if i had a nickel for every time alex turner told all of glastonbury he shares a bed with miles kane, i’d have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's still weird that it’s happened twice…

Headcanon-that’s-partly-canon: Boimler is actually ridiculously hot (which is why women throughout the series keep hitting on him—the grape girls, Jenn’s friends, the nurses at the Farm, etc.), but because the series is primarily through Mariner’s point of view (and, another personal headcanon, she is repeatedly smacking away any attraction she feels towards him) he’s not “shot” as being hot.

It’s actually a really interesting disconnect from what we the audience see vs. what seems to be happening in-universe, because it turns the visual storytelling choices of the show into a vehicle of unreliable narration. Like the grape girls thinking he’s super hot, okay, that’s a funny joke. But when it happens at least two other times in the story? That’s not a coincidence anymore, that’s just canon fact. So the “camera” work and framing must be going out of their way to make him less appealing to the audience than he is to the people in his own universe, given that apparently lots of women in the ST world think that Boimler is an absolute snack.

(This theory also implies that Mariner sees herself as being an absolute 10/10, given the way the camera focuses so much on her physical attractiveness).

Let’s talk about “the lady doth protest too much,” because it’s a phrase I heard and used before I knew the actual context. And now, after I’ve finally gotten the context, I find myself continually thinking about its intent.

When I first heard it, (and pretty much exclusively how I still hear it) it’s been used to mean “it is suspicious that this person is denying something waaaay too hard.”

Ex. “The PR people keep insisting this chemical won’t harm the environment. They doth protest too much, methinks.”

And I never questioned that usage, because it makes sense.

Then I read Hamlet, and found that the line comes from a scene wherein Hamlet is trying to trick the people around him into revealing their guilt by having actors perform a thinly veiled parody play of his current predicament as he sees it.

In his actors’ play, the character that parallels his mother is solicited by her husband’s killer — who is also her brother-in-law. And the actress in the show denies her solicitor several times before succumbing to him.

When Hamlet turns to his mother and asks what she thinks of the show so far, he’s looking for her to see herself in the part. To react, or provide some kind of recognition of what she’s done. To condemn the clearly uncomfortable situation her character is in. But all she says is

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

And I LOVE analyzing that, because my personal takeaway is like.

You know how you can write a whole poem or story about someone who’s wronged you, and they’ll read it and not see themselves in it? Yeah. (If you don’t know: this happens. A lot.)

So, whether or not she saw herself in the character onstage, My interpretation is that Gertrude (Hamlet’s mom) is revealing that her decision to marry Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle) was not a tearful and tormented decision made under coercion and duress. (Which is how Hamlet has experienced seemingly every major decision in his own life, and explains why he’d find this lack of passionate waffling to be offensive.) For better or for worse she’s revealing she just… didn’t say no to her brother-in-law.

And from there you can get into the why behind all that and her motivations and whatnot but that’s beyond the scope of what I’m trying to get into here.

“The lady doth protest too much” doesn’t read to me like condemnation of insincere delivery. Not exactly. The difference is kinda subtle, I guess.

A more parallel usage of the phrase is difficult to imagine, then, because there is some amount of self condemnation that it should invoke.

Me: “I baked you these cookies”

Them: “I shouldn’t; I’m watching my figure”

Me, knowing full well I ate five of the cookies before boxing the rest up to give: “The lady doth protest too much. Take the cookies.”

lestat: i love just walking and talking with louis, my love louis :’)

louis:

NOT everyone enabling me. listen i have written 0 words of that gethan fic and i wanna write it so bad and i have a whole vision as to what it would look like and it would be my very first canon compliant happy ending for giles but also I HAVE LIKE 20 OTHER REAL PUBLISHED FICS TO FINISH. don’t make me be impractical and chase down giles and ethan getting married because giles has given up on life as a whole & ethan accidentally realizing that he wants to learn how to support and take care of giles and help him heal…..

intrusive thoughts are horrible to have but as a concept it's kind of funny. I'm terrified of this thing but also obsessed with it. what am I, catholic?

and this posturing is something minth does often, might i add. tough, cruel, unafraid (to act, of enemies, of death), cold - minth is a product of the environment she was raised in; of the cult she was born into. things like kindness, softness and helping others for the sake of helping others do not serve her or anyone following lolth's teachings - in many cases, showing kindness as a child would lead to punishment; something minth would have learnt early on. that, and if she was anything other than the blade she'd been raised to be, she'd have died long ago. minth posturing about how cruel she could be, how unafraid she is is both a lie and a truth. she has the capacity to be awful just as she has the capacity to be soft - but will always pick the former over the latter to protect herself and further her own goals. vulnerability and transparency, over the course of the game at least, is reserved for tav who she trusts - and perhaps a select few other companions.

no celebrity reaction to a biopic will ever be funnier then johnny rotten accusing alex cox of making him seem gay for sid vicious in the 1986 sid & nancy movie when thats, as friend @dumspirovaniloquor​ astutely said, a reading you can only achieve if you go into the film already believing johnny rotten is gay for sid vicious

(excerpt taken from Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon)

Poor Jensen , no, I’m not gonna elaborate, if you know, you know 👀

this episode of house is sooo funny house is telling his therapist about his day and his therapist is like “i think everything you said did and thought about was unconsciously about wilson” and house is getting So defensive. ok faggot

pound for pound hamlet added like a load bearing amount to the modern english lexicon

i did always think her song Perfect was kinda gay in a no-homo-just-being-titillating-but actually maybe kinda yeah way

"no homo i'm just real jealous 🥴"

"Why am I not surprised to learn Cicero is still alive?"

I think Nazir is putting up a front and actually DOES like Cicero.

:(

Also very telling that members of the government are apparently furious at Michael D Higgins for (quite indirectly) calling them out for failing to address the housing crisis because they know he’s right

this seems…. y’know