#god i need to lie down

[arthursfuckinghat]

Sorry just thinking about how lovingly Charles talked about where he'd buried Arthur, the softness and somber in his voice, the way he reassured John that Arthur got the proper burial he deserved.

"It's where he would have wanted to be.. a pretty hillside.. facing the evening sun."

[season-77]

New Shaun, people!!!! And a report from the Q&A after the matinee!

"Went to see Here in America yesterday. Very small theatre( about 150 seats) in the round so felt quite intense. We had front row tickets so actors about a foot away! There are only 4 actors so Shaun is on stage most of the time. Interesting to hear him with an American accent too. I didn't really know too much about Kazan or Miller or what happened but was glad I'd read up beforehand.

Luckily for us there was a Q and A session after the matinee with Shaun and the Assistant Director. He said he'd met the Director at a play Anton Lesser was in and had expressed an interest in working with him. He's also a fan of the Orange Tree so was pleased to work there. Apparently the writer had said in rehearsals that although the play is based on historical events it's still relevant to what is happening today. Method acting is one of the things mentioned in the play and Shaun said it's not something he does. He had read Kazan' s autobiography and book on directing and watched films of the era to imagine the character. He quoted Einstein " imagination is more important than knowledge " . He writes ideas in a notebook which he produced from his pocket. He also said he enjoys directing and acting and would like to continue with both.

We were even luckier to meet Shaun as we were leaving and hubby asked if he could take a photo of me with " the other man in my life"

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

So I finished AoS season 5 and-

COULSON TOLD DAISY HE'S PROUD OF HER????

THEY SAID "I LOVE YOU"??????

You don't understand that never happens

N E V E R

I am never that lucky. No way. Nope. This is the shit that only happens in fanfics. I abandoned that hope years ago.

If anyone needs me, I'll be rewatching that scene over and over until it sinks in, sobbing like a little baby.

[azurajay]

having a normal one about lucretia tazbalance on this good evening

[plutonicbees]

"it's really me. is it really really really you?"

some yj19 konbart for @superfamilyweek day 2: across space or time/friends & teammates (kind of ended up fulfilling both??)

[zend-pixie]

good time for a little reminder that this was a thing from an official interview if i'm not mistaken <3

Warning! Long ramble about Rex ahead!

I've been doing a lot of thinking about this scene. I'll try my best to organize my thoughts!

(heads up: This is operating under the assumption that (basically) everything that happens in the movies is real.)

To begin with, we gotta address the irony of this line... Like, Rex, you do realize that you're just a piece of plastic too, right? And so is Emmet?

But before I look at that, I wanna touch on the line he says right after that,

"You still wanna go back to the Matrix when you know the truth???"

Now, I haven't seen The Matrix, I'll admit to that. But because it's ingrained in pop culture, I know the gist of it.

But anyway, one obvious truth from it is that once you're aware the world is a simulation, you can never really go back completely, not without sacrifice, because you know it's not real.

Now, call me captain obvious, but by his line there, he clearly can't be referring to his time on Undar--because Emmet hadn't experienced that, nor had he understood when Rex told him about it. I'm convinced he has to be referring to the first movie, and their experience in the Realm of the Man Upstairs.

While he was there in the first movie Emmet saw his world for what it was. He saw Finn playing with Benny's spaceship, hinting at the kind of control Finn had over his world. but Emmet himself interacts with Finn himself.

As far as Emmet knows... He's different. He's not under Finn's control. All of his friends? Things made up by a giant unknown creature. But not him.

He knows the nature of his world, but is still happy to rejoin it, so long as he has a place in it...

But then came Undar.

On Undar he sees, yet again, the absolute lack of control his world has. The moment Finn leaves the picture and Bianca takes over, it's as if he never existed in the first place. He doesn't recognize his friends, because the personalities he'd come to know, literally, the people he knew, were completely gone.

It's there that he realizes that they truly are pieces of plastic.

I can't imagine how fucking lonely that must have felt. To see how little your life truly mattered in the universe, that you could be warped and changed without recognition and be none the wiser, to know who you were was as inconsequential as a thought.

As far as Rex knows, he and Emmet are the only Real ones in existence. The only ones that can retain who they are.

Rather ironic, again, when we see how much Rex changes himself.

So when he says "You still wanna go back to The Matrix?" it's more so incredulity that he, as Emmet, ever wanted to go back, that he ever put any value into the world that was nothing but an illusion.

This could also explain why Rex was so quick to turn on Emmet in Undar. Once he saw Emmet wasn't going to change, was never going to give up on his fantasy world, he had no problem seeking to destroy him. In the Realm of the Man Upstairs, knew he would live on, since he's Real. He could get rid of this failure, further cementing himself as Rex, and move on to the next timeline to try again.

It's when Lucy enters the picture and brings back Imagination that things go to shit for Rex. Outside of the Realm of the Man Upstairs they're under the giant beings' control again. What happens here is out of Rex's ability to change.

And, sure enough, Finn has him disappear.

