as an american, sam reid’s total inability to hide his contempt for overly fake-chipper american journalists, especially ones who Have Not Done The Assigned Reading know and care about the show, will never not be hilarious and iconic to me
thinking a lot about that one post that’s like “the most unrealistic part of House MD/medical dramas is doctors that actually give a shit about finding diagnosis for mystery ailments.”
it’s so disheartening to be able to say “hey dr I have this chronic problem that most recently caused me acute and intense pain, what should I do” and being told “idk your tests are all normal so you just have to live with it.”
cool thanks. I’ll just continue having spontaneous, debilitating joint effusion that requires me to drop everything and go to an emergency specialist. but, you know, my Lyme test came back negative, so there’s nothing else that can possibly be done.
The lighting in this scene made screencaps impossible, but I had to preserve JGY hard at work planning the Xuanli wedding. He's attentive to detail! He's organized! He compliments and thanks the servants for doing well AND gives them time off! Look at what we can get from him when he's given respect, autonomy, and an objective that isn't evil!
Timeline weirdness aside, this is a sweet letter. We get a glimpse of a bubblier, happy Lucy again for a bit! And she gets to be happy with Arthur! They're very cute together, very comfortable with one another. I especially like how active they both are:
By the way, I forgot to tell you that Arthur is here. We have such walks and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing together; and I love him more than ever.
Plus they literally have a running "I love you more" "but you said you couldn't love me more than you already did, gotcha!" joke going. They're so cute.
We receive all at once, my dearest teacher, the moving joy of the memorable victory you have just achieved. After returning from a quick excursion to the countryside, they bring me your letter; the Committee read those addressed to it, and in that moment Saint-Just enters to receive our embraces. I cannot explain what happens among us during these patriotic effusions. They can only be compared to yours on the field of victory.
— Claude-Antoine Prieur in a letter to Louis-Bernard Guyton dated 28 June 1794, two days after the victory at the battle of Fleurus from G. Bouchard, Prieur de la Côte-d'Or, p. 210
truly we are never going to get anything like the CW’s crazy ex-girlfriend (2015-2019) ever again. i don’t mean like all other tv pales in comparison, i mean that crazy ex girlfriend was something so uniquely incredible and moving and smart and funny and honestly a little life changing, like - i feel blessed to have been alive to experience it. does that make sense? it made its point in a way no one ever has before and i don’t even want a replacement or god forbid a reboot because it was just so uniquely itself and it was whole and it was funny and even in its imperfections it was perfect. nothing else will ever be exactly that again. i mean that’s true for most things, i guess. but. you know what. i mean. it’s more true for cxgf. i only wish i had never seen it so i could experience it all over again
my thesis statement will of course always be that the angels + demons in good omens are aspec (and nonbinary) but crowley specifically was so aromantic this season. man who goes "oh, romance? yeah, i know how that works. practically an expert. i've picked up so much from the way that people talk about it and represent it in media. i know all the perfect steps to execute romance. it has nothing to do with personhood and feelings; there's a certain list of requirements, certain steps that you take, certain subjective prerequisites to be fulfilled, and then you'll have romance. easy. simple." when he has no idea how romance actually works because it's never been something that was accessible or valuable to him. the general conventions for love seem so simple from the outside when you pick up an idea of it through cultural osmosis but not any real experience or investment in the idea. maggie and nina come in to tell him that he can't be messing with people's love lives because it's serious and personal but how should he know? when you're outside of it and don't even realize that you're outside of it, romance is just a thing that happens. and it seems so simple...
jason robertson & jake oettinger postgame — DAL vs PIT — 10.24.23
And then what does Jake mean — to have a start like that, I mean, really, the whole season so far.
Yeah, I mean, you see out there how composed he is. They had some really quality looks, so, um. He’s playing fantastic right now — fantastic hockey, we’re really fortunate he’s playing to this standard. At the same time we need to limit some of those, you know, grade-A chances.
Jason always makes nice little plays, he had two on his stomach tonight. How is … when you see him do something like that, and really just digging in and trying to do everything he can to score goals, it seems like that motivates the team.
Yeah, uh, I mean — he’s one of the best goal scorers in the world, so, um, you know, we need him to score and he did that tonight. You know, he’s … he’s one of the best players in the world, so, he’s, uh — you know, a lot of the stuff he does out there doesn't surprise me very much.
And it’s not always pretty, I mean, sometimes it’s just hard work.
Yeah, you know, sometimes you’ve just gotta want it, and get a bounce, and thankfully he did.
i think you would appreciate the fact that, for all that it's generally considered to be mxtx's goofiest and wackiest work, svsss is like the only novel out of the three that has a whole ass video essay dedicated to it on youtube.
…..you’re right, this is extremely relevant to my interests. 👀 okay once i finally read it and finish it, i will be queuing up this video essay.