#and Carson's just like

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

Greta Gill and the Bar

I know this scene has been analyzed To Death, and I truly think episode 6 in general is one of the best episodes of television of the last year.

But here's a thing I can't get over.

The night at The Office, Greta kisses Carson. Twice.

You might be thinking, 'Well, yeah, Leah. Greta and Carson kiss a lot in this show. You've reblogged every instance of it. Twice.'

HOWEVER.

The only times in the entire show that she ever initiates a kiss is at the bar on their first night in Rockford.

And the night at The Office.

And everything in between (plus the porch scene)? When they aren’t already in an established moment, Carson takes the lead.

Now, We Know Greta let Carson take the lead on many occassions because 1) Carson is an absolute horndog 2) Greta wants Carson to be able to figure things out and she doesn't want to be the stereotypical predatory queer

(edit: and now I’m curious if she did the same thing with all of the other women she had flings with—teased and ramped up their desire, but never actually made the first move on them…GRETA GILL IS SO FASCINATING, Y’ALL)

But at a certain point, when Greta realized she had Actual, Grown-Up Feelings for Carson, she was Terrified and could not bring herself to make the first move.

Because she remembers what happened the last time.

And then they walk into the bar. And Carson takes her hand. Asks her to dance.

And everything changes.

Look how happy she is in the first gif. She's smiling and her eyes are bright, but she's not looking at Carson. She's looking at everything and everyone around them.

Greta finally felt like she belonged. Her love belonged. She gets to take all of that love in that big, squishy heart of hers and show it the way she's always wanted to.

And what an exhale she was able to let out.

She kisses Carson's hand and holds her close and lifts her chin so their lips meet because she WANTS to.

Because she wants to publicly show love and affection toward this woman in front of her and not have to second-guess if someone dangerous is watching.

And she’s finally able to do what she wants.

(Anyways I'm gonna stop here before I start eating the drywall)

#a league of their own #gretson #greta gill #give me all the greta gill introspection #9ft tall smoke show of a girlfriend #GAHD she's gone through so much shit #and Carson's just like #let me love you #let us love each other #these two #I am UNWELL #screaming crying chewing the couch cushions

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

#on my own. #sorry the formatting on this is weird theres a page break bleh #anne carson #euripides #quotes #herakles #theseus #herakles&theseus #i just thought ab this play again and god… like a little boat being towed along by a big boat…… #quoteblr #wordblr #euripides was rlly into this huh. w/ orestes & pylades ‘not to me not if its you’ like. he was rlly into this specific dynamic

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

#i took this way too seriously and have been making it for like a week trying to deal with massive color correction tweaks #instead of just putting the scenes together once i had the idea #so PHEW it's done now #out into the world little queer found family gifset...fly #aloto #a league of their own #greta gill #jo de luca #carson shaw #jess mccready #gretson #lupe garcia #lupe garcia edit #carson shaw edit #greta gill edit #jess mccready edit #jo de luca edit #gretson edit #aloto edit #my edit #spoilers

[girldevouring]

“I think I would like to call myself “the girl who wanted to be God.”

Sylvia Plath, Letters Home / Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Flies / Kristin Chang / Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides / Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Florence and the Machine, King / Jenny Hval, Girls Against God / Florence and the Machine, Girls Against God

#web weaving #girlhood #womanhood #godhood #godhood is just like girlhood #dark academia #literature #sylvia plath #simone de beauvoir #florence and the machine #poetry #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #girls against god #anne carson #euripides #memoirs of a dutiful daughter #female rage #aesthetic #light academia #classic literature #art #music

[cemeterything]

to be clear i don't ship them - honestly the thought makes my skin crawl - but i really hope that if shrue and VAL ever meet they have a divorced exes who use snark to poorly disguise how much they fucking Loathe each other dynamic, because there is something so psychosexually horrifying about their mutual boss using VAL to gaslight shrue into doubting the reality of their spouse and kids to the point of blowing up their entire life over it to me

#🐉 #like. VAL has been cast into this role of the wicked woman who enthralled shrue with the illusion of their greatest desire by carson. #and theres just something so fascinating in a dark fairytale way about that to me #VAL might not even know about it either! the violation potentially goes both ways! carson is playing with them like dolls #i want them to team up and i want them to hate every second of it and be fantasising about doing horrible things to each other #the silt verses

[iliumheightnights]

Ken convinces M/n, the owner of his doll to stay in Barbie Land with him and become a doll.

