#adrian edwards

[dandiesindanger]

Fellas, is it gay to peer deeply into your friend's tired eyes and call him a "poor thing"?

Episode 14 of Arc 4 airs tomorrow~

Art by @apropername

[gender-luster]

"he's so babygirl coded" (he has killed so many people. and he will kill more)

[worstjourney]

The Millennials' Polar Expedition

A year ago today (23 Nov 2022), I launched Worst Journey Vol.1 at the Scott Polar Research Institute. This is the text of the speech I gave to the lovely people who turned up to celebrate.

As many of you know, my interest in the Terra Nova Expedition was sparked by Radio 4’s dramatisation of The Worst Journey in the World, now 14 years ago.  The story is an incredible story, and it got its claws into me, but what kept me coming back again and again were the people.  I couldn’t believe anyone so wonderful had ever really existed.  So when I finally succumbed to obsession and started reading all the books, it was the expedition members’ own words which I most cherished.  These were not always easy to come by, though, so plenty of popular histories were consumed as well.  Reading both in tandem, it soon became clear that, while there were some good books out there, there was a lot of sloppy research in the polar echo chamber as well.

I also discovered that no adaptation had attempted to get across the full scope of the expedition.  There has never been a full and fair dramatic retelling, all having been limited by time, budget, or ideology from telling the whole story truthfully.  I was determined that my adaptation would be both complete and accurate, and be as accountable as possible to those precious primary documents and the people who wrote them.

So the years of research began.  I moved to Cambridge to be able to drop in at SPRI and make the most of the archives.  Getting to Antarctica seemed impossible, but I went to New Zealand to get at least that much right, and on the way back stayed with relatives in Alberta, the most Antarctic place I could realistically visit.  I gathered reference for objects wherever I could.  Because Vol.1 takes place mainly on the Terra Nova, which is now a patch of sludge on the seabed off Greenland, I cobbled together a Franken-Nova in my mind, between the Discovery up in Dundee and the Star of India in San Diego.  I spent a week on a Jubilee Sailing Trust ship in order to depict tall-ship sailing correctly.  I’m sure I’ve still got loads of things wrong, but I did all I could, to get as much as I could, right.

But still, everyone I met who had been to Antarctica said, “you can’t understand Antarctica until you’ve been there, and you can’t tell the story without understanding Antarctica; you have to go.”  So I applied to the USAP’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, with faint hope, as they do “Ahrt” and I draw cartoons.  But I must have blagged a good grant proposal, because a year after applying, I was stepping out of a C-17 onto the Ross Ice Shelf.  The whole trip would have been worth it just to stand there, turn in a circle, and see how all the familiar photographs fit together.  But the USAP’s generosity didn’t stop there, and in the next month I saw Hut Point, Arrival Heights, the Beardmore Glacier (including the moraine on which the Polar Party stopped to “geologise”), and Cape Crozier, and made three visits to the Cape Evans hut.  Three!  On top of the visual reference I got priceless qualitative data.  The hardness of the sound.  The surprising warmth of the sun. The sugary texture of the snow.  The keen edge on a slight breeze.  The way your fingertips and toes can start to go when the rest of you is perfectly warm.  The SHEER INSANITY of Cape Crozier.  The veterans were right – I couldn’t have drawn it without having been there, but now I have, and can, and I am more grateful than I can ever adequately express.  With all these resources laid so copiously at my feet, all I had to do was sit down and draw the darn thing.  Luckily I have some very sound training to back me up on that.

Now, this is all very well for the how of making the book, and, I hope, interesting enough. But why?  Why am I putting so much effort into telling this story, and why now?

Well, it means a lot to me personally.  To begin to understand why, you need to know that I grew up in the 80s and 90s, at the height of individualist, goal-oriented, success-driven, dog-eat-dog, devil-take-the-hindmost neoliberalism.  It was just assumed that humans, when you get right down to it, were basically self-interested jerks, and I saw plenty of them around so I had no reason to question this assumption.  The idea was that if you did everything right, and worked really hard, you could retire at 45 to a yacht in the Bahamas, and if you didn’t retire to a yacht, well, you just hadn’t tried hard enough.  Character, in the sense of rigorous personal virtue, was for schmucks.  What mattered was success.  Even as my politics evolved, I still took it as a given that this was how the world worked, and that was how people generally were – after all, there was no lack of corroborating evidence.  So: I worked really hard.  I single-mindedly pursued my self-interest.  I made sacrifices, and put in the time, and fought my way into my dream job and all the success I could have asked for.

