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lesbianamalvada · 6 months

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Let's talk about Vengeful. Most of the book is dedicated to:

-Marcella, her character, her revenge, her taking over the city, how she's gonna change the way EOs are seen.

-Eli, his tragic back story, honestly idgaf about him.

-Victor trying to stop his pain

-Sydney trying to bring back Serena

-June is there

-Mitch is there

-Dom is there

-Johnathan is there.

The people the book was mostly about, Marcella and Eli, die. Honestly love the way Eli went but Marcella's death was so anti climatic and pathetic, especially since she took up so much of the book. She was an interesting character, but her "kill a man in perfect make up and six inch high heels" shit was annoying yet Schwab presents her as the pinnacle of feminism.

Sydney's whole arc about being strong enough to bring back her sister goes nowhere. She thinks about bringing her back, but doesn't. She thinks about running away with June, she doesn't. The whole Serena plot line really pissed me off (forever a Serena Clarke stan she had a good heart how can you like Eli and not Serena fuck you.) Like okay, I get it. Serena was broken after the lake and even though she saved her sister (and tried to spare/save her later), she still abandoned her and wasn't there for her. The whole point is that even though Serena was a great sister all those years and loved Syd, Serena wasn't there for her so Sydney feels like she shouldn't bring her back. Unlike Victor who she brought back, who was always- wait what?

That brings us to Victor, he acts like an asshole the whole book. The bit we got in the beginning with him interacting with Syd and Mitch was my favorite part, but I just don't get why Sydney and Mitch stay with him. Okay, I get why they stay, they have nowhere else to go, but why do they take his shit? Especially Mitch. He kills good people for 5 years. Sydney, Mitch, and Dom relentlessly help him find a cure. Syd blames herself even though she's the only reason he's alive. Mitch's hacking is what keeps them afloat. Dom is the only reason Victor is safe from Eon, he gets killed. Then Victor finally gets what he wants, a cure. Plus not only did Sydney save his life again, she killed his mortal enemy, Eli. So after all that, now that he has everything he wants, he ABANDONS Mitch and Sydney. And it doesn't even seem like they're that mad about it.

June was interesting but we found out 0 about her. How did she die? Why did she want revenge? What got her here? What are her motivations? Why is this grown woman obsessed with Syd? She exists as Marcella's henchwoman and then is just a plot device so Victor attacks Marcella and not Eli. (The way her and Marcella fell out was contrived)

Johnathan was just there. Why the hell would he team up with Marcella? He had no motivation, he's probably happy he died.

TLDR: Vengeful really can't stand on its own for me and doesn't live up to the masterpiece that is Vicious. Instead of the woven timeline feeling poetic, like in Vicious, it feels contrived. And too much time is spent on characters idgaf about, or who don't matter.

#vengeful ve schwab #ve shwab #vicious ve schwab #vicious #vengeful #victorious #victor vale #eli ever #sydney clarke #serena clarke #mitch turner #june #marcella riggins #dominic rusher #vengeful spoilers #vicious spoilers

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thelastspeecher · 3 months

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Stanuary '24 - Week Two: Possess & Sacrifice

This takes place in my Smallville AU, in which Stan and Ford take the role of Clark Kent as seen on my favorite TV show of all time, Smallville. And that's all you get for context. I'm tired.

Enjoy.

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Stan paced back and forth, pointedly avoiding looking at the eerily still figure of Fiddleford on a slab of icy crystal. Ford, much like Fiddleford, wasn’t moving, merely standing by their friend, staring helplessly at him. The voice of their biological father filled the cavernous crystalline fortress.

“He will not die. It will take some time, but he will recover.” Ford slumped in relief. “Humans continue to surprise me with how much they resemble us. I would not have expected him to handle a Kryptonian malady so well.”

“Bullshit,” Stan muttered under his breath. “Like a damn computer could be surprised.” He stopped pacing, Jor-El’s words fully catching up in his head.

He’s doing that sneaky thing, isn’t he?

“How long is ‘some time’?” Stan asked. Ford’s shoulders tensed again.

“It is difficult to tell at this point. It could be months or years.”

“Years?” Ford croaked. Stan glared at the closest crystal. “But- but- is there anything you can do?” The response took a while to come.

“Yes.” As per usual, the crystals lit with a dim glow when Jor-El spoke. “I know of a way to speed his recovery to a mere week.”

