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hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you
Hey yeah so this post literally kept me alive for like 6 months. Thank you. And OP is so right. Everyone on this island became my best friends. And guess what? Now they can't wait to meet *you* and they talk about you every single day.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2011)
How did I miss this? The bbc radio drama with Tennant as Benedict is one of my comfort listens.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2011)
can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying
reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them
reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺
Everyone on 4/13, crawling out of their secret homestuck bunkers,
you! tumblr user!
can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?
I am deeply offended by this! I was reading thoughts on what D&D classes the characters of The Mummy (1999) would be, and there was a comment that Jonathan was obviously a rogue, but either a badly built one or one with shit dice rolls. And! Excuse you? Jonathan is a perfectly acceptable rogue! He rolls fine when he’s actually attempting to do something!
In the first movie alone, some of his greatest hits:
Successfully pickpocketed Rick on their first meeting, without Rick so much as joining the dots until later.
Survives a pitched battle on a burning ship without a scratch, and somehow gets the key from a burning hook-handed enemy mook in the process. (“And did I panic? I think not!”)
Survives a pitched battle in the Hamunaptra ruins while drunk, through liberal use of cover and picking off targets at range.
Rolls a Nat 20 on his deception check to avoid being massacred by a large group of hynotised enemies in the museum.
Survives the final pitched battle with the undead (again, through liberal use of cover, hiding and running).
Successfully makes his intelligence roll to translate the Book of Amun Ra (with the Help action from Evie).
Successfully uses the resulting control over the undead mooks to even out the battlefield, including the genius brain move of sending them after Ankh-Su-Namun to both save Evie and distract Imhotep.
Successfully pickpockets a lich while being strangled by him to regain the key and enable Evie to use the book to banish Imhotep altogether.
Yes, he’s fairly flimsy in direct battle, and if at all possible refuses to get to melee range with anybody. So he’s a ranged rogue, and has a tendency to use the environment to his advantage. But he’s clearly designed around Sleight of Hand, Charisma, and a decent sprinkling of Intelligence, and prefers to use object interactions and battlefield control to even out his odds. For all that, though, he fully will stay in melee range if he has no other choice, and take the opportunity to pickpocket the BBEG while he’s at it.
He's a perfectly serviceable rogue, he’s just not optimised for straight combat. And even there, as the second movie shows, he’s excellent at ranged combat. He just doesn’t like getting up close and personal.
Actually, going back and rewatching that final battle again ... I don't think that Jonathan stayed in range of Imhotep because he had no choice. He stayed in range specifically to pickpocket him.
I didn't realise before, but this whole battle starts with Evie telling Jonathan that the only way to kill Imhotep is to open the book and read the spell to banish him. Jonathan says it's locked, they need the key, and Evie then tells him it's in Imhotep's robes.
When Jonathan sends the priest mummies after Ankh-Su-Namun with the spell on the cover (saving both Rick and Evie in the process), Imhotep is coming right for him. However, Imhotep is then briefly disabled by watching the brutal murder of his lover all over again, and Jonathan ... could have run. There's a beat there where Imhotep is completely focused on something else, and Jonathan absolutely has the presence of mind to use that, but he doesn't. Imhotep, now incensed that Jonathan has murdered his lover, promptly spins back around and goes to murder him back, and is only stopped because Rick returns the favour from earlier and saves him.
At which point a lightly-strangled Jonathan stands back up and tells Evie he got the key.
He fucking stayed put on purpose because he knew they needed the key, that Imhotep had the key, and that he was the only person who could fucking pickpocket the BBEG mid-strangulation and get away with it, so long as someone could swoop in before the undead wizard actually killed him. Imhotep is immortal and immune to damage if they don't do something about that. This is a fight of attrition they cannot win. And his sister told him what they needed to stop it, so Jonathan went and got it.
He cheerfully calls himself a coward, and then he goes and fatally pisses off a lich as a distraction, and then stands still to be murdered for it in order to get close enough to pickpocket the immortal pissed off undead. It wasn't that he took the opportunity while being strangled, he set up being strangled in order to have the opportunity.
