#i think it could be british

[halfdeadfriedrice]

I can /literally hear/ the actor in my brain going "shut it up, my god, will nobody SHUT it UP"

but like, fuck, /what/ is it /from/!!!

[bethanydelleman]

People who want female characters to cry less? No. Stop it. You're doing it the wrong way. Make male characters cry. Make those beautiful men sob on their knees. Down with all this stupid emotional constipation! Here, I can fix it:

Colonel Brandon after he tells Elinor about his lost love Eliza? Stumbles out of the room, finds somewhere private, and bawls. Edward after leaving Barton Cottage thinking he'll never be able to marry Elinor? Make him weep! Mr. Knightley was glad it was raining when he rode back to Hartfield after learning about Frank's engagement because it gave his tears plausible deniability! Wentworth thinks Anne will marry her cousin? Sobbing mess of a man. Bingley can cry during the proposal when he thinks about all the time he lost not being with Jane. Edmund cries alone in his room after Mary calls clergymen "nothing". Henry Tilney cries without realizing it when Catherine accepts his proposal because he's so glad that no one is angry with him and confronting his father was way more emotionally taxing than he let himself acknowledge at the time. Henry Crawford feeling wretched and alone after the affair and sobbing into his hands. Show us post wedding and make Darcy cry after the birth of his first child.

Make them cry! MAKE THEM ALL CRY

[egophiliac]

OMG EGO HAVE YOU SEEN THE BOOK 7 CATER CARD YET

80s britpunk Cater is such an incredible direction to take. his Sid Vicious jacket! his little british police cap! I wouldn't have anticipated that going full-on Sex Pistols would be his alternate self but it is SO fitting actually. 😭

(also th-the crown symbol?! the gavel?! is housewarden Cater real because I will TRANSCEND --)

[thats-the-biz-babe]

i almost made this a part of my last post but it deserves its own i think. the first date thing is always brought up as a reason tommy is bad for buck and like. i'm not being funny but tommy was so kind and patient and possibly far more lenient than he should've been towards a guy that just shoved him back in the closet after a whole lifetime of struggling with accepting his sexuality and coming out.

he'd literally just expressed to him that he hasn't always been so cool and confident and openly gay and that he has had a hard time getting to the point where he could be himself. buck didn't need to tell eddie they were on a date but he didn't have to drag tommy down with him. i get it, he panicked, he was put on the spot in a situation he didn't think he'd find himself in because what are the chances, right? poor buck was clearly kicking himself about it too, and tommy understood and forgave him since he knows what it's like to be that guy.

he felt for him, he didn't want to pressure him before he was ready so he left. most people wouldn't have even lasted the rest of dinner, because that shit does hurt even if tommy acted like he was fine with it. he was kind, he told buck that he was adorable before explaining that he didn't think he was ready (so he did make it clear the reason WHY he was leaving). and he was right! i know it's annoying that people keep telling buck how he feels, but in this case it was clearly true that this wasn't gonna work while buck was still skipping steps and pretending he wasn't going on dates with men.

okay, so he made a subtle closet joke that was obviously going to fly straight over the head of anybody who has known buck for years and known him to be 100% straight with no real indication he was into men. there is no way eddie was gonna guess they were on a date, especially after buck freaking out and making it especially clear they were out together for entirely heterosexual dude-bro reasons. straight people are fucking oblivious man, and none more than eddie diaz. tommy knows that, he knows eddie, eddie who he knows still has no idea that tommy himself is gay despite the fact that he has made no attempts to hide it. i wouldn't be surprised if there were already some obvious signs regarding tommy that eddie had completely missed. if eddie didn't suspect anything immediately upon seeing them dressed up sat so close together at the most intimate little pizza restaurant ever then he was never gonna work it out.

and i mean, you can never have too much closet space? isn't that true? and relevant to the discussion they were having? like it just so happens that the joke he made towards buck fit seamlessly into the conversation they were having so that eddie didn't notice it at all. which was ON PURPOSE because even though tommy is hurt and buck deserved that little dig, he knows not to out somebody before they're ready and he would never do it because again he's been there.

