Have you seen this?!
I thought I'd seen all the season 2 publicity but Michael asking David about his nerve curve and saying he SAW IT?!
Oh my lordy.
Hi there! First let me apologize for my egregious dereliction of duty when it comes to answering these Asks/Anons. RL stuff has been clogging up my brain and so I just haven't been in the right headspace for answering questions (hence why I temporarily shut off Asks altogether).
To your question, I did indeed see that clip! I think there were SO many interviews happening that day that this somehow passed us all by, but it absolutely is worth talking about...
For those who may be wondering about the subtext here, "nerve curve" (in anatomical terms) generally refers to something related to the curve of the spine. What Michael (shamelessly) seems to be alluding to, then, is him seeing David's bare back.
I mean...good lord. This marks at least the third occasion where Michael has publicly talked about/thirsted over David's body ("slinky hips" twice, and also "sylph-like chest") in the last four years. Whatever filter exists in most human brains clearly does not exist in his, and I suppose we can be thankful for that, but also...wow, Michael.
The truly amazing thing, however, is this wasn't even the only sexual innuendo related to David that Michael made that day, as there was also this gem:
I sometimes wonder how long Michael is going to have to "joke" about him seeing David naked or him having sex with David before people finally pause and go, "Wait a minute..." And the nerve curve moment is so delicious because we can see David actually blushing after Michael says he saw it. They're both so drunk on each other and it is truly gorgeous to watch.
And as much as we miss Michael and David, I don't think it even holds a candle to how much they must miss each other. I can only hope that the studios will get their heads out of their collective asses and come to an agreement with SAG/WGA to end the strikes, because I so thoroughly want more of whatever this is to grace our screens. Please and thank you...
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It is my ongoing theory, supported by the first-person nature of the novels, that the best way to explain the continuity (or lack thereof) in DMBJ adaptations is to understand which character is telling the story this time around.
Most of the time, it's Wu Xie, who is the center of attention and everyone loves him and he's so good and smart and his family's special little boy and then sometimes he gets to grab a gun and be badass but also he is tender and deserves to be taken care of by his husbands and everyone else and also it's his birthday, did you know it's his birthday today, he's just a little birthday boy.
2.5's narrator is Pangzi, who is telling the story in Wu Xie's earshot and punctuating every third sentence with and then you were so mean to me!
Sand Sea is Li Cu, who spends a significant amount of time (especially very early on) terrified and in awe of the world he's fallen into. You can see this in how everyone Wushanju-affiliated he meets is effortlessly super-cool, including Wang Meng.
The HeiHua movie is obviously Glasses, which is why he doesn't suck shit all the time and where the mullet went. (Of course he doesn't know he has a mullet; he can barely see, much less behind his head.)
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"Give up what you love before it does you in”
“Thaw out my freezer-burn feelings for twenty summers”
“My mood board is just pictures of you [...] But I didn't take the love when I had the chance. But I swear I'm not sad anymore”
“Be careful what you bottle up. The chemistry is a mess, it seems”
“I know I know I've made mistakes. I know I know but at least they were mine to make”
“Here I am, not sure you should take a chance. I like playing dumb, letting you figure me out”
"I know I keep my feelings so tucked away, just another day spent hoping we don't fall apart”
"I've got all this love I've got to keep to myself. All this effort to make it look effortless"
“Time is luck and I wish ours overlapped more or for longer”
"I'm pretty sure as far as humans go I am a hard, hard pill to swallow"
“I just need someone to hold me even though you don't even know me"
“Another year of possibilities left unwrapped”
“You were the sunshine of my lifetime”
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When writing characters and giving them depth, I like to use a little method I was given a few years ago—write a mock “Q&A” bit with your character and see how they’d react to certain questions.
So here’s my “Q&A” with Donel Hawkfeather, the bard. (Bolder text is the “interviewer.”)
So Donel, where are you from exactly?
-Ah! Quite the question actually. I was born in a small hamlet you’re to have never heard of near a good school of mages and magical arts…which you’re also to have never heard of. Ay.
Ah! but my most recent “home” that I’d claim was in the grand city Malgar, formerly under management of a cult of Necromancers and freed, in part, by yours truly. It was there, in my quarters in the castle, that my study into the arcane lead to my banishment into this lovely realm.
Indeed. Well, next question: when and how did you decide to become a bard?
-Hmm, now that… that’s actually a simple story, come to think of it. I was about 13, I believe, when an older bardic chap by the name of Alvius Aria came by our village and did some performances outside the tavern. The one tavern in town, mind you! But his words and music hit so deeply into my soul I couldn’t help but sing quietly to his tune. It was…enrapturing!
My parents would never approve of it, thought I. But to be a wandering minstrel wooing whomever I please, letting my words become power the moment they leave my mouth…Ah! did it strike a chord (if you’ll forgive the pun) for me! I worked hard to conceal my desire as well as to prepare funds to apply to the bardic college of that local mage’s school I mentioned was nearby. And it has certainly been worth it, if I do say so myself.
Hmmm, quite. Now tell us, you have a few disguises you use, which are your favorites?
-Oh, I thought that’d be obvious. My “Old Hawkfeather” is my go-to! He’s what I imagine myself to be in, oh, many decades from now. He was also my first passable disguise, and the one I’ve used most often. Who would suspect that Donel, son of the local—ah, um, well, “community busybodies” was no more than lost to some errant questing rather than, “ooh shudder—a bard!” And that bard that just came through town today, he’s an older chap and certainly wouldn’t have any inkling of any young whippersnappers lost to adventuring beyond what’s in his songs!
Would you say you have any disguises that you dislike?
-Well, no, of course not! I mean, if I don’t like a disguise, I simply don’t develop or use it. However…there was one time that I had to dress as a woman (a maid specifically) in order to infiltrate a fine party wherein a certain duke was planned to be murdered. I don’t know about some individuals, but I found it most unpleasant. I may not be the strictest definition of “manliness,” but the maid costume and performance…shudder…not me.
Perhaps going along that vein, many people would like to know how you identify? If you don’t mind the question. As a person, romantically…?
-Oh! Yes! No problems there at all! I am a half-elven man who finds both men and women attractive. However, I find most men to be boorish lunks with nothing more than, um, attractive features, you could say.
No, women are far more to my desires, and that’s not to be objectifying! Women are amazing! Take Elowina for example: she’s got gorgeous eyes, the strength necessary to crack a skull bare-handed and the ability to drink most anyone under a table and come out with little more than a short hangover! Truly inspiring and, dare I say, enamoring. Don’t tell her I said any of that though! I want to live.
Excellent, thank you!
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