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It is 4 am and I should be sleeping, but instead I’m trying to recreate the best bromance of all time in the Sims 4. Of course I’m talking about Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
#gilgamesh#epic of gilgamesh#enkidu#sumerian#mesopotamian#uruk#mythology#never meet your hero#enkidu is pure though protect him#bromance#mythological#sims 4#myth#sims 4 history#insomnia
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Do you have any “don’t meet your heroes” stories from working in Hollywood?
Absolutely. Hollywood really is a place like no other. If you grow up loving cinema, certain people can take on mythic status in your imagination. Actors, filmmakers; they are larger than life. They become idols in the truest sense - an image that is actually worshipped. But Hollywood is actually full of very weird human beings who have been lucky enough to make their living in a world of make-believe. A huge percentage of the people who work in this industry are strange birds, unsuited for working anywhere else.
Some of our biggest stars wouldn't last ten minutes working a real job; some of our most exalted filmmakers collapse inward if they're in a crowded room. They can have unusual talents, or beauty, or unique perspectives and abilities that have propelled them to various levels of success, or even stardom, but they're just normal, neurotic people.
And success, fame, and money can really twist people. It can be like radiation. They can go full Gollum from it.
But most people who work in Hollywood are not stars at all. The vast majority of people who work here are not rich, not famous. Most are hardworking craftsmen and craftswomen who are fighting every day to make a living, scraping by the best they can in an industry that is brutal, impersonal, and impenetrable. But every single person in this business - whether they are superstars or not - are just ordinary people. They're insecure, anxious, and prone to all of the failings we mortals are prone to. Some of them are awesome; some of them are assholes. But most of the people here (even the superstars) quietly feel like they don't belong, or that they don't deserve it, or that their sheer ordinariness will be discovered any minute. In fact, it's the people who seem to feel the opposite - those rare people who feel that they DO belong here, and deserve the lifestyle this industry can afford, who are inevitably the least likable ones I've met.
As I've been lucky enough to keep working in this business, I've met a lot of the people who I idolized along the way. Filmmakers and actors who I admire so much, whose work has shaped the trajectory of my life without them knowing it. I've been starstruck every time, and I am still am - I stammer, I freeze, and I kick myself for what I say, or don't say, or how I said it. I'm not good at it. I have acute social anxiety, and when you throw me at someone I admire, I turn into a blubbering idiot. They say "don't meet your heroes" because you may (likely will) be disappointed by just how ordinary they truly are. Or worse, they may even turn out to be people you wouldn't want to interact with in normal circumstances - your heroes might be people you wouldn't want to invite to coffee. The persona you have admired is a product in itself, something you bought, something you have taken home and displayed proudly in your imagination... but the human being behind that persona is full of all the ordinary failings. That can be really hard to reconcile. So yeah, a long-winded way of saying that I've had the experience of meeting people I admired a great deal only to be disappointed, or worse. I've got some nightmare stories in there where the actual person violently shattered the idol I'd built in my imagination. I won't share those stories, there's little point in that, but instead I'll talk about the rare exceptions - the few heroes I've met who were every bit as awesome as I'd hoped they'd be. They may say "never meet your heroes," but they haven't met Mark Hamill. I worked with Mark on The Fall of the House of Usher, and he is one of my favorite people. Kind, generous, humble, and so, so funny. I was nervous and excited to meet Mark for the obvious reasons, because of the hero he was in my imagination - but I got to meet Mark the actor, the father, the husband, the humanitarian, and the friend. Guillermo Del Toro - one of my biggest heroes, his work has meant so much to me. And I was terrified to meet him. But he is one of the most joyful, honest, sweet-natured people I've met in the business, and his love for movies is infectious. For me, the man himself exceeded the myth.
I've been lucky to meet other exceptions to this rule, heroes of mine who exceeded my expectations - Ewan McGregor, Mick Garris, Brian Henson, Heather Langenkamp, Henry Thomas - and yeah, I've had the other experience too. But I try to focus on the exceptions. It can be unhealthy to idolize people - unhealthy for you, and unhealthy for them. But it's truly awesome when someone is even more amazing than you imagined.
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“Endure. That’s what spice is all about.”
I’m still on my "Capsaicin is related to Burning Spice" agenda.
#I am in fact using one of capsaicin’s quotes against him#they say never meet your heroes. maybe never meet your ancestors either.#capsaicin cookie#burning spice cookie#cookie run kingdom#cookie run#crk#my art
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Something I really like is that April’s constant stream of odd jobs she goes through is somewhat reflected in the boys as well. Like, you have April working at random pizza places or getting a crane license or being fully willing to apply for a job at a place clearly made out of cardboard. Then you have the boys as well who do anything from working as a basketball mascot, building a massive dog park, being waiters, getting a whole band gig at a theme park, etc, etc-
Main difference is that April actively applies for these jobs (and is hopefully paid for the short time she’s in them) whereas for the bros the jobs usually find them (and they practically never get paid.) It doesn’t even stop at jobs either, they just seem to casually amass skills in general.
