mbta moment

#some kinda fucked up wizard #ok honestly if any city's public transit had a high percent of wizards per capita it'd be Boston (@ehonauta)

not to sound like a high school english teacher, but i actually think it's really interesting looking into authors backgrounds and seeing how their past has influenced their storytelling, especially as a scifi/fantasy reader. like, it makes so much sense that leguin was an anthropologist and arkady martine has a doctorate in comparative history and seth dickinson did research on racial bias in policing. just look at what they made!!

the fact that ann leckie used to be a lunch lady may not seem relevant, but you have to remember the song about the thousand eggs

The Bank Shot Job

I started watching Leverage when the first episode aired, and I watched the whole series in real time. A year or so after it ended, I got the S1 DVDs and started a rewatch. And when I got to The Bank Shot Job, my jaw DROPPED.

I remembered the episode, but from what I could recall of how well they worked together, of how they dealt with all the unexpected problems, of how on each other’s team they all were, I thought it had to have been at least a S2 episode. I was astonished when I realized how early it was.

And in retrospect, the fact that they gave Parker the line, “Sometimes bad guys are the only good guys you get,” BASICALLY THE THESIS STATEMENT OF THE ENTIRE SHOW, is just so brilliant. Aside from the foreshadowing, Parker’s the one who, arguably, is the least “normal” of the lot of them. She’s the one who is most purely a thief at that point in the show. Giving her that line just made it resonate with so much more significance and sincerity.

One of the many reasons Leverage is wonderful is that it hits the ground running and doesn’t stumble. Most shows take a few episodes, or a half-season, or an entire season, to really hit their stride. Often when you go back and watch early episodes, you laugh a little at the early characterizations, and how they’re a little off because the writers and actors hadn’t yet settled into the show and the roles.

With Leverage, though, when you go back and watch the early episodes after watching the entire series, all of those characters are right there, complete and completely recognizable. They all change over the course of the show, of course—Leverage has some of the BEST character growth and arcs of any show I’ve ever seen—but they’re the same characters, and it’s amazing.

What I loved most about that episode is that it’s like they planted the seeds for the series finale already. From the point Sophie and Nate are stuck in the bank, then entire job falls on Hardison, Parker, and Eliot. They do the leg work, the preparation. And once Nate’s com is down, they also the planning. Even in season 1 they showed us that the trio can manage things on their own.

mst3k appeals to several of my interests

@mylittleredgirl :#the line about those guys escaping ‘under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the county’#i don’t understand why that was so formative but it’s the funniest collection of words#from mst3k the movie my beloved

YEAH NO YEAH it's such a good riff!

more really good ones

ooh, good choices, but I'm having trouble concentrating enough to decide because this bird will *not* leave me alone

【忘羡】🎶💕

Screams in goddamn relief// so fucking happy oh lord this jammed me for the longest time and I struggled so much even tho I was hella excited for this piece bcus yes it’s my spin on Klimt’s famous piece and I tot it’s perfect for them 🥺

Swords rated by sexiness:

@petermorwood

Swiss sabre - always in good shape and well turned out, though occasionally a bit excessive for some tastes...

...but when not overdressed, definitely worth closer attention.

oh snap

REBLOG.

FOREVER.

This is an actual Therapist Recommended method for dealing with a runaway “inner critic” and this comic is perfect ❤️

Y'all about to have me out here drawing my inner critic so I can visualize, then insult it.

I can’t draw! What are you doing to me!

The Good Place (2016-2020)

brah

The Good Place’s take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because we’re all people and we all matter.

This really ought to top every, “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.

The whole first paragraph is worth quoting for its snarky conclusion:

"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth. After being acquitted of murdering her lover, and, indeed, in consequence of that acquittal, Harriet Vane found all three specifics abundantly at her disposal; and although Lord Peter Wimsey, with a touching faith in tradition, persisted day in and day out in presenting the bosom for her approval, she showed no inclination to recline upon it."

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

Arthouse Muppets

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

I cant stop thinking about Yor Forger, THEE character of all time. she's the country's greatest assassin. she's a dumbass. she has a drinking problem. she does parkour. she's married to a complete stud. she has never kissed. she can't cook for shit. she loves her daughter more than anything. she will kill again.

Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

Some previous “winners”

Miscellaneous Old Stuff. *long sigh*

Other Idiocy. Honestly, this one was fitting.

(R) Man Claws. I have so many questions. Like, SO many

Keep for historical reasons. Neat.

Unprocessed Internal Provenance. Or how I answer the question “so what brings you to therapy?”

All of these are just so *chef kiss* perfect but “Other idiocy” is the most perfect of them all

"Keep for historical reasons" immediately sends me into a rage.

archivist enjoyers, this one’s for you

Happy Death of the Endless Appreciation Week!