#it's giving Stupid Sexy Flanders

[maydaymadier]

ty to the mutual that's posting dnd:hat gifs bc it reminded me of my headcanon abt how that mark on Xenk's forehead is actually much bigger than what we can see bc in the beckoning death scene we see the glow of the rune etching itself into his skin and it goes past his hairline/we see it glow through his hair.

[jtl-fics]

FOR WIP WED CAN YOU PRETTY PLEASE DO MATH NERD OF NEIL JUST BEING SO NORMAL AND ANDREW JUST DYING CAUSE HE HAS A CRUAH ON THIS NORMAL ASS DUDE

WIP Wednesday (7/19/23) - Closed | Math Nerd AU

Aaron had come to know bits and pieces of who his brother is. He knew not to touch Andrew without asking, he knew that his brother didn't give a shit about Exy, he even knew bits and pieces about the friend that Andrew had been looking for.

The thing he most knew about his brother was that he did not let sweets go to waste. He didn't let ice cream melt and he didn't let hot cocoa get cold.

So when he came to the cafeteria and found Andrew sat across from Neil that wasn't unusual. What was unusual was that Andrew's bowl of ice cream had melted and he was staring straight at Neil who had his tongue sticking out as he was cutting away something with scissors.

"What's wrong. Your ice cream is melting?" Aaron asks in German wondering what in the world is going on.

"He's cutting coupons." Andrew says as if that explained it.

"Okay? And...?" Aaron tries to prompt.

"He gave me his membership card for the chain supermarket. He gets fuel points." Andrew continues.

Aaron continued to fail to see what the issue was but Andrew had a white knuckle grip on his spoon as if he was mere moments from lunging over the table and stabbing the freshman.

[safyresky]

Scrimbly Jacqueline 38/52: you're hitting the slopes dressed like THAT?!?!

tumblr crushed the quality, as per the use. Do click and view for prettiest option!

This one is numbero 5/5 of @kscribbs's suggestions! The original suggestion was "The Cold Front skiing/snowboarding/stuck on a chairlift" and I wasn't sure I wanted to give it a go, because frankly drawing Jack actually makes me nervous/scares me, BUT THAT'S I THINK MY BEST JACK TO DATE? FUCKIN' NICE.

Didn't feel like drawing a chairlift, so I decided to draw them just having a grand old time skiing, and then this mental image hit me and I WHEEZED. Jacqueline is like. SAFETY IS IMPORTANT, EVEN IF IT MEANS I OVERHEAT, and Jack's out here like "I don't NEED a helmet OR a snowsuit, I'm Jack Fucking Frost. Are you wearing SNOW PANTS?!?!?!!?"

(She is. 🤭🤭)

Gloves and scarf are deffs gifts from Dite. Jack's hair was very fun! I should've outlined the lil spikey boyos after colouring. Maybe I still will! Who's to say!

Next scrimbly is DEALER'S CHOICE bc it's MY birthday and I chose the doodle! It's very cute! I hope I can pull it off :3 And post it like. Before the 27th so that I can caption it with IT'S MY BDAY, I CHOSE THE SCRIMBLY!

For now, please enjoy the Cold Front sassing one another in different ways. As well as this mental image: alternatively, Jack has like a once piece snowsuit and a sleek helmet he wears skiing/boarding, and it gives "stupid sexy flanders"

Santa is Homer 🤭🤭

[thealmightyemprex]

Rewatching the 90's Fantastic Four cartoon,and the Thing keeps harping on how pretty Thor is and its giving me "Stupid sexy Flanders vibes

@ariel-seagull-wings @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @piterelizabethdevries

[calocera]

Your posts about SNW Spock makes me so curious, could you please explain how they've done him wrong since he seems very different from the original series :O Are they making him more human despite the SNW taking place before the og?

yeah i can! im not the best person to talk about it probably since im a pretty recent trek fan and also tos/spock arent parts of trek i care about as much as a lot of other fans, but i have opinions for sure!!

firstly just up front i do not like ethan peck as spock. he does not look like spock or act in a way i am satisfied with. it feels like the only reason they cast him was because he has a deep voice. so i am going forward in this with haterism for him specifically not JUST how he is written in snw

Spock is written not like a vulcan but like an anhedonic human. actually not even anhedonic, just like a human raised in vulcan society trying to blend in. like there is nothing about him that feels genuine he just feels like woobiebait for 2012 tumblr to make flower crown edits of because he is awkward and quirky. every scene involving spock is a joke about him and his demeanor, everything he says is a wink wink nudge nudge "lol vulcans act like this and its so stupid lol logic is silly" like i can physically feel a laugh track whenever hes on screen. i enjoy jokes about vulcans but it isnt funny when there isnt anything else. its like spock showing emotion, it isnt satisfying when its a constant and not a little treat peppered in. in snw hes stifling a giggle or screaming in pain or being oopsie awkward silly every time he gets a focal scene, it takes the magic away because now it isnt a rare break in character its just how he is. Ive seen a lot of people defend this aspect as him being young and therefore less mature than in tos, but hes like approaching 30 :\ i get him being less mature but he doesnt act like a sheltered 30 year old he acts like someone freshly 18. at this point its just like…MAKE A NEW CHARACTER!!!!

