#dexter's a real one

[snobgoblin]

#dexter's a real one #tw scar #cw scar #mandark #dexter’s laboratory #trans mandark #tw burn #cw burn #dex's next science project is just making T for him #HAHA IM GONNA HELP YOU TRANSITION THATLL SHOW YOU IM SMARTER #wow thanks #NO NOT THANKS YOURE MY RIVAL

[saudrag]

MOSERC3ST EVERYONE !!! WHO CHEERED??? (me)

#im again in the dead fandom #dexter #my art #brian moser #dexter moser #he is MOSER #not morgan #harry can go fk himself #dexter morgan #ugh whatever #im never forgiving the show writers for killing brian #dexter would NEVER. #they are brothers. real. blood brothers. #brian is the only one dexter can ever have who well understand him so deeply and profoundly #sorry im not normal about them at all #roody cooper #rudy cooper #dexter morgan x brian moser #dexter x brian #biney #dexter morgan/brian moser #mosercest

[vanlegion]

I'm feeling kind of embarrassed over this, but holy hell this has literally never happened to me before. I think I am confusing a fanfic write line, with a canonically said line. Like, I swear to all higher powers the lines (and since it's been a week I'm paraphrasing this): "Ah! I can't find any more paper, Sir!" "Just do the calculus in your head, like a normal person, Simmons!" Was a legit canon Simmon and Grif banter during maybe the Chorus arc(?). . . but now I'm getting all cross-wired and starting to think that was just something I read in a fanfic. But that's like. . . I've never cross-wired a canon phrase with a fic phrase before so I'm reeling over this. Does this banter sound familiar to anyone else? If it does, tell me either which episode or which fic.

#rvb #red vs blue #dexter grif #richard dick simmons #i swear this has literally never happen to me before #i was like reading fanfics and watching MurderofBirds RVB reactions #and swore I heard that banter while watching/listening to one of his reviews #but now im not sure anymore #im positive it was canon cause i remember it being spoken #but then again im sure we all hear the voices of the characters when we read fics #but it its real then its so important like holy hell

[chokopoppo]

Okay so if s14 onward are all simulations that Epsilon was running, what was up with s17. Like. Does Church have a crush on Grif or what

#rvb #dexter grif #leonard church #like... here's an alternate version of Myself who was so in love with an alternate version of Grif that I tried to kill all our friends #also grif is soooooo funny and we all love him and miss him soooooo much when he's not here #god i hope that was actually s17 and not a different season number or i'm about to get eviscerated for not remembering which one is which #haven't watched this show in like... hm. Some Time. #lotta people bringing up the fact that epsilon made a simulation where grimmons was Real Kind Of but honestly that WHOLE SEASON is bonkers #if it's fanfiction that church is writing

[sysig]

A bit more Defeated, and thinking about this post (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #Max Vyer #Dexter Favin #But actually starting with chibi Maxes because cutes!! He's the cutest!! #I was looking through some old doodles of my own and my chibi style from 2019 was so flippin' cute ugh #That Zedaph in cold weather clothing? Honestly still a fave of mine Zed is So soft in all my doodles of him lol #Figured it'd be nice to float some cute loves Max's way :) And I was right! Though I am out of practice lol #Was still fun to do tho haha #And then since I'd reread Defeated poor ZEX got a chibi as well! I'm sure he appreciates it poor lad haha ouq #Didn't even use my white ink to put a shine in his eye for that one haha :'D #And then a bit more with Dex </3 I had these ideas on the first reading (or so - in the same time period anyhow) but only got to them later #Dex speaks so.....patronizingly about ''Max's'' attachment to Caleb :) It's interesting to me :) #For a lot of it he's very understanding and gentle with him but it really seems like Caleb is something of a sore spot for him huh #Still ♪ I wonder if he'd consciously acknowledge it - and what his reaction would be at himself if he did hmm #He's no help to Max if he's caught in his own feelings! That doesn't make them not meaningful or important tho #And then to a bit of silliness ♪ No subtlety with the guard dog comparisons pffft #I will not apologize - if ZEX gets to play with a collar and leash with the Captain then let Max have just a little! As a treat! #Besides we all know the Real Dynamics here lol #Max and Dex do stupid couple's costumes for Halloween - who doesn't love a callback lol - and Dex is Not Amused lol #Hey I mean if the shoe fits! #And then the last one is just silly lol I may be misinterpreting the intended message but I couldn't not give it to them lol #And also Max in a ponytail for funsies :D Cute lad ♥

