A not that coherent feelingspiral about how terribly written Gaius Baltar’s entire s4 plot is; aka: FUCK THIS CULT SHIT.

I’ve never seen such a blatant instance of losing the plot as s4 Gaius—it’s like they forgot about what the point of Gaius was and tried to cobble together a character thesis out of confused hindsight. It’s killing me because he had such a clear, consistent place before, and every now and again I can see it in glimpses amidst the yards of stupid cult bullshit; at least once every episode, there’s a moment of you! you! I see you, I see the point of you, have they remembered the point of you?—and then, no, no, it blinks away into another fucking miracle, another fucking weirdly sincere Jesus tableau, another fundamental fucking misread of THE ENTIRE POINT OF GAIUS BALTAR.

housetyrell:

self-obsession and self-loathing
lessons taught by the poet himself

claire foy as augusta leigh.

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7 months ago / 16 notes / © theillusivewoman
#WHAAAAAAAAAAAT omg all of this is great #none of these are ~my faces~ (i think she'd be a better caro bc michelle dockery is my augusta but the op has michelle as mary shelley and it's a whole deal yes i've thought about this yes a bit) but all of this is fab #just #all #of #it #oh romantics #mine heart #(NO CLAIRE YET...)

oldstarnewshine replied to your post: PEOPLE WHO GET ANGELO WRONG HAVE NO EXCUSE

my god people have no problem doing it with iago and richard iii ffs. is it a sex thing? because i really think it is and that depresses me A FUCKING LOT

people think they are correct about sex

people think isabella and angelo-as-directed-by-angelo-before-he-becomes-undone-by-the-fact-that-angelo-thinking-about-sex-is-an-untenable-reality are the reality of the play

when in fact

whole point

they’re not.

that’s why claudio and juliet exist.

and they get fucked over. for trying to be humans. in a world dictated by nutjobs.

like, people get “sex is not actually that bad” but they don’t get the fact that people who think it is are actually corroded by it, are actually two of the most unreliable characters in the canon? they lie to themselves ALL THE TIME because THAT IS THE ONLY WAY ANYONE CAN FUNCTION THE WAY THEY DO, THEY ARE NOT TENABLE HUMANS—

and people read the play and go, “okay, what she said,” i guess.

9 months ago / 1 note
#IS'T NOT A KIND OF INCEST TO TAKE LIFE OUT OF THINE OWN SISTER'S SHAME #yes her head is on totally straight #unquestioned paragon yep. #(ONLY! IN! HER HEAD!) #measure for measure #why does the world do this to me #all #the #time

oldstarnewshine replied to your post: lol i think you will know when henry iv has happened because there will be a sudden rush of incomprehensible posts in which i am just weeping

did you see alls well in the park? because i had all the feelings about it (it was via downton and really class distinct) and suddenly alls well became A THING because… problem plays are the best things SO i want to hear about other productions

I DID NOT. Which I’m sad about, because hello, these are competent motherfuckers and I would very much have liked to see a production that wasn’t soaked in David Esbjornson’s libido’s tears. AHEM. (THE BED TRICK: IN WHICH THAT IS NOT HOW GESTATION WORKS.)

but problem play feelings and LANGUAGE FEELINGS and I wrote up a ljpost that is the size of a small Caribbean island and you should come talk to me because I’m suddenly obsessed with this play? LANGUAGE. PEOPLE LIVING UP TO THE ARTICULATION OF THEIR THOUGHTS. words dictate everything—which also means oh hey bonus factor the comedy is actually a) funny and b) THEMATICALLY CONGRUENT. GOOOO FIGURE.

10 months ago /
#no lolbrothels here #measure for measure #is my favorite play in the world but also the structural worst #like all's well doesn't have anything as straight textually stunning as isabella-angelo but is the better play on the whole? probably. my feelings don't care but that's probably true. #also SAM CRANE BERTRAM FEELINGS #ALL #OF #THEM #all's well that ends well #problem play appreciation existence

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11 months ago / 9 notes / © icanhaznomz
#this is literally all i want right now #literally #all #om nom nom #borscht is the best comfort food

What happens when you take seven of the most badass ladies from the end of the 19th century, put them in space 3000 years in the future, and give them boots, guns, and an oppressive galactic federation to overthrow?
Shit. Goes. Down.
SUFFRAGETTES IN SPACE!

