#Benjamin Braddock

[mametupa]

[stacys-mom-has-got-it-goin-on]

Imagining having a mid-life crisis (20 - 29) before entering mid-life.

[anli-rambles]

Hold up.

So I was looking something up for an upcoming AC project of mine and I just realised something. Benjamin Church and Nicholas Biddle died only 10 days apart; Church in Martinique on March 7th 1778 and Biddle in the Bahamas on March 17th 1778. It would've taken the Aquila between 4-6 weeks to make the trip from New York to Martinique so Connor must have taken the opportunity to also kill Biddle on his way back home. (It takes between 5 to 10 days to sail from Martinique to the Bahamas, so the math checks out for that one). And we know that Haytham made the trip with Connor on his ship, which means that canonically speaking, Haytham had to have been aboard the Aquila when Connor killed Nicholas Biddle AND THE IMPLICATION OF THAT IS SO FUNNY.

Nicholas Biddle's assassination is completely optional (for some reason) to the completion of the main story and you can do it whenever, even after Haytham's death, and I'm guessing that's Ubisoft's excuse for not putting him there but I want to call bs on that — if it's possible to relive a memory out of order in the first place then Haytham had no reason not to be there as well.

Let's be real, the true reason for this is that it was another HUGE oversight by Ubisoft, but since they won't fix their mess I will now take it as canon that after killing Ben Church, Haytham was somehow okay with Connor steering off course to go kill yet another Templar (and this time not a treacherous one) which makes him at the very least complicit in Biddle's death and I can't stop laughing bc at this point all Haytham does is kill other Templars, I—

[mikyapixie]

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST GROOVIEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN ALL MY DAYS!!! The first thing you need to know about me is that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the 70s!!! MUSIC, HAIR, FASHION, THE DANCE MOVES I LOVE IT ALL!!! Honestly recently I’ve been wanting to see storm in a 70s disco look & now my prayers have been answered!!! My favorites are obviously Ororo but also Illyana, Bruce, Jennifer, Peter, Gwen, Miles, MJ, Wade, Thor & Steve!!! I also really love Wade’s new disco look in this I thought they would’ve used his old one I like this one a lot better!!! I swear MJ ALWAYS looks good in 60/70 fashion!!! I REALLY wish they made Pietro Maximoff & Eric Brooks in this!!! But who are your guys favorite & who did you wished to see in this?!? Tell me in the comments!!! ���❤️‍🔥🤩🥹🤩❤️‍🔥🪩

[peanutsstudio]

San Diego Comic Con 2023!

We're getting ready for Comic-Con International: San Diego, the annual comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre event is a colossal effort. The creative team at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates works with the licensing office in NYC, Peanuts Worldwide, to bring the booth to life. The four-day event, which opens with Preview night on Wednesday, July 19th, and then runs from Thursday, July 20 through Sunday, July 23, requires hours of work to plan, prep, and stage boxes, at our office, headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif. We filled four pallets (labeled for specific days, so the booth has inventory each morning!), then wrapped them to ship.

The creative team at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates prepares for San Diego Comic-Con 2023! But it’s not all work for the creative team. There’s always a little time to play around and have some fun.

From left, Caitlin Leonard, Tifanee Smith, Amanda Fagundes, Alena Carnes, Emma Harmon (front), Jewel Jackson, Cameron Nilsson (back), and Karri Kenoyer. Here’s a sneak peek of this year’s Comic-Con exclusive hat, celebrating all things Snoopy for Beagle Scouts fans, courtesy of Paige Braddock, Chief Creative Officer here at the Schulz Studio.

Patch design by Mary Shyne. On the show floor, you’ll find the Peanuts gang at Booth #1635, where you’ll be a happy camper to discover Snoopy himself, making in-person appearances throughout the con. 

Preparing to set up camp on the show floor. Look for the Peanuts gang at Booth #1635.

