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[dangerouspostphantom]

The Beauty of The Man in the High Castle

"NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOT A DEFENSE!"

"Every damn day he’s on TV."

[naughtsuitableformain]

Rewatching The Man in the High Castle and instantly have a new blorbo. Figure there won't be much on tumblr but there's got to be SOME content (show had 4 seasons, streamed on Amazon, based on Hugo award winning novel by Philip K. Dick).

There are maybe a total of 5 photos and gifs. Forget any fanart or other fan created content.

[prxyvol]

10 Years...

Damn, this fandom is dead...

So for its ten-year anniversary (January 15, 2015), I wrote and posted (lately I might add, January 16) a Joeliana fic about grief, loss, and moving in between the end of S3 and S4.

Looking at ao3, the last Joeliana which was also an obergruppana fic which is unfinished.

So I say this as a final goodbye to Joeliana; a final fic depicting Juliana's grieve and final goodbye and conclusion that we deserve after the shithole that was S4.

enjoy reading.

once again, thank you high castle, especially Joeliana, and the people who played them (Alexa Davalos and Luke Kleintank) and to Frank Spotnitz (responsible for writing some of the best mulder/scully scenes) who unintentionally created the best ship in the show. Thanks to Joeliana I have became a shipper and more importantly, a writer. It's been fun but's time to move on, Joeliana may have never been endgame but I'm glad that we were able to see that they do have that love and could've had it all if it wasn't for fate.

[spookyxmingos]

I love this jacket from this scene.

[thatoneangrytuga]

These two deserved a happy ending, im still pissed about how it went

Yooo, sorry yall for taking so long to finish that Colorado drawing i was doing cuz i got major tests for my most important classes coming up haha

Speaking of colorado, as a lil treat you can have some TMitHC doodles i did in my school-mandated-sketchbook during lunch and geometry yesterday (they inacurate asf but i tried ok 😭😭😭)

Also, REFERENCE IMAGE!!!!! (From Season 1 Episode 4)

[dangerouspostphantom]

I love him

I adore him

I'd kill for him

gina : speak kido :（＾ω＾）

[jgffkek]

the man in the high castle fandom… where are you… please i need you 😭😭

[dangerouspostphantom]

The Beauty of The Man in the High Castle

"If it was Heydrich,"

"Where is Juliana Crane?"

"Please."

"All right? I beg you."

[stark-and-lightman]

Rufus Sewell & Chelah Horsdal // 2024

[quietresistance]

continued from here for beta editor ╲ ( @colpapabear )

                    three simple words and yet, they tore into her heart with the stripping force of a nuclear blast, only worsened by what followed.   the weight which settled onto her shoulders felt impossible to stand up against, her forehead falling against the center of his chest.   each breath burned in her lungs, katherine closing her eyes against it.   if it wasn’t for his hold on his hand, she might’ve given into the shudders which threatened to take her down, but at least that she drew some strength.

                    ❝  i’ve done it once.  ❞     even as she whispered it into his wool, she knew he would tell her once was all it took, a fact she was acutely aware of, or that it hasn’t been only once.   it had been… since she realized she was pregnant.   behind his plea, she could almost sense the pain, tears squeezing out from her tightly shut eyes.   the last thing she wished was to do the same to their daughter, to him, as had been done to her over and over and over.

                    her whole frame quivered as she drew a deep breath, striving to right herself, one truth appearing in her mind.     ❝  this is me picking my battles, rob.  ❞

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

not the Ted Lasso book i've been waiting for but i'll spend an audible credit on it when it comes out.

i just don't think i'm quite the target audience - not particularly after critical analysis - that has been done in many many meta posts and fics and discord discussions - and not sure how much of the story remains actually untold, what with the amount of various media i have consumed in between the seasons

the Ted Lasso book (or any show/movie book, for that matter) of my dreams is a big beautifully made coffee table book chock-full of love for the show, preferably by the people who made the actual show, but not necessarily. basically give me a companion book. a printed equivalent of dvd extras, especially since we're not getting any kind of extras.

i mean, look at Schitt's Creek. look at Labyrinth. ... i ... wait, i'm going to need a minute to go hug my books. flip a few pages. watch a few scenes.

(still not sure why i got that TMITHC book but hey nobody here is getting kicked out because of my poor business decisions and non-existent impulse control)

see you in November, i guess.

[neikikardartv]

Watchmen (2019)

Alternate History Roundtable

 What is the koinos kosmos (common world) and mutually assumed knowledge the series shares with viewers? 

