#devvo

[riosnecktattoo]

Gladiator II wasn't very good babes

[pomodoriart]

doodle dump!

1. AU where silna has goodsir take a portrait photo of her family (her dad, tuunbaq, etc)

2. des voeux, pre walkout and post mutiny

3. des voeux sleeping in a bed and also showing off his slops

4. doodle of crozier with a great tern

5. doodle of des voeux with a bird on his shoulders and tuunbaq below

6. des voeux playing with fagin, the ships cat

7. assorted beasts

8. devvo holding rope. full body

9. winged beast

[littleforestbat]

finished jedi survivor I . Sad

[octuscle]

I’m an American student staying in the UK for Christmas. I feel lonely and isolated up here, away from my family. There are some dumbass chav lads having a Christmas party downstairs. I want to join them, but I don’t think I’d fit in. Do you think the chronoviac could help me?

To get into the Christmas spirit, listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio on your Sonnox speakers. You struggle to drown out the bass of the music from the party below you. Suddenly there's a crackle in your speakers… And the same music is coming out of the speakers as the music from the party. And surprisingly, you know that it's MC Devvo & Shady Piez. You love the music. Best party music ever. But it doesn't go with a glass of red wine, it goes better with a beer… You go to the kitchen. Shit, there's none left in the fridge. But on your coffee table, where a moment ago there was an Advent wreath, a plate of your mother's cookies and your glass of red wine, there are still a few cans of beer between overflowing ashtrays and pizza boxes. You shake them. Hehehe, there's still something in this one. You spit the sip out again immediately. What kind of pig put his cigarette butts in the can? Thank God there's still something left in a can. Stale, warm as piss. But better than nothing.

Shit, the heating in your fucking council apartment is going crazy again. It's as hot as a sauna. You take off your stuffy shirt. It doesn't go with your jogging bottoms and Adilettes anyway. You turn up the music. You don't care that the neighbors are banging on the wall… Suddenly the doorbell rings. You look through the peephole. It's one of your mates from the apartment below. He yells at you, asking why you're having your own party and not downstairs with them. After all, it's bloody Christmas.

You say you're going to put something on and come down in a minute. Your mate grabs your nipples and laughs. In half an hour at the latest you'll all be fucking each other anyway. Putting something on beforehand would be a miserable waste of time. Best Christmas ever!

Pic with with appropriate clothing for the Christmas party found @tayloreverett

[zirrah-writes]

devvo at milkshake man being snubbed

[itshawoof]

Team's Socials

This will be updated as time goes on and more people get added to the team!

Haru

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Stormy

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Devvo

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Emily

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Mimi

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Me (Zee)

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@grandmarielaylanen & @strawberry-soil (Tumblr lol)

Daniel

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[captain-poodle]

ooooo, fun. uuhm well ive loads of thoughts on des voeux.

1. i like his horrid little personality a lot. its too bad hes so unpleasantly racist because otherwise hed be quite funny. if hed gotten into his sixties or w/e he’d be a hilarious old queen ill bet. quips that would have you on the floor. etc

2. i loved the fact that he was also scared like. the Whole time. he put on a face of bravado a lot but like….des voeux was NOT happy lol and that combo of fear and ego had him doing crazy shit. ptsd my beloved ❤️

3. he’s extremely cute. his hair is lovely. his beautiful dark brown eyes also. his face is that way that looks so different over the course of the show (my favorite way someone’s described him is as like Janus, two-headed). the salacious little smile. he’s got cake, also. ;) and the tiny bit of [redacted for your safety] he’s got going on is uhm. uhhh. *dies* <- sorry for this bit lost the plot here for a second thinking about the things id do to him

4. im gonna be real his death was so fucking horrible and insane. like???? flipping out because there’s a jacked up bear ripping people in half and sprinting tf out of there until you collapses in exhaustion. and then by miracle someone who (from his pov) can help him finds him and then leaves his to die anyway even as he’s begging her for help? fucking brutal!!! to be clear like im not mad at silna for choosing not to help him (i think its such an important time/place for her to have agency and regain some of the power these men took from her. also it was hot?) but oh my god that’s a really horrible way to go. the emotional damage from being utterly abandoned like that is soooo top tier, because as social animals one of the most important core needs for us is to not be rejected by other people (bc without help from each other we suffer and die! its why so many people fear abandonment and why the first thing we do when we’re born is to scream for help). it gets me more than any other death on the show, even jopson’s (also i think there are interesting parallels in regards to how joppers and devvo died; both are abandoned to deaths of exposure. plus the whole ‘cdv almost certainly hated jopson bc of the promotion and it prolly contributed to his decision to mutiny’ thing.)

