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i will die without routine. also this routine is killing me

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Ghosts characters + Dinosaur symbolism (cr: x, x, x, x) @lgbtqcreators bingo: overlay

#AHDHSKDHDKJKSF this is FANTASTIC #i am so pleased with Isaac’s dinosaur obsession & this is such a fun set!!! #the way I fully saw the first image and went ‘they BETTER have made Hetty a velociraptor’ AND YOU DID!!!!!! #the Pete choice is also especially perfect but they really are all so good!! #cbs ghosts #cbs ghosts spoilers #<— not really but the dino thing

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Been really fed up with the biphobia in the 911 fandom lately, so excuse the slight rant inspired by the latest episode of Ghosts, but if you're 'grossed' out by a ship (Canon or otherwise) because it's outside of what you view as correct, then you are an asshole. Two or more consenting adults in a relationship isn't gross and seeing those relationships on screen isn't a bad thing even if you're not personally invested in the ship.

And liking a gay ship or having gay friends or being another form of queer yourself doesn't give you any more of a right to hate on a type of relationship (much less be disgusted by it) than your average bigot.

#LOUDER FOR THE FOLKS AT THE BACK #FR though OP thank you so much for this post I was feeling so unbelievably frustrated with this fandom after seeing a few #‘but polyamory is ICKY’ responses after last night that truly just disheartened me so much #but you worded this so well and I really appreciate that bc I was struggling to put into words myself how frustrated I was by it #ALSO #I say this for the people I know are genuinely well-meaning but just new to this stuff: bi and poly are two COMPLETELY different things. #you can be both. you can be neither. you can be one and not the other. #but equating the two as more-or-less equivalent is INCREDIBLY problematic & plays into cispatrionormative stereotypes #thinking any m-spec sexuality automatically aligns someone with polyamory is rooted in so much history of bigotry and often violence #& I’ve had for the most part such good interactions w this fandom that I truly hope some of that is just unfamiliarity/newness w this stuff #but it is. really disheartening. & I hope anyone feeling that way uses this as an opportunity to think critically about their preconceived #ideas bc that kind of questioning & opening oneself up is EXACTLY what I think this show at its core is about. #gonna try to put together a post w some resources on history of polyamory & maybe also a few mspec identities soon if I can #as part of a response to this bc again. i genuinely think some people mean well but just aren’t quite there yet. #& everyone deserves access to information regardless of what they decide to do w those resources #but yeah #cbs ghosts #cbs ghosts spoilers

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This has caused great debate among my math friends so I think it needs tumblr's input

#thanks tumblr for making me realize I apparently have. very strong opinions on this??? #it was an immediate’fuck scalene marry equilateral kill isosceles’ for me #why I feel this way I couldn’t tell you. but it is the Right And Correct Answer #polls

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Hetty & Trevor | Ghosts 3x08

#the QUALITY of these holy shit???? #these are so beautiful & crisp #like this is so much more detail than I could see this scene in even streaming it through official channels #bless u for making these fr #cbs ghosts #cbs ghosts spoilers #hetty woodstone

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Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?

#getting the BEST grade in tumblr mutual + several gold stars to boot ✨⭐️ #<333

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Hetty who dies scared and alone with a cord permanently around her neck, who has nobody there to teach her the ghost rules, who has to learn by herself that the telephone cord is now physically part of her body and she can never be rid of it, it will always be there digging into her, a constant reminder of what she's done, the mistake she made for the sake of her son, who spends a year alone watching the aftermath of her choice thinking she’s permanently doomed herself to a purgatory of isolated punishment, trapped in an even worse solitude than the one she had in life, having to watch the fallout of what she's done until the day that the boys escape from the hole and come up from the basement and save her, breathing companionship and love into her afterlife, and suddenly for the first time she's not alone. I’m FINE

#PIGEONNNNN #sure yeah fine cool not at all emotionally destroyed by this #god you’re so right though she’s all alone I have no doubt she didn’t think to go check the basement (bc why would she)?? so seriously ZERO #other ghosts exist to her knowledge #& we know Elias bribed the church to get into heaven which means a certain amount of religious background so she would ABSOLUTELY think #this was a literal purgatory. that she’s stuck here. alone forever. because of what she did. #tbh I feel like part of her ‘hetty doesn’t like to be touched’ thing could be that in that year she kept trying to physically reach #her son & other livings bc she’s so utterly lonely it overrides how painful it is #and takes her a real long time but she then arrives at oh other people = literal pain now. #and then by the time the oldest ghosts emerge she’s fully learned to flinch away from any other person #and she was so utterly certain that there *were* no other ghosts that it now takes a really long time for her to stop recoiling on instinct #even from Isaac/Thor/Sass. & she of course doesn’t explain so they all take it as ‘oh guess Hetty doesn’t like physical contact’ #😭😭😭 #anyway fantastic post Pigeon sorry for the novel #cbs ghosts #cbs ghosts spoilers #hetty woodstone

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the only two ways i can categorize height is if i see something tall i go 'woah, big boy man' and if i see something short i go 'hah.. baby man' and idk what to blame for this. anyway wanna hear about the times ghosts have touched my ass

#JAY ARONDEKAR #<— prev tags how does it feel to be the funniest guy on this hellsite #truly this is Jay going through the Starbucks drive through bc it’s the only place where they don’t know Sam #so he knows none of his ghost-venting can get back to her

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1895 Costumes  | Holes are Bad  ↳requested by @lulu-cat-princess

#EEEEE the costumes in this one were so fun!! #the way I’m so used to her death dress that it took me a moment to realize she was wearing her death dress in the second flashback 😭😭 #cbs ghosts spoilers #cbs ghosts

