#fox tweets AND fan memes

[ninyard]

(the au where andreil gets outed pt.2)

[onward--upward]

fic stats meme!

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words

tagged by the lovely @cowboy-buddie 💖

most hits:

steppin’ into fate (911 Fox)

911 hockey AU my most beloved!!

“What the hell is this?” Evan Buckley storms into the office without knocking, tossing his phone onto the desk.

“The LA Kings have signed forward Eddie Diaz (@EDiaz82) to a five year contract” it reads. Buck doesn’t need to see it to know. He’s stared at it long enough already. There’s a graphic of Eddie Diaz and his stupidly pretty face beneath it, in his old Dallas Stars green and white, mouth open as he skates the puck up the ice. He’d looked at the replies, all of the “omg”s and heart-eyes emojis and 280-character amateur analysis of Diaz’s skills. He’d scrolled until he’d hit the inevitable “so when are we trading buckley?” tweets, and then he’d stormed into Bobby’s office without thinking about it twice.

second most kudos:

stitch my soul (911 Fox)

buddie soulmate au, one of my most favourite fics i’ve ever written

Eddie Diaz has never really put much stock into the concept of "fate". But after his marriage falls apart, he swears that he's not going to go against the universe again. He's going to find his soulmate. He's going to find Evan.

But then he meets Buck, and all of his careful plans start coming apart at the seams.

third most comments:

this is worth forever to me (911 Fox)

“Oh, right,” Buck nods, punching in the digits on autopilot. “Thanks.”

“God,” Eddie mutters, “it’s like I’m your husband.” And Buck’s entire being freezes, for just a moment. The machine beeps at him, and all he can do is stare blankly at it for a moment before flushing and yanking his card out. “Or – wife?” Eddie muses. Buck isn’t even looking at him, but he knows exactly what face he makes. “No, I’m gonna go with husband.”

The cashier is watching them like they’re a particularly riveting television show. All Buck can think to say is, “You’re not hot enough to be my husband.” Lie. The biggest lie in the world.

fourth most bookmarks:

we’ve been here forever (here’s the frozen proof) (Red White&Royal Blue)

Objectively, I am aware that you – a stranger – cannot tell me my own sexuality any better than I can, however... Can you, please? Tell me? It’s 4am and I have been thinking about this for hours, and I can’t sleep.

Warmest regards,

ACD

***

It’s four in the morning, and Alex Claremont-Diaz has managed to follow a research spiral straight down into a personal crisis. It isn’t the first time.

fifth fourth most words:

build my kingdom in the dark (Roswell New Mexico)

i’m still very fond of this one as well <3

Michael meets Alex Manes on a Tuesday.

After everything, after all their chaos and sex and pain and love, that detail sticks with him, for some reason. It’s a Tuesday night, their college-town bar is still packed, and Michael looks up from the beer he’d ordered with his shitty fake ID to find big brown eyes watching him from behind long lashes. A sharp impulse digs into his ribs, and Michael has always been a big fan of following impulses.

fic with least words:

and the sun shall rise again (Red White&Royal Blue)

god i wrote this one so long ago idk how i feel about it haha but it is very sweet

Very frequently Henry wakes up feeling as if he were in a dream.

i am so exhausted rn so idk who to even tag… @eusuntgratie @shitouttabuck @sibylsleaves if y’all want? 💖💖

[chengfagshi]

also Vivzie is super controversial as well, I'm not talking about stuff that involves her drawings but stuff like

doing black face

visiting multiple destinations that knowingly mistreat animals (such as an owl cafe, the fox village in Miyagi Zao and a "micropig" cafe)

not paying her animators fairly

going on a very expensive shopping spree instead

blacklisting and harassing people (such as Erin Frost)

making incredibly transphobic and acephobic statements

voicing violent threats to other animators not affiliated with her own company

often not crediting staff for their work

slandering the pilot cast behind their back and lying to them about keeping them, but instead she had already planned to replace them with broadway actors

The pilot cast was not invited to the series premiere and Ed Bosco (Radio Demon VA) did not appear in "Thank You and Goodnight," the pilot cast's goodbye to the fanbase, as it would have "threatened his job."

liking tweets that refereed to her critics as "subhumans"

encouraging fandom hostility, sometimes subtlety, sometimes not so

this has caused a fan to take their own life. Viv never made a statement about it

Mocking another fan and former friend of hers who tried to commit and landed in hospital (she tweeted: "Karma is so awesome, aw man <3")

lying about the SA survivor status of a storyboarder who worked for a sensitive episode, they infamously made inappropriate comments towards a 15 year old

claiming, falsely, that she "Would never allow abuse to be seen as positive in my stories." This was just before episode 4 of Hazbin aired, during a three day tirade against critics of the leaked abuse scene. Two episodes later, a sexual assault scene is played entirely for laughs

threatening to sue Kedikatzen, a webcomic artist she incorrectly believed to be behind exposing her transphobia in a document

vagueing about a 15 year old publicly on twitter because the teenager criticized her

slandering a person who made a roast meme about her show (thank you for x and they excluded Hazbin). The meme creator said they didn't want any harassment be sent to anyone and had Viv blocked

Getting mad to a fan who was responding to one of her tweets and was upset about what she wrote

Yeah, I heard about most of that. And to the surprise of nobody, I heard it from other proshippers since antis only wanna focus on the fictional shit she drew like 10 years ago. All of that is the reason I haven't watched the series. I'm pretty much done with it. Or if I ever do watch it, it will be through pirating (which, let's be real, won't happen because with this, it's impossible for me to separate the art from artist).

[sapphoherselz]

I loooove your foxes socmed au and i've been cackling at every italian pop culture reference (i think you are the first italian fan of aftg that i've found on here, we are a rare species). I can't describe the Joy this silliness gives me

HOWEVER you almost killed me with the 'si ni mondo esistesse un po di bene'

omg first of all thank you so much for telling me that you liked my tweets!! second of all hai ragione al 100% ho trovato altri 3 moots that have both read aftg and are also Italian so, like you said....a rare species indeed!! and also sono così felice che i miei compatrioti abbiano inteso il meme perché avevo paura non rendesse con la traduzione!! e invece!!!

[wafact]

All Eyes on Dogecoin (DOGE) Following Elon Musk's Latest Tweet: Details

Godfrey Benjamin Elon Musk said he was talking about Dogecoin with Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and Twitter, has once again shown that he is a true fan of Dogecoin (DOGE), the world’s first and largest meme coin. At the Super Bowl event over the weekend, Elon Musk was spotted sitting close to Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch. Dogecoin — Elon Musk…

[cutepastelstarsalior]

People who are like me and don’t know what the new words like glup shittos, here you go:

Glup shittos: a fake name used online to refer to returning characters from the Star Wars extended universe in newer mainstream Star Wars media, which are known and praised by hardcore fans but unknown to the more general audience.

Blorbo: (from my show) is a slang term for a person's favorite fictional character and is used similarly to terms such as Glup Shitto and Scrimblo Bimblo. Though initially intended as a mocking way to describe Tumblr fandoms, it began seeing more use among fandoms as it became popularized in early 2022.

