#dvd commentary

[noyzinerd]

Highlights of The Teen Wolf DVD Cast Commentary (Ep. 1)

Dylan pretending to be Crystal Reed (who couldn't make it that day).

The cast constantly talking about boobs, balls, butts, and pointing out Dylan's penis outline (which they refer to as his "mammal toe").

Their stunt guy is named Spider.

Dylan talking about how inexperienced, nervous, unattractive (apparently he sometimes breaks out into "mouth herpes" when he's nervous), and awful he is and everyone immediately telling him how amazing he is, Hoechlin even saying he was born an amazing actor and Holland saying she absolutely loves seeing his cheeks all pink and blotchy because it means he's throwing himself 100% into a scene.

Hoechlin was the only one to point out that Posey's pre-transformation looked too premature ejaculatey and recommended they try to shoot the sequence more centered around the head. He didn't say anything until the very last minute, though, because he kept expecting Jeff or any other numerous coordinators or higher ups to notice, before shyly piping up about it.

Sooooooo many jokes flying left and right in complete deadpan, it's sometimes impossible to know what's an actual fact or a joke.

They used KY Jelly as werewolf drool. So Posey's first transformation scene had him with a mouthful of lube.

The teacher-extra couldn't talk and write on the whiteboard at the same time, so they had to CGI him writing the correct word on the board.

Dylan was sooooo excited to film that intro scene of Stiles hanging from the roof because it was technically a stunt and it involved hanging by a crane, but the first time he did it, he blacked out.

Holland originally did the voice of Mrs. Argent on the phone talking to Allison, but it was cut.

Itty-Bitty, first-time-baby-actor-Dylan blatantly looking down at the ground to stand correctly on his mark.

Posey did 17 takes of swiping at a chair to make it land correctly only for them to cut it anyway.

Posey, Hoechlin, Dylan, Holland, and Colton are all cuddled on the same couch in each other's arms as they commentate.

Hoechlin: "Here I'm just standing around." "Oh! Another great shot of me standing around, staring quietly!" "Look, look, look! I'm just standing there, staring!"

#teen wolf #derek hale #tyler hoechlin #stiles stilinski #dylan o'brien #tyler posey #holland roden #colton haynes #dvd commentary

[troythecatfish]

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

#nimona #nimoma #nimona netflix #nimona posting #nimona the movie #nimona is great #nimona my beloved #nimona thoughts #dvd #dvd commentary #my thoughts #spilled thoughts #netflix #i need this #i need it #please for the love of god #and a blueray #trans positivity #trans artwork #trans art #my opinion #my truth #my ramblings #movie #movies #cinema #animation #queer #trans #art preservation

[finchers-ipad]

someone put Fincher’s dvd commentary’s on Spotify!!! this is a wonderful day!! (it includes the ‘Fight Club commentary with Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter) here’s a playlist with all of them:

#actually amazing news #WOOO MY 3 HOUR DAILY COMMUTE JUST GOT BETTER #i started listening to the social network one this morning and it’s good quality #ALSO THE GAME HAS A COMMENTARY TRACK??? it must be on the blue ray #david fincher #dvd commentary #se7en #the game #fight club #the game (1997) #panic room (2002) #panic room #zodiac (2007) #the curious case of benjamin button #the social network #the girl with the dragon tattoo #tgwtdt #gone girl #gone girl 2014 #Spotify

[jgroffdaily]

Highlights from the first two episodes of the Looking DVD commentaries from @fortheloveofgroff on TikTok.

#jonathan groff #looking hbo #dvd commentary #murray bartlett #Raul Castillo

[dustdeepsea]

extended author's notes | nine lives

Nine Lives (Rugan/Tav, BG3, explicit): AO3 link

I have a lot of silly feelings about this fic + its prequel. Waaay too many and far too shameless to put in the end notes on AO3. Consider this the dvd commentary for anyone who would like to listen to my rambling.

I. the working title

This fic was originally supposed to be called amor fati ("love of one's fate"), and Nine Lives to be the overall series name. I nixed it because two Latin titles back-to-back would have been too confusing.

