#but damn i miss these men

[mirai-desu]

On the MSATD News

I didn't have time to post a knee-jerk reaction (which those of you from the Downton days know I was apt to do - thank you to all my long term mutuals of my side blog for sticking with me through those days), as I saw the news as I was getting ready to head out for work and it's been… a bit of a day.

Suffice it to say… I am devastated. And my initial reaction was (well after cursing), that it should have ended with S4, but with a different (happier) conclusion. It's called Miss Scarlet AND THE DUKE for a reason. And after all that happened in S4… it really feels like… what was it all for?? Especially if they knew WHEN FILMING THIS?? "Goodbye for now" is NOT "goodbye forever." They really, really really fumbled this.

There's a lot of theories going around, and I will admit it's too hard for me to listen to Stuart's new interview, but going off what other's have said and the parts of the transcript I did manage to read… I just cannot feel like this was actually his decision unless there's something else going on with him (either in his personal life or maybe he has some secret role he's got, because supposedly he hasn't worked since he did ADR on S4). He's been the captain of the ship, and he has always been enthusiastic with discussing the show and had just great insight into playing William. It doesn't feel like he himself was ready to move onto other things (and that's not even how it's worded - some BS about how the show needed it him to be gone for ~longevity~ of the show), like I've seen with other actors are on shows (e.g. Dan Stevens). He still promoted S3 (which came out in the UK after they filmed S4), he still even promoted S4! He was an executive producer for S4!!! Nothing makes sense!

So if it's due to RN… why keep having the other characters say William was only going to be gone a year? Why bother to have the flashback? why bother to have him stay at at Eliza's to recover?? hell I'm surprised they just didn't keep in the coma then--

But really, why even bother to have Eliza write to him? Or have Ivy say what she said to her?? The time apart was supposed to be them looking at their options. They literally foreshadowed him joining Eliza at her agency upon his return. So… what happened?

If it was actually for personal reasons that Stuart left, he has a right to his privacy. But then they should have rewritten S4 to be the end then, since they knew all this time. I can't believe we are getting the full story on this, one way or the other. The more and more I think about it... I do think it was RN's doing though.

Just two nights ago I drafted up a whole meta extolling how one of the best things this show has done has been how they developed William and how he grew as a character. The progression he made as he not only accepted Eliza having a career but encouraging her. His mentorship of Fitzroy. How he came from nothing, from a teenager living on the streets, to become an inspector at Scotland Yard. But they have chosen to toss that all out the window.

Who knows, maybe S5 ends with Eliza deciding to go to New York. But it doesn't seem like they are handling this like Babington's absence in Sanditon. They will make Eliza quickly fall for someone else, and slap fans in the face who have been following their friends to lovers slow burn for five years (because we had to wait for S2 in the first place thanks to the pandemic). And what sucks is that we still got promo saying they are in love with each other. From Stuart, from Kate, from Rachael New herself. We have still gotten promo promoting the romance. Why not have them have a big fight then or something, idk. They gave us hope. And you know what Fellowes says about false hope.

So I'm just supposed to believe that William gives up on Eliza and doesn't return…? No, I cannot. As much as we hated the deaths on DA when they wrote out actors, at least those characters still died in love with their spouses. And while I'd still be foaming at the mouth in anger if they killed him off… yeah.

William's last lines of the show is a flashback including him saying "is it all worth it?" And the answer is… no it's not.

#yeah I'm risking putting this in the tag #miss scarlet and the duke #msatd spoilers #honestly thinking about every damn scene they ever had #WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR #thought of the jewelry store scene and died #also does this make Arabella right? gross. #also I guess Alibi doesn't give a shit about the ratings for the last two episodes left to air in the UK #also I didn't bring up Theo J*mes because he left after S1 and it was different #if they recast William with Ben Lloyd-Hughes I'd take it #(wouldn't be the same but you know) #but don't make him a new character it doesn't work here with William still alive #I'm tired of men going to America #iykyk

[thefrsers]

SAM HEUGHAN

AS JAMIE FRASER IN OUTLANDER SEASON 7(2014-PRESENT)

