[tarragonthedragon]

accidentally nearly spoiled the end of x men 97 s2 by saying "they killed my son" but then realised that that's not much of a spoiler because all the x men die all the time and they are all my children

[tarragonthedragon]

update: she thinks it's scott

[horrortvfilmsource]

LAKE MUNGO (2008)

[bakedbeanchan]

random fire nation diplomat #492 will never understand the complex and fucked up relationship between the water siblings like I do 🙄

[gildeddlily]

when Martha first tells the tale of the harlot whore we hear Grace making quiet, animalistic, unnatural sounds, little shrieks almost, which feeds the theory of her being possessed by the devil and kind of confirms what Martha (has been taught to) says. and then we see her crawl on the ground, amongst the ruins of her life, sobbing and crying with the desperation of a woman whose life has been thoroughly ruined. yes the lighting was beautiful but.

[jareckiworld]

Thomas Doyle — Click-Through Rate (mini sculpture, mixed media, 24 x 15 x 15 centimeters, 2024)

[foxofninetales]

Your email finding me.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"Mini sculpture" you can't fool me. I see that definitely normal sized man there.

[janerogan]

honestly it was them having to reverse the car back home in lake mungo that got me locked in. I was like oh shit... okay they're travelling back into the story now. and I didn't even know what was gonna happen in the rest of the film or about how Alice's story was going in one direction in time when her family was going in another, that their stories and her death were running over the top of each other and intersecting only at points in dreams and visions. but I just fucking loved that at the beginning they had to reverse all the way back to their home, like pressing rewind on the story straight away and ending up at the end of the film, which is really the beginning, with finding the video of alice seeing her own death months ago and seeing her mum leave at the close of the story

[vickyvicarious]

Sophie: "Do you really have to be here?"

Sterling: "You're not innocent, yet."

love how she immediately decides to punish him for this by involving him in her grifting if he's gonna be there, and gradually gets worse and worse about it.

talking to the art curator, he's allowed to stand in the background and watch.

talking to the daughter, gets smacked on the shoulder and called Clive when he isn't paying close enough attention (he does this little jump it's hilarious)

for the ex-wife she climbs into his lap, snuggles up to him, coos about their love (his name is Chance now), and ruffles/yanks his hair straight up off his head

and before you ask, no i could not use fewer screencaps for that one. look at his dead eyes, his fake smile. it's incredible, 'you wanted to stay close to me didn't you? i'll show you close' at its best, Sophie you're doing incredible sweetie.

(i'll reblog with the last one)

[importantcatpics]

[ancientgeek]

[tiredfoxtf]

Shout out to this person's meat craving bunny.

[tarragonthedragon]

kinda excited for burnham to go ahead with giving more tax income to local leadership with no caveats. it would be disastrous for the country but i'm looking forward to seeing sadiq khan driving around london in a gold-plated mercedes chucking wads of cash at passing constituents

[tarragonthedragon]

accidentally nearly spoiled the end of x men 97 s2 by saying "they killed my son" but then realised that that's not much of a spoiler because all the x men die all the time and they are all my children

[burningfudge]

seeing mon and kleya’s thrilling escapes from coruscant makes leia’s first reaction to luke and han even funnier. leia must’ve heard about these highly skilled rebels but then when she gets captured, she gets a hillbilly farmboy and an idiot smuggler to rescue her

[dicktim]

tied up

[jackandjanetdefender]

Tim, making puns midfight like he was trained to by Nightwing himself ❤️

[avayarising]

You know that nobody in that family takes that phrase in the least bit metaphorically when it’s said over comms. If anyone says they’re ‘a little tied up’, everyone knows it’s some sort of bondage situation.

[i-am-a-fish]

I don't think dust needs to exist personally

[i-am-a-fish]

I really love this website and the people on it a lot

[tarragonthedragon]

why did i do this

[amiya-shirou]

actually the way society hates both perverts and asexuals is kinda funny. Real "Anyone who thinks about sex more than I do is a porn-addicted degenerate and anyone who thinks about sex less than I do is a loser weirdo or a puritan" energy

[amiya-shirou]

incredible tag thank you

[luckyladylily]

The levers of societal pressure do not work on people outside the societal norm, and so both asexual people and hypersexual people are demonized, excluded, and othered. It was never about sex, it was about conformity and control.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Leverage Team | First episode/last episode

[faxcollector]

somewhere in my brain there are several paragraphs of meta about dennis whitaker's implicit biases and the culture of midwestern decency i.e. Midwest Nice but all I got for now is that he's intriguing to me as an example of a white midwesterner from a very sheltered and presumably conservative background (white american christian, rural farm family, religious education, from a town of 3,500 people, like pick a struggle my guy) who is shown onscreen both acting out and deconstructing the biases and prejudices he was raised with. I'm thinking specifically of the scene in season 1 with mr. krakozhia when whitaker enters the patient's room literally covered in PPE and slowly removes it piece by piece because he realizes that his fear of his patient is dehumanizing him, how he makes a cruel comment that assumes mr. krakozhia is in active addiction when he's not, how his distinction between "good" temporarily unhoused person (himself) and "bad" addict/mentally ill homeless person (krakozhia) is challenged during that scene

see also the scene in season 2 with amaya, the PCOS patient, where whitaker suggests an unhelpful and misogynistic/misogynoir-ist plan of care that he probably learned in med school and from dr. robby that prioritizes temporarily alleviating pain and freeing up a bed, debates with mckay over it, and eventually listens to the patient's self-advocacy only through the interlocutor of mckay (with mckay herself have been checked for bias in the past by collins!)

putting that alongside other examples of whitaker being a character who values decency towards other people (volunteering for the street team, teaching the med students about the moment of silence, honoring the work of nurses, helping amy on her farm) and you get an interesting picture of a person who has been raised to be Midwest Nice but after leaving his rural upbringing is forced to confront the fact that the culture of Midwest Nice fundamentally excludes large sections of the population who are more in need of decency and empathy than anyone whitaker grew up with in his 95.7% white hometown

ok maybe that is my several paragraphs of meta. this is all to say I find whitaker intriguing and am curious to see where his character evolves, especially and crucially if in future episodes he ends up being mentored by someone who isn't robby and is more active about encouraging him to confront his prejudices