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The Impact of Online Trading on Your Financial Future.
Recently, the roles of online trading, investing, and financial flapping have skyrocketed in popularity! With tons more people flocking to the internet to manage their money, the rise of online trading beaches has made it simpler than ever for people to invest from the comfort of their homes into stocks, bonds, and other fiscal instruments. This article aims to traverse both the benefits and drawbacks of online trading, holistically rendering a few tips for newbies eager to launch!
First and foremost, the primary advantage of online trading is the convenience it brings! Investors can access their accounts or make trades anytime they wish; there's no need to go to a broker or step onto a physical trading floor. This flexibility could save oneself time and coins and appears to offer a lot of control over their investments. Moreover, the trading stages often propose various investment genres and utilities, enabling investors to diversify their manpower and formulate more informative decisions.
Conversely, accompanying online trading is its own bag of risks and bumps. The absence of a seasoned broker might push investors towards making emotional or on-the-whim trades, paving potential losses. Therefore, the dread of cyber attacks and fraud remains pronounced, risking the security of a financier's account. Despite these challenges, though, online trading remains a lucrative and accessible means for individuals to handle their finances and perhaps emergent profits.
Understanding online trading
Online trading has neatly tied up in popularity recently, handing out opportunities for investors to fuss with financial instruments in the snugness of their couches. This section here gives a peek at online trading, including its history, evolution round-ups, and briefs on the various financial trading platforms one can commence on.
History and Revolutions of Online Trading
Previously, in the late 1990s, online trading was just a cub with the advent of electronic communication networks (ECNs). These herds allowed traders to milk real-time quotes and perform trades electronically, making brokers an old hat soon. Over time, these platforms evolved fancier to harbour a broader array of financial instrument stake options and features.
Today's trappings in online trading Stages have grown intensely intricate, furnishing gel to a myriad of analytical implements and research treatments. Major platforms also outstretch mobile apps, the handiest of tools for on-the-go trading.
Types of Financial Trading Stages:
Numerous breeds of financial trading platforms have indexed the market, providing varied flavours and perks:
Brokerage platforms: These platforms come from traditional brokers offering plethoras of instruments like stocks and options.
Forex platforms: Specializing in currency, they fork out extensive chartings and analytics.
Cryptocurrency platforms: They engage a range of cryptos, including biggies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Robo-advisory platforms: This auto-pilot ship where algorithms commandeer investments aimed at those leaning-back investors.
Getting Going with Online Trading
Commencing is pretty blunt. Choose a platform echoing your taste, then set up an account and dump the initial deposit in. With your account bitten by the fund bug, you plunge into trading diverse financial gizmos.
But, recall, online trading plays a risky Instrument: always wade through your investment aims and how much risk you're itching for. And, never oversee the Impact of online trading on one's financial upcoming, consisting of both the downs and ups.
Investment Strategies, along with Risk Managing
Assessing Market Tendencies:
Every successful online trading effort flows from keenly eyeing how various monetary instruments are gallivant. Decoding these movements demands skills in technical, fundamental, and quantitative analysis.
Diversification and Asset Dispersal:
Keys for a healthy trading journey include spreading risks by planting investments across varied terrains; this shields against market Mood Swing and other risk calamities and might balloon your success rates over long drifts.
Risk Assessment Plus Mitigation:
Finally, grasping risks and cloaking them is vital. Variety in risks like market volatility and liquidity should be mitigated using strategies right from stop-loss orders to hedging diversification.
With wise investment strategies and risk management, your online trading could very well shape a lush financial future.
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I feel like there is something to be said about how Magneto is wearing his whole mission get-up basically the whole time. Even when the others are wearing casual dress. Because when the others are at home, they're at ease, they're relaxing, they're dressed for that. But Magneto being in his mission get-up at all time actually shows how he is literally always apprehensive, always in survival mode. And he's the one who tells Scott in ep.2 to be vigilant at all times and not to trust good things. He's the one who tells Jubilee that she should be training instead of celebrating her birthday because otherwise, she might not have many more birthdays to celebrate in the future.
