#Gwenjamine

[fair-itself]

Incredibly niche joke that only three people who played Stardew Valley Expanded Mod will get

[ace-in-a-very-distressing-hole]

Magnus Protocol Headcanon

Alice has been on a long and thorough campaign to insist that Gwen isn’t short for Gwendolyn, it’s actually short for Gwenjamin.

I mean she’s out here actively calling her Gwenjamin, she’s writing it as Gwenjamin, she’s sending memes in emails addressed to Gwenjamin. Obviously everyone knows it’s fake, but it pisses off Gwen and that’s all Alice needs to be happy.

[gallopinggallifreyans]

ben ten, short for benjamin tennyson, and his cousin gwenjamin

[real-total-drama-takes]

gwen’s full name is gwenjamin

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[ech0light]

gwen. short for gwenjamin

[professionally-weird]

The nickname Gwen is so versatile, and for what??? Why are there so many Gwen names??? There’s Gwyneth, Gwendolyn, Gwenivere, Gwennifer, Gwenjamin,

[daysofourlivesrecaps]

Thursday, 27 July 2023

It recently occurred to me that, while I sometimes want good things to happen to characters I like, what I really want from this show at any given moment is MAXIMUM DRAMA. I want whatever situation is unfolding to unfold in the most emotionally overwrought and complicated way possible. So let’s see if anything in today’s installment lives up to that desire.

First: Dimitri and Leo are still fucking around behind Gwen’s back — or, in this case, literally twenty seconds after she left the hotel room.

Hopefully she doesn’t forget something and let herself back in —

Whoops!

Unfortunately, this doesn’t get anywhere near MAXIMUM DRAMA. Instead, we get one of those extremely hacky sitcomesque “we were rehearsing for a play” explanations.

Only Leo — four-foot-nothing Leo, who would be perfect casting as a Ferengi or an Oompa Loompa — actually expects Gwen to believe that he was getting beefy, bulky Dimitri to try on one of his suits.

Damn it, Gwenjamin. You’re getting married TOMORROW. You need to wake up and smell the sodomy!

At the hospital, Theo and Kayla share what my partner Amanda keeps insisting on pointing out are empty cups of coffee.

Theo goes into some weird theory about how Abe getting hit over the head with a rolling pin is probably his fault. This is about as far from MAXIMUM DRAMA as you can get. Theo had nothing to do with any of this. He was in South Africa at the time. Which is very far away from wherever the fuck Salem is supposed to be.

Meanwhile, in Lani’s room, she and Eli are reminding us why they were pretty much the best couple on the show before they left.

Eli’s coming on a bit strong with his OH MY GOD WE WERE SO WORRIED CAN I GET YOU ANYTHING and Lani very cutely calls him out on this.

I’m really going to miss these two when Lani gets dragged back to prison. Which is exactly what US Marshal This Guy is insisting upon right now.

It’s weird that in a room full of cops of various flavors, I still thought of this guy as the narc.

Abe wakes up and talks extensively with Paulina, whom he does not remember at all.

Turns out all the drugs and lies that Nurse King was feeding him for all those weeks (months? days? The passage of time on this show is always extremely nebulous) haven’t helped with Abe’s existing amnesia. Quite the opposite, in fact — he’s more confused than ever now!

Then Abe is visited by Theo, whom he also doesn’t recognize since Theo isn’t Jerry, the guy who was claiming to be Theo.

Then Lani shows up and very diplomatically tells Abe that she has to leave for awhile, without laying all that prison stuff on him. 

Which is a very compassionate thing to do, but also isn’t getting us any closer to MAXIMUM DRAMA.

And over in That Little Room Where Everyone is Allowed to Visit Prisoners at the police station, Marlena attempts to ascertain just how lip-strummingly mental Nurse King really is.

And given that she believes Marlena is actually Charlemagne from Body and Soul, the answer is “quite mental”!

And… okay, this may not be MAXIMUM DRAMA, but it is a really good use of that whole Body and Soul thing. I thought they were just doing that as a silly little self-referential thing and casting their existing performers because they knew they’d have fun with it. And that was probably part of the reason they did it. But now we have Whitley being genuinely confused that the woman from her soap is also this nice psychiatrist who’s come to talk to her BECAUSE THEY LOOK AND SOUND EXACTLY ALIKE. 

Sometimes this show does those “heel turns” (which I understand is an expression about wrestling and shoes?), but occasionally they’ll take someone who wasn’t especially sympathetic and add something that absolutely breaks your heart. And this is what they’ve managed to do with Nurse King in only two or three episodes.

So when Paulina shows up and smacks her in the damn face…

…it absolutely qualifies as MAXIMUM DRAMA but also I feel legitimately bad for Nurse King! Well done, Days.

Also, if I do these things for the next 20 years, I will never get a better screen cap than that one.

[canonically47]

gwenjamin 💀

decided to get a good masterlist of nicknames to use in fic and

[benzglen11]

Watching DVDs

Rose and Brock

[rubykgrant]

cat - are you superstitious?

A little bit~

I find various superstitions about good luck/bad luck to be fun, but I don't take most of them too seriously (in the sense that I'm not worried about black cats and what-not. in fact, even as a little kid, I sort of just decided that if you treat "unlucky" things nicely, it can actually be good luck for you). Depending on what it involves, sometimes I was the person to do a spooky dare (Bloody Mary and what-not), because realistically, I'm fairly certain nothing is gonna happen... but also? I'm not gonna mess with certain things. What if I DO randomly tick-off a demon? What then? I guess I'm like "superstitious-agnostic", I'm not afraid to go walking around in a graveyard, but I won't do something extra-stupid (I also try not to play around in a mocking way regarding certain things), and I enjoy lots of things involved with spooky folklore

thanks for asking~

[starchaser4]

Human brains are weird. Just now I looked at my sister’s shoes and went “Gwen is short for Gwenjamin”

[voyagerprobe]

Like seanan mcguire has been working her ass off to give her any emotional depth but the issue is right off the bat she had 39 issues of jason latour writing the most uninterested stalling-for-time slop you've ever seen. it's a book that's almost 100% filler that never stops and gives room for any emotional character beats.

The thing about spidergwen is shes a really solidly mediocre barely-there character paired with the most absolute kickass design ever

[rawrrawr0221]

Secret Santa for @gwenjamin! Here’s Donut and Wash making some hot chocolate :]

[incorrectmerlinquotes]

Arthur: Merlin has been trying to convince me that "Gwen" is actually short for "Gwenjamin" for the past thirty minutes, and I'm three seconds away from snapping his neck.

[weirdmageddon-gf-ss]

Dipper: Mabel has been trying to convince me for the past 30 minutes that "Gwen" is short for "Gwenjamin" and I'm THIS close to losing it.

[superdogbiter]

Sam:”Bucky has been trying to convince me that Gwen is short for Gwenjamin for 3 hours now and i am about 3 seconds from snapping his neck”