#dr. b talks

[writer-room]

Obsessed with the Ras, Arin & Sora dynamic cause it really is a boomer being tormented by some Gen Z's on all fronts. Dude deadnamed Sora and the kids just looked at each other like siblings who heard their dad say something that would get him cancelled to make sure they both heard him right. They're awkwardly apologizing for Ras violent outbursts because they can't take him anywhere. God forbid they start having fun otherwise they're going to get scolded for it and tiredly side-eye each other. Welcome to the worlds worst post-divorce roadtrip with your manipulative malpractice father

[your-unfriendlyghost]

Marbit for the ship bingo! :D

Oh Marbit my beloveds

Looking for stuff about them is what got me into this fandom a year ago.

They way Two-Bit and Marcia just click, with the same humor right off the bat, and then suddenly for just a minute they’re not rough greasers with too-long sideburns and switchblades or pristine Soc girls dressed in white who get preyed on by greasers like Dallas. They’re just a couple of people who speak the same language, who have the same quick wit.

Augh, they kill me. Two-Bit usually only goes for blondes, but Marcia’s a brunette and one of “two good-lookin’ girls if I ever saw any.” Two-Bit’s a tough hood, but Marcia jokes with him like they’re old friends. She gives him her number.

And then as soon as they’re apart, they’re back to being a tough hood and a clean Soc. He tears up her number. He must’ve been crazy to ask for it. She drives home with Randy. (She wishes he was more interesting.) The phone doesn’t ring, and why would it? She was so stupid to give a hood her phone number. He probably sweet talks like that to every girl. Her number’s probably just one of so many others, and she’s so dumb for falling for it.

And then Bob is dead. Two-Bit gets jumped by Socs, and there’s a rumble, and Randy doesn’t wanna be a Soc anymore. And maybe Marcia doesn’t either.

Randy goes off to school, grows a beard, buys a VW. Marcia stays in Tulsa. She’s not a Soc anymore. She’s just- she’s just Marcia.

She goes down to the drive-in for old-times sake. There’s a guy there with Cherry’s friend, that Ponykid or something. He’s real familiar. She’s drinking a bit, she’s bolder than usual, she gives him her number and tells him not to lose it this time. And he doesn’t.

I’m an optimist, so I like to think they’ll last. Not without ups and downs, of course. In fact, I think there’s a solid period where they spilt up. But they keep coming back to each other, and Two-Bit works hard to become what he feels she deserves.

Idk, they matter to me. They’re the excitement of sneaking into someone’s house through the window. They’re the fun of telling jokes back and forth. They’re that feeling of looking at someone and seeing they’re thinking what you’re thinking. Their whole world is an inside joke. She’s his uptown girl, he’s her downtown man. They’re just a lot of fun!

[shannonsketches]

Do you think Vegeta and Bulma just had a one-night stand, or were they hooking up regularly? And once Vegeta found out Bulma was pregnant with his son, do you think they continued the relationship, or did they cut it off?

My headcanon has always been that it was a string of affairs that Vegeta was angry at himself for having every time he let himself be distracted by desire, but it probably only lasted a few months until Bulma found out she was pregnant. 

(I very much enjoy the idea that she uses birth control and didn’t think anything of having some fun — but it’s just not effective against Saiyans even though that’s not really how birth control works. Just for the Parks and Rec “I warned you about this, standard birth control methods aren’t usually effective against a Swanson” brand of joke.)

I enjoy the idea that they had a gnarly argument and a falling out after Bulma told him and he had a deeply dispassionate response to it, and it was several months before they started interacting again. But I hc neither of them were interested in more trysts, and their relationship went back to being strictly professional with underlying concern for one another, however subtle those may have been (until Perfect Cell happened and Vegeta got Reality Checked real hard). 

I think things got Very Real once the baby arrived and Vegeta spent even less time around them, to the point that Bulma knew he’d been working hard but had no idea where he was when the others gathered to greet the androids.

Part of my fondness for the birth control hc stems from it being a setup for another hc of mine — that she reformulated her birth control to be effective against a Saiyan after finding out she was pregnant, while Vegeta had assumed that aspect of their relationship was Over.

I am always entertained by the idea that a majority of Vegeta’s culture shock on Earth is things being so forgiving, when he’s from a culture of ‘Failure is Final.' Him having the expectation that this is also true of personal relationships — vs Bulma whose last and only serious relationship was on-again-off-again for Fifteen Years Straight.