#outlander #outlanderedit #outlander promo goodies #season 7 #jamie fraser #sam heughan #jamiefraseredit #sheughanedit #gifs #mine #JAMIE FRASER YOU BETTER BE FINE #stg im so close to tying this man up to some tree so his ass can stop trying to get killed #all those grey hair in Claire's hair is bcos of him #she's stitched and padded him up more then any of her patients fr #but damn if he dnt look good going in his warrior getup kilt swooshing and swaying behind him #ANYWAYS THE KING OF MEN IS COMING BACK TO US AND IM SO ESSITED I MISS MY LAD SM :')

[abhorrenttheorizer]

everyone say happy birthday to the birthday girl! it's his quinceañera today!!! (he is not Mexican and also he is 64 years old)

gonna spoil some basic info shit under the cut cause i get cripplingly autistic over this gd cooling gel mattress creature and im a sucker for headcanons... might post more later when my brain isn't leaking out of my ears /aheemheem

mr grumpy was born the youngest of a litter of 7 on march 5th, 1960 at 1:33AM. the rest of his siblings are cringe OCs minus his eldest sibling, mr grumble, who was born March 4th, 1960 at 10:17PM/22:17.

he was born in a rural territory in north conway, new hampshire to a french canadian father and a chilean mother.

he's technically trilingual but finds his chilean and french canadian sides "humiliating", as his first language is english.

he is autistic and wasn't properly diagnosed until he had already earned geezer status (this is a hill i am willing to die on, there's canon "proof", at least in the 2008 show)

#brainlet hour #mr men show #mr men #mr grumpy #mr. grumpy #mr.men #the mr. men show #mr men little miss #mr mirabil #the visual depiction of rectal prolapse #hate the way this came out but i damn near missed his bday #happy birthday you crusty fuck i bet those eye boogers slimey as fuck mf

[meatpetz]

a few sketchy vanians for your consideration

#please ignore all errors i drew these at work lol #HELLOOOO tumblr damned fans #the damned #dave vanian #david vanian #my art #i got tickets to see them in may again :') cry #i miss my old men #i need to hear anything off friday 13th ep in the flesh #pencil sketch #traditional art

[tw1stedthicket]

i think i might be a lesbian

#first read the lesbian master doc over a year ago #when i was questioning both attractions to men and women and what they were based in #just kind of accepted i was bi prolly #didnt really know enough of what i felt to say #but i have explored this and questioned this and everything more this past year #finally got tired of saying “i dont want to be with men” wHaT dOes iT mEan #just spent the last hour and a half reviewing it out loud to myself and recording my thoughts #and damn it does hit so much harder now #all signs are flashing YOU ONLY LIKE WOMEN but ima be fr with u.... #im afraid to admit to not liking men #bc the question has never been: “what do you want?” it's been “but is there a way it can work out with a man maybe” #“and you can feel attracted to him enough to be with him?” #and if the answer is in any way yes even slightly #then by saying you are a lesbian you are a LIAR #and what if you miss out on a great guy??????? #yoUr oNlY chAnce For HapPiNeSS?? #the truth is. it's right there. it's literally with women #but also #internalized homophobia #it's like crossing a line i can't uncross #to not have a way to be “normal”

[showinalittlelife]

satoru’s 100% the one annoying guy in class that steals ur pencil case and holds it over ur head telling u to get it

#i’m having war flashbacks #the guy i like(d) used 2 to this #this is smth all tall men do i’m afraid #ok i miss him damn #gojo satoru

[sunnibits]

please god I can’t hyperfixate on my own oc pls nobody will care if I’m just oc posting 24/7 pls like only one other person even knows his lore please fucking god I’m not strong enough just let me get back to drawing old men in sexual positions I’m fucking begging you

