DOCTOR WHO (2005-) — Turn Left | 4.11

Don’t cry, I’m sorry to have deceived you so much, but that’s how life is.

Vladimir Nabokov

. . . from trying anyway.

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your head already knows.

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the rnm writers escalating from “alex is missing and nobody notices or cares” to “alex is missing and people have noticed but only care so far as it’s an inconvenience to them that they can’t get a hold of him” is exactly what i should have expected from them. to the point that i’m honestly shocked i didn’t anticipate it more.

all i know of love

is this ache that lingers in your absence

that lingers when you stay

is this sting when your eyes are on my skin

and everything burns in their wake

everything in me burns

but the lips that i know you’ll never kiss

the hunger that i know you’ll never sate

the feelings that i know you’ll never express

everything in me burns for you

knowing even if you want it too

you’ll never let yourself burn the same

— all i know of love is its ache | wt.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Shout out to Steve Harrington for apparently being the only genre-aware person in the Hawkins group, grabbing something to defend the group as soon as they hear a weird noise, poking stuff around with an oar, not letting the cursed girl spend too long on her own… and when Dustin mocks him, he snaps back, “considering the people in this room have nearly died about half a dozen times, I don’t find it funny”. He’s so right and he should say it. Steve KNOWS he’s in a horror film and he’s built to be the final girl.

One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.

Beau Taplin

RNM Mondays be like :

I can't believe I'm seeing people calling this season the definition of "cosmic" when we have not only had ZERO Malex interaction in 5 episodes but also had to put up with

A) Alex being in danger and reaching out to his "cosmic" boyfriend's ex, instead of reaching out to his boyfriend directly AND the "clues" all being things the audience knew nothing about until they were said in the episode, making them carry zero weight

B) Michael not showing one single iota of worry that his boyfriend hasn't called to check in in DAYS. Not a "made it to the hotel finally" text, not a "just called to say goodnight" call, not a "me after sleeping in the car last night" pic of a hunched old man, not a "found my 5th balloon! I can't wait to get home to you, I miss my 👽" text, NOTHING.

If I hear one more person try to justify this shoody writing that paints Michael in a way we KNOW isn't right by saying "it's only been a few days, he said he'd be out of range, Michael had no reason to worry", I'm gonna scream.

Spoiler alert, even aside from all those reasons being dumb, you don't need a reason to worry. Worry just HAPPENS. And for someone with abandonment issues like Michael we should be seeing him worry! Even if he thinks maybe he's overreacting so he doesn't tell anyone else he's worried, WE as the audience should be seeing his worry because that's what you do when you love someone. You worry about them.