#deadwood for ts

[janiedean]

JRoth has a lot in common with Rob Thomas, the showrunner of Veronica Mars. If you know anything about the Season 4 revival, its ending or how he justified writing what he did....Yikes. The smug sexist interviews after the fact were worse than the bad "fuck you fandom" writing

I mean everything I know about the VM revival is that everyone I know who liked that show loathed it so I’m not even starting watching it sjkdlkjlsgd

and like I’m still here saying that this whole wave of unprofessional ppl finishing their shows badly should make everyone think thrice about poor david milch whose masterpiece show was axed in S3, told he’d get two movies to finish it and then didn’t (yes i’m talking abt deadwood NO I’M NEVER GONNA STOP), then he got alzheimer’s, then he worked on the script anyway and managed to shoot/finish the movie in years while he was fighting alzheimer’s and it was obv affecting the plot/his work and guess what the deadwood finale coming ten years and something extra after they axed the show:

counting that it was a western show with abundance of drama/violence/harsh stuff happening...

managed to find a closure for all the characters except the three who couldn’t come back bc the actors died in the meantime/had obligations

only killed off the necessary people to advance the plot and never just because

kept everyone in character even with the plot having jumped ten years

didn’t gaf about not giving people redemption arcs in the span of five minutes (guys if EB farnum could have his redemption arc everyone else could)

closed each single storyline satisfactorily and without being extra grimdark

actually 85% of the characters got a happy ending including the resident queer couple

gave the audience stuff they most likely had been wanting since S3

didn’t actually fuck with the continuity

gave all the characters character development

didn’t do any cop-out just to be extra edgy

and guess what everyone was shocked because none of us actually expected it to end that happily which means we all were fucking delighted because it was cathartic and it didn’t feel like the writer wanted the audience to be miserable and it closed stuff going back to the pilot episode and they just had two hours to do it :)))) like.... sorry but when a guy who got to finish his baby more than ten years after the axe and had to deal with a neurodegenerative disease while writing it can pull that off none of these people has a justification for their ego masturbating moments of i GET TO FINISH MY SHOW THAT WAS CANCELED or I GET TO FINISH MY SHOW KNOWING I HAVE AN ENTIRE SEASON TOO BUT I’LL MAKE IT BAD JUST TO PISS OFF MY AUDIENCE like sorry but wtf

[dfroza]

To spread a message as a seed of rebirth.

this is what we are to conserve from our Creator. something that Paul writes about in the closing of his Letter of 2nd Thessalonians with Today’s reading of the Scriptures:

Finally, dear brothers and sisters, pray for us that the Lord’s message will continue to spread rapidly and its glory be recognized everywhere, just as it was with you. And pray that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people, for not everyone believes the message. But the Lord Yahweh is always faithful to place you on a firm foundation and guard you from the Evil One. We have complete confidence in the Lord concerning you and we are sure that you are doing and will continue to do what we have told you.

Now may the Lord move your hearts into a greater understanding of God’s pure love for you and into Christ’s steadfast endurance.

Beloved brothers and sisters, we instruct you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to stay away from believers who are unruly and who stray from all that we have taught you. For you know very well that you should order your lives after our example, because we were not undisciplined when we were with you. We didn’t sponge off of you, but we worked hard night and day to provide our own food and lodging and not be a burden to any of you. It wasn’t because we don’t have the right to be supported, but we wanted to provide you an example to follow. For when we were with you we instructed you with these words: “Anyone who does not want to work for a living should go hungry.”

Now, we hear rumors that some of you are being lazy and neglecting to work—that these people are not busy but busybodies! So with the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, we order them to go back to work in an orderly fashion and exhort them to earn their own living. Brothers and sisters, don’t ever grow weary in doing what is right.

Take special note of anyone who won’t obey what we have written and stay away from them, so that they would be ashamed and get turned around. Yet don’t regard them as enemies, but caution them as fellow believers.

Now, may the Lord himself, the Lord of peace, pour into you his peace in every circumstance and in every possible way. The Lord’s tangible presence be with you all.

So now, in my own handwriting, I add these words:

Loving greetings to each of you. And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Paul

The above is my signature and the token of authenticity in every letter I write.

The Letter of 2nd Thessalonians, Chapter 3 (The Passion Translation)

Today’s paired chapter of the Testaments is the 17th chapter of 2nd Kings that describes the idolatry of the people and the result:

[Hoshea of Israel]

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel. He ruled in Samaria for nine years. As far as God was concerned, he lived a bad life, but not nearly as bad as the kings who had preceded him.

