#janie overthinks media

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I totally get why the arc wasn't longer with this shortened season but! Something I really loved about today's storyline with Hen (and most of her storylines tbh) and hope continues with all the characters was showing how multiple things can be true at once.

Chimney did say that he should administer care, and the guy did refuse care. Hen did clock pretty immediately that he was drunk/high, but he also very much was obviously not in his right mind and didn't understand what he was refusing - and yes, he was being a dick, but yes, it's also concerning for first responders to immediately write someone off, and you deserve full and proper care regardless of who you are or if you're in the wrong. Reviews are needed to determine what happened, and the guys should be allowed to be honest, but there is a different level of scrutiny tossed at her as a Black woman in this situation that Bobby wouldn't get, and she's fair in feeling like they were throwing her under the bus. Hen was correct in her assessment of him and she did get defensive very quickly, and she recognizes both.

All of these things can be true at once (and expanding it into fandom even - we can love Hen and be happy she was right but also have critique about what happened and point out issues with care in the same way that we point out incompetent policing in the show!) and I wish it was longer to really delve into it, but I love that we got to see that a bit, and Aisha especially plays those nuances so well.

[ausantana]

The Role of The “Weird Girl” in Movies

Written by: Au, also known as @ausantana on tumblr

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Introduction 🪱

Nowadays, the trope of weird girls in movies has begun to become more visible, and as a society, we are beginning to increasingly normalize teenagers who identify themselves as "weird" or "awkward" and there is nothing wrong with both words unlike how they used to be used previously.

Types of weird girls ⭐️

There are various types of "weird girls", however they are usually categorized into 5 types (although in my opinion the complexity of each person goes far beyond each of these labels, and although we as teenagers try to fit into a specific type, we will always have characteristic features of each of these characteristics and personalities)

The goth

Known for their dark ways of dressing and acting, they mostly have alternative and gothic tastes.

Moodboard!

Characters: Lisa Frankenstein, Lydia Deetz, Nancy Downs & Morticia Addams

The Smartass

They are known above all for being sarcastic and having a great sense of humor, they tend to be the intelligent and smart ones.

Moodboard!

Characters: ‘Lady Bird’, Janis Ian, Robin Buckley & Kat Stradford

The Awkward

They are known either for not talking much or for talking too much, they are usually introverted for the most part and overthink all the time.

Moodboard!

Characters: Melinda Sordino, Carrie White, Juno Macguff & Nadine Franklin

The Basket Case

Normally, they tend to be girls who go through such a strong trauma that they express an unhealthy obsession through competitions, whether it be a frustrated dream or substance abuse. They are also called "the lost cause."

Moodboard!

Characters: Nina Sayers, Pearl, Daisy Rondone & Marla Singer

The Space Cadette

Those girls who are given the term "weird" for being daydreamers and being in their own world, are usually absent-minded.

Moodboard!

Characters: Luna Lovegood, Cassie Ainsworth, Cecilia Lisbon & Davina

Movies and Series with the weird girl representation on it ����

- Dinner in America (2020)

- Juno (2007)

- Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

- Lady Bird (2017)

- The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

- Fleabag (2017)

- The Craft (1996)

- Beetlejuice (1988)

- The Virgin Suicides (1999)

- Little Woman (2019)

- Speak (2004)

- Girl, Interrupted (1999)

- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

- Garden State (2004)

Songs attributed to “weird girls” on social media at the moment 💿

- The Promise - When in Rome

- Teenage Girl - Cherry Glazer

- Watermelon - John + Jane Q. Public.

& more!

Video in representation → millionhawks on TikTok has perfectly represented the feeling of not fitting in anywhere, the typical attitudes of this trope such as awkwardness, overthinking and other things are also present in this video!

Which I absolutely love, as it also represents weirdness from a real point of view by adding characters from movies known to audiences familiar with this topic.

(Click on “video in representation” so you can watch the video!)

So this is my third post on this blog! I hope you liked the brief analysis I made about this plot, because I am another example of a weird girl.

I would like to encourage you to follow this blog if you want to see similar content, because even though I am not very well known on this platform, I would like to create a space full of people with the same tastes and interests as me, feel free to comment, give your opinion and ask questions in the comments of this post and any other!

I have a question for you readers! So feel free to reply: What kind of weird girl are you?

I myself am the composition of the 5 types, but above all, the awkward and the space cadette.

Xoxo, Au.

[raviposting]

I think, just to add a differing view on this, it does have an identity, just not one that (many) fans of the BBC version like. The basement ghosts are helpful - they’re constantly helping with the machinery, and Nancy may seem a bit much to audiences at times but she very much helps Pete stand up for himself.

