#exec lore

[sui-imi]

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[danvillecheese]

the thing about a three way crossover is that the mml one was already so jam-packed with characters that plot points got cut and it was a hodgepodge of an episode and it was ending a story arc and also trying to squeeze in characters from pnf at the same time. imagine adding a third show full of characters to it could you even imagine the chaos

[the-casbah-way]

i was hoping to get down then left updated either tonight or tomorrow night but deadlines are fucking my ass so it's not going to happen unfortunately. the chapter is halfway done though. expect sort-of-fluff underpinned with octavius' impending nervous breakdown plus the first installment of the Great Kahmunrah and Attila Corner Office Debate of 2008

[vindictes]

i changed my mind on pokemas rocket i think they’re cool like 45% of time instead of just 10%

[skrunksthatwunk]

ok im back I actually DID go watch the rgg prologue short film. i am changed

[aureutr]

So when you're writing, sometimes you get a really good scene in your head. Could be anything, full of action or sad or triumphant. You just know it's awesome.

But for it to really work, you need to do a lot of writing before and after it. Your audience has to be engaged and emotionally connected enough to care about how amazing your scene is. And you have to make the stakes matter, so any earth-shattering you do can't be easily undone later. Otherwise what once felt meaningful will feel cheap.

And sometimes, that just seems like too much. So you just write the scene. Maybe a string of scenes, all of which would be amazing if only they had context and emotional weight.

In general this is fine, because it's a first draft. Or you're goofing around and don't intend to make the finished work.

But sometimes you end up with The Mandalorian Season Three

[lakesbian]

throwing up and crying because there r a bunch of deleted lore tidbits and the like from inftr writers that i remember details of but can’t screenshot bc they’re deleted now and i didn’t think to screenshot them 3 years ago

[volumina-vetustiora]

I don't know if they're ever going to make that Elder Scrolls show, but I'm just putting it out there that I want them to and I will watch it all even if it's terrible

[crow-posting]

Similar things happened to Myelin Games and others contracted to add to the lore / grimoire. It's really sad.

Definitely go read The Traitor Baru Cormorant!

"Bungie needs to kill off The Guardian and start over with D3." "The Guardian needs to retire so we can start with a new character in Frontiers." "The Guardian is too overpowered, they need a story where they lose everything or get nerfed."

Bungie needs to stop stifling/firing their writers and find a better format than seasonal content. The issue isn't the story, it is the constraints on the narrative team. Yes, part of it is unavoidable due to Destiny's existence as an online FPS but they could be doing so much better.

And before you say, "You just don't want to lose your overpowered OC!": I'm actually basing this on feedback I heard during my Bungie tour. So.

[thealogie]

so many actors spent years in the trenches. Hugh Laurie was the highest paid tv actor on the most watched tv show at the time and an exec producer of the show and had to resort to just gaying it up on screen. Oscar Isaac and John Boyega were risking assassination attempts by Disney in every interview. I don’t know spn lore but even I know misha collins was in the trenches. And then Michael Sheen just starred in 6 episodes of a show being like “I think this should be textually gay” and the author went “so true king” just like that

[sui-imi]

for roo, how'd your timeline get destroyed in the first place? Also, how did you get rescued from being erased, too?

[ROO] ... i don't know.

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thank you for the question, @sivlare! (sorry for dodging it >_>)

[graendoll]

It has come to my attention that The Acolyte has been cancelled by LFL a mere one month after it aired and all I have to say is:

Dave Filoni it's on fucking site. You short dicked, unimaginative chode.

This man has had a chokehold on the Star Wars universe with his fucking ridiculous hat and sycophantic lore and I am so fucking over it. And yes I'm fucking blaming him. The ONE SHOW that didn't have his foul stench on it and it just magically gets cancelled by the creative team HE HEADS.

I hope Star Wars dies. I hope all the incel catering execs and Elon Musk boot lickers lose their fucking shirts and get served up on a platter for the proletariat to eat.

Anyway, Filoni can suck my dick. I hope he chokes on it.

[angelsdean]

this episode is also SUCH a jab at networks and interference from higher ups. the original writer is PISSED that they completely changed his story. then there's all the little jabs from the network exec giving "notes" like "the scenes are too dark can't we brighten them up" "sir this is a horror movie" and the exec not understanding the "rules" and "logic" of the supernatural lore and having them put "explainers" in the dialogue. this is a creative team saying FUCK YOU to the network and it's only season 2. which just makes me think of chuck in s15 portrayed not as a mere writer anymore but as an executive canceling shows bc they won't follow his "notes" as well...it's very loud. and you can say what you will abt the season finale and s15 as a whole and i don't like how it ends either but...everything chuck says to becky...the way chuck is portrayed the entire season...and the fact that the creative team have been fighting (and calling out) the network since so early on it paints a pretty clear picture to me that whatever ending they may have wanted was never going to happen bc of network interference. so they planted those seeds throughout s15 to be like "hey......this is going to be the bad ending. but the network is going to try to spin it as a good ending. but it's not. remember what becky says."