I imagine their dynamic in this era is very V: I thought you wished I was dead. B: Yeah, but I don't want you to like, die, you know what I mean? V: V: No?

[un-pearable]

people in the archaeology subreddit digging up the corpse of indiana jones again for the annual discourse. somehow seem to have forget the most important scene in the film if you’re critiquing his status as an academic

[femmesday-addams]

oh no! by marina became a trinity and mel song for me at approximately 9:23a.m. in case anyone else would like worms in their brains and also ears

[iconicanemone]

to do or not to do is the question

[banesberry-anomoly]

I forgor to post this sketch page of the A Major Chord </3

Anyways eat up lmao, this is them all in the Reflection canon, individuals below the cut

[turtlesocksv2]

i just finished Spare Me Your Mercy and I have to say that the finale was really well done and i'm so glad we finally brought the focus back to the characters themselves and not just The Themes And Moral Debate. It just goes to show that the the show would have been even better if they'd put just a little more focus and effort on KanTew and the romance. I get why they didn't but they really really didn't have to do much!

I could literally pitch you a Spare Me Your Mercy update patch that would fix almost everything that was lacking in the middle of the series: just make Kan and Tew teenage sweethearts who broke up and went on to med school/being a cop in Bangkok. Whichever tumblr user had that idea originally was galaxy brained. like literally that's almost all it takes. Instantly there is more believable motivation for them to be both drawn to each other, as involved in each others business as they are, and for Tew to dismiss the idea that Kan's Doing Euthanasia until the reveal. Instantly more of an emotional connection. Add one or two thematic flashback scenes, MAYBE a half hour runtime added to the show's overall total including fleshing out their reintroduction and stuff, and BOOM. Done. Your show goes from a 7 to a 9. I wouldn't even change the ending.

[dang-orange]

dang-orange makes a list of characters he'd shake inside a glass jar:

i decided to be insane while i wait for the Methylphenidate pill to hit (i was thought to have adhd and still have some leftovers from trying to treat that) so i can study. so i made a list of what i think are kins? i refuse to look up what that actually means so im going by the context that a thousand years of reading tumblr posts on pintrest gave me.

Okay! so:

Kinger is a new one, he seems like such a funny silly guy who is kind of out of it, something i absolutely get! so he goes there.

Izzy Hands has been a cause of insanity for me since season one, but season two got me worse. what a funny fellow. i get the whole being a tryhard thing, and sort of losing it a bit over having to change your ways. havent had to eat own my toes, lost a leg or done drag while singing in french, so those things i just find amusing.

Peter B. Parker! what a funny guy, i didnt expect him to actually come back on the second spiderverse movie. being a cool mentor is something admirable i think, and the scene with aunt may made me spend way too many hours on ao3 as i thought that could have been more of a thing (in my head the movie would have done well as a series, more time to explore the really cool characters they had). Also: him being a version of spiderman ''were things didnt go well'' that doesnt go in a morbid direction is very baller.

Doctor Twobrains i only know of from fandom osmosis. i did watch the series as a kid, but i really cant remember shit. the rat brain is funny, and i love anything involving inventors with a theme (i had to fight myself a few too many times to not include doofenshmirtz). the manerisms and vibe are very silly, the excentricities vibe with me.

Agent Stone was the only reason i watched the sonic movie. i saw a trailer and thought, huh i dont think i remember ever seeing this fellow on anything sonic. turns out, he was a new character and very, very funny. what a guy! i can imagine going that far being a henchman. i, however, do have a deep hatred against the guy that does robotnick, so i havent seen much else other than the first film (that i very much pirated).

Pyro is such a mistery. they just burn things and act jolly, the whole pyroland thing is also so stupid. i mained him when i played tf2, but for now i just save fanart of her burning shit and think about how cool it'd be to have a full body suit, be unintelligible and get to burn stuff. absolute 10/10.

Hazel from The Umbrella Academy was fun while he lasted. The idea of being a time traveling mercenary and still getting shitty hotel rooms is hilarious to me. made me really want to get suspenders, but i dont think that'll happen.

