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trotting around in the pig suit until kim says something nice about it

I know fanon is stupid and takes on a life of its own

but I really don’t understand how other Jean fans just don’t…deal with the fact that he leaves Harry to die in the bad end.* Like do people just not know about the bad end? What’s happening here? I don’t get why you’d just toss out what makes a character interesting and replace it with a generic personality from a network police procedural my grandma would watch

like Jean isn’t loyal. he’s unpleasant and cruel. this is what makes him actually interesting and is the role he fills in the story as an antagonistic bigot. he’s the kind of person who doesn’t rush to his partner's side when he’s shot but goes to the guy he was working with to get more ammunition to have him fired. he's self centered enough to prioritize his own mental illness as an excuse above the wellbeing of the civilians around him.

his victim complex is fascinating and hugely realistic to cops irl! he’s a total prick to Judit and Trant! he is frequently saying things that betray his right wing leanings, calling Trant a lefty dink or saying the liberals are going to come down on them for the piss jacket.

idk idk he’s just a very vivid and realistic person and watching that kind of guy get ground down and sanded off until there’s nothing left so he can be a likable woobie who sticks out like a sore thumb in a cast of complicated characters is depressing

*unless Those Types of fans are trying to justify it by saying Harry deserves it for (having the audacity to be disabled or completely made up reason)

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Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.

Tips That Can Save Your Kid’s Life.

banned from taking part in “egg discourse” bcos i think it’s morally imperative to suggest to men that they could be trans women as often as possible, regardless of whether they’re expressing any potential signs of gender dysphoria or not 🙁

every now and again i come across a gifset and i am hit with the full force realization of exactly the kind of psychosexual…. well it was certainly a psychosexual something or other! between hickey and crozier. like. christ alive. there is something fucking wrong with you two.

"We British don't have these pointless conversations."

Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica on set of Dune (2021) photographed by Chiabella James (Dune:Part One: The Photography book)

all you need is someone who will look at you the way Karow and Berlow look at each other

into babylon berlin now. heavily. things are coming (pls watch this show. its good. also queer)

My commanding officer has some idea that you and I are similar. A shared love of poetry and philosophy.

I wonder…if it's something more or not.

Bonus:

Volker Bruch as Gereon Rath — Babylon Berlin 4.10

I was hoping we’d meet.

Thinking about when Dave K said that he has “come to love the characters who aren’t victorious, that don’t necessarily rise to the challenge — the Hodgsons and the Littles — and I just find them really interesting and moving to kind of watch them as they sort of fail”, and The Hodgson Failson Problem.

Hodgson’s speech to Goodsir in 1x09 confirms to me that he has almost returned to a second childhood. I think of all the characters that episode he is most shown as being stuck in the past, a past order, a past life. Eating apart from Hickey’s mutineers on his fancy china with fork and knife like he’s still a Lieutenant, recalling the Virginian ham, recalling that childhood summer with his Catholic aunts. When he’s telling Goodsir about the wafer and wine and he says, “I felt forgiven of every poor, weak, or selfish thing within my soul” (Christos Lawton hits the tear drop at exactly this note; handshake with Tobias Menzies for great timing) – he’s talking about how he knows himself to be now, his conduct through this entire crisis; poor, weak, and selfish. He wants to go back to childhood. To feel faultless again. It’s this very Hodgson characteristic you see in 1x08 as well, when he’s whining at Little, wanting reassurance that he did the right thing by ordering the slaughter of a Netsilik group based on Hickey’s flimsy say-so. Little does not offer him absolution – he tells Hodgson, “If [your instinct and your training] told you to proceed with what you ordered…then be easy with yourself.” Hodgson can’t have that, and has to follow up with the hysterical story about Native Americans. Come on, I told you about the scary Native Americans, won’t you reassure me now?

(My hunch is that even if he got the absolution he so wanted, he’d cringe away from it, he wouldn’t believe it – the giveaway is in the story [he never went back to Mass]. Just enough self-delusion to spin justifications around his missteps, just enough self-awareness that they don’t do the trick.)

I couldn’t tell if Goodsir was moved by “I’m hungry, and I want to live.” (I always am.) The problem with that line, which on first viewing made me ask myself, “Did Hodgson just make cannibalism … ennobling?”, is how hollow it is. Gibson’s flesh and blood, ill-gotten through murder, does not compare to the strange and illicit but ultimately beautiful Catholic communion that Hodgson so badly wants it to be. (That would be Fitzjames’s flesh and blood; he calls himself Christ on his deathbed, and offers his body to his men freely, even if they don’t take him up on it.) The way those men try to survive is not ennobling. Hickey was right. It is a nasty piece of business. I’m thinking of the other small and big cruelties that go on in Hickey’s camp (the way Des Voeux shot Hartnell though Hartnell was lowering his gun, the way at the start of 1x10 Crozier is bleeding from his forehead and nose without explanation). I wouldn’t be surprised if Goodsir was moved by that telling. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if he was bored out of his mind.