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[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

[brickbozo]

because it’s canon that he sees her that way; there’s like at least 3 instances of him literally saying she’s like a daughter to him. vs that one interview which is just showing that murdoc gets off on being choked/beaten up. it’s not specific to noodle, that joke was also made in an interview with him and russel. it’s not meant to be taken seriously. murdoc is a freak, that’s the joke. but he genuinely does see noodle as a daughter and has said so multiple times. I’m not against shipping btw, I don’t really care how others see them and I’m not trying to start anything or shame anyone. I’m just explaining why so many view their dynamic that way. It’s not just some random headcanon, it’s literally canon lol

I cant find any interview where they joke about it with Russel (not to say Murdoc isn't into being dominated), im also pretty sure the only instance Murdoc outright talks about Noodle being his daughter was like, once i.e. in his letter to el mierda

that was intentionally exaggerated to 'appease' him in saving Noodle (when there was no indication that she needed saving in the first place)

really ooc because its canon Murdoc has been using Noodle as his bodyguard and trusted her to protect him from demons, zombies, thugs and prison itself since the age of 13 (she also traveled the world by herself at 11 and lived with ex military convicts / yakuza)

part of the heavily retconned ending manned by the management i.e. the shitty/extremely confusing conclusion to The Now Now coupled with banked on overpriced merch

outright rejected by Noodle (in a phase 5 interview + q n a)

also debunked from a chat in freemurdoc

and Noodle herself reaching the inevitable conclusion

not to mention Murdoc's words aren't very reliable. He's insisted multiple times he adopted 2d / is his father figure .etc (unless you genuinely believe that too inwhich case you do you)

second off (and more importantly), if i knew a middle aged dude who's already known for being a sexually harassing creep (phase 2 'Hot Dog' incident) and who Russel warns all young ladies against, pop a boner because a young woman's trying to discipline him, then turns around and claims to see her as his 'adopted daughter/little sister' (plus include her in a Smash or Pass challenge on tiktok) i'd call the cops.

[skrunksthatwunk]

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

[kashverse]

Do you think you could write about Sukuna x reader before baby kuna and there live before reader even gettin pregnant I really love your work 💗💗💗✨✨✨✨

some corporate boss mamakuna x employee sukuna lore! this is how they first met :)

back before babykuna, before the house full of labubus, cats, and stolen hoodies, there was corporate sukuna. and corporate sukuna? he was supposed to be a goddamn nightmare. you had heard horror stories.

"he’s impossible to work with."

"he made the last manager cry."

"he once told HR to 'suck his entire d—'"

okay, so maybe that last one was a little concerning. but you were young, fresh into a leadership role, and ready to face whatever demon of a man this company had somehow not yet fired. so naturally, when you finally met him, arms crossed, scowl carved into his face like a roman statue, you prepared for the worst. 

"ryomen sukuna, right?" you greeted, professional, poised, the picture of authority. his eyes flicked up to you, and you swear, for half a second, there was a spark of mischief, a flicker of something dangerous. but then, to your absolute shock, sukuna—the devil himself, the menace of the office, the man who had apparently made three secretaries quit in a single week—was nice. or, well, nice enough.

he nodded, grumbled out a respectful “yeah,” and got to work. no backtalk, no glaring, no slamming of desks or throwing office supplies at interns. just grumpy efficiency. you smiled. bright. cheerful. unshaken.

“great! looking forward to working with you.”

then, the moment you turned your back? he was a goddamn menace. “oi, dipshit,” sukuna barked across the office, and some poor intern visibly flinched. “why the fuck is my report missing page five?”

“um—”

“no, don’t ‘um’ me. are you illiterate? do you need me to read the assignment out loud for you like you’re in fuckin' kindergarten?”

“no, sir, i just—”

“fix it.”

when you turned back around, brows raised? sukuna was already back to his task, perfectly behaved, like an honor student trying not to get caught. you frowned, a little suspicious. he blinked at you. innocent. wide-eyed. docile.

…okay, maybe the HR rumors were exaggerated. maybe he was just misunderstood. but then you turned away again, and—

“hey, you, yeah, you—who the fuck made this spreadsheet? a blind goat?!” 

this cycle repeated daily. whenever you were around, sukuna was just a grumpy but functional employee. he answered your questions, finished his work on time, and—god forbid—was even kind of charming when he wasn’t glaring at people. but the moment you left the room? utter carnage.

by week two, everyone in the office knew.

one particularly brave soul even tried to test it. “hey, sukuna,” some junior exec chirped while you were grabbing coffee, “think you could help me review this client file?” sukuna barely spared them a glance. “sure.”

but then you left to take a phone call.

