#i c (joe)

[buckysbarnes]

JOE KEERY | The Zane Lowe Show (March 2024)

[thealtofvalleyxdoodles]

"Tell her her dress is pretty."

You were just an average babysitter. Nothing too grand-sure you loved kids, sure the parents paid nicely-but fucking hell, Joe Graves.

And Sarah-the cutest little thing ever! She's so sweet, little chatter box, sure, but it's cute, you think, hearing her rant about how cool her daddy is, and how he's got some of the coolest friends. When this happened, you just sat there, letting her talk-but one day, it happened in your front yard. So you played with her and her dolls-kinda. She forgot they were there and started waving her armsand hands around as she told a story that Joe told her, one about where had to swim in a big river. "Really, Sarah? Did you daddy say all of that?" "Yeah huh! Yea huh! He's so cool!" Sarah said, jumping up and down on her feet now. You giggled before saying, "Careful hunny. Dont wantcha falling now do we?" And Sarah shook her head. "Nuh uh. That would hurt...hey-Miss Y/n? Why don't you have a husband?"

you ch0oked on your spit. "Uhm-where'd you learn that word hunny?" "Daddy! He was talking his friends about you-" "And I told you not to eavesdrop anymore, Sarah." the gruff voice made the both of you jump. "Joe! Hi! Goodness, I didn't see you!" "I walked," he said simply. "I don't live far anyway. Besides, it's good for my health." You nodded your head, "True." Joe smiled at you, and you smiled back. Sarah huffed before saying, "Daddy! I was talking to Miss Y/n! And you said it's rude to inter-inner...I don't know!" Sarah pouted, crossing her arms over her chest in that cute little way only toddlers could. You laughed and said, "Sarah, calm down sweetie. I'm listening."

But Joe quirked a brow up. "You've never pouted like that before..." he grumbled to himself, watching Sarah go on her little taggant to you. He listening somewhat, but then looked at his wrist watch, "Sarah, sweetie. It's almost time for mom to pick you up." And Sarah pouted-again. "I don't wanna go to mom's! I wanna stay with Miss Y/n!" "Sarah...I'm being called in-you have to go to Lena's." "I'm not going!" Joe sighed and picked up his daughter. She started to fake cry. "Sarah! Enough! What the hell is wrong with you today?"

He felt bad for saying that to her, he knew it was probably a side affect of aging, but jeez...this was bad. You got up off the little picnic blanket and said, "I'm not going to tell you how to parent, Mister Graves...I'm just going to say, maybe it's because she sees how stressed and annoyed Lena makes you-maybe she's reluctant to go with her mother because of this." Huh. Good point-Sarah's was always a Daddy's girl. "Yeah-Yeah maybe..." but his daughter was (trying to and failing) glaring at him. "Sarah. Sweetie. We'll have a talk at home, okay?" Jeez-he already had to pull out the dad talk? ...Maybe Lena was right-Maybe he spent too much time at work and not enough at home.

"Say bye to Miss L/n." "Bye, Miss Y/n..." Sarah said sadly, waving to you even more so. You jutted your lower lip out before saying, "Well-here's the bag of toys she brought, Joe. Have a nice day!" Joe nodded and he took the bag, "Yeah-you too..."

