Any hot takes or opinions about Leslie, Alfred and Jim Grodon?

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Alfred listens to gangster rap in his free time, but, he listens to female artists exclusively. In all genres. “Men speak enough, don’t you think?”

He can mimic any accent under the sun. EXCEPT for the “Jersey girl buying energy drinks at a gas station” one.

He just can’t bring himself to. Tim has this theory that their beloved shotgun grandpa isn’t even British and he’s faking it. He’s willing to die on the cross for it.

Leslie used to write Jason’s gym passes when he had to skip. Either because some rogue got a little too rowdy (and by God, she feels just a minuscule bit worse for them after Bruce is done with them)

I don’t know if this is feasible at all, but she somehow convinced his gym teacher he can’t participate cause he’s on his period. “…Well, this is Gotham, I guess. “

I think Jim gets into fights with the moms from his Facebook group, — specifically, his PTA group. (It truly depends on what version of Barbara you prefer, — but I love her in The Batman 2004)

Alfred keeps Martha’s wedding ring on his left hand and Thomas’ on his right. He only takes them off when he patches Bruce up. And he has their last words tattooed on his back ^^

Jim is sick and tired of Bruce dipping in the middle of their conversations, so he handcuffs them together until they’re done.

Maybe even a bit after. They should get to spend time together. (Harley Quinn series I see you and I hear you

lady grandma probably being my favorite character is so fucked because every day i just think man what the hell was she doing

70% of my trigun thoughts are abt how plants (independent and dependant) work and what they symbolize and their relationships with other characters and the world and stuff and the implications of independent plants coming with the earth forces and what it says about how earth has progressed since SEEDS left the planet, 20% of my thoughts are "hope those guys (meryl milly vash livio ww knives) are having fun" and 10% is rotating trimax Rem Saverem around in my head at all times

For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.

MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).

Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)

Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.

Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????

*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!

TNG episode where the senior crew reenacts Archer's era in a Hamilton-style historical rap musical adaptation

It is difficult to argue that [Edward IV] was wrong in what he did. His advancement of [Richard of Gloucester] can be criticized only by those who believe that the only good nobleman is an impotent nobleman. Medieval kings did not think in these terms. Gloucester’s power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country. Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power. The duke had been a loyal upholder of the house of York, a central figure in Edward’s polity*; there was no obvious reason why he should not occupy the same role under Edward V. In this respect, precedent was on Edward’s side. Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power, but no young king had ever been deposed. Even royal uncles traditionally drew a line at that, something which explains why Gloucester’s actions seemed so shocking to contemporaries and, perhaps, the reason why he got away with it so easily in the short term.

In the immediate sense, Gloucester must take final responsibility for what happened in 1483. However one explains the motives behind his actions, things happened because he chose that they should: there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did.

-Rosemary Horrox, "Richard III: A Study of Service"

*Richard was also, yk, Edward's own brother who had been entirely loyal during his life. The problem wasn’t that Edward trusted Richard, the problem is that Richard broke that trust in a horrible and unprecedented way to usurp a 12-year-old. Please understand the difference.

at this point my life has just become a cycle of starving and binging and hating when i don’t eat yet hating it even more when i do. i think that’s why i’m so tired all the time. all of my energy is subconsciously going towards thoughts about body image and eating that regular stresses of school and theatre take more out of me than they usually do. i don’t feel like myself. my temper flares more often and i don’t like being angry with my friends. i want so badly to find some semblance of meaning or love but i can’t right now and that’s what scares me the most.

jjk spoilers for manga leaks under the cut and in the tags .....

ik its too soon to speak but... im excited to see a post gojo jjk world... i think its too early to call it good or bad writing but me personally? i think gojo dying makes for more interesting possibilities for the rest of that cast and their growth and development as characters

PARADE Interview with the Cast on the Finale

Link feature is being weird, but it could be Tumblr. ETA: So I just did a regular one.

Anyway, some quick highlights from the Core Four on the series' ending. It all seems very positive. *fingers crossed* Full answers at the link.

What has being on NCIS: Los Angeles meant to you? 

Chris O’Donnell: It was an amazing gift. It’s a tough business that we’re in...To have a show that filmed in Los Angeles that went for 14 years is so beyond my wildest dreams because it allowed all five of my kids to be in the same school and not miss out on what their friends are doing.

LL Cool J: It’s grown me as a human being. I learned more humility. It made me appreciate people more. I understand people from all walks of life a lot better now...So, you feel that love. You learn a different type of respect for everything.

Daniela Ruah: It has made me grow into a woman and into a mother with a husband and two children. The show put me on the map in terms of this business. This is my first major job. Somehow, I was lucky enough that it lasted this long. It has really given me an opportunity to try different things and see what works and see what doesn’t work in terms of performance, in terms of exploring a character; in terms of all those things.

Eric Christian Olsen: There are so many parts of this. We’re talking about 14 years. It’s high school, college, PhD, residency in one show. I don’t even know how to fully articulate it

Will fans be happy with how NCIS: Los Angeles ends? 

O’Donnell: I think they’ll be very pleased. I think that they’re in for a few surprises. I think they’ll be touched. And I think that Callen’s definitely at peace...It was satisfying for me as an actor because you want to come full circle with everything.