as a point of contrast, i like how uhura is written in snw (in season 1 anyways, she has barely appeared in s2) she is obviously younger and is growing into her spot on the crew, but they arent hinging her character on the 1 or 2 pop culture uhura moments, retconning anything about that that doesnt align with modern media fandom, and calling it a day; they actually expand on her character outside of like idk her doing a sexy dance and her sitting at the phone (though i guess it is easier for her since she had barely any character in tos anyways). meanwhile they DO do that with spock, his bullet point top 10 iconic spock moments of sometimes being awkward and showing emotion are now the only things he is allowed to do. tldr flanderization

i also think its interesting that it is this way since ethan peck played spock in discovery and there hes the exact opposite. hes extremely serious and vulcan; which fits the tone of the show (regardless of my opinions on the tone of disco). i just dont understand how that spock translated into the snw spock. they are not the same guy.

anyways on to the biggest plot related gripe with him...how he interacts with women!!!yay!!

first theres how they decided to have multiple episodes about his, apparently, strained-yet-loving-and-involved relationship with tpring. the inclusion of t'pring feels stupid because other than the 1 minute of cheap "oh i remember her!" from someone seeing her on screen for the first time what point is there to her returning when the ONE canonical fact about her is that she and spock A: had an arranged marriage, B: did not meet in person since they were children, and C: hated each other. its not like there is a huge contingency of t'pring/spock shippers holding out since 1967 so what value does reintroducing her as a character serve? i assume its as some kind of attempt to give a woman who previously had no real character something to do, but her existence on snw is STILL only about spock and her relation to spock so there isnt any sort of feminist level up happening. including her was not interesting enough to justify retconning the plot of the most iconic episode of star trek. especially when multiple episodes tonally and stakes-wise rely on you caring about them as a couple, and anyone watching who knows who she is already knows that her and spock dont have any relationship to speak of in the future so who is this for? if you really really just NEED spock to have sex with a woman why not make a new character? that would also suck but at least it wouldnt be timeline interfering. im not even a huge continuity purist "oh no!!the timeline!!!plotholes!!!" but when the situation is the writers deliberately breaking the continuity in large ways and the outcome isnt even fun? stupid.

and now his relationship with chapel. i am way more annoyed by this one since its just gross. so from tos the only thing with them is that chapel has a crush on him and spock is not interested. also worth noting that its such a non-plot related thing that it only is revealed under the influence of alien drug virus that makes you horny. and they decided that not only was that enough to base a whole reciprocated romance arc around, but now since theyve introduced tpring back into the story, spock is now a cheater??? what is the POINT of breaking canon to introduce spocks girlfriend only to go "well actually hes horny for his coworker" like...that isnt how love triangles work youve just done a character assassination. the man who would rather kill his best friend than have sex with his wife is now fucking both her and the woman who confessed to him and he got so mad he crushed a computer with his bare hands. ok 👍. i just hate that they chose spock to be the romantic center of the show. anyone else could have been the character who gets into relationship drama why spock? there are multiple new characters who could have taken up the position. and its not like spock has nothing else to do as a character without it

to say things specifically about the most recent epsiode since it was particularly annoying and showed things that happen throughout the series:

firstly spock just does shit thats stupid. illogical even. i know the whole logical fallacy moment with vulcans but when it isnt a point of note in the show and rather just happens as if its a normal occurrence for spock as a person im like...he would be a laughing stock on vukcan and not have any of the positive reputation he holds.

the plot of this ep was basically that spock gets turned completely human and they just miss literally the whole point of it. vulcans have MORE emotion than humans, they ACTIVELY suppress it. yet when spock is turned human he just experiences human emotion completely emotionally? he should be having an EASIER time suppressing his emotions. and OMG he gets a BONER because he sees a hot WOMAN LOL LOL isnt that funny? spock got hard isnt that hilarious? its just so cheap. they act like being human makes him a completely different person, they played it like the voyager episode where belanna gets split into human and klingon BUT in that case she was literally split into two different people (this ep had a lot of issues too ie racism but that’s a different can of worms); here spock just becomes human he still has the same memories and training and history...why would he forget what its like to be a vulcan. they could SO EASILY make excuses too but they just didnt care. and anyways bada bing bada boom the ep ends with him and chapel hooking up which i already complained about and could complain about more.

i think thats already too much so im gunna stop myself here but trust theres more i hate and other people have probably talked about this better than i have :')

blade nation

[bardinthezone]

Watching Making myself sit through Moffat's Who, trying to give it a decent chance and I can't stand it already. Y'know why?

