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Finally, a relatable one

"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

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I wrote another Benji recovery fic

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Simon Pegg really said I'm just gonna write a whole movie about my struggle with alcoholism and I'm gonna play the least sympathetic character in the entire Cornetto Trilogy, and then he Did That™ and it was beautiful

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Is it me, or was Simon Pegg bringing some really strong David Tennant energy to this role?

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The only compelling thing about M:I-2 is the homoerotic subtext between Sean Ambrose and Hugh Stamp

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It can be so healing to stay up until 3am. Unfortunately, it will also completely ruin your life.

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Watching Gary King stand face-to-face with his younger self and be offered the chance to go back, the very thing he's been pining after all this time, only to reject that and choose to carry on as the flawed, present, post-glory-days version of himself.....I don't know man, I think that healed something in me.

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I don't know why I liked this frame so much but I decided to redraw it

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Simon Pegg deserves a BAFTA just for his eye movements in this movie

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Okay. Nicholas Angel is not a Sad Wet Cat. Nicholas Angel is the Most Autistic Guy Around, and he made the mistake of becoming a cop about it.

I'm beginning to realize that the type of character Simon Pegg excels at playing is Sad Wet Cat with Unexpected Amounts of Bravery

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Sometimes you associate a song with a particular fandom because the lyrics and the vibe match your blorbos and the story so perfectly that you could swear the song must have been written for them.

Other times you associate a song with a fandom because it's what you happened to be listening to a lot during the hyperfixation.

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Benji Dunn has never looked hotter than when he was shirtless and pallid and bleeding out on the floor of the Doomsday Vault.

What? Nothing

Who said that?

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I'm beginning to realize that the type of character Simon Pegg excels at playing is Sad Wet Cat with Unexpected Amounts of Bravery

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In 2014 I watched Ghost Protocol like a million times because I was obsessed with Jeremy Renner, and I drew this in one of my class notebooks

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The more I think about this, the more I feel like it really encapsulates the essence of Ethan Hunt as a character, and the Mission franchise as a whole. These movies are unrelentingly optimistic, they tell us time and time again that we can win against unfathomable odds, as long as we keep trying. Ethan would never take a real cyanide pill; that would be giving up. Ethan Hunt, and every person on his team, and every person who's ever been inspired to do what's right because of his example, will fight with everything they've got to the very end. There is no giving up. There is no easy way out. These movies tell us, yes, you can absolutely make the world a better place, even if you're up against an enemy that feels too powerful to beat. But you have to work for it. You have to try.

Can we appreciate that Ethan was Extra™ enough to implant a false tooth, only to fill it with a fake cyanide capsule, complete with some kind of harmless compound that would cause the foamy-mouth effect? The man is a goddamn trickster to his core.

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Can we appreciate that Ethan was Extra™ enough to implant a false tooth, only to fill it with a fake cyanide capsule, complete with some kind of harmless compound that would cause the foamy-mouth effect? The man is a goddamn trickster to his core.

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I've seen some great stuff about Ethan post-TFR having trouble distinguishing reality from the Entity's lies; a few people have suggested that Ethan might have some paranoia that he never actually got out of the Entity's machine in London, that he's afraid he's still trapped inside the pod, and the Entity is just playing games with him, making him think he's beat it.

So I have a new headcanon that the way Ethan can tell when things are real is through touch. The Entity could cause him pain, it could manipulate what he saw and heard, but it could never replicate the touch of another human. That's why the first thing he does when he comes out of the pod is reach for Benji and Grace. He touches them, he asks for assurance that they're real, that what he's seeing is real. That's also how I choose to interpret the scene in the decompression chamber with Grace (and also because I prefer not to see it as a romantic thing between them). To be able to touch her, to feel her skin against his, is a reminder to him that this is all real, that he's not still trapped in the pod with the Entity playing mind games with him. And what a relief that must have been after being alone in the depths of the freezing ocean.

And after it's all over, after they've saved the world, Ethan still has his doubts that it's all real. And every time those doubts start to overwhelm him, he seeks out physical touch in any way he can. And it always helps. It always grounds him. It always reminds him, this is real. I am here and I can feel them and they are real.