#it's burts of activity for me

[glowingplant]

I threw some stuff at the wall until Rhydenach and Trahearne smoochies in Orr emerged <3

[the @magentameows watermark refers to my art blog, where this will be reblogged]

[arolesbianism]

I’ve been thinking abt one of my older oni colonies and decided to doodle my first three dupes in that save

[aw-tysm]

I, as an autistic person -

have time blindness

poor time management

am always late

struggles to tell lefts from rights

really bad with directions and following them

easily distracted

finds it hard to focus

bad executive functioning. like bad bad

needs to do things in short burts or it's too much

need clear directions

needs someone to help guide me through tasks or they don't get done

cant sit alone or distracted

cant sit with others or distracted

last minute queen/king

procrastination station

needs someone else to keep track of my appointments/activities

can not participate in activities that involve staying still and listening for too long or else starts to fall asleep (hour max is my limit)

says things immediately on my mind

outta sight, outta mind

am finishing this list here bcus mind drifting and losing focus

am not ADHD. Still things Autistics can experience. And ususally reasoning behind symptoms can be different to how they present for ADHD. Sometimes it's just the one thing. Or maybe I'll eventually learn these are from another thing that's not ADHD or Autism. But again, autistics can experience without being ADHD.

[burr-ell]

A Not-Necessarily-Exhaustive List of Good Moments from C1 1-27:

"I have an intelligence of 6, I know what I'm doing"

"We're here to right wrongs, and right lefts—" "And write comment cards"

Tiberius Kraghammer

Clarota

"We'll explain later. You're on the roof of Osama bin Laden's house"

"We'll be taking your weapons, your armor, and I believe your pride"

Percy making the first trick arrows for Vex after a shopkeep was a dick to her about arrows, which is canonically when she began to fall for him

Keyleth killing that one duergar from the TLOVM flashback

"I encourage violence"

Lady Kima being freed and then pulverizing the corpse of the duergar who'd been torturing her

Matt's fucked up body horror monsters

Scanlan taking a dump on a bed for the first time

Pike's crisis of faith when she slits a duergar's throat with her mace and her holy symbol breaks

When the limited T-shirt run went live and then sold out before Marisha could finish reading the announcement

Vax getting his foot burned off in lava

Scanlan the Kingslayer

"Can I use my Luck feat for this?" "You don't have any feet left"

Kima and Keyleth's argument (it was good, haters eat my shorts)

The origin of The Cube

"I'm Vax that's Vex ->" "I'm Vex that's Vax <-"

"Screw you, I want my final words with you to be indignant and irritated!"

"He has three-quarters cover" "I ignore three-quarters cover :)" "...then fuckin' fire!"

"Some people have no sense of fucking honor!"

Travis's notes that just say "I don't trust Clarota I don't trust Clarota I don't trust Clarota"

Percy reacting to the Briarwoods being namedropped during a council meeting

Meeting Gilmore on-stream for the first time

The Belt of Dwarvenkind and Grog's obsessive attempts to grow a beard

Scanlan's blue-shit-scrying potion

Grog "Philip" Strongjaw vs Kern

Vax giving Minxie!Keyleth a belly rub

The hydra fight and the beef with the Slayer's Take

Episodes 18 and 19, in their entirety, but specifically:

Zahra and Vex's initial rivalry-turned-friendship-turned-"I have a crush on Zahra"

Lyra. She's just. so much. idk of what but she is it

"I'm wearing the pajamas with the buttflap and the buttflap is down. The buttflap is DOWN"

Scanlan introducing himself to Rimefang as Burt Reynolds and then Matt, in his scary dragon voice, calling him "Burt"

"I'm sorry, I'm a genius, I'm sorry! Oh, god I'm clever!"

Zahra killing Rimefang

Percy and Vex working together on a history check (it's important To Me)

Wil Wheaton rolling five Nat 1s. In one session

Keyleth and Vax posing as a married couple to get information

Kash insight-checking Thorbir, believing he has to be actively sabotaging them because no one could possibly be that bad at their job (he's not, he really is just that unlucky)

Wil, playing a dwarven fighter, finally rolling a nat 20...for an insight check

The magic carpet losing its enchantment in a pit of acid and Laura's scream of horror from offscreen

"Rakshasaaaaaaa!" -jazz hands-

Kashaw and Keyleth, which was thankfully reworked in TLOVM but was also hilarious

Vex exasperatedly kissing Grog, portrayed by Laura kissing a bewildered Travis

Tyriok the cartographer

Grog, the Vasselheim merchant, and the first and only time Vex started beef with a retailer

Keyleth recounting a vision she had of her own death

The Aramente trial in Pyrah and a cameo from Thordak

Travis getting a medal from a fan for losing to Kern and Matt making it canon

Grog fighting Kern again and winning

Keyleth getting arrested. For the second time in Vasselheim alone

The first appearance of the man. The myth. The Viktor

Kynan's first appearance and Vax's idea of "tough love"