eddie was like "hey! you guys are hanging out, that's great!" and then tommy replied by saying "yeah, we are just grabbing a bite and then we're going to see a movie". nothing tommy said implied they were on a date, he was careful on purpose, eddie clearly had no thoughts other than 'oh cool my two good friends are hanging out with each other' and buck decided to jump in with the "hot chicks" thing when the whole situation was already handled (and if anything buck made it look way more suspicious, but again eddie is still oblivious). tommy making a low-key joke in retaliation that eddie was never gonna pick up on was far from the worst thing he could've done. he was being considerate! he wasn't going to force buck to come out on the spot and almost certainly would've still gone to the movie with him up until buck decided to shoot himself in the foot. now tommy's been forced into a position where he has to play it straight with his new buddy when he thought he'd never have to do that again, because he can't contradict buck saying that they were going out to pick up hot chicks without also potentially outing him.

then what, he didn't get mad at him or stand up and storm out but decided to end the date after dinner and skip the movie. okay, so he could've told him before they left the restaurant so buck could order his own uber too. there are ways that he could've handled it better. but like, here's the thing. tommy is not perfect. he's hurt. he's not a confrontational guy, he doesn't want to make a big deal out of things and make buck feel bad or like he's done something wrong. maybe he assumed buck already knew it was over, maybe he didn't. buck, being a 6ft2 grown man at the big age of 32, a fucking firefighter who is more than capable of handling himself, was not left in danger by being "abandoned at the side of the road". it was a busy, well lit street and they were right outside the restaurant so buck could easily go back inside. he's not a small vulnerable young woman abandoned in a dark alleyway in the middle of nowhere.

you have to give tommy grace here for how he handled things if you are to give it to buck when he (even unintentionally) acted like an absolute knob and forced his date back in the closet. buck was well aware of the fact he fucked up, which is why he asked tommy out for coffee to apologise for his behaviour and to ask for another chance.

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Hey what if the book got to Arthur and Parker's office like at least 3 years earlier and then canon played out as it did (but 3 years earlier) with going to harper's hill and the coma and Arthur and John are pulled into the Dreamlands in Leerie and end up in the Pits and again it's 3 years before canon so Charlie's still there and the King has no reason to keep him alive anymore really because he's got the thing he needs right over there in a different pit and hey what if Faust wasn't the one tossed into Arthur's pit

[thealogie]

Oscar Wilde is truly one of the most awesome people to ever live because he was just like…no being gay is awesome, it’s everyone else who is wrong

[eppysboys]

"He was a fan, I really have to say. There was this young Liverpool person calling me with a posh accent really. He said, "I'm from Liverpool," and he worked in the record section of his father's family department store. He was up on what was going down in the charts, and in those days it was me a lot. I'd just had an immense hit with Cliff Richard doing my song "Living Doll", and it had broken all the records in his little shop there.

So he said he'd love to come down and meet me. We corresponded for a year or two, until eventually he did appear, and he looked the same then as he always did - immaculate. The suit, the very highly polished shoes, the tie, the cufflinks - terribly correct, more British than I think he needed to be. But he kept this thing up, and it wasn't an image. That was what he presented to the world. He blushed easily. He couldn't take compliments."

Lionel Bart on meeting Brian Epstein, The Secret Public by Jon Savage

[ghostlightsahead]

Max, fulfil a duty to your cherished rival to free him from this eternal hell

Deliver unto him a red bull contract so we can see lestapodiums every week pretty please xoxo

[bytewire]

I may not enjoy the old story, but I actually do quite like how gentle AL-AN’s voice was. Not that his current isn’t, but it is more flat and very straightforward. AL-AN originally had a lot more emotional undertones.

[f-misc]

Lee Byung-hun:

"When acting, it felt natural to start paying attention to Gi-hun. It seemed like the obvious thing to do. Because I was also a winner, and so was he. As we both went through that process, I believed it was inevitable that thoughts of hopelessness toward humanity and the world would naturally arise. And I thought such pessimistic views were only natural. Yet, seeing Gi-hun turn around and re-enter to destr​oy this system drew my attention. I found myself naturally keeping an eye on him. But when I joined as a fellow participant, I observed him from the sidelines. And perhaps, even the Frontman might have hoped that, since he's human too, Gi-hun's words would be right. I acted while thinking that maybe, deep down, there was a part of him cheering for Gi-hun."

