#Canny Tim

[turquoisephoenix]

"Heroes don't die in their first battle, Tilly."

I was watching Disney's Sleeping Beauty and got inspired to finish this drawing of Gallowmere's most doomed-by-the-narrative friend group/polycule. From left to right is Wartilda/The Pumpkin Witch, Sir Daniel Fortesque, and Canny Tim, and no one is escaping that Battle of Gallowmere unscathed, especially not the poor woman who has to bury both her fiance and her best friend.

#MediEvil #medievil: resurrection #Sir Daniel Fortesque #Canny Tim #MediEvil Resurrection #Turquoisephoenix's Art #Pumpkin Witch #Wartilda #not sure if I'm keeping her canonical name or say she adopts it after she becomes a hermit #making Pumpkin Witch know Canny Tim too so that Tim has more friends and to make Pumpkin Witch have an even worse time #yes Dan and Wartilda are engaged

[memedievil]

Sir Daniel: If you work on a farm and your job is to take care of chickens, you are a chicken tender.

Canny Tim, eyes wide and staring up at the ceiling:

#medievil #medievil resurrection #incorrect quotes #memedievil #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim #s: tumblr

[nebbychan]

Omg yessss can we please have some Modern!Canny Tim?

Forgive me, I did not include an image this time around but this entry will be text heavy, so here we go!

Canny Tim

(31 years old)

Tim is Dan’s childhood best friend, plus his second-in-command during their time in the military. Growing up, he lived in the same neighborhood as Dan — their houses were right next to each other and was one of the few friends Dan had that would beat up any bullies he encountered. He’s earned many nicknames throughout the years; “Olive” from his mother due to his favorite afternoon snack being olives, “Little Sparrow” from a mutual friend (who only goes by his band moniker, “Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver”, no one quite knows his real name), but the one that stuck was, “Canny Tim”, primarily due to his pleasant personality and peppy attitude. Tim does not live with Dan, as he actually has his own place just out into the countryside.

After leaving the military, Tim became a beekeeper and archery instructor, and it’s not uncommon to see him outdoors either tending to the massive garden he has for the bees, or out at the range shooting at targets — visitors are often advised that severe caution be taken when approaching him, as he tends to disassociate with the world around him and it’s difficult to break his concentration. And while he’s quite proud of his work, he’s also not one to boast about it either.

Tim may appear to be the smarter one compared to Dan, but make no mistake, he can be just as reckless and stupid as he is. And he’s not exactly docile either, he has some unchecked rage too, and Dan has to hold him back every time. The one time Dan actually let Tim go, it nearly got both of them arrested.

Tim has a great love of the outdoors, but has struggled trying to convince Dan that camping is a lot of fun. Though to be fair, Dan is more of a “glamper” anyway.

With the bee farm and an archery range, this meant doubling the income and allotting several luxuries which include a custom made crossbow, which he will NOT shut up about

Absolutely LOVES D&D, it’s one of the few things that will keep him indoors for a long period of time, second to bar hopping with friends, plus watching Dan’s livestreams as it reminds him of a childhood pastime they shared, which was playing video games on the PlayStation

Has tried (and failed) to grow a mustache

While in the military, Tim studied and got a master’s degree in Horticulture, he has also worked to get a hunting license after leaving the military, plus a vendor’s license for the bee farm, as he sells the honey the bees produce.

(TW: Transphobia) Tim absolutely does not talk to his father, as far as he’s concerned, his father is dead to him. Reason why stems from when a teenage Tim came out as trans to his parents, and while his mother happily accepted him and supported him in his transition, his father had the opposite reaction, constantly misgendering and deadnaming him which then broke into screaming matches between them. This resulted in his parents getting a divorce and his mother obtaining sole custody, he’d even changed his last name to his mother’s maiden name as a way to cut all ties. Tim heard through the grapevine that his father remarried and that he and his new wife (equally as conservative as he is), have been trying for a baby, which honestly scares him a little

Tim is very close to his mother, even when she was active duty military. As a kid, he didn’t care that she was far away, so long as he got to hear her voice during weekly phone calls, and saw her whenever she had time off. The day she announced she was retiring, Tim was over the moon and had arranged a special Welcome Home dinner for the occasion, all the dishes served consisting of his mother’s absolute favorite foods

Tim knows how to cook, his father taught him how, and Dan had pestered him a bunch of times to prepare his lunches for him when they were teens. He didn’t mind it so long as Dan footed the bill for the ingredients

