#danny goldman

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Young Frankenstein 1974

[kpoptimeout]

K-Pop Debuts and Comebacks for the Third Week of July 2024 (Jul 15 - Jul 21 2024)

Jul 15

NCT 127 - Walk

NCT's Seoul unit returns in this hard track!

Jul 16

pH-1 - FLAT COKE ft. Lee Youngji

Talented rappers pH-1 and Lee Youngji collab in this laid back piece.

WAKER - Vanilla Choco Shake

Rookie boy group WAKER returns in this refreshing and cute track!

Jul 17

DKB - Flirting X

Underrated boy band DKB is back with a rock band concept in this 2nd gen-coded song!

HA SUNG WOON - Blessed

WANNA ONE and HOTSHOT's Ha Sung Woon makes a powerful comeback.

Jul 18

eero - 20 Again

Indie artist eero is ready for the summer in this bright song!

n.SSign - Tiger (New Flavour)

Young boy band n.SSign is back in this darker track!

Jul 19

Danny Goldman - Cheat Day

Indie artist Danny Goldman sings about chimaek and samgyupsal cheat days!

Jimin - Who

BTS' Jimin drops another vibey English solo track.

Stray Kids - Chk Chk Boom

Stray Kids return with another banger, this time with the help of Deadpool and Wolverine!

Jul 20

No releases.

Jul 21

No releases.

What is your favourite song of the week?

[capnportofficial]

Most People: My fave celeb is (widely known and popular modern celebrity)!!!

Me:

[lyrics365]

치팅데이 (Cheating Day)

mwodeunji meokeodo dwae wonhaneun geon mwodeun da sajulge daieoteuneun geuman geudaeyeo chamji mayo geureom meokeoboja chamchimayo ijebuteo meokbang sijak oneuleun chitingdeiya chitingdeiya neowa na saljjineun sigan oneuleun chitingdeiya chitingdeiya uri sarangeul meokneun naliya pija chikin maratang tteokboki paseuta dakbal chobap saelreodeu gateun geon geumji jokbal gopchang…

[glimeres]

2012 Tony Awards - Danny Burstein, Jenifer Foote and Kiira Schmidt perform The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues from the musical Follies

[hauntnowpod]

Episode Thirty-Three - The Epilogue

Our season, and series, finale has arrived. If you loved the show, please share your own eulogies with us a hauntnowpod @ gmail.com

So long, and thanks for all the ghosts 👻

Transcript here!

The Way We Haunt Now is supported in part by an award from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. This episode of The Way We Haunt Now was written by Courtney Floyd and Georgia Mckenzie, with sound design by Brad Colbroock and voice acting by:

Ali Hylton, Jeff Goldman, Kirsty Woolven, and Natalie Hunter as the Apartment

Aubrey Akers as Professor

Becca Marcus as Lota

Brad Colbroock as Cas

Courtney Floyd as Eulalie

Danny Spiller as Aaron

David A Meyers as Cas’s Advisor

David S. Dear as Henry

Eleanor Grey as Frankie

Georgia Mckenzie as Josie

Jess "Bear" Winston as Alicia

Kira Apple as The Narrator and Mary

Lindsay Zana as Danny

Marnie Warner as Parker

Michelle Sellers as Tricia

Paul H. Rollins as Nick

Sian Luxford as Professor 1

Tal Minear as Myrtle

Tim Lowe as Jon Harker

There’s no need to bust out your Ouija board to keep in touch. Whether you’re new to the spirit world or simply a ghost in need of some entertainment, you can visit www.hauntnowpod.com for information about our cast and crew, content warnings, and transcripts.

You can also find us screaming into the void of social media at, you guessed it, @HauntNowPod. Remember to HAUNT RESPONSIBLY.

[thatphantomwriter]

Danny Phantom Panel Notes- Nostalgia Con

I was able to attend a Danny Phantom panel where David Kaufman and Butch I defy you Hartman were able to speak a bit about the show. I neglected to remember to record the panel, but I took some notes. It's definitely not all new but maybe there's some tidbits in here that might be interesting.

