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my absolute favourite thing about the kirk and spock dynamic is that the whole time you’re watching the show spock is gaslighting you into thinking that kirk is this loose canon and spock is paragon of logic keeping his captain on the straight and narrow when its very clearly the other way round. aside from the being turned on by everyone and fighting like an old-timey boxer…. kirk is just like.. quite a logical, stable guy. like yeah he rules with his emotions but he’s rarely reckless or erratic, even in situations of immense pressure he’s always calm and measured. sure kirk is unhinged and insane, but we knew that right off the bat. spock on the other hand tries to hide how insanely balls to the walls crazy he is by standing next to jim and hiding all his derangement with logic. i think the reason bones beefs with spock so much because he is the only one who has noticed that spock is an absolutely unhinged individual. (jim is too busy doodling <3 mr jim spock <3 all over his briefings to notice)

#Star Trek Saturday #star trek #james tiberius perfect hair #spock

[davetheshady]

I’m anti-Stratfordian, but for everything

#happy shakespeare day! #OR IS IT #prose before hos

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bentrollio

#happy shakespeare day! #romeo and juliet #prose before hos

[davetheshady]

if you’re a trans man or nonbinary afab, deciding to carry a pregnancy to term comes with an array of serious stigmas BUT your kid could kill macbeth how rad is that

#lay on macduff #happy shakespeare day! #the scottish play #prose before hos

[davetheshady]

“average person hath borne me on his back 3 times” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hath borne me on his back 0 times. Alas, poor Yorick, who hath borne me on his back a thousand times, was an outlier adn should not have been counted

#happy shakespeare day! #hamlet #prose before hos

[davetheshady]

shakespeare was ahead of his time

#happy shakespeare day! #ROCK

[davetheshady]

“The poison. The poison for Hamlet. The poison specifically chosen to kill Hamlet. Hamlet’s poison.”

—

Claudius, probably. (via middleschoolhumor)

You know, in my defense, your poisons all look alike. You might think about relabeling some of them.

#seems legit #hamlet #happy shakespeare day! #prose before hos

[davetheshady]

Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

#om nom nom

[davetheshady]

listening to fleetwood mac is like. i don’t know this song but let’s give it a shot. oh wait i do know this song. i’ve heard it a million times and always liked it, i just didn’t know the name. on some level i kind of assumed that song was just an ambient part of the world the way the sound of the wind or birdsong in the trees was but apparently it’s by fleetwood mac. neat.

#ROCK

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hwaet! memory-mother, in meadhall sing the hatred, from heartlocks broken, of achilles peleusson, cursed by his people, wreaker of woes unending. often his spear made the mighty drink to dogs, food for the feathered, strong souls banished to breathe in the dark.

#CROSSING THE STREAMS #literature

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Okay but you COULD do a Dracula episode of Leverage and it would be hilarious.

I would do it like this. We'd have some wrong place wrong time protagonist called Jonathan who keeps accidentally witnessing parts of the con in such a way that they appear to him to replicate the events of Dracula. Like, the crew has inhabited some castle but Oh No, the mark's innocent little lawyer man is here, can't let him catch on

Sophie yeets the mirror because our friend Jonathan is about to accidentally see the crew hard at work behind him and she panics. "Oh you don't need this honey" or whatever (something something man's vanity)

He happens to open the window and Parker is just climing the castle like a lizard because that's. What she does

Nate is in an Old Guy disguise for one part of the con, but then Jonathan Not In On It happens to see him out of costume and WTF WTF WHY IS HE GETTING YOUNGER

Letters with fake dates make perfect sense when it's a con

Gets home happens to see the Leverage crew just walking around for the next part of the con, freaks tf out

Quincey Morris is exactly the kind if character Eliot would play

Sophie gets made, decides to have an elaborate Death Scene wherein Elliot and Hardison (as a "definitely licensed doctor") "help" the Mark try to "save" her

Parker plays Hardison's "assistant" but she plays it very VERY Renfield. Jonathan swears he can see her eating bugs (maybe it's a com that she panics and pretends to eat to not give away the game)

Poor Jonathan again sees her up and about post death scene and is like WTF WTF WTF

Eventually they cotton on to what has happened and Elliot (who hasn't been made yet) promises to help Jonathan kill the vampire once and for all

All of their aliases are drawn from Dracula and this is not played as intentional in-universe

Anyway, the whole thrust is that it's a perfectly normal Leverage episode except for one guy who, due to an increasingly unfortunate series of coincidences, believes he is in the novel Dracula. Like Rear Window, only it's Leverage Dracula.

#leverage

[davetheshady]

you know, yue really should have gotten more credit for the day of black sun

#yue rolling up to agni in the spirit world like ‘LET’S GO MONKEY FEATHER’ #avatar #atla #avatar: the last airbender #princess yue #man it’s hard to type with eclipse glasses on

[davetheshady]

One thing most people don't realize about Gazebos is how bloodthirsty they used to be until the 1930s or so. It used to be that in order to appease your average small town gazebo you had to feed it 4-5 marching bands a year, or roughly 2 dozen barbershop groups. Noaways? Throw it a steely dan cover act every 6 months, maybe a bridal party every few years if you're actively trying to court its favor, and you're pretty much in the clear. And the crazy thing is nobody knows why they calmed down, or that their appetite for flesh won't return to its 19th century heights one day. It's actually an increasingly popular theory among modern Gazebo researchers that we're at the tail end of a period of dormancy and it's only a matter of time until they start howling for blood again. And if/when that does happen there's the question of whether our modern zeeb-keepers are really ready for the task of booking enough sacrificial acts to meet that increased demand. Guild policy has gotten lax in the century since the heyday of Dark Pavillionism and a lot of local keepers refuse to even look at newer research that threatened to upsettheir status quo. Kind of scary to think about

#dnd

[davetheshady]

#happy easter! #star wars

[davetheshady]

one man, one lord, one faith, one baptism, two nunchucks

#happy easter!

[davetheshady]

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

#they very much did kill jesus #theolology

[davetheshady]

#tom hanks owns a bunch of typewriters #it’s all coming together #prose before hos