When it comes to Dan’s love life, Tim has always been Dan’s biggest supporter through every relationship he’s ever been in (Tim bakes honey cakes and serves it with ice cream whenever Dan goes through a breakup), the two even agreed to be each other’s best man for the other’s wedding

His favorite genre of music is Electric Swing, though if you ask him which music artist is his favorite, he will say Lady Gaga without hesitation

Has a severe allergy to celery, which will cause him to break out in hives if he touches it, or if accidentally consumed, will require medical intervention

Can’t stand horror films or games, even as young kids, Tim had to beg Dan not to tell scary stories during sleepovers or else he had to sleep with the lights on all night, nightlights wouldn’t cut it for him

#medievil #medievil resurrection #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim

[turqrambles]

One of my favorite things about MediEvil: Resurrection is how Canny Tim in the Hall of Heroes will enthusiastically ask Sir Daniel how things are going and Sir Daniel's response will be like "I'm a reanimated corpse so not very well! 8("

#MediEvil #sir daniel fortesque #medievil resurrection #Canny Tim

[pumpkingeorge]

Dan missed Halloween

#moodevil #canny tim #dan #luckily tim is there to back him up #he will share #tim made his costume all by himself #dan made one too but he missed halloween so he didn't get to wear it

[sinistarz]

I'm probably the odd one out here but I genuinely do think that the way Dan is portrayed in Fate's Arrow is perfectly in character for him. There are things that contradict here and there obviously but a lot of canons in a lot of fantasy worlds do that, so it's no bother to me. As a Star Wars and DC fan I'm used to that stuff, anyway.

I've been playing the MediEvil games since I could first hold a Ps1 controller, and before that I even watched my dad play them and read out the lore to me like a bedtime story. And I can happily say that Dan's backstory in that comic doesn't bother me or make me wish it was completely different at all.

The fact Dan was a pompous bastard when he was still alive is... incredibly fitting. Of course I do love the fanon idea of him always having been shy and reserved, but him having been a cocky, self-entitled asshat living off Daddy's trust fund while also being a liar and a massive coward makes for an absolutely perfect story. It makes his redemption when brought back from the dead, as well as his resentment towards his former self feel all the more genuine.

Like... the point is, we weren't supposed to like him. The whole point of the comic is to make the audience understand that Dan (alive) is practically irredeemable and show how absolutely unfit he was to be a captain of the guard... because that's the joke. That's always been the comedy of it. He's a jerk, he's selfish and careless and cowardly. He's awful and thats why his future self is so agitated when reflecting on his past and wants so badly to fix his errors.

It's a way of the writers explaining that if we had known Dan when he was alive, we would have hated him and never wanted him to succeed. Maybe even wanted Zarok to win, but I'm just riffing. But we didn't know him then. We knew his redemption arc only, for decades, and we already loved him. And then we were given the full story, and learn how much of a dick he was. That is incredible storytelling.

I love the fact he was an asshole. Through and through, for all the above reasons. It makes so much sense.

Additionally, his appearance. I see a lot of people ragging on the way he looks, and I get it, but let me just say that the fact he looked when alive was so rediculous and goofy only compliments the storytelling. He absolutely does not look trustworthy, or brave or powerful. He looks wonky and unkempt. When gallowmere retold the life of Dan, it makes sense that when lying about his success, they would exaggerate his conventional beauty and describe him as some sort of demigod, when in reality he was just an average joe among the castle. Also the facial hair is literal genius. It made me giggle. The point of his looks in the games was to look goofy enough to giggle at, so of course that would translate to his living face as well.

I think the problem people have is, we've become so accustomed to the way Dan is portrayed in the actual games during his redemption and how his persona was presented to us then, that we've already sort of developed a version of him in our minds that we cling to. So that when we're shown how Dan actually was when he was alive, it's hard to take in and accept since we already have a fanon to ourselves. Which is fine, because creation sparking creation is the best and fandoms keep media going. We've already filled in the gaps of his past ourselves because we've only ever really known his future, and thats why Fate's Arrow Dan is such a turn off to so many people.

But, like I said, it fits, it makes sense and I'm glad the writers went with it. I have seen so many fan portrayals of living Dan throughout the decades from so many different talented people I still did, do and always will love them. But I absolutely love the canon we were given and I wouldn't have it any other way.

(Also- I saw some comments about how Dan looked different when alive in Resurrection- and just allow me to point out that so did everybody. Every character and thing was redesigned in the PSP version, including the story. That's a whole different universe, so it's unaffected by the comic entirely.)

