#im fine.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)

[samdyke]

and then he could say Good things do happen cas. and someone could finally tell cas you Deserve to be saved and it would address the empty being loud plotline and

[thecouncilofdumdums]

I actually have my profile banner irl btw. I still haven’t ironed it but I have it.

heh…… you could say I’m an……. Avid American…..

EDIT: ITS NOT YELLOW!!! MY GREEN ROOM JUST MAKES IT LOOK THAT WAY!! COLORPICK IF YOU MUST

[michaeldiary]

i like to think there was a point.. where michael’s dick looked like neapolitan ice cream. and that makes me feel very insane.

[bucksbeagle]

buck used his key, came in with a gift basket of baked goods, offered to make eddie snickerdoodles, thought eddie was watching porn, pointed out eddie was wearing a fancy little button down, said they can look for homes in el paso TOGETHER ON THE COUCH, then was hit in the head with the realization that his best friend might be leaving him. literally what the fuck ever

[eluminium]

The thing about Impulse being a defensive player is that he's gotten good at living while watching everyone he cares about die around him.

Not used to it. You never get used to it. Just good at it.

Indeed. He's gotten very good at building graves. And he tells himself he's gotten very good at ignoring the ache of knowing that there isn't gonna be anybody left who cares enough to build him a grave when it's his turn to go.

[themockingbirdnebula]

You know, when Avid died... You could say...

he got away scott-free.

[malpractisnt]

I keep thinking about how Teddy and Pine are mirrors and how the show tells on itself about systems.

Teddy was loyal to his father.

Pine was loyal to the service.

Teddy believes if he is good enough, fierce enough, obedient enough, brilliant enough, he will finally be let inside the “dream”. That he’ll be chosen. His loyalty is emotional, animal, sacrificial. The system is parental love, and it teaches him that devotion is proven by how much of yourself you’re willing to hand over.

Richard Roper accepts that loyalty the way systems always do: without gratitude, without responsibility. Roper doesn’t love; he deploys. And when Teddy’s loyalty shifts, from ownership to conscience: Roper treats him exactly the way systems treat anyone who stops functioning as designed. He discards him.

Meanwhile Jonathan Pine has been loyal to something that pretends to be nobler: the service, the mission, the idea of moral order. But it works the same way. Pine is useful because he disappears into roles. Because he absorbs damage quietly. Because he doesn’t ask to be kept, only to be deployed again.

Maybe in another universe where happy endings do exist,

Teddy realises he wasn’t betrayed because he was bad or insufficient, he was betrayed because the system he gave himself to was never capable of loving him back.

And

Pine realises he doesn’t actually owe his life to a system that would watch him die and call it necessary.