Percy telling his backstory to the party and them immediately affirming their support for him ("You don't have to get involved in this" "Oh, we are SO involved" "You said you wanted 'em dead!") and Taliesin himself being moved to tears over this

Percy creating Diplomacy

Vax and Keyleth bear-sitting Trinket and braiding pink ribbons into his fur

Gilmore finding out Vax wants to see him and teleporting in from half a continent away

Vax shaving half of Grog's beard and Travis breaking a mechanical pencil with one hand

The feast, where Percy actually threatens the Briarwoods to their faces while disguised as Vax

Vax and the Briarwoods. "Gosh you guys are good-looking"

Vax nearly dying and having a vision of the two people he cares about most: Vex and Keyleth

Sylas jumping out the window and doing a perfect 3-point landing...while Delilah blows the athletics check and faceplants in the dirt

"SYLAS"

Vex scoring two crits on Delilah

Tiberius getting Feebleminded

Percy's attack on Desmond. My horrid little skrunkly <3

"YOUR SOUL IS FORFEIT! DIE! DIE!" and Keyleth skipping her turn to just stare at Percy

Vox Moochina

Keyleth taking charge to save the ember roc

Keyleth conjuring a water elemental and Taliesin gargling water to translate her commands to it

And finally, the conversation between Keyleth and Percy where he privately confesses his own worries that he's going dark and that he's afraid of himself, and she expresses her concern for him and promises to be there for him

anyway c1 good

[receivedhope]

Burt and Blaine parallels

Dance With Somebody draws a very obvious similarity between Burt and Blaine - mainly, that they both react to Kurt's (at the time) impending leave for NY in the fall by pulling away from him, as if having a dry run for what the next year without Kurt will be like.

This made me curious if there were any other instances where Burt and Blaine share similarities and while I'm unsure how to itemize this list for the easiest understanding, I do want to put forward that a huge chunk of it is moreso speculation and for the main purpose of my own enjoyment lol.

Back to DWS however, since that, I believe, is the biggest example to mention, since it is through having a heart to heart with his dad that Kurt understands where Blaine was coming from.

I believe how one reacts to stressful situations says a lot about them, which makes Burt sharing this kneejerk reaction of avoidance particularly fascinating to me. And as a side note, out of the three of them, I see Kurt being the one most firmly aligned under 'fight'  when having a fight or flight response. While Burt can sorta go either way (and I think the lack of any non-Kurt related examples skew the statistics) he's a pretty mellow guy. In Bash he does say "You could've called the cops…you could've gotten help…" but, again, Kurt-related example and I'm of the opinion that Burt would move the Moon and the stars for his son and Kurt being safe is the utmost priority for him. However, it is a recurring character trait of Blaine that he likes to run away, something he says about himself and even dislikes that he does. Blaine is not very perceptive about himself,  but this is a flaw even he is aware of.

Burt and Blaine are also just two people who get along really well and I chalk that up to them seeing themselves in each other. A friend of mine has said that Burt and Blaine share the same goals (providing a comfortable life for Kurt and keeping him close) but are not in direct competition, which helps their relationship. And I believe that to be such an apt and great description to illustrate the basis of their mutual like!

I also want to highlight this scene from Glee, Actually - where Burt and Blaine share almost the exact same body language, even when engaging in such mundane activities as watching football. You can see Kurt trying to relate and sit similarly, however he cracks in record time and assumes a much more comfortable position that is inarguably himself - leaning back, crossing his legs to lazily flip through his Vogue magazine. There is no resemblance left with Burt and Blaine after that, however those two keep on mirroring each other (notice them starting to eat popcorn at the very same time).

Something else I also appreciate is that both of them seem to share an understanding that the quickest way to Kurt's heart is giving him gifts. Burt uses an expensive car as a bargaining chip so that Kurt would stop wearing form fitting sweaters that stop at the knee (also note that Kurt does not take this seriously at all, aware of how doting and forgiving Burt is, even though this takes place at the time when the distance between them seemed to be the largest) and has gotten Kurt a Maria bonnet (referenced in Grilled Cheesus) - not to mention that all of Kurt's belongings are supplied financially by Burt. Blaine has gotten Kurt monogrammed towels for his graduation, a Gilmore Girls box set as an apology (which Kurt sends back unopened - cute...) and a whole piano just for Kurt letting him stay in the loft for two days lmao... And based on the box scene, which I believe to be more or less canon since it just ended up on the cutting floor, Blaine also aims to give more thoughtful, sentimental gifts as well.

