#benjie talks

[ask-the-agency]

Is the agency still open for asks ☹️

We are!! Things have been slow for a WHILE but I'm working on getting one more artist to help us out ;) We're so sorry for the long wait on the asks and we're trying our best to get back to up and running! Feel free to send us new ones if you'd like!

[benjiedrawings]

hi im just here to say that i love love love love your art so much thank you everytime i see it it makes me so happy (especially the autistic dirk art) so yeah. that's all from me. thanks again!!

WAAAAAA THANK U SO MUCH FELLOW AUTISTIC DIRK TRUTHER THIS MEANS THE WORLD TO ME

I've been very tired lately getting used to a new job and haven't been able to draw much so I appreciate this even more, thank u for your kind worlds this made my week!!!!!! Hopefully I have more energy soon to bring even more autistic dirk art to you and everyone else who follows me!!! 💗💗💗💗💗

[summery-captain]

very random and not really an ask, but i just wanted to say that your analysis posts about audhd dirk are one of my favourite things on this entire site. they are so good and lovely, and as an autistic person being able to see my traits overlapping with dirks is very comforting. thank you!!!! 🦒🦒

GASP thank you so so much!!! Doing those analysis really helped me as well because he's my favorite and just like me in so many ways!!

I need to get back to doing them but can never find the time, I'll try my best though. Thank you anon this really means a lot to me :]] /genuine

[kimkhimhant]

maybe unpopular opinion but i kinda don't want jeremy to ever react to something violently because i don't want jean to have to live with that sliver of fear that jeremy could be capable of violence toward him like there's definitely something appealing about like jeremy getting a red card defending jean but at the same time i find the idea of him *never* resorting to violence really appealing too. jean seeing jeremy very very angry and yet still not hurting anyone with that anger? proving to jean that violence is not guaranteed? yeah

[waywardmillennial]

Does Simon Pegg Know His Lines? Variety Interview | May 27, 2025

[starshipconsultant]

the thing is with amc iwtv Daniel being an old Armenian man, we now have a potential category 5 ethnic uncle scenario with him and Benji, like someone get them a hookah, two of those plastic lawn chairs, some chilled blood, and they will solve every vampire issue in 1 hour stat

[marianthereaper]

HeLLo I aM NOt mAd 🙃🙃🙃

[andaniellight]

Ethan's absolute hatred and disgust towards AI that can mimic and duplicate human mannerism because the Entity tricked and almost lured him to his demise by using Benji's voice, someone he'd trust and trail after blindly to the end of the world

VS

Ethan having to stop every now and then as he goes on with his days because he's so used to being reminded by Luther about things he'd often forget, little things that'd slipped from his mind as his head injuries and age finally catch up with him, slowly realizing that perhaps one day, although he did promise that he'll continue living while dragging Benji along with him no matter what, now isn't so sure if he wants to actually live long enough to forget the sound of his old friends voice

[rosemaryentombed]

AND ANOTHER THING. i still think benji’s a gay man who had the misfortune of falling in love with ethan hunt, but i just KNOW a lot of his self-harm tendencies probably developed from the fact that his choice to become a field agent, and specifically ETHAN’S field agent, put him in close proximity with his unrequited love that benji KNOWS will never love him back. bc he probably watched ethan and ilsa try to pursue a relationship post-fallout and fail miserably bc fallout absolutely did not close out ethan x julia. bc ilsa, despite her love for ethan, cannot be his persephone. can you imagine being a funny little gay englishman whose life’s greatest love is a mentally ill clown from wisconsin? no wonder he has suicidal thoughts. just loving ethan is a tragedy. they’re not even together and benji has stress ulcers

[spoopdeedoop]

random ass hc that benji gets super emotional over cute animal facts

[persephone-s-moon]

Yap sesh because I believe The Lost Boys NEEDED to die

I totally understand where some of y'all are coming from when you say that The Lost Boys shouldn't have died or they should have gotten a better ending, but that's kind of the whole point.

Their deaths were pointless. It didn't do anything, it didn't help anyone, it was meaningless, and that's why it happened.

I've talked a lot about The Lost Boys (1987) and how it relates to queerness, but as a refresher: it was directed by a gay man and came out during the height of the AIDS epidemic when queer people were left to die because they defied societal norms.

AIDS was medically recognized in 1981, but because it was primarily affecting queer people (sometimes referred to as "the gay plague"), it was left completely unacknowledged by the Reagan Administration until it took the life of Reagan's friend, the famous American actor Rock Hudson, in 1985. It still wasn't until 1987 that the epidemic was addressed because, as Reagan stated, "maybe the Lord brought down this plague."

(I fully believe that The Lost Boys (1987) is a criticism of the Reagan Administration, both their response to the AIDS epidemic and the ideal of the perfect nuclear family, and I WILL write an essay if prompted, but that is completely beside the point.)

Leaving queer people to die didn't get rid of AIDS or solve any of the world's problems because we were never the source of the problems. It was pointless, and that's part of why The Lost Boys also had to die. Because it solved nothing. Because we died, and we put ourselves in our art to highlight the injustice of it.