Anyways ramble over. 💀🗡🏹

P.S., I absolutely agree with the fandom though that Tim is trans. I know the comic said it was "crossdressing" but come on. In a world where magic can bring scarecrows to life and fire breathing dragons exist, a trans man simply existing and being happy in the 1200s is beyond normal.

#medievil #medievil fates arrow #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim

[artdropoff]

Drew some Canny Tim lez goo

#canny tim #medevil #art #fanart #digital

[ronnyraygun]

Buzz and Tim…my awful little creatures…ily…

#buzz cohen fanart #buzz cohen art #buzz cohen #tim drake fanart #tim drake art #tim drake #Brentwood academy bitches #ron’s art tag #shut in the fuck up ron #tuzz? bim? idk what their ship name would be. i love them so much tho #they’re so dumb and annoying #Kip your ass is next on the list I love you so fucking much #anyway buzz is an rbf bitch and Tim is a unexpectedly mean bitch #they both talk shit about you at functions #they deserve that #i used bases for both of these but I canny find them now. :((( #i will edit and add them what I find them tho!!! :DDD!! #ft. buzz dressed in my pjs and Tim in my partners #it’s funnier that way to me. ♥️ #also I should make more binderless tim because it makes me happy #he just like me fr #[<— literally crashed into their fucking closet putting their binder on this morning] #[gave up 3 mins later because pain]

[taonpest]

The MediEvil comic's biggest mistake was to not make Dan's armor purple, blue and pink so the historian could have gone "Sir Daniel Fortesque invented the bisexual flag"

#medievil #my stupid thoughts #«as everyone knows Sir Fortesque was very close to his male friend Canny Tim but he was also very close to his female friends»

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen is electrifying in NHS origin story Nye — theatre review

It will be, says Michael Sheen’s Nye Bevan, eyes blazing, as he steps to the front of the National Theatre’s huge Olivier stage, “the most civilised step this country has ever taken”. He’s talking about the National Health Service, about the great, humanitarian principle of a health service free at the point of delivery, about an institution that remains cherished above all others by the British people. And in Tim Price’s epic new play about the Welsh Labour politician Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, he’s speaking across the decades to the present day, when the beleaguered NHS lies on its own sickbed, delivering an account of how and why the health service was born and the radical impulse behind it. A mighty, moving and sometimes messy piece of theatre, it’s really, at heart, a state-of-the-nation play. And like Dear England and Standing at the Sky’s Edge before it, Nye (a co-production with the Wales Millennium Centre) seizes this venue’s great potential as a national public forum to frame critical questions about who we are and who we want to be.

It’s also a drama that picks up Bevan’s audacity and runs with it, shrugging off sober realism for a swirling fantasia. Here Bevan, who as secretary of state for health spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948, lies dying in one of his own hospitals, his life swimming before him as he drifts in morphine-inflected dreams. He actually died at home, but that poetic licence is part and parcel of this show’s ethos, which bundles up the political fight to launch the NHS with a private reckoning with conscience. So, as Bevan’s wife, MP Jennie Lee, and life-long friend Archie Lush (Roger Evans) sit by his sickbed, we dart with his troubled mind around key moments that have brought him to this point: a classroom rebellion against a teacher caning the young Nye for stammering; an epiphany in a public library when he realises how a wider vocabulary can help him; buccaneering moments as a union rep for miners; parliamentary showdowns; a key wartime exchange with Churchill that makes the firebrand young politician see the point of political compromise. At the centre of it all is his sense of guilt and impotence at his father’s terrible death from pneumoconiosis, which Price sees as a key psychological factor in his determination to establish healthcare accessible to all.

Director Rufus Norris stages all this with wit and drive, using Vicki Mortimer’s canny set design of sliding hospital curtains to send scenes tumbling over one another as they do in dreams. At one point the screens stack up in rows, like benches in the House of Commons; at another, several hospital beds — and their startled occupants — are tipped on their sides to form the tables for a committee meeting. Like a Greek chorus, an ever-busy cast plays patients, politicians, miners, doctors — and, in one memorably moving scene, a crowd of desperate ordinary people importuning Bevan on behalf of their sick relatives. There are casualties to this approach. There’s a tendency to reach for stereotypes and to push political points that don’t need pushing. There’s also so much going on that we don’t get enough of an up-close study of Bevan the man, or of the critical period when the postwar Labour party heaved the welfare state into being. The play is often at its best when it focuses on personal exchanges, particularly between Nye and Jennie — a remarkable politician in her own right, played here with fiery wit by Sharon Small.