[redvanillabee]

Feeling like I've fallen into the deep end realising that I can say 'I have sewn upwards of 20 buttons in the name of fandom'.

Trying to make old timey suspenders work in 2024 is so much work.

Which leads to an interesting conversation I once had with @historymaiden. Apparently they stopped selling men's trousers with suspender buttons pre-sewn in around WWII due to rationing. In other words, for the entire duration of Agent Carter, any male character you see wearing suspenders are either (a) wearing a pre-war garment, (b) had someone else sew it for them, either by a mother, or a girlfriend/wife, or they paid someone to do it, or (c) they have a little cookie tin sewing kit at home.

#and. look. not to treat show costumes as you know. a reflection of real world wardrobe #and not to treat characters as real people #but if you look closely most of the boys have the suspender buttons on the inside of the trousers waistband #and they don't have the ugly underside of the sewing showing through #that means whichever way the buttons are attached. the one doing it has to do it carefully to only poke through #the inner layer of the waistband #and i simply do not trust any man in this cast of characters to have the sewing skills and dexterity to do that #i have definitely gone off the deep end now back to caesar blogging #personal #for posterity this is also filed under #ac meta

[kandibatz]

NEW SPOOKY MONTH DREAM i was just at some store and there was an entire section that was just spooky month merch n i was like. wtf

#i remember a lot of it was mostly pins #the msot like. realistic or accurate ones ig would be these skid and pump pins that were just their heads those were cute #4 some reason there was a lot of candybats stuff so that was also a main source of confusion #other than i was confused to see spooky month out in the wild to my understanding at that moment #but a very hyperspecific one i remember is?? like this one was turned around so the back just said 'fetuses' #and i turned it around to see what it was and it was just a pin or smth of lil kevin streber and dexter chibis #n i just stared at it AND THEN I THINK I MIGHTVE WOKEN UP RIGHT THERE #fetuses returned me to the real world

[bitletsanddrabbles]

Okay, this is going to sound damn pathetic, but I don’t care...

...especially since this is exactly one of those posts that gets 0 responses, but...please...

...even though someone just started following me and said it was because they liked my fic and my opinions...

...even if it’s just that person again...

Someone.

PLEASE.

Someone who loves Thomas Barrow.

Someone who loves Thomas Barrow and Richard Ellis together.

Someone who has not made me want to delete my entire Tumblr and take all of my fanfiction down off of Ao3 - repeatedly - for daring to write Thomas with someone other than Richard. Or for speaking well of Julian Fellowes. Or for feeling represented by a ‘poorly written depiction of gay people who we both happen to love, but gawd could JF have done a worse job?’.

Tell me you’d miss me if I walked out.

Tell me you’d miss me if this blog went away and the fiction was gone over night.

Tell me that all of the times “someone else in ‘my’ corner of the fandom” said something that “everyone who loves Thomas or Thomas/Richard absolutely agrees on” and left me feeling like Thomas in the servant’s hall while everyone else danced at the Carsons’s return to Downton were worth sticking through, and I was right not to throw in the towel.

Maybe I’m just tired and stressed from the holiday season and burnt out and frustrated at not being able to write. Maybe I’m sick of dealing with hundreds of people a day who could take offense at my packing they’re groceries wrong or asking them to obey State law. Maybe I’m just 100% done with feeling like I have to walk on eggshells around every other damn person on the planet, but they can stomp all over me with cleats and I have to say ‘thank you’ for the privilege.

