#hbo still

[myfandompromptsside]

Me on a regular Monday.

Also:

I need a huge glass of water.

[birdmans]

SUCCESSION (2018–2023)

[cordycepspog]

There’s something horrifyingly beautiful about Tess’s final moments. In the midst of the most dire chaos, as she waits for her death to come rushing past so she can blow it sky high and give cordyceps a big fuck you one last time, one of the infected stops. It looks at her, really looks. Her own mortality is personified in this infected. It’s death that’s looking at her, and it sees her. She looks her own death in the eye, and the suspense is so high as it approaches. But then, it doesn’t bite her throat out like we all expect it to.

It kisses her. What’s more, it kisses her gently. And I think it was a brilliant choice on the writers part, because it reminded me that the infected aren’t supposed to be evil. Sure, they’re scary as hell, but really, they’re just trying to survive. They’re connected to one another, they can feel each other from miles away. They seek out and want to be close to their own kind, just like the human survivors do. And when they do find each other, they kiss hello.

And after so long apart from a loved one, someone you know and trust with every instinct in your body, wouldn’t you want to kiss them too?

[rcbertleckie]

JOHN EGAN and GALE CLEVEN MASTERS OF THE AIR · part two — for @c-goldthorn

[krasnyel]

when connor comes to visit

[holly-mckenzie]

You're not a killer. You have to be a killer. But, nowadays, maybe you don't. I don't know.

SUCCESSION S02E10 / S04E10 created by Jessie Armstrong

[anamazingangie]

i'm FINE

[comicake]

Removing Scooby doo from Velma show because “talking dog can only be in kids cartoons” is the same as “Salem is not gonna talk in chilling adventures of Sabrina cause this show is more dark and serious”. Like no, that’s not right. You just removing the beloved character for no fucking reason and the show still is not mature or dark whatsoever 🙆🏼‍♀️

[bandofbrothers2001]

Dick Winters & Ronald Speirs BAND OF BROTHERS | 2001

[slutneto]

[stfrancisprayer]

band of brothers episode 03 "carentan" ivan the terrible and his son ivan (ilya repin, c. 1885)

[bisexualnonsense]

My partner made a comment about how this episode fed into “bury your gays” and like, while his heart was in the right place with the critique, I felt so strongly the opposite way

Like on its face, yes, two gay men died…. But like, in a show about a zombie apocalypse where we’re tracking at least 1 Major Character Death per episode, Bill & Frank are triumphant compared to every other character. They got to live to be old and gray together after a life of relatively peaceful flourishing. They chose their deaths on their own terms, a luxury most people don’t get in this world. They got to die together, in each others arms, neither left to live and suffer alone. They got to go with dignity, autonomy, and love, in peace, together. They got to choose. They made their end meaningful. They were happy and satisfied and fulfilled. Everything that gay characters are so often not afforded in life, much less in death.

Not only that, but narratively speaking, their deaths were used in exact opposition to “bury your gays.” The trope was created to reinforce that being gay is a sin, that gays must die as punishment for their evil ways. It’s intended to be a narrative consequence, the moral of the story, a warning to its audience.

But the deaths of Bill and Frank were used as closure to a story arc about living a happy, fulfilled life with your partner. Even further than that, their arc was used to demonstrate that there is meaning in life because we choose to create meaning, that purpose is found in each other, in loving someone, even at the end of the world. They are held up as an example of what to strive for, of a reason to keep living, of something to pursue. It is completely antithetical to bury your gays and is in fact a brilliant subversion of it in that it grounds the purpose of the narrative itself.

Tl;dr: TLOU really said love wins.

[birdmans]

PRE-NUPTIAL SUCCESSION (2018—2023)

[evidenceof]

RON LIVINGSTON as LEWIS NIXON III -> 365 Party Girl, 101st Airborne Division

[rcbertleckie]

rosie + smiles

[reyenii]

SOFIA GIGANTE & ALBERTO FALCONE THE PENGUIN (2024)