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we all knew noah and katherine were gonna get noms, and i think they earned those noms and yes i know 75% of their scenes were emmy bait shh.

we all knew shawn would get a nom, which i think he earned, BUT bumping him up from guest actor to supporting makes it so he can never be nominated as guest actor for jack abbot again. (does he have the stuff to win for supporting actor? sure. would it have been better to put him where he was more likely to win and would have set a record for doing so? maybe. also if either of those two white boys win over him i….)

sepideh absolutely deserves her nom, and honestly i could see her giving katherine a run for her money if not winning it (🤞🏼).

taylor, fiona, sweeties, all peace and love, you were good, but……..not any better than isa or supriya* or even shabana. half of fiona’s impactful scenes (imo) were alongside shabana, and shabana acted the shit outta sad panicked teary-eyed victoria so like………hmmm

(*i just know what they cut of supriya/samira would have been amazing based solely on supriya’s excited tweets idc idc i’ll die beating that dead horse on that hill)

speaking of impactful scenes being alongside another actor…………………………how HOW h o w are they gonna nominate pball and gerran but not isa?? isa carried the guys’ impactful (imo) scenes equally, if not more, if not completely. if pball got nominated last season, i would have totally agreed no question, but the best solo acting he did in s2 (IMO!!!!) was the face he made when langdon hurt his back carrying heat-stroke kid, but everything else……..? with isa. most of gerran’s best scenes? with isa. like sure, he was good in the break room scene, but even that was with someone, and obviously, noah also got a nom.

and back to guest actors, coleman domingo is gonna eat them all up lol no, but ernest harden deserved it for louie out of all the guest men (minus shawn but y’know), jeff kober wasn’t bad or anything, but like…he was mostly there for noah to act at, not with (IMO!!!)

and guest actresses? brittany allen ate all the pitt’s guest noms up, so the fact that she had to self submit because hbo declined??? lmaoooo i hope if any pitt guests win it’s her just as a fuck you. but also tina ivlev was good, but not necessarily better than a lot of (not series regular) guest actresses** this season who’re almost all woc now that i think of it but hmmm anyways, but also her scenes were all alongside katherine (and laetecia) which elevated them (i m o). and tal is an icon, she is the moment, but tbh if they were gonna nominate a series regular i would rather have seen amielynn because she slaaayed this season

**jada (schizophrenia guy’s sister), firecracker kid’s sister, heatstroke kid’s mom, harlow (deaf lady), orlando’s (samira’s diabetic patient) wife, ice hostage lady are just the ones from the top of my head (also i am so bad at names i am so sorry)

n e ways

If it was any other man, you'd curl your nose, tell him to fuck off, but something about Robby's steady hand, firm and comforting at the same time, keeps your mouth shut. You melt at his hand on the back of your neck, resting there like you're his while he tells stories about "the old days" to your fellow residents.

It's embarrassing how they look at you– or, it should be, but you're too busy soaking up the way Robby's voice sounds so close to your ear right now. Trinity looks like she wants to jump across the table. Dennis is blushing to his ears right next to her. It's only Cassie and Victoria, sitting slightly too close to one another, who hide their judgement, for nothing if not to appear less hypocritical than their thoughts.

You wonder if they look at Samira and Abbot the same way. Though, you already know the answer, because the two of them are at the bar right now, each with hands roaming far lower than Robby's. And you also know know why they don't. You feel it. It's the same reason why you like Robby touching you like this.

Every time he makes contact, from a mere accidental brush in the halls at work to these nights of drunken handsiness, your heart races. It's the closest you've ever felt to being prey, and you're not entirely sure what the predator is. You know well enough to say it's Robby with his claws that can't help but sink into you, but the lingering eyes and the whispers of your peers when they think you're not around to hear it feel just as dangerous.

So you seek him out, sit next to him and giggle at his every joke, and share sips of his drinks and offer him some of your own. You bear the glares because the thrill of Robby occupies your sleeping and waking mind.