II. mixtape [youtube playlist link]

I listened to these songs for the lyrics and vibes while writing and I think they make a nice little EP/mixtape of mood music for reading as well:

Burning - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sea of Love - The National How Not to Drown - CHVRCHES, Robert Smith Falling Apart - Skeler Momentum - Plantrae

III. setting: the elfsong tavern rooftop

Excuse these boomer screenshots with the UI overlays (if someone can teach me how to switch them off, that would be great!)

Alfira usually stands on the little bit of balcony this is from my durge run so Alfie is missing yikes

balcony where they ahem kiss

Cue this ridiculous writer trying to figure out the optimal place to bone down hurhur

IV. thank you for reading!

Writers always put a little bit of themselves into their work. Tav and Rugan in this story both have a bit of my younger self in them. I'm glad I got to give them a hopeful ending :)

#dvd commentary #my writing #dustdeepsea fic: nine lives #dustdeepsea series: trouble will find me

[mysharona1987]

But you have to do something really bad to get banned from Elon Musk’s Twitter. Oh, right. Embracing white nationalism.

Crazy. I remember listening to him years ago on some of the Father Ted DVD commentaries and he sounded so…well, normal.

He made legitimate criticisms of the Catholic Church and sounded like a disaffected Catholic school boy who was more moderate now. Perhaps not liberal, but questioning a lot. He believed in women’s rights and hated racism.

Then he got weirdly obsessed with Trans people and turned into a right wing maniac.

#Father ted #trans #graham linehan #channel 4 #lbgqt #twitter #dvd commentary #dvds #Maga

[alien-theory]

James Cameron discusses the aspect ratio and film grain of Aliens (DVD commentary)

#james cameron #aliens 1986 #dvd commentary #behind the scenes

[certified-ajumma]

이규형: 이때 두나 누나 눈빛이. 서동원: 진짜 우주 같애.

#비밀의숲 #배두나 #이규형 #secret forest #bae doona #lee kyu hyung #kdrama #dvd commentary #making/bts #video #*

[punkmush]

writing down my favorite parts of the Saw (2004) DVD commentary with Leigh and James PT.3 (rest will be under the 🪚 tag)

•Leigh loved filming the scene where he pretended to die by the cigarette. Of course he did.

•Leigh slammed his camera down so hard during the red room scene that James told him “No photographer would ever set their camera down that hard.”

•In all the scenes where the lights are off, they had to pretend that it was actually pitch black. Meanwhile it was bright as can be, they just pitched down the light a lot.

•During the showing of Saw, the scene where Adam goes to open the closet, someone in the audience yelled “Oh you idiot!!!”

•They called Adam “The worst spy photographer the world has ever seen.”

•Leigh wanted to laugh in the beginning of a scene so he asked Cary to do his Marlon Brando and the whole crew laughed at it.

•They also laugh when Tapp hides behind the pole for cover.

•During the screening of the scene where Lawrence cuts off his foot, someone puked.

•Originally Zep came in and checked Adam’s pulse, which we know wouldn’t have worked.

•Leigh actually landed a punch onto Zep’s actor by accident. (i think? i can’t tell if he’s being sarcastic or not)

•No way they just described when Lawrence and Adam are grabbing at each other as “The Love Scene.”

•The whole ending sequence starting with Adam searching Zep’s body was filmed in one shot.

•THEY SAID ADAM DYING IS UP TO INTERPRETATION ADAM ALIVE TRUTHERS WE WIN /j

•They ended it with Leigh doing a BBC announcer impersonation oh my god. It’s actually not bad.

#saw 2004 #adam stanheight #lawrence gordon #amanda young #saw franchise #sawposting #leigh whannell #cary elwes #james wan #saw movies #saw #🪚 #tobin bell #jigsaw #john kramer #dvd commentary

[rainbowdelicsunshine]

Does anyone remember those DVD Scene Commentaries that had Chucky commentating over scenes of the first Child's Play movie?