but as he walked away, "Tell her her dress is pretty, Sarah," Joe said, smiling, "YOUR DRESS IT PRETTY MISS Y/NNNN!!!"

~~~~~ 𝕋 𝔸 𝔾 𝕊 ~~~~~

@spicy-seaweed @seconds-over-first @thebunnednun @staytrueblue @writing-with-moss and my backup blog: @valscodblog bc i can c:

[sorbriquette]

Playing fire emblem 3 houses again.

Completely OBSSESSED with the black eagles again.

Truly the most discordant group of eccentric little weirdos to ever become found family.

Edelgard is out here tryna be normal but she cant help but drop ominous foreshadowing and insane questions.

Hubert is slinking around all sinister and trying to make everyone behave with threats and insults.

Ferdinand is also trying to make everyone behave but with long lectures on nobility. Which should make him and Hubert team up but no they're 20 second from killing each other because Ferdinand is in the worlds most intense one-sided rivalry with Edelgard.

Linhardt, a 'problem child' just wants to take naps, read books and have unmedicated ADHD. He's a rude lil shit who will just drop a 'goodbye' to end of conversation.

Caspar is somehow BFFs with Linhardt but all they do is bicker and have the 'my dad could beat up your dad' arguement. And Caspar just want to fight everything 90% of his supports are people saying 'Caspar, NO!" while he screams "CASPAR YES!"

Dorothea is doing her darnedest to flirt with everyone she meets (except Ferdie who she openly hates) like a true gold-digging bisexual disaster. And she keeps breaking into song.

Bernadetta is Bernadetta. Switches between running in fear and begging for mercy because she thinks everyone is trying to kill her. Wont come out of her room to the point where Caspar picks her up (not cool) and runs her out to see the gdamn sun for once in her life.

Petra is the only one who can be normal for more than 5 minutes and she's the youngest at FIFTEEN.

In conclusion they are terrible and no one can do it better worse.

None of the other houses come close

[blogthebooklover]

I just realized something...

I have an interest in a particular and somewhat niche friendship dynamic. 😂❤️💕🦍👩‍🦳

[badnewswhatsleft]

(on touring with paramore) kind of hilarious and delightful attitude from patrick

[nextgenfoals]

big mac and donut joe?

Pear Cobbler runs a dessert delivery service out of Sweet Apple Acres! She’s certainly no snob when it comes to the fruits she uses, but apples and pears are especially near and dear to her heart.

~ Mod Ace ♥️

[paper-possum-party-pal]

Sketches of all the bbieal characters

More sketches of Baldi w/ some unrelated oc’s and KinitoPet

[squad-3]

“Joe Burrow coming out of the bye playing QB, TE, DB, DL, K, and coaching the entire team”😭

[piplicious]

dad duties include going easy on your kids .. intentionally or unintentionally

[persuaison]

He should read me a book.

[lemonavocado]

i have many many thoughts about the portrayal of elizabeth (and henry) in adaptations of frankenstein and they need to be broadcasted immediately. feverish incoherent raving about this subject under the cut. tw for very brief mention of SA

so. elizabeth lavenza. by the time of the wedding, elizabeth is rather obviously portrayed to be just as morose and brooding as victor is, she just isn't as susceptible to episodes of mania and psychosis so it doesn't seem nearly as dramatic compared to victor's trauma. she's been through the gutter herself, being an orphan for starters, then being adopted into a family and having to assume the role of caregiver in the frankenstein family because of the coercion of her dead mother to not only take her place as the maternal figure in the family but also marry her surrogate brother (or literal cousin, depending on which version you read). then her surrogate younger brother william dies, and the within weeks she has to watch her closest heterosexual life partner justine be unjustly hung by a corrupt justice system. and she vocalizes, actively, her pessimism and hopelessness in light of these many tragedies. tldr she's fucked up and rightfully so, and while she's a little less crippled by depression than victor, she still has the distinct appearance of being rather ill, listless, and tired, especially towards the end of the novel. anyways my point is in the novel, the most important thing about elizabeth is not that she's a woman and victor's bride. yes, that's obviously the purpose she was created for, but shelley went out of her way to give elizabeth an extremely definite and unique character. she's gentle and maternal like most woman in early 19th century literature, but she's also introspective, intelligent, and perceptive. she displays agency and self-awareness repeatedly (her guilt over the locket, going to the execution of justine even when alphonse tells her not to, waxing poetic on the failures of the justice system, asking repeatedly and rather pointedly if victor actually wants to go through with the marriage, obvious anxiety and solemnity concerning the wedding) we also have to take into account that elizabeth's personality is being relayed to us BY VICTOR, and he wants to see elizabeth as docile and femininely passive, even if a lot of her actions themselves in the novel actually seem to contradict that. also, i am peppering in that many people can (and have) made a genuine and convincing argument that victor and elizabeth are not in love and were groomed to accept their union by their weirdo parents - that they care for each other, but the text includes important nuances that make it evident that victor doesn't feel anything for elizabeth like that. it is a legitimate interpretation of the book - dare i say it's the correct interpretation of the relationship between victor and elizabeth. but that's another essay for another day and it's not SUPER integral to my rant here today. it just highlights the complexity of elizabeth as a character.

