#altliving

[halfstayed]

Season 3 of Fringe (2008–2013)

TV APPRECIATION WEEK 2024 — favourite season of a tv show

[editfandom]

Fringe - S05E13

[richardgrimes]

"peter betrayed olivia by not realizing altlivia wasn't her" false. he did betray her tho by telling altlivia he liked her hair better. why tf did he say that

[petrichorcrown]

There are three brain cells in Fringe Division and Broyles has them locked in a desk drawer

[halfstayed]

i’m going feral over the fact that this can apply to both olivia and altliv 😭😭😭

so obviously they experienced very different trauma, but what also makes it so very interesting is how differently the two of them express themselves (...as a result?)

a lot, of course, can be (and has been) said about how olivia's childhood trauma affected her, but circa the same time atliv's whole world literally started dying. it's the apocalypse. it’s become a world with a deadline. it's like living with climate anxiety but a thousand times worse.

and it has to have impacted her in some profound way as she grew up for her to want to work in the fringe division. like. that job is a LOT to handle. you’re willfully confronting the breaches in your reality every single day. and just hoping for the best. they're playing whack-a-mole with impending doom on the daily, and they're SO OKAY with dying on the job it's absolutely bone-chilling.

we literally see it the first time we get to the altverse in 2x22:

00:58 just says SO much about her character. her first response to possibly dying within the next minute is to joke about it.

worldviews and morals in general work differently Over There... but there's something about her specific brand of coping mechanism that hits so hard. she's "quicker with a smile" (ugh) because that's her instinctive response to everything. her humour is her armour. it's how she keeps any other emotion from bubbling up. for all the talk about how she's more "emotionally open" than our olivia... it's really just a different front. that woman doesn't actually take time to process any of her emotions. it's WHY she's able to plunge straight into things (almost) without a second thought, from taking over olivia's life at a moment's notice in 2x23, to leaving henry with lincoln in 3x20. that's not even going into how she just... bounces back from the whole ordeal she went through while giving birth to henry.

altliv is "ruthless" because her world needs her to be. and the way they BOTH take on the survival of their entire world like it's their responsibility and theirs only, yet how differently that manifested in them... literally two sides of the same fucking coin. it's the most interesting way of doing character study ever and i love the show for it.

what makes her such an interesting character is that she is a competent and intelligent adult woman whose worldview was hard set at 9 years old. most of her major decisions are based on the logic of a traumatized child. she can't outgrow it because she doesn't even know she's doing it.

[lesbozoid]

I might be doing too much but I do not get why people love saying that they pretend the Peter/fauxlivia “relationship” scenes are actually Peter and Olivia. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Sure, it could be because, knowing the abuse Peter was suffering, I cannot stomach those scenes. But even if you ignore that, Peter wasn’t acting like himself.

Their whole relationship was made of Peter going out of his way to try and make her happy because (obviously) she didn’t like him as much as expected. Bringing her breakfast in bed, buying her concert tickets, taking her to fancy restaurants, walking back to the coffee shop twice because he got her order wrong and, according to him, the little details are what make him irresistible. He put in all that effort and in the end it didn’t matter, because she didn’t want to be with him.

Their relationship was screaming ‘people who are still getting to know each other and are awkward’ instead of the ‘best friends who have been through hell together and know each other more than anyone else in the world’ kind of relationship that Peter and Olivia were supposed to have.

The contrast between Peter and Olivia’s actual relationship and the one he had with her alternate is so incredibly deep I can’t really believe people enjoyed the scenes between Peter and fauxlivia.

Peter and Olivia had a Friday night routine. They ordered takeout and watched bad movies together, while Peter took fauxlivia to fancy restaurants. Olivia happily slept on Peter’s tiny bed in a house he shared with Walter because what mattered to her was that she was with him.

Olivia woke up one morning and had to walk in on Walter naked and when she brought it up to Peter she still said she could get used to waking up next to him every morning, even with Walter being a pain, because she loves him and she wants to be around him.