Blorko: On Dec 18 2021 Twitter user @mrbasil_pesto tweet “My favorite bit of Marvel films is when you sit through nine minutes of credits to watch a five second clip of some guy stepping through a doorway and saying “It’s me, Blorko.”

Scrimblo Bimblo: fictional video game character used in a viral tweet to exaggeratedly describe how angry some Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players get when their favorite characters from nostalgic games aren't added to the game, particularly when JRPG characters are added in favor of them. The name is also used broadly to refer to frequently requested Smash characters, and as a sort of insult towards people who demand them.

Scrunkly: (Awww The Scrunkly, continued 🥰🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Double Tap Now if You'd Scrunkly the When😆) is a nonsense phrase and copypasta featured in a series of image macros, often attached to random images and images of animals that have an indefinable "scrunkly" quality to them. The first example of the meme features a low-res image of a fox and was posted to Instagram in May 2021.

Eeby Deeby refers to an impersonation of robot speak and has since been used in a series of edited comics whose speech bubbles have been edited to have one character say "Your dick cold" and the other say "Eeby Deeby." Often, the two characters will be situated such that it can look like they're having sex. The trend started with an edit of a still from a Buck Rogers comic strip of the robot character Twiki before it was adapted to fit multiple images online.

Eeby Deeby elevator meme on Feb. 1, from Tumblr user @theweirdwideweb, uploaded an image of an elevator with the caption, "Where the f*ck is this thing taking me?" The elevator floor on the screen isn't a number; instead it reads, “eeby deeby,” original the elevator had a UwU face

Eeby Deeby elevator 2.0 another way to say your going to hell, using in a joking manner

Horse Plinko refers to a viral animated GIF of a horse falling through a Plinko board as it bounces off pegs. Originating from a demonstration video for a computer science paper,

Throckmorton, also known as John Thomas sign, refers to when the penis points in the direction of unilateral disease, typically of the pelvis or hip. Throckmorton sign is a slang term used humorously by medical students

Cousin Throckmorton, aka Throcky, refers to a fictional character who appeared in a physics textbook word problem. In the problem, "Cousin Throckmorton" is a skateboarder, and the student is tasked with discovering the speed at which he descends a ramp and the force acting on him at the bottom of his descent. Once a Twitter user posted a screenshot of the question, it spread on social media, with people making jokes about Cousin Throckmorton, the skateboarder.

Edit: guys please stop asking for me to add stuff this post is very long, I will make a part 2 if I have too though….

[105ttt]

Hi sorry if this was already asked before but could you explain a little further abt the things devsis has done?? I haven’t heard abt a lot of the stuff you mentioned I don’t mean to sound rude or anything I’m just genuinely wondering

I can tell you mean it genuinely, it’s okay! I’m happy to answer because you want to know. I’ll go through everything I said.

The Valentine’s 2021 fanart video, posted on the official CR YouTube channel, is a compilation of fanart drawn for Valentine’s Day that fanartists submitted. Some of the art submitted was chosen BY DEVSISTERS and put in the video, but not all art made it in. Two pedophilic ships, Red Bean x Snow Sugar and Roguefort x Walnut, were featured in the video. Red Bean x Snow Sugar was featured TWICE. Snow Sugar and Walnut are confirmed to be children while Red Bean and Roguefort are HEAVILY implied to be adults. Devsisters allowed the pedophilic ships to be shown in a fanart video for a holiday primarily about romantic love, therefore putting their seal of approval on these pedophilic ships. Despite fans saying it should be taken down, the video is still up as of today.

Related to the video and Devsisters’ promotion of fanart on official Twitter accounts, they are known to promote fanart that whitewashes the Cookies. This applies to not only Cookies like Cocoa and Mint Choco, who are clearly black, but also Cookies that are tan, like Alchemist. This approval of whitewashing has been going on for literal years, and when an artist was called out for a piece that Devsisters promoted, Devsisters sided with the artist and claimed that they should be respected rather than made to understand why whitewashing is bad.

Both the Dreamy Cookie Land event and the 2021 April Fools GingerBrave Trial contain sections that are known to harm photosensitive people by either giving them seizures or seriously hurting their eyes and causing immense discomfort and pain. While Devsisters altered the maps in Dreamy Cookie Land to make them less likely to hurt these people, the 2021 April Fools Trial has not changed. Devsisters should have made sure these maps were safe BEFORE publishing them to thousands of people (or more).

Devsisters misgenders its own characters on official Twitter accounts and in game notifications. Squid Ink Cookie was referred to as “she” on a Puzzle World Twitter post, despite this Cookie never having pronouns anywhere in the game. Mocha Ray Cookie was referred to with “she” in a game notification despite having no pronouns listed anywhere in the game, including cutscenes. Devil Cookie was referred to with “he” in a Twitter post despite the game canonically using only “they/them” for them. In addition, a statement from the Thai branch of the Devsisters team claimed that you can use any pronouns for a Cookie since they are born sexless (and they conflated sex with gender). This gives transphobes the “right” to misgender canonically nonbinary characters. Lastly, before the Guild update and before OvenBreak, Dark Choco and Cinnamon had no pronouns. After the Guild update, Cookies referred to Dark Choco as “he”, and in OvenBreak, Cinnamon’s Story uses “he” for them. This erases two canonically nonbinary characters, as cis people will see “he” being used for them and assume they are male rather than he/they nonbinary people.

Devsisters is not subtle about their homophobia, as well as their goal of appealing to cishets who hate gay people. They show their homophobia in how straight ships are treated compared to gay ships. Firstly, in the Valentine’s fanart video, there were mostly straight ships. I believe I counted only 4 or so gay ships, and 3 of these were either selfcest or pedophilia. Despite the majority of the art being shown being heterosexual, many people who regularly follow the CR tag on Twitter and Instagram claim that there was a lot more gay ship art submitted compared to the proportion shown in the video. The gay ship art shown was also ambiguous enough that cishets who hate gay people wouldn’t get mad at Devsisters, while some of the heterosexual art was blatantly romantic. Secondly, the treatment of ships like RaspRose and PrincessKnight, popular straight ships, is much better than the treatment of popular gay ships by Devsisters. For example, RaspRose got a merchandise item in a set of cups that also featured a cup with Sea Fairy and Moonlight and Orange and Lime. The RaspRose art on the cup is explicitly romantic. The art on the Sea Fairy and Moonlight and Orange and Lime cups are ambiguous or platonic instead, despite both of these ships being historically far more plausible and popular than RaspRose. Finally, Devsisters has been gaybaiting with Madeleine Cookie and Espresso Cookie in Kingdom, but they refuse to make them canon because that would be gay. Gaybaiting is homophobic in itself for using gay people as a way to advertise something without fulfilling the promise of gay representation. It’s also worth mentioning that they once gaybaited with Milk and Purple Yam on Twitter, but the art shown was not romantic at all, and only the caption hinted at a ship (and the caption was vague enough to be interpreted as the Cookies merely appearing in an art piece together).

