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geronimomo-spd · 1 year

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i decided to make a list with things we know for sure about the Eighth doctor, as opposed to headcanons, so i would know what is a headcanon to me and what is based on an actual personality trait that i noticed!

plus its fun to have this list outthere for anyone who needs a little refresher on Eighth's personality and physicality! (as implied as it is in the form of audio lol)

So! things i know about Eight so far: (up to right after Scherzo, will update when i finish the divergent arc)

he likes to stomp around!! there were multiple times in the audio where he juststmps stomps as he is saying something!! stompy doctor!! (and yep he did it in the movie too, but the audio proves that he doesn't do it only when he is excited! like in neverland he stomped stomped stomped to make a point)

he talks in his sleep!!! every time he falls asleep he talks!!! the amount of times this happend like awwwww, (and it also happens in Stranded because i accedently spoiled myself for it) AND ITS ALWAYS ABOUT MARRY SHELLY, HE ALWAYS DREAMS AND TALKS TO MARRY, i can't wait to explore their audios together because she clearly meant so much to him, its one of the reasons i think she is his first companion post movie and it makes so much sense. (also now after watching Withnail & I i also headcanon him to naturaly smile and laugh in his sleep)

he tends to tell other people if he's hurt!! usuallly it will be or in a "FUCK OH NO" kind of tone or "ahhhh i think i am dieing... oops :)", but he will at least admit it!! like, he doesn't hide it, he more just tells about it, and he gets hurt A LOT so it might be just out of nececaty at this point lol

always puts the kettle on when after a big day of adventure, and good for him to find a way to disstress, but apperently he aways just lets it cool for wayyyy too long lol, sweetheart, and idiot sweetheart if you will

HE IS A VERY SHOUTY DOCTOR, AND I LOVE IT, its or that his vulmue is too low or that he SCREAMS, he tends to rise his volume when he is excited, and when he screams in pain (both happen pretty much in every episode)

that's it for now!!

#doctor who #dw #eighth doctor #eight doctor #8th doctor #8th doctor listenalong #8th doctor big finish stuff #big finish eighth doctor #paul mcgann #points at 8's head as he eats rats: my baby my babyyyyyy

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wat-the-cur · 7 months

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(Hope you don't mind a bunch of asks. I'm planning to sometime make a personal and talk a bunch about B&B.) You said that thing about Butt-Head being a barrier; I'm thinking of when Butt-Head's trying to get Beavis to fall asleep so he can do the hand in water trick. Butt-Head is just so gentle (nice deep breaths Beavis) and I imagine what if he actually has some experience calming Beavis down.

Not at all, buddy, I love getting asks! Send as many as you like. :)

I just want to say, that whenever I mention that aspect of Beavis and Butthead’s relationship, this is the post, or rather response to the original post that I think of. It’s brilliant, it’s a great perspective on Butthead, and it puts it all better than I ever could.

Oh, that’s really interesting, I never thought of it that way before! It’s easy just to assume that, because Butthead is that tiny bit smarter than Beavis, or at least more able to manipulate him, that this just came out of nowhere. More likely though, as you say, Butthead has lived around Beavis and his erratic moods for his entire life, and likely knows how to sooth him. We see him do it frequently, with his little “Settle down, Beavis.” But, the idea that he has had to be that gentle and attentive to actually calm Beavis down is certainly a thought.

I definitely think that one of the main reasons Beavis is so dependant on Butthead, quite apart from the familiarity of a life long companion, is because he is so consistent and level in his emotions. He’s a real contrast to Beavis’ changeable and extreme demeanour, in that he is always so calm and unfazed. As violent as he often is towards Beavis, he is not as erratic and angry as Beavis’ mother is implied to be. Butthead certainly hits Beavis, but doesn’t really lay into him, unless it’s a mutual fight. Butthead doesn’t raise his voice to scream at Beavis, unlike his mother. Butthead is vicious, but it’s a viciousness that Beavis can handle, that comforts him, even. It’s just like that early scene in “Withnail & I” where Marwood is having a panic attack and Withnail just keeps snapping at him and distracting him with unrelated chatter. It’s not good, but it eventually works. (Sorry, I had to make the comparison, it just stuck out to me.)

Butthead may just be a very apathetic kid, naturally. However, it’s also likely that his apathy is also a result of abuse and neglect. It’s implied that Butthead’s mother would beat and taunt him for showing weakness, possibly for crying, or making a fuss, which is likely why he never does. It seems, though, that for the most part, Butthead’s mother just treated him like a roommate she hated, rather than a son and a little boy. So, Butthead had to adapt to her apathy with equal apathy of his own. This, of course, just causes his own emotions to come out in ways just as destructive as Beavis’.

Which is why, though the two are very dependant on each other, they are also not healthy for each other, at least not at the moment.

Sorry, that was a whole lot of waffling.

