#(Carla's great)

[tvuniverse]

EDDIE BEING A GREAT DAD (part 2/5)

9-1-1 ↳ Eddie acknowledging that he's doing a good job as a father VS thinking he's failed Christopher

[lesbiancosmicowl]

It was a girl. She was a little girl. ↳ Carla Connor + Being the mother she could have been

[watchyourbuck]

“Just make sure you’re following your heart, not Christopher’s, okay?” Carla you’re a simple woman but boy are u the MVP

[fawnstepp]

DON'T. don't what? DON'T GET DRESSED.

[toxictoad]

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"

Please reblog!

[kingsoverjacks]

Carla Cugino is quite sexy!

[talyayet474]

Carla Gugino

[abirddogmoment]

Mr. Laundry went home a couple days ago and I already miss his squishy face.

[novelconcepts]

Carla Gugino’s career is so entertaining. On the one hand, you’ve got her work with filmmakers like Flanagan: poignant, complex, emotional. Clearly just an artistic buffet. She’s in the ring. She’s trying new things. She’s gonna make you cry. You’ll wish she was your mom. You root for her love story. You want her to kill those people. She’s a hero, she’s a monster, she’s a woman with the deepest depths. Just a tour de force.

On the other, you’ve got her work with her partner, every instance of which is just utterly unhinged “let’s get the weirdest combo of actors together and throw a fucking PARTY” chaos. Has this writer ever met a woman in his life? Is there a plot? Who are these people? Can’t be sure, but god they’re all having so much fun. And somehow Carla is still giving remarkably solid performances. How does she do it?

[crazyhickofftheirrocker]

Carla cutting off Betsy's pile-on in her defence without even looking up hit me harder than the car that clipped Swain

[sarahlancashire]

fuck me they kissed. THEY FUCKING KISSED

[mimeparadox]

If there’s one complaint I can get behind when it comes to this season of Doctor Who, it is that it has not done especially well by Ruby.

It’s not, strictly speaking, that we haven’t learned things about her.

She’s got abandonment issues, stemming from being left behind by her mother, and also, more subtextually, from being part of a family unit with many foster children who come and go. 

She has an extremely close relationship with her mother.

She’s had impactful interactions with some of her mom’s significant others (“The Devil’s Chord”).

She’s a musician.

She enjoys the cosplay element of traveling with the Doctor (“The Devil’s Chord”, “Rogue”), but will step out of character without compunction (“Rogue”).   

Her dynamic with the Doctor is “best friend to hang out with.” 

She’s adjacent to multiple queer communities, if not necessarily queer herself.

She speaks her mind in a way that is unconcerned with other peoples’ egos (“73 Yards”, “Rogue”.)

She can think on her feet (activating battle mode in “Rogue”).

She can remain calm and courteous even when being insulted ("73 Yards", “Dot and Bubble”). 

She’s persistent and can play the long game, to the point of sacrificing others to do so. (“73 Yards”).

She can handle permanently life-altering hardships—at least those relating to loneliness and abandonment—without losing the ability to take care of herself. (“73 Yards”).

She does not appear to have any specific or defined ambitions (“Church on Ruby Road”, “73 Yards”.)

In theory, there’s enough here to build a character around, but I don’t feel this is what has happened. So far, the season is missing a sense that all of these things build up to a cohesive person, or that these qualities exist in order to tell a specific story. While it is possible for her to be written out of character, it feels much more difficult to write her in character in ways that don't make her come off as "generic companion". And, so, we’ve had episodes where she’s a bystander even when she’s ostensibly the focus (“The Legend of Ruby Sunday”), and episodes when she suddenly turns into someone else (“Boom,” where Moffat writes her as Clara, but under the circumstances it’s hard to fault him for doing so).

And this is all especially odd, given that most of the season has been written by Davies, who, if he can do something at all, is be able to define a character. It speaks to a season that, while quite enjoyable in terms of individual episodes, has been somewhat lacking in the meat-and-potatoes of character development. "Boom" had Ruby largely reacting to a single situation before temporarily dying; "Dot and Bubble" is largely the same, except for the dying bit. "73 Yards", I feel, came too early for audiences to really appreciate the specifics of how Ruby dealt with her situation, and the structure of the episode by definition requires some rather broad strokes. As mentioned "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" gives her shockingly little to do. Even "Rogue", the most meat-and-potatoes episode of the season, fails to take full advantage of the opportunities the story and its themes present. Individually, this wouldn't be a problem. Collectively, though...

Not being abreast of the details shared about the next season, my current fear is that this is all we get of Ruby, and that she'll be written off in this episode or the next without ever having the opportunity to truly shine. And that would be a damn shame. While I have issues with the writing, I really do like Ruby, and adore all the things Millie Gibson has done with the character, and wish we could have more of those alongside with the things that made previous companions truly shine.

[dykespence]

Just thinking incredibly hard abt whenever carla hugs lisa it's so. Like She just melts into her each time

it's literally I never want to let you go.let me hold you forever , never let this moment end. I want to love you like you've hung the moon and the stars for me and i will never let you leave my embrace for i will love you so fiercely.

Pure devotion. Pure admiration. Completely and utterly in love

[poisonhemloc]

no reasoning but Vibes but I feel like every RaD core has a minifridge in it, somewhere. you might have to look around a bit to find it

Carla seems like the kinda person to make sure that happens

[uwudonoodle]

Confronting your abuser. (Gerald's Game 2017)

[yumedoca]

Have some 'Carlacaps' from the new episode!!