#special examination

[inthedarktrees]

Jody and Ms. Bonnie Jean Jones. Jody described as “ruffian” and an evilly disposed marauder with evil designs on neighbor's cat.

Rustan, “Cat Suit,” Los Angeles Examiner, March 24, 1958

[originalcrime]

seen a lot of takes upset about the Doctor being super judgy of Joy’s hotel room but the criticism treats it as Moffat thinking he was making some insightful statement that yes, people can be judged by whatever crappy hotel they check in to on their budget and not just … a scene where Moffat was writing the Doctor to be as mean and hurtful as possible as part of a ploy to bring Joy back to herself? like the Doctor’s lying?? he made that up on the spot to piss her off?? it’s not a genuine sliver of worldview, it’s a gambit?? and we know it’s a gambit because we see it work??

the Doctor doesn’t believe what he’s saying!!! which is why it’s funny he also stayed in that room. for a whole year!!!

[lunar-years]

The horrifying fandom takes and theories it's generated aside, one of things I really love about Ted Lasso is the way it handles motherhood/babies/the future for its two main female characters. Like, on the one hand is Rebecca who so obviously and vocally has always wanted to be a mother, but married someone who didn't feel the same way and put her own desires aside for his, then had that fact thrown back in her face years later after he's abused and divorced her and gotten another woman pregnant.

A big part of Rebecca's arc is the constant frustration of having to accept the hand life's dealt her even when it's the opposite of everything she'd always wanted for herself. She's someone who wanted to be a wife and wanted to be mother and then finds herself in middle age as neither of those things. Then she makes the decision to pursue it on her own (which was awesome, I love that they showed her going to the fertility clinic and inquiring about whether pregnancy was a possibility for her! there's not way to become a mother!) and then she has to face her inability to get pregnant. And it sucks! but as sad as that is, it's also very...real? And the show doesn't miraculously let her have a miracle pregnancy anyway (like stupider shows would do, tbh), but instead has Rebecca come to terms with herself and her life under its new circumstances. She finds purpose outside of the things she once thought she would be and the roles her younger self assumed she would play as an adult. By the final episode, she's calling Richmond her family! She's realized what she wants most is the stay at the Club. She's come into her own. And then, yeah, there's the little ambiguous opening of Matthijs and his daughter and her possible future there with them--but importantly it isn't the end all to her happiness, anymore. It's a sign that she still has opportunities, just maybe not in the way she first envisioned, that no doors have closed forever and that what she's been looking for might come from unexpected places. there's no timeline!

And then you have Keeley, who's in her 30s and focused on her career and still figuring out how she wants that to look and who she wants to be. And yeah she's dating, and she has a serious onscreen relationship, but the topic of children (or marriage for that matter) never even once comes up! It's not made some big arc about how she doesn't want those things, and it's not some big fight with Roy or a goofy "really, you've never thought about babies?' conversation with Rebecca, it's just never something that's made relevant to her character nor her growth! She's a whole person without those things and she's clearly not actively pursuing them. And these two women with very different goals and wants are completely supportive of one another--it's never even a question :)

I thought both of their storylines in that sense were very refreshing to see on TV and like, comforting? If anything, the discourse it's spawned has been very...eye-opening...about how conditioned people have become to expect traditional marriage and babies storylines from every single female character. But the show doesn't give in to that mentality and instead shows that there's not one way a family has to look and not one way to be a mother and there isn't a set timeline for any of this stuff even if later you change your mind. And then if things don't turn out how you think, it doesn't mean you aren't going to end up with a good life! that was such a good message.

[madokasoratsugu]

people saying xeno didn't feel anything when ordering stan to kill senku like he didnt drop the outlandish facade and pause during a time-critical moment to think about what the decision would truly mean and to have a moment to come to terms with it before he told stan to do it

[seaweedstarshine]

Sometimes I think of Amy Pond, who grew up being called mad by those who wielded the word as a tool of exclusion and shame —

Amy Pond, who though forced into the hands of four psychiatrists, still clung to that which they called madness until those systems which elevate psychosocial conformity above humanity stripped it from her —

Amy Pond, whose imaginary friend reappeared for a single hour after twelve years and reignited that faith before disappearing for two more years —

Amy Pond, who spent those those two years under the same implicit threat ingrained in her through psychiatric violence, and thus began to believe the man who stopped the invasion was “just a madman with a box,” only for him to agree, and to also call her “mad, impossible Amy Pond,” reframing madness as non-negative for the first time in her life —

Amy Pond, who ignored the disembodied voice of her imaginary friend even as she ran away with him for real, who still lived each day with the traumatic internalization of deviancy dictated upon her by the psychiatric-industrial complex that shaped her from childhood —

Amy Pond, who wouldn't acknowledge the Doctor's voice, such that it took an Angel in her eye that was literally killing her to ensure she couldn't reality check herself —

Amy Pond, who stood before a room which muttered about “the psychiatrists we brought her to,” and though afraid, escaped their rigid parameters of acceptable existence.

[fenkko]

cant believe i reached 30 tags in prev post rambling about homestuck i didnt even know there was a limit

[fraeuleintaka]

Love the continuity here! (Examining the chair with Rhoda vs Gumshoe.) So Miles DID ask Gumshoe about the band like he thought about doing, didn't decide against it after all and it also ended up being a confusing conversation for him. That's 3 out of 3, woo!

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

[bobbinalong]

bros down in a-town wasn't totally my speed, either, but why are some people treating it like the end of all good art and storytelling

[cursingtoji]

do you ever get the feeling that medical staff (except nurses) don’t know shit about anything??? like i have a problem instead of explaining to me what the root cause is or even listening to me they just do a basic examination (if they even do that cause the amount of times a medic didn’t even left their chair…) maybe ask a blood test and prescribe antibiotics

[inthedarktrees]

“Want Home for Cat,” Los Angeles Examiner, January 08, 1952

[hairtusk]

I want to go back in time and thank the person who invented the idea of exchanging rings with your lover as a sign of your commitment and bond ... what a wonderful concept

[stimboardboy]

directed by edgar wright

[sapphia]

got my autism diagnosis guys

[tleeaves]

Reclining on a fainting couch, hands laced together and resting over my stomach as I stare up at the ceiling. Why the fuck do I so frequently end up caught between being attracted to mean guys (and gals) but also the wife material guys? Duality of man is falling for both all the time, apparently, and never knowing which I actually genuinely like better.

I wrote out a whole theory about why I like mean people before I realised the logic no longer applied to my current circumstances/character and now I'm back at square one. Perhaps the real answer is as lame as: because I like a challenge and the idea that someone treats me Extra Special compared to how they treat others.

At the end of the day, idk.

[clowndensation]

SO i just found out that the manager of my company has expressed his "sincere displeasure" with my manager which is. insane. like oh are we about to fire a second manager for not living up to whatever pin the tail on the donkey ass expectations you decide to apply to a role that you fundamentally don't understand, because after all this time you STILL don't know what we do. is that what we're doing now.