#also liam is just

[frogenthusiastt]

when i get my hands on Liam O'Brien i'm making him pay all my therapy bills

like. LIKE. look at his face. the sudden surprise as jester invades his space and proceeds to RUTHLESSLY unravel and acknowledge his pain after the traumatic events of the day, the way he's so carefully tucked away all emotions and tried to move on without worrying the group. look how quickly the layers all crumble away, how emotional and vulnerable and small he looks, how for a second we see Caleb Widogast without all his layers. if i had any power at all to do so i would give this man a thousand oscars and then ask for a milion dollars to compensate for the emotional damage he has wrought me

#critical role #cr #the mighty nein #mighty nein edit #edit tag #caleb widogast #jester lavorre #widojest #but also FOUND FAMILY #fuck me man!!!! #liam o'brien #laura bailey #critical role edit #tm9 #tm9 edit #i need to lie down no joke this moment has haunted me for a whole day i havent been able to do anything else but think about it #baby's first edit btw i learnt how to use adobe rush just for this because it would not leave my brain it was like a curtain eating moth #cr2ep77 #tm9ep77

[flimsy-spine]

idiots, the both of them

#thiam #theo raeken #liam dunbar #teen wolf #teenwolfedit #twedit #thiamedit #theoraekenedit #liamdunbaredit #*tw #* #theo u r sooo smitten ilysm #almost didn't post these because it looked vaguely sped up #but apparently the scene is just. like that. #verrry quick #also i heavily color corrected and it STILL looks blue. jd you WILL pay for your crimes. we should beat him with hammers

[laurasbailey]

ONE CRITICAL ROLE SCENE PER EPISODE C3E10: Ghosts, Dates, and Darker Fates

#critteredit #criticalroleedit #fearne calloway #ashley johnson #matthew mercer #sam riegel #robbie daymond #laura bailey #marisha ray #liam o'brien #taliesin jaffe #critical role #c3 #~ #crscene3 #i know this is funny but also like #obsessed with the idea of fearne being this beautiful otherworldly woman who is wanted by all #but is actually super unlucky romantically #she needs a woman to love her but that's just one lesbian's opinion

[allisonjamaica]

that awkward moment when you lash out at your enemy-turned-ally-turned-anchor and he has the audacity to be patient and Soft™ instead of letting you pick a fight

#what to do when you fail to provoke the hot but previously evil chimera following you around like an attack dog #what to do when a hot but previously evil chimera stops you from murdering people #<< liam dunbar’s search history #but god that look liam gives theo in 6.17 when theo doesn’t react to his accusations #actually heartwrenching #also the fact that both of these are so halfhearted on liam’s part #like he’s trying to drum up the hatred he used to feel but it’s just. not there anymore #teen wolf #thiam #liam dunbar #theo raeken

[lesbiradshaw]

lovers’ quarrel <3

#in honor of dylan sprayberry confirming that they fell in love during this episode #this scene is so ridiculous when you really think about it like 😭😭😭😭 #liam didnt even really do anything to elicit this theo just decided to go on this little rant unprompted #who REALLY needed the reminder that theo raeken is selfish hmm????? #but also liam looks so hurt… my son with his conflicting feelings 🫂 #losers. #thiam #theo raeken x liam dunbar #theo raeken/liam dunbar #theo x liam #theo/liam #liam x theo #teen wolf #6.09 memory found #tw flashing

[4pp13-ju1c3]

this ONEs a real doozy!! (i am ill and will not recover. this series has left me irreparably damaged)

#dude the investigation spin off literally had me frothing at the mouth #i’ve been experimenting w all their designs recently so excuse any irregularities!!! #also can i explain to you how much i love the pen i used 4 all of these #applz artz #art #object show art #osc #object show community #hfjone #hfjone airy #hfjone scenty #amelia euler #hfjone amelia #hfjone soda bottle #bryce hansen #hfjone bryce #hfjone backpack #liam plecak #hfjone liam #sodascentpack #and technically just some #sodapack #too but guys i’m going insane they #they drive me insane #hfjone parker #parker robins #parker is going a little crazy!! #hfjone ava #ava ledger