5. cdv was nineteen that whole time????? <- i jest but you get the picture.

1) real shit anon, would kill to see him as a bitxhy old queen omg 🩷🩷🩷

2) for sure! when he's shaking in ep10 before tuunbaq arrives... like my heart 😢 but yea fear & ego (fego...) being big driving forces for him is fun to ponder. rip des voeux you were still over a century's time away from the world even beginning to understand and know how to help people with PTSD.

3) dont be afraid anon, just start the tape /ref LMAO but also yea if you want to mention anything...... particularly spicy....... my DMs are always open or i can simply read&respond without publishing....... we can pass notes 🩷

sebarmo and thus by extension cdv has Great breasts. like truly a delightful handful, ive been just staring at photos of him recently and i think i understand royals of old falling in love with pictures. ANYWAY.

4) cdv 🤝 jopson: dying in ways intrinsically upsetting to human nature.

5) genuinely his age makes me so sad like he wasnt even fully cooked... experiencing the horrors distinctly less equipped to handle them than most people on that expedition. like to my 27yo ass Thats A Kid. like goddamn........

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

Definitely you have watched but still I wanna ask, have you watched the video “Fire” by Omeleto? For some reason I found it to be so motivating. I’m curious about your thoughts

I have seen it! I enjoyed it. It's an unusual premise for a film, but is really impactful considering it's less than 15 minutes long. The only thing that bugs me about it is Ewan's voice - I guess smoking and age hadn't yet mellowed out his voice, because he sounds like Devvo the Chav lol (a Fat Pie creation from the early 2000s, in case you aren't aware)

[pomodoriyum]

someday im gonna write a fic or make fanart of (redacted) taking a nap with (redacteds) corpse cause hes in shock and grieving

[grub-s]

in heartbreaking news our handsomest ruck is being traded to port adelaide and i’m devvo

[lunanebulosa]

Quanti uomini "femministi" scenderanno in piazza per protestare dopo l'assoluzione del figlio di La Russa per stupro?

"Ma non evfiste la cuvftura devvo fstupro in Itafvia ! Cofva difvci! " 🙈🙉🙊

No, no: ci sono solo padri di merda in politica che fanno di tutto per far assolvere i figli dal reato di stupro. E ci riescono.

[Qui sotto ⬇️, in foto, una scimmia che non è mai scesa dall'albero.]

[luckofthecorpse]

I was devvo I missed out on that printing of the Osman Spare tarot but when I was at Marty's I got to see his deck and it ain't that good and very unfinished

Made me feel better about my own tarot

[battle-acs-official]

Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. Devvo's unhealthy desire to be the "cool totally-not-a-non-commital-centrist, how do you do fellow magas" type does annoy quite a lot of people. I just watch his scripted vids. Those are typically alright, if not about as spicy as mac & cheese. Never heard about this with Spooky, but I imagine Naomi isn't very happy about that. XD

Hope Kirsche stomps his ass, then! Maybe he'll clean up his act (and his gut)! XD

Hey, the fuck's this im seeing about beef between Kirsche and Dev? Gods forbid I like TWO internet people without them fighting...

i know her and Pippa ribbed him a bit about being a lolicon during the whole Opera GX weirdness but i don't know anything beyond

[itshawoof]

What are the casts' pronouns?

Hihi Anon!

I go by He/They

Haru goes by He/They

Stormynoir goes by He/Him

Devvo goes by He/Him

Mimi goes by They/Them

Grandjohn goes by He/Him

Emily goes by She/Her

I just listed the people in episode 1, I'll update as we get more people (if I remember)

[theironrepository]

Devvo Did Nothing Wrong

It recently emerged that Christian Webb, longtime collaborator of cult internet figure David Firth, lost his job as a primary school teacher when it emerged that he was the man who portrayed joke rapper MC Devvo, a sort of one-man Goldie Lookin’ Chain.

The reasoning cited for this decision was Devvo’s vulgar lyrics – that is to say, nothing Webb did while on the clock, acting in his capacity as a teacher. Are we to believe that this is reason enough for a man to lose his livelihood? When the likes of Marshall ‘Eminem’ Mathers, Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj, vulgar lyricists all, tell children to stay in school and study, it’s usually seen as a fluffy feel-good thing. Webb actually put something behind those words – or at least, he did, before some pearl-clutching official sent him his P45.