Then Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked. Hoshea was already a puppet of the Assyrian king and regularly sent him tribute, but Shalmaneser discovered that Hoshea had been operating traitorously behind his back—having worked out a deal with King So of Egypt. And, adding insult to injury, Hoshea was way behind on his annual payments of tribute to Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and threw him in prison, then proceeded to invade the entire country. He attacked Samaria and threw up a siege against it. The siege lasted three years.

In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the people into exile in Assyria. He relocated them in Halah, in Gozan along the Habor River, and in the towns of the Medes.

The exile came about because of sin: The children of Israel sinned against God, their God, who had delivered them from Egypt and the brutal oppression of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They took up with other gods, fell in with the ways of life of the pagan nations God had chased off, and went along with whatever their kings did. They did all kinds of things on the sly, things offensive to their God, then openly and shamelessly built local sex-and-religion shrines at every available site. They set up their sex-and-religion symbols at practically every crossroads. Everywhere you looked there was smoke from their pagan offerings to the deities—the identical offerings that had gotten the pagan nations off into exile. They had accumulated a long list of evil actions and God was fed up, fed up with their persistent worship of gods carved out of deadwood or shaped out of clay, even though God had plainly said, “Don’t do this—ever!”

God had taken a stand against Israel and Judah, speaking clearly through countless holy prophets and seers time and time again, “Turn away from your evil way of life. Do what I tell you and have been telling you in The Revelation I gave your ancestors and of which I’ve kept reminding you ever since through my servants the prophets.”

But they wouldn’t listen. If anything, they were even more bullheaded than their stubborn ancestors, if that’s possible. They were contemptuous of his instructions, the solemn and holy covenant he had made with their ancestors, and of his repeated reminders and warnings. They lived a “nothing” life and became “nothings”—just like the pagan peoples all around them. They were well-warned: God said, “Don’t!” but they did it anyway.

They threw out everything God, their God, had told them, and replaced him with two statue-gods shaped like bull-calves and then a phallic pole for the whore goddess Asherah. They worshiped cosmic forces—sky gods and goddesses—and frequented the sex-and-religion shrines of Baal. They even sank so low as to offer their own sons and daughters as sacrificial burnt offerings! They indulged in all the black arts of magic and sorcery. In short, they prostituted themselves to every kind of evil available to them. And God had had enough.

God was so thoroughly angry that he got rid of them, got them out of the country for good until only one tribe was left—Judah. (Judah, actually, wasn’t much better, for Judah also failed to keep God’s commands, falling into the same way of life that Israel had adopted.) God rejected everyone connected with Israel, made life hard for them, and permitted anyone with a mind to exploit them to do so. And then this final No as he threw them out of his sight.

Back at the time that God ripped Israel out of their place in the family of David, they had made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam debauched Israel—turned them away from serving God and led them into a life of total sin. The children of Israel went along with all the sins that Jeroboam did, never murmured so much as a word of protest. In the end, God spoke a final No to Israel and turned his back on them. He had given them fair warning, and plenty of time, through the preaching of all his servants the prophets. Then he exiled Israel from her land to Assyria. And that’s where they are now.

The king of Assyria brought in people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and relocated them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the exiled Israelites. They moved in as if they owned the place and made themselves at home. When the Assyrians first moved in, God was just another god to them; they neither honored nor worshiped him. Then God sent lions among them and people were mauled and killed.

This message was then sent back to the king of Assyria: “The people you brought in to occupy the towns of Samaria don’t know what’s expected of them from the god of the land, and now he’s sent lions and they’re killing people right and left because nobody knows what the god of the land expects of them.”

The king of Assyria ordered, “Send back some priests who were taken into exile from there. They can go back and live there and instruct the people in what the god of the land expects of them.”

One of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came back and moved into Bethel. He taught them how to honor and worship God.

But each people that Assyria had settled went ahead anyway making its own gods and setting them up in the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that the citizens of Samaria had left behind—a local custom-made god for each people:

for Babylon, Succoth Benoth;

for Cuthah, Nergal;

for Hamath, Ashima;

for Avva, Nibhaz and Tartak;

for Sepharvaim, Adrammelech and Anammelech (people burned their children in sacrificial offerings to these gods!).

