#paramount doesn’t have that luxury. they can’t really do that unless there’s a genuine concern
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Man I’ve seen so many posts freaking out about the Mean Girls water bottle and how tumblr is going to get sued.
Paramount is a huge company not known for being overwhelmingly litigious (not every film company is Disney) and like… idk how to tell you this, but Mean Girls merch is hugely popular and basically ubiquitously sold by unlicensed markets. Paramount really doesn’t care that a tiny, non-competitive website that’s going to move maybe twenty units total is doing it with a quote from a movie that’s two decades old.
Also, Paramount is a large company with its own legal team, who are probably aware that suing another company is kind of time consuming and expensive, especially compared to the faster and cheaper option of sending a Cease and Desist. If Paramount really believes that Tumblr’s water bottle is going to cause them meaningful financial damages, they would probably just do that. And then all Tumblr would have to do is cease. And desist.
#if you think suing a company is a cheap n easy option#look deep down and ask why Elon flagrantly breaking the law hasn’t gotten Twitter sued (yet)#shit takes time and a LOT of energy and a lawsuit like this would look INCREDIBLY frivolous#and be very bad for Paramount’s public image#Disney can get away with being extremely litigious because their public image is overall very positive#(whether you personally admire them or not)#paramount doesn’t have that luxury. they can’t really do that unless there’s a genuine concern#and besties this ain’t it#anyway I don’t think anyone GENUINELY thinks tumblr is going to get sued for this#but I KEEP seeing jokes and I’m too autistic to let them go unexamined for very long
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EXPECTATIONS + everyone
PENELOPE my expectations for penelope were actually pretty spot on. i thought that the confidence wasn’t an act, which it isn’t. that’s genuinely her personality y’all. and then that she had more than the capability to be a soft bitch. i was also correct. what surprised were the next two things in particular. one, i didn’t realise her insistence on putting a stop to josie’s co-dependence was a cue to her own co-dependent traits and the longer she went along that path, the more they would be nurtured. it manifests differently than it does in josie, but it’s equally unhealthy. this girl literally died for her girlfriend. yikes. and two, i was surprised by how truly selfish she is. we all know she’s the selfish and josie is the selfless and so on but she is a genuinely selfish person. to her core. i was surprised by the truly relentless nature of her self interest and equally, the fact that her self awareness of it doesn’t make her want to change it. HOPE my expectations for hope were pretty consistent with her surface level reality. i always knew she had about 45 ongoing identity crises and that most of them tied in her family. adult vs teenager, desires vs duties. the typical heroine stuff. and while that’s still true, and is an absolutely enormous complex in her, i have come to realise i underestimated the true extent of her damage and how it affects her. the level of pathological doubt, abandonment and in turn saviour complex and desperation this girl has going on cannot be understated. i am truly surprised she functions as well as she does. i always knew she loved people hard and uniquely, as both part of being a mikaelson and simply part of being who she is, but i came to realise how deeply that runs. hope mikaelson’s love is like no other and it is consuming and can be overwhelming but it’s also incredibly beautiful. if she loves you, she’s going to love you for the rest of her life, whether she wants to or not. i now think that’s another reason why her i’m dangerous to people complex exists. she knows that the way she loves people has pushed them away before ( ie, in her mind, her father as a child ) and equally, she knows if she lets people in and loves them like she can and they leave, she’ll be fucked. people are dangerous to her too, but she can’t truly admit that without admitting why. like i said, i was surprised by how deep that runs.KAI at this point, i’ve been playing kai for a long time. he’s a violent, manipulative, incredibly intelligent sociopath. none of that has ever been a surprise. the one surprise that i found, that entirely subverted my expectations, was that he is capable of something akin to love that isn’t narcissism. this first became clear to me through his relationship with lizzie because, yes, it may have started out as manipulation with definitively malicious intent but it did bleed into genuine want to see her succeed. he might have given her stockholm syndrome but he’s given himself just as much of a problem. he cares about her now, wants to turn her into what, in his mind, jo could’ve been. it didn’t surprise me he’s given up hope on jo but it did surprise me that it’s projecting, subconsciously, onto lizzie. basically, he’s a made monster and everything that made him is still very much