Say whatever the hell you like about that man, but he has never once failed to do something his family actually needed him to do.
Given the movie's release date, it's not that he's a 5e rogue but not one optimized for melee combat, he's a 2nd-edition thief.
I think the problem with this "how could Benedict ask Sophie to be his mistress like it's an honor?" Is that Bridgerton started off as a show set in the Regency era with a fantasy spin on it (no racism yay!) that often blurs the lines between what is historically accurate and what is clearly fiction. The very same thing that I think made most of us fall in love with the show, is what's preventing many from understanding this season's main conflict. To us, living in the 21st century, it doesn't seem like a big deal. Marry the maid if you love her! If the idea of her is far more tantalizing than any fantasy could ever be!
like, hell yeah! what's stopping him?
Well. It's the fact that he is a nobleman. His family, his mother (!!!) drinks tea with THE Queen of England. His brother is a Viscount. And despite that not being the biggest title in the ton (cause it really isn't), his family is full of gorgeous people, everyone likes the Bridgertons! Everyone wants to date them or be their friends, be connected to them in any way! And Benedict has a Duchess for a sister, another is married to an Earl, oh, and they're (in today's currency) billionaires!
And Benedict isn't the fourth son. He is second. Anthony told him once that his reputation matters. Being a second son doesn't exempt him from responsibilities; it merely makes him second. If Antony weren't there, he'd be the head of the family. And damn, he really is, since Anthony spends more time travelling around the world now that he is married than managing the family affairs.
He cannot marry the maid who helps his sisters get ready in the morning. That's not something that's done in his world. It's unthinkable. The people in his world treat their staff with kindness (at most and at best) but largely ignore them.
"But Sophie is the daughter of a nobleman!" yeah, who was born out of wedlock. His mother was a mistress. Children of mistresses are not legitimate. They're seen by the ton as an "error", a shameful mistake that needs to be covered up. It's a scandal. And these scandals are not meant to be talked about.
Remember that odious man in S1? The one "courting" Daphne? The only way they could get rid of him was to dig into his affairs, and what did they find out? That he had gotten a maid (!) pregnant and had an illegitimate child. He had to get out of Society, never to be seen again.
What do you think would be the ton's reaction if a rich, popular, gorgeous Bridgerton (the last eligible bachelor in the family for a while) were to marry a maid? Or an illegitimate child? I don't know much from the books, but my guess is that Society would not welcome Sophie with open arms. And I know Benedict doesn't give a rat's ass about Society and his position, but he still enjoys the perks and privileges that come with it. He might not miss the balls and the debutant season, but his family STILL has to live, lead, and mingle in it. His younger sisters still have to marry and marry well.
A lot is hanging in the balance here. A lot of things to be considered if Benedict were to marry the maid. So yeah, it's not entirely romantic, but Benedict "offered" Sophie the thing he feels is allowed to give/offer. Because of her position. And his.
And I really do think that one of the biggest problems here is the lack of consequences seen in previous seasons. How easily resolved some past conflicts were. In S2, Anthony and Edwina almost got married and every member of the ton was a witness to their wedding fiasco. That was a scandal. They not only embarrassed themselves, they also embarrassed the Queen. If it wasn't because the Queen liked Edwina enough to forgive her, the Sharmas would've been out of London afterwards.
But the ton did shun them. No one showed up to the Bridgertons' ball after. No one wanted to come close to whatever mess that was cooking. And then at the Featherington's ball, everyone saw Anthony and Kate making heart eyes at each other, and only the Queen's words saved theirs and their families' reputations.
There was the Eloise scandal (which was Lady Whistledown's doing btw). I love Eloise, but she shouldn't have been allowed back in Society, and that was quickly swept under the rug, as if nothing had happened. She retreated to the countryside for a year, and next season she was making friends with debuntats.
And then there's the whole Lady Whistledown scandal, which... I will not get into. But I'll just say that it shouldn't have ended with the Queen just smiling and turning around. Wistledown's sheet often defied and mocked the Queen. I'm not much of a historian, but I think there should have been bigger consequences for Penelope and her family.