But this is, unashamedly, a play about principle, passion and compassion, driven by a fantastic ensemble and an electrifying performance from Sheen. Even in his pink pyjamas, his Bevan has a stature that throws down a gauntlet to today’s politicians across the river Thames.

#Michael Sheen #Nye #National Theatre #Aneurin Bevan #review #theatre #The Financial Times

[victorluvsalice]

Merry Christmas Nebby!

@nebbychan I know you gave me two prompts -- I ended up going with Lizzie, Emily, and Kiya having a bitch session about their respective exes/stalkers/unwanted husbands. Because that's always fun to do. XD Hope you like!

All The Shitty Dickheads

“. . .and then he stabbed me! Right here! Ruining my mother’s wedding dress!”

“Awful!” Kiya gasped, hands at her mouth. “The bastard!”

“Indeed – though, personally, I’d be rather more pissed at him for killing me over ruining the dress,” Lizzie admitted, leaning on the table.

“Oh, I’m plenty angry at him for that, I promise,” Emily said, waving her skeletal hand. “But the dress was one of a handful of things I had left of my mother, and he knew it. And it – it hurt to know that it meant so little to him – I meant so little to him – that he could put a blade through it and not feel a thing.” She sighed heavily, resting her chin on her hand. “Anyway, right after that, Eddie knocked me out, and the next thing I know, I’m in the Land of the Dead, lying under the old oak tree. With the dress a complete mess, my jewels and gold missing, and my skin blue. I probably spent my entire first morning here crying.”

“I don’t blame you,” Kiya said, laying a bandaged hand on Emily’s fleshed forearm. “What a horrible thing to happen to you. I’m so sorry.”

“Me too,” Lizzie agreed. “You deserved so much better.”

“Thank you,” Emily said, shooting them both a small, pained smile. “I just – wish I’d been smarter. Listened to my father that one time.”

“No no, don’t go blaming yourself,” Lizzie said, holding up a hand. “You were young and in love, and Eddie obviously knew how to be charming when he wanted to be.” She sighed, the sound whistling down the column of bone that made up her neck. “Besides – even if you had spotted him for what he was, it might not have saved you. I knew Bumby was a rotter from the moment I met him, and it didn’t save me. Or my parents.”

Emily winced. “True. . .you deserved better too. I mean, you were younger than me when you died!”

“Only by about a year.”

“Still younger. And – well.” Emily worried her bottom lip with her teeth. “For all that Eddie destroyed my greatest childhood dream and ruined all my hopes for love Upstairs. . .at least he left me – innocent?”

Kiya’s head whipped around, eyes wide. “What?! Did that–”

“He did,” Lizzie cut in, not really wanting Kiya to finish her sentence. “Bumby – he was an undergraduate at the college where my father worked, and the minute he laid on me, he became obsessed. I found him a creep and rejected him at every turn, but he was never deterred for long. And when Papa finally threatened to get the police involved. . .he broke into my room and took what he wanted by force. And when I tried to fight him off, he choked me into silence – and into death.” She sighed again. “I still don’t know if he meant to kill me or not, but the end result was the same – me dead, rapidly followed by my parents when he set our house on fire to cover his tracks.”

Kiya shook her head. “It’s amazing just what scum men can be,” she muttered. “I’m so glad I was always able to outrun my wifely duties with my own husband.”

“Forced into an unwanted match?” Emily said sympathetically.

“You said it – I saved my kingdom from a terrible threat, and my reward was to become the latest wife of the pharaoh,” Kiya grumbled, rolling her eyes. “An old bastard who insisted that I had to be mummified along with him when he died.”

“Fuck,” was Lizzie’s opinion on that. “Why is it we seemed to deal entirely with horrible men when we were alive?”

“Snacks are here!”

Dan came out of the kitchen, a tray of goodies held proudly before him and Canny Tim at his side. “I’m really hoping you like the spider cookies,” Tim said as Dan placed the tray on the table. “I worked really hard on them.”

“I’m sure they’ll be lovely, Tim,” Kiya said, smiling.

“Your stuff is always delicious,” Emily agreed.

“It is,” Lizzie nodded, chuckling. “And hey, thanks for answering my question.”

Tim blinked. “Question?”

“About why we dealt entirely with horrible men in our lives. Turns out all the good ones were already dead.”

“Hey, that’s unfair to Victor,” Emily protested.

“He’s honorary dead – he doesn’t count.”

