#that or at least of someone like michael caine

[studio-of-woof]

Ruh roh I’m having a funny idea again.

So a friend and I were talking last night about the Roger Rabbit universe and I had Digital Circus fresh on my mind. So I kept thinking about a Digital Circus actor AU.

Glitch Productions being this big recording studio with the sets of like, Murder Drones, Digital Circus and Gaslight District (that one still being under construction).

The Digital Circus cast would be rather different off-camera, like for example maybe Caine is actually kinda socially awkward yet still a loud boi. And this is his first big major role in a project.

Caine Interview:

“How did you end up with the role, Caine?”

“Well… Goose has heard my voiceover performances before and was like “I gotta get this guy on for something!” And so when I auditioned I kinda just got hired on the spot!”

Pomni would still be a bit reserved but she has a lot of confidence for acting. My friend also mentioned how she would probably have a lot of experience under her belt and so she’d kinda help mentor some of the more newer actors, like Caine and Ragatha.

Speaking of Ragatha… my friend said this about her

“Yes, and Ragatha played her character while doing collage and did not expect the show to blow up. She got to finish her last year before filming it full time.”

So the idea of Ragatha’s role also being a first big major role came to mind. So Pomni tries to mentor her, which is kind of a funny image.

Ragatha would still be the mom friend of the group for sure, she would make sure someone’s okay after doing a risky or scary scene.

Ragatha and Pomni interview:

“Pomni’s been kinda helping me with my role, like just—“

“Slowly kind of directing you?”

“That, yeah. [laughing]”

“Of course not disregarding the actual director!”

“Yeah no the director’s great, you’re great. [laughing]”

“But like, with that scene in the hallway? Where I had to act all frazzled? That took a few takes but eventually I got it down pat. I think it would’ve taken longer if Pomni wasn’t there to kinda help me with finding the right… uh… tone I guess?”

“Yeah, tone. You did amazing by the way!”

“No you did amazing!”

Now Jax is a fun one. He’s not a complete douche off camera but he still likes play harmless pranks on set. You know those pixar bloopers? Kind of like that.

Like being in scenes where he’s not supposed to be.

[Filming the scene where Pomni tries to find Caine]

“And… action!”

[Pomni opens up one of the doors. Only to see Jax standing there.]

“Sup?”

“[Laughing] HOW DID YOU GET THERE??”

“Cut!”

I’d also picture whenever he has to be a douche in a scene he’d apologise immediately after when the cameras cut off.

[Filming]

“Ladies first! … No wait why would I say that?”

[Jax pushes Gangle over]

“… and cut! That was good!”

[Jax helping Gangle up]

“I am so sorry-“

“Did I push too hard?”

“Yeah nah you’re good.”

“Alright cool. [giggling]”

Also this it was mentioned during the more recent Hunicast that everyone gets caught off-guard whenever Michael plays Jax since Michael isn’t like Jax at all, I reckon it’d be the same in this universe.

Jax interview:

“Everyone on set has said to me at least once that I don’t act like my character at all and it catches them off guard completely. I just think that’s really funny.”

The idea of Gangle being a really good actor so much so that she puts on a voice for the character has crossed my mind. Much like her VA she’d have a more deeper voice. Yet when acting she puts on the high pitched and nasally voice. Also my friend mentioned how she would say “bro” off-set so that’s a funny thought.

[Filming]

“Bro my comedy mask!”

“Cut!”

“Ah my bad.”

Not much to really say about Kinger, but I did have the idea of him accidentally pulling a hip or something when he did the scene where he spazzes out.

[Filming]

“They’re the two most mentally stable and capable characters to be pai—“

“OWWW! OUH! OUUHH! I think I pulled something!”

“Oh shit you alright?”

“Ye-Yeah yeah I think- I think I should go sit down can we take 5?”

Zooble is just a very chill person off-set. They still maintain that “idgaf” attitude, but they’re less rude about it. Though they would still have a foul-mouth. There also was probably a few times where they got caught smoking weed or having an edible behind the studio after filming.

Zooble Interview:

“Did the Gloink Queen actually eat you on set?”

“Ha. Nah. The one you saw get swallowed was a prop replica of my head. They got it pretty accurately for the budget we had at the time.”

Zooble and Gangle are besties in character and off camera for sure, but there would also be times where Zooble hangs around Ragatha a lot, kind of just unknowingly adopting her as their on-set mother lol (I blame you @/mod-bee)

More interviews:

“Are you scared of centipedes, like actually?”

“Out of character? Oh yeah. Definitely. Too many legs. No thanks. [laughing]”

“Is it sometimes frustrating having to put yourself back together a lot?”

“Eh, sometimes. It is what it is, y’know? Plus as much as I have issues with his bod, it’s helped me gotten the role so… I can at least thank it for that.”

“What’s the worst prank Jax has pulled on set?”

“He hasn’t done anything remotely harmful, he’s too nice for that. But I’d say the time he made Zooble think they actually choked him out. He was a little too good at the bit I’d say. Zooble had words for him after that stunt. [slight chuckle]”

“The one time I regret nothing.”

“Did you end up getting hurt by that bowling ball Jax hurled at you?”

“Oh that? That was a stunt double! Thank god for stunt doubles. We actually go get drinks every now and again. It freaks out the local drunks every time.”

“A lot of people online have said you look like you suffer from scoliosis, is that true?”

“How can I suffer from scoliosis if I don’t even have a spine to begin with? [laughing]”

“Are all your more… cartoony movements CGI? Any special effects involved?”

“Well…. Don’t spread this around.. but… that’s all me. It’s a special talent I have.”

“Huh. Interesting. Does that mean you can actually fly?”

“I dunno! You tell me!”

[Caine slowly floats above his seat]

Bonus:

Whenever they’re not acting on the set of Murder Drones, Uzi, N and V help out with the more technical side of filming. Cameras, lights, and whatnot. Since they can fly they help out with filming bird’s eye view shots.

[cosmonadarovicarts]

Series/webtoons if you like Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

Lovely hell

I'll start right away with the probably least known AND best of all - at least in terms of being similar to the universe of HH and HB-.

"Tanz, a powerful creature of pure evil, is vanished to Earth agaist her will. Weak and without a plan, she'll have to rely to Cain, a human, to guide her throught the world and figure a way back to her home: Hell."

First of all, it's a webtoon, so you can read it for free on Webtoon! Created by Tita (stage name Lorsupp), the story takes place in the present day. our protagonists are biblical characters (I won't give spoilers about who Tanz is. Cain, you guys must have already understood...).

This webtoon deserves much more recognition! the story is organic and well-paced, funny and tense when necessary. The characters are super charismatic and have chemistry, the Lore of Hell is super interesting and with a different approach from HH/HB. I love the character design - you can see the evolution of the author's traits as the chapters go by.

It's great to see other ways of approaching well-known characters -like the Jewish/Christian angels and demons-. A emphasis for Gabriel, ahhh this character hahah Anyway, this webtoon is the one I most recommend!

You can read it -> Webtoon account

When Instagram starts working again, I'll share the creator's account here!

Vilanius

This series - with just a few episodes left - is a Mexican animation released for Cartoon Network. Compared to HH's type of humor, here it is much more toned down, as it is aimed at a younger audience.

"Villainous is the story of Black Hat Org., run by Black Hat (whose name is synonymous with villain, a reference to the evil black-hatted cowboys of Western films) and his team of three less evil sidekicks. Black Hat is trying to sell various evil inventions created by Dr. Flug and is desperate to fulfill his evil aspirations. However, things often end badly for him, as brilliant innovations tend to have small and often comical flaws."

