#vagenda

[spockvarietyhour]

Vagenda "Entrada"

Bonus, he's right there:

[brotherconstant]

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

pink album covers

[send-me-a-puffalope]

Happy new year! And I think you're both the mentally deranged and wholesome moot :3 Your posts make me love Vanessa even more!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS JEDI!!!!

meeeee? wholesome….? *stares at my 27 pages document of angst* h,haha yeah no yeah haha yeah no yeap mmhm

and TYYYY!! I LOVE SPREADING THE VANESSA AGENDA!!!! PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET DADDY ISSUES !!!!!

[pawsedits]

— — ﹐ Hiddagendalbumic.     ★

An -albumic gender that is best expressed / explained / understood through Kimya Dawsons album, “Hidden Vagenda”.

[hesitationss]

My heart will stop if I put out the fire As long as I'm burning I'll keep on yearning To save the world Not sure how but I'm learning

Fire by Kimya Dawson

[uwo]

everyones got that One kimya dawson song that hits a little too close to home and if u dont i do Not trust u.

[ockymilk]

[buhbuhbuhbuhbeanz7654]

HER EVIL VAGENDA???????

[spontaneousbakery]

if only you could love how i love

[blackbloodedisabel]

1st 10 songs when I shuffle my 'on repeat' playlist: (thank yeww for the tag @antlerslayer<33)

1: I'll call you mine - (girl in red)

2: viva la fiesta - (s club 7)

3: just a girl - (no doubt)

4: two in a million - (s club 7)

5: motion sickness - (phoebe bridgers)

6: losing grip - (avril lavigne)

7: I really miss you - (s club 7)

8: mariner's apartment complex - (lana del rey)

9: the grants - (lana del rey)

10: sober ii (melodrama) - (lourde)

passing the optional baton to @stonergirrrlwrites @holyfacehead and @not-out-of-the-woods-yet <33

[melonfacade]

watched cat person. heavy handed but good. really like that robert was multi faceted. he sucks but hes not just Le Nice Guy

also thoroughly enjoyed margots unreliability, the therapy session in her head was entertaining and i was never sure when itd cut to her imagination or reality

tangential but i hate watching stuff in the living room cus then people walk in at the climax and give unwarranted commentary absolutely ruined that moment

[lunarcigar]

Song of the Night!

Fire - Kimya Dawson from “Hidden Vagenda”

“My heart will stop if i put out the fire

As long as i'm burning

I'll keep on yearning

To save the world

Not sure how, but I'm learning

And telling the truth the best way that I'm able

Placing my cards all face up on the table

It's okay to be scared, you do don't hafta act tough

Take all that pain and turn it into love”

[spockvarietyhour]

remember remember the fifth o' vagenda

Remember remember, the fifth of november.... And that taking the fifth should not mean silence, but speaking out

[what-gs-watching]

“There is only room for one God in this lab and it's not yours."

Welp, my city has decided that it forgot how weather works, and we’re snowed in and there’s a frozen pipe in my goddamn basement and I finished an interview loop for a company last week so I’m just sitting here trapped in my house and waiting desperately for any news on if they might hire me and it’s not going amazing SO, 

It’s time for a FRINGE BINGE. 

I saw a post a week or two ago that Fringe might be leaving Max at the end of the month, and I couldn’t let it go without a rewatch. It’s one of the reasons I started playing “What G’s Watching” with my husband - he’d seen it when it first came out and I thought maybe he’d remember some of it and could understand my rambling, because you need some kind of background to truly grasp what the eff is happening in Fringe. He didn’t. But that didn’t stop me from becoming completely obsessed. 

Even when I’m not rewatching, sometimes I’ll yell “PREVIOUSLY ON FRINGE” when the show I’m actually enjoying does a recap. I don’t know why it’s stuck in my brain, but it doesn’t matter, I love it.

Here’s the thing about Fringe: it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s like X-Files on acid (or Walter’s Brown Bettty?). The science is ridiculous and honestly it’s difficult to follow the lore sometimes, especially the first time through it. But it’s weirdly captivating and it tugs at your heart strings, which doesn’t make any sense.

Basically, FBI agent Olivia Dunham gets sucked into a special division that investigates weird occurrences that seem to have to do with ‘fringe science’, and she ends up enlisting Peter Bishop and his genius scientist father, Walter Bishop (who’d spent almost twenty years in a mental institution) to help her get to the bottom of what the eff is going on.

AND THEN THINGS GET CRAZY. 

They pump so much backstory into this show. There’s monsters of the week, sure, but every single character has a whole damn room full of skeletons and it was so much fun trying to puzzle all of that shit out the first time. In my rewatch so far, I’m picking up a ton of little random clues and I’m loving it. It’s clear that J. J. Abrams had some IDEAS. 

Also, I’ve never watched Lost, (and I never will, I put my foot down on that)  but I can confidently say this is the better J. J. Abrams show. The ending doesn’t make you ridiculously angry you watched the whole thing. So there’s that. 

Honestly, there’s too much I love about this show. The whole alternate universe plotline for one, which creates some of my favorite moments. But it’s mainly about Peter and Walter. At its core, this stupid show is about their father son relationship, and how far people are willing to go  to protect their family. Which is weird, but also perfect. 

Before the mental institution, Walter was a little bit of a sociopath, pursuing scientific enhancements, consequences be damned. He was a shit person. He ran tests on children, he fucked with the fabric of the universe. No fucks given, that man. But the Walter we get for most of the show is just…oddly charming. Quirky in his brilliance, instead of calculating. And it’s FUNNY and endearing. 

Olivia brings in another agent to help corral Walter in his resurrected lab beneath Harvard, Astrid, and he spends most of the series calling her anything but. “Astro”, “Astrix”, etc. It’s not malicious, he just can’t hold the information, as much as he appreciates the work she does with him. Like, how does that turn out to just be kind of cute? 

Some of my favorite made-up words are from Walter.  “Vagenda”, for one. Which is ‘vagina agenda’ obviously. As in, “Peter fell for her vagenda”, which had me rolling. Even if it came about during a storyline that made me absolutely FURIOUS, but in the best of ways. (There was a lot of time wherein I was yelling at my husband about how much I hated “Fauxlivia” and her vagenda, but honestly I don’t want to spoil it because the twists and turns this show takes are so wonderful, they should be experienced with absolutely no background.)

The whole thing with Walter is that he’s atoning for the sins of his past, even if he doesn’t really realize it at first, and it’s just, really comforting. His entire arc is compelling and satisfying, even if it leaves you a crying mess. 

Also, Peter Bishop is forever my perfect New England boyfriend. At first I’m not sure who they wanted him to be exactly, but eventually he smoothed out into just an earnest, genius, gorgeous man trying to do the right thing and get past all of the hurt Walter caused him. They put him in devastatingly handsome peacoats and he saves the day and he’s sweet to Olivia and I just spend most of the time swooning. That smile, gang.

Is it because I fell in love with Pacey Witter as a young girl during Dawson’s Creek’s heyday? 98% yes. I will always love Joshua Jackson and Pacey was done dirty for a while. And come to think of it, Peter was too. It’s his thing, apparently. 

I do  realize Olivia is supposed to be the main character probably, but she gets me to my two favorite guys so I guess she’s fine. Anna Torv is wonderful, she plays Dunham really well (which I imagine was grueling given some of the storylines) but the Bishops are the stars of the show. I just want to squeeze both of them.

The crazy thing is there are some episodes that will destroy you emotionally. The white tulip? Jesus. That one just came up in my rewatch, and it was still a punch in the face the second time. There’s one where Walter gets lost in Chinatown, I had to literally mute it because it’s gut wrenching. Even with the silliness and the science that makes you roll your eyes, they make you look at things you don’t want to, and it can hurt. I love/hate that so much. 

And look, I understand that the moral of the show is that science and technology can be dangerous and we shouldn’t let it get away from us because it could eventually cause the downfall of everything, but that’s not what I’m here for. I’m always here for the relationships. And the ridiculous ways we can get people to die. And the outlandish scifi. If you wanna remind me of things that I don’t want to think about in between that, I guess it’s okay, because it makes no sense, but when I think of Fringe, it just makes me feel warm and fuzzy. It’s not a warm and fuzzy show, but it is for me. 

I started watching it because it was a complete series that had a purposeful ending and I needed something, but it turned into a lot more than that. I’m jealous of people who can see it for the first time. It’s just so…special. In weird and wonderful ways. There will never be another character quite like Walter Bishop. Or a truly realized tv universe as outlandish. They swung for the fences, and it really landed; vagenda, the observers, Walternate, and all. 

Let Walter charm the shit out of you, you won’t be disappointed.

[paintingsandrecords]

a highland cow; ink and watercolor

last ten days listening:

sesame street - the year of roosevelt franklin

fifteen - hush

proletariat - soma holiday

kimya dawson - hidden vagenda

alkaline trio - halloween

mike watt and the secondmissingmen/up around the sun - split 7”

teens in trouble/desert mambas - split

weird al yankovic/various - weird: the al yankovic story soundtrack

faith - live at cbgbs

dead cross - ii