The ghosts do like modern things, but there’s also (imo) a good mix of things for them. Sas always wanted to be a storyteller, and this is the main plot of the episode where he helps Sam with the B&B website. Hetty loves the traditional food she had in her life, and this works out for them when the wedding planner comes. Pete bonds with Jay over D&D because it was popular in the 80s, then again with basketball - and that modern watching allows him to realize Flower also knows and enjoys it. Yes, they’re fascinated by modern things - these are new and they’re allowed to grow and get to expand their interests - but they also still have their own interests from their lives.

And they do have two very very different tones lol. For me, I loved CBS Ghosts and hated BBC Ghosts, and couldn’t get past season 2. There’s some things I’m just not a fan of - like for example, with their only WOC being a character who’s so naive that at times it feels like she’s a child and as a WOC I am….not with that lmao, as much as Kitty was one of the few characters I actively liked. We see a tone difference with how Alison/Sam get their power respectively (getting pushed out a window by Julian vs an accidental tripping caused by Trevor). The watch being something that helps Sam and Jay and carries on its plot for a future episode whereas in BBC it builds up to a hopeful moment that then gets squashed because it was pawned. There’s a definite tone difference where BBC has a more dark and gloomy vibe and CBS has a more upbeat and optimistic vibe.

And both are okay! If the tone were to be the exact same for both shows I just don’t really see what the point of doing a remake in the first place would be? Especially since both shows are currently running. It’s interesting to see how they can take the same plots and you see it interpreted in two different ways, and seeing how it diverges. That also means it’s going to have divergences with who likes it - you and I for example obviously have different preferences on which version we like by a mile lmao - but they’re both good shows with their own identity that’s going to appeal to (most likely) different audiences. CBS Ghosts isn’t “losing” the gloomy horror identity because it was never the US version’s identity to begin with, they actively decided to make this adaptation a different tone.

Interesting how CBS Ghosts only felt comfortable making the basement ghosts capable of doing bad things.

You know. The "ugly" ones.

Also, another observation, regarding there being no sense of time and history with them. The American ghosts have storylines about reality shows and podcasts (there's a podcast episode coming up in s2 and Sass and Thorfin get addicted to a Love Island style reality show in s1). It's like the creators are afraid to reference things the ghosts as individuals might like, for fear of alienating a generically modern audience.

In the UK one, Fanny stumbles across Murder She Wrote. An old fashioned, decades old show about an intelligent older woman. It makes *sense* that she likes it, and it doesn't matter that it might not be a reference the younger viewers get. Pat starts an FM radio show because that's something from his time period. It would seem old fashioned to us, but not to him. The ghosts are *discovering* modern things, but tentatively, realistically. Why would a viking immediately *get* a Love Island style reality show? And what is he learning about the future? About himself? What thought did the creators put into any of that?

Also, does anyone else hate that CBS Ghosts lost the gloomy, horror movie aesthetic? Is this show interested in having an identity?

[acehotel]

Interview: Michael Arceneaux

Michael Arceneaux is a writer who contains multitudes. A gifted essayist whose work navigates religion, intimacy, doubt, fear and self-actualization, he makes the tightrope walk between levity and vulnerability look easy. His debut essay collection I Can’t Date Jesus landed him on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and his essays — which have been published in Essence, Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The New York Times and more — breathe a renewed sense of possibility in prose, dressed by his signature wit and flair. 

In the latest installment Dear Reader, Tin House invited Michael to spend a night at Ace Hotel New York and, while there, pen a letter to an imagined audience. The contents of his letter have been kept secret until today, revealing themselves to the light in each room of the hotel. 

If you could correspond with any fictional character or literary figure via letters, who would it be? And why?

Michael Arceneaux: I would love to write back and forth with Zora Neale Hurston. I tend to read mainly nonfiction, which I know is like "whew chile, the ghetto" to a lot of the more refined writers and what not, but I am a fan of hers, especially a lot of her short fiction as I do enjoy a lot of short story collections. I have always appreciated her use of Black dialect 'cause I'm country. Also, I think the way she used it made for a much better understanding of her characters. The obvious character would be Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God, but it's true of much of her fiction.

However, I know that some were critical of that at the time (along with other matters related to her work), so while I know this may make me sound like the Andy Cohen or Nina Parker of The Real Housewives of The Harlem Renaissance: Reunion, but if I could write, "Sis, Richard Wright needs to have a sip and shut up about this book," I'd be totally into it. I apologize to the ancestors and living elders in advance if I'm already offending y'all. But seriously, I do value her work and I hated that she died poor. It's honestly been one of my fears in trying to have a career as a writer that I would die poor and only be truly appreciated until long after I was gone.