so. for some fucking reason, writers do not understand this when they are adapting the novel, and do not want to apply more than eight seconds of critical thinking and the absolute shallowest 3rd grader levels of reading comprehension to this character, so they simplify her from what she was in the original novel, freshly complex, opinionated, and introspective to boring useless incest lady. victor is never portrayed with the same amount of nuance he deserves in any adaptation (also another essay for another day), because adaptations also have a very surface level reading of him as "guy who was ambitious and played god which immediately cements him as an irredeemable self-aggrandizing asshole and/or a raging insufferable narcissist who's a dick to everyone around him EXCEPT for elizabeth" but at least SOME adaptations are able to kiiinnnddaaaa capture the sympathy meant to be felt for the character in the novel. not so for elizabeth. her character in basically every adaptation can be boiled down to this: "omg victor my brother let me hammer in that you are my brother. im just going to stand here and look clueless and annoyingly naive for the entire time im on screen/stage. im just a little girl and idk what's going on victor but im gonna stay blindly devoted to you and ask numerous but completely useless questions 🥺 let me stare at you with tender worry in my eyes and treat you like a child even though we have absolutely no romantic chemistry and you're an objectifying dick towards me and we have nothing in common and the audience is actively dry heaving as we sensually make out for no other reason than to have characters in this movie sensually make out. im basically a carbon copy of original-novel-henry expect super boring and super useless because im a woman which means the doylist explanation for why im here HAS TO BE ONLY for the main character to fuck me and to hold the attention of the male viewership. now time for me to get SA'd by the creechur for basically no reason" we can observe something approximating this in basically every frankenstein adaptation i've ever seen: kenneth branagh's (my enemy) 1994 film, the 2004 hallmark miniseries, the musical, and the ballet. also in the 1931 film, but that one isn't really trying to be book-accurate so it doesn't really count for this rant.

with this understanding of elizabeth, writers then attempt to artificially generate more romance between these characters, mostly by, yes, replacing a lot of henry's role in the novel with elizabeth, hence why we see so many adaptations (1994, 2004, ballet) make elizabeth nurse victor back to health in ingolstadt instead of henry, which generates... so many problems. one problem with this is that it just sorta ruins henry's original role in the novel in one go. writers recognize that henry is supposed to be victor's character foil, but now they don't have much for him to do so he can demonstrate that role in the story since they gave all of the romantic tension moments to elizabeth. meaning that in adaptations you can tell the writers didn't really know what to do with henry because he's reduced to a comic relief bumbling idiot (1994, ballet, 2004 to an extent) with his only personality traits being "random xd" and "morals good playing god wrong!!!! 😠" (2004, musical, several independent stage adaptations). they keep him as a character foil, but just replace all of his compassion, tenderness, and devotion with elizabeth, while effectively draining henry of all of his original appeal and charm and stamping those traits onto their already stripped-of-all-nuance elizabeth. so now both henry and elizabeth are not only extremely different from their original roles in the novel but extremely, woefully less charming and complex. this especially pisses me off because it's explicitly stated in the book that henry was victor's only friend precisely because he was victor's intellectual equal, so seeing henry reduced to a smiley idiot and/or stupid generic male side character with Morals fills me with a visceral rage. writers will also sometimes make victor and henry meet in college (ballet, 1994) and try to strengthen the bond between victor and elizabeth by making it appear as though she was victor's ONLY childhood friend and companion. other times, victor and henry will be friends pre-ingolstadt (2004, musical) but most of the relationship development will be between elizabeth and victor. those two have all of the tender bonding moments while henry is just kinda inexplicably there sometimes. but i digress. this post is supposed to be about elizabeth. but IF YOU NEED A CHARACTER TO BE A SUNSHINE SOFT OPTIMISTIC LOVER FOR VICTOR IN A FRANKENSTEIN ADAPTATION, HENRY IS ABLE AND WILLING ARE YOU STEPPING ON MY BALLS

clervalstein is true. anyway

elizabeth is somehow more complex and powerful as a female character than the literal adaptations produced almost 200 years later. in adaptations, the most important thing about her is somebody else. the development of all of her character traits (which usually never go beyond standing around and looking helpless) are solely dependant on victor. she feels more like an appendage of the protagonist than an individual with thoughts and experiences separate from victor, and her character is loosely defined and flimsy so the writers can have her conform to her actions in the book whenever it's convenient and then change things up entirely that completely contradict her characterization in the book whenever it's convenient. i have no idea why the fuck this keeps happening with frankenstein adaptations (it's misogyny) and because it isn't looking like guillermo del toro's film (from what ive heard) is going to be super book accurate, i dont foresee too much of a shift in frankenstein adaptations.