“Then do that!” Stan snapped. “And why the hell didn’t you say you could?” Jor-El was silent. “Hello?”

“There is a saying on Earth that I am sure your adoptive mother taught you,” Jor-El said slowly.

Dammit. If Mom taught us the saying, it’s not gonna be sunshine and rainbows.

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

“A free-” Stan shared a horrified look with Ford. “Are you joking? We’re your kids! You won’t help our friend who got sick because of us?”

“You are my children, yes,” Jor-El said, the AI maddeningly patient. “However, by both the standards of Earth and Krypton, you are adults.”

“If we were seventeen, you’d do it without question,” Ford said, his voice tight with anger. “But because we’re barely out of high school, you’re insisting on something in return. Is that correct?”

“Yes.”

“I knew coming here was a bad idea,” Stan spat. “Nothing good ever comes from Jor-El.”

“Stanley,” Ford hissed.

“Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about taking him up on his stupid offer!”

“What choice do I have?” Ford asked. “I won’t let Fiddleford lose months or years of his life to recover from something he would have never encountered if it weren’t for me.” Ford looked down at Fiddleford and took a deep breath. “Jor-El, what do you want from me?”

“Acceptance of your destiny.”

“Oh hell no,” Stan burst out. Ford glared at him, but Stan steamrolled on. “When are you gonna drop this destiny thing?”

“When my sons have embraced it,” Jor-El said. Not much emotion came through his AI voice, but he did sound more exasperated than usual. “The two of you are more than the mere humans that raised you.”

“Here comes the anti-human racism,” Stan said, rolling his eyes.

“You have great potential. Once you reach it, you will be as gods on Earth!”

“We don’t care about being gods!” Stan said. “We just wanna be us! And ‘embracing our destinies’ isn’t part of that!”

“You are spirited and rebellious, Ley-El,” Jor-El said. “Much like my darling Lara.” Stan froze, blindsided by a casual mention of their biological mother, someone that the Jor-El AI seemed reluctant to bring up. Jor-El seized Stan’s confused pause to continue speaking to Ford. “For-El. I will heal your human companion. In exchange, you must agree to study here until such a time as I determine your training complete.”

“How long will that take?” Ford asked hesitantly.

“As long as is necessary.” There was a pause. “I am sure my own son would never even dream of doing so, but should you decide to leave before your training is complete, I will invoke a punishment.”

“Ford,” Stan hissed. Ford closed his eyes. “Don’t do it. It’s a shit deal.”

“I can’t let F suffer because of me,” Ford said, his voice thick. He swallowed. “Very well, Jor-El, I will-”

“I’ll do it,” Stan interrupted. Ford’s head whipped around to stare at him. Stan walked over to Ford and Fiddleford. “I’ll do the training.”

“You have yet to even fly.”

“Just means I’ve got a lot to learn,” Stan said, fighting back his terror at the idea of being miles above the hard, unforgiving ground.

Invulnerability doesn’t make falling any more pleasant.

“This is true…” Jor-El sounded thoughtful.

“Stan, what are you doing?!” Ford demanded. Stan sighed.

“Look, you’ve got potential. You shouldn’t throw that away for however long the training takes. And you shouldn’t have to put your relationship on ice, either! Fiddleford might annoy me sometimes, but he makes you happy. The two of you have something together.”

“Stanley…”

“I don’t have anything going for me right now. If I drop outta my life for a while, I can slide back in when training’s done without any problems.”

“That’s not true,” Ford said, sounding pained.

“Sure it is!” Stan feigned a lighthearted tone. “Anyways, you can’t stop me. I already volunteered.”

“I accept this exchange,” Jor-El’s voice thundered. A warm, white glow surrounded Fiddleford. Pink flooded back into his cheeks.

“Stanford?” Fiddleford said weakly.

“Take him and leave, For-El,” Jor-El rumbled. “Your brother’s training must begin. There is a lot of ground to cover.” Ford picked Fiddleford up. He shot one last saddened yet relieved glance at Stan before disappearing in a flash. Stan swallowed. He looked up at the fortress’s vaulted ceiling.

“All right, Jor-El, it’s just you and me!” he shouted. “Let’s get started!”

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“You saw him?” Lute asked quietly. Ford nodded. Lute handed him a glass of sweet tea. Ford took the glass, his hands clinging to it like a lifeline. The McGuckets’ kitchen was as warm and welcoming as ever, despite the rain pounding furiously against the farmhouse roof. He desperately needed to talk to someone about the latest Kryptonian development, and Fiddleford’s younger brother Lute was the only one around who knew about the “whole alien thing”. As Fiddleford and Lute phrased it.