David had auditioned for the show over a year before he actually booked the role and therefore forgot what it was by the time he was told he got it

Development for the show happened between 2000 and 2003

Butch told the story about how he came up with the Danny Phantom name on a car trip (I know he tends to bring up this story in many interviews)

The interviewer asked about the reference to The Shining and asked for more information on that and had to clarify she meant Danny and Jack's names. Butch denies this being a reference, and reiterated that Danny just sounded cool with Phantom

I don't remember the exact phrasing, but I believe Butch mentioned he didn't want to make the ghosts dead people

The interviewer asked about the design for Danny, but Butch kinda redirected/never answered this question. He asked David if he knew what Danny looked like when auditioning, and David says he didn't

David had asked if Danny would need a different voice when he was Phantom vs when he was Fenton, but was told it can be the same.

Butch says they kept adding powers to Danny over the course of the show because they were fun and cool despite not wanting to give him too many powers

Butch says that ghosts were designed by their personality. He used Poindexter, Desiree, and Skulker as examples (though not by name) (I think he means to imply here that their designs are more like "themes" to tie better to his ghosts aren't dead people thing...)

Butch's favorite title card was for My Brother's Keeper. He mentioned very briefly that other artist would "compete" to make the best title card (I would like to note this is the only time he mentioned anyone else who worked on the show)

David "fell into" voice acting. Danny Goldman was casting director who told David he seemed like a good match for Marty McFly for the Back to the Future show

On advice for voice actors, Butch says to have a choice ready if you're going in front of him and that your job is to make his job easier by really bringing the character to life. David says to find the qualities of how your character speaks, and once you find that you have to let it go an approach it as an actor

The topic of a reboot came up. Butch asked the audience to vote on if they would prefer a reboot to be live action or animated, and seemed pretty surprised when the votes were overwhelmingly for animated. He also asked how many would like an older Danny and an "anime" Danny Phantom. David said it would be interesting to explore a college-age or a little past college-age Danny. Butch mentions Phantom Planet and how everyone would know who Danny is because of that. David adds that maybe people from all around the world would be calling on him to help.

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I was able to meet David afterwards for an autograph, but was too flustered to ask about what he thought about the graphic novel (if he's read it). I know he's aware of its existence, and to my understanding its canon, so I thought it was interesting (though not surprising at all) that Butch kept talking about Phantom Planet and how the show would continue if they stuck with that ending. It's also to my understanding that Butch doesn't have a say at all with what would happen with DP in the future.

[byneddiedingo]

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Vincent Schiavelli, Scatman Crothers. Screenplay: Laurence Hauben, Bo Goldman, based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Cinematography: Haskell Wexler. Production design: Paul Sylbert. Film editing: Sheldon Kahn, Lynzee Klingman. Music: Jack Nitzsche.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is beginning to show its age, as any 48-year-old movie must. It no longer exhibits the freshness that won it acclaim as a masterpiece and raked in the five "major" Academy Awards: picture, director, actor, actress, and screenplay -- only the second picture in history to do that: The first was It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934), and only one other picture, The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991), has subsequently accomplished that feat. Today, however, One Flew has the look of a skillfully directed but somewhat predictable melodrama; its tragic edge has been blunted by familiarity. In treating the material, director Forman goes for straightforward storytelling, without showing us something new or personal as an auteur. And as time has passed, some of the elements of the source, Ken Kesey's novel, that screenwriters Laurence Hauben and Bo Goldman took pains to mitigate -- namely the countercultural glibness and antifeminism -- have begun to show through. It's harder today to wholeheartedly cheer on the raw, anarchic antiauthoritarianism of McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) or to accept as a given the unmitigated villainy of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). We want our protagonists and antagonists to be a little more complicated than the film allows them to be. There are still many who think it a great film, but if it is, I think it's largely because it's the perfect showcase for a great talent -- Nicholson's -- supported by an extraordinary ensemble that includes a shockingly young-looking Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, and a touchingly vulnerable Brad Dourif.

