve learned off him.. the scenes where he’s just oblivious and not always there when Sherlock is in trouble or not…

I still mourn for the loss of this..

[thedykeparade]

you ever think about lokius and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them and miss them or is it just me

[lokisleftbranch]

“Loki doesn’t love Mobius”

LOKI LOOKING AT MOBIUS-

[feminist-space]