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cappdeservesanap · 1 month

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slowly gonna be moving stuff onto @capdeservesanap so i can be more involved in the fandom, so if you wanna, you can find me there :> as this is a sideblog, i'm missing all the fun stuff that primary blogs have and i reaaaally wanna interact with you all more! okay, that's it, see you there!

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cappdeservesanap · 2 months

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soooo i might have made a thing :') just trying to cope with the show ending. the song is awesome and i started associating it with ghosts as soon as i heard it for the first time. (i got extremely emotional while making it, especially at the part "he used to be someone you loved", i hope someone finds the same appreciation for it as i did!)

i also considered adding lyrics in the video, but i thought it would lose its magic, so you can turn on the captions if you can't understand the lyrics ^^

#obligatory warning that it contains spoilers for all episodes!!#bbc ghosts #robin #thomas thorne #humphrey bone #julian fawcett #fanny button #mary #kitty #the captain #pat butcher #alison cooper #mike cooper #edit #Youtube

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cappdeservesanap · 2 months

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what if there was a Ghosts dating sim and one of the chapters you could unlock was meeting thomas at the button house? 👀👀

my first fanart! i’m not an artist by any means so my apologies for the wonky background and any anatomical mistakes you catch! i had an idea and i wanted it to be real so bad that i had to draw it :> there’s a lot of concept art for a ghosts dating sim, obviously all mock-ups, but wouldn’t it be so cool if there was something like dream daddy but with ghosts??

#half of the time i didn’t know what i was doing and it shows #i need a ghosts dating sim so bad it would cure me of all my ailments #bbc ghosts #thomas thorne #fanart #my art

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cappdeservesanap · 2 months

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if the captain were to have his anthem, a song that describes him and represents him in a specific way, any anti-war song would work. but i think what does him justice in a respectful way is pete seeger’s “where have all the flowers gone?”. omitting the “girls” aspect in the lyrics (and if we change it to “boys” for the sake of the captain’s sexuality), the song’s words are tragically beautiful - it’s a lyrical circle going from the flowers being picked by lovers who are loved by men who are soldiers who died doing their military service whose graves are now adorned with flowers - and so on. it outlines the tragedy of army men whose bravery cost them their lives and whose loved ones are left to mourn despite their duty to continue living a vastly different, ordinary life.

however, as wonderfully melancholic as the original is, i had in mind a specific cover of the song - a czech cover. the music is a tad more complicated than the original; it uses an electric guitar, a bass, and drums. but it’s much more nuanced that way - the drums represent the rhythm of a military march. the bass playing root notes with perfect fifths is a symbol of simplicity and repetition (of first joining the army. as the bass modifies the melody with each rhyme in each verse, it also emphasises that the more time the cap spends in the military, the more difficult keeping to his old ways can get). and with each verse, a new element of music is added (keyboard, the guitar plays a slightly different melody etc. to emphasise that this cycle brings new tragedies but can’t be possibly changed as it is a lasting tradition.

and the lyrics. oh, those haunting lyrics. i’m not even gonna talk about the voice singing them because the dissection of its depressing reverb and the suddenly powerful delivery of “where have all the soldiers gone” would take weeks. i just wanna focus on the translation. not your typical non-english-song-turned-english where the song loses its meaning. the meaning is there, but like a hundred times stronger. the lines do repeat, but not from rhyme to rhyme. i’m gonna translate this specific section because it’s so captain coded:

Where have all the soldiers gone

Long time passing

Where have all the soldiers gone

A long, long time ago

Where have all the soldiers gone

Gone to graveyards, every one

When will they ever learn?

in czech, it’s like this (nearly word-for-word translation):

And where have all those soldiers gone

People, what ever happened here?

And where have all those soldiers gone

Where could they be?

Series of graves in a line

The wind is howling all around

Who will ever understand?

i see a major difference between the last four lines. the original shows complete silence after a battle, how everyone fighting there died, and everything’s gone until another battle breaks in that exact spot. the czech version relays those emotions in a different way; yes, it’s dead silent, but the howling of the wind is a sign of something after death, of mourning coming both from the lovers and the dead, i.e. havers and the captain. and the “who will ever understand?” is somehow a contrast. “when will they ever learn?” to me is clearer because it either talks about the soldiers not learning they shouldn’t go to war or something along those lines. the former can say “who will ever understand [why those soldiers died]?” or “who will ever understand [the howling wind]?” and so on. it’s those endless questions the captain might ask himself from time to time to nobody’s understanding, i feel. when will he ever understand his death, or his love for havers, or his position?

here’s the song in question; i absolutely recommend just because of its heartbreaking atmosphere

#just a long rant really #i’m so sorry #i’m procrastinating writing my thesis :)#also feel free to prove me wrong or suggest other songs that are clearly captain coded i am begging #bbc ghosts #the captain #lieutenant havers #ramblings #Spotify

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cappdeservesanap · 2 months

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all fun had disappeared from the world.

okay, but this is the first and last time i'll let my english degree work its magic. did you know that valentine's day is actually supposed to fall on the 3rd may? the tradition comes from an english author geoffrey chaucer who wrote an amazing poem "the parliament of fowls" which he wrote to commemorate the marriage of richard ii and anne of bohemia at like the end of 14th century. in the poem he mentions st. valentine, but he originally meant st. valentine of genoa with whom he was more familiar at the time who is celebrated in may. but the public was more familiar with st. valentine of rome who is celebrated in february, therefore many people thought he meant this exact st. valentine, making the wrong assumption to celebrate the day of love in february

which is bullshit if you think about it. who thinks of celebrating love when it's cold and miserable outside??? you could get real roses! if you celebrated the right st. valentine's IN MAY

I know I can be a tad behind the times, but when did St Valentine’s Day become about crazily overpriced chocolates, high end dinners, and red roses that aren’t even real?? Who’s responsible for the monstrosities?! ❤️🗡️

#this has the energy of an old man yelling at a cloud im sorry #(i wish i could provide you with specific sources but there's scarcely any)#(but you can search for valentine of genoa and then the lines 309-312 in chaucer's the parliament... and see the description of the season)#happy (late) valentine's day you still have time not to be lonely until the REAL valentine's comes!#ramblings

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cappdeservesanap · 3 months

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