#Kerry Russell

[ofhouseusher]

Rogue Amendiares

[by soldagarius]

[saw-films]

[behindthescreamz]

continuity photos of some of the women of the saw franchise. (2005 - 2010)

[mirroredmemoriez]

[thierry1970]

[workingonit-currently]

[marril96]

Night Swim (2024)

[matt0044]

The Showrunning Scapegoat: A Troubling Fandom Phenomenon

Knocking about from show to show, from fandom to fandom, you inevitably start to pick up on reoccurring patterns when it comes to the inevitably discourse to come.

One has been this weird sort of "Auteur Theory" that manifests as hate. Where all those pissed off by this season finale, by that episode or by that game installment are pinned on one or at least a few figureheads in the creative team.

Now I focus on television and movie franchises due in part to how with novels (from the ground up) or webcomics, you do have significantly less cooks in the kitchen with one or a few guys making the story decisions. While publishing companies will have a say, nine times out of ten we are seeing what the writer full intended.

But with TV shows, you will have multiple episode directors, multiple episode writers and multiple studio heads overseeing the whole shebang. Yes, there will be a guy or two in charge of the story unfolding and its production. Often the creator of an original show or somebody hired for an installment of a greater franchise.

Buuuuuuut to act like the flaws or features of the show in question start and stop with the one showrunner is... dumb. However, it's a kind of dumb that's depressingly not hard to parse out. A major factor in this is how many fan actually know that television involves many moving parts... and how overwhelming that all is for them to take in.

So fans gotta water it down to lionize/demonize one figurehead or a few. Especially when they have a prescense on Social Media and/or have made themselves known through various interviews. Executives or shareholders who are usually old fogies won't have a Twitter account and when their decisions influence a poorly received creative choice, they're spared.

Twitter often enables a person's impulse to be quick on the trigger and put their two cents before stopping to ask, "Do I have all the facts or am I just rushing things?" Either way, an angry fan often needs an outlet for their growing ire and see the creator as the party who should take responsibility.

It's very much a "The Customer Is Always Right" mentality that even the best of us have to grapple with. The creators and their team make it look so easy to write good, animate good, what have you but only because we don't see the back-breaking process they go through. As much as we don't have to like it, some vocal disagreements border on an angry mob.

To them, their harassment is heroic actually. They have been wronged by the thing and the one credited to the thing are their enemy. And with others feeling the same, they feel like part of the Avengers.

TL;DR - Fandom needs therapists. Like… that’s not even hyperbole.

[ofhouseusher]

[cp77nyexchange]

2023 Works Masterlist

The 2023 round of the Cyberpunk 2077 New Year's Exchange is now over! Many thanks to all the participants, you made amazing things! 💖 Expect 2024 round news in September.

2022 Masterlist | 2021 Masterlist

Fic:

(check out the AO3 collection)

Dum Dum/OMC:

Sparks and Wires by @lhugbereth (on AO3)

Jackie/male V:

to this by @anaisonfire (on AO3)

Johnny/male V:

here by @vince-linder

Judy/fem V:

The Unforgiven by @iamsuperconfused (on AO3)

River/fem V:

Give it a Name by @arcadium-squire (on AO3)

Takemura/fem V:

A Night City New Year by @carlosoliveiraa

Johnny/fem V:

Dazed and Confused by @cybervesna (on AO3)

Johnny/Kerry:

Hot Chocolate by @thornwild (on AO3)

Kerry/male V:

Say It with Flowers by @myfoggedreality (on AO3)

Never Tear Us Apart by @the-archangel (on AO3)

here by @simply-jason (on AO3)

(Never) Sick of you by @cosmicak (on AO3)

Art:

Johnny & Kerry & fem V (& Judy & River):

here by @ghostoffuturespast

Claire/fem V:

here by @jasakime

Judy/fem V:

here by @kharonion

Viktor/fem V:

here by @maimaiapologist

Takemura/fem V:

here by @dread-red-queen

Yorinobu/fem V:

here by @elvenbeard

Hanako/male V:

here by @firstaidspray

Jenkins/male V:

here by @punchsomeoneforme-willyou

Scorpion/male V:

here by @thesavagemuffin

Viktor/male V:

here by @darkmatterrian

Johnny & male V:

here by @for-lovely-things

Johnny/male V:

here by @valka-arialitan

Kerry/male V:

here by @wingedhorrors

here by @danyaselmar

here by @mango-parfait

here by @arczism

[mirroredmemoriez]

Day 1 of bringing attention to Saw women…. Because Saw women.

[thierry1970]

[coffeebeachbourbonnylons]

[digitalcheesecake]

2024.03.26

🌸Very Kerri...

[crosseyedcricketart]

Met Gala 2024, "The Garden of Time", 20 Looks