#phil defer

[musettastone]

Nobody asked, but here are some of my personal headcanons for various Lucky Luke characters hehe

Lucky Luke

☆Luke is short for Lucas, but nobody ever calls him that except his mother

☆Luke's father (who wasn't in his life, ditched before he was born) was actually an outlaw (though not a very successful one). Unlike Luke, he was a terrible shot.

☆Luke got Jolly imported from London and initially found Rantanplan as a puppy in Texas (before he became a prison "guard dog")

☆Luke is 24

☆Luke's dream vacation spot is Belgium (which is why his outfit is based off of the Belgian flag 🇧🇪)

☆ Fingers helped Luke to quit smoking (semi-canon I guess because "Fingers" was the first issue where he stopped smoking completely)

☆Luke was born in Colorado, but his true home is ✨️Texas✨️

The Daltons

☆William and Jack are identical twins, although Jack is taller because he ate healthier growing up lol. They both like to confuse other people on who is who and often switch names and pretend to be each other. Even Luke can't keep up with who is who.

☆Joe has NRP2 dwarfism, a rare type of proportional dwarfism. He is about 4' 5" due to this condition, although he has never received an official diagnosis (because it's the 1800s, lol). Averell, on the other hand, is 6' 8" and often has to bend to get through doors.

☆The only food Averell hates is chocolate

☆Joe would never admit it, but he has a hobby for stargazing and often likes to analyze constellations

☆William loves to cheat at cards while Jack prefers to play fair

☆Ages: Joe: 26, Jack and William: 24 and Averell, 22

Billy The Kid

☆Billy's full name is Henry McCarty (just like the real Billy The Kid lol), but he will smack you (or try to at least) if you call him Henry

☆Billy has a secret passion for baking. He loves sweets, especially pastries, and will often make them by the dozen

Fingers

☆Real name is Freddie (he ALWAYS spells it with the "ie", he insists)

☆Always getting his nails done, and he always has on 2 inch blinged out acrylics (another reason why they call him Fingers, lol)

☆Born in the West Indies, specifically Martinique.

☆Fingers is a traveler by heart, so he is always going to and from different countries, his current residence being the United States, his previous being France.

☆Best friends with Pat Poker, they love doing card tricks together

Pat Poker

☆Born and raised in Chicago (pre fire), which is where he learned to play cards. Cheating runs in his blood, as his father, grandfather, cousins, and siblings were also huge card sharks.

☆Builds card houses for fun with his gang

☆When he doesn't cheat, he actually hates poker just because it is too unpredictable for him, lol

☆Favorite colors are pink and purple. He has his office painted pink and has rhinestones with his initials on his gun

Others

☆Phil Defer is like 7 feet tall, even taller than Averell. He is also best friends with Elliot Belt.

☆August Oyster and Calamity Jane secretly would like to befriend each other but would NEVER admit it

☆Waldo Badminton has a blackbelt in jujutsu

☆Mad Jim spent hours in the mirror just trying to get that Lucky Luke combover right lol

☆Ma Dalton and Pa Dalton often went on robbing sprees for their date nights

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

lmao the 'working while on student visa' page on this uni website, so clearly aimed at people fr the global south, had a header that shows someone dark-skinned making a coffee, and this is the first time I saw a dark skinned person on this website so far

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Marshmallow Longtermism

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this week!

My latest column for Locus Magazine is "Marshmallow Longtermism"; it's a reflection on how conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making hard trade-offs, but are utterly lacking in these traits when it comes to climate change and inequality:

https://locusmag.com/2024/09/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longtermism/

Conservatives often root our societal ills in a childish impatience, and cast themselves as wise adults who understand that "you can't get something for nothing." Think here of the memes about lazy kids who would rather spend on avocado toast and fancy third-wave coffee rather than paying off their student loans. In this framing, poverty is a consequence of immaturity. To be a functional adult is to be sober in all things: not only does a grownup limit their intoxicant intake to head off hangovers, they also go to the gym to prevent future health problems, they save their discretionary income to cover a down-payment and student loans.

This isn't asceticism, though: it's a mature decision to delay gratification. Avocado toast is a reward for a life well-lived: once you've paid off your mortgage and put your kid through college, then you can have that oat-milk latte. This is just "sound reasoning": every day you fail to pay off your student loan represents another day of compounding interest. Pay off the loan first, and you'll save many avo toasts' worth of interest and your net toast consumption can go way, way up.

