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starrybouquet · 3 years

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yo should i watch star trek? i've been thinking about watching it but there are so many shows and movies and it's verrry overwhelming.

star trek and ncis have both been in my list of shows to watch for a long time, but i never got around to actually watching them. watching u post about them makes me wanna binge watch them but it's SO overwhelming and idk where to start

Okay, first off, you should ABSOLUTELY watch Star Trek. It's GLORIOUS and absolutely bonkers and thoughtful at the same time. You should also definitely watch NCIS because for a show about murder, it is surprisingly comforting 😂

This post got VERY VERY long because I learned I have a LOT of thoughts about how to watch large amounts of television. Uh, sorry 😂I split it up into NCIS and Star Trek, and then....the Star Trek section is still really long. I hope it's not too much rambling, and that it is possibly helpful?? I feel really honored you asked me about this <3

NCIS

NCIS is pretty simple to binge - I just finished watching it for the first time. Pretty much, I'd run straight through NCIS (the original, not NCIS:LA or NCIS:NO) from season 1-13. A few caveats: I enjoyed s1-s2, but I have some friends who were bothered by a few episodes that were transphobic. I mean it's kind of expected, since the show started in 2003 and some of the characters weren't written as the most accepting people, at least at the start But that doesn't make it easier to watch. If you think that will bother you, I'd be happy to give you a list of episodes to watch/skip. :)

From season 3 onward, I'd really just watch in order (you can skip some of the more gruesome ones *glares at two specific season 3 episodes*). I wandered off sometime around season 13/14 but you can conceivably continue on to season 18 which just finished like a week ago, I think?

Oh, and then you can try the spin-offs. Neither have really been able to hold my attention but you might have better luck!

Star Trek

Okay this one is a lot less simple. Yes, there is SO much Star Trek and asking yourself to binge all of it is very very confusing because....this timeline is a good explanation.

Yeah.

Sir, what?

So! There's no right way to binge Trek. I'd definitely start with a TV show. Yes, there are a lot of Star Trek movies and some of them are fabulous, but Star Trek was born on TV and the TV shows are still the bread and butter of the franchise.

There are maybe five good entry points for Star Trek. If you don't like the first one you try, try a different one, since they are similar but every entry in the franchise has a very different feel.

I'd say there are maybe five good entry points for Star Trek:

Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) The classic, very first Star Trek. Kirk, Spock, McCoy. Absolutely ICONIC. Has a few fabulous, classic high-concept sci-fi episodes and a few absolutely HILARIOUS episodes. If you choose this one, be prepared for a show that's VERY 60s in color and style, thinly-veiled Vietnam War allegories, and a lot of William Shatner.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) My personal favorite. Episodic, absolutely brilliant acting, and the RANGE! Literally has a cross-dressing Wild West romp one week and a deep, "machines develop a sense of self-preservation" plot the next. Some of the very best television ever made. The only problem with TNG is it starts reallllly slow. Most people don't really enjoy season 1, and it really doesn't get good until halfway thru season 2. So I'd recommend watching the pilot, then maybe skipping through a few s1 episodes as they strike your fancy. There are a few good ones but also many duds. The nice thing is it's entirely episodic so you can skip without worrying about losing the main thread of the story. After the pilot, I think the only season 1 episode that's crucial for plotty reasons is Skin of Evil (1x23)? Then starting with A Measure of a Man (2x09) I'd watch straight through. The rest of the series is EXCELLENT and quality is, on average, fairly high. (Okay, you can skip the last episode of s2 since it's a clip show. A writer's strike happened. XD) If you choose this route, be prepared for the slow start. And the VERY 80s sci-fi costumes. :)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999) I'm not a huge DS9 fan, but I really, really enjoy their comedic episodes. If season-long arcs and a more gritty, politick-y feel strikes your fancy, this is the show for you. Again, this one has brilliant acting (most Trek does tbh) and a LOT of range. DS9 is set during wartime, so it's definitely got a different feel. I like it but don't love it, but this show has changed the lives of a lot of people, I think, so it's definitely a good option. I think DS9 starts better than TNG, and this is definitely one you want to watch in order. Seasons 1-3 are a little more episodic and then the series-long war arc begins in earnest.

Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) I have an outsized love for Voyager entirely because of fandom. (J/C fandom has a very large overlap with Sam/Jack fandom!) The premise of Voyager is that it's a ragtag crew (half military officers, half rebel terrorists) trying to get home after being flung 70,000 light years from Earth (which will take roughly 70 years for them to traverse). This is the only show with a female captain and it is TERRIFIC. I'm just saying, if you watch this one, be prepared to ship the captain and the first officer. Because...you will. :) Overall quality of Voyager is, IMHO, not quite as high as TNG. It's again more episodic with some occasional multi-episode plot threads. But the two shows have equally strong captains, and Voyager is definitely a more scrappy ship than TNG's Enterprise. The characters change a LOT over seven seasons, so definitely watch Voyager in order. I think this show actually has one of the better pilot episodes of Star Trek, in a franchise full of notoriously poor pilot episodes.

Star Trek: Discovery (2017-) If you want a "modern" show - y'know, fancy effects and such - I'd roll with Discovery. But it's definitely a controversial entry in the franchise, and one of the less consistent ones, IMHO. But I really like the pilot, and also enjoyed season 2, so you could definitely start here if you're looking for something that's more recent and less, y'know, of whatever era it was made.

For people who love SG-1, I'd probably start with TNG or Voyager? I'm not sure. Discovery is a lot flashier but I think you'll probably enjoy the other four more, if you like SG-1. Totally a matter of personal taste, though.

I hope you got to the end of this, and honestly, if you want to get into either of these shows and are still confused, just message me? I will happily give advice :)

TL;DR

Just binge NCIS from episode 1 onward. If you are very sensitive to transphobia, message me and I'll tell you which season 1 eps to skip.

For Trek: If you love SG-1, I'd start with The Next Generation or Voyager. But honestly, you could start with The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, or Discovery, depending on what you like in your TV.

#trek #ncis #uhhhh i hope this is sorta helpful #asks and answers #spacey-iris #watch guides #is that what these things are called?#also i have a half-finished sg1 and pjo post #that i need to finish for you #aahhhh #my blogstuffs

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indy829 · 2 years

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With Oscar season approaching again, there are a lot of news articles about what or who should have and not have been nominated, snubs, and, of course, the seeming irrelevancy of the awards.

The biggest criticism I've heard about the Oscars over the last 20 years or so is that they are pretentious and do not reflect the movie tastes of the general public (i.e. "Why wasn't No Way Home nominated for Best Picture??") I agree to some extent, but am bothered when this attitude is applied to the entire history of the award. Whenever I hear this, I think, "It hasn't always been this way."