The lore has nothing related to the Hell, but it still focuses on the evil side of the story. I love the character designs, very similar to HH. It's worth checking out, even more Latin animation!

The Good Place

A series already consolidated and finished. One of my favorites on Netflix!

Even though it's not exactly Heaven and Hell, the concept is very similar. but what stands out here is the philosophical debate about what is right and wrong, how to be a good person in a world marked by individualism, competition and exploitation so that a person can have the basics to survive? -neoliberalism cough cough-.

"Eleanor Shellstrop wakes up to discover that she has died and entered the afterlife. But when she is told by her mentor Michael that she is in the "Good Place" because of her good deeds, helping to get innocent people off death row, she realizes that a mistake has been made because the people They think she is someone else with the same name."

Question about existentialism, ethics and the meaning of life debated in a fun way! A quick comparison to Bojack Horseman, a series that I love. in The Good Place, the existentialism, life and death are treated in a much more optimistic and... beautiful way, while in Bojack it is pessimistic and heavy. the debates on human existence can have lighter conclusions - this is not a criticism of Bojack, just a different approach.

Guardians of the Mansion of Horror

This recommendation won't have a personal review because... I still need to watch it! but I saw so many people recommending it, saying that it has good LGBT+ representation that I thought it would be interesting to bring it here. If anyone has already watched it and wants to say something about it...

"Guardians of the Mansion of Horror follows friends Barney and Norma as they work at a theme park during the summer. The two take the night shift and are responsible for organizing the place while it is empty. What they didn't expect is that this fun place is actually an interdimensional portal to hell. Suddenly, several supernatural creatures appear to haunt the Earth and the two friends must join forces to stop them. To do this, they receive help from the talking dog, Pugsley."

Inside Job

Here we have the biggest injustice in the history of Netflix, the cancellation of this series! I brought it here because of their type of acidic and critical humor towards society - not that this criticism is present in HH-. An adult animation, with swear words and the same irreverent touch as HH, following the shadow side of society.

"A dysfunctional team working in a hidden government department is tasked with keeping conspiracies around the secret world. From complicated attacks to secret societies, anti-social technology genius Reagan Ridley will need to work in a place full of shapeshifting reptilians and psychic mushrooms, at the same time as she must deal with an unbalanced father, in order to achieve the dream she dreams of. promotion."

Emphasis to the animation itself and the character design. When it comes to other species, we have unique designs, they even resemble the design of demons in HH.

irreverent, intelligent and humorous. 🤌

Good Omens

It's almost a rule, if you watched Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss, you also watched Good Omens!

For those who have never given the series a chance, here are some reasons to watch it now: Inspired by Neil Gaiman's work - and approved by him! -!. It is focused entirely on this universe of Jewish/Christian characters - and it is possible to see how well they are studied! There are references that only those who have studied demology or the sacred writings of these religions will understand-

The first season has a wonderful rhythm with captivating characters - the second lacks this a little. The angel and devil couple are super charismatic and you root for them.

Watching some of the biblical events from the point of view of the questioning and sinister demon Crowley and the good lamb Aziraphale is wonderful!

[kittenfangirl20]

*it had been a couple years since Adam and Eve were thrown out of Eden for tasting the Forbidden Fruit, they recently had a twin boys together, Cain a boy looked so much like Adam and Abel a boy who looked so much like Eve, the pregnancy was a painful event because Eve claimed that she tricked Adam into taking a bite of the fruit even though he made the choice on his own because he didn’t want to lose someone else he loved because she didn’t want him to be punished, he was woken to the boys crying, he got up because Eve needed her sleep and made his way to where the babies slept and to his shock, Lilith was standing over the small bed Adam made for them, she was still beautiful, but in a twisted way, she now had large red horns coming from her head and large red bat like wings, she wore a crown and a deep purple gown*

Adam: What are you doing here Lilith?

Lilith: In order to be Queen of Hell with my beloved Lucifer, I was cursed to not be able to bear children of my own. Lucifer wants to be a father and I think that these beautiful little babies will be the perfect Princes of Hell. If you love Lucifer like you say, you would be willing to sacrifice them to make him happy.

Adam: Fucking stay away from Cain and Abel!!!!!!!!

Lilith: We definitely have to change their names.

*Adam charged at Lilith and she grabbed him by the wrists, now that she was a demon she had super human strength and Adam screamed while the bones in his wrists were cracking, Lilith held him up by the wrists and slammed him into the ground*

Lilith: Why fight when you can just have more children of your own.

*Lilith started to mercilessly beat him, tears started to fall from Adam’s eyes while he wondered why Lucifer could choose her over him, he hated the fact that he couldn’t protect the wife and children he loved dearly, suddenly the beating stopped and Lilith screamed, even though it hurt to move, he moved himself up a little to see Eve standing over a cowering Lilith, in Eve’s trembling hands was the angelic sword of Michael which he had given to the couple after they had been thrown out of Eden to protect them in case something like this happened, Adam was impressed to see that Eve had snuck up behind Lilith and cut off her wings, since it was angelic steel, the wings would never grow back*

Eve: As my husband said, fucking stay away from Cain and Abel. Also if you lay another hand on the man I love, I will end you and you won’t be able to be reunited with your husband.

Lilith: Fine, I will have a child one way or another. Besides I don’t understand how this hideous creature inspires such loyalty in you, I at least have better taste in men and I am not an imitation of who Adam really wants.

Eve: Lucifer chose you over Adam, I have to question his tastes. I know Adam loves Lucifer and if the world had been fair to Adam, Lucifer would have loved him the same way. But I know that Adam loves me the same way as he loves Lucifer and anyone who is loved by Adam is a very lucky person. I feel sorry for Lucifer when all he has is you when he could have had so much better.

*Lilith just spat at Adam and disappeared, Eve ran to Adam and held him in a way that wouldn’t cause him more pain*

Adam: Eve please know that I love you so much.

*it hurt Adam to speak, but he had to say it*

Eve: Don’t speak, I know how much you love me. Someone please come help Adam, I can’t lose him.

*to the surprise of the couple, one of the Archangels, Raphael, who was a healer came to heal Adam’s wounds, Adam thought that he would have been abandoned by God and the other angels like how Lucifer abandoned him, as he was being healed he wondered if Lucifer told Lilith to steal his babies with Eve because they couldn’t have their own and if Lilith had truly poisoned his first love against him*

[taradiddled]

"I've always enjoyed sparring," Adam admitted, hand on her belly. "At least, I did, in the beginning," she amended, remembering when she and Eve would tussle around to keep their muscles toned, their fighting skills sharp, both serious in their endeavor, and playful by the end of each session. Even when things had been tense between them, sparring had helped to get out the agitated energy. That, and some rough fucking, but the tension returned twice as fast after THAT kind of exercise, so they tried to restrict their more tense days to sparring.

Eve had been Adam's first sparring partner. A fellow warrior in her own right. She had held her own just as well as Adam, and for every punch and kick Adam made, Eve could throw it right back, hard and unflinching. Adam never held any spilled blood against Eve, and even when Eve got a bit too rough in their fights, Adam had respected her strength and ability, and Eve did the same for Adam. Of course, they passed this skill onto their children, ensuring that each one could defend themselves properly, in case of a wildebeest attack, or, Heaven forbid, one of them tried to go after the other in a demonically-crazed rage with a rock (they never forgot Abel, or Cain, for that matter).