[kwebtv]

"It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman" - ABC - February 21, 1975

Musical / Special Adaptation of the Broadway Play

Running Time: 120 minutes

Stars:

Kenneth Mars as Max Mencken

Loretta Swit as Sydney Carlton

Lesley Ann Warren as Lois Lane

David Wayne as Dr. Abner Sedgwick

David Wilson as Clark Kent/Superman

Phil Leeds as MIT Technician

Harvey Lembeck as Gangster

Allen Ludden as Perry White

Al Molinaro as Gangster

Malachi Throne as King Big Boss V

Lou Willis Jr as Gangster

Danny Goldman as Copy Boy

Geoffrey Horne as Ray Clive

George Chandler as Jonathan Kent

Irene Tedrow  as Martha Kent

Stuart Getz as Jerry Siegel

Michael Lembeck as Joe Shuster

Gary Owens as Narrator

Also featured in the production were

Ronnie Claire Edwards as Cheerleader

Joanna Kerns as Citizen

Udana Power as Cheerleader

Nita Talbot as Gabby Lady

[steamboatdreamy]

My recordings of Brainy Smurf's voice lines (reprised by Danny Goldman) from the 1983 Mattel Preschool Magic Talk Smurf Village playset.

The set came with four figures: Papa, Brainy, Handy, and Greedy (referred to as Baker.)

[noloveforned]

i'm back on wlur tonight from 8pm until midnight after taking last week off to catch a show at the garage from scivic rivers (aka bryce randall bickford fka the strugglers) and ned oldham/jordan perry.

in other news, i'm no longer able to embed my radio shows to stream within my tumblr page. they transition to a new post format and my long, self-hosted mp3s don't seem to play nicely. in the meantime, i've posted last week's show on mixcloud for you to listen at your leisure!

no love for ned on wlur - june 9th, 2023 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label plumtree // scott pilgrim // predicts the future // cinnamon toast morgan and the organ donors // so dark // m.o.d.s // perennial body type // tread overhead // expired candy // poison city good looking son // glitter everywhere // confirmed bachelor // feel it thank god for astronauts // danica // bring us meat // needlepoint night court // chokehold vs. karate kick // humans! // debt offensive guardian singles // ground swell // feed me to the doves // trouble in mind moth // automated stock // modern madness cassette // marthouse pinch points // pave me // mechanical injury ep // roolette cloud nothings // fridge rock // (bandcamp mp3) // (unreleased) the toads // tale of a town split in two // in the wilderness // upset the rhythm aquarian blood // i never lied to you // i never lied to you digital single // paradise design blue roof // shit yeah // shit yeah digital single // (self-released) whitney's playland // i'll keep it with mine // a day at the fair cassette // paisley shirt maxine funke // oblivion // river said // disciples danny paul grody // california angelica // arc of day // three lobed kate nv // walk // bouquet // rvng intl abdul wadud // expansions // by myself // gotta groove sun ra // my world is the space way // space is the place soundtrack (expanded) // modern harmonic steve lehman and sélébéyone // zeraora // xaybu: the unseen // pi georgia anne muldrow featuring josef leimberg // nuke's blues // red hot and ra: nuclear war- a tribute to sun ra // red hot organization beyoncé featuring kendrick lamar // america has a problem (remix) // america has a problem (remix) digital single // parkwood stimela // mind games // fire, passion and ecstacy // tidal waves vivien goldman // my bestie and my bff // next is now // cadiz entertainment à trois sur la plage // bonjour tristesse // à trois sur la plage // gone with the weed pretty in pink // pressure socks // pillows // little lunch park // decided to go // trento cassette // lil' lion maria t // near wild heaven // afternoon destroyer cassette // (self-released) 3 a.m. again // end it here // cherry street ep (expanded) // subjangle craig salt peters // jubilee // stuck in the present tense cassette // lost sound tapes

[andtherestishistory13]

Books I’d recommend to Greta Van Fleet. As a librarian I’m qualified for this and it’s fun!