The awards have been going since 1929, and there's an interesting pattern at play of Best Picture winners also being among the highest grossing of their respective years. In the first 12 years of the show, 8/12 BP winners were also in the top 10 highest grossing list. The 40s saw 8/10, the 50s had 8/10, the 60s had 10/10, the 70s had 10/10, the 80s had 5/10, and the 90s had 7/10. However, from 2000 to 2019, only 2 Best Picture winners have been among the highest grossing of their year: Gladiator in 2000 and Lord of the Rings in 2003.

I have a few theories of why the 2000s dropoff was so drastic and persists to this day: the likes of Harvey Weinstein/Miramax helping to turn the show more into elections than awards of merit, the burgeoning of prestige TV starting with The Sopranos in 1999 that gives Oscar-worthy production values and storytelling to longform television shows, streaming services giving folks so many (maybe too many) other options, and studios getting smarter in getting butts into seats through appealing to nostalgia and cinematic intertexuality. The highest grossing movies nowadays are nothing but installments of pre-exisitng franchises or remakes. With going to the movies as expensive as it is and so many other at-home options, I feel like the average movie-goer isn't going to risk their time or money on a seeing a movie in theaters unless it's almost guaranteed they'll enjoy themselves and get that bang for their buck. With Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, Transformers, Harry Potter, etc, headlining, they feel they will more likely achieve that because they've enjoyed iterations of these properties in the past. We are in an age of fetishsized nostalgia, and new ideas aren't as appealing as old, comfortable ones.

I'm not saying that these franchises are necessarily a bad thing, or that the Oscars aren't somewhat pretentious, but rather to say that the way that the general public relates to this particular form of media has changed over the last 20 years, and the Oscars don't reflect they shift. There was a (huge) period of time, though, where what was commercially-successful was also considered Oscar-worthy.

#Oscars 2022 oscars #oscars #golden age of hollywood #vintage hollywood #classic film #hollywood #films #movies #academy awards

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ramblingguy54 · 4 years

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26, 29, 30, 36?

*cracks knuckles*Alright, let’s do this.

26: The late Robin Williams & Hayao Miyazaki are two particular people in my life I’ve idolized for what happiness/imagination they’ve brought into others lives. Robin Williams untimely passing still hurts for me to look back on because this man made it his mission to bring so much joy into other peoples lives through his acting on the big screen, whether it was dramatic or comedic. That’s what I found the most impressive about Robin’s range in acting. He could be an over the top funny individual, but Robin’s acting chops were in a league of their own. Whether he was behind the microphone having the time of his life as Genie on Aladdin or giving a powerful dramatic performance on Good Will Hunting as Will’s therapist, I could feel the unconditional kindness. There was something about Robin’s acting power that would usually manage to reel me in. Even if I never knew him in real life, obviously, this man just radiated with so much kindness that I felt from his entire presence on screen. It’s seriously unfortunate what became of Robin Williams in the end with his unexpected death, but his legacy has inspired me to be kinder to others in real life. As for Hayao Miyazaki, this guy is a huge factor in why I got into loving anime related stuff all the more, as his creations in storytelling and the art itself for the movies were beyond unlike anything I still have yet to seen be topped quite frankly. It’s so easy for me to get emotionally lost in his films like My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Castle In The Sky, and Spirited Away. This man never ceases to amaze me with how usually impactful and in depth his films are. They’re so full life that it’s easy to lose sight of whats happening in the actual story at times. Mayazaki understood how to breathe a ton of humanity into creating such resonating works of fiction. Have a much greater appreciation for them in my adult years. There’s a reason why they inspired companies, like Pixar, to create immersive stories of their own.

29: Favorite films range from Zootopia, Wreck It Ralph, M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Aladdin (1992), The Secret Of NIMH, The Lion King (1994), The Incredibles, UP, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Inside Out, Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2, How To Train Your Dragon Trilogy, Toy Story 1-4, The Great Mouse Detective, Lilo & Stitch, The Emperors New Groove, A Goofy Movie, Good Will Hunting, The Fox And The Hound, The Land Before Time, The Brave Little Toaster, Frozen, Shrek 1 & 2, Coraline, Paranorman, Kubo And The Two Strings, The Muppets (2011), Princess Mononoke, Castle In The Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, Summer Wars, Beauty and the Beast (1991), Winnie The Pooh (1977 & 2011 iterations.), The Peanuts Movie, The Princess And The Frog, The Jungle Book (2016), Scooby Doo On Zombie Island, Harry Potters’ 1-7, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy, Wonder Woman, Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 1 & 2, The Black Panther, Thor & Thor Ragnorok, The Avengers, Avengers Infinity War & Endgame, Spiderman Into the Spiderverse, Captain America Trilogy, Iron Man Trilogy, Star Wars Episodes 4-8, and The Breakfast Club to stop this list from getting any longer. =P

30: Favorite TV shows range from Cowboy Bebop, Avatar The Last Airbender, Yu Yu Hakusho, Digimon Adventure 01 & Tamers, Teen Titans (2003), Batman The Animated Series, Ed, Edd,& Eddy, Samurai Jack, Courage The Cowardly Dog, The Powerpuff Girls (Screw that garbage reboot.), Chowder, Bojack Horseman, DuckTales (1987), DuckTales (2017), Gravity Falls, Code Geass (This series has shaky writing in a number of areas, but that ending was beautiful.), Amphibia, Steven Universe, Oban Star Racers, Made In Abyss, Stranger Things, Gargoyles, My Hero Academia, Naruto (I’ve got a soft spot for this series despite my MANY problems with its story later on.), Pokemon (Serious nostalgia overload!), Dragonball Z (My very first anime series I got into through the Toonami block. A real shocker I know. LOL!), Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, The Promised Neverland, Death Note, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, Sonic SatAM, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy, Robot Chicken, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Kim Possible, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Fullmetal Alchemist (2003).

36: My three dream scenarios I’d like to fulfill?

1: Become A Voice Actor

Been interested in voice acting since I was a young teen, but have been in a conflicted state over these recent passing years in my life on whether or not I’d like to approach that route. There’s a lot of commitment I’d have to put into auditioning my butt off for roles I may or not get. Then comes the consistent practicing to keep my vocal chords in shape, so I don’t get rusty whatsoever. The industry for this kind of job can be hard to get recognized in too by how many other notable well known VA’s there are already. Not to mention, from what I’ve researched up on being a voice actor doesn’t bring in the money naturally, as it’s more of a passion job which that’s terrific and all, but if I want to partake in this profession I’ll have to juggle a job along with that which putting all those factors in my head honestly makes me intimidated. Ahhh well, it’s just something I’ll have to wait and see on if I can make that idea into a reality or not. No need to rush myself, of course.