#nebbychan #merry xmas #christmas fic #xmas fic #fanfic #alice madness returns #corpse bride #medievil #sing the title to the tune of 'All The Single Ladies' :p #but yes this is the one that spoke to me the most #I imagine they'd all feel a real sense of kinship over how they were mistreated in life #even if it was in very different ways #love to see Kiya use her magic to wreck Barkis and Bumby XD #Or hell just Emily and Lizzie wailing on the old pharaoh #both would also be good XD #queued

[turquoisephoenix]

What a fun friend group! Sure hope none of them are doomed by the narrative.

MediEvil: Resurrection being ported onto the PS4/PS5 has given me an incentive to draw my horrible idea that these three were all in a lovely little friendgroup-with-benefits/polycule together and that Res!Pumpkin Witch was good friends with Canny Tim as well as Dan.

Sir Daniel is playing a song about how he's going to fell Zarok's demons like wheat before the sharpened scythe. She remains unconvinced.

#yes I will be finishing this; it just looks like an utter beast to ink/color #sketches #MediEvil #Sir Daniel Fortesque #medievil: resurrection #pumpkin witch #I'm torn between ''Canny Tim is gay and is only into Dan'' or ''Canny Tim was also smooching the witch'' it's a wip okay #Canny Tim #medievil resurrection

[memedievil]

Sir Daniel: Think about it, Tim. This could be a sign!

Canny Tim: What if it’s a stop sign, sir?

#medievil #medievil resurrection #memedievil #incorrect quotes #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim #s: zoolander 2 #《 using our current obsessions for crossovers? that's more likely than y'all think 》

[nebbychan]

Just in time for Halloween, Canny Tim and Sir Daniel are done!

I’ll admit, I didn’t change much with Dan’s design; I prefer his Resurrection armor and all it’s soda can sound effect glory. However, I wanted him to be slightly more distinct, so I added in his PS1 color scheme. And I thought I’d sneak in my take on living Dan. Kind of amusing how no one thinks this guy was the least bit conventionally attractive but with teeth like that, it was only necessary.

For Canny Tim, I don’t really like his Resurrection outfit, and while it’d be easier to shove him into some armor and call it a day, @pumpkingeorge made a really good point about wanting to be in your favorite outfit in the afterlife. So while sticking to the signature green, I changed up the whole outfit, adding a few small references to his comic book look too.

With the last two heroes finished, I can say that my Hall of Heroes redesign series has reached its conclusion!

Other Hero Designs

Prince Ravenhooves and Imanzi Shongama

Stanyer Iron Hewer and Megwynne Stormbinder

Dirk Steadfast and Karl Sturnguard

Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver and Woden the Mighty

#nebby sketches #medievil #medievil resurrection #sir daniel fortesque #canny tim

[turqrambles]

Endings for the Upcoming Rumored/Hinted MediEvil adaptation, Ranked

Worst Ending - it's completely live-action and Sir Daniel is portrayed as an actor with fully articulate speech and Walking Dead zombie makeup so that "audiences can relate to him". The accents are American.

Bad Ending - Same as the Worst Ending, but the actors are all British and it's a British production so it's at least charmingly bad rather than painfully bad.

Neutral Ending - Most of it is live-action with live-action actors but Sir Daniel's skeleton self is a CGI model. They remember Dan's mumbles but also give him a living human companion to banter off of (either Canny Tim miraculously lives or we get that knight from the PS3 era pitch), giving off very strong Sonic the Hedgehog movie vibes no matter what tone the show/movie takes.

Fine I Guess Ending - It's a CGI animated movie/show animated by one of the studios owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The project is alright but, since it's being made by a Sony studio, every tweet about the film/show has at least one disgruntled Ratchet and Clank or Sly Cooper fan go "why didn't you do this to Ratchet/Sly, Sony??" and it gets really annoying really fast.

Good Ending - 2D animated TV show/movie with a decent budget and cool fight scenes. If it's a show, it's cancelled after two seasons because that's just how studios be.

Best Ending - Stop motion production by Aardman Animations. Delightfully British comedy. The crowd goes wild.

The Other Best Ending - Stop motion production directed by Henry Selick. We sacrifice some British charm for some Henry Selick brand horror. The crowd goes wild.

#I'm not saying all of these are possible; just putting cursed and blessed ideas into people's heads #feel free to add more! #medievil #sir daniel fortesque

[pumpkingeorge]

Uh Oh, looks like Tim's in trouble

#moodevil #canny tim #stay tuned #or not #i'm not your boss i don't pay you #but you do deserve a raise #mini event #he's been timnapped #but why?????