#asks #beavis and butthead #beavis #butthead #b&bh

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placetnemagistra · 10 months

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Can I just say how insane it is to be as old as trees and have That be the tenor and tone of an actual expensive mainstream tv show made with big money and effects. I remember when all the baby johnlockers were convinced the BBC would do a special secret trick final episode and it was just oh babies no and then we get This, an entire series with the entire sensibility and frame of reference of someone who is as old as a particular sort of tree (J Finnemore) and who has been writing sketches and sitcoms his entire career apparently in preparation for this moment. I cannot believe this was filmed and put on television and it’s real. I was saying this to @scurator who can probably enlarge but… if you grew up ENTIRELY on downloading American QAF, Maurice, velvet goldmine, Withnail, and Wilde, and on each soap opera having one kiss and a great deal of hostility and retribution following. Section 28. Brokeback Mountain and The History Boys. Niche television things and Dead Lesbians (Nina S is the original dead lesbian!! Lesbian Ianto!!! IANTO FULL STOP. I’m talking UK here don’t talk to me about Buffy). That also d Tennant being how he is about trans rights (the others too but especially him) and the left wing consciousness also and also J Finnemore’s theological and biblical interests and also if you are a Christian and at some point have to choose between changing the church from within or pushing off!!!!!! (Or, you know, any institution — the Labour Party).

Anyway I still can’t believe they made this

#good omens 2

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agentnico · 7 months

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Loki - Season 2 (2023) Review

Ke Huy Quan is literally jumping from multiverse to multiverse. At this rate he should only be allowed to appear in projects about the multiverse, as one can never get enough of hearing him fast-talk sci-fi mumbo jumbo exposition. Ke Huy Quan - never change your wonderful weird self.

Plot: Season 2 of Loki follows the death of He Who Remains, with Loki desperately trying to figure out how to keep the multiverse from unraveling into another war and hold the TVA together.

I hear that the new The Marvels film is a turd. In fact, as of late all that Marvel has been doing is turd after turd, as if the entire studio had suffered a collective food poisoning and is now regurgitating and also releasing crap out of their bowels. Since Endgame they have really struggled, with of course some exceptions such as WandaVision, No Way Home, and Guardians Vol. 3 sticking the landing, but those are far few amongst a plethora of oversaturated dull superhero content. In this day it's all about quantity over quality, and the cracks are finally beginning to show with the negative critical response and diminishing box office returns.

So I am more than surprised to reveal that the new season of Loki that has just completed its run on Disney+ is actually really good. Great characters, solid storytelling, exciting twists and turns, well-done visual effects (another aspect lacking in other recent MCU projects), an exhilarating music score, and great production design - it's all there. I read somewhere that season 2 of Loki is the first MCU project to not undergo any reshoots, and it shows. The writers evidently had a solid plan from the beginning and stuck to it, and thus the results show. What a plan it must have been. I can only imagine what kind of Charlie Day-level board of post-it notes and interwoven lines they would have had to organize the time-dealing narrative. The writers really manage to deal with a big-scale multiversal time-traveling scope, yet at the same time succeed at keeping things grounded by focusing on the character development of its central cast.

I had mixed feelings about the first season of Loki. I enjoyed some ideas, the Tom Hiddleston/Owen Wilson pairing was enjoyable and the visual palette stood out. But there was plenty of useless filler, the character of Sylvie annoyed me to no end, and it only truly found its footing in the last couple of episodes. Oh, and Richard E. Grant's cameo was great, but when has Withnail not been good?? In comparison though Season 2 feels like a full-fledged pay-off to the events of the first season. So much so that it never really felt like any episodes had unnecessary junk in them. Each episode was filled with lots of stuff going on, with the show moving at a very fast pace. I'd say the first half of the season takes some time getting into, so the showrunners could have patched it up more, but the second half definitely balances it out. The production design also seems to have improved this season. The set pieces were all very well designed, and the detail put into the look of the TVA felt like this show had the budget of an HBO Max Game of Thrones-type series.

The cast are all great. Luckily there is less of Sylvie (no offense to the actress) and that weird Loki-to-Loki romance subplot is largely ignored thank the heavens. Also the writers must have taken on the feedback from the previous season and have now given us more buddy time between Hiddleston's Loki and Owen Wilson's Mobius. Those two together are hilarious, and share some of the best moments this season. Tara Strong gets more chance to lean into the creepy element as the eerily cheerful voice of Miss Minutes. Ke Huy Quan and Eugene Cordero manage to deliver the scientific exposition in an entertaining and breezy way, even if what they re saying doesn't always make sense, but like who's looking for logic in the MCU? Gugu Mbatha-Raw returns as Renslayer, and honestly, the season could have done without her. The writers seem to desperately want to include her, but her character has hardly anything to do. Rafael Casal as a rogue TVA agent also didn't work for me. The chap's acting was way too over the top and silly.

Naturally one must touch upon the Majors problem that Marvel is facing. They are really leaning into Kang as the Big Bad with more set-up than Thanos has ever had, yet the actor playing him is in some serious legal trouble. So will be interesting to see how Marvel gets out of that one should the court find Jonathan Majors guilty of the accusations, but nevertheless let's talk about Kang in this show. The essence of Kang is felt throughout the entire season, and naturally, some variants are involved. Primarily the character of Victor Timely, and look, I'm hearing many rave about Majors' performance as Kang but I'm not buying it. As Timely he's this blubbering awkward scientist who comes off way too over-the-top. At the end of the season Timely does find his groove and I actually began liking him, but as a Kang variant, he's not threatening at all. In Ant-Man as the Conqueror, he is just this macho man with a big mouth but not much else to him. And then all those variants in the Quantumania credits scene where they're all dressed up as if they are part of the circus, and then many of them screaming like apes.....like c'mon. He's supposed to be the Big Bad, but whatever Majors and the writers are doing, I don't get it. Except when it comes to the Loki season 2 finale...