Kurt is very crow-like, he loves his things and collecting whatever sparks interest. He's also pretty ruthless about what he keeps and needs his stuff to serve a purpose (even if it is just to look good), so I find Burt and Blaine's shared gift giving philosophy pretty endearing. As another side note, while Burt seems to also easily offer Finn football tickets, I'm unsure if Blaine was ever such an enthusiastic gift giver to other people. When he thinks Sam is stealing macaroni because he is poor, he offers him money - much more impersonal and upfront. (Meanwhile Kurt helped Sam out with clothes a few seasons prior.) There is also him making everyone into puppets in Puppet Master and giving it to them, however this is also an unfair comparison - since he is obviously attached to puppet Kurt the most.

I also find myself seeing a bit of similarity between Burt in Laryngitis and Blaine in the break up of Loser Like Me. They can tell when Kurt is unhappy, but have trouble initiating conversation about it so they'd rather pull away entirely and ignore the issue, until Kurt is ready to come out and say what is what. Kurt also easily picks up on other people’s emotions, which is why the accusation in Home/Laryngitis, that Burt deep down does want a son like Finn too, hits the nail on the head and puts Burt on the defensive. I could also imagine that to Burt, this was not a conscious decision or preference and only after Kurt shed a light on it, understood. 

Meanwhile in Tested, Blaine doesn't want to open up about what is bothering him. His first reaction when Kurt accidentally sees his porn tab open isn't that of embarrassment, shame or anger, he wants to talk about it. I believe this was done in an attempt to bait Kurt into having a much needed heart to heart. (And just, who leaves the opening page of a porn site out like that? Especially such a secretive person as Blaine, who only ever admits to his secrets on his own accord, rather than having to be caught.)

Burt in Preggers comes to mind as well, how he seems to be more aware of Kurt's (pathetic attempt of) a lie than Kurt thinks he is. Similarly to how in Laryngitis he even says that he is ready to accept Kurt however he may be. I believe Burt is willing to accept Kurt's word as final when it comes to Kurt himself, and does not see it necessary to pick a fight about it.

Burt is reluctant to call Kurt out on anything. Even in Duets, he only brings up his crush on Finn because Kurt might be making the same mistake - but he does not initiate the conversation at large. He even says that he has been meaning to bring it up, since Carole has told him previously - how long has he been sitting on this information?

I think Blaine is a little similar. In DWS, the Chandler plot's cheating aspect seems to be zeroed in on and while I'm of the opinion it is a pretty shitty thing to do, I hesitate to call it cheating, since Kurt is so passive throughout the whole ordeal. However what is more interesting to me is that the argument seems to mostly be Blaine deflecting, to get to avoid Kurt calling him out about avoiding him, so Blaine does not have to actually talk about the relevant issue at hand: his anxiety about Kurt leaving him and the fear of being replaceable in Kurt's life.

In Grilled Cheesus, Burt tells Kurt “Let’s face it Kurt, if we don’t schedule it, we don't hang out. If we don't hang out, then our lives, they just go right by each other” - which made me think of Kurt’s comment in DWS, about the scheduled make out sessions with Blaine. It just makes me think that the necessity for those scheduled sessions was not because it is a chore they drag themselves through, but because the final word is always Kurt’s and he needs to be approached gently and slowly - otherwise he immediately pulls away and closes himself off, see Home with Burt and Sexy with Blaine. Kurt is able to compromise thought, hence the schedule.

This makes sense, with how comfortably Kurt falls into a routine and prefers them, as well as being an insanely reserved and private person who does not open up easily - apparently not only emotionally, physically, but also when he makes time for someone. I think Burt makes a good reference point to how Kurt acts with the people he loves. He is inarguably the most important person in Kurt’s life but even he has to clarify ahead of time when he wants to spend time with Kurt - this really makes me think the necessity of scheduling make outs was not emphasized by Blaine, but by Kurt.

There are also some interesting aspects to Burt's implied change of heart between Wonder-ful and Love, Love, Love, seemingly coming around to Blaine asking for Kurt's hand in marriage. This is another one of Burt and Blaine's shared goal, to keep Kurt tied to Lima in some way. But I also think there is something else there: Burt is a simple guy, recognizing so much of himself in Blaine is comforting and puts his mind at ease. He would rather have someone similar to him anchor Kurt than Kurt potentially throwing himself around, like he does not matter.

"I'm dumb, but I'm not stupid" - while Burt and Blaine may not understand the complexities of Kurt all around, they are the first and biggest two members of the Kurt fanclub.

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

Wait, hol’ up… Zenix got the SKs to hold off from killing Kiva, an innocent little girl? Whilst actively kidnapping a man?

Hm.

Maybe it’s just feminism at this point.

And I’m joking when I say that, but like I do find it super interesting how Zenix does have these very moral extremes, often all at once.

Shooting Garroth on a patrol he refused to let Aphmau join because he was worried she’d get hurt. Kidnapping Burt (which he was originally planning on doing, apparently) but telling the other SKs to leave Kiva be.

