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your friends & partners will actually love it if you enforce your boundaries b/c then they will never again need to guess if they're ever making you uncomfortable & don't know. healthy living tip :)
Also sometimes they don’t love it - sometimes they might feel weird or bad or embarrassed at first - but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have told them.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but I was completely unawares that the big finish had released a two volume audio drama called The Lone Centurion about (part of) Rory’s 2000 years gaurding the pandorica. Vol. 1 was released last year and Vol. 2 this past February. I’ve only listend to Vol. 1 so far but HIGHLY RECCOMMEND if your soul desperately craves new and substantial (over 3 hours per volume) Pond content and never thought you were going to get it.
1) Hearing Arthur Darvill 10 years on slip effortlessly back into bringing Rory to life is beautiful. Every few minutes I was just kinda sitting there in awe when it struck me that I wasn’t just reading or listening to some extra content narrated by some random Doctor Who loving creator, but actually Arthur freakin’ Darvill being Rory Williams again. He also did such a good job taking Rory back to that place he would have been at that time in his story, rather than where he was last when he wrapped up the role.
2) There have obviously been a lot of fan interpretations going around forever about Rory’s 2000 years waiting and having read almost all of them I can honestly say I couldn’t have asked for better here. I can really believe this is what that time was like for Rory and how he would have approached it, or at least at the start which is when the first volume takes place (i.e. Roman days). And while the story has some darker moments it is overridingly really campy and farcical and funny and idk if everyone would like that but I really appreciate that cause that’s something I apprecaited about Doctor Who overall. Aside, the story is genuinely good and fun, as well as the whole cast.
3) Arthur said in an interview that the writers really got Rory’s voice right (and that’s part of why he agreed to do this at all) and yep, he’s correct. The story especially showcases Rory’s sarcastic nature, which should never be forgotten.
4) There are short interviews at the end of each part with Arthur Darvill and the rest of the cast and hearing Arthur talk about Rory again and hearing him have so much genuine nostalgia, love, and respect for the character after all these years is just a treat.
so now I have my fingers crossed there’s a vol. 3 in the future
honestly equating enjoyment and poor quality is so dumb like you think everyone reading classics or watching arthouse movies etc are doing it while hating it? idk if it's the mindset that people just do things performatively or to look smart without actually 'being' smart (smartness is a construct ultimately but let's not get into that right now) but like... i guarantee you most people who really love austen or baldwin or hemingway or dostoevsky or morrison or whoever are not pretending. and like fellini or cassavetes or kurosawa filmbros genuinely enjoy them. like im sure there are posers out there and people acting like they like them to just fit into a certain 'aesthetic' or whatever but like. is it so hard to believe that people actually like these things? maybe it's insecurity or projection or anything at all but like... not everyone thinks these things are boring. even people who find them hard work derive 'fun' and enjoyment from them. and im sorry but i do think that a lot of people could benefit from trying them and taking some time with them instead of just rapid consumption of mediocrity. i don't even mean it in a pretentious way i just genuinely think that if u give things a chance u might like it and even if not it'll expand your worldview and knowledge and taste etc etc
One thing that is soooo annoying to me is when people try to vilify Jess for the whole Rory and Dean bracelet thing.
First of all, he did not steal it from her. She accidentally left it on the bridge. Jess didn’t know the bracelet’s history, he thought that Rory was leaving it there for him. Considering the flirtatious picnic they had, this wasn’t such an outlandish assumption.
Once he realized the bracelet’s importance to Rory, he put it back nearly immediately. It makes sense that he would just put it in her room instead of giving it to her directly because he was embarrassed. He had misread the situation and was embarrassed in front of his crush.
Also, he didn’t ‘break in’ to the Gilmore house. He was there already cleaning the gutters, so don’t suggest a break in like all the Jess antis do.
He could have just maliciously destroyed the bracelet or thrown it out. That’s what he would’ve done if he was immature and evil like all the Dean and Logan stans paint him out to be, but he didn’t. He knew it meant something to Rory so he returned it, even if that meant she wasn’t interested in him because he knew that it was the right thing to do.
"Has Meg mislaid some sort of personal article, such as... a GLOVE?"
“Rory Gilmore had an unsuccessful journalistic career—“ shut up. Shut up, no she didn’t. She was only in her early thirties in the revival—she still has time left. Besides, her articles were occasionally getting published in big newspapers/magazines. I think the writers framed her as appearing ‘unsucessful’ in the reboot to highlight how much Richard’s death truly impacted her. The death of her grandfather impacted her more than she let on. She was just going through a hard time professionally/a slump because of emotional turmoil, not because she is a failure. I will not let anyone slander Rory Gilmore when she doesn’t deserve it.
Despite knowing I have ADHD, I still routinely worry that I’m somehow a villainous mastermind who tricked a professional into giving me a diagnosis in order to get away with being lazy (Trauma recovery is a non-linear bitch.) or whatever the fuck.
