#georgia talks

[transolar]

maybe YOU can't make everything a queer label but I can. L+ratio+skill issue

[goodqueen-alysanne]

deciding to revive this blog from the dead to scratch the hyperfixation itch in my brain. Reading back through my diary tag is quite interesting - my mental health is in a wildly different place to where it was 4 years ago. I’m no longer taking anti-depressants, I’ve been with my partner for over 5 years, I’ve been teaching for 3 years and have got a job secured in a veeeery good school for September. I don’t smoke or drink anymore. I haven’t SH’d in over a year. I’m generally so much more stable now - and there was such a solid period of time where I was convinced that I would never feel happy again. I’m no where near perfect, and my anxiety and relationship with food can falter, but it’s not everyday. Fuck - I’ve actually grown.

[accordionlover]

might fuck around and forget who josh groban is

[slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

[mad-aims]

Okay, not that I mind, but why is David Tennant trending???

It’s this again isn’t it? ⬇️

Should I be worried or no?

[johnlockdynamic]

[foldingfittedsheets]

The most stone cold thing I ever did to a coworker was at the jewelry store. There was a girl at the back office who earned my eternal hatred by blithely littering her cigarette butts throughout the parking lot.

This characteristic has served as a solid red flag for a personality I will not mesh with. If someone smokes that’s their business but if they’re dropping their toxic trash casually instead of throwing them away I’m just not going to like them. I had a friend who I told that I disliked her fiancée for this reason and it made her realize how apathetic and selfish he was in many other aspects and she ended up leaving him at the altar.

This smoker girl also said “Good for her,” while under the impression that another coworker wouldn’t knit me a rainbow scarf for religious reasons, and defended the right of businesses to discriminate against gay people. Her exact words were, “Well to play devils advocate-“ to which I interrupted, “No, there’s enough devils in my life.” Can you tell we didn’t get along?

Anyway. We had a couple people of color on staff, but not a ton. One was a good friend of mine than I adored, a black lady who constantly stuffed her bra with crystals that were always sliding out to be left in her wake.

I walked into the back room one day to hear the girl had cornered my friend about a situation her husband had gotten into. Her husband worked at the bank and she was outraged on his behalf.

“They took him in the back to reprimand him for being racist, can you believe that?”

It was instantly clear what was going on. The girl was looking for an out from my black friend. She needed my friend to say “It’s okay, here’s a pass on his racism from your black coworker.”

My friend looked miserable and I stepped into the room loudly asking, “Well, was he being racist?”

The girls jaw dropped and she turned to look at me like I’d insulted her in the worst way. My friend ducked out of the room while she spluttered that of course her husband wasn’t racist!

I shrugged and said that it shouldn’t bother her then if he wasn’t but maybe he got talked to for a reason. She left in a furious huff.

My friend was in hysterics when we talked about it later.

“Was he being racist!” She kept repeating while she laughed herself silly and I just smiled and handed her a dropped crystal to go back in her bra.

[ineffablehubbys]

FULL BLACK SUIT??? SUMMER CROWLEY??? SOMEONE TRANSLATE THE FLOWER LANGUAGE!!!

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

I Talk Telly Awards 2023 were won by Good Omens, Staged, David and Michael and David! 🥳🥳🥳❤❤❤

Acceptance Speech for BEST COMEDY PARTNERSHIP - DAVID TENNANT & MICHAEL SHEEN - STAGED

David: Hello, everybody. David Tennant here from TV's Staged. Just dropping by to the I Talk Telly Awards to say... thank you because we are very thrilled to have won an award for Staged.

Georgia: Oh, that's nice.

David: Yeah.

Georgia: What's it for?

David: Best Comedy partnership.

Georgia: Oh, right. For erm.

David: For me and...

Georgia: You and Michael.

David: Me and Michael.

Georgia: Ok. That's... That's nice.

David: You know what that means, Georgia.

Georgia: No, I'm not doing it again.

David: Yeah, it's time.

Georgia: No, I'm not doing it again.

David: You've got to.

Georgia: David, I'm not doing it again.

David: You've got to.

Georgia: Everyone else has moved on and you need to too.

David: It's impolite. We've got to say thank you properly for the award to the lovely people who voted. We love them very much. Go on...

Georgia: I don't wanna do it.

David: Do it.

[Georgia holds big cardboard head of Michael Sheen in front of herself]

David: Heeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy! Michaeeeeel! Michael Sheen and David Tennant here saying thank you for recognizing us as Best Comedy Partnership. Very kind. We're thrilled, aren't we, Michael?

[The cardboard head of Michael nods]

David: Anything else you want to say, Michael?

[The cardboard head of Michael shakes as no]

David: Anything at all?

[The cardboard head of Michael shakes as no]

David: Say something in Welsh.

Georgia behind the head: I don't want to say anything in Welsh.

David: Must be something you could say in Welsh.

Georgia behind the head: I don't want to say anything in Welsh.

David: Thanks everybody! Iechyd da! [= Cheers in Welsh]

Acceptance Speech for BEST RETURNING COMEDY - STAGED

[There is Anna and Lyra, with Cardboard Georgia and Cardboard David]

Lyra: Thank you everyone for voting for Staged!