God I love those things so much, they're actually really good at keeping Chucky in character but still fun

My favorite was when he was accompanied by Don Mancini on there and they were bouncing off each other like two old friends that bicker with each other (sadly it's not on YouTube anymore)

Honestly I wish they would still write Chucky like that...

Here's what I'm talking about if y'all don't have a clue!

#🌈 fozz's posts #🌈 fozz chit chats #chucky #chucky ray #charles lee ray #don mancini #childs play #child's play #childs play franchise #child's play franchise #chucky franchise #chucky movies #childs play 1 #child's play 1 #dvd commentary #horror #slasher #fandom #multifandom #chucky doll #chucky the killer doll #chucky series #inbox call #inbox me

[rinasunny]

Wes Craven's & Co Red Eye (2005) DVD Commentary on Jackson x Lisa [Part 1]

#red eye #red eye 2005 #jackson rippner #lisa reisert #jackson x lisa #wes craven #dvd commentary #red eye dvd commentary

[funky-vg-beats]

AW BEANS sorry for the month+ -long break yall, genuinely I think the new year hit and we just. forgot to get anything queued up

gonna get that fixed right now!

#dvd commentary #sorry lads this one's on me

[whetstonefires]

For the DVD Commentary post:

"I hate everything, he sobbed, and was surprised somehow when they did not draw back further, were not angry, even though it could not possibly be news by this point. I hate everything. I hate Shinra. I hate the world. I hate you. I hate Mother. I hate Sephiroth.

He made the name mean something entirely different than they had, trying to tame him. An image in fragments, bright silver yes and speed, the fit of uniform boots. The sound of people saying it, year in and year out—cold disdain and breathless admiration and writhing jealousy, and every repetition a new burden to carry. The crackle of flame and the stink of mako, laughter like Hojo’s laughter in his own throat, the taste of blood in your mouth. Jenova’s long-dead eyes staring with too much awareness for a corpse.

All the things the word Sephiroth meant that he felt consumed by, but also the mere thick, fungus-spreading concept of self.

He had failed so many times in so many ways. They told him he was perfect and yes everything was easy except anything that actually mattered, and he just wanted to do something right."

This one lives in my head hahaha i'd love to know the commentary behind it

Oh, this is a fun one! (That's for this post from this fic, the sixth and final Sephiroth-as-sibling AU.) Sorry for the delay in turnaround, I had to. Thanksgiving. It was a lot.

Well, we're already like three layers deep into Sephiroth's head during this bit, since it's a flashback to how he was feeling during an interaction within the Lifestream, so that part's a little redundant. He's about as self-aware as I can personally justify Sephiroth ever being.

This was an important bit for the fic, since it covers two essential elements--most obviously, it's the moment when Aerith's project of separating Sephiroth's consciousness from the greater Jenova gestalt decisively bore fruit.

Secondly, this is the passage where we find out why I've been tying myself into knots this entire time refusing to let the POV character call himself by name. (This would be even more important if I'd ever finished and posted the whole story; this is technically just the opening.)

Written carelessly, this bit would be just, the worst exposition-dump. So I leaned in hard on the sensory data, of Sephiroth's experience of brokenness and of his own fractured identity, and how that drives his relationship to the situation he's in now.

I ran through all the senses, some more than once--the physicality of memory was very important, since the physicality of the actual experience was illusory. Sight was first color, then a specific image; fire was a sound and mako was a smell. Taste was blood, which I remember wording carefully so it spanned the breadth from 'when you overwork until you start tasting blood' to 'blood in your mouth from serious injury' to 'having bitten,' because Sephiroth's cannibalism is all strictly metaphorical but it's also a big part of the narrative.

The game, I mean, but maybe also the fic.

Touch was the specific encasing sensation of standard-issue footwear and the internal sensation of your throat spasming on laughter, which bleeds into sound because Sephiroth's laughter during his breakdown is sometimes spelled like Hojo's and this makes me insane and I don't think he'd have been happy to notice it either.

