#and its worse because i actually like abigail

[katiethedane12]

no but really tho JULES DID NOT DESERVE THAT, why do you have to hurt me like this

[anti-transphobia]

Everyone posts about how Stardew Valley is a cozy LGBT+ inclusive game but NO ONE mentions the lack of a platonic option for the bachelors/bachelorettes. Which would be good for aspec people and also just more pleasant for many casual players I believe but that's not even the point. I just want to become best friends with everyone and not only does that require me dating everyone at once and feeling like a sleazebag because of it (ik the bad cutscene can be avoided but I know in my heart they'd be hurt if they knew) BUT it also means the women flirt with me!!!!! Constantly!!!!!!! It makes me sick to my stomach. Truly ruining the characters I liked

[lookingforhappy]

TUA wasn't "always meant to end like this" nor did it build up to a tragic everybody dies ending in any way

sorry this is long and rambly but im noticing a lot of people coming out of the woodworks saying that the ending wasnt even bad actually and i just.. its not a redeemable ending to me and yes it does ruin the rest of the show for me and i wish i had the strength to make it not so but im stuck rn.. anyway:

i don't think i can forgive the ending, more than anything that happened in the final season

they had interesting character points, in an interesting setting.

and yeah they didnt tie up anything, and several people were out of character this season but thats nothing new in this fandom

eudora was forgotten, diego and luthers personalities didnt develop they were altered to be more palatable for the audience, grace and pogo became cameo characters instead of finishing their arcs or development in a meaningful way, reginalds plan has made less and less sense as the seasons go on, the commission was entirely changed from its set up in s1 and then forgotten.

thats all forgivable as long as the season is self contained and satisfys the tone and story.

s4 did none of these things - its not self contained as it leaves jennifer and abigail severely underexplained, and then flips the tone and message of the entire series on its head.

people have already noted that the theme of the show is that recovery from abuse haunts you into adulthood but with love and hard work and perserverance you can overcome it. the apocalypse has always been a metaphor for the cycle of abuse and how it continues to harm people after its been done, and how allowing it to dictate your life will end up in it imploding in your face etc.

but theres also just the general tone of the show.

the final season tries to make out that the siblings are themselves responsible for the apocalypses and only their death can prevent more apocalypses (twisting the meaning to be that of "if you have trauma then you should kill yourself" which like.. clearly bad, no explanation needed)

but to pull through on this ending the previous seasons need to have ended in tragedy too, or hinted towards it tonally. they never do.

the obvious way to do this would be to write each season ending/apocalypse to be sad/tragic. have the focus be on the people dying horribly in pain, show the remorse of the siblings, punish them by making it personal, show that they killed everyone and they know it.

the only season that even slightly does this is s1 as patch is killed because of diego, pogo and grace are killed because of luther and viktor, and the rest of the supporting cast is killed due to viktor.

but even season 1 isnt framed as a tragedy or a story leading up tot a tragedy.

its a story of hope. the siblings arent upset by the apocalypse because they can survive and prevent it and theres hope for the future and more specifically for THEIR future. nothing else remains from this timeline other than them because the whole show is centred as their recovery story. their hope.

if this was ever going to be presented as a hopeless tragedy then we needed to see characters like claire killed brutally. we needed to actually see Grace's lifeless body. we needed to see the consequences and see that nothing they did was fixing anything by having these consequences follow them and not just in a "this happened and im sad" but in everyone around them and them becoming worse as time goes by.

if they wanted the whole "we cant exist" ending to work then we needed to frame s1 and all subsequent seasons to actually show that it was their actions that caused the apocalypses.

viktor causes the first apocalypse because of reginald's abuse.

the US government causes the second apocalypse because they tortured an innocent to the brink of death and then got upset and aggressive when that had consequences (viktors powers overspilling and destroying the fbi building). like sorry that apocalypse was never viktors fault - its like false confession under torture, it doesnt count as real because he only did it to make torture stop.

the 3rd apocalypse is caused by Harlan accidentally killing their mothers, which again is not even his fault. he didnt want to kill them he just lost control and he had no idea that it would end the world (logically it shouldnt because this apocalypse defies the laws of time that they themselves established for the show).

the final apocalypse isnt even caused by them its caused by abigail and reginald. as are, technically, all of the apocalypses as abigail created the marigold and reginald released it and created the broken timeline by allowing it to travel with him to the umbrellas world.

in s2 the apocalypse has no consequences because they prevent it. ray and sissy and harlan get to live. klaus' cult memeber get to live. they even punctuate this ending by showing that theyre moving on and progressing in their healing because ben is finally allowed to move on with his afterlife, and he is no longer kept there, stalling their recovery from his death. even five's integration into the family again in s1 showed growth and recovery and HOPE.

in s3 the world is saved, and luther is brought back to life and five and diegos limbs are returned. everyone who was erased/died like lilas family and reginald are brought back to life because there is HOPE.

if they wanted to sell a tragedy and sell it well then we needed to see consequences. allison should have died in s1. five should have given up and returned to the commission in s2. luther should have stayed dead in s3. their families should have died and caused them pain.

nothing about this ending followed through on the theme of hope.

there are ways to do it. and its been done well.

romeo and juliet works because they are remembered. star wars prequels are loved because its a doomed from the beginning story that ends with hope in the form of luke saving his fathers soul and returning the jedi to their true state - protectors and peace keepers. frodo and bilbo return from their journeys ill and grieving and forever changed, and they and the magic beings of middle earth have to pass on before their time because of the harm of their stories. macbeth dies in the end because his story was one of a hero becoming a villain.

theres so many good examples of tragic endings but s4 wasnt one of them.

[tethered-heartstrings]

Something i could never understand is...why do people want Jack to die???

Jack is an obstacle plenty of times and is sort of flippant about Will's state of mind in the beginning, but in all fairness he was trying to stop a MURDERER and I could see how he would value saving lives over Will's health. (Not saying it was right of him, but I get it. And Alana does rightfully chew him out to a point.)

Its clear he just assumes that Will not wanting to be involved im the mass murders is a natrual response to seeing all of that stuff, Jack has no idea that Will and Hannibal are having murder husband fantasy dates until the later seasons. Which in all fairness, he has a right to be concerned about lol

People villainize Jack for a lot of reasons, and only want to see the bad in him. People hate him because he's a cop (okay, so is Will, and everyone else on the team for that matter but only seems to apply to Jack?), because he didn't take care of Will's mental instability/deterioration (as if Will isn't a grown man who should/could stand up for himself and admit to Jack when he isn't doing well), because he was "too dumb to see Will was Very Obviously Ill" (as if we the audience don't get special privileges on what happens behind closed doors and Jack is just supposed to read minds), because he was a criminal investigator "too dumb to not see it was Hannibal all along" (as if Hannibal didn't manipulate literally everyone in his vicinity to make himself look normal and stable and safe and trustworthy), because he "doesn't care about Will" (as if this wasn't literal manipulation Hannibal whispered to Will during his mental breakdown to drive a wedge between him and Jack), because he isn't perfect and he isn't allowed to be flawed, and tbh a big factor of it is racism. and many more reasons.