But I really, really need to hear that I’m worth it to someone right now. That I’m not a bad person for needing a place I can go and enjoy something as simple as a show I enjoy. That I have the right to occasionally get a little bit cranky on my blog at people who do nothing but find reasons complain and be dissatisfied and reblog my posts so they can complain and leave comments in my fiction so they can complain and to assume that of course I’m going to agree with them.

I need to know hear that I’m not responsible for thinking of the entire fandom’s feelings, especially since the entire fandom sure as hell doesn’t think about mine! I don’t have to return a favor that isn’t extended in the first place! I can care about my mutuals and that’s good enough!

With everyone else clustering around in their mutual support groups, please just tell me I’m not as alone as I feel.

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #thomas barrow #richard ellis #guy dexter #jimmy kent #duke of crowborough #peter pelham #edward courtnay #YES I'M HAVING A BLOODY BAD TIME RIGHT NOW WHY DO YOU ASK? #And no #no one's died #i'm not dying #my problems aren't 'real problems' #I KNOW AND I DON'T CARE! #three cheers for depression

[ladysophiebeckett]

what i liked about one day netflix version:

set production details--every room was impeccable. every location, stunning.

music--every track felt specifically picked but never did it feel out of place nor did it feel like it took over a scene.

episode format > movie version. clearly.

the acting was better too. i felt like in the first half emma was always looking at dexter like she was trying to figure him out and he always had a habit of looking away from her like he knew she was looking and was afraid she'd find nothing there but an empty vessel. really highlighted his insecurities when it came to her.

what i didnt like:

the unequal attention to her parents vs his. we never even meet her mom but apparently she really liked ian the comedian. why? and it clearly bothered dexter that emma had never introduced them. and we dont even get to see them at the end???

i think his parents had too much screen time.

despite liking the episode format, i do think some screen time was wasted during the solo individual episodes.

their 3x time sex night not being shown and only talked about ??? um i deserved to see that (we all did).

we dont even get to see them get married which bothered me a lot bc emma kept saying the event was like a party but it seemed really important to both of them. like not even a wedding picture.

i would have loved it if dexter had seen the box of all the pictures she had of them (the box ian discovered). i mean yeah, depressing but i still wanted it.

#one day #everybody already watched this so i dont think my post will resonate much #also---now that ive seen it #i dont understand posts saying he didnt love her or something?? #he clearly did but he was all messed up and didnt have his priorities in order #hes not perfect and emma was clearly his anchor and when their friendship deteriorated it clearly affected him #bc he tried to get to sober and tried to take his relationship with slyvie seriously #and then sought emma out to tell her 'hey look im a mature adult now' #like this man always wanted her approval\for her to be proud of him bc he thought she thought less of him all the time #i mean he did annoy me but like he did very much love her #i think dexter just always knew that if he went for emma for real it would have to be REAL #he couldn't toy around with her #thats why it took so long #anyway this was better than my memory of the movie but its still depressing

[marsuro]

Songctober day 16: Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver (Elbow)

Come on, tower crane driver Oh so far to fall Send up a prayer in my name All the same

-

Hearing this song live is really almost like ascending yourself

#songctober #music art #song art #traditional art #elbow band #elbow music #tower crane #oil pastel #saw elbow live with my dad #it was my first real big concert and it was so. so fucking good #that guy can sing hooooly shit #this one really stuck with me after bc its just even better live than the normal version #other faves of the concert were ‘birds’ ‘dexter and sinister’ and ‘mirrorball’ #tried to put in sadness as well as hope and otherwordly dreaminess in old romantic paintings

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

I dont think telling disabled people who use AI to make 2D digital art to Go Do Some Other Kind Of Art is helpful or even like halfway decent behavior. I think its really shitty to be like “I understand youre doing this because you physically cannot draw and never will be able to, but have you considered doing something else instead because major corporations are probably going to latch onto this technology to steal jobs from other artists, so clearly the solution is to just stop developing technology instead of Something Else”

