#matt meese

[unfriendly-neighborhood-feminist]

Happy 10 years to the man the myth the legend himself

[ablatheringblatherskite]

NEW EDIT!!! For my new comfort show... Freelancers!!

(Yes, as the font on the thumbnail may have given away, it's a Freelancers Friends Theme song edit!!)

I worked unreasonably long and hard on an edit that's only barely a minute long, but I'm actually really proud of it, so I hope y'all like it 🥹

[pizza-feverdream]

BLORBO FROM MT (OLD) SHOWS

[wilder-fangirl]

Ah yes, Matt Meese: the non-thinking man's David Tennant

[k-f-c-official]

there is only one “the man the myth the legend” and his name is scott sterling

come @ him i dare u

[popculturegenderenvy]

Gender Envy of Today

(day 19)

Matt Meese from Studio C

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

once u hear matt meese say “it could be fun though” it simply never leaves ur brain

[ablatheringblatherskite]

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SKETCHES THAT THEY'VE DONE IM NOT KIDDING. When Matt broke character after he slapped Jason I couldn't stop laughing 😭

Matt Meese and Jason Gray - Studio C Substitute Breakup Sketch.

One of their greater sketches, I couldn’t find this on Tumblr, and it really deserved to be there.

If you haven’t, you should really watch it! Soo goodddd… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgoWj4RcCE

(scott sterling btw)

[unfriendly-neighborhood-feminist]

GO WEST HYPE!!!!!!!!

im literally so excited for this movie. i loved them so much as a kid and i love the stuff they make now

[ablatheringblatherskite]

Y'all I made a silly edit with a stupid thumbnail that I love: James, Matt and Stephen embodying the Schuyler Sisters for 3 minutes straight. Enjoy.

Also HERE'S A HIGHER QUALITY PIC OF THE THUMBNAIL BECAUSE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, it's ONE OF THE GREATEST EDITS I'VE EVER MADE

that is all good night

[horizon-verizon]

hotd feels like a downgrade compared to got, got had tank writing after they didn't have the source material to work with everything in hotd looks cheap despite had bigger budget this include the cinematography and the visual a bit yellowish like they try to hide something, the costume, even the actors? how the hell d&d with small budget at that time got Sean Bean (Lotr), Lena Headey (300), and Peter Dinklage (Narnia) and hotd got..... Matt Smith ... Sorry im not british he's probably popular there because dr who stuff But the rest? Emma D'arcy pushing 30 and this is their debut as a lead? i can understand why they never got cast for big movie or show before this they just using Emma as their diversity token.

George probably regret ever said this show would win eight Emmy.

To get one thing out of the way, GoT was always going to have a "dip" in quality sometime down the road bc its head writers and producers David Benioff & D.B Weiss expressed that:

they wanted to make the series palatable to "soccer moms" and I think football enjoyists...basically to it less magical or to focus much less or develop those instrinsic, story-making/plot-driving elements of the original work. Bran, Dany/dragons, direwolves, greenseer, Lady Stonehart, etc. all were cut or severely reduced to focus more on the politics and social chaos, which was very dumb. What was left in the scripts were was in the available books and it is still "half" of what was in those books. not just a "little" trimming, but VERY CRITICAL storylines and characters and whole characterizations of those characters!

As the entire series more or less can be quickly told as an informal indictment against people focusing too much on gaining power for themselves to observe their environment and be good leaders for others....I refer to the Long Night and the Others (the show renamed them to "white walkers"), who are an environmental cataclysm that only dragons and other sorts of magic is needed to defeat. In turn, they deliberatly meesed up Dany's character in nearly every which way, esp to mischaracterizae her mannerism and valiues. There is both sexism and xenophobia in how they handled/developed her arrival at the North, how they developed all Brienne, Arya, and Sansa's arcs that has nothing to do with in-world sexism and xenophobia but their own. They even severely mischaracterized Jon, tbh!

GoT was far more enjoyable not bc D&D had less material. Once again, they didn't "get" ASoIaF from the start and basically HALVED the entire story, so yeah, at one point even if they hadn't had the last books they would have been pressed to properly justify some things that GRRM might have written for the final battle...a lot pf people would ave been lost as toow soem tins worked or ow we ot there...bc the magic element was treated as subsidary.

Anyway, GoT was more enjoyable bc:

the writers at least had much more space to develop their characters seeing as they got much more than 10 episodes a season

they didn't wait long between seasons

you can see where they took in more consulting from the author than not, than Condal from GRRM (you see such from reading the books, comparing it to the shows to see what was left out, what was rewritten and how much, etc.)

and D&D got more access to the motivations behind the politics they craved to portray more then magic, more than Condal or Hess or whoever did for the entire F&B Targ list of generations, which you'd have to get to write for the Dance

by the last few seasons, they themselves have said that they wanted out and to write for other shows so they phoned it in; because magic the lack of last few books are really them not having anything to fallback on and pretend that they

I will give the HotD writers a tiny bit of leeway, since F&B is a history book that takes one to be able to read through secondhand, culturally inherited, etc. biases very well unlike the main books and it doesn't provide direct PoVs. Heads Up - Context

Though PoV chapters/writing also often has biased characters, those characters do not only provide summaries of their feelings and observations in those PoV chapters. They give corroborated observations as well as their own near-unfiltered thoughts and reactions to events/people...there is more obvious, direct, or firsthand information that we can trust is coming from a more obvious, traceable phenomenon/cause and effect. Whereas F&B doesn't record people in their absolute most intimate moments but events from a comaparatively more distanced persepctive.