Multiple black CR fans have spoken out and said that Purple Yam Cookie is a racist caricature of black men, ESPECIALLY when he is juxtaposed with Milk, a white man. Indian and Middle Eastern CR fans have spoken out and said that Yogurt Cream Cookie and Lilac Cookie are caricatures of Indian and Middle Eastern people. These are not debatable. Google the history of the portrayal of black men in non-black media, and you’ll see what I mean for Purple Yam. The evidence that Yogurt Cream is a caricature comes from the very fact that people compare him to Aladdin, specifically Disney’s version of the tale, thereby showing that their only exposure to Indian and Middle Eastern people is stereotypes in white media. Note also that Dark Choco Cookie is the stereotype of a solemn, lonely, strong black person, and this has leaked into the fandom so much that people draw them unrealistically buff and mostly draw them suffering from angst instead of having any actual character.

There was an IRL sex crime in South Korea perpetrated by a club called the Burning Sun, and a certain Guild named itself after that club and changed their usernames to the names of the people who committed these crimes. They were only forced to change their names by Devsisters AFTER people protested. They were NOT forced to disband the Guild or banned from the game. Keep in mind that these people named themselves after a REAL-LIFE SEX CRIME that harmed REAL WOMEN AND GIRLS, and the only punishment they got was a forced name change. Fuck Devsisters.

Lastly, the trigger joke. Back when Ion Cookie Robot and Cyborg Cookie were new, the official CR Twitter account made a Tweet captioned as “triggered”, and below that caption was a GIF of Ion Cookie Robot becoming angry and shifting to their Red Dread Costume, thereby implying that Ion Cookie Robot was “triggered” and became unreasonably angry. This was posted during the time when ableists were using the term “triggered” as a “meme”, which harms people with PTSD. The Tweet was deleted, and another Tweet was made that apologized for the previous Tweet, but this was only after backlash from fans. However, notice that Purple Yam Cookie is also a trigger joke. He has PTSD from being burned alive in the Oven for so long, and as a result he is easily angered (anger is his stress response). The game treats this as a joke and minimizes his suffering just because other Cookies were in the Oven (before coming to life). His anger is treated as unreasonable and unwarranted, and it’s treated as a joke. Does that sound familiar? Now take into account that his anger is juxtaposed with Milk’s “kind”, “gentle” demeanor. Yikes.

BONUS ROUND:

DevSam, a worker at Devsisters, once said that GingerBrave had a Costume in LINE that was a “sexy cat costume”. GingerBrave is a minor, and the Costume was literally not sexy at all. Why did they refer to him as sexy if he’s a minor??

Images from an official CR account showed a person dressed as GingerBrave giving gifts to a person dressed as Pink Choco Cookie, a Cookie associated with romantic love. This can be easily interpreted as romantic and is therefore pedophilic because GingerBrave is a child and Pink Choco Cookie is an adult. Why post this at all??

Buttershell Fox referred to Maple Panda with a word that was VERY close to a slur against black people in the original text of the Secrets of the Hidden City cutscenes. This was only changed when a popular Twitter user let everyone know about it and asked people to email Devsisters about it.

I can provide links and screenshots for proof if needed, but please DM me or send an ask to ask for these. I’m definitely forgetting other things they’ve done that are bad, but this already should be enough to raise eyebrows.

[iwishiwasavampire]

part II of my Kevin can’t sleep without andrew in the room with him headcanon (part I here)

they test every single possibility and discover that the in scale poster of andrew with knives + the night light so kevin can actually see it at night is the best solution

so neil print about 30 copies of the poster (keep 2 of them to himself) and give them to kevin so he can put one of them in his bedroom and use the rest when he has away games

everything is well for a while, BUT

Being propriety of the japanese mafia means that when someone offers a bunch of money to feature kevin on their magazine he nas no option, but to accept

so when an interior design magazine making a special feature on sport stars approaches kevin asking to photograph and interview him in his own house he accepts

now, kevin day can be an absolute nightmare for those who actually know him, but to exy fans he is nothing if not a king (or in his case queen)

and a king knows how important is his image, so he makes sure his house is pristine, his awards shining, framed signed jerseys without a single crease and his pictures on magazine covers, team photos and even a giant picture of him and his mom from when he was a chubby cheeked baby are perfectly aligned

he takes the sleep poster from the wall beside his bed and puts it inside his closet door, so he can just leave the closet door open to be able to see it when he goes to bed that day

when it’s time for the magazine crew to arrive everything is perfect, they put him in the make up chair, dressing him up and things like that, while the rest of the crew finds the best spots in the house to photograph

they take pictures of him without a shirt, but with an apron smiling while pretending to fry eggs

in a suit, looking thoughtful sitting beside his mom’s picture

in full exy gear in the garden, in orange speedos in the pool

all while the interviewer asks about his career plans, his dream team, his favorite food etc

the shoot takes hours and the last pictures are in his room, the sun is setting and the photograph wants to take a more intimate picture of him, so he has the ideia of putting kevin sitting in a armchair in the middle of his bedroom

everything is going great until the photographer tells someone from the crew to open the closet door, to help with the intimate vibe

kevin is so busy answering the interviewer questions that he doesn’t realize what happened until he starts to hear laughing coming from behind him, when he turns around every single crew person in the room is laughing

the crew was delighted with the poster and before kevin had time to freak out about it the photographer asks him if it’s ok to have the poster appearing in the pictures or if he preferred to leave it out

kevin was about to ask them to leave it out when the interviewer said: “oh man your fans are gonna love this, what’s the story behind it?”

and kevin sees a opportunity to improve his public persona so gives his best mischievous smile and says: “oh that’s my party poster, we used it when i have my friends over for some drinks and stuff”

which prompted the interviewer to ask: “use it for what?”

and him to respond: “oh only my party guests can know about it”

which is, of course, a lie. kevin never threw a party in his life and rarely has friends over

besides him 3 people knew about it: andrew and neil (for obvious reasons) and thea who hated so much she decided that she wouldn’t be visiting again so soon

a few weeks go by and the magazine is released

now

kevin knew his fans would lose their shit when they see the poster picture

and in fact they did, all sports news outlets wrote about it,

#kevinday #andrewminyard #knives #smolbean trended on twitter all around

everybody was speculating on how wild kevin’s parties must be and who was in his guest list?

the fox groupchat exploded with memes and screenshots of tweets about it

even andrew himself called him to ask: what the actual fuck???

neil found the whole thing so funny he actually logged into his twitter to tweet: andrew minyard is a smol bean

kevin expected the story to die down in a few weeks since the game season was about to start, what he didn’t anticipated was:

after the magazine, in every post game press conference the number one question for the players was:

“have you ever been invited to one of kevin day’s parties?”

but the thing is kevin day is the son of exy, the number one in the game

every player wants to have some kind of connection to him, to be associated with kevin is to be associated with exy success

so all around the country exy athletes are telling news outlets the wildest things about kevin’s parties and crazy stories about the poster

cut to andrew being asked about it after a game and looking directly into the camera, burping into the mic and saying: “i’ve never meet this kevin day guy in my life”

[crowdvscritic]

round up // NOVEMBER 20

Hi, I’m tired. Actually, my friend Celeste created a piece of art that puts the emphasis needed on that sentiment:

I’m very tired. November felt like it was three years and also felt like it went by in a blink and also I’m not sure where October ended and November began—how does time work like that? (I’ve yet to see Tenet, but maybe that will explain it.) But like Michael Scott, somehow I manage, and lately it’s been like this:

Late-night Etsy scrolling. Browsing beautiful, non-big-box-store artwork is very calming just before I go to bed. I’d recommend Etsy stores like Celeste’s chr paperie shop, which I know from experience is full of great Christmas gift ideas. 

