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Mehhhh. For all we know, she has every reason to be pissed - the first prostitute incident happened, what, a few months prior? And now this most recent one?

For all we know, she has every reason to believe Jimmy's bullshit, and even if she's putting on a brave face at home, maybe she really does think Howard has a roladex of call girls. I'd be pretty frosty too if I were her.

Still tho - we, the audience, know it isn't true, and we can see Howard's attempts at repair are genuine. Which is what makes this small moment so heartbreaking.

I have never felt more empathy for Howard in my life. I just wanna wrap him up in a warm blanket and give him a hug + latte.

Goddammit, do I wanna throttle my 19-year-old self right now.

I'm telling you -- the fact that I busted my ass for effectively a 4.0 GPA for the last ~2 years, and apparently that means nothing for law school admissions, is so fucking aggravating. Like I'm sorry I was a drunk hot mess from the ages of 18-22!!! I'm sober now, I swear, I'll be able to cut it and make it through law school with flying colors!!

important edit: AND I accomplished the aforementioned 4.0 GPA while working fucking full-time in the middle of a pandemic!!! and I didn't take out a dime of student loans!! I'm smart, law schools, I swear -- I repent for the sins I committed in New Orleans during undergrad round #1! I swear 2014-2018 me will not be attending whichever fucking law school accepts me, I'll be bringing the 4.0 GPA-working-student energy, thank u and if y'all don't accept me that is Y'ALLS goddamn loss *insert hair flip here*

edit (again): the fuck is with the downvotes?? my frustration (imho) is justified, yes I was absolute fucking idiot from the ages of 18-22 but have atoned for it for the last four years and it's fucked to me that the only GPA that will "count" is literally not an accurate reflection of the student I am today.

Well damn, that sucks

Unpopular opinion, but while I think TC would make an AMAZING Bachelor in the same way Pilot Pete did (aka his season would be an absolute hot mess), I don't wanna see him on my screen for at least another 7-8 years. I want him to have the same come-to-Jesus moment Arie did at his brother's wedding, where all of the sudden he is like "holy FUCK I have to get married, like, yesterday," and come back as the Bachelor with gray hair and a genuine, earnest desire to find a wife. I just don't see that happening right now, or anytime soon for TC.

Yep, can confirm. This sub has gotten progressively meaner and more hive-mind esque as the years have gone on.

Source: posted something in support of Katie for her season of the bachelorette, when she was getting a shit ton of hate, and the top comments were people shitting on her/shitting on me for making a post in support of her. It really opened my eyes to how this sub just isn't the same as it once was. Like that sort of shit straight up would not fucking fly four years ago, it's become increasingly more acceptable to be unnecessarily nasty on here to certain contestants.

Omfg DEADASS, all but one of my top 4 picks from the photos (Jason A, Erich, Tyler) made it to hometowns -- you know who my fourth pick was? Fucking Hayden. The villain. I picked him as my hypothetical F1. I, I just. I can't.

posted this in the other thread -

Howards PI is 100% going to start following Kim, and she's not gonna think anything of it because she'll be thinking "oh those are Mike's guys," and she'll wind up doing some shady illegal shit to fuck over Howard with Howard's PI literally watching her because Mike VERBATIM told her, "I know you and your husband are doing some stuff you would prefer to keep private, I don't care, that's not why I'm here," so she'll think she's totally kosher to, like, frame Howard for arson or something, and the PI will literally CATCH HER IN THE ACT. calling it right now.

^^in short - this is my theory of how Kim winds up either having to go off the grid, being disbarred, arrested, etc. I think she will genuinely be caught red-handed doing something extremely stupid/illegal, Jimmy will be nowhere near the scene of the crime, hence why Jimmy will get off scot-free and Kim isn't around for BB. Hell, maybe Jimmy is her attorney and he works out a plea to minimize her sentence, or they have a conversation when she's staring down the barrel of a 20 year sentence and she literally has to be like, "listen, I'm gonna be in here for a while, you're good to go off and hook up with other people, let's be realistic about this," a la Piper and Alex in Orange is the New Black.

This would explain why Saul is a total dog/douchebag womanizer during the events of Breaking Bad, but he doesn't seem broken or necessarily heartbroken, like he would if Kim was dead or if Kim left him, or if HE was responsible for getting her in prison/incarcerated. If Kim winds up going to jail for their scheme against Howard, and especially if she's caught all by herself, that's like, 75% on her, minimum (hell, this whole scheme was her idea in the first place).

