jovialpuppyvoid

[renthebarbarian]

Not to be 2017 about this but I’m just thinking about how BBC Shitlock adapted The Five Orange Pips and made the secret society a group of serial killing women’s rights activists when in the original story it was the KKK. They compared feminism to the fucking Klan.

Fuck Steven Moffat. Fuck Mark Gatiss.

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 16

s3 ep3 gridlock

- THE FACE OF BOE!!!

- KITTENS

- americans will do anything but built efficient public transport

- yay lesbians, boo homophobic cat

- they still got christianity on new new earth?

- omg it’s crabs

- ngl those skeletons look a bit like the current us senate

- nooo the face of boe

s3 ep4 daleks in mahatten

- fuck yeha old timey new york

- these accents r so good

- that’s what he gets for not watching his girl in the show

- the doctor has gotta stop taking martha to slums

- ayyy king solomon reference, glad he cut the bread in half rather than a baby

- always with the anti capitalist times in this show, god bless

- uh oh daleks

- “the final experiment” r we doing a nazi allegory?

- ANDREW GARFIELD!!????

- uh oh mysterious glowing green thing

- uh oh are they building a giant dalek??

- not loving those pigs

- rip andrew garfield

- oh i’m obsessed with blondje

- oh he was a stagehand, sorry for judging u lazlo

- “he’s into musical theatre” 😭😭

- oh lazlo go turned into a pig nooo

- oh fuck yeah revolution, yes then solomon

- oh the daleks r fighting

- u heard it here first, if ur a bootlicker you’ll get ur flesh sacrificed to the dalek

- oh piggie lazlo watching his gf 😭😭

- oh hello andrew garfield

- “lazlo, my lazlo” this is so sad bro

- never beating the “into musical theatre” allegations

- oh i am hating this dalek/human hybrid

s3 ep5 evolution of the daleks

- get it loser, we’re discussing what it means to be human

- NO SOLOMON one of my fav dw side characters, u will be missed king

- poor martha

- uh oh dalek rebellion

- “never waste time with a hug” GIRL BE NICE

- no laszlo 😭😭

- yes then martha!!!! WOMAN IN STEM

- no the sonic screwdriver!!!

- bro just got electrocuted

- the way they’re marching, this is def a nazi allegory

- allons-y!

- “who are you then? some sort of dalek?” GET HIS ASS MARTHA

- oh shit they killed dalek sec

- YES THEN DALEK HUMANS

- omg they killed the daleks

- rip dalek humans

- oh shit one dalek vs one time lord

- NO LASZLO

- GO ON DOCTOR

- LASZLO LIVED !!!!!!!!

- those two episodes were my favourite since s1, so so good

s3 ep6 the lazarus experiment

- poor martha hasn’t even had time to get a chnage of clothes after all this

- omg the tuxedo, im very normal

- mums hate this guy 😭😭

- IS THAT MARK GATISS

- oh jfc what is that

- OMFG

- i do not believe that the beautiful woman wants blond mark gatiss

- omg it’s got his face

- who’s this fucking snitch

- rip blond mark gatiss

- THE SLAP

- lotta bible references this season

- hello again blond mark gatiss

- yayay companion martha

- harold saxon???

[theultimatenonbinarynerd]

May 2024 Reading Stats

The Calender

🍉🍉Before I start this calendar I want to start a disclaimer and remind people about what's happening in 🍉🍉 Country and that Disney and Marvel should be held accountable. Therefore I will not be recommending The Disney Novel or Marvel Comic. Disney and Marvel need to divest from Is**el for me to fully recommended and show them physically on camera. Please buy Marvel and Disney books second hand if you must have them.🍉🍉

What a month it has been, with how much I've read this month I'm definitely dubbing it the gay month. June should really be the Gay Month but it sadly won't be so I'm glad I made May that month. Starting with the beginning of the month. My reading pattern is that my last read of the month will very clearly dip into the next one but it doesn't bother me. Pageboy was very easy to finish and whilst I got everyone's criticisms I thought they were exaggerated. It's a really good Trans Memoir but not the best. This Arab Is Queer is something I had for my Readalong for Palestine I'm doing and although no one took part I go alot out of this collection and it was a 5 star all the way. Only took 2 days to finish in May and I'm happy about that.

