#out among the audience

[sohannabarberaesque]

One especially interesting part of many a Banana Splits concert

Generally about two-thirds of the way into the second part of a concert appearance by The Banana Splits "themselves," especially in smaller, more intimate locales such as the small-town "opera houses" (usually applied with facetiousness implied), there's bound to be something of an ice-breaker segment leading into the finale, sort of a way to start winding things down.

Bingo will be imagined leading this segment off with some spiel opening to the effect of "Now, I guess you're wondering about the importance of the next segment to hand ...," bound to include Drooper's superhero pastiche of "Super Drooper" made even more hilarious with the transformation background being ABBA's "Super Trooper," which some in the audience have probably mondegreened as "Super Drooper" and his ur-cape being festooned with rhinestones for hilarity, prompting Snorky to make some silly commentary about the whole in his Harpo Marx manner (with Drooper interpreting the whole, inevitably).

Followed by Bingo (himself the Splits' drummer) inviting select audience members to try and pull off a "rimshot" drum number better than Bingo (again, with hilarity being the object--and quite often with contestants getting a T-shirt as a thank-you gift).

Fleegle, not to be outdone, puts in his quarter (bombastically, of course) by as much extending thanks as going into the audience and getting into such antics as kissing random audience members (especially 'tween-type kids and middle-aged ladies), exchanging banter-filled humour and randomly handing out Banana Splits souvenirs and then some (in some instances, awarding one audience member a substantial-sized summer sausage).

Lest Snorky be left out, his place in these antics is to not only award a special Banana Splits prize pack (including T-shirt, satin jacket, backpack and travel set, announced by a rather substantial trumpet blast), but also select random visitors to be their guests at the apres-concert party backstage).

All in all, things are bound to be rather interesting as Banana Splits concerts start winding down and going into the finale, which will be a reprise of "The Tra-La-La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" and a special end-of-show working of "We're The Banana Splits," followed by the group hug and the ur-Benediction.

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

wrote a bunch of posts that i think i didnt post while i was rewatching the specials for rewriting reasons, about how little i think we generally take into account the editing when we talk abt doctor who, bc you kinda stare a lot at that when you make fanvideos right? you notice how when the shot goes to the back of the person speaking that their movements dont match up anymore with their lines, stuff like that. or where lines were cut that are still in the script. the seams appear. im not really good enough yet to have a feel for the pacing of cuts, or when how wide, all that stuff, but i can find the seams at least

and it's fun now bc now that we're talking abt a tv show.........im like narrowing my eyes. bc it's really easy to hide stuff in the seams, right? we overlook the seams. we're meant to. it's a language we know intuitively, we dont have the etymology dictionary open for every word. except i do that too

in the theatre the fourth wall is the one at the edge of the stage basically right? where the curtains open. in tv we say they break the fourth wall when a character looks into the camera. but i dont think the actual camera is the fourth wall in tv really. i think the walls are the cuts. thats where the characters live between. thats what describes the boundaries of the universe

we the 21st century audience can see the camera. are aware of the camera. possibly hyperaware, we're all performing. we dont need someone to look into it to be very aware of where the camera is. the cuts is what we overlook. like the ninjas dressed in black you know?

all this just to say, im gonna try to keep my eye on the razor and the glue rn. is that what they used to put film together? glue? oh film cement apparently. keeping my eye on the cement. nice that fits.

[bietrofastimoff23]

eve: "i think i'd like to see larys and jace [as a ship]".

my first reaction: EVE WTF??????? my delayed reaction: well, this is a strong choice.