#Also yelling at people on twitter isnt gonna stop the march of technology and save your job #Also Im gonna be real Ive thought this too but uh #I had tendonitis so bad I couldnt draw for a year and I mean. I tried all kinds of shit to get the like self expression juice I got from- #-drawing and couldnt really find anything that didnt also hurt my hand but a little bit less #I dont really know if theres a visual art form that doesnt take some kind of hand strength/dexterity/stamina. probably is but like #Even clicking a mouse or typing on a keyboard would hurt. So I get it is what Im saying here #and I dont think 'well just dont make art then' is kind. #It does just come down to you are never gonna be able to stop a major corporation from fucking you over but you are gonna be able to #get people to stop making art the only way they can because you kept sending them mean messages on twitter #Sorry I was gonna stop talking about this because I feel like I dont really know enough but I found the twitter of someone who makes AI art- #and is disabled and they just got Bullied Off Twitter so I had more thoughts #Im not really pessmistic or depressed about this but Im also a com/muni/st and that is mostly why. #'this' being the idea of AI art taking over art jobs not the person getting bullied off twitter that one made me sad.

[orcelito]

I need to learn how to twirl knives bc I think that would be so incredibly gender of me

I need to maybe get a training knife for this express purpose bc im not actually interested in getting my fingers cut off

#speculation nation #1 am daydreaming about twirling knives #i have the finger dexterity i could definitely do it if i learned #and what a great stim thing that would be to do #there r plenty of training butterfly knives online. & im sure there r resources for learning #.... in fact when i tried to look for a real butterfly knife i ONLY found training knives. it was very frustrating. #do still want a real one but maybe i could buy a fake one to learn how to spin it #i just need to go to Gatlinburg again to revisit those sketchy knife shops. oh god there are so many. #and i was SO BROKE when i last went to Gatlinburg. back in fuckin 2016 lmao #daydream of the shops upon shops of knives.... #i wonder if theres anything like that around here. havent seen anything like that but also i dont go out much lmao #i just rly love knives lmao they are SO gender for me #my gender is knives and video games. and also a romp through a stream in tennis shoes #and the smell of roses after rain... #knives r important tho i need to get more knives. always need more. always......... #i want to go to an antique shop. i wonder if there r still any around. hmmmmm

[grinchwrapsupreme]

season 8 is kind of weird so far but the basic concepts it's coming up with are really interesting like "psychiatrist who targets trauma victims and turns them into serial killers" and "Serial Killer Social Sphere" and "Vince Masuka character development"

#dexter #dexter season 8 #i am enjoying it #but also i do not remember season 7 #i know i watched it #i'm pretty sure i watched it #but the memories are real vague #hate hate hate evelyn but thinking of her out of the context of the point in the show she was introduced #she's a really interesting character #and zack is also interesting as a character concept even if it's not entirely original #i really do think they shot the brian wad way too early in the show and conversely vogel was shot too late #they both missed the sweet spot for me #like i'd be so happy if the romance plots that weren't rita and lila were #well #nonexistent tbh but even just like if they took a back seat to zack and evelyn #ooooh if zack was around the time harrison was born instead of when he was 4 #give more of a mirror of dexter's anxiety surrounding being a father #and then push trinity back one season #man if rita met zack... #fr i did not mean to think about any of this in depth

[vanlegion]

You know, I don't think it would have been very difficult to have S19 be what it will be, and keep S15-17 canon. (S18 still gets cut, if what I read about it was true [since i've only seen the first three episodes])

