There are two kinds of people while watching black mirror season 1 episode 1.
Type A: This is so sick!! I can't watch it anymore.
Type B : This is so sick!! I love it!!!
i’m hearing all this hype for nikolai and wylan casting and like i get it but tolya and tamar !!!!!
all this talk of saints, sankta zoya, sankta alina, sankt adrik, can i be the one to start the cult of sankt kaz of ketterdam? i shall be his most devoted priestess and build his church on the ruins of the emerald palace on the east stave, bless his definitely not spotless soul
I invented a new word.
It's called plagiarism.
the whole concept of tiktok being the new tumblr for kids makes me insane bc imagine the stupidest shit you’ve said on here as a kid but instead of a text post no one cares about it’s a video of you physically saying that shit out loud on the internet forever. i would just have to die
Reasons to Stay Alive by Mathew Gray Gubler
it’s always “wyd?” and never “i would come for you. i would come for you. and if i couldn’t walk, i’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together — knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that’s what we do. we never stop fighting.”
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
— V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State (via books-n-quotes)
Handon is getting so boring and annoying now. Like stop making the entire show about them.
No one talks enough about that one scene where Kaz sweeps a cape over Inej and there are an incredulous amount of flower petals scattering in the wind, and Inej is like these were my mother's favourite flowers, but Kaz is like cool story bro I'm glad you're back :) This boy couldn't care less about these flowers, because he's so focused on his scheme to get her away from Van Eck.
And Inej grows up believing there's no one out there for her who fits the description her father gave her. No one has learned her favourite flower, song, or sweet. She associated these specific items with affection.
And just...Kaz doesn't give Inej these exact things. Not flowers, but a knife. Not sweets, but a ship. Not a song, but the sound of freedom as she rushes to meet her parents at the harbour.
Kaz challenges the idea of love Inej was taught, and I think it's beautiful because what her father said still remains true. It's not about gift-giving, but how well the person has gotten to know you, and Kaz understands what Inej needs goes beyond flowers.
So when they're surrounded by these petals, yes, it's wonderfully symbolic for Inej, but the true expression of Kaz's loyalty isn't in these types of gestures: it lies in the fact that he came back for her, that he fights with and for her. Inej doesn't need flowers, but she needs someone to put her complete trust in. And it is that boy who earns her heart.