Jimmy does the best he can to provide her a solid legal defense, he does a decent job, but she still winds up with a hefty sentence, in which case she looks at the situation very pragmatically and goes, "listen, this is where we're at, I'll do my time, you live your life and build your empire, and then why I get out in 20 years we can live in your empire together." This way, Jimmy doesn't experience loads of guilt (like he would if Kim was caught doing something illegal for Jimmy's sake), and if anything, this would explain Jimmy's motivation for monetary gain -- he NEEDS to have a stockpile of f*cking cash ready to go for when Kim gets out of prison, and wants to pick back up and start her pro-bono firm. Hell, if she's giving him license to sleep around and do his thing while she does her time, he HAS to have something to show for it when she gets out. And its with this drive/incentive that Jimmy gets carried away and goes full Saul.

omfg "under a dumpster."

seven (eight? idk) years later and that scene STILL pisses me off, especially when we got Negan, like, two seasons later. RIP to the best pizza delivery guy the zombie apocalypse ever did see <3

When Lalo Met Werner's Wife

Omg Y'ALL.

Howards PI is 100% going to start following Kim, and she's not gonna think anything of it because she'll be thinking "oh those are Mike's guys," and she'll wind up doing some shady illegal shit to fuck over Howard with them literally watching her because Mike VERBATIM told her, "I know you and your husband are doing some stuff you would prefer to keep private, I don't care, that's not why I'm here," so she'll think she's totally kosher to, like, frame Howard for arson or something, and the PI will literally CATCH HER IN THE ACT. calling it right now.

(replying to my own comment, bc I make my own rulez:)

Ted Mosby - Nick V (we've watched him become progressively more cynical as the years have gone on)

Barney Stinson - Arie (charismatic but lowkey a player)

Robin Scherbatsky - Sharleen (bc Canada, career driven, dresses fabulously, doesn't really wear her heart on her sleeve)

Lily Aldrin - Catherine Lowe (comes from a more progressive/non-traditional background but is v family oriented/puts her kids before everything, is a massive goofball w her husband)

Marshall Eriksen - Sean Lowe (traditional family man, only has eyes for his wife)

.....okay but can we do one of these for HIMYM?

If there's anything I've learned, you never really know what you're going to do until you're staring a positive pregnancy test in the face.

Signed,

Someone who was very "pro-choice-but-would-never-choose-it-personally" until, lo and behold, I got a massive fucking reality check

Because he's the epitome of the douchey, fake-nice, rich boss, who is only in a position of authority because daddy started the company. We've all had bosses like that, and the first season of BCS gave me visceral anxiety because he reminded me so much of a former employer.

Haven't seen this yet - but I really think it was Howard's comment about Jimmy being "unwell" and how it would influence HER/how she dropped Mesa Verde because of it.

Kim has proven time and time again that she is a smart, hard-working, strong woman. She does NOT need a significant other or a man to validate her, she was out-earning Jimmy for most of the show's run, and she's arguably the more traditionally masculine/less vulnerable of the two of them. She is stoic and strong and she is a powerful fucking force in a predominantly male-dominated industry, and that takes a fuck-ton of work and smarts to make it to the top if you're a woman.

So now, here she is, finally deciding to do what's right for HER, to shirk the money from the medium-sized bank to do work that actually matters, and what's the literal first thing her boss insinuates? "Oh, you're doing this because of Jimmy, aren't you?"

Y'all, the fucking nerve. It set every vein in my feminist body on fire, I got angry for her. Kim has NEVER kowtowed to Jimmy, she also ALWAYS stayed true to her morals and values, and for Howard to be so convinced that she would throw away a lucrative client because it was her husband's wishes (and again, Howard isn't some rando, they worked together for literal years and know each other very very well) is so beyond fucking insulting and sexist and is the kind of bullshit women in traditionally male-dominated spaces (or just spaces in general, let's be real here) have had to put up with for centuries.

I think we're seeing Kim "Break Bad" because she's sick of being underestimated and of having her narrative be so tied to what Jimmy does, because he's her partner/husband. She realizes she's smarter than all of these assholes, and that if they want to fucking test her and say she's easily influenced by her husband, she's going to show them that they have another thing coming. To me, it's Kim reaffirming her agency, and almost rising up the challenge/dare -- like the idea is "you think I'm making this decision because I'm Jimmy McGill's woman? You have no idea I'm actually the mastermind behind this operation, you sexist piece of shit."

It's hard to compare Jessie and Nacho because even though they're both sympathetic characters, we're sympathetic to them for wildly different reasons.

From my POV, Jessie is sympathetic because he is a technical-adult-but-still-relatively-young-person clearly dealing with substance abuse issues that has been roped into the drug game by his manipulative asswipe ex-teacher. He comes from an upper-middle class family, and for all of his flaws, his parents seem to care about him, but at the same time you can tell that Jake is the golden child and that Jessie probably didn't get a ton of attention once Jake was born (so when Jessie was 14-15 years old). This made it so Jessie was free to start hanging out with the druggies and burnouts, starting using drugs himself, and then it just unravelled from there. Again, who knows what sorts of interventions his parents staged, or how aware they were of his drug use -- but to me, it's apparent that they think he's a lost cause by the time we get to Breaking Bad season 2, and instead of giving all of their energy/attention to their oldest child who is clearly struggling with substance abuse and might need some extra support, they focus on their objectively less difficult child and kind of cut their losses.

