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novelconcepts · 5 months

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I really think we as a society don't give enough credit to performers who thrive in an ensemble situation. It's always obvious when an actor is excellent front and center, and we're constantly rewarding that skill set with awards, but god, there's something to be said for the power of a true ensemble piece. People who are so good at reading one another and playing off what they're given, tossing the ball and knowing when to turn it into a grenade. As much fun as it is to watch a solid monologue or a solo show, I always find it so much more thrilling--and so much more authentically lived-in--when there's an ensemble just feeding one another in every single scene. Who do I look at? What is everyone else learning and deciding even from the background? This is what life looks like, and actors who really shine in that environment have really become my favorite to follow.

#i feel this way about yellowjackets. i feel it about flanagan's whole lil theater troupe.#yeah it's great to have 1-3 stars shining like crazy #but isn't the sky so much brighter when it's filled with constellations?#that's part of why i love broadway so much too. in a really solid show (i'm talking your hadestown vibes) the whole stage comes alive #anywhere you look there's a human being SO HUMAN #even if they're like. a cat. or an alien. or whatever.#it's so cool #and as a writer i'm always trying to find ways of making my stories feel as lived-in as possible #to envelope the audience and make them feel a part of the narrative fabric #ensemble stuff--done well--is built for that

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sundry-whovengerslocked · 3 months

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Doctor Who "Rogue" memes

I've made memes. enjoy.

(contains slight spoilers)

firstly, ones that are more encompassing:

regarding the episode itself:

and finally, Captain Jack Harkness stages of grief:

#doctor who #memes #the “salute the sky” one is my favorite #he really did just put his ship in orbit and went oh well the bitch is gone #poor fifteen may be apparently more healed but he has no idea how to deal with emotions other than cry and then ignore them #but we love him he's trying #also I thought those psychic earrings were soooo stupid but at the same time I loved them #like that was a classic “a bit silly but it works” doctor who thing #also this is the second time I've seen male presenting gays ballroom dancing and I am thriving #the other of course being aziracrow #I wanted to make a meme for that too but wasn't sure which to use #my memes #original post #rogue #doctor who rogue #rogue doctor who #the doctor #ruby sunday #the doctor x rogue #p.s. to clarify ik they're not actually erasing Jack Harkness it's just they're very clearly ignoring him completely and Rogue seems #somewhat like a replacement although he does have differences and I love him very dearly #also I put gay in quotes because the doctor is genderfluid/nonbinary and is simply at the moment male presenting and it didn't feel right #to somewhat diminish their identity by simplifying it - like how aziracrow are called gay and that's great but they're more complicated #than just that label #yasmin khan #yaz khan #fifteenth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

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blueskittlesart · 5 months

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deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them!#it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music'#to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me.#but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in.#anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

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front-facing-pokemon · 7 months

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#lycanroc #midday lycanroc #i'll do a separate post for midnight bc i love them so much #i don't know why this one looks so displeased though #i would imagine the daytime one would be happy and the nighttime one would be disgruntled but it's really the other way 'round #the midnight one looks like they're having a great time #but this guy? fuckin angy

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pain-in-the-butler · 1 year

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A compilation of art for my Dadbastian fanfic Coattails that I commissioned from the incredibly talented @tomoyoo! They went above and beyond with the details... Each picture feels as cozy and warm as a storybook, right? I'm so delighted with how they turned out!! Thank you for making each one so beautiful! 🥹🥹🥹

#coattails #not sebaciel so please don't tag as such! thank you!#kuroshitsuji #the backgrounds are just gorgeous.. thank you for your research and dedication to them #the outfits in the first one are amazing! I love Ciel's shirt and Soma's whole ensemble is so cozy yet regal #look at Ciel in the cardigan in the third one though? he is cozy #the expressions are my favorite. they're so animated! just as I imagine them to be..#I really like Ciel's in the first pic because I imagined him looking annoyed but you actually made him seem curious #and I actually like that more I think it's cute... he really does want to be friends with Soma huh 🥺#Sebastian's expression in the third picture is great. >:o #he's about to throw hands with an old lady #Edward and Ciel's competitive faces! being silly... I love Them #Ciel needs to get swept up in silly competitions more often I think...#and then the last one!! bonding over tea! it's so amazingly tender 😭#I don't think I imagined it coming out so calming and gentle... it's so emotional #it makes me want to keep writing!#if you are a Coattails reader I hope you love these as much as I do!#and if you aren't a Coattails reader... maybe these will convince you to become one? 😏 because they are so full of personality!#thanks times a million tomoyoo!!#(I should wait till tomorrow to post but I want to do it now...)#Coattails fanart #(adding to the fanart tag even though I commissioned it just for convenience's sake)