Ken: "Don't go back. The Real World sucks!"

M/n: "It...REALLY does."

Ken: "Plus here, we can just be on the beach all day."

M/n: "That DOES sound nice."

Ken: "You can even stay at my place."

M/n: "Sold."

#the barbie movie #barbie #ken #ken carson #male reader #male!reader #x male reader #x male!reader #it felt like a parody writing this #but also I just love him

[andsjuliet]

nancy drew parallels

the judgement of the perilous captive (2x17) ⇾ the ransom of the forsaken soul (3x13)

#nancy drew #nancydrewedit #nancy drew cw #carson drew #tvedit #cwedit #teendramaedit #tv: nancy drew #creations: gifs #edits: nancy drew parallels #dyn: you are what i’ve lived for #MY HEARRRRRRRRRRT #i never want nancy to cry ever again #but i just love when carson puts his hand on her face like that #it's just so sweet and comforting and safe #i love their dynamic

[lucyvsky]

c!karl - love and other poisons

because there are graveyards, adira bennett / anne carson / franz kafka / richard siken / henrietta harris, cover up / chen chen / hannah kent /  the green knight / 1984

#UNFINISHED WEB WEAVE NUMBER ONE #web weave #web weaving #um. yeah baby #i have a bunch of these that are all supposed to be connected but i adore this one so you get it right now #if i suddenly decide to work on it again please pretend like you've never seen it before #c!karl #anne carson #richard siken #the green knight #if you see me reuse quotes no you didnt #i do not really care about how this one does this is just for me #dsmp

[sabrinaacarpenters]

PURPLE HEARTS (2022)  requested by @twistofates

#purple hearts #filmedit #purpleheartsedit #dailynetflix #sofia carson #nicholas galitzine #romancegifs #cassie x luke #movies #myedits #[anyways im done giffing this movie bc i didnt like that much to be spending time on it lmfao i just wanted to post this req]

[jenna-louise-coleman]

just a straight girl (she checked!) and her two lesbian mums

#see it pays to rewatch the show 4 times #cause it's the first time i've noticed greta and carson joking with shirley #it's such a sweet moment too #like she's just glad to have her friends back #she thought she couldn't trust anyone and now she's realised she was wrong #aloto #shirley cohen #carson shaw #greta gill #a league of their own #abbi jacobson #kate berlant #d'arcy carden

[frecklystars]

i think they'd get along :)

#hehe this is gonna be a longer comic. i love my boyfriends ahhh. #WIP #lil doodles #my art #ken carson #courtland gentry #officer k #ryan gosling #idk what is so funny but ken was poking fun at six (good naturedly) #probably something like six took me out on a date and it went sooo wrong #with that guy's luck it wouldn't be a surprise #or maybe he has extraordinarily good luck since he manages to survive everything by the skin of his teeth #maybe it's just bad timing... or bad luck if we wanna quote bernie rose #barbie 2023 #the gray man 2022 #blade runner 2049 #ok its almost 7am i should sleep i gotta work in a few hours ha ha haaa

[phantomrose96]

Obsessed with the death imagery around Sampson btw. Smelling like a dead rat, skulking like a ghost. The last survivor of a dead world, only he's barely surviving, certainly not living. The idea of these cultural ascetics is super cool but feels unfathomably sad to me.

(938 Seconds Per Second)

-slams hands on the table- YES.

YES.

Sampson is a detached limb of a dead body. He's a lopped-off finger dropped in formaldehyde and declared "See! The flesh persists!" of a body that has perished.

There are many ways to be tragically and beautifully dead in metaphor. Sampson is not that. Sampson rots. He's off-putting. He disgusts. He's isolated and alone and just... exists half-dead and half-rotten, has to exist, no one is allowing him the dignity to deboard the ship, and live the rest of his human life, and die a human death as the last death of his culture.

