#also. yes i am rewatching needle and thread. what of it

[heckblade]

there’s this moment early on in the first episode of needle and thread where brennan looks over zehra’s shoulder at something written in her notes, points at it, and they giggle about it together quietly for a moment, and that one little interaction lives rent free in my head 24/7

[imreallyloveleee]

ok i've finally started season 6 of better call saul (ahhhHHHHHH) so there's no better time than the present for me to vomit out all of my thoughts and feelings on this show thus far

first of all, i already want to start rewatching this show, like, right now, before i even finish it. unreal

my biggest complaint at this point is that i feel they lost the plot with Mike a bit in s5. his is a trickier needle to thread than jimmy's, i think - there's less daylight between parking attendant mike and stone cold fixer mike than there is between jimmy mcgill and saul goodman. but i'm just not convinced that this guy would agree to work for gus fring long-term. i guess we're supposed to believe that the guilt he feels, blaming himself for getting his son killed and depriving kaylee of a dad in the process, is SO overwhelming that he'll willingly do these terrible things so he can "pay her back" with this massive nest egg he plans to build up. but like...this is a conclusion i'm coming to by sitting here overthinking about it, not a conclusion that i feel is coming organically from the show. something just feels off. and i don't think it's intentional, i think they just missed the mark. that said, i liked his "bad choice road" speech to jimmy a lot at the end of the season.

speaking of kaylee, oh my god the scenes with her are goddamn annoying, and the scenes with her mom are even worse. i honestly feel bad for the woman, she's probably not even that bad of an actor but on a show overflowing with people at the absolute top of their game she really stands out as a weak link.

NACHITO 😭 i know he's not gonna make it out of here alive. poor guy. he just really loves his dad!!!!!!!!

Lalo is such a FANTASTIC addition tho. it's so hard to add a compelling character this late in the game but he's so charismatic he even makes me hate Hector Salamanca scenes like 80% less

I could have done with less Gus Fring on this show in general. he was incredible on BrBa, but he just...doesn't need to be fleshed out more? and he kind of isn't, he's just around a lot? idk, but i'll take this as an opportunity to share that one time i saw Giancarlo Esposito wearing a black cowboy hat and buying a package of raw chicken at Whole Foods in Austin TX like 9 years ago

ok now onto the lawyer-y side of things. in contrast to Mike's story, I think Jimmy/Saul's is pretty much pitch perfect. i believe his decisions, i believe his hesitations, i believe the push and pull.

(sidenote just remembered i also deeply hate the salamanca twins, always have always will, on BrBa they always felt like some lame reddit bro's idea of a "badass villain" they're just so flat and boring and i wish they weren't in this show either ugh)

anyway back to Jimmy - obviously, this show would not work whatsoever if Jimmy didn't work as a character, but it's still like, HOLY SHIT do they make him work. he's so tragic, you just KNOW that he could be better and you want him to be better and you know he wants to be better but: he can't. he won't. we know where this story is heading. and at his core he will always be this boy who really really really loved his big brother and never felt that love returned and never will and now i'm going to cry just thinking about the fucking scummy lawyer from breaking bad oh my goddddd

finally: kim. kim. KIM. having only watched 6x01 at this point - i feel like i've only barely scratched the surface on understanding who this character is. i don't know what to say, but i just rewatched this scene and it's maybe my favorite thing i've ever seen, with the exception of like 8 other kim scenes (most of which consist of her dressing down an idiot man, her boyfriend included)

JIMMY AND KIM FOREVER 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and if you're wondering if i'm having Fic Thoughts, the answer is yes, yes i am

p.s. i've been listening to some of the insider podcast episodes and my GOD what a breath of fresh air to listen to peter gould and vince gilligan after being an unwilling prisoner of roberto aguirre sacasa for 7 goddamn years

[mainstreamelectricalparade]

2020 Voltron Rewatch Commentary

a few things before we start:

i do ship klance but im not really going to be focusing on the ship or watching with rose-tinted lenses

i am going to be using female pronouns for pidge

there will be sarcasm aplenty in this post, as well as a lot of gushing, because i've watched voltron before so i already know the characters and have my personal favorites

sometimes my commentary will get a little. off-topic. bear with me. i've been known to ramble.

also this one is obvious but a warning for voltron spoilers!

this is just for fun! i've seen people do commentary posts before and i decided i wanted to try my hand at it. all praises, criticisms, jokes, and thoughts are just my own opinions and/or headcanons, and i hope at least someone thinks this post is maybe a little bit entertaining :)

here we go! strap in, fellas, this is a long one.

