#he is a bureaucrat

[julietwiskey1]

Season 3 of Amazon Primes Jack Ryan was a major disappointment to me. I was unable to even finish watching it. Mostly because it was a rather poor depiction of how Tom Clancy wrote stories and had no understanding of any of the characters from the books. Along with not writing a story in the vain or a Jack Ryan story.

Yet I found another show that does a really good job at depicting the type of plots that would fit Tom Clancy. It is Andor. How the story progress and grows as the character touches others was great. It was a great spy thriller. No character felt overly important.

But it is important to say that Jack Ryan is not Cassian Andor, Cassian would fill the role of the bad guys. But Jack is more similar to the character Dedra Meero. A bureaucrat who has a high rank, and is generally an up and comer who chafes the people around them, but is liked by the bosses. But you know, Jack is a good guy who is working towards positive goals.

Any writer who wants to create their own Jack Ryan story for TV should pay attention to Andor more than the Amazon Prime series. Andor is a master class of how to write a spy thriller that feels real, even if it’s in a fantasy setting. All Amazon prime has to show is how to write an American rip off James Bond, it’s not even good to learn who the characters.

#Andor #Jack Ryan #jack ryan is not a secret agent! #he is a bureaucrat #Andor is great at writing a spy thriller #much better than Amazon Jack Ryan #that’s American James Bond #Jack Ryan should be more like Andor #just change which side is good and bad #and change the setting to our world

[egophiliac]

C'MON TO THE THEATER!

I love these guys so much. forget NRC, I want to attend their terrible disaster school for disaster children that might actually be plastered on top of the smoking remains of an actively sinking ship. I may or may not actually learn anything, but I will have the time of my life.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #unique magic posters #so it was fellow after all and not gidel? whoops #i was merely overthinking it #me? overthink fictional characters? surely not #god though #i can't not love a guy who gets the cutest most adorable power #and instantly goes 'i shall use this for Crimes' #also every time he was like 逃げる! my brain auto-translated it as CHEESE IT! #accompanied by twst's running-away sound effect which is just the quintessential sound of someone cheesing it #if i could have (1) twst spinoff it would be the adventures of these two idiots trying to do an education #they would have a stodgy bureaucrat antagonist who keeps trying to catch them in their sleazy corner-cutting ways and shut them down #(OF COURSE there would be a bit where they are trying to host an unforgettable luncheon but egads! their roast is ruined!) #and all while they're trying to evade being hunted down by the playful land investors #the hijinks would be SO wacky you guys #i've made myself sad now because this will never exist #it's real in my HEART

[theabigailthorn]

bureaucrat: Okay, you have now completed the very arduous paperwork process that took several months! Congratulations!

me: :)

bureaucrat: Oh wait, you're trans? In that case what I meant to say was - congratulations, you now enter ROUND TWOOOOOOOO! Show me every piece of mail you received since you were six! Balance this spinning plate on your nose! Run up The Eliminator!

me: :(

#this post brought to you by... Borders! #Borders! Because Fuck You That's Why! #You finally beat the bureaucrat and then it turns out he has a 2nd health bar

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

When you think about it, it was pretty on brand for Elias to start the apocalypse by giving Jon Evil Paperwork.

#the magnus archives #tma #elias bouchard #jonah magnus #i’m sure someone else has probably said this already #he’s such an insufferable little bureaucrat. i want him dead (affectionate) #stupid bastard of a man. melanie wanting to stab him was actually unrelated to the bullet i think. eLIEas just has that effect on people #he has such stabbable vibes

[gammija]

he would not say that, podcast/book edition:

