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ben-positive · 7 months

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Ben please quit eating non food items

It's not good for you

I onlee eat tha best food

#ben speaks #ee ben #positiviteam #banzai blasters #epithet erased

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webheadben · 7 months

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👕 — the old blue tee! a headcanon about a comfortable, or comforting, piece of clothing my muse wears.

"I'm a sucker for old, ratty t-shirts! Especially ones that have been washed so many times that they have that perfect softness. My favorite is an old hand-me-down from my one brother. Strictly a pajama shirt these days. Not having it get lost in an alley somewhere when I change."

//also dude sorry i didn't see this before! i never even got the little blue bubble :( ily!! thank you for the ask

#ben speaks #ask game

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merrillapologist · 2 years

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“subtitles are good! look at all the ways they can help hearing people too!” um. is them being literally necessary for deaf ppl not enough justification for you freaks. im sorry i didnt know accessibility tools had to help abled people for them to be good.

#ben speaks #i haaaate the kinds of takes i see on this site i stg

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who-is-that-dude · 2 years

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😝

#vague #ben speaks

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hexgirling · 10 months

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“that character is a war criminal” that character is from a fictional fantasy world and did not attend the geneva convention

#this is my favorite tweet i ever made #rip twitter #fictional villains #the darkling #aleksander morovoza #anakin skywalker #halbrand #daemon targaryen #daenerys targeryan #house targaryen #rhysand #kylo ren #ben solo #jess speaks

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rhetorical-conscience · 8 months

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Charlie: Once I lost my ex at a party and found him hooking up with some random girl.

Charlie: Last night I lost Nick at a party and found him outside trying to befriend a stray cat.

Charlie: Upgrades.

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pantone-palette · 2 years

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AHHHH WELCOME BACK TO TUMBLR <3

Thank you!! I'm happy to be back 💗💗

#ev speaks #all thr other docial media sites stress me tf out #ben speaks #AYEE

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brown-spider · 7 months

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Real talk tho that therapist Spider-Man needs to get fired cuz what the hell was that.

That was so insensitive like bro you aren't even funny 💢

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sciderman · 2 months

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Sci in the short time Uncle Ben was around -- or even if he'd lived longer -- would he have known that Peter is Spiderman?

this is such a delight of a question! what a delightful little thought experiment. thinking about a scenario where uncle ben was still around when aunt may finds out peter is spider-man – when she finds peter's tights, when he was seventeen.

i think there's no way at all that aunt may wouldn't have told uncle ben. she definitely would have told him. i don't think uncle ben would've been observant enough to figure it out by himself, but – aunt may, she's smart. she figures it out.

may and ben have such entirely different ways of handling peter

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ben's old-fashioned, a bit square (like peter), and not very well-informed. he worries a lot about peter. worries about him getting into trouble. sees his unusual behaviour, and meets it with soft concern. he doesn't understand it all, he doesn't understand the youth. but he has a desire to embrace peter and attempt to understand him. he worries about him a lot.

may - may's always been the cool parent. she's encouraging, and very easy about this sort of thing. i think she has a lot of trust in peter. maybe more than she should. she is well-informed, and smart, and she recognises behaviours in peter and kind of feels like it's nothing to worry about. she knows peter's doing all the important exploration that he needs to do, and he'll do it at his own time. she thinks peter can handle it.

(of course peter could not handle it.)

i think that's why aunt may didn't confront peter about spider-man. i think she's of the feeling that peter would come out to her when he's ready to. but - she'd definitely tell ben. and if uncle ben knew - well, oh. he would be worried out of his mind.

god bless, it would come out of such a place of concern. and he'd talk to peter. in the most awkward way a father could give his son the talk.

#sci speaks #ask-spiderpool #peter parker #uncle ben #meta #uncle ben cares so much. he's old fashioned and you probably would need to Explain bisexuality to him but he's got the spirit.#he's the only heterosexual cis man in 9319. and he is a true ally.#i think aunt may taught him a lot but he's still got a lot of learning to do.

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dreamsingcld · 1 year

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the “calling ben barnes and the darkling ‘shadow-daddy’” tradition lives on

#this cast <333 #he’s so real for that #freddy carter #shadow and bone #six of crows #s&b netflix #ben barnes #the darkling #el speaks

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ben-positive · 7 months

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Where's the lamb sauce Ben? I know you have it

- Gordon Ramsay (he asked me to type this)

Idk Mr.Ramsay dude. Hav u asked da lambs?

#ben speaks #ee ben #positiviteam #banzai blasters #epithet erased #Gordon Ramsay?

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webheadben · 8 months

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🧞‍♂️

🧞‍♂️ — for a headcanon about a time, or times, my muse has wished for something and whether or not they still hope it comes true.

"Oooh, digging deep, eh Dove? When I was little, I used to wish I'd wake up as a boy instead. I'd tell myself it'd be different in the morning, but it never was... At this point, I think I can confidently say I've made my wish come true, yeah?"

#ben speaks #the boys oc

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carpe-mamilia · 6 months

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Ghosts’ Larry Rickard Explains Why They Chose the Captain’s First Name

Photo: Monumental,Guido Mandozzi

It couldn’t be a joke. That was one rule laid down by the Ghosts creators when it came to choosing a first name for Willbond’s character. Until series five, the WWII ghost had been known only as The Captain – a mystery seized upon by fans of the show.