After finishing the 8th Doctor Adventures first season, I decided to dip into the main range and listen to the first too and they were pretty great in my book. The Sirens Of Time was easy to listen to whilst I did an oc sketch and it felt very much like the Classic Who version of Day Of The Doctor. 5,6 and 7 had amazing chemistry together so even though it's the very first audio your bound to gain some laughs. Phantasmagoria is probably one of the best Mark Gatiss content I have consumed and it was very spooky. It was supernatural with that ever loving Doctor Who sci-fi charm that you know and love. Will definitely pop in to more of the main range in the future. I'm only listening to 8s for now.

Cabin At The End Of The World, loved the book but towards the end I didn't enjoy it as much. Let's just say I hate ambiguity, I also hated the audiobook narrator so I had to read along in a quicker speed which was quite the challenge. So as a result it was quicker than my usual 300 + page reads. Welcome To St Hell was another one of my most anticipated reads and it highly delivered. It took a measly Ten Days which was an achievement itself as without chapters it was hard to split up my read as I'm certainly not the finish in one day type of reader. Still though for my first graphic novel it was very very good.

My side reads for this month exactly were very different. One was terrible for its last very transphobic and ableist story and the other was a very educational jam-packed nonfiction about the situation in Palestine and how simple it is thanks to brainwashing. In the end as good as the other two stories were Happs gave me massive brain rot. Fnaf fans are way too forgiving to Scott. On Palestine was great forever to the point I want to give it to my friend to help him understand the situation. I was able to get through it quickly and absorb alot. It was a good recommendation.

Finally my reads tipping into June. Yep no not until Marvel and Disney divest. I feel okay talking about Star Wars cos alot of authors are anti-israel and anti-zionist. If Daniel José Older gets fired I'm going to be done with them too. J.Elle is a really good writer though and I'm definitely gonna look at more of her books.

June's Stats

Wow just wow. May's stats were like a lightning bolt. I did a lot of reading this month and I expect stats like this will be ever so common in the glorious summer stats. So let's break these chunky stats down.

I read 8 books including 6 physical books/graphic novels and 2 Big Finish audios. That's just chock a block impressive and I'm very proud of myself as that's my highest number yet. As pages that too was my highest yet with 1,477 pages which is 489 pages up from last May. Interesting I also only read 3 books in May last year. So this is a very positive sign at how my reading journey is evolving. And of course my highest hours stats with 3.6 hours logged. I dipped into longer big finish audios this month so it makes a lot of sense.

Up next Genres. When I said this was a very gay month I mean it. I read many genres this month; LGTBQIA+, Science Fiction, Memoir, Horror, Young Adult, Thriller, Politics, History, Graphic Novel and Essays but coming on top with a whopping 4 reads was LGTBQIA+. It makes sense I have a lot of lgtbq+ representation on my tbr and this just happens to be a lucky month where I've gotten through quite a few. It also for the first time topped Science Fiction which is not an easy feet to do trust me. In joint second place with only 2 reads was Science Fiction, Horror and Memoir. I'm so glad that I was finally able to get to have a reading month with more diversity in genre. Let's see what June brings.

Mainly reads is still the same for now. I love my adventurous, dark and mysterious books as well as my medium paced books that are under 300 pages.

Again for moods for the first time in forever Reflective comes at top. The moods this month Reflective, Dark, Informative, Mysterious, Funny, Emotional, Adventurous, Tense And Inspiring. As a result of reading a lot of nonfiction this month I was finally able to tip away from my usual adventurous mood. All the nonfiction reads I had were very indeed thought provoking and reflective. In joint second place was emotional and dark which ie expected as I love books that hit me hard in the heart.

Star ratings were all over the place this month it was a very mixed bag month some amazing, some average, some terrible. My overall star rating for the month was 4.22 a minor improvement from May last year where the average rating was 4.17. There's always next May to get the average score up as long as I pick good books. We had two five star reads in This Arab Is Queer and Welcome To St Hell which was well deserved in my opinion. For the first time ever two 4.75 star novels in Phantasmagoria and On Palestine they were close to being 5 star but not quite there for me. Again two four stars in Pageboy and The Sirens Of Time. One 3.75 star thanks to the icky ending and rushed past and of course one 2.5 star novel that deserves the rating. It'll be interesting to see how June's stats compare against this.