Other than Mom. And I don’t want to stress her out with this. Lute eyed Ford’s grip on the drink.

“Uh. Careful. Last time ya held a glass like that-” The warning came too late. The glass shattered, spilling iced tea everywhere. Lute sighed. “Yer cleanin’ it up this time.” He tossed Ford a roll of paper towels. Ford began to mop up the liquid. “So. You saw him. Tell me more.”

“Like I said, I went to the Fortress of Solitude.”

“That’s the ice castle the two of ya got?”

“Yes.”

“You came up with the name, didn’t ya?”

“Irrelevant,” Ford mumbled. “What matters is that Stan has been staying there since he agreed to do Jor-El’s training. Now that Fiddleford is doing better, I decided to drop to check in on him. And he…” Ford took a shuddering breath. “Do you recall a few years ago when you had to use Kryptonite to take me down?”

“Yeah. It was like you were possessed or somethin’,” Lute said. Ford began to brush the shards of glass into his hands.

“That’s because I was.”

“I don’t ‘member any meteor infected folks that week.”

“I wasn’t possessed by a human. Jor-El did something to take me over. He determined it was the only way I would fulfill this grand destiny he has planned for me.”

“Grand destiny,” Lute muttered under his breath. Ford dumped the glass shards and wet paper towels into the trash. “Are all Kryptonian parents like this with their kids?”

“I haven’t had a chance to meet any Kryptonian parents other than Jor-El,” Ford said dryly. “And even then, he’s an AI.”

“…Right.” Lute leaned against the kitchen table, frowning. “He possessed ya those years back?” Ford nodded. “How is he able to do that? And why’d ya bring it up?”

“I honestly have no idea how he is able to do so. He seems to have access to Kryptonian technology us on Earth can’t even conceive of. As for why I brought it up…” Ford trailed off uncertainly. Lute’s gray eyes widened.

“No,” he whispered. “He didn’t.” Ford nodded.

“Stan seems to have been possessed as well.”

“How- are ya sure?” Lute asked weakly. Ford shot him an annoyed look. “Right, right. The twin bond. I mean, I’d certainly know if Angie was possessed.”

“Is she getting suspicious about Stan’s disappearance?”

“No more ‘n Fidds is, thankfully.” Lute eyed Ford. “By the by, Stan stayin’ at that ice castle wouldn’t have somethin’ to do with Fidds’ miraculous recovery last week, would it?” Ford winced. “I knew it! There ain’t no coincidences that big in this world.”

“I- I won’t tell you exactly how the two events are linked,” Ford said carefully.

“I reckon I could figure it out.”

“Even if you do, I will neither confirm nor deny.”

“Fair enough.” Lute opened the fridge and removed the pitcher of sweet tea. “I won’t tell no one ‘bout the two bein’ linked, neither.”

“…Thank you,” Ford whispered.

“Ain’t no problem.” Lute set the pitcher on the counter. “So. How do we un-possess Stan? Want me to grab the Kryptonite?”

“No. I hesitate to bring Kryptonite to the Fortress.”

“You think it might muck it up?” Lute asked. Ford nodded. “And yer concerned about that why?” Ford stared at him.

“It’s my last link to my biological heritage.”

“It also has only brought you ‘n Stan grief,” Lute pointed out. Ford shook his head.

“Still, I can’t- I can’t do it.”

“Fine. We’ll figure somethin’ else out.” Lute opened the cupboard and took out a cup. “But until you’ve calmed down, yer gettin’ yer drinks in plastic. Not glass.” The back door slammed open. Ford and Lute looked over. Stan stumbled in, hair and clothes drenched from the downpour outside.

“Stanley!” Ford exclaimed. Stan looked up, panting.

“Uh, hey, Ford. I didn’t- I didn’t think you’d be here.”

“Were you trying to avoid me?” Ford asked.

“Uh. No. Just not talk to you first. Um.” Stan rubbed his neck. There was a long line of red down his arm. “Um.”

“Are you bleeding?” Lute asked. Stan looked at his arm.

“Oh. Yeah. I guess.”

“How?!” Ford asked, aghast, as Lute opened the cupboard under the kitchen sink and pulled out a first aid kit.