Then Adam had gone to Heaven, and none of the Seraphim had understood Adam's predilection for a good adrenaline rush outside of deliberate battle. Sera had censured Adam for her 'violent habits', and remanded Adam to preparing for, and then caring for, her descendants. It wasn't until Michael had noticed Adam's anxious energy that she finally got to practice her fighting skills again, this time with the Archangel of War himself, who Adam had so desperately wished to impress.

Like Eve, Michael hadn't pulled any punches, and even though blood had been spilled, with bloody lips, noses, and bruises abound, it had been the first time in a long while since Adam had felt a kind of synergy with someone other than her late wife. She'd even admitted much to Michael, as well as shared with Michael thoughts and feelings and memories Adam had held dear. Perhaps that had been when Adam had started to fall for Michael. And when he had brought back Abel...Adam had of course agreed to Michael's request that Adam join the Holy Army.

In the army, Adam had sparred with her fellow warriors, but it had taken time before the Seraphim of Michael's army had seen past Adam's mortality, to consider her an equal (at least in battle). There had even been some camaraderie between Adam and a handful of her fellow warriors. At least, there HAD been, before Michael had enforced a stricter, tougher training regime as the war with Hell had escalated. Then when Adam had started training her Exorcists, she'd had to handicap her skills in order to properly train her girls. Only Lute and Vaggie had ever come close to matching Adam's skills, but Adam had to keep Vaggie at arms length, and Lute was a passable partner, but would become too violent when in a particular mood (which had been often).

And then I became too fucking lazy, Adam scolded herself. I let myself get sloppy, relied too much on my Holy powers...

What would Eve say?

[avastrasposts]

The British Connection - ch. 5

Summary: Grace Mallory makes a reluctant Billy Butcher and The Boys team up with an MI6 operative sent over from London to track down a dangerous supe killing people on both sides of the pond. Billy is being his usual arsehole self but maybe opposites attract?

It's 14 chapters and complete and 'll be posting a new chapter every day

Warnings: canon typical violence, smut, fluff, Butcher being his usual grumpy and unreasonable self, nasty supes, guns etc.

“Right”, Butcher says, “Frenchie and Hughie, I need you two to sweep the office for bugs. Just to make sure we’re not being fucked by our own side. Until it’s clean, not a word of this inside that building. Get on it.” 

Frenchie gives a sloppy salute and starts off at a jog back towards the Flatiron, Hughie and Kimiko in tow.

“Edwards, have you got access to the CCTV footage of the attacks on the PM and the Chief of the Defence staff?”

“Not yet,” Eve replies, “I’m working on it, my CO at Vauxhall will send it over as soon as he has it.”

“Can you trust him?” Butcher asks. 

“Yes, Cochran’s reliable.” 

Butcher nods and looks over at MM. “I need you to ask around our connections, discreetly, for any word on the attacks on the two US politicians. You know the drill, no traces.”

“Sure thing, Butcher,” MM replies, “I’ll get on it straight away. You wanna bring Mallory in on this too? She’s got the best connections and you know this kinda fucked up shit is generating a lot of buzz that she’ll hear.” 

“No, I need to see Mallory about some other business, I’ll see what she knows, if she’s got the same info Edwards does.”

“Do you want me to come with you to see Mallory?” Eve asks. 

“Get that CCTV footage, that’s your priority, Edwards. It’s still office hours in the UK, get on to your CO and get that footage before this cunt supe kills someone else. I’ll ring ya when the office is clean.” 

Eve nods, “Keep me posted.” She raises her hand in a wave to MM and leaves them in the park. 

“Do you trust her, MM?” Butcher asks, watching Edwards retreating back as she makes her way to the subway.

“No more or less than I would any other government agent.”

“Ye, we’re gonna need to keep an eye on her, see what her game is.” 

“Does it make a difference that she’s British, Butcher?” MM asks. 

“Na, MI6 or CIA, they’re pretty much all the same type of cunts. And with her background…” he trails off, still watching Edwards. “I’m not sure Mallory clocked it but Edwards and I don’t exactly speak the same type of English, you know wha’ I mean?” 

“Yeah, you sound like Michael Caine, she sounds like Lady Mary Crawley.”

“She’s posh alright, probably went to Cambridge and got recruited to the service straight from the local Tory meetings thanks to a tip from a well connected daddy. And I’ve never had any good experiences with blokes of her background, served with a couple of right cunts who thought they could order me and the other lads around just ‘cause we didn’t grow up with bleedin’ silver spoons. But I’ve never served with a woman from that background, had a couple of higher ups of course, but never in the field.” 

MM hunches his shoulders against the creeping cold. “I say we let her prove herself before we make any judgments. At least maybe now you’ll have someone to bitch about American tea with.” 

“Fucking ‘erbal shite.”

Butcher claps MM on the shoulder, “Right, I’m off to see Mallory. Let me know if you dig up something I need to know. I’ll see you at the office later.” 

“See ya, Butcher.” 

Grace Mallory’s house is located in the countryside outside the city, surrounded by forest and hills. The usually lush green drive up to the house is grey and slushy this January afternoon as Butcher approaches the house in his beat up car. Mallory is already at the door, expecting him. 

“Two meetings in one day, William, what an honour,” she says in a dry voice as he walks up to her. She steps aside and lets him in. 

“Well, you set up the first one, and I’m here for some more information about Ms Edwards, so blame yourself,” Butcher says and walks over to the large windows overlooking the hills, trailing slush on the floor. Mallory stops by the fireplace. 

“I know that her CO, James Cochran, wanted her on this case and contacted the CIA Deputy Director directly and arranged for her to be flown over on a military flight. He vouched for her discretion and capabilities and the Deputy Director passed her on to me for the enviable task of convincing you to take her onboard. Cochran has worked with the CIA on multiple occasions and has a solid reputation, we have no reason to doubt his recommendations.” 

“I don’t need her CO’s bloody letter of recommendation,” Butcher scoffs. “I want her background info. Why her on this case? Where has she served and with who? Who’s she connected to? I need to see her bloody file, Mallory.”

“You don’t have that clearance, Butcher,” Mallory sighs. “Your job is to find the supe, with her help. You don’t need to know more about her than what the Deputy Director thinks you need to know.”

“Don’t give me that bullshit, Mallory,” Butcher snarls, “She showed us the videos MI5 picked up. That supe can control anyone to do anything by the looks of it, so I bloody well need know who the fuck I’m letting on to my team.” 

“That doesn’t make any difference, Butcher.”

“The hell it does! I have no doubt she’ll be able to put a bullet in Hughie’s head if he suddenly tries to kill me, but will she? Or will she focus on nabbing the fuckin’ supe alive and get MI6 a new superweapon while me and the boys are tearing each other’s throats out?”

Butcher steps up to Mallory next to the fireplace, staring down at her. “Show me her fuckin’ file, Mallory, or I walk.”

“You walk away from this and you can kiss your budget and office goodbye, Butcher.” 

“We’ve done just fine in underground basements before, I’m sure we can find some new crack den to clear out and use as a base away from the fuckin’ cunts at the CIA.” 

When Mallory doesn’t move Butcher makes for the door, digging up his car keys from the pocket, jangling them loudly.

“Last chance, Mallory. Or you’ll have to explain to the Deputy Director that you lost The Boys.” 

Mallory tilts her head back and looks at the ceiling for a few seconds before cursing under her breath. 

“Wait Butcher, just wait.”

She disappears further into the house and Butcher stops by the door. After a few minutes Mallory returns with a USB stick. 

“This is the file I got from the Deputy Director on Eve Edwards. Parts of it are censored, not my doing, so you’ll need to go higher up to get your answers there. Or ask Edwards directly.” She hands the stick to Butcher who pockets it. 

