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[emilybeemartin]

A whopping, like, 2.6 people have expressed interest in my recent adventures in watching Bean films, which is all the encouragement I need to present to you:

An Incomplete Guide to Sean Bean Roles (Investigation Ongoing)

Our guy has a vast filmography, and I'm not even close to being halfway through it, but I've watched a lot of his significant ones in the past few weeks thanks to a perfect storm of illness, injury, and lapses in client work. Crucially, I have created superlatives for a variety of them and present them here for your benefit. Disclaimer: many of these films are violent! Or have butts and/or tits! Some have dick! Some have dated bits that didn't age well! So, if you have triggers or are watching with young viewers, do your research first! Also, these are just the opinions of one solitary millennial! Nothing is objective! Nothing is real! I care not!

Okay, CYA done, let's begin. I'll get the two most obvious ones out of the way up front, otherwise they'll dominate half the categories:

ACT I

Greatest Bean: Fellowship of the Ring. I've said it before and I'll say it again, he achieved more pathos with Boromir than a lot of his other roles have allowed for, and every note he hits just sings. No debate.

Best Bean for Your Buck: Sharpe. For the best confluence of quantity, quality, physicality, emotion, humor, and action, you can't beat Richard Sharpe.

Favorite Dramatic Bean: Time; he earned that BAFTA fr

Softest Bean: The first date scene in Stormy Monday, where Brendan shyly gets to know Kate, slow dances with her, lends her a shirt and strokes her back after she asks if they can just go to sleep instead of have sex.

Most Dashing Bean: Vronsky in Anna Karenina, that uniform cuts, damn

Swooniest Bean: I know I'm supposed to say Chatterley, and he is undeniably sexy as Mellors, but there are parts where his character is actually kind of off-putting. I'll lay a good chunk of the blame on the weirdly ominous score, the very of-the-time depiction of dubious consent, and Joely Richardson's tendency to look like she's having the worst time of her life while shagging the hot gamekeeper. No, I'm giving this category to Stormy Monday again. He's just so gentle and genuine in this one, without some of the obligatory "heartthrob" overtones of his nineties stuff. He never raises his voice at Kate or manhandles her. He really does feel like some kid who just wants to be sweet to his girlfriend.

Laddiest Bean: When Saturday Comes, specifically the strip club and bathtub scenes.

Favorite Sad Bean: As a collective, he has some great grief scenes in World on Fire, but! The railroad track scene in When Saturday Comes?! That was RAW.

Favorite Mad Bean: Black Death; there are plenty of movies where he doesn't smile at all, but unlike some others, his grimness and anger felt proportionate to the story, rather than just rage because he's good at rage.

Favorite Bad Bean: There are so many great Bean villains (Goldeneye, obvs), but I think my favorite is Patriot Games. Bonus points for all the different hairstyles he has in this film (long locks-shag-shag ponytail!-buzz-wet spiky buzz). Also HUGH FRASER AAAA

Favorite Dad Bean: Wolfwalkers, where Bill Goodfellowe literally turns his own convictions and beliefs upside-down in order to protect and support his daughter.

INTERMISSION

A note on GoT: I haven't watched it. When season one was first coming out, it was during a time where I really couldn't handle watching any kind of sexual assault onscreen, and while I have a higher tolerance now, I just... don't want to. I like seeing gifs of Ned Stark and appreciate that it's one of his great roles, but I just can't make myself take the plunge.

ilysm you grizzled dead wolf man

ACT II

Favorite Costumed Bean: Odysseus in Troy: curls, leather, thighs.

Favorite Un-Costumed Bean: He strips in quite a lot of his films, so let's give it to Lady Chatterley for sheer screentime, exertion, and the bonus of being naked and wearing a flower crown. Honorable mention to When Saturday Comes for the totally not homoerotic amount of butts and also dick in the locker room bathtub scene.

Hurtin'est Bean: Bravo Two Zero. Oof, don't watch this one if you have an aversion to seeing pain, although---you're a Sean Bean fan, and we all know one of his MOs is being GREAT at pain. This one was directed by Tom Clegg, who directed Sharpe. Also lol at the sickle-shaped wound on his shoulder, which is covering his 100% Blade tattoo (he gets a lot of sickle-shaped wounds on his left shoulder).

Best Inside References: The Frankenstein Chronicles, where he plays a former Peninsular soldier, and every reference to his service is a reference to Sharpe, including shots of his greenjacket, pistol, sword, and flogging scars. Honorable mention to The Martian for the Council of Elrond line.

Most Unsettling Bean: Cleanskin for moral grayness, The Frankenstein Chronicles for body horror

Most Inefficient Use of Bean: Black Beauty. Despite getting high billing he's only onscreen for about two minutes and I'm convinced the long shots are a body double. Criminal.

Biggest Missed Opportunity: We were robbed of a Sean Bean Odyssey. R o b b e d

Funniest Bean: Deploying Bean for comedy is woefully underused, but he made full use of his ~15 seconds in The Vicar of Dibley ("Spring" episode). He's also hilarious in Wasted, though I haven't watched the show, only the clips he's in on YouTube, where he plays a mock version of himself serving as a spirit guide for a stoner. IMO, though, Sharpe gives him the most room for humor.

