#i'm not saying kate has to be gay in everything

[buckxtommy]

nothing will ever convince me what neal caffrey and peter burke had was platonic like. that show is everything but a straight fbi procedural let me tell you

–the day peter catches neal for the second time, he remembers the suit peter was wearing almost 4 years ago, the day he arrested neal for the first time. in another episode, neal points out that peter got a new suit. this guy has either plenty of suits or a few suits that look pretty much identical. what do you mean you know his wardrobe like that?? why do you care ??? (rhetorical question. i know why. neal caffrey i know what you are)

– neal never once shuts up about peter like he is physically incapable of doing so. "he's like the superman without powers." (raising his glass) "to peter burke. the man who we want to be more like." & the whole conversation between him and scott (the young conman/robin hoodie) when neal tried to convince him to turn himself in. "this is not about me. this is about peter burke. he's the smartest man i've ever met. he caught me, he will catch you." "no one's that good." "but he is, scott."

– similarly peter being constantly amazed by neal's tricks ('guess the number' game, forging signatures etc) and the way he operates when they're on a mission. peter "couldn't have done it without neal." burke i know what you are too

– the most giddy and happiest neal has been throughout the entire series is when peter calls him partner for the first time

– remember how heartbroken neal was when peter said "you failed me"?? he cared less about being in jail/being falsely incriminated and more about what peter thought of him

– when peter confronts kate for the first time, he promises to get her what she wants (the music box) in exchange for letting neal go and not playing with his emotions anymore and then kate asks him the million-dollar question, "why would you do that?" like yeah?? why would he?? at that point neal was just a criminal he locked up twice and they barely knew each other back then. yet he says "because he's good. he's the smartest man i've ever met." after that, he asks her if she ever really loved neal like it's any of his business. i'm

– whatever the fuck this is:

– neal risks jail time & his life for peter more times than anyone can count (changing the federal judge's incriminating tape with a blank one, falsifying evidence in order to get peter out of jail etc). the conman, who has done everything in his life for money and his own personal gain, who never gets close to people because he knows he lives on borrowed time, gives up 2.5 million dollar ring to save the man he's not at all in love with. and he doesn't even try to take credit for it. whilst not gay

–peter canonically listened to neal's daily horoscope on the radio. peter. listened to. neal's daily horoscope. fellas is it gay

– the way they look at each other actually make me nauseous bc what the fuck !!!!!!!

[whoisthispersonwow]

Hello people of tumblr! :)

I am not used to using this app but I thought i would give it a shot as the fandom works featured here are straight up the best things i've found on the internet, and the community seems just AMAZING on all regards!!! So I thought, yk, that I would share my ideas for this AU fic that perhaps maybe I would write sometimes...... idk....

Actor Bucky x Model Buck

Set in the 90s, this AU follows this rough outline : despite the 90s being a time of counterculture for the youth, (grunge, alternative movies being pushed forward and towards larger audiences) and being out of the 80s and all it entails (glam rock and so on) there was this paradoxally reinforced idea of masculinity (leather jackets, men having to be "strong", etc.) and lattent ideas of homosexuality being a "bad, filthy thing" in some places, interlinked with the misinformations concerning the HIV epidemic (if you're gay, you'll get AIDS, you'll die in a few months, all this stuff), which causes the Bucks have to hide their relationship from the public in fear of retaliation and backlash.

Buck is a male model, in a decade in which supermodels are emerging, and put on a pedestal : it's a decent job for him, despite not being a Claudia Schiffer or a Kate Moss (as female models, especially in that decade, were getting paid way more than male models, and overall just represented couture houses more than men did.). People know his face, he's had a few campaigns, but it's not enough to make him one of the A-list celebrities, not that he minds. He's slimmer than what is the norm for male models, but compensates it with his face : it is his strength as much as his weakness concerning bookings. He is known by his peers as this wise and generally kind man, not overly flairy as people can sometimes be in their industry, and overall very discreet about his personal life. He is extremely professional, a master of his craft that knows exactly what is expected of him at any time.

Bucky, on the other hand, is an actor. Freshly discovered among the rest of a new generation of actors, he climbs steadily and surely his way to the top, and has people from all over the USA watching his career with interest. He acts in movies which in our timeline would feel like "The Matrix" ; "Trainspotting" ; "Fight Club", and all of those sorts of very "mainstream yet still posessing their bit a flair" movies. He's extending his choices and taking more risks, ones that could perhaps lead him to great rewards (not that he is especially looking for it : Bucky would be content to act in a short movie by a middle schooler if it was done with love and passion.) Charming, bubbly, he is loved by many of teenage girls (and others, ofc :p). Everyone has a story about Bucky, be it good or bad. "Oh yeah, he bought me a car when mine broke down" says a make-up artist on a set. "He got so drunk he forgot I was here and punched me square in the face when i got up to pee" says his friend Curt Biddick.

(i made an ugly ass moodboard for the vibes)

-> now i'm gonna dump random infos for no particular reasons

TW : mentions of drugs, alcohol, homophobic cliches.

-They met at a party/gala of some sort for a brand, for which Buck modeled and Bucky was ambassador : it didn't click right away, but closely enough for it to feel like fate played a part in it.

-Buck is kind of excluded during parties as he's fully sober, whether it's from drugs or alcohol : a rarity, in the modeling world, and often not a welcome one.

-Bucky on the other hand, is a bit too much of a party monster : he drinks a lot, perhaps snorts a little cocaine in the bathroom, takes a little speed... Which GREATLY concerns Buck.

-Bucky is as cocky in his confidence and his career as he fears (and represses A LOT) the possibility of everything tumbling down and just going back to being nobody (THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE LOVED BY EVERYONE)

-He's terrified that fame will change him, that he will become a parody version of himself, that people will only know and like the version of himself he presents them and nothing else, not seeing his worth as a person, as an individual of flesh and feelings.

-Between the two of them, he's the one who desperately wants to tell the general audience about their relationship, not caring about the consequences, because in his eyes, love is love, and there sure as hell ain't nothing wrong with loving Gale Cleven, and people should know that he loves him, that they love each other, that they're a pair, that life only ever feels complete when they stand side by side, hanging in each other's orbits. They sometimes argue over this.

-Buck, on the other hand, wishes for their relationship to stay a secret, as he fears if it was to be known, it would taint Bucky's image, this very manly, confident and suave man, mingle it with dumb cliches (in a gay couple one is a "Folle" and the other has to be effeminate, because they're like GIRLS yk) and that it would basically ruin his career, tarnish his talent and hard work, get him blacklisted from most studios/directors and only perhaps offered type-casted roles in homophobic movies written by straight men. Buck could not stand seeing the love of his life being disgraced in the public's eyes, just because of some dumbass cliches, because of his love for him.

-Marjorie (Marge) covers for Buck. She's his front : They are seen dining together and huddling on benches by paparazzis, giggling and talking as they walk in the street, and that's enough. Their story makes people dream, these two young people who grew up together and fell in love, still a couple until this day, still loving each other as much as they did on the first day... They are a lavender couple (when both member of a relationship are queer, and use their couple to cover any suspicions) which helps making Buck and Bucky seem like just buddies. Marjorie is most likely not famous, or if so, she'd be more of a writer than anything else.

-Bucky is EXTREMELY jealous and FUMES whenever he cannot kiss Buck in public, touch him, do his little Bucky things, make Buck feel his. Despite that, he's sort of reckless and allows himself gestures that would not fly were the two men not viewed as pinacle of masculinity and a great example of brotherly love. Buck can't even bring himself to ressent him for it, and does not hold it against him : he too wishes they could hold hands on red carpets.

-Bucky is basically a disaster waiting to happen at some point, a pressure cooker dangerously whistling : he bottles everything he feels, just grits his teeth and says he's fine when dark times arise, drowns himself in alcohol and wishes to forget about his worries, thinks about simpler times when he had none at all. Gale stays by his side, no matter what, no matter his terrifying relationship with alcohol and the memories of his father.

-They live together, despite the risks : Buck couldn't bear having to say no to Bucky when he bought their appartment with a huge check from the royalties he earned over his first blockbuster. It is approprietly cozy : most of the decorum is Buck's doing, but Bucky's things still find their ways in there ; baseball posters, pictures, awards and silly little drawings on stick-it notes... It feels like home, to both of them.

-They probably have bought some sort of ranch or farm, somewhere, to run away from the city when things get crazy : they bask reverently in the fact that there, nothing they do or say matters, watching the sunsets on their patios, enjoying the melody of nature without any civilization.

