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Captain Carter by Uzuri Art

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HAYLEY ATWELL photographed by MARK GRIFFIN CHAMPION

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THE FEAR IS SO REAL

he’s so skittish, oh my god, she’s literally unconscious and he’s pointing a gun from a distance like any second she’s going to spring up and wipe the floor with his ass again. i’ve been internally screaming about this for the past 14 hours, i’m so delighted at this.

whatever you may say about thompson (and you should keep saying those things because he’s a jackass and no one should forget that) he’s a goddamn quick study. before the russia mission he was all like ‘we can’t waste time babysitting her’ and post russia he’s telling agents from washington dc that they won’t be able to handle agent peggy carter, so he sets himself up behind the automat with a gun, prepared. except he’s still underestimating her, he thinks he’s got her cornered when it’s really the other way around, and he even STEPS TOWARD HER and tries to puppydog eyes her into coming in. and, of course, she knocks him out in three seconds. 

he doesn’t waste time making excuses or licking his male ego wounds. she’s gotten the drop on his understanding of just how capable she is twice now, and he is not about to underestimate her again. he’s the first to step into the hall but he lingers behind sousa until sousa confirms she’s knocked out/she doesn’t jump up and punch him out. 

to be honest, i think he’s still underestimating her. peggy WANTS to come clean and explain at the end of the episode, and says that the handcuffs are unnecessary because she’s going to tell them everything. in my opinion, peggy could still escape with those handcuffs at any part of this situation, especially in the interrogation room, where only ONE hand is cuffed (what is this, amateur hour?) 

tl;dr i love thompson’s learning curve. i love that this guy was giving her papers to file in episode 1 and by episode 6 he’s terrified of her. this is beautiful and i appreciate this.

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“Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine, all along the way. Everyone, have a great day."

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i found this image to be quite inspirational, thus i wish to share it. you don't have to make something phenomenal much less rather something exceptional. you must first put it out there and tweak things later because you cannot build off of something you put nothing into. some day you'll regret never putting yourself out there.

create beautiful, wonderful things.

~ m.n.

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Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston backstage at BBC The One Show

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letterpress postcards by Pottering Cat, Japan

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do u ever get a comment on a fic thats just so sweet that ur like Maybe slaving over 24k of fanfiction was worth it for user SprinkleTrashcan2012 to leave a three paragraph comment

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We have exactly one Christmas tradition in my house, and it feels very important to share it. I've been a cat person basically forever and for most of my adult life, my house has had more cats than people in it. They've all liked sleeping under the Christmas tree and all that, but other than that, they always just sort of ignored it.

But in 2018, we got Natasha.

There are about a dozen pictures like that, but I always adopt adult cats, so we figured this just came with having a kitten in the house. She was just this tiny little fluff who still fit in my cupped hands despite being about six months old, so we put away the ornaments, shrugged it off, and took advantage of the opportunity to have a really cute Christmas card the next year.

Then, 2019 came around.

Natasha escalated to sleeping in the tree in between trying to eat all the branches, and honestly, it was too funny to make more than a cursory effort to stop her. My partner and I assumed that since she was still pretty tiny, she had more growing to do and would surely get to a point where her own body weight would keep her from doing this. In the meantime, we left the tree without ornaments that year and just called it good.

But then 2020 came around, forcing us to acknowledge that:

Natasha was not going to get too big to do this. At this point it had become clear that she wasn't developing slowly. She was just a really tiny cat. She's less than half the size of any other cat I've ever had.

Natasha was also not going to chill out enough to stop doing this.

But hey. Who needs ornaments with a face like that poking out of the branches at you all the time?

Sure enough, 2021 Natasha also had zero chill about the tree, but at this point it would have been weirder if she did leave it alone.

I thought I had seen everything, but this year I'd been kind of down and my partner decided to surprise me by setting up the tree and stuff while I was at work. It was an incredibly sweet gesture considering they don't actually even like Christmas decorations. It also meant I got to come home to this.

I kept expecting her to fall out, but she just chilled there, surveying the room until she got bored. And yes, that is absolutely a big, fancy cat tree she's ignoring in favor of scaling the Christmas tree.

