Oh, To Know How This All Works

Young enough to be a total idiot

[paddysnuffles]

You come over to my house to watch a C-drama but I put on Due South because "Canada" also starts with C.

[middlepeep]

More shameless screenshot drawing

[livelaughliushen]

Bioethics professor made us watch Gatacca today no one told me I was missing peak moraly dubious yaoi.

[luminouslumity]

[noknowshame]

I know we’re all like lawless nonconformists but you really can’t be texting and driving. that’s one of the ones you’ve gotta listen to for real

[oatmealdiva]

[hottestroadkill]

i think chris flemings is one of the only comedians thats going to get into heaven

[wandererseas]

Quick sketch of Fraser and Ray V based on this Leyendecker drawing from today!

[thelatecaptainpierce]

M*A*S*H - 1x12: Dear Dad

[mewvore]

[mewvore]

[steddie-island]

This is about the sexiness of The Golden Girls but I really feel the need to remind the world of how fucking progressive this show was.

In the episode 72 hours, we find out Rose may have contracted AIDs during an emergency gallbladder surgery.

Rose: Why me, Blanche? I'm tired of pretending I feel okay so you won't say, 'Take it easy', and I'm tired of you saying 'Take it easy' because you're afraid I'm going to fall apart. Dammit, why is this happening to me? I mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. You must've gone to bed with hundreds of men. All I had was one innocent operation. Blanche: Hey, wait a minute! Are you saying this should be me and not you? Rose: No! No, I'm just saying that I am a good person. Hell, I'm a goody-two-shoes! Blanche: AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose, it is not God punishin' people for their sins!

In Isn't it romantic? we find out Dorothy's childhood best friend is a lesbian who recently lost her partner. She confesses she has feelings for Rose. Rose turns her down but makes it clear that she still wants to be friends even though she doesn't return those feelings.

Sophia: Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs.

Jean: Rose, about last night. I should never have said anything. Rose: You only said what you were feeling. Jean: It's just that this last year has been so difficult for me. Pat was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with. And when she died, I just felt so terribly alone. Empty. I thought I could never care for anyone again. Until I met you. I just got very confused. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable. Rose: Well, I have to admit that I don't understand these kinds of feelings. But if I did understand, if I were, you know, like you, I'd be very flattered and proud that you thought of me that way.

Ebbtide's Revenge gives us Phil's funeral, and Sophia addressing him wearing women's clothes.

Rose: So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him. Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was. Angela Petrillo: What he was Sophia, was a good man.

Sister of the Bride, where Blanche's brother Clayton brings his boyfriend to town, because they're planning on getting married.

Blanche: Oh, look, I can accept the fact that he's gay, but why does he have to slip a ring on this guy's finger so the whole world will know? Sophia: Why did you marry George? Blanche: We loved each other. We wanted to make a lifetime commitment. Wanted everybody to know. Sophia: That's what Doug and Clayton want, too. Everyone wants someone to grow old with. And shouldn't everyone have that chance?

There are so many episodes I could sit here and quote but this show is still so important. It isn't perfect, there are jokes that definitely don't land that I will not sit here and defend, but in the context of when it was created? This show is a fucking masterpiece and deserves respect for that.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

"the forbidden advent calendar"

[marley-manson]

one common (or used to seem common back on LJ at least) bit of fanon for Due South that I've always casually bought into was the idea that Ray V switching from his eye-searing early season 1 style to wearing tasteful armani suits and stuff was a sign of like, better self esteem and confidence or whatever now that he's no longer burned out having teamed up with Fraser

but even while I accepted it as an explanation, that fanon never sat quite right with me because I always preferred the early style lol, I love those ridiculous outfits <3 and in the years since it's come to my attention that those clothes were also yk, expensive and technically fashionable at the time. the only real difference is flashy and eye-catching and tbh kinda flamboyant vs tasteful and lower key and more traditional

which makes me wonder about other watsonian explanations for the switch. like the fact that now he's always standing next to a uniformed ultra conservative (in looks) Fraser and maybe he's trying to match his vibe more.

or maybe it's even the direct opposite of the 'better self esteem' fanon, ie Fraser actually makes him more insecure in some ways, makes him feel like he needs to retreat to something more traditional, more, frankly, masc. and you can take that as a symptom of his giant crush on Fraser lol, like it's part of hiding it.

or maybe it's a deliberate choice to try to be taken more seriously because Fraser needs an ally who can vouch for his ridiculous antics and theories and bail him out of interpersonal trouble occasionally.

or maybe it's just that 1994 was getting to the end of that late 80s/early 90s colourful look and Ray shifted to classic suits because he was fashion conscious and moving with the times and whatever the mid/late 90s fashion equivalent of the colourful clothes was wasn't his thing so he went back to classics lol

or some combination of all of the above

[captainhunnicutt]

[modernepimetheus]

Hawkeye Pierce in that one episode

[turtlesmog]

merlin is the best tv show ever bc every episode arthur is like “oh that’s my attention seeking whore, merlin. what is it now, dumbass?” meanwhile the merlin and morgana subplot:

[limbel]

01. beard @merlinktober

[mash4077fruitmachine]

Happy M*A*S*H Halloween 🎃