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moon-mirage · 1 month

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Just imagine this team up on Namek ... 🔥🔥🔥

#dragon ball z #dbz #bulma briefs #vegeta #bulma x vegeta #vegebul #I haven't drawn in a quite a while so I wanted to try something new to get back into it #And I wasn't sure if I could draw DBZ characters in my style but ...#I really like how it turned out?#They look great together #I went with more sci-fi and less Namek for the background #But trees and such just didn't fit the vibe #alternatively they escaped into space together #anyway they're awesome and I love them #my fanart

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yayswag · 6 months

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rlly silly doodles based off of a post the hc goat @tegr1dy made about stan and kyle adult braces that had me laying awake at night 😭😭😭

#tegri1dy i love ur blog- you REALLY get style <3 <3 #...i imagine that at first kyle is devastated but stan convinces him it'll be fine and they can just dress like hipsters and it'll be cool #then like two years in stan is so done with it but kyle is deep in denial at that point #been reading a lot of sekrit fics lately and the way she writes them as like these losers who spend their whole lives together but just..#kind of awkwardly avoid dating for seemingly no reason even though they're in love?? fascinates me.... i don't know if that was a good desc #btw lol i think i'm gonna try posting a little bit more casually because there's some stuff i wanna try clearing out of my drafts #south park #sp style #love yall lol have a great dayy

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maudiemoods · 11 months

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Quick dessert doodles bc drawing food is fun and I'm experimenting

Me when shiny

#might try doing a more cartoony style eventually!#i really need to work on commissions though so i might not post for a minute!#maudiemoods art tag #aurhhrhr #art #dessert #desserts #food drawing #aurh idk man #yeah they're lopsided and not all that great but i like them #i love food aurhg love is stored in food #if someone made me a nice dinner i would marry them i think

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this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it · 10 months

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Claudia Black and Ben Browder being captains of their own ship since 1999.

ComicCon 2009 Wintercon 2019 Wintercon 2023

#farscape #john x aeryn #claudia black #ben browder #the show's creator did plan for it to be a love story btwn John x Aeryn #but Ben and Claudia wanted to have as much input as possible to make sure it stayed that way #and the show was very collaborative so they did have a lot of input #and they made a lot of really great acting choices #in 2019 Claudia said there had been a storyline that didn't sit well with either of them #because they felt that John and Aeryn only had their hearts on each other #but it sounds like they were bringing in another woman for John to have a thing with ig #idk if they're talking about Jenavian in LATP #but I know Ben protested against that #but he didn't win that time ugh #the vid from 2019 is mine #sorry for the camera work #i was trying to film with my phone but also making sure I was in the moment #and actually watching the panel with my own eyes and not through my phone screen #so sometimes it went off-center #my gifs #my gifs: farscape

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shannonsketches · 6 months

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Why is the anime so weird, it's not even the same series dude?? It's like,

Anime:

GOKU: I have a great idea to bring peace to the universe, and my leadership and compassion alone will unite us all. I have No Flaws and am A True Relatable Everyman :)

VEGETA: NO! I AM THE BEST AND I WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS UNTIL I AM RECOGNIZED AS SUCH!!!!

Manga:

GOKU: Vegeta what's cornmeal made of? I know it's what the corn eats, but what's it made of? VEGETA: Hey Kakarot let's play the quiet game until one of us dies.

#dbtag #I do not understand this writing it's so bad aklsdlkasjd #Toei wants Goku to be Clark Kent SO bad and he SO isn't lmao #they're so good and dumb and rounded and complex in the manga what is the anime so afraid of #Toriyama said 'no no this man is a detached faux-immortal who has a dear pure heart but he's childlike and selfish even though he's kind'#and toei went 'got it goku's never done anything wrong ever in his life'#toriyama said 'Vegeta's gone through a lot and he's finally settling into his more mature leadership role with the confidence he's earned'#and toei said 'got it vegeta has the confidence of a high school bully except now he can interact with his family as a comedy bit'#girl hWHAT #Toei trying to group Goku and Vegeta as two people who would rather train than be with their families and Toriyama said NO Vegeta wants #to be HOME this is the first time in years that he's HAD ONE and it makes him HAPPY to be with his wife and children!!#Vegeta trains so that he can protect the things he doesn't want to lose again and Goku trains because it's the thing that makes him happies #They are NOT the same lmao And yeah Vegeta still wants to beat Goku but he also knows that Gohan could dogwalk both of them if he wanted #He also knows Trunks and Goten are going to surpass them it's not about being the best anymore he's past that he just wants to Not Need Gok #He just doesn't want to have to rely on Goku to save the day he wants to be Enough on his own he just wants to know he can be #because every time it's mattered he WASN'T and people he loved were lost to his inability to protect them and he carries that #Like Whis diagnosed him with anxiety and cptsd out in the open and Beerus said he was self-centered for feeling guilt #+ he lowkey enjoys the rivalry it keeps him goal-oriented so he can't get complacent and lazy which is what triggered his Buu Saga breakdow #realized how Fucked Up it was that having a home and loving family made him feel like he was failing and went 'wait no I won actually??'#now he's chill as fuck in the manga. cool confident leader.#and sometimes he is childish and dumb with Goku as a treat #you know what rocks about his rivalry with Goku in Super though is that it's Playful. Vegeta is learning how to Play.#You ever seen a shelter dog get introduced to a really playful dog and it takes a minute for the shelter dog to understand it's safe here #And then they're both running around the backyard playing hot potato with one braincell?? That's Goku and Vegeta's relationship #and the way the anime sleeps on that dynamic is so fucking criminal especially when it's literally canon it's in print it's out there #you had the playbook how'd you fumble it this bad #anyway that's my 25+ year blorbo thoughts I love Geets a lot okay #And I love Goku in the manga a lot I'd forgotten that he's actually a great character when Toei's not fucking up his whole vibe