So the finale of Loki season 2 is easily some of the best television work Marvel has done, at least in regards to the Disney+ shows. It brings not only the events of the entire Loki show to a satisfying close with a sense of finality that hasn't been felt since Avengers: Endgame, but also gives Tom Hiddleston's character such an incredible arc, from seeing how he started out back in the first Thor film, and how his intentions and persona have changed, yet the irony of life still plays its part and where his character ends up at the end of season 2 of Loki was really awesome. In fact, it's such perfect closure to his character that I don't believe we need to see him again. I get that the Marvel machine would naturally want to bring him back down the line, however… I don’t think it should happen. As much as I do love Tom Hiddleston as Loki, I think sometimes things need actual endings. And it was such a fitting yet tragic arc for Loki that I think adding anything else to the character, whether a multiversal variant or what have you, would only cheapen what they accomplished last night. As for the aforementioned comment about Kang, in this finale episode was the first time where we actually witnessed a Kang variant have some real power that could have big ramifications. Not the kind of cheap physical macho stuff they had in Quantumania - nope. In the Loki season 2 finale his power was more of knowledge and skill, which depending on how they take it from here could be really interesting.

Loki season 2 is a visual and narrative treat for any sci-fi time-travel pop culture fan and is very much a reminder that when the time and creative effort are put into a project, Marvel still has the potential to deliver. It is a shame then that these occurrences are happening less and less, but nonetheless, this show is worth celebrating. Also, we finally got to see Owen Wilson's Mobius on a jet-ski! That is what I call fan service done well!

Overall score: 7/10

Season finale score: 8/10

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silverfoxstole · 11 months

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I came across some old interviews and things I'd typed up yonks ago the other day, so I thought you lot might be interested in reading them. 😁

THE JENNIFER SELWAY INTERVIEW

DAILY EXPRESS 11TH OCTOBER 2001

“IT’S NICE TO HAVE BROTHERS. WE STAND IN FOR EACH OTHER ON ACTING JOBS AND IN THE PAST WE HAVE EVEN SWAPPED GIRLFRIENDS”

Paul McGann was burgled a couple of weeks ago.

“Oh, no,” I coo, like you do. “It was just stuff,” he says casually, sounding like an old hippy, which is not unfeasible. After all, he’s 41 now, which surprises me when I think about it. 41! I had assumed he was younger, something to do with those boyish, studenty looks – something to do with being immortalised in Withnail and I.

The really bad thing about the raid on his home in Bristol was that the thieves made off with his wife Annie’s computer, and she (a writer) lost several weeks worth of work.

“There are some scumbags in the world,” says Paul mildly. “They came through the front door at night. The kids and I were in the house asleep. Though apparently – I asked the policeman about this – the real rush hour for burglaries is two o’clock in the afternoon. It makes sense when you think about it. You wouldn’t look twice at someone hanging about the house at that time. There are always people round our house.”

“Like who?”

“Mates, musicians…you know.”

No, I don’t know really. It sounds lovely. Mates and musicians chilling out at your house all afternoon, the twang of an acoustic guitar, probably joss sticks and instant coffee.

The funny thing about Paul McGann is that it’s difficult to tell whether he is really very intense and energetic or as laid back and ordinary blokey as he makes out. Take his face, which can look somewhat grey and severe one moment and then all young and smiley the next. He can switch from headmaster to naughtiest boy in the class by just lifting the corners of his mouth.

He is the second oldest of the McGann brothers, the Liverpudlian acting family. No one (I’ve enquired round the office about this) can ever remember how many there are though most people seem to throw in a few names like Mike [eh?], Joe and Steve.

Paul – he ought to be reliable on this one – says there are five McGann siblings including one sister. Mike [She means Joe] is the eldest by just 16 months. Amazingly, there don’t seem to have been any rifts or feuds over the years. Paul thinks that being part of a clan can be a positive advantage to an actor. “It’s true that if people don’t see you on screen for a while they forget about you. But if you’re a McGann you get four times the opportunity of being seen. We are pretty interchangeable.”

He pauses for a moment and studies my face for a reaction. “You think I’m joking, don’t you? But it’s true. We’ve stood in for each other on acting jobs. The last time was a couple of years ago and no one was any the wiser.” He says he can’t remember what TV show it was. But I have the suspicion that this may be a diplomatic memory lapse.

Boys will be boys. And being so close in age the McGanns have also shared, not only jobs, but girlfriends. “I don’t remember us exactly passing girls around. It was more a case of the girls taking themselves around under their own steam,” explains Paul.

