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felixcatton · 1 year

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Hello ma’am ☀️ 👋🏻 😌

Having watched djats (I blame u), I’d love to hear about your fav parts of the show and book - bonus points if they’re not in the book and show! (Of course if you feel inclined to share! 😊)

I'M SO HAPPY YOU WATCHED, i'll gladly take the blame 😁 i'll keep it to things that aren't in the book or in the show, orrrrr just things that i just think were executed way better in one rather than the other!

the book:

this is more just something that i thought wasn't executed as well in the show, but... karen. like everything about karen. i loooove suki waterhouse, but much preferred karen in the book. the show tried sorta, but she felt watered down. among other reasons, i have... Complicated feelings about karengraham and like 90% of her scenes were with graham. in the book, she was my third favourite character and i loved her entire arc.

i was skimming the book the other day and i was so struck by how MUCH there is about teddy and billy working on aurora together. i love that their dynamic was like a father/son, yes, but also such a musical partnership. there's such an ease to their work together, like musical soulmates. they were such a tight, exclusive unit that it's like yeah no wonder the band hated you 😭 but i loved it<3

on that same note, i did love billy and teddy going back and rerecording so much of the album behind everyone's backs. and i obviously just mean that in the sense that i simply can't help but enjoy an annoying rude tyrannical little control freak character and i especially enjoy watching those traits destroy all of their relationships. and this particular thing factored so heavily into the band's resentments and ultimate break-up that i was surprised the show didn't include it other than eddie throwing in a single line about it in the last episode. the show obv already has ample examples of billy being an asshole in this way, but this specifically was a real stand-out moment in the book to me.

daisy's general motherhood arc, which IS obviously a part of the show, and i do like the way it was done in the show; i just really, really loved how a hope like you was explicitly about that in the book.

a hope like you on snl!!!!! the idea of them doing a stripped down, intimate performance right at the time that daisy feels most vulnerable with him, and everyone going so crazy for it that they have to try to recreate it at every show. and with a song that is SO vulnerable to her, a song that she admits is about him but is on a much larger scale about her wish to become a mother, to be the kind of woman who could be a good mother, like the kind of woman he married. and how singing this particular song with him in this particular way becomes actually torturous. it was such a choice. this part, particularly the last paragraph, is just insane.

the show:

daisybilly actually kissing. not once, not twice, but three times. like, thank god.

SIMONE AND BERNIE 💖🧡💕💓💝💗💞❤️💘

playing up daisy's mommy issues was such a good choice. their phone call in episode 10 was a highlight of the whole show for me.

okay i'm an eddie hater and wish it could've been done with someone else (although i get why it was eddie, it definitely added to the eddie/billy rivalry, or rather the eddie/billy rivalry that eddie wishes existed) but i am happy that camila got an explicit cheating plot. like she needed that. we all needed that.

this is a really little scene but it's kind of a big one when you compare it to the book. billy and camila talking about having another child but then never having one, considering they already had three kids at that point in the book. like... what an interesting scene lmao. but also how he reacts the exact same way to camila bringing up another baby as he did to daisy bringing up another album. it’s a lot.

billy's relapse and camila leaving him in episode 10. not just because i thought it was nice to see camila actually say "enough is enough" but because i was glad to see both of them forced to confront everything and realize that just saying "everything is fine" does not, in fact, make everything fine. and that billy was white-knuckling his sobriety! i was happy to see that actually fully acknowledged. the fact that he actually goes back to rehab and stays in therapy afterwards and how that's really the only reason they were able to stay together and make it work, while in the book they just never talk about it ever and are like "we prefer it this way actually" (which is hilarious and so, so crazy like book!camilabilly will forever be so fascinating to me, i want to study their brains). for the show, i thought that was a really satisfying conclusion that imo made it clear that the rest of their marriage really was happy, even if still surely complicated™️

#anti edmila #anti emila #whatever the hell they're called 😭#long post #daisy jones & the six #answered #asmoonlightthroughthepines

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steampunkforever · 7 months

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Beverly Hills Cop is a really fun copaganda flick. Produced by the guy who also produced Top Gun, you know what you're in for, and that means not thinking too hard about some of the things the movie is pushing. It's picking up a dirtbike from some guy on craigslist and ignoring some concerning comments on politics these days in order to make the sale go smoothly. You can raise a couple eyebrows but the #1 goal here is fun.

To that end, this film is very good. There's a reason it shot Eddie Murphy to stardom, and the script--rewritten with heavy input from Murphy after Sylvester Stallone's disastrous edgy primary rewrite--is just as charming as the leading man. This is a movie about an underdog Detroit detective trying to investigate his childhood friend's murder by a corrupt LA art dealer, and Murphy really sells it. Frustrated by class divisions and--take special note--procedural requirements the police are forced to follow, Murphy's detective character is a lovable, fast-talking charmer and you can't help but cheer for him as he drives his dented Chevy Nova next to the shiny Mercedes models of Rodeo drive.

