#I’m remembering that gq quote

[artemispt]

He is always so calm and gentle even doing the most simple things 🥰

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[firsttarotreader]

“I’m gonna try and marry her anyway” 👀 don’t remember the exact quote but yea. And that drawing with the message? Their chemistry and the way they’d talk like they were the only people in the room? And the way somehow they’d always hug and touch each other in the pics taken at that time? Like come on, we all had an experience like this in that stage where it’s super fun and electric but the chase is still there, it’s not official but yet pretty obvious hands can’t stay far away from each other

Yeah, he said it in the GQ interview from 2014, “I’m going to try and marry her anyway”. 😄

[hawkinsschoolcounselor]

(I’m prev anon who asked about Millie and the script) - there’s also that GQ Finn interview with a dig at Byler shippers - (apologies for the long quote) He had all these new Instagram followers, who would frequently tag him in their own homespun video montages set to music—fancams or fan edits, as they’re called—that featured footage of him at press junkets or clips of his character, Mike: sped-up or slowed-down moments from the show and the press tour to create new and imagined narrative tension, transforming passing looks into loaded glances, shipping tween fanfic romances that do not exist in any actual storylines. “I remember seeing them and respecting that people were using this to be creative,” he says, “but also being so uncomfortable and being like, ‘Whoa, this is weird.’” I still wince when I read this.

Although, to provide a counterpoint to what I said about Millie - Noah would surely have been told that and he’s still liking byler tiktoks, adding blue and yellow hearts as comments to some of said tiktoks, etc. interesting…. Maybe he’s just a rebel lmao but who knows what’s going on.

My understanding is that Finn is a naturally anxious person. I remember reading about very inappropriate interviews and fan interactions he's had in the past. I can't imagine he gets too excited seeing people get that into his characters that they feel like they can overanalyze and manipulate everything he says. I think sometimes fans forget that these people are not their characters.

Noah has latched onto the Byler fandom, but he's also a far more outgoing person, as far as I can tell. I've previously described him as a little chaos demon, and I stand by that description.

[denimbex1986]

'All of Us Strangers star Andrew Scott has opened up about the experience of filming gay sex scenes with fellow Irish actor Paul Mescal.

The pair play lovers in Andrew Haigh’s new romantic fantasy movie, which, according to its official synopsis, “follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, on a solitary night in his nearly vacant tower block in modern London, has an unexpected encounter with enigmatic neighbour Harry (Mescal), disrupting the cadence of his routine.

“As Adam and Harry grow closer, Adam is drawn back to his childhood residence, unearthing the astonishing truth that his deceased parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) are both alive and unaged, resembling the day they passed over three decades earlier.”

Speaking to British GQ after being named one of the outlet’s Men Of The Year, alongside other queer favourites boygenius and Ncuti Gatwa, Scott recalled filming the sex scenes in All of Us Strangers.

“We had a laugh…Jesus, it’s f*cking 7:30 in the morning and you’re doing unspeakable things to each other, surrounded by men in three-quarter length trousers,” he said.

Reflecting on how the sequences translate on-screen, he added, “A lot of the time, the thing that is actually more provocative isn’t the sex, but the tenderness.”

Director Andrew Haigh echoed this, explaining that although the sex scenes in All of Us Strangers are “not explicit”, they are “really intimate, and that draws you in.”

In a separate interview with Vanity Fair, Haigh also stated, “I really wanted to feel the subjective nature of having sex and what it feels like—the nervousness and the excitement and the physical sensation of being touched by someone else, and what that does to you.”

Speaking about the Irish actors’ performances, the director added, “There was chemistry between the two of them literally the second I saw them together…Both of them were pretty fearless. There was no sense of them being afraid of approaching those scenes. They knew how important they were.”

The pair appear to have a good relationship both professionally and personally, with Mescal quoted in the GQ piece as saying, “Andrew is the kind of person who makes you feel better simply by being in their company”.

Scott touched on an array of different topics in his Men Of The Year feature, from playing the villain in Sherlock and the heartthrob Fleabag to his experience of coming out as gay.

On the latter, he explained: “I had a very happy childhood…But there’s an inevitable pain that you have to go through when you have to take a risk telling your family something about yourself.

“I really do think that that is a gift now, because to have to risk everything, and for your family and friends to say ‘we accept you no matter what,’ that’s a real feeling of love that you get confirmed at a very young age, that actually some people who aren’t queer don’t get. I mean, some queer people aren’t so lucky.”