And sound was also the symbolic item of the name, and the way it is held differently in each user's mouth, and how public-use Sephiroth's name was made by Shinra, when it was almost the only thing he had that was his own. The way his celebrity rendered him public property and so many people felt they knew him and had a right to his acknowledgement in return.

The way this makes trying to call him back to himself by calling his name, the way they do here, the way Zack tried at Nibelheim--difficult. There's no inherent intimacy in using his name to impose a specific personhood on him, and what there is has a lot of negative associations.

The nice thing about writing something happening in the Lifestream is you don't need to, and shouldn't, distinguish well between fact and metaphor. The name is the meaning you pack into it, much more than it is physical syllables. But the shape of those syllables is still attached, essential, in the same way the dead remember what they looked like, until they don't.

I don't think you can do a post-Jenovization Sephiroth without massive identity issues. He's technically been mindwhammied even more thoroughly than Cloud was at the Northern Crater, and like with Cloud, it was being in a position of doubting who and what he really was and whether that was worth anything that set him up to crack in the first place. So he doesn't have any stable sense of 'himself' to go back to.

There's no one alive who can do for Sephiroth what Tifa does for Cloud. But, I thought, there might be a few people dead who have a shot.

If you consider Sephiroth's lines in Cloud's version of the Nibelheim flashback to be canon--which I do because they're much more interesting than the alternative--then we also have strong indications Sephiroth adopted his omnicidal transhuman identity as a coping mechanism. He's very obviously not a happy person, but when Cloud/Zack/whoever says after the massacre that their sadness is the same he laughs and asks, what do I have to be sad about?

This new identity is his consolation, an escape. He has to have hated himself because most of 'himself' is a thing he threw away.

I think it's very significant to the themes of Final Fantasy VII that while our protagonist can be directly, physically puppeted by psychic projection when taken by surprise, ultimately it seems to be necessary to break Cloud's will at the root in order for Sephiroth to 'win' their conflict, a process probably achieved with the other more thoroughly overcome Copies via torture and isolation. (What this implies about the making of Genesis' Copies I'm not sure, but it's not good. The Compilation is very bad at preserving theme though, and I very much opted to side with the OG on any point of conflict here.)

Sephiroth may have been both deceived and influenced by psychic pressure, but he can't have been forced. He chose this. He rejected everything that he had ever been in life other than 'a killer' in exchange for a new identity that was straight-up fraudulent, and then when that bubble burst one with nothing in it but hunger and anger and pride, and didn't look back.

So, any Sephiroth you put back together post-Nibelheim to be a distinct living person and seek things other than domination and murder (a thing I've seen done quite a few times, it's a popular saw I'm kinda riffing on, though I've never seen it done in this timeframe) is going to be a wreck for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with guilt.

He has never had a strong and stable sense of self, raised within Shinra and subject to its demands. Sephiroth-of-SOLDIER was so easy to throw away because it was a self built up chiefly from without. He is not a nice or an accommodating person, but he's also not one who ever learned to make his own choices, something that's implied in the original game and leaned into heavily in Crisis Core.

When he unconsciously expects to be rejected for expressing his ragged, vulnerable hate in the section excerpted, that's part of this. Sephiroth is a character whose main vector of self-expression has always been violence, but who has never been permitted his own anger--before he breaks, his resentment of Hojo appears exclusively via passive aggression. (This is such a bad combination stg President dude wtf did you expect.)

This passage is the baring of all these facts, the breaking point where Aerith successfully deprives him of his coping mechanisms thoroughly enough that he's driven onto the shoals of honest agony. And he's already ditched the act-normal, stay-level coping behaviors that got him through most of his life. And he's straight-up lost chunks of his psyche that got particularly integrated with his Mother and left behind when Aerith did Big Slice, some of which had provided him with load-bearing emotional bulwarks against self-loathing. So what's left?

But even as this is getting to the heart of his unhappiness, he's at the same time conducting one more self-evasion maneuver here, trying to wrap Sephiroth up into a bundle that he can externalize his self-hatred onto, a thing that people (including Jenova) made of him (he, who is a made thing) rather than a person he continuously is.

