Welton B. Marsland

Writer in Melbourne, Australia. Obsessions old and new, music, funny shit, animals, queer pride, punk pride, railing at the world, & some art thrown in. If you like Reece Shearsmith you're probably my people. Website: www.weltonbmarsland.com

[weltonbmarsland]

What kind of dumbarse falls suddenly into a pitch black depression because their blorbo is guesting on a show they don't like?

This guy, apparently. Me. I'm the dumbarse.

This is, of course, very much A Me Problem (and I'm happy for everyone who's deliriously happy), but I am going to have to be a grown-up and find some workarounds that will get me through the next few months without being in a constant state of depressed/stressed/embarrassed/appalled and/or raging. Basically I need to remove myself from the equation as much as possible.

So, with that in mind, I'm needing to do a tough bit of re-curating of my fandom spaces. If you happen to notice that I've quietly unfollowed you, please don't take it as any sort of personal slight - it's just me trying to keep my mental and emotional health in as good a condition at the moment as I can. Yes, I can filter the show from the feed (and have done for ages anyway), but a solid wall of "this post contains filtered content" after "this post contains filtered content" (which was already happening at times before the new trailer came out anyway) does my head in only slightly less.

Will I want to watch R's scenes eventually? Yes, probably. I'm sure he'll be brilliant, because he's so quick witted and he'd obviously blitz any remotely arty challenges. Though I'll be needing a trusted pre-watcher to give me an honest heads-up about the content before I go in. I can't watch someone I love -particularly a fellow anxiety sufferer- be humiliated or get into a stress rage for other people's entertainment (including my own).

I absolutely hate feeling like this. But there it is. Mountain out of a molehill, first world problems, blah blah blah. But the anxiety reactions are real - even when they're set off by a (near)universally loved bloody game show.

[kitmarlowe]

Alles klar.

[photo-of-reece-everyday]

[kosmogrl]

mutuals, out of curiosity what season were you born in and what's your favorite season?

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Shirley MacLaine and Gene Kelly in the 20th Century Fox/J. Lee Thompson comedy What a Way to Go!, 1964. Miss MacLaine's glamorous costumes in the movie were designed by Edith Head and her seventy-two hairstyles and wigs created by Sydney Guilaroff.

[yuripuppy]

Where are yall writing?

[thekitofit]

tumblr stop screwing up the picture quality challenge bc this is fucking appalling

[ buy me a coffee? / shop ]

[ghostowlattic]

Mossy Pig by sarcoptiform on Flickr.

[weltonbmarsland]

Fell asleep in the loungeroom last night, in the middle of rewatching some IN9 episodes. Woke up around 6am, noticed I'd received a tumblr Ask. Eyes and brain fuzzy, I gave it a quick read before shambling off to bed for a few hours. Later today, got up and set about answering the Ask. Confidently blathered on and hit post. Only to realise 10-15mins later that the ask had been asking about An Historic Figure and I had confidently blathered on about A Different Historic Figure Entirely. What a numpty! Deleted it quickly in morbid embarrassment. :D

My apologies to @yonderghostshistories for the fuck up. I'm gonna put my answer back on here underneath a Read More.

Hiya. "Wise Wizard of the Pembersmith fandom" is delightful and snort-laff inducing, thank you for that. :D

My first, superficial, thought on this hypothetical was that Reece probably doesn't look enough like that cunt to ever be considered for it anyhow, and my second, also superficial, thought was that he's probably aged-out at this point anyway. But when I thought about that a little more... the cunt lived into his late 60s (in freedom, the cunt). And when I considered *that*, I found myself thinking about a scenario where a potentially really interesting movie/series could be made about the Jewish nazi hunters in the post-war years (there have been projects about them, of course, but often not terribly biographical - Laurence Olivier's character in The Boys From Brazil, for example, is based on Simon Wiesenthal but it's nothing like a biopic). Mengele on the run in South America is maybe good fodder for a tale, with the emphasis put on the people trying to catch him, rather than making him the protagonist. In such a scenario, I can see judicious use of flashback moments (which could utilise filters/effects to set them apart starkly from the main story and thereby allowing Reece to age-back-in to those scenes where Mengele is a younger man).

He'd be brilliant. Naturally. :)

He has played a couple of real-life monsters, of course. Murderer Malcolm Webster on telly and continuing stain on the world Vladimir Putin on stage - reviewers seemed happy with his performances. (Oh and Matthew Hopkins was a real-life monster, too, but every time Reece "goes there" he's always very deliberately riffing on Vincent Price's performance from the 1960s, rather than giving his take on the man and his activities.)

As for how fandom would deal, I agree with you that we'd do our best, generally, not to blorbo-fy the monster. I can't recall Malcolm Webster, for instance, being blorbo-fied around here, so I think I'd be fairly confident in trusting us to do the right thing. There's always the danger someone somewhere will be unthinking and gross, and all fandoms have idiots in them somewhere-or-other, but I'll go ahead and blow our trumpet that we're a pretty damned fine fandom, all things considered. I'm sure we'd cope!

Thank you for dropping into my Inbox and I hope I've said soomit sensible. :) [Narrator: they did not say soomit sensible]

#thanks for the Ask!#hypotheticals#portraying monsters#real-life monsters#reece shearsmith is rather bloody good and i like him a normal amount

[leagueofno9]

They’re so adorable 🥰🥹

[daily-steve-picture]

[weltonbmarsland]

"Wise Wizard of the fandom" makes rookie error on post and forced to delete in embarrassment. News at Ten. X-D

(in my defense, I read the original missive around 6am after having fallen asleep in the loungeroom whilst rewatching IN9 eps, read a name wrong, stumbled to bed with scenarios in my head and then confidently blathered on about the completely wrong person)

(hilarious)

[weltonbmarsland]

It is my melancholy duty to inform you all that the wikipedia entry for "Notable Alumni" of a certain school in the north of England has doubled sometime in the last year.

I'm so pleased I wrote a particular story when I did, so that that "You're it. You're their entire list." was correct at time of publication.

Should've taken a screenshot, goddammit.

[*pings @fecklesheckleshacklesschmeckles bc i think you & i were the people most delighted at that detail*]

[leagueofno9]

Can’t believe it’s been 7 months since stage/fright ended. I miss it so much 🥺

[bananaheathen]

i love discovering new music. but there's actually nothing like rediscovering old music. like, hello me from 5, 10, 15 years ago. so good to see you. same heart, i see. god, i love you.

[mads-schubert]

Knightly sticker design concept

[littleglitterdust]

The guilt of being the daughter who loves her family but breathes easier when she’s far away