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Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you donโ€™t get a story

its-too-many-fandoms

Omg I love this piece. Grace the hanging man, content with his life but cannot avoid the changes coming; the ship his noose, the rope that binds him to his fate; the blood red stars beside him, Olesya and Yáo the angels haunting him in the background. Eva Stratt, the one who holds it all on her back, the world is literally on her shoulders, the Petrova line on her neck. She will not falter, cannot afford to move, and yet still she glares at us. Eva challenges us, daring us to ask if we could do better, if we could hold her burden for even a fraction of the time.

Eve, the mother of sin, who held the world in her hands and was cursed for not knowing.

Eva, director of the task force, who now holds the world, and still must curse man to save it.

In the end, it always falls on a woman. I could never hate you Eva Stratt

biglawbear

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

christaaah

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

biglawbear

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

firstbornsons-deactivated202605

@thesummoningdark hello?????


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thesummoningdark

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

biglawbear

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Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

gudakdalee

I'm gonna end up posting every min of this episode bc:

  1. Paul's smile upon hearing that being himself means "unwavering positivity" vibes
  2. Baz's straight arm thumbs up
  3. Beard's no-look toss
  4. TRENT'S OH-SO-CASUAL ONE-HANDED CATCH
  5. The background actor clutching his pearls at Paul's outburst!
  6. Paul's shy wiggly reflection: "I don't like it🥺, I actually prefer to be me"
sock-ness-monster

Dont get me wrong Ted Lasso is my favorite character ever and I would watch 12 hours of him just going about his day. That being said I loooove how he becomes less integral to the conflict resolution of each episode as the series goes on. I think thats handled SO beautifully. Something something the compounding effects of kindness. Because at the end of the show day

Its Beard that extends the olive branch to Nate

It's Keeley and Rebecca who are always there for each other

It's Roy that hugs Jamie after his Dad yells at him

It's Jamie that teaches Roy how to ride a bike

It's Trent Crimm that comforts Collin in Amsterdam


And so many other examples of people helping other people in ways that Ted cant/couldn't but he's still the reason the potential inside all of them was fully realized

willowfey

ted lasso amsterdam episode u will always be famous to me… rebecca meeting her soulmate. trent colin queer bonding. jamie teaching roy to ride a bike with his hands on his waist and sharing trauma which ultimately leads roy to apologise for the way he took his anger out on him earlier, showing that he’s more willing to be vulnerable and care about him honestly despite his initial discomfort with genuine emotion in the beginning of the series because jamie is trusting him with the vulnerable parts of himself and they’ve both made significant character development alone and together. trent’s gay little cheetah print shoes. jazz. david bowie.

ajaxgb

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

  • Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.
  • Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.
  • In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.
  • In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)
  • In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.
  • The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.
  • In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.