#avenue five

[laniidae-passerine]

so almost nobody on this entire site wants to talk about the fact that, on a spaceship full of misadventure and polyamory, Anderson from Sherlock is canonically bisexual and has fallen madly for Captain Dr House, who has seemingly fallen for him as well, and that they’re both kinda dating Anderson’s estranged very hot wife in one of the best tv shows of the year? okay sure!

#‘he was being mean to him though he doesn’t love Charles back’ you are a coward #when. please say when. WHEN we get s3 there’ll be a scene where one of them is danger and the other two will flip their lids over it #and they’ll all have to face they love each other. marriage repaired by Captain Hugh Laurie. and he can’t be fixed but they make him happy #house #dr house #hugh laurie #phillip anderson #bbc sherlock #jonathan aris #avenue five #avenue 5 #elena/ryan/charles #ryan clark #can’t tag elena because she hasn’t been given a proper last name (it’s Clark btw. space triad marriage!) but her actress is #leila farzad #who you might know from #i hate suzie

[shoesallinaline]

The fandom may be teensy-tiny, and the show itself may or may not be cancelled, but I am very, very glad that Avenue 5 is back.

#avenue five #avenue 5 #armando iannucci

[cleopatrachampagne]

no tv character has ever been more relatable than matt in s1 of avenue five when he was swarmed by angry, entitled, wealthy space cruise guests and finally said, “i’m paid to make sure your body wash gets refilled, not to rectify the tragedy of human existence!” like, yes, i felt that in my bones, finally some quality representation of working in customer service. god bless.

#avenue five #avenue 5 #antiwork #retail #iconic #he also proceeds to shout eat the rich god i love him #customer service #hbo

[wambsgansshoelaces]

so I stole this prompt list off Pinterest because my creative justices are just dead

lowkey some of them are cringe but it’s okay

so just reply to this or leave a prompt, story length, and character in my ask box and I’ll get to it!

also I’ll do any character (within reason) if I know them so suggest whatever you want :P I left some fandoms I’m in in the tags so have it!

#writing prompt #requests open #any characters!!! #succession #the bear #the guilded age #dowton abbey #avenue five #silicon valley hbo #succession hbo #bullet train #prompt requests

[neosatsuma]

"do pets have souls" discussion is out,I want to know if my beloved 1899 (murdered by Netflix) will be in heaven

#I'm being silly no one start discussing souls in my notes i didn't get enough sleep for that #CLEARLY #1899 #and #hannibal #altered carbon #Avenue five #i am not okay with this #who am I missing fellas there are so many #CHANCE #poor Hugh Laurie his penance for doing a 10-season show was to never star in a complete show again

[boy-wonder-oncologist-fan]

pleasssseeee watch avenue 5 hugh laurie's character is in not 1 but 2 queer polyam marriages over the course of the show!! hes also cringefail!!!

for real tho its super funny and well written and just super silly and unserious, cant reccommend enough

This and @coop-of-coffee 's response are the final push I needed to watch Avenue 5, I'll watch it asap. Thank you for the rec, it sounds right up my alley! :)

#asks are always appreciated #avenue five

[initiumseries]

that makes sense about the production value, i think what probably made me associate the two shows in my head is that they're both about supernatural creatures even though its in different ways. but more than that, when i was watching wednesday i was reminded of first kill because both shows had an atmosphere that was so.. childish? like at the same time these are shows that you're not supposed to take seriously but also they do want to seem dark and smart (and fail badly on that front) so the tone is just.. confusing and aggravating. ive told people irl about this and they also don't get it, so it is probably just a weird me thing lol

Yeah tbh it does sound like the similarities you're seeing are superficial. Definitely, both shows take themselve seriously, and you are, as a viewer, meant to take these shows seriously. It's filmed that way. A show that doesn't take itself too seriously, but also trusts its audience to understand that, and find the humour in that, does things like this:

or even an earlier iteration of the Addams family. It was charming because it wasn't at ALL serious:

What makes Wednesday so JOYLESS, is it tries to recreate the Addams Family charm in dialogue alone and not in delivery (slight raise of the eyebrows, half smirk etc), set up, tone, acting choices, and even camera, lighting (how does Morticia have a permanent light casting across her eyes? So fun!). So we just get...