Taking a day off of work to do laundry. I’m not sure if it’s more #adulting that I did that or that I was excited to do that.

Eating Ghiradelli chocolate chips straight from the bag. I actually don’t recommend this as a healthy option, but this is also not a health blog.

Watching lots and lots of ‘80s movies. One day I’ll ask a therapist why this decade of films is so comforting for me despite its many flaws, but for now I’m just rolling with it.

Reading. Have you heard of this? It’s a form of entertainment but doesn’t require screens—wild!

Memes. All good Pippin “Fool of a” Took jokes are welcome here.

Leaning into the Christmas spirit by ordering that Starbucks peppermint mocha, making plans to watch everything in that TCM Christmas book I haven’t seen, and keeping the lights on my hot pink tinsel tree on all day as I work from home.

This month’s Round Up is full of stuff that made me smile and stuff that sucked me into its world—I think they’ll do the same for you, too.

November Crowd-Pleasers

Sister Act (1992)

If in four years you aren’t in an emotional state to watch election results roll in, I recommend watching Whoopi Goldberg pretend to be a nun for 100 minutes. (Though, incidentally, if you want to watch that clip edited to specifically depict how the results came in this year, you’ll need to watch Sister Act 2.) This musical-comedy is about as feel-good as it gets, meaning there’s no reason you should wait four more years to watch it. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

Nevada Memes

Speaking of election results, Nevada memes. That’s it—that’s the tweet. Vulture has a round up of some of the best.

SNL Round Up

Laugh and enjoy!

“Cinema Classics: The Birds” (4605 with John Mulaney)

“Uncle Ben” (4606 with Dave Chappelle)

RoboCop (1987)

I’m not surprised I liked RoboCop, but I am surprised at why I liked RoboCop. Not only is this a boss action blockbuster, it’s an investigation into consumerism and the commodification of the human body. It’s also a critique of institutions that treat crime like statistics instead of actions done by people that impact people. That said, it’s also movie about a guy who’s fused with a robot and melts another guy’s face off with toxic sludge, so there’s a reason I’m not listing this under the Critic section. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8/10

Double Feature – ‘80s Comedies: National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) + Major League (1989)

The ‘80s-palooza is in full swing! In Vacation (Crowd: 9.5/10 // Critic: 8/10), Chevy Chase just wants to spend time with his family on a vacation to Wally World, but wouldn’t you know it, Murphy’s Law kicks into gear as soon as the Griswold family shifts from out of Park. The brilliance of the movie is that every one of these terrible things is plausible, but the Griswolds create the biggest problems themselves. In Major League (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 6.5/10), Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, and Wesley Snipes are Cleveland’s last hope for a winning baseball team. Like the Griswolds, mishaps and hijinks ensue in their attempt to prevent their greedy owner from moving the Indians to Miami, but the real win is this movie totally gets baseball fans. Like most ‘80s movies, not everything in this pair has aged well, but they brought some laughs when I needed them most.

This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens (2020)

They’re born a minute apart in the same hospital, but they don’t meet until their 30th birthday on New Year’s Day. So, yes, it’s a little bit Serendipity, and it’s a little bit sappy, but those are both marks in this book’s favor. This Time Next Year is a time-hopping rom-com with lots of almost-meet-cutes that will have you laughing, believing in romantic twists of fate, and finding hope for the new year.

Double Feature – ‘80s Angsty Teens: Teen Wolf (1985) + Uncle Buck (1989)

In the ‘80s, Hollywood finally understood the angsty teen, and this pair of comedies isn’t interested in the melodrama earlier movies like Rebel Without a Cause were depicting. (I’d recommend Rebel, but not if you want to look back on your teen years with any sense of humor.) In Teen Wolf (Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 5/10), Michael J. Fox discovers he’s a werewolf.one that looks more like the kid in Jumanji than any other portrayal of a werewolf you’ve seen. It’s a plot so ‘80s and so bizarre you won’t believe this movie was greenlit.

In Uncle Buck (Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 7.5/10), John Candy is attempting to connect with the nieces and nephew he hasn’t seen in years, including one moody high schooler. (Plus, baby Gaby Hoffman and pre-Home Alone Macauley Culkin!) This is my second pick from one of my all-time fave filmmakers, John Hughes (along with National Lampoon’s Vacation, above), and it’s one more entry that balances heart and humor in a way only he could do. You can see where I rank this movie in Hughes’s pantheon on Letterboxd.

Lord of the Rings memes

This month on SO IT’S A SHOW?, Kyla and I revisited The Lord of the Rings, a trilogy we love almost as much as we love Gilmore Girls. You can listen to our episode about the series on your fave podcast app, and you can laugh through hundreds of memes like I did for “research” on Twitter.

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (2019)

Most adults are afraid of children’s temper tantrums, but can you imagine how terrified you’d be if they caught on fire in their fits of rage? That’s the premise of this novel, which begins when an aimless twentysomething becomes the nanny of a Tennessee politician’s twins who burst into flames when they get emotional. The book is filled with laugh-out-loud moments but never leaves behind the human emotion you need to make a magical realistic story.

An Officer and a Gentlemen (1982)

Speaking of aimless twentysomethings and emotion, feel free to laugh, cry, and swoon through this melodrama in the ‘80s canon. Richard Gere meanders his way into the Navy when he has nowhere else to go, and he tries to survive basic training, work through his family issues, and figure out his future as he also falls in love with Debra Winger. So, yeah, it’s a schamltzier version of Top Gun, but it’s schmaltz at its finest. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

November Critic Picks

Double Feature – ‘40s Amensia Romances: Random Harvest (1942) + The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Speaking of schmaltz at its finest, let me share a few more titles fitting that description. In Random Harvest (Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10), Greer Garson falls in love with a veteran who can’t remember his life before he left for war. In The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 8.5/10), Gene Tierney discovers a ghost played by a crotchety Rex Harrison in her new home. Mild spoiler: Both feature amnesiac plot developments, and while amnesia has become a cliché in the long history of romance films, Harvest is moving enough and Mr. Muir is charming enough that you won’t roll your eyes. You can see these and more romances complicated by forced forgetfulness in this Letterboxd round up.