Hope to see you at Comic-Con! Join us in the Gaslamp at the Peanuts Pop-up shop, where we’ll set up camp at 200 J. Street, Suite 105, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. We have plenty of activities planned for our guests and some fun new merch for outdoor enthusiasts.

Join us Saturday for the Peanuts panel!

Discover the all-new animated Peanuts content in the works at WildBrain Studios for Apple TV+, the home of all Peanuts content. Includes a sneak peek of Camp Snoopy (2024), the adventures (and misadventures) of Snoopy and his Beagle Scouts at summer camp. Plus enjoy an exclusive reveal of some exciting new Peanuts projects. Panelists include Rob "Boots" Boutilier (executive producer/series director, Camp Snoopy, WildBrain Studios),  Adam Arsenault (director, WildBrain Studios), Paige Braddock (chief creative officer, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates), Jason Cooper (senior writer, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates), and Melissa Menta (senior vice president, marketing and communications, Peanuts Worldwide). Damian Holbrook (senior writer, TV Guide magazine) moderates. And finally, big “congrats” and a special shout-out for this Eisner nomination! In the category of best Comics-Related Book.

Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L. Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)

Schulz Studio Editorial Director, Alexis Fajardo also contributed to this project. See you in San Diego!

[tournament-of-x]

The Tournament of X

Contestants Index: B

Banshee

Beak

Beast

Bei the Blood Moon

Benjamin Deeds

Bennet du Paris

Betsy Braddock

Big Bertha

Billy Kaplan-Altman

Bishop

Birdy

The Black King

Black Priestess

The Black Queen

Black Tom Cassidy

Blindfold

Bling!

Blink

Bliss

Blob

Bobby Drake

Boom-Boom

Brian Cruz

Broo

Brutha Nature

Burke

Butterfly

[doktorfreud]

Fivela didn't come out of the blue

Just one interesting tidbit for film enthusiasts / TUA lovers / Five x Lila shippers out there: a while ago, this particular frame caught my attention. It bore echoes of something I had already seen in the past, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

Then it came to me: of course, the poster for the movie The Graduate!

Notice how both Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and Five are sporting the same tan shade of clothes, how both are positioned in the door frame, with the leg of their seductress / love interest / nemesis hovering starkly in the foreground.

Both female protagonists are caught as they are performing a gesture of an intimate nature: Mrs Robinson is rolling on her stockings in The Graduate, post encounter with Benjamin, while Lila is shaving her legs, pre run-in with Five.

And, of course, there’s the much debated “age-gap relationship” in common, hanging in the air – explicitly stated, in the case of Benjamin / Mrs Robinson, and subtly hinted at as far as Five / Lila are concerned (and yes, time travel factors in all this and is - as Lila so aptly put it - "a massive head trip").

I find this homage to be such an interesting, cheeky, apt visual foreshadowing of what is to come between the killer duo (pun intended) in the following season.

This is one of the many reasons why I respectfully disagree with TUA fans saying that the relationship was "unexpected" or "sprung upon" the viewers. Was it rushed and wanting proper development? Yes. Were there signs of where things were heading, well before the subway storyline, even prior to season 4? Hell yeah.

[hotvintagepoll]

Hello I know this isn't relevant to any current polls or anything but I just watched The Graduate and oh my god Anne Bancroft was so fucking hot???? like???? like ok yes I knew going in that that was literally her role in the movie but jfc her voice??? her eyes??? her everything??? I wanted to climb through the screen and shove Benjamin dumbass Braddock out of the way bc I s2g I wouldn't hesitate. Sorry I just needed to vent bc I am unraveling at the seams over this woman omg

that’s what this blog is here for. hot, hot vintage people unraveling us at the seams

[i-didnt-read-the-b00ks]

mmm taking a moment away from wondering what the hell is going on to appreciate the design of the next scene

"The truth can be so very hard to determine." Black screen, nothing but the words. No context. You're confused, just like Percy is.