The stupid fucking love triangle.

Because not only is it just generally annoying as a trope, but it is so poorly written here. It takes over the show in a really obnoxious way and completely flanderizes characters who, in the first episode, were decent people.

Rory is portrayed as a fool for being... concerned that his fiance is cheating on him with the not-actually-imaginary friend she's been obsessed with since childhood, who she ran off with and kissed (A normal thing to be concerned about!!). And just generally, he's portrayed as a bumbling idiot. As the one who just gets confused and makes one-liners about being insecure. And both Amy and the Doctor just brush him off, leave him behind! Mocked by the woman who's supposed to be there for him and abandoned by the Doctor who's meant to keep him safe. He's being reduced to basically just comic relief here, and it sucks.

The Doctor is so.. aloof. More so than 10 and DEFINTELY moreso than 9. He's a silly, childish man who often fails to recognize the emotional consequences of his actions. He has his emotional moments, yes, but a lot of his writing falls victim to what I call "Sherlock Syndrome." When Moffat just writes an aloof super genius and expects the audience to fawn over him because he has good outfits and witty one-liners. Matt Smith is a fantastic actor and he carries a lot of his run, but putting glitter on a turd doesn't stop it being a turd.

Amy is yet another victim of the "every woman falls madly in love with the Doctor" pitfall. Worked with Rose, got old with Martha and after that almost every one-off woman who flirted with him just made me roll my eyes. Her obsession and anger with the Doctor didn't have to be romantic, but Moffat just couldn't resist writing a "strong female protagonist" who's sexy and she knows it, who loves having all the boys fawn over her and flirts without a care in the world. Who's a brash girlboss in charge of her boys, but who also turns into a sobbing damsel in distress at the slightest sign of danger.

All three of these characters are so blatantly characatures of themselves right now that it takes me out of it. They're all just quippy one-liners of their smartness or their brashness or their insecure foolishness. Can these types of people exist in real life? Yeah. But the way they're written about here is just obnoxious. I'm willing to accept that later Moffat seasons might be better than this (at least on the interpersonal conflict side of things), but it's season 1 and he's already dropping the ball so hard.

We could've gotten something truly marvelous, with a PLATONIC conflict based on the Raggedy Man from her childhood finally coming back and offering her freedom from a boring adult life. She's enamored with him, but doesn't entirely trust him because hey, he massively fucked up once already. Maybe Rory is concerned about his place in Amy's life, and Amy tries to be comforting. Maybe she messes up, maybe she says the wrong thing. Maybe she says the wrong thing right before losing Rory to the crack in space and time. But she has to try, because why should I care about a relationship where one person doesn't care about the other's happiness, at least a little? And right now it just feels like she doesn't.

I'm not saying shows shouldn't have interpersonal conflicts and flawed protagonists. They should! But to pull that off well, you have to make us want to see these characters grow. You have to give us a reason to enjoy watching these characters interact, even at their low points. And revisting Moffat's run as an adult, I don't feel enjoyment. I just feel annoyed.

[ithinkwehitametaphor]

Please look at the best Valentines Day gift ever. STUPID SEX FLANDERS!

@ladydorian Thank you and ILY! <3

[the-sinful-voice-witch]

Ok so... It's time i give my opinion about the Sonic movies since they made me swallow the words of doubt I've been having since the very first announcement but who could blame my skepticism? There's barely any good movie based on a videogame and I didn't want Sonic to be more tarnished and HELL after seeing this thing 👇👇👇👇👇😬😬😬 this fucking thing!:

Why must you traumatize me this way?😭😭😭 What the hell with those teeth 😨😨😨? Eeeeeeeeee

Well sue me for being distrustful about having a good sonic movie! Also after Sonic X, which is ironically the only sonic show i liked for the sole reason of having Knuckles x Rouge content since I couldn't stand the rest of characters! Specially that damn useless, bland, boring, clingy tag along kid!🤬🤬🤬 I wasn't very enthusiastic about having humans with any protagonism 😤😤😤 and doctor eggman first looks didn't appeal me (because I didn't think he would change it to a more accurate appearance 😅)

The point is I stubbornly refused to acknowledge the existence of the first movie, not even with the new kawaii cutie more accurate redesign 🥰🥰🥰

Not even after being told that tails would appear in the sequel and while I was watching the first sequel trailer and I was pleased with what I saw i still remained stubborn until... HE APPEARED 😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯💘💘:

Damnit Idris Elba 😖😖😖 and also Spain Spanish voice actor with your stupid sexy smooth velvet deep voices!!! (As a voice actress I'm a sucker for voices...🤭🤭) Stop pulling out my furro side with knuckles 🙈🙈🙈!! And sexy voices! My ears are sensitive 😳😳😳

And just like that with a: "do I look like i need your power" my willpower banished! 😌😌😌 (I need a t shirt with that sentence 🤩🤩) You won Sonic movie, i watched you because I had to see the sequel ASAP and you shut my mouth and my doubts 🙇🙇🙇 forgive me!

