[whathellandfuck]

the really really fucked up thing about hacks is that they are literally in love. like haha toxic agegap workplace yuri whatever. but if you actually watch the show you will find. they are LITERALLY in love with each other and in fact that’s what the entire show is about!!!!!!!!!! god.

[pulsingvoid]

deborah vance is so sexually repressed she can do literally anything else in the world with ava except be sexually vulnerable with her man it is tragic. it's tragic. she's made so many jokes at the expense of lesbians over the decades that she feels completely separate from them as if queer women are a different species she has no access to although as we saw from the last episode absolutely nothing separates her from them anymore. she has a wife. ava is her wife. she has a queer female partner. they do absolutely everything together. they even purposefully convince people they are together and kiss, now, i guess, if deborah rationalizes it as useful.

but it's always going to be for a bit at this point because ava isn't going to challenge this since she clearly decided to let it lie after so many poor reactions from deborah and she's found a way to work around it by having a sex life outside of her while sharing a, for lack of a better word, "queerplatonic" relationship with her. therefore deborah vance canonically remains "safely" in the closet and will never acknowledge it, only ever taking a peek outside it through carefully crafted plausible deniability.

the tragedy is that she is completely safe to explore this with ava, has been for years, nobody else even needs to know, but she is more likely to take this closet to the grave than do this one last very brave thing. this isn't quite a criticism of the show although it would imo be a much more interesting show (rather than the socially conscious feel-good romp it's trying to be these days) if it looked at things like this more head-on, but it literally does make me feel sick if i'm honest

[pulsingvoid]

deborah vance is not canonically or subtextually gay but a secret third thing: canonically closeted (to herself). this is so rare that the only other character i can think of that has textually lived in the closet for as long as she has is mac always sunny. and maybe if hacks went on for 20 seasons she'd eventually come out but of course all the friction and tragedy stems from the fact that she literally does not have that kind of time

[pulsingvoid]

at the end of the day the fake dating episode of hacks proved that deborah would full-on have sex with ava but only ☝️ if it was for the bit. if the scenario had enough plausible deniability and did not require her to be vulnerable and would, therefore, not force her to stop identifying as straight? she would 100% don that strap. this is a canon-supported fact to me now

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[duckbunny]

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

[duckbunny]

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.

[carbonatedgatorade]

it’s a great time to be a hater, many things are bad and lots of stuff sucks. it’s also a terrible time to be a hater, because many people will insist that you have to like the bad thing because a company spent millions of dollars making it and it’s just not very nice to say it’s bad

[carbonatedgatorade]

hating is ultimately a philosophy of optimism. the knowledge that things could be better, and the desire to see them improve, differentiates it from the pessimism of idle consumption.

[schuylerpeck]

2026 RESOLUTIONS

PICK YOUR BATTLES

SINCERITY AND EARNESTNESS ARE COOL AS FUCK

IT IS MUCH HARDER TO LIVE BY YOUR VALUES IF YOU DO NOT DEFINE THEM

FRAME YOUR PHOTOS

BRAVE THE 5 MINUTES OF FIGURING SOMETHING OUT WITHOUT AI

MORE HOMEMADE GIFTS

IT IS OKAY TO BE UNREACHABLE SOMETIMES

TAKE THE SUMMER TRIP

REMEMBER THAT SOMEONE LISTENING DOES NOT ALWAYS PROMISE A WILLINGNESS TO UNDERSTAND

PHYSICAL MEDIA!

PATIENCE IS A DYING ART - KEEP IT ALIVE

DO THE KIND THING

AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, MAKE A MEAL WORTH SAVORING

A GOOD FRIENDSHIP IS A HOLY THING

[petaltexturedskies]

What she was like. Snow, cream, marble, cherries, alabaster, golden wire? None of these. She was like a fox, or an olive tree; like the waves of the sea when you look down upon them from a height; like an emerald; like the sun on a green hill which is yet clouded

Virginia Woolf, Orlando A Biography

[kissycat]

Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy

[kissycat]

It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle

[anticurses]

“i watched pluribus instead” lmao

[devotioncrater]

i do not have time to get into hockey yaoi right now. there’s something far more sinister going down in the alien invasion yuri show that needs my full attention

[edgebug]

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

[wrought-tweaks]

Not me thinking this was about Carol Sturka and The Hive

[carolsturka]

1.09: "La Chica O El Mundo"

[helenvaughans]

[mexicast]

Pluribus is like what if a woman was in the most deadly, isolating, predatory, abusive relationship in history- but her abuser was infinitely charismatic, beneficial to others, and SHE was a curmudgeonly, lonely, asocial person.

Could you still identify that she is the victim here? Or could the charismatic predator (who tries to lull her into a sense of lustful security with the smiling body of a corpse)(who controls her interaction with others, her access to food, and the safety of her home)(who kills 11 million hostages any time she gets angry at them)(who intends openly to consume/kill her) convince you that actually she's the bad guy. Because she's too mean to them.

Especially potent that the creators know they're talking to breaking bad fans - who were able to see skylar white as a whiny bitch when her murderous husband sexually assaulted her in like season one and then continued getting worse.

[cinematicjourney]

Anaïs in Love (2021) | dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet