#i also play phoebe

[you-see-something-strange-here]

we need Ted Lasso to come back for a season four so Jamie can copy this hairstyle from Jack Grealish

(personally, I think Jamie would rock it. also, Phoebe totally braided it for him)

[puppypeter]

I very rarely think about storylines for royjamie after richmond (because it breaks my heart a little to think of anyone of the team leaving) but like it's possible that jamie would choose to stay with richmond his whole career, it's also possible that the people at richmond itself would push for him to play for *insert the name of whatever other european football team is considered the best* and he becomes a proper super star, being invited for fancy events and shit.

(In a made up world where Ted stayed in London) Roy and Jamie got together while at richmond and now Roy travels with him everywhere as his own personal coach / PA / secret boyfriend / man behind the camera of every instagram post / personal grumpy cat / number one fan / emotional support teddy bear / personal chef etc He loves being with him 24/7 and finds it fulfilling to still be involved with football and helping someone be the best they can be but without the added pressure of having to constantly step outside his comfort zone that he'd have experienced being a manager to a whole team (he's doing good with being vulnerable with Jamie, he can do it with one person that he loves and he is still going to therapy for himself to work through his own trauma/CEN/grief and is focusing on learning to be in his skin as a human being and not this fucked up idea of masculinity he's got in his head) And Roy has a private instagram account under a random username where he follows and is followed only by the richmond team/coaches/Rebecca/Higgins + Keely + Georgie & Simon + his sister and he only uses it to post pictures of food, nature, weird shit he finds in the cities they visit, and his fit boyfriend. Since it's friends only he does use captions ("the muppet had a late night last night" with a picture of Jamie asleep on the floor) and all the himbos love to comment, especially Dani's "Sexy muchachos #JOY" under every single picture.

"night out post Milan fashion week with the muppet and some lovely faces i have missed"

"one handsome dressed-up muppet in Paris"

"Elopement fit check #MyMuppet" (which sends everyone in a melt down) Here's some pics of Roy that Jamie posts instead (in his photo dumps to be sneaky but there's really a lot of roy on his profile - also they 100% got a puppy!!). Also think the proper first post containing only Roy that Jamie would post would be after they elope and it would melt down the internet (the in-universe royjamie rpf-ers especially)

(the last one is such a slutty roy pic *cough cough*)

"Roy Kent always remains 💙🪢" (somebody feel free to make an actual ig posts edit of this with better pics/captions if you fancy I will do nothing but cry and thank you forever because I have no skills but I cannot stop thinking about these muppets getting married!!)

[aeolianblues]

was kinda thinking about this when I saw Renee Rapp live recently-- I didn't know her visual vibe, I'd heard a few songs here and there but I hadn't really *seen* her, and her attire at Osheaga was really casual, a jersey (baseball/basketball?) and slacks. And that was so amazing! I couldn't help thinking, the work Billie Eilish has done for how women in pop music are allowed to dress is incredible. Seeing her up there all comfortable you just know that Billie walked in her oversized tops so that Renee in her slacks could run; Billie walked through all the critcisms about how she dressed slobbily and having to assert that she didn't owe anyone a display of skin, so that Renee could be comfortable and unquestioned running up and down the catwalk in front of 10,000 people. How iconic.

And I don't think we even realised at the time how much something as simple as letting Billie dress the way she as a (then-) 17-year-old teenager dressed, could end up meaning for a future generation of women in music.

Obviously there is still way to go, there were weirdos complaining about how 'plain' Dua Lipa's Glastonbury outfit was this year (in 2024!!), l have to ask, are you at Paris Fashion Week?? She is the musical HEADLINER of an entire day of music at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, and you can't grant her the space to exist as an artist, you have to moan about her dress not being excitingly revealing enough. There's work to do, it's still dismal out there. But the space Billie Eilish has created for a most ordinarily-dressed woman popstar is still heartening.

[pcktknife]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrffffff

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i think the diamond dogs should play improv games just bc it would amuse me, an ex theater kid, specifically

[whiskeyswifty]

I’m Phoebe ignoring the crowd of 80k people to gaze lovingly at her.

[sanguine-succubus]

[noodlesha]

Fair Play (2023) - Just some thoughts.

DISCLAIMER - I want to give a disclaimer as this film does deal with SA and I will be discussing it, so please feel free to skip this one if this topic isn't for you, but I will give a warning if you would still like to read.

So, a couple of days ago I watched this film which was on my ‘to watch’ list for AGES, Fair Play which was directed and written by Chloe Domont (we LOVE a female writer/director), and it was so captivating the whole way through. The way this film got me invested in a hedge fund is mind-blowing because it became so much less about what the job was and more about the character dynamics – this could’ve truly been in any setting, and I would’ve watched this. I will be discussing spoilers so if you haven’t already, PLEASE go and watch the film, if you love films that discuss a complex dynamic between men and women, I think you’ll enjoy this one.

