#toby jonny

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Toby Danger! Pretty badass, eh?

As far as I can tell, the original art is by https://countdiscount.tumblr.com/

As you know, Toby Danger is a cartoon from thirty years ago, parodying a cartoon from sixty years ago. It's fun, though. It's not adult-oriented, like, say, Venture Brothers, but it hits a lot of similar nails.

You can check it out here, but, ya know, don't tell anyone.

[hierophantmeme]

Do you think they play Among Us irl with all of Rin’s friends and family 🤔

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1580, as a romantic gesture (and to divert any feelings toward him) the Doctor took his companion Amy and her fiancé to Venice. However, the romance was interrupted when the city appeared to be invaded by Vampires. The truth turned out to be even more alien. ("The Vampires of Venice", Doctor Who, vlm 3, TV)

[geekcavepodcast]

One Day Trailer

Based on the novel by David Nicholls, One Day follows Emma and Dex's growing relationship over 20 years. The two meet on graduation night and go their separate ways. The two reunite on the same day each year.

The 14 episode miniseries One Day stars Ambika Mod (Emma), Leo Woodall (Dex), Essie Davis, Tim McInnerny, Amber Grappy, Jonny Weldon, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joely Richardson, and Toby Stephens.

One Day hits Netflix on February 8, 2024.

[mrsbigbywolf]

Stray Sheep.

[annespooky]

Well, I watched Emma instead and I absolutely loved it! (Well, I've been in love with Jonny Lee Miller since 1996, no idea how I didn't manage to watch it before!).

Started rewatching Jane Eyre with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens, another great adaptation from the BBC (I do love the film with Charlotte Gainsbourg and the more recent one with Michael Fassbender – they do have handsome actors in these indeed *swoons*)

[camyfilms]

ONE DAY 2024

I love you, Dex. So much. I just don’t like you anymore. I’m sorry.

[helmstone]

Take a first look at One Day coming in 2024

Take a first look at One Day coming in 2024

Netflix has released some first look pictures for One Day, a romance coming to the streamer on Feb 8, 2024 (just ahead of Valentine’s Day). Based on David Nicholls’ best selling novel, the novel was adapted into the 2011 feature film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, and is now being reimagined as a 14-episode British series. Nicholls serves as executive producer. What’s it about? It’s…

[patzweigz]

glad to rest with the knowledge no one knows wtf i look like

[freaks-mice-villains]

Toby Danger in the Lair of the Overlord

When an engine failure forces Dr. Danger, Toby, Sandra, and Dash to make an emergency landing in the sinister country of Laftia, they find themselves "honored guests" of the nefarious Dr. Villainous.

What follows is a whirlwind of betrayal, bad soup, and a deathtrap only a lunatic could survive.

Toby Danger was one of my favorite shorts from Freakazoid. It was a lovingly crafted parody of Jonny Quest. Sadly, only one short ever aired, so I guess this is my attempt at fixing that.

Read it on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65304337

Excerpt below:

The interior of the jet was no ordinary passenger cabin—it was part luxury transport, part state-of-the-art mobile laboratory. Shelves along the walls housed bubbling vials, humming machines, and precisely stacked bundles of radiation gloves. A glowing container labeled "DO NOT JOSTLE" jostled dangerously as turbulence shook the plane.

Sandra peered out the window. "I think we're losing altitude."

Toby looked up from the spinning gyroscope he'd been poking with a pencil. "Gee, Pop, what's going on?"

Dr. Danger looked up from his book. "I better go check with Dash."

He walked towards the cockpit, bracing himself as the plane shook. The door to the cockpit swung open, releasing a small cloud of smoke.

Dr. Danger stepped in, coughing. "Dash, what's—"

Dash frantically pointed at a panel of blinking lights. "That one is flashing red!" He jabbed a finger at a gauge. "And that one is spinning funny!"

Dr. Danger narrowed his eyes at the controls. "That one's a clock, Dash."

"...Oh."

[trevlad-sounds]

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[nofatclips]

Life Is Yours

2001 + (Summer Sky)

2AM

Looking High

[mrsbigbywolf]

Pizza and beer.

