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there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.
you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE
#i lied the one reason to make a cop show is you want a mafia show and the cops are currently by far the most powerful u.s. mafia#BUT! i cannot emphasize enough: the police have none of the aesthetics or personality of the actual mafia so why even bother#The Sopranos but in an office setting with buzzing fluorescent lighting? and half your co-workers are weekend neo-nazis? come on#no. just no#from now on i want all tv cops to be villainous side characters#but BORING villainous side characters#i like villains as much as the next queer audience member but i cannot overstate the importance of portraying cops as not just bastards#but BORING bastards#they are so boring. they are boring and hateful and also neither particularly smart nor interesting#i need to emphasize: there is NOTHING to romanticize there#i am so passionate and supportive of anti-romanticizing cops. ANTI-ROMANTICIZE THE POLICE.#the police are BORING and HATEFUL and CRUEL and BASIC AS HELL#and we should be pointing that out publicly every chance we get#the police are BORING BASIC BITCHES and mocking them publically is a patriotic service
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given the current connotations involved it’s kind of funny that the fictional character who has probably canonically logged the most hours of therapy is tony soprano
#i’ve never watched the sopranos but maybe i should for my interest in stories about When Therapy Doesn’t Work#(see also: succession :))))) )
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Fellas, is it gay to live inside another man forever with Satan himself by my side?
#shitpost#jekyll and hyde#dr jekyll and mr hyde#henry jekyll#jekyll and hyde the musical#edward hyde#confrontation#fellas is it gay#guess what musical I’m rehearsing for this time folks#I play some fuckass board of governors asshole#who Hyde stabs in the first scene of act 2#every ensemble number in this show is an absolute banger#also it is very gender of me to say my lines as a male character and then immediately turn around and sing a high D6 bc soprano 1 vibes#theatre major#musical theatre
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Eliot ensuring the girls know how to defend themselves. (And them proving that they can!)
Leverage S02E02/S04E05/Redemption S01E16/S02E03.
#leverage#leverage redemption#eliot spencer#parker#sophie devereaux#breanna casey#alec hardison#nate ford#you know he's trained the guys too of course#nate hardison and harry all throw a decent punch#but you can tell he's so proud of the girls when they get it right#i mean look at him in that 4th gif!#AND he also gives them the confidence to stand up to those trying to intimidate them#proven by breanna in the card game job with 'touch me and you'll be singing soprano'#he's made sure that everyone is able to hold their own even if he's not there#and that's something beautiful#don't mind me i'm having feelings about eliot spencer#and oops i wrote a thesis again!#ghostly'sgifs
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The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you; and give you peace. Can I get an amen in the notes
#listening to rutter's the Lord bless you and keep you#also isn't the LIGHT of his countenance such a beautiful phrase!!#joy comes in the morning! light comes in the morning!! is that a coincidence I THINK NOT!!!#christianity#chrumblr#AMEN!!!#also being part of the first group of sopranos in this piece is SUCH a blessing. we did it for school once and the high note in the amen is#SO rewarding#personal
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Hate when a show makes a really good point about misogyny and then the entire fanbase are men who are like. Yeah I hate that bitch.
#the sopranos#and also maybe#breaking bad#this also doesn’t mean that these women are perfect and have never done anything wrong but like… it’s very obvious the biggest crime#that a fictional character can commit is being a woman#but actually “I just find her sooo annoying” that’s all.#could also maybe be shiv roy but I don’t see that many irl men who talk about succession
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Interview with the Vampire (2022) // The Sopranos
#.......#yes this is a little tongue in cheek but also deadly serious!#this is actually a part of another post but I HAD to post this separately#the louiscarmelaposting is not over...#interview with the vampire#louis de pointe du lac#interview with the sopranos
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It’ll always piss me off to see people say they can’t relate to a character bc it’s set in certain time periods or bc of their outside characteristics. One of the best things about of fiction to me is that you get to realize that certain things transcend those « barriers ». Don Draper has touched me the most out of any tv character ever and I’m a black gen z Muslim French girl lol just bc it looks like it won’t be relatable to you does mean it’s not something worth discovering and watching. And even if you can’t relate to something that does not mean the humanity and soul behind the creation isn’t worth the try. Always Looking for something you relate to is a boring way to experience media and will only reduce your horizons
#you guys are boring and need the overall stamp of approval of other people on here before you see the worth in something else#like I assure you if everyone on here posted abt mm like they did succession you’d never had those tags meanwhile that show wouldn’t exist#without the precedent set by mm lol…which itself wouldn’t exist by w/ the sopranos#same for BB which again. WOULD NOT EXIST W/ THE SOPRANOS lol and you guys wouldn’t praise it if the majority of people on there didn’t !#so many people also complained about BB being boring and it didn’t get that status until later seasons and now people love it bc they can#joke abt it on here#anyway
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I HATE when I apply for stuff and they ask me my preferred pronouns or gender on the application process bc it's like. Are you transphobic and using this as a filter for people with weird pronouns and I need to lie to you right now, am I going to lie and then get accepted and constantly misgendered regardless of whether you would have been chill about it or not bc of what I put on this app, am I literally freaking out for no reason right now
#just putting she/her like. look at me I'm so normal. I'm soooo cisgender#eughhh#not like i can lie about my agab on an application where i also habe to put 'mezzo-soprano' lol#i talk
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YAKUZA 8 IS A SERIOUS AND POIGNANT GAME ABOUT LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE NO MATTER HOW OLD YOU ARE AND HOW MUCH LIFE HAS THROWN YOU FOR A LOOP. THROUGH DETERMINATION AND HOPE YOU CAN STILL SET OUT TO DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH THE LIMITED TIME YOU HAVE.
