how about Thomas’ inner monologue during the reunion? (or really any scene, tbh. whenever u talk about thomas it’s Comedy Gold)

candlewinds:

omg my friend if you are looking for Comedy Urca Gold the reunion is not the place to go are you sure you want me to do this tOO LATE I’M DOING IT GET READY TO CRY

Thing #1 I’m Sobbing Into My Sleeve About: THE SLOW TURN

I love how thomas is the only one to turn around, and that we don’t know exactly what prompted him to do so. if you watch his face just before he begins to turn, he has this expression that almost looks like slow, soft, creeping realization. as the show itself has sailed right into the Land of Myth™, the transcendent nature of this whole scene fits the tone perfectly, BUT this little moment is also so gorgeously human, because these moments of “magic” do indeed happen in everyday life!!!!! it seems to me like thomas feels that, a question in the air, and when he turns around he sees the answer. (it’s like when you’re washing dishes in the kitchen and the water’s running loud but you just know someone familiar is coming up behind you, except thomas has been washing dishes for over a decade. I’m dead inside.) LOOK UP ‘ROMANCE’ IN THE DICTIONARY AND THIS IS WHAT YOU’LL FIND FOLKS!!

Thing #2 I’m Sobbing Into My Sleeve About: THE UNBLINKING “ARE YOU REAL?” FACE

just looking at this is making me feel jittery because I can only imagine that, as still as his whole body is, thomas’ heart was beating out of his chest in this moment. it’s funny how humans often react to unimaginable tragedy and unimaginable bliss in the same exact way, with the need to keep one’s feet planted in the ground and eyes wide open and let the world go on without them for a moment (or two or three or a hundred) while they make sense of it. I’m not sure what thomas had heard of flint and miranda over the years, but I can only assume that he often thought of what this moment might’ve felt like. of course he recognizes james instantly, but I think there’s a short period here where thomas is just taking it all in, tying strings between the james from his memory and imagination and the one who’s standing before him, and waiting just a a few seconds longer to make sure he’s real, that he doesn’t disappear.

Thing #3 I’m Sobbing Into My Sleeve About: THE “WE NEED NOT HESITATE, MY LOVE” LEAP INTO JAMES’ ARMS

THE FACT THAT THE SECOND THOMAS COMES TO TERMS WITH THIS REALITY THERE IS NOT A SINGLE QUALM LEFT TO BE HAD AS HE THROWS HIS ARMS AROUND THE MAN HE LOVES!!!! I’M!!!! DYING!!!! I don’t think there’s any way to properly sum up what’s going on in thomas’ head right here but I suppose it’s a mixture of “oh my god” and “finally” and “I love you I love you I love you I love you-”

Thing #4 I’m Sobbing Into My Sleeve About: THE NUZZLING!!!!

aka the “time has been taken from us but now we shall have all the time in the world so let us take our time” beautiful soft nose nudges <33333 thomas hasn’t seen the truest love of his life in forever HE HASN’T TOUCHED THAT FACE IN FOREVER and now he will be damned if he’s ever going to stop touching that face with his face.

[wiping tear]

I don’t know how much I actually did thomas monologue here and how much I actually just did uh crying screamy jess things BUT!!!! THERE WE GO >:) also the only funny thing about all this is that this whole post is a JOKE because the things that make me sob into my sleeve are ALL THE THINGS ABOUT THIS SCENE. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I’VE BEEN WRITING THIS POST FOR NEARLY AN HOUR AND I FEEL LIKE MY HEART HAS BEEN GENTLY CARVED OUT OF MY CHEST AND ROASTED IN THE OVEN AND THEN BLANKETED IN MASHED POTATOES AND I NEED TO GO LIE DOWN. GOODBYE 💔