“Uh.” Stan laughed weakly. “It’s got to do with why I’m back here instead of training with Jor-El.”

“Yeah, Stanford was tellin’ me you got possessed or somethin’?” Lute said. “Sit down at the table, I’ll get ya bandaged up.” Stan sat obediently. Lute came over and began to tend to Stan’s wound.

“I only got possessed for the flying training,” Stan mumbled.

“That fear of heights still won’t let ya fly even knowin’ ya can’t be hurt if ya fall, huh?” Lute remarked. Stan glared at him.

“It’s a respect, not a fear.”

“And if you were to fall now, you’d be hurt, wouldn’t you?” Ford asked quietly. Stan immediately looked down at the kitchen floor. “There’s no way you completed your training. But when you insisted on leaving, Jor-El took your powers.” Lute paused.

“Is he right?” Lute asked. Stan nodded reluctantly. Lute looked at Ford. “How on Earth could ya have guessed such a specific series of events?”

“He’s threatened it before,” Ford said with a shrug. Lute’s mouth fell open.

“Jor-El threatened to take yer powers away ‘fore?”

“Yes.”

“Lord above. They need some parentin’ classes on Krypton, I reckon.”

“Why did you stop the training?” Ford asked Stan.

“I got sick of it. He’s not the greatest coach. And…” Stan sighed. “I didn’t want to be alone anymore.”

“You missed yer friends and fam’ly,” Lute said. Stan nodded again. “That’s sweet.”

“Are you fine with being powerless?” Ford asked Stan.

“Being back home with everyone is worth getting bruises and needing to drive places,” Stan said firmly. He grinned. “Anyways, you and I both know things like this never stick. I’m gonna be back to normal by next week. Just watch.”

#huh I am just now realizing that I did aliens two prompts in a row #Stanuary #Gravity Falls #Stanley Pines #Stanford Pines #Lute McGucket #Fiddleford McGucket #McGucket Family #Smallville AU #ficlet #my writing #my stuff #speecher speaks

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emblazons · 1 year

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hi!

i read the tags you wrote about millie in a post yesterday (i think you deleted the post because i cant find it now) and i just wanted to say im glad theres someone who shares similar thoughts as me. i love millie but i cant even say anything on twitter without her toxic stans accusing me of misogyny and insulting her intelligence, even though thats not my intention.

if byler is canon, how do you think she’ll feel about it? im asking because your perspective is interesting! i think shes going to take it a bit personally because she strongly relates to her character and wants el to be on the same path as her (like getting married young). its understandable though, considering her upbringing.

!! I actually took it off my blog because the other day I resolved the issue of my tags not archiving—but when it got resolved, my blog ended up square in the middle as “top blogs” with the full mlvn name tag because I hadn’t been abbreviating their ship in the tag I used before ☠️ that said, I changed the tag to “anti mlvn” so I could keep myself out of mlvn corners, but a lot of the recent posts that I kept under the old tag are gone or private until tumblr tracks the change—hence the missing post!

Still...me and that tag rant was giving “why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave” for sure (lmao), though I certainly meant it less as a comment on her life decisions themselves and more a "I can tell by the decisions you make as a creator, producer of other films, and in general that you are not The Duffer Brother's target audience, but a lot of your fans can't" kind of way...which is still controversial in several corners of this fandom for sure. 😭

the rest of this answer under the cut because it got long lol

Like, yes, she does play a principal character in the show, but playing a character does not mean the character is modeled to you as a person—just look at Emilia Clarke playing Daenerys Targaryen, Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter, or even Rachel McAdams playing Regina George lmao.

Despite playing El since she was a child, as Millie has come into adulthood it's become clearer that she is very different from El—and that The Duffers aren't creating Eleven's arc with Millie's own "coming of age" in mind. Her choices to create things like Enola Holmes, Damsel, and even Nineteen Steps (her new book) showing up as sharp contrasts to not only the women in Stranger Things, but in all of The Duffer's upcoming work on Death Note, The Talisman and The Boroughs prove that well enough, which would be zero problem at all...if a lot of her fans didn't conflate Millie with El is as a character.

To your point though...I honestly don't think Millie is going to be all that personally upset if El ends up single and Byler happens—she's already made clear that she loves El, but is ready to move on and tell other stories and that she would have written the story as a high school drama if she was in control of the direction of the plot (while pointing out that she's not the one in control of it) lol.

