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Rewatching ghosts rn (as one does) and playing with the thought of writing some capthorne fiction - as there is way too little of that… #capthornearmy what are we thinking?
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Rewatching ghosts rn (as one does) and playing with the thought of writing some capthorne fiction - as there is way too little of that… #capthornearmy what are we thinking?
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When people rank Thomas above like 5 in their rankings of who they’d like to haunt their house im like your lyinggg!
I love him so much but there’s no universe where I would want to LIVE with him😭 especially if he decided he was in love with me like I don’t wanna be trying to sleep and then he just comes into my room and starts to read out some poem that he plagiarised
Even if he didn’t like me like that he’d still be really annoying bc he’s just crashing out all the time
I love the character bit in Ghosts
of Thomas absorbing other people's idiosyncratic speech patterns without meaning to and being annoyed with himself about it. Like, on paper, it's not roll-you-on-the-floor funny right away like so many other Ghosts bits, but it's one that will spiral inwards and kind of insist its humor and poignancy on you through sheer determination (just like Thomas).
It signals from episode one that he really does have an observant nature and an ear for language. It implies that, even though he is his own biggest blind-spot, he does listen to others and notice things, and his memory is just as voracious and capacious as his imagination. He goes for "wazzock" when he's groping for an ultimate insult, even if he can only define it as something Pat says. His brain absorbs "Lucky in Love" like it was born there, and he's shocked to be told that it wasn't. He romantically reimagines his death-day to Alison, but when it's a question of fact he clearly recalls the ink on Francis' fingers. He recognizes gangsta rap's raw passion despite the dense cultural idioms that would barely be vibes to him and thick layers of bravado that many find confounding. But... then he mostly only replicates that idiomatic bravado when he tries to tap into that raw passion. He remembers his entire grand tour despite not having written anything down about it, and he can tell Alison how he'd love to show her the things he'd seen... but can't articulate why. He can recite Hermione and Roger (which is hours long) from memory, and is genuinely shocked that the others can't quote it back to him, like a person would only ever fail to memorize a poem out of contempt. He recalled (or extemporized) several works for "Button FM", and has apparently written Alison a new poem every morning for years, but the moment Alison praises him for being poetic his brain short circuits and he reverts to stilted couplets. Everything audible and visible around him goes in, but it only gets out again when he's not throttling himself with his own bullshit. The emotional acuity is there, the ability to decode experiences in real time is there, the prodigious recall is there, but his self-confidence is purely at random and he's scared to death of... something. I absolutely get why people read him as trans, and/or OCD, and/or some form of autist/savant, and/or suffering from CPTSD. That he comes across as good at heart despite his chronic obnoxious-at-best interpersonal behavior is impressive. The shorthand for him is very "world's worst arrested pubescent" but the show never forgets how that's still a genuinely human thing to be.
All that being said I don't think he gets a real arc. He changes the least of any character whose performer was also a writer (specifically the most writer-credited writer on the show). He has brief moments of insight, but it's still heartbreaking in the finale when he says "Why did I agree to this, I hate this" with the exact sort of rigid, whispered dread he had in response to the solder's assent to duel. I get the on-paper difficulty of inviting an audience to the redemption of an overprivileged sex-pest in the year of our lord 20XX, but even so, they managed it for Julian. I get that British modesty and good ensemble etiquette demand that you only ever draw attention to yourself if it makes the whole better, but Jim is the second-most credited writer in the show, and Pat's arc-moments are some of the best in the series. Don't get me wrong, they do a lot of brilliant stuff with Thomas. I feel like they did a lot with his character to reassure chronically-in-their-own-head/way art geeks that they're not hopeless or unlovable. They gave us a humorous tough-love demonstration that what insufferable artists need isn't to just stop trying or caring or creating or being, but to grow out of insisting narratives onto themselves and others. They do amazing show-don't-tell that it's toxic behavior that's the problem, not artistic temperament or big feelings or even wanting attention. That's wonderful, excellent work. But it's also a lovingly loaded gun that gets left on the mantlepiece through curtain call and is still waiting there under the ghost-light. We get shown all these things THROUGH Thomas, but we don't get to see him learn them. We don't get shown the relief that waits on the other side of change. I wish we'd got to see him admit to himself some of what was really eating him up inside like Pat and Kitty did, or find genuinely transformative self-esteem like Mary, or transcend his vengeful conformity like Fanny, or even truly confront and regret what short-sightedness or complacency or egotism had cost him, like Humphrey and Julian. It wouldn't need to be a justification of his behavior towards Alison, or played for the kind of poignancy that The Captain's arc required, but I feel like there was something more there to say, specifically through Thomas, about the art of loving people, or how art reveals us, and is more about noticing than seeing. About seeing and imagining and seizing at grandeur but also really noticing the grandeur of small moments and strange friendships and the love therein. About how the work of making art is in what you become and discover, not what you are. We see him wander that direction. We're given good reason to suspect that he eventually would make it. He does sometimes try. Yet at the end of our time with him, his capacity for love is still merely tragic, a thing of fatal grand gestures and mislaid messages that inside he is screaming to take back. Still, it was honest, at least. Giving him Robin's same epiphany right at the end wouldn't have felt earned, and I respect the Six Idiots' willingness to make things hurt that ought to hurt. I just wanted more for him, and this is me devoting real effort to getting my head right and not making fixing-this a condition of my appreciating the upcoming movie. Because after all, THAT'S WHAT FANFICTION IS FOR! :)
cap and thomas doodles :)
Thomas Thorne from Ghosts (BBC) is bisexual (headcanon)
requested by me :)
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my darlings are canon on my island !!
Just 3 beautiful men and their big noses