[papertowness]

i’m so sorry but comedy peaked when the shameless writers made lip gallagher have anger issues and then decided he was absolute shit at fighting like you can’t get any fucking funnier than that

#i love him the more i think about him the more unserious he gets #like they really wrote this absolute geek who desperately needs to be diagnosed and had the meanest sense of humor ever #but they also made him the biggest teddy bear #and they expected me NOT to love him ???? #like let’s all be ASTRONOMICALLY serious here #i don’t have to cutie patootie sweetie bear cookie pie him he does it himself #boyfriend i fear #sorry for being overbearingly down horrendous in the tags again #he’s just the most perfectest character ever i don’t make the rules sorry #lip gallagher #phillip gallagher #fiona gallagher #ian gallagher #debbie gallagher #carl gallagher #liam gallagher #shameless #shameless us #shameless uk #lgbt #lgbtq

[essektheylyss]

out of context critical role spoiler

#this episode has EVERYTHING #critical role #cr spoilers #just know when Liam said Gelidon my soul fucking left my body lmfao #absolute PEAK moment. genuinely my favorite moment of the whole show which is SAYING SOMETHING #considering my soul ALSO left my body when trent said 'shadowhand' for very different reasons lmao

[chaosgenasi]

That was very well spoken, you know? Once in a red moon, you've got a really good speech just chambered in there.

#critical role #criticalroleedit #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #ashton greymoore #orym of the air ashari #liam o'brien #taliesin jaffe #basil.gif #cr3 #ashton #orym #bells hells #love when ashton just gets to go off love orym with the support love that last quote. chefs kiss #also it is a little funny that they're still having this conversation after. y'know. thull killed three party members skdjfhg

[ryuusea]

💐 / sherliam, flower language

when married to a guy whose mind palace only stores flowers with poison/medicinal value

I recently got a book, “Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to Victorian Language of Flowers” and it was fun applying it here! I imagine Liam knows Sherly doesn’t really bother to remember flower language, so incorporates Sherly’s knowledge of poisons/medicinal herbs for the fun of it!

#if liam wants flowers I imagine he also wants Sherly to have some fun with them too lol #imagine their apartment like some flowers on display at the window but then you see some ground up or in chemistry glasses #also imagine liam putting together the most unconventional bouquets with poisonous plants but most interesting meanings #btw one last note #cornflower + honeysuckle = true devotion to a loved one #yuukoku no moriarty #moriarty the patriot #sherliam #liam james moriarty #ynm sherlock Holmes #language of flowers #flower language #EDIT orz I just noticed I forgot to color in one lapel on sherly #I crossposted everywhere already too lazy to re upload

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

one thing that the (four oldest) gallagher’s have in common is that they’re all ugly criers. love that

#if only the writing for carl and liam was better then i could say this applies to all six #but idk #and also the ugly crying is literally just because the actors/actresses are insanely talented and are able to portray raw emotion #shameless #fiona gallagher #lip gallagher #ian gallagher #debbie gallagher #no idea what this is i just need smth to post LMAO

[phantomcellar]

Okay so like

Can we talk about how in Episode 7 we see a Drone named "Giam" as 017, but we know from episode 6 that Alice is 017?

Also Giam is a male name if my Google search was correct

So in conclusion, MTF Alice real thank you Tessyn for deleting Alice's deadname for good 🙏

#murder drones #murder drones alice #murder drones episode 7 #tbf it could also just be an error but that's way less fun so this is canon now #thank you liam vickers very cool

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

watching Liam O'Brien do a spectacular fantasy!German for dozens of episodes has impressed me so much and yet nothing could have possibly prepared me for the man starting to sing, of all the songs, "Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein"

the immersion! if you reached to the very back of my memory there'd be like ten folk songs there and this one, which we used to have to sing at 7:00 in the morning on choir retreats while doing squats for all the weekdays, would definitely be there. it's a silly ditty you've heard somehow exclusively in childhood, it's a little game song for children. If all else was tainted by your later life that song would probably survive, it's perfect

