(x)kristen loves women and she doesn’t take shit
It’s wonderful how much of this game she is not playing.
Interviewer: It’s okay, I thought that was a good analogy.
Zach: Is it? Okay.(x)
I’m no use to anyone, I’m not even a man;
#Not even a man #I think this is why his castration was especially horrifying to me #the only sense of power and agency he has ever gotten is through his masculinity #it was his source of agency #and I’m not saying he didn’t abuse that sometimes #but he did #but it came from a really twisted broken place #where theon existed in only static #not knowing who he was #not having any control #so the fact that ramsay took it away from him is the ultimate degradation #he belongs to ramsay physically #mentally and even sexually #it’s total consumption
Interviewer: It’s okay, I thought that was a good analogy.
Zach: Is it? Okay.(x)
I love this moment so much. it’s not that Spock doesn’t feel the same, or even recognise that he feels the same, it’s simply that he can’t be so bald about the emotion as Jim. his expression just reads as so very please don’t make me say it.
and of course this changes by the end. you know, I am completely enamoured of the differences between them and their prime counterparts, not just as characters but as far as the development of their relationship. when TOS started, they were already friends, and Spock persisted in not simply refusing to express emotion but in denying that he was even capable of it. through the course of the series their relationship gradually intensified even as it was revealed in fits and starts that Spock did experience emotion and also existed in a constant struggle with it, first in mastering it and then in eventually making peace with it.
and Kirk really let him make that journey. he always, always saw the truth of it, but when Spock denied his emotions he would tease him and then generally let it go because I don’t think he felt like Spock needed to prove himself.
in the reboot it’s different from the outset, because Spock experiences such a giant, traumatic loss, which Spock Prime never did, and it becomes impossible for him to deny the emotional impact of it. he will continue to try anyway, and one of my favourite parts about Into Darkness was the way he tried to retreat from that. but Jim doesn’t just know the truth of it, he’s felt it. he’s been in that space and the intensity of Spock’s emotion before, and he’s not willing to let Spock pull back from it. it’s something that Jim wants to keep, damn it. so this Jim demands more of his Spock, and I think that for Spock’s part, once he’s given that of himself it would ultimately be too much of a lie to pretend it doesn’t exist, even if the struggle, the attempt to balance the raw emotion and his need not to express it, is very difficult. lying is such a strong theme of the movie (The truth is…), and this is part of it: Spock ultimately needs to be truthful with himself and with Jim.
There’s something truly beautiful about this sweet little slogan of Sanitarium’s. Because, obviously, when used in common conversation this phrase usually refers to you as a person. It doesn’t matter what you look like, it’s the person who’s inside that’s important.
But Sanitarium’s talking about making you healthy from the inside out. They’re in the business of selling food to feed your body. They mean what’s literally inside of you that’s important.
“We love your organs.” Say Sanitarium. “All that red squishy stuff is what’s important. You might have the prettiest skin suit in the world, but if your pancreas is faulty then you can fuck off. If we peel back your lovely face and find out you have an ugly skull then it’s over between us. It’s what’s inside that counts.”
Gillian McKeith goes missing. Her body is found three years later in the Sanitarium basement. Three cereal manufacturers giggle as they’re dragged away. “She was perfect!” They chitter. “She was what she ate!”
What’s the worst thing about doing press for extended periods of time with [each other]?