(Further, unlike the works of Em, Ye, and, um...Min, Devvo’s brand of vulgarity was always so ridiculous that nobody could construe it as sincere.)

One might suggest the vulgarity is compounded because Devvo is an offensive stereotype of the British working class, which he is – but so too were Ali G and half the characters Matt Lucas and David Walliams portrayed on Little Britain. Sacha Baron Cohen, Lucas, and Walliams have, to my knowledge, faced no negative consequences in their careers or otherwise for what was, when all’s said and done, greater displays of bigotry than anything Webb ever turned out.

(Lucas and Walliams, in fact, regularly blacked up – in the 2000s – and Cohen is likewise no stranger to a touch of boot-polish.)

I mention Sacha Baron Cohen with good reason, since a pupil’s parent was quoted as saying  “Everyone always said he was a brilliant teacher and I can see why people will stick up for him, but at the end of the day you wouldn’t want to have Ali G as your kid’s teacher”. A fairly naive argument – Jon Hamm, star of Mad Men, briefly worked as a teacher, and by all accounts didn’t spent that time drinking, smoking, and whoring.

Had Webb taught classes in character as Devvo, he’d have been fired long ago, and would probably be in prison. But, and I don’t know how this eluded the parent in question, he did not do that. Reality and fantasy remain as separate as ever. It’s curious that it’s usually children we reckon have trouble telling the difference, since the people who get worked up over works of fiction are almost invariably well over the age of majority.

A better argument would have been that this revelation could reflect badly upon King Edward Primary School, and upon Webb as a teacher. This sort of thing has always been applied very arbitrarily. For instance, when Henry Kissinger, the man behind the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Chile, gives a speech at a university it’s usually seen as a badge of honour. Put old Super K’s misdeeds in verse form, and apparently it’d be a different story.

Further, it’s been about ten years since the height of Devvomania. This is not some cold case, or Operation Yewtree-style investigation into historic sex abuses, this is a man who appeared in silly videos on the internet. Any reasonable statute of limitations on that expired long ago. Nonetheless, Webb himself kept his stage persona quiet, which raises the question of exactly which employee of King Edward Primary School recognised their colleague as MC Devvo – and how, exactly, they then introduced the subject to their superiors.

This is a fairly clear case of the Streisand Effect, that curious paradox where attempts to stifle a story expose it to a much wider audience. Nobody knew King Edward Primary School was employing the man who was once Devvo until it came out that they’d fired him because of it. Had they done nothing about that revelation, it would have generated barely a ripple, because the idea that people will settle down a bit and get a real, non-rapping job when their twenties are over isn’t particularly controversial. ‘Where are they now?’ Well, in Devvo’s case, he is (or rather, was) a well-liked teacher, good for him.

The broader point here is the chilling effect this has upon freedom of speech. Being a UK resident, Webb is perhaps lucky to not be facing actual criminal charges for having created material people found offensive (although those laws only ever seem to be used against the working classes – had Devvo not been a character, he would likely have received a hefty fine). This is at least not the actual legal system clamping down on speech. Nonetheless, it’s the sort of creeping authoritarianism that is the death of free and open societies.

In its way, this is even more insidious than state censorship. The justice system, at least, is open to the idea that people can change. The administration at King Edward Primary School appear to believe, against the evidence of their own eyes, that Webb could not – that his time as Devvo should hang around his neck forever, as a mark of Cain.

Many have condemned this kind of non-state censorship, although the focus in that regard is usually on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, neither of which have been at all shy about trying to stamp out stuff they disapprove of. With bodies both public and private trying to effectively regulate our personal lives, it begs the question: where does it end? In an increasingly politicised world, will we see banks freezing the accounts of anyone whose opinions they dislike? Will trains and buses refuse to stop for anyone who whips up too dank a meme? Laugh if you like, there’s probably a long list of these being circulated in the halls of power in Beijing.

Most great art has the potential to offend. The last thing we need is the artists behind it hesitating to create or publish it, with the fear of it coming back to ruin their life years later in the back of their mind. Even if it’s not great art they’re creating – even if it’s downright awful art – forcing them to not do so carries a far greater and more terrible cost.

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

Yeah I did know, it was so crazy Devvo was all the rage back in the day. I'm from Scunthorpe so pretty close to where he came from haha gold old memories from secondary school.

I’ve been to Scunthorpe! I was meant to go to a festival there with some friends, but it got cancelled and we couldn’t get a refund on the Air BnB, so we went anyway. Was an interesting weekend lol