“Knew you’d get there in the end, Grace,” he replies, giving her his best bullshitting smile. He takes a few steps out of the door but as Mallory is pulling it closed he turns, as an afterthought, and stops her from closing it. 

“By the way, I heard on the radio on my way over that the Speaker of the House died yesterday morning, you wouldn’t know anything about that, would ya?”

“I heard it was lunchtime today,” she replies, “Heart attack.” 

“Oh, was it today? I must’ve misheard it, could’ve sworn it was yesterday,” Butcher walks towards his car again, giving Mallory a wave over his head with his back turned. 

A couple of miles down the road Butcher pulls into a pit stop and pulls out a laptop from under the rubbish littering the back seat. Firing it up he puts the USB from Mallory into the slot and opens the file contained within. He tabs through the first page, past all the standard text about classified information and finds what he’s looking for.

Title: The Honourable 

First name(s): Genevieve Horatia Daphne (Eve)

Surname(s): **** Edwards (Edwards)

DOB: 1977-03-14 Father: Name redacted for security

Mother: Name redacted for security

Brother: Name redacted for security

“Fuckin’ the honourable Genevieve Horatia Daphne…” Butcher mumbles darkly as he scans the first page. Her first surname is redacted and he can see that it’s been redacted in several places. He skims through her background, she went to Christchurch College, Oxford, modern languages, was on the college rowing team, the PolSci club, recruited by SIS as intelligence analyst while still at Oxford, recommended by her father, name redacted. She speaks five foreign languages; French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Farsi and Butcher makes a mental note to tell Frenchie that she speaks French, just to be safe. Both French and Russian are listed as “native level”. 

Her first foreign posting seems to have been in Chechnya in the late 90’s. She was in Pakistan and Afghanistan in -01 and -02, Iraq in 2003. Injured and on leave for most of 2004, the injury is redacted. He skims through the pages of her history, and starts paying attention when she moves from the SRR to MI6 in 2011 but finds nothing suspicious until he gets to the end of the file and present day events. Big chunks have been redacted and the file stops making sense. The last two pages are wiped completely. 

“Someone made sure Mallory didn’t see this, or wanted to make sure she didn’t pass it on to us,” Butcher thinks. He’s tapping his fingers on the steering wheel, trying to piece together the fragments of the file that haven’t been redacted. Scrolling backwards towards the beginning again he re-reads the file. Something at the back of his brain is itching, he’s missing a detail, and he can feel it trying to break through. He re-reads it again and his eyes catch on her redacted surname and it hits him.

“Why the fuck are they keeping her father’s name secret?” he says out loud in the car. “Who the fuck is her dad?” He scrolls back to the top and sees that her parent’s and brother’s names have been redacted for security reasons. 

Suddenly his phone rings, breaking his train of thought. The display shows Frenchies name and Butcher picks up. 

“ ‘Sup, Frenchie, we clean?” 

“Qui, Monsieur Charcutier, we found nothing, only deux cafards. We can return to the office but we may need to bring gas masks, MM has emptied two cans of Bug-Off in there.”

In the background Butcher can hear Kimiko cough as Hughie yells at MM to open the window before they all die of chemical poisoning.

“I’m on my way back, I’ll ring Edwards and get her back to the office too.”

“She is quite something, Monsieur Charcutier, I did not expect MI6 women to look like this, she is very attractive no?”

“Be careful Frenchie, get too close and she’ll slice your French cock off just like at Agincourt.” 

“Ah non, I will not try anythin’, I am a professional!”

“Right, Frenchie, just keep your game face on. And that reminds me, she speaks French fluently, so mind what you mumble, alright?” 

“Elle parle français aussi? Mon Dieu…”

Butcher hangs up on Frenchie while he’s still speaking and hits the dial on Edward’s number as he shuts down the laptop and starts up the car. She picks up after a couple of rings. 

“Hi Butcher, secure line?” 

“Should be but you never know. You got what we’re after?”

“Yes, he came through for us and sent it over. I’ll bring it over to the office if it’s clear?” 

“No, not yet,” Butcher lies, “I’ll come ‘round your place and we can review it. Should be there in about an hour.”

Eve gives him the address to an apartment hotel downtown and he hangs up. 

Chapter 6

[muppets-showdown]

Love Wins!

Here we are at the end of this, the first ever Muppets Showdown. Though both sides put up a considerable fight (It’s impossible to not love Gonzo at least a little), the Muppet(s) of all Time (MOAT) is……..

BERT AND ERNIE!!

THANKS to everyone who participated! Look out for some muppety posts here and there, this blog will remain (at least sporadically) active. I’m not really sure what spin off polls I can do, but I am also running @rock-swag-tournament so if that interests you, check it out!

Maybe I could do franchise specific mini tournaments (like Muppets Treasure Island, Fraggle Rock, The Labyrinth, etc). Or, I’ve been thinking it would be fun to do a “Humans with Muppet Energy” tournament. It would, I think, automatically include any humans who acted alongside Muppets in any in Muppet movies (so Tim Curry, Michael Caine, David Bowie, Jason Segal, etc) and I would also take submissions (and hope that someone submits Brett Goldstein).

Anyway, let me know what y’all think of those ideas! Maybe I’ll make a poll about it later.

For now, though, in light that Five Nights at Freddy’s trailer and MY newfound knowledge that the animatronics were made by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop…

-Em

[ryttu3k]

Planning out my BG3 Sascha run and whoops looks like we're doing another 'bad' run. I'm sure it'll be fine!

Using the aasimar mod for that tasty Angel of Caine dynamic 8D

Old(tm). Highest stats are INT and CHA, classed as a draconic bloodline sorcerer/wizard (bloodline is gold/fire, mostly putting levels in wizard). Can't be selected in-game but they're the grandchild of Kereska, dragon god of magic.

So yes a half-deity dragon angel with fire powers I know they're OP I know but also have you seen Sascha canonically.

Trauma in their backstory, because ofc. When they were young, they fell under the control of another aasimar, Symeon, child of Tyr, who in turn served Michael, who claimed to be the avatar of Sune. Symeon was charming and manipulative, and Sascha, then calling themself Myca, fell pretty quickly under his influence. It wasn't a great time.

Had a sweet romance with Ilias, child of Silvanus. Ilias died during the Spellplague. Myca changed their name to Sascha and. Hardened themself off somewhat.

Present day, a powerful sorcerer/wizard who regularly looks in on places like Blackstaff Academy, using illusion magic to hide their wings and stuff.

Secret! Netherese! Cultist!

Has a fascination with illithid technology. It's so visceral. Why is the damn ship crashing why can't they examine the meat crimes more :-\

Immediately takes charge with their OP charisma. General play vibes are like, pragmatic and not very sentimental, but does try to take care of their coterie.

Mostly fascinated with Gale, another powerful and ambitious mage with a connection to Netherese magic. Definitely encourages him to seek out his sorcerer side (he'll end up multiclassing Storm Sorcery) and, uh, the Crown but also with an eye to maybe? using it themself?

Wary about the Dream Visitor. Does not like having their mind fucked with. On the other hand, very open to using illithid powers, although by the time they get the astral-touched tadpole they're already too negative about the Emperor to agree.

