#nigel Richards

[sometimesboffosometimesnot]

The man, the myth, the legend, Nigel Richards has done it again.

The man who won the World French Scrabble Tournament without knowing French in 2015, has won the World Spanish Scrabble Tournament to cap off 2024.

He only lost 1 game.

[slur-sayer]

I would let him smash tbh

[angevinyaoiz]

When i first watched the movie I didn’t know all the ins and outs Angevin drama that I do now, but I immediately thought of Richard like “I can see why he was so quick to go on crusade lmfao, it’s like those kids who go crazy on their gap year once they finally leave the house” (the reality is funnier though but in the universe of the movie it just Makes Sense)

More Lion in Winter memes and doodles, since people really seemed to like the last batch

[springtkh]

TAWOG Characters as humans

[taciturned]

like minds, 2006

ada limón / richard siken / marie rutkoski / margaret atwood / hedgie choi

[citrusflavouredsunset]

Thats nigel richards and sure maybe it says something linguistically but its NIGEL FUCKING RICHARDS noone else could ever do this. Hes the most dominant athlete of all time. He’s a thousand times better at scrabble than wayne gretsky is at hockey or magnus carlsen is at chess. Look up “nigel richards plays” on will anderson’s youtube channel hes just simply better than anyone has ever been at anything. Fuckkkkkk we stan a king

Do y'all remember that story of the guy who won a French scrabble tournament without speaking a word of French?

It's either a testament of how well he can memorize random words without knowing their meaning, or a testament of how badly French needs multiple spelling reforms.

[asexplainedbyttoi]

Happy polling day!

Now get out there and vote!

Don’t forget your photo ID! It can be recently expired as long as it has your name and looks like you!

[laurelwen]

Martin McKenzie and Alex Forbes

I've been having a think about McKenzie, since he doesn't get a lot of attention. I tend to dismiss him because he represents a few tropes that I can't stand: the cocky, belligerent cop who runs on "gut instincts" that turn out to be correct. It's an archetype you find in a lot of media, and it always bugs me because I don't want this douchebag to be correct. He's also shown as a foil to Sally in an extremely sexist dynamic, which I discuss more here.

Setting aside the tired tropes and the sexist BS for a moment, I wanted to ask the question: why exactly is McKenzie SO absolutely sure that Alex is guilty from get go? My answer: because in fact, Alex and McKenzie are cut from the same cloth. I think Martin is Alex as he would be if he remained within the system, having made an uneasy truce with the rules but failing to be completely comfortable within those boundaries.

When you really compare them, their mannerisms are incredibly similar. Both of them sit the same, with a casual slouch that speaks to a certain insouciance. They aren't interested in presenting themselves as conforming to expected proper formality. In Alex, this is presented as a facet of teenage rebellion, while in Martin it suggests the maverick cop who bucks the system. These traits arise from the same type of personality.

When confronted with their own wrongdoing, both react by hiding their hands in their pockets, a signal that they are feeling defensive and/or guilty. Alex keeps his hands in his pockets the entire time he interacts with his father and with McKenzie, from the beginning to the end of each scene, while standing, sitting, and walking. McKenzie puts his hands in his pockets while Sally chews him out for punching Alex.

Both of them seem to have a certain level of oral fixation. Alex chews incessantly on his pen while struggling with his homework. McKenzie commits crimes against coffee by biting his styrofoam cup edges consistently, and he also has a smoking habit. These compulsions are often a response to stress--both are in stressful circumstances/lifestyles and both seem to lack any healthy outlets for their stress.

Alex and Martin share one other key trait: volatility and aggression. In circumstances where someone is antagonizing them, they both become angry and lash out with physical violence against the source of this antagonism.

I think Martin is particularly annoyed by Alex because they are so similar. I also offer this conjecture: perhaps he is firmly convinced that Alex is "an evil little fucker" because he senses a certain kinship with Alex, and that allows him to understand what kind of person Alex is and what he might be capable of.

Based on their other similarities, Martin could believably share Alex's darker impulses or tendencies as well. It's not uncommon for people with violent and aggressive personalities to seek out professions where they are allowed or even encouraged to vent those urges, and law enforcement is one of the most obvious choices. Though he might not have acted upon it in the same way, perhaps he recognizes this shared darkness and is therefore able to read Alex in a way that Sally cannot. Perhaps he looks at Alex and sees a mirror reflecting the darkest parts of himself back at him.

[Like Minds Masterpost]

[henry-the-queer-artist]

[blizzardsuplex]

Deep Dive Masterpost pt. 3 - LiveJournal/Dreamwidth

Apparently I'm posting these in terms of how difficult the sites were to search. There are some truly embarrassing pictures of baby Roddy here, so I'm sure @mobiblackout, @btybbcedes, @sadiesm, @christiancagesupporter (especially!), and @moxapologist will love them LOL. Under the cut once again!

[GenNext! And an awful beard on RS man, LOL]

[smile]

[This pic is literally named "gayest shirt ever" LOL]

[The boa!]

[With James Gibson/Jamie Noble]

[Right: why do his trunks look so small?]

[versus Claudio]

[this picture is just extremely aesthetic]

[side profiles]

[Right: he's gonna die]

[For a second I thought they kissed LOL]

[this one is just beautiful...]

[...and this one is just something else.]