[charlicpace]

name masterlist: love island uk edition ! some folks like to stick to names that are more 'realistic' & my favourite place to look for those names is reality tv, because... well, that's their names ! so here's a list of every name that's ever popped up on the uk version of love island ( seasons 1-8 ) so all these names are perfect for characters aged 18-40 if we're going off ( uk-based ! ) actual likelihood.

aaron

abigail

adam

afia

alex

alexandra

alexi

amy

anna

andrea

andrew

anton

amber

amelia

arabella

belle

ben

bethany

billy

biggs

brad

brett

callum

cally

camilla

cara

caroline

charlie

ched

cheyenne

chloe

chris

chyna

clarisse

coco

craig

curtis

daisy

dale

dami

dan

daniel

danielle

danica

danny

darylle

davide

dean

deji

dennon

demi

dom

ellie

elma

ellisha

emma

eva

eve

ekin-su

eyal

faye

finn

francesca

frankie

gabby

gemma

george

georgia

grace

greg

hannah

harley

harry

hayley

hugo

iain

idris

ikenna

india

jack

jacques

jade

james

jamie

jake

javi

jay

jazmine

jess

joanna

joe

john

jonny

jordan

josh

kady

kalia

katie

kaz

kazimir

kem

kendall

kieran

lacey

laura

lauren

lavena

lexi

liam

liana

liberty

lillie

lucie

lucinda

luis

luke

malia

malin

marcel

marino

maura

maria

mary

marvin

matthew

maya

max

medhy

megan

michael

mike

molly

montana

nabila

naomi

nas

natalia

nathan

niall

olivia

oliver

ollie

omar

ovie

paige

paul

poppy

priscilla

priya

sam

salma

samira

savanna

scott

shannen

shaugna

sharon

sherif

siannise

simon

sophie

summer

stephanie

stevie

steve

rachel

rebecca

remi

reese

rob

rosie

rykard

tasha

teddy

terry

theo

tina

toby

tom

tommy

tony

travis

troy

tyla

tyler

tyne

wallace

wes

yewande

zara

zoe

[loveletterworm]

okay I'll bite. what is woody theory

I will try to explain this to the best of my ability, but I must warn you that this is very likely going to sound very stupid and not make much sense. It's important that I clarify to you that it's stupid and doesn't make sense before I start explaining it, because the original Woody Theory video was a 17 minute video where literally the first 11 minutes were spent explaining in advance how the theory was awful and obviously wrong before spending only 5 minutes actually explaining what the theory was. So it's just being true to form.

Woody Theory is, technically, a theory that the secret boss of Chapter 3 will be a cowboy that is controlled by an evil voicebox, due to like…some total nonsense. The primary "evidence" for this is as follows:

During the Spamton Sweepstakes, one of the secret pages was of Kris and Susie in cowboy outfits. The page title was "Get ready for 2 minutes of mildly entertaining shoot-out action!", implying this was likely related to a brief cowboy-themed minigame of some kind.

In the Spring 2023 newsletter, these sprites were shown again, and Toby stated that whatever cowboy section this would have entailed was "is in danger of being cancelled". (This isn't on the public newsletter archives because it was a Truck Freak exclusive section, which did make checking which newsletter had this part difficult...)

Toby Fox has posted sentence-mixed joke edits of the song You Got A Friend In Me from Toy Story on Tumblr. (The video proposing Woody Theory specifically describes these as "fan songs" and never actually plays the actual audio, which I'm sure has led at least three people in this world to believe that Toby actually composed an original song in his usual style about Toy Story and not that he essentially just made some audio-only YTPs.) One of these is just like "Friend inside me" over scare chords or something it's honestly both not important and also the literal only part of the theory that anybody cares about.

Woody from Toy Story is a toy cowboy that has a pull string that activates a voicebox. In the universe of Toy Story he has an old show that is no longer being produced.