[mirror-and-mind]

This is such a weird thing to do. Why is he importing love potions from as far away from Japan as possible? The shipping costs must be insane. Does Britain really have love potions that are so superior to any that can be acquired from somewhere closer? Is Britain even a love potion-manufacturing country? What the hell's in them?

[3liza]

why did they lovingly render hugh laurie for wolfenstein: new order and then not voice cast him in the actual game. do you think they were planning to cast him and the deal fell through so they just left his model in there.

[its-all-papaya]

there is something sooooo... potential... about the way that f1 drivers' accents (esp the native english speakers') all become so mish-mashed. like ollie bearman doesn't even sound british. lando's accent is notoriously confusing.... even charles sounds less french than his brothers. they're all incidentally incorporating parts of each other and their teams into themselves gradually over their whole lives until it becomes so noticeable. there is a thought here for me i just don't know what it is yet.

[fictionadventurer]

After I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole of someone reviewing episodes of Wishbone, my favorite game has been coming up with books/short stories/plays that would make good Wishbone adaptations. The criteria for qualification are:

In the public domain

By an author that hasn't already had a story adapted by Wishbone

A leading male role for an adorable Jack Russell terrier to play

A plot that can be condensed down so the important plot points fit into a roughly fifteen-minute adaptation

Content that is or can be adapted to be suitable for a middle-school audience (though they seem not to have let that stop them as often as you'd think)

Lends itself to a companion story that parallels the plot or themes of the novel in a modern-day middle-school setting

With those criteria defined, the options I've come up with so far are:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wishbone plays: Mr. John Thornton Adaptability: You'd have to cut everything except the strike and the love story. Start with Margaret coming to Milton and disliking Thornton. Have her meet the Higginses and dislike mill owners. Defend Thornton during the strike. Refuse the proposal. Show Higgins and Thornton coming to an understanding, suggest Thornton loses his money, have Margaret save him and propose. The book has way too much for such a short adaptation, but everything else by Gaskell doesn't have enough plot to adapt into a short version or doesn't have a male role for Wishbone. And it would be so cute to see Wishbone in Thornton's Victorian outfits. Modern-day story: At school, a situation comes up that divides students into two rival camps, and they have to learn how to work together and come to a compromise that benefits everyone.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Wishbone plays: Jack Worthing (you'd want a human actor for someone as lively as Algernon) Adaptability: Pretty high. Plays seem to work well for Wishbone adaptations, and you can tell the story in a few scenes. Modern-day story: Modern-day retelling focusing on the importance of honesty. One of the kids gets out of chores at home by pretending they have to help a new student with homework, but their lies come back to bite them.

"The Absence of Mr. Glass" by G.K. Chesterton

Wishbone plays: Father Brown (imagine him in a cute little clerical collar!) Adaptability: Great. Wishbone has done several detective stories, and short stories easily fit into the short time frame. I chose "Mr. Glass" because it doesn't involve a murder or a lengthy philosophical discussion, and lends itself well to a funny modern story about not jumping to conclusions Modern-day story: One of the kids' parents is acting strangely. The kids investigate and build up the clues until they believe some wild and terrible situation is happening. It turns out to be something innocent (like a surprise party)

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Wishbone plays: Henry Higgins Adaptability: Pretty good. Plays work well, and the story is very condensable. Not sure how well a story about the intricacies of British accents would adapt to an American show, but it would still work if you make it about "learn fancy manners and don't talk like a hick". You could get some great puns out of the dog telling a human to "Speak!" Modern-day story: The classic school story plot of changing yourself to impress a potential love interest. The girl tries to doll herself up for a dance and learns it's better to be herself.

[foursaints]

after two years of relentless hating i think im willing to admit that jegulily is actually quite good. this is a formal apology to the jegulily warriors out there i wasn’t familiar with your game

[rl0w]

"he's a babyfaced little geezer, isn't he?" - my dad about kimi antonelli