#the superior william

[smolvenger]

Heheheheeh guess who I'm currently writing a rough draft for now at last-

The Wiliam Buxton/Reader fic is on the way!

It may not have any actual stakes besides some mutual pining and I don't think a lot will happen- but we're just here for the vibes, y'all.

[linseymorris]

[breadedsinner]

While the dudes were doing push-ups or whatever during the Citadel DLC, all the women should have been lining up to feel Ashley’s muscles.

[cabinet-toon]

YOUR PARANOIA, IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I was thinking about how a lot of people who are into the Vampire Diaries are also into Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and how there are some obvious parallels between the shows and between the relationships of Angel & Buffy and Stefan & Elena and then Spike & Buffy and Damon & Elena, but obviously they aren't exactly the same ships or characters, and it's made me curious. Fans of both, is there a correlation in what you ship?

[nix-xon]

Listen, I love William Frederickson with all my heart and soul. He's one of the few characters who never treated Sharpe any differently when he found out he was raised from the ranks. He's a good, supportive friend, and was always happy to go along with all of Sharpe's dumb, himbo ideas.

His dry wit is PERFECT and he's a complete troll and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

He's the BEST

[mr-steveraglan]

How do you feel about the holidays

Do you like them?

Fuck Christmas. I love Halloween, best time of the year.

[mariocki]

The Brothers Rico (1957)

"Okay, okay, so nobody's blaming you! Let's just say something happened way back, huh? So maybe I am gonna die. But, Eddie, you've got even bigger troubles. You're gonna live."

[brw]

Never even understanding how much you'd be missed by those left behind...

What If? Vol 2 #56: "WHAT IF THE AVENGERS LOST OPERATION: GALATIC STORM?"

[lyledebeast]

Heroes, Motivations, and Patriotism: Braveheart vs. The Patriot

Audiences could hardly connect these two Mel Gibson-centered films more if the second was a direct sequel to the first as opposed to a story about totally unrelated characters hundreds of years later in a different country. I have to wonder if the filmmakers behind The Patriot were not so gung ho about casting Gibson in the lead role because they wanted the audience to see William Wallace in a man who actually has nothing in common with him. The key difference between these two men is the crystal clear link between Wallace's motives and his actions and the murkiness of that link in Benjamin Martin's case.

His wife Murron's execution is not the origin of Wallace's desire for vengeance; rather it is the impetus behind his choice to take action. He has been a witness to the effects of Longshanks' cruelty since childhood when the king hanged the Scottish nobles with whom he said he would negotiate. Wallace's father and older brother later die resisting the English Army. When an English lord orders Murron executed for resisting an English soldier who tries to rape her, after the king has restored the practice of "first night," Wallace knows exactly who is to blame. He executes the lord on the same spot where Marron died, but he knows Longshanks will just send another one, and another one after that if they kill him, and that these abuses of Scottish rights will continue as they have for Wallace's whole life. The only way he can see to prevent that is to drive English forces from Scotland, and all his choices from this point forward have that end goal in sight.

While Wallace's beef with the English dates from childhood, Martin's dates from a few minutes of real time before he goes hog wild and butchers a company of British soldiers with a tomahawk. Before Colonel Tavington and his Green Dragoons ride up, he is caring for wounded British soldiers on his porch right next to Continental ones. Indeed, the only objection anyone makes to the British prior to this scene is taxation, which is never mentioned again after the Charlestown assembly at the start of the film, three years prior to Martin's run-in with the dragoons.

At that assembly, Martin claims that he will not vote in favor of joining the war or serve in the army being raised because protecting his children is his priority. But not only does he leave his youngest and most vulnerable children behind to go fight, but his militia's short-term goal is the opposite of Wallace's. Their orders are to keep Cornwallis's army in South Carolina so he cannot join with the British army in the north and crush the Continental forces altogether. It's a reasonable strategy from a military perspective, but not for a man whose family is allegedly his chief concern. That neither Martin nor his men have made any provision to conceal or protect their families from British attack--even though the impetus behind his joining at all was just such an attack!--drives the disparity home further.

Much has been made of the role personal vengeance plays in both films, but Wallace takes his quickly and as a precursor to leading the fight for independence. It is not the single or most important force driving him. Meanwhile, Martin treats personal vengeance like a dessert he gets to enjoy after he'd done justice to the main course of fighting for independence, even though he never voices any enthusiasm for that fight. Ultimately, Wallace has far more in common with Martin's oldest son Gabriel, the actual "patriot" referenced in the title, but even Gabriel's motives are less concrete than his. He's an eighteen-year-old boy working on his father's farm when he joins the Continental army; what taxes was he paying?

Perhaps the most striking contrast between Wallace and Martin lies in their characters' respective ends, and this also reinforces the differences in their motivations. At the end of Braveheart, Wallace is dead, having given all he had for Scotland. At the end of The Patriot, Martin is breeding new children with his sister-in-law to replace the ones Tavington killed and watching his home rebuilt in the very spot where Tavington burned it, driving home that the best possible life for him is one nearly identical to the one he had under British rule. At the same time, it makes everything that happens between the impetus driving his vengeance and his consummation of it feel like a waste of time!

The next time I hear someone call The Patriot "American Braveheart," Pow! Right in the kisser!

[eemoo1o-animoo]

I think I want Frances and William to meet. Frances would be like “see? This is how a man is meant to look” to Sebastian. Like he would just be the son she never had.

[peppermint-jade]

I am the target audience for Doctor Who: Legends of Camelot

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[goopgooping]

Listened to the finale of JRWI Prime Defenders S2 and. Holy shit. I am not real anymore!

I will be exclusively thinking about this episode for the foreseeable future! The William section has permanently affixed itself to my mind! Yikes!

But in all realness so much praise to the guys and the editor and everyone that had ideas for that episode because holy shit… and it being a re-recording because of Bizly’s pc bluescreening???? That was destiny and everyone knows it

I don’t want to talk abt anything that could be too spoilers bc I want to get some of my friends into jrwi someday but… yeah. Amazing stuff from JRWI as always and I am now going to re-listen to the whole season so I can make connections.

[captainlaurence]

Nothing, absolutely n o t h i n g, will ever be funnier than Laurence’s dawning realization of what Temeraire did against the stones while “bathing” in the shallow riverbed.

[ziggyplayedguitar96]

I have a newfound love for “I Caught Myself” by Paramore

[zingaplanet]

Mysogynist tennis fans: "Men's tennis is far more superior than the women's!"

SORRY BUT CAN YOUR HERO WIN THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN WHILE PREGNANT????????