And then nights like tonight happen where I’ll be reading a book on my phone, find a word I’m not familiar with, use the built in feature to look it up, think “ah, that’s cool”, decide I want to know the root origin of the word, look that up, “oh neat, I didn’t know those words were related,” find myself on a random Wikipedia page about a type of coral that eats jellyfish, springboard from there onto reading about the Great Barrier Reef only to find out there’s some scandal going on with marine ecologists, fall deeper down the rabbit hole into another Wikipedia article while researching said scandal, surface briefly on another article about pufferfish—pause and wonder, ‘what was I doing?’—something to do with roots… roots… roots—shit, I forgot to water the bonsai tree this morning, I’ll go do that now, oh, where’s the watering can? I’ll just find a jug in the kitchen, oh hey I left the butter out I should put that away, oh and the sugar needs to go in the pantry, oh hey, potato chips, did I eat dinner? I think I did but I’m hungry… wait, what was I doing?
Which is how you now find me stood in my kitchen at 2am eating potato chips and scrolling through my browser history trying to piece together the how and the why I got here and only just now remembering I was reading a book about ADHD, and ricocheted off from there like a pinball propelled by linguistic curiosity.
And I still haven’t watered the bonsai.
the only criticism of millennials l accept
Constructive Criticism
Some of the men yall tag as dilfs are SHAMEFUL. I was looking for dilf memes (it is not important why) and all I see is a parade of rosy-cheeked unblemished dandy men. Slapping a beard on a 26 year old in a suit is not a dilf, you are besmirching the title. There is a recipe, a Dilf Recipe. You do not need all these ingredients but you must have AT LEAST three: a child/ward/apprentice of some sort, crows feet, laugh lines/frown lines, sun damage, gray hairs, dark circles, Depression, intriguing battle scars/injuries/missing limb, Divorced, body hair, a look in the eyes that screams for A Moment of Relief, etc etc. Like the bar is low. Ben Barnes is not a Dilf. Harry Styles with 5 o’clock shadow is not a dilf. TIMMY CHARDONNAY IS NOT A DILF. You are all WEAK your blood is WEAK put that man BACK IN THE OVEN UNTIL HES DONE THESE DUDES ARENT AL DENTE THEY ARE CRUNCHY AND DUNKED IN WATER PUT THEM BACK LET THEM COOK
happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!
Special Event: All Horses’ Birthday (Southern Hemisphere only)
Special Event: All Horses’ Birthday (Northern Hemisphere only)
“Or should I pop down to the swimming pool for a few lengths?”
11 you can’t let your companions fuck in the console room
remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave
Not to kill your fun or anything my dude but I noticed you reblogged a picture of some place in Russia for the aesthetic and I just.... Do you even know what goes on in Russia? I try to stay away from reblogging anything about it and you should too....
im russian
We’ve been cancelling Russia since the 50’s
this bear? cancelled
this mountain? fucking cancelled
FUCK this lake
some people born hundreds of years after this thing was built suck shit so this building is now cancelled
MOSCOW? do you know who LIVES in Moscow?? like a lot of people actually, but also some bad people so NO PICTURES OF MOSCOW
COOL BUT CANCELLED. What happens in that building?? CORRUPTION probably, I don’t know, I didn’t look up what it was, but I know it’s in RUSSIA and we all know what HAPPENS IN RUSSIA
this SERENE yet ALIEN LANDSCAPE has been declared PROBLEMATIC
oh, do you like this?? do you find it…. ….””aesthetic””??? apparently you don’t know that Faberge eggs were popularized by Tsar Alexander III, who REVERSED MANY OF THE LIBERAL REFORMS OF HIS FATHER and can eat shit in general. that’s right Russia, I’m pulling receipts from 1885.
CANCELLED
you know by this logic like…. everywhere is cancelled. lmao
Everywhere is Canceled 2021™
And I finally saw the scene with the flour and you and me and Lorelai had gone to California to do her wilding. And I was so touched by that scene. I was so moved by that scene because your character had come full circle and now you were the one taking care of me. And I actually teared up a little bit because I missed you so much and I know you’re such a good guy. And what a perfect moment that was for me. In all those four episodes that was my favorite moment. That scene was my favorite moment. -Scott Patterson
Hana-chan and Uo-chan by mairithetree
Hanajima Saki and Arisa Uotani from the animé Fruits Basket <3 I love them a lot <3 I hope they will brighten your day.
I know this is gonna piss off nerds but paperbacks are superior to hardbacks
Moodboard
IDK sometimes this website makes me feel like “death of the author” is soon to be followed by “death of the text”, where subjective interpretation and wish fulfillment is all that matters, and readings with the right political capital gain acceptance on that merit alone, even totally unsupported by the work itself.
see also: rewriting the movie as critiquing the movie. the whole ‘how it should have ended’ concept. no one cares about the story actually being told anymore. everyone just wants to be told the story they want to hear. and they will either ignore or distort the text to make it fit or they will cite the fact that it doesn’t fit their expectations as a flaw (x)
