#lostkittyramblings

And why the heck would they of all people no want to see their own partners celebrated and encouraged? You know, those partners who ensure the nice cozy life they lead and who by their profession are dependent on the public and industry’s continued positive acknowledgment… Not that mutual support shouldn’t be present in any relationship, mind.

I'm in the middle of answering a few other Asks/writing a detailed post about some of Georgia's recent posts this week, so I will save a lot of my thoughts for there, but...yes. Yes, I did see AL's newest tweet, and I am amazed at her blatantly copying Georgia. Again...

I think the thing for me--other than the exact copying, which is just painful at this point--is that I would have zero issue with either one of these posts if it felt like there was even a smidge of affection behind them. If there is a joke here and that's how these posts are meant, they're somehow not reading that way at all. It also seems like both AL and Georgia think a joke and an insult are the same thing (and I realize that in British culture/sensibility that is often the case), but again, what makes it distinguishable is that underlying feeling of affection that is seemingly absent from these posts.

At what point does "Don't encourage him" actually start to mean, "I don't encourage him" or "I don't support him"? A person in a relationship can start to feel over time that their partner doesn't support or encourage them through their actions, even if the partner doesn't ever say those exact words out loud. And this would be no less egregious or worth calling out if it was Michael and David doing it to AL and Georgia, but it noticeably seems to keep being directed from one side to the other.

That is the other piece of this as well, that both of these posts are not one-off occurrences, but part of a larger pattern of comments that have been going on for years (which I've written about previously on my blog) and seem to particularly occur in response to David or Michael receiving any kind of praise or accolades in the press. The difference now versus in the past is that I've started to see some pushback in response to both. There are many comments on AL's tweet from folks saying that Michael deserves encouragement, and shouldn't it give one pause to consider that such a sentiment is so opposite to what his own partner is saying? That the one person who should be his number one supporter consistently reacts in the least supportive way possible?

And I agree with you as well about mutual support being important, which again is what makes all of this seem so unbalanced. David has frequently been supportive of Georgia, but with Michael and AL, neither one honestly seems that supportive of the other. For me it's also that Michael is so consistently and effusively supportive of David that it becomes even more noticeable when he doesn't do that with someone else. All Anna's tweet today did is draw even more attention to that and to the (less than positive) similarities between her and Georgia, and I imagine that is not at all what she was hoping for.

Why yes, I absolutely want to ride all my platonic uh lovers and give them facials. Errrr am I doing this wrong??

@ingravinoveritas that’s such an awesome and accurate take!

lostkittyramblings replied to your post “Of course it was a love story. It had every single...”

@ingravinoveritas I mean, whatever goes on in their real lives (and wouldn’t we want to knoooooow), they just took the shipping themselves harder than anyone part to a whole new level and made it OFFICIAL. Like...HOLY COW 😱 the implications of that, I can’t even...

rainbow8love replied to your post “Of course it was a love story. It had every single...”

Drop the mic at the end @ingravinoveritas hehe so accurate

Aww thanks, you guys. Glad you liked what I had to say!

In regard to your comment, @lostkittyramblings, I think what has happened with Staged 2 is that the line between reality and fiction has become very, very blurry. Not with all situations and people in Staged 2, of course, but most certainly with the boys. And this definitely did not have to go the way it did, because David could have taken one look at the script for the cowboy scene and said, “Uh, you’re having me say that I’m going to ride Michael? That’s a bit weird, isn’t it?” Or Michael could’ve read the improv scene and said, “Hit my face like improv jizz? Is a facial metaphor really the way to go here?”

But instead we have David in the cowboy scene making fucking sound effects and waving his arms like an inflatable car dealer noodle while saying he is going to ride Michael, and Michael in the other scene drawing his hands down over his face as if to mime actually wiping off David’s metaphorical ejaculate. Not to mention Michael gaping open-mouthed at David like he wants to spread him over his toast like Marmite, Michael’s poignant breakdown over wanting to be there for David and wanting to hug someone, David not being able to hang up on Michael and looking at him adoringly, Michael calling David “love,” and of course the incredibly emotional ending that was tenderly reminiscent of Bergman and Bogie in Casablanca, but in the Covid era.

Thank you very much. :D It was a lovely day indeed. Great weather and I enjoyed the sun with some friends. :)

Ohhh lovely, more of you putting into words what I was trying to sort in my head ������ In my total personal opinion these two walking disasters dearly love each other ���� whether that is strictly platonic or something more is for them to know (and for us to occasionally wonder about ��)

Louder for the people in the back! In the heyday of LOTR we used to call them people who slashed themselves and honestly, these two disasters are even worse than what I remember ...����

Hadley ���� Are you also a victim of came for the Hiddles and accidentally fell madly in love with Hadley? ��