May's Reads/Listens

A jam packed reading month indeed. This Arab Is Queer was an incredible Anthology that heavily educated me and sheeded any internalised bigotry over queer arab folk. It was also a very thought provoking and powerful collection of essays it really helped reshaped alot of the views I've had. The Sirens Of Time was a delightful timey whimey multi-doctor story that basically is the classic who version of Day Of The Doctor. Peter Davison, Colin Baker And Sylvester had amazing chemistry, I definitely want to look into more of the main range now.

Pageboy was definitely overhated it did not deserve all the hate and disappointment in my opinion. Its really not that bad at all. I think people are just fustrated about the non linear and him talking about his experiences prior to his transition but I felt like it was a hundred percent nesscary. Trans experiences aren't linear and Elliot did his absolute best trying to show that in his memoir. Phantasmagoria was a really good Big Finish listen and I heavily enjoyed it. Its one of my favourite project of Mark Gatiss's that I have ever seen, he's an absolutely fantastic writer, I don't care what people say I love his stories. This was a really cool supernatural story with Five and Turlough, the twists were generally shocking and it was a fun ride. Highly recommend giving Phantasmagoria a listen if you haven't done.

The Cabin At The End Of The World was better than the movie until a heavy tragic ending that differed from the movie and absorbed the bury your gays trope like a bubble. I love how Wen's povs were actually written in the style of a six year old girl. It was disturbing yess but made this story way too bury your gays trope than it already is. Might be controversial but that's my whole opinion. I also felt like the message contradicted itself is it about the desperation of religions cults or it a positive normalising gay families and about how gay love it powerful enough to save the work. On Palestine is the best book tok recommendation that I have ever been given. I wanted to fully understand the g-side happening in Palestine and all three authors summed it up perfectly. It was also interesting to learn about Propaganda and how its seeded into Israeli youth from a young age. It also heavily talks about the US and other countries and why they ally with Israel, its not what you may think. Props to Noam, Ilam and Frank for their hard work and important discussions.

Finally Happs and Welcome To St Hell. One of these two is 💩 and the other is 10/10. Yeah it's not Happs. What were Scott and team thinking, I know it might not have been intentional but Transphobia is Transphobia regardless wether or not intentional. It made me feel violated and sick and spoil my enjoyment of the other two stories in the collection. It was horror but not in a good way. Welcome To St Hell was my first graphic novel and it slapped. This was another one of my impulse purchases and I'm so glad I did indeed buy it. Terfs tried to review bomb it but I don't give a flying f** about their opinion. The Art was beautiful and I loved that Lewis didn't primarily feed into the Trans trauma trope and tell a sad story. Also The panels where he narrated and talked to his past self had me in tears of laughter cos as a semi masc Nonbinary person I found it so relatable. It's also really educational. A five star that I highly recommend.

Conclusion

A very very good reading month and it might not be a big deal to everyone else but I'm really proud of myself for what I've achieved, I literally think since I first got back into reading its an absolute record for me. Maybe it's a sign I should go out more but honestly I'm not fussed and couldn't care any less.

Big Finish for the future we're tipping into The Charley Arc as I want to listen to more 8 and one 12 and 11 multi Doctor short trip. Crazy thing is though with my audhd brain I already have next years listens planned. Expect a lot and I mean a lot of Big Finish reviews that might just be paced from Storygraph but who cares.

My next five reads as of this blog are Race To Crashpoint Tower, Jamie, A Test Of Courage, War Of The Worlds and Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain. Very excited to see how the rest of the year goes and I'm absolutely loving the lovely templates I've got from @LEEBEE_READS. So much more to come and I really love looking back and reflecting on my reader tastes.

