“When they do eventually invent time machines, it’s ancient Rome that’s going to be booked solid for months as a destination. Sure, a lot of the people who are “saving to go to Tokyo” at the moment will go to feudal Japan and bring back a load of hand-crafted armour, but they will be in the minority. Some people will simply use it to go back to London in the 90s and watch an episode of The Big Breakfast being filmed before having sex with Robbie Williams. I’ll drag my girlfriend to Victorian Whitechapel – “No, it’s good! They have trains, and smog! We can wear grey clothes and solve that murder!” – and the whole trip will be so underwhelming I’ll have to take us on a big expensive fortnight in 60s New York as penance.”
“But, fundamentally, when time travel is invented your WhatsApp is going to be pinging with newly formed groups called “Ancient Rome trip”. You’re going to have to free up thousands of pounds for travel and a few gold coins for accommodation and the wine kitty. Every stag do for the rest of time will be to see bloodsports at the Colosseum, before watching a sculptor make an emperor’s marble bust. You’ll be stood next to someone’s mostly-silent friend-from-uni for an entire long weekend before Christ was born, and the only thing he’ll say to you is, “Mad how they’ve got underfloor heating, isn’t it? We haven’t even got that in the flat.”
“Anyway, here’s Those About to Die (18 July, Prime Video), which will have to do until then. It’s a mega-budget swords-and-sandals epic, inexplicably starring Anthony Hopkins, who plays an ageing Emperor Vespasian as he has to choose a successor from his two sons, the warrior Titus Flavanius (Tom Hughes) and the unbearable Domitian (Jojo Macari). There’s a delicate power shift among Rome’s political elite; there’s a lot of chariot racing; there are queens who keep walking around at night with hoods on; there are slaves who through honour and great strength will make it to the top; there’s a lot of pouring wine out of big jugs. Blood spatters the sand.”
CHARLIE MAGNE from HAZBIN HOTEL (2019): Pilot - "That's Entertainment"
↳ "So, I've been thinking: Isn't there a more humane way to hinder overpopulation here in Hell? Perhaps we can create an alternative way to change souls through... redemption?"
OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever
I'm sure you've been asked before. But. What are your thoughts on the deadpool video game. I have.... lots of words I could say about it. It's really hard for ppl to make a Good dp adaption it seems
it's a product of it's time.... you truly can tell it was written in the rage comic era of the internet. and you can tell that this particular wade wilson probably had this t-shirt tucked away somewhere in his closet
audiences liked it at the time. i've never played it. just watched a few playthroughs on youtube back in like, 2014, and by then it already felt dated. and it came out in... 2013? what the fuck? 2013??????
i really thought it came out in like, 2009 or something. oh my god. oh my god.
listen. wade didn't start drinking respect women juice until 2022. that's the unfortunate truth. i know people point at sexist points in deadpool's comics and games and movies and say "UNGH. WADE WOULD NEVER." but the fact you all have to accept is that: wade did.
this progressive-pool that we've been seeing lately is a new development. you all have to accept all of the cringe that comes prepackaged with wade wilson: problematic fave since 1991. mouth piece for creepy comic dude bros - sometimes self-aware about it, sometimes (unfortunately) not.
"Keep you safe here in my arms, I, I will protect you, at all costs... " 💜💛
(Draw This In Your Style Challenge!)
ITS FINALLY DONE!! 😭 This is my very first DTIYS challenge! I participated in Flicker's challenge a while back and it inspired me to do my own! Would you believe this took me two weeks to finish? 😅 I was heavily inspired by one of the songs from "Thumbelina", which is what my version of At All Costs is inspired by. This one is from one of the later chapters where during the above mentioned song, the two confess their feelings for each other. Its goes in a more magical direction where it calls back to older Disney films where the main couple danced in the sky. And I'm a sucker for the forehead touching thing couples do in movies, its so wholesome. 💙💙
(I wanted to draw them hugging too, but my hand got tired. 😅)
This will be the last content I'll drop for Wish Granted for a while. Aside from reading my friends other wish rewrites, the only other thing I'll be doing is updating past chapters. Fixing grammatical/typing errors, adding extra dialogue that helps the story and things like that. I'll write chapter 7 later this month after my break. So I can't wait to see what you guys cook up! 😎
How many times has corroded coffin tried to incorporate ‘pyrotechnics’ into their performance (eddie lighting the spray from an aerosol can on fire and screaming because he scared himself. Then the rest of the band screaming because he turned to face them while still spraying the can and almost melting an amp, Jeff’s eye brows and a drum) before they had to be stopped?
It was so funny to me though that around session 6 Jimmy tried so hard to get Pearl to turn into 5am Pearl and was pissed when she was so guilty and apologetic over hurting Skizz but all it really took was her getting a bad day in session 7 and Scar destroying her chests to finally tick her off to want murder and homicide.