Do you map out your writing, or do you discover your path as you go? How often does your work go in directions you never expected?

As a working writer, particularly one who writes heavily for various outlets across Al Gore's internet, a lot of my writing assignments are time sensitive so generally I have an idea of what I want to say when I pitch or am pitched to. When it comes to my book writing, I have a general outline, too, because one, you already sold your book on proposal so the template is already there, and two, I've just become wired that way after having done largely digital media work for nearly a decade. I apologize to fans of spontaneity and the rush of unforeseen creative inspirations that transforms prose. However, there were instances on I Can't Date Jesus in which two chapters ended up a lot differently than I anticipated. One chapter in particular about my father wasn't trashed per se, but had to be changed after I had a talk with my sister. In learning more about my dad's relationship with my uncle before he died, I didn't have to put aside my feelings and experiences, but she added so much more context. So I had to sit with it. I mean really sit with it; not to just react to new intel, but table it, process it, and then go back and pour myself out all over again. It made everything for the better.

I have more recently been making much better use of the Notes app. I like to hand write a lot of things, but I've come to realize doing it on the phone is better for me because I can jot down some idea, and while traveling—particularly on that awful MTA in NY — I build little by little on it. A lot of my second book ideas came out from toying with the Notes app and handwriting an outline while eating brunch solo and casually talking to a beautiful bartender that isn't into men, but what the hell, he's still cute so I'm going to chat anyway.  

Dear Reader tasks you with writing for an imagined audience of strangers. How much do you think about your audience when you write? Have you ever been surprised by who is drawn to your work?

My main intentions with my work are to make people laugh and to make people think. I try not to think too heavily about anything else because it can become distracting. Like, I'm aware and conscious of the things I say and how I say them, but I try not to overthink because if I do, God, it's just going to take me so much longer to get anything done. I want everyone to read me so I do the best I can and hope it reaches as many as possible.

I still think of myself as a bit under the radar (to the boos and hisses of select friends and colleagues), so I am always pleasantly surprised when anyone reads my work, but I am actually never surprised at having a diverse readership. One of my very good friends and former editors once told me "You write for Black people." What he meant was I don't focus on the white gaze nor do I concern myself with worries that if I sound too uh, colloquial, that I will alienate non-Black readers. I Can't Date Jesus is a book I wish I had growing up as a working class, southern Black gay boy. I wrote it from that perspective and knew people like me would be the first to gravitate towards it. I'm so proud of that, but there are also a lot of white people in their 70s reading it. I know because they email me all the time. Others — namely in publishing — felt I would be "niche," but I write about religion, intimacy, doubt, fear and learning to love myself and enjoy pleasure. Those are universal themes, so while I may be not surprised the book is connecting with a wide readership, I'm glad they are surprising the people in publishing who often fail to give non-white writers the benefit of the doubt.

What's a book that you wish more people knew about?

Bitch Is The New Black by Helena Andrews. She is probably tired of me saying this, but I adore her as a writer, I love her book, I love her voice, and I think she was, in hindsight, somewhat ahead of her time because she definitely paved the way for a new generation of Black memoirists and deserves her flowers. This is also just another good way to publicly push and get more books out of her. If I can get a bonus, Bulletproof Diva by Lisa Jones.

Do you have any rituals, ceremonies or requirements that accompany your writing process?

I shoot up at 6:00 a.m. pretending that I'm going to immediately get to writing, but in reality, I'm just going to turn on Morning Joe because my body literally now wakes up to its schedule. How long I watch depends on how quickly someone on the panel says something that annoys me so then I go freshen up. Next up: my morning jig, a thing I do every morning in which I dance to some song in order to have a little joy before someone tries to ruin it. Eventually, I decide to write a little on my phone because I'm not ready to sit at that desk yet. I'll have some caffeine — ideally something I already have in the fridge or I'll convince myself that paying $5 for an oak milk latte will really get me going when I know this is just me wasting time and I have private student loans — meaning I shouldn't be in that coffee shop anyway. Obviously, hours have passed and then I finally settle down to write after Wendy Williams finishes “Hot Topics,” of course.

I don't really get to writing until I end up using the Freedom app to block me from the internet so I can spend hours writing. I don't recommend this, but in my defense, my discipline has waned because I have yet to take that vacation that's probably seven years overdue now.

Dear Reader is a collaboration of Tin House and Ace Hotel New York.