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isagrimorie · 3 months

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Star Trek Voyager 5x11 - Latent Image

Seven: When you separated me from the Collective, I was an unknown risk to your crew, yet you kept me on board. You allowed me to evolve into an individual. Janeway: You're a human being. He's a hologram. Seven: And you allowed that hologram to evolve as well to exceed his original programming. And yet now you choose to abandon him. Janeway: Objection noted. Good night.

Latent Image Gifset series Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

#i just really love latent image #star trek voyager #voyager edit #trekedit #trek ladies #their debates are always GREAT #seven of nine #kathryn janeway #latent image (voyager)#voyager 5x11 #there's a thread of coldness in janeway #sometimes and she's hanging on to the hologram part #she made the decision amidst heightened situation #its not GREAT but they had no resource to fix them #so it's a bandaid but it's a programming problem #that can't be pushed away forever since it might happen again #falling back to a bandaid solution is nothing #but also seven correctly saying #hey YOU allowed the doctor to evolve you just don't get #to throw away just because they're inconvenient #yeah its true she wouldn't stand by while something #self destructs in front of her #but there should also be a different solution than hitting pause #going back to the last save point and scrubbing #data

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cerealbishh · 8 months

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"You really care about me."

"Yeah. I really, really care about you."

"I- I really care about you too."

"No, but... I like, really, really care about you."

#mr. & mrs. smith #mr. & mrs. smith prime #maya erskine #donald glover #john x jane #alana x michael #john smith #jane smith #i... need these two in a romcom i think #i like them both individually and i was gonna get around to it but it really was the interviews they did together that sold me on the show #they've got great chemistry #i enjoyed it for what it is #mr. & mrs. smith spoilers #i just need them in a romcom so they play people who aren't as fucked up because they were both frustrating at times #their last scene made me cry tbh so i guess i'm a sucker #i want them to get a 2nd season just because i like maya and donald but also... fuck amazon #michael #cw: food?#him making sure she's hydrated even though they're going through a rough patch was ao sweet of him #also i can't with her kissing him on the cheek in the last scene #i say i liked this show enough and that i'm not super attached to it... so why am i still thinking about them???#i really wanted to hear her say his real name but i get it #i find it oddly sweet that the first thing john asked her(not said ASKED) was if she really loved him and she said that she did #alana

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mwagneto · 2 months

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i left my phone in my room and picked up an actual physical book and sat down on the balcony and read the whole thing can everyone please be so so proud of me

#for reasons that'd take way too long to explain im living at my grandmas house rn for around a month (she's not here)#and she has like a billion detective novels which i love but i lost the ability to read when i was like 12 #i do read books as pdfs sometimes but even that's rare... and they're usually dr w.ho/t.orchwood #it was curtain of poirot fame which I've seen like a billion times coz it's one of my #favourite poirot stories but i've never read it #ms christie is crazyyy coz somehow i still gasped out loud multiple times despite knowing the ending #it's also really cool that you 1000% can guess the ending if you pay attention #i almost always guess the murderer immediately w detective things but i usually watch shows where it's way easier imo #i mean i guess them in books too but they make it less easy coz shows have a limited cast and it's always obvious #anyway damn... i really wanna get back to reading so im gonna try to read other ones as well #she has tons of books in english hungarian and german so the selection is endless #mostly crime novels which is great coz i love those. no prizes for guessing who i get it from #barking

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elvenbeard · 3 months

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