#talent manager

[havithreatendub4]

Johnny Depp onstage during the 18th Annual #Hollywood Film Awards at The Palladium in #Hollywood California on #November 14, 2014 📸 Kevin Winter

#Mike Myers accepted the #Hollywood Documentary Award for "Supermensch: The Legend of #Shep Gordon"

[madamemachikonew]

"Go to hell" is basic. "Hope your favourite anime movie sequel gets cancelled after seven years in production AND getting an animated teaser." is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying. It's happened.

[tenmastrousers]

i imagine the helmet convo went something like this

pt 1

[mxmarsbars]

my piece for the @hermitseasonzine 🎉✨

I absolutely LOVED the dare stick arc and had so much fun bringing it to life!! :D

[sunlight-shunlight]

thinking about veilguard and bioware in general, i think we are reaching a point where people need to grapple with the inherent limits of what stories can be told in our Current Society and in AAA gaming companies.

on a labour level: mass layoffs, tons of developers leaving despite previously talking about how passionate and happy they were to be involved, not even paying severance, and crunching employees to the point of burnout. this is unfortunately pretty standard for AAA game companies.

on a cultural level: it is SO white and SO centrist-ly Canadian. i wrote up these asks outlining how. it is a repeated pattern of writing in which they go into tortured racial oppression allegories at best, while constantly peppering in a "but BOTH SIDES were wrong and made mistakes :( :( :(", in between their fictional atrocities that are clearly mirroring irl genocides and enslavement. or at worst, it's "the qunari are radical islamic borg" which has even less nuance. i personally thought, since dai came out in 2014, and a lot has changed since then about the world and in public awareness, that this would have filtered into the narrative and resulted in more satisfying and historically grounded writing. unfortunately not the case. it's shocking if you compare it to how sharp and aware and unflinching something like disco elysium is.

so what does this mean?

under these conditions, it is unavoidable that we get development by people who are rapidly cycled out of the company or demoralized into burnout. we get digestible, easy little soundbites of lore without much substance, because any complexity needs more time and coordination rather than the process of "quick, we have these assets, a lot of people involved in making them just got laid off, we need to make Something by next quarter to show the CEO". we get very little cohesion between games, despite the clear intent from dai to have so many plot points set up to follow through in a sequel, because the team and development are so chaotic that they can't hold onto a vision and complete it.

we also get this inherent caution and "conservatism" from the narrative, because on an ideological level, they're largely white people who want cops to be included in pride. so any major change to even a fictional society is Bad and Scary, and shouldn't be done without making sure that every character finger-wags appropriately at non-state violence. there is clearly not much ideological or even ethnic diversity within the leadership; or at least not enough that anyone there felt comfortable even speaking up on minor issues like the Incredibly Orientalist Isabela Outfit, let alone anything larger.

i don't personally think there's too much value in trying to analyze veilguard's plot or lore at this point. the final product is chaotically developed and does not seem to reflect the goals of the creators as set up in prior games, it's basically a ship of theseus in terms of the people and ideas involved in making it. this is sad for all of us, who were interested in the story, and attached to the characters, and were creatively fulfilled by engaging in the fandom. it's probably worse for the developers who have lost their jobs, burnt out, or feel unhappy with the game that they spent years of their life working on. it's certainly miserable as an indictment of The Industry, as well as the general societal climate of white Canadian centrism.

the solution is to create a society where people can develop games in peace and prosperity and stay on projects for longer, rather than constantly getting turfed out without severance pay. and to get some genuine leftists, poc, and indigenous people on staff who can weigh in and provide significant input, rather than a Council Of Liberal White Edmontonians every time.

in the meantime, at the very least, let's please stop preordering AAA games and supporting companies who notably abuse their employees.

[kongatom]

PLUTO (2024)

[slutforpringles]

Okay, so it's not a pure case of; we're getting rid of Perez, now we're seeing which one of these two drivers is more talented. There's money involved. So Lawson had backing. And from what I was told before they replaced Perez, both Tsunoda and Lawson would have been expected to bring money. So it would have been a combination of who can bring us some results, who brings in some money. So that means Lawson's team and Lawson's management were pushing to get that Red Bull seat, after 12 races over two seasons where he'd never had preseason testing, he'd not fully bedded in. They chose to expose him to that situation. They chose to expose him to that scenario as quickly as they possibly could. I think this was this was greed, not money=wise, but greed opportunity-wise from the Lawson team to push for that. It was the wrong thing to do. They ruined his career pushing for that Red Bull drive. See, I think a lot of this has to do with this is what I was saying before or everything will happen, which was I never thought Yuki was going to get the Red Bull drive because he's a Honda driver. Lawson is a Red Bull driver. So if Lawson had the money, they're going to put a Red Bull driver in over the Honda driver. Now they've seen an opportunity to take 10 million quid more from Honda and gone, alright, we'll stick the kid in and see what he can do.

Sad times to realise that the second Red Bull seat has become a glorified pay driver seat. 🤐🫠

via: Missed Apex

[ettaevie]

New "My Honest Reaction" image just dropped

[bugflies00]

oh ok. ok . thats fine

[rizdoodles]

HEY YOU! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH OK???@raytheanarchive @kazuww00🫵🫵🫵💥💥💥

It’s been such a long time that I’ve wanted to draw Yuuza and Yuume!!! Your OCs are so incredible and extraordinary, seeing them always puts a big smile on my face!!!