Of course Jack has flaws, that's what being a human being is. Everyone on the show has faults, but people focus and amplify only the characters they don't like. Hannibal, and to be honest Will also, are literally right there in the same frame and are horrible people, who have done so much worse than Jack. But people don't want to be critical of their faves. Hannibal fans often also have like, main character specific lens so only their favorites are talked about highly and everyone else is dragged through the mud (Jack, Alana, even Abigail) and are not allowed to be seen as a multifaceted character. (admittedly, the women on the show are very poorly written which can contribute to this for the female characters of the show but I digress)

Jack genuinely wants to do something good, he wants to save lives, and he wants to so badly he can get horseblinders on and focus too much on the end goal and not on the path itself. That isn't evil though. He does care about Will, and in a very dad-like way he wants what is best for him but it isn't entirely through Will's lens ir his best interest. He trusted that Will would talk to him, and Will didn't. Like sure he hinted the job wasn't good for him and it was affecting him but that isn't specifically saying "hey Jack, I have headaches that won't go away, I can't sleep, I am sleepwalking, I am losing time, I am scared. Help me." Yeah, looking at horribly mutilated bodies all day isn't good for anyone. He tried to get Will genuine help, by setting him up with a well-renowned psychiatrist per someone else's recommendation. He tried, but Hannibal didn't do his job. He lied to Jack saying Will was fine, rubberstamped him sane. What is Jack supposed to do? Call him a liar? A well respected professional in the field? Be real. And to your point, again, Will never said how bad he actually was, so it makes sense Jack is doing his job and prioritizing saving lives.

Jack also didn't want to believe Will was guilty. The evidence was piled so high against him they eclipsed the sun. Jack is smart, his entire job is finding evidence to lead to a conclusion. He can't just suddenly turn a blind eye because it's Will. Jack was willing to risk his career to help him, a career that took decades and immense hard work to achieve. He then trusted Will and Will betrayed him. He wanted to trust in him until the very end. People get mad at Jack for not trusting Will but then call him dumb for trusting him later like lol what the fuck do you want?

Jack also knows when he messed up. He lives with the guilt of Miriam going missing forever, he knows he fucked up and makes it a point not to make that mistake again. He isn't careless. He cares for the people he works with. You could see it in his face how devastated he was when Beverly died, when Will was arrested. Even thinking about Miriam. There is a tenderness in him being the one to take off Will's mask and straight jacket, as an act of humanizing Will and saying "I trust you".

Jack is also a good husband who loved his wife. Yes, his job kept him away from home a lot, but Bella isn't dumb and she knew what his job entailed. He took care of her as best as he could. He wanted to do anything to support her after her cancer diagnosis, he was always in her corner. Of course he wanted her to do chemotherapy, of course he didn't want her to die. He didn't want to lose the love of his life and traverse the world alone, his most trusted and longtime support system gone. He broke the law to smoke weed with her and join her, and be a part of her care and comfort. And in the end, he did the hardest thing by letting her go so she wasn't in pain anymore. It wasn't passive, it wasn't that she died and he just watched. He pushed the plunger to give her peace. He is a human being capable of compassion and love and care.

People forget we have the audience view, so we see Hannibal being manipulative and murdering, and we see Will wake up from nightmares covered in sweat and sleepwalking. But the characters in the show aren't us! They only see what is in front of them or told to them. And they act like if they weren't in the same shoes they wouldn't do the exact same stuff.

To put it shortly, Jack is a complex and flawed character, as is literally everyone on the show and people in real life. He genuinely tries his best and wants to do good things in the world. He is sooo far from the worst character on the show (I argue he might be the most morally stable and centered) but is made out to be the worst person ever, when he isn't. He doesn't deserve to die, and he doesn't deserve to be murdered. He deserves a nice, peaceful, retirement (or vacation, not sure he could stay away tbh especially now that Bella has died) and to be left the fuck alone.

[babiebom]

What Kind of ~dere the bachelorette's would be

A/N:it's the girl's turn<3333 it took me 5ever to finish this for some reason. I'm only writing it now because i'm watching doctor who and need 2 different kinds of stimulation and i have no snacks tbh(doctor who started buffering so now im watching the little mermaid Im not trying to give play by play of me writing this but Im so hyped rn and its 2 in the morning)

TW: maybe some spoilers, maybe some cursing, idk yet nothing that bad! There is some brief mention of childhood trauma and abuse on Penny's part but nothing graphic.

Genre: Headcanons

WC: about 10 bullet points per person

Abigail

Hiyakasudere

Penny

Described as light-hearted and flirtatious, often mischievous and playful on the outside and constantly teases their loved one as a sign of affection.

Would playfully bully you to try and make her crush on you not obvious

Makes it painfully obvious to everyone but you

"This sunset is cool but you know whats cooler?" "What?" "My sword collection"

Probably smacks you when laughing

Smacks you when you do something funny

Laughs extra loud

"Lmao I'll fight you idiot"

You two probably get in trouble to playing around in serious situations

Invites you to the mines with her

Or to the woods past the wizards tower

You two probably get into trouble together and think its funny that you were attacked by slimes

Does make fun of you even when you get together

"Ew you have a crush on me that's so embarrassing"

Undere

described as a "yes-man" to their loved one no matter what the consequences are their devotion doesn't allow them to betray their loved one easily and is an extension of the Goudere characterization.

OR

Leah

A Kekkondere

Which is described as some who believes in love at first sight and wants to get married right away. They have a deep desire to remain close to the person they meet for better or worse and this can sometimes evolve into them becoming a yandere type

So I could not choose which she fit more so I will try to fit everything within 20

I feel like due to her being a more submissive type in my mind that she would 100 percent be a yes man

Especially with a woman like Pam as her mother.

She has probably learned that disagreeing with her led to consequences that she does not enjoy.

So due to her childhood trauma she is more likely to just agree with whatever you say

And even if you try and get her to actually say her own opinion I don't think she fully grows out of it but it develops into a more shes a yes man because she feels safe.

Does not matter what will happen to her you are her main priority now so it is whatever you say goes because this is her fairy tale ending

On the other hand I think she is on par with us fanfic girlies on how delusional she is

Spends time constantly reading romance novels and imagining herself as the female love interest or heroine

So when she meets you and is immediately attracted to you

It turns into oh yeah this is love at first sight

This is meant to be because look at how i feel

This is like in the books I read

And she wants to get married very quickly

Brings it up maybe once at the beginning of your relationship

If you dont agree she doesnt say anything again

Just tries to manipulate you into marrying her quickly by doing wifey things

She will put it on you and make you wanna marry her

Will have you forever and ever just don't try to leave because she will enter yandere territory

Deredere(explained on Emily's part because I did hers first)

Honesty I thought none of these fit her thoroughly

Shes too....normal I guess?

At least to fit these categories

She's literally just an artsy girl i don't know

Like shes a creative but not delusional like Elliott so yandere is out of the question

Especially because her last relationship moved at a pace she disliked and was going to restrict her and what she wanted to do

So obviously shes not going to be the type of partner to hold you back in any aspect

But shes not going to let you run over her

Shes just a stable adult

Love that for her tbh

Could never be me where can I learn to become a Leah?

Emily

Deredere

Described as someone who is energetic, kind, and caring and while they show their affection to their loved one they can still hold normal relationships with others.

