hilarious that aaron sorkin had one trick to get his protagonist to see a therapist and it was that they weren't sleeping and then they tell the therapist their whole life story and the therapist says theyre not sleeping because of bacon or cigarettes or something lmao

thinking about Joan Didion’s essay on self respect and how one of the examples she gives is: someone that commits adultery but has self respect doesn’t try to justify it or explain it away or even run to the wronged parties for absolution or complain about unfairness. Instead they find a separate peace, a courage of their mistakes, an awareness of the process of things. I think ultimately that’s what I find intriguing about kingdon both theoretically and in a lot of my favorite fics. The only remorse Frank and Mel tend to feel is if they think his kids are going to be impacted. Otherwise they generally have an acute understanding that they’re cheating and they’re never malicious but they’re also never apologetic or contrite about it. They have this weird awareness that they were always going to end up together, because it felt right in ways they couldn’t explain. and I personally really enjoy the courage of their convictions and the character they display, aka the self respect they have to know the truth almost objectively.

pball and tdeardz puppy interview when

you just KNOW I’m over employed when I haven’t made a post about how insane Amanda and Sean are being on the podcast lately