Cleaving the world into the patient (the mature, the adult, the wise) and the impatient (the childish, the foolish, the feckless) does important political work. It transforms every societal ill into a personal failing: the prisoner in the dock who stole to survive can be recast as a deficient whose partying on study-nights led to their failure to achieve the grades needed for a merit scholarship, a first-class degree, and a high-paying job.

Dividing the human race into "the wise" and "the foolish" forms an ethical basis for hierarchy. If some of us are born (or raised) for wisdom, then naturally those people should be in charge. Moreover, putting the innately foolish in charge is a recipe for disaster. The political scientist Corey Robin identifies this as the unifying belief common to every kind of conservativism: that some are born to rule, others are born to be ruled over:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/01/set-healthy-boundaries/#healthy-populism

This is why conservatives are so affronted by affirmative action, whose premise is that the absence of minorities in the halls of power stems from systemic bias. For conservatives, the fact that people like themselves are running things is evidence of their own virtue and suitability for rule. In conservative canon, the act of shunting aside members of dominant groups to make space for members of disfavored minorities isn't justice, it's dangerous "virtue signaling" that puts the childish and unfit in positions of authority.

Again, this does important political work. If you are ideologically committed to deregulation, and then a giant, deregulated sea-freighter crashes into a bridge, you can avoid any discussion of re-regulating the industry by insisting that we are living in a corrupted age where the unfit are unjustly elevated to positions of authority. That bridge wasn't killed by deregulation – it's demise is the fault of the DEI hire who captained the ship:

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-dei-utah-lawmaker-phil-lyman-misinformation

The idea of a society made up of the patient and wise and the impatient and foolish is as old as Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper," but it acquired a sheen of scientific legitimacy in 1970, with Walter Mischel's legendary "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

In this experiment, kids were left alone in a locked room with a single marshmallow, after being told that they would get two marshmallows in 15 minutes, but only if they waited until them to eat the marshmallow before them. Mischel followed these kids for decades, finding that the kids who delayed gratification and got that second marshmallow did better on every axis – educational attainment, employment, and income. Adult brain-scans of these subjects revealed structural differences between the patient and the impatient.

For many years, the Stanford Marshmallow experiment has been used to validate the cleavage of humanity in the patient and wise and impatient and foolish. Those brain scans were said to reveal the biological basis for thinking of humanity's innate rulers as a superior subspecies, hidden in plain sight, destined to rule.

Then came the "replication crisis," in which numerous bedrock psychological studies from the mid 20th century were re-run by scientists whose fresh vigor disproved and/or complicated the career-defining findings of the giants of behavioral "science." When researchers re-ran Mischel's tests, they discovered an important gloss to his findings. By questioning the kids who ate the marshmallows right away, rather than waiting to get two marshmallows, they discovered that these kids weren't impatient, they were rational.

The kids who ate the marshmallows were more likely to come from poorer households. These kids had repeatedly been disappointed by the adults in their lives, who routinely broke their promises to the kids. Sometimes, this was well-intentioned, as when an economically precarious parent promised a treat, only to come up short because of an unexpected bill. Sometimes, this was just callousness, as when teachers, social workers or other authority figures fobbed these kids off with promises they knew they couldn't keep.

The marshmallow-eating kids had rationally analyzed their previous experiences and were making a sound bet that a marshmallow on the plate now was worth more than a strange adult's promise of two marshmallows. The "patient" kids who waited for the second marshmallow weren't so much patient as they were trusting: they had grown up with parents who had the kind of financial cushion that let them follow through on their promises, and who had the kind of social power that convinced other adults – teachers, etc – to follow through on their promises to their kids.

Once you understand this, the lesson of the Marshmallow Experiment is inverted. The reason two marshmallow kids thrived is that they came from privileged backgrounds: their high grades were down to private tutors, not the choice to study rather than partying. Their plum jobs and high salaries came from university and family connections, not merit. Their brain differences were the result of a life free from the chronic, extreme stress that comes with poverty.