And then I met the Terra Nova guys.

What struck me most about them was that even when everything was going wrong, when their expectations were shattered and they had to face the cruellest reality, they were still kind.  Not backbiting, recriminating, blame-throwing, defensive, or mean, as one would expect – they were lovely to each other, patient, supportive, self-sacrificing; in fact the worse things got, the better they were.  They still treated each other as friends even when it wasn’t in their self-interest, was even contrary to their self-interest.  I didn’t know people could be like that.  But there they were, in plain writing, being thoroughly, bafflingly, decent.  Not just the Polar Party – everyone had to face their own brutal realities at some point, and they all did so with a grace I never thought possible.

It presented a very important question:

When everything goes belly-up, and you’re facing the worst, what sort of person will you be?

Or perhaps more acutely: What sort of person would you rather be with?

It was so contrary to the world I lived in, to the reality I knew – it was a peek into an alternate dimension, populated entirely with lovely, lovely people, who really, genuinely believed that “it’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game,” and behaved accordingly.  It couldn’t be real.  There had to be a deeper, unpleasant truth: that was how the world worked, after all.  I kept digging, expecting to hit bottom at some point, but I only found more gold, all the way down.  How could I not spend my life on this?

Mythology exists to pass on a culture’s values, moral code, and survival information – how to face challenges and prevail.  Scott’s story entered the British mythology, and had staying power, because it exemplified those things so profoundly for the culture that created and received it.  But the culture changed, and there were new values; Scott’s legacy was first inverted and then cast aside.  The new culture needed a new epic hero.  You’d think it would be Amundsen, the epitome of ruthless success, but “Make Plan – Execute Plan – Go Home” has no mythic value, so he didn’t stick.  The hero needed challenges, he needed setbacks, and he needed to win, on our terms.

Shackleton!  Shackleton was a winner!  Shackleton told us what we knew to be true and wanted to hear at epic volume: that if you want something badly enough, and try really hard, you will succeed!  (Especially if you can control the narrative.)  Scott, on the other hand, tells us that if you want something badly enough, and try really hard . . . you may nevertheless die horribly in the snow.  Nobody wants to hear that!  What a downer!  I think it’s no coincidence that Shackleton exploded into popular culture in the late 90s and has dominated it ever since: he is the mythic hero of the zeitgeist. I am always being asked if I’ll be doing Shackleton next.  He has six graphic novels already!  That is plenty!  But people still want to tell and be told his story, because it’s a heroic myth that validates our worldview.

That’s why I am so determined to tell the Scott story, because Scott is who we don’t realise we need right now – and Wilson, and Bowers, and Cherry, and Atch, and all the rest.  The Terra Nova Expedition is the Millennials’ polar expedition.  We’ve worked really hard, we’ve done everything we were supposed to, we made what appeared to be the right decisions at the time, and we’re still losing.  Nothing in the mythology we’ve been fed has prepared us for this.  No amount of positive attitude is going to change it.  We have all the aphorisms in the world, but what we need is an example of how to behave when the chips are down, when the Boss is not sailing into the tempest to rescue us, when the Yelcho is not on the horizon.  When circumstances are beyond your power to change, how do you make the best of your bad situation?  What does that look like? Even if you can’t fix anything, how do you make it better for the people around you – or at the very least, not worse?  Scott tells us: you can be patient, supportive, and humble; see who needs help and offer it; be realistic but don’t give in to despair; and if you’re up against a wall with no hope of rescue, go out in a blaze of kindness.  We learn by imitation: it’s easy to say these things, but to see them in action, in much harder circumstances than we will ever face, is a far greater help.  And to see them exemplified by real, flawed, complicated people like us is better still; they are not fairy-tale ideals, they are achievable. Real people achieved them.