Like the way I see it, they could start off 19 with the Staff of Charon fight... but like say in the corner, 6 months ago, or however long it would be. They have the epic fight, they win, the Meta suit goes inert and there's some sadness finding out Church is fully gone, then they party to celebrate the planets freedom... then we jump to present day. That's literally how they set up seasons 9 and 10 There could be some kind of background chatter or bullshit banter going on about how Tucker not begin able to find the Meta helmet because he used the suit to fool the cyclopes. (During this fight he distinctly said "Man I wish I had my other suit!") Grif could find out what the message from Locus was that he never opened to read. They could find out what was going down on Chorus that the Luttenits alluded to. Maybe something weird with comm signals on Chorus? Maybe people are going missing? Maybe reports of minor crime? What if Locus was saying he intercepted a message about some Pirates who raided Iris while everyone was gone? Explains why The Meta helmet is missing. All of these minor background lead ins. And then the main start up of the season, main conflict, things progress. But you know what would be truly a Divergence of Expectations? That this new Meta, has now become the personal foe of all of Red Team, because not only did those three toss him off a cliff with a fucking car attached, but also because maybe, just maybe, it's not Tucker under that gear. Maybe it's someone who has a personal vendetta against Tucker and Simmons . . . being as it was those two who blew him off the platform into the abyss.

#rvb #red vs blue #lavernius tucker #dexter grif #richard simmons #sarge #im talking about Felix #it's like Grif said #No Body No Death #He felt into the clouds #Maybe that Fuck landed on something #I dunno #Point is #he also has glowy glowy magic sword #but thats just spitballing and its prob just Tucker going crazy from all the Voices #THOUGH i do think that kinda sucks cause #have all the AI in one is like a bad thing i feel #I kind of want my theory of Church sending all the Fragments to different people to be real #but also this is just me grasping at straws #cause GDI 15-17 were GOOD #We go so many good Character moments #So many GOOD animations #Wonder if they'll use them again - or similar ones to them #Cabooses little heart to heart with Simmons still gives me feels #1230AM rambles

[frankenfran]

we’ve entered into a rare astrological phenomenon in which two elf-heavy shows air one after another with dungeon meshi every thursday and frieren every friday. the implications of this once in a lifetime event are unclear but professionals in the field of elf studies predict “a metric fuckload of off-model out of character elf porn on twitter. like real dexter’s mom type builds on these decidedly not mom shaped elves”

#dungeon meshi #frieren

[sysig]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAX <3 <3 (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #DAX #ZEX #Hello I have been inconsolable ever since ZEX mentioned that he wished DAX were there so he wouldn't be the only VUX #It is a hideously addictive thought - DAX being there to support his Admiral - he certainly could use it! #Talana got pulled in from Zelnick's girlfriend's ''real'' counterpart - why not Dexter!! Hghgh #It sets my brain on fire (terribly affectionate) #I love DAX sm ;; I love ZEX sm! I love their dynamic sm ;;;; #He would've been such a comfort hhh my head is full of all these horrifically self-indulgent scenes of They ♥ #Firstly of them meeting up with each other!! ZEX is very tactile haha <3 He needs the physical reassurance so bad haha ;u; #Not quite like twining arms but DAX won't recoil at least <3 Hugs good! #Can you tell that second one was a spacefiller lol #ZEX very well acquainted with crying now haha - at least it's for something positive! For once :') #Ugh imagining their little differences in approach is so fjdkslafdf - same stimuli different outcomes! I love them hgh #I like to imagine DAX just observing the showers with a distant annoyance-interest like ''What the heck is that'' lol #Very dissimilar from ZEX's Intense interest but not actually picking up any skills from the experience lol #But really it's just my secret desire for DAX to learn how to wash hair so he can corral his Admiral into taking care of his body haha #Two VUX would have a very different kind of scaffolding of learning how to get along! They'd both benefit from whatever one finds out! #Might keep ZEX just a teensy bit more on track of finding things out to report back and help DAX out hehe <3 Maybe possibly lol #Still wouldn't stop him from hitting on DAX hehehehe ♪ What's this? Someone he likes and trusts in a human form? Hmm :) #Hhhh they ;; Recreating the scene of Max coming onto Dex and then Dexter turning it around on him - not that they'd know #I'm fine this is fine I'm not crying or anything ;;;; Parallels are my favourites I can't stand this <3 <3 #There's just so much to think about! And it's all so much to me!! ♥