#merger talk

[laf-outloud]

https://twitter.com/sarafischer/status/1737577535876259874

Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery (@wbd) in talks to merge with @Paramount — David Zaslav met w Bob Bakish on Tuesday at Paramount HQ to discuss — Zaslav also has spoken to Shari Redstone about a deal — WBD has hired bankers Story on @axios: https://www.axios.com/2023/12/20/warner-bros-paramount-merger-discovery-streaming

Some (possibly) interesting network news. With WBD still holding the SPN IP, anything involving them could have an impact on if/when we ever see a revival.

Sigh. What a mess.

I know these companies will still be making content even if they merge, but something like that could certainly affect a possible reboot. Whether it's for or against? Heck if I know.

[lemonerix]

fixed up my templar sketch bc he's just so fun to draw :DDD

[couch-house]

fleeby and doggy doodle time

[nyan-bynary]

I'll be completely honest the gojo letters irked me just a lil bit

[frost-felon]

I've seen people debate over whether Yuji has been "out of focus" or not. And it's like...yes and no. He's been IN a lot of scenes, and not quite sidelined (Maki found dead in a ditch), but as with many characters, he ends up standing around. Doing nothing until a specific scene requires him. And unfortunately, we haven't gotten much perspective on his mentality/inner thoughts, as of late. He hasn't exactly been replaced as the protagonist (recent official comments on the "old and new protagonists" aside...), but a lot of JJK's recent chapters have been centered on other characters. That's fine, but when it happens so often, Yuji has to fight to get narrative attention. I consider him to be the most interesting part of Jujutsu Kaisen, so this is personally disappointing to me, but it's also just narratively dissatisfying.

Combine that with the single-file lineup of combatants against Sukuna, and JJK becomes stifled.

[pocketgalaxies]

marisha as creative director walking on set for this dark horse ad and trying to decide the name of the horse max is dressed up as and going, very professionally, "i like tim. pitch me on biscuit."

[oloreandil]

watching the dn jdrama yet again

[lavenderjewels]

is the merger something that’ll just naturally happen or is tengen still needed to officially start it? it would be very nice if tengen was freed from cursed spirit manipulation, but that’s not something that’s been proven or disproven with that technique yet. and would Tengen not have any sense of autonomy in that case?? this is only in the case that that’s who kenjaku is referring to about their “will,” but this could end up being something or someone else entirely

[readymades2002]

if i might bitch about work for a second: yesterday was hellishly bad despite being able to keep up with it and i found out that apparently our department made 4600 dollars yesterday which is making me angry beyond belieffffffff

[laf-outloud]

I know these companies will still be making content even if they merge, but something like that could certainly affect a possible reboot. Whether it's for or against? Heck if I know.

I'm personally hoping its against lol. Hopefully there will be so many moving parts with a big merger that SPN will fall by the wayside and then maybe by the time it gets brought up again it will be too late to make it work (or something along those lines).

Especially when I see stuff like this:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1737595438147010627

Warner Bros could gain these film/TV rights if they merge with Paramount: Dora GI Joe TMNT Star Trek Terminator PAW Patrol SpongeBob Yellowstone Transformers The Godfather Mission Impossible Paranormal Activity Avatar The Last Airbender

Those IP's are much bigger than SPN and hopefully (if the merger happens) they'll want to focus on using these bigger IP's first.

Supernatural generally seems like a small fish in a bigger pond anyway, this would just be an even bigger pond (though I would put it ahead of Yellowstone). Either it will be overlooked or deemed not profitable enough, or they'll figure they can at least make a few bucks while spending very little. I guess it depends on whether WB wants to focus on making big risks for a possible big reward, or take the small risk for the smaller reward.

[thebaphomet-halftimeshow]

Yk? Personally Nothing Says Christmas More Then

Child Labor, Starving Orphans, Attempted Murder and Corruption 

Really gets ya into the spirt, right??

