#sorry for audio quality

[zadig-fate]

For those of you who don't use Spotify or if you didn't get JO as your top artist, the guys recorded a little video for fans who had them as their top played artist of 2023 😭

[pumpkster]

[mirmalade]

not my usual but posting this cuz i’m going insane. akito finally beatboxing

[theygotlost]

It's like I'm different from everyone else, and I'm just completely alone!

[watchfuldeer]

last night i went to a really fun and informal fundraiser evening with jesse and lucy at westminster school, where they were interviewing each other. i got to ask a question which i’ve mused upon for some time about tom, shiv and greg. enjoy! full transcript under cut

Transcript

me: so i’m gonna have to look at what i wrote down.

jesse: that’s alright, you’re highly in credit since you know more about the show than us. more about john berryman.

(laughter)

lucy: tell us what we’ve done wrong so far!

me: god, no. i wouldn’t! so my question, this is a character based question, and one thing that probably got a bit subsumed in the fourth season just because everything was happening. but i’d like to know more about tom and shiv, and also greg. because my read on the situation between the three of them is that greg is a source of marital strife (laughter) that shiv never noticed, and what would it have taken for shiv to notice the depth of greg’s presence in their marriage.

jesse: uh huh.

me: and tom’s attachment to him.

jesse: uh huh. sometimes you get little bits in life or you see something and you’re like, i wish we were making the show, because i suddenly do want to hear shiv say ‘greg you’re a source of marital strife’.

(laughter)

jesse: that’s like, when you’re like, that’s gonna be in, we’re not gonna cut that.

lucy: absolutely.

jesse: (doing greg voice) wh-wh-what?!

(laughter)

lucy: yeah. well we enjoyed that, didn’t we. we had a scene in america decides, which was the only scene between shiv and greg.

jesse: oh yeah.

lucy: the election episode in the final season where she takes him into a little room and threatens him.

me: ah, but it’s jealousy over lukas, over the greg and lukas thing, and it’s like, have you forgotten your husband, who is also very attached to this limpet?

lucy: yeah. i would also say that there are marriages in which a third party is not an unuseful thing, as well. not in a forgiving way about infidelity, but i would say that there are things that tom can express with and at and on greg (laughter) as it were, to greg, that are useful because he’s both a - you know the great, the interesting thing about tom is that he’s both a courtier and a bully. he’s that rare combination of someone who you totally believe as being almost like (mimes bowing and doffing cap) ‘oh yes sorry thank you yes ma’am’ and also like, ‘i’m gonna kill you’ and that juxtaposition is what makes him so interesting.

but in his marriage to shiv he has no real way, until quite late i guess in the final season, where we explore it, to hold power over her and to use that part of himself. so he’s accepted the acquiescing, he’s accepted the role of courtier in that marriage, and greg is quite a useful place where he gets to express all of that, the bully in him so that maybe it doesn’t have to come out in the marriage. which might be bad, because perhaps it should do and then the marriage would’ve ended much earlier, yknow, when shiv would just be like ‘i’m not dealing with you challenging me in any way’. so it’s not until that balcony scene i think where he really challengers her much at all. possibly the beach scene, where he sort of says that he’s considered leaving her, and how that would feel. but with aggressive challenge? it’s all directed at greg, and greg is allowed to be the place where all those feelings go.

me: but the affection - there’s also affection between them.

jesse: YEAH. and i think that’s the other thing maybe you’re alluding to is like, she… i think, some things you know you’re putting in the show because you talk about them and other things just naturally occur, and audiences and people tell you what the show is and what you put in there and you didn’t even realise, but i think we were aware of this - she’s oblivious. her obliviousness is a big part of her wealth and her upbringing and… so there’s something homoerotic going on between greg and tom.

me: i mean it’s not for me to say.

(laughter)

jesse: and does she… i think there’s two ways of reading that, either she’s oblivious, and that’s intriguing and possible. the other is that she sort of - there’s a scene in, you know that one, in the sun valley media conference in argestes, where we wrote a bit where shiv shows up unexpected and tom’s sort of flirting with someone, and it never really landed that much. i think we were like, oh this really gonna, shiv’s gonna spark up when she sees him flirting with someone. and it’s one of those things where you were like, you know what? i don’t think she gives a hoot, really, does she.

(laughter)

jesse: it’s like, she hasn’t got that, that’s not in her belly, that fear of loss.

lucy: no.

jesse: so i think that goes, that probably goes for a same-sex relationship or flirtation as much as it does for with a woman.

lucy: i think that’s true.

jesse: like she really… even if he was like - and this is not the way that tom would be like - ‘i think i’d like to sleep with greg’, i think she’d be like (mimes looking at watch) ‘when?’.

(laughter)

jesse: (as shiv) ‘not when i’m in the city, that’s weird, tom’.

