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augustatheghost · 4 days ago

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l&o svu writer's room on a brisk but sunny weekday:

ok so remember the time we let liv confront her groomer then brought him back and forced her to grant him forgiveness? this will be like that except its liv's most treasured emmy-winning undead girl who chose to follow in her footsteps and were gonna kill her :)

#(everyone high fives)

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augustatheghost · 6 days ago

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i feel like i’ve been electrocuted :)

#too fragile to properly acknowledge she and randall will be meeting

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augustatheghost · 6 days ago

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Dante and Beatrice ascending to the Fifth Sphere of Heaven (Gustave Doré).

#oc s5e2 dantes inferno????#maybe so

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augustatheghost · 6 days ago

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do i just kms now or—

#straight up had to excuse myself from a meeting

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augustatheghost · 8 days ago

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Country Kitchens, 1991

#homebody

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augustatheghost · 20 days ago

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just because i woke up thinking about it today

*spongebob hands meme* thought experiment only! just for fun! for the angst and jealousy!

#‘rather see him dead’ well yes #also we just haven’t seen that dynamic yet and it sounds like a good mess!#olivia has witnessed elliot both in marriage and in (deeply self-destructive) flings #we know that tune #but all of livs long term relationships happened after his leaving #(not a coincidence)#sure we’ve seen jealous elliot come out many a time but those men held no true part of her #and he only knows her as a single woman #how would elliot handle watching olivia in a real relationship?#with some handsome Nice man who knows her son and stops by the precinct and didn't abandon her for 10 years?#based off what we last saw a cool 2 years ago elliot is currently sitting vigil #waiting until olivia is Ready #but what would that look like with another man in the picture?#how would their ~friendship for now~ adapt?#or more likely #not adapt?#yadda yadda

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augustatheghost · 20 days ago

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A pair of Didion’s diary entries that seem bizarre — until you learn that January 30 was the day of her wedding to John Gregory Dunne. The next morning, she wrote “I’m smiling again.” (Much smaller.) // Joan Didion Archives

#enjoying digging through these but at the end of the day i am sick in the head because this is so #who else would put up with me/ (searching for sugar)/ what if it doesn't work out/'normal' said like poison/ i sure as hell am gonna try #(olivia benson)#joan didion

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augustatheghost · 24 days ago

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musing on it and as much as i think let me bring pardon is an episode not so much about god as it is about belief, the ep's take on religion (or at least organized christianity)-- if it even has one-- is pretty cynical. most obviously, the villain of the episode is a youth pastor, and as villains go, he's particularly despicable-- chosen hunting ground an environment filled with especially vulnerable women, who uses people's sincere, desperate belief in god to manipulate them into trusting him so he can be alone with his targets, rapes a girl in a coma and then when confronted claims that it wasn't even wrong because ellie, mediated by god, told him she wanted it.

from a story standpoint religious faith takes a beating, too-- laura's (previously a woman who'd "had a falling out with god") turn to fevered, fervent christianity is characterized by the episode as the act of a desperate woman who will believe anyone that will tell her what she wants to hear-- her daughter is "in there", that there's hope ellie will recover, that she'll get her daughter back-- first, olivia in rorshach and then pastor hartwell in let me bring pardon. it's laura's newly reactivated faith that puts her daughter in danger in the first place, and it's laura's reactivated faith that initially has her assume ellie's fetus is a "miracle" and not evidence of something more concerning. and then the real kicker-- the damning juxtaposition of olivia and pastor hartwell both claiming the same thing happened to them in the pvp over the interrogation table: that ellie "spoke" to them by squeezing their hand in response to a question (note: it's established pastor hartwell learned about olivia's experience through the neurosurgeon and then later laura). damning, because between the two of them, the audience knows which one is telling the truth, and it isn't the person claiming to be a representative of god. score one for the reluctant saint, and a big l for this ep's version of christianity.