[dullahandyke]

the only thing stopping me from writing larxene x aura blackquill smut is that i have no earthly fucking idea how to get the two in a room together. wouldnt want it to be some 'au where theyre both office workers and get locked in a closet xoxo' thing. aiming for fully plausible 'YOU CAN'T PROVE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN'. i usually place japanifornia in quadratum for my ends re: keyblade revolutionnaire, but that asks wicked questions abt how larxene got there so my best bet is probably 'san fransokyo and we imply that the plot of big hero 6 is happening in the background of aa during the 7 year gap'. but then what

[fictionadventurer]

🐵

[davey-in-a-minivan]

also i don't know why every pop culture ref in second star to the left is a fresh shock to me but i can't decide whether the funniest one to me personally was the dora the explorer mention or the heavy implication that gwen and priyanka's book club "romance novel" is gideon the ninth

[philosophiums]

sometimes i think i should post oc content and then i remember the only content i can provide is writing and i am otherwise engaged with that, both historically and at present

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

The I feel like she sees me line being said to Eddie who is the person that truly sees Buck for all that he is. Are we supposed to take this line at face value which would indicate piss poor writing because they needed to rush to a horrible ending or do we take it as Buck being an unreliable narrator? What was the audience supposed to interpret from Buck saying that, were we truly supposed to believe him or we supposed to be pissed at Buck for saying this to the one person that truly sees Buck?

Good morning to me, I guess.

I'm assuming you haven't really seen people's reactions in the fandom on tumblr because I feel like I saw this said in quite a few posts going around, but you are absolutely not supposed to take this line at face value. I'm surprised that people think you should. 9-1-1 has from the beginning had a habit of turning friendships into romantic relationships (Bathena and Madney) and taking their time with these things rather than having an instalove situation. Even Karen and Hen, who meet when they're set up on a date together, don't instantly fall in love. I do not think they would set Eddie or Buck up for an endgame relationship with a woman by having them date that woman immediately, even if they didn't plan to make Buddie canon.

Buck is clearly struggling post-death. He's lost and once again looking for the answer from a romantic partner. He did a lot of growth in regards to his family relationships this season but not his romantic ones. Remember, his couch ended up destroyed and he asked his latest girlfriend to pick the new one out for him. Again. He's still not picking his own damn couch. After being unable to sleep on the one his mom gave him but passed out instantly on Eddie's where he ran to feel safe.

If people think this is all, somehow, an accident or the writers are doing this without knowing what they're doing, then I can't help you. Do you also think the symbolism I put into my fanfics are a total accident? Do you guys think I picked the name of the poem "Fuchsia Emerald Alizarin Rose" just because the colors are fun and they accidentally spell out F.E.A.R. or do you think maybe I did that absolutely 100% on purpose and was waiting for someone to realize?

Buck saying that to Eddie is 100% supposed to make the audience raise their eyebrows. Especially when we see Eddie's reaction. He's confused and he's hurt and he's annoyed. Eddie then spends his next few lines showing Buck (and us) that he sees Buck. Buck misses it, it goes right over his head, but the audience is shown that Buck is wrong and Eddie sees him.

I think there was a lot of internal stuff going on behind the scenes way high up the ladder that meant Buddie didn't happen this season. No, I don't mean that in a tinhatting way, I just mean that they knew Fox wouldn't renew them, they didn't know if they'd get picked up somewhere else, Fox hasn't promoted or cared about this show the way it has its other shows in a while, and I think it's pretty clear there was shuffling and changes going on with 6B. So I think things had to be put off. Similar to the pandemic, where I genuinely wonder what kind of season four we would've gotten if we'd had the full 18 episodes and hadn't had to work around Covid. I think that when we know there was a big shift going on behind the scenes, we need to have some grace and patience in how that will effect the story that's told on screen.

But I think that this default to "everything good we see on our screens is an accident and the writers are making shitty choices" is a horrible bad faith argument, and it's exhausting. Aren't you exhausted? I'm exhausted. Fandom shouldn't treat the writing and production team like their enemies any more than the writing and production team should treat the fans like their enemies in some kind of war they have to win (looking at you, GoT showrunners).