While I'm very pleased that we want justice for imperfect victims (because let's face it, The Lost Boys were NOT good people), I think that we should still recognize that the same message wouldn't have been conveyed narratively had they lived: we died and it was pointless, so take out the old man in charge to start fixing shit.

[bravoechoes]

thinking about how simon pegg adlibbed a line in fallout where he waves to julia and says “hi jules” during their first encounter in kashmir (ultimately cut for pacing/framing issues) and given that no one else calls her that except for ethan it means that benji must have picked it up through osmosis because ethan calls her that constantly whenever he talks about her

[summery-captain]

43. hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket?

Can I exclude the cardigan and keep the rest? ABFNABF it all depends on the weather/what vibe I'm going for, but I use all of those!!

My favorites are my customized yellow hoodie (with embroidered soot sprites + star beads), yellow leather jacket, blue jean jacket with a white furry (is that the right word? Like faux sheep wool) collar, and my yellow bomber jacket :0c

I'll add my two black trenchcoats in place of the cardigan-

[kimkhimhant]

maybe i'm just too anti-cop/anti-US gov, but whenever i see white collar fans like. frustrated with neal not getting a legal redemption & instead going back to crime over and over i'm like hell yeah. he should commit more crimes actually. esp because he's a non-violent criminal & mostly steals from rich people/corporations and museums and shit like. i do not care about him being a law-abiding citizen. He's a more interesting and compelling character to me when he is unable to resist the temptation of crime. wouldn't it be boring if he stuck to the straight and narrow?

[painted-bees]

I've mentioned a few times that Raf doesn't have a very fond opinion of Margie's parents [even...or maybe especially...after meeting them and seeing first-hand how they regard her and her passions, and choices, and accomplishments, etc], and he can't really connect with her older sister genuinely, because she's just...incapable of being normal about him, apparently.

But Raf gets along really, really well with Margie's younger brother, Benji. Benji's just a chill autistic guy who lives with the parents, smokes weed and plays video games when he doesn't have work. He's never really had to grow up and doesn't want to--but is a hard worker despite this. So long as you tell him what to do, he'll just do it without complaining--even if the task is insane. And he'll do a good job of it. He and Raf have this in common lmao (though Raf has his own initiatives/goals that he'll prioritise and is a lot more proactive--whereas Benji very much needs to be put in front of a task or have a goal dictated to him by someone else, as he won't take that initiative himself.)

Like Margie, Benji sees Raf as Just A Guy... and, like Margie, suffers a lot of second hand embarassment over the weird fixation/intense vibes their older sister, Liza, presents in her behavior towards Raf. Benji's room doubles as a place for Raf to hide when he needs some space--because Benji's energy doesn't sap the life out of him the way the rest of Margie's family does. They'll just hit a bong, sit back, listen to Iron Maiden or Judas Priest or w/e on Benji's sweet stereo system and Raf is chill to just watch Benji play whatever game he's got going on the playstation.

Thanks to this, Raf gets to know Benji better than he gets to know any other member of Margie's family, and they get talking about a lot of different things.

One of the conversations that sticks with him, I think, is one where Benji explains that he and Margie always swore off the whole "growing up" thing and agreed they'd always act like kids together without letting the world turn them into bitter, boring, joyless adults. As kids, they attribute "growing up" with all the things that made their older sister and parents kinda unfun and difficult to relate to.

When Margie was kicked out of the house and made to live on her own, Benji was genuinely concerned that the world was just gonna beat all the fun and joy out of her, and that she'd come back home one day as a dull, boring, joyless adult that he barely recognized. And he thanks Raf for finding her out there and giving her a place where she doesn't have to be anything other than Margie.

Usually Raf would argue that Margie has grown up...quite significantly--even just during the time he's known her. But he recognizes that this isn't what Benji means when he talks about "growing up" and "adulthood". Benji's definition of 'being an adult' is more akin to Raf's experience with adulthood; poisoned by pessimism, burnout, characterized by passionless incurioisity and bogged down by an oppressive, unyeilding self-loathing and fatigue. All due to the fruitless endeavor of trying to fullfill an impossible role imposed upon him by the uncaring population of his environment.

In honesty, the very first thing he noticed about Margie--before he had even heard her play music--was a certain je ne sais quoi, a joyful whimsy, youthful gentleness, whatever the hell you want to call it. It's what spurred him to reach out to her in the train station, very first time they met.

It was hard to imagine Margie without it. In truth, once Raf had sensed it, he didn't want to let it go. It was a subconscious thing, he didn't understand what he was dealing with at the time. But he'd have never agreed to go for coffee nor to meet with her again--if not for that precious sense of raw joy and wonder that she emitted so effortlessly. It was an endangered animal to him. And ever since meeting her, his life has become centered around preserving and nourishing it in her--and recapturing it within himself.

He has no way of knowing if Margie could have ever lost it, regardless of whether he showed up in her life or not. He errs towards the belief that she'd have always retained it--it's just too much a core part of her personality to bend to the environment like that. But he's really happy to have the luck--and the means--to foster and feed that part of her. Benji will never be without his fun-loving, joyful dorky sister. Raf hopes the same is true for himself, as well.

[tinyplanetss]

i need everybody to shut up and look at them right now. ethan looks so quietly happy and relieved and peaceful. explodes