[ghostingcrows]

One day I will return to my roots and make a long ass post hyper analyzing all the new comic Noir appearances post Geddon and why they suck and why I hate them

But until then

Just know

I fucking hate this man

[katierosefun]

hitting season 4 of suits is particularly funny to me because this show really went from going "being an attorney is exhausting and the politics of a big law firm is exhausting and everyone in this building swings between being morally grey or morally bankrupt" to "but at least you're not a goddamn investment banker"

[spockvarietyhour]

yeah sure, CJMS 1280, why not deck out your news car like a police car, sirens and everything

[andyetnobananas]

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#4

Ok, so you know that whole "HBO Max killing off cartoons" thing that happened recently? So after some digging (and by that I mean watching this video from Shark3ozero) the situation is so much worse than that. Like... Monstrously worse.

In case you don't know, it's not just cartoons and their creators that have been f__ked over recently, but a WHOLE SWATH OF PoC CREATORS HAVE BEEN LAID OFF. Like, almost no non-whites left in executive positions.

Apparently, before the merger, Discovery has a more white, old, heteronormative demographic than HBO, and instead of trying to consolidate the 2 demographics, Discovery's CEO, David Zaslav, has been made into the CEO of both sides of the company, and is trying to turn one into the other. To this end, he has slashed the divisions overseeing kids, family and international content, and intends to create more content for "Middle America." So yes, they cut Infinity Train and Batgirl and others BECAUSE. THEY. ARE. DIVERSE. CONTENT. They are deliberately removing different cultures from their services because catering exclusively to white audiences is more profitable... According to them. I have serious doubts this is casting the net wider instead of narrower. (Also, another part of the shift is that they want to pivot back to cable content and away from streaming, which... Lol, good luck man. Warn-scover-CNBO might already be on a collision course, and fingers crossed that it is.)

OH, BUT IT GETS WORSE. APOCALYPTICLY WORSE.

HBO also owns CNN, and they have a new chairman in the shadow of the merger, Chris Licht. It's already canned one news show, 'Reliable Programming' a show frequently critiqued the republicans and fox news, and has warned that "more changes are coming soon."

Worst of all, John Malone, who is on WBD's board, and gave Zaslav his job in 2006, has explicitly said that he wants to CNN to have a "less liberal bias", and thinks that Fox News "makes actual journalism." Yes, Fox dominating a third of US cable news is not enough, he wants to make another 3rd of it propaganda programming.

Warn-scover-CNBO's market capitol were flushed down the tubes in light of all this horses__t, but in order to keep the a new propaganda apparatus of unfathomable scale from rising, it must stay down and never recover. Warn-scover-CNBO's changes scaring off huge droves of people is an objective good, and the complete collapse of the company is our only hope now.

Tl;dr: The death of Infinity Train and Uncle Grampa is the canary in the coal mine of a massive swath of pop culture and journalistic practice turning into a right-wing propaganda apparatus unlike anything seen before.

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[poptabprincess]

I'm studying linguistics as part of my degree and the existence of vowel mergers is fascinating - this is exactly where the accents and regional dialects start showing up in uh, discourse like the one above ^.

Two of the most famous examples of vowel mergers and vowel shift is the Cot-Caught Merger, which also shows up in near-minimal pairs like father-bother, lot-thought, etc, and the current ongoing Northern Cities Shift, which is one of my favourites.

So this is the full IPA (international phonetic alphabet) vowel chart, and what's happening with the Northern Cities shift is that the vowels that are usually pronounced in the back of the mouth are shifting slightly, ending up with the speakers forming those vowels in the centre of the mouth instead.

There's some shifts in regional areas that might not match this diagram exactly, but this is essentially what's happening:

If anyone is interested in some more in-depth reading about mergers/language shift, and general sociolinguistics, which is the field that contains subjects like the ones I just talked about, this textbook talks more about it (and it's free!)

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