Bend It Like Beckham (2003)

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Halt and Catch Fire & Text Posts: The Donna Emerson Edition

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SEULGI, Red Velvet 2025 Season's Greetings

Joe and Gordon and Donna and Cameron are meant to be in the same sense as long-separated lovers in a wartime melodrama, high-school sweethearts in a sitcom, the romantic leads in one of Shakespeare’s plays. Each pair is made up of two perfect foils, and perfect complements: Joe chases ideas and Gordon tugs on the reins; Cam focuses on the details, while Donna takes the bird’s-eye view. As in any marriage, these roles create friction—the balance of true equals is never perfect, nor could it be—but they’re rooted in profound understanding of the other person’s strengths. Joe and Gordon, Donna and Cameron: Without each other, the work is unsatisfying, full of would-haves, could-haves and might-have-beens. - Matt Brennan (x)

Civil War (2024)

April 5, 2024: May 5, 2020, John Okrent

May 5, 2020 John Okrent

It is beautiful to be glad to see a person every time you see them, as I was to see Juan, the maintenance man, with whom it was always the same brotherly greeting—each of us thumping a fist over his heart and grinning, as though we shared a joke, or bread. I barely knew him. Evenings in clinic, me finishing my work, him beginning his— fluorescence softening in the early dark. He wasn't even fifty, had four grandchildren, fixed what was broken, cleaned for us, caught the virus, and died on his couch last weekend. And what right have I to write this poem, who will not see him in his uniform of ashes, only remember him, in his Seahawks cap, and far from sick, locking up after me, turning up his music.

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- But last night, we… we talked. It was good. I don’t understand. - You know why I wanted us to meet here? I just didn’t want to forget what had happened, how painful that was.

#you know what? #i don’t think donna ever thought she could lose cameron so completely #i don’t think she ever thought it was a possibility #even years later when she finally see her again #look how she says ‘it’s been four years’ #like it was only a matter of TIME #that of course they would be together again eventually #she thought of her great idea because she thought it would appeal to CAMERON #(and then the boys invited themselves - but it was clearly about cameron - about them being together again) #just after that she says #that all she was EVER trying to do was to help Cam #and if she’s honest with herself it’s probably not the whole truth because she got caught up in the whole business #but she’s probably not lying as to what her base motivation always was #she was clearly convinced it was the best move for their company #and that cam was just her usual stubborn self when it came to change #they lost trust in each other and eventually it was their undoing #but donna never stopped believing they would come back to each other #and if that isn’t the most devastating thing…

#the fact that gordon called this perfectly must have been UNBEARABLE #imagine the drive home post IPO vote #gordon: i hate to say i told you s- #donna: i want a divorce (  @luckywedgewood)