The African Queen (1951)

It’s Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn directed by John Huston—I mean, I don’t feel like I need to explain why this is a winner. Bogart (in his Oscar-winning role) and Hepburn star in a two-hander script, dominating the screen time except for a select few scenes with supporting cast. The pair fight for survival while cruising on a small boat called The African Queen during World War I (in Africa, natch), and the two make this small story feel grand and epic. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

A young man’s (Dennis Price) mother is disowned from their wealthy family because she marries for love. After her death, he seeks vengeance by killing all of the family members ahead of him in line to be the Duke D'Ascoyne. The twist? All of his victims are played by Sir Alec Guinness! Almost every character in this black comedy is a terrible person, so you won’t be too sorry to see them go—you can just enjoy the creative “accidents” he stages and stay in suspense on whether our “hero” gets his comeuppance. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1937)

What would you do if you found out you were to be someone’s eighth wife? Well, it’s probably not what Claudette Colbert does in this screwball comedy that reminds me a bit of Love Crazy. This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended Colbert, Gary Cooper, or Ernst Lubitsch films, so it’s no surprise these stars and this director can make magic together in this hilarious battle of the wills. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

The Red Shoes (1948)

I love stories about the competition between your life and your art, and The Red Shoes makes that competition literal. Moira Shearer plays a ballerina who feels life is meaningless without dancing—then she falls in love. That’s an oversimplification of a rich character study and some of the most beautiful ballet on film, but I can’t do it justice in a short paragraph. Just watch (perhaps while you’re putting up your hot pink tinsel tree?) and soak in all the goodness. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 10/10

The Third Man (1949)

Everybody loves to talk about Citizen Kane, and with the release of Mank on Netflix, it’s newsworthy again. But don’t miss this other ‘40s team up of Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. Cotten is a writer digging for the truth of his friend’s (Welles) death in a mysterious car accident. Eyewitness accounts differ on what happened, and who was the third man at the scene only one witness remembers? 71 years later, this movie is still tense, and this actor pairing is still electric. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 9/10

The Untouchables (1987)

At the end of October, we lost Sean Connery. I looked back on his career first by writing a remembrance for ZekeFilm and then by watching The Untouchables. (In a perfect world I would’ve reversed that order, but c’est la vie.) In my last selection from the ‘80s, Connery and Kevin Costner attempt to convict Robert De Niro’s Al Capone of anything that will stick and end his reign of crime in Chicago. Directed by Brian De Palma and set to an Ennio Morricone soundtrack, this film is both an exciting action flick and an artistic achievement that we literally discussed in one of my college film classes. Connery won his Oscar, and K. Cos is giving one of the best of his career, too. Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 9.5/10

Remember the Night (1940)

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in my favorite team up yet! Double Indemnity may be the bona fide classic in the canon, but this Christmas story—with MacMurray as a district attorney prosecuting shoplifter Stanwyck— is a charmer. I’ve added it to my list of must-watch Christmas movies—watch for some holiday cheer and rom-com feels. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

Photo credits: chr paperie. Books my own. All others IMDb.com.

[itsstickball]

How do you imagine ppl/teams reacting when they eventually figure out the ‘my husband’ comment¿¿(I love your rivalry hc!!)

I think there are three groups of people who notice the comment at all.

Group number one: The conspiracy fans. They’ve been fighting over which of Neil’s teammates he’s been secretly dating for years. The ship wars started in earnest his fifth year of college and never really died down. Is his husband one of his current teammates? Is it one of his former teammates? Is it the supposed boyfriend of one of his teammates? There’s that weird tension he has with Jean Moreau too, they could totally be fucking. Unsurprisingly, a large portion of people ship him with Matt - despite the numerous articles and pictures that cite him as the best man in his and Dan’s wedding several years prior. (Neil really can’t even say he’s surprised by the fans who claim he’s married to both of them). Half of them are ecstatic that their ship could be the right one and the other half are mourning the swift sinking of their hetero-titanics. 

Group two: Gay right warriors.Now this is technically two groups of people. There are those who find the footage and make every type of rainbow-overlaid gif you can imagine. They write posts and articles about bravery, about being gay in sports (it’s mlm, not just gay, a small remnant of them chide), about how they’re inspired to live boldly by Neil. They are internet denizens, news anchors, sponsorship deals, fans.And, unfortunately, just as loud, there are the homophobes. They also talk about homosexuality in sports, about Neil’s troubled past and tenuous relationships with teammates. They exist in the same crevices as the people they spew hate against. They bring up a God twisted into their own image and weaponize their words. As opposite as they are, both factions have the same effect. It’s not Neil they care about, not really. They push, and use him as an example, but really, they’d do the exact same thing if it was Oprah. For them, it’s about the agenda.

Group three: Those in the know.Predictably, the Fox group chat blows up. Neil stops even trying to read after Nicky starts typing out his exclamations one letter at a time. He also receives several texts from his current teammates, a call from his manager that he ignores and seven voicemails from Kevin that lead to him turning his phone off altogether. The ride home is quite pleasant after that. When he turns the device back on the following morning (after letting it vibrate non-stop on the counter for twenty minutes while the rest of his missed messages queued up), he finds mostly a lot of support. Nicky, of course is indignant because he never quite got over the fact that they hadn’t told him they were getting married at all (He’d found out three months after the fact) and here he was, getting blindsided by the announcement again. Neil smiled at the various messages of support from the old Foxes, including a gruff warning from Wymack to stop giving him grey hairs. The smile morphed into an eye-roll at Kevin’s messages - four of which got deleted without him even listening to them (a good thing probably, the sixth one was just Kevin complaining that Neil insulted his dick on live television). He did call his manager back and promise to come in early before their next practice to talk PR. Not all of his current teammates knew he was in a relationship with another man, but of those who didn’t he’s confident he can handle any negative reactions without benching anyone. Mostly, he knows, management just wants to make sure everyone is on the same page. It’s one of the reasons he likes this team.

Ironically enough, big fans of the rivalry don’t think much of it. Unless they fall into one of the above categories, they’re far more interested in the fact that Andrew effectively blew up his twitter for the sole purpose of getting Neil Josten to insult himself on live television. If that isn’t peak rival behavior, then they don’t know what is. He insulted his appearance, his attitude, his obsession with exy. And again, he had to flood his twitter and the mean tweets tag in order to monopolize Neil’s airtime. Before this (and after, tbh), they were lucky if they got one tweet from him a year. The “he’s ugly too” tweet becomes a meme and shows up on many a glitter posterboard in the opposing teams’ sections at Neil’s games. (He likes to take pictures of them and send them to Andrew to be annoying). He doesn’t ever comment on who his husband is, though.

In the end, of course the only reaction that matters is Andrew’s. 

Ten minutes after he turns his smart phone off and two after he walks into the door of his apartment, a dingy, cracked plastic brick of a flip phone tries to rattle its way out of the top drawer of Neil’s nightstand. He doesn’t bother looking at the caller ID before flipping it open. Only one person knows he has the thing, let alone remembers the number for it.

