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Whatup TAD fandom, I bring a quizzy thing with which to torture yourself!
In previews it says it can't be found, but I and others have successfully opened it in browsers so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Have fun making yourself make choices. (Spoiler: it's so difficult omg.)
Semi-inspired by @peach-pot's TAD bracket.
my bf has many interesting stories and observations from his new job as a 911 operator
my favorite is how meandering people are, even in the midst of a terrible emergency
they respond to “what is the emergency” with “well, the thing is, four weeks ago–”
and then he’s like “WHAT IS THE EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW”
and they’re like “so what happened this morning was, i said to my wife, i said–”
“WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING AT THIS MOMENT”
“oh i’m having a heart attack”
my second favorite is how specific he has to get sometimes
like, “what is your emergency?”
“i’m sitting in a pool of blood.”
“… is it… your blood?”
“yes i think so”
“do you know where it’s coming from?”
“probably the stab wound”
“have you been stabbed?”
“oh yah definitely”
In all fairness shock is a hell of a drug
#MedicalHistoryTaking
Slightly related true story from my family:
“911, what’s your emergency?”
“My house is on fire, but it’s just one wall and I have a fire extinguisher, so I think I can put it out.”
“Sir, please get out of the house. The fire engines are on their way.”
“I will in a minute, but I really think I can–”
“SIR. PLEASE. LEAVE THE HOUSE.”
“Fine.” [beat] “Okay, from out here I can see that the whole roof is on fire.”
“Fine.” [beat] “Okay, from
out here I can see that the
whole roof is on fire.”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
S06E05 Life Serial Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
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Joey Batey has read the books more times than Henry Cavill has. (3 times as of 2023 vs once in 2018.)
Henry Cavill himself has basically admitted that he wouldn't want to go up against Joey when it comes to knowledge of the books and both Freya Allan and Kim Bodnia have praised Joey for how knowledgeable he is and that he could "give Henry a run for his money."
Henry Cavill also hadn't even read the books and had likely only ever really played TW3 (and not even the DLC for it) when he first met with Lauren and, given that he thought that the books were based off the games, it's likely that he never bothered to google or wiki or research the franchise in any way (despite proclaiming himself to be a lore buff) as surely he would've found out that the games were actually based off the books if he had (or, y'know, if he had just been paying attention to the game credits as the books are the first thing in the credits.) Yet despite all of that, he's said this:
"I didn't even have the need to prepare myself for the role. Because I breathe, I live this universe every day. I already got numerous opportunities to think about this character while I was playing the games. My preparation was already made before the casting started!"
Meanwhile Therica Wilson-Read had played the games, she set out to read the books as soon as she had the opportunity to audition, she goes back and reads bits of the books if not the full series before each season, and she even goes on the wiki and watches youtube videos to refresh herself on the universe.
ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid
for reference this is the warning that was too hard to navigate, apparently
In my defense, I was 11, stupid, and English is not my first language 😭😭
You know what, in this case, the warning actually served its designed function.
The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
captain afab is honestly a very relatable character because whomst among us does not have some great beast that has eluded us all our lives. mine, for instance, is a decent night's sleep.
Ahab. I meant fucking. captain Ahab.
y'all are gonna make this a whole thing aren't you
top 5 things people have said in the tags on this so far:
Cismale is sending me.
"When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC
Her response to a very disrespectful question about HC at 1:04 is sooo telling, like compare this to how she talks about Liam and Joey and the rest of her cast members
She so wants to tell everyone to get over him already and the reasons why
(#exactly lol #same thing w anya #they may've said nice things abt him #but it's very telling comparing their enthusiasm talking abt him #vs the rest of the cast #not to mention how they'd both talk abt how humble and approachable he is during s1 press #then come s3 and they're like he's not open and emotional w us at all #and the best they could say was like idk he must have emotions though since he is a human right???? via @endiness)
exactly also the fact that i could never envision her calling either anya or joey purely by their last name and here she went straight to ‘cavill’ lmao like there isn’t any familiarity or friendliness in it
The original snake ancestor was a nocturnal, stealth-hunting predator that had tiny hindlimbs with ankles and toes, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Their results suggest that snakes originated on land, rather than in water, during the middle Early Cretaceous period (around 128.5 million years ago), and most likely came from the ancient supercontinent of Laurasia. This period coincides with the rapid appearance of many species of mammals and birds on Earth. Read more at ScienceDaily.com…
I need iguanamouth to draw this please oh my god
but who tied their little shoes
scoobies and dawn: idk buff its kind of shitty of you to work so much that you can’t hang out with us :/ that’s like.. really annoying :/ we miss you
spike: if i was crawling on my hands and knees through a burning desert and an angel offered me unlimited pints of virgin blood i would still rather lick the hamburger scented sweat from the back of your neck and if you asked, i’d let the sun turn me to dust
buffy: i think i’m no longer human, that’s the only way my feelings for spike make sense
god, i have been here only for a few months, but i can tell that spuffy fandom is genuinely special!
