watching all the hannibal movies really cemented in my head the fact that bryan fuller really managed to get a high budget gay fanfiction of thomas harris’ books onto national television
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Lackadaisy Modern Headcanons
I always found thinking of this characters in a modern setting very funny in terms of how the dynamics they have with each other may change thanks to the new time period, how they would interact with certain things, media, pop & internet culture, trends, etc.
So when I was thinking what pop singer would each character listen to I realized that it would be really funny for Mordecai to secretly be a swiftie. Impossible, in my opinion, but really funny.
But since it was too good of an idea to just abandon it completely due to improbability I decided to change it into this instead:
Mitzi once spread the rumor Mordecai secretly was a Swiftie in order to mess with him.
The chain of events she invented to tell from where she got that information would go pretty much in the same way as how Amy found out Shadow himself is a Swiftie in the official Sonic Frontiers Q&A live stream: She was singing one of her songs to herself (Anti-hero) when she overheard Mordecai suddenly chiming in for a verse thinking no one was hearing him!
This is a lie of course, a little white lie for the sake of fun, but everyone bought it and collectively decided not to confront Mordecai (yet) so he could come out as a Swiftie when he was ready.
So the rumor floated through the speakeasy for a while without Mordecai noticing anything at all.
This was until one night, after finishing a job with Mordecai in a particularly impossible mood, Viktor decided that going through Taylor's entire "This is" selection on Spotify non- stop was better than hearing his cowerker complain about another thing... and so they did.
And there they where, two of the most dangerous trigger man in St. Louis, Missouri, speeding through the roads with "You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version)" on full blast.
Mordecai just went with it for a while because 1. He also wasn't feeling like starting another argument just because, 2. Viktor was driving and so, also in charge of the music and 3. Who was him to judge the big guy if he wanted to expand his music taste? He had seen him spending a lot of time with Ivy anyway.
But for Non- Swifties it can be very hard to listen to so many of her songs for long periods of time (speaking from experience here) so eventually one of them snapped. It was Mordecai of course, it was previously established that Viktor spends too much time with Ivy for his own good.
So, in the middle of "I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor's Version)", the black cat started asking harshly/begging the slovak to please change the playlist or just turn off the music.
But when Viktor responded with something among the lines of "But ya' like it! Put it so you vould shut up!" Mordecai just stared at him in his typical Mordecai confusion face:
"WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD EVER MAKE YOU THINK I WOULD LIKE THIS WOMAN'S MUSIC!?!?!? AND TO THE POINT TO OF BEING A FAN!?!?!?"
"MITZI SAY SO!"
Let's just say that they all learned a lesson from that:
Viktor learned to take any information about Mordecai's interests that didn't come directly from the man himself with a grain of salt.
Mordecai learned he had to keep up with people's stupid gossip to prevent any more misunderstandings.
And Mitzi learned that if she wanted to keep Mordecai from finding out all the silly rumors she may or may not have spread about him then she would have to make sure Viktor was out of it, the man was not made for inner gossip.
And maybe, just maybe, both man found a few of her songs quite nice and might listen to them from time to time. Maybe.
*Quietly sneaks "Bad Blood" into the Vikdecai playlist*
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Tags that read #reblogging this because I was instantly in love with August Heart the second I saw him #and now am looking up Manuel Lago #although unfortunately Manuel Lago seems to be a fairly common name. #really should have added 'comics' but well hon live and learn. #this is a not so subtle request for a primer #COUGH.
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@benbamboozled I have been summoned lmao
Manuel Lago was a character introduced in Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul’s run for the New 52 Flash series in 2011. he’s there for a CRIMINALLY measly 5 issue arc called Mob Rule.
He’s repeatedly called Barry’s oldest friend — there’s all these flashbacks (THAT ARE CUTE AS HECK) that show Manuel and Barry’s history together, from first meeting in college right up until Barry’s gets struck by lightning. He goes MIA after that and the arc starts off with Manuel barging back in Barry’s life after all this time.
(lichrally flirting idk what to even say)
(AHHH Barry just looks so HAPPY to see him damnit)
He’s got a pretty wild backstory for a character who’s literally only there for 5 issues — his dad was killed in a plane hijacking so his natural course of action was to….join the CIA to track down the hijackers (a group called Basilisk). With the CIA he’s some sort of a deep state operative and subject to some experiments that give him a regenerating ability like a healing factor.
(That James Bond meets Batman line is the funniest thing in the world to me. No wonder Barry gets along fine with Bruce.)
he ends up getting captured by Basilisk after going rogue and they torture him for WEEKS by cutting off his hands and fingers. But those cut off pieces actually fully regenerate into straight up clones of Manuel and they start calling themselves Mob Rule.
(ITS SUCH A RANDOMLY METAL BACKSTORY LIKE oh yeah the dismemberment)
(In which manny is an absent father for his 52 clones)
(I honestly don’t even know what he was trying to do here. As far as he knows Barry is just a normal ass civilian how’s he gonna help you? He literally just wanted to see Barry)
I just really like his character bc I love the potential of what kind of friendship they must have had. They’re a bit of an odd couple but they consider each other ‘family’ and Barry’s actually knows and IS CLOSE WITH Manuel’s mom. The person Manuel calls when he’s got no one to turn to in a dangerous mission is Barry. When he thinks Barry’s dead, Manuel goes into a rage. So there’s this really close bond between that doesn’t get much spotlight besides those brief flashbacks that makes me so curious.
Honestly Manuel reminds me so much of that post that’s like men say they’re fighting their demons and then the demons are just bisexuality.
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After reading Sister Agatha’s letter, our good friend Jonathan suffered his great shock on or after June 30th (shovel day). The fact this man somehow survived, escaped Dracula’s castle, ran to a train station in probably his pajamas, and the station workers yeeted him onto a train is wild. Good for him.
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The Count crawling down walls like a lizard to deliver mail while Jonathan watches from the tower is now my favourite mental image to come out of this book so far
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Jonathan: "Lol why is everyone in this town doing the cross sign and explicitly telling me not to go up to visit the Count?"
*realising he's trapped and Dracula is kind of a weird dude*
Jonathan:
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