#benton my beloved

[headcanonsandmore]

I meant to send this earlier and then forgot because I’m useless 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 1, 10, 14 and 15 for Benton please (because I know how much you love him!) 😊

No worries, mate; I know being sick can knock it out of you. :) I do love Benton, it has to be said XD

1. how long have i known about them

I'd heard vaguelly about him on DW retrospectives but then I watched season 7 and thought 'he seems nice'. With each subsequent season, I adored him even more. Apparently I wasn't the only one; several hundred women in a factory up north wrote into the BBC demanding Benton be in more stories XD

10. my favorite moment with them in canon

It's a toss-up between Benton managing to stop Yates during the latter's brief indoctrination-into-eco-fascism, and Three telling Benton he makes one of the best coffees in the universe (I'm a sucker for the other characters being sweet to Benton, which is also why I love when Jo Grant refers to him as 'the lovely Sergeant Benton' in a letter she sends to UNIT after she leaves). But basically any moment where Benton is on-screen is my favourite moment. He's such a sweet bean.

14. what i liked about the way canon portrayed them

I love how it was originally a bit-part but the cast and crew liked John Levene so much he got to do more and more over time. I especially like how he goes from getting the short straw from Yates constantly (never quite forgave Yates for stealing Benton's sandwiches that time by pulling rank) to getting the last laugh. Not to mention how it's a canon fact that basically everyone likes him and knows him to be a fundamentally good person; the Doctor is suspicious of everyone during that dinosaur serial except Benton, because they knew Benton would never betray them. Even the Master respects how earnest and resourceful Benton is.

Also, love the little insights into his personal life, like how he takes his little sister to ballroom dancing lessons. If we're talking the novels, he also seems immune (like Dan Lewis) to attempts at mind control; the himbo power is strong in Benton!

15. what i dont like about the way canon portrayed them

I don't like how he ends his last appearance unconscious on the floor and the Fourth Doctor doesn't even bother to make sure he's okay. Bit of an unfair ending, in my opinion (one of the early reasons I had for not liking Four as much as I like Three and Five).

Also, don't like how the Brigadier clearly doesn't pay Benton enough; he has to deal with a lot of nonsense that is clearly well above his pay grade (not to mention the Brigadier being a jerk to him on several occasions).

Personally, I like the idea of Benton being involved in 'Mawdryn Undead'. Mainly because it would be nice for him to get a proper send-off, but also because (as neither of them were in the army anymore) he would have been able to tell the Brigadier to stop being a jerk. Bonus points if he also defends Tegan and Nyssa when the Brigadier was being a chauvinist to them (I know Tegan and Nyssa would have gotten along well with Benton, because that man CHUGS the respect women juice).

Thanks for the asks, mate!

[poguelandia]

And the rest, as they say, is history. ER (1994-2009) 1.01, “24 Hours”

[bryonieamber]

Shes everything

[variousqueerthings]

any fics about this guy. and does he have a name????

[lobotomy-jpeg]

Hi there @appleflavoredkitkats 👀

I am your malloysical secret Santa, happy holidays!~ I hope you like this🥺💛

[id: Digital painting of Natasha Rostova fr great comet. She is sitting on a chair, looking at the viewer, wearing her white dress. She is holding an envelope. /end id]

[orlaogden]

Agnes's tiny smile upon hearing the news <3

I wonder if there is going to be some bonding time over the mutual trauma?..

[redeemed-wren]

Rewatching Invasion of the Dinosaurs and feeling emotions about Mike Yates

[clipzicle]

drew some batim characters i really like cos o got bored on a 9+ hour car ride 🫶

[rescue-ram]

Once again being abnormal about insane beautiful horny poetry about being incandescently in love with someone then losing them without ever knowing why.

"Because hate is legislated...and black timeless night sucks us in like quicksand, receives us totally— without a raincheck or a parachute, a key to heaven or the last long look. I need love more than ever now . . . I need your love, I need love more than hope or money, wisdom or a drink."

"Then I walked . . . my arm around the emptiness of you beside me. And because you were total in my eyes like sudden blindness, I saw only you. You were my purpose and my way, you were the bright articulate lights and the dark lonely streets, you were each door and window . . . and every passing face."

"I will be forgetting you each day and every hour. Each night and day, each hour something wonderful and dear of you will ring my heart and knock upon my mind."

"I walk alone. Slowly. No hurry. Nobody's waiting. My love who loved me (she said) is gone. My love is gone."

"When we have forgotten even why we parted, if we ever knew it at all — remembering, however, when we could sleep naked and be warm together, kiss, though with a cold — when even baby-talk became you . . . yes, and everything I said was sweet or funny and everything you did was beautiful."

"I shall never forget you . . . nor will your memory be ever free of me. For your arms are my home — and my arms the circle you cannot leave, however far you go."

"It is so strange, this my need of you. Yesterday I gathered seashells at Compo Beach, but I had no one to show them to. And when I saw blue heron fishing in the Saugatuck shallows — I cried to Cora: 'Lillian, look!'"

"You were all I and all of me was you — my senses rhymed with your senses and our bodies made music and gave light . . . as all things absolute. What is it that happened? Now that you are gone (and why) I feel I never knew you — though you fill me with terrible wonder . . . like the onset of madness."

"I have looked too long upon you, too long . . . and with so much love that strangers can see you in my face — as the sun and vivid colors leave an after-image in the eyes."

[solosol]

Entry April 28

Walter Benton, This Is My Beloved

[politedemon]

i see a broadway actor in a movie and i'm like omg they're famous as if a leading role on broadway isn't probably more of a career highlight than a peacock original christmas film

[headcanonsandmore]

Blorbo from my silly sci-fi show.

[chickensarentcheap]

I had the immense pleasure of watching this show in its entirety when it first aired on television. I even used to write Due South fan fic!!

So It warms my heart to see all the younger folks discovering it and enjoying it so much!

[p1ckthep01son]

AND CLUTCHING THE FENCE SHE SAID HOW HAVE I HURT YOU WHAT HAVE I DONE AND DID I DESERVE TO OR SPITE WITH MY TONGUE WAS I TOO EAGER OR LOVED YOU TOO MUCH I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH

[sammaggs]

THE ship. The ship of all time.

I’d be proud to call you my partner. And my friend.

[mtgtips]

Mtg tip: flavour is free, you can flavour your decks however you want. My Sergeant Jhon Benton deck is called Evil Infodumping where instead of punching you he deals psychic damage by talking about trains or military hardware (topic changes from game to game).

Magic the Gathering tip: sergeant benton my beloved