[crueltyfreefashionandmakeup]

Qs

Are you close to your mom? Yes. Are you close to your dad? Yes. Where do you live? NYC. Are you married? No. Do you have an accent? I think I have a valley girl accent lmfao. I’ve been told that! Were you mean in high school? I was a goth loner. Like literal goth rebel loner. I was Janis Ian. I was super shy, but if anybody talked to me, I would give them attitude. Were you bullied? oh yes. Beyond. I was (am) so tiny and shy. Like I was so skinny and tiny, I was an easy target. Therefore I became a goth loner. How tall are you? 4”11. Have you ever had a boob job? Nope. Do you have a big booty? lmfao no. I am so thin. I have no curves. Do you have lip filler? No. Do you have Botox? no. Do you have under eye filler? Nope. Do you have a baby? no. Do you talk to any of your exes? Yes. Did you grow up wealthy? I did. I am not rich now lmfao hello I just got a job a year ago, but I make decent money. My parents do quite well and tbh good for them. Have you ever been pregnant? No. Have you ever been kicked out? No. Have you ever had an abortion? no. What color is your hair? Brown. Do you cook and clean? Yes. Do you wear makeup? Yes. Have you been to Canada? Yes. Are you a homeowner? No. Are you close to your family? My immediate family, yes. Favorite season? Autumn. Describe yourself. boujee as fuck with a down to earth personality. Do you have social media? Yes. How do you deal with sad days Writing, reading, watching Netflix, going to therapy, reaching out to friends/family, allowing myself to feel the emotions, meditating, taking a walk, ect. Have you been to college? Yes. Have you been cheated on? Yes. Do you have a salary? Yes. Are you in a relationship? no. Do you overthink? Who doesn’t? Do you like being alone? Yes. Do you have friends? yes? lol. Would you ever get back together with an ex? Nope. Would you ever get filler? I don’t plan on it but hey never say never. Do you curl your hair? Sometimes. V rarely, actually. Did you have braces? yes. Do you want a relationship? Nope. Could not be more single if I tried. I love it. Have you ever ridden a horse? Yes. Favorite movie? Spirited Away and Sleeping Beauty. Star Wars or Lord of the Rings? Star Wars. Huge Star Wars fan and LotR fan, but Star Wars > Have you ever been to therapy? Yup. In therapy ATM.

[retro-hime]

The Ask Arcana Questionnaire

an awesome ass thank you to @fireflytrio for making this~!!

I have two apprentices so I’m filling this out for both of them. Essa and Valstyne. Essa’s will always be in bold and Valstyne’s will be italicized 

Part 1.) Characterization. Use these questions as a way to flesh out some of your character’s personality, background, likes/dislikes, etc.

Their surname?

Decesare

Castle

Halloween costume?

Devil/Satan but in like that scary attractive way. Could still kill you, but looks hot while doing it

Fairy

Familiar/animal friend?

Owl (or albino miniature dragon if lore allows)

Fruit Bat

Big spoon or little spoon?

Physically little spoon, emotionally big spoon

Both

Religious?

Not really, no

A little bit

Favorite fruit?

Blackberries and raspberries

Pomegranates

Idea of a nice date?

A rooftop picnic watching the sunset

She’s not too picky. Honestly any date is a nice date when you’re with the right person. But if she had to pick, it would be walking the beach barefoot and talking

Favorite season?

Winter

Spring and Winter and Fall and Summer... She can’t choose they’re all really nice

When is their Birthday?

April 12th (Aries)

January 23rd (Aquarius)

Favorite carnival ride?

Rollercoasters and drop towers. Anything that is scary as shit, like the zero gravity spinning thing

The spinning swings and hang gliders

Favorite emoji?

Devil emoji (Im on my laptop so I cant put them)

Any heart emoji and the eggplant and peach emoji 

Like to do in their free time?

Helping around town, eating, herbology/herbs, picking herbs, Underground fighting, sitting on the roof tops and throwing harmless stuff at passerbys

Astronomy/Constellations, astrology, people watching and then coming up with elaborate stories about them, helping the baker, walking/hiking through the forest

What sports would they play?

Kick-boxing or MMA

Track and field

What kind of car would they drive?

A big ass truck, preferrably Ford

SUV, those ones with three rowed seats. Or one of those rv’s or buses that were made into a cool mobile home.. So a mobile tiny home

How do they treat their significant other when they’re feeling unusually affectionate?

Lots of hugging and hand holding. She’ll go out of her way to get the person food (excessive amounts)

She would do a lot of amsall stuff, she’s already insanely affectionate, getting them their favorite flowers and giving them more kisses in random places than usual. Cooking/baking their favorite thing. Elaborate ass compliments

Favorite manga?