He grappled with his sexuality during his teenage years, admitting, “There was so much of me that was quite fearful, actually, and ignoring that side of me.”

When he did come out privately, he was “encouraged” by people in the industry that he admired to keep his sexuality to himself. “I understand why they gave that advice, but I’m also glad that I eventually ignored it,” he stated.

Scott officially came out publicly in an interview with The Independent in 2013, and now, playing an openly gay character in All of Us Strangers, he says, “​There’s this expression ‘my burden has become my gift’…I remember when I was 22 reading that and thinking wouldn’t that be amazing? If something that you think is a shameful part of you is actually a bit of you that gives something back?”

He continued: “I think that’s maybe why (playing Adam) feels so gratifying and cathartic, because I did have to bring so much of my own pain into it.”...'

[alittlefrenchtree]

Your last post 👀

Penny for your thoughts??

(I understand if you don’t want to answer, I’m not trying to drag you into any unnecessary drama. I’ve just always appreciated your perspective on things so I was curious about your take on this since it seems to differ from most everyone else that I’ve seen so far. Anyway, love and respect to you whether you post this or not. 🙏)

Hi again !

Once again, thank you for your lovely message, you're very nice. Since i'm here once every 84 years these days, I'm pretty sure no one cares enough to actually create drama but I appreciate you being so considerate 💜

And that being said, it's not even that big of a deal. It's just a bit disappointing. For me, the basketball content was good content, and not only because it's a sport I enjoy a lot and used to play. It was just a good mix of a bit of everything. He actually doing something and not being paparazzied just because he's walking around because he’s so famous and wearing clothes. He was doing something we know he's been genuinely enjoyed all his life. He was doing it with what seems to be some complete random people with not much fuss around (not security, no camera shooting an ad or anything) which always looks good. It doesn't seem like he was "selling" anything. At least it wasn't (at first) about what he was wearing but what he was doing.

All of that ⬆️ was how I received the content in the first place and it felt nice. And opening that GQ link made that nice feeling go away. I'm not even saying it's Timmy (or Timmy's people) fault. I don't care who's fault it is to be honest. If it's just that wannabe kid who jumped on a questionable opportunity, or GQ who thought it was a good idea to make a long interview of someone who has nothing to say (and whom was a very unreliable source (it's literally written on the paper)), or if it's staged by a movie pr team or a personal pr team or anyone else. Scrolling through that void of an interview to find more articles about this non event and what sneakers did he buy right before or whatever made my eyes roll so hard. Not to mention the second hand quotes from Timmy that doesn't sound so good whatever there are true or not.

It reminded me of the story of the girl in the plane. Who had lived a very nice moment with Timmy but kind of ruined the preciosity of the moment by sharing every single second and details of it everywhere (I don't remember if she wrote a thread on twitter or talk to the media but the feeling was the same).

It just makes me sad for people actually. For the ones trying to survive in Hollywood/the famous world and for the ones dreaming to be a part of it not understanding what a shitty place it is.

[dilpickledd]

I was reading joe locke’s GQ interview and this quote:

It like really got to me. Like I’m turning 23 I’m not that old. But like 5 years ago I was falling in love for the first time which does seem like a while ago? and that quote REaLLy got me thinking about how that’s probably why I love heartstopper so much. Why it made me so emotional. It brought me back to that time in my life when I was 17, barely an adult just beginning to accept my queerness and meeting this person who I fell absolutely head over heels for who changed my life forever who I hope I get to spend the rest of forever with. And heartstopper reminded me so much of that feeling and the beginning of our relationship and that summer we spent doing absolutely everything together.

And my partner kept bugging me like why do you love heartstopper so much? Hehehe trying to hint it’s because it reminded me of us. And at first I was like haha sure but than I thought about it more and more. And the more I think about it the more I realize yeah it’s true. I get to relive falling in love with them through the show. I get to remember what it was like to be young and scared but so hopeful.

[bluesclves]

As I’m fairly new to the fandom, I gotta ask: what shitty thing did Chris Evans say or do?

Also, I really appreciate your take on the Mackie situation. It’s nice to see someone using their brain cells instead of viciously attacking people.