Taking note that all films are inherently about making films, it's easy to draw a direct line between a film starring a relatively small entertainer new to the movies and the story of a scrappy detective from a smaller (and relatively racially dissimilar) town trying to rub elbows with the stuck up establishment guys who do things a certain way. Inasmuch as a movie is about making movies, it's clear that Beverly Hills Cop is telling a story about making it in showbiz as someone who wasn't born into the big club (perhaps a young comedian trying to break into the movies after finding success in standup).

Simultaneously, the finale's "moral" of the story is that things are better when cops violate civil rights to nail the bad guys who they couldn't get otherwise. As a writer I saw a clear opportunity for the LA cop characters to obfuscate the truth and bend the rules to nail the bad guy on probable cause, already a morally dubious ending but still better than what we actually got. Rather than omit some truths in the police report with a wink, the film's great moment of triumph has the Beverly Hills police outright lie about the events culminating into a bloody shootout, with Murphy's character smiling in approval the whole time.

To that end, I found the messaging of the film reminding me of a campus cop who'd prevented a local homeless man from stealing student bicycles. Retelling the story of how angry the man had been at being stopped from cutting bike chains, the cop remarked that he wished he could've punched out the man like a Philadelphia policeman had recently been caught doing. Which is to say, while the emotional appeals to justice there are valid, the rhetoric there leads to more civil rights violations than not.

This is a precise example of what a lot of my posting on propaganda references. Even as some scenes furrowed my brow (*shaking my head and frowning while I laugh so that people know I disagree with the copaganda in Beverly Hills Cop*), the movie is too good not to watch, and rather than studiously eschewing anything with the hint of a harmful idea I'd posit that you should lighten up instead.

I highly suggest Beverly Hills Cop as a staple 80s film, even with the copaganda caveat. In fact, its biggest societal harm was not glorifying police violence but rather the fact that its main theme served as the sample for the Crazy Frog Song that plagued flip phone ringtones and will probably continue to haunt phone calls for decades to come.

#filmposting #eddie murphy #beverly hills cop

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significantfoliage · 2 years

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911 S3 E11

- hmmmm I dislike seize the day as a theme when we just learned Michael has cancer 😬

- SKSJSKSKSJ I MISSED THIS KINDA STUPID STUNT, YOU GO BOYS, FISH THAT MAN OUT THE SKY

- okay the woman asking if Eddie and Buck were single was a very good moment lol

- huh how far ahead in time have we gone? Radiation treatment being done but not working means it's been a minute so, have Hen and Karen fostered yet?? 👀

- does that mean Buck is no longer blood thinner boy?

- DID CHIMS BROTHER FUCKING RUN AWAY FROM HOME TO HIS BROTHER

- fucking obsessed, I love Albert already, just throw him at Buck, it'll be great!!

- Chim really can't keep his couch empty SKSJSKSKSJ

- this man's handling of this fish is Stressing Me Out

- the onlookers being grossed out and vomiting like y'all could've Left!!

- everytime they have a Skype call ending and specify Skype, I'm thrown into a "oh fuck this was pre Covid" mindset

- lolol I'm not used to Chim having so long opinions

- HAHAHA Buck being the one to spill the dirt through the girlfriend rather than the 118 pipeline for once

- Chim why not introduce Albert to the 118, Buck is a great baby sitter! Plus, that used to be his couch XD

- Hen and Karen are going to over prep for this, aren't they

- love everytime Hen operates heavy machinery, very hot

- this was a bad scene to follow my choice to get snacks, really, an evisceration now?????

- Harrison should seize the day. But also, I can't imagine laughing is a Good thing to do with your guts out 😅 but also, fucking great joke I'm literally still laughing about it

- oh noooo, Chim is gonna be mad about his brother stealing his space

- Chim's eye roll is So Good!! Also I was right about Buck getting along with Albert

- they're never gonna explain the chimney thing and I respect that

- love that Miles and Justin might work out NEVERMIND MILES 100% ALSO HAS A CRUSH THIS IS TOO PRECIOUS

- Katie my fucking hero

- the significant eye contact Chim and Hen are making while Katie reads Justin's love letter like "is this seriously happening? Are we letting this happen?" Are Killing Me 😂

- ma'am please just hand Miles the paper

- la vie en rose playing for all of this is so good

- Justin 100% was gonna ask Chimney to kill him but looks like he's gonna get a happy ending anyways

- HEN WHY DID YOU BRING ALBERT TO THIS EVENT

- I am once again begging to meet the Buckley parents

- yes I love Albert but also can anyone please empathize with Chim, especially Hen

- damn I uh. I think Albert doesn't know what really went do with Chim. Which, from my understanding, was him mom dying and then his dad marrying another woman and leaving Chim in America.....

