#he has really pretty hands honestly
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nono.... i think the people would like you to start speaking on his hands bc... um. i am thinking a LOT of thoughts right now.
lili 😭 i really shouldn't let my thoughts about this run free 😭😭 i have tried so hard to only post arms/hand/neck pics of oscar bcs that's who i started this blog for but... i may have slipped a few times...... and it's getting way too hard to hold back
lemme just insert these pics and then disappear bcs if i start to think about this... i will be up all night......
#he has really pretty hands honestly#the veins and the length and just#it's not too much imo it's all just perfect#them wrapping around the trophy or the champagne bottle….#doesnt get me thinking about something else… no no……..#i mean like tbh i wrote a full fic *just* from the thought of his fingers and hands and arms……..#🙃🙃🙃🙃 nah im very sane about it#trying not to freak out rn#lili <3#asks!#paul aron
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End of Empathy (time for violence)
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan jingyi#jin ling#lan sizhui#We are back to the present! Honestly I think I'm going to try and truncate the rest of this arc.#I LOVE yi-city and I really appreciate all of the support the yi-city lovers have given me. And the patience of those who aren't.#But it's been two months. And I need to move this along </3#Anyways; I love the start of ep 3 so much. The worried concern of the juniors is so cute#but the crown jewel by far is wwx responding like a parent that's very hungover but trying so hard to be nice about it#like 'shhh shhhh guys hi I'm up now. Can you keep the volume down. Can you get me some water and my sunglasses from the glovebox.'#and of course the incredible wham line of 'Xue Yang Must Die.'#'Is YX irredeemable? I'm pro 'everyone is capable of change and deserves a chance.' So Im of the camp of 'if he had the opportunity...maybe#The issue is that this setting has no structure to provide those opportunities. You are perceived as a threat therefor you must die#XY is a very interesting parallel to the YLLZ because they both meet the same fate: outsiders determining that they need to be killed#plus both did war crimes. I know it's easy to forget the YLLZ actually did do some of the things he was accused of (most wrong)#but wwx also has blood on his hands. He also sought revenge in pretty twisted ways. Both were given opportunities to step away and refused#The difference is that we empathize with and like XXC & SL and A-Qing. The Narrative says they were wronged and that is an injustice.'
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Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.
Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.
That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.
The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.
Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.
Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.
#team fortress 2#tf2#that's it that's the only tags i am putting this in. maybe someday i will have the balls to do more but for now that's about it#while i have the chance - and since posts with more of my yapping in the tags don't pop in people's feeds much - i might as well ramble-#-about these guys here. self-inserts or not i'm projecting only half of my bullshit on each one of them. creativity 👍#backup is tall and pale and has sharp canines and more of a dull brown hair colour with tired grey eyes. no amount of babyface or soft-#-hands can really help a motherfucker when he's grimacing so much because he just Hates being around half the people on the team.#cleaner meanwhile is on the shorter side and has constantly flushed skin and brighter colours and whatnot. you can't see it because of the-#-mask most of the time but they do smile a lot more and have a more cheery disposition towards life and see the whole team as their friends!#backup transitioned fully (albeit not very legally lmao) and is scared shitless of not being seen as a man although the last time that ever-#-came up was years ago. he holds onto his last name as part of the heritage he loves and loathes at the same time - attached to his culture-#-and religion and bloodline while also resentful of his family and the regime he knows someone else on the team suffered under.#cleaner just kinda binds and calls it a day. he only does it to confuse the team because while he doesn't identify with being a girl he-#-loves the confused looks his epic gender reveal moment gets. they do not remember their family name or where they grew up or what even got-#-them to this kind of mental state. and he's chill with it he values the here and now way more than some dark edgy backstory.#backup despite trying to be an honest man is afraid of vulnerability as well. he stubbornly refuses to express love towards certain people-#-lest they feel disgusted and turn away. he's afraid of consequences afraid of losing the people he loves afraid of his ''interests'' being-#-what drives them away. it doesn't by the way and he just wasted time being a cold indecisive loser for several months lmao#cleaner wears a suit that hides all of them yes but they pretty much never lie. he is always his truest self and he can always just burn-#-people who don't like him enough to make it a problem. they are a lot more comfortable indulging in their interests - be they innocent-#-and juvenile or violent and dangerous. he is quite open with his affection and his fascinations that backup would rather keep secret.#i want to establish that these two can only exist in separate universes because they both have feelings towards the funny assistant lady-#-and the funny inventor guy (selfshipping for the winnn) and would fight over those two. cleaner would win by the way#it's also a really funny point of comparison. cleaner is objectively more fucked up than backup and still managed to be more normal about-#-their feelings and live as a healthier and happier person than that guy. comedic gold honestly#OKAY I'M DONE if you read up to here you get uhhh a cookie :-)
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i was on youtube checking my notifications and i saw on my subscriptions feed that mumbo had the little red dot so i gasped very loudly and very excited, because that meant mumbo posted and i just hadn’t noticed, since i always find out mumbo posted by my subscriptions feed
last video i found out via notification.