First of all; welcome! Glad to have you here ♡

It was like five+ years ago, and my memory isn't the greatest because that's when I was still in school and new to social media, which is why I haven't said much on it. I vaguely remember a bunch of people being upset at him, and I've seen people bringing it up recently with the current Anthony Mackie issue, and from what I can tell, they're referring to the GQ Interviews that came out a while back where Chris Evans and Sebastien Stan were asked about stucky. (I'm having trouble finding them, otherwise I would link it. It's mostly videos.)

In the interviews, both of them denied that there's any romantic feelings between Steve and Bucky (which I personally agree with), but Chris was pretty derogatory towards the fans of stucky about it. (Again, I can't find it, so I'm not going to leave an exact quote or paraphrase, because I can't link any sources.)

Sebastien was, comparatively, very chill about it. I did find his article, and his quote at the time:

"Look, man, I think it's great. Movies are for people to relate to in whatever way they want. No one here is ever going to point a finger and say what's right and wrong. For me, it's like, Awww. It's cute, it's great. If someone takes the time to think about that, that's great. I don't think of the character that way, though. But there's no right or wrong answer." (Sebastien Stan to GQ, 2016)

And he continues to be cool about it, in his interview recently regarding fans shipping sambucky.

"I’m just happy that the relationship is embraced, and it should be embraced in whatever way or fashion that people desire and want it to be" (Sebastien Stan to Just for Variety via SCREENRANT, 2021)

Proving that it like, really isn't that hard to just... not be a dick about it.

So there's a little posivity to look at, even with the situation going on with Anthony. I really hope Mackie and Sebastien talk about it, and Mackie realizes why some of the stuff he said was harmful! They're both great dudes and I love their characters!

And I'm glad you appreciate my take on all this, I do try my best to look at everything going on, I don't want to make hasty judgements of people!

Hope this helps!! ♡

[taylorswiftstylequestions]

I've sort of been chewing on a thought for a while re: Calvin Harris. I know a lot of swifties vilify him post the breakup, even years later. And while we can't know everything, I think that it's important that if we support Tays business mind and writing talent...we should recognize the same for him. CH publicly said he made a twitter rant mistake because he felt his art was being belittled and taken from him. Men are mocked for showing emotion, and I think it's odd to say things like (P1)

he “couldn’t handle her being more famous” or “she fooled everyone into thinking she was in love with him” and “he had a meltdown”. All things people have said on this blog! Obvs he reacted poorly and then publicly said “that was fucked, I messed up”. I just see him get demeaned so much here. We support Tay saying “you don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called that bitch”. Likely, KW was saying it as “bitch” like rap songs do - but to Tay, it still felt horrible. So it’s hypocritical for us to not accept CH’s emotional reaction to what he felt was his music writing talent being mocked. Do we have to like what he did? No. I don’t think IFTYE was a diss - it’s a cathartic track of relief and letting go after anger and anxiety about him. People forget that her team pissed him off, undermined him a bit, and potentially made him feel like shit too - it’s not “evil CH and perfect Tay”. She f’d up too. Letting go of CH bashing would be in Lover spirit!

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This is an older message I’ve had kicking around my inbox that I think we’ve had sufficient distance from to be able to circle back to. 

I truthfully don’t know much about CH as a person - I didn’t when they were together and that holds true now. I feel like a lot of my memory is fuzzy on the matter because I don’t remember him saying the Twitter rant was a mistake but I looked it up and wow apparently he did to British GQ - quote below. 

“It was completely the wrong instinct. I was protecting what I see as my one talent in the world being belittled. It felt like things were piling on top of me and that was when I snapped ... It's very difficult when something I consider so personal plays out very publicly. The aftermath of the relationship was way more heavily publicized than the relationship itself. When we were together, we were very careful for it not to be a media circus. She respected my feelings in that sense. I'm not good at being a celebrity. But when it ended, all hell broke loose. Now I see that Twitter thing as a result of me succumbing to pressure. It took me a minute to realize that none of that matters. I'm a positive guy. For both of us it was the wrong situation. It clearly wasn't right, so it ended.”

But I do think it’s an interesting kindness to attempt to give him grace as a human and as a man to having one’s emotions get away from you and being open to the idea of imperfection on both sides in that interaction. By default I think it’s natural as Taylor fans to err on being on her side. I feel like I blocked out basically all of this interaction (if memory serves I feel like the one thing I remember is that he gave her writing credit in a tweet on “TIWYCF” but fans didn’t like his usage of the word “but” as if it diminished her contribution to the song? I don’t remember tbh) so I don’t have more to say on it but I’m sure others will. 