Post-replication crisis, the moral of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment is that everyone experiences a mix of patience and impatience, but for the people born to privilege, the consequences of impatience are blunted and the rewards of patience are maximized.

Which explains a lot about how rich people actually behave. Take Charles Koch, who grew his father's coal empire a thousandfold by making long-term investments in automation. Koch is a vocal proponent of patience and long-term thinking, and is openly contemptuous of publicly traded companies because of the pressure from shareholders to give preference to short-term extraction over long-term planning. He's got a point.

Koch isn't just a fossil fuel baron, he's also a wildly successful ideologue. Koch is one of a handful of oligarchs who have transformed American politics by patiently investing in a kraken's worth of think tanks, universities, PACs, astroturf organizations, Star chambers and other world-girding tentacles. After decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, court-packing and propagandizing, the American billionaire class has seized control of the US and its institutions. Patience pays!

But Koch's longtermism is highly selective. Arguably, Charles Koch bears more personal responsibility for delaying action on the climate emergency than any other person, alive or dead. Addressing greenhouse gasses is the most grasshopper-and-the-ant-ass crisis of all. Every day we delayed doing something about this foreseeable, well-understood climate debt added sky-high compounding interest. In failing to act, we saved billions – but we stuck our future selves with trillions in debt for which no bankruptcy procedure exists.

By convincing us not to invest in retooling for renewables in order to make his billions, Koch was committing the sin of premature avocado toast, times a billion. His inability to defer gratification – which he imposed on the rest of us – means that we are likely to lose much of world's coastal cities (including the state of Florida), and will have to find trillions to cope with wildfires, zoonotic plagues, and hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

Koch isn't a serene Buddha whose ability to surf over his impetuous attachments qualifies him to make decisions for the rest of us. Rather, he – like everyone else – is a flawed vessel whose blind spots are just as stubborn as ours. But unlike a person whose lack of foresight leads to drug addiction and petty crimes to support their habit, Koch's flaws don't just hurt a few people, they hurt our entire species and the only planet that can support it.

The selective marshmallow patience of the rich creates problems beyond climate debt. Koch and his fellow oligarchs are, first and foremost, supporters of oligarchy, an intrinsically destabilizing political arrangement that actually threatens their fortunes. Policies that favor the wealthy are always seeking an equilibrium between instability and inequality: a rich person can either submit to having their money taxed away to build hospitals, roads and schools, or they can invest in building high walls and paying guards to keep the rest of us from building guillotines on their lawns.

Rich people gobble that marshmallow like there's no tomorrow (literally). They always overestimate how much bang they'll get for their guard-labor buck, and underestimate how determined the poors will get after watching their children die of starvation and preventable diseases.

All of us benefit from some kind of cushion from our bad judgment, but not too much. The problem isn't that wealthy people get to make a few poor choices without suffering brutal consequences – it's that they hoard this benefit. Most of us are one missed student debt payment away from penalties and interest that add twenty years to our loan, while Charles Koch can set the planet on fire and continue to act as though he was born with the special judgment that means he knows what's best for us.

On SEPTEMBER 24th, I'll be speaking IN PERSON at the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY!!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/04/deferred-gratification/#selective-foresight

Image: Mark S (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/markoz46/4864682934/

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[ahappydnp]

btw dnp lore dnp got wrong in the video:

pinof 1 was filmed the day after they met on the 20th

dan had been making videos for 6 months, not 3 in pinof 2

pinof 3 was filmed in their first shared manchester flat and not in phil's flat alone

dan had already deferred his second year of uni when they filmed pinof 3 in november 2011

the champagne was £2,000 not £9,000

these phake phans i stg...

[antimony-medusa]

hiya medusa its been a while! im curious - as someone who has been watching phil for a while now, have you noticed anything specific thats changed with how he does rp/creates his characters? ive not had the chance to see much of his qsmp stuff, but i imagine having done various smps with various levels of rp/lore, there must have been changes to his approach

Okay so there have been two big changes from DSMP to QSMP that I've noticed. The first one is just that Phil is way more willing to do lore, and to tell his own story? In DSMP he was constantly deferring to whoever the writers were for the arc and never wanted to run over any of that, so he'd be really reluctant to join RP when it wasn't "official canon" and he'd be very careful not to overstep the bounds of the story other people had written. It was always lore being written by someone else— wilbur or techno or tommy or sam or dream— I think the syndicate end is the only one he actually fully wrote? On QSMP he's WAY more open with telling his own story. With the ender king possession arc that we just had, he just role-played for I think over two hours over two different streams, and that was a story he built collaboratively with the admins, but it was also one he clearly had a hand in himself. So I would say just the willingness to roleplay and tell a story is much increased. And he's using cinematics and special Minecraft skins and voice modulators— he's going for it!

