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With Kyle gone, there's a new LGBTQ+ icon in the house
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Round one of the Bastard Man (affectionate) championshionships is complete!
Let's take a moment to appreciate everyone who got knocked out in round one, and everything I like about them.
Mammon (Obey Me)
Mammon the love of my life Mammon. </3 Yes he's a demon, yes he's the avatar of greed, yes he's "the scummy brother", but with a heart of gold, deep down inside. Very deep down. Plus he's funny and secretly sensitive and he likes to cuddle. <3 I'm honestly shocked he got knocked out in round one, I always thought he was quite a tumblr darling.
Hercule Flambeau (Father Brown)
Everyone loves a gentleman thief, don't they? Especially one with a homoerotic relationship with his narrative foil? A master of disguise? A secret sadboy with a tragic backstory? A man who broke out of prison? World's sluttiest absent father? When will your man ever.
Inspector Mallory (Father Brown)
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA. He's such a funny character. Little angry northern bastard man. He's awful, and should be easy to hate, but he just suffers so often and suffers so beautifully, you can't help but root for him to win, just once. And he loves his kids! A short king and a DILF.
James E. Negatus (Yonderland)
Listen. Listen. I could never love anyone like I love Negatus. He occupies a special and unique part of my heart just for him. He's babygirl. He's daddy. He's cringefail. He's badass. He's gender. He's really really kinky. I cannot understate this, this is the fetish fuel show and it's like 70% his fault. He's on a mission to kill the hero but he's also sort of in love with her. I'm never not going to go feral for that. He has a tragic backstory and a softness for small children and small animals. He's canonically committed multiple warcrimes, several murders, and also demon-genocide. He's done nothing wrong ever in his life <3
Louis Fairhead (Casualty)
My sweet prince when will he return from war? It's been so long since the show ever even so much as acknowledged him. He wasn't even at his own father's wedding to a woman Louis was practically part-raised by. I think he's fallen into a crack in space and time. Anyway I love Louis. I don't even think he's a bad guy. He's had the most traumatic life imaginable. His mother died in a car accident while he was in the car. He got kidnapped once. One time he nearly got blown up. This was all before he was ten. Then as a teenager he became a drug addict. And as a young adult he had a heroin overdose. I think he's within his rights to be an angry and emotionally distant man. I would defend him to the death. I just want him to be safe and happy and healthy. Feel like pure shit just want him back.
Aristide Valentin (the Father Brown books)
First of all Aristide Valentin did nothing wrong so jot that down. YES he committed murder. But he murdered a Catholic pro-guillotine billionaire so it barely counts. He also stole human remains but this is tumblr, we're used to that. He's a skilled swordsman with a vast sword collection which is just the sexiest thing imaginable. YES he's rude to everyone but you don't UNDERSTAND, he's a genius surrounded by idiots, he gets frustrated. Also he's Parisian, they're just like that I think, he can't help it. Honestly his only real crime is smoking while on the underground platform at Liverpool Street station. That's unforgivable.
Barclay Beg-Chetwynde (BBC Ghosts)
Honestly one of the funniest characters in the show, I don't even care. Every episode he's in is a delight. Every single line delivery is so deliciously bastardly. And he makes a brilliant foil to my two favourite characters, Julian and Alison. He's great.
B.Z. (Santa Claus The Movie)
I love this movie. I love this movie a lot. I've watched it at least twice a year every year since I was a toddler. Often more. I could quote the whole film by heart. And my guy B.Z. is by far the most quotable character. Highlight of the whole film. Every single line of his lives rent free in my head. He has beef with Santa Claus for literally no good reason. He chained up a child for even less good reason. He invented Christmas 2. He exited the movie by eating too many magic flying lollypops and floating away into the stratosphere. Utterly unhinged from first scene to last. Literally no-one could ever compare.