2: Taking Up The Mantle Of Reviewing Shows & Films For A Living

Fiction, just like for many people, has been a great deal of helping me in my life moments of stress, solitude, depression, and anger. I’d love nothing more than to further express that to anyone out there in reviewing in great detail certain films or shows that I’ve come to love over these years in my life so far. Mostly for animation though, as its been a gateway for finding many gems of quality films or series. It never ceases to surprise me on how creative and powerful animation can be with its inventive ways of getting me to become an emotional mess. While I do enjoy live action series and films they pale in comparison to the beauty animation has brought into my life, since my early childhood of watching shows on Cartoon Network, Toon Disney, and Nickelodeon to a smaller degree. I’d like to think I’m good enough with how I present my reasons on why I feel so strongly connected to these stories showcasing characters trying to find hope in their own hard times. I try my hardest to take moments of my own life and find ways to connect it with whatever story I’m getting into next, so it can be all the more a special experience for myself. It’s important to put whatever character resonates with you most in their shoes for why you feel their emotional journey connecting with your own life on every conceivable level possible. That will make it when you write these kinds of reviews a very empowering read for others to feel either heard in their own feelings or simply giving others a new perspective to consider on this piece of fiction you’re discussing. Seeing some of my own particular analytical posts in the past here on Tumblr garner some attention from people gives me a boost of feeling better about potentially making this choice.

3: Starting A Family Of My Own…?

I can’t begin to tell ya how many times I’ve gone back and forth for getting married in the distant future to become a father has sped through my mind. On one hand, it scares the crap out of me to be taking up that big of a responsibility. However, on the other hand its deeply fascinated me emotionally of creating life through love for your significant other in starting your own family tree. I’d love to be able to raise kids of my own to pass on the lessons I’ve learned in life to make them become better people in the distant future, while showering them with unconditional love and affection. That would fill me up with such an indescribable joyous feeling to hear their own dreams and desires on what they want to accomplish in life. While I’d be a strict parent, I wouldn’t be a hard headed one quick to dismiss their own complaints if they had problems with how I handled things, once they start to get older. The kind of parent I’d want to be is an understanding open minded one who doesn’t judge their son or daughter for when they have an issue with me. Just because I’m a parent in that scenario doesn’t put me on a pedestal of immunity from criticism. Granted, I certainly don’t want to be a doormat for them to try taking advantage of either, but it’s also important to not let your parental role go to your head, too.

Although, I don’t plan on even trying to make this last dream of mine happen anytime soon. This is something that is MUCH later down the road that I wish to have happen. However, I won’t lie and say that I haven’t considered just staying content as a single guy for the rest of my life relying on close friends to bring me joy equivalent to this dream. While I adore the concept of creating life through love and being a father, there’s a shit ton of responsibility that comes with it. The life of a parent is not just putting your all into it. You gotta give more than just 100% when wanting to be a parent. It’s a serious test of your spiritual endurance, which I’m not sure is something I’ll ever have the courage to do, but then again things can change in life on the flip of a dime, so I’ll see how this all plays out for myself. Maybe I’ll stay happily single or I’ll happily be raising kids.

Gee, I wonder why this dream of being a parent resurfaced in my head recently this year? Oh yeah, it was thanks to this character here.

Seriously, Della Duck holds a real special place in my heart for making me feel these kind of feelings yet again. Darn you space mom! LOL.

Thanks for the ask, man.

#asks and answers #ask away #ask the rambler

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samsexualdeancurious · 6 years

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Blind Love | Chapter 12

Pairing: Dean x Castiel

Words: 2,001

Series Summary: When Dean is blinded on a hunt, Cas loves him through it.

Chapter Summary: Dean and Cas go on a date

A/N: Quotes throughout are:

Doyle, Arthur Conan, and Kyle Freeman. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Vol. 1, Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. Page 13

Betaed by @manawhaat

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Taking care of Cas is nice, especially after being sick himself, but Dean’s much happier when Cas’ fever finally breaks and his sore throat goes away. Sam manages to avoid getting sick (probably something to do with the running or whatever, but Dean won’t tell him that).

“Now that we’re both feeling better, we should celebrate with a date night,” Cas suggests, leaning back in the library chair. He’s enjoying not being cooped up in their bedroom. Dean can’t blame him.

“I like that idea,” Dean replies. “I can cook something, you can pick a movie.”

“Actually… I was thinking we could go out.”

Dean is a little surprised by that. He knows Cas wants him to go out in public, to, metaphorically, see for himself that it’s really not as scary as he feels like it is. Dean also knows that if he says no, then Cas will agree to the idea of staying in, but Dean hasn’t been out of the house beyond a few drives in the Impala since he lost his sight months ago.

“Maybe… a picnic?” Dean offers warily. That would be more private, just him and Cas, but still in a public park.

“A picnic sounds wonderful!” Dean can hear how happy Cas is with that idea, which is good because Dean’s not sure he can handle the atmosphere and crowds of an actual restaurant yet.

“I’ll make sandwiches and stuff,” Dean says. He’s never gone on a picnic before. What do people eat on picnics? He’s gonna have to ask Sam to look that up. “We probably have a blanket somewhere we can use. I don’t- we don’t have a basket, I don’t think. But we have that cooler in the back of the car. That would work, right?”

“That would work perfectly,” Cas assures him. “We can have sandwiches, fruit, and chips.”

“And beer?” he’s mostly joking, but a small part of him is serious.

Cas laughs. Dean doesn’t realize it, but he still makes the same faces he’s always made, and Cas stares for a moment at the smirk on Dean’s lip and hopeful arch of his brows. “Beer for you, since you won’t be driving home. I’ll just have water.”

Dean pouts, but he’s not really upset and Cas knows it. “Fine.”

“We go in a few hours, if that’s alright?”

“Yeah. That’s alright.”

Dean’s nervous, he can’t deny it. This is a huge step for him. He’s just got to remember that Cas will be right there with him the whole time and there’s absolutely nothing he needs to be worried about beyond enjoying himself.

“Ready to go?” Cas asks when they’re both settled in the Impala. The cooler is full of a variety of picnic foods, courtesy of Sam’s research. They probably won’t eat most of it, but Dean wanted there to be options.

“Ready,” Dean says, more for himself than for Cas. “Remember to go easy on the brakes.”

“Okay, Dean.”

“We’re here,” Cas says, putting the Impala in park. “Ready to get out?”

The drive to the park was not nearly as long as Dean would have liked it to be. He’s only been on long drives the past months, so the abruptness of this drive startles him more than he’d like to admit.

‘At least we’re close to home,’ Dean thinks to himself.

He forces himself to breathe deeply and slowly, focusing on Cas’ hand in his own and the rumble of Baby’s engine. Cas is a very good driver, thankfully, so he didn’t have to worry as much about the car.

“Gimme a minute?” Dean mumbles, fingernails digging into his own palm.

“Alright. I’m going to take the blanket and cooler and find us a good place to sit, and then I’ll come back for you. Sound good?”

Dean nods. He hears Cas get the blanket and cooler from the backseat and walk away. He returns a few minutes later, hands empty of the items.

“Our picnic is waiting for you,” he tells Dean, opening the passenger door and pressing the cane into the blind man’s hand. “Come on. Come sit with me.”

Dean allows himself to be pulled upright and out of the car. As soon as his shoes hit asphalt his knees buckle a little, but Cas is there to catch him.

“I’ve got you,” the man murmurs, steadying Dean. “I know it’s frightening, but you can do it, Dean. There are hardly any people around. There’s a woman running with her dog on the other side of the park. There’s a young couple pushing their daughter on the swings. There’s another couple on the other side of the playground having a picnic of their own. The sun is shining. Do you feel it?”

Dean nods, holding himself up with an arm around Cas’ waist as he’s guided forward. Asphalt changes to grass, soft beneath his boots.

“There’s a light breeze. The temperature today is perfect for a picnic, don’t you think?”

“Yeah,” Dean manages. It really is.

“We’re at the blanket. Come on, let’s sit down.”

Once he’s on the blanket, Dean feels much better. He sets his cane down beside him and tilts his face back, feeling the sunshine and the air on his face.

“Better?” Cas asks.

“Much,” Dean tells him.

“Shall we eat?”

“Yeah, let’s eat.”

Cas chuckles at how much food Dean packed, but otherwise he doesn’t remark. It’s nice, not having to hurry to eat. Dean’s been trying to eat slower, to really enjoy his food rather than just get as much in his stomach as fast as possible. It’s not easy to break a habit formed by a lifetime of not knowing where your next meal will be coming from, but he’s working really hard. Afterall, he has a home and a boyfriend now. Things have settled down. He never thought he would like that, but he does. Though, Dean does miss hunting. He misses it a lot. He supposes he’ll be spending the rest of his life now breaking old habits.

Dean nuzzles gently against Cas’ thigh. He feels a bit like a cat, basking in the sunshine and the warm weight of a hand in his hair. If he could, he would probably be purring.

To say the picnic was a success would be an understatement. The pair put a decent sized dent in the massive amount of food Dean packed and now they’re just letting it settle in while enjoying the beautiful day. Cas reads from Sam’s massive collection of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and if possible, the sound of his deep voice is making the picnic feel more like heaven than anything Dean’s ever known.

“‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ ‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked-”

Dean rolls onto his back, tilting his head up towards his lover. “Cas?”

He hears the rustle of a bookmark being placed and the satisfying thump of a heavy book closing. “Yes, Dean?”

“I love you.”

When Cas speaks, his smile is audible. “I love you, too, Dean.”

Dean reaches up slowly until he finds the other man’s face, cradling a strong jaw in his palm and rubbing his thumb over slightly chapped lips. “Can… can I kiss you?”

Cas inhales sharply. Dean knows how he feels. They haven’t kissed since before he lost his sight- Dean just wasn’t ready to. But he is now. He wants it. He needs it.

“Of course,” Cas says softly. “Just like this?”

“No, let me- hang on.” Dean levers himself upright and scoots over until he’s sitting with his right thigh pressed to Cas’ right one. He finds Cas’ face again, gently tugging him in until their noses are brushing. “Like this.”

He’d forgotten how it feels to kiss Cas.

They keep things light, slow. It’s almost like he’s relearning how to kiss Cas. When he’s surer, he curls his hand around the back of Cas’ neck and deepens the kiss until they have to come up for air. He doesn’t want to go too far, though, and settles for resting their foreheads together.

“I’ve missed that,” Cas admits.

“Yeah,” Dean sighs, breath mingling with Cas’ between their mouths. “I missed it, too.”

Cas kisses him again and Dean allows himself to be pulled into the other man’s lap, bowed legs falling open around thick thighs. When muscular arms wrap around the small of his back, he wonders why he ever put this off.

“Thank you for trusting me with this,” Cas murmurs, ducking his head to press a kiss to the point of Dean’s collarbone.

“Thank you for waiting.”

“I would wait an eternity for you, Dean.”

Dean nods, running his fingers through Cas’ hair. “I know.”

Cas grins. Dean hasn’t made any Star Wars references in too long, and the way the freckled-faced man’s lips are turning up, neither of them can suppress their laughter.

Yeah… it’s been too long.

It’s a miracle that they make it back to the bunker in one piece, let alone that they managed to bring the food and blankets with them. Now that Dean has a taste of Cas again, he can’t seem to keep his hands off of his boyfriend. Cas doesn’t seem to mind- and he is very cute when he’s a little annoyed with Dean’s antics. Cas gets them home safe and down to their shared bedroom. Dean wants- he needs- and then suddenly something changes.

Suddenly he can’t.

His back hits the mattress, Cas blankets him with his body, and something inside Dean seizes up so quick for a moment he’s worried he’s having another heart attack or something. Of course, that hurt more, so he knows that can’t be it.

“Wait,” he gasps, hands changing from pulling at Cas’ shirt to shoving at his shoulders. “Wait.”

Cas backs off immediately, rolling off of Dean and pulling them both to sit against the headboard. “Easy, easy,” he says, just holding Dean to his chest. “I’ve got you. We’re not doing anything you don’t want to do, okay?”

Dean manages a shaky breath before the wave of emotions hit him. He yanks away, wiping at his eyes. “Sorry, I just- sorry.”

“Dean,” Cas says gently. ��It’s okay. It’s okay.”

He shakes his head. “No, it’s stupid, I… I’m just so stupid, can’t even do this right-”

“Dean.”

His mouth snaps shut. His body is shaking- why is he shaking?- when Cas pulls him close once more.

“It’s okay,” the other man says. “You’re not stupid. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with you, understand? Nothing at all.”

“But I- you-”

“Dean.” There’s a fond exasperation in Cas’ voice. “We could never have sex again and I would be happy. Understand? This isn’t about me and what I want or what you think I need. This is about you and what you need. Does that make sense?”

“A… a little bit,” Dean whispers, burying his face in Cas’ shoulder.

“I’ll wait, Dean, for as long as you need.”

Dean nods. “Can we… can we just sit here for a while? Maybe you can read to me?”

“Of course. Let me go get the book from the car.”

Cas quickly returns with the book in hand and settles in beside Dean once more. “Alright, where were we…? Ah! Here. ‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’ ‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’ ‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’ ‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes. Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester-” Dean chuckles a little at the name, just like he has every other time it was mentioned previously. “Dean, focus on the story.”

“I am!”

“Uh-huh. Anyways- Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex cup…”

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What are you arguing here? That Finn doesn't face racism or faces less than Poe? It's simply not true. In this fandom and in all others. If you don't believe me, you have Google at your disposal, I can't fit the countless examples here anyway. So, when POC notice racist and specifically anti black tendencies, that a whitepassing (only "Europeans", who "don't see race" claim that Poe is "white for them, not actual critics) character is treated better than a black coc, you probably should try to listen to them instead of playing the victim of the fandom not being nice enough space. Because, honestly, if I had time or desire, I could've explained to you how each and every one of your point is bs.

... have you even read what I wrote? oh good lord I don’t have the patience any more

let’s go over it again

I’m saying people talk about finn less than ****kylo ren**** because people are generally more interested in the antagonist rather than the good side heroes when it comes to star wars. vader is more popular than just about everyone and the dark side generally gets more attention. idg it because I personally don’t care for the dark side but it’s not **racism** per se, it’s how fandom goes. every time. people care more about loki than thor because loki is the kind of tormented antagonist that interests people and thor is the good guy who doesn’t as much, not because loki has black hair and thor is blonde and no one likes blondes.

I’m also saying that people talk less about poe because he has relatively little screentime in comparison to finn and rey. he was in there for twenty minutes total maybe thirty if we stretch it.

I’m not saying finn doesn’t face racism especially from people who are in fandom but don’t write fanfic or do fanart or whatever and I especially mean those assholes who said you couldn’t have a black lead in SW, I’m saying that when it comes to fandom’s treatment of finn vs kylo or vs poe or vs whoever else a lot of the things that people deem problematic are common to every other fandom in existence and to the type of character finn is. the things I hate most about fanon finn’s characterization are the same things I hate about fanon bucky characterizations, and what do they have in common? they’re two people who come from being employed against their will by the villain side of the story who are actually good people and don’t want to fight for that side and who have gone through types of brainwashing to a different degree (finn because he was brought up to be a stormtrooper without identity and bucky because they literally erased it form him) from people who saw them as weapons and not people. it’s a trope. in a lot of fic where they’re in it, they’re characterized as if they need someone to hold their hand every other moment, which I frankly dislike a lot, and it’s the same for a lot of characters coming from that context. in some cases it can be racism, in others it’s just that finn is that type of character and he’s black, but I’ve been in fandom since 2003 and I saw that way of writing abused characters back then. address that if you think it’s an address-able problem, but it happening to finn has more to do with his background than his skin color. then if you’re talking about other things idk because as stated I stopped engaging other than checking the ao3 finnp0e tag after I read that if you shipped it you were objectifying nonwhite people because I ship people for their relationship, but that was the state of the discourse when I noped out.

‘only "Europeans", who "don't see race" claim that Poe is "white for them, not actual critics’ > er, actually most latin-americans I know would argue that poe is *not* a POC and that they don’t even abide to that definition and that people across latin america come in all shades so making the white/poc distinction makes no sense because they don’t think of themselves as such. but okay.

also: idk if you wanna be edgy by putting “don’t see race” in brackets, but I’m gonna tell you a thing: us europeans who *don’t see race* have studied WWII in school for a long time. I studied WWII since I was nine. now, you know what’s the basics of nazi race theory? that races exist and some races are more worthy than others and that you can count how much of a race you are by tracing back your grandparents, so idk if you have one black grandparent and three white ones you’re still considered *impure* same as if you have a jewish grandparent and so on. the drop of blood rule to us sounds like nazi theory 101 and honestly that’s why to a lot of us Europeans just the fact that here on tumblr ‘race’ is used as an actual thing that exist is skin-crawling worthy. what I learned in school is that the human race is just one and then you have different ethnicities within it but that at the bottom if it we’re the same, because if you admit that then saying you’re inherently better than a black person because you’re *different* or another race entirely isn’t that easy anymore. which doesn’t mean we don’t see ethnicity or culture - I’d never say that a chinese person is the same as a french or a south-african or canadian because I know they have different background and different experiences and different ethnicities, but I would not say they’re a different RACE than I am, because to me it would sound like something out of mein kampf. I can’t conceive the prospect that me and a black person are different RACES. we’re both human. then they’re obviously different ethnicity and culture and I see and recognize it. like, can you all stop twisting it like we think everyone is the same and there’s no difference at all? also, here, the moment someone says black people are an inferior race or a race at all, they get labeled FASCIST RACIST 101 STAY AWAY FROM ME. anyway, I do understand that on tumblr the discourse is american so I just scroll by over the use of the term race, but for me your definition is something I could never use. because cultural relativism. and ‘white passing’ for me is just the proof that poc as a term only works in the US and badly at that because why the fuck you need a term to say that some people who aren’t white look white is beyond me when you could just use their damned ethnicities to call them and be done with it, but never mind.

also idk where you gathered that I said poe was white. I said that according to some people it seems that he’s not when he’s shipped with finn but he is when he’s shipped with rey. and that makes no fucking sense. if oscar is a poc and poe is a poc (according to your definition) then both finnp0e and reyp0e are interracial couples. period. you can’t change the meaning of a word or someone’s ethnicity based on who the fuck you ship him with. and that’s a thing that happens in this fandom. period.

‘you probably should try to listen to them instead of playing the victim of the fandom not being nice enough space’ > man, I don’t think you understood my point. I’m not playing victim. I’m in fandom because I want to have fun and not because I want to run a politics campaign. now, I don’t care for fandom being a nice space, even if like, since it’s escapism, I’d like it if it was about fandom and not US politics cropping up everywhere. the point is that some of us are in fandom for shipping. I like finn and poe together. I wanna write finn and poe together. I want to do it best as I can and admittedly the one time I did it and posted it on tumblr I got more notes than I do for.... four fics for my main fandom combined. I had fun. I wrote them the way I saw them. I made sure to write them as IC as I could. I kinda wanna do it again. but the idea of going into a fandom where there’s discourse at every corner makes me want to shoot myself in the head. if people complain about ky*lux getting more traffic now, it’s because there’s less discourse over there for whichever reason you wanna pinpoint (problematic faves? problematic ship so no one judges others?). are there wankers over there? sure thing, but nowhere near as much as a corner of the fandom where every other day you can’t ship anything because it’s somehow -ist. and some of us want to, like, have fun. and produce content. and we don’t. because it’s not fun. and like, you can make it a welcoming space or not, idc because I’m not in it, but if then your discourse makes people run off to ship kylo and hux then don’t complain that you used to have more traffic when the movie was out and everyone was excited about things and the discourse wasn’t a thing. like. I don’t even engage in fandom exactly because I don’t want discourse, so I’m already doing what you’re telling me to. sometimes I rant about it on my blog.... in...... untagged posts like the one you replied to which I didn’t tag EXACTLY BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT DISCOURSE, so.

‘Because, honestly, if I had time or desire, I could've explained to you how each and every one of your point is bs.’ > yeah, but you didn’t. (always the same thing I hear. ‘I could tell you why you’re wrong but I won’t’) and honestly, given that I’m not gonna touch this fandom properly with a ten foot pole for the foreseeable future, I also can live without it.

anyway, I was just arguing that tfa fandom is unlivable if you’re not here for the discourse (which is true and it’s one’s prerogative since again fandom is escapism or a hobby unless you’re a youtuber or you made a job out of it), that people can and will ship what they want and they should be able to (and if you think this point is bullshit then we don’t have any more to discuss because the moment you tell me that people shouldn’t ship ANYTHING because it’s not morally fine according to you I’m out), that a person can’t fucking be white and not white at the same time (which is just basic logic) and that accusing people of -isms based just on their shipping preferences is bullshit (because rl and fiction aren’t the same thing and most of us know that, and again if you think this is bs you can spare yourself a reply I’m not even gonna bother because it’s a point I can’t really gloss over and we’d have a basic disagreement). idk what you thought I was saying or when I said poe was white (btw whiteness in europe =/= whiteness in the US) or when I said fandom wasn’t racist towards finn or whatever but feel free to put words into my mouth ad libitum, I’m really done.

(and this is still why I’m not touching this fandom ever)

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Scrolling through Twitter one afternoon, I stumbled upon an amazing little feature by blogger Liam McNally – he had posted a text post with a number of different film titles from each year of his life. Bloody brilliant.

So I’ve decided to give it a go. I’ve been on this wonderful planet for almost 19 years now, and although I wasn’t alive for the release of Jurassic Park, there have been a fair few phenomenal films in my lifetime.

This is my longest post to date – I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. (2730 words – bloody hell).

1998: Pleasantville

Oh my God. I didn’t realise how difficult this post was until I searched ‘1998 films’ into Google. The Trueman Show, Saving Private Ryan and The Wedding Singer all in the one year? God, anyone alive and kicking back then must have been having the best year of their lives.

But despite the 10 minute long decision process, I’ve decided on Pleasantville. I watched it when I was very young and hadn’t ever worn a bra, much less watched anything like that bath scene. Despite my mortified eyes however, the film will always be one of my favourites. I remember seeing the main character for the first time and just constantly thinking god, this is a weird film for Spiderman and Elle Woods to be in.

1999: 10 Things I Hate About You

Again, this year is bloody difficult. The Iron Giant, The Mummy and Toy Story 2 – they just don’t make films like them anymore. Although I wasn’t a fan of Star Wars Episode 1 – it has to be one of my least favourites. Anyway.

10 Things I Hate About You was one of the first chick-flicks I ever watched. I knew Heath Ledger as ‘the strangely cute singing guy from that movie’ before I knew him as the Joker. I felt like I related to Kat – I wasn’t big on getting a boyfriend, and I was pretty much destined to be a wee bit strange since birth. Plus her name is so cool.

2000: X-Men

At the time of watching, I was right into Harry Potter. I loved the idea of special schools dedicated to supernatural people – it made my own secondary school even more boring. I’d often just sit in class and daydream about being able to fly or have the ability to imitate people.

But in all honesty, the one person I was most envious of was Quicksilver. And not because I wanted to save the world or any of that pish. No. When I sat in my third year physics class, the smells from the cafeteria always decided to sneak up the vent and attack my nostrils. I would get so unbelievably hungry, and my stomach would always tell my classmates just that. So I used to daydream about running faster than time, sprinting down into the dining hall, grabbing a steaming hot spicy chicken panini (and maybe some soup, if I could manage) and munching it before heading back up to class. Yeah – I wanted superpowers so I could eat my lunch early.

2001: The Princess Diaries

AH. I’ve got a feeling film directors are deliberately messing with me right now. Legit, I had a look at the films from 2001, and I was floored. What an amazing year. The first Harry Potter movie came out this year – the beginning of an absolute era. Shrek debuted as well – but I was always slightly offended when people heard my Scottish accent and compared me to a giant green ogre when I travelled abroad. The first Lord of the Rings film came out as well – see what I mean about them messing with me?

But despite all of my favourite film franchises beginning in this year, I gotta say, the Anne Hathaway/Julie Andrews combo that is The Princess Diaries absolutely stole my heart. I had never related to a character more – I had frizzy hair, buck teeth, oversized glasses and a tendency to prioritise spending time with my cat over hanging out with real-life friends. So when she went through her beautiful princess transformation, I was floored. I mean, I’m still waiting for that to officially happen, but I’m still holding out hope that I have a long lost relative that’s gonna tell me I’m a princess (no, not you mum).

2002: The Pianist

Originally, I had written the first Spiderman as my favourite film of 2002. But that quickly changed.

The first time I watched The Pianist, I was 13 years old in a stuffy history classroom. I still hold the belief that this was definitely not the right time to watch this film. It felt as though my teacher didn’t have any material to convey how horrific the Holocaust really was, and so instead she stuck on one of the most distressing and hauntingly beautiful films of all time. I didn’t fully appreciate it back then – I cried when I watched the horrors that took place in the ghettos, and got even more upset when immature people around me started to laugh.

But I watched it for a second time a few years later. Although I cried again, I gained a much deeper understanding of the film. I still listen to the soundtrack when I want to write a particularly moving or sad chapter of a book. The film has such a disgusting beauty to it, it is astounding – it makes me question my morals when I say it is one of my favourite films.

2003: Peter Pan

Again, there were so many amazing films this year – I can’t explain my guilt at not choosing Finding Nemo or the last instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But I found my first love in the live-action remake of Peter Pan. Just a few years after it was released, I found myself watching it time and time again. I was young, and there was a boy with messy hair and a fairy to keep him company. Honestly, I was head over heels. I grew to absolutely despise Wendy Darling. How dare she take away my Peter, with her stupid bow and annoying accent. And the fact that Lucius Malfoy was Captain Hook just made it that little bit better.

2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

You’re lying if you say that this isn’t one of your favourite films.

Again, it was tricky not choosing The Incredibles or Mean Girls – even The Notebook made it to my shortlist. But the way the Weasley twin’s hair sat and the introduction of the marauders just made my life complete. Except for Pettigrew. Fuck you, Pettigrew. I’d read the book before I saw the film, and while I was slightly disappointed with the previous two, I didn’t stop talking about PoA for months. In fact, I still talk about it. It’s great.

2005: Sky High

This year was going to be beautifully simple – I absolutely love Star Wars Episode III. In fact, it was possibly the only film I was certain of when I started this post. But, never the less, I looked at the list of 2005 films anyway, and was reminded of the best thing I’ve ever watched. Ever.

Remember earlier in the post when I said that I frickin LOVE schools for supernatural people? WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN. I watched Sky High recently with my friend Ross, and even although the acting was abysmal and my cringe levels were off the chart, I couldn’t help but smile. As if the flying school bus wasn’t enough, the euphoria I felt when Will and Warren won Save the Citizen was something I don’t think I’ll ever feel again.

2006: Pan’s Labyrinth

I feel like if I choose any film other than this, my Spanish teacher would kill me. Again, it’s another film that we watched at way too young an age in my opinion. Sure, it looks all mystical with fairies and creepy monsters with eyeball hands, but it has this underlying story-line of the horrors of war and escapism that you can’t fully understand until you’re a bit older.

I watched it again when I was 17 and studying Advanced Higher Spanish, and knew the film as ‘El Laberinto del Fauno’. I could go on for 20 minutes about this film and its director (which I did by the way, in the final exam).

2007: Ratatouille

WHAT A FILM BTW. I’ve always loved Disney – my sister and I would spend nights staying up way past our 8pm bedtime watching Aladdin and Peter Pan, with a fair few stolen After Eight mints from my mum’s bedroom too. This film just completely blew me away – the animation was new and cool and it was set in PARIS.

Even now, ten years later (omg ten years wtf) I still think about the scene where Remy combines the cheese and grapes, and little fireworks and swirls form in his mind. I once ate a McDonald’s chip and then took a sip of my strawberry milkshake, and legit I’m pretty sure that’s what happened in my mind.

2008: The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian

Enter stage left – my second love. At the age of nine, Prince Caspian had everything I could ever want in a guy (or so I thought). He had a sword, long hair, an accent I had never heard before and he fought Peter Pevensie (I seem to hate a whole lot of Peters).

I thought it was the coolest combination of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and it was while watching this that I began to have a crisis about my true Hogwarts house. I had always thought myself a Gryffindor – I had the scarf, the pens and the egotistical ‘I’m-better-than-you’ attitude that all young Gryffs seem to adopt. But I found myself siding with Edmund Pevensie about a whole lot of things. I didn’t fully accept Slytherin as my true house till a good few years later.

2009: Star Trek

I watched Star Trek before I even touched Star Wars, and I was absolutely hooked. It was what introduced me to science fiction, really. After Star Trek, I moved onto Doctor Who, and although I couldn’t really get into the Star Trek TV series, I found my love of sci-fi growing.

It was my love of Star Trek that caused me to accidentally find Star Wars. My brother would constantly go on about C3PO and lightsabers, and I decided very early on that it wasn’t for me. But after trying (and failing) to find Star Trek online, I accidentally found Star Wars instead, and thus began my love of the Skywalkers and giant wookies named Chewy.

2010: How To Train Your Dragon

Other than Aladdin, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was one of my first (of many) cartoon crushes. I thought he was the most adorable lil guy ever – he was clumsy, dorky, and absolutely loved animals. He was perfect. I thought the animation was absolutely incredible, and the Scottish accents were just a bonus. I much preferred being compared to Gerard Butler than a green ogre, in all honesty.

And don’t even get me started on how he looked in How To Train Your Dragon 2 – oaft.

2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two

HPDHP2 is right up there with the Prisoner of Azkaban. I remember heading to the midnight release of the last Harry Potter book – I was decked out in a Scream robe that we’d stitched a Gryffindor badge onto, with curly hair that reached my shoulders. And yes, I won the costume contest. But I remember staying up that night and reading the book until 7am, and having to head to school the next day without a wink of sleep. And yet I didn’t care – I had just finished the last book in a series that completely shaped my childhood.

So when the movie hit the cinema screens, I was praying that I wouldn’t be disappointed like I was with some of the others. And apparently, my prayers were answered. Even although the Deathly Hallows is split into two parts, I always consider them the one film. And it’s most certainly my favourite.

2012: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

This film really got to me. I bundled up in warm clothes to see it in the cinema with my friend Ailish, and it was the first ever film I had cried at. I’d read the book before hand and cried my eyes out, but the severity and meaning of the story didn’t hit me until I watched the film. Logan Lerman and Emma Watson were two of my favourite stars at the time: I knew Emma from Harry Potter obviously, whilst Logan stole my heart as Percy Jackson.

But what struck me most was the way I related to these characters. I often found myself standing next to the wall in school dances, watching people having a good time but being physically incapable of joining in – it was as if my feet were constantly glued to the floor. It was comforting to know that I wasn’t alone in this, and it lead to me being able to open up to my guidance teacher about my struggles with anxiety.

I also wrote about the original book in my piece ’13 books to help get over a break up’ – check it out.

2013: The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug

When the making of the Hobbit was first announced, I was ecstatic. But my excitement somewhat wavered when I heard they were turning into three films. It was a small book – tiny in comparison to the three Lord of the Rings texts – how on earth would they stretch this wonderfully small work into three different films?

And yet somehow, they managed it, and subsequently made one of my favourite films of all time. Why, you ask? The barrel scene.

2014: Guardians of the Galaxy

Not gonna lie, this one was a toss up between the hilarious Chris Pratt and the absolutely adorable Baymax. But, as much as I love Disney’s tale of superpowers and love therapy in Big Hero 6, it didn’t win this year for me. The best thing about the film is without a doubt the soundtrack – even four years later, I still listen to it when I wanna get psyched.

I wanted to cosplay as Gamora for last year’s MCM Comic Con in Glasgow so bad, but then I realised that I’d more than likely sweat off the green body paint and the leather would more than likely get quite uncomfortable.

2015: Star Wars – The Force Awakens

Up until 2015, I was losing interest in Star Wars. I’d watched the films countless times, but as much as I adored them, I couldn’t stop thinking about the shabby effects. So when Finn, Poe and Rey lit up my local cinema screen in December 2015, it was as if I was born again. I suddenly dived back into the world of lightsabers and gun-wielding Wookies, and I genuinely haven’t looked back since.

And although I cried my eyes out when that thing happened, I agreed with it – it was about time.

2016: Finding Dory

I actually travelled Australia for a month last year – I left school and just decided to get away from everything and everyone for a little while. So after I met my brother and we began to explore Sydney, we decided what better place to watch the latest instalment in Finding Nemo than the place where it’s set??

I was slightly disappointed to find out that Nemo and Dory did not, in fact, stay in Sydney for the duration of the film, but even so – it was just amazing.

I was going to write a segment for 2017 but then I realised – I legit haven’t watched any new releases yet. I’ve simply not had any time. And yes, that means that I haven’t even watched the new Beauty and the Beast. For shame.

But even although I haven’t watched anything yet, there are tonnes of films that I’m looking forward to – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Spiderman Homecoming, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi to name a few.

Hey, maybe I’ll revisit this post at the end of the year and add in my favourite film.

I’m tagging the fantastic Emily and Lucie in the ‘Film for every year of my life’ tag.

What are your most loved films from these years? Do we share any favourites? Or do you think my choices are just downright wrong? Let me know!

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What is Ragnar actor Travis Fimmel doing today?

Since Travis Fimmel the first male Calvin Klein model to receive a six-figure sum, a lot has happened. That was 17 years ago. What follows after his international acting breakthrough as Ragnar Lothbrok

in Vikingswhere he as king of Kattegat caused a stir, next?

Travis Fimmel changes from history to science fiction

Travis Fimmel has been in front of the film and series camera regularly since 2003 (Even as Tarzan, as if we needed more reasons to confuse him with Alexander Skarsgård). It was only with Vikings that he became known to a global audience and padded in as Anduin Lothar Warcraft: The Beginning a few years later, unfortunately, a bit awkward in the Hollywood blockbuster league as the main actor.

Travis Fimmel as Tarzan and Ragnar Lothbrok

Instead of continuing to work on the Vikings' past in Vikings, he is involved in a science fiction series called Raised by Wolves. The TNT series is currently in post-production and is about two androids tasked with educating people.

The whole thing takes place on a mysterious planet and religious differences threaten living together. So far there is no start date for Raised by Wolves with Travis Fimmel in the leading role named Marcus.

Two sci-fi films planned with Travis Fimmel

One of his next films, Tau Ceti Four, is also part of the science fiction genre in the far future. By the way, Tau Ceti is the second closest star to our sun.

In this solar system, on a war-torn planet, Travis Fimmel can be seen alongside Uma Thurman in an as yet unknown role. Directed by Stirb slowly director John McTiernan. Tau Ceti Four is currently in pre-production.

The second planned sci-fi film with Travis Fimmel is called Zone 414. This is an android thriller in the near future, in which Fimmel's figure

Marlon Veidt

hired a private investigator (played by Guy Pierce) to find his daughter.

All upcoming films and series with Travis Fimmel

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan

Germany rarely brings Travis Fimmel films to the cinema

Although Travis Fimmel has made some films since leaving Vikings (Lean on Pete, Finding Steve McQueen, Dreamland and more), only the war movie Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan came to our cinemas in late 2019. Maybe we'll be more lucky with his upcoming films.

Travis Fimmel in Finding Steve McQueen

After the sci-fi projects, it should go back into the past, because an untitled Wyatt Earp anthology was also announced, in which Fimmel probably embodies the legendary gunslingers.

Moviepilot podcast on Vikings and Travis Fimmel Ragnar Lodbrok

In the new episode Streamgestöber Andrea, Esther and Jenny U. discuss what makes Vikings' currently largest history series so special – and what you have to overlook:

For all fans of Vikings we dive deep into the spoiler area from minute 00:31:03 in the second part of the podcast to the most exciting characters. From minute 00:52:02 we talk about season 6A and guess what awaits us in the grand finale.

What is your favorite role by Travis Fimmel?

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I go over it in my head and think, well, maybe they should have done this or that instead, but I think we would have ended up with basically the same movie and the same reception regardless. Fans of the old EU are dissatisfied that they jettisoned with the “Legends” continuity, but now that it’s all said and done, I can’t help but notice that a lot of the same plot points from 90′s and 2000′s novels made it into the sequel trilogy. They just couldn’t keep every detail because there’d be no practical way to make a movie out of that many books and still have it make sense. The sequel trilogy feels like a machete cut of a dozen novels, or something like how “Path to Power” burns through the first 67 episodes of Dragon Ball in less than two hours.

I’m thinking about re-listening to the Thrawn trilogy, the early 1990′s books that kind of got the Star Wars EU going after the original movies died down. A lot of fans don’t know how dead Star Wars was between 1984 and 1995, and the Thrawn trilogy was pretty much all we had. But it was pretty dry stuff. They’d never be able to turn it into a movie, not without cutting a lot of dull parts out. It was like a Tom Clancy book set in space. Although they make a lot of movies based on Tom Clancy books, although my dad was a big Clancy fan and he never seemed to are about the movies. So it’s probably just a disconnect between the media.

Even so, the big ideas are going to come through no matter what. “Do we bring Palpatine back, or introduce a new creepy dark lord character?” Would Han and Leia have kids, and would they be good guys or bad guys? Should we kill Chewbacca off? Should Leia have a lightsaber or would she want to stay out of that world? The sequel trilogy and the EU books tackled each of those same questions, one by one, and even though they came up with different answers and different circumstances to set up the questions, it was eerie to spot the similarities.

I’m starting to notice the things that bugged EU loyalists when “Force Awakens” came out. I never paid much attention to EU stuff set after Episode IV, but I always followed the prequel-era stuff. So I bought that Dooku novel from last year, and it basically changes Asajj Ventress’ origin. She first appeared in the 2003 Clone Wars shorts, where she infiltrates a deathmatch tournament to show off her skills to Count Dooku. The 2019 novel references this meeting, except they depict Asajj being forced to participate in the tournament, and Dooku liberates her from a slavemaster, which seems kind of off to me. I’m not sure why they changed it, unless it helps integrate all the other Ventress lore that’s been established since her debut. But I like the old version better, because it was a cool cartoon.

The bigger problem I have with the 2019 novel is that it messes up Sifo-Dyas. He’s a friend of young Dooku, which makes sense, and he spends most of he story plagued with psychic visions, but they treat him like a near-invalid, when he was said to have been a member of the Jedi Council in Episode II. I guess there’s room to sort that out, but I felt like the novel should have done that by closing out Sifo’s character arc with him getting the seat on the council, just to tie things up a little more neatly. I feel like the author was more focused on establishing Sifo as Dooku’s best friend, to the point where he forgot about the existing background material on the character.

Anyway, it’s just kind of weird to see new writers messing around with prequel lore the same way JJ Abrams has tinkered with Han and Luke stuff. I’m not fond of having two versions of the same story. Someone asked me once if there was an AU fic where Videl kept her pigtails and I’m like “I dunno, but what would be the point?” But someone out there is probably working on one, just for the sake of keeping everything the same except for a handful of tiny details. I get why it’s a thing, but it bugs me, at least whenever I get around to reading both versions and spotting the differences.

#that coffee shop au was kind of a problem for me #i wanted to try it but at the same time it bugged me to write the same characters with different backstories #also i had to keep reminding myself that zatte isn't blue and luffa doesn't have a tail under her ribera jacket #but at least i could reference real world stuff like christmas and the emperor of japan abdicating and poison mist #i just don't like that someone watched chapter 6 of clone wars and thought 'this is pretty cool but i can fix it'

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