S1: E1 "The Rise of Voltron"

im just gonna come right out and say this i love the kerberos team i really truly do but the opening scene is absolutely terrible

"iSnT tHiS iCe SaMpLe AmAzInG sHiRo"

i get that its supposed to provide context for the entire premise of the show but i just

its so bad

"we could be the first people to meet aliens" congrats pal u just jinxed it -

"wHaT iS tHaT" what does it look like samuel

beam them up scotty

LANCE

poor hunk omg lance go easy on him

the entire simulator scene is so chaotic

really sets the tone for the rest of the show, huh

"-against crew recommendations-" the shade from this child

LANCE DID YOU REALLY NEED TO MAKE THAT FACE WHEN YOU SAID THREAD THE NEEDLE

"nice work, tailor -_-"

dhsdfgsd lance has 100% been covering for pidge's backtalk probably daily since they became a team, you can't convince me otherwise, he cut in so fast

OK YES THE ONLY REASON LANCE IS IN THAT CLASS IS BC KEITH FLUNKED OUT BUT WAIT TIL HE GETS HIS EAGER LIL MITTS ON BLUE'S CONTROLS, HE D E S E R V E S THAT RANK

how dare iverson put that look on lance's face honestly i would have sicced pidge on him for that, alone

ok ok ok but like pidge looks and probably is about 14 years old and lance's idea of team bonding is really "hitting the town and meeting girls"? lance... buddy... team bonding is playing mario kart and stuffing ur faces with junk food until u all pass out in a dog pile on the floor

I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY ARE ACTUALLY HIDING IN RECYCLING BINS

FORESHADOWING-COLOR-CODED RECYCLING BINS

"you come up here to rock out?" lance don't you know you should never sneak up on someone who's wearing headphones it's NEVER A GOOD IDEA

pidge could have fallen off the roof smh

awww her lil sheepish face when lance asks about kerberos

"STOP TOUCHING MY EQUIPMENT" tech gremlin pidge emerges

pff i love that hunk just flops over after he gets yelled at, that's exactly what my golden retriever does when i tell her to stop biting herself

so im sure pidge's notebook is supposed to be like... scribbles of notes and things that she picks up when she listens to the radio chatter but also she doodled a ladybug underneath the word "voltron" so i think it's just doodles that she does when she gets bored and that's really adorable

also i love the shot where lance grabs pidge's binoculars to look at the approaching ship and pidge just... dangles from them. even though lance is sitting down. she just. really is that short, huh.

lance y'all are having a team bonding moment now is not the time to be ogling pretty women

poor hunk fdhsdf he just wants to get a snack and go to sleep. honestly mood

poor shiro ;-; he's really going through some stuff

"i hate to be the voice of reason, always -" no u don't

OK BUT WHO ELSE IS CURIOUS ABOUT HOW KEITH CAUSED THAT EXPLOSION

my absurd cartoon logic brain immediately thought "dynamite" but no one in their right mind would sell a sixteen year old dynamite, even in a futuristic cartoon world

right

right?

right

i mean he's got that bike he probably lit smth on fire with fuel, that's flammable

i'm thinking too hard about this

moving on

"IS THAT THE ALIENS? ARE THEY HERE? THEY GOT HERE SO QUICK!!!" i mean... t e c h n i c a l l y . . . it isn’t....... not............. an..........

"i'd recognize that mullet anywhere" aww, how sweet

KEITH'S 👏 EYES 👏 ARE 👏 PURPLE 👏

lance now is really not the time to be a drama queen

keith looks so confused hsdfhdfh

"do you mind if we catch a ride with you?" keith, internally: oh god please don't i haven't spoken to another human person in months i can't handle the pressure of making small talk with three- keith externally: ...