Kerr Avon (Blakes 7)
Ah, Avon. I was obsessed with him as an edgy teen. I think in many ways he is the edgy teen appeal character of his genre. He's like the Shadow the Hedgehog of dystopian sci-fi. I mean this as a sincere complement. And he's once again by far the most quotable character in the show. I feel like that's a very important factor for a good bastard man. Quotability.
I won't say I could fix him, because I don't think anyone could. But I wish someone could.
Cat (Red Dwarf)
My sweet underappreciated boy. In many shows he would be the beloved bastard man. It's not his fault he shares a show with Arnold Rimmer, and you simply can't outdo the do-er.
But everything he does, he does it in ~ style ~
Randal Graves (Clerks)
This character means such a lot to me. He's the worst, of course. He sucks. You wouldn't want to know someone like that in real life. But that's part of what's so tragic about him. He's already resigned himself to the fact he's an unlikeable asshole loser, and has long since given up even trying to make new friends, and now he's a deeply lonely weirdo trapped in a toxic co-dependant relationship with the only real friend he has, who he's simultaneously obsessed with and sort of in love with (no homo) (maybe homo) and would die for, but also treats terribly. He's just such a sad odd man. I think about him often.
Ray Carling (Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes)
Ray my best friend Ray. Yes okay so he's wildly homophobic and misogynistic, but like. Underneath that he's a very sweet and compassionate man, I promise. He's just trapped under the crushing weight of insecurity and self-loathing and societal expectations of masculinity. His backstory is heartbreaking. Absolutely devastating. I won't go into details because spoilers but Jesus Christ. He's the world's number one most single man, being the only one left not paired up out of the seven main characters across both shows, which hardly seems fair. He deserves a nice love interest I think. Give him a nice girlfriend, or lean into the "Ray is suffering from internalised homophobia" implications that Ashes to Ashes leant into occasionally and give him a nice boyfriend if you want, I don't care which, just give him someone.
Mentally I am holding his hand and buying him a pint right now.
Julian Cantley (literally one single episode of Heartbeat)
Choo choo, all aboard the brainrot express. Get in loser we're forming deep emotional attachments to characters with like 20 minutes total screentime. Anyway I'm obsessed with him right now. It's disrupting my drive to create content for characters with actual fanbases because I just keep thinking about Brooding Spy Man Whomst Only I Care About instead. He's just so quiet and angry and brooding. I have so many headcanons for him. I've even headcanoned what his entire flat back in London looks like. Send help.
Ryan Reeves (The Dumping Ground)
Ah he's just a baby. Just a little guy. Who could stay mad at him. Yes the way he'd learn his lesson only to go back to being evil again 2 episodes later got frustrating, but like. He loves his sister and he rescued Harry and Finn. He's not all bad. Apart from when he's being a teenage supervillain lurking in the shadows for no reason. But it's all because he's SAD, you don't UNDERSTAND,
Michael Doyle (Grange Hill)
Look. He stopped being racist after he turned like 13, okay? He just became a petty criminal and politically corrupt instead. And his dad sucks, his dad says worse stuff than Mickey ever did, he was clearly just parroting his dad when he was wee. And there's something so sad and lonely about him. The way he always tries to join in with the group only get pushed out because everyone finds him unbelievably awful. The way he so wants to be Alan's friend. The way he only has the two friends he's got because he pays them to be his friend. Poor little guy. I have to believe he got it together eventually. I have to believe him and Justin were pals by the time they went to sixth form together. I have to.
Ralph Passmore (Tucker's Luck)
It's Mr Passmore! He means such a lot to me. I'm so happy they started portraying him sympathetically in series 2 because honestly? His rage is so justified. He's unemployed and he's already been cast aside as unemployable. His family have already given him up as a lost cause. His only friend and ally in his family is his younger sister, who ends up leaving home to get away from how verbally abusive their parents are. He drinks to cope and joins a gang for the companionship. He finally gets a job after years of unemployment but finds out it's exploiting vulnerable fellow working class people in his community so he angrily and aggressively quits, after befriending and supporting an old lady. What a king.
