#the fix eric

[sun-swallower]

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[the-heaminator]

what is going on here why does foreman look like he's contemplating every life decision he's ever made.

[puckspoetry]

It’s all “I can fix him” this and “I could help him” that. No babe, he would break you psychologically whilst doing the worm over your grave.

[cerubean]

alice spencer-kim's second home

[theinfinitedivides]

wi papa look a thing there for me. awa.

prefacing this with a PSA that i'm going to try and keep short but basically regardless of anything i say here let me make it known that i do believe he should apologize. whether or not he's still actively saying that word in 2024 it is something he's used in the past even if he isn't performing said play anymore/saying things like that so flippantly. granted if he does apologize there's always going to be a section of fandom that's like 'he only apologized bc he got caught' yes?????????? that's what always happens????????? lbr you're not going to get on IG and announce you killed your ex two decades ago and you'll be turning yourself in when there's an entire true crime community in the depths of the internet who will dig up the cold case + the suspiciously convenient alibi anyway without you lifting a finger. politicians who get called out for blackface in college do not go around telling people they did blackface in college. celebrities who were homophobic on this hellsite in high school back in the early 10s before they realized they were gay are not going to let you know what their handle was. this is how the world works.

that being said i must confess i caught wind of the stirrings of this a bit early bc during the clusterfuck that was the Jam vs Zamasian RPF poll (i did not go in the notes. rancid ass shit) someone had taken a screenshot of a reblog made as a 'gotcha' to Zamasian voters by implying that they were anti-Black for voting for a ship featuring an actor that said the n-word in a play he hasn't performed for several decades since, with a short taped example that the general public was not going to know how to find unless they were on a mission. i poked around, saw a couple hints here and there that implied that the clip actually existed, marked that down for future ref and went about my business. disappointing? sure. run of the mill especially among people his age in the industry from that time period who are perceived to benefit from white privilege? absolutely. the former bird identified app dragging all of this back into the light (including the interview with Chris Rock. which i have not seen though there's no way it was within the last few years for AMC to still hire Eric if they had seen it. correct me if i'm wrong pls) is unexpected but tracks for the fandom on there.

generally i don't believe in cancelling someone for things they said or did more than ten years ago if they are no longer the same person they were back then. i don't believe Jacob or Assad or any one of the staff of color who may have been working behind the scenes would have agreed to continue interacting with Eric if he had the same attitude as he did when he first wrote and performed the play. i don't believe his Black comedian niece would continue to talk about him and share photos with him if he was calling her or the Black side of her family the n-word. i am willing to give the 'Eric Bogosian n-word' reply tweet he reportedly made before deleting it shortly after the brief benefit of the doubt bc it was 1. supposedly under someone else's tweet talking about the play incident and 2. i cannot count how many times i have accidently commented/almost posted something on here or YouTube or Reddit or ao3 bc i was on mobile and once the keyboard's open the app/browser flips the fuck out and puts the search bar and the comment box too close together. now if his ass shows up and shows out and stands ten toes down while he's currently on time-out or doesn't address any of this we're dealing with a different story. if more examples of him acting like this come out i'll drop him faster than you can call the election it will be that serious.

anyway for now i'm choosing to keep an eye on this while acknowledging that us Black folks do have the right to be upset and pissed as fuck. we deal with enough racism/microaggressions in fandom spaces as it is we definitely don't need new ones, and we don't need them from the past career choice of the main cast of a show a lot of us enjoy. amen

[victimized-martyr]

Thinking abt end of obesity again and like kyle baby boy…. why do you put so much effort towards eric…. being his determination when he doesn’t put the effort towards himself… he knows the lengths you’d go to him and takes advantage of it anyways… kyle i need to crawl inside ur mind and understand what ur logic is (or perhaps… there ain’t none at all. it’s all emotion…)

[thegradus2]

The modern au equivalent of og cale wearing elaborate gaudy outfits to look like trash is him wearing very expensive and high quality but “trashy” leopard print clothes

Oh and ericcale of course

[chimeramerah]

baby bird!

[rachlovesactors]

These photos are of Daniel Sharman as Dr. Eric O'Connors in the film The Fix, which premiered at the Chattanooga Film Festival last week (the last week of June, 2024). I was able to stream the film online, and these are photos that I took of the film. It was filmed in South Africa in 2021. Daniel plays a self-righteous asshole who wants the power to play God as he believes he has the right to decide who lives or dies as the head of research for a big pharma company that produces the most important medicine on the planet, the one responsible for keeping the human population breathing and living at a time when the air on Earth has become toxic to humans. Daniel's character is actually the villain of the story, as he is morally gray - he crosses ethical lines, breaks the law, manipulates other characters and society, and is willing to experiment on and harm the main protagonist of the story. He does all of this so he can continue to produce medications, so he can advance his research into medications, and so he can save those he believes should be saved (and not others). Also, like all of Daniel's characters, Dr. O'Connors has daddy issues - he is constantly trying to prove himself to his father, prove to him that he is not a failure, that he is worthy of running the company, that he can produce positive results, etc. In turn, he himself is proving to not be a great father, either, as we see his ambition and greed getting in the way of his relationship with his son. Overall, it's an interesting role, and Daniel does a fantastic job in it!

[hopesallwegotleft]

Salim making flirty expressions maybe a minute after running into a handsome but angry little US Marine.

[watmalik]

The Rookie, 6x09: The Squeeze.

[eric-bogosian]

Louis + his photography. Paris, circa 1947 / Dubai, circa 2024.

Interview with the Vampire 2.04 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World"

[aliusfrater]

i didn't know they were still in denial

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

i genuinely loved the ratfish pt. 1 and 2 but i really wish that the ratfish was, like, emily or murph

i think it being a member of the college humor cast who has never been on dropout outside of d20 would have been fantastic because no one would ever guess them but they'd click into the humor/dynamics of the cast a lot better

[oozeandgoo-art]

everyone say hi to erica, who is a normal animal and you shouldn't worry about her at all

[holdfastperseus]

The show runners saw how much Tom Hiddleston loves Shakespeare and went “We should give Loki his own love story but make it a Shakespearean Tragedy”