I don’t know, I like how both April and the turtles are just so ready and willing to do things. Sure, they’re not always good at these things, but they do them readily! In a way, being heroes is just another job (well, more like volunteer work/vigilantism/another fun activity) that they initially took on because of their general sense of “why not?”
They’re very willing and open to trying out new things despite their tendency to revert back to what they enjoy (and how commonly trying new things ends up going wrong), and I think that adaptational interest of theirs really helps them be well rounded in multiple regards.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#like not even just jobs these characters just like to go out and do things!#even if they’re initially not interested they’re so curious and stuff that they’ll do it anyway#I wonder if April being as curious and incredibly open minded as she is rubbed off on the boys growing up#and they like…osmosis’d this personality trait from her to be like ‘yeah sure whatever’ to any antic#I also just think that they’re bored teenagers with a TON of time on their hands so they like to just live it up#I think the boys always had the desire to go out and apply themselves but meeting April likely pushed them more#y’know I wonder#what if April narrowed down just one job when in college and she actually managed to keep it#like…almost as a form of growth - she narrowed down jobs and careers and schooling as she hit early adulthood?#it’s kinda reflected in raph as well - originally so open and for goofing off but now much more singularly focused on hero stuff#kinda a sad way to look at growing up but it works here#because you have the three younger sibs still readily doing other things#not as focused on responsibility or singular paths#it’s sad because adulthood absolutely does not mean not being open to other things#but at that time in your life sometimes there’s a pressure and unwanted responsibility to pick a path y’know?#and it’s a relief to learn that actually there was never just one set path with one set trail you always had to stay on#and I think that’s reflected in how raph at the end of the movie opens back up to playing around and doing things for the fun of it
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Anyways I am taking Arcade away from Zachary Levi. Arcade Israel "anarchocommunist" Gannon no longer belongs to this man. As far as I'm concerned he gave up the right to be associated with one of the best-written gay characters with the rest of his soul.
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>:/
#never meet your heroes pattsuan#or never learn they were ever cool otherwise you lose even more respect for them#finals guys……im almost done…..then i can draw more………until then…….#o(-(#sakata gintoki#shimura shinpachi#gintama#ok bye
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Death by comparison
Comparing oneself to others is a given in life.
Comparing oneself to one's heroes is also a given.
People say to never meet your heroes. Most say this because they believe their heroes will never measure up to who they thought they were. Others say this because they believe they will never measure up to the greatness that is their hero.
For Tim, he believed neither. He met his heroes. Met Batman and Robin Nightwing. And they were everything he expected them to be and more. He even became one of them. Became the new Robin after the loss of the last.
He was finally getting everything he'd dreamed of. Even things he never could have imagined. So why did he feel as though he didn't deserve it? As though he was unworthy of the Robin mantle.
Despite Dick's encouraging smiles and Bruce's constant efforts of being a better dad than his actual father, Tim couldn't rid himself of that feeling deep in his gut. A feeling of worthlessness, that he was just pretending to fit in.
His fears were only deepened with Jason's return from the dead. When another of his heroes hunted him down, took down his team, and nearly beat him to death, all while calling him a pretender. A replacement. Because that's what he was. He was a pretender. A replacement. An imposter.
Tim Drake was nothing more than a replacement for a dead son. A pretender in disguise. An imposter with a brilliantly crafted mask.
His life as Robin was nothing more than a facade of gilded lilies. Maybe that's why he walked away under the guise of taking time off to find himself. Maybe he walked away because he didn't want to keep up the charade anymore.
Or maybe he was running away. From the family he didn't feel a part of. From the role he had failed at. From the comparison that was slowly killing him.
Death by comparison, what a way to go.
#tim drake#dc robin#red robin#jason todd#dick grayson#bruce wayne#batman#nightwing#imposter syndrome#never meet your heroes#batfam#batfamily#batbros#robin#dc comics#teen titans
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I was telling my sister about Titans, and she was like, “the whole Bruce/Dick/Jason storyline is like the prodigal son story, with the older and younger brothers' positions switched,” and I was like ohhhh???
#bruce is a VERY imperfect substitute for God the Father but CONSIDER the older brother — the heir#takes his inheritance (his supersuit and tech and weapons and porche)#and leaves telling his dad not to contact him#and the younger son receives everything that once belonged to his older brother#knowing how fortunate he is while also having to constantly hear ‘your brother did it this way’ ‘your brother was better at this’#all the whole looking up to his absent brother as his hero#he goes to meet his older brother while he is away and is met with a barrage of ‘our father doesn’t care about you or me’#‘our father will destroy you to accomplish his own ends’#‘no you don’t really know him — *I* know him’#‘being the eldest son isn’t an honour at all its a curse’#and THEN a little while later that same older brother returns and is welcomed home with open arms#their father gives EVERYTHING back to his oldest#ALL the privileges and love and honour and money and even a new supersuit#all is forgiven and given back in full — more than in full#and that’s wonderful and beautiful but what is the younger brothers perspective?#and THEN their father gives the younger brother into the older brothers care#‘go see how your older brother does it and then come back to me’#so he feels cast off by his father#and his older brother barely pays him any attention being preoccupied with his own issues#although he never abandoned their father and always did everything he was asked it’s his older brother who receives all the praise#after being beaten down again and again he finally returns to his father#and is welcomed but not with nearly as much fanfare as when his older brother returned#what is that going to do to him???#titans#titans tv show#titans tv#jason todd#dick grayson#bruce wayne#the prodigal son
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Private art display
I suppose we were interrupting that.
A collab I did with @overlordmetal where we both did artworks of our ocs hanging out at 2 different stages of their life.
The one I did was set in highschool with the two showing eachother their art books.
#art#digital art#oc art#original character#oc#artists on tumblr#emo#emo art#original art#emo boy#goth#goth girl#original story#original post#collaboration#art collab#double life never meet your heroes#eigs
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LEWIS IS SUCH A SWEETHEART LIKE IMAGINE MEETING YOUR IDOL AND THEY ARE SO KIND AND LOVELY AND AS TALENTED ON TRACK AS YOU IMAGINED IN YOUR HEAD. Why is Franco Colapinto living the y/n x Lewis Hamilton life THAT SHOULD BE ME
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Val from Double Life as a Child being haunted
Just sort of catching you guys up on some older art so you forget how late I am 👹
#artists on tumblr#digital art#artwork#drawing#original character#oc art#anime art#dark story#ocs#fanart#character art#my art#art#comic art#original art#original story#oc#human oc#humanoid#double life never meet your heroes#double life#oc backstory#oc lore
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Sticktober - Day 4 :: Follower
#dawg is witterawy like 3 days behind this is wild chat#ava#alan becker#avm#animation vs minecraft#animator vs animation#ava sticktober#ava sticktober 2024#never meet your heroes chat
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I know I don't go to mha (unless) but why have people automatically assumed "omg he couldn't see or speak to his friends for 8 years" like guys 1) that's not what happened 2) that's just what having friends as an adult is like
when you get older it becomes almost impossible to meet up in person w/ ur old friends. I haven't seen my high school friends in person for actual literal months now, but I still talk to them??? phones are a thing??? long distance communication exists???
I don't think 1-A cut contact completely I think they just stopped meeting up as much cause of work. because they're adults with jobs now.
#mha#mha spoilers#i said i dont go to this fandom but occasionally it reactivates like a sleeper agent#so have fun with that#🥛ramble#welcome to being an adult mha fandom you never see any of your friends in person ever#insane how many people saw “yeah we didnt meet up as frequently anymore cause of work” as “IM SO ALONE NONE OF MY FRIENDS TALK TO ME ANYMORE#like my besties in christ. i dont know how you got there#anyway this is my one and only mha post unless god curses me and im stuck fixating on it for the next month#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#bnha#bnha spoilers
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Huge Day for people who spend too much time online!
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On today’s episode of “Tara Strong continues to be an objectively awful person with no redeeming qualities.”
Jokes aside, as a Middle Eastern guy who grew up watching a lot of Tara Strong’s shows, this shit makes me want to vomit.
Strong has always been a controversial figure, she was spouting out anti vax conspiracies back in 2018, she mocks anyone who isn’t vegan, and let’s not forget about the time she promoted an NFT scam and got super pissed at everyone who called her out on her shit.
So it wasn’t really all that surprising to find out she’s a raging Islamophobe.
What’s even more depressing is the fact that none of her colleagues are speaking out against this, because fuck forbid they end losing work for calling out blatant bigotry, am I right?
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What if Hughie is excited to go to Tek Knight Manor because Tek Knight was his favourite supe when he was a kid and he wants to meet him in the flesh.
#never meet your heroes Hughie#theyll do horrible things to you#the boys#the boys season 4#the boys spoilers#hughie campbell#tek knight
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