it's my job to use you

just like it's your job to be of use

[bravoechoes]

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I post nsfw text sometimes but I’m very inconsistent about tagging it

[bravoechoes]

I think you can plausibly piece together a much funnier and more unhinged version of Julia than the version of her that’s presented in MI3. And I don’t just mean her adrenaline junkie tendencies, I mean that her hooking up with Ethan is part of an extended mental breakdown.

Like there are several little comments made in the beginning of the film that paint a picture of her life prior to meeting Ethan as a woman entering her 30s, has little dating experience, and whose friends and family are all married with children except for her. Some cut lines from the MI3 script are 1) her sister saying she’s surprised Julia finally amounted to something and 2) Julia telling a coworker that she works too much and doesn’t take any time off. Those comments + Julia saying “you make it sound like I’ve never dated” to her friends + her sister also demanding she have kids with Ethan at their engagement party (which you can see Julia shakes her head no at lol) all hint at this intense fixation on Julia being an incomplete person and a failure because she hasn’t settled down like everyone else in her life has.

She obviously develops a complex about this because she’s been condemned to spinsterdom at the ripe old age of 28. So she goes to New Zealand by herself to repeatedly jump out of a helicopter for fun. While doing this, she meets a guy 12 years her senior who looks like a scumbag and is evasive about where he’s from or what he does for work. She’s immediately like oh hell yeah this dude is a walking red flag. I’m gonna have very mid drunk sex with him. cue 5.5/10 drunk sex. Then she posts this photo to myspace and all her friends are like ohhhh she’s definitely lost it for sure. We all knew this was coming. Cue more spite-fuelled sex with scumbag. This continues happening as Julia plunges further into the I Actually Have A Better And More Interesting Life Than All Of You crisis spiral.

And this works great for Ethan because there’s a normal woman paying attention to him after he almost certainly got his heart crushed by Nyah. Julia keeps fucking him to piss everyone off and while Ethan is probably aware of this on some level, he has kicked puppy syndrome so it all evens out. But eventually Julia stops fucking him ironically and starts fucking him sincerely because it turns out the scumbag is more sensitive and thoughtful than previously assumed. And then they get engaged and her friends are like. well. I guess he’s really hot

[hackerchickbodyy]

Beautiful woman & her 40 something gay husband

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[carpepiem]

Why is he letting her bag touch the ground?

[bravoechoes]

I had a dream a while ago that I met tom cruise and he misgendered me so I posted online that my icebreaker fact going forward will be that I got misgendered by tom cruise and then there were headlines about it so he just tweeted out the words I’m sorry and sent me a million dollars so I went to a press conference where I told everyone he’s actually a trans ally. and then I woke up

[communistkenobi]

what do you think Ethan Hunt would do in a The Thing situation?

he would get killed instantly because he trusts all of his coworkers way too much

[kyuka-bse]

[belovedgamers]

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

[nyemfortune]

men will cum in their pants just from grinding against the bed and whispering "I'm your good whore" over and over into the pillow

[hackerchickbodyy]

SIGH. Who remembers

[bravoechoes]

ethan is so underfucked in ghost protocol its not even funny. and it only gets worse from there

[starryinspace]

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (2011) dir. Brad Bird | for @tvheit

[bravoechoes]

ok now im just self harming by being on twitter. time to stop

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I saw the question about Benji's friendships with Ilsa and Julia, made me think. I feel like it took some time but Benji definitely randomly meets up for drinks with Ilsa in London. And maybe one time she took him on her motorcycle (he probably nearly died of fear)

And then time with Julia is just charcuterie boards and gossip about Ethan at her place but it's very cozy.

yeah I think especially post-Fallout Ilsa & Benji would vibe a lot re: being tormented by Lane. Benji gets over Ilsa trying to kill him so they can commiserate about that other guy trying to kill both of them <3

and re: Julia I enjoy her being kind of unhinged so I imagine her inviting Benji to do something weird like motorbiking and he’s like ahhhhh I see you’re also insane

[bravoechoes]

FIRST: I actually re-read the first three chapters of days of the week a few days ago and chapter 2 hit me so much harder this time. What do you mean this guy walks across the street to the coffee shop periodically to warm up instead of turning on the car, even if only for a few minutes at a time, then apologizes profusely to his wife for forgetting to warm it up for her 😭😭😭😭 thank you for the update it made my week ❤️

Which brings me to SECOND: chapter 4 has me pondering AUs and hypotheticals relevant to your canon specifically because I live to maximize profits (Ethan’s anguish). These include, but are not limited to, what if Ilsa had lived AND Erick was still dead? And, what if Ethan eventually felt comfortable enough to send that message to Benji, only to learn that Benji is now also dead?

Unfortunately, I also find these hypotheticals extremely funny and I’m not sure what that says about me ☹️ but anyway, thank you again for such a lovely new installment ❤️

omg thank you so much 😭 you are the real tragedylover because that would break my brain 💔

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like I knowwwww I’m getting ragebaited sorry but people want every movie to have mcu colour grading

[bravoechoes]

why r people on twitter acting like digger is going to be the next morbius