Mike Road (born Milton Brustin;[1] March 18, 1918 – April 14, 2013) was an American voice actor and Warner Bros. television series contract player whose television career dates back to the 1950s and in films to the 1940s. He used to be in some cowboy shows and also Jonny Quest. Because he was a voice actor who unrelatedly also acted in live action cowboy shows (It doesn't seem like any of the animated shows he acted in were specifically about cowboys.) this means that the "Mike" Spamton refers to is named in reference to him, Mike Road, specifically, who is a household name that everyone in current year remembers all the time, and definitely exactly in the range of things Toby Fox commonly references in his work. (This is just the Mike Ditka soda commercial thing again with a different guy. Deltarune fans will never figure out that Mike is actually an extremely common name)

Because of all these factors, Mike Deltarune is an evil voicebox that is evilly-controlling a cowboy from a cancelled cowboy show, and this will be the secret boss of Chapter 3. (I have specific opinions on a Spamton-related logic error in this conclusion, but it would take me another paragraph to explain here and I still have two and a half more to go in this post.) Somehow this will mean that Kris and Susie will wear cowboy outfits in specifically the overworld while they're not in battle (they're not battle sprites)

Now, after the original Woody Theory video was made, the Winter 2024 newsletter further indicated that the mythical "cowboy section" was, in fact, actually cut, with alt text of Gigi's concept art for the sprites referring to them as "cowboy characters that were going to show up for about five seconds". And the guy who made the Woody Theory did seem to accept this, as in a video after this newsletter's release he made he described the theory as being entirely debunked in his video about the mystery Valentine. (In that video he actively disregards evidence that would only further his point about the Valentine...that's not relevant I just still find it odd...) However, this did not stop the theory's traction at all, in fact its spread counterintuitively only increased. It is particularly the favorite of people who have accidentally filed all of their memories of Scott Cawthon in a folder labelled "Toby Fox", and now think Toby is notorious for "trolling" and is lying about cutting the cowboy section for no reason, which must mean this scrapped visual gag must ACTUALLY be the most important thing in the world. People begin analyzing Deltarune exclusively through the lens of Toy Story. Jevil's attacks use spades? There's an extremely brief scene in Toy Story where there's spade playing cards on screen. Spamton NEO…has wings, I guess…? Buzz Lightyear has wings, so his entire character must be based off of Buzz Lightyear, from Toy Story. Every detail in Deltarune is intended as an abstract and obscure Toy Story reference, and for some reason this will all culminate in SPECIFICALLY the Chapter 3 secret boss being the most Toy Story out of everything, and then nobody really ever says where things will go after that if everything was specifically foreshadowing and building up to Chapter 3 out of 7.

Every location where it's possible to write words related to Deltarune will receive some level of "Friend inside me" spam. It is somehow simultaneously a "brainrot meme" and something that people apparently genuinely think has ground. Somehow despite people thinking it has ground the actual theory is barely even discussed anymore in favor of just posting high contrast black and white pictures of Woody from Toy Story with no elaboration. I think a lot of these posters may not even know what the actual theory was supposed to be. Fake ARGs have been made. People have thought the fake ARGs were official. People have tried to doxx accounts running fake ARGs and to also doxx Toby Fox to figure out if they have the same IP address. I have no idea how it could have possibly gotten this bad. The video proposing the theory spent most of its runtime debunking itself. I spend every day praying that Deltarune will contain absolutely no references to cowboys at all, ever again, because I don't want anyone to feel like any part of this was worth it. It was never worth it.

Thanks for taking like an hour to read this I'm sure this post is the exact length you were hoping it would be when you asked this question

[sunnysam-my]

Is Benedict Cumberbatch actually ableist/anti-autism?

Every now and then I hear people mentioning it. When I learned for the first time about what he said and done I was shocked. He may not be my favourite famous person or actor, but he's a well respected man who played many roles I'm fond of. I was deeply upset about this, but one question was lingering in my mind. What about the context? Did he actually said that? Did he still hold those negative opinions or was it just the times. On top of that, how much does non-actors understand what's like to be an actor. Oh, and let's not forget that all of those accusations came from written articles and interviews with him which create catchy biased headlines and commentary.

I happened to be an autistic and a disabled actor myself, so I dig deeper and here it is. Allow me to be the devil's advocate.

First I remind you all that in 2013 the terms like "low functioning" or other subtypes of autism were changed, so it's no suprise that the outdated terms were still being used.

Starting off in 2011 when Cumberbatch played Frankenstein's 'Creature' and Frankenstein. I've seen some people confused whether he played Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist, or the 'Creature', Frankenstein's creation who wasn't even given a name. He played both, exchanging it with the other actor, Jonny Lee Miller. This isn't as uncommon as people think, although it's not popular either.

Benedict mentioned that the he went with Jonny to see how autistic people act. He also did his own research into stroke survivors as well in general people who had to re-learn how to use their bodies. That's because that's the research they needed to accurately portray a character freshly born in a body of adult and immediately abounded by his creator, who is trying to learn how he and people work.

