#benedick hobbes

[stolligaseptember]

beatrice, you're vivacious still best song of all time

[violivs]

Beatrice/Benedick + Text Posts (Part 1/?)

[the-freespirited-princess-trope]

"This is what I'm fucking talking about, Claudio. You need to be ready for anything!" --benedick hobbes, from the ground, after both he and claudio collapsed when his running tackle piggyback ride went south

[common-grackle]

low-effort nmtd post!!

[panneshirley]

 - I get the feeling we can’t flirt like normal people, would that be right?

- We’re far, far too clever.

[caserobard]

okay, so I forgot that in CLAUDIO ben essentially straight up admits he has a crush on bea if you read between the lines, but i DEFINITELY forgot about THE FUCKING SLOTHS

[so-true-jestie]

wait. is there any canonical reason to believe that the person who dared Ben to eat an entire jar of olives was Bea? in OLIVES he implies it happened when he was 14, which is, if i recall correctly, the Year That Beadick Could Have Happened But Did Not. and, well. he's essentially spent an entire vlog episode comparing her to olives so

[thefabulousfab-3]

If I had a nickel for every time a beautifully written enemies to lovers ship was lowkey ruin in its last installment by undoing all of the male characters development and maturity in favor of pointless angst and drama. I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice. Right?

[blithe-and-bonnyy]

hi! what about 16 for bea duke/ben hobbes and ava walcott/dylan finnegan? (and asher/david if u wanna let me be self indulgent lol)

hi jules!

for beadick, i would absolutely love to see them in a doctor who au, esp one where bea's the doctor and ben's her companion. they would give off such amy/rory vibes

for ava x dylan, i think seeing them in a high school au would be fun! seeing what they were like as younger teens, and esp how dylan was dealing with their mental health as a teen would be very interesting. plus ava giving dylan a chemistry themed promposal would be adorable.

and then for asher and david, i would love to see them in a to all the boys i've loved before au!! david writing love letters to everyone he's loved before, and asher being on the list

[thebirdscomeback]

it really it really really sucks and i i i mean im not making this about me because its all about you its this is youre the one in trouble not me not in trouble! but youre in a bad place yknow and and it is about you and its about me too i think and and not in a weird way yknow cause like like we're not you are upset at the moment right okay and and that makes me upset youre wonderful like really really wonderful but but not not wonderful ah youre not awful not not awful you you youre sort of um im in lo

[stolligaseptember]

NYEEH is the video where ben literally jump cuts away from their first kiss, but it's his little "i'm in lo-" that drives me INSANE

[violivs]

Is there a sadder sight than

Benedick in the bathroom

Benedick in the bathroom at a party

This is a heinous night

Inspired by this comment from one of Ben’s costume party bath vlogs:

[the-freespirited-princess-trope]

"i will fight it. i will defeat it. and i will become its master."

-Benedick Hobbes, about a horse-sized duck

[violivs]

@heylookadagger exactly! And I CRY bc I love him SO MUCH and now post-canon with quitting vlogging he just gets to be Real Ben all the time and finally believes that people can actually love that person 😭😭😭

Something to be said for how much of Ben’s dialogue in the scenes he’s in in the first 10 episodes of NMTD feels incredibly like he’s Performing, in the way that you can sort of tell he has practiced and honed a projection of confidence he doesn’t really feel deep inside. This is a character who is playing a character in his own life, and the flavor and bravado on some of his inflections especially in the mango argument episode Shows that. I didn’t notice that tell before.

[cardboardsean]

@xxemo-hubrisxx and i were starting off our year right by watching Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), and got distracted by Featherstone the pink flamingo (the friar if you will). First off, a pink flamingo is always a Benedick Hobbes animal, but Featherstone specifically is flamboyant, loves to talk, and is scared of being too much for his new friends. Sounds familiar, no? He also appears in the space and scenes that show the blossoming and confirmation of Gnomeo and Juliet's love, not perhaps unlike NYEEH for Bea and Ben, where we meet both Floyd and the famous flamingo montage.

ADDITIONALLY there used to be TWO flamingoes when love was previously thriving, and during the film there's only Featherstone, until the final scene where love yet again conquers. Likee the flamingo montage. no? no (i'm connecting the dots. totally.)

Is Floyd the pink flamingo a really specific Shakespeare easter egg (apart from being a pink floyd joke)??? Is he just a manifestation of 2014 flamingo popularity?? was this ever a theory back in the day???

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish actor Mark Bonnar

Born November 19th 1968 in Edinburgh, Bonnar started his acting career in High School at Leith Academy, he recalls sitting with his friend one day when the names of all the award winners were read out, Mark says

"....I remember I was sitting in front of my best mate Keith, They were all the usual studious types. I turned to Keith to say 'it's all the posh and clever ones who win the prizes' and then my name was read out. I took a lot of ribbing about that."

After being talked out of doing a Drama course at school by his guidance teacher, doing physics instead, Mark left school with no real qualifications, and like many of us back then ended up doing a YTS, or youth training scheme to those that don't know. He worked in a library for two years, the beautiful building on McDonald Road in Edinburgh, before drifting in and out of other jobs and spending some time travelling in the US before the money ran out.

He returned home to the old job, this time driving the mobile library, but got bored of it and ended up in the planning offices of Edinburgh council before deciding to do a year's National Certificate in drama at Telford College and this time completed his course.

He then did three years at Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In his final year, he won the Carlton Hobbs BBC Radio Award, which gave him six months with BBC Radio in London, where he's lived ever since.

The keen eyed of you out there will recognise a link to the other birthday boy today, as Mark plays regular Duncan Hunter in Shetland, Duncan is the biological father to Jimmie Perez's "daughter" Cassie.

Bonnar has appeared on many shows on television as Peter Mayhew in BBC1's New Blood and Chris in the highly successful Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe, alongside screen wife and fellow Scot Ashley Jensen.

Other television credits include Vera, Rebus, Taggart, Grantchester, Case Histories, The Paradise, Doctor Who, Psychoville, Taggart, Phoneshop and Paradox. He also played regular Bruno Jenkins in the 23 episodes of the BBC1 series Casualty and DCC Mike Dryden in the brilliant cop show Line of Duty.

Mark has also voiced video games, Assassins Creed and Battlefield one and children's tv show series Tree Fu Tom.

Also a regular on the theatre front where he has played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and the lead role in Cyrano de Bergerac. On Radio his most prolific part was in a Piper Alpha, the play chronicles the disaster minute-by-minute as it happened.

One of Mark's more recent shows was Guilt, set in my native Edinburgh it was a dark comedy about two brothers who accidentally run over and kill an old man, if you haven't seen it please look it up! He was also in the mini series Quiz about Charles Ingram, who was convicted of cheating his way to the jackpot in Who wants to be a Millionaire.

As with his friend Dougie Henshall, Markis set to appear in the TV movie Murder is easy, he ahs also been in a short TV "movie" Calamity James nd appeared in five episodes of the drama World on Fire and starred n the Ridley Scott biopc Napolean that is due to be released next week.