Marianela Nunez and Hugo Marchand in Giselle.

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Marianela Nunez and Hugo Marchand in Giselle.
Paris Opera Ballet
Giselle backstage
photo Julien Benhamou
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Giselle curtain call
photo Isabelle Aubert
kinda going crazy over how after the ep 7 fight, both em and dex actually worked on themselves, especially on the things they fought over. emma said she didn't remember the last time dexter was sober, so he worked on his overcoming his alcoholism. dexter claimed emma hadn't done anything with her life and that she's in an unhappy relationship, so she hit rock bottom but bounced right back up by ending her relationship and working on her book. i just love how even when they weren't around in each other's lives, these two were so intertwined and had such a major impact on each other. the distance was bittersweet but it also allowed them to grow into the people they were by the end. so yeah, they absolutely DID grow up together, even when they were apart.
*spoilers for One Day*
For people saying ‘it’s tragic, Dex and Em only got 3 years together’ no. They got 15 years together.
Glossing over the span of their life together to sum it up as ‘only 3 years together’ misses all the love and time they had together that wasn’t solely romantic.
Why is their relationship only ‘important’ or ‘counts’ when it’s a romantic one? Maybe there was always romantic love buried in there or growing steadily but there was a whole lot of platonic love there too.
For 15 years they were the most important person in the world to one another, they described each other as their ‘best friend’ and the person they reached out to at every high and low moment. And for the last 3 of those years they were also a couple.
There are loads of examples of Dex reaching out to Em when he’s at his lowest: the last birthday with his mum, then he’s reeling from his divorce, when he’s scared people will hate him on TV. And you *could* read that as pathetic and Em being his emotional crutch, with Dex latching into her. But you could *also* see that as when you’re struggling and low, you just want your best friend. Because they *get* you. And part of being a best friend is being there in those low moments.
And Em has done the same with Dex, just in different ways. That first year out of uni Em had no idea what she was doing; in a job she couldn’t wait to leave, a relationship that didn’t make her happy, not sure where she was going in life or what she was doing. Em writes to Dex often, and doesn’t need him to reply to her, just to read her letters and be *her* emotional crutch and person to vent to.
Even at that breakup-dinner, Em has things she ‘needs to talk about’ and she’s reached out to Dex to do it. We don’t see her discussing it with Tilly, we see her trying to talk about it with Dex. She’s at arguably her lowest moment (hates her job, hates her partner, hates her home) and she wants her best friend to listen to her. Just like he did when she was 24 and thinking about giving up and leaving London, and Dex convinced her to stay and keep going.
So they are emotional crutches *to one another*. That’s also part of being someone’s best friend.
And for all the low moments Dex also wanted to share his best moments with her too: when he’s excited about the TV pilot he calls Em to say ‘the only person I want to share this with is you’, and begs Em to find a way to be there. Yes this is also him dismissing and ignoring her achievements, yes this is self absorbed and rude and at the height of his egomania, but in that moment of triumph he only wants his best friend there with him.
When they see one another again at Tilly’s wedding Em is brave and self assured when she reveals she’s ‘thought of you every day, missed you every day’, and that even though they are friends again now the fact that Dex will have a wife and child ‘feels a bit like loosing you all over again. Because people with families have different priorities…’ That’s how close they were before.
The sentiment that ‘we grew up together’ is really true, for the both of them. They were very different people throughout their lives, and if they had tried to be a romantic couple earlier there is no guarantee that version of them would have lasted the course.
Would Emma have stayed with a peak-of-his-tv-fame Dex, partying and living life ‘to the full’? Or would they have explosively ended and decided they were too different for one another for it to ever work?
Would Dex have even tried for a career in TV or a full year of travelling if he’d become a couple with Emma after Uni? Or would he have done something else but grown resentful of what-could-have-been?
If they had sorted out their issues and apologised after their fight and Em had left Ian, would Em have found the strength to turn rock bottom into a spring board and finally write her book? Would she have even hit that bottom at all? Or would the hook have remained a pipe dream while she continued as a teacher, happy with Dex but professionally unfulfilled?
We will never know what could have been, and that doesn’t necessarily make those alternatives the ‘better’ option that they ‘missed out on’.
Maybe they would only ever have had 3 years together as a couple and getting it in their mid 30’s the way they did was their most mature and peaceful version.
So yes at times their relationship feels like it’s moving toward the inevitable conclusion of a romantic partnership. But the time before they get there wasn’t wasted or unimportant or unnecessary. And they were always together.
I could write a whole essay about the fact that Dex says “I was talking to you” to that dancer after Emma dies.
Emma was so much more than just his wife or the love of his life. She was arguably the only person that he could talk to honestly. And when she died, he had no one to talk to about his feelings about his grief. Because she was the one he always went to with that and now she’s gone.
I think this relates back to his relationship with his mom, who is probably the only person he saw himself in. And when his mom died, he didn’t know how to handle it. This is the same with Emma.
Emma was the most intimate, deepest relationship he had. And when he lost that relationship, he lost himself. When he lost Emma, he lost not only his past or his present, but the future they were building together, the future he envisioned for them.
And when he’s drunk on the anniversary of her death, he just wants someone to listen to him grieve.
I didn’t post about the idiot yesterday because it was THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY
but nothing makes me laugh more than seeing Harold completely show himself to be the fool and idiot I always knew him to be
So…they accused the family of racism and years later, after the damage is done, he backtracks.
I wonder why, like was he silenced or silent for the Oprah interview? 👀
Was he puppeted or was he a puppeteer?
Harold apparently said that if his father asked for his support across the Commonwealth, then it is certainly an open discussion.
Isn’t the Commonwealth Empire 2.0? Or was that just for Netflix?
Imagine him thinking the Commonwealth needs White Saviour Complex Harold’s support. Knight in Shining Montecito.
Support yourself first.
🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️He doesn’t make sense!!!
Harold apparently said that if his father asked for his support across the Commonwealth, then it is certainly an open discussion.
Isn’t the Commonwealth Empire 2.0? Or was that just for Netflix?
Imagine him thinking the Commonwealth needs White Saviour Complex Harold’s support. Knight in Shining Montecito.
Support yourself first.
🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️He doesn’t make sense!!!
How it feels like to watch any sux news these days
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It wasn’t “unconscious bias” when you wore a Nazi suit and called your fellow soldiers racial slurs, Harry. It was conscious racism and conscious discrimination, you knew it was wrong and you knew what you were doing. You chose to dress up in a Nazi suit at a party for fun and you chose to film soldiers and call them names for fun. You brought this up to make an excuse for your past behaviors and didn’t even apologize for it afterwards. So no Harry, you clearly haven’t ‘learned’ and ‘grown’ from your past.
You "felt so ashamed afterwards" to the point where now nearly 2 decades later you still can't even form an apology.
....and just like that the Top Story in the US is Griner's release from a Russian prison.
As it should
“For many years, dance has been my mentor, my teacher, and my best friend. It has brought great joy, has never felt like a burden, and has never disappointed. It has been an unspoken conversation with the world and I feel lucky to have found it.”
The legendary Mikhail Baryshnikov has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award which is the Royal Academy of Dance’s highest award. He was presented the award by Queen Camilla who is the Vice Patron of the Academy. Also at the ceremony were other representatives from the Academy, including incredible ballerina Darcey Bussell.
William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward rehearsing the pas de deux from the second act of Giselle.
Ph. Andre Uspenski