#i mean. it’s not an official hyperfix it’s more just like #‘my hyperfix has been faded for a damn long while and now my brain has nothing to latch onto except dnd and minecraft’ #but UGGSGGHH I CANT DO THIS #I loooooveee my oc but I’m also incapable of making art of him apparently #and also I MISS OBSESSING OVER OLD MEN but the izzy hyperfix has gone on far too long #when I hyperfixate on something too long I start like loving it and hating it at the same time it’s so bad #ughgdhhghhhb #save me god #but also somebody ask me about my oc pleaseee psppspspsps you wanna ask me about Dimitri so badddd

[vern-a]

obviously 0x1 lovesong and loser x lover are pissa angst songs but! consider we lost the summer. Hot on quesadilla island "we lost this summer when we lost each other" LISTEN TO ME!!!! "left alone on the evening of an endless 1st march" my guy!!!! "give me back my season" MY DUDES!!!!!

#head in hands head in hands head in hands #i want to keep adding lyrics JUST GO READ THE DAMN TRANSLATIONS YOULL GET IT #i am so delulu #pissa #talk bits #I MISS THEM I MISS THEM I MISS THEM #THYERE JUST BLOCK MEN THEYRE JUST BLOCK MEN TH

[loregoddess]

so I've been watching the KH Union Cross stuff (in order, thank goodness, this would be so confusing to piece together otherwise), and like, I knew enough about UX that the appearance of the foretellers at the end of KH3 wasn't confusing bc I knew who they all were, but getting the expanded, explained lore and I'm like okay, actually these weirdos in animal masks are pretty cool, glad to know they'll show up (presumably) in future games

also I'm glad that memorizing the Latin names for the seven deadly sins is finally paying off

#I'm still going to have to comb the wiki or something later to figure out some lingering questions #which I probably still have bc I got a condensed version of all the games for just the story content #so any weird bits of minor worldbuilding that occur due to like gameplay stuff I'd totally miss out on #or I just simply Don't Remember what something was when it was explained bc I was distracted by the outfit designs or something #(I am so distracted by character designs all the time and KH outfits are off-the-wall distracting) #but like overall actually the UX stuff is very interesting! #love to see that lack of communication and poor decision making is not just limited to the old men of the series #(except Merlin he's fine actually he's the only old man who does not seem to make poor life choices) #like wow so many issues might have been avoided if decisions were made differently #which I mean the story works great bc the tragedy is knowing that things could have been better but would never be #bc the characters wouldn't have made the decisions differently bc of their characterization #and UX being Oops All Prequels means it was fated to be tragic in some way or another bc like #you do not get the setting of KH w/out the tragedy of the first Keyblad War (and possibly other things?) #so like I'm fine with the characters making poor decisions bc it makes a good story but also Hot Damn #KH is just generations of mistakes and poor life decisions #and the kids are actually really doing their best at every turn even if they're against the absolute worst odds #and still the theme of the power of friendships persists...absolutely excellent #oracle of lore

[kennabeth]

ijs lombrica's neighbors really fumbled the bag watching them suffer two plagues back to back, a massacre of most of their men, and the deaths of their entire royal family within ten years. the adder was a pussy for not making any actual move on them

#like theres no one to oppose you if you invaded?? #their men are dead theyre missing half a generation from the plague and theyre currently being ~ruled~ by a goth 19yo #not that they have anything worth taking but ! damn ! #says kenna #inkheart #im sorry this is such a warhawk post i apologize

[sergeant102105]

my autism needs to let me get back into redacted because HOLY SHIT QUINN HAS BEEN BROUGHT BACK

like cod, it’s time to stop rotting my brain, i NEED to yearn over my redacted boys again

(no spoilers for anything yet PLEASE!)

#sergeant.txt #redacted asmr #r.asmr #redacted quinn #also apparently lasko has a listener now???? #like i still get notifications from redacted’s channel but i need watch them because i’m so far behind of some of the lore #but autism be damn my boy sure knows how to be hyperfixated or the more obscure shit (cough cough cod because wtf y am i obsessed with- #-fictional military men??????) #i also haven’t checked out the tumblr tag in so long and i miss yall :( #but don’t worry daddy will be back 🤓

[neo-shitty]

🍃.

