#i love you ben

[moonahsrobin]

Only thing on my mind rn

#bbc ghosts #six idiots #them there #ben willbond #horrible histories #yonderland #he’s so cunty I can’t #I love you Ben

[legendarydragonperson]

hooooohhooooo

that new dnp photo dropped of phils friend Ben BEN who was in a video right before Pinof 1 and oooo I knew I KNEW HE FRUITY, I KNEW IT. THEIR FRUITNESS IN THAT VIDEO EXTENTUATED FROM THE FUCKING ROOF AND NOW HE'S ENGAGED TO A MAN WHO LOOKS A HIM A BIT. HOOHOO. Did I think him and Phil had a situationship maybe but wayyyy before dnp met irl so yeah. It's not important at all and sexuality is not something someone should have speculated but i am a lesbian who was right so I don't care ahhhhhhh

#i love you ben #amazing phil #dnp #dan howell #i love gay people #dip and pip #why are they in the middle smh

[slimylayne]

BEN TALKING TO THE COMIC STRIP GANG BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

#I LOVE YOU BEN #ben elton #Friday night live #rambling #the comic strip

[droidgum]

i thought you were star wars named…… i was like i’m willing to look past this💔 thank fuck

I DIDNT SEE THIS HAHA

No the process of my username is really weird

I used to go by 5gum online because this one I had to very quickly come up with a username and there was a packet of gum right by me.

So 5gum went on for a while.

And then one time 5gum wasn’t available on some website (and apparently here)

So I was like hm.. I am autistic. I like robots. I felt really androgynous at the time (this was like 2022) and I was like yes. Let’s mix my username with some kind of robot word. And then I was like.. cyborgs? No. Robot? No. DROID. YES!!!!

I have never seen Star Wars in my life

#thank you for coming to my ted talk #I love you ben #gumhue #ask

[dipdieddreams]

I have learnt two things today.

I am one degree of separation from Neil Gaiman.

My Bacon number is 1, thanks to Ben Quirk of all people.

#I love you ben #aswisdomcomesquietly #dowhateverittakes

[spring-heeledjack]

those creepypasta girlies were so right and anyone who thinks theyre cringe or stupid should explode immediately. yes all of these people are sadistic serial killers/supernatural beasts/vengeful spirits of dead children and yes they all live in a big mansion together in the woods where they bicker like siblings and yes the faceless suit-wearing tentacle monster is the resident father figure. what are you gonna do about it.

#wilde.txt #creepypasta #i love you jeff the killer i love you ben drowned i love you marble hornets i love you laughing jack #AND I LOVE YOU SLENDERMAN AND PINKAMENA!!!!!!!!!

[warlenys]

bbc ghosts, 5x05

#they're doing this in a room full of soldiers man #im gonna go and gut ben willbond #it's actually diabolical #gay hand acting i love you #and it was havers' stick. all along #kill me! #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #ghosts spoilers #the captain #gif #+

[birues]

"After all, the path I once walked is now yours to finish."

#final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ardbert #ardbert hylfyst #shadowbringers #ffxiv #ffxiv shadowbringers #shadowbringers spoilers #look. i love him sm #you ever sit and think abt this man for an hour #yeahhhh #my best bro #okay everyone wish me luck i need to finish my assignment now. ugh. #i'd rather make more gifs but you know how it is #*smooches ardbert before i go* #the second one he looks like ben starr vga meme gfklhjfhj

[kimtaegis]

may you find happiness there, may all your hopes all turn out right! ↳ for @magicshop 🌸

cr. dwellingsouls, atoz v; insp.