That's pretty much it for now, I'll most likely add things later! :D I'm begging you to excuse any mistake I made, i'm just a poor French person trying her best. Don't hesitate to tell me how you feel and stuff, I am so nervous to make this post you can't imagine lmaoo

To end things, I guess I'll just post an extract of a wip, a written transcription of a fake interview Bucky probably had on some talk show!!! :]

[banamine-bananime]

kate austen has such a lesbian narrative to me. kicked out by her mom for her love - look as a lesbian i'm not saying gay love is the SAME as love for your mom that makes you kill her abuser but, hey, love is love, as they say.

cannot find a place where she's accepted within Normal Society.

she finally stops trying to explain her way back into being loved and accepted by being honest, and instead accepts that the only way she can stop running and being rejected at every turn and live the kind of Respectable life with a Respectable relationship you're Supposed to have is to lie and hide who she is.

and then living this Perfect, Respectable life where she is finally loved by this Perfect husband. it's everything she wanted. right? but she tells someone who knows who she is, who sees her, and wow! how wonderful! he will stop trying to hunt her down and arrest her if she just stays put in this perfect marriage. "But you and I both know that's not gonna happen". what? no. this is what she wants. this is perfect this is perfect she wants this she loves kevin she has to want this

she can't

her life is defined by running and never being able to find the place she'll be loved and accepted and able to just settle down. we have the ultimate proof of concept that she's not capable of it even when she's not being chased, right? if she couldn't stay with kevin, she really just intrinsically isn't capable of just letting herself love someone and be loved and stay. she's a loner who drifts on the wind, making ephemeral connections that can never be strong enough to root her! she will never be able to be part of a community.

but, wait, that's not what she does on the island. it's dangerous going off alone on the island, sure, but she's always lived in danger on her own. it could also be dangerous staying with these unknown fellow survivors who could be violent, could reject or persecute her, especially after telling jack who she is. Nice Respectable communities have always rejected and persecuted her before. why is it different now? why is she embracing the "live together, die alone" philosophy and trying so hard to protect these people and letting herself relax and be silly and make close friendships? it's interesting how this isn't a Nice, Respectable community. it's a totally new community completely marooned from any existing society, growing in a completely new and strange place from people from around the world and all different walks of life - many of them very much not Nice, Respectable walks of life. and she can just be kate, instead of having to be a Nice, Respectable All-American Girl who will get married to a Nice, Respectable All-American Man and have 2.5 kids in suburbia.

and she can be loved and love in ways no one told her she could

this is also why juliet/kate drives me so insane (pos). like.

juliet lives in a horror story about the male gaze

i think about this scene all the time.

juliet is recruited into a Very Nice, Respectable white picket fence 60s hippie-veneer-yet-still-ultimately-just-typical-suburban Americana community. the people are so nice here! all these lovely heterosexual couples (sidenote: god bless you tom friendly for taking one for the team and being a 2000s-TV-show Token. i don't support your gay wrongs but i sympathize with that nightmare). all these "we're a family here :)" potlucks and book clubs. the women on this island are dying.

your boss is such a sweet guy, he's so attentive. why does it make you feel uncomfortable. he's just being nice! you shouldn't feel uncomfortable! but you want to leave and every time there's just one more thing that happens to come up and keep you from leaving makes you a little bit more paranoid. the women on this island are dying.

and still, he's so nice. the potluck is a dinner between you. everything stays very professional, though! if you say anything no one will believe you. what would you even say? he hasn't done anything but be nice. and it makes you want to burst out of your skin and claw your way out through the Nice Respectable white picket fence and never stop running. the women on this island are still dying.

when his facade drops, it's almost a relief to have cold, hard confirmation that you're not being an ungrateful, paranoid bitch. you are very literally being held prisoner in this Nice, Respectable life because this man wants you. and he is not fucking nice, so you don't have to be either (just kidding, of course not. the rest of your Nice, Respectable community will still villainize you if you get angry about it).

juliet and kate freedom from being Supposed to be in Nice, Respectable communities of nuclear families, fulfilling the role they're Supposed to fill to be loved by and please men! juliet handcuffing herself to kate because we love a disaster fucked up MESSY gay tbh. juliet and kate holding hands.... juliet and kate making out....... fuck i distracted myself

[lonesomedotmp3]

ok LOST RANKINGS. last one before the season finale rankings. last watched ep the whole truth for the record. ok let's go shit has changed a LOT:

1. sayid. duh

2. jack. duh!

3. sun... <333. yes this is def recency bias but ummm shut up!

4. eko 🫶

5. rousseau. you know it's insane we haven't put her on these lists. as if she doesn't deserve a spot?? that's literally danielle rousseau. and she's crazyyyy love her!

6. kate. honestly I don't even know if she should be this high but I can't bring her any lower in my heart. I can't put her under ana lucia I'm sorry...

7. claire <3 maternity leave was hugeeee

8. ana lucia. look at us!! clawed her way out from the bottom... she's kind of swag now I can't lie

9. rose & bernard 😁 really they're higher up in terms of like sheer fondness but of course they're not around very much and aren't that complex unfortunately...

10. hurley. he's just chilling

11. realised I forgot locke... here seems right he's like. extremely key to everything about this show which I appreciate I appreciate his manic pixie old man swag I appreciate him getting a little gay with it... in fact I even appreciate his bitchfights with jack they're fun and interesting and make me go oooohhh. but of course say it with me now. an enemy of jack....

12. new guy... beth I don't even know if you've met him yet I don't remember his name I'm not totally sure we even know it initially he wasn't gonna be included because we know nothing about him really HOWEVER. now I think I can rank him as a mysterious figure. personally I'm having a lot of fun with him and his causing problems on purpose problematic gay swag. he's like the worst philosophy major you know. and yes he votes conservative... I like him! and I like that everyone hates his ass for almost no reason...

13. libby. I have no problems with this girl she just hasn't done anything <3

14. jin. he's on thin ice.

15. micheal. honestly I forgot about him because he's been fucking nowhereeeee when are they gonna let us see whatever stupid shit he's doing... also not including walter for this reason but on a larger scale. I like that he's doing something insane and dangerous and he's actually trying to save walter like honestly everyone's just forgot about that little kid LOL... he's having a rough month!!

16. charlie. SHUT UPPPP OH MY GODDDD.

17. sawyer. back to the bottom. well it was nice watching you die pathetically in the horrible man polycule while it lasted. KILL YOURSELF!

beth when you get to the long con episode you and I are gonna be discussing. or not even discussing we can just both be like what the fuck...

[blood-mocha-latte]

~ miscellaneous tag game ~

tagged by the lovely @mutantmanifesto and @dontirrigateme <3

Favorite place in the world you’ve visited?

rough draw but munich! 'twas gorgeous and also where I got engaged

Something you’re proud of yourself for?

dragging my ass through college in two years and double majoring. nearly killed me but by god it's done

Favorite books?

the awakening by kate chopin - the woman in white by wilkie collins - all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque - a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith - letters from the 442nd by min masuda

Something that makes your heart happy when thinking about it?

mah wife (borat voice)

Favorite thing about your culture?

god what even is my culture. how unhinged would i sound if i said swamps and rigatoni

When did you join the HBO War fandom? What was the first show you watched?

joined about three years ago but not on tumblr, but watched the pacific first

Have you read any of Easy Company’s books? If so, which ones were your favorite?

no because i. have a reading list and they aren't up in the queue lmao

Favorite HBO War character and your favorite moment with them?

leckie. he’s like. webster if webster was a wet cat what’s not to love. favorite moment is all moments ever EXCEPT for the sex scenes because what kind of hallucinogen did i take to have to watch that

Do you make content for any fandoms, if so; what sort of content?

i write fic and am. a little consumed by it at all times. i also make edits but am going through a bit of a rut with that so for now only writing thank you

Favorite actor/actress and your favorite film of theirs?

eliza dushku for her wonderful performances in buffy the vampire slayer and angel (i'm gay. can you tell)

Favorite quote/s that you wish to share with others?

just this entire dick allen poem which is luztoye coded forever and ever

Random fact your mutuals/followers don’t know about you?

hm. idk. i once got bit by a raccoon in a bayou and had to get rabies shots for the next two weeks

If you’re a writer, do you need a beta reader (say yes so I can be your beta reader 🤭)?

i write everything by hand and then put in in the Computer which is like. a built in beta edit. and then mah wife (borat voice) betas for me because she's wonderful

Three things that make you smile?

mah wife (borat voice) (i'm predictable)

our air purifier (i’m old)

our vintage dog teapot

Any nicknames you like?

my name is three letters long like there's not a lot of leeway there. i went by adelasia for a while which is my middle name but like. that's it. does papera count

List some people you love to see around on tumblr!

