Interior of my New York-inspired apartment 🗽

New year...Newcrest? Here's a very early sneak peek WIP of my newest project, building newcrest! I have nearly 500 images pinned on pinterest and loads of ideas for this town that I can't wait to share. This will obviously take months, so buckle up. My idea for this town is an all-American town with a lot of history. Right now, I am working on the main street/downtown area. The theater is my favorite so far. If you have ideas, send them my way!

matthew macfadyen confirming he doesn't actually look at his own face when he watches the episodes:

What we don't talk about in the KE fandom.

Easily one of the best deconstructions of the repulsive way Killing Eve destroyed the four seasons of goodwill it built up was written by Vulture essayist Angelica Jade-Bastien's "Killing Eve Chose Cruelty". In four words, Jade-Bastien captured why weeks after the last gruesome minutes of the show flickered away from the eyes of horrified viewers it continues to burn and sear into their minds.

The fourth installment to the series, but particularly its last two episodes, demonstrates how far the show has fallen from the dizzying heights of its premiere. Gone is the delicious fashion pivoting on moments of transformation in the manner of fairy tales. Gone is the supremely precise characterization, replaced with a confused internal logic that jockeys the characters according to the needs of its threadbare espionage plotting. Gone is the spry presentation, achieved through blocking, editing, and costume and production design. But most important, gone is the tense cat-and-mouse game between Villanelle (Comer) and Eve (Oh) that acted as the engine. Killing Eve is a study in how jumping from different showrunners each season can leave a series without a profound singular voice — and it is evidence that a shallow understanding of representation and the female gaze isn’t enough to create a memorably good, cohesive story that gives a damn about the women onscreen. It amounted to a finale that gave once perpetually ravenous viewers a paltry version of what they wanted before snatching even that away.

Read the entire essay and it makes you feel better about the nonsensical trash Laura Neal dreamed up one night over too much cheap beer. Jade-Bastien brings up the one problem that predates Neal and the KE fandom hasn't talked about nearly enough.

This is a topic that many in Killing Eve's non-White fandom are well aware of, yet many of their White peers are oblivious to. Racism? In my favorite show? How could that be? Real easy.

The obvious and overt racism of Donald Trump or Kanye West is in your face and it can't be easily ignored. The soft, but pernicious bigotry practiced by the KE writers' room was manifested by keeping Eve an enigma from beginning to end. She was never given a family or life outside of her job, marriage, and the obsession with Villanelle that cost her everything. It's an irritation to know less about Eve than we do about Gemma, Geraldine, or Pam, but that's where we are. Eve was an enigma because she was never written to be anything else. A decision was made by someone to ensure nothing more than the bare minimum would ever be known about Eve. She was given a name and the bare bones of a backstory, and that's all.

For many in the KE fandom the Villanelle solo episode is their absolute favorite. It's one of my least favorites because it made erasing Eve official as Villanelle forgets all about her and so much so in "End of Game" even her name isn't uttered.

KONSTANTIN: I don't think you really want this.

VILLANELLE: I want it!

KONSTANTIN: You know what it means? It means you have to leave everything, the clothes, apartment… and her.

VILLANELLE: I know.

"...and her." "Her" has a name and it is Eve, but to Heathcote that wasn't important. That was a disservice to Sandra Oh, the actress who brought Eve Polastri to life even though she was not allowed to be more than a one-dimensional cut-out of a character. Remember Oh was one of the two stars of the show. This was one of those rare occasions where the titular lead character gets less fleshed out than multiple supporting ones.

That's not accidental. It was deliberate and it robbed Eve of her agency and autonomy. She really was little more than "an Asian woman with amazing hair." Eve was the lone woman of color constantly reacting in a world of Whiteness. Phoebe Waller-Bridge boldly chose to be colorblind in casting Sandra Oh as the very British and very White Eve Polastri and deserves all the credit in the world for it. Unfortunately, when she left she didn't leave any instructions to her successors on what to do with Eve, so they all chose to do nothing. After the show ended some sought to scapegoat Sandra Oh for the lousy last season stating as an executive producer she must have approved the direction the show went when Suzanne Heathcote and Laura Neal became the lead writers. Nobody knows how much input Oh had into the writer's room, but if she did that means she went along with a noticeable drop in screen time and the complete absence of a backstory for Eve. It's hard to believe any actor would deliberately reduce their own role in just the third season of a show, but that's exactly what some KE fans believe Oh did. They're the same ones who say Villanelle needed a stand-alone episode to explore her history, but have no issue with Eve being devoid of a past. This isn't racism in the Killing Eve fandom. Most of the fans don't show up that way. What they do instead is fail to notice how little Eve there frequently is in Killing Eve. It's not necessarily racism, which is bad, but it is erasure, which isn't good.

Harvey Guillen’s delivery of this line is so g-damn funny Guillermo is such a supportive stage uncle

glumping (glenn humping)

I’ve gained greater appreciation for “Ah this mad, gay nightlife,” in Dear Peggy upon learning that it wasn’t until the 60s or so that straight culture discovered the word "gay" in its gay context. even through the fifties it was apparently still underground gay slang, and the way Hawkeye uses it there would’ve been a pretty typical sly double entendre

There’s a great article up on Vulture, about the behind-the-scenes aspects of Go Flip Yourself. (website has an article limit, so I would open it in a private window.) https://www.vulture.com/article/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-property-brothers-spoof-making-of.html It interviews the Sklar brothers, Yana, and Marika Sawyer, and goes into the acting/directing/writing choices each of them made during the making of the episode.

My favorite detail was this fact, though:

I feel like it explains so much about how they get the set of the show to look Like That, and I love it. They’re running smoke machines to get the proper dusty, hazy look for the vampire show.

(also don’t miss out on the Simon/Laszlo implications further on in the article)

watching glee, actually and am crying in the club while kurt and blaine ice skate and sing white christmas bc i forgot how much i loved them

Ugh, my Pintrest feed has been soooo good lately. It makes me wanna build some cozy shit soo bad! Like look at the material!

Need me a little bungalow in New York so so bad right now!!!

Glee Anniversary Appreciation Week 2022 ↳ Day 5: An edit/artwork focusing on color (2/8)

Orange Aesthetic Moodboard Rachel Berry

Bits of Annette and Westley's apartment, featuring her bakery ♡

tom wambsgans !!!

there he is, babeyyyy

also two things to note:

NO WEDDING RING ??? TOO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS TOO MANY POSSIBILITIES

it sounds like he says “merry christmas” in one of the takes- in a genuine way, not a mocking way ! christmas setting for succession perhaps ??

I’m too tired and lazy to make theories anymore since it’s 4 days away.

I’m like: OOO LOOK AT THIS IN THE NEW TRAILER I BET IT’S AHhhh I don’t care anymore.

LMAO— like I’m gonna see it soon 💀 what’s the point—

Joe's always picking these big cities and living by himself like its insane

Shiv sacrificing herself to close the portal or something. She consumed the portal also. I feel sick.