#about / callum.

[stuck-in-jelly]

I think it’s really sweet when people point out that in getting married/engaged to Callum that Rayla would then become Princess Consort/ Crown Princess but it is also extremely funny because I wholeheartedly believe Rayla wouldn’t realize that until its too late

She’ll be getting introduced to people visiting King Ezran’s court then she’d hear the words “This is the Crown Princess, Rayla.” and the poor girl would stand there like

[brightlotusmoon]

[heretoobsessstuff]

My favourite scene: Gale’s last dance

Something I noticed when rewatching this scene is how the people around Buck are all watching Gale dance with meatball but Gale only looks at John. John is the only person Gale has eyes for and seems to care about watching him. When he winks at John its as if he does it to ease John’s nerves and for John to remember him this way: dancing with meatball and being happy and John looks at him as if he wants to commit every second of this to his memory.

[flownwrong]

CALLUM KEITH RENNIE as Captain Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery

[k-wame]

yall

[rcbertleckie]

CALLUM TURNER as JOHN ‘BUCKY’ EGAN MASTERS OF THE AIR · part eight

[carnevol]

that smitten little smile is everything 💕

[babvblue]

[sluttyhenley]

an irish airman foresees his death - w.b. yeats // genesis - valzhyna mort // future home of the living god - louise erdrich // bloodsport - yves olade // summer - safia elhillo // born to run - bruce springsteen // girls that never die - safia elhillo // blue rotunda - louise gluck // brothers in arms - dire straits // accident report in the tall tall weeds - ada limón

MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) insp, insp, insp

[hiccupshypotheticalleftsock]

the way he’s looking off into the distance like ‘she’s mine again’

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I don't think I will ever understand people getting upset at Callum getting taller than Rayla. He is a year younger than her and it's just logical than he got taller? Boys are usually taller‚ and elves and humans have the same height growth. Maybe I think this way because I care more about their writing and relationship rather than being obsessed with straight ships having to break every rule ever‚ even tho friendly reminder than rayllum breaks the stereotype of asian guys being short and the least attractive kind of men.

Rayla considers Callum handsome‚ she probably think hes the hottest guy ever (he is) and doesn't care he's taller or bigger than her‚ in fact she probably loves it like

He will probably get even taller in Arc 3 because he's just 17 and she already hit 18 and you know what? Good for them. Rayla clearly loves her taller‚ muscular‚ assertive and gentle boy. She will love kissing him in tip toes and his big arms around her always 🥰🥰🥰

[bandtrees]

this has always been one of my favorite lines in this scene it’s so striking to me. i think debating over callum’s level of lucidity and what can or cannot “fix” him is deeply antithecal to what the story is trying to express with him - but the idea that callum is still there and still a person who does have the capacity to love mingus, just not in a way she can ever comprehend or accept, because she can't comprehend or accept anything outside her narrow worldview, is sooooo good.

there is no way of actually knowing if callum is proud of mingus, much less recognizes her at all - but it's added to by the fact there's only so much of that she would accept even if he could. ultimately, she wants validation and power, his prestige, from him, she wants a supportive parental figure she never had - there's only so much of that callum is able to provide even in a world where her stint to fix his memory actually worked. he's like a hundred. he never even MET her. to say nothing of all he's missed in the past fifty-odd years. to say nothing of how his age may have messed with his mind deteriorating even without the pre-existing brain damage.

and mingus' phrasing here implies he doesn't even look at her when she visits - which brings me to the visit that radicalized her: the one after her surgery, where he was watching gingi out the window.

obviously, callum watching gingi is mostly for the thematics of it all, how similar the two of them are in ways mingus refuses to recognize, but theres also the thought of... callum's been sitting alone in that room for over half his life, barely lucid if at all. of course he's going to be drawn to a brightly-colored thing making noises and knocking stuff over outside. if he can't respond to stimuli of the people around him he's at the very least going to latch onto something more visually interesting than Brown Wall and Brown Figure.

but it's not like mingus can think of it like that, because she's internalized so much about her grandfather and built up such a specific, personalized vision of him - she doesn't see him as an elderly man with (a fictional equivalent to) dementia, she sees him as President Callum Crown™, the man she personally has to please and live up to the legacy of and make proud, disregarding the fact that's not something he has the mental capacity to even do - because she's so obsessed with validation and complete control that the only way she can get it is by either subjugating others and forcing it out of them (what she does with her townsfolk), or just completely projecting on someone who, for her purposes, is basically a blank slate.

which is maddening to her in its own way, see how crazy she drives herself trying to restore callum's memory in the first place - but also, would she be happy even if callum could see her for who she is? post-game, when she's working on herself, that's an irrelevant question as she's pushed past that need, but as we know her? absolutely not.

i love the ch3 standoff between norm and mingus as a show of "Okay guys let’s see who can dehumanize this disabled guy harder (via pedestal-putting) and justify themselves for it better" and why i think it is so important that it’s gingi who reads the postcard and ultimately speaks for callum instead of either of them, or even the narrator. they can’t read, and they struggle to, but they manage to get it right even when people are telling them to stop. and the fact they’re able to do it at all, are given the chance to do so, and are ultimately the one to wind down this conflict shows that the world of dialtown, while not perfect, really is how callum would have wanted it.

both gingi and callum are some of the most altruistic and human characters ever, and the crux of their parallels is that they are denied this by close-minded people because they happen to Behave Strangely. it's why seeing mingus act the way she does hits so hard - she loves her paw-paw, yes, but if she were to see him in a vacuum, a one-limbed man who can hardly think, much less speak for himself: or even his younger self, who was struggling to make ends meet with his odd inventions...

...well, the feeling norm's imagining here would probably be mutual. mingus' relationship with bigotry is a very fascinating one, she's very close-minded but views certain oddities (ie her flesh-head) as having earned their place and thus being fine - she's a freak too, by her own admission, but she's doing it for a just and wider purpose, so it's fine. which is, ironically, the ideology callum forced upon himself.

callum was obsessed with helping people, pushing himself to do more and more, because it was the only way he ever found respect. if he didn't help people and have grand visions for the world and make himself "useful" to society at large, then what would he be, if not a freak?

mingus and her paw-paw are very similar people, from their well-intentioned extremism, to their stubbornness and paranoia, to their inability to view themselves as anything more than a vessel for that grand cause they believe in (callum in the dialup, mingus in restoring her paw-paw's memory) - which is funny, because if mingus was able to view callum, and herself, as a flawed human person, she would come to understand how similar they really are.

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[celestialowlryx]

THE DRAGON PRINCE ↳ 3.07 "Hearts of Cinder" | 5.03 "Nightmares & Revelations"

[coffeeisfortheresponsible]

have been rewatching the dragon prince!!

here’s some doodles i made at 1am last night

[rcbertleckie]

masters of the air · part six

[barbeygirl]

how hard it must’ve been to have the most british looking man pretend to be an american AND THEN try to desperately find even more british looking men so they can play the actual brits in the movie. how many tears of frustration do you think were shed? how far did they search?

then Austin Butler was cast to distract us