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We heard that you did a pretty good job [on the obstacle course]. What was that experience like? pt. 2

#ryan leonard #leno #washington capitals #hockeyedit #nhledit #hockey #mine #last one from this interview (for now) i promise #so demure so self-deprecating #the opposite of what mack would've tried to say in this situation might i add #mack's not admitting it's the easiest course he's making excuses about why he lost #he's certainly not admitting that he couldn't feel his arms #leno's got no problem belittling himself even in the context of #“everyone's competing. you can be friends off the ice and then once you get on the ice you're trying to take someone's job”#which he says earlier in this interview #their brands of honesty are sooooo different #it's fascinating!#lenoedit

So I started watching Succession somewhere between s2 n s3 and till yesterday, I was under the impression Rava Roy(?) is supposed to be of Indian descent (though why someone would name her after food idk) but then I saw some bts of s4 with the actress and I'm sure she's white or not idk 😂 Point is, can you tell if the kids are supposed to be adopted? (That's what was suggested in an article) like I'm so confused??? Are they biracial? Is her ethnicity ambiguous? I feel like maybe you might have the answer for me 😅

It's never explicitly stated, anon, but I'm pretty sure Rava is supposed to be Jewish.

Natalie Gold, the actress who plays her, is Jewish herself, and the name Rava actually has Hebrew origins dating back to around the year 300CE. Interestingly enough, it's actually traditionally a boy's name in Hebrew meaning a father, which feels pretty deliberate given the nature of the show. I think too that her being Jewish makes sense given the tension between her and Logan, and Kendall's hyper-sensitivity to Logan's anti-semitism, most notably in 3.04 which happened pretty quickly timeline-wise after Kendall retreated to (and took over) Rava's apartment when he didn't have anywhere else to go.

In that sense, I do think we're supposed to understand that Sophie is adopted, yes. I've talked about it on here before, but I tend to think that Iverson is biological, and it's that, plus him being a boy and white, that causes Logan to simultaneously dote on, weaponise and abuse Iverson more directly and visibly on screen than he does Sophie. As far as Logan's concerned, Iverson is the only heir beyond his children, and it's pretty clear that he's been found wanting. What that means for Sophie who is, of course, just as much Kendall and Rava's child, is open to speculation, but I think the show is deliberate in the way it focuses on Iverson and forces Sophie aside.

#i do tend to think kendall and rava didn't conceive as quickly as they anticipated which is probably why they adopted #my personal headcanon is actually similar to what a coworker of mine irl went through #which was that she had trouble conceiving and as soon as she and her husband started the adoption process they got pregnant #and so they had both and their kids have basically been raised as twins #and call themselves twins even though they're not #(they're like 16 now and they're v cute kiddos)#but yes #also interesting to me that rava is a traditionally masculine name while kendall is gender neutral leaning slightly more feminine #especially when paired with connor roman and shiv which are all pretty masculine or brutalist sounding names #it's fascinating!#look at me feeling my way back into succession meta haha #rava roy #kendall roy #sophie roy #iverson roy #hbo succession #succession asks #welcome to my ama

i can't believe this is the way caleb and essek were looking at each other in their VERY FIRST interaction is2g

#it's fascinating!#oh there's so much more #I can't do this...#this is the gayest thing I've ever seen #and I've seen a lot of gay sht #I SWEAR #rewatch c2e57 was asking too much of me I'm emotionally incapable #critical role #cr2 #mighty nein #shadowgast #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #c2e57 #beca rewatches c2 #I'm SUCH a sg simp pls I need help

Mary of Teck (1867 - 1953). as Duchess of York circa 1895. Mary was later Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King George V

#what do you call this hairstyle?#and how would you achieve it?#i'm like zooming in to take a look at the details #it's fascinating!#do you have to have a long hair? or it has to be a short one to achieve this?#that might be a stupid question #lmao #it probably has to be short!#also #that's soooo elizabeth's face!#queen mary

Taste is taste, and this might be a little too mean, but something I’ve finally put my finger on regarding how annoyed I get with the acting like The Happiness Patrol is the only blatant anti-Thatcher sentiment in classic Who is, like...

Why do you think Warriors of the Deep is the way it is? Terminus? With those nightmarish production fall-throughs, the worker strikes, the anger and froth and cynicism that can’t help but lash out at the Doctor a little bit. Resurrection of the Daleks puts the literal societal decay caused by Thatcherism on the forefront. That serial was the 1984 Olympics showcase for fuck’s sake, you think they didn’t know how grim and grisly and nasty it was? The stumble into the mess of season 22, mean-spirited and indulgent as it is, makes perfect sense?

And it makes me wonder if the widespread sweeping of Saward’s tenure under the rug under “grimdark” (ugh) write-off truly is because someone isn’t jumping up and down with a big neon sign screaming “THIS IS POLITICAL” in text?

#I'm all over the place with Who and my focuses lately but I'm currently unemployed and with my parents #so when not job hunting I don't have a lot else to do lmao #so you all must face those consequences #I've really come around to The Dark Knight Returns and the like on this front as well #Taste is taste by all means and certainly there's a much longer conversation to be made of political art in capeshit lmao #but there's a REASON pop culture in the 80s could get so gnarly my dudes #There's a reason all these 20 to 30s creators were being edgelords.#By all means don't like Saward Who all you want! Taste is taste!#But don't act like those stories being so violent and mean and angry isn't topical or without reason.#Also I dunno buck up. People could stomach a little more violent fiction.#was Saward an edgelord? Absonoodly!#It's fascinating!#Warriors of the Deep is a MESS of trying to marry misremembered Pertwee nostalgia with Earthshock and I adore it #The Doctor so casually showing Tegan that the Cold War never ends a century on and it's treated just as grimly #as Frontios when he shows her what awaits humanity when the sun finally swallows the Earth #SHIT SUCKS the season #it kills the Dr Who for fucks sake look at Caves #this isn't knocking The Happiness Patrol btw it's just not really one of mine #and I think the fact that it's as subtle as a brick to the groin sours my digestion of people going on and on about the allegory.

Me looking up Wolf facts to play around with the wolf traits I give Diarmuid

#personal #they can travel up to 60 miles in one night holy shit!#and can hear up to 6 miles away in a forest #and 10 miles in an open area #it's fascinating!

i’m working on formulating up a more articulate post about this but lindsay ellis’s video about the evolution of the hunchback of notre dame in film is a really interesting look at fanon as a phenomena as you watch different ideas spread from film version to film version to film version. these ideas didn’t exist at all in the source material but people making the adaptations went “you know that would be cool” and then other people later down the telephone line made changes and pulled in new aspects as the adaptations went along and new adaptations became less adaptations of the book and more adaptations of adaptations.