"But in this case, the truth seems... very hard to deny." I LOVE the choice of dialogue. It's effective both in and out of world. It's something a principal/headmaster would say in this situation, but it also adds a layer of dramatic irony/tension for us viewers who know that the truth, here, Is In Fact Wonky. Kudos to the writers, y'all are doing great. Now let's move onto the production design.

Dark orange scene. Ominous, light is filtered through orange curtains and an orange lamp shade, and the black/dark brown (difficult to tell) walls don't make the room any brighter. light is swallowed up. It's really arranged quite appealingly.

Mystery Man (note: is this Rick Riordan, the author of the books and one of the main producers/writers of the show? From pics I've seen, it sure looks like him, but it could also be many other Generic Middle-aged White Guys with salt-and-pepper hair. lmk what y'all think. I think it's him, but I don't really know enough to say) is on the far left, just the left of the window. From there, the adult characters and the two boys alternate, with Percy and Grover each on a 2/3rds line, and placed in the bottom half of the frame- they're powerless.

Something I'm curious about is the painting. Other than the windows, it's the most attention-drawing point in the shot. Top center of the frame, with one of two lights inside the room. It seems to be of a brown field, with some sort of structure (lighthouse?) in the back, and water (lake/ocean) just visible beyond the end of the land. This has to be important somehow, but I don't have enough context as to how and why.

The next shot is of Percy and Grover. Percy, wearing a light blue shirt (heavily contrasting the dark, heavy orange of the other side of the room) is staring sullenly forward; Grover (light gray Yancy Academy sweatshirt) is looking down. They both pop agains the dark background in a way the adults do not- they blend in, they're just part of the scenery. Percy and Grover (but especially Percy) are the focus of the scene, the story- they're not just set dressing there to add to the plot, they're the ones telling the story. Percy, as the MC, is slightly more center than Grover.

Another shot of the adults, then a closeup of Percy and Grover. Narrow focus, though not super narrow; their whole head is in focus, just not the background or the other boy. The focus starts on Percy, when he is addressed and speaks, then shifts to Grover, mirroring the focus of the adults onto him.

The drama of the next bit is mmmm chef's kiss. And now, I could do a full shot analysis of the rest of the scene, but that would take Too Long and the most important bits of my Thoughts have been put down.

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT WHAT DID MRS DODDS TURN INTO WHY IS THE PEN A SWORD

[silver-stargazing]

aggressively arospec week: arospec headcanons (lithromantic)

The *Hits my favorite classic movies with the arospec beam* Edition:

◦ Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones

◦ Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate

◦ Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey

◦ Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai

[Image ID: Four images of characters against the red-orange-yellow lith flag. Image 1: Carmen Jones from Carmen Jones. She is wearing a black top and red skirt and looking off-screen with a slight smirk. She's holding a rose. Image 2: Benjamin Braddock from The Graduate. He's wearing a yellow jacket and suit. He's looking straight forward with a slight smile. Image 3: Dave Bowman from 2001. He's wearing a red spacesuit with light reflecting off the glass of the helmet. Image 4: Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai. He's holding a sword and looking off-screen with a concerned expression. His image is in black and white. /end ID]

[avatarvyakara]

Based on a post I’ve been reading:

Strands of Webbing in…well, Strands of Webbing

Basically where the Spiders get their webs from.