It’s clear that he has An Agenda, his cruelty is to fit that, only only really that. Right now, his Agenda is killing Garroth, and he Shot him, and now his job is to make sure that sticks. How? By taking out the only available healer in the area. Even with injuring Brendan, you can kind of try and imply that it was some long-set plan, injuring him as a practice (the injuries are EXACTLY the same, apparently), and to use up the very finite resource of Citrus Herb…

Because I do read this as being about Zenix, though obviously it can be ambiguous without more details. Just because he did have Burt when Aph sees him, Vylad doesn’t talk, and Zenix is kind of known for sweet-turned-mean… which all characterise the ‘masked man’ as Kiva describes him. The only inaccurate descriptor is ‘mask’ because it’s a helmet, not a mask, and so it COULD be about Vylad, but I doubt it. I just think it’s Jesson inaccuracy, and also from the recollection of a child.. so…

Small addition, after finishing the episode; he is also fleeing the Nether with a lasso I think it’s pretty obvious it’s him. Even if Jess does bait us with him and Vylad a lot and switch them in certain situations

Quotes, S1Ep18, without the typos:

‘The monsters were trying to use me as a sacrifice… but this masked man told them to hold off’ - Kiva, about her well-being

‘The lord! He was taken by the masked man… the masked man came and saw he was here and said something about “not having to kidnap him, himself”… and took the lord with him… the masked man looked so nice at first… but he was scary.’ - Kiva, about Lord Burt and a ‘masked man’

[jojo-schmo]

A Walk Down my Art Memory Lane!

Now that I’m thinking about my childhood Kirby art, I dug through my storage a bit and thought it’d be fun to share a few! Here are some of Baby Jojo’s drawings!

note: I was not active in any online Kirby art communities at the time and I never posted these anywhere so I made these drawings just for my own enjoyment hehehe.

These are probably among my earliest Kirby drawings. Most likely ~2008!! I must’ve been in fifth grade maybe…? The first picture is a very rare example of pre-2022 Dedede sightings in my art. Around 2010 I became embarrassed and frustrated about not being able to figure his shapes out. So I spent the next 12 years avoiding him at all costs and instead sticking to the safer things to draw, like nice round Bronto Burts or Waddle Dees. Who knew it would take me writing an entire comic about him in 2022 to finally learn to draw him in my style!! :P

The second picture speaks for itself lol. I was the girl who googled “maskless meta knight” back when we had no fancy 3D renderings of his face. Just edits of anime screenshots and fanart of him holding his mask/getting his mask stolen and looking at you with the biggest, pearliest, white eyes. JPEG artifacts littered these images like sprinkles on a cupcake. And I would giggle and squee with every one like the baby fangirl of Meta Knight I was. :3

This one was probably ~2009. Very ambitious piece for me at that age. I struggled with the perfect roundness of Kirby haha. I had just gotten these cool alphabet stencils and couldn’t wait to write “Kirby” everywhere with them. This was probably the complete catalogue of Kirby characters I had the ability to draw at that time. It’s funny to think about how Magolor wouldn’t exist for another two years when I drew this.

Hmm. Maybe I should redraw this one day as a fun honor for my younger self.

Triple Waddle Dees!! A rare but precious Sailor Dee sighting, and of course my sweet Bandana Dee. This was probably around 2011 after Return to Dreamland came out and I came to adore Bandee. :3

This is probably around 2012- some time after Mass Attack came out. I had this AU at the time where each of the 10 Kirbies from Mass Attack had their own personality trait from the original Kirby, and a permanent copy ability assigned to them. Hence the Spark Kirby having wings and a halo like in the game- where you get damaged and have to rescue the poor Angel Kirbies before you lose that life!

Also my Poppy Bro Jr OC that I don’t think I named at the time- but I redrew him recently and named him Allegro the Poppy Bro. I loved drawing his hair and his funny teeth :D

Finally, I redrew just a few of the characters from my old drawings tonight. Just doodling for fun, nothing serious. But it’s something my child self would be happy to know I could do.

Guess I’d better draw all the Dededes that Baby Jojo missed out on drawing!! Thank you to anyone who read to this point. I encourage anyone to draw things that would make their younger, baby self proud of you. ….even though I bet they already are proud of you. <3

Remember, as long as you keep drawing, you’ll improve at your pace! Just keep at it! You’ll notice that difference over the years!

[cutiebin]

bf!changbin’s beige flags

these are taken from the beige flag trend on tiktok, they sounded like things changbin would do (lovingly). a beige flag is something someone does that makes you stop and question it for a few seconds before continuing

some are explicitly idol!bin but the rest can be whatever you want :)

warnings: showering together (sfw), food and eating

stealing lip balm

when he catches you applying your lip balm, he begs for a kiss. not because he wants a kiss, but because he wants to steal your lip balm.

Changbin sees you out of the corner of his eyes slathering on the menthol Burts Bees. “Gimme a kiss.” he demands, shoving his face close to yours.

