#the beginning of an ERA truly

[calumthoodshands]

I ask no questions as your colours take their hold / As my darkness turns to gold inside

5SOS5 Track 1: Complete Mess

[darcyolsson]

last heartstopper chapter EVER............... my brain cant comprehend it. there's literally nothing i've ever kept up with as diligently as i have, as long as i have, as i did with heartstopper. nick and charlie are like real people to me at this point. theyre my close personal friends who update me of their whereabouts three times a month. what do you mean their "story" is "going to end" i'm not sure i believe you alice oseman whoever you may be

[hyperactivewhore]

Listen I absolutely adore Elena, but it's absolutely insane to me how she was okay with murdering Kol, knowing that would kill hundreds of vampires who did absolutely nothing to her, for a cure that sounded straight out of a fairytale.

[carefulfears]

rain king!

this episode has such a special place in my heart because i was taking “intro to weather and climate” when i watched it and i was exhausted after like 7 hours of doing weather lab homework and came home to watch txf and the episode was about weather lol. and it makes me laugh so much

the rain king is such a classic classic x files episode in that the setting and the case and mulder’s theories are all very silly but it just has such an enjoyable energy to it, and it has a cast of supporting characters who are so memorable.

season six is talked about a lot as being the season of the “fanfic tropes”, and the rain king is one of the more prominent examples, making it also an example of what makes season six stand out to me so much. season six is a twisted romcom, with every trope warped by the overarching narrative of the season.

this episode follows a man whose unexpressed feelings towards the woman he loves have built up so much over the years that it’s spilling over into rain. it's spinning around them in tornadoes. it's freezing into hail.

mulder and scully are mistaken for a couple by everyone they meet in this little town. they have to share a motel room. there was only one bed. the climax of the story is at a dance in a high school.

and mulder spends the night in her motel room doing nothing but talking about cows, then gives dating advice to a meteorologist the next day. scully gives a speech in a bathroom about falling in love with your best friend. about how those are the best relationships, about how a switch just flips, and suddenly they're the only person that you could ever imagine yourself with. and then goes out and stands awkwardly next to hers.

these are the most delusional people in the world, you truly can throw every trope at them and it won't make a dent.

they'll stand under the downpour of repressed love, feel the consequences of harbored feelings, and hop back in the car to the airport. it's so delicious.

and don’t ever forget the added context of s6, that through all of this, scully wants to have his babies SOOOOO BADDDDDD

[mermaidsirennikita]

my message to any series writer, whether you're writing a TV series, a book series, a movie series, I don't care

before you continue a series you ended previously

ask yourself:

do I actually have a substantive reason to continue this, or am I just reviving characters who had their definitive endings already

[piplupod]

"but people look at me funny if i wear a mask :(" awesome well i've been shouted at on the street several times and purposefully coughed or sneezed on more times than i care to remember and had someone shove me into the wall of a building when a large group walked past me on the street and also i've been nearly knocked into a store shelf multiple times as ppl purposefully shoved past me inside grocery stores and yet i am STILL WEARING A MASK. u can handle a few funny looks. it will not kill you, but u know what does kill ppl? getting covid (or even just other sicknesses that u can prevent the spread of by masking!)

[dailyeca]

sometimes i think that i should be putting him in more complex compositions and dynamic poses and cool outfits and color palettes and pretty rendering and detailed backgrounds and more characters and story-driven comics and personal meaning

and then im like. that's the fucking devil talking. dailyeca is and always was supposed to be a low maintenance blog where i draw an eca a day and this eca can be the most scribbled motherfucker in da world but as long as there's a daily eca then i've succeeded. when i have time to add cool shit i can absolutely do that but even if he's just a sketched up bust shot at 11:59, i'm doing enough because that's just dailyeca babey.

[galacticlamps]

actually ascension needs its own post since that's the one with the most details to speculate over and im starved for soho talk so i will talk to myself if need be

First the cover again, because I kinda can't get over it:

my only thing is that I had been hoping we might get Lizbeth on a cover again since she's never been on one of the boxsets before, despite being the 2nd person credited on all 4 of them (even if that's just alphabetical, still, she's the only one of the four main characters who never makes the cover)

But letting that go...

I know we already kinda knew the brief for this one but damn I didn't expect it to go quite this hard. Maybe that's just because the Parasite & Ashenden covers were (comparatively) similarish to each other and I was so pleased with Unbegotten's, and then got so used to it as the placeholder for Ascension while they kept postponing it, I wasn't expecting anything this colorful or detailed or with what I can't help but register as Fun New Outfits even though these are still like, pretty damn basic as far as costumes go. Still, it's a different vibe from everyone in suits and trenchcoats on every cover, technically. (Oh the woes of being an audio fan such that two characters owning sweaters actually does qualify as new information)

On top of just being visually delightful though, I know we knew religion was gonna be a fairly big part of this one, but I didn't actually expect to get quite this much of it - though I'm glad of it for a number of reasons. The BF twitter already made the ineffable joke so I don't have to, but also yeah I did very much spend all of season 2 episode 4 of good omens half convinced Samuel Barnett & Dervla Kirwan were about to pop up around any given corner (if you will go around being gay supernatural and horrible at your messy bureaucratic jobs in midcentury soho then I'm sorry, this is where my brain's gonna go) - so, fuel to that fire. But in terms of actual important things, at least one of my Soho wishes looks to be being granted because we have a Rev Edward Folgate on the cast list, which must mean we're finally meeting Norton's father, even if his mother & brother don't appear (which they could, technically, I've definitely seen BF not list all the doublings on their cast tabs before). Religion, domesticity, and the nuclear family are all things that absolutely fascinate me when it comes to Norton's character, so getting any amount of story involving his father & his church is something I've been actively hoping for for a long time now.