Quite so. “Women love the McGanns,” said Richard E Grant, Paul’s co-star in Withnail and I, adding, “while my admirers are mostly old men in trenchcoats.”

Withnail and I, directed by Bruce Robinson in 1987, is one of those films that brings a smile to people’s faces at the mere mention of the title. A low-budget surprise hit, McGann and Grant played a couple of out-of-work actors living in majestic squalor who spend the entire film veering from one bender to the next.

“It’s one of those films which just cheers people up. It’s always a laugh if someone comes up to me and talks about it. I’m always glad to meet Withnail fans. The funny thing about Richard is that you can’t think of a better drunk act than him but in fact he is allergic to alcohol and never drinks. He can’t metabolise it. But you know almost everyone has had their Withnail era, lived in a terrible flat, endured the squalor, we’ve all met that drug dealer, we all stayed up too late. It’s great to have been in something that has got into folklore in the way that Withnail has.”

Not all of McGann’s projects have been so happy. In fact he has been dogged by the most awful bad luck. In the mid-eighties he was very much the bright young hope of British TV, starring on BBC1 as First World War soldier Percy Toplis in Alan Bleasdale’s controversial Monocled Mutineer. A move to Hollywood seemed on the cards and off he went in 1987 to appear in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun, though most of his screen time disappeared on the cutting room floor. A similar fate awaited his role in Alien 3.

And there was more bad luck to come, including a car crash in Spain in 1991. Three years later he was in the Ukraine filming Sharpe for ITV. “We had a day off and were out on the beach playing football when I ruptured my knee. It was horrible, it swelled up like a balloon and I just wanted my mum. I tried to soldier on but in the end I had to be flown back to London.”

Sean Bean took over the coveted role of the dashing Sharpe and McGann found himself embroiled in a protracted court case concerning his contractual obligations. “Let’s just say that none of us was aware how badly injured I was. It was tough because I needed the dough at the time – and there would have been a lot of it – and that would have got us out of a domestic hole. It sent me into a bit of a spin, to be honest.” McGann’s next doomed project was as Doctor Who in the Hollywood-produced version which became the centre of another lawsuit between the BBC and a consortium of backers. The film, made in 1996, was a flop.

“I can’t regret it. It was a laugh. If it had gone ahead I would have been committed to five or six years in the US and I’d have had to move the family there. I didn’t want to be Dr Who at first – it’s a bit like taking over the responsibility of becoming the Pope – and I thought it was a silly idea. After all, I’m a po-faced dramatic actor.”

Last year McGann starred in Fish, BBC’s off-beat legal drama which was pulled because of dismal audiences. Recently he filmed The Biographer, playing Andrew Morton at the time when he was writing his celebrated book about Princess Diana. The film has yet to be released.

“I’m glad I did it. The scripts might have been salacious and awful but they weren’t. You don’t see Diana at all – just a fleeting glance from a distance with her back to us.”

Now, finger crossed, he’s back in another new BBC drama, Sweet Revenge, playing Patrick Vine, an “expert” in revenge whose clients want more than the old tried-and-tested methods involving “cutting up clothes and dead fish”.

McGann himself has toyed with the idea of revenge in the past. In 1996 [Actually 1994] he was spotted kissing Catherine Zeta Jones and became the subject of intense media interest. That Catherine was an old friend and the kiss no more than a mwah-mwah peck did not prevent the McGanns’ lives being made a misery. “It caused my wife Annie and I – and Catherine – huge distress. It’s very upsetting to be at the centre of that kind of attention. And did I want revenge? Too right I did. I wanted to get out there and throttle someone. Rightly or wrongly, I chose to do nothing. I didn’t want to dignify it by making any kind of statement. In the end the whole thing petered out because it was a non-story.”

Together for 20 years, Paul and Annie have two sons – Joe, 12, and Jake, 10. Annie studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic and their move from London happened over a long period of time. “We were in our own Withnail phase and felt we had to rejuvenate and get out of London, so we used to go to Bristol for weekends. We created a kind of bolt hole and eventually just forgot to leave. Then, when Annie was first pregnant we had to be grown up and buy a house. It was at that time in the late eighties when houses were a ridiculous price. That’s the real reason we stayed on in Bristol – we just couldn’t afford to live in London.”

He lives in Bristol almost by accident and he is an actor almost by accident.

“I never wanted to be an actor. I never went to Stratford-upon-Avon, or kept scrapbooks or had pictures of – I don’t know – Alan Howard on my bedroom walls. I would have liked to have been a musician. It was almost obligatory growing up in Liverpool – you kick a ball around and play in a band. But what I really wanted was to be a track and field athlete. I would have been perfectly satisfied with that – an athletic career or even teaching sport. But I didn’t make the Olympics which I wanted to do. It just didn’t happen. It was something to do with being 16 and highly sexed like all 16-year-olds and discovering the inside of the bar. So in the end I just slipped into the acting.”

McGann may have the ability to go with the flow but it’s clear he is not always so easy going. “I’m mellowing a bit. But there are times when I’ve wound myself up in knots, and in egotistical terms I think I was a bit of a bastard. I have thought about revenge in childish moments and temperamentally if I was going to get back at anyone I’d do it long after the event. That’s not nice, is it? I don’t forget but I’m reaching the stage where I can forgive. I’ve been a very jealous person as well. I’ve been jealous of my wife, jealous of my brothers and I’ve been jealous of people I’ve never met. Anyone who says they haven’t felt the same is a liar.