[queer-disabled-activist]

Someone posted this old interview with Steve Perry and Neal Schon responding in GQ from 2008 and it was just so great.

Steve thinks that the end of the band was when Neal started his solo career, Neal think it was the end when Steve started his; and especially during the FTLOSM tour (it said Street Talk, but Steve never toured for that.) Here’s a few quotes that stuck with me:

Were you and Neal friends?

“Of course we were friends. We lived together when I first joined the band. He gave me the back bedroom at his place. But we were also working together. And a lot of time spent together can chew on a friendship. Look, you’ve got to remember, they didn’t want to make it with a lead singer. They wanted to make it without one. They had Gregg Rolie, and that was enough. And he was a great vocalist for what they were looking for, but they didn’t want to have a singer out front.”

Schon was like fifteen years old when he joined Santana.

He was a child prodigy!

So he probably felt, justifiably—

You don’t understand. [Journey] was his band. Herbie built that band around Neal because he’s a star on his own from a guitar standpoint. There’s nobody who plays like Neal Schon, to this day. I still miss his playing. I love his playing. We don’t get along, but I love his playing. ‘Cause he’s brilliant. But you gotta know that Herbie built that band around Neal, and Gregg Rolie too, and then brought in Aynsley and Ross. And George Tickner in the beginning, who was the guitar player in the band before he left, and in came myself and Jon Cain.

[Steve about the Hollywood Walk Of Fame star in 2005] But the greatest thing was, I really felt in my heart that Neal was happy to see me. He hugged me, I hugged him, and he said a few things in my ear—that are mine, I’m not gonna mention ‘em. But it was just great. And every now and then he’d look at me and go, “What the fuck, y’know? I’m so glad you came. Wow.” It was a lift for me, that I emotionally needed. And that star’s on the sidewalk. I go there, from time to time, when I’m in town.”

[Neal]

“He’s saying, y’know, “If these guys wanna go on, I think they should just start something new and not use the Journey name.” Don’t crack the stone is what he kept on saying. Don’t crack the stone. Don’t go out and play these songs with someone else and crack the stone. Well, he did the same thing, way before we did! He went out on a solo tour, a solo Steve Perry tour, where none of us were invited. Actually Jonathan Cain tried to go down and go in and see him in San Francisco and they wouldn’t let him in the building! And he was playin’, I think, nine Journey songs and three of his original songs.”

**What’s the beef about, specifically? **

You know what? I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s like I said—I didn’t crack the stone. In my mind, he cracked the stone when he went out and did our stuff without us.

When I met you guys in Vegas, you referred to Steve as “He Who Cannot Be Named.” Is there some legal issue here? Are you not allowed to talk about him on the record?

“Oh, y’know—there’s no legal issue with talking about him. It’s just that he thinks every time we talk about him, we talk crap about him, and it’s really not true. We just try not to talk about him.”

So you’re not enjoined from discussing him in public?

“No. I mean, I didn’t say anything inflammatory to him. I didn’t talk about how he still gets paid like a motherfucker even though he shouldn’t be. It’s stuff like that I’m not allowed to talk about”

You can read the whole interview here, it’s a very interesting read: (X)

[chalamet-noir]

my unsolicited thoughts about this new GQ piece, before i flood your feed with edits:  

i’m very very glad that they acknowledge his youth and the way he’s sort of indie slash fuckboy rockstar. this is sort of why i don’t post pap. people want to do what they want, and they shouldn’t be penalized for it by having it thrown in their face at all times of day. i thought it was really generous of the interviewer, and true of timothée. 

no degradation of fans. there’s always this mindlessly stupid take about fans being rabid teenage girls. but the few fans mentioned in the piece seem polite and timid and trying to stay out of the way. (except, of course, those who were photographing him without his permission.....please don’t do this, it’s really creepy.)

glad he addressed the LRD thing. and i’m glad i continue to have no thoughts on it, because it’s really none of my business. though the entertainment news media will eat this alive and i’m not looking forward to two-minute pieces about this single quote in a really beautiful interview.

i was very interested to hear his thoughts on protesting, and BLM, and i thought what he said was pretty smart. imagine if he had shown his face at the protest, it would have been the only thing people talked about. (this is why i didn’t post any of his stuff when the protests were at their peak, and it seems like he didn’t want that, anyway.)  

i’m sort of emotional? who remembers waiting to read these pieces and knowing every single anecdote, being so aligned with his thoughts from so many press tours...and this seems so much more intimate, as his fame only grows. it’s kind of spectacular and horrible to watch. 