there. whether he acknowledges it or not. ETHAN me, a clown, hasn’t actually written ethan that much but i will give a few of my thoughts that are somewhat relevant. i expected the fact he’s a good guy to be consistent but he’s also very selfish with the way he feels. he might not use it in a manipulative, almost malicious in some cases way like penelope does, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. he won’t let anyone else be stepped over, yes, but he also won’t let himself be pushed around. he knows he’s a good guy and there’s a level of shit he simply won’t take. will 100% call people out on their bullshit eventually. unless you’re maya. then, well, you could get away with murder. his aggression is very intense and genuine ( probably even more intensified now that he’s triggered his curse ) but the lengths he’ll go to surprised me. he may have killed someone without recognising the situation, but the will to do so was still there. was it on an entirely moral ground? honestly, i don’t know. unchecked aggression and a morality complex can be a literally deadly combination. CHRISTIAN christian has taken all of three breaths so far but, thus far, everything has been consistent. major self preservation down to brushing truly corrupt things under the rug. accepts corruption as a part of life and more so a part of his life. his survival is paramount. everything else can burn in his wake. MAXWELL HARVEY/JACKSON ACKERY y’all know the maxwell story. as a tl;dr, obviously i didn’t expect him to turn out to be a cannibalistic, sado-masochistic psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder but here we are. i knew something was wrong from the echoes of neuroticism and fixation that were there from the start but when he started to turn the corner, it truly blindsided me. and even now, as i know what he is as a full picture, he still finds ways to surprise me each and everyday. he’s in a continual process of evolution and i truly have no idea where the train stops. as for jackson, he was actually a revamp of a previous muse, also called jacks. i gave him a revamp when i brought him back, basically totally changed his backstory, and i knew something was again a little off from the word go. he still cared about people, however, so i wasn’t that concerned. once max came into the picture however, who jackson was in full became clear very quickly. jackson is a very high functioning sociopath who’s sadism and violent tendencies have been nurtured well by max’s intentions and their symbiotic venom-esque relationship. the fact that jackson is still a consistent presence in max’s narrative and his own body surprised me, but it also has come to make perfect sense. they’re two halves of the same whole. they basically wrote themselves into existence and i just watched with rapt entertainment. CALLUM honestly, my expectations for callum have been pretty spot on. i knew he’d feel differently once he killed someone again and it became very clear to him everything he remembers is in fact real. it’s given him a sense of innocence lost that was to be expected, but not nearly as much as i thought. he hasn’t reverted back to the person he was when he was first alive but he also isn’t entirely callum, so to speak, anymore either. he’s in a path between and honestly, that makes sense to me. what will really come to interest me is what happens next. AIDY honestly, point blank, i expected aidy to basically be gay and bored and not much else. i was not right. i knew she had something going on, which as you can tell is a theme, but she really was just quiet and bored for a long time. it was only when she swapped bodies with harlow did i realise that her boredom isn’t boredom, so to speak. max, for example, is bored because he’s a narcissist who he thinks no one ( sans parker ) can measure up to him. that makes every interaction worthless in his eyes and therefore, makes him feel bored. aidy is simply apathetic. the reason she was quiet and bored was, actually, because she doesn’t feel anything. she feels one baseline emotion and sparks of things that could be compared to things like love, or excitement, or involvement that people even like max can feel. aidy can’t and doesn’t feel them. the only things that truly enthuse her so she looks like she can are murder, luxury, and bonding with people who feel the same way. they fill the void where her emotions would be. other than that, she exists at a cool medium. apart from max, i have to say she’s the muse i was most surprised by. pleasantly but still. BRADLEY like with ethan, i’m a clown and i haven’t written bradley all that much. i know that he’s a dumb bitch, primarily interested in the capitalist side of the world, and knows that he has to take responsibility for his stupidity. i don’t think he always does stupid things on purpose, but because he’s such a genuinely self-serving opportunist, it backfires on him 9 times out of 10. i think he’s learning from his mistakes, especially with the whole arlo situation that he feels genuinely bad about, but i don’t think it’s enough for him to entirely quit cold turkey.
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