The other change is uh, the gay roleplay and flirting. If you watch things like Hexxit Homies Phil definitely used to be more comfortable playing into the relationship rp, but on DSMP he was surrounded by minors or characters he was canonically related to or creators who didn't really go for flirting on-screen (techno). So all of that stopped. And then he went to QSMP and FitMC was there, and Charlie Slime, and Etoiles, and Missa, and boy. Phil flirts back/rps back now. And will say things like "stay away from my platonic husband!" and put his bed next to someone's, and pole dance on his husband, and tell FitMC he's stolen his heart, and talk about his cock with Etoiles, and much more. You can just tell that he has way less issue with the jokes and the implications now. Which honestly makes perfect sense, playing into gay rp with someone who can legally rent a car and who is clearly delightedly making jokes about it is not the the same as with a sixteen year old. To understate the situation slightly.

[fryday]

RE: Phil being quiet and Dan making the innuendos and winks, I actually think the opposite.

Phil said in his coming out video that he had been out and comfortable with himself for years and would have preferred to do a short video just talking from inside an actual closet lol

My interpretation is that he would have been ready and comfortable to be out as a couple this whole time but since Dan wasn't (isn't?), he deferred to Dan's comfort level. He let's Dan make the jokes because he gets to set the boundary.

I think the comment about doors was like, an agreed upon message. Almost like a press release statement lol I think they talked about it and decided that was the messaging. Especially since they referred to it in the mukbang 2 video.

Anyway that's just my interpretation. Hope that makes sense. I love scrolling through your theories! I'm the same age as Dan and I've been a phan since 2010 so it's nice to see the phantom come back more mature and kind that it was before.

(x) sorry for taking so long to respond to this! i think that is a really good interpretation of it, yes! one which i hadn't thought about at all

a counter-proposal re: how phil would've been happy with them being out as a couple long before, would be that phil is generally quite a private person and the stuff he shares with us on amazingphil, when he's acting purely on his own instinct and isn't interacting with/playing off of dan, is anecdotal but not necessarily revealing about himself as a person or his life. and i feel like he's quite professional in that way, that he shares what's pertinent to him doing his job well ie comedic stories, but doesn't go beyond that.

we also know that for the longest time he didn't actually feel the need to talk about his sexuality online at all because, as you said, he had already been out to some people in his life for a while by then and (a) thought that he was happy the way things were and (b) didn't really think it was a big thing that needed to be addressed on his public platform. but we know from COTY that part of why he was making it was so it could help people who might need it, and we know from his opinions in hindsight that actually coming out online DID make a difference in how free he felt after all. but perhaps, his relationship with dan was not something that could HELP people in any obvious way, and at that point it might have seemed irrelevant to him anyway from a freedom of expression standpoint because dan was hardly online/was hardly going to be online with him anyway. so he might not have felt the need even then to be transparent about them as a couple.

tl;dr - to me, phil comes across as a generally private person even if we're not talking about his relationship with dan, so he MIGHT not have found it relevant for them to be out as a couple before anyway.

but that's all speculation to do with the past! as things are now, if they actually have agreed to hard launch and are leading up to it, i totally see your POV and am inclined to agree with it! it seems to fit with what we know of them as people and as a pair, that phil would allow dan to set and push the limit as he's comfortable with it, because phil is the one who would be more chill/indifferent about it/what they share about it either way.

that was all just me thinking out loud though!! i don't have the answers, obviously, and i haven't kept up with dnp as closely in recent years as a lot of others around here have, so i'm def open to hearing other opinions :)

(also thank you! i love talking to people about their theories too. it's always v insightful and interesting! and i agree that the golden era of dnp and the phandom is now; overall i feel like there's a lot more to learn and gain from the experience of being here now vs before!)

[cubitodragon-moved]

Tubbo frustrates me so much and I’m very down with that. (In small doses haha, I do switch streams sometimes when he gets A Bit Much.)

Right now, his arc is so interesting. Lately, he’s actively trying to make Philza much more suspicious of long time friends and allies; he insists He Is Right on his suspicions and unless he gets concrete written proof, he won’t change it - just today, he refused to change his mind regarding Cellbit, in spite of Phil vouching for him.

He’s been actively dismissive of what’s happened prior to his getting de-iced, of what people have learned from experience over time. And he immediately leapt to investigating Bad and going behind his back, rather than approaching him to talk. Yes, he is in fact RIGHT (I love that he connected the dots, don’t get me wrong), but in immediately reacting rather than pausing and approaching things calmly, he’s managed to alienate Bad further, lost points with Phil (his attitude absolutely deserved that timeout tbh) and likely put Forever off trusting him too - who did at least take his report seriously. At the cost of Bad’s trust in him, no less.

All because Tubbo is currently trusting a Federation worker over long time residents - one who is, suspiciously, A rank..Administrator.

Just like the Cucuruchos.

He’s taking Federation documentation at face value - never mind that everything is written in corporate speak.

And while writing this all out, I realised just as importantly, Tubbo really doesn’t show proper deference to Cucurucho, regardless of what happens to him when he’s punished for misbehaviour. He’s had a real attitude that’s been coming more and more to the fore since the Eggs disappeared.

And honestly?

It makes me think of El Quackity.

After all, they both emerged from places surrounded by water, ice and black concrete..

[sporcafaccenda]

Phil Defer (art: Morris) et son modèle Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) dans "Shane".

[geritsel]

Morris (Maurice de Bevere) - Cover of the first edition of Lucky Luke et Phil Defer, 1954.

[factorialsotherfandoms]

for the qsmp ask game!! :D maybe 3, 4, 10, and/or 11?

-polkados

3. Who's your favourite egg?

Evil question, my dude, evil question. I think I have to day Ramón. But Chayanne. But Dapper. But Richas. But Leo. But all of them. You understand?

4. Who's your favourite egg duo?

Pomme and Dapper or Bobby and Richas ;-;

10. Who's your favourite cubito?

Evil, evil, eeeevil. My ao3 says I've written Philza most so I'm deferring to it rather than making a choice. Though. Pac and Mike are currently my favourites to use and abuse. Those two are just. So. Squishy.

11. What's been your favourite arc so far?

Not really an arc, but Tazercraft getting arrested by Foolish and the escape and the revenge where they pretended to murder Leo was a great sequence of streams. I really liked the early stuff with Phil and the hardcore deities, but it wasn't enough to make me go watch and see the stuff with the possession like I loved the maybe dissociation and fusing realities, not so keen on possession. I prefer it extremely short term or not at all. Can I call Fit plot an arc when it's been his entire stream series? I think not really.

[mim526]

Land of Confusion

There's too many men Making too many problems Can't you see This is a land of confusion? ~~ Phil Collins

It's clear as day the adult child lives in a fantasy world of illusion and delusion.

His brother's choice to stay, to live a life of service, of learning and relating to ordinary people are beneath him. Harry's children must be hidden from the world's eyes. No getting 'stuck in' working with locals on scout projects for his kids. The Wales family can walk along streets among regular people. They know about kitchens; they make cakes together at home while the literal prince and princess parents pitch in at charity kitchens across Britain. Not Harry...he's the 'Spare' don'tcha know.

William was a fool to quietly settle a legitimate electronic invasion of his privacy then donate the money to charity. Harry's going to teach the press a lesson, grind them into the ground...for Britain's benefit, of course. Because how dare the press be interested in royals or making money from the public's interest in them. Only Harry has the right to spin [what he remembers of] his life into traitorous trash talk gold dross.

Absent evidence to support his claims, Harry says he accuses the press on principle. This is one of the biggest lies of this whole farce because a man of honor and principle does not use a woman's name in court to serve his own ends. Harry says she left because of being in the press too much yet 118 times someone has counted he used her name in court filings. That is unprincipled or dishonorable behavior: that is a CAD who will use anyone and anything, even someone he purportedly loves, to get what he wants. Let's be clear, what he wants is control.