Even what she said recently in an widely published and official Seventeen interview shows that she's really just here to finish the story and move on with her career—that she's ready for her role as El (and the drama I'm 10000% sure comes with that) to be done:

At least to me, all of that makes it seem like she is a level-headed young woman who can handle her character not being aligned with how she would live her own life—and will, when the time comes.

That said: imo the real problem is that fans of MBB are confusing Millie's own "I can be young, strong and still have a man" creative and life choices with El's "I am overcoming the bounds men have put on me to become strong by myself" storyline, which only becomes an issue when Millie jokes about things like mlvn getting married—

—and (by nature of being an influential celebrity) ends up with fans who mistake Millie's headcanons (because...honestly that's what they are) based on what she enjoys in fiction as what The Duffers are writing & planning for the ending of Stranger Things.

Basically: as an actress, it's literally MBB's job to bring life to stories that don't necessarily reflect her own values or desires, and she knows it—but because she's been playing the character on people's screens so long (and from a young age) a lot of fans have issues separating the woman from the fiction and recognizing that (as Adam Driver once said) it's not Millie's job to have a feeling about or even agree with who El is as a person—it's her job to bring El & The Duffer's vision to life, even if her life informs how she plays the role.

None of that is particularly Millie's fault (though she, like Noah sometimes, adds fuel to fandom fire with the jokes she makes lmao), though it does get irritating to navigate when you're constantly subjected to arguments rooted in nothing but headcanons when trying to make sense of The Duffer's work itself lmao.

TL;DR - Mills joking about El and Mike getting married feels the same as someone here putting their headcanon out into the world about married & domestic Byler—only, because she's the face of Eleven + has now gotten engaged young herself, people misinterpret her own "cute headcanons" as canonical fact, leaving people who love the actual canon + who enjoy the 'style of womanhood' the Duffers write to arguing with people who misunderstand the actual characters.

Millie is a woman whose had a complicated relationship with celebrity and fame since she was a very young girl, and she has certainly made different decisions than I have (and likes different fiction than I do)—but that has nothing to do with her intelligence or ability to respond gracefully to the character she's played since 12 turning out differently than she would have imagined it if she had written El herself. If and when Byler happens, I'm sure she will meet the reality of it with respect and consideration, even if her fans (and hardcore fans of mlvn) don't lmao.

Hopefully that explains it (and doesn't get me shot for saying lmao). But thanks for the ask!

#the short answer to your question?#I genuinely think she's gonna be just fine with it when it happens even if she wouldn't have written it like that herself #her personal history is immaterial given she's not a 'method actress' and doesn't conflate herself with her characters #when she says things like 'they'll get married' its basically her making joke-y headcanons same as people do here #but...a lot of superfans don't see it like that—they take it as law over anything the duffers ACTUALLY do in the show lmao #tbh its the same for every one of the actors but. her fans seem to take her jokes more seriously than anyone else takes Noah or Finns #also...I could have been nicer in those old tags but I was super annoyed when I wrote them so. apologies for the snark LMAO #asks

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grayson-euphoria · 2 years

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Young Justice finale ~ MY OPINION

(YOUNG JUSTICE SPOILERS AHEAD)

I've been DYING to talk about the season finale, but college is killing me, fr. My friends don't watch the show and my brother is still catching up, and I really need to get out of my chest some things.

I think they wrapped things up to quickly. It was so quick It was hard to process and It felt like going through a check list of things they were going wrong and now look IN ONE MINUTE IS ALL ALRIGHT AGAIN. It felt rushed and I didn't like it.

About Ma'alefa'ak, I'm happy he got what he derseved, he is an asshole, and he has been one since season 2. I've read people say that he actually has a point, but he's an extremist. And I agree Mars is SUPER RACIST and they need to change their ways ASAP, but for me as soon you start killing people and children, you don't have a point anymore. And specially Danny Chase, even though he had a shitty life he was a sweetheart, and deserved a happy ending.

And the worst part about this whole thing is that in Mars THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW he was getting the A'ashenns a whole planet. What are you even doing man? You got a political movement, and you do things by yourself and get involved with an intergalactic terrorist? How do you expect your people to follow you like this? I really wish we could see REAL ACTIVISM is MARS. I HATE seeing people with good points and motivations become extremist in media, and the plot line is so popular nowadays. Give me an actual activist PLEASE.