One Punch Man and Boku No Hero Academia

Ouran Highschool Host Club, Reimei No Arcana, and Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama... and Say I Love You

Main store to shop for clothes (if they lived in our world)?

Forever 21 or Hot Topic

Earthbound or any hipster thrift store and Platos Closet

What were they like growing up?

Very rough. She got into a lot of fights growing up. She was very protective of her mother and got into a lot of fights when the local kids and their parents would try to talk shit about her mother being a ‘witch’. Kinda like “call her a witch all you want Karn but you were just in the store yesterday getting a salve for that itch where the sun dont shine” 

She was a very sweet and quiet kid growing up and would make money helping everyone out around town. Her father was a surgeon and she would sometimes be required to help him out during his surgeries. So she doesn’t mind gore too much and started to really have a fascination with skulls. She has her mother and her fathers skulls in a glass case on a shelf in the shop.

What kind of drunk are they at a party?

Will kiss the person they secretly have a crush on, get more honest than usual, and will start fights. “i’ll kick your ass! i’ll kick my own ass!”

Dances on tables, becomes less reserved, the wholesome friend drunk where she’ll tell you how much she loves you. (Yuuri from Yuri On Ice when he got drunk. nuff said)

Reaction to someone telling a dirty joke?

"Oh shit that was good! Wanna hear a better one?!”

She would blush and snort/laugh at the same time. 

Reaction to stubbing their toe?

Creative ass curse words and then blaming the thing she stubbed her toe on.

“I curse you and your childrens children!” she screams at the table

Favorite color?

Dark colors, black red, black green, etc. 

Pastels~

Favorite See’s chocolate?

Dark chocolate

Chocolate and peanut butter

Favorite poptart flavor?

Gingerbread

Smores

Favorite hobby?

fighting for money

Singing and baking

How they sing at karaoke parties?

Refuses to sing, is only there for the alcohol

Sings loudly and seriously is drunk. She sings too well when shes not drunk but picks songs that people will hate. (Like Barbie Girl or any song by Aqua)

Preferred social media platform?

Reddit and Twitter

Tumblr

Opinion on puns?

Pun’s are the devils work, but god damn theyre funny. So shitty but so great. 

Has dad jokes/puns of her own

How do they typically deal with their problems?

Ignore that shit as much as possible until it is eminent

Push it down if it’s emotional problems. Other problems she tries to tackle head on because she doesn’t like putting off the inevitable

Spice girl nickname?

Death Spice

Honey Spice

Personal hygiene routine?

She showers every night because she always comes home dirty and her mom was big about being clean at night. She washes her hair every night as well

She showers twice a day and likes to make sure she always smells good. She washes her hair every other day and has a whole routine for it so that is stays moisturized and healthy.

Favorite alcoholic drink?

Fireball Whiskey

Rumchata

Favorite genre of music?

Any form of rock or rap/hip hop/r&b

Jazz or video game type music

Modern AU job/career?

MMA fighter

Vet

Favorite musical?

Hamilton and Sweeney Todd

Les miserables

How would they celebrate their significant other’s birthday?

Would spend a week planning and overthinking it. She would attempt to cook (which she can NOT do) and she would try to be romantic and would clean herself up and look really nice. It would be a personal dinner and a day spent doing whatever their SO wanted to do. 

She would wake them up with breakfast in bed and kisses. Then they would spend the day visiting their favorite places no matter the price and it would end with an elaborate picnic on the beach. 

Would they rather turn into a tiny rhinoceros or a giant hamster?

Giant Hamster

tiny rhinoceros

What would they do for their significant other for Valentine’s Day?

She would go to every a week in advance and would order a dish from each one to be delivered to the shop. She would send her SO out on errands all day so she could prepare it and would reward them with a surprise extravagant dinner.

Would wait until the day after when everything is on sale and shower her SO in the sweets that she binge bought. End the day in some intricate lingerie

Pros and cons to having them as a roommate?

Pros: Brings in money, can kick someones ass for you, knows how to take care of you when you’re sick, is good at cleaning.

Cons: Bullheaded, stubborn, is messy, sometimes won’t come home for days, cant. cook

Pros: Can cook, is homely, nicely decorates the house, house always smells good, makes sure everything is where it should be, likes to help

Cons: Skulls and bones (it usually makes people uncomfortable), superstitious 

On a scale from 1-10 how Extra are they?

8

5

Favorite meme?

Damn daniel and legally blind

Kermit self to self meme

Favorite three pokemon?

Gabite, Misdreavus, Haunter

Milotic, Sylveon, Staraptor

How tall are they?

5′4″

4′11″ and 3/4

Part 2.) Scaling. Using your best judgement, where does your fan apprentice fall on these scales?

