#but there's more bubbling under it

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount as Vulcan!Pike

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners/executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, with cast members Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, talk about Anson Mount's hair in the Season 3 preview clip released at San Diego Comic-Con International, July 27 2024.

Source: Variety interview clip, episode preview clip

[canisalbus]

The way you draw bodies, especially the way you draw hands, is so genuine. It's so nice to look at because it looks so natural, graceful even. The body language and expressions of your characters say so much without them having to say anything at all, it's masterful work.

Thank you! Body language and believably expressive hand gestures are really high on my list of priorities and I put a lot of effort in trying to get them right. So it's really encouraging to hear people notice them!

[the-ace-of-fools]

“I thought there might be some measure of hope still left for you.”

“Hope?” The word was uttered with disdain. “I thought you were smarter than that, elf,” Miraak said, turning his ethereal form to the surrounding peaks. “I don’t want it. I don’t need it. I would sooner spend a second eternity in Apocrypha than allow it to poison my mind.”

He turned to Solinar again.

“There is no hope, only action.”

[seaweedstarshine]

Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.

There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:

“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”

And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).

I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)

To quote RTD:

“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”

This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)

—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?

How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?

And this just keeps happening.

And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.

The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[blueparadis]

hey dash, are we craving for more hubby!umemiya ?

[tswwwit]

Just imagining Dipper's parents finally trying to get their shit together and rekindle their relationship with the twins after several years of almost no contact, only to show up in town and 1. Dipper doesn't recognize them at first, and 2. When they remind him who they are, his brain scrambles for a second because, in his head, his "Dad" is already in the shack, scamming groups of tourists for loose change. He nearly goes, "huh? But my dad is-," and points to the shack, before catching up with his brain and realizing who he's talking to

[ra-archives]

Oh what a shame, a sailor to fall to the sea

Lu-tober day 18

Prompt: Drowning From my Goretober prompt list

[averlym]

"one day, i cut him an apple. when he saw it, he laughed" (click for better resolution!) ,,, tag from @elliotly

[someloserinajaywig]

I really like that their eyes light up when they use a lot of power :)

[quirkle2]

do u guys remember this pla au where i shoved mob psycho characters into legend arceus and then in an ask i answered abt it i decided on a whim that ingo would stay in the universe and be teru's mentor. do u guys remember that cuz i do

[evilyaoi]

homeschooling is genuinely such insidious awful child abuse it boils my blood that any of this shit is considered socially acceptable or god forbid preferable to a real education. you are going to fuck your kid up for life. source: i had a horrible time in public school being abused and traumatized by teachers and staff to the point that i had to be pulled out after elementary. homeschool is STILL worse. if you're not prepared to be a teacher, to handle all of that AND be a parent AND make sure they're properly socialized, WHICH YOU AREN'T. FULL STOP. MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT. you are genuinely going to ruin that kid forever. and do not even fucking play with me about the kids who took like a year or two off and did online courses because they were being bullied or whatever. you know full fucking well that's not what i'm talking about. do not play with me. all the people who make up bullshit idealistic scenarios about Good Homeschooling to play devil's advocate can rot and die for all i care. if i sound bitter it's because i am. god forbid i'm passionate about hating the thing that robbed me of my childhood.

[rollanan]

alright i kinda just wanted to get this off my chest in here but

we know that the 4th season of Bookworm is going to be animated by another more well known and budgeted studio, however i am afraid that the show might lose its charm

i mean like yeah it looks cheap but its like i can feel that it has soul even tho its raw, and its charming that way cos like you know its going to be one of those obscure unknown animes that just happens to be one of the greatest things ever id prefer it to be that way rather than looking super shiny

[paradoxius]

Okay so:

Church on Ruby Road concerns Ruby's feelings about being a foundling and not knowing who her biological parents are, and then dramatizes this in a whimsical dreamlike fashion with an adventure about an orphaned infant being abducted by goblins (evoking myths of fairies stealing/replacing babies, thus the cultural fear of babies being displaced from their "rightful" parents)

Space Babies takes place in a society of "babies" (who look like toddlers but are said to be six years old and speak and act like they're at least that old) who, in the socially-created absence of any apparent parents have mythologized "mummy and daddy" as some kind of foretold salvational figures in their weird baby religion

We're gonna ignore The Devil's Chord

Boom features a twelve-year-old girl who, due to some combination of growing up in a high-control religious community and being written poorly, has a bafflingly obsessive, immature, and gormless relationship to her father (and, if we're willing to read against the grain, we can even interpret the episode's cop-out decision to have a father's love instantly delete the puzzle box and end the war as a hyperbolic manifestation of the girl's literally over-the-top devotion to her father)

73 Yards focuses back on Ruby herself—19 years old—and plays out her fear of abandonment as she becomes isolated and alienated from everyone around her, most notably her mother, and must learn to live out her adult life alone

Dot and Bubble is about an exocolony of affluent 17-to-27-year-olds who notably depend on their wealthy parents back on their home planet as a fallback if anything goes bad

If Rogue ends up being about, like, 30-year-olds being pressured by their parents into having kids or whatever, well then I think I may have found a salient theme for this season of Doctor Who

[acrobattack]

i think it’s fun that blossom and buttercup butt heads the most vs brick who targets boomer and more or less gets along swell with butch

[wuntrum]

Hiii! I know this is a random question but I wanted to ask, Are any of the S4G members in a relationship? Either in the band or outside of it? Love the band! Sorry if this has been asked before

hiiii! so as of right now, its kinda yes and no? i don't really wanna like firmly define any relationships...i think the ways that they all care about each other is not dating, but not Not dating, but rather a secret third thing...that kinda just blurs the line between the two. there's like certain dynamics and backstories that influence this too but its generally just sort of an open thing :) that might change in the future (as i come up with more eras and lore for them), but for right now any sort of pairing is possible, in that schrodinger's box sort of way

...that being said i do draw vincent and ry together a lot, and i'd say they're the closest to each other out of everyone in the band (went to the same art school, live together, etc etc) but their exact relationship status is complicated LOL