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David Tennant - Arthur Eddington

Einstein & Eddington - 2008

That was the first time David Tennant made me cry buckets.

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You’re very fond of William, aren’t you? 

You should tell him.

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Arthur: “William, there’s something I want to say… When do you go?”

William: “…That wasn’t what you wanted to say, was it?”

Arthur: “…No.”

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Sweeeet

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Staged.  

 Netflix

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“So, uh … You’re a duck, aren’t ya? I’m not hallucinatin’ this?”

“Aye, I’m a duck. And, what manner of creature are you?”

“I’m a man. Er, a human.”

“Ye kinda resemble a beagle with your lack of a bill. I’ve never seen someone such as yourself.”

“Likewise. You’re not exactly what I was expectin’.”

“If I recall, you did tick ‘all’ on yer profile under what type you were interested in.”

“Yeah. But, I assumed that they’d match me with a fellow … human being.”

“Honestly, I was picturin’ someone with a wee bit more feathers. I dinnae suppose you’re hidin’ a cloaca under there are ya?”

“No. Well, I don’t- I don’t think so. I’m not really sure what that is. If, um, you don’t mind me askin’, I can’t help but notice that you’re not wearin’ pants. Where’s your uh–”

“I keep it inside. It’ll shoot out when I need it.”

“Huh.”

“Do you still wanna do this?”

“….. yeah, why not?”

(not much) Later -

Roland lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling - clothes askew, duck bites on his love handles.

“How was it for you, laddie?”

“Confusin’. I’m not sure what the fuck just happened.”

“You got a visit from Scrooge McDuck’s majestic corkscrew is what happened.”

“Are you free this weekend? I’d like to do that again.”

“Aye. It’s a date.”

-fin-

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David Tennant enjoyed some quality time with Myrtle (Picture: Backgrid)

17 Dec 2020.

Source

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Ok if paparazzi photos aren’t your thing, just ignore this post. But David and Myrtle are ADORABLE and I love that sweater on him! ❤️❤️❤️

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are you saying it’s normal to ship real actual people and not just characters?

idk, bud, what is "normal"? is it "normal" to write about the life and times of Antony and Cleopatra, as Willy "The Bard" Shakespeare did? how about making a critically-acclaimed biopic about a real woman who really walked this earth, speculating about the sex lives of actual humans, like 2018's Colette (or indeed 1991's Becoming Colette)? is that "normal"? or what if you write a screenplay about the real Jane Austen and her doomed love life (Becoming Jane, 2007)? or about Thomas Jefferson's "sexual combustibility" (1776, 1972)? ooo, on the topic of the Founding Fathers, is Lin Manuel Miranda "normal" for writing raps about Alexander Hamilton boning down on another man's wife (Hamilton, 2015)? or, if you're more sympathetic to the other side of that conflict, where do you think The Crown (2016) falls on the scale of "normal"?

really, who among us is "normal"? how do we define "normal" in a media landscape absolutely bursting with the authorized, unauthorized, uncouth, and unabridged imagined lives of real people, living or dead? for that matter, how do you define "real" people? if you're writing about a public figure whose entire persona is curated for you through tabloid magazines and film directors and editors and makeup artists and graphic designers and publicists, how "real" can this figure be said to be to you? if you're writing about the completely made-up life of a movie star reimagined as a college student in your hometown falling in love with his costar who through a twist of fate has become his roommate, is this still a "real" person you are writing about? is this a "normal" pastime? is writing anything fictional, fantastic, or completely fabricated based on a sliver of the actual world a "normal" thing to do?

idk! but I do know that it's fun! and that it mitigates the toil and drudgery of our brutish and short human lives to imagine our favorite hot celebrities having wild monkey sex, and that it hurts no one in the undertaking.

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Moustache man (via David Tennant Asylum, VK)

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Georgia just posted this with the caption #justthethreeofus

and i can’t help but think

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About this whole shipping situation. 1. I don't ship real people, nor do I ship DT and MS, but it's quite understandable why so many people ship them. Although, I think people shouldn't take the "lover", "marrying MS" thing seriously. It's just them teasing the fandom for the sake of Good Omens. I even have serious doubts that they're as close as they appeared during the press.

2. Three months ago someone said MS actually tweeted he doesn't want people to ship him with DT. They said it was in a tweet from 2019. I've been searching, but I haven't found it. Do you know know anything about this?

Hello Anon. I’d like to start my response to this by thanking you for voicing your misgivings so respectfully, as I have had several rude and sometimes nasty Anons come at me on this topic, so this is a most welcome change of pace.

