#nikkaphon

What’s your favorite line of narration?

David’s smile is gone, his eyebrows pulled down. It used to be so easy to read those changes in mood; to know when David was worried or angry or just tired, when he needed reassurance or a snack or a kiss. Patrick stares at him and doesn’t know what he needs.

What did you learn from writing this fic?

LOL I learned a lot about Vermeer and his artwork, where it was housed and how it was curated. I learned a fair amount about various museum heists over the years, and I learned about how to take a painting out of a frame in under 30 seconds (which I ended up not even using for the fic, goddammit).

It could definitely (and should definitely!!!!) be 100% platonic! I defended the scene as being platonic at the screening too. people talk like that, and I feel like the both of them could easily just be conversing. and maybe it could be that one off moment for them, that little we’re talking about being intertwined, and maybe, here, with us? but it’s a moment people know when they’re questioning what comes next and around someone who they could possibly be attracted to. doesn’t mean it needs to be anything more than that.

I could see the hand as the border of platonic. the hug almost feels like him correcting himself like that’s not what we do here. they got a little caught up, but a good hug can do that.

here’s hoping it is platonic and stays just that. 

david also says in that scene “she was not 17″ so i would def go with her being older (prob more like catherine’s actual age, yeah), but also who knows if that was even in 1979 at all? she could be making that up too. or it could be true and the season 21 could be fake. or it’s all accurate and this show is built on some kind of time vortex lolol

from the baseball au:

The flat, cheap, down alternative pillows get replaced with two of his own custom-stuffed pillows from his bed at home, and instead of the ratty comforter that would be best served by dropping it into a bonfire, he drapes a heavy chenille blanket across the foot of the bed.

I genuinely love the way that imo Adrian's Good Guy Vibes (which involve a lot of taking care of people) overlap seriously with Adrian's Mansplain Vibes (which are often appropriate because he's the boss) which come out particularly in Adrian's relationship with Liz (bc she's also the boss) which is often contentious and low on Good Guy vibes (bc, divorce) but he still tries there. I feel usually - I'm confused about his problem with hiring women in this episode - like he's very coherent and his strengths and flaws, if they can be clearly delineated from each other, flow from a similar place. That is........one of the most frustrating things about this episode lol

YES, 100% yes. It’s not usually enough for me to take issue with it (he definitely has used that voice around men too) but this ep crossed the line. I just don’t quite understand how this conflict arose. 

nikkaphon replied to your post “TGF Thoughts: 3x02-- The One Inspired by Roy Cohn”

also I love how you keep just reiterating the correctness of Liz Reddick-Lawrence

Some of that is because she is very right but tbh a lot of it is that I felt strongly about it and couldn’t remember what I’d already said and was too lazy to re-read.

nikkaphon replied to your post “TGF Thoughts: 3x02-- The One Inspired by Roy Cohn”

I can 10000% also see young Alicia coming off as aloof or like she felt superior to young Liz, who was presumably like steeped in law since birth and almost certainly would not have been about it

This is also super plausible. I think young Alicia and young Liz would’ve had clashing personalities. I can see both of them thinking they’re better, Liz because this is in her blood and Alicia because she chose to go to law school since she was good at it.

nikkaphon replied to your post “TGF Thoughts: 3x02-- The One Inspired by Roy Cohn”

also the last thing about whether Diane gets a say in who the firm is - is her entire story this season going to play out on fkn instagram? why isn't she at work?