“are you incapable of using your own goddamn brain, or is it just decorative?”

you walked back in. “everything okay?”

sukuna, completely blank-faced: “yeah.”

everyone was traumatized. you? completely clueless. until one day, you walked into the office a little earlier than usual and caught him—midway through roasting some poor IT guy’s entire existence. you cleared your throat. sukuna froze.

then, he straightened his tie, rolled his shoulders back, and—without missing a beat—“ah, boss. g'morning.” like nothing happened. 

you blinked. he blinked back.

…this motherfucker.

[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.

[ninguitar]

　　that you were ──── right　꣑꣒　infrunami .

LOVE ON A WIRE.　 ❛ megan has never, ever wanted anything as bad in her life, until you—an underground singer and songwriter, is unemployed, and the textbook definition of a loser—stroll into her heart and her life. matter of fact, what happens when she accidentally replies to your thirst-traps that were a rebounding joke after a rough break-up, on twitter, and on the katseye account? ❜

A/N　for the lore, the aespa, le ssera, txt, & piwon members reside in california !

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YN　୨ৎ　strapsoldier123 & megavapehitter1

the epitome of the phrase loser university student; could never for the life of her shut up about beabadoobee even if she was held at gunpoint; uses her busted guitar from a garage sale to make music on the side; swears she'll be employed one day, but no job execs have emailed back to her applications and interviews; chose law for uc berkeley for no reason and somehow got in; and has worked with major labels on songs.

KIM CHAEWON　୨ৎ　_chaechae_1 & wonmorebeerpls

member of le sserafim; her dog is as much as a menace as she is; always attached to yunjin's hip no matter what; could probably get a world guiness record for how quickly she knocks out; met yn while working with her on a b-side for le sserafim; her favorite past time is using her dog as a threat towards the rest; and even amidst her busy schedule promoting, she's always found crashing at yn's dorm, even having her own electronic key for it.

HUH "JENNIFER" YUNJIN　୨ৎ　jenaissante & huhyunjinator17

member of le sserafim; met yn in highschool & knew her through all of her crashouts; never shuts up about any pretty girl near her—it's like she has a radar for seeing the most jaw-dropping gorgeous girls, and alarm bells ring in her head; n1 yn supporter & has always promoted her songs; has gotten in so much pr trouble from simply retweeting her friends' posts with strings of curse words included; resident hater—find her always hating on the rest; and tries her best to curb the rest's delusions.

AERI "GISELLE" UCHINAGA　୨ৎ　aerichandesu & aeriselle

member of aespa; somehow naturally became the parent of the group & runs it like the navy; lives to humble the rest—mainly yn & intak; n1 elon musk hater alongside yn; is a roblox kid & has been banned multiple times on it; has somehow sneaked into parties with yn without getting caught and crowded by random fans; and for some reason is always caught with her phone, taking pictures of herself every second—but hey, she's js on that grind !

CHOI SOOBIN　୨ৎ　page.soobin & iheartgojo1205

member of tomorrow x together; always finds a way to include his glorious king gojo in any convo—need to find him? tell him gojo's with you; gives the most gut-wrenching, worst show/movie recs ever; used to tutor kids with yn before they both graduated highschool; yn's prime distraction whenever she needs to lock in for uni; and always makes one of the girls take pictures for his instagram, only because intak sucks at his angles.

HWANG IN-TAK　୨ৎ　hwangtak & tiktak

member of p1harmony; met yn and then the rest thru mutual connections, mainly keeho; the only compliment he gives is "so tuff"; his bedroom is FILLED with minecraft posters from his other members; has had fratboy accusations up his ass since he was probably a teen; and takes his skincare SO seriously—on an average, he probably takes more than half an hour to do it, and is always late to hangouts.

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[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

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Honestly sick of the way that capitalism, profit, shareholders, execs and every other little thing in that branch comes in-between good (often queer) art again and again and again.

I've seen this recently in more than a few of my favourite things; and every time it happens creators fight to give us am ending, any they can, and then that ending ends up being rushed because it can't be anything else which makes the story feel weaker and it's just a mess. This happened to Sense8 years ago. It happened to Our Flag Means Death. And now Veilguard too.