"we could toss out some non-essential weight" "oh, right!" ... "okay-" these two, good gracious

"NONONONONONONONONO-" "yup :)" "NONONONO" KEITH THIS IS NOT HOW YOU MAKE FRIENDS

ok im once again stating the very obvious but shiro is McRipped

also that is not what shiro was wearing when he crashed, he was wearing the galra prisoner rags, how and why did keith just randomly have clothes that fit shiro perfectly sh**th shippers DO NOT interact i dont want to hear it

keith's conspiracy board i love him

honestly i understand why everyone loves conspiracy theorist keith so much and honestly same but i also love skeptic keith theyre both so funny

ok shiro 100% recognized pidge immediately because she couldn't look any more like her brother if they had been identical twins and the fact that he didnt call her out when she introduced herself (or when everyone kept using he/him pronouns for her) makes me love him so much, he probably thought she was transitioning or smth and didnt bat an eye

hunk is so stressed oh my goodness someone help him

dhdfhsdf i forgot about hunk going through pidge's stuff oh no

"hunk, you big gassy genius!" hunk is so smart i love him

theyre ALL SO SMART

blue senses lance's presence :DDDD

THEIR FACES OH MY-

"IS THIS THE VOLTRON"

pidge and hunk definitely thought the lion was leaning down to eat them

their faces when hunk is stating the obvious fhsdgdfg like "wow, are we really in an alien cat robot? none of us had noticed"

i love hunk

shiro and keith look impressed by lance's skills and the lion hasnt even left the ground yet

two seconds later: YOU ARE- THE WORST- PILOT- EVER

"why don't we just give the lion to the aliens?" "theyre gonna kill us all"

"be careful, man, this isn't a simulator!" "well, that's good, i always wreck the simulator..." LANCE THAT'S NOT AS REASSURING AS YOU THINK IT SOUNDS

zarkon is so creepy like dude did not age well

keith why are you staring at the back of lance's head so intensely you look like you're angry with his bean sprout

"guess we're all ditching class tomorrow" and for the rest of your lives

pidge omg this child hunk: vomits "i'm just surprised it took this long"

what is the name of that planet again? arusia? yeah whatever it is its really pretty

LANCE THAT IS SO GROSS

YOU WERE JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT HUNK'S BREATH, OBJECTIVELY A FART IS WORSE

he looks so proud of himself smh

"AHHH I KNEW IT WAS GONNA EAT US" *hides behind shiro because that will totally protect him if a giant effing metal space cat decided to eat them for lunch* "...ohhh, the door is open..."

shiro really just does not know how to deal with the fact that he just got launched back into space to another alien planet... but this time as a glorified nanny to four increasingly ridiculous teenagers

ok but why did the ID scanner just decide to accept that these five random humans that have never set foot inside this castle before are totally harmless and not a cause for alarm

does the lion have a telepathic connection with the castle too

did blue tell the castle "these guys arent in ur database but they busted me out of the cave on earth so they're chill"

shiro and keith have identical "exploring an alien castle running on like ten minutes of sleep" pouts they really are brothers huh

ALLURA

hsdfhashsdf i will never get over lance's goofy "prettygirlprettygirlprettygirlprettygirlSYSTEMFAILURE" face

or the flirty one he makes right after that smh child now is so not the time

SHE'S NOT EVEN INTO IT, ABORT, MAN, SHE THINKS UR EARS ARE HIDEOUS

pidge peeking over the top on the console to see how the tech works ;-; i love her shes so cute

ENEMY COMBATANTS! good morning coran

im... what... are they doing

"man, these guys are good" hunk please tell me youre talking about the futuristic computers and not whatever that just was

the flashback scene ;-;

CORAN'S FACE when she says their solar system was destroyed 😭

ooh sparkly holographic crystaly things- AH that immediate segue into haggar's gasping dead-looking face was very abrupt and very startling and very unwelcome-

watching the early seasons of voltron is so trippy when you've seen at least most of the later seasons and have backstory and context for a lot of the "reclaim what's rightfully ours" "alteans are a foul race" mumbo jumbo

lance: 10,000=1,000+10 keith: 1,000x10 lance: shut up

hunk's face when he's eating the food goo gshsdfgd

and then he keeps eating it anyway

honestly we stan

yours truly could never, it looks disgusting

awwwwww space mice!! babies!!

lance how can you possibly blame keith for the galra-

this child i swear

"i'LL sTiCk YoU iN a WoRmHoLe"

what. are you doing. lance. lance put your arms down.

coran doing math on his fingers is me

sdfhsdf pidge looks so alarmed when hunk's belly rumbles after he eats all that food goo she's like "pls dont throw up again im too young to die"

ok that thing allura does where she turns the whole room into a galaxy

thats awesome

can she do that to my room i want a galaxy nightlight on my ceiling

"LOOK AT YOUR PRIMITIVE SYNAPSES FIRING AWAY IN THEIR LITTLE BRAIN CAGE" I LOVE CORAN he can never say anything in simple terms

born leader in control at all times............. great idea giving that job to the escaped war prisoner with ptsd, not like its gonna make it worse or anything, not at all