My upbringing in the 80s milieu of selfishness, which set me up to receive the Scott story so gratefully, is hardly unique.  There are millions of us who are hungry for a counter-narrative.  My generation is desperate for demonstrations of caring, whether it’s activism or social justice or government policies that don’t abandon the vulnerable.  We’ve seen selfishness poison the world, and we want an alternative.  The time for competition is past; we must cooperate or perish, but we don’t know how to do it because our mythology is founded on competition.  The Scott story, if told properly, explodes the Just World Fallacy, and liberates us from the lie that has ruled our lives: that you make your own luck.  What happens, happens: what matters is how you respond to it.  My obsession with accuracy is in part to honour the men, and in part because Cherry was the ultimate stickler and he’d give me a hard time if I didn’t, but also because, if I’m telling the story to a new generation, I’m damn well going to make sure we get that much RIGHT.  It’s been really interesting to see, online, how my generation and the next have glommed onto polar exploration narratives, not as thrilling feats of derring-do, but as emotional explorations of found family and cooperative resilience.  We love them because they love each other, and loving each other helps get them through, and we want – we need – to see how that’s done.  It’s time to give them the Terra Nova story, and to tell it fully, fairly, and honestly, in all its complexity, because that is how their example is most useful to us.  Not as gods, and not as fools, but as real human beings who were excellent to each other in the face of disaster.  I only hope that I, a latecomer to their ways, can do them justice.

[alfjorcitos]

i <3 men who whimper <33

[areyougonnabe]

[maximoff-pan]

gia's 6k fic rec list

first, and most importantly, I’d like to thank every single one of you who clicked on my little blog and hit the follow button; you absolutely rock! I’m so grateful and so appreciative to you for sticking around and bearing with me through all my crazed fandom phases and inactive periods. Because honestly, I know there’s been a lot of them...

...so, after having been on this app for so many years, and having read all the wonderfully crafted fics that I have, I thought, why not celebrate by making a fic rec list to gush over the beautiful writers who I not only admire and look up to (constantly might I add), but whose talent continues to blow me away every time they post!

without further ado, let’s get to it ;)

all of the fics on this list will be from different fandoms and categorized accordingly, and will be labelled either sfw or nsfw. If I have made any mistakes in the labelling of categories or the crediting of the works, please let me know <3

stranger things

steve harrington

A LITTLE BIT CLOSER by @ladylannisterxo 

nsfw — I don’t usually read a ton of smut fics, but by god, the writing in this one!!!!! absolute perfection. The pacing, the flow, the energy, I couldn’t stop myself, and I didn’t want to.

REPEAT by @hairringtonsteve

sfw — what a fucking cool concept, and an even more spectacular execution. I don’t know if you’ll end up seeing this, but I’ve been a reader of yours for a while, and everything you post just brings me so much joy. Your style, your creativity, it’s unmatched; thank you for everything you’ve written

MAMMA MIA! HOW CAN I RESIST YOU? by @the-archxr

sfw — cute, adorable, fluffy, hilariously beautiful; I loved this so much. It’s everything I could want in a fic, and the interactions between the reader, max, and el, feel so sisterly and genuine, it made my heart soar

ALMOST PARADISE by @hawkinsindiana

sfw (ongoing series) — if you enjoy a good Henderson!reader and love steve harrington, then this series is for you. Perfectly crafted and wonderfully written, it belongs in a museum. The dedication is phenomenal and inspiring! I wish I could do what you do

BROKEN BODY by @gonzobuckley

nsfw — this piece is so simplistic, it doesn’t even feel like I’m reading (more like it’s flowing through my mind), and yet, it’s also so complex. Your style, your dialogue, your ability to portray the characters and their emotions is delightfully raw. I enjoyed every second

eddie munson

TAPES FOR MY LOVER by @skyebounded

nsfw — when I tell you I cried reading this, I deeply mean that. What a wonderfully written piece of art; this had me in my fucking feels all the way through

jonathan byers

SINCE WE WERE YOUNG by @v-writings

slight nsfw — I’ve always been more of a steve girl myself, but this fic made me feel things... maybe I can be a jonathan girl too?

marvel

tasm!peter parker

BEST FRIENDS by @ptersparkers

sfw — you know, I’m a simp for a good old friends to lovers, and this was p e r f e c t!! You had me hooked from the first line; absolutely heartwarming and riveting

NO WORDS NEEDED by @genesisrose74

sfw — touch starved peter parker??? Um…. What could be more enticing than that? This was so cute and fluffy! I love your style, their dynamic is adorable

SECRETS AND SKATEPARKS by @earthgirl616

sfw — the blueprint for tasm!peter parker fics for me… honestly this one is so well written, I’ve come back to it a zillion times. From the reader calling Peter hot without even knowing, to the accidental confession, to the perfect dialogue; this is a must read!