We are supposed to be annoyed that Buck is missing the point. We are supposed to see Buck's yearning to be a husband and a father, and how he's missing what's right in front of him. We are supposed to put two and two together and see that Eddie was hurt by Buck's words, that Eddie sees Buck, that Eddie is Buck's safe place, and that Eddie in that moment decided he might not have a chance with Buck and needs to move on, because previously we saw Eddie admit he wants romance again but he doesn't want to go out on dates, we saw his aunt say she met her husband through work, we saw him say 'we have time' and then we saw him immediately after Buck tells him about this new girl who "sees him" flee to visit his mother and then immediately actually try dating. On a meta level this is also because Eddie needs confidence in himself as a romantic partner and needs some more experience under his belt before he's ready to take the plunge with Buck, but in Eddie's mind, I think it's pretty clear he feels Buck will never want him back and he's trying to find the love he wants somewhere else, even if his heart is still Buck's.

So that's what I think. I think it's not explicitly spelled out for a few reasons, but frankly if one of them was a woman we wouldn't need it explicitly spelled out and personally I kinda like that it's not. Something that annoys me with M/F pairings is the constant "we all know you two like each other" talks from third parties that half the time aren't about the characters but are about the audience, to either tell the audience SEE THEY LIKE EACH OTHER THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT or to give the audience some fanservice while the characters aren't ready to get together. I don't need to be pandered to that way, thank you, so I'm a fan of the slightly more subtle approach that I, personally, see going on with Buddie.

If you or anyone else disagrees with me and feels it was just "piss poor writing" then that's entirely your right. I'd just appreciate it if people who feel that way would stop watching the show, and stop putting their complaints into the inboxes of people who clearly do enjoy the show.

TL;DR - You answered your own question, Buck is an unreliable narrator (and always has been) and we are supposed to be frustrated he said this to Eddie who has proven time and again (and does so in that very scene) that he sees Buck.

[velavesper]

lrb i only wish for my friends and mutuals to find my ocs deeply interesting.

[emikomusubi]

dndhat is in the category of movies that made one billion dollars. To me

[vilnan]

anyway hannibal lecter's little smile when he admitted to bedelia he's in love with will graham was incredible to me

[crazyw3irdo]

quick question- were you a guardians of ga’hoole fan?

while i’m at it, could you share a riddle with us please?

oh you KNOW IT dude i have so many owl plushies too- quite a few with stolen names from the books. and boy was it hard explaining the name “ezylryb”

and my classic go-to riddle is one from the hobbit actually:

a box without hinges, key, or lid, yet inside a golden treasure is hid. what am i?

[54bpm]

Is there anything more awkward then being in a group chat with vtubers you're just meeting and going "Oh I like x big guy" and everyone going "😐😬🙄 Y'know they actually suck and are really petty..." and you just have to go "Oh! Okay." and never talk about them again.

It's especially fun when the complaint is "they're actually super gossipy and a huge shit talker" like what would you call this conversation you just sprung on me. This conversation where all you've done is pull up minor shit and dunk on their model huh.

[matoitech]

talking abt cis ppl slapping top scars on their fanart of a fictional man and calling it a day in the Trans Ally department is criticism of how cis ppl will do the bare minimum and expect ppl 2 clap for them being the biggest allies in the world (wow awesome u recognize trans ppl exist sometimes bcuz u draw an anime man with top scars 1 time so ppl would leave u alone abt never drawing trans ppl, great lol) esp while never interacting with or boosting actual trans peoples art, not as a critique of the character ‘not looking trans enough’. if u think that was the criticism then u have lost the plot cuz being pissy that someone drew a usually masculine guy with top scars and complaining abt how he ‘doesnt even look trans’ is actually just you being shitty. what i always wonder w this too is like. u rly think its actually more progressive for a cis person who has 1 way of drawing men to draw the trans man differently than they do the cis men? you think thats Progressive and Accurate bcuz trans men are a TOTALLY Different Male Species? and u want ppl to think ur not a transphobic idiot and ur actually making points? u dont even understand what the original joke and criticism was

[jessiarts]

You ever have an idea that you feel is good and and you feel people would like/want it and you want to do it, but thinking about how much effort it would take to execute, and the resources you might need, and finding people to help because you can't do it alone, and about legality, and safety, and just... thinking about it zaps all your energy because you're just... you. And how could you possibly do it, let alone do it right?

I don't know. I'm having feelings.