Peter B. Parker (616): inorganic, webshooters

Miles Morales (1610): inorganic, webshooters

Gwen Stacy (65): inorganic, webshooters

Peter Benjamin Parker (90214): organic, from wrists

Peni Parker (14512): inorganic, SP//dr’s spinnodules

Peter Porker (8311): organic, from wrists

Miguel O’Hara (928): organic, from wrists (mine doesn’t have the electric webs except when dealing with his own version of Doc Ock)

Peter Pauker (4314): organic, from wrists

Ben Parker (9817): inorganic, webshooters

Roshni Raj (820): kinetic energy-powered hard-light holograms, wrist-bound lasers

Mabel Reilly (1647): N/A

Billy Braddock (467): inorganic, fingertip-based webshooters

Spider-Glitch (68): inorganic, webshooters (real-world), organic, from wrists (the Program)

Cindy Moon (423): organic (in multiple colours and textures), fingertips

Pavitr Prabhakar (5244): organic, summoned by a spell

Hobie Brown (965): inorganic, webshooters

Peter Parker Otto Octavius (43053): inorganic, webshooters

Anansi (3): depends on the mood he’s in

Mary-Jane Watson (5218): organic (black), from symbiote

Mayday Parker (66): inorganic, webshooters

Peter Parquagh (311): organic, from fingertips (activated by touch against an object)

Peter Kaine Parker (66): inorganic, webshooters

Peter Parker (559): inorganic, webshooters

Peter Parker (126): inorganic, webshooters (and occasionally pumpkin bombs)

Kimiko Peni Parker (8022): inorganic, SP//dr’s web projection devices

Piguel O’Malley (20061): organic, from…honestly better not to say, but also inorganic, webshooters

Miles J. Morales (9198): inorganic, webshooters

Cindy Moon (1610): organic (in multiple colours and textures), fingertips

Mayday Parker (616): inorganic, webshooters (don’t tell Mom)

Benjamin P. Parker (1610): inorganic, webshooters (don’t tell Mom)

Ben Parker (66): organic, from wrists (*really* don’t tell Mom)

Gwynn Stacey (81): inorganic, webshooters

Addy Brock (14512): inorganic, inorganic, Ven#m’s spinnodules

Jessica Drew (404): N/A

Anya L. Corazon (2770): N/A

Natasha Romanov (998): organic (venomous to varying degrees with cnidarian-like barbs), from wrists

Thiago Cabral (1918): inorganic, webshooter

Peggy Price (1867): organic (can conduct heat or cold or maintain equilibrium temperature), from wrists

Peter Parker Zombie Spider-Man (2149): …you don’t wanna know.

Doing a lot of these…

[vocesincaput]

MUSE LIST

TURN WASHINGTON'S SPIES

Peter Price - (He/Him) (OC) (SECONDARY).

Captain Henry Simpson - (He/Him) (OC) (PRIMARY).

Genevieve Hawkins - (She/Her) (OC).(PRIMARY),

Edmund Hewlett - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Benjamin Tallmadge - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Caleb Brewster - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Mary Woodhull - (She/Her) (PRIMARY).

John André - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Ensign Baker - (He/Him) (UNAVAILABLE).

Abraham Woodhull - (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

Anna Strong - (She/Her) (TEST MUSE).

George Washington - (He/Him) (TEST MUSE).

Abigail - (She/Her) (TEST MUSE).

ASSASSIN'S CREED

Shay Patrick Cormac - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor Kenway - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Aguilar/Cal Lynch - (He/They) (SECONDARY).

Edward Kenway - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Arno Dorian - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Jacob Frye - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

DOCTOR WHO

The 15th Doctor - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Rogue - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

The Corsair - (She/He/They) (PRIMARY).

Ian Chesterton (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

KINGSMAN

Merlin - (He/Him) (PRIMARY) (formerly @kngsmnmerlin-blog).

Arak - (He/Him) (PRIMARY) (formerly @statesmanarak-blog).

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Steve Rogers - (He/They) (PRIMARY) (formerly @steverogerscpt).

Lady Sif - (She/Her) (PRIMARY) (formerly @ladysifcfasgard).

Ayo - (She/He/They) (PRIMARY).

Daniel Sousa (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Steven Grant/Marc Spector/Moon Knight - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Yon-Rogg - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Nebula - (She/They) (PRIMARY).

SHERLOCK HOLMES (MOVIES)

John Watson - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

Izzy Hands - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Frenchie - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Samuel Bellamy - (He/She/They) (PRIMARY).