And here my opinion of the first movie: Usually I'm not a fan of Sonic alone, i like it better when there's more characters because in all the versions (except Sonic boom) I've seen of Sonic he is... Well in all the shows before sonic X he is a bit repellent... And then in Sonic X he had a dislikable personality like he was "too cool for everything", he was so free... "Oh I don't like to be attached to anything", "im a free spirit..." "I joke and I'm so cool and I barely have any flaws and I'm only vulnerable in specific few very few moments..."🙄🙄🙄🙄 Ajjj he and Amy had the worst personalities, they were flanderized 😒😒😒 i couldn't ship them in that show like Rouge and knuckles because it was just terrible 😔 but here in the movie i adored his personality because he HAS FLAWS AND HE IS VULNERABLE! this is surprising because according to Ian Flynn writer of IDW comics SEGA for whatever stupid reasons doesn't want Sonic showing strong emotions, he always has to be cool...🙄🙄🙄 (Still i think Ian tried to make him as relatable as he could and improved Amy rose so Kudos!) and condescending and even when he is seen with his friends or at least with just tails he is always portrayed wanting to be alone, free alone on his own blah blah ajj But in this movie Sonic is lonely, he doesn't like to be on his own! He suffers being alone, he has facial expressions that feel like he is about to cry, he has emotions! He wants to play baseball with people and have fun and he is clumsy 😂😂, a complete dork, he makes bad jokes and acts goofy!! He tries to be cool but fails 😆! HE ACTS LIKE WHAT HE IS: A KID! i mean a 15 old teenager but that's a kid 🤭 and he is so lonely he pretends he is part of the family of a couple of humans he sweetly admires! I mean don't you see? Mister "I'm too cool for everything" and "I'm always my way on my own" feels lonely, shows sadness and looks up to people he secretly watches he pretends he is one of them??? I LOVE HIM! He became more wholesome and relatable! 🥰🤗😖😖😖♥️ Before him the only sonic i liked was ironically (because I hate so many things of that show) sonic boom Sonic and it was because since that show was made only with comedy purposes he was made... Not exactly too cool for everything but more like a wannabe cool hero, he had many flaws, we never see him vulnerable because of the comedy but he is sassy and cynical and silly 😂😂😂 and he doesn't seem to like being all alone on his own(he was like that in the game but learned his lesson) he spends a lot of time with his friends and because of all that i found him more likeable.

And that brings me to talk about the humans: oh dear lord donut and lady pretzel, forgive this fool for thinking you would be like that obnoxious tag along useless kid!🙇🙇🙇

This time instead of a clingy kid who follows around the too cool for everything Sonic who acts as a too cool hedgehog big brother who has to rescue him (like Amy🙄).... Since this time Sonic acts his age and it's lonely they have a father-son relationship, tom is his caretaker, it was so wholesome seeing them both with flaws helping each other and bonding over deep moments! And Maddie...💘💘💘 Pulled my gay side out! Seriously Maddie o my Maddie 😍😍😍😍 🥵🥵🥵🥵💘💘💘💘 I'm so in love with her!!! She is so beautiful, so pretty, so kind.... kyaaaaaaaaaaaa The best part of this is that they didn't use a dramatic bullshit plot to make them interesting, they are just a supportive with each other, affectionate loving couple! (No trace of stupid cliche drama to force them to be relatable and interesting like fucking Chris in Sonic x🙄🙄🙄, stupid tag along clingy brat... Little Jojo was more likeable than you and only showed up a moment) And they have a dog and Sonic gets jealous of the dog 😖😖😖😖😖 and they become a family!!!!!! YEEEEESSSSSSS and of course Jim Carrey's Eggman was marvelous!! Perfect mix of sadism, crazyness, evilness... And the fighting scenes were perfect so yeah I've never been so happy to be wrong about a movie 👏👏👏👏😭😭😭

See you in my next post to comment the wonderful sequel!!💋💋💋👋👋👋

[miiracleboys]

enemies to lovers for the fanfiction trope ask game?

grade: b

i like it, but it’s not always a selling point for me on a fic and i prefer when it doesn’t involve much of the “stupid sexy flanders” trope. i think it goes better when paired with other elements, like slow burn and relationship development as they figure each other out and gain respect that becomes a genuine bond of some kind. there are a lot of ways to mess it up, but some of the really good ones have me thinking about them for a while afterward.

give me a fic trope and i’ll rate it!

[schokokokatze]

Pretty-boy Hédomai immediately started a trend of absolutely everybody having a thing for Orthós, while Orthós himself apparently has a "stupid sexy Flanders"-moment.

Éar didn't give a damn, she was busy.

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)

This review contains spoilers.

