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howicked · 11 days

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Ghosts behind the scenes!!

Happy Five Years Ghosts!!

On this day five years ago Ghosts broadcasted its first episode on BBC One not knowing how popular it would become and how much it would change people’s lives.

In honor of this day Kiell put three pictures on his instagram story

Two of them being the first picture he took and then the last picture he took. Plus a bonus one of him doing the roof scene in About Last Night

Again Happy Five Years Ghosts we will all miss this show tremendously and we are so proud of how far it’s come. Big thank you to the cast,crew and everyone who was apart of ghosts and worked on the show you guys are incredible 🤍👻

Ghosts is available to watch from start to finish on BBCIPlayer

#omg belated happy birthday ghosts !

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howicked · 11 days

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On 16 April 2009 a little show called 'Horrible Histories' aired for the first time ❤️

#happy birthday hh !

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howicked · 4 months

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always love it when the Captain says a line that's almost throwaway, and then you can hear a crack running through your heart. happens with Ben too

#bbc ghosts spoilers #the way it could mean anything too #did cap wish his father was the same?#did cap wish to be a father but it’s too late?#or both??

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howicked · 4 months

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GHOSTS - S05E07 - A Christmas Gift

#bbc ghosts spoilers #say what you want abt the special but they built up kitmas and patcap #(trust me)

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Will be dear to us once more.

#bbc ghosts spoilers #FAWKKKKK #WAS NOT READY TO LET THEM GO

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#happy thanktival to those who celebrate

YONDERLAND (2013 - 2016) | 03x09 "It's the Thought that Counts"

#yonderland #debbie maddox #elf #the elders #six idiots #them there #*it's the thought that counts (03x09)#yonderlandedit #comedyedit #filmtvcentral #userligaya #dakotasvibe #HELLO I'M BACK #HAPPY THANKTIVAL

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howicked · 10 months

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bbc ghosts but they’re all Creatures™ from Philippine mythology

*the english translation of the filipino terms are boldly formatted

**i’m not an expert on this area, i just loosely describe and relate the characters based on what i know

**blood, guts, gore, and horror in general ahead, the illustrations are also not mine

• Kitty - diwata or boringkantada or a duwende

can’t decide which works best for kitty: a filipino nymph, a beautiful supernatural woman or a playful hobgoblin.

diwata is umbrella term for beautiful goddesses, and the most popular ones are dayang makiling, mariang sinukuan, and maria cacao. i think kitty would be mariang sinukuan— a kind and generous goddess who stopped bringing fruits and harvests to humans when they became unsatisfied and greedy.

a boringkantada is definitely not boring: it possesses beauty both physically and in its voice. when someone is lured by its singing, it instinctively assumes the person is about to rob the treasures it guards and viscously attacks them.

the hobgoblin that loves to play, a duwende has the tendency to be extremely jealous and may either shower gifts to the ones they like and play tricks on the ones they don’t.

*i also see pat as a duwende, and i’ll elaborate that on the next parts.

• Fanny - white lady or a dalikamata

i mean, she’s already a grey lady so this one’s not far-fetched. basically, a white lady is a ghost dressed in a white dress, particularly an urban legend that resides in a Balete tree in Quezon City, Manila. it is also known as the Weeping Woman or the Wronged Woman in other beliefs.

alternatively, i also think she would be a dalikamata— a Visayan goddess with many eyes that can see the past, present and the future. i relate the all-seeing, all-knowing attribute to fanny’s nosy attitude.

• Mary - albularyo

derived from the spanish term herbolario, these folk or witch doctors are either believed to have supernatural abilities to cure illness better than modern medicine or hated for being a pseudoscience and/or a witch. screams mary to me. She knows every herb and ointment, can track the roots of what caused the sickness, but also has the capability to harm those who wronged her. ultimately, she does her best to help others.

• Annie - mangkukulam

rip annie you would’ve loved putting curses on men. she would’ve been a powerful witch. there are many other terms for filipino witches according to respective regions, but we call them mangkukulam in our area. plus, these witches believe that their spells do not work on the innocent, their targets often being thieves and colonizers.

side note: i actually have this oc from a story i once tried to write wherein the albularyo and mangkukulam are girlfriends because of the contradicting capabilities, and the idiots themselves told me mary and annie were gay.

• Pat - nuno sa punso or a duwende

a nuno sa punso is a dwarf goblin that will harm you if you anger it by kicking its house (an anthill) and/or pissing on it. if modern medicine cannot cure you in any way and you have disrespected him, you may need to ask for his forgiveness or seek help from the albularyo. “tabi-tabi po” or “excuse me please” is a phrase you say to show respect to beings like this.

my first reason for nuno!pat was because of his height. but it is also depicted as a tiny, angry grandpa and a protector of the earth— which reminds me of pat.

on the other hand, the duwende is a hobgoblin that likes playing with children because of its natural playful attitude. this one’s not that easily angered unlike the nuno sa punso, but can still hurt those it doesn’t like.

