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Ok so the first time was so fun so:

The gist of it is: he quit acting to become a plasterer

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Ngl back when I was in the thick of the great gender troubles of '23 I remember writing in my diary (now deleted) about the mad gender envy I got from him. Not a trans guy like I thought I was then but I still think I would give total they/them audaciousness in that fit, there's something enchanting about that flat chest little waist combo he's got going on. Putting that aside, If only he could figure out what happened, perhaps he could find a way home...

Gender envy is so ridiculous because what do you mean I'm actually sad that I don't look like a detective played by John Simm who was in an accident and woke up in 1973. Is he mad, in a coma, or back in time-

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It's a year to the day since I finished Ashes to Ashes

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Fenchurch East as Miis (ignore the bespectacled they on the far left)

He eepy

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Soon we will have done all of Pinterest 😔👊

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NOT IF I TAKE HIM FIRST!!!

look at him.. so small and minding his buisness.. i'm about to take him from shaz and ray

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Ok it's soapbox time

Gonna preface this by saying I don't think this is like, an actual problem of moral failing or whatever, I know it's a joke, this is just my pet peeve

But the fandom thing that really gets on my nerves is 'girl washing' in straight shipping fandoms. I'm not talking about aus where the male partner is changed to a cis woman or transfem headcanons. I'm talking about that thing fans do where they go 'wow this ship is actually so gay' or 'he's such a girl/lesbian to me' about a straight cis ship/man because... he's nice to his girlfriend. I know it's all fun and games. But I near exclusively ship 'straight ship where the gender roles aren't conservative' and I feel like I've seen this a bunch. And y'know, I too like to distinguish myself from those shippers who ship 'capital H Heterosexual strong man weak women (tm)' ships, and I am guilty of saying 'malewife' on occasion cause its funny, but I think this trend goes too far. It's not even like these guys or these ships are radically gender nonconforming- the men respect and love their girlfriends and are willing to subvert some of the arbitrary and toxic heteronormative standards... and that's it. It basically just seems like this happens to guys who are 'nice' and that's it- and 'he's nice so he can't be a man,' 'They are equals so it must be gay' puts a bad taste in my mouth I can't lie. Like it doesn't actually come off at all subversive when you think about it, it's just the Tumblr.com flavour of restrictive gender roles, and lowkey still kinda heteronormative in a way. (Plus the opposite never happens to the women which is because of the yikes connotations but it's still a double standard)

Once again I know it's all jokes and I'm probably reading wayyy for far into it. I think it rubs me the wrong way cause I have a vested interest in it as a nonbinary ex-straight- a.k.a I bristle at any instance of gender being assigned by stereotypes, and also these ships are a form of fantasy for me. I'm not saying you can't say it, or saying those who do are bad people (I don't think that), just having a moan. (Ultimately it's not at all big deal)

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Another redraw, but it needed a little refreshing :)

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Yeah, I remember watching series two and going 'man Gene Alex and Ray are getting these interesting episodes and characterisation, Chris is a bit two but I'm not really sure where they're going with it' then episode 7 happens and it's like 'oh shit' cause everything they're doing with him just clicks into place really satisfyingly. It's a perfect twist cause you can't see it coming at the time but then it really makes sense and you remember all the red flags earlier on. It made me go back and rewatch the rest of the series again before the finale. And totally about him learning from it, for all his 'chris-isms' he's much more mature in series three both with his relationships and work, as a result.

Season 2, ep 8 ATA

Just watched S2EP8 (and 9) of ATA and what the fuck, i don't normally cry over shows but seeing Chris so upset and regretting his mistakes actually broke me. He's been my goat since ep1 of LOM due to him just being such a polar opposite character to all the others. ATA has brought him so much character development i loved him even more and then they create S2EP8 and oml the character depth was insane, links to previous seasons and breakdowns of trust was insane. Ngl i had half expected it to be Ray cos of the whole Masons thing buut CHRIS. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Man i am not ready for Season 3, shits about to get real i feel it in my bones

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Man that twist fucking changed me seeing it for the first time. Unbelievable stuff yet also it makes so much sense, definitely the best thing in the first two series and a great final arc to send off that era of the show, cause series 3 is pretty different from the first two

Regarding series 3.... be afraid, be very afraid....

Season 2, ep 8 ATA

Just watched S2EP8 (and 9) of ATA and what the fuck, i don't normally cry over shows but seeing Chris so upset and regretting his mistakes actually broke me. He's been my goat since ep1 of LOM due to him just being such a polar opposite character to all the others. ATA has brought him so much character development i loved him even more and then they create S2EP8 and oml the character depth was insane, links to previous seasons and breakdowns of trust was insane. Ngl i had half expected it to be Ray cos of the whole Masons thing buut CHRIS. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Man i am not ready for Season 3, shits about to get real i feel it in my bones

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Chrishaz shipper culture is feeling kinda guilty for how much you love them together because the only reason they even met was because they died senseless, violent deaths at the hands of a system that mistreated them and deserved so much better from life 😭

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when you get an idea for a fic but you know you’re going to have to really take your time with it in order to properly capture all the little details and plot points and themes you want to convey, but also you’re an impatient bitch who wants to write out and read that fun story in your head right fuckin’ now

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when you get an idea for a fic but you know you’re going to have to really take your time with it in order to properly capture all the little details and plot points and themes you want to convey, but also you’re an impatient bitch who wants to write out and read that fun story in your head right fuckin’ now

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I wanted to do a little something for the 15th anniversary of the end of Ashes to Ashes :)

Alex Drake you'll always be a queen 🩵✨️

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sooo, apparently in 2010 i started some project that involved me drawing A2A characters as puppets and i don’t know why i never finished anything of it because it was a really fun idea???

but here is as far as i got anyway haha… i still love the concept