“I’ve reached the slow realisation that no one is really looking at me. You know how when you’re a kid you think you’re the centre of everyone’s attention? Discovering you’re not is refreshing, especially for an actor.”

McGann’s mellowing process is the result of hard experience. And he seems remarkably sanguine about his woeful luck. And old (well, middle-aged) hippy that he is, he quotes Sanskrit at me.

“You find what you should be doing through your mistakes. I really believe that. And so much depends on luck. There’s a Sanskrit saying: ‘Where you stumble, there your treasure is’. Do you like that? It’s good, isn’t it?”

#paul mcgann #interviews #how did this woman manage to write this without checking some simple facts?#poor mark whose name is apparently difficult to get right #headdesks #mcgann monday

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druidx · 1 month

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Elo Runs into More Trouble Snippet

CW: Alcohol Aqua and I were talking about Due South, how Young Elo was a lot like Benton Fraser and how if she hadn't learned to prioritise her time, she would have burned out by age 21, which reminded me of this snippet. It's raw and unedited from a story that never really went anywhere. Set after the events of the DNS campaign.

I stepped forward and gave a military bow – one arm across my chest and from the waist. "General," I said by way of greeting, keeping my tone neutral. Silently, I felt Auri walk in behind me and move over to one side. As I came upright, I took in the room. It was as plush as any other room in the Council Tower, but dogeared with signs of use. Warm wood panels lined the walls, a flickering fireplace and softly glowing chandelier brought cozy light. But the rugs were starting to show their wear, the armchairs and settee made comfortable with use, and cup rings marred the wooden coffee table.

Strucker made a genial noise of acknowledgement, pulling my attention towards him. He stood at a floor-length window, it's heavy drapes pulled back, looking out at the city. His elbow moved, his reflection swirling a brandy snifter. "Do you know," he began, "I once asked Captain Withnail why he drank so heavily. He never used to, I pointed out. Oh well, I mean he drank, but it had become more so recently, at that time." "Oh?" I said, again as neutral as I could manage. Captain Withnail had been my first Watch Captain, back when I was starting out at Precinct Eight. "Hmm. His answer was this new recruit of his. A woodling. Tiny slip of a thing. He said he despaired of her ever making it to her eighteenth birthday. "'A woodling?' thought I. How could one tiny creature send an already hardened man to drink to such excess?" Strucker paused to sip his brandy. "And then I had to oversee the appointment of not one but two new captains to Precinct Eight. Both appointments could be linked back to that slip of a girl. "Not too long after that I was meeting with Captain Fugit, and noticed he too had turned to the bottle more and more frequently. Again I asked him, 'Fugit, how is it that you drink so?'. "'It is an officer of mine,' said he, 'recently returned from adventures outside the city. I despair of her ever making it past her twenty-first birthday.'" The General took another sip of his brandy, and swirled it, watching it closely. "I realise it is uncouth to ask a lady her age, but indulge me: Lady Tourguarde, how old you are now?" "I'm twenty-seven, General, sir," I said. "Ah," he said, nodding. "Well then, my dear, I feel I can safely proclaim: I despair of you ever making it to your thirtieth birthday." Thus saying, he downed the rest of his brandy.

#oc elowyn o'toreguarde #npc johan strucker #writing #fighting fantasy #titan fighting fantasy #series DNS #wip 'Elo runs into more trouble'#this snip comes after two constructed duplicates of Elo have wound up dead and she was kidnapped by the man who made them #and then Auri - via a miscomms - nearly dropped her from the top of the council tower. so Elo'd had a bit of a day by this point #thus the General - her Cmdr-in-Chief - is within his rights to be a little upset

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ix-c-999 · 2 months

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One really really nice thing about having Arthur back in the system is that he is now a trauma holder for the stuff with my friend Sebastian that I don't really talk to any of the people who knew Seb too and I don't know anyone else who went through anything similar as what we went through with him.

But the thing is that now Arthur remembers a timeline that's a cross between what happened with Sebastian and an AU we have with Arthur's source character, and it means he's gone through basically the same thing I did. And he doesn't mind talking about it with me because he has the attitude that if being traumatized in the way that he is can help someone, even in the same system, he'd like to help.

Sebastian's deathday is today and we're going to watch his favorite movie, which I got into because of him and is now my favorite movie. Withnail and I. Most of our system members from that time who we still have in the system are going to watch it with us and have been co-con today. It's nice to have them around.

#.txt #[vyvian]#personalposting #systemposting #death /

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latefrequencies · 2 years

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okay so i’m really excited to start rewriting Red Supergiant, I’ve decided that 1 year is a perfectly acceptable amount of time to write the first draft of a novel especially when that novel is broken up into a short story and then a longer short story and then a novella AND while going through what was either the second or third most dramatic upheaval of my life so far. (yes I’m referring to my family shit. my life is such so that reconnecting with my adoptive family is maybe only the third most dramatic change that’s ever happened to me. That’s still a massive change.)