The part of this video that's important to this conversation is from 00:00 to 01:20.

I recommend also watching this video for a better inside of the character if you don't know the book. This is important because the Creature being autistic coded is not a bad a thing. He is not a monster. You missed the whole point of the play and book.

The Creature is a child in a adult body. The tragedy of "Frankenstein" is that all he wants is to be loved and cared for, but because of his deformations, scary physical appearance and mental disability everyone fears him and threats him as an 'it', a scary dangerous monster. IF YOU THINK THE CREATURE IS A MONSTER YOU ARE BEING ABLEIST.

Clips of The Creature being born are shown while the actors look mildly embarrassed watching themselves on screen. Madeline: I wanted to talk about the immense physicality of this show – you are both learning to walk as adults and it really comes through in those clips and how did you go about doing that? Jonny: We worked with a movement coach Toby Sedgwick, the incredible Toby Sedgwick. We started work the 3 of us (Danny, Benedict and Jonny) and also with Toby and Nick before the rest of the company joined us and it was sort of like a going back to school process really for me and Benedict. We worked on movement in various ways. Movement techniques of using different materials and different substances and it was quite embarrassing and quite a great way to get to know each other and to sort of drop everything immediately… Benedict: Like our clothes! Straight away. Jonny: Two guys pretending to be oil and glass who don’t really know each other very well at all. There’s a lot of water in there as well. Benedict: We talked a lot about about what we were doing as far as the world that influenced Danny and Nick in terms of wanting to do this project. We went to two extraordinary schools for autistic children and there is an element of the movement that reflects that but also as Jonny was saying it’s an evolution of a man who is fully formed so it’s an evolution with a fully grown body, it’s as if a man is born again as an elephant. Sort of backwards. It’s about not knowing anything about what they’ve got but being capable of doing much more than a child so it was about how to stagger that progression and having certain barriers to being fully evolved with certain autistic movements. Madeline: You do see the development of the Creature as he moves on and gets older and learns. […]

Unfortunately the link to the website this transcript was on no longer works, it was taken over, however you can view it using the Wayback Machine.

So, no, in this situation he absolutely was not ableist. That was just actors doing their job, making no offensive comments. And again The Creature is not a monster! He's practically mentally disabled with a development disorder if you tried to diagnose him like a real person. The entire history is about him fighting for his right to be alive and happy despite of how weirdly he looks or behaves.

Two other similar takes on this (Twiter/X) (Carrd)

In the 2014 interview for the Irish Times about his role in "The Imitation Game" as Alan Turing and other achievements he commented further about the role in Frankenstein.

For his award-winning turn in Danny Boyle's Frankenstein, he studied autism so that he might grasp how a fully formed man, with no infancy or childhood to reference, might behave.

“I went to schools and met people, some of whom are very high functioning on the autistic spectrum. I met a 17-year-old who had the mental age of a one and a half year old. Everything was just about bodily functions. Smell. Sexual arousal. Shitting. Whatever. So when I hear people use diagnostic labels casually – Sherlock is autistic, Turing is autistic – it really upsets me.”

He pauses for a nanosecond, then continues to talk: “And it upsets me those 17-year-olds were coming to the end of their care. Because after that they’re supposed to head into employment and earn revenue for their government. Ha. Because from early on you’re empiricised in that Orwellian sense.”

He smiles: “Sorry. I’m getting political.”

A lot of people leave out the last part, which is incredible frustrating considering he talks about a very real problem disabled people experience. As soon as we turn 18 we are suddenly supposed to figure everything out on our own and be useful to society or we'll be thrown out. It's ironic how people who accused him of being ableist here got this negative part so spread out, but not the really important part. The part where he cares for that 17-year-old who society would rather ignore, because they just didn't fit that perfect picture. The part he brings attention to an awful thing that happens every day.