The sanest one here

Would not let herself get swept up in romance to the point of where its her whole life

There are other things she has to worry about

Like her sister, the wellbeing of all of her friends, being the chilliest woman on the planet

Emily tingz

Is the least likely to do something deranged because she knows that your relationship is stable and she doesn't need to do anything special

Because you love her for her and she loves you for you

Like yeah shes a weird(affectionate) person in general

But I also think she's the oldest out of the bachelorettes(hcs maybe?)

So she does have a clear head most of the time.

Amd she has probably been around and knows that she doesn't have to be crazy because trust is a good thing and luckily she has trust in you

Was probably insane in her younger years and its why shes chill now

Tbh overall a green flag

Maru

Hajidere

Haley

Described as someone shy and nervous around their crush and can socialize with anyone who is not them. Usually blushes or gets flustered at them making the first move

Gives me vibes like she will become super clumsy in front of you

And 100 times more socially awkward

Will stutter and trip over her words

Or drop things

Is the definition if the shy anime girl tbh

"O-oh Farmer! D-did you s-see that?"

I cringed writing that pls

Like it isn't very apparent in the game she just gives me these vibes

Especially because she does sort of go on about her sciencey stuff but i think that's just her being a nerd

I feel like she would be fine before she has a crush

But the second she realizes her feelings it becomes a problem

Obviously you notice but I think you would be too nice to say anything

Unless you're an Abigail type then ofcourse you say something

Becomes dumber the longer you are in her space because you're so attractive and now she cannot breathe

Mayadere

described as someone who is usually the antagonist who switches sides after falling in love with the main character. Usually first appears hostile or intimidating but a change of heart allows them to reveal their true feelings later on

Mostly this because I think she's a butch

But then she becomes cute after getting to know the farmer

Honestly I did not really like her and wanted to fight her up until I actually started gaining hearts with her

So I feel like this fits totally because like

She was the antagonist of my story at least

And she became cute and lovable the second she started feeling feelings

Like with one of her heart events

You literally take pictures with animals

She gets mud in her hair and doesn't even complain like

How she got me on her side Idk

Would probably be the type of girl to be like

Oh farmers here? And then very loudly say things like

"Oh yeah i could TOTALLY grow a few crops no big deal AT ALL"

"Did they hear it? You think they want me to move in yet? Do you think they're in love with me yet? Of course they are i'm Haley duh."

Not quite tsundere because she wouldn't do the whole "its not like I like you" thing

She would make it clear that she likes you but that she's the prize and not you

Sometimes is still hostile before she remembers she can let down her walls.

Its a journey to get her to say what shes actually thinking about certain things but you get there!

[madsipie]

i got bored so i randomized the quarry & until dawn character names and it came up with some odd duos. here's a few:

Mike & Abigail (mike and ashley core? also VERRY different depending on if its earlygame mike or lategame mike. two diff people fr)

Jess & Kaitlyn (god kaitlyn would hate her till she realizes jess is just really insecure and faking it till she makes it, then i think she'd grow to like her)

Emily & Jacob (oh no. just...jacob will fall head over heels for her and she'll drag him around like she does with matt but worse bc he's so dumb oh no jacob run)

Hannah & Ryan (wait that's actually a little silly. perhaps. they're both pretty quiet i think, they might get along but hannah might crush on him bc he's mysterious)

Chris & Emma (i think emma would try to push him out of his shell a bit because he's awkward around people, once he's comfortable i bet he'd joke with her like he does with jess, aka teasing and pranking)

yeah. these are weird. but i actually like them?? damn

[paradoxcase]

Harrow the Ninth audiobook, Act 2

John somehow knows that Harrow's parents are dead before she tells him any of her secrets, I think I mentioned it before, but I'm still wondering about it. He didn't bring it up as if he thought it was a secret, either, but he did address the letter at the beginning of Gideon the Ninth to them. So he must have only learned of this somehow after he sent that letter, right?

When talking about how Harrow's parents harnessed the thanergy from the deaths of the 200 children, he says that they "committed resurrection" and then goes on to say that he also "committed resurrection" using the same language, again talking about there being a "price". That's a funny way to talk about something that's supposed to be literally the best and most holy thing ever in this religion. I'm wondering again if there was also something horrific about the Resurrection itself that only John knows about. We don't actually get to see it happen in Nona - was there some reason he didn't want to show Harrow that part of the story? How much worse could it get?

John's response to Harrow's story about the 200 children, where he says that Harrow and her parents are completely absolved and that it's his sin now seems extremely Christian/Jesus-based to me, but it kind of sounds like he's just saying that because that's his only reference for what a god does. I can't tell if we're meant to take this as something genuine that really puts Harrow's mind at ease, or if it's like his later reaction to her story about opening the Tomb where it was clearly the wrong thing for him to say

I like the Alecto voice. A genuinely deep female voice? I'm here for it. I think there have been a few snatches of dialog in it previously, but this is the first part where she says something longer

Harrow tells Alecto that she is afraid of John - I wonder if this is just because she's afraid of what he'll do when she tells him about the Tomb, or if it's something else

When Cytherea's body is first mentioned in this part, it says that something about it troubled Harrow, but that she just assumed it was schizophrenia. Harrow could sense Wake's hatred of her when Wake was trapped in the sword - since Wake is now in Cytherea's body, I guess she is sensing the same thing

John's voice is actually growing on me. Ortus's is not. I'm really enjoying listening to Magnus and Abigail's voices though, I still stand by what I said that it would have been more accurate to give them posh accents, but I'm glad she gave them the Welsh accent instead, because it's very pleasant to listen to

I'm again noting that they're talking about the hugeness of Number Seven like it's a black hole or something, and saying things about how it would leave "flattened galaxies" in its wake, but the dimensions they give for it are only the size of Neptune or Uranus, which are huge, but they're not flattening any galaxies

Augustine says "I removed the part of [Alfred] that [was afraid of Heralds] when I became a Lyctor" but the Herald madness only seems to affect necromancers, and Alfred was never a necromancer, so that's kind of odd

Did the Sleeper use the exact gun that Gideon found in G1deon and Pyrrha's room to kill Judith? I think it was described as the same type of gun. I wonder if she went and got it out of sentimentality

G1deon claims to want Gideon's sword - I had forgotten about that. I don't think it was ever resolved why, was it? Aside from previously containing Wake, there isn't anything particularly special about the sword, and at this point Wake has transferred to Cytherea and he has no way of knowing that the sword used to belong to Gideon or anything about who Gideon was. Maybe there are still residual bits of Wake left in the sword? The Sleeper has the sword with her in the River bubble, and there was that scene where Pyrrha addressed Harrow as if she were Wake. I wonder if that means that Wake is not actually completely gone even as of the end of Nona and some part of her is still hanging out in Gideon's sword

I can't remember right now if Dulcinea's and Protesilaus's voices are the same as Cytherea's and Protesilaus's were back in Gideon the Ninth, but they do at least sound similar to what I remember. I think it would be better if Protesilaus sounded more like an Arthurian knight, but honestly this is fine

Ortus says the Sleeper would be better known as the "Waker". Haha

I notice this time around that the ward Harrow puts on her door when she's escaping from zombie Cytherea (Wake) was supposed to react to "foreign magic". Does that mean it was actually only meant to protect against necromancy, or necromancers? If so, that makes sense that Wake wouldn't trigger it, since she's not a necromancer and I would guess just being a revenant isn't an inherently necromantic state of being, since it's something that happens naturally without needing a necromancer or a thanergenic planet or anything like that

[darthkvznblogs]

I know the point of the universal meld was to keep them as close to canon as possible, but has there been any noticeable change in some characters thanks to the fusion or any obvious butterfly effect?