F&B is, as PhoenixAses eloquently said, a secondary source that uses a lot of primary sources like Daemon and Otto's letters and royal/official written declarations of Aegon II and Viserys I and Rhaenyra and so forth. In any sort of non-fiction writing and rhetotical excercise (historical writing, essays for example), a secondary source is any document (video, written, audio, etc.) that draws on one or more primary sources and interprets or analyses them. A primary source is document that gives the direct experience of a thing that is being researched or studied, but not necessarily just one's perosn's thoughts so much as a contemporaneous news report of a thing not long after said thing happened, a photograph, or an audio or video recording of the actual event itself. A photograph of a group of concubines, a recording of a war prisoner being tortured, or the diary of a prince are all primary sources. A textbook that includes them is the secondary source.

F&B is all 2ndhand (different from "secondary source") information of collected testimonies form various people at various points of time witin events information and various maesters' an even some primary sources (Mushroom and Septon Eustace) speculation of what most likely happened between Targs and why they did certain things. Plus what pieces of dialouge and hearsay the maesters managed to preserve after nearly 200 years post-Dance. It was the maesters' and our job as readers to try to decipher what could have most likely happened in incidents where there's missing or suspect information and explain why with as much reliable evidence/knowledge of the society as possible--bc there is always a limit to what could have happened. You need to have a lot of knowledge of how people in particular positions of society will try to present or unconciously presents images of people they like or dislike or believe will be a good/bad influence on whatever the writer/source thinks matters. How those people and people in general construct arguments for why and how something happened, accept specific forms of Westerosi cultural biases as well as the systems that birth them and the history that justifies them.

Therefore, while some online will try to imply that this means one can do whatever they want to create something totally not possible in the orig lore and the story of the Dance ("unreliable" = "all or most of it is fake and propganda") or think bias = propoganda (they aren't bc I could have a certain bias against goldfish but I don't have fliers out there trying to convince anyone that goldfish are disgusting creatures). It actually means that it behooves you to DO YOUR RESEARCH into the lore of pre- & post-Conquest Westeros, the characters not just in F&B but also AWoIaF and the So Spake Martin Website, the main series (so many people think Rhaneyra was always and universally ahted in Westeros or that it was a severe minority that was neutral towards her....not the case. Even Shireen's famous and much-abused quote was more about the "tragedy" of how the royal infighting caused wide destruction, not how hateful rhaenyra supposedly was. In fact, there's a lot more evidence of Aegon II being credited as a subpar and even hateful ruler AND person than for Rhaenyra in noble Westerosi society! And Rhaenyra is called a "Queen" unironically by both Martin and many maesters in all the books). That doesn't mean they liked or approved of her being the heir or being queen, it means that they acknowledged she ruled and was made heir.

I personally would suggest doing even a bit of historical research into how medieval to early modern period European elites thought of religion(s), health and illness, bastardy as a concept and how it changed over several years, etc. as GRRM did to see why he writes certain characters the way he does. this isn't a historical fiction series, though, as som fans seem to want it to be. It is fantasy fiction, so despite F&B being a nonfictional piece of work within Westeros...it's still also a fictional piece of work part of a fictional series doen by a real man. It obviously has themes or narrative relations and tie ins and context for what is happening in the main books. None of these books are intellectually isolated installments! Book franchises with different styles never are!

So I also said it often before, but again Condal and Hess--who are the head writers who get to decided what are the final drafts and what direction the other writers will write and how, plus the directors in some capacity and more than others can--wanted to/did write a story with a much simpler and out-of-touch, benevolvently sexist story where they try to make their female characters less "hateful" to their audiences and it resulted in them dampening their fire, passion, ambition. So these women--who so happen to be the most prominent and driving characters of the entire story about SEXISM of the society and the Targs' assimilation tactics--overall are made boring in a critical way where D&D did not.

Here's the thing. We can and have already seen how terribly sexist they rewrote Dany to be more Cersei-like and other women being written towards a "temptress" or "harpy" (opposite end of the sexist spectrum opposed to how HotD writers have done), but they also still portrayed women who didn't take shit lying down. That is always going to be more entertaining, bc these women are doing stuff and have some type of brain activity/strategy going on, even when they are not overtly being confrontational. This would be true of men; if a man is doing nothing, it's innately less superficially entertaining than a man or child or whatever who are making moves and using theit brains to do it.

So yeah, GoT was more entertaining. But not bc of this too-simple idea of the books being unfinished.