• Captain - kapre

the way i giggled when i thought of cap being a CAPre. kapre cap,,, i feel like the funniest person alive. the photo makes it funnier— just some local kapre with glasses with a tree behind it

a kapre is a cigar-smoking, tree-dweller. traditionally, it presents itself as a hairy, muscular, and tall guardian/protector of the land that can also shapeshift into a beautiful man to invite people to follow them (especially in the woods). hence, it can make you run around in circles as you forget memories of your life.

side note: thomas can also be a kapre because if a kapre likes you, it will follow and protect you from your enemies for life. a former filipino president (emilio aguinaldo) is believed to have outlived his enemies because he had a kapre amulet.

• Humphrey - manananggal or pugot

a manananggal is a self-segmenting vampire. its upper torso has wings that help it fly and hunt humans (particularly pregnant women and their babies), while its lower torso stays behind. there is a belief that you can actually kill it by finding its lower torso and putting salt or crushed garlic in it in order to prevent it from uniting with its upper torso. i’m thinking about this image of humphrey’s head having wings attached behind him, and his tudor outfit already spells out vampire to me.

or if we’re gonna be canon compliant, humphrey is already a version of a pugot— a headless creature from the ifugao. but i’m putting this on a maybe part because there are many versions of the pugot: some believe it is a version of the kapre, some believe it is a shapeshifting ghoul.

• Robin - aswang or sigbin or bungisngis

aswang is a broad, umbrella term for all cannibal shapeshifters. they appear as normal humans by day, and various human-animal hybrids by night.

i also see robin as a sigbin. both are seen as dog-like creatures that eat fresh, bloody, and raw meat. some believe that you can keep a sigbin as a pet that will protect you and even let you hop in on its back— but once you let it starve, it will always be a creature of the night that can eat you and your entire family.

robin would also make a good bungisngis because it is a cannibal one-eyed cyclops. its name directly translates to “one who giggles a lot”, which is why it is known for laughing and playing tricks. ironically, it is dumb enough to be tricked.

• Julian - bakunawa or engkanto

the bakunawa is a dragon serpent notably known for allegedly eating the earth’s seven moons. i’d like to think of that as a parallel to a politician like julian being enamored by the shiny power and wealth.

and because of julian’s charms, he would also be an engkanto— environmental spirits that presents to be good-looking and formerly known as a protector of the people but may also tend to be deceiving (much like of a politician).

• Thomas - tikbalang

this one’s peer-reviewed by a friend so i’m more than confident about thomas being a tikbalang. it appears to be a half-human half-horse creature known to lead travelers astray as they live in the mountains. it is known to be mischievous when it play tricks on humans (a tribute i might also relate to julian or robin), so make sure to wear your shirt inside out or stay quiet while in the woods to not disturb it.

unrelated but fun fact: if it’s raining, we have this belief that a tikbalang is getting married. (this phrase is potentially from the spanish when they believed that a witch is getting married when there’s rain on a sunny day)

#bbc ghosts #button house #six idiots #them there #tw blood #tw body gore #dakotasvibe #userligaya #alison obviously has a third eye #and mike would be the type to be very superstitious #he’d have salt and garlic ready #as you can probably tell #i’m very Normal about this #i’m very tempted to make this a gifset

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howicked · 10 months

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parallels between the Captain’s canon crushes & Pat

#bbc ghosts #patcap #[sickos meme] YES YES YES #AND THEN CAP’S LIL CRUSH ON MIKE #cap thinking mike would make a very fine soldier and admires his organization skills #and pat literally having those qualities!!!

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howicked · 10 months

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Jim Howick in YONDERLAND: Who's the Naughtiest on Set? (PART 2)

#yonderland #yonderlandedit #six idiots #them there #jim howick #ben willbond #martha howe-douglas #larry rickard #mathew baynton #simon farnaby #dakotasvibe #userligaya #how did they ever get anything done with him #but honestly same #it would be so fun to mess w ben #i despise this quality so much #RELEASE THE TAPES #alternate title:#idiots struggle to do their job because of one (1) goofy guy

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Jim Howick in Yonderland: Who's the Naughtiest on Set? (PART 1)

#yonderland #jim howick #them there #lord elder pressley #overlord giles #spencer the page #doctor hirsch #jimhowickedit #yonderlandedit #dakotasvibe #userligaya #RELEASE THE TAPES #i've spent days looking for a proper gag reel comp and there's NONE #neways look at him!!#actually love his spencer look #and giles is inherently gender bc he's an overlord #pov the quality's 720p but you're jim howick

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[It was] partly because of Bridget's work, and then the character is a departure from what I usually play – sunny characters. But at the heart of him, he represents an extreme reaction to progressiveness and [the idea of] a different future. Like many people who attach themselves to these views, he’s just desperately sad and lonely and angry. I think that's at the heart of him, really… just sort of naive and ignorant and not genuinely hateful. He represents that kind of person who hasn't experienced any change and is desperately interested in his environment. (x)

Jim Howick as The Verderer / Jim in THE CHANGE (2023-)