Jan Moir describes Harry's performance as "a combustible mixture of victimhood and arrogance...managing to contradict himself, behave like an entitled snob and make no sense, all at the same time." Some social media posts continue to explain reasons/motives...he's deeply flawed, damaged by childhood trauma he's never dealt with adequately, has no support to deal with, etc. Frankly, that dog won't hunt if justice is truly blind.

This is a court of law, not a therapy session or filmed interview for the purpose of airing 'his truth'. You either put up...as in hard evidence backing your claim of illegality and coherent testimony given on the court's timetable, not yours...or shut up, as in be prepared for the judge to rule against you for failing to make your case. If the justice system does not rule against you, the court of public opinion will.

It will be interesting to see in Harry's portion of the case whether more deference is given to the press per legal tradition or the royal family per cultural tradition. Harry obviously sees no irony in carping about the press' interest in royals while also ensuring his HRH and position as 'a member of the royal family' are in the court record. Nor does he disguise his contempt for "never complain, never explain" or those in his family who live(d) by that creed...including his deceased, highly respected grandparents.

Deference may be a habit learned, but it is definitely earned. The points Elizabeth and Philip earned for the BRF over 70+ years of steadfast service to Britain are diminished with Harry's every derogatory utterance and self-focused, dishonorable action. It's not enough for other working royals to make the silent case the rest of the family is different. He's stated in court under oath that the press and specific journalists are "utterly vile", the British government is "rock bottom".

According to the Daily Mail, no senior member of the BRF (Harry is 5th in line) has ever openly attacked elected politicians in the history of Britain's constitutional monarchy.

With all due respect to His Majesty, it is past time to deal with your second son. No more trips out of country or to the country to avoid being hit up for $$ when he's in town. Or appearing to appease the masses by getting Parliament to add Anne and Edward while you quietly issue letters patent formally naming Harry a Counselor of State in your absence. Or conferring titles and places in the line of succession for children whose secretive births have not been publicly and medically confirmed as all other royals in the LoS have been.

Decisively deal with him, publicly and permanently, or see your deference erode so far that not even this beautiful spirit can save the BRF.

#Harry #WitnessTestimony #MirrorGroupLawsuit

[gogandmagog]

If you had L.M. Montgomery as a pen pal and were able to have her expound on or clarify (3) Anne events or plotholes what would you choose?

(ESL so I’m apologizing if the format of this question is poor.)

No waaay, the format of this question is actually perfection and so's your English! And the question itself, too. Do you know that you’re one of my most elusive LMM mutuals? I have hardly any clues about your viewpoints… and I’d love nothing better than to be able to hand you a mic, and sit down tailor-style in front of you, while you shared your takeaways. (All this to say that I’m returning this very question to you, in your own ask-box, the very next moment after I press ‘post’ here!)

1.) About the aftermath of Walter’s ‘going away.’ Especially, was there any kind of memorial or funeral? Can the narrative catch Una up in its grasp at that moment, if there was? Montgomery communicates grief with such harrowing candour after both Matthew and Joy’s deaths (even Ruby's!)... we get these really saudade and wrenching passages that will never go stale against the readers feelings because each time they bring you to burn with the intimacy of fresh sorrow... but then here comes ‘Rilla of Ingleside,’ and we only get mild surface knowledge of Anne’s long emotional convalescence or one-line mentions of Rilla’s initial shock and her own bitter nightly weeping. The whole thing almost feels like a deferred action to me, comparatively. I don't really like books that consistently spoon-feed you tragedy because I find they typically start insisting upon themselves, but I could have used a little more detail in this particular instance. But maybe I just wish for more Walter, always!    2.) I’d grin soooo stupidly if we could get Shirley’s birth year sorted — his whole entire timeline set out in a clear and linear fashion, really. If we could also hear more about his life (before, during and after the war), I’d be riveted, I’m sure. Where Andrew Stuart has his epic on the life of Methuslela that he dreams of writing, I have my own Shirley (+Mi’kmaq girl) Blyography to dream of writing in a really white whale sort of way.

