#from back in 2009

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of St. Trinian's 2 with David Tennant and Christian Brassington

Excerpts from the "Book Off!" podcast with Host Joe Haddow, David Tennant, and Christian Brassington:

[ Talking about how they became friends while working on St. Trinian's 2 ] Christian Brassington: We did that and we were just surrounded by girls everywhere. David Tennant: Yeah Joe Haddow: A friendship just blossomed, I assume, from this? DT: Well I think we were both nervous about being seen to be talking to a lot of teenage girls. [ the others laugh ] DT: So we just sort of sat in a corner and talked to each other. CB: Yeah. DT: We were the baddies. We were the villains. CB: I played David's sidekick DT: We were very subtle. Very subtle performances. CB: Oh my goodness! It was almost like a documentary, what we were doing DT: So nuanced, what we did Host: [ Laughing ]

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[necrotic-nephilim]

jealousy really is the driving force of DamiTim as a ship. love that for them. love how Tim has the Robin mantle ripped away from him and he has to suffer the jealousy of watching Dick and Damian bond. how possessive over Dick Tim can be, to have him stolen by Dick.

even more so though, is the jealousy from Damian. how on earth do you cope when you finally get to be Robin, a role you've convinced is your birthright, and no one really likes you? every prefers the Robin who came before you? Dick regularly reminds you that he can always go and call Tim back when you act out? like the complex Damian has over Tim is unreal. Tim, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had everything handed to him his whole life. he never had to struggle or fight for his place like Damian did. Damian has spent his whole life fighting and proving himself, and yet he can't ever seem to truly claw the mantle of Robin away from Tim. even when Tim lets it go, becomes Red Robin, they seem to share it. Tim can slip back into the role of Robin whenever someone like Dick or Bruce need him to, because *he's* the Robin who they need. he's the Robin who was able to find Bruce. he's the Robin that Ra's wants an heir out of. he's the Robin who even Jason respects. in Damian's eyes, everything Damian has fought tooth and nail for, was handed to Tim.

so of course he's going to react to Tim with violence and aggression, especially after finding out Tim has contingency plans for him. no matter how much Damian proves himself, he's never going to be enough, especially not to Tim. and so his deep refusal to see Tim as family, to acknowledge Tim's legacy is all driven by such an angry jealousy. Tim understands aspects of Bruce's legacy that Damian doesn't, like the need to sweet talk and play nice with the elites of Gotham, even if they're corrupt. they exemplify different aspects of Robin, and the aspects that Tim exemplifies are the aspects that Damian knows he'll never fully understand and therefore holds such a deep contempt for. he wants to fight criminals, not play nice with politicians. Tim understands the side of Gotham that's utterly foreign to Damian. if anything, he represents that side of Gotham, to Damian. a pretty little rich boy who's nothing but a know-it-all and not a real son of Bruce. he can't be a Wayne. he can't be Damian's family.

and all of that angry jealousy leading to unhealthy obsession turned a weird, angry crush from Damian is just my bread and butter. that is how DamiTim should be. to me. Damian obsessed over hating Tim Drake so much he accidentally ends up sort of in love with him and that only makes Damian angrier. because he can't prove everyone right by *also* liking Tim. he can't let Ra's win like that, because frankly why wouldn't Ra's be delighted by Damian and Tim getting together. and it builds and builds with angry passive aggression towards Tim that culminates in angry hate-fucking-that's-not-just-driven-by-hate. love and hate are always viewed as opposites in shipping and i think they're the same intense passion just in different directions. and for the best ships, they're very intertwined. what is DamiTim is not the peak of that. "i put so much of myself into hating you i had no choice but to fall in love with you somewhere along the way" core. love that bleeds into hate and hate that bleeds into love. "you make me so angry i regularly passively try to kill you but not with any real effort because who would i obsess over if you were actually gone" core. murder attempts as a form of courting. contingency plans to take each other out as a love language. they're unwell.

[lochallthedoors]

Video clips: Liam at Cardiff, Lock the Box, Oasis at iTunes, Liam at Rockfield

[emotinalsupportturtle]

The magic mushrooms flying reindeer story from QI if anyone’s interested (I don’t seem to be able to reblog my previous post with video)

[queeringclassiclit]

Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

from the Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle

[nym-wibbly]

Supernatural 5x04 The End.