That's a downside of a romance show: everything gets romanticized.
I do not know how the show will resolve this storyline, but I hope we see real consequences here. I don't want to see Benedict and Sophie miserable (and I don't think they will be), but there has to be a change in the way Benedict is perceived in Society, even if it turns out that Sophie's father made her legitimate in his will. With love comes sacrifice, and I want to see what Benedict gives up to be with the one he loves.
One addition in the show that I really liked was Benedict being introduced to his friend’s mistress at the gentlemen’s club. We see the couple happy together in public, touching each other and smiling. And someone says something along the lines of “we can’t marry across station, but we can love across station.” The scene reinforces several of Benedict’s worldviews, while also indicating one way by which he and Sophie might be together. Benedict’s biggest blind spot with his “gentleman’s offer” is that he either can’t or simply isn’t imagining Sophie’s perspective. He has no idea that Sophie is the child of an affair between a noble man and a common woman; he has no idea how that enabled Araminta’s abuse of Sophie. And he certainly isn’t considering the financial implications for Sophie, and how choosing him would be a monumental gamble for her. Sophie has good reasons for not saying anything—she’s thinking about her future, the most likely future she can have. She’s trying her hardest to be pragmatic. Unfortunately, those secrets could probably break through Benedict’s bonehead (affectionate) reasoning, and right now, everything is still on lockdown.
BRIDGERTON | Season 4, Episode 1, “The Waltz”
STRANGER THINGS 5.07 — Chapter Seven: The Bridge
2025 replay requests → @snoopyseason asked: heated rivalry
#94 - aim to please by shallow alcove "you'd be surprised how long you can do something you don't like. i've lost years off of my life. deathly polite, couldn't make a choice to save my night. i think i'll just stay inside."
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no thoughts, just this photo of Hudson
“Yuna Hollander POV” this, “Imagine you’re Yuna Hollander” that… Valid, valid. But let’s shine a glorious light on DAVID Hollander for a minute.
Imagine you’ve spent most of your son’s teen and adult life supporting the hell out of him and your wife as they jointly steer his career into the astral plane of international hockey stardom. You’re so proud of him, but you also worry that the focus of his life may be too narrow. You gently encourage him to smell the roses - go down Youtube rabbit holes (whatever those are), take a holiday to London, maybe even date? After years of only surface-level relationships, he develops a true friend in Hayden Pike, and you breathe a sigh of relief. He shows an interest in real estate and design, and you’re delighted to encourage him.
You’re thrilled when he gets a girlfriend after so many years alone. When they seem to break up but remain on good terms, this fuels your growing suspicion that he might be gay. Then Scott Hunter kisses his boyfriend on the ice. Shane immediately takes a call and comes back with a giddy smile on his face. That’s really all the confirmation you need.
You gently break this to Yuna (I love how the show changes that “we know you pretty well, Shane” line from her to him, because it matches characterisation they’ve added to David as an insightful father and husband). Yuna immediately wants to talk to Shane about it & make contingency plans for how it might affect his life & career if true, because she loves her kid & wants to cover all bases ASAP, but you talk her down. “Let him come to us,” you say.
Shane tells you he’s doing a silent retreat for his time off this year, but you need to charge your phone, and it’ll be good to check in on him (you always worry about him being too isolated, too lonely). So you head over only to be… well, astonished to see him kissing his arch-rival with an easy familiarity. Shit, shit, you should NOT be here. You panic & leave - let him come to you (Shane’s flight response is also inherited).
Just as you and Yuna are discussing whether you should go back to the cottage, he does come over. With Rozanov. You’re a bit shellshocked, and the whole thing is awkward as hell at first, but also… Rosanov looks at your son like he hung the moon, talks him down from a panic attack, and it turns out they’ve been doing this for almost ten years. The same ten years that you spent encouraging Shane to pursue happiness and live a full life. Of course it breaks your heart that he felt like he had to do it in secret, but he still did it.
That’s your boy.
Wow. So, when? Since our, uh, rookie season. Since your rookie season? No, it's not true. Since before that. Not helpful.
(insp.)
