FEEL ALRIGHT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

someone needs to take away mendels psychiatry license

[late4dinnerlateagain]

Bro just tell me the weather 🤨

[dearest-loveliest-elizabeth]

Just pointing this out

When Harry Met Sally (1989) / Red, White & Royal Wedding (2026)

[lizardtheacorn]

first falsettos art ooooo and it’s mendel and jason!!!!!and also sad

ill clean this up and color it soon maybe or maybe not i don’t kn

[anxietyproblem]

[joodlesofdoodles]

dunno about you but I distinctly remember this happening

[wasteofprinterink]

my bald christian borle pillow

hes so pixelated i love him 😻 (this is my attempt at posting something on here ok)

[twosilvercandlesticks]

carl is introduced as an extension of stratt. he's there to physically get grace into the car just in case stratt's words are not imposing enough. and when stratt does her little emotional manipulation show pretending she's gonna leave grace out of the project, it is carl who pushes him to just say yes to the three astrophage dots, acting almost as a mediator between them

but given time, carl and grace become friends. they do their venus box experiment together and grace credits carl in front of representatives from all around the world when asked about his discoveries. the movie even calls them parents, which is obviously played as a joke, but as someone who loves to take things too seriously, i do think it's significant when rocky having a mate and the reasons grace doesn't have one become a trigger for more memories later down the line. and that's the thing. grace wants to have an emotional connection with stratt, but she denies him of any friendship outside of a professional relationship. so he's friends with carl instead

and somewhere along the way, grace and the audience forget that carl is an extension of stratt, so we need to be reminded and feel kind of stupid for forgetting. we know that carl works for stratt, but he's grace's friend, so his loyalty lies with him right? nope. just like stratt, carl errs in the side of humanity. so when grace is chased and held down, carl doesn't try to help him get free, he doesn't even appear to consider it. he's back to being an imposing figure enacting a will higher than grace's

however, in grace's final moments amongst humanity, it is carl who acts as stratt's mouthpiece and delivers the lines that she cannot say herself, but we understand they come from her because she showed enough vulnerability to tell grace that she believes in him:

you know who you are, you're gonna do great

[redstonedust]

it's a shame that the trope of a character who looks 12 but is actually 300 years old is usually just used for ick fanservice because on a paper i think the psychology of a person stuck in permanent childhood has a lot of interesting story potential. unfortunately i would not trust a fandom with that character with a 100ft pole.

[kosmogrl]

learning not to return to places where I miss the past but see no future

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[hrh-prince-butt]

i just know in my heart that mr arthur fox was the wife lover to ever love his wife. there's stuff like the line he says to henry in the bonus chapter, of course, but i don't even need that to know that this is a man who deeply loved and respected his wife. bro was walking around every day of his married life looking exactly like this:

and when asked in interviews how he felt about kissing other people in his movies, or how he made those movie kisses look so effortless and romantic, he'd probably respond (truthfully and with a blissful smile) "oh it's easy: i just imagine i'm kissing my wife."

anyway that's all from me, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[typewriter-worries]

hands learn to hold other hands | @subwayhands on instagram 

[redstonedust]

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

[homunculus-argument]

I used to know this guy who had a bit that he'd habitually do while hanging out in a group, where he'd make eye contact with this really worried "dude there's something I gotta tell you" look on his face and very subtly gesture at you like it's important, and you need to hear this, but he doesn't want anyone else knowing, so you've got to be discreet about it. And he was a good guy and a good friend, so him wanting to tell you something that that he doesn't want to tell everybody could very well be him trying to spare you from embarrassment, or even warning you about something dangerous going on that isn't apparent on the surface of the situation.

And once I'd lean in to hear what he's got to say, he just whispered in my ear: "you're gay."

And he was so fucking good at doing it, that I fell for it every goddamn time.

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

"cigarette" implies the existence of a much larger "cigar"

[patronsaintofmistakenidentity]

i recovered by the time i hit post but when i first had this thought i had genuinely forgotten cigars exist

[girlmostlikely]

Remembering that I am entirely up to me

[dntat-makesthings]

If our boy Shane Hollander was diagnosed.