#i love humphrey so much

[thekingofspin]

my favourite ghosts episode is the bone plot.

it makes me sob every single time.

humphreys story is so tragic, he tried so hard to make his wife happy and nothing he did was good enough.

he spent his life alone barely able to speak to his wife and now he's dead bc he can't move around with the other ghosts he's still alone. still barely talks to anyone.

people only ever go to him if they want something. just like his wife.

HUMPHREY DESERVES SO MUCH MORE.

[ko-feels-empty]

[seefasterdraws]

hug! that! captain!

[saninmint]

I’ve been watching a lot of ghosts lately

[xnumb-little-bugx]

I think of all the scenes in Ghosts that never fails to make me cry, this might be my favourite of all <3

[moonahsrobin]

The silly

[half-an-hour-hence]

Every ghost has their own individual flaws, things that the people from their time can pick out and scrutinise and make fun of them for. Some have experienced loneliness, or ostracism from society, because of these small factors that in the grand scheme of things shouldn’t - and don’t - actually matter that much. In life, the people that they were forced to associate with made their lives a misery and caused them pain, whether the ghosts were aware of it or not. But in death, although they are all from different time periods with different views on the world, they are always there for each other. Whenever one of them is thinking little of themselves because of how different they are to everyone else, someone is always there to say “you matter”, or “I’m glad you’re here”, or “you are beautiful”. The genius of this show comes in the simplicity of its acknowledgement of how wonderful difference can be. And making different people from different time periods accept that times have changed and people have changed almost feels like the Six Idiots are pointing a finger at society and saying “if these fictional characters can accept each other for who they are, how small minded do you have to be if you can’t do that for real people?”

And I think that’s wonderful.

[captain-rickbond]

I'm having a Larry day...

[what-the-bally-hell]

MY SPECIAL LITTLE GUY HE IS SO UNDERRATED BUT HE'S JUST A LITTLE SKRUNGLE LOOK AT HIM HE CAN DO NO WRONG EVER

here's the tiktok link if you want it (sorry ik it's getting annoying but I have like no likes over there 😭) :

[raeflora]

♡ derena in 2024 moodboard ♡

[ghosts-of-love]

i am on my fucking knees lads

[kiell's twitter]

[idontknowwhatsgoingonokay]

I'm just saying if I was a ghost in Button House I would hangout with Humphrey all day everyday

[travellingtribble]

is it just me or did season 5 have much more Humphrey screentime than usual?

[froggywentaprincin]

The only named Princes in the EAH show are:

Two generics, a one-off that doesn’t even live in Ever After, a frog, and an egg

[frank-kastled]

my tuxie baby

[waldorfhistoria]

Man, this wonderful Jenny meta I reblogged has me thinking SO many thoughts, especially about the Dan-Jenny dynamic and this line in particular:

“one scene that stands out to me is when jenny steals the dress in season one and dan goes into talk to her and it’s so clear he’s had to take on somewhat of a parental role with her since their mom has been gone? and i’m sure that’s frustrating for both jenny and for dan. but despite taking on this role of care, he doesn’t treat her condescendingly or with any ire, he tries to be understanding and careful and thoughtful where rufus couldn’t be.” - @buffyspeak

And one of the things that’s so fascinating to me about the relationship dynamic between Dan and Jenny is that they essentially have about four different styles of sibling relationships, all nestled into their one.

At times, especially towards the beginning of the show, Dan and Jenny have a fairly “typical” big brother/little sister dynamic - Jenny is teasing and affectionately annoying towards Dan, Dan is teasing and affectionately exasperated towards Jenny, but they ultimately look out for and try to protect/take care of one another the way that siblings do. But there’s a shift, I think, when Alison leaves - Rufus is suddenly acting as a single father, and Dan is put in the position where he not only needs to look out for Jenny as her big brother, but as a pseudo-mother of sorts - he’s the one who ends up playing mediator between Rufus and Jenny’s growing conflicts, who tries to give her the advice and guidance that she’s not getting from either of her actual parents, and is even the one who Rufus, at times, turns to to talk out the parenting decisions he makes in relation to Jenny. Which brings up another facet of their dynamic that only grows as the show goes on and Jenny starts to struggle more and more - the golden child and the “problem” child.

One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of the Rufus discourse really hinges on whether a fan is paying more attention to Dan as a character or to Jenny, because the Rufus in Dan’s story is often a very different figure than the Rufus in Jenny’s. Dan’s Rufus is a compassionate, loving, fair-minded dad, who affords Dan a level of respect and independence while also upholding strong moral values he expects his son to live up to. Jenny’s Rufus, on the other hand, is a far more controlling and at times almost immature figure, sometimes fighting with Jenny like a peer rather than a parent - a father who fails to offer his daughter the same respect and understanding he affords his son. And while none of this is Dan’s fault, how can Jenny not be a little resentful of it, of him - that Dan is treated like a person while Jenny is often made to feel like more of a project.

And yet, in spite of that, I would argue there’s another dimension of their relationship that probably plays a key role in keeping them close as the series wears on - Dan and Jenny as childhood friends. This is something that I feel doesn’t come up in the show enough but is still interesting in light of the way their dynamic evolves - based on what we know of their upbringing, it doesn’t seem like Dan and Jenny had a lot of other friends coming into the Upper East Side. I mean, we’re told that pretty explicitly with Dan, given that Vanessa seems to be the only other person he’s really close to outside of his family, prior to dating Serena. But it seems like Jenny didn’t really have any other close friends herself - at least no one close enough to stay in touch with after she moves from public school to private. It seems like - especially in the space of time that Vanessa was living in Vermont - Dan and Jenny were likely each other’s two closest friends, and I think considering how enmeshed their later social circles become, that adds an interesting nuance as well. Dan isn’t just Jenny’s big brother, he’s also her sister and sometimes her mother and kind of her rival and always her longtime friend.