“No, I know what you’re planning and I’m not falling for it this- HMPH!” before you can even finish your sentence, he grabs your face and attacks you in a kiss, rubbing his lips all over yours and stealing the lip balm you just spent all of five seconds applying. He pulls away, lips shiny and minty. You stand in place, stunned at the fact he’s managed to pull this off again.

“Thank you, sweetie!” he calls, before returning his eyes to their former position.

buying food

he won’t eat if you’re not also eating. he’d rather starve than eat alone in front of you

“I’m ordering from that new place down the road, what do you want?” Changbin calls from the kitchen.

You tell him you’re not really hungry, but he will not accept that as an answer. He feels guilty if he’s eating and you’re not, because what if you get hungry watching him and you’re too scared to ask for a bite? Or what if you are hungry and you just don’t want him to spend money on you? Besides, he doesn’t like to eat alone, he sees it as an activity that should be enjoyed with others and you’re his favourite person to eat with.

“I’m getting the pork meal so I’ll get you the chicken and we can share, does that sound good?” he’s not asking you, he’s basically telling you.

kiss toll

when you guys shower together and you need to switch places with him to get under the water, he makes you pay a kiss toll.

“Swap places with me so I can wash my shampoo out” you ask him.

“Pay up.” you give him a soft smile and place three kisses to his lips and try to move past him, but he doesn’t budge. You shoot him a confused look. “Toll’s gone up baby, it’s five kisses now.”

“It was three kisses yesterday, what happened?” you ask.

“Inflation.” he simply responded.

You sigh, although happy obliging with two extra kisses. He grins and grabs you by the waist to swap places with you.

he’s not tired

he pretends not to be tired, while in the process of nodding off

You’re sitting on the couch, you’re boyfriends head in your lap, both watching the film you chose earlier. you glance down at him, only to see him fighting to keep his eyes open.

“Are you tired, baby?” you ask him, hand combing through his fluffy hair, “Do you want to go to bed?”

“Hm?” he groans, being woken from his half-sleep. “No, I love this movie we can finish it.”

You agree to let him stay up and turn your focus back to the TV. Not even five minutes later, his breathing evens out and soft snores erupt from his lips.

“Knew it.” you giggle softly to yourself.

shower gossip

he insists on showering with you. not for anything sexual, just to talk about each others day.

he hears you preparing to shower, and asks if he can join. you almost always say yes because you know what he wants. gossip. during nighttime showers, he loves to hear about your day, and makes sure you tell you all the jokes he told his members during his day. morning showers, he likes to hear about your dreams and theorises with you about what they might mean. some of your best conversations have happened in the shower, you’ve learned more about each other in there than you ever have anywhere else.

hanging up facetime

at the end of a facetime call, he says he loves you and hangs up before you can say it back. he thinks it’s funny

“Okay baby I have to go, good luck with your show later and I’ll call you in the morning.” you tell Changbin. He was across the world about to get ready for another sold out concert, and he always video called you on whatsapp before.

“Okay, I love you, bye!” he says rapidly and quickly hangs up before you even get the chance to tell him you love him back. Seconds later, a message comes through.

[letter-to-kylux]

Hello fellow Kyluxers, Kylo and/or Hux enthusiasts!

Welcome to this stupid little blog - I'll be as active as I can on here, but activity might only happen ins burts. Don't let that disencourage you from sending in asks or submissions, though.

Please send whatever you can think of, nothing is too boring, unimportant or lame.

If there's any other gif or editmaker out there, who would like to participate, please feel free to pm me about it. The more, the merrier, right?

Anyway, please only visit / follow / interact if you're an adult. The occasional nsfw might happen but will be tagged as such.

[lesbiancolumbo]

The Swimmer

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

the more i think about this film, the more i think it's a masterpiece. burt said later in his life that it was his favorite of his films, and i think that means something. he was depressed and going through the beginnings of his divorce when he was working on it. he was also, from what we now know, bisexual and self-hating about that. and afraid of the water! so that he not only made this film but actively WANTED TO DO IT, paid out of his own fucking pocket to make sure it got completed, and then later said it was the best thing he ever did in his career, is CRAZY to me specifically and i love that so much for him.

peak depressioncore cinema. peak "everyone but you has figured out that you're queer and is pointing at you" cinema. peak insane surrealist 60s nightmare. janice rule gives an incredible one scene performance (and what's more, she was supposed to be played by barbara loden, which would have been even crazier). burt is 55 years old showing ass AND dick. this is maybe the only movie ever made.

[justforbooks]

The actor Lou Gossett Jr, who has died aged 87, is best known for his performance in An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, whose tough training transforms recruit Richard Gere into the man of the film’s title. He was the first black winner of an Academy Award for best supporting actor, and only the third black actor (after Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier) to take home any Oscar.

The director, Taylor Hackford, said he cast Gossett in a role written for a white actor, following a familiar Hollywood trope played by John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Victor McLaglen or R Lee Ermey, because while researching he realised the tension of “black enlisted men having make-or-break control over whether white college graduates would become officers”. Gossett had already won an Emmy award playing a different sort of mentor, the slave Fiddler who teaches Kunta Kinte the ropes in Roots (1977), but he was still a relatively unknown 46-year-old when he got his breakthrough role, despite a long history of success on stage and in music as well as on screen.

Born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Louis was the son of Helen (nee Wray), a nurse, and Louis Sr, a porter. As a child he suffered from polio, but became a high school athlete before a basketball injury led to his joining the drama club. His teacher encouraged him to audition professionally, and at 17 he was on Broadway playing a troubled child in Take a Giant Step, which won him a Donaldson award for best newcomer.

He won a drama scholarship to New York University, but continued working, in The Desk Set (1955), and made his television debut in two episodes of the NBC anthology show The Big Story. In 1959 he was cast with Poitier and Ruby Dee in Raisin in the Sun, and made his film debut reprising his role in 1961. On Broadway that year he played in Jean Genet’s The Blacks, in an all-star cast with James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown, Godfrey Cambridge and a young Maya Angelou; it was the decade’s longest-running show.

Gossett was also active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene. He released his first single Hooka Dooka, Green Green in 1964, followed by See See Rider, and co-wrote the anti-war hit Handsome Johnny with Richie Havens. In 1967 he released another single, a drums and horns version of Pete Seeger’s anti-war hymn Where Have All the Flowers Gone. He was in the gospel musical Tambourines to Glory (1963) and in producer Mike Todd’s America, Be Seated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

His plays became more limited: The Zulu and the Zayda and My Sweet Charlie; the very short run of Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights, in which he played a black man owning a white slave; and a revival of Golden Boy (1964), with Sammy Davis Jr. His final Broadway part was as the murdered Congolese leader Patrice Lamumba, in Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Murderous Angels (1971). Gossett had played roles in New York-set TV series such as The Naked City, but he began to make a mark in Hollywood, despite LAPD officers having handcuffed him to a tree, on “suspicion”, in 1966.

On TV he starred in The Young Rebels (1970-71) set in the American revolution. In film, he was good as a desperate tenant in Hal Ashby’s Landlord (1970) and brilliant with James Garner in Skin Game (1971), taking part in a con trick in which Garner sells him repeatedly into slavery then helps him to escape.

In 1977, alongside Roots, he attracted attention as a memorable villain in Peter Yates’s hit The Deep, and got artistic revenge on the LAPD in Robert Aldrich’s The Choirboys. The TV movie of The Lazarus Syndrome (1979) became a series in which Gossett played a realistic hospital chief of staff set against an idealistic younger doctor. He played the black baseball star Satchel Paige in the TV movie Don’t Look Back (1981); years later he had a small part as another Negro League star, Cool Papa Bell, in The Perfect Game (2009).

After his Oscar, he played another assassinated African leader, in the TV mini-series Sadat, reportedly approved for the role by Anwar Sadat’s widow Jihan. Though he remained a busy working actor, good starring roles in major productions eluded him, as producers fell back on his drill sergeant image. He was Colonel “Chappy” Sinclair in Iron Eagle (1986) and its three dismal sequels.

But in 1989 he starred in Dick Wolf’s TV series Gideon Oliver, as an anthropology professor solving crimes in New York. And he won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for his role in the TV movie The Josephine Baker Story (1991). He revisited the stage in the film adaptation of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class (1994).

Gossett twice received the NAACP’s Image Award, and another Emmy for producing a children’s special, In His Father’s Shoes (1997). In 2006 he founded the Eracism Foundation, providing programmes to foster “cultural diversity, historical enrichment and anti-violence initiatives”. Despite an illness eventually linked to toxic mould in his Santa Monica home, he kept working with a recurring part in Stargate SG-1 (2005-06). A diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2010 hardly slowed him down.

Most recently, he played Will “Hooded Justice” Reeves in the TV series Watchmen (2019), in the series Kingdom Business, about the gospel music industry, and in the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple.

His first marriage, to Hattie Glascoe, in 1967, was annulled after five months; his second, to Christina Mangosing, lasted for two years from 1973; and his third, to Cyndi (Cynthia) James, from 1987 to 1992. He is survived by two sons, Satie, from his second marriage, and Sharron, from his third.

🔔 Louis Cameron Gossett Jr, actor, born 27 May 1936; died 28 March 2024

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[dertlort]

TL;DR, Spoilers for ALL of Mouthwashing. this is a thought experiment and not at all a criticism of the game, but Curly definitely died and there’s no way he would have survived even the events of the game given his injuries and lack of access to proper life saving treatment, if you choose to think about it realistically. Also I love this game with my life.