The same year he said, as written in Metro:

Many are drawing parallels between Turing and Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes, suggesting he’s specializing in characters who exist somewhere on the autism spectrum. But Cumberbatch wants them to cut out that nonsense. “Though Sherlock is an immediate comparison, they’re so different. Sherlock is a sociopathic show-off, and Alan was anything but that,” Cumberbatch tells Metro. “I don’t think he was on the spectrum. I think a lot of people are very lazy with that.” It’s a suggestion Cumberbatch has heard raised again and again, and he’s frankly had enough of it. “I think it’s a really dangerous thing to toy with that,” he says. “People talk about me doing that quite a lot and that being a good thing for people who are on the spectrum, which is great. But I don’t go into a job going, ‘Is this autism? Is this Asperger’s? Is this some other form of slight learning difficulty or disability?’ I’m very wary of that, because I’ve met people with those conditions. It’s a real struggle all the time. Then these people pop up in my work and they’re sort of brilliant, and they on some levels almost offer false hope for the people who are going through the reality of it.”

What Cumberbatch is actually saying in both of those is that he is sick of people seeing a genius played by him and immediately stereotype him as autistic, ignoring the fact that it's a very broad disability. Because that's what autism is, a disability. Fun fact, you can have autistic or ADHD traits/symptoms, but you won't get diagnosed if they aren't disabling you on daily basis. The lowest level of autism is "requiring support". There is nothing wrong with admitting your autism is making you disabled. There's nothing wrong with being disabled.

He isn't trying to play a autistic character, he just plays what he thinks is right. People see the geniuses he plays and immediately go "😮🫵 Autistic!" and compare them despite how different they are.

However, the way he says it stinks of that "You can't headcanon everyone autistic, that's a serious condition!" mindset that's oh so present in neurotypicals. I can only assume that what he was trying to say is that it's not good to portray disabilities as superpower, without mentioning the struggles they come with, but even if that was the intention it was poorly phrased. It did come out as disrespectful and in my personal opinion we can be truly mad at that, because we're not something to pity or describe so… oddly?, like that comment about the 17 year old.

I disagree with Turing not being autistic irl, more specifically with thinking people's reasons to say that are lazy, unless he was talking about Sherlock or the movie version of Turing there, in which case, eh 50/50. For example, here's a great article about exactly that, it compares the real life Alan and the movie version and if it is even good to 'diagnose' historical figures. However the movie version makes him more socially awkward, so this could be just being upset as people took another fictonal white, awkward genius and slapped "autistic" on that. It's funny how when characters like this are canonically autistic then it's a stereotype, but when it's a headcanons then suddenly it's okay and you shouldn't disagree with it. Sheldon from Big Bang theory is a great example of that.

To quote another article about how Turing in the move was changed:

The Imitation Game isn’t a plea for greater tolerance of homosexuals, but of people on the autistic spectrum. Its cause is neurodiversity, not sexual diversity. That’s why Turing is portrayed as someone who struggles with ordinary human interaction. He’s literal-minded to a fault and is incapable of understanding jokes. He’s nothing like the real Alan Turing, who was warm, charming and funny; instead, he’s exactly like the main character in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. To make a point, the filmmakers have invented a largely fictional character — a mathematical genius with Asperger’s syndrome. It’s as if they decided that presenting Turing as a victim of the persecution of homosexuals is old hat. So instead, he’s portrayed as a martyr to another, more fashionable cause. His crime isn’t being gay, but failing to be neurotypical.

Now, I’m all for giving more respect to people on the autistic spectrum — my half-brother Christopher is on the autistic spectrum — but not because they’re ‘special’. The Imitation Game commits a similar error to Rain Man, which seems to argue that Dustin Hoffman’s character should be valued and cherished not because he’s a human being with the same needs as the rest of us but because he’s exceptional with numbers. It’s patronising nonsense, and as an argument for neuro-diversity doesn’t bear scrutiny. It won’t surprise you to learn that Christopher isn’t any good at maths.

You can say that I'm being too biased towards the Benedict here, but I think it's only right to give the man a benefit of a doubt, especially how people jumped him after Frankenstein, and say "Hey, was that a horribly phrased thought? Hell yeah, but the meaning could not be so simple as people think." You're assuming the worse here, and I do understand why, considering how we're usually treated, but maybe let's try to assume positively too. At least let's try to be neutral.

I'm not going to dictate if he's ableist or not, that's up to you to decide how you feel, I just hope you can make an educated opinion and that this helped clear anyone's mind, because it did for me.

Oh, and also, this doesn't mean he's a good person now, because he's been a dick to so many people and had horrible opinions on so many topics. This is purely about the ableist accusations.