#it's also a really dumb song that you can use to make people learn the days of the week and probably the only one he knew but still!!! #like yeah the accent work is great #he's basically dead on on everything EXCEPT 'Scheiße' which is hilarious to me #but the overall mannerisms and stuff like the song is outstanding #and yeah the bar for foreigners doing a good german is... low #the bar for actual germans getting to play people that *feel* authentically german in foreign media is also low #but even outside of that i'm just delighted with caleb #critical role #liam o'brien #caleb widogast #the mighty nein #german

[deramin2]

I don't know how to really express this except to come across as a "kids these days" scold, but so much of the criticism of queerness in Good Omens would simply not be a thing if kids these days watched more 20th century queer media. Or more complex indie queer media in general.

People seem to want a show that's like the straight stories they grew up with but gay. Or the gay fanfiction they grew up with. But that's not really the tradition it's coming from. First off the novel was released in 1990. Queer film classics of the time are Dead Poet's Society (1989) and Torch Song Trilogy (1988). The TV miniseries Tales of the City (1993) wasn't made until 3 years later and it was so far out there it never had a huge audience. Philadelphia (1993) is also 3 years out and was basically the first big studio queer film. The first fluffy queer Hallmark-style romcom wasn't until Big Eden in 2000, a full 10 years after publication.

Queer stories from the time it was written were about complex and often fraught relationships between people who the world was trying to force apart. There is an incredibly strong tradition in queer films of relationships with no guarantees they will work out both in the face of their personal baggage and the weight of the world. Take a film like Torch Song Trilogy that's about the two great loves of Arnold Beckoff's life over 9 years and how homophobia shapes them. Both externally (especially Allen) and internally like Ed struggling with his bisexuality and being terrified of being publicly out. Written and starred in by Harvey Fierstein, who identified as a gay man at the time and only came out as nonbinary last year.

The Boys In The Band (1968 play, filmed 1970 and 2020) was a monumental moment in Broadway history where finally there was a play about gay men in their own words where no one died and very strongly showed that homosexuality doesn't make people miserable but homophobia sure does. But that homophobia also throws their personal lives into constant turmoil and none of them are in happy relationships, although Hank and Larry are devoted to each other in their own fucked up way.

"Relationships are complicated and hard to make work and sometimes a struggle against the odds" is an aesthetic of classic queer film making. Partly it was influenced by the Hays Code (although independent films were not bound to it), partly influenced by the rampant queerphobia in society at the time that was inescapable. But it's also an aesthetic choice to resist the banal and unrealistic relationship depictions of straight media. There are actual stakes to the relationship. Queer people were actively resisting a world that said "Romance is seeing someone across the room and instantly falling in love with each other and little conflicts happen along the way but ultimately they're destined to be together and everything is happily ever after." Recall that "stalking as romance" was a completely inescapable trope in 1980s straight romance films, and every goddamn movie was being turned into a romance film.

So queer people in film and television when they can make what they please have a long tradition of saying instead "People don't always realize the feelings they've developed for a queer partner right away. They may have reasons for denying those feelings that are both a reflection of the cruelty in society and of their own insecurities. People struggle with where they belong and their relationships reflect that. Loving someone doesn't mean they don't also drive you crazy and you might fight with them constantly. But that doesn't negate the love or that feeling that even if things aren't okay, they're better with that person around. But maybe that person can't stay around. The world may be against you. And also maybe you don't just want that one person in your life. Soulmates is a very flawed model. Sometimes the strongest love is a struggle with yourself and the world and your person. You have to overcome yourself first. Happily ever after is a lie. You may be happy for a while, and hopefully for a long while, but everything ends. And you have to be ready to love again. Also your platonic bonds are just as important and life-altering as your romantic ones. Sometimes those platonic bonds include fucking if you want them to. Real life isn't a bunch of platitudes and world-altering moments, it's daily work to better yourself and the world around you. Especially when things just fucking suck. But also remember to have fun and fuck the haters. People who don't support you can eat rocks and you should yell at them more to shut the fuck up."

