[ketterdamloser]

also as much as i loved the whole running gag about hugh jackman being at the state dinner “but actually we don’t have hugh jackman so we just never see his whole face,” and i thought it was really funny BUT alternatively i think it would have been hilarious if they’d gotten joey morof to play him

[ketterdamloser]

everyone keeps saying how different he looks in person and he’s just like “yeah botched nose job”

[ketterdamloser]

also as much as i loved the whole running gag about hugh jackman being at the state dinner “but actually we don’t have hugh jackman so we just never see his whole face,” and i thought it was really funny BUT alternatively i think it would have been hilarious if they’d gotten joey morof to play him

[bethoftheblvd]

I felt it in my core when that bird was standing there and she had already left

[church-of-lilith]

i loved the residence but i think it was a huge missed opportunity to not end it with that kid from the hotel across the street getting his White House tour. i think it would’ve been sweet to see all the main staff leading him around showing him all the hidden gems etc. and would’ve really drove the point home about them all valuing the house. and how the lack of or underestimation of that care ended up being the downfall of the real killer in the end.

[detectives-police-fire-andmed]

Wait. We never found out what was going on with the calligrapher.

[veteratorianvillainy]

I haven't seen it talked about (as there seems to be only a little discussion of it on here so far) but one of the things I love love love about The Residence is that she gives up on the investigation.

Cordelia Cupp, world's best detective, who solves the unsolvable, gives up... because she prioritizes the reputation and livelihood of a man she respects and who respects and supports her in turn. Chief Dokes knows that continuing to pursue the case will mean the end of his career, but he says nothing... until she asks. She asks. She knows that there are consequences to her dogged pursuit of the truth, she asks about them, and despite the fact that Chief Dokes is willing to accept those consequences, she says "I'm not."

In a genre that is often characterized by detectives who keep pursuing the case to the ends of the earth - consequences and fallout be damned - I am desperately in love with this character who is blunt and clever and justifiably arrogant and still shows such compassion to those who support her to say "I will not ask this price of you, even if you're willing to pay it, because what you built your life around is more important than finding my answer."

We have multiple anecdotes through the series about her obsessiveness and indefatigable pursuit of her goals and unwillingness to give up until they're achieved, and yet she will not throw over Chief Dokes for the sake of seeing this thing through.

[summersofsalt]

cordelia cupp i feel you i also think didier's gingerbread house story is sadder than murder

[ketterdamloser]

finally finished the residence (obsessed by the way) and i need someone to draw/photoshop an image of detective cupp wearing a hat that says “women want me - occam’s razor fears me”

[fyeahcontroversialcharacters]

[sinclair-wildstar]

I will reblog this every time it crosses my dash.

[dreamychocolateprincess]

People who don’t get this infuriate me

[telltalebatman]

happy disability pride month to everyone whose body got absolutely fucking wrecked by multiple sclerosis!

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[ketterdamloser]

I literally need like a 3 hour therapy session after every visit with my parents

[ketterdamloser]

yeah no sorry i can’t come into work today cause my toe seams won’t line up in a way that doesn’t make me wanna peel my skin off

[twobeesornottwobees]

printers behave like that because the medieval monks they put out of work are haunting them

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you comment some demanding shit like this on fanfic writers’ works, you don’t deserve the privilege of getting to read fanfiction for free

[magpie-trove]

“Do it afraid” I do everything that way! I’d like to do it normal for once thanks!

[kawareo]

You don't need AI to give you free therapy you need friends you can tell things your parent said to you and then see their horrified reaction that confirms that you were not crazy and that that was fucked up