#if you actually read all of this I am kissing you on the lips mwaah#obey me swd#father brown#yonderland#bbc casualty#bbc ghosts#santa claus the movie#blake's 7#red dwarf#clerks#view askewniverse#life on mars#ashes to ashes#heartbeat#the dumping ground#grange hill#tucker's luck
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remember how liam and frank from tracy beaker returns were boyfriends
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I keep getting the urge to draw some JWU (Jacqueline Wilson Universe) fanart, like. I have many ideas for Tracy Beaker fanart, and for a few of the other books, but I also know that it would be purely for myself. Am I allowed to be self-indulgent is the real question here?
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they made me who i am (gay)
#young dracula#ingrid dracula#elektra perkins#tracy beaker#the dumping ground#clare thomas#jess revell#childhood show#cbbc#cbbc show
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NO! WAS THIS GUY CRYING!!? OMG I FEEL SO BAD-
#the dumping ground#tracy beaker#cbbc the dumping ground#thedumpingground#tracybeaker#tracy beaker returns#tdg#kyle lawthon
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Richard Wisker in liams story (the dumping ground)
#Richard wisker#richard wisker gifs#the dumping ground#liams story#liam o'donovan#tracy beaker returns#cbbc
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So the BBC are shutting down CBBC (their kids channel) on TV and are moving it all online (because "people like Netflix/Disney+/YouTube")
And I must say how big a loss this is for British television.
For starters:
Not every household has "stable" broadband or mobile data access for streaming/watching stuff online—especially people who live in rural areas or people on low incomes.
The other platforms mentioned aren't 100% safe for kids (see the countless stories of kids getting hit with blood and gore videos that abuse the algorithms of YouTube or the Perfect Parent Brigade letting kids watch Squid Game and getting traumatised by the violence featured).
Plus it seems that every kids channel/platform aimed at kids these days is either something you have to pay for (like Netflix or Disney+) which, again, cost of living crisis, people might not necessarily be able to afford.
And not only that, but the ones that are free/available through terrestrial TV are often loaded with product placements and advertisements trying to get kids to buy (or nag their parents to buy) the Next Big Toy™.
CBBC doesn't have any of that. It's all 100% ad-free.
And not only that, but the programs that it does (and did) have are good for kids. Not just kid-friendly, but actually good for kids.
For example:
Newsround
It's news for kids, and quite popular with both kids and adults alike. It allows kids to learn about current affairs and learn about what's going on in the world now (and has done for 50 years) without dumbing it down too much or acting patronising.
Fact: It was through a Newsround bulletin that the news broke in the UK of the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th 2001.
And they've kept it up throughout Brexit, Covid, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and then some.
But at the same time, not forgetting that the news can be, as it often is, upsetting, and encouraging kids to talk about stuff in the news that upsets them and facilitating a lot of that.
Horrible Histories
🎵Gory, ghastly, mean and cruel; stuff they don't teach you at school!🎵
Teaching history to kids in a way that's fun and goes surprisingly in-depth for a kids' show. Even in earlier series it was brave enough to say (though not depict fully; remember it's a kid's show) that the British Empire was Not A Good Thing and that a lot of Britain's "greatness"—and the stuff it basically runs on like tea, sugar, etc.—was all derived from slavery and the products/goods of other countries around the world.
Plus I think everyone either knows the Charles the Second rap or the Kings & Queens song by now.
And CBBC took on the act of broadcasting a TONNE of educational content suitable for kids of all ages during the Covid-19 lockdown like Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch, which loads of parents, kids and teachers genuinely did find to be helpful.
The Story of Tracy Beaker/The Dumping Ground
This one holds a very special place in my heart.
It depicts children, living in foster care (in a children's home non-affectionately nicknamed "The Dumping Ground" by its residents) and being actual kids.
Yes, it does show them (or at least strongly implies) they came from bad backgrounds—like Tracy herself being a child of neglect, kids like Jackie or Justine having parents/carers that weren't fit to look after them, or kids like Crash coming from abusive backgrounds and toxic environments—but shows that they are tough and they survive and they go through all the stuff that other kids go through and going on to do great things in their lives.