Artistic choices in Supernatural that make your brain melt. I'd love to know who on set made that artistic choice.

[mangosno]

I MIGHT BE COOKING SOMETHING but no promises any time soon.

This team of characters have literally been stewing in my brain inconsistently for the past 15 years, probably from when I first finished playing PMD Rescue Team Red.

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Singapore Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[kimquatz]

when i was in middle school i used to be really drawn towards characters with long hair bc i thought it looked ~*~majestic and legendary~*~ (i blame Yue from cardcaptor sakura).

but then some time during college, I took a sharp turn and was really insistent about only drawing/designing characters w short hair bc it was "easier to draw" (i mean... it was 😭 ig it didn't help i was in the animation student trenches at the time)

Now in the past handful of years, i've come back around and just being like "ok yknow what, middle school me was right, long hair IS pretty cool." LMFAO time is a flat circle...

[dragon-familiar]

So you’re telling me that not only does Dick have to deal with protecting Blüdhaven and Gotham, he needs to lead the Justice League and the Titans, all while looking after the entire batfamily?!

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[silverxenomorph]

Some Embroideries I've done since I quit my job!

The first is a re-creation of an earlier attempt from 2009 (the second image) from a Cosplay from Babylon 5.

and the final one is a K-Mart kit of a Galah that I threw out the instructions for and did my own thing on.

[spoiledqueenie]

The conclusions Babs and Bruce somehow learned from Stephanie’s death:

“We have to stop letting these untrained kids go out and fight by discouraging them and belittling them.”

The conclusion they were supposed to have gotten:

“These kids are going to do this anyways, so we have to train/prepare them and give them a safe place to advance their skills.”

[tigresslanzhu]

Everything I Enjoy About Buster Moon’s Thriller Night!

Yeah, you guys saw this coming as soon as the YouTube link came in. Now I’ve got screencaps to show you what made me happy.

There is a bunch of charm to Meena literally acting like a real teenager, one who gets super annoyed when things don’t go her way and/or she has to do something she doesn’t want to do. After all, as we all know, Meena’s a good girl. She was raised right. Seeing what that would look like if this wasn’t the case puts a smile on my face.

YAY! Pink smoke! You can bet if Artica were canon, she’d be the one to dispose of the fake car, just so she could immerse herself in it.

This definitely doesn’t seem like a sensory overload, but all of us on the autism spectrum knows that the comparison is there.

Almost this whole GMO The Musical scene was great! I’ve written a fanfic about this already where Artica considers it her least favorite show to help write, particularly the Meena lemon bit, but from an outside perspective, I kind of want more.

Gunter knows something. Maybe Marcus did give Johnny permission to borrow his truck for the night, or maybe he didn’t. All Johnny said was that he got his dad’s truck. Maybe there’s a bit of rebel left in him after all.

Meena knows that riding in a trunk like this is against the law, but it looks like she loves it.

Also, you can tell this is a dream because this police officer doesn’t say anything about the danger of trunk passengers.

That ooze is all my favorite colors!

THEY LET JOHNNY DO THE MJ THING!

From a real world perspective, I get why they put Nooshy where they did, but personally, I imagine her leading this whole thing. Why couldn’t she have helped choreograph all of this? She and Clay wouod have been partners in all this!

[sophaeros]

arctic monkeys for observer music monthly, july 2009 (x) [text version]

[jevilowo]

TOP 5 NON (mostly) LORE RELATED MYSTERIES OF TF2

Pyro genuinely disappeared from the plot for most of Blood in the water. Heavy and Scout were at Ayers Rock, Spy, Solly and Zhanna were in what I think is Sydney, and Ms Pauling, Demo and Sniper were in Adelaide. Where the fuck was Pyro. Where did my precious beast go.

Why doesn't Mags (australian) have a moustache (presumably due to Australium depletion but never confirmed) (or maybe she isnt actually australian? You know they never actually stated she was...).

Why did the MANN CO crate that had Soldier and Sniper clothes in it also have Zhanna clothes in it (in the naked and the dead).

IS BESTRALIUM REAL (see "gallery" on the doomsday map page, it seems to be a failed substitute australium) AND WILL IT BE RELEVANT IN COMIC 7.

Why did Saxton Hale kill the Italian President (see manniversary update).