[Example: Shortest to tallest?

Portia, Asra, [MC name here], Nadia, Lucio, Julian, Muriel]

Most to least superstitious?

Portia, Julian, Essa, Nadia, Lucio, Asra, Valstyne, Muriel

Most to least excited to be at a WWE event?

Essa, Portia, Lucio, Valstyne, Asra, Julian, Nadia, Muriel

Worst to best at handling children?

Nadia, Lucio, Muriel, Asra, Essa, Portia, Julian, Valstyne

Worst to best alcohol tolerance?

Muriel, Asra, Lucio, Valstyne, Julian, Portia, Essa, Nadia,

Best to worst at keeping secrets?

Asra, Valstyne, Muriel, Nadia, Lucio, Essa, Portia, Julian

Best to worst dancers?

Valstyne, Asra, Portia, Julian, Nadia, Lucio, Muriel, Essa

Most to least likely to slap you for stealing a mcnugget?

Essa, Nadia, Lucio, Asra, Portia, Julian, Muriel, Valstyne

Least to most likely to eat something weird on a dare?

Nadia, Julian, Valstyne, Muriel, Lucio, Portia, Asra, Essa

Least to most old?

Asra, Valstyne, Portia, Muriel, Essa, Julian, Lucio, Nadia

Part 3.) Extra characterization tidbits (whether you want to make a description or insert a photo for these is up to you!)

MC as a:

•MCR song

Mama

Sing

•vine

Kiss my ass (Summerella)

Any of the Thomas Sanders Vines of him narrating peoples lives

•a piece of furniture

Shelf (that way no one can fuck with her)

China Cabinet

•character from the Labyrinth

Hoggle

Jareth

•character in a cliche Noir film

Bad Cop who slaps the suspect around and uses unconventional ways to get answers. Has ties with the underground/black market in the city so they can get reliable information

 Knight in Sour armor, believes the world is good but keeps being let down. And Sympathy for the Devil, realizes the bad guy is no so bad after all 

•Tarot card

The Tower

Wheel of Fortune

•Micheal Jackson song

They Don’t Care About Us

Remember The Time

•character in the play “Cats”

I have no idea honestly

•Panic! at the disco song

Lying is the Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

House of Memories

•cliche high school student stereotype

The delinquent that is actually really talented/smart

The eccentric weird girl that is friends with everyone of every friend group

•furby

•flight rising dragon breed

Mirror Dragon

Skydancer and Spiral Dragon

•deadly sin

Wrath

Envy

•DnD class

Barbarian

Warlock

•character from Mean Girls

Janis

Ms. Norbury

•hogwarts house

Slytherin

Hufflepuff

•cryptid

Jersey Devil

Shadow People

•monster factory character

Way too complicated for me to get into

[raviposting]

And to add onto this - the actual physical setting helped so much to show this as well. 

When we look at their home locker room: 

vs the Man City one: 

Their home locker room is comfortable, the team is shoulder to shoulder and in shots it’s hard to pinpoint a main focus - they’re usually all huddled close together and if there’s a big scene that needs to focus on someone the camera cuts between them and everyone else. And we see how homely it is - the team is always touching and close (we can see it well enough in the most recent two episodes), and there’s color all around the room. 

But here - everything about Man City is just uncomfortable. There isn’t that color that their room has, they just came from a big loss,  and even though clearly they’re all able to be around each other and have that contact with each other - like in the screencap, where some are clearly holding others back - the entire scene with Jamie’s dad it doesn’t look like that. It looks like everyone is in their own confinded little cubby space, not touching anybody else. And this -- 

Jamie isn’t even that much away from the team, he’s just a few steps away from them, but this circle forces everyone to look at what Jamie’s dad is saying. It puts Jamie and his dad right in the center of everyone as if they’re actors on a stage and the rest of the team is the audience.

It makes people who cross into that stage all the more poignant. Beard takes Jamie’s dad and drags him out the door, Roy crosses into the setting to hug him. And it turns the scene from demeaning Jamie to protecting him to comforting him (and if we want to include Ted, though he never specifically crosses that “stage”, leaving him). It’s just such an....incredibly cool thing to do with the set, because I think this scene has such an impact no matter what the setting was but putting it in a place where we already know our characters are uncomfortable and forcing everyone to look at what’s happening is such a nifty thing. 

i was thinking and the fact that what happened with jamie and his dad happened at man city wasn't a coincidence.

man city represents the absolute worst of jamie's life: he thought he had found something in richmond, he thought people were finally caring for him, accepting him, loving him. and then he thought ted got rid of him. his time at man city was the loneliest and the saddest he had ever been. he was completely and utterly alone and he had just been rejected after finally opening up to someone. there’s a reason jamie yelled “richmond” while on that field. he was re affirming he belongs now. re affirming he has a family, and he isn’t as alone as he was the last time he was here. those lockers? those lockers aren't good memories to him. this isn't foreign territory to jamie like it is to the others. to him, this is loneliness, discomfort, despair.

the fact that the writers had his lowest point happened in those lockers was completely and totally intentional.