Anna whispers: For Best Returning Comedy.

Lyra: For Best Returning Comedy.

Acceptance Speech for BEST DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE - DAVID TENNANT - LITVINENKO

David: Hello. Welcome to backstage at the Domar Warehouse. I just stepped out of rehearsals for a second because I want to say thank you so much for this award. Litvinenko was such a very special project to be part of. It meant so much to all of us who were involved in telling Sasha Litvinenko's story. It wasn't just another job. We were telling the story of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary family. It was an honour to portray him. And it means so much to have it recognized in this way. Marina Litvinenko and Anatoly, her son, were extraordinary human beings to get to know. And to be entrusted with their story is something that I will be forever proud of. So this means a great deal. So thank you to everyone who voted and thank you to I Talk Telly. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

We don't have an acceptance speech but Good Omens won in the BEST RETURNING DRAMA category! :)

[transolar]

ppl think attraction is like

[Image ID: a straight black line on a white background. The left end is labeled platonic, the middle is labelled romantic, and the end is labelled sexual. /end ID]

but its really like this

[Image ID: a rainbow gradient with red on the left side and purple on the right side. In the center there's black text that says "Attraction!!" /end ID]

[accordionlover]

WHILE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC i remember reading this old book that i stole from my grandparent's house when i was a kid, it was kind of like a tomboy vs girly girl rivalry that climaxed in a talent show? I don't know. I don't remember the plot very well. But in the end the girly girl won (?) the talent show? Or something? and the tomboy narrator ENDED THE STORY by saying "well, you can never trust a girl who wears mary janes. the end." and little me was like what????? so I went to my mum and asked what mary janes were, and she said "well they're little shoes with a strap over the top" and I said "like my shoes?" and she said yes. And I thought for a second and said "Are they bad?" and she didn't get it, so i said "Apparently you can't trust girls who wear mary janes. Do people think they're bad?" and she said something along the lines of "Well i dont like them very much, they're a bit girly and old-fashioned I think" and from that day on a deep shame was solidified in me.

[trashlord-watson]

we love to see it

[ingravinoveritas]

have you seen the super blurry video of the 4 of them at the Oliver awards?? I what really gets me is Michael stepping into the person behind him.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/davidtennant_daily/3347586970874865569?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MWhjbHM4azBiMmt0Zg==

Yes, I have indeed seen the blurry video that's been going around this afternoon. I know some folks were having difficulty seeing it, so I will post it here:

I think probably the first thing I thought was that this video is too short to really draw any full-on conclusions (to quote Buffalo Springfield, "There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear..."), and to wonder where the heck it came from. (It was posted as a story on a fan page on Instagram, but there's no indication of who recorded it or why it was publicized to begin with.)

Beyond that, though, and because we do not have a context for what is happening (although given the folder David is holding, it looks like it was filmed around when the group photo was taken), I am just looking at the things that are most plainly visible. One of which is what you mentioned, with Michael jerking back suddenly into the woman behind him. It's been suggested that Anna touched Michael's arm to guide him to move because the other woman was trying to pass through. When I watched it again, though, it looked more like the order of events was Anna reached for Michael's arm, he visibly pulled back right when she made contact, and then the other woman moved to keep from colliding with him. That is my interpretation, at any rate.

It also looks like a conversation is happening (possibly between Michael and Georgia, with David in the middle), and Michael seems to look somewhat agitated. Georgia, who is on the right of the frame, appears to then slap her hand to get their attention. This very well could be because it was loud, there were a lot of people talking, and it was difficult to hear. Given how close she is standing to David, though, Georgia could have also just put a hand on his arm the way Anna did with Michael, but she didn't, and I'm a bit perplexed as to why. The hand slap actually reminded me of a school headmistress, or something Judge Judy would do, because those are the only two people I think I've ever seen do a gesture like that.

Whatever her reasons, it seemed to work, as David's head snapped up right away. I did notice though that Michael continued talking (perhaps possibly determined to get whatever point he was making across), and it gave me the feeling that he and Georgia were having a bit of a back-and-forth/fighting for David's attention. (I guess that means the answer to the question of, "Can Michael fight?" is "Yes, if David Tennant is involved".) It could also be that AL was trying to sooth him/get him to be more agreeable to whatever Georgia was saying, but it doesn't seem like that really worked.

Again, it's a very short video and without context it's hard to say anything definitive, but that is my interpretation. I'd still like to know where in the world this video even came from, especially because it seems to cut off so suddenly, giving the impression that there was more. Strange days indeed...

[shamixlour]

This poem, imho, is so Loustat coded. Something about the first impression, the thug, the soft sentiment, and of course the saint/sinner analogy. Everything about this makes me think of them. From the moment i read it, I could instantly picture that thread of seconds where Lestat sees Louis pull the knife on his brother and that personal moment much later when their hearts connected in ways that was unfathomable.

I love that now that i read this poem, i think of Loustat and so I just wanted to share~

[alcestas-sloboda]

Tbilisi, Sakartvelo | 07.03.2023

[invisibleicewands]