[kokoasci]

Yo ur ocs seem sick as fuck could we have more of them? It doesn't have to be drawings if u don't want I just think they're soo cool and wanna know more abt them :))

!! ofc!! ill just drop a bunch of lore/sketches and mini stuff i have here! I find it so cool that ppl actually like my ocs i was worried ppl would just find it annoying lmao

as always their intros are here!

random worldbuilding: - Astutes are required by law to wear their class pin on their lapel at all times. I usually forget to draw Amelie w/ hers, since I don't really consider her a strict Astute since she's in Exec training so she gets some leeway - The underground market is run by a few generational ringleaders who consider themselves separate of the class system. All operational systems are run by them, and they enjoy well-established lives, mostly through extortion and illegal smuggling of goods through classes - Technics and Astutes have always had rocky ground. Most Technics feel like the best way to live is to be free in their own personal sense, while Astutes conform to the strict rules set by their class. Laymen conspiracies rumor Execs have been facilitating Technic/Astute class tensions to garner control and sympathy with the former, who have been historically averse to governmental control and regulations - the Technic academy is easier than the Astute or Exec ones to graduate from, although they have the lowest employment rate. This has caused Technics in need of work to freelance their services or specialize in repair shops, especially those working in software. If I have to deal with tech layoffs so do my ocs - Astutes living on campus are rarely allowed outside without an official excuse. Everything they could need to live and work is already provided for them. Why risk having your best and brightest wandering around a dangerous city when you can keep tabs on them all at once?

[toorumlk]

Hey! Do you think there’s any chance they might not make Romione canon in the upcoming HBO series because of the popularity of other pairings and JKR’s somewhat recent statements concerning the ship?

fair warning this is gonna be a long post!

you know anon, i’m not gonna deny that the possibility of romione not being canon in the hbo series doesn’t keep me up at night HOWEVER COMMA-

I believe romione will be safe because i’m placing a lot, if not all, of my faith in the upcoming hbo series being repeatedly described as a "faithful" adaptation of the 7 novels. which we can deduce to mean romione friends to lovers slow burn endgame and all that good stuff (maybe i'll talk about the potential of book romione and the serial tv medium some other time)

and sure, it can all be marketing/pandering/etc. but i find it so hard to feel cynical about hbo because i love LOVE their shows and i'm of the belief that they know how to tell a good ass story (and romione happens to be a good ass romance subplot). i also have such positive feelings about the showrunner Frances Gardiner (consulting prod on succession and also has killing eve under her belt) who JKR chose herself and one of the exec producers of the show who's set to direct of a bunch of episodes Mark Mylod (succession, the menu, tlou, got)!!!! and if you know me at all you'll know that succession is one of the main pillars of my personality and i fucking love that show so bad I would follow anyone who was part of the making of that show off a cliff if they asked me to. and Mark Mylod is a fantastic fucking episodic director who's directed and produced some of the best episodes of television ever, so i know he knows how to tell a good story. and though i'm a lot less familiar with Gardiners' work, she is a female creative who has some of my personal favourite episodes listed in her imdb (chiantishire, living+, tailgate party) who's pitch of the show made joanne give her the job so.... and y'all know im a canon bootlicker and love the books so all i'll say is.. real recognizes real.

so knowing the creative team behind hp series had a direct hand in making my favourite show of all time gets me so excited and giddy!!!!

but here's where my personal theories and speculations start: I really think with this hbo series, JKR is on a mission is create something wholly and newly hers. she was barely involved creatively in the production of the movies until DH pt. 1 and 2 and the movies have almost become an entity of its own that's drifted so far away from her. of course i realize me even just talking sympathetically about JKR is deeply touchy and might piss some people off but as a fellow creative, i feel for her man!! when i think of the best books in the series in my opinion that are filled with the best bits of world building and political commentary, what i find is that GoF was handed to a director who didn't even read the book, OotP was the shortest movie in the franchise despite being the longest book and how it entirely missed the Quibbler plot and all of harry's rage, or HBP that was filled to the brim with *chefs kiss* tom/voldemort lore which was done a complete disservice in the grey and brown sludgy mess that is the HBP movie.