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I truly appreciated how the film depicted women in power, particularly within a relationship, the movie starts with a very happy couple that have become recently engaged (Emily and Luke), and they work for the same hedge fund company where they keep their relationship a secret. Something we’re shown very early on is men and their reaction toward their failures – when their manager gets fired at the beginning, we see the man destroy his office in a fit of rage, yelling that the company needs him and that it is their fault and not his. We see this foreshadowed in Luke further into the film, but we’ll discuss that later.

After their ex-manager’s explosion, there are rumours around the office that Luke got the promotion in which we see Emily’s face as she hears this, and through the audience we see how she reacts positively to this information, you know as any NORMAL human would (I’m looking at you Luke…). Emily tells Luke without a hint of malice or jealousy; she is simply happy for her significant other in this moment.

However, when Emily gets called in to drink with a colleague, she’s surprised to find her boss gives her the promotion instead of Luke. We smash cut to Emily in the car and she tells Luke that she got the promotion instead, whom facilitates a VERY different reaction to the news and is stooped but eventually congratulates her. Not without asking if their boss had touched her, of course, because obviously women just can’t get a promotion because she’s good.

It’s from then we see this couple spiral out of love and become vastly different people than they started. Emily starts to earn a lot more than Luke does, she offers to take him out to dinner, she ends up coming home late, even goes to a strip club which fully blurs the line of gender dynamics and the idea of ‘masculinity’. Her success at work is shown through Luke’s myopic view of what a man should be like, and even challenges our view of what a successful woman looks like – when success is relegated by a male perspective, can it hinder our view of a successful woman?

When another PM is fired, we see Luke beg for the job only for the position to be filled within an instant by someone else (I thought this was hilarious by the way) and Emily tells him that instead of promoting him, their boss was considering firing him. Which speaks a lot to the fact that he was doing so terribly that his boss was going to fire him, and yet he was just so sure that he deserved that promotion (typical am I right?). It’s then where Luke goes missing, only to return to do the one thing he can think of to make Emily feel as he does – embarrassed. So, he reveals their relationship in the hopes that it gets her fired (which it does not) and publicly shames her in front of important clients.

Okay so I’m going to talk about the scene in which Emily is R-worded by Luke so please skip this paragraph if need be. This scene arrives when Luke has well and truly fired from their firm, and unbeknownst to Emily’s parents they put on an engagement party not aware of the tensions between the two. In this scene, we feel Emily’s rage and her nervousness to see Luke, he has completely transformed over the film, mind you in a very realistic manner. When Emily confronts Luke, we see his true feelings towards their situation, when he argues that she offered sexual favours to their boss, and in response she smashes a bottle over his head (rightly so). It’s then that she runs away to the bathroom where he follows, and they continue to argue before they start to engage in… acts – which parallels when we first meet them in the scene at his brother’s wedding party (in that scene they face each other, however in this scene Luke controls Emily). However, Luke starts to get rough with Emily, and she tells him to stop but he doesn’t and slams her down into the sink, leaving a massive bruise on her face.

Now, I’ve never liked it when films contain an R-word scene, particularly as it feels incredibly obtrusive, and while it gives the desired reaction (discomfort), it is also viewed through a male gaze most of the time where we focus on the brutality the MAN is giving rather than how the WOMAN feels in this matter. And in this scene, it’s a shame that it doesn’t seem like the latter; I just think I’m of the majority of people who feel that these types of scenes aren’t needed and it could’ve been portrayed a lot better – I also find it interesting that people reviewing the film tend to leave out this scene, instead calling it a ‘sexy’ or ‘erotic’ thriller, which just feels very pedantic in a way.

The next scene shows Emily covering her bruise and telling her boss at the hedge fund that Luke was a crazy stalker, whom she did date but became out of control. We see then the boss doesn’t care, because Emily is worth keeping there. When she returns to her apartment, Luke is there who appears nonchalant about what happened and tells Emily that he’s staying at his brother’s. Emily, enraged by this, demands he apologises for assaulting her and attacking him until he cries and begs for forgiveness for him (she is also in this scene towering over him and he is sprawled on the floor and I guess you could argue mimics her assault in some way). As his blood is spilled on the floor, the film ends with her telling him to clean it up.

I remember watching this film and thinking that it was really odd that it showed Emily getting her period a few times, particularly at the beginning, but after seeing the whole thing, it made more sense. The idea of a period is something quite powerful, when we think of blood spilling, I think we most associate that with violence and domination, which also coincides with a period cycle. The idea that people who deal with periods, spill blood monthly but it is not deemed as powerful. So when at the climactic end of the film when Emily slashes Luke and spills his blood (and makes him clean it up, what a queen); Domont had created this connection of a woman being innately powerful.