[evcrmoress]

“I’ll answer as best I can,” he says, nodding. As for who he was in the not-so-distant past: “Hurt people hurt people—you know? And there’s a quote; I’m trying to remember it. I don’t know if it’s biblical, if it’s in the Bible. But I do remember this quote: The comforted become the comforters. I don’t know if you’ve heard that before. But I really do feel comforted. I have a wife who I adore, who I feel comforted by. I feel safe. I feel like my relationship with God is wonderful. And I have this outpouring of love that I want to be able to share with people, you know?” - Justin Bieber for GQ Magazine, X

[nogloryinlove]

I didn’t want to make it like the sole defining element of my personality, but inevitably, when you are a person who exists, to whatever degree, in the public realm, the most salient things about you get distilled down to like, pull quotes. Like being “sober”, being “queer”, being “Christian”, whatever that means… It’s funny that you bring up that specific article, that article was just like a cosmic ego-killer. Because I remember doing that interview and they were like, oh, it’s going to come out in a couple of months and I was sober. And when the interview came out, I was like, struggling with substance abuse again at that time. And I was like - I remember reading it, and just like, I don’t know, it was devastating… I remember reading that and thinking like, ‘Well, now I have shattered the image I was telling everybody I was.” Like, I had this crippling imposter syndrome. And the prospect of talking about not being sober was so terrifying and disappointing, that I think that ended up manifesting as the kind of self-loathing that I was attempting to kill with substances. So it was like this compounding feeling of failure and escape…. So when I lost this idol of sobriety that I had been building up for so long, I had to re-examine all the pieces of my life and think, Am I still a good person? Was being sober what made me a worthy individual? Was that what gave me value, as a human? And I think it’s really important that I learnt: No! That I learnt that it wasn’t the principles that I lived by that made me a person worthy of love. It’s just the fact that I’m a human being. And you need that - you need that kind of mercy to successfully continue in the cycle of recovery.

Julien Baker on Q on CBC talking about that GQ article about ‘sober musicians’ 

[xmxisxforxmaybe]

The article took tons of words to say nada. If this is what his publicist wants, it's another reminder he needs a new team. He's above talking about real current issues, but Cartier put him in their ads, so that's like taking a stand? WTF. If this is an accurate representation of current-day Rami, he needs some Sami real-talk to remove his head from his ass. People loved relatable Rami. I don't recognize this joyless, pretentious douche. I hope it's just a bad article but it's disappointing.

So, we talked about this before--high-fashion and luxury brands are still so problematic even though they are trying to change their image to be (or seem) more inclusive. No matter what they do, it’s going to feel performative unless they continue to promote diversity.

I do love what Rami said:

“With this particular group that they chose, I really appreciated that it was a good reflection of the world, and something I wasn’t used to seeing,” says Malek. “It was style backed with substance. That made it feel like a natural fit for me.”

Especially the part where he acknowledges that it is “something I wasn’t used to seeing.”

I believe his heart is in the right place. He has said in countless interviews that he wants to break down doors--and he is. But my god does it suck that it’s in the world of high-fashion . . . a place that is inaccessible to 99% of the population. (Cue Elliot 1% Rant)

When I was growing up, magazines were EVERYTHING. We didn’t really “internet” like we do now, but I can remember flipping through the latest copy of Seventeen or Cosmo and seeing page after page of the same, thin, white girl/woman--sometimes her hair was different, but she always looked pretty much the same.

When people like Rami become those faces in magazines, it does help inclusivity--it’s important for kids to grow up surrounded by diversity. And I’m sure, as a teen of the 90s--and a teen who grew up just outside of LA--Rami remembers what it was like to not see someone who looked like him in those positions of status.

Everything that came after his quote was trash and tainted Rami’s good intention. First, this gibberish:

More importantly than that, Malek felt like a natural fit for a brand like Cartier. This newer, bolder and more varied breed of zeitgeist-bending cultural leaders have been thrown into spotlight of late. In Cartier nomenclature, it’s a tribe. Elsewhere, there are squads. Either way, it feels as though substance has finally fought back onto level terms with style. Not a fad.

Please pay me to edit, GQ. This is a mess.