It's dry, deadpan, unfunny, and she has...like zero timing or delivery skills. No emotional range (within Wednesday's character, and she CAN be played that way). Ex: 

 This ridiculous dance sequence could've been a fun, quirkly moment, where you're like, lol Wednesday is SO weird, but because of how it's shot, it's meant for you to say "wow, Wednesday is SO cool." But...she's not. That's supposed to be the point.

The show takes itself so seriously it won't even let you laugh at/with/for the main character. Which makes it a lot less fun, because there's literally nothing else to laugh at.

The OG Addams family is genuinely just funny, because it wasn’t taking itself seriously, but it also was just making accurate observations absent the “after school special” moment. 

THAT, is how you handle the fucking weird Pilgrim stuff! 

Anyway, from what little I watched of First Kill, it doesn't have any atmosphere to speak of. Like half of the gifs I see from First Kill are during the day, and it's just shot like...yep, it's day time. That's it.

Elena meeting Stefan in a misty graveyard, with the spindly trees, directional lighting, in the middle of the day...is atmosphere.

But you're right, First Kill would've benefited from leaning into how terrible it was, how mismatched the leads were, etc and being FUNNY. It's like writers have forgotten self awareness can be funny! And people LIKE funny shows! This movies is TERRIBLE, but shit like this makes it SO clear that it doesn't take itself seriously AT ALL, and it's the saving grace in hindsight.

If First Kill had at least made me laugh, I might not have hated it as much. But that's the problem with most TV these days. It all takes itself SO seriously, it's joyless, humourless, chemistry-less chaff that just makes it horrible to sit through. A higher budget just...lessens the terrible. Sometimes.

So yeah, I agree, FK and Wednesday both take themselves seriously, and are both supernatural shows, but that's really just...more coincidence, and a sign of the times of current television, and not anything that actually makes them similar to each other in any meaningful way. :)

#wednsday addams #buffy the vampire slayer #the addams family #first kill #avenue five

[notasapleasure]

time is meaningless, but I think this was a reference to what our prime minister did that time rather than another prophecy being enacted through the medium of British comedy writers?

#avenue 5 #avenue five #boris johnson #armando iannucci #armando iannucci has been writing british politics for years now and despite the belly laughs i for one am tired #(I ALREADY HAD THAT TAG. FFFFFFFF)

[gaileyfrey]

Know Your Station #1 Preview

HOLY SHIT WE'RE IN PREVIEWS

My original comic series in collaboration with Liana Kangas comes out December 6th!! I'm working with BOOM! Studios and my beloved editor Elizabeth Brei to bring you this one and I'm so excited to share it with y'all.

KNOW YOUR STATION is a 5-issue miniseries that takes place on a space station called The First Resort, where Earth's 1% have moved to escape global climate collapse. That's right: space is no longer the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism. When the wealthiest residents of the space station start getting murdered in increasingly gruesome and elaborate ways, the station staff has to figure out if there's a killer in their midst... and if it's really worth trying to stop them.

Hannibal x The Expanse x Avenue Five. That's the pitch.

You can go check out a preview RIGHT NOW. Read the first five pages and check out variant covers from Becca Carey, Jenny Frison, Tula Lotay, Jenn Woodall, and of course Liana Kangas, who is my brilliant co-creator and the artist for the series. Here's a peek at Becca Carey's cover to whet your whistle:

Like?? Can you believe how gorgeous that thing is??? And that's just ONE of the incredible variants we got for this series!!!

In addition to my writing and Liana's art and these objectively kickass covers, we've got colors from Rebecca Nalty and letters by Cardinal Rae. This is my first time working with Rebecca and honestly I screamed when I saw their colors for the first time. The things they do with pink are unreal. Cardinal Rae lettered my first original comic series, EAT THE RICH, so I knew to expect great things from them for this project - but they still managed to knock my socks off.

Go check out their amazing work in this preview, and tell your local comic shop you'll be picking up a copy of KNOW YOUR STATION on December 06.

You're going to love this one. I just know it.