They honored and worshiped God, but not exclusively—they also appointed all sorts of priests, regardless of qualification, to conduct a variety of rites at the local fertility shrines. They honored and worshiped God, but they also kept up their devotions to the old gods of the places they had come from.

And they’re still doing it, still worshiping any old god that has nostalgic appeal to them. They don’t really worship God—they don’t take seriously what he says regarding how to behave and what to believe, what he revealed to the children of Jacob whom he named Israel. God made a covenant with his people and ordered them, “Don’t honor other gods: Don’t worship them, don’t serve them, don’t offer sacrifices to them. Worship God, the God who delivered you from Egypt in great and personal power. Reverence and fear him. Worship him. Sacrifice to him. And only him! All the things he had written down for you, directing you in what to believe and how to behave—well, do them for as long as you live. And whatever you do, don’t worship other gods! And the covenant he made with you, don’t forget your part in that. And don’t worship other gods! Worship God, and God only—he’s the one who will save you from enemy oppression.”

But they didn’t pay any attention. They kept doing what they’d always done. As it turned out, all the time these people were putting on a front of worshiping God, they were at the same time involved with their local idols. And they’re still doing it. Like father, like son.

The Book of 2nd Kings, Chapter 17 (The Message)

my personal reading of the Scriptures for Tuesday, december 22 of 2020 with a paired chapter from each Testament of the Bible, along with Today’s Psalms and Proverbs

A post by John Parsons about the nature of faith and the sufferings we endure in this life:

Reflecting on the role of suffering in the heart of faith, Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote: "Here is the decisive difference between Christianity and all religions. Man's religiosity makes him look in his distress to the power of God in the world: God is the 'deus ex machina.' The Bible directs man to God's powerlessness and suffering: Only a suffering God can help" (Letters and Papers from Prison). Bonhoeffer's comment alludes to the difference between an "Elohim" (אֱלהִים) conception of God as the omnipotent power and Judge of reality, and the "YHVH" (יהוה) conception of God as the compassion Source and Breath of life - the Suffering God who empties himself to partake of our condition - to know our pain, to bear our sorrows, to heal us from the sickness of spiritual death, and to touch us in the loneliness of our exile... The Spirit enables us to "groan" in compassion, directing us away from the impulse to "kill the pain" to accept it as part of our lament and need for connection with God.

Unlike cognitive faith (i.e., emunah: אֱמוּנָה) that assents to theological conformities, trust (i.e., bittachon: בִּטָחוֹן) emotionally commits to God's presence in the sorrows of our lives and retains hope that we are not finally alone, abandoned, helpless... Trust goes beyond the "idolatries of theology," that is, various theological conceptions of God as impassive, inexpressive, and distant in his decrees of transcendence, to engage God personally, existentially, and from within the whirlwind of harrowing pain and pain's great loneliness. Authentic theology is dialectical or “dialogical” -- a conversation of the heart with God - seeking, yearning, protesting, lamenting, and struggling with life’s inscrutabilities and unfathomable questions as it appeals to God for the assurance of genuine hope. Trust finds courage to give voice to our sorrow and fears, inviting God into the midst of our brokenness, often yielding to tearful silence in unknowing expectation. As Dorothy Soelle wrote: "Prayer is an all-encompassing act by which people transcend the mute God of an apathetically endured reality and go over to the speaking God of a reality experience with feeling in pain and happiness" (Soelle: Suffering). This is perhaps the deepest meaning of the Shema - to listen for God's heart in the midst of your struggle; it is learning to encounter God's compassion in the place of your brokenness and need.

"Unto thee O Lord, do I lift up my soul" (Psalm 25:1). Before we can lift up our soul as an offering before the LORD in sacrifice, that is, yielding to his will, surrendering our desires, our hopes, yea, our very lives to him, we must first be broken and confess our heart’s unwillingness to let go of its pain, its mistrust, and its cowardly evasion of suffering....

When I feel hopeless, I seek hope; when in pain, I seek comfort; when in despair over besetting sins, I yearn again for a place I can call home... In the midst of these things, my heart wonders whether my suffering has come because I deserve it or somehow “need” it. I reason that it may make sense that God extends special care for his godly ones, for those who are righteous and who seem free from the vexation of despair, but does it make sense for me, one who is undone, broken, alone, and unworthy? My heart protests that this is not the whole story of my life, and that more to be said. I need God and I know that he cares for me. I recall his promises to heal us, to bind up the broken of heart, and extend his comfort for our afflictions. Might pain herald the advent of something new to come? Might there be a deeper beauty and surpassing good as we go “through the wound” instead of objecting to it?