Major decisions, act 1: We are straight-out skipping the druids/tiefling/goblin conflict! (Or, well, AFAIK you can't avoid the fight at the gate, but otherwise they're going to do that, trade with Arron, talk to whatshisname who had the run-in with the githyanki, then go "yeah this isn't my business" and leave.) Won't be recruiting Wyll, Karlach, or Halsin, and the tieflings are fucked, I'm sorry everyone ;_; Might end up entering the Goblin Camp just for more info on this True Soul/Absolute business, but staying steadfastedly Not Involved, then heading on to the Mountain Pass and the creche. Obviously that'll go poorly, although Sascha is still going to be like, yeah, the one in the Prism is shifty, sure, I'll kill them. So that'll put a dampener on any potential relationship!

Act 2: I am… actually not sure how to navigate the Shadow-Cursed Lands here, without getting the lyre from either Minthara or Nere, or attacking the convoy. Hm. Might just have to do a straight shot for Moonrise. AFAIK Minthara can be rescued here and Sascha is just "yeah fine why not". Largely skipping the Last Light, so no Jaheira, and, later, no Minsc, so final team will be Sascha, Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart, Lae'zel, and Minthara. Does the Gauntlet for Shadowheart's sake, but will encourage her not to kill their fellow aasimar, so at least someone is getting a good end XD;; Okay they don't seem to like many other aasimar so, uh, sorry Aylin. Otherwise, makes themself at home at Moonrise and wreaks havoc while they're not looking while in the process of Learning Everything. And, uh, the Shadow Curse is not getting lifted, although tbh I think that was a given since I'm pretty sure Halsin dies if you don't get involved with the Grove-Goblin conflict ;_;

Act 3: Learning about the Emperor - they fuckin' knew it -_- When they meet Raphael later, doesn't agree to the deal, but does plan to steal the hammer instead. They want that crown for their bae, okay.

Character arcs: Gale - go for the crown, babe, I'll hold your flower. Shadowheart - she's already turned from Shar, let's just complete the process. Encourages her to let her parents go. Okay maybe she will go Dark Justiciar :| Astarion - …tragically I think they'd encourage Ascension I'm so sorry Astarion bby. Sascha is just, "Get revenge! Fuckin' eat him!" Lae'zel - reject Vlaakith, free Orpheus - although that's in part to spite the Emperor tbh. Don't know what's happening with Minthara, I guess we'll find out!

Endgame: Once they have the stones, have Orpheus turn illithid. Ultimately, destroy the Netherbrain, then encourage Gale to get the crown and become a god. For the epilogue, become a god alongside him. This won't go badly at all!

On the plus side, if I'm doing God!Gale romance here, I might be able to skip one of the several Astarion runs I have planned, and just do the "they actually do make each other better this time" run?

[thegeminisage]

ok, its time for a QUICK tng update before xm*s proceedings. saturday we did "best of both worlds part ii" and "family" and last night we did "brothers" and "suddenly human."

best of both worlds part ii: I LOOOOOVED THIS EPISODE. mwah. EVERYTHING i wanted. creepy little cyborg implants. brainwashed picard. his beautiful perfect cgi tear (which may or may not have been cgi, this is a point of debate, experts please weigh in). data bravely doing a robot mind meld. 1000000/10 more borg episodes please please PLEASE

can you imagine if the borg has ben in tos btw. what a thought experiment, except for how i quite literally can't think about it or i'll get so excited i'll pass out

did guinan imply she and picard were lovers in this ep...girl you can do better

my one nitpick with william riker was him promoting that lady he hated instead of someone who deserved it, like worf or data. it probably would have given worf ptsd but can you imagine that enterprise having a captain and first officer being gay on the bridge again...wonderful. except this time there would also be deanna <3

"how much do you remember" "everything" AHAHAHAHA GREAT. GOOD. WONDERFUL. anyway

family: extremely unusual episode but i loved it nonetheless. i was really shocked worf's parents were so sweet!!! i fucking loved them. they're like the cutest people on earth i can't believe they raised such a taciturn and stoic guy like worf...

picard's family i wasn't sure about at first until the wrestling match in the mud. sometimes you need to punch a guy and his brother stepped up to the job admirably. i kept thinking he looked like michael caine, which would have been an incredible choice.

WESLEY.....................................................we don't need to talk about it

everyone's accents in this ep were wack. why does picard have a totally different accent from his brother. why is worf's accent different from his parents. ik its not that deep but its making me crrrazzzyyy

brothers: i didnt even get a look at the title of this episode before we started bc vumoo (the shady site im using to watch) doesn't display them but it was SUCH an unexpected pleasure to get a data episode

absolutely scuh-reaming at the ease with which he hijacked an ENTIRE goddamn starship. he's so competent i love that. a real "glad he's on OUR side" moment, not unlike spock commandeering the enterprise in "the menagerie" (rip i wish that had been a better episode).

lore grew on me really fast. i was neutral on him during his last appearance, the meme aside, but in this episode he was really fun and unsettling. brent spiner can do horrible, horrible things with his face

this ep felt a little cut off? i expected another confrontation with lore, a getting back of the chip, or at least some kind of burial or funeral for dr soong, but we just quit like 3/4 through the episode. maybe less time spent on the opening section of the hijack could have fixed this

anyway i love the foil between data and lore...one has support and the other does not...but it doesn't make sense for lore to get the emotions chip because it seems like he already HAS them??

oh yeah and data repeating "i am not less perfect than lore" got funnier EVERY time he did it. little man was really going thru it i was cracking up genuinely <3

suddenly human: this episode was wack

ok, did you guys read face on the milk carton when you were in school? i did when i was way too young to be reading it and it fucked me up real bad and i completely forgot about it until i watched this episode and then i got to unlock that memory in real time

anyway, while it is obviously the correct choice to return a child to their family when they are kidnapped as babies, it is also hugely traumatic for an older child to be ripped away from a loving home* and transplanted with strangers, which those books explore in horrific detail. so the whole episode i found myself going "i KNOW it's bad politics but could they not just CONSIDER leaving him with the only family he's ever known as a possible choice" and then they DID THAT and i wanted to be ill because it was obviously the worst choice in the world

* this is a different scenario than the first tng episode involving kidnapped children, which strongly resembled the residential schools from real life. THIS particular situation, minus the method of kidnapping (during warfare), more closely resembled the crazy cult shit happening in those books, where the kidnapped girl was being raised by people who thought they really were her biological grandparents and weren't bad people and her biological family also weren't bad people. a "no fault" situation EXCEPT FOR HE KIDNAPPENED THAT BABY DURING WARFARE.

anyway this is the second time tng has dropped the ball on this subject so i think from now on they should not do episodes like this anymore. really really really really bad.

NEXT TIME: "remember me" and "legacy"

[sloshed-cinema]

Oppenheimer (2023)

For all of the hype built up over the leadup to its release, Oppenheimer is a very ordinary movie about an ostensibly extraordinary figure. That this is for much of its three-hour runtime a series of conversations public and private, men and women meeting in Senate hearings or secretive kangaroo court tribunals, laboratories or house parties, is not a bad thing in the least. But that this is getting such a rhapsodic popular reception for a film which, for all of its pomp and self-important bluster still has all of Christopher Nolan's usual flaws and shortcomings as a screenwriter, is disappointing. Nolan is best leaving the writing to someone else. His typical mode as a screenwriter is to crystallize what he determines to be his thesis into one repeated phrase. In Interstellar, it's Michael Caine reciting Dylan Thomas poetry, in The Dark Knight, it's Morgan Freeman musing that one man shouldn't be able to universally surveil, and in Dunkirk, it's Kenneth Branagh wistfully saying 'home'. In Oppenheimer, there are twofold statements to cover the disparate arms of the narrative: scientists remind or admonish that theory can only get you so far, and Strauss speaks of controlling the political narrative to get ahead. That these phrases exist aren't so bad in and of themselves, but the issue comes more in the frequency with which they are used. It becomes a relentless sledgehammer that slowly beats away all subtlety and nuance, creating the impression once again that Nolan doesn't trust the audience to "get" it if he doesn't drive home the point time and again.