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive was released in recent years by the Criterion Collection, that great home video company that's probably the OG of boutique labels, known for putting out acclaimed, significant or otherwise interesting films in really nice packages. (For some reason I had been thinking they put this out only last year until I actually looked it up. I guess my sense of time has been a little warped as of late, and as much as I'd like to tie this review into pandemic-era life, the fact is other labels have captured my attention lately, as can be evidenced by my embarrassingly large and extremely shameful Vinegar Syndrome haul from their Halfway to Black Friday sale from a few months ago.) Now, nobody in 2021 is going into this movie truly blind, but if I happened to pick up the Criterion cover and perused the back, aside from the list of special features and disc specs, you'd see the below (which I grabbed off their website):

Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.

Now, this is a tough movie to evoke with only a blurb, but I'd say that does a pretty respectable job. I however do not own this release. What I do own is the barebones Universal DVD that was released a few months after the movie, back when going into the movie blind would have been far more likely. This is the description on the back:

This sexy thriller has been acclaimed as one of the year's best films. Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery - and ensnared in an equally dangerous web of erotic passion. "There's nothing like this baby anywhere! This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of the year. Visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss!" says Rolling Stone's Peter Travers. "See it… then see it again!" (Time Out New York)

Now, the previous description probably couldn't fully capture the movie's essence, but this one makes it sound like an erotic thriller. (Could you imagine somebody going into this thinking this was like a Gregory Dark joint? I say this having seen none of his thrillers and only his hardcore movies, although I must admit an MTV-influenced Mulholland Drive starring, say, Lois Ayres is something I find extremely intriguing.) But you know what? Good for them. Among other things, this movie, with its two all-timer sex scenes, feels like one of the last hurrahs from an era when mainstream American movies could be unabashedly horny, before we were sentenced to an endless barrage of immaculately muscular bodies in spandex (stupid sexy Flanders) somehow drained of all sex appeal (god forbid somebody pop a boner...or ladyboner, let's be egalitarian here). I apologize if I'm coming off as a little gross, but having been able to barely leave the house for practically a year and a half, watching sexy movies like this is one of the few remaining thrills at my disposal. Please, this is all I have.

Now I suppose I should say something about the movie itself, but it might be a challenge given how elusive it is in certain respects (Lynch is notoriously cagey about offering interpretations of his movies) and, as a result, how heavily it's been scrutinized over the years. No doubt any analysis I offer as to the movie's overarching meaning will come off extremely dumbassed. What I will note however, is that for whatever reason, the scene I remembered most vividly is where Justin Theroux walks in on his wife with Billy Ray Cyrus, particularly the candy pink paint he dumps on her jewellery as revenge. We've been following Theroux, a movie director, as he's been having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, having had control over casting his lead actress taken from him, which he proceeds to process by taking a golf club to a windshield of his producers' car and then reacting as above when he finds his wife with the singer of "Achy Breaky Heart".

With his Dune having been notoriously tampered with by producers, I suspect there's a bit of Lynch's own experience in the scene with the producers, which plays like an entirely arbitrary set of rituals deciding the fate of his movie with no regard for his opinion or even basic logic. While I don't know how particular Dino DeLaurentiis was about his espresso, I did laugh. Now, taking the reading that the first two acts of the movie are a fantasy of Naomi Watts' character, who is revealed to be miserable and ridden with jealousy in the third act, the amount of time we spend with Theroux is maybe hard to justify. Is this perhaps her "revenge" on him, his romantic and professional success having been flushed away while he flounders in search of greater meaning to his arc? Aside from possible autobiographical interest, these scenes do play like a riff on the idea that everyone is the main character in their own story, and if the Watts and Laura Harring characters can be thought of as having merged or swap identities, then perhaps Theroux's arc is the remainder of that quotient. (Now, it's worth noting that aside from being insecure and arrogant, Theroux in this movie is a less stylish than the real Lynch. If Watts conjures the best version of herself in her dream, Lynch maybe doesn't want his dream avatar outshining him.)

Now why did the Cyrus scene stick with me all these years when other details had slipped? Mostly because I'd found it amusing, partly because of the extra specific image Lynch produces, and somewhat because of the casting of Billy Ray Cyrus. Now, I don't have any special relationship to the Cyrus' body of work, but Lynch's casting of him, with his distinct mix of bozo, dudebro and hunk, results in a very specific comedic effect. This is something Lynch does elsewhere in the movie, like when he has Robert Forster show up as a detective for a single scene. The Forster role is likely in part a leftover from the movie's origins as a TV pilot, but the effect is similar (albeit less comedic). Melissa George appears as a woman who may or may not be a replacement for Watts in some realm of reality. Other directors obviously cast actors for their screen presence and the audience's relationship to their career, but the way Lynch does it feels particularly pointed, as if he's reshaping them entirely into iconography. The effect is particularly sinister with the presence of Michael J. Anderson, with whom he worked previously on Twin Peaks, and Monty Montgomery as a mysterious cowboy who dangles the secret of the movie over Theroux's character.

