#it was either impossible to gif

[lanternmice]

are they... you know🏳️‍🌈

[sav-not-tav]

2 dashing wizards... but you can only choose one 😳

[btr-rewatch]

The boys in every episode: "Big Time Photo Shoot"

[elisacifuentes]

Misinformation, manipulation, it's what he does, Ilsa, it's what he's trained to do. Lane lies to you, you sell those lies to Hunt - together, you're both compromised. That's his ultimate objective. This may be authentic, but there's only one person I trust to verify that information - you.

[pearlcaddy]

LOCKWOOD & CO. 1.07

[camalyng]

"I'd be more comfortable if they didn't have access to engineering and the CIC."

[ratatatastic]

its finally luosty turns last but not least eh? his topic? cranky sasha 🤣🤣🤣 (whoever came up with these topics wanted to get sasha riled up oh my goddddd)

ofc the way he chooses to show off cranky sasha is through his spartan hockey huh and OF FUCKING COURSE he gets lundy to come up and help him because who else but lundy does sasha crack the good ole whip for IM DYING

he also makes sure to mime in the goal posts too so everyones on the same page that this is of course about hockey because this has turned into an improv exercise mama hes a star hes a THEATRE kid

luosty is very good at mimicing cranky sasha must have lots of time watching him get fussy with lundy huh i can imagine the only directions given to lundy here was act like yourself and somehow that makes this funnier

they absolutely both think luosty is the funniest fucker alive OH MY GOD HE GOT LUNDY TO SMILE (WHICH ISNT MUCH OF AN ACCOMPLISHMENT HES SO SMITTEN WITH HIM) BUT HE GOT MIKKSY TO GIVE A GOOD TOOTHY GRIN TOO LUOSTY WHAT POWERS DO YOU HAVE 😭😭😭😭

he has this whole couch bewitched by his antics oh my fucking god... kicking the bench...throwing the water bottle...cranky sasha indeed

THE WAGGING FINGER AT LUNDY hey man whyd you move your hand to your crotch did that incite any revelations in you do you need to cover something that had unfortunate timing huh do you understand why mikksy cant stand them do you understand now

on another episode of i genuinely dont think anyone else could do this and get sasha this giggly in the midst of it of making fun of him luosty has really charmed them all

Sasha Cup Party | 7.31.24 (x)

[pharawee]

"Why do you want to go to that wooden bridge? It's a waste of time."

[sheppardsmckay]

Me: *opens mouth to complain*

My mind: Now what would Rodney McKay do?

Me: Good point

My mind: :)

Me: *complains even louder*

[emblazons]

"That's what holds this party together. Heart."

Stranger Things S04E08 - Papa timestamp roulette - 33 of 34 (for anon) (+)

[starrynightgifs]

cries in a sense of accomplishment

[spxnglr]

Egon w almost all his other ship partners: shy af, probably slightly intimidated. Egon w @anywherexwhen's 10:

[sixcalibur]

LORD OF THE LOST - The Curtain Falls

[warderfromtheborder]

Sure is great to have a whole weekend to one's self, think "oh this'd be a great time to get into a raid group and learn some stuff" and then find out there's an exploit of such magnitude the game will almost certainly require a rollback to thursday at least.

Guess I'll not then.

Edit: my assumptions were proven incorrect! Which is great! I hope everyone had fun.

(I hope if nothing else the weapons team got some valuable data from seeing so many looneytunes weapons in action)

[badedramay]

what i find interesting about the whole hamza phenomenon on twt is the insistence on him not being a nepo kid even though he himself has admitted to how his connections have been helpful. like he got the raqeeb se gig bc he was interested in tv production and asked kashif nisar if he could work as an assistant, only for nisar to ask him to audition and subsequently offer him the role. not just anyone can walk up to kashif nisar and even ask that initial question. there was a foundation there that hamza was able to capitalize on, and then it resulted in even more success than he expected. and he's clearly grateful for that opportunity so i'm not sure why people want to obscure his attitude about it. it's good he's humble and understands his privileges, it's good he's trying to take it a little at a time and work his way up to the stronger roles. no need to project the babygirl image onto him when what he is is an accountable adult clearly passionate about this line of work and willing to put in the effort to succeed at it bc he's lucky to have access to certain opportunities (something i comparatively don't notice in people like zaviyar, for example, who seems to more or less cruise on opportunities rather than actually value them lol)

Yeah I do see his privilege being very deliberately wrapped in a package of struggle by his fandom. the narrative about how he didn't immediately get a lead in Kashif Nisar show and how he had to "audition" and he started as "supporting actor" is passed off as his struggle when, like you said, just him being able to go up to Kashif Nisar to ask to be on his set already put him leagues ahead of contemporaries who actually struggled to get in the building in the first place.