(laughter)

jesse: i don’t think she’d have any fundamental objection to that.

lucy: that’s true. i think jealousy is quite a low status emotion.

jesse: yes.

lucy: and i think that she would struggle to feel it.

(jesse laughs)

lucy: even if it was present in some way, she would never be able to access it because it would put her too much at a disadvantage. so i think yeah exactly that, it would be like, ‘oh i guess you’re going to fuck that boring woman now are you, tom’ or do that, like… she has to be here (mimes one hand above another hand) so jealousy can’t really be accessed by her. so she might be irritated by greg, but in the way you would be by a mosquito.

me: to her detriment.

lucy: to her detriment, sure, ultimately yeah.

[comeonblub]

okay so the whole episode was excellent and the fight was fantastic but this move in particular? lmao?

[bughugz]

here's another long overdue audio of me crying and babbling while i touch my oversensitive clit and fuck my acheing cunt <3

[junranghae]

Summer Vacation with JOSHUA & VERNON of SEVENTEEN (Episode 1)

[royalarchivist]

Phil: Big fan of Brazilian barbecue, even before I went to Brazil, which– honestly, thinking about it is so crazy to me still, to this day that me and Kristin went to Brazil. Like, it was on our list to eventually go there at some point, maybe, but the fact that we just fcking did it– I think we booked our plane and hotel like, maybe a couple of weeks before we went. It was such a fcking like... spur of the moment thing.

Phil: Like, I forget who messaged us, I can't remember it was like, Quackity or Cellbit, I think it might have been Cellbit. And we were just like in– we weren't even home. We were in a hotel room. [Laughs] We were- we were in a hotel room! [He gets distracted for a moment as the sky changes] Oh, it's just regular rain. And we booked everything on my phone in the hotel room. That's how like, convincing it was. We were like, "Oh my god, oh my god, ok maybe- maybe-" and like, I remember looking at Kristin, we were just like, "Do– are we going to Brazil? Are we fcking going? Ok? Alright??? Sht, here I go!" [Laughs and mimes typing on his phone] "Oh, I'm gonna get a call from my bank that's- that's money coming out all of a sudden and I'm not home! [Laughs] That's a lot of money!" [Laughs] Hotel, like, planes– Jesus Christ.

Phil: But yeah, it was incredible. I'll- I'll always remember that, like trip, it was fcking nuts. Cellbit like, treat us like fcking royalty, it was ridiculous, he had like so much stuff planned and like, there was transport, and like– dude. He made us feel like, so welcome. It was so cool.

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Phil reminisces about the Brazil trip! 🇧🇷💛

[finefett]

Transformers Prime Season 3 episode "Thirst"

[laggs-cringe-corner]

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[stoshasaurus]

speaking of Osiris (and Saint-14)

[baekslight]

baekhyun for bench/ as their new global ambassador

[circusballoon]

Video of In Stars and Time sprites of Siffrin with singing by yours truly.

Dashing through the House With all my friends in tow Vaugarde is freezing So to the King we go The bell will go "Ding ding!" Loop won't go away [Teehee!] What fun it is to start again- What fun it is to start again- What fun it is to start again Every other day Oh, loople bells, loople bells Loop loop all the way Oh, what fun it is to loop Every other day, ay! Loople bells, loople bells Loop loop all the way Oh what fun it is to loop Every other day...

this is, uh, VERY different from the usual goings on of this blog but at the same time this blog exclusively exists for the purpose of being like *POINTS* I MADE A THING and me struggling to figure out video editing for this absolute silliness feels like it requires pointing so

*POINTS* I MADE A THING!!

This is mostly for the @isat-secretsanta-2024 folks (namely @a-weepin-willow and @pearl-crystals, who wrote the chorus, so I added a verse for fun)

[justaleafinthewind]

i'm sorry, can we just talk about Percy's collapse in the museum? like, the acting and the subtlety on Walker's part?

the way by the time he trails off his eyes have already gone kind of blinkingly hazy, he's already losing focus? and then after Annabeth speaks and the camera cuts back to him he's not listening at all anymore, and he's started to sway a little before he finally collapses?

the realism by Walker. like this 14-year-old really nailed the experience of getting woozy and then falling over in what seems like no time to everyone else but it took a few seconds to creep up on you.

can we get some appreciation for the perfection of this 10-second moment. a round of applause. what a dam show, is all i'm saying.

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Hello everyone! Big news: Connor CDawg has invited me to auction a very special item to raise funds for the Immune Deficiency Foundation, and today, I have the most special item for me...

Quackity is raffling off his girlfriend (his leafblower from Twitchcon) for the ongoing IDF Charity Auction! If you'd like to participate in the raffle and support charity, check out the charity auction stream happening NOW on CDawg's Twitch channel! They have raised over $100,000 for the Immune Deficiency Foundation so far. 💙