#whipsmart

[bookishkittycat]

liz phair - whip-smart (1994)

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[seph-on-an-irrational-planet]

I’m only an episode and a half in but I’d kill for The West Wing Thing guys take on the moffat era of doctor who

[mistyunmoored]

this episode was everything I hoped for like there was magic and chaos and screaming and the best possible trio for it and I fear Sam Reich only a little bit less than Lou Wilson holding a guitar

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Nik gets caught playing his favourite sport: Price Watching.

cw: sad Nik is sad; pining, wingman Laswell.

"What're you smiling at?"

"Hm?" Nik dragged his eyes away from where the captain was giving his briefing to the rapt attention of the gathered operators to give Laswell the side eye.

She raised an eyebrow.

"He did the thing," Nik said, unhelpfully.

"The thing."

"Da, the thing he does."

"Nik, Price does a lot of things..."

"You know," he grabbed the straps of an invisible carrier vest, rolled onto his toes and thrust his hips a little at the air, the movement rippling up the length of his torso in a perfect imitation of the captain currently gesturing over a map table at the front of the room, "the thing."

She smacked a hand over her mouth to stifle the guffaw and ended up blowing an undignified half-raspberry into her palm. Sergeant MacTavish raised his eyebrow at her before returning his attention to Price's briefing. She glowered at Nik.

"Laswell, that was very unprofessional," Nik breathed, amused.

"That's rich coming from you, I thought I was the only one who had noticed that," she hissed back in the practiced method of a woman used to keeping her voice hushed in the earshot of others.

Nik hummed and let the conversation lapse as John continued to walk them through the jump and intended target. Nik had read the file four times over and already forwarded his questions ahead of time. As they progressed onto assignments, he leaned towards Laswell again. "You are right. There are a lot of Price things."

"Oh?" She smirked. "Go on."

"When he finishes, he will tap the lieutenant once on the chest with a flat palm as he is standing closest."

She shook her head at him, her smile soft. "Nik..."

"I am right, you'll see."

"What else?"

"He blinks rapidly when he smiles. It is..." He trailed off, but Laswell had the creeping suspicion that the word 'beautiful' or even 'cute' had been about to come out of Nik's mouth. "And he twitches his nose before he drinks his coffee."

"Have you thought about asking him out for a coffee rather than watching him drink it from afar like a peeping tom?"

"He would say no."

"To a coffee?"

"Not to the coffee."

"Somethin' to add Nikolai?" Price called over from the front, and the sternness in his voice made both of them snap to attention.

Nik cleared his throat. "Nyet, captain. Only explaining the exfil to Laswell in simpler terms."

"Leave it 'til I'm done, I'll take any questions at the end."

Laswell nodded tightly and then kicked Nik's shin when Price returned to his explanation. "Asshole."

"Da."

"I'll tell him, you know."

"No you will not."

She sighed. They lapsed into silence again.

Nik continued to watch Price with the same open, adoring expression he thought was camouflaged by the crowd of soldiers around him. Laswell had seen that look on him so many times and yet Nik had never tried to progress his adoration beyond pining from afar. She couldn't understand it; they were perfect for each other. Whipsmart intelligence, bloody minded, grumpy in the morning, mischievous, scars behind their eyes... the list could go on.

"You should ask him out," she whispered.

"I am too old for him."

"Now you're just making excuses..."

Someone had the audacity to shush her and she turned to give them the stink eye only to come face to face with the colonel. Alejandro raised an eyebrow and she gestured her apology with two raised hands before turning back to face the front.

She watched as Nik went to receive the written answers to his enquiries to review before the flight, and waited for Price to head off to his office before she approached Nik again. He was studying the note closely, far longer than necessary. "Handwritten," she said meaningfully, her eyes darting over the notes in Nik's hands.

The briefing concluded and Price... did exactly what Nik had said he would do; one pat on Lieutenant Riley's chest as he dismissed the gathered operators to their assignments. Nik raised both eyebrows and pressed his lips together at Laswell in the most comical 'told ya' expression she had ever seen.

"Da."

"You can't torture yourself like this forever, Nikolai."

"Lucky for me that I do not have forever."

"Macabre, even for you."

He sighed, folding his note from Price carefully so that he could tuck it inside his jacket. "Everything beautiful in my life is taken from me, Laswell. My family, my country. If I keep him at a distance, then there is a chance I will not lose him too. Let me have... this."

"This is yearning and agonising from afar while he's oblivious. It doesn't seem like much."

"It is enough."

"There are no guarantees, not in this life."

"This is true."

She stared at him in hopes of more, but he only looked back placidly. "Coward..."

"Da."

She sighed and threw her hands up, exasperated. "One coffee, Nik. What's the worst that could happen?"

"He could fall in love with me."

"Jesus."

This was going to be a project, wasn't it? Well, what was it that Price said? In for a penny, in for a pound.

[fadedsaturated]

Every day I lament this show not getting the proper crazed fandom it deserved. Truly one of the best modern dramedy series out there. Compelling storylines, fantastic ensemble, whipsmart writing. This show was just a few years shy of the Glee boom, but if they had aired closer together I know this show would have been just as popular here.