Josh: Anything by Arthur C Clarke, even though I’m sure he’s read them because he likes 2001: Space Odyssey; The Time Machine by HG Wells; Dune by Frank Herbert; Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa

Jake: Tolkiens other books (he has a great King Arthur book called The Fall of Arthur 10/10), The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard; Anne Bonny by Phillip Thomas; The Princess Bride by William Goldman; Jimi by Janie Hendrix

Danny: This was a little harder, but; Slash: The Autobiography by Slash; The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost; Sympathy for the Drummer by Mike Edison; The Body by Stephen King; Just Kids by Patti Smith

Sam: Just Kids by Patti Smith; Dune by Frank Herbert; The View From Space (it’s a NASA book); The Secret World of Stargazing by Adrian West; Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story by Mike Walker; Morning Glory on the Vine by Joni Mitchell; Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Bonus: All: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; I Put a Spell on You by Nina Simone; Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History by Vivien Goldman

[202105961caic2223]

‘The Bird That Was Freed’, and The Destructive Hate Speech That Followed

After Elon Musk expanded the reach of his dominant and groundbreaking empire, as the Space X, and Tesla CEO bought Twitter for a jaw-dropping $44 billion, it seemed as if Musk’s reign as “the world’s richest man" was an invincible force of nature. However, the tides have turned for the worst, as Musk, announced that he would be stepping down as Twitter CEO only months after taking over the company. This resulted from a Twitter poll, where Musk asked users of the site whether he should step down as CEO, promising that he would abide by the results of the poll. The results of the poll concluded that 57.5% of users of the site opted for Musk’s resignation, while only 42.5% of users wished for him to remain. (Take a look at the poll results down below:)

It also seems that Musk’s other companies took a severe hit, following his ownership of Twitter, as well as his exit, and it gets worst… as his net worth has plunged dramatically. Musk’s net worth has reportedly also taken a severe bullet to the chest, with it dropping in value by a reported record-breaking loss of “$200 billion” according to Bloomberg. Danny Goldman from CNN has stated in an online newspaper article that “The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, good enough for second place on the list of the world's richest behind LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault. But at its peak in November 2021, Musk's net worth was $340 billion. That makes Musk the first person ever to lose $200 billion in wealth, Bloomberg reported last week. The bulk of Musk's wealth is tied up in Tesla, whose stock plunged 65% in 2022. Demand for Teslas weakened as competition in electric vehicles from established automakers surged last year. The company missed its growth targets and scaled back production in China.” 

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE: 

Here’s how it happened:

On October 27th, Musk announced his takeover of the company with a cryptic tweet on Twitter itself, saying; “the bird is freed”. (See his tweet down below:)

Following this Tweet, the world was fascinated by what the new Twitter CEO’s first business move would be, and I should probably point out that the current executives and employees of Twitter were extremely nervous (no surprises there!), and this is what followed…

His Victorious entrance into the Twitter HQ:

Upon his arrival at the Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco, Musk victoriously Tweeted a video of him strolling in cheerfully to his new office, bizarrely carrying a kitchen sink leaving many people in complete confusion over his antics. Musk captioned the Tweet; “Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!”. Hilarious right?!

Although you really shouldn’t be surprised by Elon’s seemingly weird antics, as he is no stranger to playing the role of an internet troll on social media, and he was simply just gloating over his seemingly ever-expanding world dominance, like the James Bond Villian role he so well lives up to. 

See his full Tweet and video down below:

Employee Cuts and Resignations:

You could undoubtedly say that Musk wasted no time in asserting his status as a ruthless businessman towards his new business endeavor, as he controversially and immediately fired Twitter’s former boss Parag Agrawal and numerous other leading executives within the company. He ruthlessly demanded that employee cuts needed to be made, leaving many employees worrying about the stability of their current employment. Nobody was safe from the ruthlessness of Musk’s business strategy, who had effectively turned the company upside down to create a better one in the long run. 