Being a nepo kid and being untalented are not two mutually exclusive things. he seems like a decent lad. he's aware of the privilege that he has (according to what his fandom says) and he is well-spoken. that's good. nothing wrong with that. but I do feel his fandom tries to make up for his privileged background a LOT by projecting an image to him that's quite far from the truth imo. like how the fandom vehemently tried to keep his old private posts private when some pictures of him smoking? doing sheesha? something like that came out..because those pictures didn't necessarily align with the "babygirl" image they have going on for him (the same people had no issues cooing over the "non-problematic" pictures). and how they are now busy calling out people who post about his very expensive wardrobe choices because it puts in light just how loaded his bank account actually is because..again..it doesn't align with the "struggling" image they have going on for him (whereas fanpages dissecting any celeb's looks is a fairly common practice in fandoms across the board now and is not a "hate" campaign like some of Hamza's fans would like to believe).

He IS a nepo kid. He IS privileged. that's just facts. he got a headstart in the industry because of his father's name. he/his fans can try to wrap it all up by saying "oh no his father didn't help him at all~" all they want but the reality of this country is that the father's name on the identity card opens huge doors for you. i don't think anyone in the industry in their right mind would've seen son of Sohail Ahmed come up to them and treat him with anything but their full attention. like..how is this up for any discussion or confusion??? do people not know how this country works in terms of having connections???

Imho, it's the fans who want his image to be completely disassociated from his privileged background more than Hamza himself. there's always this stigma around stanning nepo kids of the industry. also with two other nepo kids being Hamza's contemporaries and them so clearly benefiting from their last names..yeah I can see why the fans are extra defensive. then there's this thing of Hamza's claim to fame being a "green flag" character which acc to his fandom is so fucking rare in dramas ke usse pehle toh kabhi koi itna acha huaaa hi nahin dramas mein and how they take stanning Hamza's character in FT as a thing of pride..they don't want anything to stain Hamza's perfect offscreen image lest it ends up affecting his character onscreen. i also have this theory that the last nepo kid that the fans hailed as a great addition to the industry despite his privilege was Ahad Raza Mir and how he basically ended up using his stint in PakDramas as embellishments on his CV to pursue international work which he was always more interested..that has cautioned the fans from being too trust worthy of talented nepo kids. but ab Hamza pe dil aa gaya hai aur woh utar bhi nahin sakta toh chalo uski image cleaning karte hain and package him as "just a regular guy" like all of us. "yaaar yeh bechara apne abba se maar khata tha..ye toh bilkul meri tarah hai!" they write as captions of his pictures where he is decked head to toe in Gucci.

[delcat177]

Actually, I feel like acquiring media you don't want to support is one of the most powerful things about piracy, and have used it to view media where I don't support the producer.

If I pirate transgressive media, and then the notion that by viewing a thing--just by viewing a thing, that I am then espousing all its values--it's kind of fucked up. It leaves no room for individual thought and processing. It is the opposite of media literacy.

I am a god damned library page, or I was before my life fell apart awhile. I was in charge of putting books on shelves, and they were not all good books. It *hurt* putting Cesar Milan books out, I would silently and fervently wish people would just stop taking them out, because Cesar Milan is a garbage person whose methods hurt dogs. I considered taking them out and "losing" them. When they did hit the library sale, I bought them, and felt good about the notion--

But really, all I did was a performative action. The people wanting those books were going to get their books. *If anything, I just made them pay full price. Nothing of value was saved.*

I can't control what other people think and do. And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think it's a fundamental human right. I think it fucking sucks sometimes, absolutely, but fundamental human rights tend to be messy and painful things.

And if I have family members who want to view media that I find transgressive, and I'm supposed to blacklist them for that? Am I McCarthy or the fucking Vatican? I'm sure as hell not getting anywhere on explaining to them why I find it transgressive, I'm taking it away before they can have their own argument.

And the argument gets shot down way easier when someone *has* one, believe me you. It's way harder to get someone to listen to "That's transphobic and antisemitic so you can't have it" than to "You played it? Antisemitic as shit, right?". One just isn't a discussion. One is an opener to people who just don't get it, and--I feel like this is so critical--

Yes, there are people who still don't get it. No, it is not necessarily their own fault. *Yes, ostracizing them is going to cause problems.*

*Othering allies does not help.* Neither does mocking them. Neither does doubling down into a feud. It all feels real good, because then you get to be the hero, but *there are no heroes*.

There's just us. There's just apes. We're all making it up as we go along, and if we forget that, we really *are* doomed by media.

It's not heroes and villains. That's how Harry fucking Potter sets it up, as propaganda, but it's not like that. Long before this was "oh no this author is not good to people", it was "the Sorting Hat is dumb as shit can a Slytherin just be a good guy for once".

WE ARE THE SORTING HAT RIGHT NOW, AND IT SUCKS. THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.

I don't know yet.

I don't know yet.

There isn't an easy answer.

There rarely is.