the subscriptions feed only updates when you look at it, not when you have looked at the video in question.
the disappointment was immense.
#mumbo jumbo#hermitcraft#mumbo has REALLY been popping off lately#im always so excited to see his videos#i’ve been kinda lacking on watching all of the povs that i usually do#aka mumbo grian and joel#but i’ve always watched mumbo as soon as possible#im out? going home asap#with friends? hey guys. guess who we’re watching#with family? i just have to take a 26 minute long walk#literally love this man so much#his buildings have all been so fun and have given me SO much inspiration for dnd and such#love his little guys™️#and his redstone projects have also been 10/10#little sad that he hasn’t been interacting with others as much#absolutely loved his entire thing with iskall#but honestly i get it#hyperfixation is a strong thing#and i know everyone has talked the transitions to death but hand me the stick to beat the horse DAMN#they are SO pretty#and all of the little easter eggs#and mumbo’s transitions have always been funny#but i have the ‘i have issues’ transition in my photos that i love#both the one in the video and the gay one someone made here in tumblr#damn sorry for rambling. i just love mumbo so much
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Last man standing (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Damned#ZEX#It's lonely at the top :(#Poor dearest is worse for wear ah </3#This scene made me cry ;;#Like it was sad when he wrote down his missing canonmates but going back in and writing everyone else's names ;;;;#Even his shaky alliances! Even the people he hasn't seen for a while!! Wehhh <3 <3 <3#You soft heart ;; I see you Admiral ♥#Also had a lot of fun writing in VUK ZIX again hehe ♪#The translations from VUK ZIX to English aren't exact - for starters they're upside down haha#So if you started from the top down it would actually read KINLEZ NATPAK but I figured that wouldn't be as readable#You read from the bottom up! I also still headcanon it being written/read from left to right#So he started with Zelnick then Fwiffo then Tanaka and so on#Although I did change it up for the second one - Teisel then Xelloss then Xigbar then Asch and Van#The more I think of it the more I'm surprised there's no H :0#Even just as a demarcation of a pause before during or after a syllable#The ''sh'' sound makes complete sense tho hehe <3#Any incorrect shaping of letters/poor handwriting on my part can totally be chalked up to ZEX not being used to human hands!#Totallyyy lol#I really like the way specific syllables are shaped - like how Teisel and Zelnick almost share the same shaped between ''SEL'' and ''ZEL''#How Z is a more connected extension of S just agh it's so pretty <3 <3 Eco_Mono really did such a lovely job with it ♪#And then certain ''incorrectly'' spelled syllables still turned out so pretty! Like the ''ANA'' in Talana - look how swoopy and continuous!#The ''BAR'' in Xigbar looks really cool - honestly reminds me of the fanweapons I made ages ago for I? think? Xigbar's apprentice??#It's been too long I don't remember now lol but it's cool to me in particular because of that!! :D#Fwiffo looks so funny haha - Tanaka has a cool star-like kind of letter in his name?? Man it's just so neat <3#As for ZEX - I mean he made it this far :( Not one to give up easily that's for certain ♥ Tenacious#I want him to be happy :'0
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NAWWW not a video ranking the dateability of tf2 mercs calling Engie BLAND and SAFE 😤😤😤
#jane journals#self insert talk#silly#🛠 my boy builds sentries 🛠#ahfjfjg im PRETTY sure its the same guy who said aran would be a cheating partner too 🙄🙄#like engie doesnt have an edge?? he's got edge#hes just also a GENTLEMAN and he has some sense of decency#also saying that hes bland because hes a scientist and 'spends more time on machines than talkkng to other people' is part of his edge!!#hes honestly probably on a similar level to medic when it comes to his morbid curiosity#scientific research to the point of being morally questionable is a huge facet of his character!!#he just cant resist fucking around and finding out if the mann comics are anything to go by#he looked his boss in the eye and said he was gonna BREAK HIM if he laid his hands on him 😤😤 thats not bland#and also im not like actually mad about this#really its just an excuse to talk about engie a bit sjfjgk
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some lore for my vampire thing. vampire hair is strange indeed
#low stakes 🦇#my art#just an info page that got sliiightly out of hand hghdgf#instead of writing a wholeass infodocument like i did with the glowans#i guess i do comics for my flavor of vampires#vampires do transition if that's what they need but.... it's no perfect substitute for mortal hrt#it has its pros and cons#he grew taller! to his father's height!#but the growth of facial hair simply activated and that's it#he's passing really well but there's just That One Thing#and norse culture really cared about beards so like. yeah#he's mostly gotten over it. and besides it would take A While for any beard to be visible anyway when his hair is pretty much white#anyway this has been sitting in the drafts for way too long ghdjgdf#honestly already thought i posted this
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Since it's been mentioned on the blog a few times now, and some people might be a little confused, since it isn't what his bio says, I wanted to make a post about Pythius' sons, Meinyr and Maina.
