#Poor Joe.

[aliceisathome]

I am completely invested in My Stand In - specifically I am invested in Tong being completely and utterly humiliated, destroyed and left with nothing.

OK, of course I'm invested in Joe and Ming but every time I see Tong's smug face I want to punch it. Hard. Why yes, I'm literally only 3 minutes in, why do you ask?

Ooh hello Mike, long time no see. When are you and Secretary Jim going to be getting some action eh? It's ep 8 already - go get your man! Or am I imagining things and there is no second couple? Pfft.

Ming is so confused ('you're so like Joe. Joe's not dead! But are you Joe?') that he's finally agreed to meditate with Mysterious Shaman. In the meantime Wut and Sky take the less tree-based option and stake out OG Joe's parent's grave on what I'm presuming is a significant date, catching New Joe in the act. I loved Wut's anger - such a real response both to Joe's ignoring his advice which lead to his death and to him not trusting him enough to tell him he was back. He's a good man. And argh - Sol's so nice, I wish I could be on his side but I'm afraid, much like Joe, Ming's got me in his grip. I blame Up's acting and lovely little face.

Plus he spent at least 18 hrs sitting on a branch in search of the truth. That's some dedication right there.

And blimey - we get Mike twice in one episode. I do love the fact that the fact that Ming meditated is what's made him and Jim anxious. Not any of the other (frankly bonkers) behaviour he's been displaying.

Also MIKE'S MING'S BROTHER!!!! Did we know this? I just thought he was the shaman's disciple. Has he been mentioned before? If he was I was probably too focussed on Joe's torso to notice...

I kinda love that despite saying the feelings for Ming died with his old body, our boy Joe was so thoroughly ploughed into the mattress that his new body also sneezed on orgasm. And Ming's completely unsurprised - look at that face. He knows. Also, let us all mourn the complicated sheet origami that is denying us even a hint of hip, thigh or butt in this otherwise excellent scene.

It looks like Joe, Ming and I were all hoping Joe's original body was in a coma somewhere but it seems we are doomed to disappointment. This is going to be traumatic for everyone.

[bairdthereader]

When older sister magic goes rogue

[squad-3]

Random Joe pics that are just not real

[plistommy]

dude got too distracted by thinking about joseph

[cementcornfield]

Joe and Ja'Marr discussing a throw that didn't go well 🥲

[emily-in-crisis]

the real rhys montrose was really going about his days having no clue that some psycho was having a deeply homoerotic relationship with a murderous version of him

[non-un-topo]

hot guard summer

[incessantlark]

eef wieners...

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Take Toye, his arm looking like a skinned deer after that Normandy jump. Shrapnel in Holland. Now wounded here in Bastogne. You couldn’t keep the guy down. And it wasn’t as if he had anything to prove; every man in Easy Company respected Joe Toye for his toughness. But, remembering back to that night at the Regent Palace when I found Joe on the roof of that atrium, maybe what drove him so hard physically was the need to make up for not being, in his own mind, as “eloquent” as some of the other guys, not that I ever thought eloquence was an Easy Company trait. And not that it was his fault. Hell, your dad sends you to the coal mines when you’re fifteen and you’re not going to be Shakespeare; it’s that simple. It’s ironic that Webster, the Harvard grad, could spin a sentence like nobody’s business; he was forever writing home, regaling relatives with story after story. But you ask me whom I’d want in a foxhole with me—or, for that matter, back home, sharing a beer and a burger with me at the Liberty Grill—and I’ll pick Joe Toye every damn time over a guy like Webster. You know why? Because he was always thinking beyond himself, that’s why.

~ Don Malarkey

[bairdthereader]

Tori Spring knows the correct way to snoop on someone's texts

Unlike these absolute jokers

Trying to resist adding commentary on Tori's respect for other people's personal lives because my brain needs a break, but oops I guess there it is anyway 🥲

Back with something more in-depth tomorrow!

[freckledjoes]

editing and all of a sudden- oh i am BEGGING for more pics of this entire shoot

[fyeaheddiemunson]

Joe not knowing what is going on is never not funny.

[squad-3]

Thanks UFC 🫡

[cementcornfield]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS69XfnG5/

Ja’marr !!!!!!!! cutie

Oh noooo he's so cold 😭

[mrchill]

Home. My den.

[deathbypufferfish]

both of their love lives are ABYSMAL right now....