To address your first point, I will agree that some things that happened during the GO press tour were probably exaggerated. One example being the eggplant emoji thing on Graham Norton, as well as pretty much any instance of David acting clueless about something sexual because he is nowhere near as innocent or naive as he pretends to be. I’ll even give you that the “Maybe I should’ve married Michael Sheen” comment from David was him teasing the fandom, as he is wont to do, knowing full well what kind of reaction that would elicit from the fans.

But the wild card in all this, the "x” factor...the Welsh fly in the ointment, if you will...is Michael. Michael has certainly had his moments of teasing the fandom, but it’s almost impossible to talk about that without also acknowledging that Michael IS the fandom. We know how much the GO fandom has meant to him, how this community is something he’s honored to be a member of, and how he’s the biggest Ineffable Husbands shipper this side of Alpha Centauri. Yet so much of what Michael has said goes far beyond normal fandom teasing, and certainly beyond him just talking about Aziraphale and Crowley.

One of the wonderful things about Michael is that he has a tendency to let slip his true feelings--for good and for bad. So even when he does tease the fandom, there is some nugget of truth in there that puts it onto a different level. And because he is part of the fandom, it seems like he says these things not just because it’s what the fans want to hear, but because he wants to hear it. When David made the “Maybe I should’ve married Michael Sheen” comment, there was a context--he was asked a question about which co-stars he’s had the most chemistry with, and there was a perfect lead up to that comment based on his answer. But Michael calling David his “lover” had no such context. It wasn’t a fandom audience, and the conversation wasn’t even about Good Omens, so why say that? Then there was Michael describing David’s hips as “slinky” earlier this year, which... I have yet to find the straight man who would notice that, let alone make such a comment. (But more on that in a moment.)

I’m not sure what it is that makes you doubt Michael and David’s relationship is what it comes off so strongly as, but I truly believe their friendship/relationship blossomed over the course of filming GO, and then during the press tour as well. They probably did work out how they were going to approach the repetitive interview questions and the red carpet banter, but it’s not the big, flirty remarks or jokes that have stood out to me most. It’s the small moments between Michael and David--certain looks and little offhanded comments which occurred both when they were together on the press tour and separately long after, feeding into a chemistry that is palpable in both pictures and video--that convinced me of their closeness. 

In regard to your second point, I have been following Michael on Twitter since May of last year, and I can’t think of anything that sounds less like him than what that person is claiming he tweeted. In all honesty, having dealt with similar issues in other fandoms, that sounds to me more like what someone says because they are uncomfortable with RPF, not something the celebrity said themselves. And in this instance, the idea is so laughable because that statement runs completely contrary to everything Michael actually HAS said and done, so it makes zero sense for him to tweet that.

To go back to the “slinky hips” remark I mentioned earlier: Why on god’s green and verdant earth would Michael talk about David’s hips being slinky if he DIDN’T want people shipping them together? Why would he call David his lover if he was NOT okay with people thinking that David is his lover?  If he was as opposed to shipping as that alleged tweet suggests, none of the things he’s said about David over the last year--hell, the last six months--would ever have happened.

So, no, I am not aware of any tweet from 2019 of that nature, nor have I found one after searching (I’d be curious to know if the person who told you that has a screenshot, though somehow I doubt it). I also highly doubt Michael gives a shit if people ship him with David, if only because he could’ve erased all doubt ages ago if he actually wanted to...but instead he just keeps encouraging it. Just my $0.02, anyway...

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New to GO fandom Anon.Sorry that happened to you.Yes, you are the first one who welcomed me.Thank you. I love the gifs you posted,there's so much love in M's eyes. I haven't seen Staged,I'm not from the UK,but I've seen some gifs and videos. I also know about the things they say about each other(David's hips, MS shaped hole etc).I love watching them, cause they're cute and flirty with each other. It really makes people question what kind of relationship they have. My friends say they're in love.

Hi, Anon! Thanks for re-sending your message, I truly do appreciate it. And oh, I’m so thrilled to hear that I was the first one to welcome you to the GO fandom! I’ve never been anyone’s first before, come to think of it. And absolutely yes to all of the points you’ve made here. I also love watching Michael and David, and how they seemingly can’t not flirt when they’re in the same room together (or even when they’re not, as we saw in Staged).

One of the things I keep coming back to is Michael calling David his “lover.” Just the fact that it was so weirdly unprompted, no provocation whatsoever, right in the middle of a discussion that had absolutely nothing to do with Good Omens. There was literally no logical reason for Michael to call David his lover, and yet...he did. Why? What the heck was he thinking? And how did David react if/when he found out? I’m dying to know.

