Lieberman Would Have Rolled On The Floor If He Saw Frank Fidgeting And Internally Losing His Mind Over

idk if i told the full story on here but i signed up for a research study where they were testing a new opioid, and it was supposed to be up to 5 injections increasing the dose to see what people could tolerate

i got the first dose and almost immediately fainted. they had to call in a whole medical team and it was a huge fucking deal

i was kicked out of the study and got a phone call later where they were supposed to tell me what the drug was, so i could avoid it in the future. they told me it was saline water. a placebo. i fainted from the placebo effect.

anyway, it's been a few months and i just got an email from the same department asking me to be a research participant in a new study: testing the effects of open-label placebo.

open label placebo is when the subjects and the researchers all know it's a placebo. they're testing the power of my mind. my power to imagine anything.

i like to think that they chose me for this specifically based on their past experience with me. "get the guy who fainted like a little bitch boy from saline water." anyway i just submitted all my info and i'm looking forward to getting started.

One thing I am sad that they didn't bring up in the final is Karen's feelings about Matt taking a bullet for Fisk because Fisk is someone who has ruined her life and Matt's life countless times and you can't tell me she would have nothing to say about it and I understand that is why she came back but you aren't even going to show her reaction to it all and I don't understand why they couldn't have brought it up but I did find it interesting that Frank was the one who asked him why he did it

wizard who's too lazy to name things properly and so can't ever find the incantation she's looking for bc her spellbook is full of spells called shit like 'aaaa1' and 'asdfghjk'

frank castle be like: 🥺🥺🥺 you asked me for a favour karen 🥺🥺🥺 and i did it 🥺🥺🥺 for you 🥺🥺🥺

I'll be damned if this rewatch hasn't made me into a Matt/Elektra shipper

And just to be clear: this is a rewatch, so I know she's going to be revived.

Bonus points to Kastle bits:

s/o for noticing that Karen shone her flashlight on Frank’s case files (from the trial, DD S2) right exactly when she said “It’s just adrenaline, I’m sure” so I also rewatched the scene and it is indeed his files

now i’m gonna think about this a lot too

source from @postmurdock on x

THE PUNISHER  1x05 “Gunner”

SHE HAS HIS PHONE NUMBER SHE CALLLED HIM SHE PICKED UP HER PHONE AND PHONE CALLED HIM ON THE TELEPHONE TO ASK HIM TO HELP AND HE DID IT HE SAID OKAY ON THE PHONE THE TELEPHONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TELEPHONES AND SHE ASKED HIM AND THEY KNOW EACH OTHERS TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND THEY USE THEIR PHONES TO HAVE PHONE CALL CONVERSATIONS

The way Frank sighs and immediately leaves when he hears them mention “the blonde” over the radio SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP we are so back

t shirt that says i've misunderstood many social interactions