For All Mankind | Margo + Smiling

Kiss the fourteenth, in a rush of adrenaline.

For All Mankind, Margo x Sergei. AU set a little ahead of S4, but diverges from S3. Margo had never wanted to go to space.

Oy! Does anybody have a reblog (or whatever), or the original post of the Piotr Adamczyk scene screencap from Go Ahead Brother? The one where he's scruffy and asleep on a couch? I need it. For reasons.

EDIT! UPDATE! @lis5664 found it! Thank you!! See:

https://www.tumblr.com/nadia-el-mansours/767964283777712128/burritoagain-is-this-the-one-you-mean?source=share

don't sweat the technique

>> [Margo] seems to be such a tightly wound individual. So I was wondering if you could talk to us a little bit about the roots of her tension. Because she seems like there’s so much repression, she’s holding so much in, but she expresses it through little moments that mean volumes when they come from her.

In season 1, there is this really kind of dynamite scene between Molly Cobb and Margo. And it’s right after a sim goes wrong, and Molly storms out, and Margo says, ‘What are you doing in there?’ And essentially, Margo says, ‘No no no, you have to be perfect.’ There is no room for air because, you know, a guy can mess up and he’s gonna get ten more tries. A woman messes up once, and that’s, you know, you’re done. So I think to a certain degree what you are seeing is that [...] Margo has to play things close to the vest. Because she knows […] she can’t make a mistake. So I think in some ways what you are seeing is her tracking something, or maybe something flickering across her eyes where there’s a little bit of reaction, but then she’s gotta cover that. And I think what’s been kind of interesting is that you see for three seasons how that evolves, as she becomes more and more powerful, and also more and more seasoned. I think sometimes, too, another interesting thing is as you become more experienced, there are certain things that maybe you show a little bit more about what you think, because you’ve seen so much and there really isn’t someone that is above you anymore. But then, in season 4, because Margo’s kind of thrown back to the bottom of the pecking order, she really has to keep everything buttoned up. And I also think that’s because Margo’s playing the most intense game of chess. Literally her life is at stake. And I think once she’s been interrogated and then becomes part of Roscosmos, she just never knows how  the tectonic plates beneath her feet are shifting. I think that’s part of it, too – she doesn’t know how much of it is safe to share. She’s always been a very private person, but I think in season 4 it’s really– now I’m working for a woman who if you really cross her once, you’re gone. […] And that’s one of the reasons that I felt like it was so fun to play all of the scenes in episode 6, in the storage room. You get to see this picture of her, up close, where she’s not having to kind of mask what she thinks.

Sergei + being a smug bastard (complimentary)

#when bae looks spiffy

Reminds me of New Girl's Jessica Day in the episode "Table 34", after she has kissed Nick:

"He just, like, grabbed me and he took me. He was a man and I was a woman, and it was firm but tender. Yea, I saw through space and time for a minute, but that's not the point."

I'd include other words like: devour, release, and vibrant desire in there somewhere, though.

I would like you to kiss me.

omg. I love him so much.

Jason Mantzoukas's Series 19 Interview | Taskmaster

Laura Roslin in 2x09 Flight of the Phoenix

That was, uh, certainly lively. I’ll take that as a compliment. As I intended.