Now ships wise, I've never been a M'gann and Conner shipper, I'm not an anti but I'm not a fan; specially because I feel that M'gann is very toxic... But Conner seems happy, I guess.

Is funny to me that the writers push so much their love line to us, but I can't get excited about them. In their wedding I was literally more hyped about Icicle Jr being there and catching the bouquet or Jon carrying the rings, than the wedding itself.

I was not going to write this, because I didn't want to be THAT Stan... But I'm still pretty pissed that there is NO NIGHTWING IN NIGHTWING'S ARC. I'm not demanding to see him all the time, if you wanna let go of his character THEN LET HIM GO, give me one scene or mention that he is living his best circus life, but don't go around town saying that you're going to give me 6 episodes that focus on him and then GIVE ME ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

But it's not all bad I guess.... We have Conner with the Superfam! There's no many places where we can see Conner having wholesome moments with the Superfam and in Young Justice we have a few, I specially love the bond between Conner and Jonathan, they are the cutest together, and Jon loves him so much, I wish we could have a relationship like this between these two in the comics.

And don't even let me start in Clark's and Conner's brother like relationship. To think that Superman didn't even talk to Conner in S1 and now it's part of his family, that now he knows the Kents and they accepted him as their own, it just makes me so emotional, ok?

I'm kinda worry about the definition that Jon now have of death, though. But I'm glad they're addressing it.

Now, I hate to admit it but I'm a SUCKER for powerful evil women, and let me just say that I'M SO HERE for Black Mary and Kara Zor El, they look STUNNING and POWERFUL, they better give them a good storyline next season

#not to be that stan #but im THAT grayson stan #I'm happy about the superfamily though #Jon is the cutest #kara zor el can step on me btw #i was actually curious about Mary so I'm happy to see her again #young justice #young justice spoilers #yj spoilers #yj season 4 #spoilers

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quinn-my-beloved · 1 year

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I posted 2,755 times in 2022

That's 1,558 more posts than 2021!

299 posts created (11%)

2,456 posts reblogged (89%)

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I tagged 127 of my posts in 2022

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#sebastian smythe - 5 posts

#not blaine or klaine friendly - 5 posts

#glee fanfiction - 4 posts

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#kurt hummel - 4 posts

#fashion - 4 posts

#lol blaine - 3 posts

#finastie - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 98 characters

#just to clarify the fourth one is hop mostly being annoyed cause she stood him up for scott clarke

My Top Posts in 2022:

Seeing people talking about banning and not engaging with anything Russian does not sit right with me because in the end it’s only going to end in intense xenophobia toward russian people, as well as slavic people in general. I saw a post about this earlier, but I wanted to make my own post

source: israeli jew

People can discuss BDS and stuff all they want, but refusing to even say the word Israel and sending israeli people death threats is what people do more often.

I don’t usually talk about israel on here because I’m in America and my grandparents are the ones from israel, but I’m seeing a lot of warning signs and wanted to say something. Please don’t send me more death threats they are a hassle to delete

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Whenever i hear the name sebastian stan im always like huh, im also a sebastian stan and then i realize its a guys actual name

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one thing about me is that i will absolutely fucking stick up for amber heard. i will not stand by and let people harass that poor woman anymore. If you still support Johnny Depp, unfollow me right now.

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listen for the most part i leave blaine stans alone but the way some of yall actively deny the bad things he did and then act like antis are ridiculous is where I draw the line. Telling an SA survivor that the car scene wasn’t SA and that we’re being dramatic will never be ok. No matter what, we have valid criticism, and you don’t have to listen to it or engage, but some of you are strawmanning. “How could he sexually assault someone?! Look! *insert gif of something completely unrelated*” girl??? This logic is actively harmful. It’s offensive.

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My #1 post of 2022

Blaine Anderson was revolutionary for gay representation, because he proved that gay men can also be abusive!

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A Sci Fi Worlds Interview with Lex Gigeroff: Lexx Co-Writer/Actor

Most of our readers have probably never heard of this very strange Canadian-German and later UK co-production, which is a shame, because Lexx has to be easily the most unique sci-fi series to hit our screens since the original (and best) Star Trek made its debut back in 1966. Not content to do yet another Gene Rodenberry rip-off series and bored by the endless (and often archaic) moralising of The Next Generation and Voyager, the Lexx writers (known as the Supreme Beans) created something totally different and very, very weird.