Two days before Christmas, she has finally gotten bored enough that I'm making my first attempt in ages to actually put up ornaments. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll be more disappointed if they have to come down or if they don't.

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Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw discussing marmalade.

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sam. hello, darling. the fucking shotgun?! it's all i had on me.

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BLACK DOVES 1.04 ⌁ Go Bang Time

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stop what you’re doing and watch this

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HAYLEY ATWELL and TOM HIDDLESTON on BBC THE ONE SHOW

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The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 1)

Context: For many years now, I have been collecting funny lines from Goodreads reviews to share with my coworkers. (I do collection development, reader's advisory, and weeding at a public library, so I read a LOT of reviews)

Are some of these, perhaps, rather mean? Yes, but they are also very funny, and come from a place of honest frustration. In the tradition of Bargepole threads and lists everywhere, names and titles have been censored.

"First, I want to say that I understand how hard it is to write a book and how amazing it is when it is actually published. Congrats to the author for that accomplishment. That said--"

"Warning: This review will be lengthy due to pure hatred."

"I found myself feeling really, really annoyed with the world that this book is allowed to exist. We live in a universe where the passenger pigeon is extinct but this book goes along merrily being read by unsuspecting lovers of words and ideas and stories? It just seems like too much, you know?"

"Don't do it. Don't spring the cash for the hardcover. Instead, eat an entire bag of Twizzlers, spend some money you don't have at a high-end department store, look up on Facebook the shady college boyfriend that made you cry, research the current value of your home or 401K and then read all about how the big hedge fund managers are faring during the economic crisis. You'll feel about the same stomach pain if you waste your time reading this book."

"This wretched novel begins with the mugging of an old lady and it appears I may be in the process of repeating that loathsome crime as [author] was 78 when she wrote it. It is not nice to put the boot into such a poor defenseless old creature lying there with only a damehood, a Booker Prize and a few million quid. It’s a nasty job but somebody has to do it."

"I think this is the way dead people would write, if they could."

"I am considering setting up SPABB: Society for the Protection of Accurate Book Blurb. This blurb appears to have been written by someone from the publishers who met [the author] the night before, got very drunk, lost his notes and then constructed something in a fug of hangover the next morning."

"I congratulate [the author] on the early half of his book, which was thoroughly fun and made me laugh and think. I congratulate [the author] on the second half of his book, for finishing it. It reads like that was difficult."

"…a woman whose taste in contemporary literature has roughly the same batting average as a pitcher in the National League."

"The author is a pompous windbag."

"Recommends it for: No one. Recommended to me by: A friend who apparently wished to cause me great suffering."

"Makes me wonder: is it possible to obtain similes at a volume discount?"

"The repeated phrases made me want to mail a thesaurus to the author."

"I'm disappointed in myself for finishing this book."

"if the author described [character's] eyes as "obsidian" one more time I was tempted to write her and ask if her thesaurus broke."

"They say that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would, if given infinite time, eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. [This book], on the other hand, would probably take the average monkey just under two hours."

"I can't imagine what the author had to do to get this nadir of Western literature printed on innocent trees, but he does seem to know a LOT about being well-connected in New York."

"This book is so bad it is almost worth reading just to make you appreciate the other books you are reading."

"Reads like it was written by a brilliant author, the night before it was due."

"raises interesting questions, like: can a book be so bad as to constitute an act of terrorism"

"has this author ever spoken to a human woman"

"This acorn has fallen so far from the tree that it can’t even see the forest."

"I’m guessing they are touted as ‘beach reads’ because no one will care if they get dropped into the ocean."

"This book begins with all the energy of a hand vacuum near the end of its battery life, and the pace doesn't quicken much from there."

"At least everybody’s eyes stayed the same color this time around."

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Day 22 - Estate🏡🌄

Inspired by ✨Janeuary Month✨ prompts on Tumblr

🎥 Sense & Sensibility (1995), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Northanger Abbey (2007), Emma (2020).

📺 Pride & Prejudice (1995), Sense & Sensibility (2008).

🎶 Schattenspiel, Elias Kiefer.

🎞️ Sense & Sensibility (1995) and NorthangerAbbey (2007) Scenes from "Mistress of Pemberley" (YouTube).

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