Have a happy Pride Month everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

-Melody-

They/Them

[victorianpining]

A Snippet from the Obsessed with Dracula BBC Radio Interview Series (x):

Hayley Campbell: "So I want to talk about the role of religion here, because this episode, to me, I thought it was about questioning pre-existing beliefs... Did you have a problem with the sort of antichristian-" Steven Moffat: "You couldn't call this an anti-Christian show. We're both atheists but you couldn't call this show antichristian, because- he does all that speech [it's a mark of horror and oppression] and it sounds very credible and our main source of truth in this show says "no, that's not the reason" and you know she's right." Mark Gatiss: "He thinks it is." SM: "He likes that story, because it makes him for a moment superior and she just cuts it dead and says "no that's not the reason, I haven't figured it out but it's not that one…" One of the things we had to struggle with as a couple of aging atheists is you can't ignore the fact that Dracula fears the cross, and we were not going to write a nun struggling with her faith and in the end regaining her faith without taking that seriously, and trying to work out what that means to her and how she deals with that. We did a whole sermon before that poor lady gets her head cut off. So we were determined to treat that seriously… Nuns in a convent would have been the smartest people in that time and the most educated... And I bet it is true that some of them struggled with faith. Because every Christian I know struggles with their faith, and I know very, very clever Christians, so it's not right to slag that stuff off." MG: "Not at all. And I think it's powerfully religious, the first episode, but I think it's also that lovely thing of examining what it means to different people and the struggle. And I remember the conversation in the office and I said "Dracula is like the dark compass" and you said "that's a good title." But that's what it is, the darkness points you to the light. And then that became the whole thread of where we got to actually. That's what Agatha is- she doesn't believe anymore and she goes "this is the ultimate evil, there must be a devil, therefore..." I find that very moving...

[denimbex1986]

'Andrew Scott has played a number of iconic roles in his career thus far, including the hot priest in Fleabag and the villainous C in Spectre, but he is still perhaps best known for his role as Jim Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock.

Scott played the villain between 2010 and 2017, and now he is starring as a similarly manipulative character in Netflix's Ripley, a new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr Ripley.

Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme, however, Scott was quick to lay out the distinctions between the two characters, explaining that "it doesn't feel similar" playing them.

He explained: "Of course there are elements... it's dark, it's very dark, and it's very different to my own genial kind of personality.

"But it does feel different. I felt like when I was playing James Moriarty that I was playing a villain, and for some reason I really retreat against calling Tom Ripley a villain."

He continued: "I think he’s an anti-hero, that's what I think he is, and I think it’s up to me to make the audience imagine what it’s like to be Tom Ripley, not to be a victim of Tom Ripley. That's what we should feel like.

"We should empathise with him, and I don't necessarily think that that's the job of an antagonist or a villain. Tom is the protagonist in this, and so for that reason I just don't see him in that way."

Scott also said of playing Ripley: "I don't think he's a natural-born killer, he just ends up doing some things out of necessity - and I think he's got charm, and I think there's a sort of vulnerability to the character that I really liked."

The new Netflix series, which is arriving on Thursday 4th April, follows Scott's character Ripley as he scrapes by as a grifter in early 1960s New York, when he is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home.

Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss recently said that he and Steven Moffat would "love to make a Sherlock movie", calling it "the natural thing to do" but adding that there were difficulties involved.

Ripley will arrive on Netflix on Thursday 4th April...'

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 71

Wishful Thinking/The Lazarus Experiment

“Wishful Thinking”

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: why is this looking a lot like the one with the ghost ship? I know it’s not. Ok so no one died…I don’t think???

From the recap—I…it shouldn’t cause so many fluttery heart feelings to hear Cas say they were going to smite an entire town, but here we are…I’m gonna miss this Castiel

Ok but like…who on this show ISN’T at least kind of a dick?? You can’t just say that about the Uriel

Your dedication to the job is heartwarming, Dean…has nothing to do with the fact that the ghost is haunting a women’s shower, I’m sure

Stop. Stop. You can’t just name the fake book you’re ‘writing’ supernatural…

“There’s a Bigfoot out there dammit, and he’s a son of a bitch”

I do not remember this episode AT ALL. Wtf is happening?? I know there’s allegedly a wishing well but what are these people even wishing for??