“I didn’t know you’d taken up writing love letters.” Neil says into the receiver, his smile evident in his voice. 

“I didn’t know you were planning on announcing your relationship status to the world.” 

Andrew’s rebuttal is calm; he’s not angry. Neil can tell even over the phone. Still, he sits down hard on the edge of the bed.

“Oh.” He says, scrubbing his eyes with the heel of his hands as his words from earlier come back to him. Even with all of the hubub from the Foxes, the implications of what he’d said hadn’t really sunk in. He tells Andrew as much.

Andrew, thankfully is neither surprised nor tired of dealing with him. He hums non-committally then tells Neil he’s trending on twitter.

“Still think no one likes a smart mouth?”

Neil grins into the silence, imagining the way Andrew’s mouth flattens into a line when he thinks his husband is being particularly bothersome.

“What I think is that I’d still rather hear you choking on a dick.”

“Yeah?”

Neil’s grin grows to the edges of his face and he flops back onto the bed. He had other plans for the morning before meeting Kevin for lunch, but they can wait. Andrew is transferring to his team in three months. But until then, he’s going to soak up every possible opportunity to spend time with him. After all, he is Neil’s husband.

[ninyard]

Keeping these all in one place for my own sake but if you felt like catching up on my in-universe tweets/memes/texts here’s them all so far:

- my og in-universe memes post

(exy fans + twitter)

- the Kathy Ferdinand show

- you’re telling me an AARON killed this man?

- Neil’s New Look

- the night of the riots + Baltimore

- Nathaniel Wesninski Reveal

- kevin day has never been skiing

- usc vs foxes lineup

- jean is signing with USC live reaction

- championship finals pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 2.5 / pt 3

- riko, gone but not forgotten </3

- the trial pt 1

- the olympics pt 1

fox tweets pt 1 / pt 2 / pt 2.5 / pt 3 / the q&a / drunk tweets

twt user andrewminyard

(the aus)

- the andreil outing / pt 2 / andrew’s outtakes

- jean moreau’s freshman year

- the kevallison au

- marissa’s party pt 1

(asks)

- boomer jean moreau / pt 2 / pt 3 / pt 4 / jeandrew / pt 2 / jean's rule

- kevin goes skiing / prove it kev / kevin the ally

- kandreil rescues / be gay do crime / the fork

- agent browning calling / lil butch / trauma dump / the wiki

- robin text

(texts)

- the car wash / new starters

- from andrew to renee / serial killer ask / pope text / andrew's pro team

- from kevin to andrew / from nicky to andrew

(deleted scenes)

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[nagitokomaedafan]

ok, clearing everything up rn

there was a post made by a toby fox look alike twitter account who posted a fiha meme. there were thousands of retweets, so people might actually think toby fox made a fiha meme. i was misinformed that this was an actual tweet from him, until i noticed that there was not a verified icon next to the name

nevertheless, this will probably bring more attention to the fiha memes. people might not check to see if the account is verified and in turn, the fiha meme will spread more. the problem with this is that the komaeda / danganronpa tags will once again be filled with nothing but fiha memes. please, DO NOT TAG YOUR FIHA MEMES AS KOMAEDA OR DANGANRONPA! also, i’m not entirely certain, but i’m pretty sure undertale fans don’t want fiha memes clogging up their tag either

it degrades the characterization of komaeda, and reduces him to just a funny meme. although i can arguably say that sans is just a meme character, there are still moments where people just want to look at actual fan content, not fiha memes

plus, fiha memes clog up the tags. my friends and i created this blog so that people wouldn’t have to see fiha memes when they went through the komaeda tag because, really, all of you dropped the ball so damn hard. don’t tag your fiha memes as anything but fiha. it should have long been dead by now, stop beating a dead horse. if you want to continue to make fiha memes, that’s fine. just don’t clog up other tags

[basicshadowhuntersstuff]

This week in Shadowhunters news, updates, sneak peeks, and behind the scenes. All the stuff you need to stay up to date.

Official Promotion

Key difference. #Shadowhunters

A behind the scenes photo of Isaiah (Luke) and Nicola Correia-Damude (Maryse Lightwood): What's so funny? #Shadowhunters

Clary behind the scenes of #ShadowhuntersSeason3. 

Heidi gets that look a lot. #Shadowhunters 

Why stop at only six?  #Shadowhunters

Shadowhunters In The News

Basic Stuff Magazine (interview):  Chatting Dungeons & Dragons with Actor Steve Byers

2GB 873 AM (interview):  Hollywood star Dominic Sherwood reveals whether he's a DC or Marvel man

Pez (interview):  Matthew Daddario Opens Up On Receiving Heartwarming Letters From LGBTQIA Fans

SyFy Australia (interview):  We caught up with #Shadowhunters star Dominic Sherwood to find out what he thinks of the amazing fan support behind the show, whether there’ll be a 4th season and his next role.

E! News Australia (interview):  Dominic Sherwood Reacts to "Shadowhunters" PCAs 2018 Nominations

The Televixen (interview):  Steve Byers Talks Frankie Drake Mysteries, Shadowhunters, and Goalie

Pez (interview):  Dominic Sherwood Has A Sick ‘Shadowhunters’ Spinoff Idea & It Needs To Happen

Digital Fox (interview):  Dominic Sherwood Interview: Pick-Up Lines, #SaveShadowhunters, and More!

The AU Review (article):  5 things we learned at the Shadowhunters panel at Oz Comic-Con Sydney

Twitter & Social Media Stuff

Brian Hui (makeup artist) tweeted a photo:  Just stumbled across this cute pic of me, ⁦@JMunozActor⁩ and ⁦@alyssa_caps⁩ ! Miss you guys!

MCM Comic Con shared a video of Chai Hansen (Jordan Kyle):  The Downworld wouldn't be complete without a werewolf... @ch8i, aka Jordan in Shadowhunters & Ilian in The 100, is joining us at MCM Comic Con London!

Brian Hui (makeup artist) tweeted a photo: Ah, ⁦@Kat_McNamara⁩ remember rosé on the Seine? Miss you!

Matt (Alec) shared photos of a koala and some kangaroos.

Brian Hui (makeup artist) tweeted a photo:  Little BTS before the camera rolls!

Brian Hui (makeup artist) tweeted a photo: Feeling like I need a Chai post! ⁦@ch8i⁩

MCM Comic Con tweeted:  Alert the downworlders! Our amazing Shadowhunters guests will be taking to the stage at MCM London Comic Con - 26-28 October

The Italian Institute announced Luke Baines (Jonathan Morgenstern) as another guest:  Let's welcome @LukeBaines into our Shadow Vibes family! Luke will be a BONUS guest at the next #ITAInstituteCon3! We can't wait for the new episodes! #ITAInstituteCon3

People’s Choice Awards

Shadowhunters is a finalist in three People’s Choice Awards categories, #TheSciFiFantasyShow, #TheBingeworthyShow, and #TheShow. Kat McNamara (Clary) is a finalist for #TheFemaleTVStar and Harry Shum Jr. is a finalist for #TheMaleTVStar.