I don’t mean to overestimate my importance, but Red Supergiant has a lot of firsts for the H2G2 fandom, and that’s really exciting to me right now. I haven’t read every H2G2 fic that exists, but I have read the AO3 summary and tags for every single H2G2 fic that exists on AO3 currently, and this is, by all appearances, the first multi-part, multi-chapter fic the fandom has had that tells a serious story in a dramatic style. (Which, I mean, I understand why this fandom doesn’t lend itself to those kinds of fics, but I mean this is fandom, all sorts of things happen here.)

Anyway, it’s technically not the first to depict Ford as having a drinking problem as opposed to just really liking alcohol (actually the first fic fitting that description was also written by me!), but it is the first fic to explore the consequences and implications of that (outside of just “Ford drinks because he misses space”). So I guess that means I still get the title of “First Writer To Take Ford’s Alcoholism Seriously”!

Hearteningly, it is not the first H2G2 fic to depict a queerplatonic relationship (that would be some content I found centering around Zaphod and Trillian), but it is the first to depict Ford and Arthur in such a relationship (which is odd because frankly I think they lend themselves kind of well to that sort of relationship! I always talk about the “complex ways” in which I ship them and I never elaborate on what I mean by that but it means there’s QPR-type feelings involved. And I know that the concept of a queerplatonic relationship did not exist in Douglas Adams’s time, but as a modern reader who has a concept of that, a reading of the text as Ford having one-sided queerplatonic feelings towards Arthur would actually make sense to me.)

It is not, however, the first to be a crossover with Withnail and I! There is another and I think I was talking abt that some time ago but yeah it interestingly isn’t the first to do that. It’s the second, then. it does mean that the H2G2 fandom can make “if I had a nickel for every time” jokes about H2G2/W+I crossovers now.

anyway it does a lot of things that I think are exciting and I’m really forward to writing it in its fully realized form.

#this has been a self related post #gay alien sunday #guideposting #tagging it as such because this is abt my relationship to the h2g2 fandom really #and i think that belongs in that tag

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time-is-an-allusion · 2 years

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Okay so this is the story of how Ford and I met. It's super long and detailed! Cw for addiction/substance abuse (pills and alcohol), suicide, and self-harm (and a masochism mention).

The year was 2017. I had more or less gotten over the suicide of Sebastian, my alcoholic friend whose existence had fascinated me for the 6 years I'd gotten to know him. Unfortunately, I'd also developed a nasty polysubstance addiction, with Benadryl (or diphenhydramine, or DPH) being my drug of choice. 2017 was right in the middle of the four years I spent on that drug.

Ford found me first. He was looking for Withnail and I-related material and of course he found some of my old posts And //then// when he saw that I posted about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (a shared interest), addiction (a shared affliction), and DPH (a substance he was considering fucking around with), he followed me. And //then// he found my music and art, which he thought was Really Good, and I quickly found his writing (he writes sci-fi stories, which I didn't know at the time were fictionalized accounts of his own adventures) and formed the same opinion of it. And we were both INCREDIBLY open about our addictions, like...open to an extent that made most people uncomfortable and understandably so but that, in a situation where two such people meet each other, meant that we could talk to each other about Everything in a way that I couldn't with anyone else I knew.

So we spent 2017-2018 messaging frequently. It was not immediate love, but it was immediate mutual fascination. We were also both Really Worried About Each Other, because yknow he's a pretty severe alcoholic himself. Not to mention we both have self-harm problems. I didn't have to worry for him in the same way I had to worry about Sebastian (i.e. to the point where it frequently traumatized me), but there was a lot of "hey are you okay" messages between us.

Around late 2018 was when I started going to concerts, partly out of a sense of "fuck it I'm bored and I want to have interesting experiences" (a sentiment that drives a lot of Ford's behavior, too), partly because Ford mentioned that he went to concerts for the exact same reason, even when he didn't like the music very much. He mentioned that he liked getting dragged into the mosh pit. He liked the pain.

Also in case anyone's curious of when we first became aware of each other's interest in kink: we were aware to an extent of each other's masochism before ever properly talking about kink. (In case you're curious how you can talk about masochism without kink - we talked about it more as just a quirk of how we're wired that we find pain pleasurable). He found out I was a masochist because I talked about it very openly on Tumblr, especially when I talked about Hellraiser, which was one of my hyperfixations. I found out he was a masochist when he mentioned enjoying the pain from getting pushed around in the mosh pit. And by "found out", I mean I asked him if he was a masochist and he said yes. And we were both kinda like "hey same hat!" about it and didn't talk about it any further.

But anyway, a thing about the two of us: we NEVER thought to ask each other where we lived. Neither of us had it as publicly-available info on our blogs, and we just. never mentioned it. I had no idea what fucking time zone he was in because his sleep schedule was really fucked and he'd mention having "just woken up" at a wide variety of times. So I didn't know that, when he was going to hardcore shows, he was going to the same hardcore shows as //me//.