Ages and ages ago, he was mated to their mother-- a relationship that saw him abused and berated in a myriad of ways...ones that he only endured as long as he did, because of the attachment that his now ex-wife had ensured the boys had to her.
Eventually though, enough was enough, and when he finally decided to leave with the boys, she tried to instead take them and run away. He stopped her, and things escalated until she attempted to kill both Meinyr-- who was at the time, between 4 and 6-- and Maina, who was only a year or so old.
Pythius doesn't really remember much about it, now. He remembers seeing the building of magic, directed at his sons...and he remembers taking to his true form. Curling around Mei and Mai, and then...everything gets fuzzy from there.
In his panic to protect his kids, Pythius lost control, and not only killed his wife (good riddance tbh), but proceeded to destroy anything and everything in the surrounding area. Attacking anybody that got near, including his family, who had rushed to his aid when they'd heard he shifted.
Ultimately, even Merihem was unable to calm him, and his siblings had to put him down after safely retrieving Meinyr and Maina.
Death for a Prince of Hell is a temporary thing, and as the death was a clean one, Pythius was expected to revive again within a few months. Taking care of the boys that long would be easy enough, however...
For some reason, Pythius wouldn't revive from his altar.
Months turned into years, into centuries and millennia, and it began to seem as though he would never come back. In that time, the remaining Princes of Hell needed to decide what should be done to best protect and care for the children that their brother had left behind.
And so, once they were old enough that they needed to begin schooling and such, the lie began.
Meinyr and Maina were the sons of none other than Hell's King, and Pythius' younger brother, Satan. By who, nobody knew for sure, but with the escapades that most of the Demon Princes were known to have, it wouldn't have been odd if it was a one off thing.
It would dissuade anyone that might have thought to take advantage of the two young Princes. And it would distance them from any of the prejudice that arose from the various rumors spread about Pythius by their mother...from what came after the incident that led to his death, as well.
Of course, Pythius did eventually revive, but only within the last century; after both Meinyr and Maina were both long since grown. And though they could technically come clean about their true parentage (something that Mei especially has been considering, as of late), it's gone on for so long that it would likely cause more harm than good, right now.
But this is why Pythius having kids isn't something that most people know. It's not that people don't know about Mei and Mai; it's that to their knowledge, both of them are Satan's children. If someone is aware of this, it's usually because it's someone that one of the boys, or Pythius trusted enough to share.
#[Pythius -headcanons-]#[Meinyr -headcanons-]#Pythius loves both of his boys so so so very much#which has led to a lot of bitter feelings toward his family (San especially)#when he woke up and was pretty quickly let in on the lie#like...on one hand he understands why they felt it was best#but one the other? He's mad#he feels a little betrayed even#though those are things that he keeps strictly to himself#Io and Jas might know too but honestly I'm not even sure about that#but this is why even though Pythius adores kids and is surprisingly really good with them#he also gets a little melancholic because he missed pretty much all of that with his kids
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Truthfully I need to just make an our flag sideblog so I can be more obnoxious but I’m not ready to break down yet
#anyway this post exists so I can talk in the tags about how I’ve been thinking abt why it is exactly that I find the Ed and Izzy dynamic#so wildly interesting compared to stede and Ed. mostly I think it’s the fact that I find izzy as a character much more interesting#but. also. Ed and stede have a pretty straightforward relationship and story overall. like.#the show obviously creates drama around them but it also resolves it.#and honestly the drama that WAS there was pretty minimal and like painless imo#they just like each other and get to be together.#izzy and Ed on the other hand. there are so many fucking layers.#like what is EVEN happening over there. and nothing really gets resolved lol.#they’re fucking deranged w each other and I live for messy evil toxic gay people relationships.#the unspoken intimacy of having worked together for decades and knowing more about each other than anyone else#but being so estranged. the longing. the tension. it’s so evil.#if it’s unrequited it’s still fascinating. then lengths izzy is willing to go to. if it is required WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGGG!!!!!#I honestly think within the universe of season 2 it isn’t requited. or at the very least Ed has shut that door on purpose.#like maybe there was something there once. but not anymore. he can’t see izzy like that. but izzy is incapable of seeing him any other way#maybe until he gets his fucking leg shot off#whatever. i should go to bed
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god im really tempted to break my lease and move because i can actually afford a one bedroom and i'm so tired of my neighbor waking me up every night at midnight and not getting any sleep and also i can get a cat
but omg moving is so stressful and i dont like change and ahhhhh these next couple months are so busy and ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
#ive been weighing pros and cons all weekend but like honestly i've been thinking about this for months#i am not kidding when i say i can count the number of good nights rests i've gotten since july on two hands i swear this guys has no idea#how loud he is even though i already got the leasing people to talk to him#but also im like tired of living in a studio and i am actually making decent money but ahhhhhhh im so use to making so little that its shoc#theres a really nice place that's got a balcony and they just cut the price again i think its really pretty ><#if i move before my lease ends its also just more convenient for my family and also places are cheaper right now#i just AHHHHHHHH#if your'e stille here with me fhjsdf and you've broken a lease before what was your experience like?????
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Finally playing your turn to die and oh boy I sure hope no one dies despite that literally being exactly what’s gonna fucking happen
#the klock keeps ticking#there has been one death so far#i kiiiinda figured it was gonna be that character cuz they gave the vibe that either theyd die instantly or live forever#i liked them though they were silly#i honestly like all the characters aaaaa im gonna struggle very bad#rn i just got access to the second floor and just opened the kitchen#at this point i can say that this game really is better than dr#i think the art style is pretty good cuz idk its very similar to the dr one except it doesnt fucking suck#i LOVE the brighter colors on the characters#my favorite character is either joe or reko which isnt even kinda surprising ajshka#im drawing joe the absolute second im done#as for my current theories about the kidnappers i definitely think that kai is the person you play as in the very beginning#cuz you just see a pair of hands walking towards sara and sara believes that hes the stalker#i trust him though idk i just get a feeling#definitely curious about sou cuz hes also in that intro and he certainly doesnt seem innocent#im guessing he has something going on with kai like idk i think kai was sent to abduct people or at least sara#i dont think sou is the mastermind exactly but possibly someone who has been in this death game before#or hes one of the dolls#probably not evil or good#or maybe hes just some fucking guy lauurrrr#theres no way he isnt the fan favorite sexyman thats all i gotta say#oh also hot guys in this game yeehaw#no one spoil this game for me 😤
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-_____- ive been wanting to wait until i have like much better insurance when my permanent position comes thru but i might just cave and make a dr's appointment for my. ongoing ear infection thats been on-and-off for like. years at this point
#its been worse the past few days and im like grrrrrrr#i might as well get a starting appointment with a new pcp. cause like i feel like they usually need to see you with a new patient appt#before you get into any like. actual problems you might have. and might want to like.. see a doctor for#which i understand on some level but thats kind of crazy to me#last time i went to a doctor for this ear thing he was shocked because he gave me 2 different steroids to treat it#and neither of them worked on my ear. he was like yuuuup thats still red and swollen on the inside. huh weird#and he gave me some eardrops for it which also didnt work#so im like what now. i USED to think it was due to the pressure from my sideways wisdom tooth pressing on that ear canal#and honestly getting them removed DID seem to help for awhile. and i was like ahh that fixed it ... but it came back like a year later#so now im like now what. i feel like i might need an ear specialist at this point#but i'll wait and see what a new doctor has to say about my ears and how we go about treating it i guess#the place i get obgyn at has pcps which is like a pretty good place.#i was looking for someone specifically trans knowledgeable but i might just cave and go there#cause i do trust that place with my health now#it MIGHT just be that my ear canals are shaped poorly which makes it like. condusive to getting infections#which like. well what do i do about that i guess. ummmmmm ....??#i could believe that cause parts of my body are shaped a lil funny due to like. my birth circumstances#i have bones doctors have hemmed and hawed over if they were broken like huh????#and they bascially were like wait ohhh you were born with bones shaped weird. lol#you cant really tell just from looking at my hands if i dont show you but my hands are shaped like curved outwards from one another#people think im doing a gross-out party trick when i show them and theyre like eww stooop but im like thats just my hands LOL
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Older boyfriend Price who is absolutely DISTRAUGHT over the fact that you don’t care about marriage because you think he’s over it.
Note: this one has no smut but it has mentions of sex and sexual relations so interact at your own discretion. Reader is in mid twenties.
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“What the fuck do you mean by you don’t want to?” If Price had been any louder, anyone outside his car would’ve been able to hear him.
It had been a few months into your relationship with Price after almost a year of being friends with benefits. You weren’t sure how your arrangement changed over time but you were glad to be with him as he valued you a lot.
“I mean, think about it. You’re like, what? 40-“
“I’m 37, love”
“Right, yeah, I just think that it doesn’t really matter as long as we’re having fun together. Honestly, I thought you’d agree.” You said before taking a bite out of your burger.
Price could only watch you in shock. Sure, your relationship started on the basis of sexual benefits but when he did think of the future all he thought of was you. Even if you were a generation younger than him, he had never felt such synergy with anyone before. It was a connection of a lifetime - emotional and sexual.
“So you don’t give a shit about marriage because you think I don’t care about it.”
“Kind of. If I’m gonna get married I need my partner to be on board too, don’t you think?” He sighed at your reply. You looked up at him, confused and cheeks full with your dinner as you grabbed the plastic cup of coke.
His heart swelled at the sight. It was like looking at an innocent chipmunk. To think that the same face looked fucked out an hour ago awed him but he couldn’t let himself get distracted by your unintentional seduction.
He grabbed your drink and put it back in the cupholder. You were about to whine but he grabbed your face and pulled you close, noses almost touching.
“You-“ peck “-are the most wonderful thing to happen to me and I’ll be damned if I don’t tie you down with me in the future.”
Your face heated up. You had swallowed your food not too long ago but your mouth felt like it had gone dry.
With your face in his hands he continued. “I’ll have a rock on your pretty little finger before you know it.” He left a longer peck on your lips this time and pulled away.
What you didn’t know was that he already had a ring for you. It was stored away in a hidden drawer in his desk, waiting to be worn by you.
In fact, he had brought it just a month into your relationship. He wasn’t religious but he knew that a person like you was the blessing of a lifetime.
#cod#john price#captain price#price x reader#price cod#cod mw2#cod mwii#cod modern warfare#cod x reader#ghost x reader#simon ghost riley
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finding myself in a conundrum where I am consistently baffled by an acquaintance and always confused by his behavior but, unfortunately, extremely attracted to him
#honestly it's like physical attraction is such a powerful thing#we have absolutely no personality chemistry#but I'm so attracted to him that it makes chemistry out of thin air#i want him BAD#my mind is so cloudy around him#but his personality is so far outside my understanding#he’s not a douche but he’s so douche-presenting#i'm so confused by my body's response to him#and back in college when he liked me I was like hmmm idk if we really have a vibe and I don't get his deal at all#but over time how hot he is to me has come to outweigh that fact so significantly#it's like every time I see him he gets hotter to me#he's such an inappropriate choice for me#he doesn't even live here#I wish he did#so i could bang him out of my system#he's pretty weird#not in a hot way mostly in a confusing way#but the more i get to know him the more it's an endearing trait#but it's not a trait that makes me want to have sex with him#on the other hand#he has this amazing head of thick shaggy black hair#I wish we had chemistry so that we could flirt#he's like the opposite of my high school ex bf who I have insane chemistry with#and is weird in a way that's definitely hot#but I don't find him that attractive#and yet I am attracted to him#I wish I could smush them together
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#wait #Jeremy Brett plays basil in a Dorian gray film??? (via)
yes! and he's very good!! in fact, I highly recommend the 1976 film for everyone (it's all on youtube!), and not just because of Brett! iirc it's a fairly faithful adaptation, which thankfully precedes the era of gritty remakes, and has an actually blond and sort of cherubic Dorian.