Then this contradictory, negatively intoned remark:

But in an era bloated with performative gestures of diversity, one of the sure-fire ways to measure true allyship? That'd be the almighty dollar. 

You’re really gonna let Rami talk about how great diversity is then use all of this negative diction? Talk about confusing the reader.

Then, the author whittles Rami down to nothing more than a PRODUCT while trying to say, oh, hey, this guy has great CHARACTER:

With tens of millions of marketing dollars – whether for a jewellery campaign (Cartier), an Oscar campaign (Fox), a tentpole film budget (Bohemian Rhapsody) or a franchise-electrifying conclusion (No Time to Die), the powers that be believe in Malek. And there’s a certain understanding that, beyond the talent and marketability, it’s also investment in the character of the guy: this unconventional, sharp, thoughtful and kinder sort of leading man.

Because of the monetarily-focused diction, the reader is left to question if Rami’s character has been bought and paid for by all of his investors--is this post-Oscar Rami the Rami that the tens of millions of marketing dollars created? I understand that the author is *trying* to say the opposite--because important rich people believe in Rami, he is worthy of leading man status--but wow does it come out assbackwards.

Ok. I went the fuck off on this. My apologies. I hope this helps articulate why the article felt . . . icky. It has a lot more to do with the author than it does with Rami.

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Thurs 19 Sept 2/2

The Louis BuzzFeed segment came out, it's Louis talking Northern slang (and dealing gracefully with the questions having been written by a... Not Northerner) and he's very beautiful, and a GQ interview, less beautiful. GQ, fondly remembered in the fandom as the outlet that pressed a teenage Harry for details of his sex life and edited an HSLOT crowd pic to get rid of the rainbow flags, start out, "we meet at Simon Cowell's office" and goes on to emphasize that he alone of the boys "stuck with Syco." The content? Surprise! Eleanor and Freddie. Mostly written by the interviewer! But they got their quotes. For example, Louis says he once "made [a] winter wonderland in my garden in London, with fake snow and a massive ice rink" for his girlfriend. Immediately after the interview dropped, Louis broke his pattern of commenting "thank you! great interview!" to instead retweet this one (the only one he's retweeted) without comment, immediately followed by a 'now for something completely different' retweet about Sam Fender's album. We've heard the ice rink/Eleanor story before, but as was pointed out at that time, back when it actually happened in 2012 it was something he had done for his sisters. Multiple UAs quickly posted pics of the empty rink but the only one with people in the picture showed him and the sisters only. The account, presumably realizing their error, immediately deleted it. Many pictures of Zayn and Perrie on a similar private rink also popped up but those are from 2013.

LTHQ also tweeted the interview and raved about how good it was, Jessie Martin did the same... honestly if it wasn't already shady this would be enough! The piece was a hot mess throughout, with major editing and formatting errors, is almost entirely cribbed from his radio interviews, and is pretty short besides. The mind truly boggles at trying to make sense of their enthusiasm for any organic reason, like imagine singling this half assed piece out to be like, what fine journalism! Quality work! Suuure. Within minutes everyone was trying to distract, with most of team Louis simultaneously posting Madrid throwbacks from their personal accounts and LTHQ asking us to chat about our favorite Madrid song. Mhmm. If they're looking to get some data about how people respond to different types of promo, it's working; that article retweet was not well received. Anyway their attempts to distract were cute but had nothing on the discovery, later, of the title of the next single- yes! It really is We Made It! It was listed in the CV of a camera operator who worked on the KMM video (shot at the same time.) This is the first solid confirmation that that's even the actual title of that song so that on top of learning that it's also the other video that's already been filmed and thus the next single is very very exciting!

Louis also told us we should exercise and frankly between Liam out there telling me to get a job and now this I'm feeling a little attacked! I'll stick with the "be reckless and have more fun" part of his life advices thank you very much I don't stan one direction at my age to be told to grow up

[wild-aloof-rebel]

Top 5 Dan on writing quotes? Personally I love his Becoming introduction...

This was SUCH a good top 5 ask. Thanks for giving me an excuse to relive all the beautiful things Dan has said about making this show. 