A news story published on the ‘Los Angeles Times’ website reported; “Musk had asked workers to commit to his more “hardcore” version of the company or leave.” Unsurprisingly many employees handed in their resignation form’s pretty swiftly (SHOCK!), as many employees didn’t see sustainably fruitful employment underneath their new boss, as he was firing employers left, right and center. Just to put these details of Musk’s obliteration of employees into perspective, the ‘Los Angeles Times’ also stated that “An internal counter of employees currently reads 2,750, one person said, though some resignations and cuts may still be in the process of being counted. Twitter had more than 7,000 employees before Musk took over in late October.” Judging from these figures alone, it's obvious that Elon takes no prisoners…  I also don’t think I’ll be looking for a job at the Twitter headquarters anytime soon, and you probably shouldn't either.

Read the Full article here:

Elon’s Changes To Twitter:

Within his first week as the new CEO of Twitter, Musk immediately made numerous plans to change the social media network. One of the first changes he wished to make was to charge users of Twitter $8 for the Blue Tick verification symbol to appear on their profile, and the idea behind this was to reward the content creators of the app with more profit. Musk also believed that paying 8$ for the Blue Tick had reward benefits for the consumer, as those who are verified will be able to claim reduced advertisements, and increased quality of presence on the app, and they will be able to lengthen the duration of recorded videos. 

Other substantial changes Musk wished to introduce to the site were rules and regulations updates, the banning of Twitters advertisements to endorse other apps (in an attempt to stop users from focusing their attention on rival sites), and the most important one being the banishment of ‘doxxing’ (location sharing). I think that most people will agree that this was one of Elon’s better ideas, as users across social media put themselves at a much higher risk of theft and physical violence due to sharing their physical whereabouts. However unfortunately for Elon, this wasn't enough to allow his Twitter endeavor to be a success.

The Destructive Hate speech That Followed:

Free Speech, Removing Censorship, and Reinstating Previously Banned Accounts Of Controversial Figures Such As Ex-President Trump and Ye (Kanye West) were also at the top of Elon’s to-do list. We already knew way before Musk’s ownership of Twitter that he was an advocate of the free speech movement. So you can easily put two and two together and conclude that Musk intended to allow free speech to be accepted on Twitter also, as he has always believed that censorship on social media platforms is more negative and that everyone has a right to their opinion. But this had many Twitter users extremely concerned and worried, which is understandable as many believe that there is merit to censorship, as it disables hateful speech such as bullying, racism, and distasteful images to the site. This argument is very true, as I can imagine most parents won't want their impressionable children to be influenced by potentially dangerous users of the site.

And this is where I bring former President Donald Trump into the discussion. Before Elon’s takeover of Twitter, it is quite hard to forget the events that occurred on January 6th, 2021, following Trump’s loss in the general election to current president Joe Biden. Most people will agree that Trump’s tweets after losing the election were responsible for the storming of the U.S. Capitol, which it is hard to argue why his Twitter account was banned from the site, due to breaching the site's guidelines. Twitter issued a statement explaining the banning of his account, stating “ we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” So you could argue that Trump’s account was permanently suspended for good reason and that the repercussions of such hateful speech on Twitter simply outway the benefits.