(I will say I'm a tiny bit bummed Saffron Coomber isn't on the cast list to play Mia again, but I kinda figured she wasn't going to be since Greg Austin's Armitage, who's making his first recurring appearance after originating in Unbegotten, was listed ever since the boxset was announced - presumably if she was also returning, that would've been handled in the same way. But since Unbegotten ended with Lizbeth and Mia going on a date, I still held out hope. Who knows though, maybe things did go well for them and Lizbeth just has a better work/life balance than Norton so she can date someone without them getting dragged into every scifi plot. I know that's not a very common accomplishment for any Torchwood agent, but a gal can hope)

At this point I know I'm completely in the realm of speculation & even wishful thinking, but I'm really really hoping we get some more clues as to Norton's overall timeline in this one, and I have a feeling that even if there's nothing as direct as dates given, the events of a plot like this one are going to heavily influence my personal interpretation of it.

To say that life & death are major themes for the soho crew feels wildly reductive, but even by Torchwood's standards and taking into account its origins as a piece of media with Jack Harkness & his newfound immortality at the heart of it, the living/dead status of this bunch has always been fantastically up in the air to me. Obviously Ghost Mission introduced Norton as kind of a ghost before revealing more obvious ghostly characters later on to which the title might have been referring, but his being from the past did beg the question of his survival into Torchwood's present era all the same, which Outbreak later alludes to much more directly, and his habit of showing up via hologram in multiple stories only further obfuscates any certainty we might have about where & when he definitely can be said to be alive and well. Then you've got Lizbeth and Gideon both being effectively 'brought back to life' via paradoxes that prevented them ever having died in the first place. Again, they are very very far from being the only Torcwhood characters this happens to (for a sprawling EU, it's really rather impressive how often & in how many different ways Torchwood as a whole manages to circle back to being about like. chaotic undead queers at the end of every day. though I suppose that consistency is part of why I keep falling in love with its different iterations again and again). That's without even getting into the question of Norton's dubious fate in God Among Us - and I say dubious because I know some people take that to be his ultimate death, but I personally think that reading something as vague as that as having any kind of finality rather goes against the spirit of this whole world/series, not just because I want him to live. (There are obviously other ways to make him survive/reappear, but I don't see this as a River Song scenario where we can safely assume one of his earlier-released adventures had to happen at the end of his personal timeline). But wherever God Among Us falls for him, he does very much meet God in it - or at least, a god, since the sentinel in Unbegotten is also described as a god of sorts, and even if he doesn't ultimately have the status of the god Jacqueline King is playing there, Unbegotten is still full to bursting with ghosts/undead/came back wrong/echo characters to continue underscoring that life/afterlife theme.

So all things considered, even allowing for the fact that we know Norton's twin hobbies are lying about himself and abusing time travel to suit his own ends/ever-shifting alliances, I find it difficult to believe we could get through a whole 6-part boxset about religion & death without something providing some kind of compelling evidence about where this adventure fits in among his other run-ins with apocalypses and gods and ghosts and dead-but-still-here characters/creatures, so I'm very much looking forward to any further exploration on that front.

And lastly, and least intellectually, I really want to know what the hell 20th-century Torchwood's obsession with Reginalds is. Reading through the cast list, I had to do two separate doubletakes over the character 'Sir Reginald Peebles' - firstly, because I had Reginald Rigsby on the brain, this being Soho (and the other Troughton brother being so active on BF's releases for this same month) - and secondly, because reading this in conjunction with the announcement for the July monthly adventure in which the new main Torchwood guy of the 20s is apparently called Sir Reginald Dellafield, there was a brief moment where I took that monthly release to be a tie-in with Ascension. I don't expect it to be, but damn. was it really so popular a name?

anyways, catch me thinking about those stained glass windows for the next couple months I guess (and knowing Torchwood Soho, for a long long time after it comes out as well lol)

[bagelwizard]

Hi erm I just wanted to say.

Thank you for the silly doodles you send through my inbox. They make my day <3

ghk. AUGH. thank youuu hhhhhhHH-

anything for you stardust really!!! you're one of my favorite artists that i follow on here, kirby is like my biggest hyperfixation and seeing all your awesome art and silly AUs has been one of my biggest inspirations recently. i really mean that.

at first i was a little concerned about just posting my art wherever, but i was honestly kinda surprised by how friendly and inviting the general community is, lol

always stay silly... :saluting_face: :saluting_face:

[limielle]

technically there is still art that is going to come out soon from me probably but i wanted to post this bc i am busy making end of year presents for my family and playing mass effect so i am not sure if i will be on time actually

[heartbeatkaleidoscope-new]

So can we finally admit that Taylor so blatantly favoring certain fans on here back in the day made the rest of the fanbase feel like shit, or nah

[bonnielunkas]

let's say hypothetically. i am so normal about these two

[saifahname]

I'm graduating in september and ALSO seeing Louis Tomlinson live. What a month that'll be

[allmpa]

Dorcas is the most fashionable person you’ll ever meet, they’re always wearing the most amazing outfits and jewelry: she’s unmatched. Marlene dresses like Adam Sandler everyday.

[pwuddlecat]

i actually miss writing all that shit for stranger things and interacting with all my followers ): that was such a fun time. i always thought maybe i just fell out of love with the show, but i think the people in that community and on that account ruined the experience. anyways. i might go back and re-edit some of my older stranger things works and post them again here, only cus i miss them so much

[lucksea]

i love ultraman .