PIDGE IS SO CUTE WHEN SHE GETS ASSIGNED THE GREEN LION SHE LOOKS SO DELIGHTED

lance's frickin

sparkly teeth

i sigh

don't make that face dude

also his eyebrows are very thin

like

this isn't news to anyone at all

but while we're talking about his face

are they just like that or do u think he gets them done

idk

idk

moving on

"you will life the team up and hold them together" yes hunk you shes looking right at you the lion hologram is right in front of your face

coran already busting out the terrible dad jokes i love him

shiro. shiro you know keith. you know keith very well. you should know better than to tell him to do a potentially dangerous thing like going off to find the red lion all by himself. he should not be left unsupervised. do you know what happens when keith is left unsupervised. DO YOU. BECAUSE I DO.

"if you get stranded don't worry, they're nice relaxing places to live out the rest of your lives K BYE" "waIT-"

dfhgsfdgsd pidge jumping on shiro's back like a spooped monkey

shiro did not flinch at all under her weight, dang. like, obviously he flinched, alien sloth buddy nearly gave our guy a frickin heart attack, but being climbed does not affect him at all

i love the little three-eyed pikachu caterpillar bunny things

"i wonder if hunk and lance are having as good a time as us"

*hunk and lance screaming halfway across the universe*

hm. i'd say probably not.

"I THOUGHT CORAN SAID THESE PLANETS WERE PEACEFUL." "MAYBE PEACEFUL MEANS SOMETHING ELSE IN ALTEAN."

"what if i start crying? TOO LATE I'M ALREADY CRYING" me during social interactions

he yeet

sdfhfdsgsd hunk's mutinous grumbling is such a mood i love him so much

pidge babbling for the entire canoe ride is me writing this post and shiro and the alien sloth buddy looking at each other is anyone unfortunate enough to have made it this far probably

"what if my feet don't touch the pedals? WHAT IF THERE AREN'T EVEN PEDALS?!?!?!?!" me learning how to drive

;-; shiro calming pidge down by intentionally repeating advice that her own father gave is so 🥺 he is a Big Brother

pidge's big grin before she runs off to get the lion ;-; she's so cuTE

shiro is so proud ;-;

HUNK SAVES THE DAY!!

dfgsdfs and immediately gets sick to his stomach

"i almost puked out there. i felt like hunk!" "think how i felt. i am hunk."

"finger counting is more of an art than a science" i felt that

arus! the planet is arus! not arusia. my bad.

"girl, you've already activated my par-" *tired dad voice* "lance" lance what does that even mean what were you trying to say do i even want to know

ah. yes. voltron. the fearless snake-worm warrior.

"STAYING" "LEAVING" "STAYING" "SNAKE"

oh my gosh this episode is so long ive watched the equivalent of two already and there's still 22 minutes left this is a movie im watching a movie

allura and her dad ;-;

i love that nobody in the show ever addresses the fact that none of them signed up for this, they just got yote into space in a blue lion right into the middle of an intergalactic war and the first alien they met happened to be a princess who said "ok y'all are my army now" and they were just fine with it

not like they had anything else to do

like school

or whatever keith was doing

dfgsd hunk's face when he sees how skinny the armor looks on the mannequin. i feel u my dude.

"aww, you got a cute little baya-"

pidge omg

"that's a pretty big ship" yeah there are a lot of ships in this show that that sentence is applicable to, buddy

"you made fun of me for that" "and i'm proud of that, but-" these t w o

pidge just wants her family back ;-;

"patience yields focus" oh boy

space mice save the day!!

pidge's immediate attachment to rover is so cute im gonna cry its her lil buddy

omg its one of those caterpillar things like slav but orange ehehehehe

man, little does shiro know...

keith pouting and yelling at the red lion sfhsdfgdsfg

"I'M BONDING WITH YOU"

"you're not getting this lion" keith... sweetie, they... they already... they already have it... you're the one trying to get it...

