There's always money in the banana stand.

resident of the great NYC, rabid consumer of Chipotle burritos and lover of all things British.

[gallnerkyle]

We have very similar backgrounds. We’re both children of Latin immigrants, so there’s sort of a cultural familiarity, then at the same time we’re both actors. We have the same dreams. It’s something very special because it can be a lonely journey when you’re out there going after — it sounds corny, but going after your dreams, and to find family along the way.

― PEDRO PASCAL on his friendship with OSCAR ISAAC

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Din Djarin and his space Baby 💚

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Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides in DUNE (2021)

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file under: things that make me lose my mind on an august morning (x)

[zalrb]

I know there are already a lot of great analyses on the Bridge Kiss but I’m just going to throw in my take within the context of the episode and the context of Nick and June’s relationship throughout the series because something I found interesting was the concept of choice and the parallels between Nick and Luke.

As I’ve already mentioned, I am not the hugest fan of Luke but I objectively feel bad for him and one thing I could appreciate about the first three episodes was the exploration of complicated feelings and complicated consequences of certain choices i.e. June didn’t think of what life is like for a child in Gilead, she knew that it would be best for them to leave in the long run (and some immediately) but that some children had attachments and affection for their captors who they view as families, so we see that with Asher/James, with Moira we see her wrestle with her guilt and her love of June but also the way her actions have an impact on her, which is also echoed by Emily, and then we have Luke, who is effectively being torn apart (I think his best acting to date) by knowing that June is doing something that is right and necessary but at the expense of potentially ever coming home to him, and while he can intellectually grasp that,

he still struggles to really understand that and to understand how her love for him fits into that. And that isn’t necessarily his fault, he didn’t live through Gilead so while he can rationalize June’s behaviour and be proud of her and love her, he could never truly understand it, which is why he is asking questions such as, did she choose this? And you can see that disconnect in Moira’s reaction, she doesn’t shame him for asking the question, but her expression is shocked and incredulous

because if he knew what it was like he would never ask that question.

And then we have Nick.

I’m just going to back up a little. I’ve mentioned before in my posts that I love the in between moments of Nick and June in seasons 1 and 2 but particularly season 2:

I think it’s clear that June loves Nick […] what makes it clear for me, are the moments between that, because that’s when you see her struggle and attempt to reconcile all of her situations.

Like I mentioned this before, in 2x03, I think their hug is important, not only because June turns away from Nick and then turns back to him for an embrace:

but because we watch her slowly give into how she feels about the embrace:

and it’s like in 2x09, which I mentioned last week too. After hearing about Luke and Moira and having that life reawakened sort of within her, when Nick tells her he loves her, she can’t say it back:

but when he leans in to kiss her on the cheek, she’s giving into that intimacy and to what she feels and living in that moment with Nick too:

and then I’ve mentioned how also in 2x07 after she allows herself to just be in the kiss,

there’s that sense of guilt that she did do that

and I’ve mentioned that in season 3, with her tape to Luke, she loves him enough to let him know that she found a way to love in Gilead and it was explaining to him that it was OK to let her go

but I think 4x03 truly indicates to her just how much things have changed. Not that she hadn’t known that before but Hannah being scared of her obviously shook her and it devastated her

and obviously she is never going to give up on her daughter and she’s never going to let her go, that’s not going to happen, and the fact that Nick assures her that Hannah loves her emphasizes that 

but I think the fact that she pauses and turns back around

to not only kiss Nick

but to tell him that she loves him

and to linger with him

is her making a choice, which is that this is a man, this is a person who understands her as she is now, who loves her as she is now, who says the things she needs to hear as she is now, who provides her the comfort and will she needs to go on as she is now, this is the person she loves as she is now and I think that’s an organic and beautiful evolution of their relationship.

thank you @splitscreen​​ and @pegscarter​ for the good gifs!

[zalrb]

I understand June falling in love with Nick (they show/tell it to us more) but when do you think Nick fell in love with June? Was it just undeniable connection and like primal need to make her feel good or do you think it was a specific moment?

I think there was always a connection and always an attraction.

I do believe that after what happened with the previous handmaid,

Nick was careful to watch out for June while being hands off, I do believe that part of him tracking her movements was to kind of gauge what her mental state was like

but I believe it was also because there was something “more” “other” spark-like there from the very beginning

those smirks, those kind of inside jokes they have from the very first episode with the tuna

I’ve just always felt like Nick’s interior monologue would obviously be different than June’s, but it would have the same kind of wry commentary on things that she has because they share the same type of ironic humour, it’s not overstated but it’s there

and that humour I feel like isn’t a superficial similarity but it speaks to something deeper so I kind of felt like June coming into the Waterford House was like Nick meeting a kindred spirit and part of the reason why the two of them can communicate without much verbalization is of course because they have to in this world but also because they understand each other on another level so I just think over time it became love.

I will say, that for me, 1x08 is maybe when he realizes it’s love that he’s feeling

I find that episode such an intriguing episode for them because he reflects on the previous handmaid’s suicide while they’re at Jezebels and there are all of these different emotions wrapped up with the situation, there’s jealousy and there’s anger toward Fred

and there’s a desire to be with June

but I think there’s also this great empathy for what she’s forced to do

and from that empathy there’s love and he doesn’t want to make things worse for June

he doesn’t want to make things more complicated, he doesn’t want to contribute to driving her to a place where she might do what the previous handmaid did and so he ends it

so that’s where I think there may have been a realization of a feeling he’d been feeling for a while.

[lawlesslikelucy]

Election coverage got me lookin at Chris Cuomo like...

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Nick & June Kissing against the wall - 1.06 // 2.07 Requested by @hannibals-cheekbones

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[stephaloney]

my biggest fear is my child will not love paul mccartney

[majorjohnandre]

Ben Hottie Tallmadge

Turn: The Battle of Setauket

[majorjohnandre]

TURN: Washington’s Spies – Season 2 Character Portraits

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[stellarkindalife]

CANT WAIT FOR SUNDAYYYYY

[bucky-misses-steve]

A collection of Caryl pictures :) coz I ship Carol and Daryl so hard, it hurts <3

They are like two halves of a whole <3

[criticalsorcery]

Why is Andrew Lincoln not swimming in a pool of emmys?

[stellarkindalife]

THIS. Homeboy is KILLING it this season. In fact, a lot of the cast deserves awards for their awesome performances!

[stellarkindalife]

So I saw Cinderella last weekend and was surprisingly entertained. I’ll admit, I’m not huge on the cheesy Disney fairytales but Kenneth Branagh did a beautiful job filming the movie (I still love Ever After more though). I was really impressed by Lily James. Her character was a little too passive and bubblegum sweet but still managed to make me like her a lot. Richard Madden as the prince was just....breathtaking haha. He’s so gorgeous (Robbbbbb!) Cate Blanchett was a fierce thing to behold, per usual (her costumes were amazing). Here’s a link to the rest of my review over at my blog: http://the-everyday-cinephile.blogspot.com/2015/03/cinderella-review-grade-b.html