@lamialamia is the pillar of my entire person at all times and genuinely one of the nicest people i’ve ever met. linh wrote this wonderful fic for the secret santa exchange, which i am currently reading and fawning over

@staud is easily one of the talented people in the entire hbo war fandom and has the fucking VISION for gifs and videos. most recent of which i’ve watched (and panicked about) being an incredible eugene sledge video. erin is also just fucking funny bro idk what to tell you

@mutantmanifesto is someone that is like. genuinely a celebrity to me. every time i see lenora’s drawings anywhere i have flashbacks like i’m in the louvre. also just a wonderful person with incredible taste

@ep6bastogne is on a tumblr hiatus right now but always deserves a shoutout. she did incredible edits of skinny sisk, eugene roe, ron speirs, and david webster for the secret santa exchange that changed my brain chemistry forever and is one of the warmest people i’ve ever talked to

@ewipandora is someone that i’m ALWAYS holding hands with <3. both a genuinely funny and wonderful person and has incredible taste in reblogs. ewi is currently doing a band of brothers ship series that i plan to Consume as soon as possible because i have no doubt that they’re incredible

@dcyllom is an incredibly underrated and kind part of my Dashboard Experience™ and is also just wonderful and one of my favorite Tumblr People :)

@educationalporpoises is a genius and an INCREDIBLE writer. zee was my secret santa gifter and this luztoye fic knocked it all the way out of the park and into the cemetery, which is how hard it slayed. also wins for best mutual handle

@almost-a-class-act is ridiculously supportive and kind, and a backbone of the hbo war fandom forever and always. sam’s also one of the best fucking writers to ever grace this earth, with the most recent thing i’ve read being this top notch luztoye fic <3

What would you do during a zombie apocalypse?

die. girl i work in an er i'd be the first to go

Favorite movie?

ladri di biciclette for all time favorite movie ever. a perfect movie

Do you like horror movies?

it depends entirely on the level of homoerotism that can be found in those movies. and also if matthew lillard is in it

Tagging:

everyone mentioned above as well as anyone who wants to do it since i have no clue who’s been tagged :)

[maxthesillyy]

Hi I have thoughts that are genuinely crazy, and I think ur the only one who might understand. I've read ur posts on amatonormativity before and they're good, and I was hoping u would have an nuanced answer to this maybe? Anyways my question/ thoughts are abt Warren and how heterosexual his character nd interactions are written. If u dislike Warren and it kinda seems like you do (??), then u don't have to answer this but I'm kinda still asking bc I can't think of any other lis blogger to ask. Anyways I've always disliked how almost every single of his relationships with female characters in the game are written as romantic. He has a crush on Max, Brooke has a crush on him. In Ep. 2 he's hugging/comforting Alyssa when Kate is on the roof and a lot of people in the fandom who hate him interpreted it as cheating/manipulation/romantic . In the alternate uni in Ep. 3 he's in a relationship with Stella and he's holding hands with her. Taylor in the Vortex Club says he's a cutie or something. And all I'm thinking is like: the person who wrote Warren must of forgot that boys and girls can be friends bc why is everything Romantic all the time?? I think the writers genuinely forgot male-female friendships exist. Why didn't they explore Max and Warren genuinely having a sibling-like relationship or somthing? Why can't Warren platonically be friends with Stella? Why can't he idk platonically hold hands with Stella? Like that's a thing. Why can't he just be friends with Brooke? Why can't he platonically hug Alyssa? That is also a thing.. Like I am just so mad, like Why is the writing like this? I know the fandom doesn't like Warren bc he's is a Ugly N*rc Cishet in their eyes, but the whole 'Warren is bad bc He's Male and Str8 and Weird so he must Die' thing isn't even an argument to me. If anything isn't it the fault of the writers that everyone and esp pric3fielders hates Warren for being an 'Evil Straightie'?? Like I think abt this so much it's killing me, what so u think?? I hope this isn't a big ask but did u like ever notice writing flaws abt like relationships in the game?? Do u ever think interactions could have been better in it?? Wanna know ur thoughts bc i actually trust u on a topic like this.

i definitely dont hate warren!! but i also honestly don’t think about him a lot. probably because of exactly what you said— how dontnod wrote him in the most amatonormative, boring way possible.

i feel like a lot of people who hype him up a lot don’t really remember the act the dontnod writers made him play. DEFINITELY NOT saying nobodys allowed to enjoy his character or wish he was better, but just that a lot of his fans act like he was this cute, do-no-wrong, sweetie pie (aka. infantilizing him. another topic another time)— when in reality the dontnod writers just made him this boring, average, slightly ignorant 17(?) year old.

and honestly the more i think about it, the more that sucks a lot!! Warren could’ve had HUGE potential, but it’s all dropped because they were more focused on Max and Chloe’s story.

which, on one hand, kinda fair and understandable considering this is the Max and Chloe game. but on the other hand, really disappointing.

especially because on most playthroughs, people won’t and don’t get at all attached to him because of how he’s just a. Generic Somewhat-Compatible Love Interest so the game has plausible deniability from being straight up gay. Warren’s whole personality is geek who is romantically interested in Max and gets violent once or twice for the plot.

which in the end just means that it’s one less person that makes the ending choice harder. just one less character the majority of players are worried about letting die.

that saying, i don’t think that if Warren was written better then more people would choose the Bay ending, but just that the hesitance would be more intense. which honestly is just as important as the actual choice itself so.

it also just means less interesting character dynamics/development. especially between Max and Warren. like you said, if they had more of a brother-sister dynamic than their “Boy obsessed with girl who’s obsessed with this other girl.” dynamic, then it would’ve meant SO MUCH MORE that Max was starting to drop Warren in favor for her overwhelming paranoid obsession with Chloe being alive.

It also would’ve meant SO MUCH MORE to Max that she sacrificed someone she considered a brother, than just some guy who wanted to date her. The guilt could’ve been even more than what it already is. The missed angst potential is crazy.

OH MY COD— AND IT WOULD’VE HIT SO MUCH HARDER. TO HAVE WARREN ALSO HUNTING MAX DOWN IN THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE. Max going through SO MUCH trauma because of the men in her life, she starts to feel like she can’t even trust a guy she considered close enough to be her brother. like i said: the missed angst potential.

PLUS the idea of Warren being “The Big Brother” of the campus is a WAY more compelling and interesting character idea than just an average 17(?) year old boy who really wants a girlfriend.

(something something. people hate fictional annoying characters more than fictional murderers. something something)

and going back on what i said with “Somewhat-Compatible”, Max and Warren’s non-existent romantic chemistry is almost entirely based on telling not showing (ex: the eclipse scene, Max being able to write on his dorm room’s whiteboard, Max SAYING she thinks Warren is kinda cute, etc). not to mention that Warren’s romantic path is 100% completely optional and avoidable, while Max and Chloe’s is basically out of the player’s choice unless they actively hate Chloe or smth.

and im saying that as an active pricefielder. i literally can’t hate Max and Warren’s ship because theres nothing to hate. theres nothing between them besides bland, “they share some of the same interests”, amatonormativity.

which brings me to how absolutely insane a lot of pricefielders are about Warren. it’s kind of like when people hate a girl character because she gets in the way of their MLM ship. except here it’s a poorly written boy and a WLW ship.

i’m also pretty sure Warren gets the same treatment as any other stand in girl love interest— as in im 90% sure the only other boy we ever see him interact with is Nathan. so.

and i definitely do consider myself a pricefielder— i love Max and Chloe’s ship with all of my heart, but some of us are just WAY too much into shipping culture and think every minuscule thing that goes against their OTP needs to be publicly executed. (<- voice of guy who got called homophobic for saying Max and Chloe aren’t canonically girlfriends.)

which, unfortunately, includes Warren, a character who is such an amatonormative nothing-burger that his personality is even easier than Chloe’s to twist into a “evil motherfucker who should die.”

it’s kinda like the post i made today about people hating the poorly written character instead of the author who made them that way. Warren has a lot of potential as a character, and the writers just completely dumped him away in favor for making him Generic Male Love Interest So This Game Isn’t Just The Gay Game.

honestly before this ask, i dont think i ever truly realized the tragedy that is Warren’s missed character potential. so 100% definitely thank you for sending this! i yapped a lot more than i expected

[binary-not-found]

Episode 8 season 2 🎈

I'm not going to apologize for the fact that it's taken me so long to post this, I'm always doing it and this time I literally everything happen over the past week and the weekend, so thanks for the patience and here it is 🙌🏼

Lucy and Kate making us feel single even when Lucy isn't on screen 😢

Hey, I know that smile!