- YALL THIS DRUNKEN CHIM EXPLANATION IS WHY ONE OF YOU SHOULD'VE THOUGHT AHEAD

- Ive taken like three times as long as this scene runs to watch this speech cause Chim is my favorite and it hurts to see him down like this

- see this is why someone needed to help facilitate a Chim and Albert family discussion. Obviously home wasn't great for Albert or else he wouldn't have run away and described it as stifling. But we also know that Chim didn't do this epic push back against their dad that Albert believes happened. Just. Fucking. Talk to each other!!!!

- OH NO KEVIN!!!!!! SERIOUSLY 118 FAM, HOW DID NONE OF YOU SEE THIS COMING???

- .....wait. wait, fuck. Chim has been there the longest, does anyone else know about Kevin????

- THANK YOU MADDIE FOR BEING WORRIED ABOUT CHIM

- BUCKLEY PARENTS LORE "not bad people just bad parents" IM SO HYPE

- yeah my parents update their will like semi regularly any time there's any financial change

- debating if them showing Michael's place means they've now invested enough in the set design that he probably won't die OR if it means that they're ready to let him go but he's going out with more development to really make it hurt 🤔

- gosh I love May, she's developed really well

- anyways Albert and Chim both need therapy 🌟

- I genuinely think things would be less tense if Albert lived with Buck but at least everyone Finally Talked lol

- HEY MICHAEL YOU SHOULD STILL GET THE DOCTOR RECOMMENDED SURGERY

- HEY MICHAEL ITS BRAIN CANCER IM PRETTY SURE THEY KNOW IT'LL KILL YOU

- HEY MICHAEL PLEASE GO GET SURGEY

- yes young boys pile!! Buck and Christopher and Albert

- "this is Eddie's house, I'm not really a guest" I'm losing it yall

- three months of paper work okay okay it's like March, maybe April

- do they still call it foster failing when it's humans? Anyways, they're gonna adopt this kid

- CHIMS PARENTS ARE COMING????????

- oh the Lee's, thank goodness, I did Not want even more angst and awkward dinners

#911 #911 fox #signi watches

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bibuckbuckley · 2 years

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Buddie?

@elvensorceress also asked: Buddie for the ship game! 💕

Okay, strap yourselves in my dudes, these answers are gonna be waaaay too long

1. What made you ship it?-

It's kinda a long story? Okay so way back in s2 I saw gifsets of them and actually thought the show was doing them 🤣 (Oh sweet young and innocent me 😂) I specifically remember seeing the gifset of Eddie hugging Christopher and Buck watching from afar first and then the whole "you can have my back anyday" scene just a bit after. I was intrigued and liked them right away. But I don't think I saw them that much until the iconic™️ "there's nobody else in this world I trust more with my son than you". A person I follow on yt made a beautiful fanvid after the tsunami eps and I couldn't help but watch that and then some others about those episodes (I think I saw the actual scene too but I can't remember). Then later I saw gifsets of The Kitchen Scene™️ and thought that was them getting together 😂 I saw that scene and then got hooked on watching their entire journey on yt 😂 And then I would just keep up with them for the rest of s3 but didn't fully watch the show until a later 🤣 So technically I kinda basically started shipping them from just their gifsets and sorta following a bit of their journey with gifsets but didn't fully ship them until I saw their scenes (and then of course watched the show). And they've gotten me in a chokehold ever since 😂

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?-

Do you have all day?? There's sooo many things I love about them, but I think my favorite thing is them being the best partner for the other. And that actually covers a lot of things I love about them, being great partners at work, great best friends who really support each other and know each other better than practically anyone else, and also great co-parents. Also, a part of that too is that they have similar deep-seeded insecurities (not feeling enough, putting serving people/helping people as part of their self-worth, parental issues, relationship issues, etc). Some of the ways they go about it are similar, but the other ways are kinda the opposite where they help balance each other. idk I just really love how they mirror each other in ways but also balance each other as well.

