#nowayhomestrange

Isn't he MAGNIFICENT!!! - at the sight of the magic literally flowing from Stephen's hands in his final scene 🥰🥰🥰

...and also...

Please, oh please, can't we just have some more of Stephen mentoring Peter Parker and America Chavez? PLEEEEEESE??? That's not too much to ask for, is it?🥺🥺🥺

While watching No Way Home, specifically the scene where Stephen attempts the initial casting of the Runes of Kof Kal, my mind posed a fic worthy question ~ what if that particular spell only lasts as long as the Sorcerer who cast it is alive? In the course of his work, Stephen dies. Peter would wonder why the heck he's suddenly remembered, so he stops at the Sanctum and learns the news😔.

But furthermore, and as we know Stephen dies and comes back to life in a surprising manner of ways, what if he comes back this time too? He'd remember everything...and thus, we can have Stephen and Peter interacting, even teaming up again.

Hmmmmm, maybe not so sad after all😉.

Thank you, @bakerstreethound! How I love me some Dancingbatch - and this is absolutely appropriate, as I believe he (and we, his devotees) have so much to celebrate as the year draws to a close!

All the amazing work he did in The Power of the Dog

and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.

All the accolades he's been receiving for his extraordinary portrayal of Phil Burbank--and the awards which we FULLY EXPECT MUST FOLLOW...

*glares pointedly at SAG-AFTRA, The Hollywood Foreign Press, the BAFTA voters, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, recalling painfully their ignorant slights towards B's Alan Turing**also at the Emmy voters who, I believe to this day, didn't take the time to watch all of Patrick Melrose, but voted for the easy flash & sparkle of Versace instead*

Hmmm- where was I? Oh yes...not to mention that we are finally, FINALLY, FINALLY getting some new Strangebatch in only 8 days, after we have waited what feels like a lifetime. I've already got tickets for showings next Friday and Saturday, so that my Strangebatch itch will finally begin to be satisfied!

Plus all the red carpets and promos and interviews

that Benedict has been doing for the films he worked on while we languished in covid lockdowns, longing for just a little taste of Our Beloved. We seem to have struck it rich, eh?

Indeed, it is time to rejoice and who could lead us better than the Man himself - with my favorite bit of Dancingbatch from May of 2015...

Stephen is sooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful AND handsome and

thankfully the bad wig is only in that first scene and

his Voice completely did me in and

We should all be thanking our lucky stars that he's played by Benedict because *sighs hard* he delivers that amazing, so often heart...not rending or breaking...but oi, right in your feels with his amazing ability to give us layers of different emotions in a single phrase, sentence, or even with the look on his face. I'm praying Marvel hasn't gotten so wrapped up in cramming in as many new characters and arcs into Multiverse of Madness that we get much more of this, and