We're not broken, we're just bent...

Old as the WV hills. Current fannish obsessions: Bucky/Steve, (with a large helping of most everyone Marvel) Past obsessions: Clint/Phil, John/Rodney, Daniel/Jack, Methos/Duncan, Krycek (Krycek: the little black dress of fandom)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[transformativeworks]

[romanceyourdemons]

this is my first time in the pacific northwest. we drove through a forest so wet and foggy you couldn’t see the bends in the road ten yards ahead of you and it straight up felt like a horror game until we emerged into a sunny valley with a rainbow over it and then we went to a taco bell and in it there was a guy dressed like a hot dog and a guy dressed like hamburger. is it all like this

[filmnoirsbian]

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

[filmnoirsbian]

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

[filmnoirsbian]

I'm literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

gshsjb

[leveragecentral]

Breanna Casey in The Cooling Off the Mark Job (S03E08) LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION (2021—)

[sunthoon]

Project Hail Mary fans after finishing the book and the movie

[taro-jpg]

[ID: four panel project hail mary comic.

1: a panicked man points at the giant screen on the wall where there are three intersecting red lines and cries, "Ms. Stratt, MULTIPLE petrova lines have been found in our solar system!"

2: Eva stratt says, "impossible. get me a better view." Someone replies, "zooming out scope for full visibility!"

3: same view of Stratt but with a cast of red light.

4: zoomed out view of stratt standing in front of the screen, showing the AO3 logo glowing in the stars. Strat says, "good god."

end ID.]

[thememedaddy]

[tlirsgender]

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

[filmgifs]

THE MUMMY 1999 — dir. Stephen Sommers

[ryebreadgf]

yayyyy

[jomiddlemarch]

[goodieprocter]

I spent almost an entire work shift drawing this tooth-rotting fluff

featuring the Eridian Welcoming Committee courtesy of @justcakethanks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

One thing I love about Babylon 5 is the idea that humans got out there into space and found out we were actually the least melodramatic motherfuckers in the galaxy.

Like okay, you've got the species whose rulers live their entire lives in a dark room with no furniture to symbolise their commitment. The people who directly equate hair circumference with social class and get super angry if all six of their penises aren't accurately depicted on an action figure. The reptilian marsupials who will force a guy to become the central prophet of a new religion whether he likes it or not. The celestial entities who are so obsessed with being mysterious they pretend they can't breathe normal air and wear fake spacesuits everywhere they go.

Even the minor species are like this. The Roswell grey type guys who literally communicate only in crop circles. The ancient beings who will make you wait four hours for them to answer a phone call and then just say "Zog" and hang up on you. The species that apparently consists solely of ten of the same guy, and every one of them starts every conversation with a comment about how much it sucks having a menial job.

Imagine being the first human to meet any of these. You would have to immediately go back to Earth and sign up for a series of Shakespearean improv workshops.

[alpacazappa]

Randolph Mantooth. September 19 1945 - July 9 2026. Rest in Peace.

So sad.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬, '𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲?' 𝐍𝐨. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞?"

In memory of television, screen and stage star Randolph Mantooth who passed away on July 9th, 2026 at the age of 80 at a hospice facility in Ventura, California following a lengthy illness. Born Randy DeRoy Mantooth on September 19th, 1945 in Sacramento, California, he started acting in high school and received a scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he changed his stage name to "Randolph". After appearing in a few well-received plays in New York, he returned to California where he quickly became a popular and well-known staple of 1970s, 1980s and 1990s television, racking up a long list of acting credits. Best remembered for his starring role as Firefighter Paramedic John Gage on the NBC series Emergency! (1972-1977) and for his stints on the soap operas Loving, General Hospital, As the World Turns and One Life to Live in the 1980s and 1990s, he also made guest appearances on many popular TV shows during his almost sixty year long acting career, including Charlie's Angels, Battlestar Galactica, Diagnosis: Murder, MacGyver, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, L.A. Law, Baywatch and Sons of Anarchy.

May he rest in peace.🕊️

[katara-stan-club]

my mom and I are doing an "oops all Garak" run of DS9 and it is so bonkers how during Our Man Bashir it's like Alexander Siddig and Andrew Robinson went "how can we fuck without penetration on this show" and acted accordingly

[ghostbees]

Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, MD, Late of the Army Medical Department

[lamardeuse]

Baby's first slash fandom

Finding the 1980s classic The A-Team available for download the other day has got me in a sharing mood, so if you're interested in checking out the first fandom I wrote m/m romance for over 20 years ago (christ on a bike), the first season is available for download here and the second season should be uploaded in the next couple of hours. After that, I'll have to rotate through the other seasons but I'll reblog when I have 3/4 up (and 5 if I can get it in).

What is the A-Team? Well, there's a thorough breakdown of the premise and main characters here if you like, but long story short there was a spate of one-hour action shows in the mid-Eighties that tried to make the American Vietnam War vet into a hero. Yeah, I know. If you can get past that (and fair play if you can't), this one always struck me a little differently.

When I was watching it in its original run at fourteen (and perving over George Peppard), I didn't pick up on just how much the show was aware of its own OTT-ness. In a lot of ways, it's a cartoon - but everyone involved knew it was a cartoon, and played to that in a hundred different ways. There were a lot of jokes and laughs and nods and winks. As an example, here's George in drag showing the baddies who's the boss ass bitch:

Not only that, it was surprisingly anti-establishment and left-wing for an American action show during the Reagan years. The enemies weren't 'street scum' as was standard at that time, but evil capitalists and rednecks. In one ep, for example, the Team goes to the aid of protesting migrant farm workers by robbing the rich landowner's banquet, pelting his minions with cabbages, and helping the workers all over the valley organize a union. The show was utterly ridiculous, but it wasn't without merit, and it was definitely smarter than it looked on the surface.

And then there are these two. Templeton "Faceman" Peck (Dirk Benedict) and HM "Howlin' Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz). The stars of the show were definitely Peppard and Mr. T, but as the show went on and it became clear they hated one another's guts, the writing featured Face and Murdock more than I think it would have otherwise. This worked out well for some fans, because these two had chemistry up the wazoo. When I first watched it, I couldn't quite figure out why I loved watching them so much, but when I stumbled across some fic nearly 20 years later, I finally got it. And then I wrote some of my own.

(Oh, and if you're a fan of whump, these two will not disappoint. They even recycled a particularly whump-filled Starsky & Hutch episode to give them an opportunity to angst over each other).

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right