If Aerith had set him adrift in the Lifestream in this state and somehow kept Jenova from promptly reincorporating him, he probably would have succumbed to the true death quite rapidly, since it's the hanging-on to one's own identity that holds that off, and Sephiroth's primary attachment points seem to have always been his hatred and his physical form, and he's here shown in a state of rejecting his attachment to both, for lack of any other effective shield against the hurt of being.

Instead she stuffed him back into his body, which was conveniently preserved in crystal at the Northern Crater (a significantly less bullshit way to resurrect the lad than anything else I've seen done imho lmao like it's already there in the text). Existing as a single person in a body is the foundation (though not a necessary prerequisite) of individual selfhood in this setting, so he's sort of being forced to patch a self together by virtue of having skin.

Which brings us out of this flashback and a day later to the main timeline of the fic--wherein it is hopefully now more obvious why he's acting this way.

And possibly why one of the first things he did (after stabbing Rufus on sight lol) was cut off his iconic hair.

The three ghosts (not actually appearing in the quoted passage but relevant) are being fairly honest, since 1) they're dead and made of feelings and that makes it harder to avoid and 2) what they're doing wouldn't work otherwise.

Aerith's primary motive really isn't revenge, though I think as we see with Tseng she is fully capable of balancing a sense of connection to someone and the opinion that they should die and spare everyone else the burden of their existence in the world; her primary motive isn't pity either.

This is strategic. Sephiroth makes Jenova much stronger and is doing a lot of her thinking as part of the gestalt; breaking them up is, if possible, the single most effective thing she can do from within the Lifestream. And since in this timeline she knows Sephiroth much better than in canon, she has an angle of attack available. And she does identify with him, and remember him as a very unhappy child, and when you come down to it no person who was a deeply unhappy child ever entirely stops being one, deep down.

(Another fact that is relevant to Cloud's canonical identity arc. He cannot start to fully heal until he integrates that resentful eight-year-old who internalized the blame for not protecting Tifa from herself.)

Zack is in this for her sake and Cloud's, and because his failure at Nibelheim is his greatest remaining regret, especially because of the way it replicates the trauma of Angeal's death. There's no way he could pass up the chance to resolve that. And even now, he really feels for Sephiroth--especially now, as Aerith's plan gets moving and how pitiful a creature Sephiroth is under all that gets exposed.

Angeal feels, with some justification, responsible for Sephiroth's mental breakdown. He didn't realize he had that kind of power or he would at the very least have made more effort to explicitly dip on Sephiroth personally and make clear that it wasn't personal, but he definitely helped fuck the guy up. Happily, if there's one thing Angeal is good at it's failing to let go of things he very clearly should not hold onto, so he makes a solid anchor for this maneuver.

The only reason he's able to verbalize this as usefully as he does is the squad basically ran drills for this before making their move. All three of them are violently allergic to most expressions of sincere emotion, especially negative, especially their own, especially conveyed in words rather than gestures and allusions, and having to listen to one another's practice monologues was significantly more unpleasant than getting killed in the first place. But they had to, so they could provide critique.

I don't think I have any puns for this one?

:} Do note that Aerith's chopping maneuver after luring Sephiroth's core consciousness away from the gestalt center via grudgebaiting should be visualized with that same overhead slam animation she uses in FFVII:1997 when you have her jump forward from the back row and deliver a physical blow with her staff.

#ask #hoc est meum #Anonymous #sephiroth #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #meta #aerith maxing out her ghost accomplishments #hold my beer obiwan #........stack of three obiwans #ask game #dvd commentary #i admit that the idea Aerith *can* stuff people back in their bodies relatively casually #relies heavily on advent children #but hey that's canon!!!

[youhideastar]

I know you don’t write hockey fics anymore and I totally get why!! Buuutttt if you’re willing, I LOVE the scene in To Be Seen As All Right we’re Sid overhears his As giving a speech to the new guy. Seriously, fav scene ever. Would you be willing to do a directors cut of that?

