#same plot same vibe

[arthurmorgansmith]

ahhh the van der linde gang needs a modern-ish crime family AU!!!!!

dutch is the patriarch who loses his touch and/or goes ape when his partner in crime is shot by the rival gang

(hosea pulls through but would almost rather perish when he finds out what atrocities the family committed while he was out of commission)

micah is the crazy, bloodthirsty oldest "brother" who keeps making things worse with both the rival gang and the police and has a weird obsession with arthur because he's jealous of arthur being the favorite

arthur is the sensible, decent one who everyone in the family secretly would prefer to inherit the role of leader but he's not technically the oldest and is falling out of favor with dutch. the police reeeeally want to make a deal with him on the dl and he might! but no, he's too loyal to the family

john is one of the only younger brothers who survives and perhaps gives info to the fbi with implied permission from arthur who wants it all to end

grimshaw keeps operations running and has booby trapped the farmhouse and a shotgun named after someone she killed 30 years ago

charles and sadie are the only people arthur trusts and they're the only ones doing anything useful without fucking it up or killing civilians

karen and uncle are fbi MISinformants

trelawny is the family lawyer

mac and davey are the obligatory creepy twins that just won't die

sean and lenny are the lower-tier cousins who get picked off by the rival gang

and so on

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[rainbowpopeworld]

(So you don’t have to deal with all the annoying ads on The Mirror’s website, here’s the whole article interview)

EXCLUSIVE: David Tennant reveals his wife Georgia's role) in his 'huge' Rivals series decision

By Nicola Methven

“David Tennant says he jumped at the chance to star in Jilly Cooper’s 1980s bonkbuster Rivals - because his wife said it would be “sensational”.

The former Doctor Who star said she was thrilled when the first script arrived. “I told Georgia and she was convinced that this was something I had to be involved with,” he explains. “She said, ‘This series is going to be huge. This is going to be exactly what the country needs, exactly what the world needs.’

"She knew the books from her teenage years, as I understand, and knew that this was going to make sensational television.”

He duly accepted the role of Lord Tony Baddingham, one of the show’s main villains and was delighted when Georgia eventually got to watch the episodes, and loved them.

"Her reaction was so positive and so joyous," he says. "I know when she's being genuine."

Tony is a grammar school boy with a chip on his shoulder about not being a proper toff. His character runs a regional TV station facing franchise renewal and has a dependable upper-crust wife, played by Sherwood's Claire Rushbrook, but is also having a very steamy affair with the new TV executive he's lured over from New York (Nafessa Williams).

The actor, 53, argues that poor old Tony is just horribly misunderstood. "From the inside, no character believes they're a villain, do they? I think Tony's motivations are very clear. He's very easy to understand in many ways. Tony sees himself as hard done by and someone who's just struggling to survive and to win."

While he can remember the 80s quite clearly, Tenant says that filming Rivals felt very much like being on a period drama. "It's almost like being on the set of a Dickens novel," he muses.

"The 80s seems quite recent history to me, but once you start recreating that world, you realise it's actually very different. That's wonderful fun to film - to be on a time capsule of a set is glorious."

As the Doctor he got to time-travel all over the place in the TARDIS but Tenant says he loved spending time in the 80s, not least because of the music. When you're a teenager at the time, a lot of it, however good it is, is uncool, and therefore you're not really allowed to like it," he says. "Whereas now, as a jaded 53-year-old, I can just go, 'Oh, do you know what I loved? A-ha'."

And what else did he love? "I didn't have to ride a horse, which was a mercy, because I'm a little bit allergic."

Tenant admits that filming the incredibly saucy bedroom scenes was a bit awkward but he felt there was safety in numbers thanks to the huge number of them. Barely any of the cast don't end up getting involved in one way or another.

"| mean, sex scenes are never comfortable, you know? But again, because everyone was in the same boat, there was a lot of discussion about, 'When are you doing that scene?' and 'Have vou done that yet?'

He believes it's fine for Rivals to be labelled a “bonkbuster" - it's full of sex at the end of the day - but only if it's said with due respect for what Dame Jilly achieved with the Rutshire Chronicles. "There are a generation of readers who were so influenced by her, and for whom these novels meant so much, it means that that writing is obviously better than some would have you believe," he says. "The way she writes character is timeless, and people having sex is pretty timeless. So these books have been tenacious for a reason." The actor says an early scene where the pathologically competitive Tony leaps from his helicopter onto the croquet lawn is his favourite career moment so far.

"That hole-in-one, I would like you to know, was probably the greatest day of my professional life," he laughs. Instructed by the director to "whack it" from 30 feet away he was told the cameras would keep running until he managed it. "I thought the crew are gonna hate me by take 402," he remembers. "And I nailed it on take four. I've never felt more pleased with myself than that moment. I felt like a sporting God."”

[lamentable-comedy]

you know, that one story about a relationship between a guy with an unprecedented one of a kind power and his kind of dead love interest who wears a lot of fancy floral print outfits

(aka Simon Snow Pushing Daisies AU)

[titfairy]

Now that TSOU is over, perhaps Lingorm can have different project where their characters have different flavor than before

Need Orm to play a dangerous secret daughter of an organized crime big boss vs Ling playing private investigaytor trying to solve a murder case - where these two play dumb while flirting with each other, playing a cat and mouse game, trying to make each other crack first

[faaun]

the way that diff languages sound r so fascinating they're all different and all so vivid

[thisisaname-whatahappyname]

LMAOOO

[jesncin]

Watching the new Superman trailer… and I felt absolutely 0 emotions.

Same. My 3 feelings are: ambivalent, indifferent, and whelmed. I don't doubt James Gunn will do a solid job but there's nothing in the teaser that excited me- and I've been excited over a teaser plenty before. It's transparent nostalgia bait with comic references that made the whole thing feel disjointed for me.

[grapetriip]

anyone up for bg3 aftg au w dark urge neil

[thegreatyin]

honestly part of the reason i've been really looking forward to finally playing light fingers (aside from the obvious horrors and whatnot) is because it, alongside bag a legend, contains a Choice™ i to this day am Extremely Torn About Making. like i've known for ages that the Choice™ exists in this ambition and STILL i am undecided about it. this Choice™ is of course. well. let's just say that by the time this ambition ends, caeru may not be the only catboy around town

[desaturate-worlds]

i was so excited for venom 3 and was so unimpressed 😭 when it ended i was just like “…oh” and i have so many thoughts but i need to watch it again before i fully form them

[valewritessss]

The amount of criticism and hate the wottg book is getting makes me scared to like it bc it feels like if I do then I’m doing something wrong😅

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

[lurkingshan]

Sunset x Vibes: Surprise! The protagonist is a liar and has also been secretly rich this whole time.

Also Sunset x Vibes: No, it doesn’t affect anything in the story why do you ask

[jaqobis]

it's like. wot takes such a long time to really Become wot, even in the books, that it's incredibly exciting to start hitting material that is quintessential...wheel of time