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[lavender-robin3-blog]

Adulthood is so weird. Like, one day you're normal. The next you're buying a steam mop and genuinely calling it a "game changer" (in my defense, I have two young dogs). Or consider the carpet cleaner one of your best investments (again, dogs).

[lavender-robin3-blog]

There's nothing like being given a simple task and panicking your way into fucking it up to really make you doubt yourself/feel like an incompetent dumbass

[owl313]

[torstherapy]

[lavender-robin3-blog]

I'm so freaking bad at Silksong. I think I've bruised my thumb dying to Moorwing over and iber (and over and over)

[birdsofanarchy]

Hucklerobby could never happen in cannon simply because if Trinity Santos even got an inkling of an older man in a position of power trying something with one of her friends, she’d materialize behind Robby with a fucking gun

[francisfantan]

a stupid image i thought of

[lavender-robin3-blog]

The dopamine hit from actually finishing a project you starred literal years ago can't be matched by any drug

[i-effed-it-all-up-deactivated20]

no, i don’t watch that show, but i do follow its developments extensively via tumblr

[lavender-robin3-blog]

Do you ever look at your life and think "wtf? Did I ask for a fucking challenge this time around? What the hell?"

[blossom2blossom]

seeing the original script is so frustrating because why did they take this out!!! the first one demonstrates that people other than robby can see the flaws in how long samira takes, which provides at least some sort of basis for robby's frustration with her. it also establishes rapport btwn her and abbot, which would have made him letting her perform a risky procedure during the shooting more significant (and would also add to abbot's style of mentorship being a foil to robby's). and the full line in the second one does soooo much better at framing her speed as an actual problem (being distractible, failing to focus on the actual issue the patient is there for) as opposed to being a side effect of her just being empathetic towards patients. what makes it to the final cut in the show basically just makes it look like robby gets annoyed that samira takes the time to listen to her patients' justified concerns

[slidewhistlebj]

The biggest issue in the pitt season two is the writers killed their own momentum at every turn and then acted confused when it didn’t work for people (how could it)

Trinity’s a new R2, drowning in work and seeing a new attending come in who she doesn’t like on the same day as Frank’s return to the ER. She’s stressed and overloaded and her position is being threatened and her tone all season is…she’s sleepy. Trinity is tired. Instead of her fighting for her place in the ER like we saw in season one, metaphorically elbowing people as a way of reasserting herself, she sits at a desk and charts. For 75% of the season. It doesn’t go anywhere, nothing happens with it (she makes a mistake and it’s caught and the lecture about it is so mild she doesn’t even stand up). Trinity spends a season designed to push her buttons doing nothing but talk about the characters around her

Robby’s planned a suicide trip that from the opening of the season is already clearly a bad idea. But because of the format of the show, instead of it being a sudden announcement or a reason to talk to him, everyone spends the season wishing him well….because they’ve known about it for weeks. There’s nothing left to discuss. And the audience knows Robby’s not killing himself - it’s an empty threat - so every Robby scene goes the same way: you’re heading out? Ah man that’s so out of character, well have fun and see you later (Robby face of ‘there won’t be a later’). By the time Robby actually said he’s suicidal I rolled my eyes because it had been textually overplayed for thirteen episodes. Robby started at the end of his character arc for the season and was given massive amounts of screentime like he was going to progress somewhere (nope)

Frank is back in the ER he used to thrive in, returning with who knows how many rumors stacked against him and a checklist of people he knows he’s wronged. It’s emotional and tense and such a good premise for real character exploration, and then the season conspires not give him any space for emotional catharsis. Louie’s death was the biggest fumble I’ve seen in modern TV in a long time for both the character and his impact on the show. It was rushed and verbally sad but tonally nothing. Frank works the hotdog case afterwards, Dennis doesn’t even know about it, everyone’s repressing so hard that no one does anything. Instead of a private moment between Frank and Louie with could-have-beens and grey areas about who’s still in Louie (and Frank’s) life after addiction - we got a bunch of characters standing in a room (I though the ER was packed) 90% of them not speaking (then why are they here) as Robby reveals omnipotent Louie knowledge in a monologue (that’s not impactful). And then the season moves on and we get more time from Trinity and Robby doubting Franks recovery than Frank himself discussing it. Frank’s recovery isn’t about him, so he spends the season waiting to impact other people

Samira’s arc was a mess from top to bottom and that fact that the writing did that to her and then the editing doubled down on it is disappointing and exhausting to the nth degree. She should have been a shining star of the season, pushing and pulling with Frank on various cases to keep the energy up when other plot drivers had to do something else. Instead she was shoved into ‘lecture’ patients to learn medical lessons that she’d already know, had her position in the ER stolen by Dennis because her boss is straight up racist, and didn’t get to interact with anyone with the authority an R4 should have (and then they kicked her off. Because WOC aren’t allowed to argue with Robby and stay on the show 😐)

Add onto all of these character choices where they’re positioned to stand still until acted on (paralyzing the show for episodes at a time), the environment was also changed in a way that’s a negative for any building any impact or momentum.