#btsgif #btsgfx #btsedit #gfx #usergif #bts #bangtan #namtaegi #usersky #userkelli #trackofthesoul #userzaynab #userines #usersan #underbetelgeuse #*yg #*nj #*th #*gifs #*gfx #andi I'm soooo sorry this is so late 😭 #really just had zero time I hate it here #but here we go!!! your favourites are bringing you a little spring magic <3 #(HAD to use 'magic' in this somewhere hehe) #I used every little scrap of this unit photoshoot there was noooot much unfortunately :( hence the little ot7 appearance :) #most of the text are lyrics from ben howard's 'keep your head up' #this song reminds of a beloved friendship from my youth and just warms my heart so much #it's perfect for this time of the year and gives me this fondness that I also feel when I think of you #I hope you spent your birthday surrounded by happiness and love #and that this new year of your life will be filled with hope and positivity

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#i saved the best scene for last #you're welcome #having this much chemistry should be a crime #hot as hell #best scene of the movie hands down #rom com perfection #anyone but you #love #movie #movies #filmedits #filmedit #glen powell #sydney sweeney #so romantic #ben x bea #bea x ben #cute things #rom com #romantic comedy

[jancysmixtape]

THERE WAS AN ALTERNATE ENDING WHERE BEN NEVER CAME BACK TO CALIFORNIA AND THEY BOTH MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIVES. AT THE END, THEYRE BOTH LAWYERS SND MEET AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING A CASE. THEYRE SO SOULMATES, THIS IS INSANE?!?!?

#nhie #never have I ever #Ben gross #devi vishwakumar #Ben x Devi #Devi x ben #Benvi #SOULMATES #THANK YOU SENDHIL! #I love the main ending more #but this ending would’ve been amazing too

[carpe-mamilia]

Ghosts’ Larry Rickard Explains Why They Chose the Captain’s First Name

Photo: Monumental,Guido Mandozzi

It couldn’t be a joke. That was one rule laid down by the Ghosts creators when it came to choosing a first name for Willbond’s character. Until series five, the WWII ghost had been known only as The Captain – a mystery seized upon by fans of the show.

“It was the question we got asked more than anything. His name,” actor and writer Larry Rickard tells Den of Geek. “Once we got to series three, you could see that we were deliberately cutting away and deliberately avoiding it. We were fuelling the fire because we knew at some point we’d tell them.”

In “Carpe Diem”, the episode written by Rickard and Ben Willbond that finally reveals The Captain’s death story, they did tell us. After years of guessing, clue-spotting and debate, Ghosts revealed that The Captain’s first name is James. At the same time, we also learned that James’ colleague Lieutenant Havers’ first name was Anthony.

The ordinariness of those two names, says Rickard, is the point.

“The only thing we were really clear about is that we didn’t want one of those names that only exists in tellyland. It shouldn’t be ‘Cormoran’ or ‘Endeavour’. They should just be some men’s names and they’re important to them. The point was that they were everyday.”

Choosing first names for The Captain and Havers was a long process not unlike naming a baby, Rickard agrees. “It almost comes down to looking at the faces of the characters and saying, what’s right?”

“We talked for ages. For a long time I kept thinking ‘Duncan and James’, and then I was like ah no! That would have turned it into a gag and been awful!” Inescapably in the minds of a certain generation, Duncan James is a member of noughties boyband Blue. “Maybe with Anthony I was thinking of Anthony Costa!” Rickard says in mock horror, referencing another member of the band.

Lieutenant Havers wasn’t just The Captain’s second in command while stationed at Button House; he was also the man James loved. Because homosexuality was criminalised in England during James’ lifetime, he was forced to hide his feelings for Anthony from society, and to some extent even from himself.

In “Carpe Diem”, the ghosts (mistakenly) prepare for the last day of their afterlives, prompting The Captain to finally tell his story. Though not explicit about his sexual identity, the others understand and accept what he tells them – and led by Lady Button, all agree that he’s a brave man.

Getting the balance right of what The Captain does and doesn’t say was key to the episode. “It wasn’t just a personal choice of his to go ‘I’m going to remain in the closet’,” explains Rickard. “There wasn’t an option there to explore the things that either of them felt. That couldn’t be done back then – there are so many stories which have come out since the War about the dangers of doing that.

“We wanted to tell his personal story but also try to ensure that there was a level at which you understood why they couldn’t be open, that even in this moment where he’s finally telling the other ghosts his story, he never comes out and says it overtly because that would be too much for him as a character from that time.

“He says enough for them to know, and enough for him to feel unburdened but it’s in the fact that they’re using their first names which militarily they would never have done, and in the literal passing of the baton”.