YEAH SEE OK WHEN LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES KEITH LAUNCHES GALRA TROOPS INTO SPACE AND ACCIDENTALLY FALLS IN HIMSELF, HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT UNSUPERVISED AT ANY TIME EVER HE IS SO LUCKY RED WOKE UP AND GRABBED HIM

so like am i the only one who imagines the lions to have like feminine/maternal consciousnesses

ik keith and hunk have referred to red and yellow as "he" and shiro doesnt really refer to black as anything but like ive read so many fics where the lions have maternal instincts toward their paladins and stuff that its just become canon for me

ok so that ion cannon looks terrifying, 10/10 would not want to be on the wrong side of that thing

"i'm nodding. is everyone else nodding?" "yes." fdshsdfhsdf

fdhsdfsdfjhgsfjdhkmmjfa

hunk's lion: slams into keith's lion from the side

hunk: COMBINE

keith's lion: topples over

keith: ?????

hunk: ...

lance's perfectly normal response to getting stuck in an alien tractor beam: what the cheese

form voltron!!!!!

this sequence is still really cool, i love the animation

i will admit tho the face peeking out of black's mouth has always kinda weirded me out a little

"I'M A LEG!!" yes u are u funky little paladin

kaboom

dfhsdfgsdf imagine if voltron's formation was actually powered by hunk's screaming that would be hilarious

theyre all so concerned dfhsdf i love them

"defenders of the universe, huh? that's got a nice ring to it."

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and *cut*

GOLLY GEE THIS EPISODE IS FINALLY OVER I CAN STOP TYPING AND HIT POST I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO EDIT THIS MONSTROSITY YOU GET THE BLUNT UNPOLISHED FIRST DRAFT HERE YOU GO why did i do this

[spiderkickstarter]

OOGH do all the knit/crochet asks!!

Hello yes I love you

1. Do you knit or crochet or both?

Both! Though I rarely knit anymore. I enjoy crochet more though.

2. What’s your favorite yarn brand?

Red heart is my go to. It's sturdy, cheap, and easy to work with. It's a little harsher but a good wash with fabric softener can fix that.

3. What’s your favorite fiber?

I don't think I have much of one, but silk is always nice working with!

4. Do you prefer neutral tones, jewel tones, or earth tones?

Jewel tones! They're a lot more fun to work with.

5. Describe/ show pictures of your favorite project?

I'll try to find some pictures and post them soon. But one is this huge waffle stich blanket that was all white except for a rainbow row on one side and a pom-pom! If was nice! My current project is also one of my favorites. It's just single crochet but I'm doing it with thread and it's so much fun.

18. What is on your knit/crochet wishlist?

New yarn is always a plus! Also I like working with extremes so like super big yarn or thread.

6. How many WIPs do you have?

Two! I just finished a scarf and am working on the thread project and a blanket with a star stich. I'm going to start working on a commissioned project here in a bit though! It's always great when I finally get a commission!

7. What’s your go-to needle/hook size(s)?

I hook, plus mine is gold and I love it!

8. What’s your favorite yarn weight(s)?

Currently thread, but usually I just go with a worsted weight.

9. Favorite place to shop for yarn?

I craft on the cheap so I usually go to Walmart if I'm not looking for something higher end, if I am Joanne's is my next go to. But man oh man there's this little shop back home with beautiful handmade yarns and I love to splurge there. I may make a project for my sister's wedding from something there.

10. Do you like to knit/crochet in public?

I love to! On public transit or waiting for class etc. Plus people ask about it and honestly I love talking about crochet.

11. What’s the most outrageous thing someone’s asked you to make for them?

A cardigan for $10. Broski the yarn costs more than that.

12. Do you have an Etsy shop?

No, but I've been thinking about it. I just worry I wouldn't have enough people interested.

13. Do you like to watch TV while you craft? If so, what’s your favorite program?

Yes! I don't have a favorite program but usually I rewatch stuff.

14. What type of music do you listen to when you craft?

Soft mushy stuff. Lots of indie music.

15. Are you a fast or slow knitter/crocheter?

I'd say I'm a bit of a faster crocheter. Especially when I get into a groove.

16. How long have you been knitting/crocheting?

Crocheting for about 5 years and knitting off and on since I was 7.

17. Do you do any other crafts?

I can paint alright... Crocheting is my main craft though.

19. Do you prefer printed or PDF patterns?

PDF, it's just easier because I do a lot of crochet on the go and a PDF on my phone is less likely to be forgotten.

20. Ask me anything.

Extra fact: I make whales based on pride flags!