Ah yes the irresistible urge of a medium to mention a woman's children and family whenever they're talking about her job

they can't just talk about her job no

"don't worry guys she's still half in her place"

Niamh Wilson as bitchy theater gay thespian Lydia ↳ Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

Billy did not oversleep. In fact, he's been getting little to no sleep. Billy has been working on an old case on missing people and his team decided to put the case back in the archives. There wasn't enough evidence to solve it and he should be working on other stuff. Luckily he had the rest of the day off, so he quickly went to pick up Renee.

Yep that was Charlie in the background and he's showing off his new haircut to Renee, he's a bit self-absorbed 😂 but he's happy to see her again and is excited to show the spice festival that's in town!

Random thought but I miss Patrick winking at Eliza (3x3) and generally being mischievous (all of season 2 and episode 3x6 with William.)

He’s way more professional with her in season 4, for obvious reasons. He’s still fun, and they have fun, but it’s different, which is a testament to how respectful Nash is, contrary to how he’s sometimes talked about by viewers who are simply not paying attention. Also, I don’t think it’s JUST that she’s his employee. I think he caught feelings and is trying to recalibrate how to act with her (less schoolyard teasing and even more sincerity).

In Season 4, Eliza softens and teases Nash more than he teases her (after she wins at the races, the end of the telephone episode). He lets her lead, really, in that regard, because he's not going to cross a line given the power dynamic in their relationship when she works at Nash & Sons.

So we've seen rivals (season 2 with the shift in 3x3) to friends and colleagues (3x6 and Season 4) and now LOVERS (Season 5) ????

I really wonder what Season 5 Nash will be like.

Edit: to add: the natural chemistry and attraction that’s been there didn’t lead to romance yet because they’ve had really clear boundaries: being rivals AND then being colleagues meant really clear lines they didn’t or couldn’t cross- even if they toed them sometimes. There were rules of engagement. Those boundaries will be gone session 5- so their friendship can flourish into something else.

not over the fact this quote implies that: 1) robutler is at least vaguely aware of the events of the death engine 2) he believes that these events were not only cool, but pivotal to the role of a 'cool agent' 3) he considers phoenix a cool agent not for neutralizing a deadly supervirus, stopping nuclear armageddon, or surviving death twice over, but destroying the same space laser that they nearly died in. or, at the very least, those other achievements pale in comparison to the whole space laser thing 4) he presumably wants to do this himself

society if felisa valdez had been brought back as eddie's love interest instead of marisol

Yikes i read the article and there are SO MANY terrifying sentences. Girls if your self worth in your twenties is based around looking down on and degrading 'older' women in their thirties....that is a slippery slope.

Also the author talks as if her tiny window of experience is universal. Most of my friends who are in true partnerships are happy in their 30's including the ones who have kids.

"I had high breasts, most of my eggs, plausible deniability when it came to purity, a flush ponytail, a pep in my step" like wtf this woman sounds as if she's stuck in a bridgerton episode???? Like her nubile body is being presented at cotillion to the highest bidding elegible bachelor. How are we not past this feeling like a requirement as a society?????

god this bitch stupid

This would definitely... Bloat some things, but I still want to do it cause then it involves all four clans like it Should, but man I love the idea of each clan having their own "Power of Three" trio. Like a lot. Originally I was going to make them all descendants of the current leaders and spread the litters throughout TNP, Po3, and OotS, but that didn't quite seem right to me. There aren't a ton of descendants for me to work with to this end (especially for Blackstar, who I've decided is Darktail's dad who never has another litter in the clans). Soooo instead, I want all of them to be forbidden kits. Half clan and medic children, baby. So obviously this includes the ThunderClan three, and the other litters I'm considering are Tawnypelt's kittens (moved to be born late in Po3) who would technically be ThunderShadow kits... that or I'm changing who the other parent is. (Here comes TawnyFeather with the steel chair...? They could meet again in Outcast... owo?) and Sedgewhisker and her sisters who are apparently WindRiver kits?? Which I didn't know was a thing til now.

