I have no excuse for this except Lizzo is a godess and Griffin and Justin using ‘boy’ excessively is peak comedy.
I took so many photos of Joan of Arc statues while I was in France, these are just my favourites! Click on the pics if you wanna know where they were taken
Please don’t repost or remove my caption!
Julian Bashir is the most complicated man that I’ve ever met. I mean, who says exactly what they’re thinking? What kind of game is that?
Elim Garak (via incorrect-ds9-quotes)
Star Trek Discovery
J and I were pretty glued for the first three episodes (I’m now up to 5). It’s a show that benefits a lot from a binge viewing model, though, not the “maybe I’ll catch an episode of Star Trek tonight” model. If someone were thinking of picking it up today I’d advise them to wait until the first half of the season ends (Nov 12, with the rest airing in January).
The pilot two-parter hewed close to what I thought the most fruitful narrative path for AOS would be, before they uhhh went with Into Darkness – so close, in fact, that I wonder if that had once been the initial form of the pitch. It’s not the first time Bryan Fuller and I have had the exact same reaction to a movie. (You’d need a different reason for AOS Spock to go bugfuck upon encountering Klingons, but Burnham’s meltdown is not unlike how AOS Spock goes bugfuck. thx sarek as usual for doing a gr8 job wrt parenting for emotional resilience, literally the fixed polestar constant across the entire ST oeuvre)
The rest thus far has been a kind of parlour game, like Jenga, where the object is to discover how many elements you can remove from the “Star Trek TV show” tower and keep it standing, albeit wobbly. Not – crucially – that the basic construct is thought to be outmoded, or valueless: rather that a structure kept ingeniously upright is more impressive than one that merely sits on solid foundations. I do like a formal play, but this is where I start missing Fuller. It’s impressive to try and match windowpane check with paisley, so to speak, but not everyone can pull it off when they leave the house. This was all Fuller’s idea, because he knew he could.
I think one of my favourite things about Murder House Puffy Sleeves, aka Crimson Peak, aka the best goddamn film in the universe, is in the end it just comes down to a knife fight between pre-raphaelites:
like, JUST SAYING