matt murdock

ASK ME TOMORROW by @murdockparker

sfw — your writing style is so fucking phenomenal, it’s unreal; and the way you allow the characters to interact feels so genuinely pure

MY NUMBER by @darling-i-read-it

sfw— what a fucking awesome crossover. I loved every second of this! The banter between Matt and the reader was superb, and the dynamic between the reader and Clint was so heart wrenchingly developed. So. So. So. Good!

loki

LOOKING AT THE PAST by @evendeadlmthehero

slight nsfw — this piece sent me on a journey of emotions. It was happy, it was sad, it was filled with anger and love. And it truly showed Loki’s growth as a character. He was ready to live on earth for the reader, ready to settle down, (instant swoon), it’s genuinely too good!

peter maximoff

HAPPINESS by @free-pool-trash

sfw — you knew I had to do it right? I couldn’t not add the queen of Peter Maximoff fics herself... that would be a downright crime. You know how I feel about your writing, it’s out of this fucking world, indescribably good. Everything you post turns to gold.

IT MUST’VE BEEN SOMETHING YOU SAID by @v-writings

nsfw — if you want to read just about one of the best fics on this site, please, please, please, click on this masterpiece. Seemingly a good old enemies to lovers becomes so much more, so much deeper than what meets the eye. And the way Peter’s character, his insecurities are captured, it’s other worldly

bucky barnes

GRAVEYARD by @wkemeup

sfw — one of the best fics that I think I’ve ever read. I don’t tend to delve into the bucky side of marvel fanfics, but this one is just *chef’s kiss* I loved every detail!

dc

battinson!bruce wayne

A WORLD ALONE by @vigilvntes

sfw — so. so. so. good! A must read for any battinson fans out there. I loved Bruce’s relationship with the reader and how flawlessly you portrayed it

edward nashton

THE SICILIAN DEFENCE by @ultravires

sfw — Your writing style is so poetically sweet, it’s addicting really. Admittedly I’m also a bit of a chess fanatic so this was quite perfect, and I loved every word

THE ONE I LOVE, THE ONE I LEFT BEHIND by @mypoisonedvine

nsfw — when I read this for the first time, I thought about it for days after. Then I read it again, and again, and again. You must get this a lot (and you’ll probably never see this), but your writing is awe inspiring, it’s breathtaking and beautifully nuanced. It almost doesn’t feel like I’m reading at all, almost like it’s a moving picture in my mind. And as someone who has struggled with dyslexia for my entire life, that feeling is wonderful. So thank you. You’re truly amazing.

adrian chase

HOT VENOM & SWEETEST TOUCH by @jangofctts

nsfw — your way of writing dialogue is so quick and witty, I couldn’t stop myself from bursting out in laughter every few lines. It’s utterly raw with talent. And I’ve never read anyone portray Adrian’s character better!

bridgerton

benedict bridgerton

FORGIVE ME by @benedictscanvas

slight nsfw — “Do not deny me this, Y/N. Do not deny me the feelings I have harboured since we were children.” I swooned at this line…. I’m a sucker for a good childhood friends to lovers, especially when it comes to Benedict Bridgeton ;)

A BET BETWEEN LOVERS by @saintlike78

sfw — benedict and his happily married wife??? And a good old fashioned bet??? Count me in! This was so cute and such an amazing read!

I WONDER WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE LOVED BY YOU by @iliveiloveiwrite

sfw — I think this was the first benedict fic that I ever read, and to this day is remains my favourite. I can’t thank you enough for blessing us readers with all your wonderful pieces, from bridgerton, to harry potter, to stranger things, I love it all! Your talent is absolutely endless <3

BEHIND THE BUSHES by @shelby-love

sfw — the dynamic of the reader’s relationship with benedict is truly adorable. I loved how throughout the piece, it became about them discovering more of each other, as they fell in love. And through that, they realized that the other is the only one they could imagine marrying. Absolutely amazingly written!

harry potter

fred weasley

HARD ROCK by @darthwheezely

sfw — “”Studying me like one of your rocks?” “No, like one of my primates actually,” you said coolly.” The dialogue in this was too good! It was so cute, sweet, and had my heart happy as a clam

SHEER BRILLIANCE & EVALUATIONS by @weelittleweasley     

sfw — I loved this au so much! From the character interactions, to the perfect dialogue that flowed wonderfully, I couldn’t get enough. Thank you for blessing us with this piece of art!

