#WHAT ARE THE FUCKING ODDS???????

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

[chiaraav]

HUH?!!!! EHAT DO YOU MEAN????

WTF????????

HAPPY 9/11 AGAIN MY FELLOW PERUVIANS

APPARENTLY FUJIMORI FUCKING DIED???!!

I'm sorry to everyone who lost a loved one on the 9/11 attack and also to the thousands of lives lost because of the US attack to the middle east.

A huge hug to my Chilean brothers and sisters who today commemorate Pinochet's Coup and all the lives lost because of his regime. Un gran abrazo en serio, me consta que estas heridas nunca cierran por completo sobretodo por todo el daño causado.

AND ALSO HAPPY 9/11 MY FELLOW PERUVIANS!!! ABIMAEL GUZMAN FINALLY DIED!!!!!

Just to let everyone know, Abimael Guzman was the leader of the terrorist group the Shinning Path who was responsible for the death of more than 30.000 peruvians -that's the official number, everyone knows that it was actually more- in diverse attacks. He said that he wanted a class revolution in favor of the indigenous people of Perú and promptly started killing them, in the end, they were the ones who suffered more.

And even though a part of me is happy that he's finally dead I can't help but remember everyone who is still missing, of the pain and trauma that still lingers in today's society, of how my dad panics everytime something sounds similar to a bomb and how my mind goes to the small knife that a shinning path desertor gave my mom for her to protect herself if his old comrades decided to attack her office, and definitely how he was cruelly murdered by the shining path and also how my uncle had to walk kilometers through a highway full of dead bodies praying to every god that none of them were his children or his parents.

I thought I was going to be happier, but I find myself mourning all the people who died even if I never met them.

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[crunchchute]

III

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[lucabyte]

Different standards

[phoenixkaptain]

I love the relationship between Ra’s and Tim in the Red Robin run because it reads fundamentally as an unrequited crush. Between an old man who is so rich he will never spend all his wealth, a man who is considered to be charming in the same way a snake is, a man who is more powerful than the majority of other villains just on the strength of his legacy alone.

And.

A seventeen-year-old boy who has not slept in three days since the last time someone drugged him, has not showered in three weeks unless you count being thrown into a river, has not cleaned his room since he was three and his parents still payed attention to him.

And when I tell you which one has the crush on the other, that’s it, that’s the ultimate punchline, DC may never reach these peaks of comedy ever again.

[dramatic-dolphin]

just saw something crawling on my hand and it looked like a spider so i was like "oh hey friend what are you! :D" well it was an arachnid but definitely not a friend 👍

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

"You know, I could hunker down at your place. Slither over and watch you eat cake." ⁠ —Crowley to Aziraphale in the Good Omens Lockdown special

[thatstoomanysausages]

The people who said that Grian and Scar have teamed too much in the Life Series are delusional I think.

Let’s look at the number of times that the two have actually teamed together:

1. Third Life

2. Double Life (out of their control)

…

…that’s literally it. The two didn’t team in Last Life, didn’t team in Limited Life, and didn’t team in Secret Life.

I know they also teamed in Real Life but that was essentially a gag episode so, it doesn’t really count in this as I’m talking about full 6+ episode series.

THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN TEAMED FOR 2/5 SEASONS.

[beiyuanism]

seeing that greg has been possessed by some rpf demon recently i can safely bet that s19 is going to be the most powerfully homoerotic season yet

[rebouks]

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Robin: I’m afraid ghost cats don’t show up either, buddy…

[themoongirls12]

ARTMS ‘Birth’ Teaser

Concept Photo #1

2024.03.29 1PM KST

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[epiphainie]

this is one of those fic ideas i wanted to write for every ship i've ever been into so it will probably never happen but i'd like to have a silly story with 40 yo, single, lonely tommy kinard who's been down on his luck all his life - like i'm talking ridiculous levels of mom dying at childbirth, dad being terrible, horrifically unfortunate experience of the military, a series of failed jobs, a series of failed relationships, friendships never sticking for long, risks he takes always going south, somehow getting paper cuts through chainmail gloves, missing the bus while trying to avoid his daily encounter with the neighbor's dog etc. - one day opening the door of his downtrodden studio apartment to this beautiful man who stands there like a fucking angel. who looks at tommy with big apologetic eyes, red cheeks of shame, and twiddling thumbs of guilt and stutters, "so, uhm, i wish you didn't have to learn it this way but hi, i'm the guardian angel who, as it turns out, misplaced your files about four decades ago, and so uhm it just resurfaced, haha, and like yeah, i've been banished here for penance. i'll take the couch, it's fine."

[xuxudio]

i'm glad no one was home because i screamed when i realized just who grabbed each bouquet

unreal