“It was the question we got asked more than anything. His name,” actor and writer Larry Rickard tells Den of Geek. “Once we got to series three, you could see that we were deliberately cutting away and deliberately avoiding it. We were fuelling the fire because we knew at some point we’d tell them.”

In “Carpe Diem”, the episode written by Rickard and Ben Willbond that finally reveals The Captain’s death story, they did tell us. After years of guessing, clue-spotting and debate, Ghosts revealed that The Captain’s first name is James. At the same time, we also learned that James’ colleague Lieutenant Havers’ first name was Anthony.

The ordinariness of those two names, says Rickard, is the point.

“The only thing we were really clear about is that we didn’t want one of those names that only exists in tellyland. It shouldn’t be ‘Cormoran’ or ‘Endeavour’. They should just be some men’s names and they’re important to them. The point was that they were everyday.”

Choosing first names for The Captain and Havers was a long process not unlike naming a baby, Rickard agrees. “It almost comes down to looking at the faces of the characters and saying, what’s right?”

“We talked for ages. For a long time I kept thinking ‘Duncan and James’, and then I was like ah no! That would have turned it into a gag and been awful!” Inescapably in the minds of a certain generation, Duncan James is a member of noughties boyband Blue. “Maybe with Anthony I was thinking of Anthony Costa!” Rickard says in mock horror, referencing another member of the band.

Lieutenant Havers wasn’t just The Captain’s second in command while stationed at Button House; he was also the man James loved. Because homosexuality was criminalised in England during James’ lifetime, he was forced to hide his feelings for Anthony from society, and to some extent even from himself.

In “Carpe Diem”, the ghosts (mistakenly) prepare for the last day of their afterlives, prompting The Captain to finally tell his story. Though not explicit about his sexual identity, the others understand and accept what he tells them – and led by Lady Button, all agree that he’s a brave man.

Getting the balance right of what The Captain does and doesn’t say was key to the episode. “It wasn’t just a personal choice of his to go ‘I’m going to remain in the closet’,” explains Rickard. “There wasn’t an option there to explore the things that either of them felt. That couldn’t be done back then – there are so many stories which have come out since the War about the dangers of doing that.

“We wanted to tell his personal story but also try to ensure that there was a level at which you understood why they couldn’t be open, that even in this moment where he’s finally telling the other ghosts his story, he never comes out and says it overtly because that would be too much for him as a character from that time.

“He says enough for them to know, and enough for him to feel unburdened but it’s in the fact that they’re using their first names which militarily they would never have done, and in the literal passing of the baton”.

The baton is a bonus reveal when fans learned that The Captain’s military stick wasn’t a memento of his career, but of Havers. As James suffers a fatal heart attack during a VE day celebration at Button House, Anthony rushes to his side and the stick passes from one to the other as they share a moment of tragic understanding.

“From really early on, we had the idea that anything you’re holding [when you die] stays with you. So it wasn’t just your clothes you were wearing, we had the stuff with Thomas’ letter reappearing in his pocket and so on. And the assumption being that it was something The Captain couldn’t put down, it felt so nice to be able to say it was something he didn’t want to put down.”

Rickard lists “Carpe Diem”, co-written with Ben Willbond, among his series five highlights. He’s pleased with the end result, praises Willbond’s performance, and loved being on set to see Button House dressed for the 1940s. He’s particularly pleased that a checklist of moments they wanted to land with the audience all managed to be included. “Normally something’s fallen by the wayside just because of the way TV’s made, it’s always imperfect or it’s slightly rushed, but it feels like it’s all there.”

Rickard and Willbond also knew by this point in the show’s lifetime, that they could trust Ghosts fans to pick up on small details. “Nothing is missed,” he says. “Early on, you’re always thinking, is that going to get across? But once we got to series five, there are little tiny things within corners of shots and you know that’s going to be spotted. Particularly in that very short exchange between Havers and the Captain. We worried less about the minutiae of it because you go, that’s going to be rewound and rewatched, nothing will be missed.”

The team were also grateful they’d resisted the temptation to tell The Captain’s story sooner. “We’d talked about it every series since series two, whether or not now was the time, but because he’s such a hard and starchy character in a lot of ways you needed the time to understand his softer side I think before you had that final honest beat from him.”

“What a ridiculously normal name to have so much weight put on it for five years,” laughs Rickard fondly. “Good old James.”

From Den of Geek

#bbc ghosts #bless you larry for doing all these den of geek interviews #I wonder if they just did one marathon session with him #inside ghosts was kind of disappointing this week #I guess Ben just wants to let the episode speak for itself and you're like yes but I would like to hear you talk about every detail #trust me we will be interested #long post #I really thought they loved the joke of nearly saying the Captain’s name so much that they'd never reveal it #so it's so lovely that they were like no this is not a joke name; he's a real man with an ordinary name #and we are going to tell you that in the most devastatingly romantic way #I am eating my words and they are delicious with that spread on top #also 'that's going to be rewound and rewatched' = 'I know you people are loopy so here is content specifically for you'#bbc ghosts spoilers

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who-is-that-dude · 2 years

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who’s chris

#ben speaks

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orangeispice · 1 year

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