Jim Jimenez - (They/Them) (SECONDARY).

BLACK SAILS

James Flint - (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

Thomas Hamilton - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

HORNBLOWER / AGE OF SAIL

Samuel Clayton - (He/Him) (HORNBLOWER) (SECONDARY).

Charles Braddock - (He/Him) (AGE OF SAIL - OC) (SECONDARY).

GOOD OMENS

Aziraphale - (She/He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc & @ineffablebookseller).

FurFur - (They/Them) (PRIMARY) (formerly @underno9)

Crowley - (She/He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc).

Gabriel/Jim - (He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc & @archangelfngabriel).

FANDOMLESS

Kaveh - (He/They) (SECONDARY)

[anli-rambles]

Idk if the writers intended it or not but the amount of cognitive dissonance between what Haytham says and what he does is so telling of the kind of person he was raised to be. Birch succeeded in making him talk like a Templar, but his actions contradict pretty much everything Haytham claims to stand for. It's as if the brainwashing ran deep enough to make Haytham lack self-awareness but not enough to completely destroy what Edward was able to teach him before he died. Connor points it out verbatim right before they meet up with Washington too. "You've talked a great deal but you've shown me nothing."

Haytham says he wants order but he's just about as chaotic as his father was when he was younger. He says Connor's talks of "freedom" and "free will" are nonsense but literally every time we see him aside from the opening sequences, he's going off on his own, doing God-knows-what without telling any of the other Templars, he drops everything on the spot to go camping with his girlfriend, hell he even murdered a Templar Grandmaster for personal revenge (when revenge has been the driving force between many of the protagonists we've had so far like Ezio, Connor, Arno, Bayek, heck even Kassandra to some degree, while the Templars claim to be above this kind of stuff). He went against Lee's plans to have Connor executed because he felt like it. (The line in his journal is literally "I won't let my son die today.") He says he wants purpose and direction and yet never has a plan for whatever he's doing. He's exactly like Edward on that front, essentially bullshitting his way through everything and hoping it all works out (and it often doesn't). That man has never had purpose or direction in his entire life, and the moment someone tries to tell him what to do, he actively chooses to do the opposite because he doesn't follow orders (and if he does, it's on his own terms).

When Haytham realized he didn't hold the key to the Precursor site, he chose to drop it altogether, because he knew too many would have to die for the cause and it wasn't worth it. Do you mean to tell me people like Vidic, the Borgias, Germain, heck even Torres (who's by far the most reasonable Grandmaster we've encountered in the series besides François de la Serre, maybe) went to impossible lengths to get to the Observatory — do you think any of these men would've just... stopped ? Because more people would have to die ? (The answer is no. William Johnson was willing to commit mass murder just to buy the land the site was on — which by the way Haytham had no idea about (the mass murder part, I mean) until after the fact and he was very angry about it.)

Which is also pretty telling about how involved he is in all of this. He didn't know about what Johnson was planning because he couldn't even be bothered to hold yearly meetings for like 15 years.

In his journal, you can see how he progressively starts to despise every Templar he's working with. He endorses Lee out loud but his thoughts about the guy are that he's "too British to be a good representative for the American people" and he's actually pretty pessimistic about his chances to supplant Washington. He doesn't even believe in what he says about Lee, like, ever (which is why I say it really looks like he's endorsing Lee as an act of sabotage because it really feels like it sometimes.) His Templar kill count is also higher than Connor's — Juan Vedomir, the unnamed mercenary with a West Country accent, Edward Braddock, John Harrison, Reginald Birch, Benjamin Church and Nicholas Biddle (although the game never showed it, the fact that Church and Biddle died only days apart while both in the Caribbean means that Haytham was with Connor on the Aquila when he killed Biddle, so he's at least complicit in his murder.)

