#howard charles

[puffinsplaces]

Howard Charles

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Oooooo my boy got a wild look in his eye

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AYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE GET TO SEE HIS 🍑🍑🍑???!?!!!?!??!?!?!???!!??!!

i have simply passed awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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now watching fightland and ohhh my goddd it's so good to see (and hear that honeyed velvet gravely voice 🥴😩) howard charles in a major role again. i can hardly contain myselffff

[tvbrittanyf]

Before the #Fightland series premiere, we speak to star Howard Charles about what motivated him to step into the complex role of Maduka "Duke" Kilroy. Learn more about Charles' great work in the #Starz drama in our latest interview.

Howard Charles teases his stunning role in Starz's Fightland: 'I felt his pain'

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I'm watching BBC Muskies as background for my cross stitching projects and I NEED to talk about the Prodigal Father

FUCK

Thank you, that is all.

Just kidding, it's not. God, this ep. Porthos eps hit hard. Howard Charles, baby, how do you feel about joining me and my wife in a three-way marriage? Are you already married? They can come too, we can get two king beds and nail them together, I'm cool with that.

Anyway, GODDAMMIT. Porthos reining everything in. Having to keep his cool when his evil half-sis and her shitty husband are spouting shit at the dinner table. Like, we like to play Aramis as the peacekeeper and Porthos as a bit of a loose canon, but ARAMIS is the one who loses his shit first in that situation. Porthos offers Bro-In-Law a way out, keeps cool, and only puts the beatdown on him when he has no other choice.

And he wants to believe the Marquis is telling the truth SO BADLY. He WANTS to believe, but there's always just this tiny little bit of doubt in his face. He's been lied to by powerful men too many times, and the verrrry subtle little look he gives the Marquis when he shows him the fake picture of his "mother". It's really quick, but once you know what it means OH BOISE. He knows something's up.

The TEARS in his eyes when he talks to Treville. AAAARGGGGGGG. Howard, baby, we have room at the dinner table for you.

AND the B-Plot with Aramis and the sex trafficking ring. IDK if the writers or Santiago Carbrera had Aramis's 'grew up in a brothel' backstory in place yet, but IF THEY DID. Oh boy. There's a reason Aramis has a knowing look as he kinda... looks around... the room with all the sexy paintings. There's a reason he knows EXACTLY how to play his presence off to Madame LaVesque. He knows what sleazy johns talk like. He knows what brothels look like. NOW, we can't be sure how much of s3 was planned by this point, so it could be that Aramis just knows brothels because he spends a lot of time in them, he's got an active sex life, our boy does. BUT I think it could very easily be read as Aramis recognizing certain key elements of the whole situation from his childhood, and responding based on that.

AND ANOTHER THING: d'Art DOES NOT DESERVE Constance. He gets better, I guess, but God I just wanted to slap him SO MUCH in the ep. I think it's good character writing, tho. He's such a little shit.

[illustrate-her]

En-garde!

Back in the day, before I got married and made a transatlantic move and had a kid and then made another transatlantic move and then had another kid, and got old and exhausted, I used to work a 9-5 job in the animation industry. At the time, production on the kids show I worked on was “shut down”, basically meaning we were not actively animating new episodes, but because it was a juggernaut of a show there were constant emails and phone calls and a ginormous merchandise machine to oversee - which became my job. (I had previously worked pretty much every other job bar animator in that studio).

All this to say I spent about two years alone in an office in central London with not that much work to do, just keeping the lights on. And during this time I wrote a lot of fanfiction but I also drew A LOT. I found that drawing on the back of old print outs that were destined for the recycling bin took the pressure off and I spent specifically the summer of 2014 really enjoying this loose, doodled look that could easily become too fussy and precious if I refined it too much, or spent too long on it, or drew it in expensive sketchbooks. It was one of the happiest and most productive periods of my life!

I don’t draw so much anymore, it’s so hard to find the time and energy - hence why I’m reposting stuff from over ten years ago rather than new doodles - but one day I’d love to get back to this rich productive place and start drawing every day again. (Maybe when my kids have left home, so, like, fifteen years? Yeah.)

[geek-ramblings]

Fightland Teaser Trailer

A disgraced boxing champion is released from prison and returns to London to take revenge on the crime family that betrayed him.

A disgraced boxing champion is released from prison and returns to London to take revenge on the crime family that betrayed him.