Are you trying to tell me that Kai has seen Kate on the phone with Lucy more than once? Or maybe it's just the fact that everyone knows the goofy smile they both have when talking to each other 😅

Well she's a quick learner, she'll be running that place soon

Kate is Lucy's #1 fan 🥳 and we all love that she lets it show 🥰

I must say the fact that Kai mentioned that Kate misses Lucy took me by surprise, I was expecting some comment about Lucy in the water or something, but that was his way of checking in on her, like letting her know he knows how she feels and trying to care about her and not just about how Lucy is doing 😌

Let's appreciate for a moment the way Kate sits and settles into the seat, because I'm gay and I just can't ignore something like this. Okay, let's move on 😁

Kai talks to her about the case, not saying much about why the case interests him, but we know Kate and she notices the way he's presenting the problem to her and almost immediately notices that there's something more to why he's interested

And that's when he tells the truth, it's personal, it's not just about protecting the community as he was saying or doing the right thing, he wants to prove a point, and one thing I love about Kate is that she doesn't judge him, she doesn't downplay it

What she does is simply make it clear to him that if she mentions the case to her boss then he should stay in line, he should know that no matter how much it's his community and it's about people he knows, it's about her work and he needs to respect that

Now, I don't remember exactly who I was mentioning this to, but the fact that Kate went to talk to Kai letting him know about her dad speaks to the type of person she is and how much she cares about the team - in this case Kai -

It wasn't her obligation to tell him, but she took the time to let him know, so he and his dad can prepare for what's coming. Kai wants to protect his community and Kate is protecting him with this

Even when Kai reacts a little defensive and tells her that nothing is certain about what happened, she stays calm, because she knows it's too much to take in and that's precisely why she decided to tell him

And that last look before she leaves, just making sure once again that he will be okay. It may be hard for Kate to show how she feels, but she is one of the most empathetic and caring people around, she always helps in any way she can and I love her

Honorary Mention ✨

Because obviously I couldn't leave out Kate being the best at everything she does, saving the day just by making a couple of phone calls and doing her best to say "federales" in decent spanish 💖

*Mi país, mi país 🇲🇽*

This post is quite short compared to the ones in the last episode, but to be fair my blondie was in 4 minutes of the episode, I did my best

[michaelgruberfan]

A first person story from Michael for the Broadway Buzz! about his experience with A Chorus Line! (X) Published Feb 19, 2008

Michael Gruber: My Twice-in-a-Lifetime Experience in A Chorus Line

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About the author: Through a combination of talent and timing, Michael Gruber is making theatrical history as the only actor who appeared in both the original Broadway company of A Chorus Line including the legendary final performance, no less! and in the current Broadway revival of the show. In a career spanning almost 20 years, Gruber has amassed a resume that includes yet another record-breaking Broadway show Cats, in which he played Munkustrap, plus Kiss Me, Kate, Swing, Miss Saigon, My Favorite Year, The Wizard of Oz and the Encores! production of Stairway to Paradise. His regional credits include starring roles in Singin' in the Rain, Easter Parade, White Christmas, Godspell and many more. A former all-American diver who trained for the Olympics, Gruber has also composed three musicals himself. He recently shared memories of his unique experience of appearing in A Chorus Line then…and now.

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A Chorus Line was my first Broadway show. I was only 24 years old when I got the role of Mike Costa, the cheerful young dancer who sings "I Can Do That," and I was so stagestruck about being in the show. It's the typical story: I had seen A Chorus Line in Cincinnati when I was a junior in high school and said, 'This is what I want to do.'"

What I remember most vividly about the final Broadway performance on April 28, 1990, is that it was out of control! It was a Saturday, so the matinee that day was really the last time we as a company felt we were doing the show itself. The final performance that night was more about the audience, which included a lot of original cast members and others who loved the show and had come back to say good-bye. I remember the wonderful neon sign that flew in to center stage with the number of performances—6,137—lit up.

For me, the most startling thing was having to stand there after my number for what seemed like a full minute. They just wouldn't stop applauding. I've never experienced anything like that, even when I was in Cats on the night it passed A Chorus Line as the longest-running Broadway show. I realize now that the applause was not really about me; it was about the show itself. It was the end of an era.

I met the original Mike, Wayne Cilento, at the closing night party, which was held at the old Mamma Leone's. He was charming, but the original cast didn't socialize with us much; they were all on one side of the room and we were on the other. It hurt our feelings at the time, but now that I'm over 40, working with kids in their 20s, I understand. They were all friends, and they had their own nostalgic bond.

Since then, I've auditioned for several companies of A Chorus Line, but I'd never done the show again until I was offered the opportunity to replace Michael Paternostro as Gregory Gardner in the Broadway revival. It's been such a fantastic gift to work with Baayork Lee, the original Connie, who was at the epicenter of the creation of the show and has restaged it all over the world. Director Michael Bennett had passed away by the time I joined the cast, but Baayork remembers everything: Anything you want to ask, even after all these years, she can tell you.

I was fascinated to hear about the original Greg, Michel Stuart, who reinvented himself as a cultured, artistic personality. Playing a Jew from the Bronx is far from me, a Midwestern Catholic, but I can understand someone who creates a character from his own life and aspires to taste and sophistication. The fact that Greg is gay should be somewhat of a surprise to the audience; the character has a superiority and a confidence because he's been around. Baayork and Michel were very good friends, so my character's relationship with Connie is strong, and also with Cassie because they're the older dancers. That's why Cassie stands between Sheila and Greg onstage. The audience may not get all that, but knowing the background of the show anchors and orients me.

As I look at the show now, I'm struck by how contemporary it feels. It was ahead of its time back then; that's what made it revolutionary. Michael Bennett embraced the idea of presenting the real-life stories of ordinary people, knowing that audiences would be interested. It's a testament to Nicholas Dante and Ed Kleban, who wrote the book, that A Chorus Line doesn't feel dated. It's timeless because it's so truthful and not based in pop culture. The show is as perfect as it can be, which means that as an actor, I don't need to reinvent the wheel. When you muck about with it, it loses its crispness. My task is to take my ego out of it and serve the show so that its truthfulness comes through. Keep it simple. Keep it real.

I went into the revival last summer with nine other actors, and during rehearsals, we skipped the numbers that didn't involve the replacement cast. So it wasn't until our first performance that I had the great thrill of watching Jeffrey Schecter's brilliant performance of "I Can Do That." Feelings of nostalgia washed over me as the realization of how lucky I was to be standing on that white line again after all these years came vividly into focus. Later, Jeffrey and I shared another "full circle" moment: He remembered seeing a tape of "I Can Do That" on Nightline during a story about the original production just before it closed. "You were in that last company," he said to me. "Did you do a standing back somersault at the end of the number?" When I said yes, he replied, "I saw you on TV when I was 14. And I said to myself, 'I want to do that.'"

[outrunningthedark]

Their timing to finally decide on separating them is not my only problem. It's the act of separating them that gives me chagrin the most. It's probably me not knowing much shows, but we haven't had any good same-sex slow burn in a while and with how much of it lines up pretty well instead of adapting their story so that it can happen they... decided to make their spinoff a fanfic of this show (not just Buddie, but everything else about LS is OG fanfic). I remember someone said "They wouldn't waste a huge amount of production cost dedicated to Buck and Eddie's scenes to make them not canon in the end" but guess what? I guess those production costs are wasted after all. Not so much waste as they could lure a viewerbase out of it given their intentions are in a confusing scale of "we know what we're doing" and "very unintended," but you get the gist.

"There are other shows" but how many will have a good slowburn for same-sex couples? I understand it's more of me mourning the idea of a storyline, but it's still disheartening all the same. Sorry for being very bitter on your ask, but I don't really know where else to go.

I agree with you about Buddie not being treated like a legit slow burn, many of us do (separation is not part of the formula) and I actually put out this post that's making the rounds in my notifs which summarizes how we looked like we were starting the process in s3 and then there was backtracking to be done. I don't recall the production comment you mentioned (Maybe I blocked it out. I'm sure it came from one of the "You don't understand long form storytelling" folks.) but that sure does feel like a silly thing to say! For one, there are scenes the show spends enough time (and money) on that never see the light of day - the girl who reappeared in 5x10 after her entire arc was cut from Ghost Stories, Lucy's scenes from 5B, for ex. - and two, they're not "wasting" anything if they interpret Buddie scenes one way and allow us to think differently. How would depicting two men with a close relationship that rejects toxic masculinity be a "waste" of production? 🤔 Sounds like someone wanted to convince themselves as much as everyone else. Same-sex/queer slow burns (to reiterate: not what the show has done) are an anomaly, and I think part of it could be that The Powers That Be want their audience to know they've found one piece of media where "baiting" does not apply. (I think about the NCIS franchise and how the Hawai'i installment wrote Lucy & Kate as love interests in the pilot.) People (understandably) are just. Tired. Tired of being strung along, tired of waiting for confirmation, tired of wondering if the gays will ever get to be happy. They *welcome* pre or quickly established relationships because they *know* they'll have something to look forward to with every episode.