Favorite Character Quirk: In World on Fire, when Douglas is having WWI flashbacks and really coming apart, he kept putting his hand to his mouth. My modern brain first read this as talking into a phantom radio, but of course that wasn't right, and then I realized--he was reaching for a phantom gas mask. CHILLS. AMAZING. (Honorable mentions to the Mouth Rub and the Tongue Thing [pictured above]).

Most Nostalgic Bean: National Treasure. The concept may be utter silliness, but you have to admit, this is a fun movie to watch.

Best Dismount from a Horse: Henry VIII, he goes pshwing out of the saddle

Best Swordplay: You may think there's no possible answer to this, but there is---two moments, specifically: the preparatory sword-spin he does at Balin's tomb just before the goblin attack in Moria, and the four lunges he does at 1:26:22 of Sharpe's Battle. It's just facts.

Prettiest Bean Film: Wolfwalkers, hands downnnn

Favorite Bean Death: All right, you knew we had to eventually end here. It's Boromir, obviously--- nothing tops that. But if we're looking at other roles, I think Patriot Games is my favorite, followed by Goldeneye.

So! That concludes this installment of Bean films, though I'll be continuing the labor, and I hope you will, too. What are your favorites?

[cybrpnkd]

Welcome to the Afterlife.

[thegoodmorningman]

It's true what they say about Monday! It's The Worst!!! Good Morning.

[fellow-mammal]

Are you around Wellington, NZ this Sunday? Come say hi at GGWP 🎮✨!

Event info

I’ll be selling a variety of stickers, pmd prints and charms!! Did you like my NZ bird illustrations? those will be there too, in sticker form!

i have also amassed a gaggle of these lil dudes that i shall be offering to a good home!!

[dstriple]

A sequel to Alien Isolation has been officially confirmed to be in development.

[provolone-cheeseburgers]

Me on a Monday

(Credit to @nothing-impt for the crispy Athena, THIS IS NOT MY ART)

[dreamskug]

Happy Halloween 🎃

For Lens & Light - Issue 04 - coming soon!🦇 Check it out: @lenspluslight Don’t re-upload without credit.

[redzombie]

something silly to decompress my brain

[retrogamingblog2]

Marble Pokeballs made by Alchemodel

[d3f3n3str4t10n]

I've been rewatching playthroughs of the first two chapters, and it's got me thinking about how Andrew and Ashley view their relationship.

It's no secret that Andrew is rather... 'hands on' with Ashley. Whether it's scolding her, comforting her, or just relaxing around her. In certain instances (like the one directly above) it even comes off like, at times, he doesn't even recognize he's doing it at first. But it started to make me wonder what Ashley thinks about all this. Throughout the entire game, past and present, Andrew acts like this, but Ashley never pays it any mind. There are times she jokes about it, but that's all it ever amounts to. Just a quick joke. Ashley herself is no stranger to this behavior either.

And in turn, Andrew never calls her out on this either. Which is especially weird, given his hang-ups about their... unique relationship. That was, until I saw this line, which I had never seen before. As Ashley, f you talk to Andrew before taking Renee up to the phone, Ashley will say he owes him a hug, and Andrew responds with this...

Suddenly he's acting like that sort of behavior is a thing of the past. Something they (or at least, she) grew out of years ago. I'll bet part of it is because of their parents watching (Which Andrew himself brings up in a couple lines after this...) but I doubt that's the whole reason.

Perhaps this isn't a world-changing revelation, but I think this is just another byproduct of how Andrew raised Ashley. Even as kids, Andy was never reluctant to touch Leyley. From shaking her, to making a literal blood oath with her. I doubt Andy meant anything about by when they were that young, but as their dependance on each other grew, and Andrew's feelings for her developed, it was just something that became normalized... at least, to Ashley. We can see in multiple scenarios whenever Andrew sees himself, or gets caught touching Ashley from anywhere from her chin to her ass, he QUICKLY pulls away... yet Ashley doesn't even seem to flinch. In fact, whenever it's brought up, all Ashley can do is laugh. About how 'weird' Andrew is being about it. Which in turn, makes her seem even more crazy, because yeah, of course that kind of contact between the two is weird, why wouldn't it be? But no, it's because that's just what she grew up around. Andrew was always touchy-feely like that, so that's just how siblings act, right? It's not like she ever got close enough to anyone else to recognize how their relationship compares to anyone else's. It's also partly why, even despite what we've seen with Ashley about her jealousy with Andrew, she isn't quite sure if they're "like that" when Andrew asks her. All that physical contact isn't really anything special to her. That's just how they are. And because of how sheltered she grew up, she doesn't see it as weird. She sees everyone who thinks it's weird as weird. Again, probably not the most mind-blowing realization, but it was fun to write about.

[teddybearty]

Using an Oral Hygiene Product 💀

[beeguillotine]

Happy 3 Years of Miriam Monday!!!!!

Wowie that's a long time!!!! This project continues to be one of my favourite little things ever <33 thank you, as always, for all the support I've received for the past 3 years?!!?! All the love, the shares, the comments... they always mean so much to me!!!!

Here's every Miriam Monday from the past 3 years (excluding today's) That's a whole lotta Mims!!!!! I continue to enjoy seeing the improvement across these... drawing this little witch is like second nature to me now!! Happy Mimdayiversary!!!!

[cybrpnkd]

Confrontation

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French Dip Sliders

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"Evil Ken's Stage"

Mugen stage made by Puskas