do the ghosts in ghosts ever like. move on. you know go into the light. or do they just not want to? every day i get this much 🤌 closer to watching the show
no no genuinely this is a good question! so yeah, the ghosts can move on, which they colloquially refer to as "getting sucked off," but it happens seemingly at random and the ghosts are very nervous about it.
basically, when you die in the bbc ghosts universe, one of two things happens. either your spirit sort of goes all glowy and floats above your body and you get a few seconds of afterlife but then you sort of whoosh upwards and that's it. OR you die and then open your eyes again right where your body still is but you're a ghost now. and once that happens, you just sort of hang out. and then, at any point, there's a warm glowing light and you get a second of recognition and then whoosh upwards and gone.
but yeah, the ghosts have a lot of different attitudes towards moving on and big episodes touch on it that I can think of are happy death day, the thomas thorne affair, speak as ye choose, gone gone, and especially carpe diem. I don't want to spoil anything specific in case you watch the show, but moving on is actually a huge point of interest for them.
I also wrote about the sadness inherent to the in-universe rules of moving on here, which I thought was a good post but it got derailed by people making jokes about yknow. the fact that they call it "getting sucked off" which. fair play.
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Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.
—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)
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Steve tries to stay quiet while he gets ready for work, but Eddie hears him. He keeps his eyes closed and just listens- to Steve grumbling to himself when his hair doesn’t sit quite right, who starts to hum and whisper some catchy song. Eddie turns his sleepy gaze onto Steve as he shuffles around their room- watching quietly as he slips on his clothes, his shoes, a simple chain with Eddie’s ring around his neck. A warm, affectionate smile breaks across his face. Before he leaves, Steve glances at what he expects to be a sleeping Eddie, but instead, he’s met with a rasped, ‘Hey.’ Eddie sits himself up, stretches his arm across Steve’s side of the bed, and reaches, fingers wiggling. Steve crosses the room to cradle his face.
Their foreheads press, noses bump, and Steve brushes his fingers across scars and dimples.
He breathes a quiet,
‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to wake you.’
Eddie huffs a tired laugh,
‘You know I never mind.’
Because, yeah.
Every morning Steve tries to stay quiet while he gets ready for work, but Eddie always hears him.
( another one from the poll | WIP )
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I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.
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so I read someone talking about a merlin deleted scene where merlin compliments the knights and arthur gets pissy and goes fight them to prove that he is better, and I thought it was an exaggeration but it ISNT AT ALL
scene includes:
Arthur says that Percival is strong but not agile, he isn’t the whole package. Merlin agrees and says that GWAINE is the whole package
Arthur goes off to fight Gwaine, who takes his shirt and gives it to Percival??? akjdjda
(we were robbed of shirtless gwaine with a sword)
Arthur then goes fight Elyan, wins, and goes brag to merlin saying, and I quote, “Elyan has got concentration, strength, the whole package, and still I win! What do you have to say about that?” while being dangerously close to him
They had to take it out because it’s the gayest scene I’ve ever watched in my whole fucking life they wouldn’t be able to beat the merthur allegations after it
EDIT: the video is in this post
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as soon as i saw the first panel of the final part to @buggachat 's au i launched myself into my sketchbook.
congrats on finishing it! beau really is spectacular :)
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