#thin martins.... #joos yaps #now that this post has a few reblogs: its fun to read the tags #most fun ones are where its clearly personal taste #ill add a few more petty ones of my own; #elias does not have eye earrings. he has eye cufflinks at best otherwise he dresses like the boring bureaucrat he is #used to be for emo/grungy jon but i was worn down and will now begrudgingly accept it as a phase in uni #(though he was Not In A Band. i stand by that) #for all of the latter ones i hope its clear i dont personally mind if people make fanworks which disagree. but they're wrong/j #thin martins are annoying on another level which ive gone into before and wont do now #oh right blond hair/blue eyed martin. no. #and any jon with a small anime nose isnt jon #again want to be clear: apart from thin martin this is all a matter of taste and in good fun plz keep drawing ostentatious eliasses

[visenyaism]

tyland lannister 20 minutes and one bump with larys into the green council realizing the only way for these people to win is actually to trick rhaenyra into losing first before she kills all of them in the better part of an afternoon about to propose they play THREE CUP SHUFFLE with the ENTIRETY OF THE TREASURY

#asoiaf #tyland lannister policy wonk that you are… #he was such a randomly talented dedicated bureaucrat. no second twin complex there’s economics to do

[canisalbus]

Was thinking about the earlier asks about machete being remembered in modern times and can't help but think that he'd be a goth icon like Edgar Allen poe and mary shelley to modern folks like maybe he'd be referenced in a goth song or two lol

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#oh he would love to be thought of as a goth icon #but Poe and Shelley are massively influential figures whose creations are a highly visible and beloved part of modern pop culture #I feel like Machete and Vasco would be pretty obscure #they're just bureaucrats and in the grand scheme of things pretty insignificant ones #their historical footprints would be a lot harder to come across unless you knew where to look #answered #anonymous

[well-fuuuck]

in this essay i will-

#this is my twilight is a bastard theory #he pretends to be nice #but internally he is WAITING to go off on someone #that someone may be legend who knows #or maybe an entitled bureaucrat #also why is bureaucrat spelled like that #linked universe #lu four #lu twilight #lu warriors #lu hyrule #lu wild #lu time #lu sky #lu wind #lu legend

[golvio]

Ganondorf with Alexander the Great Syndrome, where he’s dangerously clever and fantastic at military strategy, intrigue, adapting to setbacks, and inspiring people under him to action through his energizing charisma, which along with the necessary hubris from believing he is meant to rule makes him extremely effective at the “taking things over” part of attempted world domination.

However, despite his belief he is naturally inclined to lead and therefore is the best possible person to control everything, he is also absolute dogshit at actually administering his holdings and doing the basic day-to-day business required to maintain more permanent control over the territories he invades. Unless he’s motivated to stay put and hold course by a powerful grudge, he’s often moving on to the next, more exciting challenge once he’s finished his business in a location, which often involves physically leaving and abandoning whichever poor patsies he’s appointed to look after things in his absence to fend for themselves. This is why all the kingdoms he’s ever built according to his personal vision of how the world ought to be collapse into dust immediately after he dies.

Getting this man to do paperwork will get you the same response as trying to force him to chew broken glass, which is why he will always be defeated unless he eventually develops the good sense to appoint either a whole cabinet or a single reasonably competent secretary to do all the boring stuff for him.

#legend of zelda #loz thoughts #ganondorf #ganon #tbh this is one of the reasons i love pairing him with ghirahim #ghirahim may love a good scrap but he also seems like he’d also love being helpful with menial bureaucratic tasks #he’s a little like pink diamond #much cleverer and more manipulative and strategic than he looks #(and is very good at hiding his competence when it’s to his advantage) #and is an extremely dangerous enemy to cross #but also possesses a sense of whimsy that often functions to his detriment unless he’s got someone more disciplined to reign him in

[hoverboards-and-dragons]

Something I'm unreasonably fond of in the Happy Day in hell reprise are these changed lines

"To change their minds and touch their hearts, or whatever angels have" ->

"you've changed my mind, you've touched their hearts, found the good in souls gone bad"

Sung by Lucifer, who would know, sneakily avoiding saying whether angels have hearts or not

I was just so ready for the potential of fucked up angel biology to be dropped that I was pleasantly surprised when it stayed ambiguous; no idea if it was even intentional tho