The fairy tales episode I could handle, but this is WEIRD

I am DYING. So this Bigfoot is apparently this little girl’s teddy bear? And the Winchesters are posing as teddy bear doctors to be able to see it…this is fantastic. Omg omg omg how did I block this out of my memory?? The teddy bear who came to life, became human adult size, and is now despairing at the fact that it’s now gained consciousness…but all Audrey wants to do is have tea parties with him, but he’s DEPRESSED depressed…which the boys are calling “lollipop disease” to placate her and get her to leave for a while

I guess the safest thing is to wish for a sandwich (still got E. coli from it)

That’s… that’s a dark wish, Sam. I mean, I get it, but damn.

I bet the kid who stopped chasing the other kids asked Dean if he had a problem is the first wisher…that’s the only reason I can see for including him so far

THE TEDDY BEAR JUST TRIED TO BLOW ITS BRAINS OUT BUT IT HAS NO BRAIN JUST STUFFING SO IT’S STILL ALIVE

It’s not the engagement, that’s too obvious…oh god, she barely has free will.

Hang on, it IS that guy who wished for the engagement?? Then what’s the deal with the mean looking kid???

Can’t believe they hit the invisible kid with the car and…

Oh, THAT’s the point of the mean looking kid. Give him super strength and make him yell “KNEEL BEFORE TODD!!” because…of course his name is Todd. It’s the perfect name. Dean just tried to “with great power comes great responsibility” him and got hit in the face for it

Hoooooooly shit. Hope just got Sam electrocuted out of nowhere.

Oh. Oh, Todd. Aw, but Dean helping him not be bullied anymore anyway.

Sorry, there’s a lot of moving pieces in this episode

Oh no…Dean DOES remember EVERYTHING from hell, and he thinks there’s no helping him and he just has to live with that and shoulder it all alone. I hate it.

“Been On My Mind…”: Nope. 7.

“The Lazarus Experiment”

God…I both can and can’t believe how quickly he tries to just dump Martha…🙄

Ahhhh!!! Mr Saxon mention again 💖

I love that all moms are suspicious of the Doctor

It’s weird to see non-Mycroft Mark Gatiss

Oh, are there—are there some side effects to extremely literal anti-aging?? Who would have seen that coming

Marthaaaaaaa!!! The Doctor does not deserve you and how clever you are!! Bravo you collecting a DNA sample from Not Mycroft

God, I know his DNA is constantly being rewritten but this hurts to see…I mean, kinda. These two aren’t necessarily good people, but the betrayal she suffers…

I think in my 20s I was annoyed with Martha’s mom being this concerned, and maybe she’s still being a TINY TINY bit overbearing (Martha was only gone 12 hours as far as she knows but still thinks there’s no way for Martha to become a doctor if she doesn’t focus??), but she’s not completely wrong

Man, I wish Tish was as suspicious of weird shit as her mother…

Ok but I wouldn’t trust the guy who shaded the Doctor either!!!

Oh he’s a MONSTER monster. Bug ass — I mean big ass scorpion looking thing with a terribly CGI’d face holy shit (bug ass really came from me not looking as I typed and it was too funny to let go)

The face doesn’t even look like Mark Gatiss either…..

Is this dude working for Mr Saxon?? That’s the only thing I can think as to why he’s so invested in this Doctor smear campaign

Honestly, this part in the cathedral is beautiful and haunting. You can almost feel bad for the guy…

Taking your sweet old time with that organ, aren’t you Doc?

Is he actually dead this time??

I wish Tish could go on just one trip. I think she’d like that

Episodes Since the Doctor’s Last Attempted Genocide: is it 3 now? This was probably a bad segment. I have a hard enough time keeping track of just the regular day number

[magratpudifoot]

There are moments as a sapphic ace-spec person that I look around at the queer community at large and realize that my own feelings about the world and how I respond to it would absolutely be taken as reactionary and anti-gay.

Mark Gatiss' line that closed out the first episode of Queer for Fear was the most intensely I have felt that in a long time.

[wittyno]

Mark Gatiss really made his internalized homophobia everyone else’s problem.