#i saw the dreamies the other day 🥹 only got the time and the headspace to sit down and talk abt it today so i will #secured my tickets but spent the whole month in utter disbelief that it really was happening :( i think i was thinking that way up until #the concert itself HAHA im not even sure if it’s fully registering also im far too exhausted to feel post con depression #i’ve been on the road for a week now and im just so tired BUT whenever nct dream songs play in my head i rmb the live ver #got a seat so far up/back in the arena but was still content?? i was happy enough to be in the same room with them #and with a thousand others who probably loved them as much as i did #the whole time i was just thinking damn this cant be real but they were there…standing beneath me and performing their asses off #talented ass men #ALSO #i brought a friend who wasnt a kpop fan and she likes mark now #literally checked her phone and saw it flooded with mark vids from the con 😭 i love it #she also likes dive into you and a few more tracks from the hot sauce album #slay #YO HOT SAUCE WAS SO FUCKING FUN #i have a whole video of me vibing to it taken by my friend bc i was just vibing the whole time #i have shit videos im bad at taking videos but i also wont swap better videos for missing out on the experience itself :) #thats all #toff.txt #tds2 #DO YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW WHERE I WAS APRIL 29TH? #i was there.

[transsexualjoanofarc]

prev reblog thats the reason i transitioned its cause i want my father to die faster AYO

#me.txt #📔 #this is giving very summer 2022 'the scene wheres hes going to meet his daughter i miss when my father loved me' re: val kilmer doc #if theres one thing consistent about me its thise damn old men

[meowmeowmessi]

the hair is inexcusable but there's nothing wrong with the beard, y'all just want him to look younger so you don't have to think about him r-wording 🙄✋

UNPROVOKED?

#naw but generally i hate beard on men and especially messi i love his baby face too much 😭 #highest i can tolerate is a stubble and even so he needs to TRIM THAT SHIT i cannoh stand the lumberjack aesthetic smh #i miss seeing his dimples 😭 chin and cheeks both 😭 #but damn you really had to come for my throat like that huh.. i see how it is............. #asks

[childofaura]

AUGH, THAT LATEST EPISODE OF VINLAND SAGA

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK, DUDE.

Spoilers under the cut because I have a friend who hasn’t finished S1 yet.

Okay so that dream sequence was absolute insanity. And just perfection. I don’t care if it’s considered cheesy to have a dream sequence be a catalyst for change, it felt so amazing to see Askeladd and Thorfinn talking the way they were. Like those moments in Season 1 where Askeladd was being so true and honest with Thorfinn, moreso than his own men.

And... just seeing the pain and remorse Thorfinn is feeling. That agony over every person he killed. That’s such a huge step forward for him.

Overall this was honestly one of the greatest episodes of Season 2 so far, maybe one of the most triumphant moments in the whole series.

#Vinland Saga #Vinland Saga season 2 spoilers #Oh and the fucking VISUALS of that episode #It was so damn hellish and sinister #Though it broke my heart a bit seeing Bjorn there #Gosh DAMN I forgot how much I missed Askeladd #He was ruthless and cruel and cold but in some twisted way he cared about Thorfinn more than he cared about most of his men

[kiwibirdlafayette]

Origins server officially dead you know what that means (starborne jord’s my OC now and i can forrealz consider all my headcanons canon >:]c)

#starborne kingdom of dianite 🔛🔝‼️‼️‼️ #/lh before certain people start gettin mad #but man. Man #in all seriousness it does hurt never gettin the official lore #or seeing where jordan actually wanted to take his character #ill always miss that #like damn dude i wanna know if anything i theoreized was real :( #and we never got to see him react to phil stealing his redstTONE ;0; #one day ill write a fic or whatever off the headcanon lore doc i have yeehaw #once i get my motivation back #(men kisser origins jordan is real to ME) #most unpopular take of osmp sparklez but i dont give a fuck #im very proud of the void i filled in my heart and now o!Jordan will live there forever #ill still ramble to people if ya ever wanna learn more i love them my whole heart #starborne kingdom of dianite au #lafakiwi talks #verdigris musings