#gasp.... is this.......... being nice.....

[schmdts]

𝚁𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝚁:        @beenhappier​​,

(  sms 一 Cassie Howard  )    I’ve got something that will give you the balls to face Maddy. (  sms 一 Cassie Howard  )    But if that’s not the kind of distraction you want, I’ve got laundry that you could help me fold. (  sms 一 Cassie Howard  )    We could talk.

[alaspoorestyorick]

Man, I love how much detail was put into the editing of the Act Two video like,,, these examples are just from the latter part of the video!!! There's so much care being put into this series and it feels so captivating and fun as a result! I am so okay with these videos getting released later than first anticipated when this is the result!! I love hl2vrai so far, and I'm so so excited to see where it goes :)

[wr1bs]

OPENING REQS/ASKS FOR THESE GOOBERS!!!!!

(they both need that fat boy)

[shorthaltsjester]

watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

[borealing]

something that has always got me about women in movies/tv and is one of the major reasons i get turned off of women in movies/tv (and i say this as someone who actively and voraciously seeks out movies/tv series about women) is when a woman onscreen is expressing emotion but theyre a little bit muted... and then you realise that the actor is concerned with looking pretty while they express this emotion. its that whole "always performing, always being perceived" thing where even when women are alone we* are aware of how we look while we do things. its that expectation of naked vulnerability onscreen, where an actor is meant to be exposing the deepest darkest emotions of a character but its layered underneath "do i look nice enough while im expressing this?" (or "does the director think i look nice enough while im expressing this?") i think the first time i realised that that was what was missing was when i watched the hunger games and saw jennifer lawrence brutally ugly-cry over rue, with spit coming out her mouth, her entire face pink and twisted into agony, and i was like oh -- shes really feeling those things. i think the alternative is also true, where men try to look masculine at all times, but it's not as insidious, because a lot of the time this is ascribed to an acting choice or a reserved character type but for women, its often just oh, shes pretty. its not an active choice for her to not be expressing those things. shes not allowed to be ugly.

and the worst part is that if this was really dug into and we really thought about what it means that a woman cant cry more than a few pretty, glassy tears, she cant laugh too big and joyous, she cant even eat onscreen because her image and the fact that she is pretty is more important than expressing her unique and authentic character, that would be a fascinating analysis and a fascinating depth to a character. but we dont get the privilege of that analysis, and it often feels jarring to read into because i often find that interpretation jarring against the character herself -- if shes alone, why wouldnt she ugly cry? shes open with her emotions in every other situation, why wouldnt she be open here? is she that obsessed with her image that she holds herself under such extreme restraint while alone? it often doesnt ring true and I cant give the benefit of the doubt.

i think its also a marketing thing for some media, which takes me out of the moment of the scene because its a huge reminder that people are watching this show/movie to see a pretty woman, the actor has a certain reputation to uphold and if she ugly cries, then she's not that any more. i personally want to see more ugly crying, i want to see more big expressive emotion, and i want to see women unapologetically being ugly onscreen.

*im nonbinary but I present as a woman

[stars-inthe-sky]

6 faceless photos! Tagged by @rcmclachlan and @beanarie. Luckily we just had this kickass international trip, because my camera roll is otherwise almost entirely pictures of my children, plus a few of the dog.

In any case, here are some of my favorite home and garden sections at Monet's house in Giverny, a view from the first level of the Eiffel Tower where we were treated to an incredibly fancy dinner, and the back of an ice cream truck in London that made me chuckle.

Tagging @running-rabbit, @village-skeptic, @awkdinosaur, @ryeloza, @station18908, and @iphyslitterator :D

[aratsaka]

had to do the big girl thing of having my windshield replaced today and i survived so i treated myself to a tasty beverage and im gonna lock in for some more gaming :)

[selfindulgenz]

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