I really do hope something interesting is done with the heavenborn and they aren't just people with wings. Hell's world building has been pretty good about giving different species different cultures and world views I have hope

#heavenbucks was clearly a joke as Adam realized there wasn't any currency he could offer #so he made up one on the spot #but I swear to god there better not be capitalism up there #Bureaucratic hierarchical nightmare where social mobility is nearly nonexistence because you're created with a sole purpose? sure #get funky with it #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #hellaverse #hazbin hotel headcanons #hazbin hotel charlie #I'm a fan of angels not having souls

[why-yes-i-am-an-adult]

#lmao true but it's because the bureaucrats are jerks (I love them) #Azi could never be so selfish as to turn his back on humanity and the entire universe when he thinks he has a chance to help them #Gabriel and Beelzebub just do whatever they want (good for them) #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #good omens season 2 spoilers #twitter

[igotsnothing]

Beginning/Previous/Next

#the sims 4 #sims 4 story #sims 4 vampires #DARKER #sasha #gideon #haoran #lilith vatore #irmingarde first appears in my story “amaranthine” #she's a stick in the mud there too #but she's scary #she can mess you up vampirically AND bureaucratically #*screams in kafka* #lilith called sasha a gremlin #few people get under her skin #lawrence is the other one #oh gideon #i like sasha thinking he had it under control #haoran is hawt

[textsfromthetva]

[watching the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer on repeat, muttering to myself like a crazy person] what if I decided to ship Matthew Macfadyen's character with Mobius. what then... what then?

#it's short-circuiting my brain that he's using his actual accent but is still styled to look almost exactly like Tom Wambsgans #shouldn't be allowed #he's cast perfectly as a TVA bureaucrat though #he's got that whole vibe going on

[bolithesenate]

imagine being so bad at being a jedi you just somehow unite your people's mortal enemies under your banner

#tarre has the power of crop rotation and rug weaving on his side #and nothing else #cringefail jedi tarre agenda #yeah yeah im pretty sure there were mandalor'e before tarre but whatever. timelines what timelines #he is very funny to me #and i think people should headcanon characters to just be more pathetic #'tarre vizsla was mand'alor and jedi he must be badass' WELL i say he was a scrunkly little bureaucrat whose main goal in life was to weave #random boli thoughts #star wars #my art #tarre vizsla

[ahalliance]

the metatron is the scariest bitch in this series because he’s like . the only powerful supernatural figure that actually knows how to manipulate people

#other than god maybe but im not counting her #all the angels and demons even the lords of hell and archangels are pretty straightforward in their machinations #like it’s their JOB to follow the great ineffable plan and basic bureaucratic orders #or to know how to dish out the most basic of them #michael was very eager to take up gabriel’s position but they crumbled under the pressure and didn’t really know how to figure shit out #while the metatron…. he’s a high ranking angel who clearly knows azi’s one big weaknesses (religious trauma) and how to exploit it #BIG BIG BAD VIBES #the ‘tense’ musical cur and deep frown he levied at crowley once azi’s back was turned…… WHAT THE FUCK #he hates crowley BIG TIME #jay rambles #good omens #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers #go2 spoilers #gos2 spoilers

[y-rhywbeth2]

Sometimes the evil-aligned churches end up getting new laws just for them.

For example, Malarites often breed horrific monsters to set on the world. In Cormyr they tend to loan them out so that the nobility can have something interesting to hunt for sport (this being one of the reasons they're allowed to worship Malar legally).

And now there's a law that states that Malarites can only release these monsters under supervision and command of the local authorities after "a Malarite priest hired by one noble family “accidentally” unleash[ed] monsters into the estate of a rival noble family."

God, I love fictional nobles. They're terrible, but they make fantasy worlds so entertaining.

#I wonder if Baldur's Gate has any small print that only applies to specific religions... #Picturing some bureaucrat in Cormyr sighing heavily as he makes a note #The priests and nobles in question just shrug #lore stuff