and not just bc it has been active and thriving for 25 years, but bc it's very different from typical m/f fandoms.
there is something i noticed about m/f fandoms - they always force normalcy and babies on the heroines and they always soften and simplify the heroines more than they actually are. so, the dynamic between the heroine and her male love interest within fanon becomes very heteronormative.
it feels like spuffy fandom is the only exception. not sure why, maybe bc spuffy was conceived with young millenials and fandoms today tend to be more heteronormative and puritan bc of the rise of the tradwife propaganda in gen z? it obviously has to do with the ship's canon dynamic as well but nowadays it doesn't matter if a m/f ship subverts heteronormativity in canon bc the traditional gender roles will be forced on it in fandom anyways.
like, the majority of spuffy fandom jokes that spike should be buffy's househusband in the sequel and they recognize spike as a "caregiver" and buffy as a leader in the relationship. it's so refreshing and i love it!
It's definitely not unique in my experience, but it is definitely A Thing™ in MF fandoms to try and make even relationships which are very much not heteronormative on screen more that way, and it's annoying. I really appreciate it when fic doesn't do that, and Spuffy leans really queer in this respect which is delightful.
"angel is a good guy!!!!" and yet i do not ever see him making any amends, reparations or even just action when it comes to what he did to drusilla and her family as angelus.
angel wants to be good but he is an inherently self-centered person. this is a trait inherited from liam, we see it crop up time and time again, like making decisions that impact him and buffy for the both of them without consulting her or his habit of centering his own pain/struggles over everyone else (see half the interpersonal conflicts in angel). part of his whole character arc is him trying to work through this impulse.
but the fact that he neither puts dru out of her misery (and everyone else's) or takes any true accountability for what he did beyond admitting he did it is telling. we see how in lie to me he can't even really look at her. it's easier for him to avoid the whole topic of dru and it just highlights how much of a self-serving coward he is. he doesn't try to help her or just commit to taking care of her as penance for what he's done. it's spike who does it and he does it out of love, and angel looks down on him for it.
angel can't stand dru and spike because they're reminders of his own evil and he's a self-centered coward. his whole story is about redemption but he can't even look dru or spike in the eye and acknowledge they are the way they are because of his actions and make an attempt at somehow doing something about it. i don't even need it to be successful -- i don't really think there is a way he could be successful considering all he did-- but it's the fact he fucking Did Something that counts. I mean SHIT even after he does his whole training montage and sets darla and dru on fire he doesn't even stick around to make sure they're dead. he admits he can't even do it.
I would respect Angel, his fans, and the story so much more if it was aware of this. But the show tries to position him as a hero and a tragic noir antihero at the same time, and those two things are not the same.
that is genuinely the biggest issue with his character. i have no idea what the writers room of both shows was snorting but they ruined what could have been one of the greatest anti-hero/villain characters of all time by desperately trying to fit him into the most generic hero character ever. it's like they were absolutely terrified of writing a complex character. when i look at angel on paper and then i look at him in action i'm just like "they massacred my boy! he could've been more compelling and they butchered him!!"
like this shit from ATS s1x8 "i will remember you" was just proof they fundamentally didn't comprehend angel at all and that if i ever wanted a good characterization of angel i'd have to claw it out of the fucking garbage myself
Doyle: "Not allowed. I'm just a lowly messenger, you're a warrior.. if your heart is pure - and I do this right.. (Puts some herbs in an urn) 'We beseech access to the knowing ones..' We may just survive. (Put a lighter to the urn and it fills with high flames. The arc glows and fills with light) You're in." [Angel steps through the light into a white marble chamber. Two glittery figures confront him.]
God yes, my kingdom for a version of this story where the narrative wasn't trying to gaslight us into thinking Angel was a saint, actually. Just let him be a terrible person who tries but fucks up and constantly gets in his own way because he never learns. Don't try to tell me He's Right, Actually, About Everything.
*screams into the void*
