#brian ‘wife guy’ murphy

[hellishfig]

i’ve barely started listening to naddpod, but even the few episodes i’ve listened to make me appreciate one specific murph line in a starstruck odyssey so much more

brennan asked him something along the lines of “murph would you let *some bullshit* happen?”

and murph replied “yeah, i let my players do whatever they want”

and i already knew that was a joke, but now that i’ve heard him as a dm? he absolutely does NOT!

however, i love how he immediately abandons his principles as a dm to back up his fellow players (and very specifically his wife)

[eemolu]

can't believe i forgot that murph as gerard of greenleigh is him at the top of his game. the only adult among a horde of magical fucked up children except HE'S the baby boy going "if you leave me alone with the book i'm going to touch it and get sucked in" sir we cannot babysit you. you're the one person who's not a literal baby. and then he eats a fly and cries about his wife come ON

[chalkbird]

even though it's been a while since neverafter i still can't comprehend that brennan told them "we're doing a horror season, pitch your characters" and murph went "ok first of all, this guy's wife doesn't love him anymore"

[chungledown-bimothy]

gerard saying "elody is actually perfect this is not her fault" is so beautiful

it would be so easy to blame her. she's the one who changed, she's the one who fucked up their happily ever after and did this to him.

but he doesn't. he seems to not really blame anyone in particular, he doesn't really care why. he just wants it fixed. he and elody can work on the why together after.

[yakuniku]

People be like Brian "Murph" Murphy is playing Gerard because he's a wife guy. YOU FOOLS! It is Emily Axford who is the wife guy. Emily "He's my husband in real life," Emily "Kugrash is one of my triggers," Emily "everything you do is so great and the dice hate you" Axford is peak wife guy.

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

This is literally just Gerard of Greenleigh

Credit: Arcane Bullshit on FB

[yoursonlucifer]

every time i listen to the girl with the silver hair i forget that ill luck henry comes at the end and every time i get So Emotional

[feelingtheaster99]

Poor Murph the dice gods just HATE him but he’s trying his BEST okay?

[rooolt]

Brian Murphy is a strange encyclopedia of weird children’s television from too long ago that no one else even cares abt

[rizzlegukgak]

i have a lot of feelings about how often naddpod (especially the short rests) joke about cuckolding

[greenlandpissshark]

“I love my monster bait wife!”

-Brian Murphy, trembling, throwing Milanos into his storm drain

[pardonmysass]

I saw a tag on here somewhere that talks about how much they love how Brennan is such a wife guy and I think we need to discontinue the term entirely. No hate or shade to that tagger at all! But I just don't see Brennan as a wife guy. Because up until now, wife guys have been performative. I think about John Mulaney and how much he talked about his wife right up until he left her mid-recovery to have a baby with someone else. I think about Ned Fulmer who constantly talked about his wife and his baby and how much he loves being married and having a family…right up until he cheated on her rather public with an employee.

Wife guys will speak volumes to their love in front of an audience while sneaking around in the shadows and it's both disappointing and exhausting to witness.

I look now at Brennan, who doesn't speak constantly about Izzy, whose public persona is complete without her and vice versa, she shows up complete without him as well. But no one is faster to laugh at Izzy's jokes than Brennan. And no one will push his buttons better than Izzy. When they are in the room together you can see the chemistry and you completely understand how they can love each other so much without it needing to be said every single time either of them are on screen.

Honestly, I feel the same about Emily Axford and Brian Murphy. They don't need to be lovey dovey or constantly talking about each other for you to see how much they love being together and working and playing together.

I think I'm over the wife guy. I've moved on to authentic, beautiful emotion that doesn't need exposition or highlighting.

[respectissexy]

Brian Murphy is not just playing a wife guy because he's a wife guy, he's doing a hair-raising meditation on what it really means to be a wife guy, and who would be more of a wife guy than the guy whose wife rescued him from being a frog.

[takaraphoenix]

Favorite Intrepid Heroes Characters:

Now that I have finished watching all of the Dimension 20 campaigns (currently running one notwithstanding, obviously), I want to talk about my favorite characters played by the Intrepid Heroes!

Emily Axford:

Okay, listen, Emily is a very talented player who knows how to make a character work, but this was the easiest call for me. I am in love with Unsleeping City's Sofia Bicicleta Lee, she is one of my favorite PCs overall.

The badass martial arts wife of the ultimate wife guy, whose best friend is a talking rat. Plus, she looks like Fran Drescher and I mean, c'mon, I'm just a lesbian born in the early 90s. How could I not.

