Cap's got a new voice claim! feat. a tiny bit of Sparrows n her's unchanged vc because 1. it's cute to hear them together and 2. I snorted. The vibes are so different

[songs: So Familiar by Jean Castel and Driving Myself Home by Rose Betts]

ONE THING that I haven't seen ANYONE talk about is that Wee John was knitting in the past 2 episodes, and wearing his own knitted clothing, and ALSO that the actor was ACTUALLY KNITTING

The Good Omens brainrot is really when you think the main characters in Get a Life, Chloe Brown are insanely Crowley and Aziraphale coded

does the presumably large faction of people on here who only consume bg3 secondhand through reader-inserts and gifsets know that astarion is a bastard? do they know that he wants you to do the worst possible thing at every given opportunity and then say it was fun? have they been made aware that he gets pissy if you help people and even pissier if you don't ask for payment for helping them? he is soooo mean 🥰 and SOOOO emotionally unavailable 🥰 love a man who hates the world 🥰

As a Brit who is a decade long One Piece fan that has only ever listened to Hiroaki Hirata Sanji, let me tell you, hearing an official Sanji sound like some bloke I could overhear on the street is surreal! Like a deep fried Mars bar.

so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who

and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.

so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.

wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?

even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.

every couple of months i have to put this innocent creature under untold amounts of torment (getting his shell scrubbed and coconut oiled) and he hisses and claws the shit out of me the whole time but i really do have a profound love for this animal i can only handle with gardening gloves on

being part of the go and ofmd fandom at this time is so funny bc ur heartbroken over s2 but also heart broken over a teaser trailer, but also know its gonna cause you so much pain but its all right bc at least they're gonna get back together in this season so something inside you will heal for a fraction of time

Hero Queen Lionheart

Weapons Master Cleaver / Master Flintlock Pistol

Alignment Good

As a Hero, she does good deeds for selfish reasons. The cruelty she faced as a child has made her both temperamental and praise-seeking. By doing good deeds the people of Albion love her but she doesn't feel any genuine attachment to them. At the Spire, her wish was for her family to be revived and was heartbroken that Rose didn't come back to her side when the other heroes left her.

Lionheart's legacy is that of a good and just queen, with her more brutal actions buried under the legend she left behind. She united under her reign by purchasing nearly all the land - with sponsorship from Reaver in exchange for a place in her court and the territories that didn't yield willingly were conquered. Her goal was to have a united Albion so that her children would never have to starve like she did. Being orphaned and left behind by everyone has left a hole that she tries to fill with things but no matter what she owns nothing feels like it belongs to her.

Before formally establishing the monarchy she married a Bowerstone noble, Albrecht, to help give her claim legitimacy. It was a business agreement between her and her husband and in exchange for becoming her King Consort, he would act as her ambassador and mouthpiece. Even into adulthood, Lionheart rarely speaks unless she's in casual company that doesn't know her or around those she trusts completely. Her voice is unrefined and she speaks less like a queen and more like a mercenary, so her husband must have more tact in polite company.

Albrecht, however, is not the father of her children. In another business deal, Lionheart conceived Logan and her daughter Marcela with Reaver to strengthen her Heroic bloodline and the chances her children would have abilities. Logan is Lionheart's favorite child. It wasn't something she intended but Logan was the first thing in her life that was well and truly hers, that could never be taken from her or leave her. By her second child, she finally felt more secure in her place in the world and was able to have a less desperate attachment.

Lionheart is a creature of revenge, having spent more than half her life wanting to avenge the death of Rose by Lucien it's almost all she knows. And even into her reign that hasn't changed. The cold realization that Theresa had used her, facilitated the death of her sister, and had her enslaved for a decade all to get her hands on the Spire has lit a dark fire in her chest. The latter parts of her life that weren't spent with her children were given to trying to find a way to hunt down and kill Theresa. It was on this path that the Lionhearted Queen was finally killed, having gotten too close to finally finding a way to put the seer down. Her body appeared on the steps of Bowerstone Castle, cold and dead with no signs of what was done to her.

The only one in Albion who knows would only give the future King a mysterious smile.