Realistically, Curly would have absolutely died shortly after the crash due to his injuries. Even if Anya was somehow able to sustain him for a while after, there is almost no way he would have made it the entire 5 months that pass in the game post-crash. But even if we do suspend our disbelief and assume this severe burn victim who lost ALL of his skin, all of his limbs, and is so injured he cannot even speak, somehow made it 5 months in dirty bandages, little to no medical care, no skin grafting (which would require a donor of said skin, and anti-rejection medication, seeing as he HAS NO SKIN), no antibiotics, surviving entirely just off pain killers.. and then Jimmy cutting off MORE of his leg, somehow not dying from blood loss or infection at any point, subsisting off only his own flesh he was force fed (which would not really do much for him irl, auto cannibalism isn’t a practical method of survival when you’re starving, any calories he might get would be negated from, you know, it being extracted from his own body, plus the body already kinda starts eating itself when you’re starving) but again, we are choosing to believe all this is possible, and then we’re also going to assume the cryostasis pods ARE in fact functional and do exactly what they’re supposed to… They were almost certainly not intended to be used for someone in Curly’s condition. Jimmy putting him in that pod likely just killed him. But even then, EVEN THEN, if we want to believe it didn’t, that the pod didn’t just kill him, and we also believe that someone found the ship still intact within those 20 years of backup power the cryo pods supposedly have, then what? They find this gruesomely disfigured man in his dirty, infectious bandages covering the entirety of his exposed, untreated, burt flesh, he is malnourished and starving, entirely unable to communicate, his one remaining eye is almost certainly oozing puss, blind, and shriveled up from lack of moisture (he has no eyelid) covered in his own piss and shit, and actively about to die, in fact it’s nothing short of a miracle he didn’t die LONG before any of this could happen.. what do they do? Who knows how far they are away from any qualified person who could help? Hell, even a team of highly skilled medical professionals might not save him. Some random ship stumbling across the wreckage certainly won’t be able to do much for him. And in the state that he’s in, it’s likely most people would already consider it unethical to continue to keep him alive.

All this to say, no. I really don’t think Curly is the sole survivor of the Tulpar who gets miraculously saved at the end. To clarify, this isn’t some Cinema Sins criticism of the game. This aspect of the story being unrealistic really doesn’t matter to me, it doesn’t effect my enjoyment of the story at all or detract from it’s overall quality. Furthermore, I actually REALLY enjoy fan interpretations of the aftermath, be it Curly being rescued and receiving restorative medical treatment, the ship simply never being found, or the ship being found and Curly being dead or beyond saving. I also love the “good ending” AUs. It’s just interesting to think about this stuff outside of all that sometimes.

[poofybeelocal]

HEWO!I'M NEW HERE!!!🎉>w<

My name is Rin/Ary,a little artist!🌸

14 y.o.(October🍁)

Multifandom

Sometimes I post silly draws

SHIPS I LIKE AND RESPECT!

Henry Stickmin and Charles Calvin

Henry Stickmin and Ellie Rose

Charles Calvin and Ellie Rose

Sven Svensson and Burt Curtis

Rhm and Reginald Copperbottom

Rupert Price and Dave Panpa

Oc x canon

Ships who are not my type(but I respect!)

Henry Stickmin and Rupert Price

Henry Stickmin and Dave Panpa

Ellie Rose and Dave Panpa

Sven Svensson and Charles Calvin

Dave Panpa and Sven Svensson

Rupert Price and Johnny Panzer

Johnny Panzer and Kurt Dietrich

Ships that I don't support or like‼️

Rhm and Henry Stickmin(or with Reginald)

General Hubert Galeforce and Dimtri Petrov

Rupert Price and Sven Svensson

Ellie Rose and Sven Svensson

Dave Panpa and Kurt Dietrich

Charles Calvin and General Hubert Galeforce

Henry Stickmin and Dimtri Petrov

If you don't like what's here, you can unflollow me!!

Also,I don't support❌‼️

❌proshippers❌nsfw❌racism❌homophotic❌lolicons❌

Feel free to chat with me but be polite!

You can ask questions about my ocs

I'm not very active here

Thank you for reading!bye!!

[emma-ofnormandy]

Sometimes I read fandom takes/ meta discussion/ discourse and am reminded how… uneducated I am? Maybe that’s the wrong word. Better wording would be how unacademic and, frankly, how simple I am compared to my peers. In the wrong moment, it is very easy to feel inferior in the space.

There are all types to be found in the great world of fandom, but there is something about it that, at least for me, portrays this feeling of needing to have strong academic/ deeper understanding of media and that intimidates, which then limits the desire to interact out of fear of being thought less of. After all, you only have to sit through a high school English class to believe a person who watches something or reads something and doesn’t understand the history or pick up on the hidden undertones isn’t as smart as the ones who do, so it’s not a far leap to feel like that mindset carries over into other similar spaces.

Fandom will tote that everyone is welcome, but how can you not pick up on the comparison of these two characters to Burt and Ernie. Simple minded idiot. You don’t not know about the history of the great Sesame Street uprising that this story was based on. You aren’t a true fan. You didn’t immediately pick up on the call out about current events happening in Elmo’s World? You horrible human, how dare you.