Jumping between the Manhattan Project and hearings which sought to bring the Father of the Atomic Bomb to his knees, Oppenheimer considers the man and the legend. The man isn't given as much attention as far as his emotional interiority is considered: for being so long, the opening act rushes through character beats like flash cards. Key players introduced and dismissed in bullet point scenes while Oppenheimer accumulates trauma. Oppenheimer's greater existential concerns vis à vis the Bomb are more important. This inert atmosphere pervades much of the film, feeling cold rather than cerebreal as it might have hoped to be. The political angle of the film was dull, barely more than a typical Red Scare playbook which has been hashed through a million times before: fear of Communism created an ironically repressive attitude toward free thought. This is commonly dealt with in the form of public humiliation by hypocritically un-American Kafkaesque show trials and rah-rah conformism. I wish this had dug more into the gnarly, knotty scientific conversations taking place in the Manhattan Project, laying bare the human error potential in such conversations as Great Minds meet. This is more of a long trailer for a concept rather than a sincere and honest dissection of it, but he shot it on IMAX so let's all laud it!

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says 'bomb'.

Oppenheimer looks like a pet in one of those Sarah McLachlan SPCA videos.

The film shifts to or from black and white.

BIG DRINK

tHeOrY cAn OnLy GeT YoU sO fAr

Black dress moment.

ANXIETY SOUND DESIGN

[gaybd1]

Chris watches the muppet Christmas carol for the first time

full disclosure I have been imbibing alcohol as I tend to do for these things lol

I know this thing slaps and I actually have no idea how I’ve never seen this, I didn’t grow up in a particularly muppets-appreciating household I guess??

I don’t have the clearest memory of how the story goes aside from major plot points either so this should be fun

oh no someone’s being stolen

god my immediate reaction is we need more of these and we should just make a muppets version of every literature classic

Charles dickens, that guys gonzo right? I swear I know most of their names bc I watched Sesame Street as a kid

Right? All these guys are in Sesame Street?

ooooo the marleys, don’t remember the dead marleys, how intriguing

Ohhhhh it’s a MUSICAL?!?! the SMILE that just came across my face…

I know who plays Scrooge but I do love that we haven’t seen his face yet. Adds to the … worldbuilding? lol. And mystery

omg this is deep I’ve never considered Scrooge a victim of anything

I’m sorry I’m like five minutes into this and losing my mind at how much of a masterpiece this is

Ah face reveal. I’m sorry I’m like a huge Michael Caine stan

Wait what if he killed the marleys like as far as I remember that’s not what happened but WHAT IF HE DID

Okay real question is Scrooge canonically Jewish bc I’ve always had kind of an antisemitic caricature vibe about him which then would actually totally excuse his not celebrating Christmas

These bookkeepers are great

Fred lol

I do get an angry repressed gay vibe from Scrooge maybe he’s be less grumpy if he got a bf

Jacob and Robert Marley were OBVIOUSLY gay married and Scrooge wanted to be their third but never got up the guts to make it happen

Also they probably loved Christmas and so….

Okay I mean I see now that they are muppets and he is not so uh

I also see that they clearly do not love Christmas

What’s with the chains

Oh yeah I remember

Anyway yeah that scene w those guys was creepy

Where’s miss piggy, man ain’t she a muppet

I love the like narrator voyeurism going on

Omg tHIS GHOST IS CREEPY AF

It’s been a few minutes and I still don’t want to look at her

I’ve always been obsessed w how he did all this traveling in his nightie lol

His name is ebenezer so why do his school friends have such top-10 English names like Michael … more evidence for my theory…

Oh there’s a girl … yeah right…

“I love you” “you did once” OOF yeah he must be fully gay now I see the way he’s looking at her

I don’t care about this song at all move on please

And not a fan of old Scrooge singing with her

I’m sorry not to be heterophobic but this song seems to disrupt the whole vibe of the movie anyway

Next ghost is less creepy at least

I like the weird amusement Scrooge has about him

This song is good

The happiness Scrooge is slowly starting to show aww

this Santa Christmas ghost is definitely high off something

Oh yay Kermit cratchit is married to miss piggy. And their kids are so cute

God bless us, every one!

Wtf Santa’s all old now??

Lol remember having to start your life again every morning and dying every night

WTF WHY IS THIS NEXT GHOST SO SCARY TOO I’m starting to realize why my parents didn’t show this to me when I was a kid lol I was such a baby about creepy shit and STILL AM

And WTF IS THIS SPIDER THING idk if I like this movie so much anymore lol

Really love how accurate and faithful this is and it’s FOR KIDS/families

A Christmas Carol is actually about the journey of accepting one’s queer identity. In this essay I will

But it also really does feel like converting that poor Jewish man to Christmas-ianity omg I’ll have to check up on that

That turkey got a FAT ASS DAYUM

Buying the bookkeepers coal like I know they asked for it and it’s useful but it’s actually so funny

Fred’s wife looks 15 years old yikes

Why would Scrooge fuck w bob like that lmaooo

okay yeah that was cute though I’m glad I saw it

[thegroundhogdidit]

don't apologize for the essay! i once talked to someone for four hours straight because i found out she liked lucifer lmao. i'm just gonna respond to a few things because you make some great points.

what really, truly pisses me off about this show is that no one ever believes him, and everyone who does is made out to be a horrible person by the text of the show. charlotte believed and corroborated everything he said, and thus was an evil villain who tried to blow up a carnival. cain understood what he went through with god because he was ALSO pitted against his own siblings to compete for god's attention, so they had to completely reverse any good character development he had right at the end.

i'd also like to point out that lucifer didn't just have suicidal ideation. after uriel died, he textually tried to commit suicide via standing in front of a sniper near chloe. and even that wasn't actually taken seriously.

and chloe? in terms of who believed him the least, she was definitely number one. i'll never forget how in season 5, michael told her that she was a gift from god, and she immediately started antagonizing lucifer for not telling her that god had been controlling her life as if he hasn't spent FIVE SEASONS telling her that god controlled HIS life. and he couldn't even fight back, because then, as you said, he would be proving them right.

why doesn't he get to defend himself? why does EVERYONE get to stomp all over him and he just has to take it? why does linda ENCOURAGE this??

there's something about taking a victim of child abuse (in terms of being the child of the abuser not being a child at the time) who believes himself to be evil incarnate but desperately doesn't want to be, who is paranoid, and hates himself, and self harms, and is never fucking believed by anyone who could help him heal. taking that man and showing him over and over that if he tries to change, that's not his doing, he's too evil to contribute anything positive toward himself. and if he gets tired of that, if he snaps? then he never really changed at all

the most annoying part of lucifer on netflix is that he was literally right the whole time. i don't give a shit if the literal actual god was "just trying his best." lucifer was 100% right to be angry at god and in fact, i think everyone should've been downright pissed when they met him. ESPECIALLY linda. fuck her for real for telling him that his conflict with god was partially his fault. lucifer described an abusive father to her countless times and the second she met him she started fawning over him? fuck that. chloe should've punched god in the face

[thegeekysnapper]

Years ago I had a Tumblr blog. I don't know how or why I stopped using it, I'm guessing it was probably because of my complete incompetence with any form of social media, and social media like endeavours.