Awww, thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed that scene from To Be Seen Aright, and sure, I'd be happy to do a director's commentary for it. 💛

So the whole point of this scene is for Sid to overhear the guys saying that he's "hardcore" and describing the kind of submissive that he thinks he is. Everything else is just frosting on the cake.

Eavesdropping scenes are tough, because when you write in limited 3d person, like I pretty much always do, the temptation is to do them ALL THE TIME, because they're the only way your POV character is going to find out what other characters say about them when they're "not there." But if you do it too often, it becomes implausible - in real life, most of us rarely overhear other people talking about us. This is... maybe? the only eavesdropping scene in the whole fic (I can't think of any others but it's been a while since I wrote this!), for that reason. But it needs to exist, because the whole fic is about how Sid is perceived by others--it's in the title!--and he needs to know how he is perceived.

Every year, Sid holds his breath at the trade deadline, but this year, the team stays pretty much intact. They’re headed for the playoffs, which means additions rather than subtractions; in Pittsburgh’s case, a new defender from the Panthers.

Like I said, the purpose of the scene is the overhearing... but this also allowed me to cover a question readers might have (how does Sid handle traded players?) and cover an important real-life event in this season.

Sid’s not planning to lecture any new players about how to treat subs; it’s easier on them if they can just pick it up from the rest of the team, and if he does have to drop the hammer, it’s useful for the rest of the team to get a teachable moment out of it. He discovers, though, with Leopold, that the rest of the Pens’ leadership group has its own ideas.

The day after Leopold joins the team, Sid steps out of equipment room to hear his own name, coming from around the corner. He stops and tries to decide whether or not to walk away—in the end, his curiosity overcomes his good manners.

Damn, just noticed the missing "the" in the first sentence of that paragraph.

He hears Tanger speak first. “So, Sid is a sub.”

It’s a little harder for Sid to identify the second voice, but the very fact that it’s new to him tells him it must be Leopold who replies, dry as a bone, “I’ve heard that, yeah.”

“Right.” That’s Duper’s voice, softer than Tanger’s. “But there’s some stuff you should know, related to that.”

“Okay, shoot.” Leopold sounds a little nervous.

Ugh, so, eavesdropping scenes are like telephone conversation scenes - you're stuck describing things with only one sense: hearing. It means you spend a lot of time trying to describe people's tone of voice in a way that's not repetitive. It's a pain.

“First, you don’t give him any shit for it,” Tanger says fiercely. “You don’t call him a brat, you don’t expect him to look down when he talks to you: none of that shit. Or you will be killed. Probably by me.”

Doing a little drive-by worldbuilding here, establishing the kind of stuff that Sid has probably had to put up with on past teams.

Evenly, Leopold says, “Not a problem.”

“Good,” says Tanger. “Okay, second thing is, even if you’re not giving him shit, you don’t treat Sid like a sub. Ever. Not even in a nice way. It’s not that I’ll kill you if you do. It’s that Sid will bite your head off. Or worse, he’ll get all miserable and flinchy, in that way that, if someone made your sub look like that, you’d punch them, but Sid doesn’t have a dom to punch people for making him sad, so you’ll just end up wanting to punch yourself in the face. So don’t do it.”

This is a WALL of dialogue. It's not best practice to do this, imo: in real life, people don't usually make speeches. On the other hand, this is clearly a circumstance where the whole reason Tanger is talking to Leopold is to deliver a speech, so I think it works. But the problem is heightened by the fact that this is an eavesdropping scene: again, Sid can't see the speakers, so there's no opportunity to interrupt the dialogue with descriptions of, e.g., Tanger's facial expression or posture, so yeah. Just a wall of Tanger talking.

I can, however, show Sid's reactions:

That’s… pretty vivid. Probably too vivid not to come from personal experience, Sid thinks, somewhere between amused and appalled. He can’t argue with the “miserable and flinchy” description, although he hadn’t realized his reaction was that obvious.