Cowboys in movies are frequently heroic presences (see any number of westerns) and are otherwise innocuously stylish (I confess I've come dangerously close to ordering a Stetson hat and a pair of cowboy boots), but the presence of one here feels like a ripple in the movie's reality. A dreamy, brightly lit mystery set in Los Angeles should have no place for a cowboy. It ain't right. (It's worth noting that Lynch at one point copped to admiring Ronald Reagan for reminding him of a cowboy. Is this his expression of a changed opinion? I have no idea, but Lynch has never struck me as all that politically minded.) Neither is the hobo that appears behind the diner. Certainly hobos have made their homes behind diners, but this one's presence and the way Lynch produces him feel again like a ripple in the the movie's narrative. Jump scares are frequently knocked for being lazy and cheap devices to generate shocks, but the one here gets under your skin.

Now about the movie's look. This starts off like a noir, and the mystery plot on paper would lead you to think that's how the whole movie plays, but the cinematography is a lot brighter, with almost confection-like colours, than that would lead you to believe, at least during the daytime scenes. This is another element that likely comes from its TV origins, but it does give the movie a distinctly dreamlike, fantastical quality that a more overtly cinematic look, like the one Lynch used in Lost Highway a few years earlier, might not capture. This is one of the reasons I think this movie works better than that one, and there's also the fact that the amateur sleuthing that drives the bulk of the plot here serves as a more pleasing audience vantage point than the male anxieties that fuel the other film. I also would much rather hang out with Naomi Watts and Laura Harring than a charisma void like Balthazar Getty.

The manufactured warmth of the daytime scenes also results, like in Blue Velvet, in the nighttime scenes feeling like they're in a completely different setting, one which perhaps offers the key to unlocking the mystery, or at least revealing the phoniness of the movie's surfaces. I think of the evocative Club Silencio sequence, which comes as close as anything in the movie to laying its illusions bare. ("No hay banda.") But at times Lynch will throw in disarmingly childlike, inexplicable imagery, like the dancing couples against a purple screen in the opening, something that would seem tacky and amateurish elsewhere but feels oddly cohesive here. There are a number of directors whose work I admire for being "dreamlike", and putting them side by side they all feel quite distinct (you would never mistake a Lucio Fulci film for a Lynch), but they have the unifying idea of imbuing the tactile qualities of film with the truly irrational to really burrow into your subconscious. Other directors have made movies with some of the same elements as Mulholland Drive, but none have put them together in quite the same way.

[delusionland]

honestly CANNOT tell if no-metal wolverine calling people bub and not claiming to have all the wisdom in the world but still being like the old man giving everybody advice all the time and talking about how LOYAL he is and how much he cares about people and how you gotta live in the MOMENT, bub!!! like ME, WOLVERINE! DID I MENTION MY ANIMALISTIC SENSES ARE IMPROVING?

is flanderization bc of bad writing. OR like, a stylistic artistic exaggeration of his TRUE character without the chronic pain / sensory deprivation of his true animalistic form / senses taken away from him, which the visual art style is definitely going for u know what i mean?

i guess it could be both. i’m just mad he used bub on a friend and that his text bubbles looks stupid and hard to read and also he’s not as sexy even tho his bone-claws are Very Sexy : (

part of the sexiness of wolverine in the 80s/early 90s/modern era and in the xmcu is the Repressed Cowboy Energy. but the mid-late 90s wolverine seems to have handed all his repression over the scott summers, who is more visibly repressed & sexy than ever which is the only good part of the onslaught aftermath besides remy and bishop doing Anything

as a sidenote OOF this whole arc with an anti-mutant VIRUS and an anti-mutant bigot president at the same time is like. bro did x-men comics predict the future

[doctorhorrible]

LEAF WOODS

leaf sparrow woods // 40 years old // the big cock at farmville // yes he specifically asked for the chicken costume for that reason // cousin to the woods girls, leaf was raised by the same kind of weird hippie parents // he now lives on a houseboat in villa del luna and smokes too much weed // makes his own deodorant out of alcohol and essential oils so he always smells vaguely like a gin and tonic // has drawn up plans for his own fallout shelter and has a storage unit full of supplies, he’s just yet to find a prime location // very much that free love bitch, anyone interested and willing to consent is leaf’s type // have you ever seen this man in public? he gives off strong “bigfoot in the wild” vibes, so snap a pic!!!

existing connections: the woods women, farmville coworkers, his fellow houseboat buddy (marina’s dougie, idk if he has a name yet???)

wanted connections: fellow oldies!!! other lowkey weirdos (have you ever seen them without these weird hats? that’s weird), exes of any kind (i’m open to just about anything??), maybe someone to “”tame”” him???? wanna talk? hmu! stupid sexy flanders#2836 on discord!!!