george weasley

X OF SWORDS by @free-pool-trash

sfw — to the greatest peter maximoff writer on this hellsite, caoimhz, you can write for any character and immediately portray them perfectly. And boy did you capture george weasley! This is only part one of three, but what a masterpiece this is

WORTH FIGHTING FOR by @spacexcowgirl

sfw — the ability you have to make readers connect with the characters is insane. From the first word of this fic, I was pulled in, invested in the dynamic of the relationship between george and the reader. This is fucking fantastic and deserves all the recognition!

harry potter 

STILL A BLIND DATE by @w1segirl

sfw — suuuuuuper cute, the fluffy feels of this were amazing. I couldn’t stop smiling the entire time... and who doesn’t love a good fic filled with mutual pining???

BLOOM by @iliveiloveiwrite

sfw — this felt like a therapy session and a warm hug from a loved one, all wrapped up into one perfectly crafted fic. Your writing style echos this sense of intense wisdom and understanding of people and their feelings, and it’s a pleasure to be able to read it, <3

neville longbottom

FEVER PITCH by @melmalone

nsfw — dude, I don’t think there’s much I need to say, other than to go read this piece of art!!! I love your writing so much; you hit it out of the park with everything you post, please teach me your ways!

charlie weasley

PRACTICALLY A WEASLEY (MINI SERIES) by @lupinlongbottom

sfw — the best charlie weasley fic(s) hands down! The writing is phenomenal and the interactions are just absolute perfection.

sirius black

JUST MY TYPE by @pmparker

sfw — super cute! This piece had me smiling like a little child the whole way through. It’s so fluffy and sweet, I think my teeth may have rotted away…my dental bill is going to be through the roof

remus lupin

THE TORTUROUS YEAR (SERIES) by @marauder--harder 

sfw — this series is like gold dust. And if you’re anything like me, meaning you love a good remus fic, look no further. You won’t regret a second of this fantastical ride... so what are you waiting for???

james potter

WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME? by @harrytpotter

sfw — I adored the obliviousness of this, especially the moment where James is like, oh shit, maybe I’m in love with my best friend… the dynamics are perfect; it’s so wonderfully done!

miscellaneous

castiel

ILLUME (PART ONE) & (PART TWO) by @sp-oops

nsfw — I felt everything reading this, desperation, hope, embarrassment, every single feeling I could feel. This is an immersive experience, and if you love castiel like I do, give this a read (or twenty)…

obi-wan kenobi

WHY IS THE GIRL HERE? & DOVE by @no-droids

nsfw — attention all star wars reader insert fans, if you haven’t read this fic, you are severely missing out. One of the best things I’ve read in my entire life. If I had an ounce of your talent, I could die happy right now

spencer reid

THE VERY ESSENCE OF LOVE by @reidscanehand

sfw — the tension, the letter of confession, the will they won’t they, the plot lines, everything about this is so perfectly done. I went through a roller coaster of emotions reading it, and I loved every moment

A SILLY LITTLE FABLE by @spencersimp

sfw — the cutest, sweet little piece on one of the most memorable scenes in criminal minds (in my opinion)

sapnap

REASONS NOT TO KISS HER by @daninotfound

sfw — now, minecraft fan fiction is not usually a realm that I find myself diving into, but this??? This is a fucking masterpiece — it’s the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel and starry night all wrapped into one. I can’t recommend this more

bbc merlin

JADE & EMERALD & VIRIDIAN by @okay-j-hannah

sfw — I watched merlin for the first time about a year and a half ago, and since then, I’ve probably watched about 5 or 6 times. I fell in love with the characters and the stories it told, and this series captured it wonderfully. I felt like as I was reading, I was actually watching the show. Thank you so much for writing this masterpiece!

armitage hux

REBEL (SERIES) by @fireinmoonshot

sfw — this series!!!!! This fucking series, oh my god! I remember when each chapter was being released, I would wake up early in the morning before school and read each chapter. This is a story I will never forget, and one that I will read over and over again. To the author, your writing is flawlessly crafted, and I can’t thank you enough for allowing us readers to lose ourselves in it

10th doctor

DIAMONDS IN THE SKY by @abbaqueen

sfw — I’ve been following you for a while now, and I can’t thank you enough for the wonderful writing you put out. This is the cutest and best tenth doctor piece I’ve ever read, and I will always come back to it

gabriel (spn)

NOT EMPTY NOW by @sp-oops

nsfw — art, art, gorgeous art. How you made something so dreary (the apocalypse) seem so light hearted through the character’s wit and banter was perfect. Loved, loved, loved this!

