#RHYS MAKES TAIKA COMFORTABLE...........OK............

[dekaja]

Yeah, they're so lovely together. I mean, they've known each other for twenty years, but they've never acted together in this way. The chemistry was there immediately. They made the other one feel safe. [. . .] Rhys has a wonderful vulnerability. He's a very good listener, and I think it makes Taika really comfortable. Taika gets very vulnerable and they're just very sweet with each other.

— David Jenkins, Metro Weekly

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ive been seeing this more and more on tiktok, so reminder to OFMD people that shipping Rhys and Taika ( Real People ) is still not okay. Even if they are comfortable playing characters in a romance, it doesnt make it ok to make romantic or sexual content about the two Real Guys playing the characters.

People who have experienced being in these situations have many times repeated how it affected their friendships and made them uncomfortable

Real people arent characters. Please remember that

[sirenedoug]

OK. Long day at work. Week really, and it’s only Wednesday. Well, last 3 years have been terribly long if I’m being honest (teacher-Pandemic, which keeps punching down). Month has been illness-death-illness, sad story, yes? Just damn tired. Holidays…ugh, kind of dreading, certainly not feeling.

Make dinner. Ask youngest to put something light on to watch. Puts on “Paddington”. Oh, watched the old stop motion series on Nickelodeon when I was sick as a child. Was very comforting. So, yes please.

What am I doing? Seeing each actor, each scene, each prop connected to? OFMD. I’m so very broken.

What are the OFMD-Paddington connections? If you too are broken, join me in the spiral that is my fandom-wracked brain. This is neither clever nor enlightening in any way. It’s full brain rot. Full distraction from the craptastic events currently occurring in our interesting times.

Apologies in advance if you have read this far.

1. Marmalade. Orange imagery. Yup.

2. Paddington: Packs suitcase with marmalade rather than other traveling essentials. Fish out of water. Bumbling and cute. Always unwittingly causing problems. Wanting to be accepted, but still always himself. Initially rejected by his new crew, but eventually loved and accepted as family. Inner monologue: “I will never be like other people, but that’s alright”Hunted by creepy homicidal English. Stede much?

3. Grant-played by Kayvan Novak of What We Do in the Shadows…Taika Waititi connection. Love him. Now picturing him in S2 of OFMD…hmmm…I think I need to go back and watch some WWDITS

4. MARY Brown-played by Sally Hawkins. Yes, Mary. The Mary in Paddington is an artist, has 2 children (girl-older, boy-younger). And, Sally Hawkins played opposite Rhys Darby in Love Birds. Hey, watched that when I had COVID! That was a cute RomCom. Wait, does that make me have affection for my time having COVID?

6. Pigeons. Not exactly Karl caliber, but clever and slightly homicidal. More like Livy.

7. And winner for the biggest stretch is…Peter Capaldi who plays Mr. Curry. If you like OFMD as much as I do, you most likely are a Doctor Who fan and know ALL of Peter Capaldi’s connections to DW. You are as sick as me and I’m glad to know I am not alone.

My web of connections has runneth dry. And I really need to get some sleep tonight so I can face another day of work and make it to the weekend. Hope you all can too. We can do hard things.