With its characteristically dark sets and black humour, and operating from the perspective "humans are a flawed species," Lexx was a revolutionary series. Its characters weren't on any spiritual quest to "better themselves" or "save the day," rather, they were motivated by the mundane things that motivate 99.9% of the human race: boredom, lust and hunger. Throw in "the Lexx," a Manhattan sized bioengineered insect craft and "the most powerful destructive force in the two universes" and you had something just as fun as the original Trek but just about as different as you can get too. I guess that's why Lexxicons lovingly still call it "Star Trek's evil twin."

Richard Thomas: First things first, thank you so much for giving the BoA readers the time to answer these questions. I'm a huge fan of Lexx and I'm sure that, after reading this, many of our readers will want to check it out too.

Lex Gigeroff: I had known Paul Donovan for a few years before Lexx, and he approached me about writing for the series after seeing a play I had written/performed in. Paul decided to go with a couple of virtually unknown writers (Jeff Hirschfeld & myself), because there was something in our approach that appealed to Paul's odd sense of humour.

Richard Thomas: In the DVD extras on the TV movie releases I heard you and the other writers say that Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's Dark Star were big influences. The longer story arcs and extensive CGI (not to mention the chief villain's name "His Shadow" ) might suggest Babylon 5 was at least a little influential too. Also Red Dwarf stars Craig Charles and Hattie Hayridge appeared in season four so I don't know if that series was a influence or not.

What were some of your other influences and are there any sci-fi shows you just hated and wanted to get away from? If so, why and what were you trying to do different with Lexx?

Lex Gigeroff: Dark Star and Alien were somewhat influential -- Dark Star for its anarchy, Alien for its production design. But I can categorically state that Babylon 5 had no influence whatsoever as we never watched it, and to this day I've never seen an episode. I liked Red Dwarf, but can't really say it was an influence. Monty Python had as much of a background influence as anything. We wanted to get away from the heavy, preachy, moralizing sci-fi of shows like Star Trek: TNG, which in my view took all the joie de vivre out of the original series. I've always been a big sci-fi fan - but I think my influences tend to come more from writers like Phillip K. Dick and the dystopian novels of J.G. Ballard, rather than the Heinlein-Clarke axis.

Richard Thomas: Lexx is often called Star Trek's evil twin. I can see why some fans might consider Lexx anti-Trek but personally I think in some ways Lexx is actually a lot closer to the 1960s series than any of Trek spin-offs are. I've heard Lexx creator Paul Donovan talk about being a fan of the original Star Trek so what are your thoughts on this? Were you trying to be a little like the original Star Trek or were you trying to be something completely different?

Also, are you a fan of the original series yourself and, if so, what are some of your favourite episodes?

Lex Gigeroff: There was a sense of fun in the original series, and I think we wanted to try and create three characters as distinctive as Kirk-Spock-McCoy with Kai-Stan-Xev (plus a robot head). I watched the show quite a bit when I was younger, and enjoyed some of its campier moments, i.e. The Squire of Gothos. I also liked the one with the weird head in the sky that turned out to be Clint Howard.

Richard Thomas: Back to Lexx. Given that the show and the ship were both named after you, did you have much input on developing the early mythology of the series, i.e. the Insect Wars, the two universes, cyclic time, proto blood, the Divine Order and, of course, love slaves?

Lex Gigeroff: I had a lot of input conceptually from the ground up, as the three of us really developed the concept and bible following Paul's general brushtrokes. A lot of the 'backstory' went in as a result of our collaboration with Showtime in the beginning, who seemed to want a lot of stuff about 'prophecies', etc. We were a little reluctant about going this route, as we feared it would lead down the rabbit hole of pretentiousness that we were trying to get away from.

I think looking back on it now the thing I'm proudest of is that Lexx wasn't really like anything else on television. Most shows are just rip-offs of other shows, but I think there was something different about what we were doing that made it hard to come up with a good comparison with others shows -- not that it isn't comparable in some aspects to other shows, it's just that we weren't following anyone else's model. So it was, I think, a little unique in that respect.

Richard Thomas: One of the things I love most about Lexx is that all four seasons look very different and distinct from each other, each introducing their own new chief villains: His Divine Shadow, Mantrid, Prince, Vlad, oh and Lyekka and her sisters. Where did the ideas for these head villains come from and do you have a personal favourite?