I have problems with Veilguard; and I'll continue to talk about them I'm sure but laying off the entire creative team behind Dragon Age the franchise?? On the same day Bioware is sending me emails about their 'fun products in the Bioware store'???? Making a game stripped of anything objectable to appeal to a mass marketplace despite game writer wishes??? Consistently pushing writers to write quicker and simpler and what not and then when the art isn't as good as the last one because how COULD IT be when they're forcing all the lose strands of lore into a single game while also having to deal with all the development hell...

It's really fucking sad.

Dragon age writers ALL deserved better, they've deserved better since DA2 crunch, DAI crunch and they certainly deserved better throughout the entire process of DA4. their mental health was not prioritised, their skills were not prioritised, EA couldn't even be bothered to give them proper severance packages. I know they fought for a conclusion to this franchise and im grateful even if it wasn't what I wanted.

Dragon age will always, always, always be a part of me. I'm still planning my huge big post DAI fic and will continue to play the games over and over again and continue to be in this fandom for years to come. So even tho I don't always like their choices, a huge heart goes out to the team behind DATV and all the other DA games. I hope a better studio who cares about their input more takes them in and we can see their names credited on more fun art in the future.

[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.

[watermelonlicker]

ok so i have a half-assed half-high barely coherent theory formulating in my brain and i’m gonna shoot my shot and not make sense but maybe y’all can articulate what i’m saying better than i can so HERE IT IS!

i finally watched aotv in full (i couldn’t finish it after babygate started to rear its nightmarish head bcos i have so much trauma from that time period) but if louis is the observer… then the reupload of aotv is interesting bcos in the intro he says some very key things:

in the first minutes he reflects on “the memories, the relationship” and says relationship SINGULAR as if there was one relationship that defined the band (sure he could’ve meant the relationship of the band but i don’t think so bcos he didn’t show an image of all the members) in fact he showed this image 👇🏻

of him with his arm around harry and zayn standing next to them (i feel zayn is so important to the shit that’s coming somehow beyond the fact he chose to leave the band like are we getting a collab or something bcos again why tf did the observer post zouis???)

ANYWAYS, so imo he wasn’t talking about his relationship with the band and if he was talking about eleanor he would’ve showed her. he didn’t.

WE KNOW thee relationship ™ that defined him is his relationship with harry. larry is probably the biggest fandom ship of all time and is a ship that’s still being talked about today. larry is the relationship that lead to his closeting and the terrible shit they had to endure.

after that he said when zayn left the band it obviously felt like the beginning of the end but he chose to show this shot of him looking at harry when talking about it??

like zayn leaving the band was the end yes but maybe in his mind zayn leaving was the beginning of his path to freedom with harry? (we know how that turned out)

AFTER THAT he chose to show this shot of harry 👇🏻

when reflecting on how maybe this (in reference to the band) isn’t gonna last forever and he follows that reflection up with another shot of harry 👇🏻

when he asks “have we become the band we didn’t want to be?” he says with that how they were starting to feel a disconnect so like with the zouis pic from the observer, and how louis is setting up the narrative in the beginning of aotv, you can answer the question: yes. they became the band they didn’t want to be. they were heavily manufactured, heavily pr’d/closeted, and were literally being drained of their souls.

zayn leaving the band freed the boys AND it also got the fandom on board with the reality that not everything was roses and management was a problem. i remember at the time before the fandom split into larries/antis/solos, it was mainly larries (not all but mainly) who were vocal about management. after zayn it became clear not all was what it seemed and it became clear we were being lied to for 5 years.

we know after the hiatus, the syco closet followed them so if louis is the observer maybe he wants us to rewatch this doc bcos it’s a watered down version of his story and he wants us to observe it again and connect the dots when we get the real story? (idk)

he also chose these shots of him and harry 👇🏻 (so many shots of harry when he’s talking about the band and yet harry makes no actual appearance in this doc? we know why zayn didn’t they weren’t speaking but what reason did harry have not to appear? exactly. and don’t give me that shit about love on tour….)

