Tag: yes good

jumpingjacktrash:

the-real-seebs:

bpd-anon:

Growing up, I was told from many sources (books, tv, parents, teachers, inspirational quotes) that you should never half ass anything. That in everything you do, you should give your all. Honestly, that’s a recipe for misery and burnout. You need to half ass most things so you have enough ass left to give your whole ass to the things you care about. Or at least I do.

Executive function is absolutely a thing. But there’s a lot of things that are Done Better if you do them carefully, and doing them badly ends up being a spoon drain. The trick is learning to figure out which ones…

also asking yourself occasionally, “does this deserve my whole ass?” because quite often the task deserves about 28% of the left cheek

What do you enjoy about PoI? What got you into the series? What characters do you like the most and why?

theivorytowercrumbles:

I’m running on like five hours of sleep and it’s early so I apologize if this answer isn’t as detailed as it could be but: @aresmarked got me into the series, first and foremost, mostly because they reblogged a lot of gifsets and commentary. 

The Root/Shaw relationship stuff definitely caught my attention, but what made me finally start watching was all the really thoughtful posts I saw regarding The Machine (if you don’t know what that is, you will by the pilot episode) that convinced me there was an aspect to Person of Interest I’d been missing this whole time.

Like, PoI honestly does look like the most whitebread procedural from the outside at the beginning and it takes a season and a half for some of the best characters – the ladies – to start showing up with regularity. But even Finch and Reese are Surprisingly Watchable White Dudes, and I love Fusco despite never expecting to.

My favorite character is Shaw, hands down (followed in quick succession by Carter and Root). And it’s just…having a bisexual woman with a personality disorder that isn’t fetishized onscreen is unique enough, but PoI frames Shaw as so important. Just her appearance literally makes survival chances skyrocket, and her full swing around from uncaring assassin to someone on the Machine’s side is a sight to see, and also kudos to Sarah Shahi for portraying it with a lot of subtlety. 

What I enjoy about Person of Interest is that a lot of modern action-heavy shows (especially American ones) that deal with crime or terrorism or anything else sets up the main characters as the Unmistakable Good Guys, no matter what horrible things they do. Procedure can be violated left and right as long as you shoot the bad guy at the end, right? 

Well, PoI’s cast is not filled with good guys coddled endlessly by the narrative (Carter is arguably the one character who is defined as Good, and she meets a hundred complications for it despite being a fantastic heroine): it’s full of people who have made really terrible mistakes and decisions that they’ll spend the rest of their lives trying to fix – while trying not to make those mistakes worse in the process – and just try to do better even with the deck heavily stacked against them. I appreciate flawed humans trying to make a difference in the world far more than the perfect hero who turns things right with a touch of their hand. 

hellocarbonbasedbiped:

nitewrighter:

Scooby Doo idea: Daphne Blake as the weird rich kid whose parents signed her up for a shit-ton of rich-kid extracurriculars like polo, fencing, and all of this other shit so they wouldn’t have to deal with her/bolster her college resume. She puts a lot of effort into actually being good at all these extra-curriculars bc she’s competing with all of her ~super successful and talented~ sisters for attention and ends up athletic as hell and socially stunted and like…really aggressive and competitive and never quite satisfied with anything she’s doing. The only other ‘High Society’ kid who can put up with her is Norville “Shaggy” Rogers —an anxious stoner with freaky strict parents whose only friend prior to Daphne was his equally anxious rescue dog—Daphne’s been beating up Shaggy’s bullies for years. Then there’s student council dweeb Fred Jones who’s always been groomed to be this ‘leader’ by his parents and is always pressured to go to these youth leadership things and stuff and yeah he’s pretty good at directing group projects, but really Fred’s kind of shy and more interested in engineering, forensics and maybe criminal justice and he’s been friends with this chick Velma Dinkley in engineering club who’s brilliant but she’s also tactless, awkward and very bitterly sarcastic to cover up for the fact that her book smarts far outweigh her social skills.

 So then there’s this mystery downtown and all five of them show up and there’s a mutual, “Oh hey it’s you: The weird kid from my school. What are you doing here?” and everyone goes around. Fred’s like, “Oh I knew the owners of this place and they said they might have to close down because of this ghost and I told Velma about it and Velma thinks we can get to the bottom of this.” And Shaggy’s like, “Scoob and I didn’t want to be home right now and we honestly didn’t know about the ghost but hey Daphne’s here so we feel safe enough to hang out and maybe Scoob can sniff out some clues or something.” And then everyone turns and looks at Daphne and Daphne’s just like, “I want to fight a fucking ghost.” 

I appreciate all of this.

slayingbells:

a short selection of slightly angsty shaw-centric root & shaw headcanons:

  • bed sharing – actual, on purpose, literal sleeping together in the same bed in a manner apart from sex – does not happen quickly or easily. shaw needs personal space, doesn’t do relationships for a myriad of reasons. and she knows that letting root stay, asking her to, is saying so much more than that. is making them something more than that. something she isn’t ready for for a long time. so they go on missions, they have sex, they know each other’s crash pads, but no one stays the night. not like that.
  • this changes for no particular reason after a long mission, and post-mission sex. shaw’s lying in the bed, sweaty, tired, content; and root is getting up to get dressed again and leave. shaw tugs on her hand and tells her to stay, almost offhand. and that’s that, because all root ever needed was permission. it takes shaw longer to sleep that night, but she does, stretched out on her side of the bed with the crappier pillow out of two crappy pillows. root, happy on her side, feeling shaw’s warmth in the bed, falls asleep to the sound of shaw’s breathing.

  • neither of them are cuddlers. again, shaw likes and needs her personal space, she’s not into spooning at all. being the big spoon would just be awkward and being the little spoon impedes her and leaves her vulnerable in case something happens which is not something she is going to let happen. (pre-s4 she also had the safety of her crash pad violated by root who also tazed her when she woke up, giving another reason for her to be hyper alert and paranoid about not being alone.) root understands this and respects it – she’s not clingy anyway, just being near shaw is more than enough for her. 

  • shaw doesn’t react well to being touched in her sleep. root sometimes accidentally kicks or moves a lot and wakes up shaw – so she ends up with shaw’s gun in her face or with shaw holding her arm in a death grip. it’s an automatic reaction. more than once shaw has flashed back to root tazing her in that situation. they don’t really talk about it but root will quietly reassure shaw that it’s her, makes sure she can see her hands, and keep calm whilst shaw relaxes again. shaw never kicks root out of the bed but sometimes she’ll leave the bed herself, get a drink or just sit in the quiet with herself.