The baton is a bonus reveal when fans learned that The Captain’s military stick wasn’t a memento of his career, but of Havers. As James suffers a fatal heart attack during a VE day celebration at Button House, Anthony rushes to his side and the stick passes from one to the other as they share a moment of tragic understanding.

“From really early on, we had the idea that anything you’re holding [when you die] stays with you. So it wasn’t just your clothes you were wearing, we had the stuff with Thomas’ letter reappearing in his pocket and so on. And the assumption being that it was something The Captain couldn’t put down, it felt so nice to be able to say it was something he didn’t want to put down.”

Rickard lists “Carpe Diem”, co-written with Ben Willbond, among his series five highlights. He’s pleased with the end result, praises Willbond’s performance, and loved being on set to see Button House dressed for the 1940s. He’s particularly pleased that a checklist of moments they wanted to land with the audience all managed to be included. “Normally something’s fallen by the wayside just because of the way TV’s made, it’s always imperfect or it’s slightly rushed, but it feels like it’s all there.”

Rickard and Willbond also knew by this point in the show’s lifetime, that they could trust Ghosts fans to pick up on small details. “Nothing is missed,” he says. “Early on, you’re always thinking, is that going to get across? But once we got to series five, there are little tiny things within corners of shots and you know that’s going to be spotted. Particularly in that very short exchange between Havers and the Captain. We worried less about the minutiae of it because you go, that’s going to be rewound and rewatched, nothing will be missed.”

The team were also grateful they’d resisted the temptation to tell The Captain’s story sooner. “We’d talked about it every series since series two, whether or not now was the time, but because he’s such a hard and starchy character in a lot of ways you needed the time to understand his softer side I think before you had that final honest beat from him.”

“What a ridiculously normal name to have so much weight put on it for five years,” laughs Rickard fondly. “Good old James.”

From Den of Geek

#bbc ghosts #bless you larry for doing all these den of geek interviews #I wonder if they just did one marathon session with him #inside ghosts was kind of disappointing this week #I guess Ben just wants to let the episode speak for itself and you're like yes but I would like to hear you talk about every detail #trust me we will be interested #long post #I really thought they loved the joke of nearly saying the Captain’s name so much that they'd never reveal it #so it's so lovely that they were like no this is not a joke name; he's a real man with an ordinary name #and we are going to tell you that in the most devastatingly romantic way #I am eating my words and they are delicious with that spread on top #also 'that's going to be rewound and rewatched' = 'I know you people are loopy so here is content specifically for you' #bbc ghosts spoilers

[benjaminthecoathanger]

okay, because i saw a poll earlier and i thought the choices weren't clear enough and also the answers i saw to it annoyed me and also i'm curious:

NOTES:

I am including having watched gameplay of a game and not having played it as having watched the source material

In this context if you are writing fic/making art and you are not being commissioned to do so. This is purely for funsies

You getting into something because you saw a post/gifset/video about it and then watched the source material does not count. That's just how you get into new things.

Goncharov does not count because it's not real. I'll break kayfabe here I don't care.

#polls #look i got really annoyed by reading the tags of the since-deleted poll of people like 'did you forget goncharov hahaha' like. #that. that's not what was asked. #also like. i'll reblog posts of something ive not seen if i think theyre interesting/funny #but i don't count that as like. 'engaging in fandom" necessarily #bc to me at least fandom requires active engagement? and like im not gonna go hunting for like. leverage posts if ive not seen it #i also don't read fanfic like. at all. so i have no concept of how people read it? #like. i last read fanfic like 2 years ago bc i had just finished disco elysium #so people who read fic bc of the like. tropes or whatever like. i do not get it. im happy for you though #anyway. sorry i went insane i love u all #ben leaves the house #or doesnt. i guess in this case. a very Chronically Online Poll

[orangeispice]

figured I'd jump onto the atsv fake tweet trend

#can you tell my south indian self loves pavitr even though he hasnt even had a speaking line in a trailer yet #i have very specific texting patterns/hcs for all these gremlins #across the spiderverse #atsv #spider man #pavitr prabhakar #miguel o'hara #hobie brown #peter b parker #peter parker #gwen stacy #jessica drew #ben reilly #spider woman #scarlet spider #miles morales #marvel