[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

[strongintherealgay]

Wild how orange is related to the love interests in all three POVs. Peeta's favorite color being a soft orange, like a sunset. Lucy Gray wearing the orange scarf Snow gave her, being the last thing he ever saw of her. Lenore Dove painting her nails orange with the paint she used to spread anti-Capitol messages where the Peacekeepers wouldn't see.

[homunculus-argument]

2026 roommate: The dishwasher's loaded. 1926 roommate, having a black coffee, a cigarette, a shot of whiskey, two uppers and a downer for breakfast: Then what the fuck's he washing dishes for?

[iamnmbr3]

I do think it's really interesting that Dracula genuinely seems to enjoy talking to Jonathan Harker. Yes, partly he's trying to learn valuable information from him about English society, customs and laws etc. And yes he wants to practice his English with a native speaker - though clearly Jonathan was not his only source of English lessons. But it goes beyond that. Like when he's talking about the history of his family (well, actually events he mostly lived through but obviously he can't admit that) he gets really animated and just seems excited to have someone to monologue to. After all, he doesn't have that many people to talk to. I don't think in general his meals get much of a chance for a chat. Who knows how long it's been since he's really interacted with anyone (aside from the other vampires in the castle).

It's not a wholesome interaction of course. Part of the enjoyment he gets from their interactions is derived from the way he toys with Jonathan. But it does definitely go beyond simple necessity. He really goes out of his way to spend time with Jonathan, often speaking with him all night - i.e. the whole time that he gets to be awake. And he also goes out of his way to protect him from the vampire women in the castle, even after he's outlived his usefulness. And he becomes increasingly possessive of him - "this man belongs to me" and "tonight is mine" are certainly telling. It seems that initially Jonathan was just going to be fed to the vampire women right away, but then Dracula changed his mind and decided he got first dibs, something that wasn't initially in the cards.

I think this possessive fascination with Jonathan and the way he comes to find their interactions genuinely enjoyable are why Jonathan gets to stay alive so long. Even going poking around in Dracula's crypt the first time isn't enough to get him immediately killed that night. I wonder if in his own way he also was drawn to the "quiet dignity" that Mina mentions is one of her favorite features about Jonathan. Even in the face of fear and despair he stubbornly clings on. Dracula probably finds this makes Jonathan more entertaining and exciting to toy with than most victims, and may also feel a grudging sense of respect for him (although he still views him as an inferior).

[nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests]

Was ART ever afraid of Murderbot? Maybe, but not being the most dangerous thing in the room is definitely relevant to how it can relate to ART in contrast to humans. The knowledge that ART could neutralise it in a fraction of a second if it so chose is a comfort. It doesn't have to be afraid of its own destructive potential when it's with ART.

Tapan may be wrong about fear in general, but not about the fear this story is about. Murderbot's fear is an artificial condition. The thing it fears most, that it could decide to go on an indiscriminate murderous rampage again, that that is part of its makeup, was imposed from the outside. It killed at ganaka pit because of malware imposed from outside. That secunits are a hair trigger away from killing everyone around them all the time and that people should be afraid of them is a narrative imposed from the outside. Override modules are imposed from the outside.

ART can take away part of that fear just by being close, and then proceeded to chip away at the other parts of that fear as a matter of course.

I fucking love artificial condition.

[clairenatural]

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

[clairenatural]

someone brought it flowers today

[watertightvines]

STUMPY MY BELOVED!!!!

For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.

It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!

[the-fisher-queen]

I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.

Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.

The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.

Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.