Voting on the People’s Choice Awards website can be done here.

ShadowhuntersTV posted on Twitter and Instagram:  

Action we could watch all day long. RT to vote #Shadowhunters as #TheBingeworthyShow in the #PCAs. 

Smile. #Shadowhunters has been nominated as #TheShow in the #PCAs. RT to vote for us.

Raise your glass. #HarryShumJr has been nominated as #TheMaleTVStar. RT to vote for him in the #PCAs. 

We think #KatherineMcNamara rocks. Don’t you? RT to vote her as #TheFemaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

We’ve been in awe of this show since day one. RT to cast your vote for #Shadowhunters as #TheSciFiFantasyShow in the #PCAs. 

Perfect timing. Help #Shadowhunters win #TheShow in the #PCAs with a retweet. 

We could watch Magnus work his magic all day. RT to vote for #Shadowhunters as #TheBingeworthyShow in the #PCAs. 

A show that’s never short of sci-fi moments. RT to vote #Shadowhunters as #TheSciFiFantasyShow in the #PCAs. 

Clary kicks ass. Literally. RT to vote for #KatherineMcNamara as #TheFemaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

Use your retweeting magic to vote for #HarryShumJr as #TheMaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

We heard #Shadowhunters is a finalist in the @peopleschoice awards. RT to vote for us as #TheShow in the #PCAs. 

High five.  #Shadowhunters has been nominated as #TheBingeworthyShow in the #PCAs. RT to cast your vote. 

And we’re happy for #KatherineMcNamara’s #PCAs nomination as #TheFemaleTVStar. RT to cast your vote for her. 

We’re happy to have been gifted with #HarryShumJr. RT to vote for him as #TheMaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

It’s no surprise. #Shadowhunters has been nominated for #TheSciFiFantasyShow in the #PCAs. RT to vote for us. 

Cheers to #Shadowhunters being nominated in the #PCAs. RT to vote for us as #TheShow. 

A great show to binge with your best friends. RT to vote #Shadowhunters as #TheBingeworthyShow in the #PCAs. 

Clary never backs down, and neither will we. RT to vote #KatherineMcNamara as #TheFemaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

On point. Just like #Shadowhunters. RT to vote us as #TheSciFiFantasyShow in the #PCAs. 

That's right we're talking about you #HarryShumJr. RT to vote him as #TheMaleTVStar in the #PCAs. 

Will you join Lilith? RT to vote #Shadowhunters as #TheSciFiFantasyShow. #PCAs 

It’s true. #KatherineMcNamara has been nominated in the #PCAs. RT to vote her as #TheFemaleTVStar. 

We’re mesmerized by #HarryShumJr both on and off screen. RT to cast your vote for him as #TheMaleTVStar. #PCAs 

If you like Simon, Maia, and #Shadowhunters, RT this to vote us as #TheShow. #PCAs 

Winning #TheBingeworthyShow would be legendary, and you know what they say about legends. RT to cast your vote for #Shadowhunters in the #PCAs. 

People’s Choice Awards tweeted:

YOU voted and we listened! Here are your write-in nominees for The E! People's Choice Awards! #PCAs 

Cast and Crew Reactions:

Kat (Clary) tweeted:  Holy moly, angels! Let's keep this going and join together and vote at http://pca.eonline.com for Harry, Shadowhunters, and me  :) #KatherineMcNamara #TheFemaleTVStar #PCAs 1 RT = 1 Vote 

Kat (Clary) tweeted:  Once again - thank you, angels, for the nominations for Shadowhunters, Harry and myself. @peopleschoice   #KatherineMcNamara  #TheFemaleTVStar  #PCAs

Oz Comic Con

Matthew Daddario (Alec) and Dom Sherwood (Jace) spent a weekend in Sydney, Australia at Oz Comic Con.

The entire panel can be seen on the Oz Comic Con Facebook Page.

Clare Kramer shared a number of photos from the weekend’s panels and beyond:

The OG of @ozcomiccon. 🖤@dichenlachman @matthewdaddario @idomknow 📸 @karolinatx 

Fan: @MatthewDaddario, I just wanted to ask you about your character… @DomSherwood1: *drops mic, takes out phone* #OzComicCon18 #Shadowhunters @OzComicCon 

.@MatthewDaddario: I’ve never seen your brain work so quickly @DomSherwood1: Or at all, really. #Shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

.@DomSherwood1: Jace in 3B. Right. Where did we leave him? Oh right, Clary’s dead. The love of his life is dead. @MatthewDaddario: He’ll be fine after that brutal psychological torture. #ShadowHunters #OzComicCon18 

A fan @OzComicCon asked @DomSherwood1 to do his best @MatthewDaddario imitation and this was the result. #Shadowhunters #OzComicCon18 (video)

It’s @MatthewDaddario at the @OzComicCon #Shadowhunters panel in #Sydney. #OzComicCon18

It’s @DomSherwood1 celebrating getting a fan question, and not @MatthewDaddario. #shadowhunters #OzComicCon18 

Fan: For the record, I love you both. @DomSherwood1: Well if you all say it like that, I’m not making up any numbers! I’m already behind! #shadowhunters #OzComicCon18 @MatthewDaddario 

Fan: If you were a boxer, what would your motivational song be? @DomSherwood1: That’s a good question! @MatthewDaddario: Alternating between Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now and the Indiana Jones theme. @DomSherwood1: I was going to say one of those! #Shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

On 3B @MatthewDaddario: Jace is going to be miserable. You’re going to hate it. @DomSherwood1: Unless you hate Jace, in which case you’ll love it. #Shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

On auditions @DomSherwood1: You know that thing where they turn you down because you’re too good-looking? @MatthewDaddario: No. #shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

Here @MatthewDaddario at the @OzComicCon #shadowhunters panel. #OzComicCon18

Q: If you could design a rune, what would it do? [Lengthy off-topic conversation re: monkey’s paws] @DomSherwood1: Yeah, Brendan Fraser. Just be able to teleport Brendon Fraser whenever you’d want. #shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

And here’s @DomSherwood1, who enjoys wearing “loud, outlandish-colored boxers.” #Shadowhunters #OzComicCon18

Awwwwww… #shadowhunters @MatthewDaddario #OzComicCon18 

Photo dump! The #Shadowhunters boys are too fast to keep up with! @MatthewDaddario @DomSherwood1 #OzComicCon18

The nicest ever new friend. @domsherwood @ozcomiccon 📸 @karolinatx

One more photo dump of @MatthewDaddario and @DomSherwood1 at their Sunday @OzComicCon panel for all you #shadowhunters meme maniacs.  #OzComicCon18

The AU Review shared a thread of live-tweets from the Shadowhunters panel.

#SaveShadowhunters (continued)

On June 4th, it was announced that Freeform wouldn’t be continuing on with a fourth season of Shadowhunters. Here are a few major highlights. (Our full roundup for #SaveShadowhunters can be found here.)