[billyboyblue]

Heyy! For batlantern 9 or 12 fluff :)

Thanks so much! This one is gonna rock, cuz i’m giving ya both! lol.

Batlantern~ Come here, you can sit on my lap until I’m done working +/ I’m not jealous! It’s just…You’re mine!

***

Hal was fuming. He was absolutely furious and he was doing everything in his power to make sure that came across. Pulling out all the stops, he’s talking eyebrows in maximum furrow, mouth in full frown, eyes squinting. He was in this, basically. 

The downside however, was that Bruce was more than a little distracted to the frankly ridiculously gigantic computer screen. It was a wonder that Hal didn’t pop a blood vessel with the mental power he was vibing to Bruce; trying to telepath his discontent. ten minutes of that and Hal was already dizzy with the strain. 

This man was the most frustrating person to be mad at, because even if he did turn his big head there was a fifty fifty chance that he wouldn’t even compute that Hal was so close to the edge of constructing a giant rubber hammer and knocking some heads. 

“You know you could always just tell me whats bothering you.” Bruce spoke up suddenly, making Hal jump and flush as ice blue eyes swayed lazily to him. Bruce had a smile so subtle and so Bruce, Hal wanted to kiss it off his stupid perfect face. 

“Oh, I think you know.” Hal answered, just to be thick. 

“Do I?” Bruce answers, turning is chair just slightest bit toward Hal as if that was enough to temper whatever Hal’s problem was. 

“Yes, you should.” Hal moved to lean on the console next to Bruce. 

Out of uniform, and freshly showered, Bruce looked unfairly soft. His raven hair dried in the most rufflable duck tails and Hal was shamed to admit that he was tempered just the slightest bit. With a man as beautiful as Bruce Wayne staring up at you, eyes soft and smile bemused, who wouldn’t. Stupid sexy Flanders, Hal thought, hilariously.

“Well, I have to say that for the first time in our knowing one another, I’m stumped.”

“I’m going to pretend you didn’t just try to mock me as I’m about to explain to you why you’ve wrought my wrath.”

Bruce’s snort was both surprising and infuriatingly charming. “Your wrath, huh?” he asked as he leaned back. His sweats were baggy and his muscle shirt was tight enough to basically be null and void. Hal knew, that Bruce knew exactly what he was doing, the sexy goober.

“My wrath is legendary, I’ll have you know. Believe  me, it’s scary.” Hal assured.

“Mmm, sounds scary. I’m definitely scared. Now, what was it that i did again?”

“You, you big furry, are too much of a flirt.”

“What.” Bruce responded so flatly the question mark was definitely missing.

“You heard me. You Mr. Wayne-Jordan are too loose. Floosie-like. hoey if i may be so bold.”

Bruce’s smile was full blown now, and wow was that ever flabbergasting. “And with whom exactly was I, as you say, hoey?” Bruce asked, mirth obvious in his eyes.

“Well for starters, the paramedic lady earlier.”

“The paramedic lady whom I was informing of all your various injuries, including a near concussion?” Bruce asked, reaching out to slip a finger in Hal’s belt loop, pulling him in slowly.

“Yes well, Batman can be very flirtatious. That brooding thing lends well to romantic allusions. You should be more careful.” Hal said down to him, now standing in between Bruce’s thighs. 

“I most definitely will. I’ll try to keep this sexy sexy brooding contained. Anyone else with whom I’ve been harloting?” 

“Don’t laugh! This is serious, Bruce. You’re too fast and loose with those bedroom eyes. That cop lady was picking up what those baby blues were throwing down. She was down to clown.” Hal assured, hands coming to rest on Bruce's unfairly broad shoulders. Thumbs stoking the base of Bruce's neck, Hal manfully pretended he wasn’t pouting, but from Bruce's look of unabashed amusement told him he’d failed. “You’re an incorrigible flirt, Bruce. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you. I’ll take my apology in cash and or sexual favors. you can get me back whenever.”

“Say, this little performance wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that i’m going off world with Clark in two days would it?”

“Oh, you’re going off world? I had no clue.” Hal lied, eyes wandering over to the cave at large. 

“Uh huh, and this would also not have anything to do with the fact that you’ll be unable to join us seeing as Diana will need back up now that Arthur is focusing on Atlantis.”

“...no”

“Clark is my friend Hal, and occasionally yours when you remember to pick up the phone. You don’t have anything to be jealous of.” 

“I’m not jealous! it’s just... You’re mine!” Hal blurted as he met Bruce’s heavy gaze. “That space hick is gonna pull some of his down home charm, pulling some of that shirtless action like he did tonight, and before you know it you’ll be Bruce Wayne-Kent-El, and I love you too much for that to happen to you.”

“Well i’m glad, because you couldn’t get me to look at Clark that way with Ivy’s Flowerdust. I’m more into crass, hot headed, test pilots these days. Space hick’s aren’t my cup.”