Lex Gigeroff: Who knows where ideas come from? I liked all our villains, but if I had to pick one I'd go with Mantrid, because there was something just otherworldly strange about Dieter Laser's performance.

Richard Thomas: Mantrid has to be my personal favourite too, the fact that there's so little left of him when we first meet him reminded me a little of my favourite Doctor Who villain, the crippled mad scientist and Dalek creator Davros.

Lex Gigeroff: I think we thought about bringing Dieter Laser back, but it wouldn't have been Mantrid exactly. As we liked to say, "death is never final", which was our excuse for bringing back actors we liked.

Richard Thomas: Lets take a step back a bit. I think out of the four two-hour TV movies the first one I Worship His Shadow is probably my favourite, I loved the holographic show trials and ridiculously severe penalties. What was your favourite of the TV movies and why?

Lex Gigeroff: Hmmm... I guess Eating Pattern for me, because it wasn't quite as burdened with having to deliver back story and setup. Plus I got to hang around as Rutger Hauer's sidekick. But I liked all four.

Richard Thomas: You actually made an appearance in I Worship His Shadow, playing the part of His Shadow's new host body. You appeared in a lot of other episodes too, the crazy surgeon in Tunnels and the sleazy porn director in Fluff Daddy were two of my favourites. What character did you enjoy playing the most in the series?

Lex Gigeroff: I was very happy to play the parts I did. I had the most fun with Dr. Rainbow in Tunnels, but I think my best performance, such as it was, came as the Bound Man in I Worship His Shadow.

Richard Thomas: Probably the most unique episode of Lexx has to be Brigadoom. I have to say I was really sceptical about the idea of a musical episode but it's become easily one of my favourites. Come to think of it there's an awful lot of singing in Lexx, the first episode even starts with the Brunnen-G battle song.

Where did the idea to have so much singing in the series come from and what did you think of it? Also, do you have a personal favourite Lexx song?

Lex Gigeroff: We knew from very early on that we wanted to do a musical, but we had to come up with a good angle on it, which in the end I think we did. I don't really have a favourite song. I sometimes sing Bog is the king of Pattern in the shower.

Richard Thomas: Season three's Battle and season four's The Game are another two of my favourites, I really enjoyed the competition between Kai and Prince in those episodes.

I could go on all day about the different episodes but other than the ones we've already discussed what do you think were some of the best episodes of Lexx?

Lex Gigeroff: I also really liked The Game, 769, Prime Ridge, Stan Down to name a couple. Twilight and Apocalexx Now have their moments as well.

Richard Thomas: A Midsummer's Nightmare is probably my least favourite episode, though, it's pretty funny. Are there any episodes you just dislike or wish you'd done differently in hindsight?

Lex Gigeroff: Sure. Lots of things could have been better if we'd had more time. But I don't have any regrets. Some episodes didn't work all that well, like the one you mentioned and, say, Patches in the Sky.

Richard Thomas: I think I'm right in saying Lexx ended the way you and the other writers always intended, the Lexx blowing up the Earth after four seasons, but not long after the final episode Yo Way Yo went out I remember hearing a rumour that a spin off series about Prince, Priest and Bunny was being planned. Was there any truth to this rumour at all or is this the first you've heard of it?

Lex Gigeroff: There was never any serious talk of a spin-off.

Richard Thomas: If Lexx ever did return for a fifth season or maybe even just a new TV movie, what do you think the story would be about? Would it still be set in the Dark Zone or would the Lexx crew find its way into the mysterious Other Zone? Would Kai be alive or dead? Would 790 fall in love with Stan? Would the bad carrots be back?

Lex Gigeroff: We could have gone back into the Insect Wars, I suppose. But on the whole we were satisfied with the way it ended. I'll leave it to Fan Fics to think up alternate story lines.

Richard Thomas: It's been nearly eight years now since the series ended, personally, I think Lexx has been a little underrated.

Lex Gigeroff: I don't think we had much influence, if any. I'll leave it up to others to suss out if we were ahead of our time or not.

Richard Thomas: Thanks again Lex, are you working on anything now and/or do you have any websites or anything else you'd like to plug?

Lex Gigeroff: My pleasure, Richard. It's always great to hear that folks enjoyed our strange little show. I've always got a couple of projects on the hop, and I'm trying to promote my new play, Conrad & Barbara - about Lord Conrad Black and his consort. I've also had a sports-comedy blog for some years which can be found at: www.theobgcommunique.blog.ca Cheers!

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