Every time I see Yuuza and Yuume (or even your other OCs in general BECAUSE THEY’RE AMAZING AAAA!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️💖

VIGIL!!! THAT LITTLE GUY!!!I HE’S MY FAVORITE TWST OC EVER FR!!!🦅💥🦅💥🦅💥🦅

AND KAZ!!! THAT INCREDIBLE AND ADORABLE GIRL RAAAAAH I LOVE HER SM🐙💥🐙💥🐙💥🐙

I SCREAM EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR OCS OK???🫵💕

I’M THEIR NUMBER ONE FAN, ZEHCJZEBCJZBKJZBC!!!💥💥💥💕💕💕)

I literally leap out of my chair, super excited, screaming, "OMG OMG CONTENT FROM THESE TWO AMAZING ARTISTS I LOVE YAYAYAYAY!!!"(/≧▽≦)/ (❤️´艸｀❤️)

Ahem! Pardon me, I got a little carried away.🧃

So… originally, I was planning to write a love letter/j individual message for both of you explaining just how amazing you are, how much I adore interacting with you because I find you fun and incredible, and how I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that, YOU, such wonderful people follow what I do and, on top of that, actually like my work. Every time I see your likes and your kind, sweet comments, it fills my heart with so much joy, and I get so emotional.💌💌💌🌹

But I know that if I did that (writing a whole novel about how much I appreciate you), it would end up being so long that I’d need to start a second blog hehe.

So, I hope these little gifts can show you how much I adore you, and even though we don’t interact very often, you hold a special place in my little heart. ❤️💖💖💖💌💌💌

[anothersuperstition]

anthony green at crossroads 12/14/2024

[avalonlights]

No strings attached. 🎵 | For @harringrovelovefest Day 1

Steve "The Hair" Harrington, heartthrob King of Late Night, is in a ratings slump and an all time personal low after his highly publicized break-up with glamorous hard-hitting reporter Nancy Wheeler. Just when he thinks things can't get any worse, the only guest he can't stand, glam rock revivalist and obnoxious playboy Billy Hargrove, spikes his ratings after their "rivalry" goes viral. Will either of their careers survive another fiery interview?

[moonshynecybin]

What does Simon pat say about Pedro?

when some diva wrote into the pod and was like hey pedro is kinda getting beaten by his teammate and also maverick vinales semi regularly in ways that 2013/2014 marc marquez would never let happen ever ever so perhaps we should have a more measured hand in considering him the next coming of jesus christ. and simon was like well hes a really nice guy guys and if he was on a better bike he would be doing better !! which like yeah but thats not what was SAID, SIMON...

[ingravinoveritas]

As a follow-up to my review of Macbeth, I also wanted to mention another very delightful moment of my trip: I met David!

Following the first previews of this run, I was intrigued and of course happy to learn that David had resumed doing stage door (after not doing so at the Donmar, for very understandable security reasons). After waffling back and forth about it, I decided that since I was already going to be seeing the play, I might as well give it a go.

Having done stage door after other shows in the past, my experiences with seeing fans meet the actors have ranged from the hilarious to the hokey to the flat-out cringey. It's hard to ever know for sure how a stage door experience will go, and so I've found that the optimal course of action is to hope for the best while having no expectations at all.

Still, I wanted to be at least somewhat prepared, and so I had the idea to bring with me a Playbill from a production of Macbeth starring Alan Cumming, because I'd gotten to see it on Broadway ten years ago and I thought David might enjoy knowing that there was another Scottish production. So, current and old Macbeth programs in hand (I placed the Playbill next to David's cast photo, in the same way as the photo above), I made my way to the barricade by the Harold Pinter stage door, and waited.

David soon got to where I was standing, and it was the most surreal thing to have him there in front of me, all long hair and stubble and big, brown eyes. As he went to sign my program, he paused and caught sight of the Playbill, and his eyes lit right up. "Oh, another Macbeth! Another Scottish one," he exclaimed, and as he did, he looked right at me and smiled that gorgeous smile of his. "Yes," I replied, and said that I'd seen it ten years prior.

I mentioned a few other details about the production, and while David had begun to move down to sign other programs, he kept looking back at me as I spoke. Despite everything that was happening, he stayed focused on our exchange, even though it was brief. And when you're talking with him, it's as if you're the only one there. His entire attention is on you. And it is incredible.

I've talked on my blog previously about how I'm more of a Michael fan than a David fan (solely due to the fact that, after finding Good Omens in 2019, it was Michael who I was drawn to first). But seeing David up close and in person--how attractive he is, how delicate and sweet--is like looking at the sun. He looks at you, and your vision is full of only him, and by God I couldn't help but swoon just a little.

I also now completely understand what Michael meant when he said David is very easy to fall in love with. Because there's no possible way I could be around that all the time and not fall in love...

But I think my favorite thing about how things went with David was that it happened so organically. I didn't try to take pictures or video because I didn't want to detract from the experience, and very quickly the celebrity/fan aspect fell away and it just became about a lovely shared moment between two people. He was so kind, and so gracious...and he was just David. And I will always treasure and cherish the memory of meeting him... ❤️

[covertblizzard]

jaykyle au where they're theatre kids in the same school but they're not the actors jason's the scriptwriter/director and kyle is the prop manager (i don't know the official terms sorry) and they'd probably do an amazing job on the backstage setting if they could stop arguing for 5 whole seconds about their artistic visions and ideas and how "this would obviously work better this way"

[wintergreenoreo]

Apparently Fernando and his FA Racing Team scouted and personally sponsored Franco for the Spanish Formula 4 Championship in 2019 🥹

He went on to win the Spanish F4 championship in his rookie season. 😮‍💨

Fernando truly knows how to scout out amazing talent and now he’s sharing the grid with him. Insane stuff.