lemon and tangerine’s long list of odd couple assassin things they do that other people will never be privy to, like tangerine doing all of lemon’s ironing when they’re on international jobs because he says he needs the stress relief (when he really just wants to iron for lemon), or lemon laying out on the floor when his back’s compressed and telling tangerine to walk barefoot along his spine until something pops into place.
stitching each other up with silk thread and a sewing needle (tangerine’s hands are jittery but his suture work is almost surgically perfect). ordering takeout and sitting side by side on the same bed (one’s for luggage and work ~materials, one’s for sleeping) so they can dig into their thai food buffet style with chopsticks while shit telly plays on the tube. when tangerine’s hair is driving him nuts and he’s not in london to see his preferred barber, lemon will sit him down on the toilet lid or side of the tub in their hotel room and neatly trim his ends for him. whenever they visit the states for a job their favorite stupid little tradition is finding the nearest dairy queen with the rental car navigation and getting a dipped soft serve cone for the road.
thinking about this again today. once again for future posterity: tangerine provides food, shelter, protection, and amenities for lemon because it’s his love language; tangerine is a natural Provider. and in turn, lemon gives tangerine validation and emotional support about who he is as a person. the eye contact and the intimate face touch is reassurance tangerine needs in this moment after so much has already gone sideways. I’d argue that this eye, in this one split second film still, is probably the most vulnerable we see tangerine in the entire movie. even when he finds lemon ‘dead’ in the lavatory he still steels himself and tries to suppress most of his emotional response there, with no living soul to witness him cry. but right here you can see directly into his raw, little fucked up piece of a soul for just a flash, because we’re viewing him over lemon’s shoulder, directly into the private sanctity of their bond. incredible. aaron taylor johnson and brian tyree henry did ALL THAT for US
Something interesting i spotted on twitter. For anyone interested in going on T!
People in the notes asking why this is directed at only people on T when this can help transgender and cis women too - it can! This thread is a direct response to a person on twitter who detransitioned from a trans guy, who then went on a rant about how testosterone made them “ugly” and how they lost a lot of hair and, in classic transphobic detransitioner fashion, tried to dissuade people from transitioning bc they will be stuck with the “ugly” after effects forever, like balding (Which, in itself, isnt an ugly trait!)
This person made a thread to show that even on testosterone, you can grow back hair youve lost…if youve done your research about it anyway!
Hey! I’m the OP of the twitter thread. A friend of mine let me know that this took off here on tumblr and I just wanted to say a few words!
I highly encourage people to read the replies to the original twitter thread linked here.
There’s so much additional community information in there I wasn’t able to add to my thread, and as I struggle with multiple disabilities, instead of adding the information directly to my thread I instead encouraged people to read everyone’s wonderful experiences, information and replies as there was so much!
I also wanted to address that this wasn’t a direct response to that transphobic detransitioner at all. I actually didn’t even know about it until way later. I just saw people talking about balding and knew it was my time to shine!
I’ve been active about raising awareness of balding in trans people even before I started balding myself. It’s talked about far less in trans communities than it is in cis men. There’s a lot of shame to it so trans people are less likely to discuss it or think about talking to medical professionals about possible treatments. Also considering how many of us get mistreated by medical professionals too.
I just try to raise awareness when I can to boost discussion, confidence and awareness of balding for trans people specifically so we know we’re not alone 💖
I could talk about this all day but I won’t so I just want to say a big thank you to the trans community on tumblr for joining in on the conversation and helping raise awareness as well! It makes my heart burst with emotion seeing trans people coming together to talk about things for awareness 🥺💖
This is also for the Leo Surprise Birthday Party Event, ending tomorrow (Leo’s birthday)!
If you want to see more Leo content you can check out the event @detroitbhappy and on Twitter, wherein you can win an art prize when you share Leo content with the event tag #LeoSBDP and submit he URL on this form!
HK and the Lieutenant committing some very not safe for work practices in the interrogation room. GV is watching from the other side of the mirror. Full image can be found here on my twitter.✨
this isn’t the usual thing I’d share on my stupid nerd blog, but this is SO important.
I was nearly crushed in a crowd like this once. It was terrifying because you have NO control over the panicking mass of humans around you. you are just at the mercy of all this chaotic force. this is a real thing that can happen very suddenly! it did happen in the news recently!
My situation was, the olympics was happening in my city, I was on my way home from school, and a crowd of people suddenly flooded into the street around me. in seconds it went from, busy-city-street-crowded, to, wtf I can’t even move crowded.
I was so pressed against the backpack of the man in front of me, my feet lifted off the ground a moment. People were climbing lamp posts, signs, bus shelters, trees, everything to get up out of it. it was like the street became an ocean of people, and all the people’s survival instincts were making them dumber. everyone was yelling. no one knew how to solve it.
police, fire fighters and medics saved us by breaking the locks on the inside of the mall we were trapped next to. a huge group flooded into the building, releasing a bit of the pressure on the people outside. I was in that group that got in.
We were trapped in the mall awhile. Because the olympics was on, they had big screens in a few sitting areas of the mall that would normally be showing the games. but now the coverage was focused on this crowd surge. They showed a helicopter shot of the building we were now in, totally surrounded by colorful dots. a solid mass of humans with no space between.
I know someone was partially trampled and needed medics, because I saw that, but i don’t know the statistics on who else was hurt, hopefully no one killed!
I don’t know if these methods can definitely save you, but they might give you a better chance. so watch and share!
Sharing to my own stupid nerd blog for the same reason, this is SO IMPORTANT. Human crushes are one of the most unexpected ways to die. People go out to a show or a sports game, and make it there, but they never come back.
Other strategies include staying away from large obstacles (like fences) that you could get crushed against, and doing your best to stay above the crowd. Try to climb onto something if you can.
And also — not to get nitpicky with deadly tragedies, but they’re called “human crushes,” not “stampedes.” It’s an important difference in description and also in respect. The deaths usually happen because the victims are pinned together in a tight space, they can’t breathe (as in the video) and they suffocate. “Stampede” doesn’t convey what actually happened to those people. The crush that happened in Seoul recently wasn’t because people “stampeded,” it was because they couldn’t move at all and they suffocated. But calling it a “stampede,” you’d think it was the people themselves that ran over each other, like wild animals. It’s disrespectful and untrue.
Horrifyingly, the victims of many human crushes have been blamed for their own deaths, which are usually purely accidental or due to criminal mismanagement from authorities. If you’re in a mental place to read about tragedies and police corruption, check out the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 97 people died due to the incompetence of the police, who then blamed everything on the victims: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
from the article linked above:
“Many uninjured fans assisted the injured; several attempted CPR and others tore down advertising hoardings to use as stretchers.
Chief Superintendent John Nesbit of South Yorkshire Police later briefed Michael Shersby MP that leaving the rescue to the fans was a deliberate strategy, and is quoted as saying “We let the fans help so that they would not take out their frustration on the police” at a Police Federation conference.“