Like Tracy (spoilers!) later being adopted by her foster mother Cam (who, in later seasons, comes out as Lesbian and marries another woman) and countless kids going into good homes with good foster parents/adoptive parents.
As far as I'm aware,
This is the ONLY show on British TV that depicts foster kids in such a positive light.
Opposed to the stereotype of "Baby ASBO" running drugs on an estate somewhere or getting into fights and being up to no good 24/7/365.
Plus even back when it started in the early 2000s, it was very diverse for a program, and still is—with main characters who have learning disabilities, main characters of colour, main characters with physical disabilities (played by actual disabled actors).
So yes:
CBBC is special.
And it's something that absolutely deserves protection from being all transferred online and leaving kids (and adults who are kids at heart) to miss out.
#CBBC#BBC#british broadcasting corporation#thoughts#altamont498#long post#the story of tracy beaker#the dumping ground#horrible histories#newsround#rant#vent
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I could literally rewrite an episode of The Dumping Ground and apply it to Newsies and yous would all be like "wow"
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Hot 🦵( she’s from a show call, the dumping ground) ✊💦💦💦
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JODY JACKSON & TYLER LEWIS
THE DUMPING GROUND (2013- )
↳ series one (2013) - series nine (2022)
#the dumping ground#jody jackson#tyler lewis#jyler#tdg#cbbc#mine#mine: gifs#mine: tdg#ch: jody jackson#ch: tyler lewis#tv: the dumping ground
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what’s your opinion on the new dumping ground trailer?
I am so late to this I didn't realise it was out until now.
First things first, over the moon to see Ben in the thumbnail, can't afford to lose him knowing everything's changing.
The lack of Kyle hurts entirely but it's cured a little bit knowing Hugo's not there too so I can rest happy on the idea that Kyle and Hugo are still being kept together. Crazy really to have them survive the fire and then just disappear but okay.
The new kids... Okay whenever there's new kids there always seems to be a rivalry between newbies and oldies, and honestly I'll probably get used to them quickly like I got used to the S10 lot - and attached to Kyle and Hugo so the bitterness will stick around on their behalf, sorry new kids.
Finn! So glad he's gonna be in it, it would have been SOMETHING to bring him back and then just get rid of him again, which I thought was gonna be the case when the first clips of S11 cast came out.
I find it hard to judge, I hope they just made the trailer look fun and it still has the serious storylines (though it looked like it does with the several clips involving parent situations at the end)
And embarrassingly just realised the first ep is already out and I'm starting it right now!
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The Bastard Man (affectionate) championships: Round One
(Full disclosure: I can't help but imagine these types of polls as physical fights, so I couldn't bring myself to pair kids against adults in the first round, so for round one all kids are against other kids. Round two onwards will be No Holds Barred and someone WILL be throwing hands with a 13 year old)
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This blew up on my Tiktok edit account so I thought I’d post it here too (kinda thought I did already)
[song: lovely (Instrumental) — Billie Eilish]
#kia pegg#kia pegg edit#jody jackson#jody jackson edit#the dumping ground#the dumping ground edit#tdg#tdg edit#mine#my audio#my edit#vent#vent edit#edits#tt: mostlygreysedits#2022
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Kyle and Hugo’s relationship in the new episodes is reminding me so much of Sapphire and Harry.
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#ZANDERDORK ; “Why are you all looking at me like I want to take my pet rock for a walk?”
a literature to advanced literature portrayal of a fandomless original character. mainly based in TBR & TDG verse. will clown his way into many others. est. april 2020. by eggs! [21+ ; they/she ; 7+ years experience]
☆ @ziennadork's twin
LINKS:
about. headcanons. ships. verses. accounts.
#fandomless oc#{verse: default fandomless}#fandomless roleplay#the dumping ground#tracy beaker#roleplay#doctor who rp#ouat rp#fate roleplay#merlin rp
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