[yourfriendanniefish]

ok since i actually did just watch all three episodes that amazon dropped of the wheel of time i might as well talk about it a little bit.

first off, it was stupid and dumb to hold this show off for an entire fucking year so we could waste time with the rings of power's fantastical blowing of a billion dollars. it does feel to me like they're low key trying to bury this show, lord knows why

(here, let's put on a tin foil hat: it's because it came out really gay, an actual genuine rainbow of a show that actually matters in this day and age, and we can't have something this gay available to people so let's bury it)

anyways, it's almost impossible for me, personally, to rate this show. i know what i'm looking for— i read all 14 books of this fucker. the game i have to play while watching it is almost annoying to me. that doesn't mean it's bad, or any of the vast changes being made to the story aren't good ones— i'd rather see a condensed and different version of the series anyways. but there's still that string in the back of my head, that says, for example, "hey, mat and min never hung out, did they?" and like, no i don't think they did, but also, that's a heck of a way to write yourself out of the "we had to think fast when we lost an actor after season one's long covid break" hole! these two have big chemistry and i'm all in (new mat is great. he seems to have this slight touch more confidence than mat 1 did, but we'll see what happens when (/if) he links back up with the main crew (if the show goes the same route as the books, where the main cast splits up after book 2/3 and never really links back up again)).

but the changes here are mostly good— giving moiraine more of an arc than just "i am mysterious, ooooo" is great. having ran be more of a confident guy so he can fuck lanfear like a stud is hot and funny and the right kind of fucked up. like i said last post, killing that one beloved character was good because that character kinda sucked maybe and also there are too many characters. giving liandrin wayyyy more to do is great because the show clearly understands what it has with kate fleetwood.

maybe that's worth underlining more— the show really understands that it has a bangin' cast and it wants to use them well. everyone gets time to shine here, which is impressive given the size of the cast (the jumping around characters never felt disorienting, it's handled better than even the books, where the "main character" would disappear for a literal thousand pages at a time).

i want to know what happens next, and my only bad feeling is that i wish i didn't have to untangle that feeling from "i want to see how they get there," like, everything is too connected to the books to me, and i feel like the show is good and cool enough to warrant me forgetting minute plot points. they fantasy-curb-stomped ***, nothing is impossible, here.

idk,

it's a good show, and i hope people actually watch it.

[infinitelycomplexpuzzles]

“ 🔥 “ tell me more comic grievances pls 👀

// Hm. do I step on a landmine, or do I throw myself into a bonfire with this? well fuck, you're the only one who's sent one, so I guess we're just going to give you a hot take that I know is going to piss at least a few people off.

So let's talk multiverse, casting, and adaptations, yes? Because the way I see it, most people can't keep their outrage or fandom straight, and it bugs me.

Give you an example. Everyone lost their shit about the Scarlet Witch casting. Lost their shit. Torches and pitchforks and all that shit. Doesn't matter that she's a person who in her own series has an entire town begging her for death rather than living under her control, nah, the only thing anyone can talk about is who's playing her.

And you know what? They have a point. Or they would, if they didn't immediately adopt entirely counter opinions that contradict that one.

Because you know, Quicksilver is in that show too. And he's been in the MCU too. And he's had two actors. And he's her biological brother. But I don't see any huge outrage over either of them. I don't see people going 'if you use either of them as a FC I will literally call you hitler.' So what gives? Because the thing is, if you're mad about her casting, and there's good reason if you are, you also need to be mad about his, because they're the same. Imagine if some insane guy decided to cast Black Panther and Storm as white people, but people were only mad about one of their casting choices. That doesn't make sense! You either need to be mad at both of them, or neither of them, because the same rule applies to both. Both of them are whitewashing, which means that it's entirely contradictory to have a fire and brimstone take on one and not the other!

But while we're on the subject, I distinctly remember that for a while on tumblr, people were mad pissed about genderbending. And you know what? They had a point! Saying it was transphobic is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Personally, I think it's a weaker argument than saying it's sexist, as the idea that men and women live exactly the same lives with no differences is not a thing that happens, but I see the point being made with people who think it's transphobic.

And then the multiverse got popular.

Apparently, all you need to do in order to get rid of the transphobia stink is say 'oh, it's not a gender bend, it's an alternate universe.' So now we got everything from a female Batman who Laughs to female Dr. Octopus to female aquaman batman, and everyone is like 'yay! multiverse!'

Now I will say that this may be because this only seems to go one way. I'm not seeing anyone make an alternate universe version of Batwoman where Kate Kane is a gay man or anything.

But it also comes off as distinctly hypocritical because the entire argument before was 'if you change this character's sex you don't change their gender, and thus you're being transphobic by doing so.' Apparently, the only thing anyone needed to say was 'oh it's just the multiverse' and everyone agreed that was fine.

Like I have seen people's rules that say, explicitly, 'I don't write with genderbends' and then literally have multiverse characters that are exactly what they say they hate. Apparently, it doesn't count if a megacorporation does it! Then it's not bad, it's just creativity.

Sorta like how no one gives a shit if your dude is not romani, they only care that the woman is. 'The dude is hot and we like hot sexy guys, so who cares if both the guys we had play him aren't romani? I know we said that a white woman playing a romani woman is bad, but a white guy playing a romani man isn't, and I am entirely consistent!'

Drives me up the wall. Absolutely blows my mind.

All I ask is that, whatever your take, whatever your belief is, just be fucking consistent, or at least, admit what your actual beef is. Because you can't clothe yourself in moral righteousness while you're engaging in the very things you claim to hate. That's like if you claimed to hate drinking while you were four shots into a bottle of tequila.

It. Makes. No. Sense.

[jollythunderstorms]

anyway, here's my the mysterious benedict society s2e2 — 🧵

"pirates are just doing their jobs" sticky i love you

captain noland's speech just called my english skills a bitch, i legit got every other word T.T

love how constance's go-to cover story is ghosts, i legit have used this joke multiple times

the scene where the society first runs into the girls is so funny like? i'm not a sports girly by any means but the girls are wearing tracksuits that kate mistakes for cricket ones but sticky points out they have 'waterpolo' written on them but also their arm patches have a tetherball??? what sport are we playing? i also just noticed i've never actually seen a modern cricket uniform. i thought we all still dressed like we were in the early 20th century

constance being fulled to do work by the reward of food is so me

virgin canonball asking for permission to speak freely vs chad number two just going for it

me holding canonball: my baby my baby you are my baby

"my job is already in jeopardy. I feel the walls closing in on me" <- me at any minor inconvenience

me looking at the cloud classification (cumulus humilis) in the opening credits: oh sick ghost reference

i finally noticed number two's sequence has a map of luxembourg, place of birth maybe? but then again reynie's has portugal so maybe it's about language proficiency?? if i get number two speaking german or french i will get weak at the knees i swear to god

ms perumal being versed in the sciences but also the humanities is something than can be so special to me <3

is the blueberry the emergency? vote now on your phones

i can't believe they took number two's square! IT'S CLOTH WHAT IS SHE GONNA DO WITH A SQUARE OF FUCKING?! dark craig zeisk release the forbidden extended cut where number two strangles curtain with a 10x10 square of green plaid

how does he know she likes woodworking??? gay recognizes gay? regardless get away from her get a job

curtain talking about the subtlety of the kidnapping just makes me laugh because all i can think about is number two kicking and screaming her little heart out in the back of the taxi

number two, exploding curtain with her mind: "I. don't. want. your. tea."

