I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

Yeah, we're the animal so preoccupied with petting other animals we're sort of collectively upset there are animals we never get to pet, so we make proxies to snuggle and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

...and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

Hang on i just have to cry for a minute

Normalise Robin being happy and laughing🥹❤️🧁

Martha Howe-Douglas as Lady Button - 29.10.2023

BUT HONESTLY

the narrative significance

of two pairs of people:

who both, having once had a close, trusting relationship:

becoming, at some point (past or present), divided:

with one having saved others and risked their life only to sway precariously from a height:

while the other watches and believes them to be dead:

only to learn they are alive:

and warmly reconcile their differences:

one is a clear romantic pairing and the other is…?

also a romantic pairing, that’s what

Something that has still really stuck with me about Ghosts long after watching it is just how healthy Alison and Mike's relationship is... That was the first time I saw a couple in media I consume that I thought had a genuinely healthy relationship and it is still shocking.

Part of what made Ghosts for me was Alison and Mike's relationship. If they had been written to be a couple that fights over money, are constantly at each other's throats about house renovations, and the setbacks they face it would have made them unbearable to watch.

I genuinely felt a connection to them and I love their relationship as characters. Alison and Mike struggling to start out felt so relatable, instead of them both having pre-established careers and stable lives. I loved the messiness and chaotic nature of their lives and seeing them grow as people. Alison and Mike had their conflicts but in the end, they always worked it out! The only real times they had any genuine fights that I can recall were when Mike almost got blown up by a literal prototype mine (honestly valid- I would have been mad too king-) and over Bear Grills. Even then their fights did not end in tears or saying regrettable things or worse coming to blows, they handled it in a very healthy way.

Mike cares so much about Alison and is so supportive of her, her dreams, and her weird ghost things. Mike genuinely puts up with so much from the ghosts for not even being able to see them and can hardly interact with them. He would get annoyed at times and rightfully so but he would never be extremely resentful or hateful to Alison for the ghost's behaviors.

They are genuinely the best couple I have seen in media, granted I don't watch much but STILL.

IDK where this ramble came from but they linger in my head quite a lot.

Hi I will never not be insane about Janeway holding the watch Chakotay gave her at the end of Year of Hell

An actual cinnamon roll💕

Who’s also secretly insane💕

The little ones were so excited to find another ghost living in the adjacent field! Unfortunately Maddocks just found them all profoundly, profoundly annoying, bless him 👻🤍🦡

EXPLODES .

Between the Ground and the Sky - A MotA Fic

Title: Between the Ground and the Sky [AO3]

Characters: Ken Lemmons & Buck Cleven, John “Winks” Herrmann, Rosie Rosenthal, Harry Crosby

Summary: Of guilt and forgiveness. Or: an extended version of Cleven's return to England in Part 9.

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Between the Ground and the Sky

“Good to have you back, sir!”

“Lemmons,” Major Cleven acknowledged with a nod and wave before he turned his attention back to Majors Rosenthal and Crosby and continued walking.

Ken’s steps faltered. An uneasy feeling began to churn in his gut, as familiar as it was nauseating. For the past eighteen months, he had been waiting for and practically dreading this very moment. Not a day had gone by without him wondering if Major Cleven blamed him for fixing the magneto in time for the mission and getting him stuck in a Stalag for the rest of the war because Ken sure as hell blamed himself.

Now he had his answer.

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