That just leaves the RiverClan three who I'm not totally sure on. My friend Vio suggested Icewing's first litter, which I kinda like cause that includes Beetlewhisker. Makes his fate in the Dark Forest all the more terrifying. But I'm also considering Minnowtail and her siblings (reviving her brother Tumblekit). I do not remember if those guys have confirmed dads but if they do, uhhhhhhhh. Well they aren't their dads anymore. Officially halfclan now.

why are people all talking about maisie opening for taylor?? when and why would that even be happening

I hate my job so very much, but I can't afford to be out of work and at the moment I haven't been able to get hired in this specific arena that I need to be in for the next few years to get my student loans forgiven. I hate it, but I'm stuck at least for a while.

But suffice to say, given the above, that when I hear a multimillionaire youtuber whine about how soul-crushing being an online personality is and how he just wishes he could quit sometimes, darn it, but just won't for some reason even though we all know he has enough money that he would never have to work another day in his life if he so chose because he and his spouse have just that much money . . . yeah my sympathy dries up real quick.

"just google it" "do your own homework" "google is free" "find it yourself the information is out there"

but they are. they are asking people who have that information, for the information. they are doing their homework by reaching out and asking people questions. just because it's not typed on a search bar, doesn't mean it's any less of putting an effort to finding things out.

like i'm sorry people in the past refused/ridiculed you when you asked them for help. doesn't mean you have to be like them tho. why is learning through human interaction rejected in favour of isolated learning?

hellow solary expert. do you have any thoughts about her life pre-zoraxis by any chance 👀 and additionally, where her enthusiasm for lasers/space came from?

I DO THINK ABOUT THIS SOMETIMES.... not in huge detail, but enough to grasp an understanding of her character... putting it beneath the cut though bc it became longer than i thought it'd be...

space was always solaris' first love. when she was initially cultivating her interests and setting herself up to pursue a genuine career, she was gunning for something in astronomy and/or aerospace engineering. her parents were supportive enough, just... not really confident in her chances. it seemed like a huge investment just for her to potentially get nowhere.

solaris knew this too, of course. but she fought and clawed her way through school, keeping her nose to the grindstone, and it showed in her performance. she inevitably moved to the americas (where her mother immigrated from) to look for work.

it wasn't too hard to find work. her accomplishments in school got her a job quicker than she thought she would- and for a brief moment, she wondered if her family's reservations had been misplaced from the very beginning...

it was keeping a job that was the hard part. every place she went to undervalued her- without fail. she was the best damn engineer half of those industries had, and they brushed her to the side, ignored her ideas, gave her busywork to keep her out of the picture, and inevitably fired her when she made it clear she knew her worth. over, and over, and over.

inevitably, she grew a sixth sense for when she was close to losing her job. she used her impending firings as self justification for her first few... unscrupulous behaviors. mainly the theft of parts, materials, and tools. solaris' first personal workshop was nothing more than a scavengers trove she kept in her basement... her personal projects were the only thing she could find solace in, back then.

and then, along came the space race, and it captured the world by storm- including zoraxis... the space branch was a new development, and zor needed staffing. solaris wasn't meant to be anything other than a set of hands, at first. but the more they read into her, the more they realized what a gold mine she was... such a talented engineer- belittled by the competition- willing to stoop to immoralities to make her dreams come true.

it was easy wrapping her around their finger. it was easy to indoctrinate her into zoraxis' underbelly- getting her to toss away whatever morals she had left to the wayside... the only thing zor didn't consider was that solaris' little streak of insubordination wouldn't just... go away after they hired her.

as for lasers specifically, they were quite the recent development for solaris. if you asked her what about them initially captivated her, i don't think she'd be able to tell you. she fell in love hard and fast, and dedicated a lot of her free time to imitating and perfecting the craft (which affected her productivity at her earlier jobs, considering she was getting less sleep, and spending more time lost in her own mind than doing whatever trivial tasks they delegated to her...)

i do think she was the kind of kid to burn ants with magnifying glasses in her youth, though. which may have had something to do with it.

older desi aunts & uncles will say how our generation is becoming too ‘western’ & the westernisation in question is women gaining autonomy over their own lives

(I never watched Sex and the City when it was on, but I'm well into Season 2 and Lisa Gilroy's impression of Steve is haunting me beyond words!!!!!!)

no one understands katherine the way i do & that is frustrating! sick of it!