3.) Hey, and you know what? One small inconsistent thing that has always bugged me, that I’ve just now remembered, thanks to this ask... in the chapter ‘Dawn and Dusk’ in House of Dreams, we’re told that Phil, with her big golden heart, wrote Anne a congratulatory letter as she’d heard of Joy’s birth... but not of her death. But this is puzzling to me, because... exactly who would've told Phil that Joy had been born, but not that she’d passed? This chapter is titled ‘Dawn and Dusk’ because the wee white lady lives only from morning to evening. Anyone that knew of Joy’s birth, knew also of her death. Certainly, Anne wasn’t writing far-reaching announcement letters in those very short hours of gladness she was given. Gilbert knew from the first that Joy could not live the day out, so we can fairly rule him out, too. Susan and Marilla are further impossibilities, as they were made aware of the looming sorrow almost just as soon as they were aware of Joy’s arrival. The only others at the House of Dreams at that time were Doctor Dave and a nurse. It'd be absurd if it was them. So…?

[bulles-de-bd]

Lucky Luke - T08 - Phil Defer

[greywindys]

I know Pirate Radio wasn’t improv for the most part, but were any other prominent voice acting bits totally improvised, aside from the live interactions with fans? I think that swan shaped scone joke the puppets made was improv, judging by the realistic laughing after the line…improv is a lot of fun and I wish it were done more, as it is Phil’s specialty, but it makes it difficult to tell which is a genuine character moment or the actors just having a laugh! They are good at jokes, though!

I have no proof of this, but I feel like a lot of their skits leave room for improv, and likely have some improvised lines scattered throughout. Phil's probably the only VA where I was defer to his characterization of Murdoc, even if he goes off-script, since he's been voicing him for so long. He originated the role, so he essentially *is* him.

[jihef03]

Phil Defer (phonetically"Fil de Fer" in french or "Phil Wire" in english translation), a notorious gunslinger is nicknamed "Le Faucheux", which can be both a reference to the arachnid, due to the pistolero's wiry frame *and* the brand of firearms "Lefaucheux" .

[ronearoundblindly]

Hi Ro<333 I love the shitty friend drabble! (the dimitri&jose dynamic being ADORABLE and cute as always :3 )

the joanna story got me thinking...

has ari considered about having kids? or he doesn't want any? or he's okay with it (being fine the way he & reader are handling this relationship)? or he wants to get married before having kids?

what about reader?

All great questions. I know that not every reader is going to be the same in this aspect (since I know this is where I personally and 'Kid' defer), but yes, Reader in Bedrock and Blueprints has always known she wanted a family, more or less.

Ari, I think, is a lot more complicated. When he was in the army, he knew there was a chance he would never come home, and he would not have wanted that for a significant other. Since he wouldn't really let himself have a commitment, he would never consider having kids that would then be without a father. Very early on, in that case, Ari just squashed the idea and for practical reasons never reconsidered.

He also saw what happened to Philip. That made a huge impact even though it wasn't the only time he saw a soldier change from military service. You were, however, the closest person he's ever been around on the receiving end of that kind of heartbreak. Even as a friend, Ari was keenly aware that his fate would worry you, so he made it a point to keep in touch. (Again, he did not openly or vaguely do that for romantic reasons; he just knew you didn't need to be hurt by that behavior a second time. He was hurt by Philip's change, and how Phil handled himself, too.)

Now we get to the children part:

Did Ari specifically think you two would have kids? He knows you do. He's certainly not so changed from his free-to-fly lifestyle that he'd lead you on. Also, raising kids scares Ari half to death. It should. It's scary.

However, he's never been against the idea. He never thought he'd be in a relationship like yours, so he wasn't planning it before. Then everything was so new with you that, also no, he wouldn't suddenly be daydreaming about having babies. Hence, condoms and birth control.

Ari is a solid and devoted man though. He loves you. He knows you (spoilers) got pregnant while on the pill. It's a shock for you. You had plans for how this would go, and he hates to see you upset or doubt yourself. Just because you're surprised, doesn't mean you won't be an amazing mom, and he makes it his mission to hype you up to the same level of excitement as if you had planned this. He internally freaks the fuck out after every article he reads online or when he looks at the prices of kids' stuff at the store, but he's still elated to be with you. He knows you both do the best you can for each other, and you both will for your kid(s).

(Don't spoil the marriage thing. Shhh. I'm already writing that for a different prompt you sent in!)