This changed at a show in late 2018. A bunch of local metal bands were playing, including a blackgaze group (this genre being black metal crossed with shoegaze, so yknow not something you get to see very often). In-between band's sets, I had gone to the smoking patio and consumed several DPH pills in front of a group of metalheads to get a shock reaction from them (which I did) and was waiting for them to take hold.

I went back in where the next band was going to play, and I see a rather short, rather thin red-haired guy - I presume he's a guy but I get the sense that I should ask about that - dressed completely inappropriately for the occasion. Everyone's wearing battle jackets and ripped denim and leather and he's wearing...fuck, what was he wearing? I want to say it was a blue-red-yellow striped blazer with an argyle sweater under it and a floral shirt under //that// and like. Magenta corduroy pants or something. And a scarf. This fucker was wearing a //scarf// at a metal show. Firstly, I don't know how he doesn't overheat, secondly, how does this not get him dragged into The Pit when he least suspects it? (I later ask him about this and he says: "Firstly, I was thin enough at the time where I was always cold anyway, and secondly, it did, in fact, do exactly that, and that's part of why I wore it.")

I'm about to say something to him but he starts things off by saying, "Nice Chomsky reference." He is referring to my handmade patch that says "Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously", a sentence created by linguist Noam Chomsky. "I've got a friend who made a similar patch for themself," he goes on.

THEN he notices all the synthwave on my jacket and I say, "Thanks, it seems like the only person around my age who likes Depeche Mode as much as I do is my internet friend Ford."

Two things happen at once.

One, we both realize who we're talking to.

Two, the drugs begin to take hold.

The world goes sideways for me at the worst possible time and after trying to react appropriately to seeing this person I've been talking to most days for the past year or so for the first time ever, we both become aware of what a Terrible time I'm having and Ford, who's drunk as fuck as a matter of habit but not actually having a bad time and is thus in a position to sort of Take Care Of Me, takes it upon himself to do so and makes sure I'm safe for the rest of the show. I make sure to get us a spot right at the front, far away from anyplace he could get dragged into the mosh pit.

Ford remembers none of this. He was, after all, very drunk.

He didn't even originally know this //happened// until we were talking years after the fact about "the first time we met". //He// thought the first time we met in person was at a different show at a different venue that we'd decided to meet up at. I hadn't really said anything about our first meeting afterwards, and when I started making plans to meet up with him at other shows, he just kind of assumed that we'd had a conversation in which we'd found out we lived in the same general area, it was just another case of alcoholic amnesia.

The second time we met (and the first time he remembers) wasn't very eventful, honestly. It was a music festival with a bunch of random bands playing - a weird mix of hardcore and indie. When a guitarist sliced his finger open on a guitar string by accident at the end of his band's set, I lent him the little towel I always carried around with me as per Ford's suggestion. (A towel is the most massively useful thing an intergalactic hitchhiker can have with them, yes this is a thing from the book.) Ford was proud of me for that.

He was drunk this time too and I was a LITTLE high but neither of us devastatingly so, and we started out by actually paying attention to the bands, but we found out that hanging out in-between the stages where the bands were playing and just talking together was much more fun. I brought the zines I made at the time and showed them to him. We just. hung out. like it was the most natural thing in the world, like we'd known each other for much longer than we really had.

But yeah, there are sort of three stories about "the first time Ford and I met", but those are all three of them.

#txt #self ship au #addiction /#suicide /#self harm /#also the friend sebastian was completely real

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reachexceedinggrasp · 3 years

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This is re: my tag ramble about how bizarre celebrity modelling shoots always are, and how the ones with men seem to inevitably contain at least one set up where he is fully clothed in a bathtub… Yes, maybe it should have remained a tag ramble, but look isn’t it mildly interesting that I have a picture of all three of my Sad Woobie Murder Prince actors bathing while dressed?

Like, a sample size of three may not be a lot, but I think it’s pretty wild that I’m three for three on pure coincidence without ever deliberately searching for such a photo of anyone. It’s an oddly specific thing to have happen so consistently.

#jang hyuk #tom hiddleston #adam driver #there are more in the series of Hiddles and I assure you he is wet in some of them so it counts #I clarify because I don't think there's water in the tub in THAT photo but he was definitely dressed and wet in the shoot #why?#what is compelling about this picture? lmao #I remember when the ones of Adam Driver came out and everything was talking about it like it was super avant garde #no it is tradition #and 'why do a photoshoot in a bathroom wtf is this'#but it's a whole genre of celebrity photoshoots #you play the sad murder prince and then you take a bath in a nice outfit #those are the rules #I mean... apparently #okay well actually only Jang Hyuk is really dressed up in his bath the other two are wearing underclothing #and... wellies... for some reasom #to keep his feet dry I guess #ALSO I have one of Richard E Grant as Withnail #it goes way back!#a proud and lengthy tradition #I don't think there was water in the tub in his though #two categories #dry and moistened #am I okay? you ask #not really #I also just noticed they all have beards in these pictures how unfortunate lmao #well Hiddles has a beard AD and JH have goatees bc that's all they can grow #that must be a huge tub Hiddles is in because he's giant and it still looks roomy. kinda want that tub ngl.#big enough to practically swim in