Scar (from Hermitcraft) is such a chaotically silly guy. i wish i could pull that off. going from scam, to huge incredible creations, to changing allies on a dime, to playing games by any other rules than the ones stabilished? i wish i could do that! btw the fanart is by reddit user dead_cricket_ (i didnt want to use a minecraft skin but wanted to make sure that I AM TALKING ABOUT THE FANON CHARACTER NOT THE REAL DUDE THAT MAKES VIDEOS)

Elliot Gussman from The Umbrella Academy was also fun while he lasted. i also have some really, really weird paranoia problems and would act the same if i had alien strangers in my house. there isnt a lot of fandom stuff on him, as he's such a minor character, so i just juggle a few too many head canons on this silly guy.

Aziraphale. hehe. haha. im absolutely normal about this guy. being an angel and having the ideology of heaven hammered into your head, and complying with things you know you shouldnt because you know the consequences and that theres someone all-seeing always watching you? i get that 100%. Two other things: the constant forced smiles that are clearly unnatural and doing silly things you know you arent good at are also relatable.

i really like Abner Krill. this is so long already, but i just, really like him. i wish he didnt get killed, that movie is my favourite and i wish it could get a sequel. i'll be short on the whole thing by saying that being the weirdest one on a bunch of batman villans is very funny, and his powers are very fucked up in a cool way.

Oswald Cobblepot was the only reason i saw Gothan. him going from just a guy to.. The Penguin?? absolutely crazy. i really got the whole bit where he was getting higher on the crime scene by biting small bits and getting big results.

I could write 20.000 words on each of these, but this formatting is ass and i think the Methylphenidate is working (it's been a bit more than 40 minutes between writing and looking up images that werent so bad), so i should go study/work. if anyone wants me to go insane again, dont worry! i absolutelly will. i made an account here for a reason.

[impzone]

hm. after all this time i still get angry about this so i think it’s about time i make a comic about how i feel about personality disorders

[pupdaughtr]

intense urge to ramble about my job hmmmmmmmmm

[lifeofdc]

Currently thinking about how my hometown has a mental health facility used to house... well, the website says criminals found not guilty "for reasons of insanity" instead of criminally insane but that's mainly a wording thing

and this mental health facility has been around since the early days of the town

and has gone through quite a handful of different directors over the years

and has done clinical trials of new drugs for the government

and at least once as a kid they had to keep us inside at recess because someone broke out and was on the run

and has local rumors about it being haunted that are popular with teens

Somehow I went most of life without connecting the dots that I had a real life "version" of Arkham literally on the other side of town until recently

Just. What.

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

i think one of my professors has realized that many of the students he teaches think he's a bit of a hardass. i feel so bad. he's genuinely such a sweetheart. he's spent the last two classes dropping comments like "please don't think i'm a sadist. if you're doing this project and thinking 'this is inhumane, but you know Dr. M', please, just come talk to me." like wtf i need to give a speech about how great a guy he is???? i genuinely need to give a persuasive speech about how fun his classes are??? like he's a pain at times and a tough grader but look at me. look at me. he's so reasonable. he has high expectations for everybody evenly. I got a 78 on a final that i thought i absolutely flunked okay? he's reasonable and he's funny in the driest way! it's not nice for people to think he's MEAN. he's not!!! he's just an awkward english professor!!!! be NICE to him FROM NOW ON!!!!

[deus-ex-mona]

✨noping out✨ of an awkward situation li k e

[clubjukes]

going into the very system that wasn’t built for us to change it from the inside is so tired. as soon as someone gets into these positions of power, it’s an immediate switch up of language, morals and politics. like why would you want to hold that kind of power over the very people that power is against? and now you’re there doing absolutely nothing about it, but spewing “ceasefire!” tweets as a politician. knowing that a ceasefire is not the solution, but a permanent end to the genocide and giving Palestinians, Tigrayans, Sudanese and Congolese people their land and resources back.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

truly something that, amidst facing / going through a dramatic Life Change ft. unavoidable emotional effects of that, there are instances where i can't conceal any & all degrees of being distressed / upset, & repeatedly getting "it's hard for me too" as a Direct Response to that: really something & a half how the asserted theoretical Sympathy of [i feel similarly!] is invoked so as to, oh you know, preclude sympathetic Treatment. such as that what would be More sympathetic in these instances would be to say Nothing, "if there's nothing but dismissal / making it first & foremost about someone else's feelings to say, don't say it at all" style