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There is really...something, in how Connor seems the closest to Logan when it comes to death. He was told about the mausoleum from Logan, that he has this entire story about how Logan bought it and when, and who it came from. Con is the one to plan Logan’s funeral. Our only good-natured Logan & Connor moment came from Connor reminiscing about a moment with Logan and Connor’s dead mother. It’s him, the sibling who was cast out for three years and who accepts Logan’s death so readily with a simple “he never even liked me” and whose mother can’t get a front row seat like Kerry and Marcia and Caroline and Sally Anne can, it’s Connor who buys the house and is open to the siblings all living there and then again with the mausoleum, it’s him who knows this information and gets to share it with his siblings. 

And I want to say it’s about how much he’s accepted death and has faced their reality and maybe he has but it’s still another haunted house situation, but in a different way. It’s when Con buys the house that the siblings actually pay attention to him (so much so that Ken snaps and asks for them to stop ignoring him!). It’s when he explains the mauseloum and gives them the tour that they’re listening to Connor, entranced, because he’s giving them more information about their dad. Ken, Shiv, and Rome are stabbing each other in the back and dragging each other away from the door, claiming all the while that they’re not going to live in a haunted house and that maybe they can do better, maybe. But Connor sees, Connor sees and understands and accepts their reality and holds the door to the haunted house open and says well we can live here together, at least. 

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Something I really appreciate for Bill and Frank is how much we see that they both needed each other to survive.

There’s the obvious, in that Frank saved Bill’s life, and likewise. But Bill had kept that entire town protected for him and Frank - and eventually, Joel and Tess whenever they needed it. He had those safeguards in place, he listened to Joel, he had all those reinforcements and it’s important that what Bill did kept him and Frank alive all those years.

And Frank, likewise, gave Bill survival in a different way. He stayed there, he planted the strawberries, he opened up the stores that didn’t need to be restored, he gave Bill friends. Friends who loved Bill and who he loved back, even if they didn’t always want to admit it to each other. It’s just. They both had almost 20 years together, in their horrible world we saw an episode of these two finding love and keeping it, through the good days and the bad, and when it was their time to go, they faced it and went in their own terms in a world that doesn’t allow that for most of their characters. And when they go, it’s not their bodies that we ever see, it’s the open window they kept open. It’s the life they lived, together. It’s the life and materials they left behind for other people to live off of.

It’s so beautiful, also, seeing how Bill kind of passes this on to Joel and Ellie in a way (I even think under keeping Tess safe, there’s a section we didn’t see read about whoever else Joel will see in his life?) even though he didn’t know Joel would be there with Ellie. While their love is different with a father/daughter relationship versus the romantic love of Bill/Frank, Bill and Joel are so similar, men who were just trying to survive and get through each day until they found that person who became their purpose, who they loved with all their heart. And they both need each other, they both need to survive with each other, but in different ways. Because what we’ll see with Joel & Ellie is what we saw with Bill & Frank. Bill helped Frank survive, and Frank helped Bill live.

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Absolutely. Amazing btw that the episode title we made fun of for sounding like a draft was covering up the real plot. It’s about Connor’s wedding and it’s not. Logan could have went to his wedding and he could have gotten to a hospital faster, or died with his family all around him. But Connor’s wedding was so stupid and inconsequential to him that he decided he was going to focus on the kids that mattered to him by messing with them all the more. So he dies, alone, in a plane bathroom.

Roman leaves the voicemail because he’s upset, and scared that his dad is leaving him out to dry again. And because he asks, twice, if Logan is really going to miss Connor’s wedding. Shiv misses those crucial moments of maybe talking to her dad and believing that he can actually hear her, because she was off to tell Connor that Logan wasn’t coming to the wedding.

And Connor? Connor decides that Logan’s death is as inconsequential as Connor’s life was to Logan, and he gets married anyway. It’s all about Connor’s wedding, in that it’s all about how much it isn’t about Connor’s wedding and important that becomes.