and knowing that JKR now has a strained relationship or had a falling out with most of the top dogs involved in the films like Kloves and Yates (hallelujah what who said that) and Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe means this show has the chance to be a behemoth that’s entirely joanne’s, like the books are. it’ll be free of Kloves' Hermione and harmony (harry x hermione) favouritism or Watson's take on Hermione's character that makes my ass itch or Yate’s complete inability to direct his actors and make non-action scenes have heart, soul and heft. but i also can’t not address the elephant in the room: this section of the discussion is filled with every shade of grey possible because what led to the falling outs was that they all vehemently disagreed with JKR's anti-trans views and good on them they absolutely should! but like.............. i hated kloves' writing and his butchering of ron's character, i think yates is a static and boring director and im not a fan of emma's acting so like... a win is a win? NO IT'S NOT. but IT IS. BUT IT'S SO NOT. but do you see what i'm getting at???

the point i'm trying to make is that joanne is not the same person she was when she was first writing the books or when the movies were being made. I think she's a lot more ruthless and cutthroat now and while i disagree with her methods and condemn her transphobia.... i think this newfound hardness to her will lend itself to making the hbo series the best HP adaptation it can be, I'M SORRY it's absolutely fucked and i acknowledge and abhor her gender critical politics as a queer woman but im also an artist who just wants good, high quality stories to be told 😔😩

and as for the other popular ships and JKR's somewhat recent comments about romione:

I think its safe to say that joanne dgaf about this fandom and what's popular in it anymore LMFAOOOO 😭😭😭 i genuinely respect that she's always stood ten toes down about how draco's not some antihero, bad boy love interest and at best is a cautionary tale on prejudiced bullies, so I don't think that's changing anytime soon. especially considering that the dramione cottage industry that its fans have made is more or less a reactionary "fuck you" to joanne and canon which they do by writing fanfic about crimes against women and making merch and binding physical copies of said fanfics (really showing it to the big baddie transphobic DV survivor by *checks notes* auctioning hermione off as a sex slave) so I doubt she'd ever consider other ship's popularity seriously. as for the possibility of harry and hermione becoming endgame um..... if the show plans to faithfully adapt the books then we'd get harry and hermione’s quintessential sibling dynamic plus we’re already free from Kloves (also i have faith in francesca and mark knowing that harmony are just plain BORING) so i think the chances, again, are low. and if joanne really wants to stick it to her old colleagues, she can go down the route of pushing romione that much harder (and she really wouldn’t have to do much, it’s all in the books already) 😭

as for the comments on romione that she’s made in recent years, i think a lot of it’s been blown out of proportion or have gone through a terrible game of telephone. what she said (paraphrasing here) about ‘wishing she’d handled ron/hermione differently because a lot of what went into them was a wish fulfillment fantasy’ has turned into ‘jk rowling regrets making romione endgame???!!’ which is just *takes a drag from a cigarette* just another tuesday around here. i also would link to two meta posts by @saintsenara on the topic of endgame romione which i wholeheartedly agree with it

all i have to say is that going into making this show i hope joanne remembers that she based ron’s character off of a person in her life she liked when she was younger and who is still a good friend of hers now 😭😔

you guys probably know i’m in animation school which is basically film school in a different font. so i’m quite literally training to one day work in the story department on projects and work alongside writers, directors and producers, so this stuff means a lot to me! she and the creative team behind this upcoming show have the chance to make something really special and i’m finding it hard not to root for them!!!!!

[rey-jake-therapist]

i’m going to piss off the die hard trop fandom and say there’s a reason why they’re taking longer than usual to officially announce s3 🤷🏻‍♀️ and why their marketing post s2 has been so heavily centered around sauron/galadriel even though it was only 1 scene between the two of them. i’m going to piss ppl off even more and say no matter how the execs try to spin it, they aren’t actually that happy with the ratings especially after huge investments

https://x.com/sunnexsplendor/status/1846599956435443717?s=46&t=SPQBAXb9MpXu_YjqzdYicw

this thread kinda explains it. it’s not even about the shipping/romance. a bulk of viewers do get attracted by the two main leads and the lack of interactions do matter.

Most of the audience wants to see the two main characters interact on screen, really? color me surprised...

Some of the comments are insane. "I really hope their take away from season feedback isn't to try to create even more interaction between these two." Sweetie this relationship is at the center of TROP, as the showrunners, directors and actors always said that it was, what are you talking about ? "even more interaction" ? We had only one interaction in season 2 ! Less than that would be zero. These people can't be serious lol

Anyway yeah, I know the ratings aren't as good as they claim they are. I think it's a shame because season 2 was really good. Yes, Sauron and Galadriel were separated most of the time, but it was wanted by the plot... I don't really buy that the showrunners decided to cater to the Reddit crowd and that is why they didn't interact until the finals. Galadriel pining over Sauron wasn't what the lore-bros wanted. What they wanted was Celeborn to come back and put his wife "at her right place", and Galadriel to stop being a warrior and remove herself from the main story lmao

The Celebrimbor/Annatar arc was very important and couldn't be just condensed in a couple of episodes. And it deserves more love imho, especially because Charlie and Charles' performance was stellar. They had only eight episodes... I thought they did their best with what they had, personnally.