#adnag

[mrslovetttodd-blog]

Rewatching Chernobyl and god our beloved rat man looks bad

[laststandx3]

This post contains spoilers for ep 6 of daryl dixon

so finally watched ep 6 (the last one of the series) and let me tell you: it's bad. AdNag was wonderful, his hair were perfect, his face so kissable. 100% the highlight of the episode.

Anyway quinn dies (we knew it. let's not pretend we didn't) he get bitten by a zombie during the arena fight and in his last conversation as human he asks daryl to tell isabel he helped them an all. jesus christ, you're dying can you be less of a simp?

so let's talk about this episode for a minute. first half is them escaping the zombies in the arena (which daryl dixon has barely any difficulty in doing. he even lift one with a pole. really.) then the militia guys (was enough to fire one shot at random and they run away) and then our heroes were back on the road just to have the most nonsensical 5 minutes in the history of plots: does anyone remember the militia guy that wanted to avenge his brother so bad that in looking for dixon he got at least 40 people killed? the same guy that was cheering for a zombie to eat off dixon's face 3 minutes ago? that guy that was shown as the right hand of the boss? well after 5 episodes of murder after finally having dixon at the end of his gun he decided he wasn't going to kill him. bc he didn't want to kill laurent apparently, but the 20+ dead nuns is fine? the other innocents from the club? the paris commune? they can die. it's fine if he doesn't want to kill the kid but daryl dixon was right there, why not kill him?

second half of the episode they reach the nest and it's maybe the nicest sequence in the show so far. not enough that i can forgive everyone being dressed like background characters from a 40's movie or a group of french people picking the token american aboard student as their leader or everyone still speaking english for daryl or these people needing daryl to teach them how to use a rifle. but okay at least the sequence was nice. i don't believe that nuns taught laurent about aristotele but okay. i still have some suspension of disbelief left. at this point the people from the nest found daryl a lift home (kinda) and there's a ship waiting for him on the coast of Normandy. You know what we just found out? that dd's granpa died on the coast of normandy during ww2 and daryl sniffs on his grave even tho he never met the man and had a bad relationship with his dad. it feels like the american writers of this show had a list of things americans and french had in common and ww2 was the only thing left. anyway laurent then shows up from a dune and waves at daryl and idk it's implied daryl will take him to america? this kid only has bad ideas.

at the end of this season i can say this was the first draft for the show. not one single character has an arc. characters were underdeveloped, they had no solid background for their personalities. bad guys were bad until the plot needed them not to be. and those who were bad were bad just because. Genet she was a night guard at the museum and now she's leading a militia, i'm not saying it's impossible, i'm saying that without seeing even a glimpse of her character evolution she feels hollow. the guy wanting to avenge his brother does a 180 in a minute, killing 4 of his men. what is the journey there? he could've been a great character development, if he got developed in any way. Quinn, went form british living abroad (job still unknown) to nightclub owner that simped for Isabelle for 12 years but never ever in all this time looked for her once. and now that he died nobody cared, they made the big reveal that he was laurent's father and he was the ONLY person laurent showed no sympathy to?? Isabelle, laurent and the other nun, they saw everyone they lived with die and were okay, no faltering in faith, no grief. no lets go on with the plot. the other nun cared so little that she left them when they needed help the most and joined back when the risk was over. like?? girl what? I want to talk about laurent, he never questions he's god on earth, everyone told him he's special and in all his journey he never doubted for a second that he wasn't even if so far more people died than how many he helped. he saw murder, violence, hunger, pain, living dead and he didn't care at all. and now daryl dixon, i started the series knowing nothing about him and now the only thing i know is that he's the typical grunts not speak no friends type. zero connection with his character. he went throughout another tuesday of killing zombie and people and what bothered him the most was that everyone was speaking french.

this series gets a 4/10

[laststandx3]

Not the adnagnews profile managed by some (ex-)tumblr users getting tagged by an actor. Like imagine this dude goes to adnag and tells him, hey I tagged you in the photo. And adnag is like what :)? And starts digging and finds all of us insane people who have been obsessing about him for years

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[bunnygibson]

the way i see hickey and goodsir is like. hickey wants goodsir so so badly Specifically Because he knows he's totally immune to all his bullshit and would never ever fuck him. like he canonically likes the Chase so why would not chase the most unavailable guy. but eventually that just starts to piss him off and it leads into a kind of extremely pathetic obsession where hickey thinks he's his Nemesis and goodsir doesn't think about him at all

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

I am essential!