It's just... So, so fucking sad. Can you just imagine how many nights Emmet must have lain awake during those five years, bearing the weight of his knowledge of the entire world on his shoulders? Knowing everything was an illusion?? His home, his friends, Lucy, all just the product of a child's imagination???

No wonder Emmet was able to move on so easily once Rex disappeared.

It really was easier for him to forget the nature of The Matrix and just rejoin it and be happy. Having to deal with the weight of it would crush and mangle him, the way it had Rex.

[waitineedaname]

"hualian invented love" well bingqiu invented telling your partner that if you were his mother you wouldn't have aborted him even if it killed you, so. im not sure what that is, but bingqiu sure invented it

[n3onwraith]

Getting she/her'd by everyone at school even though that's the ONE place I'm openly not a girl at, getting called a old name j stopped using, wanting to stop talking and being forced to talk and then interrupted when i do wanna talk, being rushed, being bossed around AND my classmates watching me struggle to move a desk and not helping besides making an obvious remark that u can't do because someone's stuff is there??? all in one period???? yaaaaaay/sarc

anyways, live Ms.Dent for coming and letting me talk to her about random stuff to take my mind off it, screw everyone else <3

[mcmuppet]

landoscar hug has derailed my entire work day

[ingravinoveritas]

Michael straight up writing erotic gay fan fiction about Lucian and Aro in a 2012 interview and I am losing my mind...

[p4nishers]

crowley saying "if any harm comes to aziraphale because of this i will–" to gabriel is SO fucking special to me bc he was so clearly afraid of gabriel after the trial like just look at his reaction when he first sees him and him saying he spent a WHOLE NIGHT worrying that gabriel's gonna smite him like he's actually terrified and still after ALL THAT he still threatens gabriel and i just think threatening someone like THAT is actually so vulnerable bc he's making it abundantly clear that he cares for aziraphale and wants him safe and that aziraphale is HIS to protect and he WILL protect him no matter fucking what and i just i can't deal with how outright and upfront crowley was this season not only with aziraphale but with other people ABOUT aziraphale too like he was really not fucking around this season and he needed everyone to know aziraphale is his and made gabriel almost JUMP OUT OF A WINDOW for wanting to hurt aziraphale and the vulnerability of it all is making me go NUTS

[arthursfuckinghat]

"Eagle Flies.. he needs help.. they all need help.."

[hayaku14]

I'M LOSING MY MIND OVER THIS CONAN x FRIEREN COVER OH MY GOD

[queerofthedagger]

i love fingon so much just. he's so good and so reckless and he loves so fiercely it makes him do the most stupid shit, and in turn no one ever quite puts him first. I'm going to eat glass

[astarioffsimpmain]

Okay so I just watched the cutest couple get ready for a Ren Faire together and OHMYGOD just- just imagine it for a second... just imagine letting Astarion pick out your outfit for you and get you dressed for some event. He'd love it. 😭 He'd go all out, too. He'd have you trying on different things, a very serious focus-pout on his face as he tries to decide which corset would look better with the dress he picked out for you.

"Oh no, darling, I'll have to hem that. It's much too long, you can't walk like that."

And you let him do your hair and he gets lost in brushing it and running his fingers through it for a second because wow, it's finally hitting him that he's never been in charge of someone else before. He's never been given the opportunity to make these kinds of decisions with the only motives being love and care, and suddenly it feels so much more special.

And he puts your shoes on for you because "Darling, you can't ruin your hair after I spent so long on it!" And he's so proud of his work when you stand up and give him a little twirl because that's his love that he dressed up and you look so damn happy and how could he not be happy when your trust in him is so evident and it's so obvious how much you love him? How could he not feel safe and more loved than he's ever felt in his life?

[shepscapades]

Hey! i’m really into the dbch story and i was wondering if doc and xisuma ever tell bdubs the specifics of why etho lost his memories, cause if they do that is prime self blaming angst for bdubs

I’m inclined to believe they don’t. Actually (and maybe I should do a small comic for this so more people see it) I imagine, once a month or a few pass and they finally return etho to bdubs as reset, I imagine they are VERY serious about warning bdubs not to try to force Etho to re-deviate— they don’t go into specifics, but they probably tell bdubs that whatever happened had to do with something that was emotionally overwhelming, and that forcing him to redeviate/not letting it happen naturally could trigger the same error. They have no idea what could happen so bdubs needs to be very careful and let Etho find himself again on his own.

Whether or not bdubs gets impatient or can only go so long before he doubts it would be that bad if he tried pushing Etho in the right direction is another story.

But yeah. I don’t think Xisuma or Doc really… tell anyone that this happened. Etho’s error seemed like a very specific one-off scenario, so it’s not something the other hermits should be trying to avoid or be careful about happening to their own android friends, and the only thing telling people would do is make them worried about the situation. All they need to know is that etho was broken and that they need to be careful with him. I don’t agree with their decision to keep what happened to themselves but I understand it I think. Xisuma “i don’t want to worry the hermits” Void and Docm “eh this isn’t the first time I’ve replaced this arm, people won’t question it” 77