#The gaslight of decades

[fonthoura]

Star Trek TOS: *Stablishes that the touching of hands is incredibly intimate in Vulcan culture akin to fully making out.*

Star Trek TOS: *shows us Spock holding Jim's hand while talking about the importance of his feelings.*

The fandom: *reads it as romantic.*

The writers: oh my god, that's crazy, where did you get that from?

Star Trek DS9: *Stablishes that, in cardassian culture, flirtation is done by arguing and bickering, that is how they show interest in another person.*

Star Trek DS9: *Constantly shows Garak and Bashir arguing and bickering, including a scene where Julian shoots at him and everything.*

The fandom: *reads it as romantic.*

The writers: OH MY GOD, THAT'S CRAZY, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?

[venusplanetofloveee]

No babe, don’t say your top 4 movies out loud—wait till you’re famous, and Letterboxd asks you personally

[dooffirmations]

They are laughing at the people who thought her dress was blue

[say-littlepinkbow]

[happyk44]

People talking about Grover vibing with Ares over war and the violence of nature (or whatever happened in that scene) and how it was unexpected but still cool are forgetting that in the book he played a hunting game at the casino where the deer hunted people and very loudly demanded humans die over pollution and then shot at Percy with the plastic gun when they tried to get him to leave, like Grover's been wild since day one.

[wh0-is-lily]

The Beautiful Hedy Lamarr in, 'Zeigfield Girl,' 1941

[yaaabuuurneee]

☆moodboard;¥ulia

[winterpower98]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?!?!

[feedingicetothedog]

there’s enough canonical abuse in the loumand relationship as written, you don’t have to make up imaginary hypothetical abuse just bc you prefer loustat

[venusplanetofloveee]

we both know that it's not fashionable to love me

˚ ₊‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱ ‧₊˚

[maddie-grove]

The problem with a large segment of people who get really, really mad about fictional women cheating is that they’re always like “why is anyone acting like her male partner is the bad guy? She’s the one who cheated!!!” and then you look at the guy and he’s doing some Why Does He Do That? shit (at worst) or he dumped her before she hooked up with someone else but that still counts as cheating because he didn’t really mean it (at best). And it’s like do you think anything besides cheating is wrong.

[tinydeerhoof]

mentally i’m stuck here ༄˖°.🍂.ೃ࿔*:･

[silviakundera]

Ok but sometimes in The Princess Royal it's so fucking funny to think about how the rest of the capital are viewing them. In ep 17 everyone thinks it's all over for the princess, in house arrest in a temple copying texts and about to get banished to her country estate for eternity, and the noble houses put on hit on her too ambitious husband. Servants gossip is she's in denial about his death! How tragic.

In reality she was like, yeah and THEN the next part of our 65 step plan is that I'll take myself off the board and lower their guard by doing some shit to get me on house arrest. And in court I'll suggest some other punishments that'll get waived, so I can take down that asshole in Ministry of Justice with me. 💁 Then you dodge the inevitable murder attempts and come back with the evidence. Done & done. ✔

And instead of losing her mind about her dead husband, she really has a point that this old demon Pei Wenxuan has survived way worse and isn't gonna be taken out like that. 🙅

(not that she isn't legit worried and writing pining unsent letters to him, because she misses him constantly. BECAUSE SHE IS and it's awesome.)

[blueshistorysims]

June 1938, Henford-on-Bagley, England

The first immediate thought Byron had when he finished reading the letter was to call his sister. Exactly ten seconds later, the phone started ringing.

“Did Mama send you a letter?” 

He snorted. “Ironically, I was about to call and ask the same question.”

“Five years we have been estranged, and now she’s suddenly apologizing? She must be really dying.”

“Don’t be crude, Giselle.”

“Oh, don’t pretend you don’t agree with me.”

He was quiet for a moment. “...I plan to go to Malvern Hills next weekend. I’ll go this Saturday so the kids don’t miss school. I want to make amends.”

“I don’t. Do you know how relieving it is not to have the burdening weight of your mother knowing she is disgusted and ashamed of you? You forgive too easily. Montgomery-”

“Giselle,” Byron warned. 

She huffed. 

“...I understand your feelings, but this may be the last time we ever see her. You’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Twenty, thirty years ago, she was just our mother, and I loved her. So did you.”

Giselle was silent, long enough for Byron to think she had hung up, but then she sighed heavily. “Alright. Fucking bastard. I’ll go. Alone,” she said bluntly and without another word, she hung up.

Byron set down the phone and walked out of his office to see Eleora walking into the library. She immediately noted his downcast expression and gave him a puzzled look.

“What is it?”

He sighed. “I was just on the phone with Giselle. We both got a letter from our mother.”

“Your mother? The one who’s ignored all your calls and letters since she learned you had homosexual leanings? That Rebecca Walsh?”

“I only have one mother, so yes.”

“What does she want?”

“She’s dying, and she wants to make amends.”

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[bellapasionada]

Accurate depiction of the Caryl fandom for 13 years.

They love to dangle the perverbial carrot in front of us, and we fall for it every time.

[venusplanetofloveee]

Sorry for leaving you hanging for two weeks, I was too busy creating my perfect life on Pinterest