Perhaps it was for the best that Lionheart died when she did because if she'd lived to see the revolution led by her daughter, it might have been anarchy. In her eyes, Logan could never do anything wrong and would have supported all of his choices even if she was unaware of the Crawler and the darkness. Her legacy as the Hero Queen would shattered in the eyes of Albion's people if they realized that she never truly cared about them, her family would always be before the world.

If she had lived, it would be almost certain that she would have executed everyone who tried to rise against her son, even her precious friends. Walter, Swift, and Jasper would all come face to face with the fact that being a Hero doesn't mean one has to be good or heroic. Her second child would have never been able to sit on the throne unless Logan chose to abdicate, if she took it by force the hero queen would have forced her to give up her claim. Permanently.

And if Marcela chose to execute her brother? A five-star shock spell and a lifetime in the dungeon is a mercy compared to filicide.

I wrote this entire thing for that last section I was wondering how my Sparrow would respond to the revolution and the HoBW overthrowing Logan and the answer is. Not Good.

A lot of heads would roll, she would lightning the people who kicked her dog but using her as a standard to put down Logan? She would probably have cut Waler's tongue out at minimum. She just wouldn't allow the rebellion to happen and if it did it would still end with Logan on the throne after the Crawler was dealt with.

And of course her wanting to kill Theresa even more for manipulating her children and pitting them against each other. Lionheart is a good queen and can do good things but she not a good person y'know?

To William’s minor affront, any time Jocelyn comes around, he all but ignores William’s existence beyond the perfunctory how-do-you-do and expected, congenial exchanges about business and the weather. Not that he wants the older man’s attentions, of course. He doesn’t. He has Jacob. Wanting Jocelyn, with his sharkish nature, his reptilian coldness, his hunter hunting the hunter mannerisms, would be like wanting the Dog-botherer and that’s a ridiculous concept.

I have some bad news for you, young Downey. 

I was having lunch in a restaurant with work people, and a woman in her 60s, who I know for a fact didn’t know how to open the clip of a file folder until a few years ago, commented that two of our business partners, a mother and a daughter, are kind of weird (they are peculiar people, it’s true) and the first time she met them she thought that, the way she spoke, the daughter wasn’t “quite right in the head,” and egged me on to back her up. I tried to recall if I had ever noticed anything odd, only to immediately remember that the woman I was speaking with was upper middle class, had probably not worked since she married 40 years ago, lived in fancy suburbia, drove a Mercedes, had a businessman husband, and a bank executive son. After being hit in the face with the slap of completely unwitting classism, the only thing I could come up with that wasn’t terribly rude was, “I didn’t notice anything.” Smile. Smile. “Probably because most people in my neighborhood speak like that.” “They do?” “Yes, and my classmates at school spoke like that too. I guess that’s why it didn’t stand out to me.” “Really?!” “Really.” And then I spent the rest of the lunch wondering what first impression I would’ve given this lady if I hadn’t spent my entire goddamn life code-switching between languages and accents.

just finished do revenge (2022). i really liked it actually, very fun movie! some of the dialogue and woke-ness felt pretty clunky but it was obviously written by people a fair bit older than the characters and if you pretend it's ironic the movie's still watchable.

i liked the costuming cause they're very modern but modern fashion is heavily inspired by y2k style, which is also the kind of style worn in what I'd consider the golden age of teen chick flicks so it also works as a kind of homage

paintball fight scene made me think of 10 Things I Hate About you!

my main criticism is a bit of a spoiler so I'll pop it in the tags

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Also…

… As I try to phase back into a more online presence, sorry for everyone I've left hanging message/social-wise, if you're still following me/looking at my blog. I stg I haven't forgotten, I've just been so massively drained bc of work and drama at work (next person who says the words 'luxury retail' is gonna hear me scream). I still have lots of thoughts, I still want to talk, I just have really bad executive dysfunction and possibly ADD that make it hard to maintain conversations/focus. I'm not trying to be an ass, I just lack the concentration.

Nick's IG stories - featuring more bits from his attending of this restaurant mentioned day prior - last pic from this group was posted twice - and then one more was added later (below)

Sunday, July 9th, 2023; 2:38 p.m. DST

one more pic from this trip posted later

Sunday, July 9th, 2023; 4:24 p.m. DST: