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mariocki · 2 years
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Katy Manning - in her first ever screen role, and credited as Katie - makes awful coffee and has a good nose at some industrial action, in Softly Softly: Task Force: Standing Orders (1.8, BBC, 1970)
#fave spotting#katy manning#jo grant#softly softly: task force#doctor who#classic doctor who#standing orders#alan plater#bbc#the awful coffee thing is referenced several times in dialogue for some reason‚ it isn't just me being a dick#katy's part here is fairly negligible at a glance‚ but this is a fascinating episode of SSTF. I've found this first series deeply uneven so#far‚ beginning with a couple of brilliant‚ razor sharp scripts from series creator Elwyn Jones‚ but followed by a few really duff#eps by Robert Barr‚ who seems to have seized the procedural aspect of the series and clung to it so his episodes depict fairly dull#routine work for the characters. my heart jumped‚ then‚ when the opening credits for this episode announced Alan Plater as the writer#Plater was truly one of our greatest screenwriters and deserves to be mentioned alongside Rosenthal and Potter (but rarely is‚ perhaps#because he contributed so much to genre work or bc he did so much freelance for other series like this‚ rather than concentrating on his#own original creations all the time). this is well before Beiderbecke made his name‚ but he was already an established writer and so#presumably well known for the socialist views that inform much of his work (even freelancing). doubly surprising then‚ considering this#episode follows on immediately from 1.7 The Aggro Boy‚ an Allan Prior script that's interesting as a document on attitudes and approaches#to football hooliganism in 1970‚ but which has a highly Conservative bent and contains dialogue which seems to support increased powers of#policing‚ the return of national service‚ and a general despair with 'modern society'. Prior's script couldn't be further from Plater's#beliefs‚ but to his credit this episode (concerning labour disputes and unofficial strikes) does its damndest to remain neutral (mostly#through the figure of Norman Bowler's Insp Hawkins who will not be drawn into taking sides). i suppose it's testament to Plater's#professionalism; he was after all a guest writer on a mildly conservative cop show‚ not to mention writing for the BBC (always at pains to#appear politically neutral). his characters are varied‚ with good and bad on both sides of the debate; there are bad managers and trouble#makers on the picket‚ as well as sympathetic bosses and earnest union men. if Plater does allow his leftwing bias to show (and it's only#briefly) it's in scenes where Hawkins is goaded by his superiors into betraying his own sympathies: something he explicitly refuses to do#so where does Katy come in? what does her character represent? if anything i think she represents the disinterested masses#the idle onlookers; her secretary character is not directly involved in the shop disputes and spends most of the episode watching the men#from the window with half curiosity and half boredom. and she does it superbly!
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itshype · 1 year
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I don't really think my blog is big enough for this yet but if at any point anyone wants to send me prompts, ideas or snippets for me to add to or something I literally love doing that so much.
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taffywabbit · 1 year
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i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level
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lylaclivin · 4 months
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Poppy, Melvin, Rodney, and Juke from @z-t00n’s hoppscotch :) their designs are so adorable, I couldn’t resist!
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dimensionzero · 1 year
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hehehe height difference
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gloriousmonsters · 7 months
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love when you can ask the Narrator why the Princess is a Princess and he's like 'well i uhhhh YOU did that. maybe it's because uh... something something about her being above you... but still approachable... look i don't want to analyze or anthropomorphize your--' my guy. i am a primal being of Order and Eternity and Shaping. You're the one who convinced me I was some dude and were quite willing to take credit for shaping my view on the world through narration five seconds ago. Are you gonna look me in the eye and tell me the desire to interpret something worthy of adoration and more powerful than me as a dommy princess is written in the very nature of the universe or are you going to show me your browser history like a man
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grandadtwelve · 1 year
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has anyone done this yet
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sufficientlylargen · 2 months
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XHR stands for "XML HTTP Request", where XML is the "eXtensible Markup Language" and HTTP is the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol", so the full expansion of XHR is "extensible markup language hypertext transfer protocol request", so those 3 letters expand to 56 letters (62 with spaces), and this got me wondering, there must be acronyms or initialisms with an even greater ratio of "expanded length"/"unexpanded length", but apart from recursive acronyms I can't think of longer examples.
Can anyone else think of any?
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learnelle · 8 months
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During my mini hiatus I fulfilled my dream of visiting Norway! The most surprising thing was hearing Lithuanian being spoken literally everywhere. My mum and I always speak Lithuanian to each other, so it was incredibly bizarre for people to overhear us and then come speak with us, or to have waiters/shopkeepers switch from English to Lithuanian. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, and I had no idea so many Lithuanians live in Norway! I absolutely ADORED this, it made all the places we visited instantly feel like home. Despite all that, I learned a bit of Norwegian and discovered that it’s literally the cutest language. Language learning is absolutely wonderful
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magicandmundane · 7 months
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Murtagh: Yeah, sure, my stupid kid brother is the leader of the Riders. But am I going to acknowledge that? F*ck no. I hate authority, and I am not giving him that ego boost. Now let’s go hunt down this witch and her cult.
Meanwhile, Eragon: *gets nervous when someone says he’s in charge* *literally could not sleep in a bed because Vrael used to sleep there* *turns down positions of authority almost every chance he gets* *is just a goofy little guy who would like to see his big bro every once in a while*
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renrenkaaa · 10 months
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The tomboy daughter’s first summer
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ominouspuff · 3 months
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*The Office theme starts up*
Fanart for @chiliger’s Purge-Trooper!Cody comic that’s had me laughing out loud many times. Vent-Dweller you are dear to me. Thank you for creating, @chiliger!
@interested parties, the medic’s gun reads “olde Betsy”, and “tranc-66”.
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worstloki · 8 months
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AU where Loki doesn’t interfere with Thor’s banishment at all and it takes Thor years to prove himself worthy and when he returns to Asgard everything is just. The same. Nothing seems to have changed at all and everyone greets him like his absence was a minor obstacle that didn’t fundamentally change Thor and the worst part is Loki stepped down from the place as regent without any delay and Thor can’t help but feel there’s something underlaying the way his brother looks at him now and won’t let him touch him and Thor doesn’t know what he could have missed because he doesn’t think he would have found anything wrong with the things around him and how everyone behaves if he hadn’t spent time on Earth reflecting.
#the warriors 4 not being interested in anything Thor ‘learnt’ at all#and making it clear that Thor was punished unfairly and the AllFather’s decision had been harsh#Loki saying he’s happy for Thor and Thor sees the way the smiles are forced and he sees the way Loki avoids any touch#Thor hating the way Frigga talks about Loki’s short regency and Thor’s absence like it wasn’t two whole decades or something#like she’s so grateful to have her other son back without ever addressing why he was gone#Thor just. growing during his time on earth and being much more aware of the behaviour around him#he learns to be critical and assess why people around him may act a certain way#once he realises that it’s possible for him or anyone else to be fallible and make mistakes it’s over for Asgard for him I think#Thor returns and Loki gives him the throne and everyone expects him to obviously have the throne#and Odin is sleeping and Thor isn’t comfortable with the way everyone accepts him as king regent after the banishment#Loki who either never lashed out against Jotunheim or did and it was brushed away and no one thinks about it as anything#but Loki is still deeply affected and acts the way he always would have but Thor can feel it’s not the same#he knows something is wrong and Loki won’t say anything about it and Thor doesn’t know how to bring it up#Thor sees Loki metaphorically receding into the shadows to become a nonpresence so loud Thor hears it even after returning from decades away#Thor goes to Earth and gets his priorities in order gets a new worldview learns not to take what he has for granted#and finds out he actually despised Asgard#he’s been back a week and he can’t stand it
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nataliabdraws · 9 months
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Pov: ur girlfriend who can easily throw you over her shoulder in a fight has social anxiety
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l3viat8an · 4 months
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Omg I just got this cute idea
What if Mammon or one of the more gullible brothers find a fact like “people should get 7 hugs a day” and they immediately start to think about MC
Next thing you know it’s a routine to have all the brothers line up to give MC a hug before bed.
Omgg yes!! They all absolutely believe it and it makes a great excuse to get at least one hug from MC a day!!!
and it’s so perfect that MC has exactly 7 demons ready ‘n willing to give a goodnight hug before bed!!!
The only problem is right up until they get a hug the brothers are arguing about who deserves to hug MC first and who should be last jsjsjs
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ddeck · 5 months
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cause of death: thought about commander cody a bit too hard
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