but most importantly, you need to watch it for this specific shot:
it's right near the end of the movie, after Basil's disappearance (read: murder by Dorian). Lord Henry sits in Basil's studio, the same place it all began, now emptied out. the camera pans slowly inward for a full 25 seconds, while Harry just sits there, completely motionless. it's this extraordinary moment of grief and stillness that he otherwise never displays.
the rest of the scene is all about highlighting Harry's folly: after all this time and change, he still talks in aesthetic riddles, still genuinely desires Dorian's beauty and youth, and all his wit has done nothing but alienate him. his wife is divorcing him, his best friend has disappeared, and this boy he once treated as a protege or experiment rejects him too. all that cruel wit, and in the end, he's just alone.
but in hindsight, it also puts so much perspective on his relationship with Basil! because he does care that he's gone! they were friends! and though the film doesn't lean into that angle, my god, just the prospect of it is so interesting!! (and was a huge inspiration when I wrote my own stage adaptation years ago lmao)
it just humanises Harry so much! all his flippancy and philosophy never prepared him for grief, but even he couldn't avoid it forever! and there's nothing to dissaude from treating his unlikely friendship with Basil as genuine - there are fairly obvious touches of it in the novel in Harry and Basil's interactions:
"You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose."
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." / "I don’t believe that, Harry, and I don’t believe you do either."
"You should have gone away when I asked you." / "I stayed when you asked me."
like, yes, you can treat those as just Basil being naive, or Harry flippant, but I think it's far more interesting to treat them as genuine. and that's there in that shot in the '76 version! those 25 seconds add so much to Harry's character, right at the close of the movie, and it's such a fantastic touch!
JEREMY BRETT as BASIL HALLWARD in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1976)
#The Picture of Dorian Gray#Dorian inspo#i'm sorry i just love Basil and Harry's weird oddly balanced friendship so muchhhhhhh skdfgakldfjgadfh#Harry who's Basil's tour guide in 'society'. who's charming and can talk at parties and has connections and brings him patrons#who's always there to (metaphorically or literally) hold his hand; make introductions; smooth things over; and honestly respond to his art#and then... Basil. who DOES see through Harry's bullshit. who believes he's better than he is (or at least than he pretends to be)#which is both annoying to Harry and SO refreshing; to have someone actually push back and expect more of him? what a relief that must be#it might even make him want to ACTUALLY be better...#but he doesn't. and then imagine the heartbreak at realising what Dorian did. bc I think he DOES know and he knows he's partly at fault.#and in a story so preoccupied with appearance vs reality - how they differ and how they're functionally the same -#Dorian's a murderer but he's rich white and pretty (& crime is a lower-class vice) so he's never treated as such. so he functionally isn't.#the Vanes are poor and exploited and treated as dispensible. which makes them dispensible. why bother pursuing justice for them?#and... Harry acts like a heartless faithless clever wit about town. does it matter if he really does care under that?#if he earnestly doesn't want to do wrong but does through accident or ignorance. what difference does his intention make?
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My bias is very much due to me reading the summary of fairy tales on Wikipedia, but I find myself constantly going " the audacity of men" when reading them, good lord.
#i've read the Wikipedia for the og little mermaid and the prince treating the little mermaid more like a pet than a person-#like???? good lord. though honestly it is pretty interesting. i mean it fucking sucks#but compared to the Disney version- which i'm not bashing btw! - it's adds a certain element to iy#also in a way the og story is kinda about family?#the sisters all come together to sacrifice something important to them- their hair - in hopes of saving their little sister#and while that didn't exactly pan out like. that's so sweet of them???#also i love the fact that the little mermaid couldn't kill the prince bc he was happy with his wife#like. i dunno that does show how much kindness she has#bc that guy kinda treated her like shit! and yet him being happy and wanting him to be happy with his wife#stopped her from essentially taking her freedom#it's fucked up but it says so much about her as a person#it's honestly a shame that the one time she is truly being selfish for herself she gets handed such a bad hand#and yes all of this got me thinking about Lyric lol#tpitt#the princess in the tower#not really but. ya know. inspo#r rambles
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