The removal of Gloria means that Robby becomes the ER rule guy to everyone (including Baran) - he’s the enforcer and the victim. There’s nothing for Robby to narratively push against because he’s the one defending the system.

The choice to stop shooting from Robby’s POV gave the camera too much freedom and instead of getting to explore characters in more personally engaging situations, we completely lost any sense of tension and movement in favor of lingering conversations (the Annie conversation between Robby and Trinity should have been a third of the length at least).

The complete avoidance of a central conflict is the worst of the bunch though. First it was going to be the computers going down and that was going to lead to drama (patients getting lost in the gaps, missing medication being blamed on Frank, doctors on top of each other because they have to interact to share information). Then it was going to be the waterpark patients coming in to swamp the ER. Then it was going to be how do they do hand off when the ER is so overcapacity and still drowning with patients

And then they didn’t do any of it. Victoria missed something with a patient but she’s a med student. Nothing went wrong with medication or missing patients, they just kept track of it. They got some waterpark patients but there was nothing distinguishing them from the other people already in the ER or showing the system being filled past capacity so that trickled out into nothing. Hand off was just…completed.

I’m shocked by how many examples of killed momentum I have and it devastated character impact for the whole season (which reduces the scale of the characters).

The middle of the season felt like it was spinning its wheels, keeping people separate so they could have one formative conversation 2/3rds of the way through the season and have an arc by the finale. Characters were paralyzed, didn’t emote, emoted internally, or just never found out about things to keep them from reacting in ways that would genuinely shake up dynamics. It’s disappointing and exhausting to see so many choices sabotaging characters then recognize that they took screentime from WOC for white male characters THAT WEREN’T EVEN BEING UTILIZED

[lavender-robin3-blog]

I am sick to death of Harry Potter. I want the series to die, not because of JK Rowling's transportation (though let's not forget that) but because I am just so suck and tired of seeing it. The Harry Potter aus in every Fandom, the random think pieces, the articles, the movies that came out for fucking ever, now the reboot, the art thats goddamn everywhere. I can't escape it. Its been fucking years! Just let it die! Its not that good! There are a million series that are a million times better! Just let it die!

[antipearl]

i love lucrezia's inconsistencies about alfonso. she didn't want to get married in the first place, but the man that she chose is a gullible boy who reminds her of her own lost innocence. she says that she could love him because he's good, yet every single scene of them is lucrezia trying to change him (she tries to make him break his saint agnes vow and tries to make him more ambitious).

alfonso says that he loves her, but lucrezia doesn't believe it because alfonso doesn't demonstrate it the way cesare does. because no one can love her like cesare can. lucrezia is deeply in love with her brother, so no man will ever compare to cesare. but she understands that she can't marry him, so she tries to settle with alfonso.

she claims to love alfonso, but it is an almost maternal kind of love: she teaches him what she knows about power and survival, and he refuses it as a petulant son would. a love of the soul. not like brother and sister, of course. but still... alfonso is the most beneficial, logical choice of a husband. he doesn't hit lucrezia, doesn't try to control her, and although he is, frankly speaking, an asshole to her (the drinking, not defending her, "you're a borgia", etc) he isn't giovanni. lucrezia knows that she could do much worse, but she also knows that she could do so much better.

she wants to mold alfonso so she can get power. she doesn't want him to die, and she doesn't want to kill him. not because she loves him, but because it would be her fault. she poisons him out of mercy. alfonso is what she could have been if she wasn't a borgia, but she can't escape herself. in a way, alfonso is lucrezia's ursula: he thinks lucrezia is one thing, is deceived by it, finds out the truth, and pays the price. his death ends lucrezia's arc with corruption. her own borgia's stain.

[lavender-robin3-blog]

I'll say this for having a broken pipe in your mudroom in winter: as long as it stays below freezing, you can keep the water in, since the ice blocks it. Convenient. Efficient. Both problem and solution in one

[waterandsilver]

crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it

[guerrillatech]

[revelware]

[vampirecatprince]

[lavender-robin3-blog]

Oh.. oh no

[lavender-robin3-blog]

So I've fallen down a rabbit hole after the whole Diddy doc thing and I just love how rap is just really aggressive poetry. Like, simile, metaphor, rhyme schemes, allusions - I studied all that in English class. It sounds all big and bad, but it's freaking aggressive poetry and I think thats beautiful. Art is truly everywhere people