“I’m not…” Leopold sounds confused. “I should pretend he’s a dom?”

This is the second "Leopold sounds [adjective]." in this scene. Eavesdropping scenes are the worrrrrrrst to write.

“No,” Duper says immediately, “it’s not—you can acknowledge that he’s a sub, you just can’t… get possessive over him, or hold his wrist, stuff like that. Or fight people on the ice for him – he will chew you out right there on the bench, it’s not pretty. And you cannot offer to dom him,” Duper adds, sounding dead serious. “Even if you really want to. And you will really want to, because Sid gets wound pretty tight sometimes, and also he’s a sweetheart. It’s a dangerous combination.”

Another speech, alas. But again: the whole reason Tanger and Duper are talking to Leopold is to deliver a speech to him, so it's okay. As for the content of what Duper is saying - if only they had stopped the conversation right here, I think that would actually have been really good for Sid, because, as I'm about to show, he's pleasantly surprised to hear what doms think of him. He's pretty much always thought that doms want to dom him for shitty reasons: to shut him up, to feel superior to him, or because they think he can't function without it. Here, he learns that they want to dom him because (a) he's sweet and (b) they think they can help with his stress. Not so bad!

A sweetheart? Sid thinks, turning pink. He’s not sure he likes that – but Duper didn’t say it in a condescending or belittling way. His tone was matter-of fact, like obviously Sid is a sweetheart and we know this and you will, too, once you get to know him. He’s still not sure he likes it—couldn’t Duper have said I was a badass? he thinks, crossly—but he supposes that if the team thinks that he’s kind and thoughtful, well… there are worse things.

Sid wishing Duper said he was a badass is so funny to me. I can just picture the little pissy face he'd be making while he thinks it. Awwww.

Leopold says slowly, “I could see that.”

Duper responds, “Right. But Sid does not need a dom – he can handle his shit just fine without one. Okay?”

“Sure. I got it. Is that it?”

And here's where the car crash happens. It was a struggle, actually, figuring out how to get Tanger to say this next thing, even though it's the whole point of this scene - like, how do I get one of Sid's teammates to tell someone else what they think about Sid's supposed sex life? In what context would that be relevant instead of shitty and disrespectful? This is what I finally settled on - that he'd be warning the new guy not to be shitty about Sid subbing for people outside the team. To be frank, I don't think that's totally convincing, and he doesn't actually need to talk about what Sid supposedly does in bed to get that larger point across to Leopold. But I really, really needed Sid to overhear a teammate saying he was hardcore and sounding admiring about him looking beat to hell. Sometimes you just do your best and hope that you can sell something with the strength of your writing even if you actually kind of think it's BS.

“Last thing,” Tanger says. “Sid does not need a dom. But every now and then, he’ll go find one anyway, and he’ll come back looking beat to hell or like he’s gone three rounds with a grizzly bear. That’s just how Sid rolls; he’s pretty hardcore,” Tanger adds in an admiring tone, before his voice goes sharp again. “Don’t be the shithead who takes it personally, talking like Sid should get it from us. It’s none of our business where Sid gets his fun. Got it?”

“Got it, yeah.”

Sid hurriedly takes off in the opposite direction as the conversation breaks up.

It's amazing how, in eavesdropping scenes, the eavesdropper can always tell when the conversation is about to break up, in time to absent themself. 😝 Unless you want the eavesdropper to get caught, but that's a different kind of scene, with a different purpose.

As he drives home, Sid tries to decide how to feel about what he just heard. At first, he thought it was a “this is how we treat subs” talk, of the kind that Sid gives when he has to… but it wasn’t that, not really. Tanger and Duper didn’t say anything about how to treat subs in general. This was specifically a “care and feeding of Sidney Crosby” talk, even though much of the advice—can you call it “advice” when it’s followed up by threats of bodily harm?—would apply to subs or switches on the team in general. But maybe Tanger and Duper think giving the “subs in general” speech is Sid’s area of expertise. Or maybe, he thinks cynically, they just don’t care. God knows there are plenty of doms who are happy to treat most subs like shit, but if someone looks funny at their sub, or their sibling, or their captain…

"Care and feeding of Sidney Crosby" still makes me laugh, as does the bit about whether it counts as advice when it's accompanied by threats.