Cool J: I think people will enjoy it.

Ruah: Oh, yeah. I think the audience is going to be really happy. It’ll be wrapped up in a very nice little bow.

Olsen: I do, because this is not plot driven as much as it’s emotionally driven, and so that’s an easier arc...I think between Callen and Sam and Kensi and Deeks, we’re going to have an ending that keeps people excited and fulfilled.

this is a half baked thought but it compels me how the potc rpc (me included) latches onto port royal as a place for worldbuilding / domestic storytelling / etc because it exudes permanence and structure as opposed to places like tortuga and shipwreck cove which are transient by nature, and full of residents in transit, and ghosts, and stories.  ships, not homes.

I was gone for 2 days in horse land, let’s see how badly that affected the Twitter algorithm for me.

i'm sorry to say that this trend to cast poc actors for roles who were originally played by white people or are said not to be poc in the original material........ Is starting not to sit right with me. Not because poc actors take over those roles, but because it's just such a cheap way to gain "woke" points or say "here!! Look how diverse we are!!" without actually changing anything. The originals remain the same. The production team and writing team remain white. There's no real change. I just think it's so like manupulative in a way. Genuinely happy that poc actors get that paycheck tho!!

so i had a thought and. stranger things really does just have a ton of romance, doesn’t it? like .... it’s everywhere? there’s steve and nancy, nancy and jonathan, joyce and bob, joyce and hopper, there was dustin pining for max, max and lucas, mike and eleven, that will-they-won’t-they with steve and robin in season 3, billy and mrs. wheeler (don’t get me started), dustin and suzie, plus all the stuff going on in season 4. it’s just .... the duffers do know that they don’t have to pair off every character, right? a character can just not have a romantic subplot. like, that’s a thing that can happen. do they know this? because i need them to know this.

The thing about having an unlabeled or ambiguous identity is you will be labeled whatever is most convenient for others purposes

It's that time of year again where Mari Lwyd starts to be talked about and shared around and an INCREDIBLY misleading post gets shared a lot. As someone who grew up with Mari Lwyd I wanted to clear some things up.

Also hello, if you are unaware who Mari Lwyd is. This is about the Welsh tradition of the horse skull who visits houses during the Christmas to New Years period in Wales asking for alcohol.

First off and probably the most important one:

Mari Lwyd is not a cryptid!

I can not emphasise this enough. She. Is. Not. A. Cryptid. There is no story or mystery about a ghost or zombie horse roaming the Welsh valleys. She's not even supposed to be a ghost or a zombie. It's just a horse skull on a stick with a guy under a sheet. She's a hobbyhorse and a folk character used to tell Welsh stories and keep songs alive. When people spread the misinformation that she's a cryptid, it's the equivalent of saying Kermit the Frog is a cryptid.

She is actually only one character in a wider cast of characters who go door to door or, in more modern times, pub to pub. The cast of characters can change town to town and village to village but there are some common ones I see time and time again. The Leader, the Merryman, The Jester and The Lady are just some I see regularly. Punch and Judy used to be more popular a few years ago but I haven't seen them in a while as their tradition has mostly fallen out of popularity. In most cases, almost the whole cast will be played by men. Even the characters are considered and referred to as female. Though this again depends and varies by which group is partaking in the Mari Lwyd tradition.

This point also goes onto my second point,

Mari Lwyd does not rap.

I think this comes from a very common misunderstanding of what rap is vs spoken word. Rap is a very specific style of music originating from the African American communities of the USA and has it's own structure and motifs unique to it. It's a lot more complex than people give it credit for as a style of music and just flippantly assign anything similar to it as being rap. If someone is talking fast or reciting poetry, it is not rap. Or anything that is an exchange of words between two people is not a rap battle. Mari Lwyd does not do rap, actually something that gets left out of these posts is the fact Mari Lwyd does not even speak. It's actually the Leader, who does all the speaking and song based banter between the house/pub owner for entry. Mari Lwyd just clicks her mouth, bites people and bobs her head around.

I think Mari Lwyd is a really beautiful and unique part of Welsh culture. She's not actually as wildly celebrated as a lot of the posts make her out to be. Actually, I think most Welsh people themselves learn about Mari Lwyd through the internet as well. Her popularity is increasing thanks to the drive of local groups wanting to keep the traditions alive and a renewed desire to document Welsh traditions before they're gone. Which is why it's such a shame that she's turned into something she's not to earn horror points on the internet. I think this is why it bothers me so much to see the misunderstandings of the culture and the folk tradition. Mari Lwyd's origin is very hot debated as well as how long it's been going on for. But I think it's thanks to a lot of traditions like this that the Welsh language and our stories weren't lost forever. Welsh culture is recovering as is the language. But it's still in a very fragile place. I think it's why it's important to document and correct information when it's spread.

Anyway, if you want to see the tradition in action, here's a lovely video from the Cwmafan RFC going to one of the pubs for charity. It includes the song exchange with the pub owner for entry and the whole pub singing and joining in once Mari Lwyd and the rest are inside.

As well with another video from St Fagan's showcasing the more traditional and door to door form with the larger cast.