Erin Tuesday by Vlad Kenner

[Monochrome] featuring Erin Tuesday

I need more respect put on Taika as an actor because this scene right here is my favourite piece of acting out of every single thing I watched in 2022 (and I watched a lot of good acting in 2022).

It's the way you can see him get to the point of not being able to hold it back anymore, his face crumpling slightly, his voice getting thinner, eyes getting wetter and wetter until a tear leaks out, even as he's still trying weakly to hold it in. It's not over the top, or great gulping wails, or an overabundance of tears (although he's fantastic at all those too) - it's just pure believable nagging pain, slowly bubbling up and spilling out of him. Every time I watch this scene, I can actually viscerally feel that scratchy tightening that you get in your throat when you're on the edge of crying but trying desperately not to.

I've watched a lot of crying-acting in my time, and Taika in this scene is just a masterclass. Nothing feels forced. It doesn't feel like someone who is making himself cry for the camera. It feels like a genuinely heartbroken man, who is desperately trying to stop himself from crying but can't stop the pain from bursting out of him.

Taika completely inhabits Ed's heartbreak, his despair, his pain and his vulnerability, and it just gets me in my chest more than almost anything else in the show. He's a fantastic actor who goes to some truly difficult and vulnerable places for this character - every single one gut-punchingly believable - and I need people to start yelling about him deserving awards for it as much as they do for some of his co-stars.

My exhaustion and delirium are simply no match for my astronomical levels of Willow brain rot

Part 13/?

no but it's just - james doesn't expect her to say anything. he's watched her pin over 'cool' lads like david donnelly and john paul for years so he doesn't expect her to like someone like him, doesn't expect anything from her, but he's been scared shitless and thought he was going to die, and it dawned on him that his biggest regret would have been for her not to know that she's beautiful. and he's liked her for a long time, and he just thought he'd say it, and then she's kissing him and he's so shocked at first, his well inherited eyebrows furrowing, responding but not quite properly kissing her back himself - until he does, and then he's kissing her like he's probably wanted to for so long, and when she slightly leans back, smiling, he leans in because he just doesn't want it to stop, and even though michelle yells at them he stands up to her, him, the wee english fella who never quite answers back, because he likes erin.

and michelle may be right, and erin may think she's right too, but he smiles anyway because he knows she likes him back now, and it's okay because he can wait if it's for her.

realizing this morning it was only Tuesday not Wednesday like I thought 😞😞😞

realizing this afternoon that means shogun 🫨🤗🤪

Ahhhhh just found out one of my favorite DnD podcasts (Dungeons and Daddies) is touring and will be in my area three days before my birthday! I am mightily tempted to buy not only a ticket, but one of the cool VIP tickets with all the extra bells n whistles

finished my assignment :) just got another one to do over the weekend

it’s tipsy tuesday y’all !!!

imagine if you ordered a 5m aerial cable thinking it would be long enough but it wasn’t so you spent half an hour securing a cable to the wall that doesnt actually reach the television so you still don’t get normal channels  it’s me i did that

Erin Tuesday, behind the scenes

Top 5 (books with a costume party) Tuesday

I was never a big party teen. My friends and I would just meet up at each others’ houses. Braai (wood-fire cooking on coals. Never barbecue, we don’t use that word), games, music, and of course, tons of fun. Plus our town/family doesn’t celebrate Halloween so we don’t do that. But let’s see what’s in store for us here! Thanks to Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads for this prompt, and all the…

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Clearly Wonderful on Teapot Tuesday

Hooray! A new teapot is debuting today on It’s Just Life. Today’s teapot is one I bought online from one of my new favorite television shows – The Lost Kitchen. Erin French and her Freedom, Maine restaurant has captivated me and if you have not heard of her, you might want to check her out on HBO Max. Her show is a fun look at her small but thriving restaurant in the small town of Freedom, Maine,…

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ok shogun spam over for the night I once again experienced the full spectrum of human emotion in one ep tho and I won't recover

(I love being waylaid by good tv)