Sure, Peter and Olivia didn’t get a dance scene or make out scenes but they had scenes that showed that Peter felt loved enough by Olivia that he didn’t feel the need to be someone he wasn’t just to appeal to her. And in the end that matters way more than whatever new relationship bs Peter and Altliv had going on ❤️

[oliviadunham-forever]

Fringe 2X22 Over There: Part 1 - Altliv She is so beautiful

[ettadunham]

For the Character ask - Astrid Farnsworth 🦋

How I feel about this character

She's everything, really. <3 The most overqualified assistant with the patience of a saint who should have had the world.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I feel like Astrid should have a nice girlfriend at home she can complain to about all the madness going on at work... But also, AltLiv/Astrid! Should have been a thing!

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I'm gonna go with Peter for this actually! Astrid deserved all the hugs and Peter gives great hugs!

My unpopular opinion about this character

It's not as much of an Astrid opinion, but I do not love the gag about Walter forgetting Astrid's name constantly. In isolation it could be alright, but on top of the constant sidelining and the mistreatment Jasika herself talked about in the years since, having Walter not even bothering to remember or use her actual name feels more like a slap in the face than a funny gag. 🤷

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

An actual storyline! As much as I love Making Angels, that really was just a small glimpse into the inner life of a character that was there for 100(!) episodes. If I have one beef with Fringe despite being one of my all time favorite shows it's this. ✌️

[annatorvswife]

nine people you would like to know better (tagged by @sophiedevreaux, thank u<3)

3 ships: currently: i don't really do shipping... forever loving olivia x altliv (did yall call them O2??) though :-)

first ever ship: honestly idk bc i rarely care enough about a couple to ship them.. i prefer a good breakup/dramatic ending over a happily ever after sjdfks i dont care for the actual romance part of it that much i just love studying a dynamic and the intentions and motivations of the people involved and how the relationship affects them... 😬

last song: sittimmm sittim is the opposite of standimmmm sittim is the opposite of running aroumd 🕺🎶

last movie: i think i watched before i go to sleep for mr colin firth ??

currently reading: maren uthaug – 11%!

currently watching: still rewatching the newsreader for giffing. lowkey watching some fringe though to cope with recovering from the newsreader 🤪✌️

currently consuming: pepsi max <3

currently craving: i forgot to buy a lil snack from the store earlier so im having ragrets.. would love something crispy rn 😶

tagging: @butchershauna @daantaat @elialys @helennorvilles @dalegerry @oliviassunrise @chiefofmilfs @this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it @surrealistwaltz

[messrmoonyy]

messr, have u ever gotten a request for an altliv smut?? 😶‍🌫️ asking this for science

I’ve never had any fringe requests actually. I did start writing an Olivia one shot a lil while back but I haven’t finished it or touched it in a hot second.

[halfstayed]

olivia “altliv” dunham / fringe

tagged by @ronandreams to make a moodboard of my favorite villain! thanks for the tag chance I had so much fun with this 🖤

(cheating a bit because I don’t consider her a villain but I know some a lot of people do)

tagging @emilylawsons, @rhaenyra-the-gracious, @hers, @rhaelynn, @letojessica, and @danystargaryens <3

[editfandom]

Fringe - S02E16

[richardgrimes]

[petrichorcrown]

"Just admit it, you've got a thing for Liv!"

[fourteenfandomfan]

Quick someone reblog with a picture of altliv I have a joke to make

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

It would have been cool, in season 3, if we saw the things about the alternate universe that Olivia missed after coming back home. I mean, she had a version of her mother again. Charlie (even tho a different version) was her partner again. Alt-Charlie and Alt-Lincoln were like brothers to her. When she still thought she was AltLiv she probably hung out with friends.

I’m sure she missed a lot of that after leaving there. She couldn’t wait to get back home once she knew who she was, but she also had all of the memories from living the other Olivia’s life.