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Peter Capaldi - 2016. #thethickofit #drwho #igdaily #stylishman #soholondon #blackandwhite #petercapaldi #blackandwhitephotography #actor #scottishactor #portraits #blackandwhiteportrait #picoftheday

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aparently in the latest fantastic 4 comics johnny storm has been in a relationship with an alien, and that would be pretty standard affair for marvel heroes, right.

except someone at marvel with fucking balls of steel and the biggest brain in the known universe made the alien look... actually alien

this is the greatest thing ive seen in my life, is almost enough to make me want to read the comic

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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - in South Africa (?)

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Hearth my art book is still available here / patreon / youtube / twitter / instagram / website

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Hearth my art book is still available here / patreon / youtube / twitter / instagram / website

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Bit of nostalgic Hex Girls fanart

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The light of the moon calls you, will you answer it?

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fingerprints

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Meanwhile…

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Y'all practical effects bitches are really sleeping on the Mission: Impossible movies.

"Oh everything is CGI these days!" Mission: Impossible uses practical effects whenever it's safe to do so, and their definition of safe is incredibly skewed because Tom Cruise is, frankly, batshit insane.

The man refuses to use stunt doubles because he insists the audience can tell when it's not him. He's apparently one of the best stunt drivers in the world. He drove up a cliff and skidded to a stop right on the edge for real in Dead Reckoning. He got a fucking helicopter license and spent like three years training for the climactic scene in Fallout.

Most of the helicopter chase in Fallout was real. The midair oxygen-tank swap in that movie was also real. They practiced for it in a wind tunnel and then did the real thing in freefall.

When Tom Cruise dies, it's either going to be because he realized Scientology was a crock and tried to get out and they fucking killed him (highly unlikely that he'll ever come to that realization), or because his luck finally ran out while filming a stunt for a Mission: Impossible movie (significantly more likely).

Seriously, if you have the blu-rays of any of these movies, I strongly encourage you to watch them with the director's commentaries. Especially the ones directed by Christopher McQuarrie. That man has an almost pathological distaste for CGI (and when they do have to use it, he's incredibly respectful and complimentary of the people who do the special effects).

Do yourself a favor and watch these movies. They're not just kitschy action flicks. They're kitschy action flicks with a metric fuckton of practical effects, and a production team that really cares about the stories they're crafting.

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015, dir. Christopher McQuarrie

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Headcanon: I think Ethan has a difficult time coming down from a mission. I get the impression that he doesn’t really stop, likely takes on back to back missions until he gets hurt and is forced to rest or someone (Benji) reminds him to take a breather in between missions.

This time, Benji is taking Ethan home to his apartment to keep an eye on him make sure he rests.

Another headcanon: After he and Julia split, I don’t think Ethan has a permanent place to live anymore. I think he’s either always on a mission or squatting in safe houses, or very rarely sleeping and showering at HQ. His few possessions are scattered between gym lockers and storage facilities across the world.

At first Benji thinks Ethan must be extremely private since he’s invited Ethan to his apartment many times, and Ethan hasn’t so much as let on where he lives let alone invited Benji over. And then it dawns on him when he sees that Ethan’s locker at the gym is packed with stuff that Ethan is actually homeless at which point he insists that Ethan take his spare key and stay with him when he wants to.

(Ethan hasn’t used the key so far but he’s thinking about it. Benji does feel like home to him.)

Yet another headcanon: While Ethan sold the house he bought with Julia, he still has the farm he grew up on because his mother bequeathed it to him when she died. He lets the property languish but has a secret fantasy that one day he’ll return to it. Maybe Benji will come with him, help him fix it up, and stay with him for a long while. Maybe he’ll give Benji a key.

BTW, commissions are open. Please message me if you are interested.

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Grace in the first trailer of "Mission: Impossible 8 - The Final Reckoning"

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Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, 2025