#Know Your Station #Sarah Gailey #Liana Kangas #Rebecca Nalty #Cardinal Rae #Elizabeth Brei #BOOM Studios #Comic book #Comic books #Comics #Comic preview #Becca Carey #Jenny Frison #Tula Lotay #Jenn Woodall #Hannibal #NBC Hannibal #The Expanse #Avenue Five #Eat the Rich #The First Resort #AAAAAAAAAAAAAH IT'S ALMOST HERE

[sakebytheriver]

I'm still mad about the missed potential Lucas and Iris could have had if Avenue 5 was not the most mid written show on HBO

#ignore me #avenue 5 #avenue five

[crashdown]

IM GETTING AVENUE 5 BACK ON THE 10TH, ABOUT TO TURN INTO AN AVENUE 5 BLOG

#i’m gonna scream #i missed that show so much #AHHHHH #IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG #my night just got like a million times better #avenue 5 #avenue five

[freackthejester]

Here's how some characters from Homestuck vote:

Jane: Republican (search your heart)

Jake: Votes however Jane tells him too, but his choices would be just slightly left of that if he knew anything. But he does not, and that is the tragedy

Dave: Democrat Blue no matter who, because of his childhood crush on Obama. Does not really understand politics and why everything can't just be simple, but has a strong sense of justice and sexiness that leads him kind of in the right direction

Rose: Understands fully what is going on on in DC, but has that npr-listener disease of treating it like sports. When it was 2018, and twitter was the life of the "orange man bad" party, she was able to compose some of the very funniest QTs to 45's most recent outburst. Adrift in the current era

June: true does-not-care-centrist, votes however Rose tells her to vote and avoids talking @ it w/ family

Roxy: Raised carapacian. Understands the importance of local elections. Cares about downballot issues and races and does not heavily consider the national elections. Might 3rd party it for fun or what the race calls for.

Jade: Does not bother to vote. Too busy with community organizing, and picketing to remember what state she legally lives in the finish the mail-0in ballot. it never mattered eneway

Dirk: Does not vote and is Serious about it

#please fight me on any of these #if you agree with post look at it with your eyes #homestuck #dave srider #john egbert #only the first five tags count and i spent them on commentary #avenue q #jane crocker #jake english #rose lalonde #roxy lalonde #jade harley #dirk srider #centrissmssms

[lesbinewren]

i really hope they do something with sabines story between the fall of the empire and setting out on the search for ezra in ahsoka because like. i absolutely loathe the idea of sabines story for TEN YEARS basically coming down to “well ezra told her to watch over lothal so i guess shes going to do that, even though the empire falls about halfway through that time and she’s, you know, her own character with plenty of other relationships and motivations.” like i actually really really hate it

#i hate to say it but by the time the empire even falls shes been there longer than she even knew ezra #she'll be about thirty in ahsoka and if this is the avenue theyre taking then she'll have been just sitting on lothal essentially doing #fuckall from a story standpoint for a literal third of her life #i never had a problem with this while under the assumption that she goes looking for ezra shortly after the empire falls bc you know. shes #essentially guarding the planet and being a point of contact and fixed ally for the rebellion #but like after that what? this determined character with many different passions and principles sits on lothal for five years? #like i really hate that without an explanation so i hope they address that and give a reason #(besides the real reason which is they wanted ahsoka to cameo in the mandalorian)

[unfamiliarroe]

Avenue five is fucking nuts I love it

#avenue five liveblog

[midnighttraindemo]

official programme for glastonbury festival 1998.

my parents attended, as well as going to reading and V festival in the same year.

#glastonbury #glastonbury 1998 #glastonbury festival #lightning seeds #ben folds five #headswim #finley quayle #nick cave #nick cave and the bad seeds #bob dylan #the montrose avenue #st etienne #blur #damon albarn #graham coxon #alex james #dave rowntree #blixa bargeld #the bad seeds #90s #90s music #britpop

[fayegonnaslay]

Beautiful Babe Paley: The People's Swan <3

1 & 2: Babe Paley (and Husband Bill) photographed by Slim Aarons at their vacation home in Jamaica, in 1959.

3. Babe and Bill Paley on their wedding day, 1947.

4. Babe Paley style (featured outside of La Cóte Basque with Bill)

5 & 6. Babe and Truman Capote vacationing at the Paley's home in Round Tree Jamaica.

#babe paley #barbara cushing mortimer paley #style icon #swan #swans of fifth avenue #fifth avenue five am #feud #feud capote vs the swans #truman capote #cbs #the peoples princess #naomi watts #breakfast at tiffany's #answered prayers #la cote basque #slim aarons #slim keith #gloria guiness #c. z. guest #lee radziwill #marella agnelli #gloria vanderbilt #ann woodward #capote and his swans #vintage glamour