Andrew Murray once counseled: “In time of trouble say: "First, He brought me here. It is by His will I am in this straight place; in that I will rest. Next, He will keep me here in His love, and give me grace to behave as His child. Then, He will make the trial a blessing, teaching me the lessons He intends me to learn, and working in me the grace He means to bestow. Last, In His good time He can bring me out again -- how and when He knows. [Therefore] let me say I am here, (1) by God’s appointment; (2) in his keeping; (3) under His training; and (4) for His time."

Deep within I discover that I can bless the Lord, losing sight of myself as I affirm my deepest purpose and heritage: “My (boundary) lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me” (Psalm 16:6). Though I might have felt bereft and even tempted to curse my estate, by God’s grace I am made able to give thanks and to bless, even in the midst of my troubles and pain: “I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; my conscience disciplines me in the night” (Psalm 16:7). Therefore שִׁוִּיתִי יְהוָה לְנֶגְדִּי תָמִיד - “I have set the Lord always before me” – especially in desperate moments when I can barely endure – since I have learned that “because he is at my right hand, I shall not come undone” (Psalm 16:8). God gives me strength to renew my hope: therefore “my heart is made glad, my whole being rejoices, and my body rests in trust” (Psalm 16:9).

Suffering and hope, the two go together... Separate one from the other and you become unbalanced and double-minded (i.e., δίψυχος, “two-souled”). Those who turn away from hope in their suffering fall into despair; those who hope to turn away from suffering enter into delusion. The message of suffering presents both the call to hope and offers us comfort. Only the One who suffers "with us" (עִמָּנוּ אֵל), who clothes himself with our sorrows, our infirmities, and who understands the cry of our hearts can help truly help us. "If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness; for God has said: "My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Messiah may reside in me" (2 Cor. 11:30, 12:9). [Hebrew for Christians]

https://hebrew4christians.com/

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Today’s message from the Institute for Creation Research

December 22, 2020

Mind Control

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.” (Ephesians 4:17-18)

A question that troubles many Christians is why most highly educated leaders in science and other fields—even theologians—seem to find it so difficult to believe the Bible and the gospel of Christ. The answer is in the words of our text: They are “alienated from the life of God” because of self-induced ignorance. It is not that they can’t understand, but that they won’t understand! They “walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened...because of the blindness of their heart.” They don’t want to believe in their hearts, therefore they seek an excuse not to believe in their minds. They are “men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith” (2 Timothy 3:8).

The sad truth is that Satan himself controls their minds. They may be ever so intelligent in secular matters, but the gospel, with all its comprehensive and beautiful simplicity, remains hidden to them. “If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not” (2 Corinthians 4:3-4).

Is there a remedy? Yes. “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5). In this verse, the word “thought” is the same as “mind.” The weapons of truth, of prayer, of love, and of the Spirit can capture even such minds as these! HMM

[hricaneuke]

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[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

This odd little story is from the “Deadwood Pioneer Times,” December 20, 1968:

A chemical analysis has failed to provide an identity for a substance which allegedly floated down from an unidentified flying object over Houston on Nov. 3. The report, released Wednesday by Gene Senter, president of the Houston Science Discussion Group on UFO.'s, said the mysterious substance, which resembled "angel hair," would be rent to the Aerial Phenomenal Research Organization in Tucson, Ariz., for further analysis.

[hellsbellschime]

It isn't genre but if you need a fix for a great, nuanced anti hero played by a phenomenal actor, try Deadwood. Al Swearengen played by Ian McShane may be one of the greatest things to happen to tv. The show, in general, is fantastic and the writing is the Wild West meets Shakespeare with the mix of pure vulgarity and beautifully turned phrases. The entire cast is amazing - Timothy Olyphant is weakest link but he gets better. I've never been into westerns but this is in my top 5 shows ever.

Yeah, I’m a bit of a weirdo when it comes to shows, if something doesn’t really catch my interest off the bat in the first one or two episodes I’ll quit, regardless of how acclaimed it is. Deadwood is one of these shows. It’s one of my cousin’s favorite shows of all time and he gave me a very similar sales pitch to this one actually, but when I actually gave it a shot I just kept pausing it every couple of minutes to go do something else. 