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i just kept spinning and i danced myself to death

[all films are listed in the youtube description]

#holy shit this is so fucking cool #horror #florence + the machine #suspiria(s) #pearl #black swan #crimson peak

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Hetty & Flower | Ghosts 3x08

#these are so beautiful #love love love #flower montero #hetty woodstone #cbs ghosts spoilers #cbs ghosts #holes are bad #I already wrote a whole ass analysis of this scene elsewhere so trying very hard not to leave a novel in the tags

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Ghosts 3x08 | Holes are Bad

#prev tags so so fucking true on all counts pigeon you hit on it all so perfectly #i seriously considered just reblogging all of your tags too #op these gifs are beautiful and it really is one of those moments where from a story/narrative perspective being able to see all of their #faces so clearly is really meaningful & wonderful so extra thanks for that <3 #cbs ghosts spoilers #tw suicide #cbs ghosts #hetty woodstone

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Flower in Holes are Bad

#MY GIRL HAS RETURNED FROM THE HORRORS (aka a Hole) #truly have missed her so so much like the second she started talking I was like YES AT LAST NATURE IS HEALING #flower my beloved #also all of these gifs are so crisp!!!! #love love love #cbs ghosts spoilers #cbs ghosts

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No, Flower's definitely in the great beyond. How can you be so sure? Bonus:

#every single one of the actors was so on it with this one #cbs ghosts spoilers #cbs ghosts #holes are bad

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ALSO can we talk about Hetty’s reaction after Flower tells her “You’re a good friend”???

Think about where she was at this point last year—having also just revealed a massive secret, one that almost irrevocably ruined one of her oldest friendships. She’d admitted in Ghost Court that friends were not something she’d ever had in life—something she hasalso just reiterated moments ago to Sam and Isaac, that one of the reasons she felt so trapped and alone and without options at the end of her life was because she had no friends.

Think about how far we’ve seen her come; in season one, it’s huge growth for her that after Jay’s possession, she admits to the other ghosts that she missed them. Or season two, how in a very un-Hetty move she’s willing to swallow her pride and apologize to Nigel (even though she’s sure she isn’t in the wrong!) for the sake of saving her friendship with Isaac. Or even earlier this season, how closely she’s clinging to Alberta in so many of the episodes, because she’s so grateful she got her friend back after being so close to losing her that she doesn’t even want to be physically separated from her.

And then now, she’s just once again revealed a secret she’s kept for well over a hundred years, in order to save Flower. She’s kept this part of herself from everyone for so long, and the very second she sees that Flower is securely out of the hole, she turns her back to everyone to gather herself and then bolts.

Isaac and Sam make her see that, yes objectively she has people here for her now like she never had in life, but Flower coming in and thanking her is when she actually gets to see and experience the reality of how different her existence is now. “You’re a good friend,” she says, and it might be the first time someone has ever said that to her. And Hetty just looks up at Flower so surprised in that moment, and so heartbreakingly hopeful, because I genuinely think that until right then, she really hadn’t considered it like that before; she just knew that Flower was in trouble and that she had to help her whatever the personal cost, because not saving her wasn’t even an option.

So much of the ghosts’ relationships, especially early on, were transactional, and, especially in Hetty’s case, built around enforcing particular power dynamics: accruing a wealth of back rubs, extorting Pete’s TV time before signing Elias’s contract, or any of the countless occasions she brought up her status as ‘lady of the house’. So the fact that she makes this sacrifice that feels like a loss of power to her is in and of itself big; but Flower acknowledging that, and making sure Hetty herself sees it too, by calling her a good friend—it’s a whole different level of meaningful.

She doesn’t just thank Hetty. She makes sure that she sees what her actions mean to her. And Hetty is so taken aback by it, because Flower saying this to her and meaning it is a gift she was absolutely unprepared for; a “good friend” is not something Hetty has ever known herself to be, up until now. But she very badly wants for it to be true.

#cbs ghosts #hetty woodstone #yeah clearly I’m not feeling any emotions about this #idk if this is really even coherent but can’t stop thinking about Hetty’s face after Flower says it #and needed to try to form something tangible out of all that mental fixation #sorry for all the analysis posts on this episode but I mean. also not #this show does so much work on long term character arcs like nothing I’ve seen before #and I hope the writers know how much of it we notice and deeply appreciate #cbs ghosts spoilers #holes are bad #it speaks #honestly at this point I think I need a tag just for my ghosts analysis posts

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More thoughts on the Hetty plotline of “Holes are Bad”, put below the cut for spoilers/sensitive content:

Feeling so grateful that the writers didn’t just make Hetty’s death a ‘I was a woman trapped by my circumstances and killing myself to protect my child was So Noble And Brave Of Me’ thing like they hit on how she hoped to protect her son and how she was trapped but then still also made sure to go a step further and have Hetty acknowledge that regardless of if that had actually protected Thomas, she still knows now that she made a bad choice, and that a big part of it was not just her son but that she was so fucking unhappy in life and had no one and did not have the tools to deal with that and made a panicked, desperate decision that has haunted her ever since.

They don’t let it just be a single or easily digestible reason; they don’t give her an easy explanation or out for her choice, they treat it with nuance and such attention to her as a character in a way that I really can’t imagine any other show doing.

Basically, once again our writers are the best.

#cbs ghosts spoilers #like genuinely the amount of credit they deserve for doing this on a major network sitcom is immense #clearly I am continuing to spiral about this episode #i just. this episode means a lot to me in ways I have no capacity to describe and yet clearly continue to try to #‘what did you do this weekend?’ literally rotated a 20 minute episode in my mind for 3 days straight #hetty woodstone #cbs ghosts #tw suicide #it speaks #ask to tag