[antimarkgatiss]

mycroft might have been a decent character if it wasn't g*tiss playing him

[ljones41]

BBC’s James Moriarty

I've been watching the BBC series "SHERLOCK" on Netflix lately. I've been aware of Andrew Scott for a long time.  And he is a first-rate actor.  But I do not like his interpretation of villain James Moriarty. I find it to be too over-the-top for my tastes. I don't blame Scott. I blame showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. They had transformed the character into a second-rate Joker.  And frankly, I would have preferred to watch a first-rate Moriarty.

[starkmaiden]

“Well you know, it’s just not that good”

My mother fifteen minutes into that new Dracula show.

[the-desolated-quill]

[malicenthightower]

okay so @the-mad-march-hare42 you deleted this pretty quick. maybe you thought better of it or maybe you’re a coward, but someone reblogged it from you so there’s a good chance I’ll keep seeing ill-informed opinions so would you mind telling me how this isn’t transphobic:

oh, I can help you there by the way: 

Speaking on Monday night’s episode of Front Row, the BBC Radio 4 show, League… writer Mark Gatiss explained: “We had a lot of discussions about how the world has changed. There are things where you think, ‘It was a long time ago and an awful lot has changed but there are also things that you still feel you should be… you can lampoon. To me the sort of… some of the wilder extremities of gender politics create a kind of madness where almost nothing is capable of being said any more. I think that is still an area where there is room to have a laugh.”

Fellow writer Jeremy Dyson added: “And, you know, gender politics isn’t about gender politics. It’s about something else. There’s something else lurking underneath it.”

hmm. funnily enough, gatiss has history with being completely shit on trans issues. and you can just tell dyson is dancing around saying ‘virtue signalling’

i think i’m fairly within my rights to call that transphobic. 

so basically, the lesson of this is: don’t you fucking dare to presume to tell me on my posts what is or isn’t transphobic

oh, and of course

mark gatiss retire bitch 

also those tags are a fucking mess

[lightning--bug]

~ Sherlock - Many Happy Returns

[denimbex1986]

'Out Irish actor Andrew Scott may have been snubbed by the Oscars this year for his touching performance in Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers," but he is getting love for his recent theater work. The 47-year-old actor received a Best Actor citation at the 33rd Critics' Circle Theatre Awards this past Saturday for his work in "Vanya," a one-man Chekov adaptation during which Scott plays eight different characters in conversation with each other. Scott is best-known to American audiences as the sexy priest on the second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag." For his work on the episode "Smithereens" on the anthology series Black Mirror, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Next month Scott stars in the title role of "Ripley," in which he play's Highsmith's anti-hero Tom Ripley in the new Netflix series. In 2013 he addressed his sexuality in an interview with the Independent, in which he said: "Mercifully, these days people don't see being gay as a character flaw. But nor is it a virtue, like kindness. Or a talent, like playing the banjo. It's just a fact. Of course, it's part of my make-up, but I don't want to trade on it. I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that."

Deadline reports that Sarah Hemming, the chief theater critic of the Financial Times, described "Scott's performance in 'Vanya' as 'tremendously moving, dialing up the empathy at the heart of that great, humane play and at the heart of live theatre' when she presented him with the award."

Late last year Scott was given the Best Actor nod for "All of Us Strangers" from the Film Critics Circle, that is also under the UK Critics' Circle umbrella. "The win makes the Irish actor the first performer to be handed top honors from both of the UK's national critics bodies," adds Deadline.

And this may not be last acting award Scott could win for "Vanya." Last week he was nominated for Best Actor by the Olivier Awards, London theater's equivalent of the Tony Awards, which will be given out on April 14. His competition consists of actors who, like Scott, are known for their television and film work: Mark Gatiss for "The Motive and the Cue", Joseph Fiennes for "Dear England," James Norton for "A Little Life," and David Tennant for "Macbeth"...'

[hcourageous]

motherfucking misogynistic moffat and gatiss are putting their filthy fucking hands all over dracula MY FUCKING DRACULA

ME AND BRAM STOKER DON’T DESERVE THIS

MINA HARKER DOESN’T DESERVE THIS

WhY is THIS HAPPENING