house of groan

[bracketsandunderscores]

you love me? ok. whatever. but would you play 20 questions with me mid surgery so i dont focus on the sound of bombs exploding?

[fishfilletinacan]

batman the animated series will be like "the effects of mental illness, if left untreated, can cause even the most well-meaning man to hurt himself and others, and feel so helpless he turns to other methods to cope." and then the next episode is "what if the joker tried to copyright fish"

[lesspopped]

please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.

[forthegothicheroine]

Klinger feels like a first draft of him was Jewish until they realized that was a bad idea for a wheeler-dealer of the black market.

[holy-toledo-4077]

Klinger’s character was in fact supposed to be Jewish! However, when Farr came to realize he was joining the main cast, he specifically asked the producers and writers if Klinger could be Lebanese since he himself was Lebanese and it was an opportunity to share Arab-American representation in media. The team gave him the green light since they figured it was most logical to let his character assume his own heritage.

[greenbloods]

the ideal media diet for a child is books and music from at least fifty years ago so they are always out of touch with the references and allusions of their peer group

[angelicpowerblog]

Grace should have been a Morgenstern, I said what I said.

[lyrnaalnieren]

nah i don’t agree that she should have been a morgenstern, however I AM here for the morgenstern family appreciation and the morgensterns as a Significant and Fascinating figure in the lore

[kierancfthehunt]

i'm rereading midnight heir right now and even knowing about the gracelet and the spell and the backstory we do now from tlh, i still can't reconcile this james with tlh james. it's like even if he was drunk and being dramatic, so much of what he said pointed to such a different character and personality than what we actually saw in tlh. like there should have been more going on than what actually ended up being it. it's just bizarre to reread and look back

[amberofember]

no shade but someone needs to take the phrase “i see it in the way they look at you” away from cassandra clare

[seolihexagon]

no because she always tells us shit about some characters from a character's point of view who should not be able to notice it

for example let's say magnus and alec have a fight or something and then we're reading a scene from kit's pov and it's like. he noticed the way magnus looked at alec. cassandra no he did not. there are 15 people in the room and they're discussing how to save the world. there is no way one character will notice a glance between two other characters.

like i get that we need to know what's going on between everyone in one scene but telling us every single minute change from the pov of one character pisses me off so bad

[bridgerton-confessions]

Spoiler Confession:

“I used to like the Mondriches but I can't get behind their latest plotline. Setting aside how they took away Will's bar so Alice could have pretty dresses and be a darling of the ton somehow, the writers seem to be replacing Lady Danbury with Alice and I hate that. Alice has not earned that space. The only legitimate reason to do this is if Adjoa Andoh wants to step back from being so prominent in the show. Otherwise it feels like the showrunner is playing "teachers pet" with Alice.

Plus how ridiculous is it that in a season where the biggest hurdle for our main couple to overcome is class differences do they have an untitled, struggling, working-class woman become a lady-in-waiting to the queen in just three years. If the class system is so fluid as to allow that, why is it such a barrier that Sophie is a servant?”

—Anonymous

[lyrnaalnieren]

AND I OOP-

[writerxwren]

Okay I know I can't shut up about this season but I love the theme of reality vs. fantasy that they're exploring. Because for Benedict, Sophie is the reality that surpasses the fantasy of the Lady in Silver. But for Sophie, being with him is a fantasy because her reality is that she's in a lower class bracket and can't be with him in the way that she really wants to be. Idk how many times I can say brilliant but it truly is

[pigmentandoils]

the writers put something in ep 2 because i could not stop crying. and the moment alfie embraces sophie and says, "don't say anything. i want to be angry."

it broke me.

[flowersforjude]

Whoever decided to play the Enchanted classical version while Sophie yearned for Benedict through the cracked door deserves the biggest wettest filthiest kiss ever omg.

[glitterfairy-21225]

Benedict next season: Mother, what you and Father, and Anthony, and Daphne... and Colin... and Francesca... all have is rare.

[mrspockllap]

Everyday I mourn the Charles-Trapper dynamic that we could have had

[houlihans-roots]

early mash: haha we are just funny little guys :) the head nurse is a bitch lol

later mash: what does it all mean . what does it all mean . [we all have PTSD]

[onekisstotakewithme]

Actually I just think it does BJ and Peg a great disservice to use "they've both changed" as some sort of reason why they can't be together any longer once he comes home from Korea.

Like yes, he's changed, and she's changed, but given that they're married and they love each other, I'd think they'd at least try and work it out before throwing in the towel?

It's just so much more compelling to me if they actually fight for their marriage. Yes, BJ will have to get used to being married in more than just an on-paper sense again. Yes, Peg will have to relinquish some of the independence she acquired by necessity.

There will be trauma and there will be pain and there will be years of making up for the two they missed.

But there's also the love, the joy of rediscovery, the discovery of changes that are positive, learning new things about each other!

Change is a part of life, and they love each other enough that I think they'd at least be willing to try. But that's just my opinion

[thebreakfastgenie]

least favourite mash character?

I knew I was going to get this question so you're going to have to indulge my preamble. "Least favorite" does not mean "I dislike this character." It means "I like this character less relative to the other characters in this show." My baseline for MASH character is extremely high. I don't dislike any of them! But I like some more or less than others. So with that in mind.

BJ Hunnicutt

He's just less interesting to me than anyone else. I can say a lot of critical things about his writing and Mike Farrell's acting and I'm sure these things play into why I find him less interesting and care about him less. But at the end of the day, I just do. I don't have a lot of strong feelings about him. If he weren't popular in the fandom, I probably wouldn't think about him much. He's fine. But a lot of other characters either have an iron grip on my attention or make me laugh just by standing there and BJ doesn't do either of these things. There are some episodes where I do enjoy him a lot.

There are other episodes where I do situationally dislike him, and it's largely because the narrative usually takes BJ's side and validates him even when he's wrong, usually for the purpose of taking Hawkeye down a peg whether he deserves it or not. No matter how BJ behaves, the show never stops treating him as "the good guy" while Hawkeye is "the naughty one" in comparison and that's a dynamic that's always going to make me defensive of the naughty one.

Also I find his entire style from season 7 on fugly as hell. Especially the mustache, but not only the mustache. His haircut is a disaster and I hate most of his outfits, including the pink shirt. You wouldn't think this would matter but, well, I have a quirk about this. I struggle with certain seasons of The West Wing because the characters are styled in a way that's so viscerally ugly to me. I was devastated when The X-Files shifted to more early 2000s styles that I hated. I don't have this problem with real people but with TV characters... it's an issue, lol. I don't enjoy looking at him! Maybe I'm just too gay, who knows.

Ken Levine, one of the former head writers, admitted on his blog that he never thought they gave BJ the writing he deserved, and I think it shows. He's kind of all over the place.

The things I do like about BJ are not the things most of the fandom likes about BJ. He's an icon of midcentury Americana and I'm a freak for that period of history (it's so weird and fascinating to me) so I find a lot of potential in that. But he's more of a symbol than a blorbo. Then again, I've written more than one fic that's at least partially about him, so clearly there's something there! Like I said, I just like everyone else on the show more.