That is a fundamentally different outlook on what a "good relationship depiction" looks like. Personally, I thought I hated romance movies and then I started watching queer romance movies and discovered I love them and watch them all the time. Because it turns out what I hated was relationships being shown that had nothing at all to do with reality and privileged incredibly toxic ideals. Finally there was complexity, there were stakes, and there were people who had to truly want to be together enough to fight the world for it and not because they happened to be there. There were people actually talking out their problems and looking for resolutions. (And sometimes that resolutions was "I can't fucking deal with this bullshit anymore and I'm out.") For the first time it felt real.

I'm an aroace trans gay man. Nothing about relationships or being in relationships has come easy to me, and the whole paradigm of straight patriarchal romance depictions makes absolutely no sense to me. It's completely alien. Queer romance stories actually feel human.

And that's the tradition Good Omens is coming from, even as it's being retold in 2019-2023 and hopefully beyond. Gaiman's work has always been based in that queer media paradigm. (I've been remiss and daunted and haven't read Pratchett but from what I do know his work also seems to sit more in that world view.) It's a beautiful cinematic tradition and it's baffling to me that people would resist it instead of embracing it for being honest.

And that's when I turn into a crotchety old man complaining about the youth not connecting with the history of their beautiful culture and instead begging for assimilation into a shithole allocishet media landscape that doesn't actually want them except for their money and has nothing at all interesting or valuable to say. But it's very funny (annoying) to me when people claim Good Omens is someone against queer culture when it's so thoroughly bathed in the best of queer media's storytelling traditions and what people are asking for is straight media with the serial numbers filed off. Like, stop being boring please and know literally anything about the culture the adults in the room lived through and were influenced by. The world didn't begin in 2015.

EDIT: I also want to add that in straight media arcs are linear. Traditionally in queer media arcs are cyclical. Queer media very often depicts people going around in circles relearning the same lesson over and over as they inch towards it sinking in. But every time they go through the cycle they gain just a little bit more enlightenment and slowly move towards a better place. From the comments this is an immensely important distinction. People don't actually have cathartic moments where suddenly all their past bad programming is shed and they saunter forward a new person with none of their old baggage. In reality people fall into the same patterns over and over even though they have had every opportunity to learn better. "People magically get better" is a trope of straight media that's an outright and frankly dangerous lie. Again, Good Omens follows the queer tradition not the straight one and it's depicted 6,000 years of that cycle. The world didn't end, and the wheel keeps turning, as it always has and always will. That's so fundamental to queer storytelling traditions I forgot to even mention it.

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #go s2 spoilers #good omens discourse #queer media #queer history #discourse #I have been a crotchety old man against the youths since middle school to be clear #if you don't know where you've been you have no hope of knowing where you should go next #I didn't sit all the way through deeply homophobic Brokeback Mountain or Tár just to hear people complain that honest rep is bad rep #This is also why I'm a critchety old man about most Critical Role Shadowgast haters #Liam and Matt have not only watched but copiously reference older queer media and Shadowgast is so clearly that tradition

[lesbiradshaw]

they were in love here [two characters engaging in hand to hand combat]

#theo letting himself get pinned just so he can flip it back around on liam he is soooo 😭 #also liams hand on theo’s chest and theos hand on his back . its so gay to have an arch nemesis #thiam #theo raeken #liam dunbar #theo raeken x liam dunbar #theo raeken/liam dunbar #theo x liam #theo/liam #teen wolf #6.16 triggers #cody christian #dylan sprayberry

[theartingace]

just for fun, some acrobatic Oryms

#critical role #orym #orym of the air ashari #i always get inspired to draw some wiggles #whenever liam describes him moves #oh this? just his morning routine :) #no references we die like.. well #also just because i'm playing with movement #not going for realism