look i get it. it's a movie/play/ballet which lasts like 2 hours and you have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it. i understand you have to make sacrifices for brevity and these characters are, frankly, a lot less interesting and exciting than victor and creechur. people didn't come to see john hughes levels of charm and complexity in the side characters, they came to watch the creechur do scary shit and for victor to say IT'S ALIVE 😱 and be an evil mad scientist you love to hate. they came for their values of "it's wrong to play god!!!" and "too much ambition bad!!!" to be re-cemented even though that's not even the original point of the novel. which is why imo if you're going to adapt frankenstein in a manner that does justice to the beautiful and sublime subtlety of the original novel, it needs to be either a miniseries or a REALLY LONG film. it's a short book, but it's very eventful, and imo for an adaptation to work you have to let the audience sit with it. which is why you all need to donate to my gofundme so i can produce an honest to god frankenstein adaptation. in fact, im running for president in this year's primaries :3

just a disclaimer: im not an academic or a scholar or anything. i just like the book. i probably have no idea what the fuck im talking about. but im a very very passionate little guy and this has been my rant

[captainmvf]

Okay so I'm kind of been mad at myself for uploading low-quality art of their refs bc it was posted in a replay but- Behold! Full-res refs of Joe and Mags for the Fossil Fighters x Stex Crossover!

Reposted information:

Currently training for a year for the next nationals race all over the U-S-of-A and racking up first place titles…

Joe WW or ‘Wild Joe’

-Described as very kind-hearted and your textbook definition of a cowboy to all who meet him. He can become friends with just about anyone despite some of his more outlandish traits. -Not many like to be behind him when he’s performing locomotive duties, however, and thus he tends to be more aloof or needs another locomotive with him to even out his wilder chugging. The only one who can even keep up with him is Mags and he’s grown quite close to them because of that. -He was designed and made to be the best diesel champion many years ago but he was unable to find a racing partner due to his ‘wild’ racing style and thus Greaseball was the first diesel champion. Afterwards, he was sent to a different railway owned by the same company that commissioned him in order to work as a locomotive. -During his hiatus from race training he found and adopted an armadillo and named them Sundance. Sundance is a feisty little guy that now doesn’t trust any train he doesn’t know but is overly affectionate with Joe and his racing partner. -Joe even took up mentoring during his hiatus and has been trying to keep the rowdy six youngest rolling stock in their yard up to snuff so nothing goes to chaos while him and his racing partner are out for races. -He’s the yard leader if his yard! It’s tough being away so often and his aloof spirit makes it even harder on him to be a good boss sometimes but he has three lieutenants who look around the yard while he’s gone.

Magnitude ‘Mags’

-Pretty quiet and intimidating on first impressions and a bit hard to open up to but they’re actually quite the friendly and dense/air-headed storage car. He considers Joe his best friend. -Due to his denseness, Mags isn’t great at noticing certain details from other trains and even humans so it’s best to be upfront with him. This can put him in danger sometimes when he fails to notice a dangerous scene or even his own body overheating. -Was built from within a large yard and was originally purposed as a library car. His previous mentor was a short dining car nicknamed ‘Shorty’ and thus he learned how to cook, bake, and navigate through tough/intense situations. -Mags met Joe after coming home from a job on the rails and was offered a demo race with him. He didn’t think of it and passed through the loop only to be met with the immediate offer to be Joe’s racing partner. -Mags being a library car meant he could remember and recite large amounts of information but his crash and following conversation gave him temporary amnesia and some even suspect that made his denseness worse. It took some time for him to get better and he’s improving faster with memory games and even speaking with others. His conversion did make his body feel cramped and the human equivalent of chronic pain at times but he’s at least thankful his racing partner is warm to rest against. -That pickaxe isn’t just for show! Mags uses it to help the humans on their rails to dig up fossils and rocks like the other p. storage cars and carry them back to the yard. Most other p. storage cars only carry boxes of plastered fossils but Mags is one of the few (due to his conversion and past library car-ness) who has a full study in his rolling stock form.

[number1tallyhallvanfan]

aaaaaaa itd probably be soo cosy to curl up in even the back of the van x33

[blood-mocha-latte]

excerpts

[thecryptidart1st]

There was something about these two costumes in particular that made me NEED to draw them onto Afton men:

[honestlyvan]

I like Nebula as a service in many ways -- the site is lightweight and their servers are very stable and it's really easy to find the specific people whose stuff I want to watch. But the thing about Youtube is that it's way easier for me to find people sitting down for three hours to infodump about a piece of media they like in nitty gritty detail. That's my hobby, and I like watch and listening to other people perform my hobby just like a dancer might watch competitive dance for fun or a speedrunner watch other speedrunners stream games that are unfamiliar to them.