Click on the link to see the full statement (Trump’s Tweets are also included to provide context):

Then finally that leaves me with Elon’s extremely controversial decision to reinstate the account of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West). And, well unsurprisingly this decision from Elon quickly came crashing down in flames, after Ye (who leans heavily toward the far right) caused an extreme amount of controversy, after coming out with many Anit's Semitic outbursts directed toward Jewish people. Despite Elon Musk being an advocate of “freedom of speech”, after Ye outrageously Tweeted a picture of a Swastika on his account it seemed that he had no choice but to remove Ye from Twitter, and thankfully he did. In response to Ye’s Anti Semitic outburst, Musk Tweeted; 

While you could argue that Musk made the right call, you could also argue as to why he would even have thought it was possibly a good idea to even reinstate Ye’s account, considering this is the man who claimed: “ 400 years of slavery was a choice”, back in 2018. This left many questioning Musk’s capabilities of responsibility and judgment as a CEO, with many debating as to what extent “freedom of speech” is acceptable. Just to put it into perspective, hate speech on Twitter has severely increased since Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter. Studies carried out by Montclair State University, within the Faculty; School of Communication and Media News had proven that hate speech had dramatically spiked upwards only hours after Elon took office. (Have a look for yourself at the graph data down below:)

MSU, School of Communication and Media News Hate Speech Study:

 Here are some of the key findings from the study:

“The seven-day average of Tweets using the studied hate terms prior to Musk’s acquisition was never higher than 84 times per hour.”

 “However, on October 28 from midnight to noon (immediately following Musk’s acquisition), the studied hate speech was Tweeted some 4,778 times.”

“Terms studied included vulgar and hostile terms for individuals based on race, religion, ethnicity, and orientation.”

“The potential impact of this hate speech (the potential number of times a term posted in Twitter could have been viewed) was more than 3 million.”

“Elon Musk has promised to reduce restrictions on the platform and “free the bird.” From these results, this directive represents an obvious danger to young people using the platform.”

“Platforms with lax or no moderation are frequently spaces filled with racism, homophobia, transphobia, and antisemitism.”

“Recorded data indicating the spike in hate speech:”

Judging from these figures alone, you can clearly see how potentially damaging posts and comments on Twitter can really be if they are uncensored. If millions of users, including kids, are within reach of consuming hate speech online, it can have a severely damaging impact on their mental health and general well-being, not to mention that many young kids are impressionable and may possibly decide to copy the behavior that they see online. This is where unlimited “free speech” becomes a problem, as negative behavior and hate speech online becomes normalized, due to the lack of punishment for their actions, which leaves those responsible for spreading hate speech to not be held accountable for their actions. So this inevitably causes children to think that this type of behavior is acceptable, and therefore become influenced to copy the type of language they see online. So you have to wonder… do you really want your vulnerable children to be within reach of a social media site where hate speech seems totally acceptable? Personally, I think not.

During the period before Elon Musk announced that he was going to be stepping down as Twitter CEO, many predicted that Twitter was going to suffer from extreme loss of users due to the new technological changes and the offensive content that had increased since Musk began his Twitter Endeavour. ‘The Guardian news website published an article predicting; “More than 30 million users are expected to leave Twitter over the next two years as concerns mount over technical issues and the proliferation of offensive content, after Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover, according to a forecast”. So this makes you wonder… how beneficial was Musk’s ownership of Twitter really going to be? When you weigh up the positives and the disadvantages of Elon Musk’s stint as Twitter CEO, you could definitely make a strong argument that agrees with the fact that the disadvantages out the benefits. (Read the full article in the link down below)

According to an article published by the MIT Technology Review Website “The firm Bot Sentinel, which tracks inauthentic behavior on Twitter by analyzing more than 3.1 million accounts and their activity daily, believes that around 877,000 accounts were deactivated and a further 497,000 were suspended between October 27 and November 1.” The article states that this was a result of the severe increase in “hate speech” on the platform, leaving many users wishing to become effectively disassociated with the site. The article also states; “We also believe the increase in suspensions is from Twitter taking action on accounts purposely violating Twitter’s rules to see if they can push the limits of ‘free speech,’” This particular statistic is arguably very important, as it highlights the issues within a site that pushes the boundaries too far with “free speech”. Users who use offensive language, such as racism, antisemitism, homophobia, bullying, etc, will attempt to see how far they can push the rules and regulations of Twitter before they get themselves suspended. This unfortunately is the price you pay for allowing a more lenient approach to “free speech”. (Be sure to read the full article in the link down below)