Some off the top of my head.

Regarding the world:

-SHIELD is a lot bigger and has more influence in the Kverse than it did in the MCU, for better or worse. There's any number of hidden projects and weapons derived from non-Marvel entities and concepts that I haven't even alluded to yet.

-There's a similar story with SWORD, though this is more due to the relationship with the Kree Empire through Hala. Abigail's been able to procure a lot of goodies that, even if they can't propel Earth centuries ahead, should at least give us a decent edge in a fight if the worst comes to pass.

-The Moon is a lot more storied, having housed the Silver Millenium, the Inhuman realm of Attilan, Pink Diamond's original base of operations, a SWORD base, and now a Bounty Hunter's Guild outpost throughout its history.

-There's obviously a lot more magical stuff in general, of all sorts, but also a lot more backlash towards it from scared, mundane humans. Even now, there's oodles more magical beings than there ever were in the MCU, but they exist in insular communities, largely cut off from one another, thanks to centuries of anti-magic crusades courtesy of groups like the Forever Knights and their allies.

-It felt like the Masters of the Mystic Arts were pretty isolated sorcerer monks in the MCU with little, if any connection to the other magical spheres. They serve a more SHIELD-like role in the Kverse - just, y'know, not nearly as militaristic - providing much needed diplomacy and conflict resolution between the isolated magical realms and protecting them from factions that would seek their destruction. They're kinda like Jedi before the Clone Wars (and with some of the same flaws, too).

Regarding the characters:

-An important part of Kara's story is figuring out she's actually underpowered, and really, subconsciously holding herself back from the true strength and wide range of abilities of a Kryptonian under yellow sun conditions. You might infer that she was initially mirroring the perceived power level of the world around her (though there's some standouts, certainly).

-Tony's at least partially connected to a bunch of non-Marvel figures simply by virtue of being born into incredible wealth. All rich people know each other, on some level. I'd say he's also a little less reckless and short-sighted (but more paranoid), just because he's more aware of just how many powerful figures could easily change the status quo - good, bad, and everything in between. He'd be less inclined to go out in a blaze of fire, at least until he's reasonably sure other people could pick up the torch.

-While not fully tethered to Earth like the Olympians are, Thor's a lot more of an actual god than he is in the MCU. He can feel the belief directed at him, even if it doesn't sustain him, for example, and more generally I've strived to move away from the "Asgard and the Nine Realms aren't actually magic, just really advanced tech" angle of the earlier phases in the MCU. There's a high (equivalent) tech level, don't get me wrong, but their powers are magical in nature first and foremost.

-I think Steve's a little less jaded about the modern world, but also less patient with people who would do it harm, intentionally or otherwise. Like, I don't think Nick Fury would find it prudent to show him a secret helicarrier armada, for example, even to gain his trust. He's inspired by people living their truth and embracing each other in a way that would be pretty unimaginable in the 40s, but disappointed at authority figures for running a society no less unbalanced and disjointed than he left it (just in different ways).

[verdemoun]

DUDE ABOUT WASHING MACHINES. YOU CAN'T TELL ME THE GANG WOULDN'T BE IN LOVE. THE MOMENT SOMEONE STAINS A SHIRT AND MOURNS BC IT DEFINITELY CAN'T WASH OUT AND BESSIE INFORMS THEM OF HOW MODERN WASHING MACHINES WORK. hosea. that'd be hosea i think. or Arthur with some paint.

most of the boys are deeply suspicious about washing machines. they are used to washing being silent and something that happened out of sight out of mind because of gender roles for a massive loud thunder machine to be in charge of their washing just seems worse?? 19th century ideaology really shining through

the ladies, however, think it is the single best thing about modern era, no contest. grimshaw treats her washing machine like a housepet and pats the top affectionately almost every time she does laundry. the second a product is advertised as good for your washing machine she buys it. when it inevitably carks it after years of service she actually tears up only to become immediately attached to a fancier washing machine with more features

kieran considers the washing machine public enemy number 2 only behind colm o'driscoll himself. there are some low ranking o'driscolls he would rather deal with than a washing machine. if he is feeling overstimulated at the house it's because the washing machine is on. it becomes habit to warn kieran when someone is doing laundry because bet he will suddenly decide to go for a walk or just sit in the garden watching his shows on a tablet instead of sitting inside with the devil machine dancing to its own thunderous sounds.

hosea spilled wine on one of his favorite modern era shirts (favorite simply because it was something he would've worn in canon era if he had it. old fashioned cozy button up) and bessie saved it with a simple spin in the washing machine with a dishwashing liquid and bicarb soak. he is further convinced his wife is the most incredible human being to ever live but the washing machine is a minor deity

hosea is also firmly convinced the washing machine is sentient and claims socks at will as payment for all the other times it has salvaged clothes, especially with some of the filthy monstrosities the boys bring home

abigail took the longest to get used to the idea and would regularly walk around the house looking for a wash board until being reminded there was a washing machine. since she timewarped 3 years after john he was also used to doing the washing himself and took over the job, still offering to do it long after she timewarped. she is sometimes convinced it isn't actually her husband

[k-s-morgan]

Hi I how are you? I hope you're doing well. If there is anything at all I can do to help please don't hesitate to ask. I wanted to ask about a theory. What do you think would happen at the end of season 2 if Hannibal decided not to kill Abigail and instead took her to Europe with him instead of Bedelia? I personally think that Abigail would have runaway the first chance she got, she was very manipulative and was clearly using Will and Hannibal as a means of self preservation. Do you think Hannibal would have eaten her like he planned to with Bedelia? Or would he want to reunite them as a murder family once more? If so would Abigail stay with them? Or I have another theory, what if Hannibal planned to brainwash Abigail and alter her personality to turn her into Mischa like book Hannibal tried to with Clarice? How would Will react to that? Love to know your thoughts. Wishing you all the best and don't stop writing.

Hi! Thank you so much <3 I know this is an older ask, but answering it now: unfortunately, Russia resumed its missile attacks. My city was attacked twice in the last three days, in the middle of the night, with explosions sounding before the air raid alarm. All that my cats and my Mom and me could do is run into the hallway, terrified. It's difficult to live with the knowledge that your life can end any single moment - and end in a painful and scary way.

On to better things, though: regarding the first theory, I think it could go in a number of ways. Abigail is an interesting character in the way that we barely know enough about her as a person. Her existence has always been about survival: we have no idea if she actually has darkness in her, if she's willing to act on it, what she wants for herself and how she really feels about her life up to this point. Hannibal held fondness for Abigail; he spent time with her and on planning to have her in his life, but like Will, he was more enamoured with the idea of her, not with her as a person. Abigail reminded him of his sister and she was the way to get Will to consider having a family with him - these were her two primary features.

It's difficult to say if Murder Family would have been feasible without knowing the answers to these questions about Abigail. She didn't seem to like Will all that much, and for a good reason, but she understood that being liked by him is her best chance at survival. She was doing what Hannibal wanted because she realized how dangerous he is and he was the only person she had who accepted the truth about her and welcomed it. With him, she didn't have to constantly worry about being exposed as her father's helper, but at the same time, she knew that Hannibal could change his mind about her and murder her whenever he felt like it.

With all this stress, I'm not sure what Abigail would have done if she lived beyond S2. Running away is an option, but how and where to? She'd have no money, no real documents, and she'd be officially a fugitive who'd be arrested if the police caught her. Living on the streets with no money and no opportunities might be even worse than staying with Hannibal, who was easily toying with her life. At least with him, she had some of her basic needs met.

Maybe one day, if she felt calmer and she had a chance to gain her own self, she'd feel happy with the idea of being a part of Murder Family. Or maybe she'd bide her time, saving money, learning things, and then running away.

I think whether Hannibal decided to eat Abigail or not would depend on whether Will was with him. Will would never allow it, and Hannibal wouldn't risk alienating him. But if Abigail proved to be disappointing like Bedelia, and Will was still separated from him, then yes, I think it's an option.

As for the second theory, I don't think Hannibal would ever want to brainwash someone close to him by changing their personality. His MO with his patients and others is to push people into becoming their true self. He respected their ultimate boundaries - never pushing Margot to kill someone beyond her attacker, sending killers to Will, sending a weakened patient to Bedelia. I think he'd try to help Abigail find her real dark self, but if this proved to be disappointing, and if she couldn't be used to bring Will to him, then Hannibal would probably simply kill her instead of trying to turn her into someone else.

[arbitrarygreay]

I said in a previous post that for Abigail, family is a source of expectation and trust. To put it in a less nuanced way, the Bellweather way is to take family for granted, for better and for worse. Someone who really exemplifies that is Petra, particularly in her treatment of the Collars. In 1x5, she informs the unit that they are family (this after Raelle's lip to her in 1x4). This could easily be seen as a courtesy, but Petra really means it. Other than Raelle telling her about Scylla, she still doesn't interact with Raelle much for the rest of the season. But in 2x1, she tearfully hugs Raelle coming back from Tarim without hesitation, with the same fervor she greeted Abigail. (And at this point, she doesn't know anything about who saved whom out there.) This shows that not only did Petra mean it when she said that she now considered the unit family, but also what it means for Petra to consider people family. Abigail described her mother in 1x1 as "[caring] about her company more than she does herself". In 1x1, that easily could have been just hype. But 2x1 shows that Petra likely does this kind of family extension not infrequently. It would apply to any members of the units other Bellweathers are in, and so probably to the people Petra works with directly, as well. (Let's not forget that, despite her ambitions and power plays, Petra named her own daughter after Alder's sister.) Raelle did alert Petra about Willa's existence in 1x4, so Petra did have some prep time to research the two of them before 1x5. (And overachiever Head of Intelligence that she is, it's not unlikely that she either had a hand in designing the unit roster or did her research on them once finding out). Nonetheless, when Raelle asked for her time she said "Yes, of course," even while at her own family wedding! And she had that speech on Willa Collar easily ready to go, the moment Raelle asked. It's clear that the writing intended for us to take this moment as a hint that Willa's complaints were not to be taken at face value, but as a foreshadowing of how she had been warped by bitterness into hatred. (No matter how :\ I feel about that decision, but whatever.) We are to take this moment as Petra being honest and sincere in how she sees the troops under her command. This, of course, is sitting next to how Abigail and Petra's (actual closest blood relation) family dynamic evolves over the course of the show, starting from its less than great state in season 1. Expectation and trust, sitting side by side, taken for granted. Just because Petra means it when she considers people family, doesn't mean that the expression of that consideration is fair to them. To be a Bellweather is to live up to the High Atlantic tradition (that was strongly defined by Bellweathers for over 150 years), and living up to those ideals is what makes them trust others. Plus, there is the whole "abandoning Raelle and Tally to war meat" part, showing that S1 Petra's sincere care is not at all mutually exclusive with still living up to Willa's accusations. In 1x3, Abigail recounts how the Bellweather clan is defined by self-sacrifice, starting with Jem, and that expectation and trust is one that they therefore extend to others, too. "Storm and fury" is an "offense is best defense" approach, not one that prioritizes the preservation of assets.

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

ok im literally the nicest person ever so i'll only give u two albums to rank : red and fearless (with their vaults),, aka the longest albums she has,, have fun😘💕

ellie i am literally at my wit’s end.

it’s FEARLESS

forever & always - the petty way she says and i don’t feel welcome anymore… this whole song is just chefs kiss and i have a soft spot for it okay (the piano version HITSSS DIFFERENTTT)

tell me why - it’s kinda crazy that i’m putting this song above all the popular ones but i love it so much. the violin in the intro is just so funny to me idk why, it makes me want to burst out laughing. and taylor is just so angsty here?? this one here. my fav (you could write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect DAAAaaaAAaaAAaaAyy)

the way i loved you - SCREAMING AND FIGHTING AND KISSING IN THE RAIN she is so distressed i adore it. i also associate this song with my old crush but whatever because i want to feel like this again

you belong with me - SOOO ICONIC i scream-sang this with my best friend and it’s so nostalgic. it’s super pick me but every girl had a pick me phase at one point so it’s okay.

love story - a classic. i should get proposed to this song methinks.

jump then fall - idk why but this song hits different guys 🥲

fifteen - I LOVE THIS SONG. i’m so jealous of abigail if my friend wrote a song about my heartbreak i would be over the moon.

fearless - “this song is about the perfect first date i’ve never had.” same girl. i actually cringe whenever i listen to this song because it reminds me of this guy i used to like so. sorry tay.

the best day - once again, taylor swift reminds me that i have daddy issues. i remember on my first listen of this album i couldn’t get through this song and had to skip it… widiwidiekckekncndcjc teared up on this relisten! so!

mr. perfectly fine - ok tbh i have some nostalgia from this song bc last year they were playing this song in a barbershop in taiwan and i was so surprised ??

the other side of the door - back to december’s bratty little sister. jk i actually love the bridge but how many little black dresses does girly have!!

come in with the rain - oooh i love the “talk to… talk to…” lyrics they’re so yummy satisfying (ellie i’m tiredddddd)

that’s when - this song is sweet. every song is sweet but this is different. twosongsleft

superstar - cresswell vibes! is this song about joe jonas

you all over me - ok ngl. the graffiti metaphor was pretty cringe

untouchable - guys. how is this album worse than debut

you’re not sorry - go off i guess!

white horse - taylor, i’m sorry but. this is getting repetitive. why are you always so fucking heartbroken

we were happy - FEARLESS IS MY LEAST FAVORITE ALBUM THIS IS SO BLAND IM BAWLING

don’t you - this song sounds like every song which sounds like every other song on this album the moment this song ends is the moment i forget everything about it

bye bye baby - was joe jonas really that good of a boyfriend. did she have to release this song. did i listen to it in its entirety. who’s to say. i am so ready for red

today was a fairytale - in my honest opinion. this vault song did not need to be released

change - it’s fine. a standard older sister song. she def wrote this after reading a ya novel. not sure how i feel about her christian era but whatever. hallelujah!

breathe - taylor. girly. let’s have a talk for a second: please have one song on this album that doesn’t sound like every other song on this album. okay?

hey stephen - very basic. nothing really stood out to me yk? (should’ve been replaced by mr perfectly fine tbh)

burning RED

begin again - I HAVE SUCH A SOFT SPOT FOR THIS SONG. LIVE FOR YOURSELF. WRITE NEW STORIES. LOOK AT THE FUTURE. YOUR HURT DOES NOT DEFINE YOU!!!!

all too well (10 minute version) - THE SHORT FILM BROKE MEEE

all too well - OUCHH watch her grammys performance it is so emotional

the last time - YESSSS MORALLY COMPLICATED GRAY AREAS MY BESTIEEEE

red - LOSING HIM WAS BLUE LIKE ID NEVER KNOWN MISSING HIM WAS DARK GRAY ALL ALONE FORGETTING HIM WAS LIKE TRYING TO KNOW SOMEBODY YOUVE NEVER METT

holy ground - i love healing. i love getting over it. i love moving on.

treacherous - FORBIDDEN LOVE!!!!

i almost do - THIS HURTS SO MUCH THIS IS JUST THE 1 IN A DIFFERENT FONT

the moment i knew - this song is genuinely so heartbreaking knowing the details of taylor’s twenty first birthday… fuck you j*ke

the lucky one - yk what her vocals are kinda funky on this one but whatever

sad beautiful tragic - at first i was going to rank it lower but then i heard the bridge and 🤭

the very first time - this is such a cute song i cant wait to listen to it when i fall in love

nothing new - THE LUCKY ONE VIBES !!

state of grace - ok idk if it’s just me but this kinda sounds like a modern day christian worship song? in all seriousness i am obsessed with this song. very movie soundtrack esque.

better man - ooh good soup. i love how she kinda has flashbacks in this song like in all too well.

starlight - really adorable!! i love the dreamy vintage aesthetic and the guitar. could totally see a grandma at some retirement home recounting her glory days.

come back… be here - she’s written better yearning songs. this is whatever

run - what is ed doing here!!!

everything has changed - i’m not a big fan of eddie but he wasn’t bad in this. plus the joker and the queen is such an iconic music video.

i knew you were trouble - so dramatic and for what!!! she slayed

forever winter - this is literally winlet from scarlets pov ???

girl at home - she really is a girl’s girl 🫶

we are never getting back together - it sounds too similar to 22 for me.

22 - not one of her best hits but it still slaps

babe - mid.

message in a bottle - nothing about this stood out to me. not my favorite.

stay stay stay - ew. barf. i hate it.

i bet you think about me - the worst taylor swift song yet. why is there a cacophony of harmonica in the chorus.

[hannahwatcheshorror]

ZOMBIELAND (2009)

I think this movie gets its R rating from the random zombie nudity and the gore but other than its zombie theme it doesn’t really feel like a horror film, more like an action comedy, so this would be a good movie for someone who isn’t big on horror but is trying to dip their toe. It’s certainly fun and well edited. The chemistry between the actors is nice, you get the feeling they got along well together and it's reflected in their work. A fun watch with a worthy cast.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Our movie starts with Jesse Eisenberg and this time facebook can’t save him because zombies have taken over the world, he has a bit of control issues in the form of rules he strictly follows to survive the apocalypse but then he meets Woody Harrelson and that just turns his life (flip) upside down. Woody Harrelson doesn’t like or follow rules (to Jesse's dismay).

(I had thought that the grocery store scene from “28 Days Later” was going to be much worse because of this movie's shopping scene but I was wrong.) We meet Emma Stone and she says her sister Abigail Breslin is turning into a Zomb-o so would they please shoot Abby and Woody was pretty eager to oblige before Ms. Stone stops him. Emma says she wants to do it but really she just wants him to give her the gun, which he does, and she revealed the ruse. The girls steal the boys car and guns, they drive off but we’ll see them again. The boys find a new car and new guns, they drive off and promptly see the girls again, who promptly steal the new car. But this time the boys are in it! Road trip pals!

Driving and bonding happens, they go to a souvenir shop and do some rage room therapy, absolutely wrecking things, and then they crashed Bill Murray's house. When they said they were going to check for Z-boys, no one actually did, so when Bill Murray showed up in Zombie makeup it scared everyone and Jesse “Messy” Eisenberg just shot without even really processing what was happening which I get but at the same time… RIP to this movie’s universe’s Bill Murray (and that egg he ate in Osmosis Jones).

In the morning The girls leave again. Jesse is sad. It is important to note that Mr. Eisenberg hasn’t really been using his rules lately, (save for Rule #2 Double Tap) because he doesn’t feel the need to when he is around his friends, his makeshift family. That is Jesse Eisenberg's growth, Woody’s is telling everyone Buck was his son, and the girls growth will be when they stop running, but…

For reasons (other than plot) I cannot understand why Emma Stone's character would ever want to take her sister to an amusement park during a zombie apocalypse. Up until that point in the movie the girls have been clever and safe but their logic goes out the window when they not only decide to go to this funland but when they get there they turn on all the lights and rides so as to beckon all the zombies in the area. And what do our girls do next? They get on a ride. They strap themselves to one of those drop tower rides which means they CANNOT ESCAPE and start the ride. By happenstance shooting the controls locks the seats up in the air which stalls enough time for Jesse Eisenberg to squirm and Woody Harrelson to be cool as hell luring basically every Zoombini away in what is essentially a suicide mission but the movie ends happy (so hush).

Jesse Eisenberger comes over and hits the emergency switch which lowers the seats, everything that they want to happen with this ride happens and I just have to call shenanigans, I know it LOOKED cool but those dangling feetsies are a one way ticket to zombie bite town. That and when they run out of bullets they don’t always use the butt of the gun to shove off the Z-O-M-B-I-E-S which is another dumb thing, they just hold the guns over their heads and wait to be rescued. It ends with Woody getting his twinkie after Jesse shoots at something without really processing it first again (RIP again to this movie's universe's Bill Murray).

[adamwatchesmovies]

World War Z (2013)

The last time I saw World War Z, it was in 2013 and on the big screen. I enjoyed it but since then, this film hasn't made much of an impact. The sequel announced after its box office success never materialized. Combined with it not really being a faithful adaptation of the book and the overall lack of scares, it makes you wonder if the hype was just it being new and hot.

Gerry (Brad Pitt), a former UN employee specializing in navigating through dangerous zones, hears strange reports on the news. A new form of rabies spreads the disease rapidly as those affected attack their loved ones. To make things worse, the infected seem nearly unstoppable: only going down when shot in the head. In no time, every major city is overrun and he is recruited to help find a cure.

Some notable aspects of World War Z are that it actually uses the word zombie, and the people within the story act as though they’ve seen horror movies before. When Gerry defends his family from a pack of ghouls, he gets some of their blood on his face and immediately, steps on a rooftop ledge in case he feels himself transforming. Also noteworthy is the picture's scale. Most zombie films lean towards the low-budget production. Not this one. We travel to multiple cities across the world as Gerry searches for patient zero and/or a cure. In some locations, the undead number in the thousands. When there are that many, they behave almost like insects, crawling on top of each other to scale walls and forming a wave that devours everything in its path.