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cctinsleybaxter · 5 years

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classic jimmy

#rope #(jimmy stewart voice) a home-o’ what now?#i 100% believe this #like the idea of granger and dall talking about how gay the script is and how to get things past code #meanwhile stewart is just happy to be a protagonist #i think that really comes through in the movie- he’s written to be gay but played straight #on paper he’s clearly the elder gay mentor figure trying to deal with his chaotic dumbass charges #wait is rope a withnail and i au #films

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pixelrhys · 3 years

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i think VERY little people in the deltarune fandom know what “pink floyd: the wall” and/or “withnail & i” are so i might look like an insane person talking about why my human spamton was based off of two characters from those

#the wall is still pretty popular. i mean the movie in this context #but now ppl are like ''what are you talking about? wtf is a withnail? bitch im going to kill you''#which is funny bc both movies were cult classics #the wall movie still has a fandom #withnail & i is just dead #mostly ppl into doctor who knows what it is #and i mean classic who #bc paul mcgann plays the eighth doctor #and he's in the movie #anyway yeah </3 #pixel.txt

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doccywhomst · 3 years

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Withnail and I (1987)

Because Paul McGann (Eighth Doctor) and Richard E. Grant (Shalka Doctor) are the leads (Marwood/"I" and Withnail, respectively), I thought it would be fun to watch this film for the first time and share my notes/thoughts with you, going in chronological order. Withnail and Marwood ("I") are struggling actors and alcoholics who share a flat. They decide to go on vacation to Withnail's uncle Monty's house in the country, which is a huge mistake.

Feel free to watch it and read along if you want the full experience:

• off to a great start with the passionate saxophone (?) music

• oh my lord, those are the oiliest, greasiest eggs I've seen in my life

• marwood is a drugged-up neurotic prey animal, I love him

• marwood??? please stop using a spoon to drink black coffee from a bowl. we're barely five minutes in. you're such a dumb twink

• screaming because their kitchen sink literally looks like this and they think wearing a single latex glove and using pliers to move objects will make a difference

• "drifting into the arena of the unwell" is the understatement of the century, marwood

• "I demand to have some booze!" yeah me too withnail

• his boots reek of flowery perfume, I'm loving this very very much

• some guy calls marwood a "ponce" and it literally puts the fear of god into him, he's like "im in danger. im going to die," like... this man is mortally terrified of any and all social interaction. incredible

• are they crying?? both of their eyes are watering? this is such an accurate portrayal of being crossfaded as fuck, how are the actors both sober right now

• the Voodoo Drug Doll Challenge™️ is so fucking funny - "these drugs are haunted" is such a hilarious premise for a dare

• marwood's terrorized silence and awkward grin at Monty's place... this is SO RELATABLE, this is me in most conversations with new people

• "firm young carrot" monty?? monty. also marwood and withnail grow geraniums, i hope that isn't a lie because it's adorable

• "throw yourself into the road, darling" got me, imagine that you're just chilling and a plastered guy in a car drives by and screams that at you

• CHILD PISS??? 💀 WITHNAIL PLEASE

• "if I don't get aspirin I shall die here on this fucking mountainside" you're such a drama queen withnail!!!!

• marwood approaching the problem "scientifically" is such a Doctor thing to do, I'm proud

• marwood walking through the countryside is Very Aesthetic

• "there's a man on the mountain. why he's up there, fuck knows" made me laugh, marwood is amazing

• withnail's desperate "are you the farmer" followed by marwood's "of course he's the fucking farmer" - they're married, your honor

• THE BAGS ON HIS FEET

• "how can we make it die" is so funny to me, they're both so timid when it comes to confrontation

• "never point guns at people, extremely dangerous" okay Doctor

• a BULL? a horny bull trying to kill marwood?? more likely than you think

• this man literally has dead eels in his pants. showstopping.

• both marwood AND withnail are neurotic, withnail is like "that man had eels. therefore, he's going to come to our house and kill us in the night, and I need a shotgun for protection"

• "one bed" trope really carrying some weight, I love this

• "MONTY YOU TERRIBLE CUNT"

• marwood's terrified grin makes me sad actually because I've been """flirted with""" like this and it's so scary, both me and marwood are very non-confrontational - I think this is a good movie for talking about consent and "soft no's"

• "we want the finest wines available to humanity" I love them, this reminds me of Black Books 💕

• monty, shut up challenge - marwood doesn't deserve this, I feel so bad, it's actual harassment, you can see how angry and uncomfortable he is

• this assault scene is... Distressing - I feel pity for everyone in this movie but simultaneously feel like I shouldn't, im so conflicted

• WITHNAIL NO

• withnail....... my disappointment is boundless, please stop being such a moron ❤

• one last mental breakdown for marwood, as a treat

• mmmmm, that ending line...

Okay - I really really liked this movie. It's so pretty at times, and funny, and cozy. I feel bad that Marwood is getting harassed though ;-; that really sucks. At least he got the happy ending...

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#withnail and i #peter marwood #vyvian withnail #paul mcgann #doctor who #eighth doctor #richard e grant #classic who #shalka doctor

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