I love comparison photos. Sam Reid is something else.

IWTV fandom, please listen to Em Rusciano and Michael Lucas in Emsolation podcast talking about IWTV, TheNewsreader and Sam Reid as Lestat and Dale Jennings.

And about how lovely Sam is to his fans. The fact that he said this "I really appreciate it. This is why we do what we do."

||| “It’s the Celebration of a Nation...” 🌟🇦🇺💖

|||| Anna Torv as Helen Norville in The Newsreader S2, accompanied by Sam Reid and Stephen Peacocke as Dale Jennings and Rob Rickards, and Em Rusciano, Daniel Doody and Nate Byrne.

I am LIVING for this scene already. When the promo clips were shared on Thursday I was totally breathless over these. This is EXACTLY how I have felt and pictured The Newsreader deep in my heart. Just a joyous and heartfelt celebration and reflection of retro Australia, and the stories and people that made it what it was. No doubt I will be completely choked up with tears when I eventually get to see the entire scene. As the Bicentennial was in January 1988, likely this will be the final episode of the season, and potentially one of the final scenes. Imagine if they used this scene to close the season out! My tears would never stop!

I’m also very excited to now know which scene Em Rusciano was going to be a part of! I cannot wait to hear her belt out something awesome! A photo shared of her behind the scenes showed the Studio 10 presenter Daniel Doody and the ABC weatherman Nate Byrne, and I can see them in the second GIF! But who is the guy in the green suit? I’d love to know!

And OBSESSED with Helen’s gorgeous yellow jacket. OBSESSED. There’s so much more colour this season and I’m loving it so much!

Would I Lie To You Australia is an incredibly entertaining panel show that I would like the panel show fandom on tumblr to know about.

Can't sleep, too busy googling every hour "is [symptom] normal"

I just heard someone (Em Rusciano if ur Australian, she did this on her poddy) explain RBR to a gay as destiny's child.

Max is Beyoncé

Checo is Michelle

Daniel is Kelly

You don't need me to explain any further honestly.

No one cares if they want to have a Kardashian brand. The problem is that they can't move on and keep trashing and lying about the royal family. They have zero talents and are nothing without Harry's familly and the royal titles. - "'I don't understand why they aren't allowed to build a brand, to build an empire, when people like the Kardashians are.'"

Em Rusciano opens up about her late-in-life autism diagnosis at the age of 43

Em Rusciano opens up about her late-in-life autism diagnosis at the age of 43

Em Rusciano has shared that she has been formally diagnosed with autism, just a few months after her son Elio was diagnosed with the same neurodivergency. In a sweet Instagram snap, the mum-of-three wrote of her son, “E and I have always understood each other on a magic level. It kinda feels like we exist in our own personal realm. We both share a love of microscopic details, plain pasta and…

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'It wasn’t a costume party!' The Bachelorette's Georgia Love and Lee Elliott dress up as the Virgin Mary and Joseph at festive soiree with Em Rusciano and Joel Creasey

‘It wasn’t a costume party!’ The Bachelorette’s Georgia Love and Lee Elliott dress up as the Virgin Mary and Joseph at festive soiree with Em Rusciano and Joel Creasey

Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House’s master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to “Fox & Friends” for comfort and messaging ideas, friends suspect, it fires him up for the day. Energized, infuriated — often a gumbo of both — Mr. Trump grabs his iPhone. Sometimes he tweets while propped on his pillow, according to aides. Other…

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Ok guys, I just have to share this fabulousness with everyone because this was glorious. We all need dancing vulvas in our life, right?

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Sappy little appreciation post for The Newsreader tonight, because I felt compelled to ♡

It's actually incredible just how long The Newsreader was in the making before it got to all of us in 2021/22. Michael has said that the earliest parts of it were coming together in late 2014/early 2015. He was working on it through all my final years of high school (Years Nine - Twelve).

I had no clue as an Australian retro nerd at sixteen/seventeen years old who found every opportunity she could to squeeze in her knowledge of modern Australian history into her schoolwork even if the occasion didn't call for it, that my dream show was being written right there and then. I felt so alone in this passion, I knew no one else who loved this stuff like I did. I was especially absorbing every news clip and old piece of media that I could find about Australian history in the time period of 1970-2000. I would spend hours and hours reading about the stories that I was especially interested in and I wanted to know every miniscule detail. I was making detailed PowerPoints about the period which my Year Twelve English teacher very kindly and graciously let me present to the class because she was the best. The Newsreader is smack bang in the middle of this very niche period and celebrates just that. My thirst for anything I could find was so incredibly strong, and still is. The Newsreader has made it even stronger, to be honest.

If 2016/2017 me especially knew that this show was in the making, my little brain would've exploded. I wish I could have had Helen and Dale as a teenager. I wish I could somehow time travel to then and show seventeen year old Erin what was to come. They would've been my celebrity role models as a teenager for sure, and even though I know they are not their characters, I will never be able to thank Anna Torv or Sam Reid enough for bringing them to life, or Michael Lucas for imagining and writing them, or Emma Freeman for putting together the story physically. Or all the rest of the wonderful cast and crew for what they bring to the show too. Anna and Sam's very special Helen and Dale have changed everything for 20-something year old me and they are now my icons for everything that I love and hold dear. No fictional characters have had this much of an influence over me in my entire life. They are my everything. This show is my everything. I reckon I'll tear up seeing them back on my screen again. It's going to be like being reunited with old friends. Season Two cannot get here fast enough.

Em Rusciano is killing it at the National Press Club of Australia right now

Wait, I read my friend's message again and she's already revealed the gender to me WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE LITTLE SKIRTS I'VE BEEN PILFERING FROM CHARLOTTE honestly boys suck

Music tag! (Again)

Thanks @laceandpaperflowers91 and @inexprymable for the tags 😘

Rules: List 10 songs you’re obsessed with and tag 10 other blogs to do the same

1. This Is Me - Keala Settle & Cast of the Greatest Showman

2. Rewrite the Stars - Zendaya & Zac Efron

3. Bloodstone - Guy Sebastian

4. Brand New Day - Em Rusciano (if u buy this song on iTunes all proceeds go to organisations supporting LGBTQI youth 🏳️‍🌈)

5. Come Alive - Hugh Jackman and the cast of The Greatest Showman

6. 1955 - Hilltop Hoods

7. For Now - P!nk

8. Monster - Imagine Dragons

9. Praying - Kesha

10. Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken - P!nk

I tag @hecate-hardbroom @hecatehardroomisababe @hardbrooms-and-salt @askconstancehardbroom @missy-poppins91 @hard-broom @fyeahworstwitch @hicsqueakforcannon @hicsqueak @hacklesacademy