Another component worth mentioning is Brad Pitt. He’s always great and doesn’t disappoint here either. There’s a serious attempt made to make World War Z realistic. While Gerry is away on his mission, his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos) and children (Sterling Jerins and Abigail Hargrove) are being cared for by Gerry’s old boss, played by Fana Mokeona. The ship is full of people. Too full. More than once, we see people shipped away because they don’t have the resources to take care of them and we never find out what happens to them. You assume the worst because the whole world is falling apart. If Gerry dies on his mission or even fails to report frequently enough for people to think he’s still alive, his family is at risk. The stakes are high on a personal, familial and global level.

All that said, there’s a reason no one is talking about this movie now and why it isn’t looked upon fondly within horror circles. World War Z is not particularly scary. It’s got suspense, but no scares. The realistic look also means there aren’t any memorable zombie designs anywhere. Then, there's the conclusion, which is underwhelming. It makes sense but makes you go “really? that’s it?” then we get a quick wrap-up and the credits begin rolling. This picture is missing something. It’s got the action but needed something else. If only it offered insights into governments (it looks like it’s going to, but it’s more of a way to explain how the various cities we visit are still standing and/or why they’re about to fall) or individuals during a pandemic. Or if it was funny (the opposite of being scary), or do something so it could be known for something other than “the big-budget zombie movie with Brad Pitt in it”. I haven’t read the book by Max Brooks but from what I know about it, it contains all of those things to a degree. Where’d they go?

World War Z is a good movie but I don’t know who I would recommend it to. Horror hounds will be disappointed by the general lack of gore and scares. Non-horror fans are unlikely to take a chance on it. What I’d recommend instead is that the film be used as a gateway. Lure those non-horror fans in with the action, the big budget and the star power. Once your friend or significant other tells you they’d be up for more, then you can show them one of the better, more memorable zombie movies you have in your collection. (August 18, 2023)

[cattarattat]

A MUST, MUST, MUST READ!!!

"Abigail Disney talks to Rolling Stone about her family company’s CEO Bob Iger and his anti-strike comments, protesting private jet usage, and more…

'I WOKE UP one day and realized that, just by virtue of being born lucky, I had so much more than everyone else,' says Abigail Disney. 'And I don’t think I’ve slept well since I figured that out.'

Disney, the granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney, has used her considerable means to make the world a better place since the ‘90s, backing a string of non-profits and producing documentaries that shine a light on societal injustices. These have included Pray the Devil Back to Hell, about the work of famed Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee; The Invisible War, which tackled the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S. military; and On the Record, exploring the rape allegations against hip-hop legend Russell Simmons. She’s also served as executive producer on a number of women-directed features, such as Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Jennifer Fox’s The Tale, and Kitty Green’s The Assistant.

In 2019, she set her sights on Disney and its CEO, Bob Iger, criticizing the exec’s $65 million salary over a series of tweets and speaking with Disneyland park employees, discovering that many of them are food insecure and some even live in their cars. This resulted in her directorial debut, the 2022 documentary The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, shining a light on the dire condition of Disney’s amusement park workers. Now, with Iger back controlling Disney amid the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes, and calling the strikers 'not realistic' and 'disturbing' for wanting pay equity and better working conditions — comments that former Disney staffers have called 'evil' and 'inhumane' — Disney is refusing to keep quiet.

'I have a theory that Bob Iger retired on one planet in 2020 and came back on a new planet, and he doesn’t realize he’s on a new planet now,' Disney tells Rolling Stone. 'And on this new planet, all CEOs are magic people who are always right about everything. And sometimes, on this planet, Twitter will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you misspeak. I think he’s been very surprised by the way people reacted to him.'

Indeed, Iger’s comments drew a giant wave of backlash from the media and entertainment industries. It didn’t help that they were made at the Sun Valley Conference, an annual summit for the financial sector that’s earned the nickname the 'summer camp for billionaires.'

'You can only call your partners — and they are your partners, the creatives who make these products with you, as well as the janitors who clean your parks at night — 'unrealistic' in their asks if you can’t think outside of the teeny, tiny little business model that you’ve been working with. But he said it himself that it’s a broken model. And the entire model for the way they’ve been conducting business for the last fifty years is broken,' adds Disney.

The 63-year-old was also arrested at the East Hampton Airport this month protesting the use of private jets and their environmental impact. Rolling Stone spoke with Disney about this, Bob Iger and Disney, the Hollywood strikes, and much more.

To start, I wanted to ask about your recent arrest at the East Hampton Airport protesting private jet use in the name of climate change. What compelled you to take this action? You channeled your inner Jane Fonda. Well, there are definitely far worse people to emulate than Jane Fonda. And actually, I went on a Fire Drill Fridays protest with her right before the pandemic, and one of the things she said was that she started Fire Drill Fridays because she had been watching Greta Thunberg on TV and thought, 'Where are the old people? Why do we always leave it on the young people to get conked on the head when we’re the ones who can handle the criminal record and have less to lose?' That stayed with me. I had been reading things, had had my own experience with private planes, and gave them up years ago because it just felt so wrong. I tweeted something out a bunch of months ago about chaining myself to an airplane — I’m prone to hyperbole, what can I say — and then the folks at the New York Communities for Change reached out and said, 'Are you serious about this? Well, if you’re serious about it, we should do something together. One thing led to another, and there I was last weekend. And I was so happy to be there. I was the oldest person there by a long way. It was thrilling for me because I really feel like I haven’t done enough. We all have to get off the sidelines.

During this time of climate emergency, private planes are an abomination. Ban them now. pic.twitter.com/DpmHOc7KwC

— Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD (@ClimatePsych) July 14, 2023

There were some interesting facts in the op-ed you wrote for The Guardian, such as 'billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person,' and that 'a four-hour flight on a private jet will burn as much carbon as the average person does in a year.'

That should really stop anyone in their tracks before they get on the next private plane. It’s only common sense. One percent of the population accounts for fifty percent of all aviation emissions. What that means is that it’s not just private planes; it’s the top one percent of frequent flyers.

Celebs are obviously quite guilty of frequent private jet use. Kylie Jenner got a lot of flak last year for taking a 17-minute private jet flight.

And she should!

And it’s Taylor Swift who tops the list of celebrities when it comes to private jet use by a wide margin. They did a study last year that concluded her private jet flew 170 times between January and July of last year alone.

Whoa! That’s incredible. I understand why a celebrity would lean toward the private jets: it is hard to get through an airport when everyone wants to talk to you, and you don’t want to be sitting in first class and have everyone ask you for selfies and autographs. But that is a completely solvable problem. Let’s work with the airlines to make some small changes. You have people like Bill Gates who say they don’t have to fly commercial because they give a lot of money to carbon capture technologies, and I’m sorry — yeah, you fly a lot and do a lot of great work, but how about you pay for the carbon capture and don’t pollute?

When you mention Bill Gates and private jets, my mind immediately goes to him and Jeffrey Epstein…

Yeah…

There are also climate activists like Leonardo DiCaprio who will star in movies like Don’t Look Up and preach about how we have to protect the environment against climate change and then fly everywhere on private jets. Exactly who I was going to say. Leonardo. Leo, come on, man! Was he really pulling his electric car up next to a private plane to get somewhere? Surely the irony of that had to have hit him!

And I don’t think celebrities have the airport excuse anymore. I fly Delta and they have a VIP service for celebs where they will take you in a private car right up to the plane.

Exactly. So, it’s a real bullshit excuse.

