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Normal guy voice . I need to watch him lose consciousness in a vulnerable position

Imagine being so shitty that at 15 years old the only friend you could make and keep was your brother’s infant child

Fics where it was instant friendship when Jamison was born are well and good little dramatic whatever but the more realistic approach would be Quentin thinks Jamison’s annoying until he realizes chicks dig babies and will talk to the guys holding them

Something I hadn't grappled much with before, but now am thinking about in my second Shadows watch, is how important Vicki's attachment to and relationship with Josette's ghost is to both her character, and her narrative weight on the show - and how those things are a casualty of Barnabas emerging from the family crypt. By moving into the Old House, Barnabas literally replaces Josette as the spirit of that House and the most important supernatural power there! It was Josette who appeared to Vicki before her anticipated death, telling her "Don't be afraid,", it was Josette's voice repeating Bill's posthumous charge against Matthew (a life for a life), and it is Josette who will be David and Vicki's greatest champion against Laura in the Phoenix arc. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I'm appending it to my usual list of "ways Barnabas's arrival did Vicki's character dirty": making Vicki's connection to the Collins's ancestral past irrelevant.

I keep having funny Louis dreams. last night I dreamt I was giving a short speech in his memory at a church event but I could only use Bible verses so I had selectively pieced together quotes to be about cruising and the church people thought it was hysterical

getting an evil spirit put inside you without your knowledge or consent is basically a classic childhood experience

This document has a really good guide for setting it up, along with some other options for backup. I've been using tumblr utils for a while myself, and I run an incremental backup once a week.

Doomed siblings have me on a chokehold in a way no trope can ever achieve. Something so gut wrenchingly beautiful about two kids going through unimaginable trauma and coming out damaged forever. I always eat it up. Maybe they stay together and find solace only in each other, used and kicked out by society! Maybe they end up on opposite sides of the war! Maybe they end up betraying one another! Maybe one of them dies haunting the narrative forever! Maybe one of them destroys the world for the other! So many endless tragic possibilities!

mitch ryan was better at being gay for pay than 90% of the gay cast was at pretending to want to fuck women i’ll tell you that much

we all have the homie that's a cautionary tale