#ninety five

[violent138]

Bruce one hundred percent randomly brags about his kids to Alfred, and it started kind of like:

Bruce, ridiculously proud: "Do you know that Dick can speak five languages now?"

Alfred, who was doing the Italian flashcards with Dick just yesterday: "That's very impressive, sir."

[jakejeffreyperalta]

todd's birthday scene from the original script (that was later changed) makes me want to kms

[oacest]

Iain Robertson, What's the story?

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Karkat:  YOUR WORDS ARE SO FOOLISHLY AND IGNORANTLY COMPOSED THAT I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND THEM. 

[im-here-for-everything]

Today’s reminder!

FREE PALESTINE!

[1796samuel-seabury1729]

my ass is NOT getting an a </3

[annabelle--cane]

okay. collection of disparate thoughts on the good hal/bad hal thing:

-> I get, mechanically, why they went for it as a creative decision. I can buy the hal we see in the cutler flashbacks and the hal we see in the present day as being the same person because they're separated by sixty years, people change with time, but clearly what they wanted was for hal to go full villain mode in the last episode, and simply making him have a breakdown and do a heel turn on his personality wouldn't make sense. and like, last episode evil!hal is really fun, he's a smug villain who does dance numbers and is blunt enough to deliver the show's thesis as parting wisdom, I see the reasoning.

-> but I'm not sure how much of that was planned from hal's introduction? he says things like "I've been so many people" and "you've got the wrong man, I'm not him anymore," but it always reads as more metaphorical until s5. hal always says "me" when referring to his Evil Self, up until the middle of s5 where he starts saying "him."

-> and because (in my opinion) this element was added for a mechanical function, it overwrites thematic ground we've already covered before. when george split his monstrosity off from himself and called the wolf "it," that was a problem he had to overcome; when mitchell tried to deny his own agency and say he wasn't in control when he hurt people, that was a flaw that got corrected. then in hal's case they flip the script and say it really isn't him who does the atrocities. they try to work around it a bit, having good!hal kill someone and feed in secret so he does have things he's responsible for that lead into the change, but it still feels weird.

-> I also get where this comes from, metaphorically. there is a trend in sci fi/fantasy of portraying addict characters with this sort of jekyll-and-hyde dualism, literalizing internal struggles and the way people change while under the influence of mood altering substances, you find shades of it as far back as medieval morality plays where an everyman's vices and virtues manifest into physical form to duke it out. I don't love it, but I see where the emotional core of it comes from, and I also think it works best when (like with jekyll and hyde) the story comes to the conclusion that the two aspects aren't ultimately different people, and that's not really what they do with hal. unless...

-> how different are good hal and bad hal, anyway? obviously their moral codes are different, but are they different people or two aspects of the same person? bad hal isn't a neat freak, but he shares good hal's passion for vintage showtunes and werewolves who visibly want to do him harm. he's genuinely distraught when lady catherine dies, he keeps up appearances with lady mary for 250 years, young leo gets right under his skin, and he was willing to let let tom and alex have a nice send off from him. and, as should probably go without saying, good hal can also be a bastard, too. he almost attacks people several times, he says awful things to tom, he recruits ian and hides it, he kills larry and hides it, he feeds and hides it even when directly asked, etc. if the show had had one more season, I think the obvious next step for this arc would be bad hal joining the gang and everyone realizing that he's still just hal. this isn't a stranger, their friend hasn't died, this is the same man they've been living with for months and he still thinks the lute is the coolest of all medieval stringed instruments. the only real difference is that now he's decided to stop trying, but he's perfectly capable of changing his mind back.

-> what actually is his deal? what, specifically, is the good hal/bad hal thing? other vampires don't do that, other old ones aren't like that, the closest another character comes is herrick's whole amnesia arc but that was because he came back from the dead. I've seen other people go through and track how hal does actually show a good number of symptoms of a dissociative disorder (traumatic early childhood, out-of-body experiences, some amount of amnesia, etc.), but given that he says he feels like "both" and "neither" of himself when the devil tricks them all into thinking they've been un-cursed, I think we're supposed to read it as something supernatural. the best headcanon I've got is it is a dissociative disorder but hal thinks it's supernatural so the devil took it away as part of the whole too-good-to-be-true thing, but I don't think that was the intention and the show leaves it super unclear, they just drop it in and expect us to roll with it.

[sexygrammaticalerrors]

[z0nefive]

missing s1-s2 era five and diego rn nobody was doing it like them

[violent138]

While goofing off the Batkids have a managed to accidentally sink a ridiculous about of Batarangs into their siblings and it always goes the same: Don't tell Alfred-> it doesn't even hurt that much you massive baby-> I'm so sorry-> shut up I meant to aim at you.

[madamshogunassassin]

Unconditional Love - Hi-Five (1993)

[la-pheacienne]

Top 5 literary works written before the 21th century

I'll answer with my faves so this is highly subjective of course:

Les Miserables because I would have been someone else if I hadn't read that book at 14

The Great Gatsby because we stan delusional men with a pretty smile trying to repeat the past

Le Cousin Pons because old gay neurodivergent artists doomed by the narrative

For Whom the Bell Tolls because I need a room full of health care specialists before even attempting to talk about that book

Ninety-three (Hugo) because I cried for a week after finishing it

[todayisafridaynight]

kissu

[bedforddanes75]

i just think you deserve eternal happiness actually. funny and actually nice. u are jesus. anyway No pls i AM AFRAID u are simply too cool and i cant deal

[palettepainter]

Parents: Hey do you wanna join us to go see A Quite Place Day 1?

Me: Sure!

//five minutes later//

Me and my dad: *having an in depth conversation about how hypothetically in the world of A Quite Place going out to search for supplies in the rain is the most logical and safest time to go out because the white noise would disorientate the creatures and how since the creatures eat humans in the movie that means are proteins are similar enough to them that by technicality, you could eat the creatures to survive. Conversation then moves to how in a zombie human apocalypse since zombies are slowly deteriorating and rotting all you'd have to do is survive long enough in order for the tissue that holds the skeleton together and then all the zombies would just collapse cuz they wouldn't be able to hold themselves together and-*

[authenticaussie]

Anyway so I had blood test results today.

And my doctor looked at them and went. Oh. 😰 Hm.

This is a new doctor. So I immediately knew what he was looking at (my iron levels are horrendous) but the follow up was after we discussed that I take iron and b12 every day he goes:

Doctor: Well I like making this fun! The maximum level for b12 is 800 :) and the average is 400!

Me: uh. Okay? Am I. Low?

Doctor: Yes. You are :) low. This is the fun bit. :) You are 127!

Me: I'm not even half of half??

Doctor: Yes! :)

Me: That's so bad.

Doctor: It is not great! There is another one too. That you are also low in.

Me: 😰😰 yes?

Doctor: The maximum for that one is 150! And the average is normally 50-80.

Me: lmao and what am I, fucking five?

Doctor: Seven! :)

Me: