Viola Davis on Her Daughter’s Love of Beyoncé

Archie Panjabi - Emmy Winner - 2010

Emmy winner who had to buy her own dress off the rack because no designer would loan one. (She then auctioned her dress for charity.)

And let’s not forget what happened when she first arrived on the red carpet: 

 "it was like going to Disneyworld for the first time… And then it all went downhill. I was on the red carpet and you have to queue up, and get on one of the dots so they can take a photo. They’re screaming for the woman in front of me, and then it’s my turn… So I come up to this dot, and every single photographer in the line puts their camera down… So I was all dressed up on my biggest night ever and that moment happened. I wanted the floor to open up. Literally, they just …" she mimes a photographer lowering a camera, looking bored. “That woke me up.”

 Panjabi went on to win the Emmy for best supporting actress that night, beating Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss, as well as her co-star in The Good Wife, Christine Baranski. She was also one of only two Brits to win an award that night. “And then I went to take the pictures at the end, and I’m kissing the award, quietly thinking: ‘Yeah, fuck you.’”

[Source: The Guardian]

Every news tabloid: “RUMORS!!! BRANGELINA BREAKING UP??!“ 

Me:

Angelina’s legal documents: “A divorce has been listed on September 15, 2016″

Me: *SCREAMING, CRYING, BORKING, WEIRD NOISES*

a girl talk to me

angelina jolie and brad pitt are divorcing and in other, entirely unrelated news, love died on this, the 20th of September 2016

my absolute favorite thing about men complaining about rule 63 reboots is one going ‘oh yeah well how would you feel if we remade um……’ *grasping for a show or movie that actually has more than one female character* ‘Charlie’s Angels? but with dudes’

and thousands of women go ‘YES that is exactly what I want out of life you are good at this!’

lol nothing at all is being taken away from me by channing tatum playing a mermaid in fact im being given a wonderful gift. let’s keep this rolling. up next a dirty dancing where sweet innocent boy next door tyler posey is seduscolded into being a better dancer by wrong side of the tracks greaser daisy ridley

an interesting take, i like

trying to get your friends into your fandom like

“What’s that show you watch again? With the X?”

this is too true

watch as cesare and delphine and d.i. ripley go on mad spy adventures with codename synesthesia, codename christie pitts, and codename pretty boy adman at the behest of freddie lounds and their boss joe dick

I just finished Between Shades of Gray and I can’t stop weeping. There are so many books about the Holocaust but no one ever tells the story of the 20 million Baltic people that Stalin and the Soviet Union murdered. I’m so, so glad I read this book, because only by constantly reminding ourselves of the horrors and atrocities we humans have committed against each other can we even begin to try and change things for the future—especially noteworthy during this time with the Syrian refugees…the pain and horrors and hungers they face, and the fear and hatred people treat them with. This book is yet another reminder for me that we’re doomed to repeat history if we forget what came before us, and if we allow jingoism and callousness to win over empathy and kindness.

thank you for posting this! my omma was in one of Tito’s (Soviet) concentration camps for three years after WWII, and most of her family died there (she took the first ship to Canada when she got out). I’ve never seen it mentioned, anywhere - will check out that book!!!

Aw, no problem! I’m sorry for what your family member had to endure. Yeah, the book is so heartbreaking and moving, and it specifically addresses the fact that almost no one ever talks about the stories of these people, because the people themselves were forced into silence for decades (even after the war, because the Soviet Union persisted).

yup, i heard (essentially) "sorry, the walls have ears" most of my life. omma = grandma ;)

LMAO

I have tears

that audience shot oh my word

This is hilarious and I feel it’d be even funnier with context

Idol fans plz explain

Japanese idols are generally contractually forbidden from dating or marrying because as an Idol their personhood is a commodity and they are selling the glimpse of an idea of a potential relationship to lonely otakus.

Idols are meant to be pretty, fun, cute, and flirtatious, so that fans can fantasize about being with them which drives sales of branded merchandize.

An Idol that has romantic or sexual pursuits is no longer perceived as available, in addition to it conflicting with fetishized virginity.

Basically, the Idol industry in Japan is the epitomy of a misogynistic sex-sells industry where the product is a fantasy relationship with a woman who is performing to make herself desirable. 

Many, many idols are extremely salty about this and will go to great lengths to mock and disparage the system, but they can’t do much to get it changed or go against it because their entire career will be destroyed if it is publicly discovered that they have or have had anything close to a relationship or sex.

And the companies absolutely do fire idols who do so, and destroy any potential they have as a career public figure for the rest of their lives. It’s horrifying.

So, in response for portraying a forever single virgin that can’t date, she savagely drags her “fans” who are more likely actual forever single virgins who will never get a date because they fantasize about getting with a highly fictionalized celebrity personality :v

the fucking burn she unleashed oh my god

I just finished Between Shades of Gray and I can’t stop weeping. There are so many books about the Holocaust but no one ever tells the story of the 20 million Baltic people that Stalin and the Soviet Union murdered. I’m so, so glad I read this book, because only by constantly reminding ourselves of the horrors and atrocities we humans have committed against each other can we even begin to try and change things for the future—especially noteworthy during this time with the Syrian refugees…the pain and horrors and hungers they face, and the fear and hatred people treat them with. This book is yet another reminder for me that we’re doomed to repeat history if we forget what came before us, and if we allow jingoism and callousness to win over empathy and kindness.

thank you for posting this! my omma was in one of Tito's (Soviet) concentration camps for three years after WWII, and most of her family died there (she took the first ship to Canada when she got out). I've never seen it mentioned, anywhere - will check out that book!!!

yeah, this happened. it was often visually stunning but also uncomfortable. definitely an example of very elaborate dress-up.

Hannibal

An alternative revelation

You said before that you were curious whether either of us could survive separation. It has been established that we can’t.

So I was kinda thinking about how the conversation would have gone if Will confronted Hannibal directly in regards to his feelings as opposed to Bedelia. This sprang to mind.

Season 5 feels

My head cannon for season 5 is Will and Hannibal in adjoining cells at the hospital, and they are just utter dicks, and Alana and Jack have tried to have them separated, but they both caused such chaos–talking others into killing themselves, taking chunks out of anyone stupid enough to get close, and they always seem to do it at the exact same time no matter the distance between them. And when they’re restrained and questioned about it, all they’ll say is “I want to see Will/Hannibal.” So it’s just easier to let them be together, because they cause less damage.

It’s been a few years, and the two of them are content to simply see one another and be able speak to one another, though of course ever vigilant for an opportunity to escape, should it present itself.

When Clarice is sent in to interview Hannibal. Ideally Jack would like to use Will, but he knows there is absolutely no way Will is going to indulge him, where as Hannibal might be interested enough in Clarice to have a dialogue with her.

She doesn’t know that it’s Will Graham in the next cell, huddling in the dark corners, just staring at her in the most disconcerting manner. He’s the dirty laundry that no one in the FBI wants to talk about. But he’ll occasionally speak up in the silence, offer insight. And he sort of takes on that Louisiana drawl, makes her comfortable, draws her in until she finds herself standing in front of his cell. It isn’t the quid pro quo with Lecter from the books/movies. Will makes her feel comfortable, and she thinks she’s having these organic conversations with him.

And Will is just in utter disbelief that Jack is making the Miriam Lass mistake all over again, and he’s actually very sweet towards her and helpful, and it is Will who is helps guide her, and Hannibal just listens with that pleased smirk on his face. It is Will who she shares this strange relationship, with whom she shares her history (ignoring the comments Hannibal makes, but haunted by them later).

Alana tells Jack what’s going on and he flips out and tells Clarice to stay away from Will Graham, that he’s even more dangerous than Hannibal Lecter, which just seems impossible to Clarice, because, well, look at him. So when she goes down next time, Will suggests that she look into Miriam Lass. And then she starts reading more about what happened with Miriam and with Will (beyond what got published in the papers).

Clarice is now about done with these crazy son’s of bitches when she realises how they’ve all manipulated her, and the sort of danger Jack’s put her in, because she’s now read all the damage the two of them have done from *inside* their cells. (Let’s not even get into what various “groupies” have done for either of them). Will is completely different after she confronts him–he stands up taller, prowls the length of his cell, looks her straight in the eye, and he and Hannibal have whole conversations about her right in front of her that are downright terrifying, but she keeps going because they’re *so close* to Buffalo Bill.

Then Jack goes down, throwing around his weight, says he’s going to separate them after this, unless Will helps. They’ll take him to where the Senator’s daughter has been kidnapped so he can read the scene.

When they come to transport him, he manages to break free long enough to get to the bars, (or gloryholes, whatever) of Hannibal’s cell, kissing him, passing him the paperclip he got from Starling’s files through their mouths, and Jack is all exasperated and the two of them are pulled apart and Will is grinning this feral grin at Hannibal who just touches his lips gently and gives him the faintest smile in return.

Will plays his role–Chilton and Alana and Jack are all focused on him, so worried about what *he’s* going to do while he’s out of his cell that they’re sort of ignoring what Hannibal’s up to. It’s like some psychic bullshit, that right after Will gives them the information they need and they’re all tearing of after Buffalo Bill, Hannibal picks the lock on his restraints (IDK, it’s his weekly rec time, or they’re cleaning the cell like in Red Dragon, whateves) and just slaughters his way out, take no prisoners mode (except for Barney, who in my head cannon has been gender swapped and is the black female guard from season 3). And like they’ve timed it, Will is donning a police face to catch a ride on an ambulance.

Then Hannibal’s walking down some dark, desolate stretch of road and the ambulance pulls up next to him and Will swings the door open.

Molly Hooper

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Also in this series: Sherlock and John Watson.

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