So overall, this film was really something, I ended up enjoying a lot more than I thought I would, and while it does have some faults, it brings a very interesting topic through a very sleek and stylish manner. I would love to see what Domont does next.

[cosmicheartz]

Tbh I’m like thinking abt future au romance stuff and I keep kinda switching my mind on certain things

[doberbutts]

I think tater is just realizing because of peebs how good she had it with Sushi. Hence the cuddling. “Oh shes fjcking crazy. I guess she isn’t so bad”

No I think that's literally exactly what's going on lmao

Tater: god I hate Sushi I am barely tolerating her because dad says I must but also she cannot be touching me or interacting with me in any way or I will bat screech at her 🤬🤬🤬

Phoebe: hi

Tater: holy shit Sushi is a godsend I will play with and cuddle with and positively interact with Sushi because she's leagues better than whatever the hell dad's brought home this time, who I must now bat screech at whenever she so much as looks in my direction

[reborrowing]

gt July - "Ancient"

Interpreted the prompt liberally (and very self indulgently). I threw current Val and Phoebe at their original Ashes of the Phoenix incarnations (Val and Felix) from an original fantasy universe that I made in like...2012? I abandoned the project like 5-6 years ago at least, it feels ancient to me.

I restarted the AOTP story several times, but the general premise was like

A street scammer pulls a con on the wrong person and pinches a very cursed pendant that senses their latent magic and immediately fuses itself to their life essence/soul. They find themself in sudden possession of very strong magic, as well as intermittently possessed by an unknown entity. In events that are definitely entirely unrelated, the dream cities that fuel commonplace magic start to break apart, kicking off what initially appears to be a plague. For most folks without magic, it’s unremarkable, but it feeds on magic. Infected magicians suffer excruciating symptoms over an indefinite period of time until they’re cut off from magic entirely—a typically lethal experience. One wizard scholar is convinced that that this has happened before and intends to work himself to the bone looking for a solution until the plague kills him. He specializes in soul magic and divination. Altogether, this puts him in the unique position to recognize there's a random street rat running around with a piece of god's soul, for some reason. That's probably important.

Fling the two sets at each other, Vals' first impressions aren't great. But in original!Val's defense, the only things like a tiny race in AOTP were dream sprites, but they aren't fully sentient. they normally look like melting wax figures and their behavior is just an echo from someone's dream. the only time you'd find one that looks and acts like a person is if a fairly talented magician spent a lot of time sculpting one. so. kind of feels like they just found a fine art project from a mystery stalker. They work it out and bond over being weirdness magnets for magic they want nothing to do with.

Felix-Phoebe goes better, since they both click as people who are the same flavor of neurodivergent. Phoebe loves the idea of magic that has rules and can be studied, unlike the chaotic faery stunts she's had to put up with. Felix is similarly intrigued by the concept of particle physics until either Val catches enough of the conversation to understand it and shut it down, they are not going to invent nuclear magic, that's horrifying.

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[chthonicmoons]

today was “annual update age in bio” day :)

[whiskeyswifty]

i know thats unlikely but what an insane turn of events it would be if guts won aoty instead of midnights

The implications would be insaaaaane. None of which would be implied by Olivia or Taylor, but contextually and historically it would be a riot!!! A hoot!! You’d have to laugh at the sick irony, on Taylor’s end of things at least. I agree though it’s incredibly unlikely but don’t ever expect to the Grammys to do sensible things, so it’s on the table at least.

[shrekgogurt]

Carry On Countdown 2022: Day 19 - Heal

Well folks, I wrote a song for the “Heal” prompt @carryon-countdown from the perspective of a WS/mainly AWTWB Simon. I got some of the little words mixed up in the recording but my fingers hurt and I didn’t want to redo it, but under the break are the intended lyrics!

“Chamber by Chamber”

I thought running made me brave stealing keys from musty caves and took more than I gave with all that's left of me staring at a screen

too selfish for me to stay always getting in the way I know what people say I'm not what I used to be or ever have been

but chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain

just let me keep you

so I lived to enjoy the view is this what people do? try their best to push on through every urge to run and hide? then buy a bedside light?

when chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain can't stand when you're gentle or beg for a thing bite down, surrender, tuck you under my wing

just let me keep you let me keep you

what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep? what did I keep?

chamber by chamber I would open a vein darling you know I could handle some pain can't stand when you're gentle or beg for a thing bite down, surrender, tuck you under my wing

just let me keep you (what did I keep?) let me keep you (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying (let me keep you) (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying (let me keep you) (what did I keep?) I’ll keep trying and breathing and trying

[farminglesbian]

MARY LAIRRE

[dorkot]

im posting this here cause i dont have a safe space to say this irl:

i hate boygenius and taylor swift. i get so mad when i hear them on the radio cause they suck such doodoo ass. please put on black eyed peas or britney...thanks.