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Something else that shows how much Buck is Chris’s other father - the scenes he has with Chris vs what Chim has with Denny. This was our first real Denny & Chimney interaction, and it’s warm, it’s friendly, and we know how much the firefam love each other so the love is there always, but it’s not domestic. They talk but it’s clear Chim is entering /The Wilson’s/ space, that he’s there to pick up Hen, and happened to see Denny. Denny talks to Chim and is clearly thinking about his dad (something that he very much doesn’t see Chimney as, as much as he must love Chim! He tells his moms that he’s not looking for Eva because he has the mothers he wants and needs, but he wants a dad too). There’s a reason set up for the audience so that we know Why this scene is happening, even though logically we would know that Chim and Denny would definitely know each other!

Buck and Chris’s scenes, though? They’re in the home, in the middle of the scene (them eating together, making cookies for Chris’s class!) without the set up to explain why they’re talking, because of course they would be talking. There’s nothing to explain - it’s the same if Madney were with Jee-Yun, or Bathena with Harry or May, or Henren with Denny. Of course Buck is there with the Diaz guys in this morning. Of course he’s there with them for dinner, of course he’s helping make cookies with Chris! And when we think back on other scenes - him being there to see Chris with Santa, him being there at Christmas. He’s just there, in the middle of these scenes, skipping the set-up, because it would be like trying to make one for Eddie - why would we get that for a character who’s so clearly already Chris’s parent?

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ALSO ALSO can we just talk about how the documentary crew has been more actively present this season - esp in the premiere and finale?? We hear the producer’s voice in the premiere. Guillermo mentions pausing for the documentary crew to edit. We see Nandor & Laszlo preparing for their close up with the crew. The Guide gets those pauses for her flashbacks and Colin comments on the editing. Guillermo mentions how the crew followed them. Laszlo asks where they are to pull up footage and even knows the name of the crew member - we know one of them is named Ryan!!!

It’s so interesting to see because we’ve seen them develop and grow to care more about each other. But we’ve also seen that they have to acknowledge people outside their group (to varying degrees of success) - The Guide, Nadja’s Antipaxos family, Sean & Charmaine. And it’s even extended to the crew. Instead of being so background that the vampires forget they’re there, or for throwaway jokes about how one of them died during the process like in s1, they feel more like real people. Our characters know them, they know how they act, they know their names. They’re still faceless characters but the crew feels more real this season than they ever did before and I so think that’s intentional with how the vampires arcs have worked out this season.

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I truly cannot stop thinking about what Roman said about Sophie and Iverson. That Ken was stock still as Roman said that Sophie was a buy-in and jumped when Roman said that Iverson wasn’t his but half Rava and half someone else.It could have been so many things, so many questions I have raised by this. Did they use sperm donation. Did she cheat. Did Logan think she cheated because he just couldn’t handle having an autistic grandchild. Sophie is adopted and they ignore her completely but Iverson is that question mark, Roman says it’s half Rava and half some other guy right? That was Dad’s view at least. That was always Dad’s view. And Dad’s view hangs over everything no matter if it’s the truth or not. The kids are part of the family but they’re not. They’re real but they’re not real. They’re Kendall’s kids but they’re not. They’re the eldest grandchildren but they’re not. The poison drips down but the cycle that repeats for them isn’t Kendall’s. It’s Connor’s. 

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One of the best little details Succession adds in is showing us that Iverson is probably Rava and Kendall’s biological child without ever saying it, through Logan’s treatment of him.

Logan calls Iverson over at Thanksgiving. He’s reading a book to Iverson after Kendall’s attempt. He has Iverson eat the food. Logan never acknowledges Sophie or refers to her whatsoever, even though she’s often in the same room/scene as him. It’s Iverson, as the biological child (and lbr, as the white kid, because Sophie’s race definitely also comes into play) who gets the attention. It’s not good attention, obviously, but Logan seems him as family while Sophie Roy May as well be an NRPI.

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I just cannot stop thinking about “I don’t want to live in a haunted house.” These kids are free from Logan for the first time in their lives and it lasts until they step into his house and get haunted all over again. Shiv says he won’t get mad if we see him and enters the house to get cut out again. Kendall suggests therapy and then the line pulls him back to obsessing over who he was to their father. Roman wants to do everything as a trio but then says that he had the most special, closest bond with Logan. Connor gets married anyway, and then he buys the haunted house.

They joke about living in the house together but they already are, they’re all living in a haunted house and they’re looking at each other and grasping each other’s hands and saying we’re leaving now, it’s over, we’re free as they walk deeper into the haunting.

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cannot stop thinking about how logan is gonna die on a plane. I know it in my heart. He’s 100 feet tall everyone else is so small he’s going to die thousands of feet in the air and anyone who could have possibly helped him is going to be so small and far away