SO louis said the hiatus hit him like a ton of bricks and how he was not prepared for the change. i feel this is a nod to how they had to process and navigate their lives, but he still wouldn’t be free for 5 more years. also note how he glossed over WHY it was such a struggle for him to release his first album. all the blacklisting, media execs literally wanting his head on a pitchfork, none of it was mentioned and if i wasn’t deep in fandom lore i would be confused as hell why it was such a journey. and like i’ve said before— so much of what we’ve seen of harry has been the guise of freedom so long as it put money in the azoffs pockets it was never true freedom.

not yet.

now if the observer is ushering in the lt3 era what if true freedom is about to happen and that’s the point of this refresher? fitf is over. louis broke his 4 year cycle + he didn’t tweet anything on the 28th. so why would he re-release something from an old era? it’s not like everyone was clamoring to watch the doc again?

i feel with liam’s death, it being 15 years since 1d formed, 10 years since they went on hiatus, so many old fans returning, so many new fans joining, something is different, almost cosmic, and something feels like it’s finally about to bring a revelation….

(side note—can i just say i think the bit where he’s talking about being promised to be on the 2nd verse of whatever song and harry was given the verse instead—i dont think that was him shading harry at all. i think that was lou painting a subtle, but clear picture of how they tried to pit him against harry and break them up. we know from the olly murs receipt that harry refused to end things with louis so the next objective would be to get louis to be the one to end it. manipulation tatic 101. do i think louis felt resentment towards harry? nope! i feel like what he was expressing were his feelings of worthlessness designed in him by syco. again it’s all between the lines, they talked about how arrogant and fun louis was in school prior to the band but when he’s in the band he feels irrelevant and doesn’t know himself? syco wanted to break him down at every turn but they couldn’t completely. louis found a way to turn the negatives they threw at him into positive. he had the least singing lines? ok well he’s gonna have the most writing credits instead. everything they threw at him they could not defeat him again queer resilience)

now, speaking on the throw away babygate portion of the doc, watching it kind of put into perspective to me what MIGHT be coming. the bits where he was crying was ironic as hell. he wasn’t crying bcos he felt like a father, he’s not. he was crying bcos of how goddamn insidious it is that he’s still putting this kid through this. if you watch that kids body language my gf literally said the kid acts like he doesn’t fucking know him? (he doesn’t. who is this man??? was all over his face.) like i will always believe louis is a good person and i believe he takes NO JOY out of babygate. it’s horrible.

but how does lou get out of babygate? well i see only one narrative: the one he presented in the doc. it was like an over arching theme that bad shit just keeps happening to louis and louis was asking when tf will he have a moment without stress? the bad shit was equated with all the loss in his life. i’m WONDERING if how babygate will finally end is it will be revealed that briana’s lied all this time (the fact she’s being papp’d for the first time in 5 years someone said?! is random like why is she fulfilling obligations after 5 years of silence?) like there has to be a reason why we’re feeling so much weird shit. people have to be reminded of her when it finally blows up and if the narrative to the public is louis finds out he was never really a father, that briana lied to him for money, louis will have another loss on his hands. it’s murky and i feel how solos will react to that could go either way but like… there is no way of babygate ending cleanly, but it’s the only way louis can get out of it and not be hated by the general public and look like the victim to the world (when that’s the irony of the truths in these lies like he was a victim in the first place) does this shit even make sense ??

idk but we’ll fucking see. i’m so seated.

[mulderscully]

i've seen people talking about how drastic the change between cooper and audrey's relationship in s2 is and realize people don't know the lore.

regardless of how you feel about their relationship, the intention that the writers had in s2 was for cooper to fall in love with audrey. eventually this was going to lead to an affair. they have said this multiple times. aside from who killed laura palmer, their most popular storyline was cooper/audrey and when abc pressured lynch and frost to reveal the killer early (which lead to the show's cancellation) they planned to lean on anticipation of the storyline to get them viewership. mark frost has said that they planned on five seasons for twin peaks.

in 1990 kyle maclachlan was dating lara flynn boyle who plays donna hayward, lara became upset that kyle had so much chemistry with sherilyn fenn (who was 25 in real life) so their entire relationship is axed. not only any romantic scenes, but ALL their scenes. after 2x12 kyle and sherilyn never share any direct scenes together. kyle did share that he felt cooper would not have a relationship with 18 year old audrey which i agree with but then they come in and essentially recast heather graham to play a 20 NUN, barely older than audrey herself, to be his love interest in audrey's place. everything that happened with annie at the end of s2 is a placeholder for audrey. and i'm certain it's why we do not see annie in the return but come to find that audrey has been in a somewhat similar situation to cooper for 25 years. it's fascinating to say people say they don't ship cooper and audrey because of the age gap - a very valid squick - but still like their relationship and miss it when it's gone. it shows how their dynamic was embedded into the show and it does say something about dale cooper as a character that this was the original storyline.

