#Deep Common

[antagonistic-sunsetgirl]

So I was reading Siddig's biography on his fan page and it struck me that this guy was a small-gig theatre director in London before he did any acting. And he said he was fully planning to go back to it after any acting gigs because he didn't "trust acting–not for an exotic actor" like him (1990s? So fair). But y'all don't understand how funny this is to me.

Imagine you're desperate stage actor in an equally desperate production with an equally desperate director. You're all working for pennies. It's cool stuff, very free-spirited. But, y'know. Bills. Your director is also stupidly handsome. And apparently he's gone to acting school so it doesn't suprise anyone when he announces that he'll be gone for a few weeks to do a small acting gig. It's chill, the business is tough so good for him. He comes back and fully intends to just continue the pennies-work you've been doing. Then he's like "there's this other gig and the only other person in the running isn't even an actor so I might be cast lmao" and everyone gets a laugh and then he actually gets cast in this miniseries. And you're like 'damn my director is landing some acting on the side, if these huge brown eyes get snatched up we don't have a director anymore' and THEN

this BITCH get's talent-scouted by some dude from some hotshot American production company and everyone has heard of Paramount Television so next thing you know your director is throwing a farewell party with cheap cake and everyone's making jokes about how he'll be earning big bucks for a season or two and he better buy them better cake when he comes back because HE'S ALWAYS PLANNED ON COMING BACK

and for the next six years you watch your director slash mensware seller (he also takes shifts at the local bar) who lived off welfare like all of you did slide into The Star Trek Collective and prance around the screen in a tight little suit with blue shoulder pads. And sign autographs at conventions. There's even a fan magazine.

So what I'm asking is at what point was someone like "we should probably hire a new director"

[jackabbot]

SESAME STREET 28.01 • Maria Goes To The Hospital (November 18, 1996)

[dosesofcommonsense]

So, they’re going after the agents at the FBI who took up the call to weaponize the branch to cover the fraud and target opponents. That’s 5,000 of the 13,000 agents, or 38% of their workforce.

Now, every CIA employee is being offered a buyout.

Meaning, the CIA is the nucleus and not redeemable compared to the FBI. The FBI will get gutted. The CIA needs to go. Maybe both will be combined into something new and better.

[daily-public-domain]

Day 277: Lonely squid, 900 meters deep

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[porrigens]

raison d’etre + sushi = profit

[rinkaitoons]

Finally finished this art, it took 18 hours but it seems worth it. My favourite boy came to life in my art style❤️‍🔥

[respocked]

The fact that Voyager is still running holodecks is not talked about enough, because excuse me whAT. They are rationing food and replicator use. They close down a whole deck to save energy. And they're RUNNING HOLODECKS? Deeply unserious space fleet. Honestly shocking that there wasn't a holodeck on the Defiant. How did Trek humans even won any wars with that crippling holodeck addiction

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Lala...

[skymantle]

what does it all mean.

[bumblydumbly]

i think that if kabru saw that “laios meeting falin for the first time” strip he’d be sobbing uncontrollably

[gammija]

ig another annoying thing about the 'this transcends language 😲😱' comments about the most obvious of cognates and literal english loanwords, is that it's another example of how native english speakers (and, by virtue of their population size, mostly USamericans) are the arbiters of what gets seen as 'universal' vs what's weird and foreign on the anglophone internet. cause to me as a dutch speaker, a lot of german compound words would '''transcend language''' - but the tweets that go viral about those kinds of words are about how they're silly little nonsense words to laugh at, can't be a real language, can you believe anyone speaks that!

[starry-bi-sky]

Thinking about the CFAU and marveling at how much Danny and Jason care for one another. Does anybody else figure out that Danny is going to kill the Joker, or is that knowledge Jason exclusive? I can't see Danny being close enough to any other Batfam member to disclose his plans, but I wonder if he drops hints. They're a family of paranoid detectives. I'd be surprised if they don't figure out Danny has a PURPOSE for being in Gotham at some point. Whether Danny's able to disguise it as wanting to be closer to Jason or not is another burning question.

Its def Red Hood exclusive! You're right in that Danny isn't close enough to disclose his revenge plot to any of the batfam members -- hell, not even Sam and Tucker know his true motives for returning to Gotham, and they're his best friends right after Jason! And Red Hood knows only because Danny accidentally slipped up ;].

I do also think that the Waynes kinda think something might be up with Danny -- at least Dick and/or Bruce might since they're the only ones who actually know him beyond brief mentions of him. Tim knows about him due to his stalking, but doesn't really know him -- and Danny plans to keep a healthy, friendly distance from the family so he can carry out his plans.

It's not that he holds any dislike towards them -- quite the opposite. He appreciates what they do for Gotham and recognizes the hard work that goes into keeping their Rogues Gallery at bay (even if he is bitter about Joker, but there's an obvious reason for that) -- but, well. He knows they're the vigilantes, he doesn't want to risk them sniffing out his murder plot before he can even go through with it.

Luckily for him he can excuse any distance he puts between them as just being busy with life and trying to settle in, and they're not close enough to him anymore to find it suspicious. I do think they figure out he's back in Gotham for a reason, Danny's not going to exactly hide the fact that he's back to find some kind of closure -- but what that closure is?

I think the only person who might suspect something sinister going on would be Bruce, who saw the sinking rage in Danny's eyes at the funeral -- it was part of the reason he didn't tell him who killed Jason (beyond secret identity reasons). But that depends on whether or not Danny reveals some of his hand, and the fact that he was still holding onto that rage (somewhat unwillingly) all this time.

[ribbittrobbit]

a thing that i love about when brennan plays female characters is that he doesnt pitch his voice higher in “stereotypical girl way” like each female character he rps has a normal voice with relevant affectations for the character to have. like ok of course the baba yaga has this cackly witch energy but its not in a higher register just bec she’s female. another example is when he plays little miss muffet, like that is a little girl’s voice and i believe it!!

[dosesofcommonsense]

He screamed RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, leaked information, and led the hoax and knew it was complete political theatre to slander a sitting President and lead the American people astray. Where’s his apology indictment?

[lucifer-kane]

Sorry I'm thinking about KCD again but I keep seeing posts hcing Hans as a gay man who's just deep into comphet is, personally, really interesting. As a bisexual I love 99% of bisexual rep but there is something about this kind of character, Hans is young and doing things as he thinks he should. Which is. Being the way he is. It wasn't until he started realizing his own feelings for Henry that made him go !?. I don't think it's something he's thought about a lot until that time (whenever it was, whether it was in the first game for some or sometime in the second) and then he had to come to a conclusion that he never expected to need to deal with.

Like Henry is fully bisexual To Me but there's just something so utterly compelling about Hans being gay that I'm just turning around in my head.

[britneyshakespeare]

when i last saw my friends i was talking about my barbie collection, present and past, and explaining the lore of various supporting characters from the decades, and at one point i bothered to drop the sentence "because i was obsessed with barbie as a kid—" before catching myself, realizing i was explaining the entire web of barbie's friends and family, and said "now i'm just normal about her. the way i am about barbie, that's how everybody is."