#yakuza#like a dragon#like a dragon infinite wealth#infinite wealth#like a dragon spoilers#yakuza spoilers#neoyi talks#a friend best described this game series as three hours of the sopranos and then an episode of the simpsons after and like yeah pretty much#Also I am so glad I got to help nancy-chan get a lesbian girlfriend LOVE IS REAL
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I'm inclined to take Halsin at his word, but I wonder when he laments/jokes about having an awful singing voice if it's actually awful, or if it's just average/lower quality compared to other elven voices, which by human listening standards is still pretty good.
#BG3 Musing#Halsin#Halsin Posting#i am inclined to believe he likely is telling the whole truth with no hidden meaning (considering he also can't dance bless this man)#but also like what if he wasn't (and by wasn't i mean to him it's the full truth but to non elves it's like??? false humility huh okay hal)#doesn't have that ethereal quality to it so it's automatically like meh in elf circles and to elf ears#halsin's just a baritenor in a sea of castrati and sopranos#dave jones can sing so...#halsin: our teacher used to say i had the voice of a wounded boar#anyway *is able to harmonize near perfectly with a human bard*#(just in the lower register)
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i'm so obsessed with this exchange between christopher and the cop who (tony claims) killed his father, especially christopher's reply "it wouldn't make any difference." because all it would mean if tony fabricated the story is that he was trying provoke chris into killing this guy for some other reason. and ultimately, if tony wants him to kill this guy, then chris has to kill him. if that's the case, and he has to do it either way, then why not choose to believe tony's telling the truth? at least then he'll get some satisfaction out of doing it. what's the point in questioning it?
it stands out to me because chris brings this up a lot in the episodes that follow, often when tony is scolding him or trying to exert control over chris's behavior. chris will respond by saying he knows he owes tony and will do what he asks.
but even as he's committing the murder, chris is aware it very well might be a made-up story. and yet because he chooses to believe it, he is also choosing to feel indebted to tony.
i think that's because it makes it easier for christopher, as their relationship grows more and more rocky. he's doing this because he owes tony, because he helped him get justice. it's easier to live with that than to live with the reality that he has to do this or his uncle will kill him. not that chris was ever under any illusions about being untouchable- for a while in early s1 he sincerely believed tony attempted to have him killed for giving meadow drugs - but at the start of the series the danger is equally terrifying and enticing. he wants to do jobs for tony to advance in the mob, he wants to get made, the risk was the price he paid for getting ahead. however by the time this happens in 4x01, he's already been made and tony's started grooming him for the top job and christopher still feels depressed and unsatisfied. so instead he starts to rely on feelings of indebtedness to make his life of being and tony's beck and call bearable, because he has none of the fulfillment he thought he'd have once he reached this level to make it worthwhile.
and what's especially heartbreaking is that during 4x01 tony tells melfi his plan is ultimately to make christopher someone who can take the fbi heat off of him. and he's so smug about it!
tony knew exactly the psychological effect this would have on chris, and so he can gloat to melfi about his schemes and how under his thrall christopher is without fear. tony's an emotional guy and he can get quite sentimental with christopher, but that just makes the moments where he reveals how calculated his relationship with chris is even impactful. because the affection for him tony feels (while genuine) is ultimately just another tool for him to damn this boy he claims to view as a son. chris is right that whether or not the cop was the killer is immaterial, because either way tony has engineered this scenario to manipulate christopher, who is already trapped and knows it.
#sorry if you see this twice but in classic tumblr fashion the post did not appear to show up after i posted so... take two#the sopranos#christopher moltisanti#tony soprano#also the movie is irrelevant to me btw#kaitlin speaks
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#the sopranos#Bobby not looking through the lenses is so perfect#also if anyone has this original cast photo. I need it
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Ain't you handsome when you're high?
Nothin' matters
Chase that feelin' till' you die
#my art#my ocs#fallout 4#fo4#red#sole survivor#sole survivor oc#sometimes self care is using screenshots of tony soprano as reference#also drawing ur ocs hot
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She is so funny and I am so obsessed with her
#also I love that the conclusion Kupferberg ultimately comes to in this scene is basically 'Italians gonna Italian'#The Sopranos#Anna watches tv#Anna watches The Sopranos#Jennifer Melfi#Elliot Kupferberg#x
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finally started my the wire rewatch. I remember back at uni my two favourite professors being obsessed with it and I started watching it back then, didn't really understand or get into it... and now, what, 10 years later, I am just. in awe
#żmija gada#same with sopranos I definitely didn't understand it fully back then but now I'm a diehard fanboy. can't shake it#also sorry to harp on about it but I do miss old style tv series. I don't feel like the creators assume I'm a fucking idiot while watching#the pacing is impeccable the characters are fully fleshed out the tension is built perfectly#and you as the viewer are treated as a smart person
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