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ok this is for research purposes. i need to know. please reblog/interact/become my friend if you align with more than one of the following. for science

mission impossible enjoyer (bonus if you ship benthan)

formula one enjoyer

classic rock music enjoyer (eg: queen, led zeppelin, david bowie etc etc)

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oh god oh fuck. currently thinking about benji dunn as a smiths listener. in particular, the mentally deranged, down bad type of smiths listener (just like me fr fr)

being the type of guy who will be thrown into a situation™️ and will cope just by finding a smiths lyric which exactly fits what he’s going through. and he’ll listen to that same song over and over and play that fucked up scenario (whatever it is) in his head on repeat.

example. rogue nation era benji tired of working at his desk non stop with no leave days, no field ops and no ethan. i was looking for a job and then i found a job // and heaven knows i’m miserable now :))))) in my life, why do i smile // at people who i’d much rather kick in the eye…..

yet another example. hypothetically, let’s say ethan fucks off somewhere on some mission and doesn’t let benji in on it (because he wants to protect him etc etc) and now benji doesn’t even know if he’s alive. when you cycled by // here began all my dreams // the saddest thing i’ve ever seen // and you never knew how much i really liked you // cause i never even told you, oh, but i meant to // are you still there? or have you moved away?

ok ramble over for now, benthan combined with these songs have me feeling like i need a lobotomy

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whether unrequited benthan is kinda funny or extremely tragic hinges almost entirely on 1) whether ethan knows benji is in love with him and 2) how much benji wishes he could tell him

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a few more contemplative FR memes just in case any of y'all managed to escape getting an existential crisis from this franchise yet

Bonus (Let Ethan Hunt Retire propaganda):

textpost sources: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7, image descriptions below the cut ->

[ID 1: Screencap of Benji under a bookshelf screaming with effort. the overlaid textpost says "the thing about living with mental illness for decades is that occasionally your brain will be like hey you're useless and should kill yourself and your only real reaction is cmon man right now i'm in the middle of something".]

[ID 2: Screencap of Gabriel peeking through a set of iron bars. the overlaid tweet says "soooooo humiliating to be destroyed by madness when you're not even one of the best minds of your generation".]

[ID 3: Screencap of Luther and Ethan hugging, with the camera positioned over Ethan's shoulder so we only see Luther's smiling face. the overlaid tweet says ""you never know what you have until you lose it" is amateur hour. real sufferers know exactly what they have and that they are going to lose it".]

[ID 4: Screencap of Ethan framed between elevator doors, wearing handcuffs and flanked by two soldiers. the overlaid textpost says "so much of being an okay person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things".]

[ID 5: Screencap of Paris holding a knife up, a hesitant expression on her face. the overlaid comments say "the hands that cradled your face and tilted it upwards to kiss your forehead are soaked in unfathomable quantities of blood." "But they cradled me, yes?".]

[ID 6: Screencap of Ethan standing in a faceless crowd with the focus drawn to him so everyone else is blurry. the overlaid textpost says "me when the character has a uniquely fucked mindset. me when the character's fundamental views of how the world works lead to them being hurt and/or hurting others and not seeing the problem with this. me when the character is a little freak who does weird shit because their beliefs, inspired entirely by their environment, are fuckeddddd".]

[ID 7: Screencap of Ethan standing in a field with his back to the camera, looking out at some mountains in the distance with helicopters flying in to meet him. the overlaid textpost says "if it all goes to shit for real i can always run away to a small town in the mountains and start over (delusional)".]

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impossible husbands

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your discord pfp and your tumblr pfp are locked in a room together. what happens?

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- Prem o Prakriti, Rabindranath Tagore

(possibly) unrequited benthan my love

part 13 of mission impossible edits

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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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4, 11, 14 for my mi asks! ✅

thank you for the asks <3333

what is your all time favorite mi scene?

gahhhh before watching mi8 it would be either the benji “i am a field agent! i know the risks! more than that i am your friend” crashout in rogue nation, or the ending to mi3 when ethan introduces julia to the team and they’re all smiley and cracking jokes and so happy for ethan

post mi8 however, the surgery scene takes the cake for me. benji instructing grace on how to hack into the servers and capture the entity while guiding paris through a whole ass operation. on HIMSELF. WHILE THERE’S STILL THE DAMN BULLET STUCK IN HIM. i was shitting absolute bricks the first time i watched it but now it feels like such a full circle moment for benji. starting from mi3/mi4 when he was highkey opposed to breaking the rules + so giddy to be on a mission with ethan and having a character with so much whimsy and comedic relief to becoming the agent he’s always wanted to become, leading his own team and doing so well at what he’s good at. our benji <3

