43-year-old bi (multiple genders)/queer spinster librarian, complete with glasses, cat, and comfortable shoes. Started writing fanfic online 1998 and won't stop any time soon. Has more fandoms than shirts, so this is an everything blog.
[ID: Six screencaps from Taskmaster. Nick Mohammed says, "I genuinely enjoyed it. I hadn't been in a river in years." Greg Davies replies, "I mean, you don't. Past a certain age, you don't, do you?" Nick says, "Unless you kind of have, like, a midlife crisis and start wild swimming and stuff, but I've not reached that yet." Greg says, "Yeah, wild swimming, or as it was once called, swimming." End ID.]
[ID: Five screencaps from Taskmaster. Greg Davies asks, "What have you brought me that you can turn upside down that I'll have fun with?" Steve Pemberton replies, "A calculator." Greg says, "I know where you're going with this... and I approve this message." End ID.]
stoic illiterate unwilling assassin deeply in love with unfailingly kind rich sad gay man almost stabs his crush's brother because the brother cares so much and so genuinely for the gay man that he searched assassin's room out of worry and found knives and a mysterious letter before being interrupted by the assassin who then does not want to show him the letter which seems incredibly suspicious, only for a later scene (after the gay man interrupts them and thus stops any escalation from happening) to quietly reveal that the very sus letter in possession of this illiterate assassin is not in fact a sign he's lying about being illiterate.... it's just two pages of him practicing the gay man's name over and over in neatly spaced lines...... a reveal which he was going to STAB a man over because he doesn't know that the gay man's brother knows the man is gay and loves him with his whole heart and would never ever do anything to hurt him........ i will never get over this, how could i ever get over this, everything else ever is going to be downhill from here
I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.
Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.