#times on the staircase every time

[local-queer-classicist]

I wrote a short poem for a disabled spider I met during art history class do u want to read it

Five-Legged Spider on a Sketchbook

Five-legged spider on my sketchbook

How did you get there?

Can’t climb down with five legs

Can’t help, I’m too scared

Can’t draw with you on there

Can’t kill you, you’re just like me

A five-legged spider on a sketchbook

Stuck for the gods to see

[smytherines]

Alright. We know that Owen is trying to get Chimera's surveillance network up and global, to have "a world without agencies, a world without spies, a world without secrets."

We also know that the US government is attempting to do basically the same thing as Chimera.

Hear me out. What if it isn't that Owen doesn't care about exposing men like him and Curt. What if he's actually, in some weird way, trying to protect Curt? Or liberate him? Or at least, men like them?

Like maybe it started out as wanting to destroy Curt, as DMA he certainly wanted to kill Curt. But he didn't. I don't think he would've even if Tatiana hadn't rescued him. At least not from behind, without showing Curt who he really was first.

DMA was a role for Owen. He probably tortured a bunch of people. He probably even enjoyed it. He's kind of fucked up after breaking probably half the bones in his body and watching his partner run away before getting a building exploded on him. I think it's easier for him to be DMA than to be Owen Carvour. He is literally masking (autistic Owen headcanon for the win).

Owen has no logical reason to tell Curt about his plan or reveal who he really is after killing Von N*zi. The only possible reason is to get Curt to chase after him. So much of my Owen Carvour headcanon is based entirely on the acting choices Joey Richter makes during the staircase scene, because holy shit it is truly spectacular (obviously Curt Mega does an amazing job too, but it doesn't subvert anything about the character for me until the Big Reveal).

It looks like Owen has so much he wants to say, he has the gun on Curt for quite awhile just chattering away at him, but he's so furious and he hates Curt so much and he loves Curt so much that he can't find the words. He tries to be icy and distant and cold and condescending, but he looks... I dunno, incredibly sad? He's frustrated, like he cannot understand how Curt still worships all of this macho spy shit, working for a government that would destroy him for being gay.

My headcanon is that Owen wants to dismantle everything Curt ever believed in because what he believes in led to Owen nearly dying and Curt diving off the deep end with his alcohol use. Their governments destroy men like them, and having a surveillance network will only make that task easier. If Owen has control of that network, he'll be a God. Nobody will be able to touch him, or use his secrets against him. Maybe even somewhere in the back of his mind he thinks that he'd be able to protect them, as a couple.

Back to the acting choices, the part where Curt reminds Owen of their relationship, where he steps right into the gun and Owen lowers it (pointing it at Curt's heart, ugh) and he genuinely looks hesitant, he looks taken aback, like he didn't expect Curt to care about him or about their relationship at all anymore. And then he remembers what Curt did to him, remembers how much he suffered for Curt's hubris, maybe has a lil PTSD flashback of his own, and raises the gun back up and says "that secret died the night you left me for dead." That whole moment is just... a really tremendous acting job. He loves Curt, but he can't forgive him. He hates Curt, but he can't kill him.

It's a great scene on paper, but the choices they make here are all perfect. The staircase scene swap really drove this point home for me too, because actor Curt Mega is incredible, he nails the menace and the arrogance that are definitely part of that performance, but it's a cold read and definitely a different read on the character.

The thing that makes me an Owen Carvour apologist is how much emotion and vulnerability and uncertainty Joey Richter puts into the role. For an evil guy doing evil guy shit, he doesn't play it very arch. He does the menace and arrogance, but those aspects keep getting pushed to the background by the little breaks in his voice and the sadness in his eyes.

For me, the moment before Curt pulls the trigger, Owen looks almost... disappointed in him? Like he really thought that despite everything that has happened, that Curt would never choose to hurt him on purpose. I said it before, but it's like in some way he's still in the rubble waiting for Curt to save him. To care enough about him to save him.

I know how I interpret this show is based a lot more in acting choices and real-world politics and my political beliefs than it is in the text of the show, that this is a genre show with genre rules, but I really fucking appreciate having gay characters who were canonically in a relationship, who have enough complexity and are played with enough sincerity for people (me) to have long, involved headcanon about them.

(Also to be very very clear, actor Curt Mega does an incredible job in the staircase scene, the moments where agent Mega gets to be vulnerable and sincere are some of the best acting moments in the show and hurt every single time, when he steps into that gun I feel like I'm dying)

[oozeandgoo-art]

[raiswanson]

when a friend mentions they're trying to get back into reading and you have to hold off from dumping your entire 300+ book personal library over their head because you don't want to overwhelm them/scare them off

[kairithemang0]

Not me dropping my phone while trying to do stuff because the staircase scene came on during a video i was watching

[jumping-jackalope]

the chorus interludes skits getting more obscure.... i don't understand but i love this bar .

[whitehartlane]

it’s genuinely going to be kind of funny when football fans from other countries come to munich for some of the euros and they’ve got to figure out sendlinger tor 😭

[cold-canned-coffee]

the thing about the magnus archives having fears pertaining to like every physical object and nonphysical concept ever is that no matter where i go or what i see or what i do i can think “woah like that one episode haha” and it also is enabling me to remain utterly obsessed with tma. whether that is a good or bad thing is not for me to judge. also i saw the word leitner in a shop window across the street today and immediately went woahwoahwoah hold up

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

And when your fantasies (“one day this will be one of the best agency’s in London”)

Become your legacy (“the Anthony Lockwood gallery”)

Promise me a place in your house of memories (35 Portland Row)

[theflyingfeeling]

I wish all my weed-smoking neighbours a very fuck off just fucking fuck fuck fuck off I hope you choke on your own shit!!!!!

[purpleturtle9000]

i just realised casey has probably never encountered a working escalator and i think he doesn't care for that shit at all. entle tello once mentioned them with the urban legend of people's shoelaces getting stuck but failed to mention it was a story so casey thought it was just a hazard of everyday life and won't go near the things now

[cidnangarlond]

have not actively watched nor cared about doctor who for a very long time but I had a nice dream related to it so I've been thrown off a little

[krash-and-co]

well I just watched the teaser 3 times in slow motion so I could catch every single detail, so just know that whatever you're doing at least it's not that

[patrice-bergerons]

That is this a pigeon meme but it's me, any clanging/construction sound and earthquakes

[hearties-circus]

Motherfucker this has no right to hurt as much as it does

[leetaehwan]

ok posts are queued teeth are brushed it’s bedtime babes 😴