(also. simon pegg, disheveled, tits out, sweating, blood smeared, moaning. i wasn’t familiar with your game)

do you have any mi OCs? 

not sure if these count but two years ago i wanted to explore the benthan dynamic but if they were both women. just because lesbian spies,,, my beloved,,, so i cooked up erica hunt and alexis dunn.

erica has a fuck ton of trauma (related to loving someone in the past who ended up using her and going rogue) which she does not want to deal with despite luther and brandt holding multiple interventions. she’s adept. a bit of a hopeless romantic but the moment someone messes with her or someone she cares about, she will not hesitate to put a bullet between their eyes. her love language is physical touch and acts of service. she also deeply believes anyone she loves ends up hurt. like girl

and then there’s alexis. (loads of self projection here but anyway) ran away from a homophobic home early. she has a kid sister who looks up to her like anything. alex got into mit by her 16th birthday and finished her phd by 20. girlboss, super smart. erica’s competency kink screams whenever she sees alexis work her magic on the most complicated servers on the planet. she has hella trust issues but makes up for them by being insanely good at her craft. practically besties with luther. they geek about how sexy of a programming language C is, much to brandt’s endless suffering. still, it’s brandt who quietly sits with her, fills in the blanks about erica’s past—because she’s too scared to say it out loud.

teehee. moving on

do you have any mi headcanons?

soooo many!!! and some of my benthan ones are linked here (can you tell i'm batshit crazy about them)

but here are a few more <3

during the plane ride over to st. matthews island paris and degas both corner benji about ethan. she learns about his feelings and decides that these two are buffoons who don’t know how to deal with their so-called unrequited feelings. she plays matchmaker after benji gets to the hospital. (she outright tells ethan that he should stop being dumb and tell benji how he feels the moment he’s awake or she’ll hit him on the head with an iron rod)

benji and paris are sooooo gay dad lesbian daughter,,,, paris sometimes shows up unannounced to benji’s place. he makes her a cup of tea and they play video games together. sometimes ethan joins in but gets absolutely violated by those two. he proceeds to smoke them at monopoly instead OH and paris is a french death metal enjoyer. benji listens to the smiths. naturally shenanigans ensue

mission impossible ask game linked here

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ASK GAME!!!!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to throw some of these numbers into the inbox of whoever you reblogged this from! Good luck Agent! This message will (not) self-destruct!

What is your favorite mi movie?

What is your favorite mi stunt/action sequence?

Who do you think is the best mi movie director?

What is your all time favorite mi scene?

Who is your favorite mi character of all time?

Who is your favorite mi character of the main team (Ethan, Benji, Luther)

Who is your favorite underrated mi character NOT of the main team?

Who is your favorite mi villain?

Who is your favorite mi actor?

If you could add any actor into the Mission franchise, who would you add and what type of character would you want to see them play?

Do you have any mi OCs?

Do you have a favorite actor interview or behind the scenes clip?

If you were a member of the IMF, who would you be? A field agent? Analyst? Director?

Do you have any mi headcanons?

What's your favorite mi ship?

What's your favorite mi rarepair ship?

If there was another mi movie, what would you want to happen in it?

Which mi actor would you most like to meet and why?

Do you have a LEAST favorite mi movie?

In which mi movie do you think Tom Cruise's hair looked the best?

IMPORTANT: DROP A ❌ IN THE INBOX FOR NO MI8 SPOILERS, ✅ FOR MI8 SPOILERS OK

Now go crazy!!!

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ethan loves everybody, and they love him back. the difference is that his love is able to save them, but their love isn't enough to save him.

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My QUEEN

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thinking about benji's deleted lines from the bomb scene in dead reckoning.

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GUYS REWATCHING MI8 IN THEATERS TODAY WHAT BENTHAN MOMENTS DO I NEED TO HONE IN ON FOR MAX EMOTIONAL COMPENSATION PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME

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watching the new installment in a franchise you love so deeply is like meeting up with old friends you haven’t seen in years—just sitting back and listening to them talk about what they’ve been through, how they’ve changed, where they’ve been since you last saw them. and when it’s the last installment, it hits even harder. it’s like you know this might be the final catch-up, the last laugh, the last look. so you hold onto every moment a little tighter. rewatching it over and over becomes your way of not letting go—of staying in that room with them just a bit longer. especially if one of those beloved friends is no more—of course you’d rewind, loop those moments again and again, just to feel like they’re still here. like maybe if you never stop watching, you never really said goodbye.

(this may or may not be about mi8)

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- The Four Loves, C.S Lewis

part 3 of mission impossible edits