“Lover” is such an old-fashioned type of word, too. It’s not “significant other” or “partner,” which are not inherently bad phrases at all, but they are much more sedate than “lover.” Lover evokes a sense of passion--meeting in hotel rooms and steaming up the bathroom mirror and memorizing the curves of bodies--in addition to the domesticity of a relationship. It’s horny but also endearingly heartfelt--which to me sums up Michael to a fucking tee, bless him--and is why it potentially encapsulates his friendship/relationship with David so well.

I also keep thinking of the GO press tour interview with Michael, David, and Jon Hamm where they recited sides from Hamlet. It’s a hilarious interview, to be sure, but when when Michael and David are going back and forth doing the speech and playing off of each other so perfectly, you can literally see the moment where poor Jon becomes a third wheel (a rare occurrence for him, no doubt!). He actually has to remind Michael and David that the interviewer is still there because they’ve just completely gone into their own little world:

The same seems to be true for this interview as well, in which Michael hardly takes his eyes off David for nearly five full minutes. He stares at David so intently that it’s almost distracting, and he’s got his arm around him and is leaning in close to boot. (I’m pretty sure that if someone saw this screencap out of context and had no idea who they were or what was going on, they would think Michael and David were about to kiss. Because why else would you stare at someone’s lips and mouth for THAT long?)

So, yes. Michael and David are cute and flirty with each other and it is delightful to watch, and it does raise questions about their relationship. Anon, you mentioned that your friends think they’re in love, but what’s interesting to me is that neither Michael nor David seem to mind people thinking that they’re in love, regardless of whether that’s actually the case.

Whatever the reality may be, I am just happy that their relationship is so personal and meaningful to them, and that we get to enjoy these little flirty flashes that they mercilessly tease us with...

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Hi. I'm new to GO fandom and I love the series. I've been watching interviews with MS and DT and I noticed how Michael looks at him. Beautiful. I also saw the interview where he said David is his lover, also David said "Maybe I should've married Michael Sheen" and much more. I have mixed feelings about their behavior. I'm not sure about David, he's hard to read, but Michael seems like he's in love with him. I know he says these things on purpose, but I don't know what to think.What do you think?

Hi, Anon! Oh gosh, well let me be the first (one of the first?) to say hello and welcome to the GO fandom! It’s a great, big beautiful place bursting with creativity where people are just cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over our favorite angel/demon duo and the delightful actors who play them...and then there are those of us on the fringes here quietly watching Michael ship himself with David and David not minding one bit.

(For the record, I totally never intended to ship them, and the only reason I still do is because they keep doing and saying things that prevent me from not shipping them. Lovable bastards...)

So, the points you are raising have come up and been discussed before, and it’s interesting to see how they’ve both continued with making these little comments as time has gone on. There have been several examples since the ones you cited (Michael calling David’s hips slinky, Michael saying that he took David home from the set of Good Omens, David saying he likes getting to occasionally fill a Michael Sheen-shaped hole, David describing Michael’s beard as being cuddly, to name a few), and it is challenging to know exactly what to think or where to place these in the pantheon of “coworker/friend appreciation” vs. “deep emotional/potentially also physical connection that may or may not be love.”

While I think you are right that Michael has said a lot of these things on purpose and has fed into the fan realm, it’s also equally probable that he has said these things because he can’t help himself. And the great thing about Michael is that he is incredibly open with his emotions. David plays things closer to the vest, but Michael wears his heart on his sleeve and you can very much tell when he really, really likes someone (and conversely, when he doesn’t). It’s very easy to hear someone say they’re in a relationship or call someone their significant other, but it’s looking at the person’s body language that often tells you the real story. For me, what’s been most revealing isn’t necessarily the things Michael has said, but the way he behaves around David (actions speaking louder than words and whatnot). A few examples:

The first three are pretty self-explanatory (leaning close to David, staring at his lips/mouth while he’s talking), but the fourth is very interesting because it’s from Staged. Michael and David are acting, but still Michael leans in close to David multiple times, despite the fact that he’s not even there. David is on a screen, and yet Michael appears to move physically closer to him more than he does to any other person in the show. It’s as though no matter what version of himself he plays, Michael will always be drawn to David, and want to be close to him.

So, is Michael in love with David? Hard to say for sure. We’ve seen how Michael behaves around people he considers just friends and people he deeply cares for, and I do have a fairly strong opinion of which of those two categories his actions with David fall under. It seems like Michael and David have drawn a line between their public and private interactions, but while David is good at staying behind it, Michael is continuously galloping toward said line at a breakneck pace.

The true nature of Michael and David’s friendship/relationship is something we’re just not privy to, but it is certainly fascinating (and also hot) to think about and be inspired by. Bless them for feeding us as well as they do...