JACKSON AND JILLSON MY GAY CHILDREN ARE HERE

"thank you for your trust :D" "oh, we don't trust you :|"

i love how kate never thought to knock on the rooms BEFORE trying to pick the lock. proof braincells go to bed sometimes

I AM CONSTANCE AND CONSTANCE IS ME

"healthy distance" i say as i ignore everyone around me

psychic children and now cannibalistic clowns?! this show has everything

the inverness is beautiful

god milligan is in full dad mode i love him he's so stressed

mr benedict immediate noticing the kid and stepping back, i'm fine

simultaneously laughing and retching after jackson and jillson speak in unison everytime

is that how 'devotes' is pronounced? or is it a separated word from 'devotees'?

jillson keeping her highsocks is so cute

"sebastian is from brazil" "brazil"

this actor's eyes and smile are so unsettling, he's so well casted

the houses remind me of eleanor's from the good place, not good

curtain bought actual bookshelves! with actual real books!! sucess!!!

love how, while number two worries about rhonda and milligan, mr benedict worries about the children and instantly knows they will try to come rescue them! none of the adults clocked them that fast. ugh i love him

"sweet suite" love

oh man nine books for nine occupants? wonder if it's symbolic or if i'm just reading (hehe) too much into it

i'm actually kind of scared of ceiling fans, fun fact

oh damn the sugar

as someone with anxiety, i'm formally diagnosing captain noland right now

true friendship illuminates? gay

"you feel too much. it will get us killed" i know she's joking but shut up constance i'm so scared right now! you shut up!

if you ever wondered how i speak english (second language) this scene with the team is exactly it

the way mr benedict rolls his eyes as number two starts on her healthy food talk is so funny. man's hear it a thousand times before

mr benedict's smile dropping so fast after the fit comment is a masterclass in acting. kristen's facial expressions continue to be the best. also find it interesting they changed it to "almost as sweet" in the latam sub

why is number two looking at mr benedict when there's a strange man all up in his face? wrong person number two!

love mr benedict blurting out spanish (half of 'hasta luego') instead of portuguese ('até logo') as sebastian says goodbye

*walter white vo* NOOO KATE NO DON'T LISTEN TO THEM NOOOO YOUR TECHNIQUE IS GONNA BE SHIT THEY ARE NOT REAL POLO PLAYERS KATEEEEE LISTEN TO ME KATEEE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT

"we don't love labels" WE WHO YOU AREEEE FOR YOUR PRIDEEEEE

i like to think rhonda and ms perumal took shifts hearing milligan talk about fatherhood, girly in the back is dead to the world and ms perumal looks on her way to join her

"your faith in me is inspiring, number two, but I'm not an accomplished climber" "just do what i do. pretend you're an angry howler monkey and at the top of the fence is the person who stole your jackfruit" you are so weird and off putting, babygirl

THE WAY NUMBER TWO DOESN'T EVEN LOOK CONCERNED JUST DISAPPOINTED IM LOSING MY MIND ALSKJFHSHGS

SQ!!! MY SON! WHERE IS HE?!

"it's a defensive fence. we're protecting the vibe" ALKSHDGGHAJSDH

"i've tried to acknowledge my part in your pain" NOO NICHOLAS YOU DID NOTHING WRONG

"you are holding onto an outdated view of me" hate to say it but he's right. also what is he speaking like that?

so THAT'S what the tiktok girlies are doing

i'm going to beat the shit out of curtain

constance contrarie i love your brain

"cannonball, what do you know about home equity lines of credit?" save my man

"the greeks were terrible artists." SAY IT

this is censorship! let my girl bully reynie

well rip that married couple

[ohsonowyouwantahazel]

crashing [into the floor w laughter]

e1

phoebe waller-bridge is just so wonderful at writing and playing wackadoo (see: realistic and hilarious) women. literally just looking at her is so good. fuck. makes me want to watch fleabag again.

JONATHAN BAILEY IS SO DJBSJD. gayest man. i love gay men. they're so fun.

"no one should have to go around carrying this much grief. and this much semen." he's so fucking funny

FJSBJDDBND EVERYTHING IS SO GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW WHY IS IT SO SHORT GIVE ME 47378337 SEASONS

sam is as gay as a fucking maypole. and omg. i love fred. please get together my angelic babies.

i am so attracted to sam and jonathan bailey (i am a hardcore dyke)

did i say i absolutely love waller-bridge as weird fucked up women? yes i absolutely do. i will say it forever. my type is whatever she plays + twinky gay men who pretend to be straight

e2

THIS IS COMEDY GOLD PLEASE WRITE MORE OF THIS????

this show is just me being attracted to nearly everyone - lulu, sam, melody, jessica. i have a type.

it's so funny seeing unmasked weird fucked up women make masked weird fucked up women uncomfortable and ultimately themself

i didn't think anyone could write a one sided unrequited love w an arc-ish of emotional cheating so well but waller-bridge does it again

e3

absolutely cannot tell if indian accent is racist or not?????

FRED HAS A BF AND ITS NOT SAM?

honestly kate and lulu should just fuck it out not anthony

only waller-bridge can make a pathetic white man likeable ejdbfj melody and her obsession w crying colin

SAM IS JEALOUS OMG OMG OMG i really don't think anyone can beat jonathan bailey at being jealous

i love when groups of people are always shitshows like this and the bear are fucking awesome rhsvjfbddb

SHE'S LICKING THE CURRY OFF THE FLOOR JESUS CHRIST IN HELL

sam and lulu sound like they should fuck but it'll be funnier if they don't because idk it's just funnier that way

"i'll let you call me free" HDGSJSBF

OH MY GOD KATW EHBSDJ BC HE CRIES???? OH FUCBDBD IT'S FUCKING AMAZING OMG

e4

PAINTBALL IS THE BEST THING and omg kate djbdjf loosen up baby HELL YEAH

not enough comments because i too was having way too much fun

oof. "i pretend to be in love with you" OOF?

..... sam and lulu bye

e5

watching this episode atleast three weeks after the last one

"i fancy you"

why am i just realising the names are kate and anthony like it's a stupid coincidence but it is so funny to me thfbfjsb

EVICTION NOTICE????

will might be a good guy but i absolutely do not like him and (wow it is kinda hard to not immediately villainize him but also not that hard ngl) and HE IS GIVING STINKY ENERGY

hm. the energy is stinky because he's asking him to move in not because he wants to be with him but because he doesn't want fred to be w sam

SHE PUKES IN THE FOOD MY GOD THIS IS SO RIDICULOUSLY DIMFBSJSBDJD

......... i hate will rn but djfvf is he initiating a poly????

PEHDHFBF THIS TURNED OUT EXACTLY LIKE I EXPECTED ITS SO FUCKING HILARIOUS HEVSHDBFN

"who's the man in the picture?" "he's my father" UEGEJDBRND DELIVERY? CREATION? THEY INVENTED COMEDY?

e6

last episode? why aren't there 586374 seasons already

gdgsjdfb sam my dude

the part w melody and colin is oooooo but aw colin is a nice man

kate is not a lesbian she is just very stuck up but not in a bad way

lulu rushjdbf idc if she's messed up she's hilarious

DON'T FUCK LULU AND ANTHONY????

fred my baby :((((( sam get over yourself baby boy and be happy please?

"i'm a neither queen" AND HE SAYS IT IN THE MOST GAY ASS TWINKEST WAY

SAM KISSED FRED FHSBDJ HES SO CUTE MY BABY BOY SO CUTE PERFECTEST CUTIEST PIE

anthony is kind of a dick but not really but it's just that kate and anthony are not correct for each other or maybe i'm easily influenced

...... THAT'S THE END???? BRISGDJFGDJ BRO NO WHAT HAPPENS HELLO????

THAT IS NOT THE END? GIVE ME MORE

[crystallineirises]

Emmy 2024 Liveblog

We high, we got snacks, we filled out a physical ballot lets see if i can figure out my mom's tv

heyyyyy a brother for MLK day

I do think about how he marched for me, a black girl, to say "step on me" about white women on the internet *black power fist*

I'm bored already lol

I turned the volume down lower so i can eat my little nosh

Why does the Fox camera never look as good as the other cameras, this has got an American Idol glow on it

I was like "is that Pete Davidson"

MOM

FOLLOWED BY SARAH

CHRISTINA why have not finished Dead To Me oh yeah cause I don't want it to end

ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND TEARS

TWO HITS DISABILITY AND OZEMPIC GO AWF

OH J - no it's not it's comedy

I'm rooting for everybody black actually I'm rooting for everyone this is stacked

AYO GET YR ASS UP HERE

Oooh Padma is looking fine

The energy of this is already better than the whole GG

CAAAAROOOOLLLL

They should just stay standing up

She looks so GOOD and that joke hit PERFECTLY women are better at everything

I don't really know which way this is gonna go

I still need to watch Poker Face I keep forgetting

QUINTAAAAA she looks so sweet

Damn Sarah got that ICE round her neck alright rap star girlfriend

SHERYL LOOKING REGAL

Didn't prepare nothing I love it

I really don't need to annotate the physical ballot and live blog but WHO CARES this is for me

Can these commercials stop the Discord said this is J's category and I know its not gonna be her but what if it *was*

I'm that meme of "Bruh thinks he's on the team" I've been nervous all DAY

Sam Seaborn what's up why are you hosting weird shit

*adds Sopranos to watch list*

Oh they have props money

OMG it's the mom from Rizzoli and Isles!!! OMG HEY

Hoooooo here we go

THESE GAYS

Eighty damn people in this category

GASP if you're gonna lose lose to Jennifer love this for us *CAW*

ALL THE EVIL GAYS

Your arm still broken damn

Someone give us the bleeped version plz but also he nailed that stare

Alan with his rocks and insects speech tho

SARAHHHH LOL TOMGREGS WINNING

DAMN that theme song sounds banging on this soundbar I really should learn how to use this tv

