#MbS Interview

[deadpresidents]

Despite reading dozens of books on Saudi Arabia, the Saudi monarchy, and several biographies of Mohammed bin Salman, I must admit how surprised I am that MbS's actual speaking voice sounds exactly like Tom Hardy's posh accent in Inception. It's quite jarring at first.

[liusia-piu]

[twilightfairie]

harlequin lestat my beloved ♡

[the-yearning-astronaut]

ART just came alive as a character, and it’s so cool when that happens, when you kind of have a character sort of buried in the story. When they actually come on stage it’s like, oh, this is going to be an important character. And the more I worked on [Artificial Condition], the relationship between them became central to that story, not necessarily Murderbot finding out about its past on this moon, but that relationship. So after [Artificial Condition] was done and I was starting to work on [Rogue Protocol], I was really thinking about Murderbot’s relationships with the other characters and thinking... it’s like I really feel like ART is probably the love of Murderbot’s life, even though that’s not how they see it. That this is central, it’s going to be a really important relationship, and in some ways it makes a lot more sense for Murderbot’s most important relationship – I mean, its most important relationship with a human is Dr. Mensah – that it would have a relationship with another being who is more like it than a human is – so yeah, people who see it that way are pretty correct. That was what I was thinking about when I was writing it.

~Martha Wells, in an interview with SmartBitchesTrashyBooks, regarding the writing of Artificial Condition and how Network Effect is an aroace agender romantic suspense novel.

[quote lightly edited by me for clarity]

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

Finally there's gonna be offical rtc merch once the website gets launched FINALLY IAUAAGGSHDH

[silli-illi]

300K subs

[hyunin]

RED VELVET COMEBACK INTERVIEW @ MUSIC BANK

[awkwardsilences]

. ✝︎

i could be on my knees in a second ✝︎.

[zombiesun]

𝔙𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? - Ann Rice, Interview with the Vampire

[homosekularnost]

murderbot voice logic doesnt work on traumatized humans. but shittalking my best friend does

[tnbscans]

Interview with Hiroaki Hirata from the MBS Anime Fes 2014.

If this is translated somewhere please let me know and I’ll link to it.

[ldpdlexisting]

that scene where lestat and louis cries together about claudia...welcome back tom and daisy buchanan.

[foreverppl]

Moodboard for Amais Rena (he/they), lead singer of alt rock band Way Way Downers @infamous-if

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[reluctantjoe]

Murder is Easy cast and creatives tease Agatha Christie thriller that "balances deduction with seduction, humour with terror"

England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him a killer is on the loose in a sleepy English village...

England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe.

The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and when she's later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy…

Mathew Baynton - Dr Thomas

Who do you play?

Doctor Thomas is a man with a certain position in the community, which he very much enjoys. And the arrival of Fitzwilliam puts a spanner in the works as far as he’s concerned in terms of his place in the village. And that causes him some real problems…

What do you find most interesting about your character?

To say that might spoil things! Without giving too much away... this is a man who cares really deeply about his status and a man who is very privileged, and any challenge to that privilege he’s going to get very defensive about. And he may be interested in certain theories that I think are an armour for him to defend his status. One of the most interesting things for me is trying to understand why a person like Doctor Thomas could be drawn to that, and why a person could truly believe in it.

Is it accurate to say that you enjoyed the costumes?

I mean, the costumes are just fantastic. It's rare in modern life that you get an excuse to be tailored and I'd get a few looks today if I walked around with high-waisted trousers and the rest of it. But I can get my kicks out of it when I'm being filmed in an Agatha Christie. It's a good excuse.

Why do you think small, quaint British towns and villages make such a good setting for a murder mystery?

I think the picture perfect little British village suggests serenity and order, and so that really lends itself to the idea of murder disrupting all of that. Causing chaos. I think there's something about the fact that it's so pretty and organised, and then something chaotic happens in the middle of it.

And why do you think mystery stories and tv shows prove so enduringly popular?

I'm going to parrot a theory that a friend of mine told me and take credit for it, which is that there's something really comforting about the fact that you watch the mystery, often a terrible thing, get solved, and then we can all sleep easily. The idea that someone will come along, figure it all out, wrap it all up in a bow, the bad guy goes away and we can all go to bed and tuck ourselves in and feel like the world is put to rights. I think that's the story people like because it has such closure to it and comfort.

Murder is Easy also examines the British class system and shows how the social roles were at the time, doesn’t it?

I think it's easy to forget that each new generation does not arrive with an in-built hard drive, pre -loaded with an understanding of social history or history of anything in fact. And so stories are powerful and important. Not just in a glib way, but this is how generations of people come to understand the world that they live in. For a lot of people, their exposure to history is through dramatic storytelling on the screen. So it is good that those elements are woven into the stories that we tell because, well, what's the famous quote? Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I've paraphrased it very badly, but that's why it's important to shine light on all areas of history, but particularly on those elements where we can revise history – and when I say ‘revise’, I don't mean in terms of changing history, but in terms of getting it more correct. Many people were airbrushed out of history because they weren't the ones who got to write it.

[attyammy]

tw: lots of eyes

(21 + 3 in total) (unless i cant count lol)

[astrangetorpedo]

(x) not a single member of bg beating the being them allegations