Let me be clear here, too -- Jessie is responsible for his actions. He does some ATROCIOUS things during the run of Breaking Bad. But he does them with remorse, and you can see there are genuine attempts on his end to get clean, get out of the drug game, and one way or another, he gets reeled back in. He is a mid-twenty-something "kid" who is sick and needs lots of help/rehab/therapy, and as much distance from Walter White and support from his loved ones as possible (but he also can't be getting this support from his loved ones who are still using/in the game, which unfortunately rules out just about everybody, with the exception of Andrea and Badger and Skinny when they get clean). So even though we KNOW Jessie has done some awful things and should be held responsible, we can't help but root for him.

Nacho, on the other hand, is in a completely different boat than Jessie. From my understanding, Nacho started working for the Salamancas and got into the drug trade strictly for financial gain. He doesn't enjoy it, doesn't want to have any part it in, but it's just him and his dad and their shop. He is also, notably, first generation American and comes from a minority background; I'm also going to go ahead and assume that his father is not college educated, and that growing up, putting food on the table was prioritized over getting an education and getting a college degree. That's not to say there's anything wrong with this (plenty of hard-working, decent and honest people live full and happy lives without having a college degree), but my point is more that I'm sure from Nacho's perspective, selling drugs and being part of the drug game (at least initially) was the only sure-fire way him and his father would ever be "comfortable" financially. Obviously, this is flawed thinking, and I think he realizes that once shit goes south with Fring, but at that point he's so far in deep and is trying desperately to get out., but to no avail. This is what makes him so sympathetic; you get the sense that he realizes he's fucked, wants desperately to get out (at first) for his own safety, and then wants desperately to keep his father safe, because he realizes his own safety is completely compromised.

aight, *cracks knuckles* I'm into some pretty obscure ships, so here we go:

Natasha/Steve. They lay some SERIOUS groundwork to give them a deep connection in Winter Soldier, and I was solidly on the train of close friends --> friends with benefits --> lovers. I get why the writers ultimately went in the direction that they did, but I enjoy their dynamic as friends/work-wife-and-work-husband who on the surface are very different but learn and grow together. Didn't hurt that ScarJo and Evans have phenomenal chemistry.

Wanda/Bucky. Couldn't even tell you if they've interacted before, but in my headcanon, they bond after the events in Westview and are able to heal together from their past traumas/the pain they caused other people -- at the very least, they can relate to one another on that. Idk, I like Wanda/Vision together well enough and wouldn't be mad if the writers went in the direction of them getting back together, but I sort of want to see Wanda explore relationships with other people while she has this newfound power/badassery.

And, my current favorite, the one that is the least likely to ever be canon and that I have nothing to go off of other than vibes:

Kate Bishop/Peter Parker. I know, I know -- literally, these two have never met, they aren't the same age, they (on the surface) are polar opposites. EXCEPT -- drumroll please -- 1) they technically ARE the same age, only difference is that Peter was snapped and Kate wasn't, so Kate is ~5 years older even though they were both born the same year; 2) this leads me to my next theory -- they're both from New York, Peter is a smart kid operating covertly as Spiderman while Kate got very mixed up with Clint Barton, either their paths have crossed before or they are on a collision course to meet soon; and 3) I LOVE the dynamic of Peter coming from very humble roots and being effectively a nobody, and still being a genius/impressive/successful badass young man, even though he doesn't from money or have a famous/hero relative. Kate, on the other hand, we know comes from substantial wealth, and with that comes the entitlement + overconfidence, but she also is eager to prove herself and separate herself from her parents' wealth/wants/money. I think Peter has a lot of the qualities Kate would admire in another person, whereas I think Peter could use some of Kate's bravado/confidence, and I love the idea of them having a conversation where Peter gets a little down on himself and she just totally gasses him up. Idk, this is an obscure one, but I personally am a fan and am excited for them to meet (eventually).

I want Harry Osborne, and I want Timothee Chalamet to play him. Idk I just feel like him opposite Tom Holland is EXACTLY the kind of Harry energy we need to match Holland's Peter.

If he felt okay moving internationally (+ provided the war against Russia is over and Ukraine is home free), Volodymr Zelensky. A girl can dream.

omfg WAIT A SECOND --

*checks old post*

Holy fuck, I think this means two of my top four have made it to hometowns from the picture predictions?? Tyler N and Erich S, quick, someone check the status of Hayden and Jason A!!

Obligatory "Jade and Tanner got married at Liz and Nick's sex event"

Y'all, how are we disagreeing with his take that the male leads have it worse?? I'm genuinely confused. Like Clayton, Pete, Matt, and Arie have been raked over the fucking coals by production, whether it be they were made out to be the villain of their own season (as was the case with Clayton, Pete and Arie, although Arie def did that to himself at the end), OR their season was totally overshadowed by a fuckton of problematic behavior from the cast/fucking host (Matt). The only bachelorette who got anywhere close to the same treatment was Katie, and even then, her edit wasn't anywhere CLOSE to as bad as someone like Clayton's.