“Hm.” Hal answered, trying to will the flush on his cheeks to kindly fuck off. “Well, i mean, who wouldn’t be into that. The test pilot sounds amazing.”

Bruce pulled him in again, smile kind and hands warm as they settled on Hal’s waist. “You have no idea.” He answered, pulling Hal down to meet his lips in a too soft, too sweet, kiss.

“Mmm. I’m being dumb.” Hal sighted into the kiss.

“I’m not touching that, except to say that no, you’re not dumb. Just blind to your own perfections.”

“How do you do that?” Hal asked as he straightened again, heart beating a little faster just from the sweet words. He was getting so soft.

“It’s a gift. Now, come here and sit on my lap until i’m done working.”

“Oh see you just played yourself, because you may have been joking, but i’m going to definitely take you up on it. Scooch.” Hal giggled out as he planted himself on Bruce’s too hard, but enticingly large thighs. he leaned back, resting his head on Bruce’s shoulder and heard a quiet chuckle as Bruce maneuvered around Hal to get to the keyboard. They’d be here for far too long to stay like this but for now, it was perfect.

[muggertime]

hey, sorry to bother you but... (usually I never ask for art requests, I know how annoying that could be, but I want to give it a try anyways... ) I'm not sure if it exists around already, but have you ever considered to make a Moira x Mercy drawing based on the "Stupid Sexy Flanders" Simpsons meme? -thank you for reading!- *disappears in a puff*

[robertjacobsugdens]

Hello Alex my love if you won’t do us the honor of writing robron the good place au can u pls at least give me some headcanons tyfyt

Yes, of course, mostly bc we already got a few out of the way in the chat.

Aaron is the Eleanor of the whole thing in that sense that he realizes pretty much instantly he doesn’t belong here but also what’s the alternative? Going to hell? Nah. 

Aaron: Look, mate. I might not have been a saint, but it’s not like I killed anybody. I wasn’t an arsonist. I never found a wallet outside of an Gregg’s and thought about returning it but saw the owner lived too far away so just took the cash and dropped the wallet back on the ground.Alex: Okay, that’s really specific, and that makes me think that you definitely did do that.

Except maybe during Aaron’s most self-loathing moments but then before they get together Robert’s like “confess? And ruin MY perfect heaven? No. What if they decide to review our stay too bc we were harboring a fugitive? Absolutely not.” but then they get together and Robert is like “I WOULD RATHER SUFFER THROUGH SEVENTEEN HUNDRED DIFFERENT HELLS THAN LET YOU DO THIS.” Because Robert is intense. 

Robert is def the Tahani of the group bc, come on, that’s just canon Robert. Floral prints included. As I was telling Emma Jean earlier, Robert “involved in the death of SO MANY PEOPLE” Sugden def thinks he was good enough to get into Heaven. Doesn’t even question it. 

Robert: I came up with hundreds of plans in my life, and only one of them got me killed.

That’s a Jason quote, but it works so well, doesn’t it?

so, they hate each other at first, of course. 

Then there’s a lot of “Stupid sexy Flanders”-ing going on, bc that’s just who they are as people.

At first it’s just a physical thing, and it’s not like Aaron is actually with his soulmate, and he was always a contrarian, so. In a way, this is all Heaven’s fault, when you think about it, really. 

Except, Aaron’s soulmate is Alex Mason and Robert’s idk, tbd tbh.

Robert: I don’t have a soulmate! That’s fine! My soulmate will be… money.

Michael is Chrissie, a messy bench who lives for drama, and Janet is Rebecca, obviously. 

Poor Alex Mason, a man who def killed someone, but it was an accident! Is kinda the Chidi of the whole thing (sorry Chidi), but less about teaching them all ethical philosophy and more like “hey, hey, maybe MAYBE we don’t physically assault people who were good enough to get into super special heaven? Especially when you don’t belong here and we’re trying to change that?”

Listen, give Alex Mason a break, is what I’m saying. 

I think Aaron would still be the one who figures it out. 

Aaron: this is the bad place, mate.Robert: no??? Impossible????Chrissie: is it, Robert? Is it?Alex: I can’t believe almond milk led me here.Rebecca: no, it was definitely that time you killed someone.

This would of course reboot the cycle and every time Chrissie would try to keep Aaron and Robert apart, because every time they would start out disliking each other, but then they’d fall in love and it would make them better people in the process and that was never part of the plan.

Aaron: was there ever a time Robert and I didn’t fall in love?Chrissie: no, and frankly you both owe me so much money for that.

They love each other in every universe! In every life! In every simulation! Rip me!

Chrissie: AARON AND ROBERT RUINED MY LIFE!

Relatable Content.

So, anyhow, everything that happened on season 2 also happens and we end up with the gang on the run away from Hell and ending up back in the real world.

We leave them with Robert and Aaron finding each other again on earth.