I'm afraid I don't have a 'close' second for Emily, because all her characters are great and close together, but Sofia shoots out for me.

Lou Wilson:

It's kind of funny how Lou and Emily are inherently linked for me in this, because until I watched ACoFaF, I thought I'd be putting Unsleeping City's Kingston Brown down here.

However, absolutely everything A Court of Fey and Flowers' Squak Airavis has going on is so utterly impeccable. He is such a queer mess, it's amazing. (And it's linked to Emily, because something very important about him is his dynamic with his dear cousin Chirp.)

Zac Oyama:

I'm glad that ACoFaF made me pick Squak for Lou, because otherwise, this would feel like just a list of Unsleeping City characters, because for Zac, it's so very clearly and definitely Ricky Matsui.

The ultimate himbo. The courageous firefighter with his good boy puppy. Absolute wife guy even though he takes too damn long to figure that getting-married-part out. I love Ricky so, so, so much.

Though, second place shout-out to Colin Provolone from Ravening War, that lil cheese knight was so much fun to enjoy and he had so much tension, it was incredible.

Brian Murphy:

My favorite Fantasy High PC - Riz 'The Ball' Gukgak, hands down. That wanna be detective boy is too precious, plus, as an ace I was so, so, so hyped and excited about the rep in him.

Second place shout-out, once more, to Unsleeping City and... surprisingly, to Cody Walsh. I love Kugrash a whole lot, but there was something utterly hilarious to Cody.

Siobhan Thompson:

Hers was my favorite character on A Starstruck Odyssey - I love Riva. They were also such a refreshing flavor for Siobhan, honestly? They were utterly precious and adorable and sweet.

Second place... okay, look, it's Unsleeping City again, yeah. But out of the two characters she played, I actually loved Iga Lisowski more. The Polish mom who guards the dragon. Amazing character pitch, honestly.

Ally Beardsley:

Actually genuinely the hardest choice because Ally is amazing at creating characters. But as a lesbian with a certain type, I am obliged to say A Starstruck Odyssey's Margaret Encino. A hot lady with a purpose and a load of money. When they started calling her Mommy? Oh boy fans self. It was also so much fun to see a character who didn't really do combat but actually got so much done with business calls. Competence is sexy, y'all.

Second place goes to Lars Vandenchomp from Mice and Murder though. Love me a loyal himbo and they were such a good puppy? Amazing.

[shanisaur]

brian “murph” murphy (certified wife guy) making the scariest character he can think of for neverafter

[byneddiedingo]

Christopher Gable and Twiggy in The Boy Friend (Ken Russell, 1971)

Cast: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Georgina Hale, Sally Bryant, Vladek Sheybal, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Graham Armitage, Antonia Ellis, Caryl Little, Glenda Jackson. Screenplay: Ken Russell, based on a musical play by Sandy Wilson. Cinematography: David Watkin. Production design: Tony Walton. Costume design: Shirley Russell. Music: Peter Maxwell Davies; songs: Sandy Wilson, Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed. 

Nothing succeeds like excess. That seems to have been Ken Russell's motto, well displayed in The Boy Friend. As I watched it, I thought the first parody of Busby Berkeley's kaleidoscopic production numbers for Warner Bros. musicals was brilliant. The second was entertaining. The third was ... well, maybe the law of diminishing returns had set in. The original stage musical was a campy sendup of the kind of musical comedies that P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, and Jerome Kern used to create for the Princess Theatre and later in the 1920s: tuneful light romances with silly plots. But for the movie, Russell superadds a campy sendup of the backstage movie musicals of the 1930s, borrowing plot and even dialogue from 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933), hence the Berkeley parodies. I first saw The Boy Friend around the time of its first release, and enjoyed it. But watching it again now, I found myself looking at the clock after the first hour and a half passed. The version I had seen in the theater was the one MGM had cut by 25 minutes; the restored version runs an exhausting two hours and 17 minutes. That said, there is much to enjoy about Russell's movie, especially the vividly colored production design by Tony Walton and costumes by Shirley Russell (the director's wife). The presence of the great Tommy Tune in the cast is also a plus. The Sandy Wilson songs are pleasantly hummable, and the interpolation of two songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed that were featured in Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952) is nice. But a little camp goes a long way, and piling camp on camp can be tiresome, especially if the camp is done the way Russell does it: with a smirk rather than a wink.