He dies more, rots more, when Carson steals and destroys his tome, because Sampson is nothing but the aimless vestige of his culture, alive only to keep it alive... and what is alive? No one is learning the culture. It's not spreading. It's not growing. It's not being studied and remembered and appreciated. ...It's just Sampson, whose only duty is to persist, and persist as long as long as long as possible... as if infinite persistence is the same as life...

Carson was not joking when he said Sampson would kill himself in the wake of the cargo getting ransacked. Carson was dead-fucking correct to think Sampson would kill himself. Those cultural artifacts are all that Sampson stays half-alive for. They're all he is. If they were stolen on his watch, ostensibly by his own fault... Carson was dead-fucking correct.

#938sps #Sampson is funny to me because like. when I FIRST started writing 938sps I hadn't like... managed to quite flesh out what I wanted from it #and so early-draft Sampson was kinda just... a guy. he was just a guy who was there #me when i started 938sps: 'this is Sampson he's like a socially awkward guy who's easy to pick on and he has bad breath' #me now: 'this is Sampson he's a Jesus allegory he's a living corpse he's the most tormented grad student to ever exist he's babygirl' #Mendoza would have been fine with stealing the cargo. He doesn't care about that shit. He'd have done it #the pivotal moment was this realization. Mendoza's realization that one of two people was going to die that night: either Sampson or Carson #Mendoza's realization that _he_ was going to kill one of two people tonight #Mendoza made his choice

[pussysidon]

I love how people who don't have the force in Star wars are just like damn your kid's fucked up

#carson was just like your kid's weird as shot but ok #star wars #ahsoka series #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka tano #ahsoka show #carson teva #jacen syndulla #unhinged

[woonwijken]

collection of things that are connected to me

The Glass Essay - Anne Carson / Boot Theory - Richard Siken / I Like To Collapse - Joseph Ceravolo / Cain - José Saramago / Suzanne - Leonard Cohen / Take Me to the River - Talking Heads / The Cold Song - Klaus Nomi /

#words #mine #idk.... this is just pure feeling #also i hate that theres no clear image of the boot theory & i like to collapse poem... #the glass essay #anne carson #richard siken #boot theory #i like to collapse #leonard cohen #klaus nomi #webweaving #poetry #<- okay whatevr. #mike.txt

[thenonbinarydetective]

I'm gonna say this in the loosest most bastardized way that I can, but I absolutely adore how ghostwriters will absolutely abuse the fact that Carson has his own law firm as an excuse for him to do whatever the hell he wants.

Although there is some amount of "wiggle-room" in real life with lawyers in Carson's position, I know it's not even remotely close to being accurate but Carson can get away with it because he's just that good of a lawyer and he owns his own business.

He is technically a criminal prosecutor. But also a defense attorney whenever he feels like it. Or Nancy asks him to do it because he will do anything for her. Sometimes if he's bored he'll look into real estate law or if Nancy asks him to do it. And then also estate planning, environmental law, animal rights, business, immigration, employment, medical malpractice, and anything else a general practice attorney would do without actually ever calling himself one because he does have a specialty.

The ghostwriters were really like, "Carson Drew can do whatever the fuck he wants because he's Carson Drew" and that is fantastic.

And now you know why Nancy is the way that she is

#the reason that nancy does whatever she wants is because Carson can #although there is usually a nice little detail of Carson doing research of laws outside of his area of criminal law #so there's like a in-universe explanation/excuse #but still #he just does whatever the fuck he wants because he can #carson drew #nancy drew #nancy drew books

[geryone]

prototype poster for my wall

#anne carson #autobiography of red #what’s the feedback besties #I’m drafting plans for a poster im making for my apartment & im feeling the ransom note font but #not sure if im tricking myself into liking it. Also the white border to the letters wouldn’t be there #I just made this on my phone on word & can’t get rid of it #like do I love it???? I can’t tell if I should just use a normal font or not #like ideally I just cute the letters out of magazines and do a fun little craft but idk