[janiedean]

“is [Timothy Olyphant] gonna be what’s making you watch Deadwood” PLS stop calling everyone including me out! 😭😭😭😭😭

LISTEN

i HAVE STAKES ON DEADWOOD AND I NEED EVERYONE TO WATCH IT (well everyone but antis but they wouldn’t last ten minutes anyway) AND HE’S GLORIOUS IN IT AND I NEED Y’ALL TO BE ON THIS SHIP WITH ME ALSO BC MY ONLY CANON WLW SHIP EVER THAT I LIKED IN EXISTENCE AND AL AND EVERYTHING ELSE THIS SHOW IS A GEM if the mandalorian is what makes people catch up with it I’mma just go with it I’ll do anything to sell it to people xDD ;)

[janiedean]

bullock x al, accidentally married + poorly timed confession (you know who i am but let's keep the mistery)

HAHAHAHA HELLO INTELLECTUAL ANON

so hmmm this should probs be modern au but WHO CARES LETS MAKE IT CANON: canon machinations to make sure they are annexed into the us of a fail and when hearst shows up it’s still technically lawless so outside any jurisdiction - hearst makes some plot to buy off the gem that hinges on al owning it so suddenly al is like BUT IF IT ALSO BELONGED TO SOMEONE LIKE BULLOCK and calls the local notary to do a co-owning thing without telling bullock... except that the notary is drunk and he marries them instead and it’s technically valid bc you know, LAWLESS, so bullock is informed and he’s like FFS I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO TELL YOU I WAS INTO YOU BEFORE WE FOUND OURSELVES FUCKING MARRIED YOU CUNT and WOOOOPS

spoilers: trixie laughed her ass off for the next ten years

[janiedean]

Congrats, you've officially made me want to watch Deadwood. I've avoided it since the start because I'm from where Calamity Jane was born and have had it stuffed down my throat. Now I actually see the version they have in the show and can delight in knowing most everyone back home must hate it because it's deep, deep Trump country.

MAN MAN PLS PLS PLS WATCH DEADWOOD IT’S THE BEST ALSO SORRY BUT CALAMITY JANE IN DEADWOOD IS THE TOP BI DISASTER OF THE CENTURY WHO ACTUALLY HAS THE SWEETEST F/F LOVE STORY EVER AND EXCUSE ME BUT I CAN’T EMBED IT SO HERE IS A BEST OF JANE IN DEADWOOD VIDEO BELIEVE ME SHE’S SOME OF THE BEST PARTS OF THAT SHOW I LOVE HER SFM

[janiedean]

fic, deadwood/asoiaf crossover, jane & brienne: welcome to fuckin’ deadwood, can be combative

welcome to fuckin' Deadwood; can be combative; asoiaf/deadwood crossover, brienne & calamity jane, rated R for language, 1,2k;

She opens the door and ushers the woman in.

“Right,” she says, “welcome to the most comfortable floor in Deadwood. And take off that fucking armor. Also, your name is?”

“I’m sorry, I should have said it sooner. It would be the least, considering the kindness you’re bestowing on me.”

Jane isn’t sure she’s hearing that right, but whatever.

“It’s Brienne, my – Jane. Brienne of Tarth.”

As far as Jane knows, a place named Tarth doesn’t exist anywhere, but she has this doubt that wherever Brienne comes from, there’s no place named Deadwood either.

Or: in which Calamity Jane finds out someone very unexpected has appeared out of nothing in Deadwood.

or: I wrote this ages ago on lj, but as there was discussion on here about a possible (or more than one) deadwood crossover I figured I’d repost it and maybe write some follow-ups where asoiaf people conveniently show up in deadwood for reasons. ;) have fun if you know both otherwise don’t mind me XD

[janiedean]

So Peter Dinklage win again over NCW and Alfie, i swear to God he's the most overrated actor in the world!

anon never mind that you didn’t need to send this twice but like..... can we make a distinction between OVERRATED and ‘the network has realized that he plays the male character with most audience popularity therefore they’ll try to boast his performance regardless of how good the writing material is or isn’t and awards are mostly politics and therefore he was going to get nominated anyway’? because peter is not at all overrated, he’s an extremely good actor and when they give him stuff to do he kills it (if ep. 6 had a few saving graces that weren’t ‘it’s not as bad as 5′ one of them was that he absolutely killed it), it’s not his fault if they gave him dick jokes for three seasons because dnd can’t write tyrion for shit if they don’t have material to draw on, and he still had some of the best acting in this show period so how about we don’t decide he’s overrated out of being angry our faves didn’t win whichever they are and get mad at hbo who didn’t even do the smart thing and send him for lead so that the supporting wouldn’t split the nomination when they didn’t even bother acknowledging that kit got nominated after treating him like dirt for this entire season? 

