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i don’t know man, but i just think grumpy ass, banished to the basement for being so goddamn insufferable carl morck having a favorite ice cream shop to visit with his step son is one of the sweetest things

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Dept Q ep 5... Carl auditing Doc Wallace's office😂

Carl casting his eye over the Dr's select art pieces, & holiday snaps makes this scene one of my favourites & the source of a Goode giggle. (I think Matthew not so secretly relished this too ha 😉😁)

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Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.

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Really enjoyed this podcast interview with Alexej Manvelov. Give it a listen!

He talks about his background, upbringing, and building the character of Akram. There’s lots of interesting tidbits like a major scene in the show that was altered per his suggestions, and how well it ended up working out on screen.

One of his headcanons is that Akram has this need to help people in any way that he can, and to be heroic. “He will do anything”. I really love that because that’s totally my headcanon for Akram too (especially in my fic), he genuinely can’t stand by doing nothing if someone needs help or is in trouble 😭

It’s a really fun interview overall! And I love that Alexej is fellow third culture kid 🩷

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Ideas are cooking for my pride outfit.

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mark my words

redbubble / trans flag version

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“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”

—Oscar Wilde

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the reason for my return after 3 months is because i watched dept q and id just like to say close enough, welcome back alec hardy

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carl just doesn't let someone like you assist him. someone like me? meaning what? meaning someone not him. ah, yes. he's a lone wolf, as they say.

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PSA

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STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET GUYS!!

please reblog to spread this warning!!

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Alright you heard the man, it's time to keep on queerin'

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im dying on this hill gerran howell looks just like simon pegg

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Where Star Wars went wrong

Quoting Jason Pargin, who articulates it better than I could:

"In any kind of a sane world, The Mandalorian should have run for 150 episodes at least. They had a formula here that could have worked forever.

"It's a formula that has always worked: a heroic stranger wanders into a strange new land and meets a bunch of colorful characters, usually under the thumb of a powerful threat. The threat is usually in the form of a villain who's played by a famous actor just chewing the scenery. He uses hits wits and his courage to get out of it and then he moves on.

"Have Gun, Will Travel" ran for 225 episodes from 1957-1963. It's where Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame got his start.

"The sci-fi space adventures we had years and years ago used to run forever. Star Trek TNG had about 180 episodes, Deep Space 9 had about the same number, even Voyager -- the show that we think of as being a "lesser series" -- had 172 episodes. And here's the thing: most of those episodes were really good!

"But because of the way the business works now, and because of 'corporate synergy,' by season 2 of the Mandalorian, they were brainstorming "how do we get this back to Luke Skywalker and the Death Star?"

"By season 3, fans were lost, because some huge plot events had occurred in a completely different series, because they needed it to connect to their Boba Fett show. And now, the Mandalorian is dead. They're gonna wrap up the story in a movie, and that's it.

And the crazy part is, this was always the perfect format for Star Wars: it always should have been a short form serial! That's what George Lucas was ripping off when he made the film back in 1977: serials like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.

These were little 12-minute long episodes that played as one continuing story, but each one was its own little lighthearted adventure that usually ended on some kind of a cliffhanger.

"This is why so many of the most hardcore Star Wars fans who are old like me only like two of the movies, because by the third film they were already just repeating beats: they were attacking yet another Death Star.

They ran out of ideas so fast, because this is not the ideal format for this universe. The Mando and Baby Yoda Show is the ideal format! This should have run for the next 20 years! They even set it up so that the star wouldn't even need to be on set for most of it, because he wears a helmet!

"I think some fans object to this, because they think of it as making Star Wars smaller, that you're reducing it to 'just a TV show.' But it's the exact opposite: it lets you expand the universe, because you're forced to to keep coming up with new places for him to go, and new people for him to meet, new villains for him to face -- you're not forced to just keep coming back to the Death Star again and again, and the Sith, and the Jedi.

In Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the Starkiller Base destroys five planets. That's mathematically five times more tragic than the destruction of Alderaan.

"And if you want evidence, just look at Star Trek! It's the show that expanded the universe. The Star Trek films were just action movies that are very forgettable. But I guess the world has changed, because they don't even do Star Trek that way anymore.

Picard ended its run after 30 episodes. Discovery concluded after 65. Hopefully, Strange New Worlds marks a return to form for the franchise.

"I don't get it, because it seems like a version of this show that runs until the year 2040 would have just printed money. The merchandise sales alone would have covered the production costs. Instead, it's 24 episodes and a movie that I think everyone has already stopped caring about."

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(In the cuck chair)(starts booing)

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Carter + kids