#alex kingston is a hard-working salt-of-the-earth kind of lady whose soldier husband died in south africa and who got sacked from her job as a school teacher for being too progressive but she’s resourceful and smart and stubborn and now she’s pissed so she gets her hat and her husband’s gun and ends up becoming one of the most prominent leaders of the london suffragettes #imogen poots is her genius daughter who comes up with and orchestrates all the infiltration of the system like enlisting telephone operators to fuck up the police phone lines and writes brilliant pamphlets and papers anonymously and then throws them out of windows #chloe moretz is a plucky New York street urchin who cross-dresses to sell newspapers to make a living and knows how to street fight but at the end of the day she always steals a newspaper and climbs up on somebody’s fire escape and reads it front to back so she knows all about the shit going on and is determined to be a part of it and nobody is going to tell her otherwise #gina torres is the daughter of freed slaves living in new england and she was really involved in the abolitionist movement even though she was only a teenager and now she’s campaigning for suffrage right along with civil rights but she’s a bit more peaceful than most suffragettes though don’t test her on that because she is more than capable of destroying you #astrid berges-frisbey is the youngest daughter in a very wealthy and powerful french family but so she’s all polished and poised but she got disinherited when her parents found out that she’s a lesbian so the matron that her parents had hired to take care of her when she was a kid takes her in and she moves into this really poor neighborhood with her and at first she is miserable but she’s super adaptable and makes friends with all the gypsies and starving artists and reads like 5 million books and finds all kinds of ways to earn money to maintain her fabulous style and now that she’s a suffragette she keeps a razor in her incredibly tasteful shoe #and ruth negga is a very angry and opinionated young irish immigrant with a sick mother and a dad abroad so she’s working her ass off in the factory to support her family which means she a. won’t take shit from the businessmen who are trying to take their work away and b. joins the suffragettes because she hates that she doesn’t earn the same wages/is considered less than a man #so some kind of timey wimey spacey wacey thing happens that probably involves time-traveling aliens disguised a gypsies and our ladies find themselves in outer space and it’s a bit jarring and they’re sure as hell pissed that they didn’t get any say in this but goddammit they’re going to take control of this shit #and they repurpose their big victorian dresses into like 15 layers of space battle gear #STEEL CORSET BONING AND HAIR PINS ARE DEADLY WEAPONS IF USED PROPERLY #fierce-ass ladies saving the universe before tea #ALL I WANT IS AN ACTION AND/OR SCI-FI MOVIE WITH A STRONG FEMALE ENSEMBLE CAST THAT AREN’T STRIPPED DOWN TO LINGERIE TO DRAW MALE AUDIENCES #I WANT THREE DIMENSIONAL CHICKS WITH FLAWS AND FEROCITY AND DAMAGE AND AMAZING BRAINS AND PERSONAL AGENCY FALLING OUT OF THEIR BUTTS AND ZERO PATIENCE FOR FUCKERY #I WANT FEMALE BONDING AND PROACTIVE CHICKS WHO DON’T ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE BUT THEY’RE DAMN WELL GONNA TRY #AND IF THEY’RE EVER IN LINGERIE IT’S BECAUSE THEY BLOODY WANT TO BE

What happens when you take seven of the most badass ladies from the end of the 19th century, put them in space 3000 years in the future, and give them boots, guns, and an oppressive galactic federation to overthrow?

Shit. Goes. Down.

SUFFRAGETTES IN SPACE!

#alex kingston is a hard-working salt-of-the-earth kind of lady whose soldier husband died in south africa and who got sacked from her job as a school teacher for being too progressive but she’s resourceful and smart and stubborn and now she’s pissed so she gets her hat and her husband’s gun and ends up becoming one of the most prominent leaders of the london suffragettes #imogen poots is her genius daughter who comes up with and orchestrates all the infiltration of the system like enlisting telephone operators to fuck up the police phone lines and writes brilliant pamphlets and papers anonymously and then throws them out of windows #chloe moretz is a plucky New York street urchin who cross-dresses to sell newspapers to make a living and knows how to street fight but at the end of the day she always steals a newspaper and climbs up on somebody’s fire escape and reads it front to back so she knows all about the shit going on and is determined to be a part of it and nobody is going to tell her otherwise #gina torres is the daughter of freed slaves living in new england and she was really involved in the abolitionist movement even though she was only a teenager and now she’s campaigning for suffrage right along with civil rights but she’s a bit more peaceful than most suffragettes though don’t test her on that because she is more than capable of destroying you #astrid berges-frisbey is the youngest daughter in a very wealthy and powerful french family but so she’s all polished and poised but she got disinherited when her parents found out that she’s a lesbian so the matron that her parents had hired to take care of her when she was a kid takes her in and she moves into this really poor neighborhood with her and at first she is miserable but she’s super adaptable and makes friends with all the gypsies and starving artists and reads like 5 million books and finds all kinds of ways to earn money to maintain her fabulous style and now that she’s a suffragette she keeps a razor in her incredibly tasteful shoe #and ruth negga is a very angry and opinionated young irish immigrant with a sick mother and a dad abroad so she’s working her ass off in the factory to support her family which means she a. won’t take shit from the businessmen who are trying to take their work away and b. joins the suffragettes because she hates that she doesn’t earn the same wages/is considered less than a man #so some kind of timey wimey spacey wacey thing happens that probably involves time-traveling aliens disguised a gypsies and our ladies find themselves in outer space and it’s a bit jarring and they’re sure as hell pissed that they didn’t get any say in this but goddammit they’re going to take control of this shit #and they repurpose their big victorian dresses into like 15 layers of space battle gear #STEEL CORSET BONING AND HAIR PINS ARE DEADLY WEAPONS IF USED PROPERLY #fierce-ass ladies saving the universe before tea #ALL I WANT IS AN ACTION AND/OR SCI-FI MOVIE WITH A STRONG FEMALE ENSEMBLE CAST THAT AREN’T STRIPPED DOWN TO LINGERIE TO DRAW MALE AUDIENCES #I WANT THREE DIMENSIONAL CHICKS WITH FLAWS AND FEROCITY AND DAMAGE AND AMAZING BRAINS AND PERSONAL AGENCY FALLING OUT OF THEIR BUTTS AND ZERO PATIENCE FOR FUCKERY #I WANT FEMALE BONDING AND PROACTIVE CHICKS WHO DON’T ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO GET THE JOB DONE BUT THEY’RE DAMN WELL GONNA TRY #AND IF THEY’RE EVER IN LINGERIE IT’S BECAUSE THEY BLOODY WANT TO BE