How is Curb still on the air? Not that it's bad, it just seems like it's been a very long time lol

Someone on Discord just said they wondered if they're gonna do a Friends thing for Matthew OH MY HEART in memoriam is gonna be roughhh

I'm not high enough lol

AYEEE EBON

Also that leather jacket is sickkk

I like the lack of commentary as they walk up, can we keep this shit classy

FIRST AD let's shout out the tech TEAMS

BLACKPEOPLEEE

I didn't realize Jeremy was also a small man lol I kinda would have loved for OMITB to win something but it's cool

sweet baby full of LOVE

AMY AND TINA

Smoke break

A pyramid lol

That woman behind him in the navy dress looked hot oh it's in a suburbs kinda way that's a great fucking dress though

OH she's not here? SHE ALWAYS HERE that's how black moms work

BEANS DONT BURN ON THE GRILL

Hannah's face and Kieran's face

BLACK DONT CRACK AND ITS NEVER TOO LATE

This is the blackest show i've ever seen without that many black people nominated

So many babes in this category

MORE BLACK WOMEN BLACK QUEER WOMEN

THIS SPEECH IS GOING OFFFFFFF

AND HER MOM I need to have all the black moms in the audience in a glamour shot together

oh and NOW we are high let's get into it YUH *rock on emoji*

WHERE EVERYBODY KNOW YR NAME

NORM

I love The Bear but I do like when things get spread out a bit? There's so many shows out there

*survivor yell*

YAY FOR THE GAYS AND GWORLS AND KWEENS AND THEYZ

Arsenio looks GOOD

Who is this beautiful woman

ALWAYS SUNNY THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF MY HEART and they look AMAZING

JUNO YOU LOOK SO HOT that hair swoop is STRONG

LOL can we get a full transcript of all bleeped things

shouts to all the negative bank account hoes out here

GREYZ BEBEZ where's Kate Walsh

BARZ

OH GOD GILLIAN i am about to lose it

Just kidding they just threw us off with x files theme that's fucked up

MAD MEN THEME ANOTHER BANGER

NOT THE HUG

*twerk team* also Sarah Snook

omg the boy from 30 rock his face is me

this speech was boring but that shot of J was great

Beef is so good so far but I'm only two episodes in

Not enough people have been chased off the stage honestly

Amy and Tina you look GREAT

ELTON JOHN EGOT GAYS IS WINNING

Ryan is chaotic evil lol but he sure has given us some shit to watch

Secondary Beef sweeeep

That's the thing, you get one good role and then you win all three awards it can get a little boring

you're gonna make it after aaaaaaallllllll

and a HAPPY MLK DAY TO US ALL

Jessica nominated for something in every awards show and every time she's just sitting around being pretty and chill

JOAN AND TARAJI DREAM BLUNT ROTATION

invited everyone you kneewwwooooooowww you would SEE the biggest gift would be from ME and the caaaardd attached would SAY thank U for being a friiiiieeeeeennnddddddEEEEENNDDDDD *dah*

How is there another 50 minutes of this I'm pretty much over it

Also this new show with Diane Lane *gay panic*

not a compilation video of TV lol

WAG THEME

*we ARE welcome*

GOD look at her why am I always in the room with my mother when she's on stage lol

Yay gay people winning again

YES THEY DID BABY TRENT DID HIS THANG

Looking at her titties looking at her nails looking at her ass looking at her dress i am so femme and so gay and also so femme

I love that *this* is why they had the WAG theme that didn't register at first lol

Is RuPaul singing this song in the background wait maybe thats Titus or Billie who IS that lol which black gay is that

What up Sarah Kate that's a very gay outfit lol

Okay we have another 40 minutes though so like...unless we're gonna have Sarah speak for like seventeen minutes

They also keep panning to Jessica Chastain because she just looks beautiful at all times at all angles in all and it doesn't make any sense

LOL they found Bella like quick where's an enby quick, lol panning to Jenna holding a girl's hand

OMG Babette from GG love her guitar jacket that's camp

"Why is this always so fuckin SAD" - crystallineirses on in memoriam segments

LESLIE

PAUL

IRENE

I am gonna CRY how dare they

not the collage like it's top model

I came back to some random dance sequence lol what up Calista

oh LORD it's Kieran's time *MANIFEST*

MY MAN MY MAN MY MAN

SO MUCH KISSING BRIAN WHAT

SHIRTS OFF SHIT

MO GAYS

THE DEEP SIGH

MANIFEST

TEAM SHIV

SHIV BABIES WE DID IT

THIS IS OUR TIME

EMMY WINNERS SARAH AND KIERAN

"MLK allowed me to celebrate a bunch of white people depicting even worse white people" - crystallineirses on the Succession wins

MEN KISSING ON TV

FX IS TIGHT

GO J GO

get your way to him lol

Why are they off screen lol

Not me just watching J and Kieran shuffling around

DAMN Hannah

it's been real yall

Just more hugs for all the boys

MLK IN THE CREDITS

[castle-dominion]

castle 6x20 that 70s show

the 70s episode liveblog

I made my big bro watch this w me bc he's 70s obsessed.

Cement? mob hit? They would have had to weigh him down bc humans float in concrete. Also yeah what do you do? the one u call is the foreman. They deal with it not you. Reminds me of the ep where the police chief constable was gay & buried a body under the station & they found it while

KATE BECKETT I’ll make the coffee. CASTLE I’ll make the omelets. MARTHA RODGERS And I am going to make your day.

Love how the bells kind of slow down & go low & get weird. I mean at least the arch was nice.

MR: Richard, I am simply trying to bring a little pageantry into your wedding. But it seems that the only role you want me to play is that of guest. Fine. I can do that. I LOVE her

You can't make ANYTHING in a wedding a not-over the top disaster.

78 just like my brother's no wait falsettos was '79. disco era my beloved. RC: And a testament to the truly indestructible nature of polyester.

Milt Boyle: Vince Bianchi. Before he turned into the pile of bones you guys found. Love his VOICE

OH OH YEA DET. SANDVICH. OR SANOVICH I CAN'T TELL. HE'S THE ONE WHO SITS ACROSS FROM BECKS. I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER THAT THIS MORNING. also under esposito's feet, he's at Det veiss(something) or messer's desk I can't tell what it says bc it is grainy & under shadow

Love the music too. Is it black or is it a dark colour? obv not powder blue... RC: It’s like being transported to a bygone era. Mickey the Blade? Louie the Lip? Where are these guys now?

Hey Frank Russo REALLY looks like the guy in the picture who, yk, went through second puberty. Love their accents. 4ksqft is a lot wow. Broke bread, shot the breeze, I love phrases. Harold Leone, as in lee-ohwn, not lee-ohwn-ee like brad leone from bon appetit Love how Becks calls Boyle on her own desk phone bc, well, yeah. Also set design my beloved, we have a pic of sanovich's kid on his desk

He knew things? Yeah ofc, he was the advisor!

Big bro thought that maybe this gal was just wearing Black fashion. Yvonne my beloved Frozen in time? Dumbass clothes? I thought it was cute. Wow it HAS been 40 years almost...

Beckett def not 70s enough.

YVONNE: Harold? You have guests. HAROLD LEONE: Huh? (he comes from the kitchen) Whoa!!! Well, this hot mama can be my guest all night long. He approaches KB and she holds out her hand. KB: Uh, sir, I’m Detective Beckett and this is Mr. Castle. HL: Captain. HL shakes RC’S hand. RC: (corrects) Castle. HL: Oh, Captain Castle. I bet you’re showing this little lady the ropes, huh? Breaking her in, huh? KB glares at RC. RC: Well, actually, um … HL: I mean, have you ever seen a cop with an ass that fine? If this is women’s lib, I’m all for it. KB: Excuse me? RC: To be fair, you do have a very fine … (off her look) never mind.

So humorous I love this man I love everything (but how does he look in the mirror w/o freaking out? it's like 50 first dates) Big bro LOOOVED the house & colours & wallpaper & stuff.

I love Harold & BECKETT SHUT UP YOU NEED TO MEET HIM ON HIS LEVEL. I know ppl who had to chase away spoon-wielding monsters every night for dementia patients, you do it & move on. It's ok.

