Just wanted to make a separate post about this because I think I somehow hadn't seen this clip before now, and I'm not over this particular moment. The soft, adoring look that Michael gives David here is everything. It's not even that it's a particularly long look, but it's the way it lingers, and the way Michael waits to look away until he knows David has seen him looking. And then David, who'd had his arms hanging at his sides, unconsciously mirrors Michael and clasps his hands in front of him as soon as he looks back. Everything about this is magic, and I love that Michael and David were so in sync with each other five years ago and are even more so now...
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I stumbled upon her work completely by accident and found THIS:
I know we like to make fun of Bojan when it comes to Käärijä and about the time when he left the rest of the Joker Out do the interviews by themselves while he went to eat with Jere. And I’m sure they teased him about it (as they should) but I am also 100% sure that they were happy to let him go and enjoy himself. Bojan has talked a lot how stressful and hard eurovision was to his mental health and how hanging out with Jere made him forget all of those things for a little bit and I think the rest of the guys were very aware of that.
This moment from Carpe diem -series lives rent free on my mind:
One of the best Voyager scenes to indicate Tuvok & Neelix's dynamic and how I think Tuvok is just as if not more 'annoying'(positive) than Neelix is when Neelix pours Tuvok a fresh squeezed glass of a fruit juice blend and Tuvok's like (paraphrased) "I don't want to drink this." and Neelix is like "Can you please try it?" and Tuvok's like "I don't want to, you're really bad at this sort of thing. It's going to taste bad." and Neelix says that Ensign XYZ said she LOVED it, she even had a second glass! And Tuvok says Ensign XYZ could drink poison without a second thought and Neelix is like "Tuvok could you please just TRY it? Just try a little SIP of it PLEASE??" and Tuvok sighs and rolls his eyes and sniffs it before taking a sip and it turns out he loves it. Turns out it tasted good actually. And then after all that Neelix tries to talk to him over eggs (which he's again cooking fresh for him) and Tuvok tells him he doesn't wanna hear "the life history of his breakfast." Absolutely insufferable this man I would have burned his eggs on PURPOSE!!!!
the alt. thanks to them opening boards are going to emotionally scar me for life. look at his face. luz is terrified but desperate with a hope she feels is unfounded, needing that optimism to imagine a way out of this that doesn't hurt; that doesn't end in more tragedy?
she thinks they're on the same level of bad but sad. that she did as much as hunter in the name of helping belos, without knowing the whole truth of who belos was, who he is. she's traumatized by it.
she needs to not be alone in it.
the i'll keep your secret if you keep mine is a knife to the heart. we are in this together, she is saying. whether we like it or not, at least we have each other. at least i'm not alone.
but what do you say to that? how do you make a witch's oath without magic? you take it to heart. you hold it closer to anything. there aren't words for a devotion like that, the kind of devotion hunter has led with his entire life, and now, here, it's for luz. it's for everyone, for protecting them, to be able for them to get home again.
it's reminiscent of that good old golden guard loyalty, but remade in the light of this new world, new life. it's a cause to live by, a goal, a dream; and as the story goes, we can see - there isn't much he isn't willing to sacrifice for it, especially if the cost is only himself.
(he has nothing to return for, after all. he has a graveyard, filled to the brim with bones and masks and a future he only narrowly escaped.)
sacrifice - that is something he's been waiting for his whole life. so of course he's willing to risk everything for them. what better ending is there, where at the very least, his friends can go home to where they are loved? where no one has to be afraid, anymore?
So moonflower is lily and Remus? Like I don't ship them but the name is so pretty? It sounds like it has a lore of its own; moonflower damn—
— the flower that bloomed, only during the full moon; you would see it unfurl its petals as if to regard the moon. And the moon shone brighter than ever as if it knows that the flower is there. As if it wants to reach out, as if it wants to greet, for the moon was lonely — surrounded by the stars it maybe.
I can't believe it's Moonflower that's making me want to start writing again afhdjd
(but I really like idea of Lily who found that calm comfort, that solidarity with Remus after she started dating James (after she lost her best friend) and started getting to know him basically. She found a friend in him. An understanding— that was solid yet comforting; and something she needed desperately.)
how they lean into each others space … like they're drawn to one another … 😩
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Always.
It's one of the things I have loved the most about Michael and David for the last five years. You could see that pull between them and how drawn they were to each other even in 2019...
There's a sort of tentativeness to the leaning in 2019, that hesitation that comes with a newfound and unexpectedly powerful connection, trying to feel each other out ("Is this okay?" "Do you feel the same way I do?"). Then when lockdown happened, Michael and David were still leaning toward each other even over Zoom, as if they'd never realized how much they enjoyed being together until they couldn't.
But four years later, it just seems like that pull has only gotten stronger, as their friendship/relationship has deepened. Now they are completely open with each other. Michael and David know exactly how they feel, and what is between them has blossomed so beautifully, to where we can see it even when they are in the middle of a film set, or a theater full of people...
And what is between them is so powerful that it makes you ache. Someplace deep inside where you wondered if it was possible for two people to be this connected--consciously and unconsciously--and to find each other at just the right moment in their lives. And to then look back and see that there was a thread, however invisible, tying them together long before now.
I love that Michael and David have seemingly always been comfortable in each other's spaces, and how that's led to them creating a space that is just theirs...