And then there's how Hollywood has in the most recent years been more lead and taiolring their most prominent shows/working producers and writers to skew cis white men....the demographic who simply do not understand the ful breadth of life or has insight into women of any race, class, sexuality...even women of their own race, class, etc. Hess has shown herself to be still way too out of touch in the class department, even with her being lesbian. There is an article called "Hollywood's DEI Programs Have Begun to DIE. How Hard Did the Industry Really Try?" as well as multiples statisticalreports of cis white men on the older side as well as of higher classes still ruling the industry in almsot all ways in terms of the economics and who's directing what, etc. So yeah, this show is merely a reflection of what has been happening to this country, the industry, and its population's steady, historical race, gender, class divide.

[zeninsama-moved-again]

also i'm caught up on daredevil: born again so my thoughts will be under the cut! major spoilers so if you aren't caught up on daredevil: born again or intend to watch it please avoid.

we've got the disney budget now, baby... holy shit, from start to finish my blood pressure was spiked watching these episodes hfjkds. immediately the fight sequence between daredevil and bullseye in the first ten minutes had me on the edge of my seat. after last season, i was hoping we would see more of him. also i was not expecting foggy to fucking die in the first ten minutes??? what the fuck bro. however matt absolutely beating the shit out of poindexter while listening to his best friend fucking die on the street below them was delicious angst...

AND THEN MATT FUCKING KILLED HIM! LIKE I KNOW HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY DIE BUT IT'S THE FACT THAT HE FUCKING THREW HIM OFF THE BUILDING WITH THE FULL INTENTION OF KILLING HIS ASS! IMMEDIATELY RAN TO ROO'S DMS SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF!

umm a lot of aspects of this season have me crying in american but i am not eloquent enough to go into detail about that. fisk's campaign, the cop gang, the cop gang using the punisher's likeness to justify their violence... like wow where have we seen that before... fisk is an incredible villain to meese though. genuinely so excited to see how this pans out and how much longer he can keep up this 'mayor fisk' act.

the whole hector case had my blood pressure through the roof and i knew that was not gonna end well... matt told him if he wins this case, he can never put the suit on again, but hector said that would be like telling him to stop breathing... well he put the suit on again, and now he's not fucking breathing! very sad :(

also just the scene of matt sitting in the courtroom like it's a church and rubbing the daredevil horn like a rosary... much to think about.

my predictions so far:

fisk will absolutely kill adam

vanessa will divorce fisk, or tell him she wants a divorce

matt will become daredevil again (obviously, he goes through this every season)

frank castle will re-emerge and take out the trash that's using his likeness to do shit he would not stand for

[crown-of-roses-thsc]

Your fun Crown of Roses facts for the day:

-The AU was created while I was trying to come up with the funniest possible Henry Stickmin ship between major characters (I.e. Ellie x Reginald), and while I was blasting “Satisfied” from Hamilton at top volume

-Crown of Roses originally had one ending planned, then later had around 5-7. Currently I aim to do at least 2, being the endings that follow Toppat Civil Warfare and. Toppat King.

-Suave actually has a fleshed out backstory I’d love to make a prequel comic for! We’ll see if I get around to it though. Someone from his past will appear in chapter 7….Also, my voice claim for this character is Alex Brightman (aka Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice: The Musical), Adam (Hazbin Hotel), Fizzarolli (Helluva Boss)…)

-Burt is autistic in this AU. I don’t state it outright in the text, it would be kind of shoehorned in if I did, but he definitely is. His special interest is comics (specifically a fictional comic called Wonderworld), which I took from the fact that he has so many hanging on his wall in the original games.

-Lefty is the oldest of the main cast (discounting Suave), with Carol, Sven, or Ellie likely being the youngest. Reginald is probably only a year or two older than Ellie.

-Lefty does have a canon name in this AU. Chapter 5 hints at it 👀

-Lefty was originally not going to be in this AU as much as he is now, as at the time of creating the story I didn’t know where he fit in and didn’t have any real affinity for him. I’m glad I did though, as he now may be my favorite CoR character ❤️

-When I originally came up with this story, I was unaware of the cut backstory for Ellie (as stated by PuffballsUnited). However, I changed a few things around to fit the original backstory, as it was an improvement on my thing.

-In chapter 1, I drew their eyes differently than I do now, with them all having a weird sort of iris-thing. This was a mistake and it makes the whole chapter look really uncanny and I repent of that sin

-This is the Crown of Roses trio’s dynamic in a nutshell. Canonically. I’ve decided it. https://youtu.be/rZLrodBb2l0?si=ZBNdNOOneDQTvxl2 and Matt Meese is my voice claim for Reginald ❤️

[ohh-fiddlesticks]

shortly after this i began down a rabbit hole of studio c and related things and ive learnt that it was part of a very strict mormon university (BYU) tv program thing which is just hilarious to me like. opposite intended effect 😭

confession time

i had the BIGGEST crush on him ⬆️ when i was younger . like he straight up caused me to have a brief sexuality crisis age 10

[pastelalleycat]

matt meese's voice sounds like if a typical american accent tried to become british

[yourreddancer]

Thank you Merrick Garland for having secured your status as a worse Attorney General than John Mitchell,  Edwin "Meathead" Meese, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalez, Jeff Sessions, and William Barr