You’re a movie producer and this is a historic time in Hollywood. Both the actors guild and writers guild are striking simultaneously for the first time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of SAG. I’m in the writers guild. This is a very big moment. We’re now trying to restructure the relationship between the people who pull the revenues in and the people who generate the revenues. First came Spotify and then streaming followed, and they reduced the number of monetization events in the life of a piece of media. So, you don’t have the DVD market, foreign sales, and syndication. At this point, what Netflix does — and I know this — is that they pay you once for worldwide rights, and then they don’t tell you anything about who’s seeing your film or how many people are seeing your film, and they get to take it off the platform when they’re done with it and that’s the end of it. Obviously, for a small, independent filmmaker like myself, it’s disastrous. But it’s also disastrous for Warners, Universal, and everybody else. The corporations are really in trouble. I think they’ve been too slow to react to what was bound to happen, which was that cable networks were going to collapse.

As a documentary filmmaker, I can tell you that we are in such turmoil right now. We were always subject to the whims of the platform, and now the platforms don’t know which way is up — and all they’re buying is true crime. And when I saw 'the model is broken,' I’m not just talking about media but American business in general. Revenues pay for your business concerns, reimburse people, pay your taxes, and whatever’s left from that belongs to management and shareholders. That model is broken. You can’t continue to push downward on employee salaries, and treat people the way we’ve been treating them, and expect any kind of business or society to thrive.

I wanted to discuss Disney CEO Bob Iger’s recent comments. He called the strikers’ asks not 'realistic' and even invoked the Covid pandemic to say that strikers were adding to the industry 'disruption' caused by Covid. And to do it from the Sun Valley Conference, or the 'summer camp for billionaires,' just seemed next-level out of touch.

Oh my god. You know, if you spend too much time at the 'summer camp for billionaires,' you’re going to forget that there are other kinds of people in the world who aren’t necessarily billionaires. And I think he forgot where he was and what the world is really like — which is easy to do, especially when you’re on a private plane.

Do you feel Bob Iger is the right person to lead Disney right now?

Oh, that’s such a hard thing to say. And obviously, if I say 'no' to that question, that will haunt me on Google for the rest of my life. It’s really hard to say. I’ll say that what we need now isn’t what we’ve been needing for the last forty years because it’s just a very different climate. We need a lot of creativity, and someone thinking about busting open all the logjams of where we are. But what I want isn’t the kind of stuff you’re going to hear in The Wall Street Journal. I really think it’s time for businesses to reimagine what the point of a corporation is, and why a corporation exists, and if we’re going to think of ourselves as a bunch of businesses creating livelihood for people, we need to rethink how we create those livelihoods. We need to question this notion that capital only belongs to owners when we can’t achieve anything without workers. We’re doing capitalism wrong, and we’re going to kill ourselves in the process unless we rethink it.

One thing that seemed to really get under your skin was CEO pay — specifically, when you discovered that Bob Iger was paid $65 million in 2018, or 1,424 times the median salary of a Disney employee. And if you look at David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, he pulled in nearly $500 million between 2018 and 2022 alone.

My grandfather became a very wealthy man as a result of Disney, but also my grandmother told me stories about how, when she brought my father home from the hospital, they didn’t know where their next meal was going to come from. It was 1930, and Disney was already a pretty successful company, but every success they had they reinvested it into the company. I think that risk should in fact be rewarded, but where was the risk that Bob Iger took, as somebody who rose up the ladder as an employee to management, and then rose to the top of management? I don’t think he knows what it’s like to not know where his next meal is coming from. And I don’t either. But I know what my grandparents’ experience was, and how much they put on the line for that business. A CEO should be like a ship captain. You want that job and the shiny uniform, but you need to agree to the terms. And if you have $65 million in your pocket, and there are people in your company who are struggling to put food on the table, that should not feel good to you. You shouldn’t be able to sleep well at night. I woke up one day and realized that, just by virtue of being born lucky, I had so much more than everyone else. And I don’t think I’ve slept well since I figured that out.

In lieu of the #HauntedMansion stars, who are not in attendance at the world premiere due to the actors strike, Disney has its classic villains walking the red carpet pic.twitter.com/aCc0G30SuK

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 16, 2023

One of the first big movie premieres to be held following the actors’ strike was for Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, and it was a bizarre scene. Since actors couldn’t walk the red carpet, Disney made their non-union park walk the carpet as their amusement park characters. And if people think SAG-AFTRA actors are exploited, these park actors are on a whole other level. It reminded me of your recent documentary on park workers, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.

And I have screened my film for the park workers, who are non-union, and who have been contemplating unionizing. Do you think they were thinking about those thoughts when they were in those outfits? You bet. Disney can keep this up as long as they want, but they’re going to have a lot of labor problems if they don’t change their ways."

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heyyy ghost how are u doing?? had my classics world of the hero exam today and i got to make points about cannibalism in two of my essays ahsjsk.

still sorta in that mode so I'm like rotating the points I made in my mind, thinking about how eating someone so completely that there's nothing left of them was horrifying for a secondary reason to the ancient greeks cause that meant there was no body available for burial, and souls who weren't given the proper burial rites wandered about in the afterlife all miserable,,,,, and thinking of applying that not to hannibal, but hobbs

like, he thought he was honouring every part of them,, but it turns out he damned them further by using all their parts,,, so they have no peace even in death,,,, its just an interesting train of thought tbh – z.

z !! :DD I’m doing okay, thank you <33 I hope you’re having a good day/night too and your exam went well !!

also yes !! I know that burials/funerals were really important to the ancient greeks because it basically guaranteed a safe passing into the underworld and beyond, but I’ve never considered the implications of cannibalism and what that would’ve meant to them 😟 I guess that’s why achilles’ threat to eat hector was so hellish? I mean considering the context the implications would’ve likely been even worse for them then it would be for us, and in our modern context we obviously find threats like that abhorrent and awful and inhuman, so imagine what it would’ve been like for them…

anyway I actually really like how you connected this to hobbs instead of hannibal. because like in his mind what he was doing was selfless, right? he was the “sensitive psychopath” who “loved” the girls he murdered. absolutely adored them in fact, because he adores his daughter. but the whole reason he got abigail to bait those girls in the first place was because he knew she would leave him eventually, and was going to soon because of college, and didn’t want to let her go. he grew possessive of her and wanted to have her all to himself, forever. it’s disturbingly selfish. not only that, but it’s placing his feelings above those of his daughter, it’s controlling her life and autonomy, it’s a poor attempt to stop and reverse time, and it’s the want to dominate and consume her completely. within the show’s subtext, we know cannibalism metaphorically represents dominance/power, which is why he not only hunts them, but eats them. like you said, he claims he does it to honour every part of them, but this is an illusion. what he does is, in reality, completely disempowering, belittling, and controlling. and of course all of this is meant to set up the major themes of the show, as well as hannibal and will’s shared selfish natures and twisted obsessions, both with each other and with abigail, but you get the point

but returning to the connection you made, it’s fitting to link it to hobbs I think, as well as the irony surrounding his mentality, since cannibalism to the ancient greeks would’ve been the ultimate prison for the soul, the cruellest punishment, and the most grotesque form of dominance and control over another person. it’s quite literally barring their freedom to go through the natural passages of life (and death) and to progress naturally. it stops time. considering all this, it’s a mercy that hannibal didn’t eat abigail in the end. when she died, she was finally set free