Clevver (article): Here’s Everything Shadowhunters Fans Have Done to Save the Series 

Film Daily (article): #SaveShadowhunters: Here’s how a People’s Choice vote might do just that!

Basic Stuff Magazine (article):  Save Shadowhunters Takes Over NYCC 2018

Other News

Matthew Daddario’s birthday was October 1st!

Hollywood Life (article): Happy Birthday, Matthew Daddario: See The ‘Shadowhunters’ Star’s Hottest Pics

Shadowhunters TV tweeted:  Happy, happy birthday @MatthewDaddario. 🎂

Famous Birthdays tweeted a video:  Happy 31st Birthday to @MatthewDaddario!

Ariana Williams (Madzie) tweeted:  Happy birthday  Matt love from Ariana  #BestWishes #funtimes #memories #Alec&Madzie #SAVESHADOWHUNTERS

Amanda O’Leary (makeup artist) shared a video on Instagram:  Been saving this for a special day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY @matthewdaddario you are just the bestest. #thebest

Kat (Clary) tweeted:  The happiest of happy birthdays to the master of little known information, honest observant opinions, and overall general wise advice. @matthewdaddario thanks for always treating me like one of the big kids, even though we know we’re children at heart.  Enjoy your day, brother!

Harry (Magnus) tweeted:  @MatthewDaddario yo, did you know it’s your birthday? Anyone tell you? If not, I’ll be the first. Happy—oh, it’s October 1st now...oops.

[grantwessler]

Media and Society, today

I am very intrigued by what we have been talking about in class recently. I think the idea of one company owning a haul of other companies is something that we are still all trying to understand. Before the class discussion, I had no idea that for example, Disney, owned major companies such as ESPN, 21st century fox, and ABC plus many others. Almost every brand that you know of is owned by a superior major company. That’s why these companies seem to have an endless amount of promotions, movies, clothes, whatever it may be, because there is money coming in from every which way. Before we talked about it in class, I didn’t know that Nike owns Hurley, Air Jordan and Converse. Or that google owns a whopping 232 companies for a total cost of about 20.89 Billion dollars

Notable companies that Google owns -

- YouTube

- FitBit

- Waze

- Nest

-Mandiant

Media now is a very powerful tool. It can be used in both good and bad ways and can completely influence someone’s whole life. There have been countless athletes, singers, actors, and other influencers that have been “cancelled” for something they may have tweeted or posted years ago. For one example, actress Amanda Bynes tweeted something very offensive related to domestic abuse back in 2013. The point being, i’m sure your favorite celebrity has made a mistake on social media at least one time but we can’t hold people accountable for every little tweet or it’s never going to end. When Mitchell Trubisky, now the quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers first signed with the team, there was a lot of fans that found a tweet that he posted from when he was in high school. It wasn’t anything offensive but more childish and funny and fans made a meme out of it. This shows how easy it is to find anything that has ever been shared on media and that’s why everyone should try to be mindful about what they post before they post it.

Those are just some of the ways that media and society go together. It’s way different in 2022 then it was per say in the 00’s when media first became a normal thing in every day life.

[memedocumentation]

Explained: "I Will Survive” meme

Zootopia is a 2016 Disney animated film featuring anthropomorphic animals. The film features the odd-couple friendship between the rabbit Judy Hopps and the fox Nick Wilde.

In December 2017, it was discovered that there was a fan-made comic titled “I Will Survive” by William Borba that features Judy and Nick. The comic tells the story of how Judy breaks the news to Nick that she is pregnant. Nick is ecstatic to have a child together, but Judy states that she has plans to have an abortion.

(This tweet from 6 December 2017 pointed out the existence of the comic.)

The comic was originally posted on Deviantart (but a repost of the entire comic can be viewed on the Zootopia News Network here).

People started poking fun at the comic due to the overly dramatic storytelling and the ridiculousness of the idea of a rabbit becoming pregnant from a fox.

Although the comic has frequently been interpreted as being anti-abortion/pro-life, as pointed out by Know Your Meme, the comic’s artist claims that neither he nor the comic is pro-life.

As a meme, the “I Will Survive” comic has been fodder for many users who have made derivatives based on panels from the original comic.

Many memes have manipulated one scene in which Judy loses her temper and hits Nick (such as this post).

However, many other panels have also been used. In fact, one popular post manipulated the entire comic to be about Nick’s disappointment to find out from Judy that an Arby’s closed down.

Click here to see examples of the “I Will Survive” meme.

[aion-rsa]

Idris Elba’s Knuckles Announcement is a Beloved Sonic the Hedgehog Meme

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Let’s not beat around the Mushroom Hill. Sonic the Hedgehog 2, set to release in 2022, just added a major talent to its cast. Not only will Sonic’s not so chucklin’ nemesis Knuckles be making an appearance, but he’ll be played by none other than Idris Elba. WHAT?!

The news was revealed on Elba’s social media, sporting a teaser image of Knuckles’, well, knuckle. Alongside it Elba posted two words. “Knock knock”. No, this isn’t some easily made knock knock joke (though co-star Ben Schwartz did respond with, “who’s there?”) It’s actually a slick reference to one of the most (in)famous and beloved moments in Knuckles’ history as part of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

The time Knuckles was backed by rap. Let’s take it a back a bit. Sonic Adventure, released in 1998 on the Sega Dreamcast, featured an absolutely rockin’ soundtrack. Alongside the instrumental tunes each character got their own theme music and without question Knuckles has the best one.

Titled ‘Unknown from M.E. … Theme of “KNUCKLES”’ the song is a glorious rap, sung from Knuckles’ point of view, about how great he is and informs us of his back-story. Credited to Marlon Saunders & Dread Fox, the song even made a remixed appearance in Sonic Adventure 2. Notably the song includes the absolutely iconic lyrics,

Knock, knock, it’s Knuckles, the blow thrower Independent flower, magical Emerald holder

The song’s beloved by Sonic fans but over the years its worked its way up to meme status, with numerous remixes swapping out as many of the lyrics as possible to make the song just a near endless stream of the word “Knuckles,” occasionally punctuated with a “knock knock.”

So to see Idris Elba reveal himself as Knuckles to the whole world with a “knock knock” is a king level meme reference. Even the official Sonic the Hedgehog twitter got in on the fun, quote tweeting Elba with a paraphrased reference to a lyric from the same song. “Nothing’s gonna stand in his way!”

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This isn’t the first time the Sonic movies have leaned into memes. The first film included a direct reference to the SANIC meme, a poorly drawn version of Sonic, that was utilized in the film as a drawing of a guy trying to catch Sonic. If SANIC could make it into the actual movie, perhaps we’ll get to hear Idris Elba showing off his rap skills in character. The world needs it. It can’t be any weirder than that time Knuckles got his own comic series.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 opens on April 8, 2022. Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, and Jim Carrey are all expected to return. Jeff Fowler is once again directing, from a script by Pat Casey, Josh Miller, and John Wittington.

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