[idwsonicnews]

Sonic the Hedgehog's 900th Adventure Solicitation

Saving the world is a piece of cake when you’re a speedy blue hedgehog. And Sonic is about to go on his 900th world-saving adventure! Sonic and his friends are playing a game of hot potato! Only the potato is the Warp Topaz and it could warp the whole world into oblivion. The gang is passing off the Warp Topaz in a relay race to get rid of it once and for all

Authors: Ian Flynn, Evan Stanley, Caleb Goellner, Daniel Barnes, Aaron Hammerstrom, Nigel Kitching

Artists: Adam Bryce Thomas, Evan Stanley, Abby Bulmer, Min Ho Kim, Aaron Hammerstrom, Mauro Fonseca

Cover A: Tracy Yardley

Cover B: Yuji Uekawa of Sega of Japan

Cover C: Evan Stanley

Cover D: Adam Bryce Thomas

1:10 Retailer Incentive Variant: Nathalie Fourdraine

1:25 Retailer Incentive Variant: Richard Elson

1:50 Retailer Incentive Variant: Jonathan H. Gray

Tentative Release Date: August 16th 2023

[colorhollywood]

Old Hollywood actors born in 1895

Buster Keaton

Rudolph Valentino

Bert Lahr

Paul Lukas

Sidney Blackmer

William Boyd

Richard Barthelmess

Paul Muni

Nigel Bruce

Bud Abbott

[artem1sc0re]

I’m bored and exams are temporarily over for me sooo (also just something whilst I work on an edit because yes I think it’s a better way to use my time)

Watch dogs characters and their favourite sweets or chocolate (except it’s based off of my own favourites)

(Lovingly discussed with my partner)

Watch Dogs 1:

Aiden Pearce - milk chocolate coins

- There’s something about the slow pacing of opening two foiled sides of a coin to eat the chocolate that makes me think he’d like them

- probably was his favourite part about Christmas as a kid; he seems like he got them in his stocking a lot of the time

Jordi Chin - strawberry pencils

- depending where you get them, the flavour/taste fluctuates. Like the way he fluctuates when it comes to choosing sides (cough cough watch dogs act 5)

- he seems like he’d like to shuffle between stores to change up the taste. Makes for easy elimination and helps him know what stores do the best pencils.

Clara Lille - raspberry ruffles

- vibes

- she’d probably be a sucker for certain types of dark chocolate

Raymond Kenney - Haribo giant strawberries

- Me when I project onto my fav characters

- I feel like frewer introduced him to them and he stayed away from them in the past but then he picked them back up and has been in love with them since

Tobias Frewer - digestives milk chocolate hobnobs

- similar to some of the other headcanons, it’s the vibe really. He definitely gives off an oatmeal kind of biscuit

- he’d probably eat it to spite those who hate it but then ends up liking them

Defalt - millions (sweets)

- the sweet sticks to you and is difficult/annoying to get out of your mouth when you chew too much. Now associate it with his character and you’ll see why I chose it /lh /j

- he seems like a gum chewer and these feel like a good substitute for him if he doesn’t have any

Nicole Pearce - Bounty (chocolate)

- I have no explanation for this one but she seems like she’d like coconut flavoured things

- was definitely one of her favourite chocolates back when she lived in Northern Ireland (assuming that they emigrated to Chicago during their teens)

Watch Dogs 2

Marcus Holloway - Cadbury marvellous creations jelly popping candy chocolate

- he really likes the jelly parts in the chocolate and finds it entertaining to just try and find them when taking a piece and feeling accomplished when he finds a jelly, feeling ecstatic when he finds more than one in the singular chocolate piece

Sitara Dhawan - sour tongue painters

- It’s the vibe of the sweet in general really that just made me instantly think ‘Sitara’; might be the whole ‘corner shop’ vibe they’ve got to them or the sour but gradually sweet taste they have

Horatio Carlin - strawberry laces

- Simple guy, simple snack. Makes sense.

Wrench & Josh Sauchak - Candy sticks

- The both of them are absolute FIENDS for them

- Wrench is the one more likely to pick a fight to try and steal them if Josh has a packet

- Wrench always gets the temporary tattoos that come with them

Watch Dogs Legion

- Dalton Wolfe - Cadbury chocolate mini rolls (specifically the ones with raspberry jam)

- he absolutely loves them and loves when there’s 10 packs on sale. Definitely brought them over to the dedsec hideout at one point but then stopped when all of them were gone in a day and he didn’t get a single one

- Sabine Brandt - Popping candy

- everyone hates it but she seems like she’d treat the popping sound like white noise

- Bagley - Liquorice allsorts

- he’s never had sweets but he’ll say his favourite is liquorice just to cause an outrage amongst the resistance

- Skye Larsen - lemon refreshers

- as much as I’d like to spread the agenda of my love for chewy sweets and just the habit chewing in general and proceeding to project that, I feel like she’d consume them in a strange way; and by that I mean swallowing it whole without chewing on it

- She probably has a strange talent outside of computers for swallowing sweets whole

- she just gives off the vibe of a refresher idk why

- Nowt - candy floss

- no character reason really because as of writing this I have not finished legion, neither have I finished her contracts. This is just based off of her vibes

- Kaitlin Lau - Haribo supermix

- is a bit of a mixed bag, with the variety of choices to choose from

- uses them as an excuse to teach herself decision making skills due to this

- seems like shed organise them based on their sweet

- Emily Child - Coca Cola flavoured tic tacs

- she’d stand on the point that tic tacs are breath refreshers and you can’t change her mind on it

- she seems like she’d like Coca Cola as a drink too

[thisbluespirit]

Films watched (2010s): MADE IN DAGENHAM (2010) dir. Nigel Cole; screenplay by William Ivory. Starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Daniel Mays & Richard Schiff.

"What do you think this strike's all been about? Oh yeah. Actually you're right. You don't go on the drink. You don't gamble, you join in with the kids, you don't knock us about. Oh, lucky me. For Christ's sake, Eddie, that's as it should be! You try and understand that. Rights, not privileges. It's that easy. It really bloody is."

[angevinyaoiz]

Three Whiskered Things

[topperhay]

Mr Windsor has a lovely remote ride in the country where nobody can notice his expired driver's license.