also, with all the love I have for both alfie and ncw and for how much I was hoping one of them would snatch it because they deserve it, considering that in the same category they had both giancarlo esposito and jonathan banks and while I haven’t caught up with better call saul this season yet sure as hell I’m betting money without even having seen it that they had material far better than anything anyone got on got this year bar maybe the knighting scene only and that’s because I’m biased and I haven’t seen BCS’s last season yet but I might be wrong on that too... in the world where actors win also on account of how good their material was and not just network politics it’d have been one of them because they’re both killer actors and bcs/breaking bad are a level of writing quality that dnd can dream of at night, so even if peter was in lead they’d have had dire mad concurrence in that category so it’s not even a given they’d have won if peter hadn’t.

also, idk what was the point of this ask but if it was making me trash talk peter or unleash venom or whatever just because he won over two people I’m obviously more fannish about/whose characters I like more than his sorry but what the hell. also in case anyone forgot about it, I might be more fannish over jaime and theon obv but I love tyrion as well and the more I hear that either he or peter are overrated the more I’m glad he’s on all the merchandise and peter snags awards so how about we don’t, thanks? I mean, it’s fucking tv awards that are dictated by network politics 80% of the time and only give the awards to the deserving when for a miracle the deserving ally with network politics (see: breaking bad) and I’m honestly way more pissed that the deadwood movie didn’t win the only category it was nominated in for than any got win or non-win, I said what I said.

[janiedean]

rainhalydia ha risposto al tuo post “anyway y’all say WHOEVER DESERVED REDEMPTION”

I love how every disappointing movie turns into an opportunity to advertise deadwood XD you win, it's on my list!

my comrade the thing is that until this year I felt like shit recommending deadwood because it never got an ending and I don’t want people to watch a thing that ends in the middle without any kind of conclusion, BUT THE THING IS THAT THE MOVIE THAT CAME OUT THIS YEAR WAS TRULY BEAUTIFUL AND WELL-WRITTEN AND A LETTER OF LOVE TO ALL THE CHARACTERS were nothing was unnecessary calvinist, nothing was gratuitous, you actually got something good out of it because the three deaths in a 15+ characters cast were actually part of the plot, not unnecessary and not overdone, the last one especially was honestly THE FUCKING BEST DEATH I’VE SEEN THIS YEAR because it was like... it had to happen and it was so well-framed and heartbreaking and perfect for that character, and ON TOP OF THAT THE TWO ROMANCES THIS SHOW HAD FOR TWO SEASONS (both straight and lgbt) HAD A HAPPY ENDING THAT WAS 100% EARNED and in one of them the character going like I DON’T DESERVE TO BE HAPPy straight up got told ‘u serious just enjoy your life you do’ and there was no happiness taken from you at the last second and each single character got a closure that made sense and I’m mad that no one is caring about it and that the awards are snobbing it when the writing for this show is better than anything I’ve ever seen DDD: SO YEAH TLDR I’LL JUST BE HERE LIKE ‘PLEASE WATCH DEADWOOD’ XD

[janiedean]

listen by now my dignity is shot out of the window so whatever but can this tv season pay me a favor and stop brutalizing my feelings or WHAT NO BECAUSE COME THE FUCK ON

[janiedean]

I'm watching that Trixie reblog you shared and she gives me a lot of Lannister vibes. She reminds me a bit of Tyrion.

my comrade, THAT’S TRUE but trixie is more jaime lannister material and wait a moment LET ME SEE IF I CAN LINK YOU THE SCENE THAT MADE ME SCREAM WHEN I WATCHED IT BUT NO ONE GIFFED YET ACTUALLY LET ME PUT IT ON YOUTUBE JUST FOR SCIENCE

EXCUSE ME but that was 100% jaime lannister material lines and good thing al told her straight xD that said trixie is 100% lannister material which is why in that crossover me and some other anon(s) had going on when the movie came out she was the third lannister triplet ;)