3. Is there an unpopular you have on the ship?-

I have a few but I can't really think of them at the moment. The only thing I can think of is not really unpopular opinion per say, but. I know Tim and everyone had said they were surprised by ppl shipping Buddie at first and didn't originally plan on doing them (or something like that I cant remember exactly what was said), and I also know that happens a lot in shows (especially for non-straight ships). HOWEVER, to this day, I just can't help but feel like they were planned. Like, I know I know, I probably sound naive or whatever, but the foundation they created between their relationship right away? The fact that the biggest dynamic Eddie had in his very first episode was with Buck? "Whatta Ma" playing as we see Eddie for the first time, being in Buck's POV?? "You can have my back anyday" "You can have mine". Everything with Christopher in the earthquake episodes and then Stuck. Like they really put so much focus on not only their relationship, but Buck helping out with Christopher and the foundation of the Buckley Diaz Family. All this before Shannon comes, and when she does, what is the first problem she mentions about their marriage in her very first scene? Ah, yes. "I wanted you to have my back!". Like?? Listen, again, I know that happens a lot with shows where they create things with characters unintentionally, but given how this show really takes their time with foreshadowing? And just how much they took their time to create the foundation of their relationship, a foundation that was immediately paralleled to Eddie's own marriage and showed to have things that his marriage had been lacking. Again, it could've easily been easily where they wrote this not realizing the bigger picture and implications, but idk I just think they put a little too much work there to have it be unintentional. But that's just me 🤷‍♀️ (I can talk even more in depth on this later)

Anyways, so sorry for the way too long answers 😂 But thank you sooo much my beloveds!! 💗💙💜❤🥰

Send me a ship and I'll answer three questions based on if I ship it or not

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hopeintheashes · 2 years

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I posted 1,345 times in 2021

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999 posts reblogged (74%) ^ i should have waited five more minutes for an even 1k!

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#5:

[1+5 prompt] The press of the stethoscope against Buck’s chest brings an anxiety only soothed by the fact that Eddie is the one holding it.

The press of the stethoscope against Buck’s chest brings an anxiety only soothed by the fact that Eddie is the one holding it.

"Deep breath--" and that's impossible, has been for hours and hours; if it was anyone else he'd be spitting breathless curses but it's not, it's Eddie, so he tries, he tries, he tries.

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#4:

📝I looove the sweet, domestic/home-y sickfics, but I've also always kind of wanted to see your take on a sickBuck-in-the-field fic. Maybe he was feeling a little off, but some disaster happens -it's all hands on deck so, he jumps in (bc "a little cold isn't worth being a man down"). But then, something happens when they're out responding & Buck&Eddie get separated/lost from the group. Buck takes a turn for the worse & Eddie has to use his field medicine training to try to treat him best he can

He could've called out today.

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#3:

With inspiration from a pumpkin-carving-incident anon ask for the fall prompts, just… softer. <3

"Oh."

"Oh?" Eddie's head snaps up from where he's helping Christopher carve the details of his pumpkin's jagged smile. And then, with this ever-so-slight shift into work mode: "Oh."

"You're bleeding," Chris says, which, yes, is in fact the problem here.

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#2:

First sentence ask - "No, Jee, he's my Bucky, not yours"

"No, Jee, he's my Bucky, not yours!"

He says it in his silliest voice, making faces at Jee-Yun right alongside Buck, but Eddie knows his kid well enough to hear the hint of truth in the words. It's... well, it's a lot of things, seeing Buck with a baby in his arms: this rush of what if, this preview of what could be, first child jealousy and all. He starts to reach for Christopher with a reassuring touch, but Buck is already there: he's been cradling Jee-Yun in his lap with both hands, laid out on his knees, but he moves her to his chest so that he can hold her with one arm and put the other around Chris and says, "You know what Jee-Yun needs to learn is how all the planets got their names."

Eddie sits back again and just watches them as Chris says, "I think she's too little for that," and Buck says, "I don't think so, but either way, tell me; I want to hear it again," and then Chris and Jee are each tucked against Buck's sides, settling back into the couch. Buck catches Eddie's eyes over their heads as Chris starts explaining Mercury to Jee and grins, and, well, maybe they have some more talking about the future to do.

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#1:

📝 buck being badass!!

He looks like a gymnast.

It's a ridiculous thought when Buck's in full turnout gear, but he's balancing on a beam like he's in the goddamn Olympics, edging toward the little girl who'd gone out there to escape the flames.

I can do it, he'd said, and Bobby had said No, not a chance, and the little girl had screamed for help and Buck had just— gone.

Eddie glances at Hen, who's got her jaw clenched tight, and at Chimney, who's shaking his head and muttering I can't watch with his eyes still fixed on the scene, and he's putting the pieces together that this is a thing that happens.

Not that he hasn't seen Buck badass and fearless in the five weeks since he joined the 118. Hell, the grenade call made that clear. It's just… all coming together, now.

The crowd that's gathered is shrieking and gasping, fear and admiration, and then Buck gets the girl just as the other company's ladder truck finally finds a path through the debris. The crowd is cheering and applauding and Bobby and Hen and Chim sigh with relief. Eddie trails them over to where Buck is handing off the girl to the paramedics. They're all chastising him, but it's through smiles.

Eddie is, as far as he can tell, the only one who's still got a knot in his throat, and another in his gut.

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