Having read the umpteenth "networking advice for photographers" type article that mentions Tumblr, I though I'd mosey on back over.

Way back when, I used to use Tumblr a little like a repository for my online postings, sharing things such as my blog posts, images I'd shared to Instagram, the occasional funny or insightful tweet, and anything else I may have shared. I thought that, at least for now, that is how I would use it.

To that end, below is the first post from my recently resurrected blog - resurrected because of, as I mention in the post, "helpful" advice I have received - that gives a little information about me, the idiot behind the camera and this Tumblr blog...

Over the years I have produced a number of blogs on various topics. Despite them differing when it came to subject matter they all shared one similarity, much like with a camera, I tried to keep the focus away from myself as much as possible. As I make my way along the journey of turning my photography into a living as opposed to a - occasionally paying - hobby, I have found myself advised that a blog, specifically a blog that focuses more often upon myself, is a must - Oh, for f**k's sake!

Even though I have produced the aforementioned blogs, and I have written articles for a number of others, I have always struggled with the whole 'first post' thing. And so, in an effort to make life easier for myself, but at the same time make me share a little about me, I had a quick Google, found some 'get to know me' questions, and using a random number generator have randomly selected some - Except the first two. I figured my name and where I am based may be useful information should anyone consider my services.

What is your name?

My name is Ian Guffogg (Brits over a certain age, answer me this, did you hear that in "Michael Caine's" voice?), online I also go by the moniker The Geeky Snapper, a moniker that was suggested to me by my late wife because I'm a massive geek and I'm a photographer.

Where are you from?

I was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Until my early teens I lived near Dewsbury in a little place called Littletown (which despite the name is technically a village). In my early teens I moved near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire to a village called Rastrick. In my late teens I moved to Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now I live in Bolton, Lancashire having defected over the border for love in 2010.

What is your favourite ice cream flavour?

When I was a young 'un I loved choc mint chip. I do still like it from time to time, but I've found as I've got older I've gone quite boring and vanilla is my favourite.

What is your favourite candle scent?

As long as I've lived in Bolton we've had rescue cats, and somehow we managed to find cats that had no sense of self preservation. Because of this we had to stop using candles but found we could use electric wax melt "burners", my favourite scent for it is salted caramel.

What was your least favourite subject at school?

I've always struggled with the traditional learning methods so I wasn't particularly fond of any subject, but my least favourite was definitely PE because we never played a sport that interested me.

Are you scared of heights?

I'm not scared of heights per se. I'm scared of the sudden stop at ground level should I fall from said height.

Are you a good cook?

I can cook. Does that make me a good cook... I don't know. You'd have to ask someone I cook for. What I can say with some certainty is that I love garlic, so if you aren't a fan of garlic then to you I'm a terrible cook.

What's the weirdest thing you have seen in your life?

I once saw a bloke walking his iguana to my local supermarket. It might not be weird to some but it was a first for me. On the same road another time - although this one is more amusing rather than weird I think - I saw a bloke outside my local pub having a screaming match on the phone, he ended the call rather angrily with "NO! WHY WOULD WE WANT TO COME HOME NOW? WE'RE GOING FOR A DRINK", he hung up and turned revealing that he had a kitten in his arms. He gave it's belly a tickle and said to it - in the voice you do to a baby - "we're going for a drink aren't we" and marched into the pub.

What is your most used swear word?

F**k. Its various word forms can be used for almost anything. It's so versatile, it's like a waffle - I should maybe explain for those not in the know, the frozen food company Birds Eye have a product called a potato waffle and their long running slogan was "Birds Eye potato waffles, they're waffly versatile."

How far from your birthplace do you live now?

According to Google, 41.5 mile.

What store would you choose to max out your credit card?

If it could only be one store I'd need to find a hybrid store that combines a camera store, somewhere like Forbidden Planet, and this Las Vegas shop who's socials I follow - and somewhere I hope to visit one day - called Nightmare Toys.

What flavour of tea do you enjoy?

This used to cause my late wife so much dismay because I'm a big fan of Toast & Jam Brew made by Yorkshire Tea. She thought it was an abomination. She loved their Malty Biscuit Brew, and to be fair so do I.

What is one guilty pleasure you enjoy too much to give up?

I've never understood the concept of feeling guilt for enjoying something. Judging by some people's reaction to finding out I play Pokémon games I should probably say that. At the risk of carbon dating myself, I've played them since the originals came out on the Game Boy.

What time do you usually get up in the morning?

I have a dog who is quite fond of routine, and somehow a 6am wakeup with 6.30am breakfast became her routine, so I wake up at 6am with the pitter-patter of paws dancing on me and her face mere inches from mine.

What was the name of your first pet?

It's neither witty nor clever, though to be fair I was a child, I had a goldfish called Goldie.

That's probably quite enough of that for now. I do hope someone, somewhere, found something of interest.

[snow-hart-a]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN! 🌟

Tagged by: @silverwingborn

NAME?: Alastair [not Alastor]

PRONOUNS?: he/they

MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S)?: I am fairly active on most of them, but Archangel Michael and Cain have been muses a very long time and I enjoy writing them

RP PET PEEVES?: bashing on ocs, especially female ones. And if someone doesn't show basic decency...though I guess that's more of a personal one.

EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS?: Uh....8 years, on the web anyway.

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION?: You can dm me here but discord is much better for me.

BEST EXPERIENCE?: When I first joined tumblr I ended up in the Naruto rp fandom, that was nice... [till it wasn't]

FLUFF, ANGST, OR SMUT? : I'm okay with all, but smut tends to be rather hit or miss and I am a bit on the fence atm but maybe one day

PLOTS OR MEMES?: Both? Both. Both is good.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES?: Depends on the rp, if I can get the intended message out in a short reply it might be shorter, but I tend to be a bit long winded lol

TIME TO WRITE?: Normally on most of the time off and on but best between noon and midnight-1am

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S)?: I think so, at least a bit. I hope so anyway

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do so

[faebriel]

needing you to drop all your character/writings playlists

OKAY so for me most of the time i'll make a specific playlist for the fic in question to get the inspiration vibes going. and like they are quite specific for each fic....c!rainduo have different vibes in rousseau's man than they do in cause most of us are bitter for example. and some songs are just for vibes. and some fics i just fly in blind tbh

this is gonna be a doozy so songs under the cut

castling kingside, you're the fool i'm just as well, and the owl house fics all don't have playlists! it's called freefall has the titular song and the everything everywhere all at once soundtrack, and you think they'll make it is mostly just the hadestown soundtrack. but here are the rest

cause most of us are bitter over someone & one will die before he gets there:

youth - daughter (the classic...)

