Made in Czech Republic

Stargate lover. Huge Wraith fangirl. Fanfic writer. Naughty fanarts creator. I still dont know what I am doing here. 

[all-mighty-yaoiyuri]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Dad, Dad, I know you said not to disturb you, but brother just — Baelor: Sweetheart, it's not the right ti --- Maekar: Fuck off. And learn how to knock! (Well, someone definitely didn't lock the door... and two old dragons are not happy about it.)

[noah-wyles]

'i don't like pairing'

'i hate this fandom'

'i don't want to read noncon/dubcon'

'i don't like 'x/y/z' and i shouldn't have to read it'

'i hate this character'

'i don't want to read explicit stories'

a resolution for you:

[peoneys]

I have a thing for babies but you guys know me 🥺

[solgarmr]

(take this very loosely bc i indulged in an aperol spritz before the event began and was going through Something Homosexually Charged the whole time the interview went on but) things Bertie Carvel said tonight at the Italian Global Series Festival event in Rimini:

• he used to LARP, got his first sword at eleven years old (he used to do stage fighting in drama school and absolutely loved it). playing Baelor and standing in a muddy field wearing an armour brought him right back to those happy times

• he's very proud of Baelor as a character and of himself for having brought Baelor to life. he said that if he were to put the characters he's played in a line-up, Baelor would stand out because that's him, that's Bertie's face and he seldom gets to wear just his own face. He actually prefers to be just himself

• Baelor is very dear to him. the world needs to see heroes and people who show up and do the right thing, now more than ever

• literally waxed poetry about Peter Claffey. said that acting with him was incredibly easy because that's what happens when the people you share your lines with are good. said that Peter and Dunk share a lot of similarities, that Dunk resides in Peter's comfort zone as much as Baelor resides in Bertie's and that made the acting feel natural

• the first thing he asked to the costume department when they did the armour fitting was to have a flap somewhere on the armour. front and back. this dude istg

• he likes playing political figures, especially if he can slip into their minds and build something recognizable that creates a connection between the audience and the "hidden" actor. he was asked if there's a particular politician he would like to play and replied that he usually prefers to be offered a part without him manifesting it. he also misses the selection process and wishes he could get back to experiencing some good old anxiety from competing to get a part

• his family is two generations deep into political journalism. his grandfather (scottish, btw) and father used to write papers about England's political affairs and went on about some hours-long speech politicians used to hold in Parliament, how those men used to take a drink to strengthen themselves before hearing said speech (he mentioned 1947? It was a whole papa beaver situation and it was late, some details about this report are foggy. Forgive Me) and his grandfather asked about what kind of drink it was so that he could have a scoop. the story ends with people resigning and both his grandfather a father dying of a, quote unquote, broken heart

• he was asked something about managing his characters after their story ends and if he imagines their lives after he's done playing them and. he said. that this question made him think about what happens to the letters and e-mails you write but never end up sending. the ones sitting in your drafts. what happens when you delete them? do they stay in the cloud somewhere, is the trace of their existence gone forever? he doesn't know if the afterlife exists but he does keep on loving the people he shared a life with, and the same goes for his characters

• he loves playing Dalgliesh because he's an interesting man, he was dubious about whether the people needed another detective but he got to understand that yes, people love following a detective because we love seeing a mystery get solved. he questioned how come we as creatures on earth think that having a cup of tea and watching a detective solving crime on the telly makes our whole night (he declared himself guilty of being part of this ritual). he actually directed two episodes and needed to work around the library of sound cues that were already been composed, so he got to also stand on the other side of the camera and he's proud of himself for having taken that risk. he defined Dalglish as poetic, deeply sensitive

• when he was asked why he played two characters in The Crown, he laughed and said he needed the money

• he misses the theatre. extensively talked about favoring the theatre over filmmaking because the first demands a slower process, one that counts the audience as an integral part of the play, whereas filmmaking is a fast game, actors don't know which takes are going to be used once they close a set so they have to do the best they can as quickly as possibile. theatre means growth, experimenting, trial and error, and he loves the highs and lows of it

• two wolves live inside of him: one that wants the script to be the only sacred text he refers to when playing a character and the other that researches to the point of obsession. when movies or shows find their original source in books, he sometimes reads them and sometimes doesn't because he doesn't really know how to manages the conflict that grows inside of him when something gets changed for the sake of a screen adaptation. he's worked with directors that were open to changing the script once he brought up a detail he liked from the project's source material, but he tends to avoid doing this. he needs to do proper research to get something in his guts to switch and click when he plays political figures, though. but yeah, he sways and touches both ends of the stick, depends on the part

• "every part you play is political. and if it's not, i don't know how"

and now i really need to go to bed bc i'm exhausted and writing in english after midnight turned my brain into mush but before i do. let me share this picture and the story behind it.

picture me standing right next to this man. politely waiting for my turn to thank him for spending his time with us. literally waiting at his side. the translator (an exceptional woman btw) shows him something on her phone. he fishes his own phone out of his pocket. he's got a hot pink phone case. opens the case. pulls out a pair of what i can't even define reading glasses. they're pince-nez. clear. puts them on and they're there, just sitting on his nose. unbelievable.

oh and he was wearing an embroidered shirt. also, like, you know. big hands

[littleoneamanda]

#savestargate

Jack and Daniel :)

[strmdrem]

hubby dead down gone

[apathetic-revenant]

“oh no, my audience has begun to guess the big twists of my story and are accurately predicting what will happen!”

incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go

correct response:

[thebourneultimatum]

can someone elaborate on the “make hoax” and “post angry tweet about “leak”“ part. i’m stupid and don’t understand things

[apathetic-revenant]

sure!

(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)

I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.

now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.

hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:

…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).

it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.

personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.

plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.

and now you know!

[notaplaceofhonour]

if your audience guesses the ending of your story

don’t:

change the ending

do:

gaslight them

[hammersanvil]

They're calling him the most loving and patient brotherhusband in Westeros

[hammersanvil]

Choose your fighter

[autism69]

[crayonbug]

[lanimaluu]

[blanchcz]

Mer!Cas | Siren!Cas

Thanks author Nachsie for writing Destiel fanfic that’s actually fun to read and genuinely inspiring. That dark siren/Mer!Cas from their pen was exactly the kind of thing I needed to wreck my back while drawing 😄

Highly recommend this fic to everyone else—honestly, anything by Nachsie is worth it. The fanfic this artwork was inspired by can be found here: For i'll swallow you whole

[blanchcz]

Hello Mermay! For the first time I have something to share! :D <3

[4everfanclub]

Can't quite decide if I like the lineart or colouring more, so here's both :)

Day 4 of Stargate Women Week: Elizabeth Weir. Particularly, the Episode(s) prompt

[rbny28]

念願の敵ピアクリが描けましたーーーー！！！やったーー🤍

[bluecoolr]

Here comes big bro

[I like to think they went a little insane during the battle of the redgrass field]

[ghostlybfgf]

Oh they def went crazy.. THIS IS AMAZING

[puryartist]