Anyway, Sid’s not sure he loves the implication that he’s so weird or difficult that his teammates need to be specifically warned about him… but it’s not like Duper or Tanger said anything that wasn’t true. And the stuff that they’d warned Leopold not to do is stuff that would make Sid miserable. If Leopold takes their warnings to heart, Sid will be a happier person.

It also probably works better coming from other doms than it would from him, especially since some of the stuff they’d talked about is stuff that would never have occurred to him. Are there seriously doms on the Penguins roster who are miffed that he’s been hooking up with doms outside the team? How does that even make sense? he asks himself, baffled. And he had no idea, before, that there was something specific about his personality that was making his teammates want to dom him. Apparently, nice but stressed is especially attractive? I do not understand doms at all, he thinks ruefully.

Watch me hang a lampshade on the fact that it doesn't necessarily make sense for his teammates to be upset that he's been hooking up with non-teammates.

Still, it’s nice to know that some of his lessons have finally sunk in, even if it took years of metaphorically beating his teammates over the head with a stick. Sid doesn’t need a dom, Tanger and Duper had said, and He can handle his shit just fine without one. You can’t offer to dom Sid, they’d warned, and also, It’s none of our business where Sid gets his fun.

Sid laughs to himself and says, under his breath, “They can be taught!”

I don't know whether "they can be taught!" is something that normal people actually say as, like... a thing. In my family, we say it with big vaudeville, Barnum-and-Bailey ringleader energy: "They CANNNN be TAUGHT!"

There’s another part of the conversation, though, that gives him a little thrill in the center of his chest when he thinks about it. Sid’s pretty hardcore, Tanger had said, and he’d sounded… approving. Maybe even impressed. Interrupting here to note: Sid rehashing this memory allows me to actually build it up more than I could get away with in the moment: it would have been weird for me to pile on all these adjectives while Sid was overhearing Tanger (like, how many adjectives in a row can you use for someone's tone of voice?), but I've now gotten "admiring," "approving," and "impressed." The reader will notice this. They have to, or the whole point of the scene will fail to land. It had felt really good… but more importantly, it had confirmed that Sid was right about what kind of submission makes a good sub, a sub that doms will respect. And it confirmed that, as far as his teammates are concerned, Sid is living up to that standard – that he’s proved himself.

That is sooo sad. Sid! No! But this is how it works: sometimes it's praise that hurts us more than criticism, by laying out the standard for what others think is "good," which we then hurt ourselves trying to meet. Think of all the people who say, "Have you lost weight? You look great!" Ouch.

All I have to do is not fuck it up, he concludes, ignoring a queasy little turn in the pit of his stomach at the thought. All I have to do is make sure that, if I scene with a dom again, they leave a lot of nasty-looking marks. Easy.

And if Sid doesn’t always like the process of getting those marks—if he still flinches sometimes at the sound of a belt buckle—that doesn’t matter. This is what’s expected of him. And Sid is all about exceeding expectations.

Double ouch.

That's the end - hope you enjoyed!

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[jgroffdaily]

From the Looking DVD commentary - cast and crew discuss when Jonathan was deliberately hit with a car when filming a scene with Raul Castillo. TikTok from @fortheloveofgroff.

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[cosmic-chelonian]

Makes me so sad that so much good content is hidden away on box set special features. Like I know why this is, they do it to make you want to buy the DVD, but it is frustrating to know I can never experience it all, because I can't justify spending money buying stories in DVD format that I have already seen and have access to elsewhere, just so I can see an hour of interviews, commentary etc. Because these DVDs are so expensive. But those special features are gold for DW fans. Anyway basically this has all been triggered as a result of that Tegan and Nyssa trailer how dare they make it so good when I can't buy it🥲

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