burn it down - daughter

the other side of paradise - glass animals

babooshka - kate bush (this is a vibes ish one... originally in bitter there was more of an emphasis on niki setting up these 'traps' (mostly in conversation, not literal ones...) to prove that wilbur is still a bad person, and wilbur failing all of them on purpose because he is trying to push that he's a bad person. the situation the singer describes reminded me of it)

francis forever - mitski

no care - daughter

flaws - daughter

that's okay - the hush sound

achilles come down - gang of youths (maybe a cliche pick, but it's so good for the atmosphere of everything going wrong until it maybe starts to pick itself up into going right)

molasses - the hush sound

and you caused it has the same songs as the other fics in the series, plus:

at least i have nothing - saint motel

someone is crazy - jonathon coulton

waterfalls coming out your mouth, your love (deja vu) and it's all so incredibly loud - glass animals (all here for vibes)

all together now - ok go

all's well that ends (fun fact, the playlist is just called "thats a normal coping mechanism") includes:

all's well that ends - rainbow kitten surprise (duh)

first class - rainbow kitten surprise

the goodbye song - joe iconis (more of a ghostboo and michael song... but important for considering ghostboo's character in that fic for me)

i'm alive and reprise - aaron tveit (ok this is another holdover from an older version of the fic!! originally ghostboo was... well, not really intentionally malicious, but his lack of regard for life and death veered more into being actively harmful and dangerous for tubbo. ended up adjusting this aspect because it didn't mesh as well with the tone/themes of rest of the fic, where people care, but tubbo is unable to accept their help. also i got to the end of that fic and went Man giving tubbo a husband who is not only dead but doesn't care if he lives or dies is just too cruel. i can't do that to him LMFAO)

divine loser - clem turner (mostly here for vibes. great song)

love me, normally - will wood (THE all's well that ends ghostboo song)

rousseau's man... or at least, act 1. i don't wanna spoil acts 2 and 3 through their playlists lmfao:

you! me! dancing! - loscamp

...and we exhale and roll our eyes in unison - loscamp

drop it doe eyes - loscamp

death to los campensinos - loscamp

we are beautiful, we are doomed - loscamp

concorde - black country, new road

the place where he inserted the blade - black country, new road

chaos space marine - black country, new road

do everything now - saint motel

i'm gonna live til i die - frank sinatra

and how does summer end?:

this one came with a few songs as part of the writing challenge! those were american teenager (ethel cain), mosquito on the wall (the wombats), eat your young (hozier), in the best case scenario we'd die at the same time (my name is ian) and the bells of notre dame

the entire from studio 4 album

running up that hill - the wombats cover

brand new city - mitski

everything's fine (nuke song) - roe kapara

i love you so - the walters

star tripping - kevin atwater

ceilings - lizzy mcalpine

doomsday - lizzy mcalpine

i know the end - phoebe bridgers

unraveling - the crane wives

love love love - of monsters and men

dry lips - lightspeed champion

am i dreaming? - metro boomin

sunglasses at night (jean jacket remix) - nope 2022 soundtrack

fine, great - modern baseball

strawberry blonde - mitski

romance is boring - loscamp

bye, bye, bye - jellyfish

be nice to me - the front bottoms

fake friend - nothing,nowhere

my mom - kimya dawson

playlists are hard! some inspire vibes, some inspire characters, and some are just on here because they're just right to make my brain want to write something. hey would you believe loscamp was my most listened to artist this year because let me tell you

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If you could pick a supernatural season to enter the show during in order to try and fix things (or make them worse lol your choice) which season would you pick? What would you do? And would you survive long enough to change things?

I had to think a while about this one. I mean, what even qualifies as "fixed" in the SPNverse? From the brothers' series-end POV, things did probably work out as well, for them, as they could over the course of the show: They're together in Heaven, Jack is God, and it isn't their job to make terrible sacrifices anymore. But if you focus on the trillions of people in the universes that Chuck destroyed, their defiance probably wasn't worth it.

Here's the part that hurts: Someone has to go through with the Chuck-caging spell. (To get the ingredients, you'll need Michael, Lucifer, or Death; of the three, Death is the least likely to turn into an omnicidal supervillain.) I don't buy that taking on a god's mark inevitably ends in "murdering the world." The world's survived Cain's presence for thousands, probably tens or even hundreds of thousands, of years. That's a heckuva lot longer than most of the universes will survive if you don't stop Chuck.

I don't buy Chuck's argument against caging him, that the universe will be tipped toward darkness and that therefore monsters will take over. Monsters are part of creation, too; they're not a part of Amara's nothingness. Further, the Darkness is able to keep balancing the cosmic order even while caged, so God should work the same way. I think that if you can cage God without freeing the Darkness, you can forestall most of season 15's tragedies and end Chuck's rule over the multiverse.

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The Legacy of The Dark Knight

With Oppenheimer generating so much talk about Christopher Nolan, there still might be some that are maybe unfamiliar with his work, and why this director/writer/producer is so highly regarded. In short, one of the main reasons why he has become so well-known is because of his take on The Caped Crusader in The Dark Knight, and with 2023 celebrating 15 years since its release, we thought it might be a good time to reflect on the movie, and attempt to uncover why it achieved such critical acclaim. The Legacy of The Dark Knight When Batman Begins was released in 2005, fans were not ready for what Christopher Nolan was going to do to one of the most iconic superheroes to ever exist. He stripped back that ridiculous feeling that emitted from predecessors like Batman Forever & Batman & Robin and based his vision of Bruce Wayne/Batman in a much more solidified way. Ultimately, it felt like Bruce Wayne was living in the same world as us. With a stomping soundtrack from Hans Zimmer (You can hear it right now can’t you?) along with a whole host of legendary performances from Cillian Murphy (Fun fact, Cillian Murphy auditioned for the role of Batman before becoming Scarecrow), Liam Neeson (Ra's al Ghul), Michael Caine (Alfred Pennyworth), to name just a few, Batman Begins was a monumental hit and a refreshing reminder of how important this DC character is. As the title suggests, it was just a taste of things to come, and what came next was something truly special... If you ask anyone in the street to name a Batman villain, the first one that would come to mind for most is The Joker! When it was confirmed that The Joker would be making an appearance in The Dark Knight, fans and cinema attendees alike went into complete overdrive with excitement. Let’s not forget though, that at the time, fans were skeptical of Nolan’s decision to pick Heath Ledger as The Joker due to him being famous for projects that some thought weren’t in a similar vein to the seriousness of The Dark Knight, but when the credits started to roll, Nolan earned trust, and Heath proved every single doubter wrong. Heath Ledger’s take on The Joker is nothing short of iconic, and as someone who watched this film in the cinema when it came out, I can still remember just how silent the audience was every time Heath did a scene, his laugh, and frenzied presence was terrifying. Michael Caine famously mentioned how scared he was to just be on set with Heath when he was in costume as The Joker, and I believe him. With his unfortunate passing, The Dark Knight is just a snapshot of Heath’s diverse acting ability, and as a viewer, you can’t help but wonder what incredible roles he would have taken on next if he was still with us. A tragic loss to say the least. Now, I haven’t mentioned Christian Bale’s take on Batman yet, so let’s get stuck into that. In short, he is in my opinion one of the best Batman’s we have ever seen. He nailed the voice, and his nipple-free look as the Batman itself, is a modern, spot-on style, that again harks realism. Christian glues the plot together, he gives us a professional and streamlined Batman/Bruce Wayne, whilst giving space for supporting characters to thrive. Also, when it comes to cinematography, it doesn’t get much cooler than watching his version of Batman cruise around the streets of Gotham on his Batmobile, or Batbike, with Hans Zimmer’s heart-pounding soundtrack racing in the background. Going back to realism, that is certainly another key reason why this movie has lasted the test of time, and practical effects are nothing short of legendary here. There’s that classic sequence where Nolan flips a whole truck (this is NOT CGI), and the opening sequence with zip lines, clowns, and a bank robbery, instantly pulls in the viewer. Encasing the movie are standout performances from Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes), Gary Oldman (James Gordon), Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox) and not forgetting a breakout role from David Dastmalchian. Just like Batman Begins, The Dark Knight features an outstanding cast. There are a ton of reasons why The Dark Knight is so well known (You could write an essay on the importance of each main character alone!), and this article only covers just some of those crucial points, so why not celebrate its 15th anniversary by revisiting the movie today. Read the full article