Following the results of the Twitter poll, Musk Tweeted; “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.” (See Musk’s Tweet down below)

Despite his intentions being good… it seems he has only forced Twitter on track to its potential grave, and unfortunately, the coffin might already be nailed. You can decide for yourself whether you think Elon Musk was the right person to take on the role of CEO, but because he himself had decided to step down as a result of the Twitter poll, I think it is quite telling that even as a man who has created such a successful and wealthy empire, even he believes deep down within himself that he has failed. It seems as if Musk had simply placed too much on his plate, and that he wasn’t able to transfer his successes from his other companies to Twitter. As a result of this, he faces the consequences, both to his reputation and financially. We will have to wait and see how he bounces back from this… and for some reason, I think he will come back with a vengeance. Who knows, maybe he will design his own social media platform, I think that could be interesting!

[capnportofficial]

Est-ce que le schtroumpf a lunette est vraiment gentil avec le schtroumpf maladroit ?

"is he nice?"

uh... no. this is brainy smurf. i'm not sure he knows how to be nice. he's an asshole to everyone at all times.

"is he nicer to clumsy than he is to other smurfs?"

now that one is a yes.

the thing about their relationship is that it's incredibly dysfunctional and unhealthy but... neither of them really know how to act any other way? brainy is a bossy jerk, and clumsy is kind and stupid and loves brainy more than anything else in the world.

like. if you're going to ship brainy and clumsy, you should understand that this is not a relationship that would be a good idea in real life. they're codependent as hell. brainy pushes clumsy away, and clumsy keeps coming back for more abuse from brainy.

i wouldn't consider it an abusive relationship, just dysfunctional and unhealthy. "Clumsy kept coming back for more abuse from Brainy" is a quote from danny goldman, brainy's 80s voice actor, while describing the friendship between the two.

to me, "abusive" implies a power imbalance, as well as the idea of the behavior being limited to the specific relationship. and...

while it may seem like there's a power imbalance between clumsy and brainy... there really isn't? sure, brainy's bossy and mean, but clumsy isn't being manipulated or forced into being with him. clumsy's happily and willingly spending all his time with brainy. literally, brainy will tell clumsy to go away, and clumsy will Not go away. clumsy has free rein to do whatever he wants, and what he wants is to be with brainy.

brainy treats everyone like this. clumsy isn't an exception. in fact, brainy treats clumsy better than he treats most smurfs.

so clumsy keeps coming back for more abuse, but the relationship itself isn't abusive.

but it really couldn't be any other way, could it? brainy's personality annoys most people too much to form a positive relationship, and clumsy prioritizes brainy over everything else. and something about that intense devotion really gets to me. even before i realized how dysfunctional they were, back when i still insisted they were purely sweet and wholesome with nothing fucked up going on, i recognized the intense codependent devotion and it's part of what made me ship them.

this was a short ask but i went on a ramble abt this relationship. whoops!

[kingshavenhqs]

the dashboard is now officially open! i am so excited to get to write with all of you. to get started please make sure you follow the blogs below!

ALESSANDRA LOMBARDI | BENTLY BEAUCHAMP

ARDEN SEONG

ARLO CARSON

BRISEIS ‘B.B’ BENITES

CAMILA MONROE

DANNY WHITECHAPEL | NOWA SANDERS

EMILIA REED | KIARA MORELL

HANNAH CHO

HYE-JIN BYUN | PEYTON MCGARRETT

LUCIANA LABAKI

MASON DAVIS

NADYA CETIN | HAZAL ASLAN

NAOMI GOLDMAN

NICOLE SEONG

NOAH HAYES

NOAH VIRANI | ISLA TAYLOR

PALMER MCGARRETT

PARKER CARSON

POPPY MCGARRETT

PORTIA MCGARRETT

SYD WHITECHAPEL | OLIVER SANDERS

THEO BENITES | DIEGO REYES

ZARA HART | LOTTIE BAKIR