The show Watchmen (2019) is set in the universe of the comic with the same name but takes place 30 years later. The “koinos kosmos” is that due to having the superhero abilities of Dr. Manhattan the US was able to win the Vietnam War in one month and Nixon instead of being impeached became very popular and amends the constitution to allow presidents to run for more than two terms. He then remains president until the late 80s when Robert Redford was elected president. The show starts in 2019 and Robert Redford is still president. He is very liberal and has passed The Victims of Racial Violence Legislation which grants a lifetime of tax exemptions for victims and descendents of racial justice in America, known as “Redfordations”. This and his other liberal policies have led to more white supremacist backlash against these victims and a white supremacist group known as The Seventh Cavalry is at large in Tulsa, Oklahoma where the show takes place. The history of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is central to the plot.   

How does the series depict cultural hybridity through the altered history’s role in reflecting and reshaping cultural assumptions? 

In the beginning of the first episode cultural hybridity occurs when the main character is showing her son’s class how to create a Vietnamese dish she learned how to make while living there. What starts out seeming just like any normal presentation in our world changes when the teacher asks her if she was born before or after Vietnam was made a state? In the background of this shot there is also a poster that states “Four Important Presidents” with Robert Redford and Nixon being the top two.

The setting of an elementary school classroom is a great place to demonstrate the cultural hybridity as the cultural changes from the altered historical timeline are subtly showcased through the educational set design and questions asked. 

How does the series depict the power of understanding world-creation? 

A sacred “text” that is seminal to world creation in Watchmen similar to “Grasshopper'' in The Man in the High Castle, is the lore of the superhuman “Minuteman group” that was the originator of the events that led to Dr. Manhattan and the altered history of the Vietnam War. The influence of them is implemented in the show as a recurring motif via a made for TV special that dramatizes the story of the Minuteman through propaganda. Segments of the special are shown in the series via the TV or the audio serving as a narration for scenes of the present day masked vigilantes. Similar to TMITHC the world-creation being shown through the visual media demonstrates that “[w]what we understand to be ‘real’ or what ‘truly’ happened is determined by what and how we see, read, and hear”(212).

In what ways do formulations of the past, present, and future engage with prospective realities of what might have been and what might be in the series’ alerted history? ​​

The series focus on how the altered history impacts race relations in America is interesting because there are many different ways the show could have explored the previous Watchmen universe events on the future of that reality. By focusing on the Tulsa Race Riots, an event that occurred before Watchmen’s timeline got altered, the show is anchored with something canon in both of our realities. This makes the fictional white supremacy plotline of the show all the more real as it has roots in actual events. While the show is not meant to take place in the future, the altered world is still very “rooted in the present of its time of creation”. The show aired in 2019 fresh off of Republic president Trump where open displays of white supremacy took place often with things like “The Unite the Right” Rally. By focusing still on white supremacy in a universe where an extremely liberal president has been in place since the 70s the show demonstrates that racism is still a systemic part of the present and history of the US no matter the historical changes and liberal policies that have been enacted since the timeline changed.  

How do multiple realities or contemplations of multiple realities merge with questions of authenticity? 

Similar to TMITHC Watchmen also deals with, ‘“a litany of duplicities” within the reality that merge with questions of authenticity. In the first episode we meet the chief of police that is in charge of the task force against the white supremacist group​ The Seventh Cavalry.  The episode ends with him being found violently hung from a tree. While he and the main character who also works for the police (named Angela played by Regina King) were very close, someone at the murder scene calls into question the chief of police’s nature. Angela then investigates him and finds a Seventh Cavalry Klan hoodie in his closet.  This uncertainty and lack of authenticity within people who seemed on the right side initially flips the new reality of the world even more. Making it hard to know who is really who they say they are, and who the bad guys and villains really are. If even the chief of police who openly is against racism is secretly a white supremacist in this world that has a more liberal facade, then the authenticity of the cause and what people claim to champion is all called into question. @theuncannyprofessoro

[isabellinne]

the man in the high castle + that room

[thatoneangrytuga]

Ayyyy ty for tagging me!

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Im tagging uhhhhh, i dont know may people on here to tag sorry, but if you wanna do it then just reblog or sum 👍

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Was tagged by the very cool @minecraftbookshelf thanks a lot! Totally am not freaking out about being noticed by you what do you mean

Last song I listened to: I was watching an animatic with part of a song with the lyrics "call me fighter, I'll mop the floor with you. Call me lover and I'll take you for a drink or two". If that doesn't count Something Just Like This by The Chainsmokers

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[jgffkek]

saw the og and immediately thought of them…

[seriousasajoke]

"I'm sorry," he said, his face flushing with shame. "I shouldn't have done that."