[worlds-worst-princess]

did adam nagaitis ever say that his dream role would be winston smith from 1984 or did i just hallucinate reading that

[favouritefi]

The fun thing about being faceblind is that I have no clue who the terror people are, but my brain just reblorbos them to be other guys in catboy situations

anon plz tell me who you're reskinning hickey into bc that guy has such a distinctive face i have no idea who could replace him

[viktorbf]

hes a piece of shit but hes sooo hot is the thing

[moonmanstan]

i think theres something eerily beautiful about the punishment scene in the terror. yes theres is something wrong with me

[roaldamundsen]

ADNAG PUBLISHES MATHS AND PHYSICS PAPERS IN HIS FREE TIME HELLO

[saints-who-never-existed]

sundogs!

Sundogs - Talk about a moment in the show that interests you most

I've been thinking a lot today about a particular line reading in the final episode, right before the Tuunbaq showdown:

"I can't go back."

It's the way Hickey just sort of blurts it out that I find absolutely fascinating!

Not five seconds earlier he appears to be in full ranting, raving, condescending cartoon villain mode - "You think you're going back...?" but then, even if only for an instant, his whole demeanour changes!

He falters!

There's glint of humanity there, a chink in the armour, fear and shock and trepidation as if the weight of all that's happened and is about to happen suddenly hits him! And it's delicious!

"...I-I can't go back..."

And there's no direction for it in the script either - only a more explicit indication that Hickey is starting to feel the effects of Goodsir's poison than we see in the show. So it seems that may have been a full and very interesting AdNags Acting Choice TM though I wouldn't like to declare that for sure?

I would like to speculate wildly though on the reasoning behind that choice. Is it just the shock of realising that he's come too far and there really is no going back or could it also be fear and dread at the memory of whatever it was he was running from in the first place?

I'd love to know other's thoughts on that actually! <3

[laststandx3]

@stolperzunge, something like this?

Medieval AU 🐎🛡️👑

[acheronist]

do we think adnag actually managed to commune with the real spirit of real cornelius "touch my steak knife and i'll kill you" hickey or did he just get possessed by an egregore of e.c. for the television role of quote unquote cornelius hickey. either way something aint right with that boy

[boatswainer]

started chernobyl because i heard it was good and also jharris and ADNAGS IS ALSO IN IT???

[toadminako]

ffrmc day 10: instant classic

love is what fires it by Stonestrewn

M/E | hickeygibson | 18k | Rat Wedding Aftermath, Backstory, Resolved Sexual/Emotional Tension

Though he would choose words like gaunt and wan to describe this body he inhabits it is not with self-inflicted malice; Billy will name what he sees, not pretend at handsomeness. He still finds, amidst all his angles, the potential for appeal. Cornelius would tread reverent fingers through his curls, would say, hushed: “Lambswool, this.” - A Cornelius Hickey/Billy Gibson trajectory

So this incredible piece of work is actually 3 fics in a collection, and while any one could be enjoyed on its own I must insist you read your way through the whole thing.

It goes from exploring Gibson's complicated feelings about his own sexuality, to his fraught, almost-reconcillation with Hickey, to an insanely good 8k+ post-Carnivale love scene that works its way through all the bizarre facets of their dynamic and then some.

I've read very few fics that capture Hickey's voice as well as this one; pretty much every line I could hear echoing in my head as if spoken by Adnags himself. And it accomplishes what few hickeygibson fics do - it makes me totally understand why Gibson couldn't give up this horrible little rat man. I mean just read this shit!! "Billy loves him then, despite it all, loves his fine points and his flaws with the same foolish fervour. He loves him for his stubbornness, for his refusal to leave anything be, loves him for his brilliance and his staggering stupidity, for his clear sight and his fumbling ignorance, loves him for his eternal grudges and his vibrant joy, for how once you’ve known him he can never be unknown."

[cyberturbine]

honestly i can imagine adnags larping as a random terror fandom person that posts a lot about hickey and writes about him constantly