No body no talkie. he IS delusional! "cupcake"

clipping clipping clipping I love I love I love snookie & ray the red car the absolute mess esposito pulling over ryan (giffing that) it's just... so good I'm insane

YOU MADE A CAST OF THE BODY!? Lanie just there like "what are you talking about?" unless caslte already asked her if she had any bodies to spare offscreen. LP: I’ve seen them do more with a lot less. But I don’t want to be a part of some crazy plan – RC: You have to. Because for this to work, this place has to look like the 70s. (he looks LANIE up and down) And so do you.

I love how the wife is there & he's smoking with the oxygen & I love this. Carcano: What, I’m going to bury a body in my own backyard? Plus, if I had someone disappear they’d stay that way. MC: If you boys have any more questions you can talk to my attorney. (he moves to leave) You know, after this long the truth is hard to find. If I was you I’d quit looking for it. Sometimes what’s in the past should stay there. (THIS MAN IS TELLING THEM TO STOP LOOKING. REMEMBER WHO HE IS: HEAD OF THE FAMILY, HE WAS TRYING TO MERGE FAMILIES WITH BIANCHI.)

OH SHE IS HOT Oh LANIE IS HOT TOO. (clipping) What if he touches him?

No wallet on him? or gun?

My poor harold. Hit you he's really gone? so will you come to the 2010a now? HOLY CRAP THAT'S-- STUFF IS HAPPENING. (castle flailing when the body hand was there lol. also how does that offer ANY protection from the gun?)

JE: *walks in* So I've got-- WOAH. *seeing Lanie* LP: Not a word KR: *talking abt the case* Right Javi? JE: I'm sorry what? *was staring at lanie* LP: !! *rolls eyes* & then that last little "nice dress" to her lil bro said not to clip but OOF I kind of wish I did

Tory my beloved.

Hm, ryan's pants don't match his jacket...

RC: It won’t burst his bubble... if it...looks like the 70s. Ooh she's ranking officer rn lol. WAIT CASTLE ALREADY OPENED A COSTUME ACCOUNT BEFORE ASKING BECKETT IF HE COULD DO THIS?

"let him dig on this 70s vibe" love the music coming in there the morgue was only one room? what about the drive there or the walk into the morgue? HIS MOTHER!!!??? A little bit, yes. YEAH FOR OUR WEDDING! RC: Let’s face it. We cannot let that woman anywhere near our wedding. But … she will love this. And then we get to solve the greatest mystery of the disco era. Besides the popularity of disco itself. It’s a win-win.

his little groove back Abysmal talent pool? Martha my beloved. Rick & his mom are like beckett & castle. Beckett: castle no. Castle: castle yes. Rick: mom no. Martha: YES YES OVER THE TOP YES!

Oh & the music! & I watched an abba parody production the other day before I watched this too.

LMGDAO A HIPPIE WOULD NOT BE HERE WITH THE COPS. Ooh it's a chalkboard! (So they made the photos black & white but... didn't remove them?)

Oh no snookie & ray Martha <3 ALEXIS (wearing that /gen tho)

Why would they need scripts? if they were pretending to be snookie & ray for real they'd need the mannerisms & backstory down, but ryan & esposito have interviewed ppl before. "super groovy" *ryan couching at the cigarette* Esposito frozen with his hands up p& ryan comes in to save him Righteous is in this context, not nec 80s, besides the 70s were from like 74 to 84 yk?

jive turkey again "my god who wrote this?" I love/hate the feathered chief in there

Glitterati? Do they have pagers? REACH BEHIND YOU & TURN OFF YOUR PHONE RLY QUICK, SAY IT WAS AN ALARM CLOCK IN THE OTHER ROOM. the deets? the details?

KR: Actually, it’s been though a lot of different incarnations, but guess what? It’s back to being a 70s club again! Me: WHAT LUCK

I like his nod. "take him to glitterati-- go! go!" *gates*

RC: Captain Gates! I thought you were at a terrorism seminar? VG: It was canceled due to a bomb threat. & did he? Yes! He did! Ryan & Esposito are taking him there now!

Girl your apb thing was not FROM this charade tho "especially you" CASTLE NO DON'T SAY IT LIKE THAT THEY TOOK HIM TO A DISCO!

Love the car, love the raming, love the fall, love how esposito was the one who talked ryan into this but now ryan is the one who likes it

Love the dancing & the lights & the fun & the everything! HL: *dancing really well, having fun* Dancing fellow: *also having fun dancing "with" him* HL: Hey, baby. How’re you doing, hon? That’s a nice dress. Can I talk you out of it? (kind of good, all compliments, but wow v forward.)

Yay beckett is normal now. *castle on his phone* they would SO not get his that easy with the gun & stuff. *castle banging on the door*

Always wearing the same suit, it's his club outfit! does frank STILL own it?

*esposito dancing on the clock* he does still own it. maybe that's how it connects to the murder.

HL: Oh no sweat. *SMASH* (not clipping)

I like how he doesn't want to say the year. Also he KNOWS it is not '78 but he might not know the REAL year. "It is whatever year I need it to be" that was a GOOD answer!

"The private event was frank killing him" You figured it out from the time that you got shot at.

rysposito normal looking now "we DO think you killed him?"

Last dance was on the turntable <3 <3

"someone special" we KNOW who that someone special is babes. *lunchbag of evidence*

I think I assumed he stole evidence. Ah the 70s. Gay lovers in the mob in the 70s & this is beautiful. I mean the trauma of killing someone it could totally make you think it's '78 forever. I mean, Harold was also flirting with every woman around. (Maybe that was their thing. You can sleep with any woman, but you only LOVE me) Beard, lavender marriage, his number two...

REMEMBER THE MERGER? MICHAEL CARCANO! He kept it a secret from you that you were going to propose?

for a sec I thought becks was pantsless but it was just a light brown colour.

RC: You couldn’t handle the rejection. So as he left you shot him in the back, then again in the face. You know, because it was personal. Where did she get the gun tho?

It would NOT have stayed that way, these cops would have still solved it.

CASTLE BRINGING HIM OUT TO THE CLUB

YES YES YES THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE she CAN'T disco dance tho. Yay martha & alexis! RC: I’m just glad it covers more this time. Ryan & esposito chilling having fun I love it. (Tho if esposito was born in the 70s he might remember like,, kindergarten outfits. I only remember a few that are attatched to specific memories, like that striped early 00s (or really early 2010s except it was probably a handmedown) shirt I wore during geology in elementary. Lanie is back! & her hair is normal *ryan dancing* Gates I love her I love her (reminds me of that one fic I read, it was good, I want to dance with YOU, not any of these other people who might be prettier than you, because I want you.)

Harold my beloved <3 Last Dance is def going on my playlist.

ldjsklsdfkfjsdkljf GREAT EPISODE PEOPLE

[amphibifish]

my friends got the shittier version of this essay but i don't think i'm saying much in either so

rod keeps many emotional walls up even around his best friend, who he arguably has even more walls around due to the fact he is a) gay b) in love with nicky.

this of course makes him incredibly lonely, and really emotionally constipated lmao he's a well off guy who does well in everything, while also being incredibly insecure, so he retaliates by overcompensating through the way he acts. this shows in how he yells at nicky and becomes really defensive in if you were gay and his piss poor attempt at saving face in my girlfriend who lives in canada. a lot of this is driven by fear of being ostracized or rejected by everyone, which isn't helped by the scene in which christmas eve indirectly tells him that he's good for nothing and to stay in the closet. when nicky outs him in front of everyone, of course he's gonna act irrationally. doesn't mean he should've kicked nicky out but hey rod does what rod wants.

rod is really lonely btw and he has to handle not only his identity crisis but the fact that the person he loves will never love him back. all he truly wants is to love someone and for someone to love him, and so he's envious of kate and princeton and brian and christmas eve who seem to have found such strong bonds of love.

because his guard is held up most of the time, the moments where he lets himself be comfortable with his feelings hit so much harder, such in fantasies come true where he lets himself finally freely love nicky (up until the end, of course, where his hopes and dreams are absolutely crushed), or when he lets himself cry in christmas eves arms, and admits to her that he does miss nicky, and that he was the one who made rod feel loved.

with time, and therapy, however, rod does come to accept himself, and to accept nicky back into his life. some of his traits from act i are definitely still there, he's a little bit irritable but he's much less insecure, and much happier. in the end, rods finally comfortable with himself.

i don't know how to end this but in conclusion rod is lonely and sad and then hes not i don't know what to tell you i dotn think this essay says anything that adds anything to the story i'm just thinking about rod i guess. anyways so you know how nicky's actions in act i are all basically driven by just trying to make rod feel more comfortable in his skin well in this essay i will

something i love lvoe lvoe about the way rod was written is how much he guards his heart in the musical and i just love how he goes from this kinda asshole no funny business kind of guy to a free and more relaxed person as he lets his guard down and realizes he doesn't have to be so afraid.