[kindalikerackham]

something i adore about Flint's character is his love for classic books. because like, when he's thinking of talking to his men, his frame of reference isn't the easy personable comradery that grows on people naturally (like Gates, Billy, Silver). he was an outcast in the navy! a poor upstart nerd! a whipsmart career man!

what he does know is the grandeur of the classics. he knows how to speak to Men, how to channel the rage of a collective moment. he knows the romantic swell of a great narrative. when he stands before then, he speaks as a part of that swell. when he stood with Thomas, they spoke in that swell together. Their romance was as much to themselves as to the inherent humanity of people they hadn't even met

And just as the Greatest of Men in the novels don't do things by halves, neither did James McGraw, neither does Flint.

but a man does things by halves. a man will chat and bend their morals and earn trust and friendship by the way they float through others' rules and orders. a man will sully himself and his own narrative and it will be messy

And Flint, James, doesn't think of himself as one of them

this is made all the clearer when Flint says something awkward, something stupid. Because he isn't talking like he's a person. he's talking like he's a Hero, a Villain. he's talking to prop up a greater narrative. and when a man or a woman he's interacting with doesn't see The Narrative he's driving, he can look utterly ridiculous

Flint is embroiled in A Grand, Classic, Romantic Narrative the common man doesn't see

and the writers of Black Sails carefully unfold it to us, the audience

(and to Silver)

[deadboydetectives-confessions]

To me, swapping the genders for Edwin and Charles just… doesn’t work. Like at all.

The identities of “1980s Rude Boy slash traditional rugby lad” and “flamboyant Victorian schoolboy” is so deeply interwoven into their particular complexities and traumas that it just doesn’t translate whatsoever. Being sporty is part of what makes Charles socially acceptable in the mainstream and connects to the popular “comp cis het” headcanon for him, and being gentlemanly yet unable to hide his feminine mannerisms is what caused Edwin to be targeted.

“Whipsmart tomboyish Victorian schoolgirl that’s independent and likely a feminist” and “alternative feminine sporty bird” is… such different flavors that they might as well be OCs. Women being sporty still tends to be a bit more non-traditional, even now. And being an outspoken woman in Victorian England would make someone a social pariah, but not to the point of physical torment - psychological warfare would have likely been their weapon of choice.

Ironically, I think it being so hard to gender swap Edwin and Charles, really highlights just how well written their characters are.

P.S. If you’re into the aforementioned interpretation of gender swapped Edwin, I’m begging you to check out the character Felicity Montague in Mackenzi Lee’s “Montague Siblings” series. Her particular novel is The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, but her character is first introduced in The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - the first book in the series and my personal favorite.

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[sunlitlemonade]

can i say something controversial. i think ppl calling jason a loser is just an overcompensation to some ppl seeing him as this huge dom daddy or whatever. like me personally? i do think he's sort of pathetic & kind of an asshole but i also think he's whipsmart, cunty & has a heart of gold. i can see why some see him as someone to avoid but i will also understand why ppl look his way. he isn't exactly completely some cringefail dickhead. where's the balance guys

[bvckbiter]

christ i wish my headcanon of ethan having a whip as a weapon was canon. imagine the ship names we couldve had. ethabeth couldve been whipsmart LMFAO

(also i just want the demigods to have cooler weapons 😔😔😔i need to get back to my ta weapons series sigh)

[allhailthe70shousewife]

Here’s my mom when she was living in NYC, sharing a bachelorette pad in the early 60s with a bunch of her girlfriends. They all moved across the country together. She was a whipsmart legal secretary, she worked at a law firm across the street from the UN. It was all incredibly romantic and fabulous.

This is also the piñata my grandma sent her for Xmas - arrived decapitated.

Went to see my dad today. HAD to share my mom’s roses

These next three are ALL from the same bush😻

And let me tell you, they get NO love from anybody. My dad is no gardener. He’d just as soon pave it all over.

[rethrone]

no god here, no universe, no karmic forces or gay energy shit, just me. so i will congratulate myself this year on whining to nobody, opening up less, staying true to my disdain for gossip and moving on, and staying true to my values even if it cost me my friends and job. good things happened almost immediately after, and it was because of the things i have done in the past that set myself up for security and access, no matter the suffering put into it. i am not special or even that talented, but i will continue to be resilient and whipsmart. any good that comes my way will be shared as always. 👍

[rickchung]

Rebel Ridge (dir. Jeremy Saulnier).

Aaron Pierre is a star and Saulnier only further proves his creative genre filmmaking chops in Netflix's firecracker of a revenge action thriller. Essentially a retelling of the standard tale about an ex-veteran entering a backwards small-town and doing battle with the corrupt police force in the vein of something like First Blood, contemporary elements of racial injustice and civil asset forfeiture are injected into the film's whipsmart storytelling. Every part of its structure works together to build a compelling narrative. It also rips pretty hard as a piece of pure cinematic entertainment.

[rhys-james]

He was a whipsmart wizard of comedy, but people don't give Rhys enough credit for being a whipsmart wizard of fashion too! A wide-hipped suit with white socks? Genius!

[megafaunatic]

book ask: 3, 14 and 14 :)

3. What were your top five books of the year?

oh FUCK ummm UHHHHH UHH!!!!!!!! UMMMMM UHHHHH

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - ursula k le guin

THE FOX WIFE - yangsze choo

GOING POSTAL - mgft (my good friend terry)

LORDS AND LADIES - mgft

THUD - mgft

sorry. sorry. sorry. storygraph informs me that 24 of my 53 books so far were mgft. THE FOX WIFE definitely takes the cake for "book i have thought about the most for non fujo reasons" though. just so so so fun

13. What were your least favorite books of the year? (CONFIRMED WITH ZOË THAT THEY MEANT 13+14 LOL)

didn't love or had mixed feelings about mgft's MOVING PICTURES (too early; he hadn't figured out what he was doing yet) or RAISING STEAM (too late; he wasn't as totally whipsmart clever and his editors weren't mean enough bc um. well he was dying is why). <- guy who just wrote raising steam fanfiction. also 😔 didn't like kai cheng thom's I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE - i liked the prose parts, but the poetry interludes were juuuuust insufferable and there were SO MANY of them

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

i don't have anything particularly on the docket BUT i should read some of your manga. and continue the year of the beast!!!!!!!!!!