I’ve seen enough discourse to know that for a supposedly accepting type of institution, fandom very much isn’t if you don’t fit a mold of a certain type and that a person’s best defense is to be quiet and unassuming, no matter how active you wish to be and it can be very disheartening.

I don’t really know why I’m rambling on about this or what point I’m trying to make… apparently, I’m having a moment.

But, I figure there is at least one other person out there with the same feelings of insecurity and inferiority, so on that point, to that person and any others, just know you’re not alone in the fandom space. You deserve to enjoy it just like everyone else, and there isn’t an education requirement to be a part of the fandom experience.

[burn-the-retcon]

Speaking for myself, when a character is presented to me and the only emotional notes the story tries to hit are "HATE THIS PERSON", I get angry. I want, as a reader/player/viewer/consumer of content, the right to react as I see fit to a character. This might not be the way the creator wants me to feel, but it is the way I feel regardless. If you really want me to have a given reaction to a character, make the character fit the reaction - don't pile up a bunch of false notes on them and expect them to do the job for you. I was talking to a friend about how I'd recently watched the movie Tremors, and how relieved I was that the only character I wanted to see die was the character the writers intended for me to want to see die. When he responded, "Melvin doesn't die, though", my response was that him knowing which character I was talking about without me naming them meant the writers did their job properly. Melvin Plugg serves as a decent comparison point to Zebruh, actually. Melvin is obnoxious, antagonistic to others for no good reason, and useless in a crisis such as the ones presented to the characters, and is disdained by the other characters. His actions reflect this (such as the time he tries to scare Burt by wrapping himself in a dead monster and pretending it's attacking him, which nearly gets him shot). The viewer hates him, but the reasons the viewer hates him for are ones intended by the writers. Zebruh, on the other hand, doesn't really do anything to actively make the reader hate him. His actions intended to trigger that reaction feel artificial; his dialogue feels less like something a character would say and more like the writers spent a few hours on incel.is and rewrote bits of what they saw to fit the Alternia setting. One hates Melvin because he's an asshole. One hates Zebruh, if they do, because they decide to give the writers the satisfaction. They are not the same feeling.

[weirdmarioenemies]

BURT THE BASHFUL: Oh, there You are.

YOU: I'm not sure we've met.

SWORM: Heh, good one! We've been waiting for You.

YOU: Have you? You seem...

SWORM: Big?

BURT: Yeah, we're Big Boys.

SWORM: Big Boys.

BURT: Big Boys. Try and keep up, mate.

YOU: No, I think I get it. You're quite big.

SWORM: Yeah, and we're so big we don't just sit around and learn about one enemy at a time...

BURT: Yeah, that's for dummies and wimps.

YOU: Really? Okay, great!

BURT: We do two at once.

YOU: ...Right. Uh, well...

SWORM: What's wrong? I thought You were up for pushing the boundaries?

YOU: Yeah, but two at—

WALLEYE: That’s right, boundaries are important!

YOU: No, look-

Name: Walleye Debut: Super Mario 3D World

Walleye’ll be! This little guy is sort of a spiritual successor to Wallops from Super Mario 3D Land in that it’s an animated wall creature that blocks your path by shuffling back and forth, but it’s actually got quite a bit going on to differentiate it from its relative!

YOU: Look, that’s not what he meant!

BURT: What?

YOU: I said look-

SLAMMER: Look where? Somewhere else?

YOU: What? No! Oh, come on…

Name: Slammer Debut: The Super Mario Bros. Super Show

Pleased to meetcha! Today we'll be looking at Slammer, arguably one of the most iconic Mario characters of all-time... unless you look somewhere else! As a minor one-off character from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, he's about as obscure as obscure characters get... but that's what this blog is for, isn't it?

Walleye is constantly moving, regardless of the player’s position, whereas Wallop only activates when you get near enough to it, and tries to mirror your movement to block you off, even jumping up when you do!

Now it might be hard to tell what Slammer is, just by looking at him, but did you know? Slammer is a working man! He's the assistant to Sam Shalam, who sells the finest carpets in all of Cloud Land... if your definition of "the finest carpets" involves being covered in bugs!

Walleye can’t jump, but it does have spikes on its top and sides!

But bugs don't bug me, so I'd be more than happy to buy from them! How can I resist that face?

YOU: Stop it!

SWORM: Shh! We’re about to streamline!

BURT: Try and keep up, mate.

They even have their own temple! That being said, Slammer's irresistible face is slammed against the carpets. Can Wallop say the same? As it unfortunately turns out, it's his job to keep the bugs out! I didn’t think so! So unfortunately, as long as Slammer's around, you'll never find bugs in your carpets... Well, it probably wasn’t built for them but maybe they were animated from its walls or something. Unless you look somewhere else!

You look somewhere else...