it shows how much a network like abc cut what david lynch and mark frost were trying to say at the knees and how cutting off two strong storylines bc of behind the scenes stuff and what execs think audiences want really harms a show as popular as twin peaks can be it's demise. if they hadn't pressured david lynch to reveal the killer early, then they could have carried that on to at least season 3 and do the timejump they planned and who knows how differently we would remember twin peaks now.

[pollsnatural]

1) Jack was introduced as an important plot point in Cas' storyline, from the very beginning his story was supposed to be tightly connected to Cas'. But I suppose execs thought that having Misha and Alex in the episodes together was luxury (and we can't even think about making an episode where Jensen and Jared aren't involved) which led to rare interactions between Cas and Jack which is deeply disappointing.

2) The same as 1.

3) They tried to do that in season 5 while making him a parallel to Bobby's disability, but in the end both of them just got better lmao. After that Cas losing his powers and gaining them was used mainly as a crutch to the main storylines.

4) Self-explanatory, I think

5) This is going to be complicated. Most likely it's just a me problem. Yes, there's charm to Cas being a total loser. Yes, trying to accept yourself beyond your usefullness is a theme. Yes, I get it. But. It feels bad. He's an autistic-coded character to whom I relate a lot. Because of my autism many people think that I'm incompetent, that I'm unable to do any job, that I'm too uhh child-like for it. And through Cas it seems to me that show says "yeah, lol, you're a loser, you can't do anything yourself, you should just give up and let others do your job". Like it's totally connected to my personal problems and to how I interpret the character, but if we're talking about lore of the show, shouldn't he be one of the most effective soldiers of Heaven? Why does he lose all his skills? I'm sure not all of them were connected to his angelic powers. And if they were, couldn't writers let him learn new skills? I just want the show to give him a little more dignity.

6) I just want what Dean fans have - lots of boyfriends/girlfriends for Cas.

7) If you're burying gays, don't be pussies about it. The "yeah, he's here in the Heaven" undermined Cas' sacrifice for no good reason.

8) If you can't have Misha in the episode, at least think of the fun explanation for Cas' absence. Like "Yeah, sorry, I wasn't in the last episode because had to fight aliens", idk.

9) I just want more drama. Moriah was good, but I want more.

10) The idea of Godstiel cults existing after season 7 is sexy to me.

[utilitycaster]

Inspired a bit by my post on redemption arcs blowing up (thanks haiku bot) and a few other things that followers will find apparent, but: if a story is stated to have ended*, and you feel there is the need for an explicit epilogue or clarification for it to feel satisfying**? Either you have a problem, or the story has a problem. Either you are too immature to handle deliberate ambiguity, lacking in the ability to extrapolate what might happen, or cannot determine which resolutions are relevant to the overall narrative vs which are nice to have but unnecessary; or the story failed to make a case for its own ending.***

I like a creator Q&A; I like learning more about lore or process or what happens to the side character or how they envision the future; but to paraphrase David Lynch the conversation with the creator and any crucial answers should be in the story.

*I'm saying "Story" to indicate that, for example, the middle book of a trilogy can end without resolution as the story is ongoing, but the final book of the series as intended should not require a sequel to make sense

**Base level of satisfaction. Room for later exploration isn't a bad thing, but there's a difference between "it would be cool to see this alluded to outcome and I'd enjoy it" vs "if we do not have a sequel that explicitly explores this, this rings hollow"

***Obviously if we're dealing with a canceled TV show or video game exec meddling problems or similar, this is not the fault of the creator, but it does remain true of the story; the difference isn't that it's suddenly good now, only that any criticism should acknowledge that the problem was not the fault of the creator. The story still ends in a bad place though and you can and should say that.

[sui-imi]

The UnderNet Protocol

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Over time, the UP has evolved from a basic messaging system, into something grander. Something closer to the modern day internet.

He is happy to sit back and simply watch.

And he is always watching.

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Use the tag #UnderNet Protocol to learn more!

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[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!!!!!