Cuteness overload covered in doom

I believe in rom-communism. Crushes come and go, real or fictional. Be aware. |chronically ill actually autistic disabled weird creature with cptsd

[alive-only-in-may-for-esc]

Volare sung by Vjerka wasn't in my LIFE BINGO

[bestnipplesforever]

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

10 years ago I was super creative. I just spewed out fanfiction and it was damn good fanfiction too. I just reread a Homeland fic and it's really good. Great reviews too.

But I haven't written anything since 2017 and it's not because of performance anxiety. It's because I don't see any scenes in my head anymore before I fall asleep. My menopausal brain is too tired for that. And it sucks. I don't daydream either.

I want my 38-year-old brain back. I want to write Helliot fanfiction so bad. Everything is dumb.

[unamusedsloth]

“Vicious” Leopard seal tries to keep national geographic photographer alive by feeding him penguins.

[bendablebananas]

@maculategiraffe tags

[isotridecanol]

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

Yeeuup, that's it. I've reblogged everything there is about The Tourist on Tumblr.

[empressofkalumina]

[with-fire-and-ice]

The Tourist, or as I like to call it Helen Chambers' Accidental Acquisition of Acutely Bizarre Men.

[deinvatiwrites]

Okay guys. Listen. I need to talk about The Tourist. I only have one or two more episodes left but I have to tell you that there is one scene that might have cured me. So I could say a lot about the show, but it is a mystery and I don’t want to give any spoilers in case you decide you want to watch it someday. But I am going to spoil one thing. But it’s important. The thing. It’s so, so important.

So the show stars Jamie Dornan. You know, ex Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein model, starred in an erotic trilogy about BDSM, you know. That Jamie Dornan. He looks very dirty and scruffy and fuckable in this show. He also is full of man pain and needs to be saved. And there’s a very beautiful, relatively unknown Black actress who is set up early to be his love interest.

To recap: Jamie Dornan. Hot. Rugged. Fuckable. Babygirl.

Love interest. Gorgeous. Black. (Yay representation!) Unknown. (Yay giving people a chance!)

BUT!!! HERE'S THE SPOILER!

He does not end up with the hot black woman. He falls in love with her:

He. Falls in love. With her.

The good-hearted, kind, and fierce person who helped him when no one else would, who believed in him, and they save each other over and over again and I just… 😭

There’s a sex scene and I was like holy shit that's hot but also WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO ME WHY AM I HAVING FEELINGS ABOUT THIS?

I think it healed something in me. That’s so dumb and basic, but I didn’t realize how badly I needed that.

Anyway, the rest of the show is a banger too and tumblr is absolutely sleeping on it, and I recommend everyone check it out. It's on US Netflix at the moment. Thanks for coming to my NED talk.

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

The sex scene with Luci (the gorgeous black love interest) ...

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

It is so me to find another rare pair to love. Why am I like this??? UGH

[thefudge]

elliot + helen in the tourist (2022-)

So that’s what it takes to make you happy? I mean, screw self-knowledge, just get me a burrito. Next time you’re down, think of that. Or I can just…I’ll text you. I’ll just send you an emoji of a burrito. And from that moment on, you’ll know that everything will be okay. 

[theimpalatales]

Buy me a ☕️

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Have you seen The Tourist (2022-2024)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onJul 1, 2024

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

Ugghhhh! No one has seen it! People are so missing out.

[angelictroublemaker]

The Tourist, 2022-

I fell into this show and did not come up for air until I finished the 2nd season. It was wild and delightful fun. I love the amnesia trope and this story satisfied.

Stars Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald. On Netflix.

Content notes: lots of violence. claustrophobia, a scorpion. A dog gets killed by a villain. Drug use. Car crashes. Hospitals. Unrealistic healing from injuries. Probably others.

Reasons to watch: Extremely tropey, funny, excellent chemistry between various characters. A fun mystery format that unravels as our hero, who has lost his memory, tries to figure out what the hell is going on. This show really made me like Jamie Dornan, he's excellent at being baffled and handsome. There are some wild plot twists and his response is like, "For fook's sake!"

Helen, our main heroine, is super charming. She is also fat and the narrative is on her side, which is so unusual and refreshing. What I mean is, there is fatphobia / weight loss attempts shown in the first couple of episodes, but it's correctly shown as abuse and control, and Helen gets away from it. That plot line is basically dropped and then she's just like, a regular fat person. She has some kind of self-admitted attraction to "broken men," she's cheerful, she's brave, and she's an excellent detective.

Also enjoyable are the landscapes. S1 is set in the Australian Outback. S2 is set in Ireland.

(x-posted at dreamwidth)

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

Fuuuuuck! It's completely impossible to find anything on here about The Tourist. Does anyone know a tag that actually works??

[dirtbagdefender]

[twspots]

Everyone give this funky show a chance! It has strong representation and actually gets morally grey characters correctly. The plot twists and emotional twists are actually surprising and effective!

[dirtbagdefender]

1.04 + 1.06

[thirst-on-main]

I've got only 2 episodes left in the series and I am *nervous*. I love these two.

[onlyoneovaryohgress]

Me too!!!!!