Multifandom Graphics Challenge | perfectopposite ↳prompt: The X-Files + Mulder’s Basement Office
The Beejcage™ commission for @funkasarusrex inspired by Our Man Bashir (since they both share that weird headboard prop in the background!)
close-ups under the cut<3
one day Mulder will get to kick an alien and not just another vast government conspiracy
the year is 2024. I am watching The X Files 1x08 with my blissfully offline boyfriend. We reach the scene where, in confinement, Mulder and Scully examine each other's backs for alien marks. My boyfriend, who has never seen the show before, makes an amused noise and utters a strong contender for understatement of the year:
"I'm guessing there's fanfiction about these two"
M*A*S*H | 5.06 - "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan"
no "other/see results" option bc JUST CHOOSE ONE
YOU TOO, GENDER-CONFORMERS,
EVERYONE!
I read this as "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" and thought "oh that's definitely my gender"
His favourite toy
There’s so many things that can remind us of the things that we feel ashamed of. For me, six months doesn’t pass with at least one nightmare involving the cast and crew of the TV show M*A*S*H.
swamp rats: I’m sure most of you have heard this, but maybe some of you didn’t grow up with NPR playing in the background all the time and haven’t. the episode is called “Cringe” and it is all about memories that make you cringe every time you think about them. the whole episode is great, but Act II is a story that public radio superstar Ira Glass did about a time when he was just a little baby journalist and ambitiously decided to go and interview the M*A*S*H cast, and it went disastrously because he had no idea what he was doing, but everyone was really, really nice about it. it’s awful, and funny, and nice to hear all the M*A*S*H actors being kind to poor little Ira, even when he gets their characters’ names wrong –
Ira Glass: OK. Well, where should I start? Of all the characters, Father Mulcagy seems to have remained the most constant over the years.
William Christopher: How are you pronouncing my name? Father? I have to hear you pronounce it to make sure you pronounce it right.
Ira Glass: Mulcahy?
William Christopher: Oh, that’s good. Good, good. No, that’s fine.
he still manages to get some good material out of Alan Alda, who can spin naive rambling questions into gold.
transcript for those who prefer to read instead of listen
The link there didn’t take me to the transcript, so here is an updated link if anyone wants to read instead of listen
happy stab day! let’s discuss the themes over lunch!
I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful
if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.
but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.
christ, he's good.
the eliding of “you all” to “y’all” while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. “bear with me” said exactly like i’ve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.
the x-files: a summary