#Miss Cate

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Send in the clowns

[julianavalds]

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

— Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters // insp.

[soldierboys]

GEN V 1.07 Sick

[s8eddie]

oh SHE IS LOST

[maycanady]

MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS 1.08 "Birthright"

[francesderwent]

literally everything looks so much worse and less real than the same creatures looked in Narnia in 2005

[homielander]

on homelander and ryan

well first let me just say that the confrontation with bonnie and adam filled me with unspeakable dread. exploitation of inequitable power dynamics in the workplace at the expense of a female subordinate... yeah, surely that won't come up later! 😃 but i tried to ignore that context so i could enjoy them sipping sinisterly on their chocolate milkshakes which was very fun

anyway. i really enjoyed the homelander and ryan scenes in this episode because it finally felt like we were watching two people who had been living together for a few months... there was a real ease and familiarity to their interactions. (their scenes from eps 1-3 were a bit expository for my taste, i guess.) and i loved that there was no dramatic acknowledgement of homelander's breakdown in their last scene together (even though an apology would have been warranted on homelander's end) because sometimes that's just the way things go. their conspiratorial rapport during the bonnie and adam bit was also kind of adorable, sorry. homelander is being as corny as ever and ryan actually entertains it because he loves his lame dad!!!

i was so gratified seeing homelander ask ryan what he wants... everyone jumped on him for saying "i've given you everything that i ever wanted!" in 4.03 but if you were horrifically abused as a child and then had to care for a child of your own, ensuring said child has everything you longed for is a pretty important consideration (which extends to the freedom to make one's own choices, as we see here. we just needed to give him a minute he was literally working on it!)

the other element to asking ryan what he wants is that homelander doesn't know what to do with this newfound freedom either. yes, he did say at the onset of the season that his goal is to leave behind a world that is "pure" and "cleansed" (supe-led) for ryan, so that ryan never feels the need to bend to public opinion or corporate interests. but what does homelander want for himself now that he's free from the constraints of seeking public adoration??? he has no idea, so he gets his son to choose for him instead. and in a very real sense, "cleansing" the world for ryan is healing for him too, because they are one entity... i love codependence

that doesn't mean homelander doesn't put his own disturbing twist on ryan's wish to "help people". ryan's enjoyment admittedly felt pretty jarring but my take on it is that bonnie's immediate readiness to slap that director made him feel as if he was empowering someone. that's what he wants! while homelander is just glad that a human (it helps that it's the annoying guy who works for him) is experiencing pain. homelander is no longer motivated by winning anyone's approval either so there's even less overlap with ryan's genuine desire to save others. i imagine that this disconnect will come to a head soon... excited to see where things go next!

[aeriithra]

[elephantlovemedleys]

For me thinks I am here all this while as it were in a dream, and too far - too far from the place where I am bound to be.

[vulpinesaint]

i think it was a cowardly and weak decision to give eddie brock back his hand. god forbid characters have experiences that change them permanently or in any way disable them. the concept of using venom as a prosthetic in day-to-day life and how that changes things for him was really interesting and could have been really cool to explore. but no. magical hand restoration. chop that bitch back off

[ventstufff]

Tw: suicide

Unfortunately after 2 years of never being suicidal it’s finally crept its way back into my life again. It’s extreme but I don’t think I can live without her, I’ll never ever tell her this. She’ll never know because it’s not fair for her to know. No one will ever have me the way she did, no one will know me so well as she did. I love her even if she did bad things to me., loving an older woman is something but having some sort of fucked up “relationship” with her is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced besides loosing someone to death. I’m scared soon I’ll be back at that time again. Back again at the worst time of my life when I tried to kill myself over and over. I don’t wanna go back but I feel it. I’m trying to stop it, I’ve tried and tried to heal, to get over her but each time I feel like it’s over it comes creeping back in the worst ways possible. It’s not worth the hurt, don’t ever try to fulfill your lesbian fantasies of being in some sort of “relationship” with someone that’s 40 while you are just freshly 18 she will got bored and discard you. I’ve tried to replicate this but I can’t, I can’t. I hate this curse that I have : not being able to form attraction to anyone that’s not like 15+ years older than me. It’s curse I’ve tried fixing many many times. Let this a warning to every young lesbian like me who yearns for this more than anything else, (or any young person who wants a relationship with someone older) don’t get into this sick game until you are like maybe 25. Or maybe don’t at all. I know I will keep coming back to it, because I’m cursed. Maybe one day when I’m older I’ll find someone who will genuinely love me that’s older than me, but for now don’t even try. It’s terrible. I’m trying not to loose hope and get better but it becomes difficult I can “heal” for so long until it pounces on my back again. I’m hoping that this will make me stronger and more experienced but it feels like hell. For the first time in a long time i genuinely am viewing suicide as an option again. I want it badly but i made a promise to someone who died to suicide so i cant. I just want this feeling to go. God I love her

[etheriiart]

Sam and Kate in the Boy S4 Trailer we are so back

[spockvarietyhour]

Irina Spalko was a whole look.

[weneedtotalkaboutcate]

Cate Blanchett for Armani Beauty and Harpers Bazaar, photographed by Tom Munro.

[mossterious]

I keep rotating a Hot Fuzz Muppet Movie in my head like it’s a kebab

[francesderwent]

watching rom coms in your teens: oh I hope that vague reconciliation scene at the end means they got together and they’re a couple now!!! wish they kissed onscreen!

watching rom coms in your thirties: ugh I hope that vague reconciliation scene at the end doesn’t mean they got together. he's a little nothing man and she deserves better. wish she rejected him onscreen.