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to every author that is on this list. You bring so much joy into the lives of us readers, and you deserve all the love in the world. Keep doing what you do, you shine so bright!

I will probably be adding more fics to this list as I’m sure I missed a few in my haste to release this for you, as well as I’ll be adding more as I come across more wonderful fics that I love <3

love,

✨gia✨

[whitedarkmoonflower]

💔 Rest in piece dear Aethelhelm.

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[thegoddamnedwatchmen]

Happy April 1st Watchmenblr

[andrebellusci]

Watchmen

[devilsuju]

Watchmen (1986) lockscreens

[usbotthrills]

I’ve been watching theories and explanations of ‘Asteroid City’ and in my opinion the views that people have are completely wrong, so I’m going to explain the meaning of it, or what the meaning is in my perception.

Now, I’ll start off with the fact that one person claimed that Wes Anderson films have little meaning and value aesthetics above the story, which he’s tried to counteract by making a purposefully meaningless story in Asteroid.

No. Just no.

Every Wes Anderson film, as I see it, is used to display a certain type of relationship. The Grand Budapest Hotel shows the friendship between the Mr Gustave and Zero. The Darjeeling limited shows the relationship of the three brothers. Moonrise kingdom shows the relationship of the two children in their young love, I could go on with every film but you get the point.

The person was correct that yes, this film is slightly different to the others, it doesn’t display the relationship between people as they’re together, it more shows how relationships are everlasting through feelings of grief. Particularly the grief of the actors for the playwright, which is represented through their characters.

It’s true that the film has a sense of meaningless to it, but this is used to display the meaningless feel of death, how no one can comprehend the incomprehensible. They try to understand the alien, which even we don’t know anything about and they never can, much like how us as humans will never truly understand grief.

The meaningless is reflected through the character of Augie (played by Jason Schwartzman) who tells the director that he still doesn’t understand the play. It is no coincidence that this is also the person who had a relationship with the playwright, who died. These two are interlinked because much like the way that he doesn’t understand the okay, he doesn’t understand the grief that he’s feeling.

What I’m trying to say is that Wes Anderson has clearly thought out his films thoroughly and filled them with meaning and to say that every film is entirely meaningless is completely wrong. Rant over.

[dandiesindanger]

How about a game of snapdragon? 🔥🔥🔥

In this daring Regency game, nuts and raisins would be soaked in brandy and set alight. Players would test their courage by snatching a still-burning treat from the bright blue flames and popping it in their mouth.

It sounds a lot more dangerous than it is. The secret is in the blue flame-- brandy, being approximately 50% alcohol-- does not burn as hot. A regular, yellow flame would create twice the heat! Plus, the nuts and raisins cool quickly.

Liam & Daniel have played this before with their families. Adrian & Zach, however, are a little dubious.

🕯New episode airs tomorrow!🕯

Art by @foolcreature

[scenesandscreens]

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

Director - Edward Berger, Cinematography - James Friend

"What is a soldier without war?"

[cheapcakeripper]

The Last Kingdom 1x02 vs The Last Kingdom 5x03 Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder Parallel

[lixxen]

I am just saying that so far a detail that people have brushed over in Asteroid City is that Schubert knew Jones and personally sent him to Conrad for the role. Gave him money and everything for them to meet. He probably told Jones what ice cream Conrad likes. Which their (Conrad and Jones) meeting and relationship been noted as "lore" for the play, which means that Schubert inadvertently set the two up

I genuinely like to believe that the two of them are friends and were somewhat close. That's why Schubert got on his knees to be level with Jones to reassure him. His body language and expression hints at them being comfortable. I have done the exact same thing to my friends who are upset

And during the sleep study, it is implied that Schubert and Conrad are seemingly friends outside of working together in the past. Especially by how they randomly hold hands and the shoulder hold (same could be applied to Saltzburg tbh we all know the Hollywood assholes are all friends). Jones in the back of the room, covering his face and watching, could be interpreted as him coming along to support his (at that point and probably) boyfriend and to see his good friend

Which leads into how I believe in the theory of Conrad's death not being an accident, but Conrad's own doing. And that I like to think that Jones spent days crying to Schubert

Anyways.

[dailydccomics]

Rorschach & the Watchmen by Lee Bermejo