#the ls

[arbitrarygreay]

Ben the Magnificent, by the numbers

(This is really just me making a handy rewatch guide) 1x04 4 (Ben, Lila, Kristen, Kristen) 1x08 1 (Lila) 1x09 1 (Andy) 1x12 1 (Lila, Lila is the one who hugs him and drags him over by the hand) 1x13 1 (Laura) 2x04 1 (Laura) 3x03 2 (Lila, twice) (Laura is the one who talks to Ben in 3x10) 4x02 1 (Laura) 4x11 2 (Lila, Ellie pretending to be Laura) 4x14 1 (All four Ls) 14 total utterances of "Ben the Magnificent", plus Lila's "you're not very magnificent lately" makes 15. 8 of them (over half) are from season 1. Lila racks up 6 of them (a little less than half), and Laura 3 (around 20%). So, it turns out that Ben's relationship with the girls isn't fully equal. Lila and Laura have a particular affinity for him. I wonder if there's a connection to my impression that Lila and Laura are the ones who tend to drive the nonstop chatter during the overlapping talking moments, whereas Lynn and Lexis tend to have more beats and non-spoken reactions (i.e. facial expressions) in their contributions to the flow. Of course, there's an element of actor improv tendency to those cases. But, it does bear out in the scripted lines that Laura is always pretty mouthy and forward with her opinions while Lila is the smooth talking liar. They are the two who coordinate on the "we put a kid from school in the toilet" joke in 3x03. Lexis and Lynn are more measured in what they say, more often asking questions or making observations than stating opinions. Interesting that it is then Lexis and Lynn who have the more spiritually-related arcs in the show. This split is then reinforced by the plausibility of Ellie-pretending-to-be-Laura spinning the future of Ben having encouraged Laura to go into cosmology.

[welpwomp]

Oh, what a fool I was

[neostellarjpg]

davekat doods before bed

[quivthearcher]

Be Nimona:

>Originally made as a subversion of the usual fantasy stories and superheroes in comics with a bloodthirsty MC, an implied Homosexual relationship between a Villain and a Hero, and a relatively dark story and ending

>Get Picked up and get animated by Blue Sky Studio(Ice Age, Rio, Spies in Disguise etc etc)

>Gets finished 90% of the way

>Disney buys Blue Sky, dismantles it and throws said 90% of progress to the void archives that is Disney's unfinished projects

>Gets picked up by Netflix

>Netflix allows the story to not only stay consistent with the comic but doubles down on the "controversial" parts of it(Homosexuality is now prevalent, lots of murder-y things and gore)

> Is released as a KIDS MOVIE

>Gets released in the same time frame as Disney's 100 Year celebration

>Gets nominated for an Oscar

>BEATS disney's own movie for the time frame

>Gets released FOR FREE in youtube for everyone to see what Disney ditched

[unender]

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[0callover]

I finally been motivated to start counting my c@ls again. War is over 😭🙏

[asha-mage]

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

the way they both smile into this kiss

911 Lone Star: Thunderstruck (5x05)

[sidsinning]

I like to imagine anti!ladynoir would still end up in situations where they are always almost kissing each other too

[raticalshoez]

I miss Team BEST and their dysfunctional swag

[arbitrarygreay]

h/t to @morningmightcomebyaccident for linking this in another post

Robert King (who grew up in a family of seven) told The Daily Beast that when it comes to the girls, “We encourage that nobody gets a line finished. Everybody’s interrupting.” That’s the kind of conversation that King grew up with: “There were no lone children talking. Everybody was talking at the same time.”

The Kings cast the Bouchard sisters in groups of four to gauge their chemistry.

The scripts usually contain sections labeled “daughters,” which list the various lines that should be shouted all at once. On filming day, Herbers and her TV brood huddle together to decide who gets to say what—and who gets an extra line or two. “I wait with my cues,” she said, “because they’ll just say the most ridiculous things and they’ll end up in the show. They’re great.”

[halfwayriight]

actuallyrafa on instagram (dec 6, 2024)

[sketchy-tour]

Thank you, Remderem!

[lizardwizardblizard]

I got frank iero to sign my testosterone!!

[stevenrogered]

This Wyatt, my newest dispatcher. He just got his stripes last month. Congratulations.