Haytham says he's a man with Templar ideals and an Assassin background but to me it feels like the opposite. He's a man with a Templar background and Assassin ideals, but the grooming started so young that even killing Birch couldn't undo the damage that man had done. I think Haytham realized that by the end and that's why he let Connor kill him.

[goddamnmuses]

GodDamnMenu

Mostly making this post because I thought up Goddamnmenu and I'm annoyed I've not used it anywhere... but Under the cut I'm gonna showcase all my potential muses.. and if anyone wants a thing from one of them either reply and let me know or send an ask being like "(muse name here) PLS!" and I'll write up a short thing. You can also just request one of my main muses too.

My main muses you can find here!

Potential Muses list:

Ken - Fandom: Barbie.

Benjamin Tennyson - Fandom: Ben 10

Kevin Levin - Fandom: Ben 10

OC: Diego Dynamic - Fandom: Cyberpunk

John Constantine - Fandom: DC

The Joker - Fandom: DC - FC not decided yet. Help welcome.

Nanaue aka King Shark - Fandom: DC - FC: King Shark.

Ted Kord aka Blue Beetle - Fandom: DC

Tim Drake aka Robin - Fandom: DC

Max Goof - Fandom: Disney - No live action FC yet.

OC: The Blacksmith - Fandom: Doctor Who - FC: Various (Depends on regeneration)

Rodrik Forrester - Fandom: Game of Thrones

Sandor Clegane - Fandom: Game of Thrones

Tyrion Lannister - Fandom: Game of Thrones

Andre Anderson - Fandom: Gen V / The Boys

Luigi - Fandom: Mario - No Live Action FC yet (Possibly Charlie Day)

Bowser - Fandom: Mario - No Live Action FC Yet (Possibly Jack Black)

Akihiro aka Daken aka Wolverine sometimes - Fandom: Marvel

OC: Benjy Parker (Alternate universe son of Peter) - Fandom: Marvel

Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain - Fandom: Marvel

Cloak of Levitation aka Levi - Fandom: Marvel

Franklin Richards - Fandom: Marvel

Marcus Milton aka Hyperion - Fandom: Marvel

Skaar - Fandom: Marvel

Katsuki Bakugo aka Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight - Fandom: My Hero Academia - No Live Action FC Yet

Shoto Todoroki - Fandom: My Hero Academia - No Live Action FC Yet

Vinsmoke Sanji - Fandom: One Piece (Netflix.. Still working my way through the anime.. will take me years)

Monkey D. Luffy - Fandom: One Piece (Netflix.. Still working my way through the anime.. will take me years)

Roronoa Zoro - Fandom: One Piece (Netflix.. Still working my way through the anime.. will take me years)

Saitama aka Caped Baldy - Fandom: One Punch Man - No Live Action FC Yet

Ren Amimya aka Joker - Fandom: Persona 5

Sly Cooper - Fandom: Sly Cooper - No Live Action FC Yet

Loid Forger - Fandom: Spy x Family

OC: B1-NG aka Bing - Fandom: Star Wars - FC: Generic B1 Battle Droids

Cal Kestis - Fandom: Star Wars

C1-10P aka Chopper - Fandom: Star Wars - FC: Chopper.

OC: CT-7473 aka Bunker - Fandom: Star Wars

Darth Maul - Fandom: Star Wars - FC: Maul (Maybe Sam Witwer too?)

Savage Opress - Fandom: Star Wars

OC: Grey - Fandom: Supernatural

OC: Ryan Thompson - Fandom: The Last of us

Geralt of Rivia - Fandom: Witcher

Laszlo Cravensworth - Fandom: What we do in the shadows.

OC: Death (Personification of Death) - Fandom: None - FC: Varies but primarily : Adam Driver. OC: Pan (Greek God / Ancient Being / Inspired by Peter Pan / Some Horror-esc vibes) - Fandom: None - FC: Varies but primarily: Daniel Radcliffe