This is gonna be more than 5 quotes (because as we’ve all learned at this point, I can’t stick to just 5 of anything lolol), but I’ve at least attempted to corral them into 5 topics…

On continuing to write (aka the reminder I need every single time I get stuck):

If you don’t follow through, you will physically have nothing. If you don’t follow through with the script idea that you have–even if you hate what you’ve written, at least at the end of it you have a script. (via Backstage)

On writing what you want to write:

At the end of the day I write the stories I want to tell. I really don’t care about people who aren’t onboard with queer stories because if you’re not going to like that then I don’t want anything to do with you. (via The Kit)

On writing homophobia-free queer stories:

To be able to present a love story that’s without fear of consequence was something that I wanted from the very beginning. Something that I never wanted to compromise on. (via Esquire)

[TV executives think] ‘We’ll let every straight character live their lives, but the gay characters are here to teach us a lesson.’ The characters were being painted with a different brush ultimately, and that to me was really boring. (via GQ)

I don’t want these characters to be, you know, a lesson for people to learn about queerness. I think that the better lesson, what will resonate deeper is just showing people in love. It’s really hard to turn away from two people who are falling in love. And so, as a result, it was really sort of a mandate from day one that we were never going to paint these characters with a brush that was different than what we were sort of painting our straight characters with. I think for a long time I was watching nothing but tragedy befall queer characters on television, and the idea of creating a world where, in this particular case two men were falling in love with absolutely no push back, and to be able to depict how much joy that can bring, not just to the characters who are falling in love, but to the community itself who gets to watch it, was important. (via Bustle)

I know that in writer’s rooms across North America there are still conversations about how much is too much when it comes to intimacy between, in my case, two men. That’s an insane conversation to be having. Like, ‘How many times can we show them kissing on air?’ We’re going to show them kissing as many times as we damn well please. They’re in a relationship. If I’m going to walk into a store that I own with my boyfriend, I’m going to kiss him hello. That’s what people do. That’s what straight couples do. That’s what this couple is going to do. (via Advocate)

On finishing strong:

All that we can say is, you know, the characters have been sort of first and foremost when it comes to things that we want to service and make sure that they’re taken care of, that we leave every character satisfied, and that our fans who have been watching the show for six seasons feel satisfied with the way that this all ends. There’s a lot of moving pieces that we’ve been playing, like, a really tricky game of Jenga with, in terms of how you go about wrapping up all of these characters and their stories and doing that in a meaningful way that gives the fans exactly what they want but also something that they might not know they want. So it’s a tricky little dance, and I am very excited to start shooting that dance. (via ET Canada)

You want to give the characters everything they want, and you also want to give the fans everything they want, and I think in the final series of a show it’s about marrying those two expectations. (via Deadline)

On the important reasons for telling stories like Schitt’s Creek:

I am becoming a storyteller with a purpose. I hope to continue to tell stories that make people feel seen and loved and supported, and I hope to continue to paint worlds where love and acceptance always outshine hatred and bigotry. (via the Becoming tour)

You know, all I really can do is think back to a time when I didn’t think being myself was ever going to be a possibility. It’s such a full circle moment for me right now to be writing this love story for them and to look back at it and just remember that there was a time in my life when I honestly didn’t think that would be a possibility for myself. So, it’s incredible. (via Pride Source)

In Schitt’s Creek, we are writing a world that examines the transformational effects of love when the threat of hate and intolerance has been removed from the equation. And while that’s not a reality for many, our goal is to shine a light out there that asks the question: ‘What if it was?’ Wouldn’t we all be happier if we were able to love out loud? (via CBC)

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8, 21, 30, and 37 for the fanfic writer asks! thanks!

Oooh yay thank you!

8. Favorite trope to write.

Ummm... gosh IDK. I guess most of my ships are all enemies to lovers so then maybe that? There’s just something about a good angsty rage story.

21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIP’s.

hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh no I haven’t written anything since I posted my last fic so I’m going to have to default on this one. Everything I’ve written post lockdown has been assignment work!

30. Favorite line you’ve ever written.

Far out brussell sprout these are hard ones! I know i always end up going back to  that GQ article You Know Who He Is: Stark Naked for this kind of thing but I kinda can’t help it I feel like that was filled with so many mic drop moments. This one is probably the one I remember most because it reminds me to be myself and not who someone else wants me to be:

“I've lived my whole life doing what everyone expects. Pushpushpush, take college classes in middle school, go to college early, triple major, be CEO, blow shit up... life flies by when you're living someone else's dream.”

37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you.

It’s not inspirational, but I often refer back to Mark Twain’s I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. Every time I feel like I need to break out the thesaurus I ask myself if I really need to, and the answer is usually no.