And then we see him in normal dress at the party on Genosha. And of course, that's when disaster hits. In the following episodes, casual clothing or lack of clothing is used to show vulnerability and defencelessness.
I just think it's one of the ways that illustrate Magneto as a character who is always expecting an attack and always expecting the worst vs. the weight of him finally allowing himself to have a bit of faith and to let down his guard a little, just for one evening. just for a moment because things seem safe. Except he's immediately punished for it. So honestly, I really can't be mad at him anymore.
#Magneto: I guess just this 1 evening nothing bad will happen#Writers. Wrong! TRAGEDY TRAGEDY TRAGEDY TRAGEDY TRAGE-#x men 97#magneto#He does wear this black coat in ep. 1#which seems to be his official 'breaking into Charles' house' outfit (he also wears it in the old show)
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I think obi wans failure to praise anakin and giving him proper suport is very intentional. Because in the last conversation they have before they part ways and everything falls apart obi wan does finally tell anakin all of that and its very much a little tragedy in itself Because it comes too late
oh definitely! obi-wan loves anakin; his failure is his lack of expressing it verbally because he fears admitting to this attachment means he has failed as a jedi, and he puts his duty as a jedi above being a good friend/mentor/brother to anakin.
anakin's relationship with obi-wan is a microcosm of the jedi order's failings in the PT, writ large: their apathy and lack of compassion and inability to empathise (like. obi-wan. of course anakin is worried about his [as far as he knows] still enslaved mother you insensitive prick).
it is part of the tragedy.
anyway *bashes obi-wan over the head* tell him you love him ffs or you'll doom the galaxy!
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Ptj lowkey has the "I can fix him" girl syndrome because what are these redemption plots.
#never thought i would see Gun being written off as a traged man with a sorrowful past#lookism#lookism thoughts#lookism gun#gun park
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trade with @dushpshpsh
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im thinking about bor'dor, towards the end of that brief and bloody battle, going "just do it", "take me out of my misery" "just turn into a giant spider while you do so?" and its like. its like tragically funny but also so. so fucking sad.
because its essentially about bor'dor exhausted and injured and knowing he wont live, going "do it", wishing for a quick end, surrounded by people who liked him and will now kill him because he betrayed them (they betrayed HIM- before he could know how much he'd like them). its about the resigned exhaustion of- what else do i have to lose?
Except I think about the devastated way Bor'dor talked about the loss of his mother, of his friends in the Ruby Vanguard, and the grief and the fear and the anger, and I don't think it's the first time he's thought that. Bor'dor joining the Ruby Vanguard at all, fighting a vendetta against the gods, is not someone who thinks they have lots of options. You don't generally agree to plans that could devastate the existing world unless you feel like you have more to lose than gain. Bor'dor, his magic a curse, his loved ones lost, the world cold and cruel and painful, being spun a tale of a world without gods, of a fight and a battle and a purpose, even if there are casualties, losses along the way.
Bor'dor, full of grief and rage, having lived a hard fucking life, being promised a solution, a world without gods, maybe thinking: what do i have to lose? they've never done anything for me. Then, he's watching a plan go awry, watching friends and comrades he'd made and bonded with fall to a bunch of- nobodies, cutting through them like it's nothing, remembering he does have things to lose. Bor'dor, knowing that the plan went wrong and his friends bodies are lifeless somewhere far away from where he is, lying furiously and ridiculously about being a shepherd and unknown magic to the suspicious faces of a bunch of killers. Probably thinking. what do I have to lose?
Except he eats with these people, he trades watches with them, he fights with them, he heals them, he shares a pipe and they share hopes and fears and pasts, and-
and he's standing as they all recoil from acid, everything falling apart, and. maybe he did have something to lose, after all.
#critical role#c3e63#bor'dor#character meta#?#anyway. im hammering this out rq at work courtesy of the posts ive been rbing so i cant check the clarity of my quotes very closely so#i apologize if theres inaccuracies here!!! lmk and ill fix them. ideally.#anyway. evergreen flashing warning that im not saying i AGREE with any of his reasoning or that its 'correct' as much as like- its a traged#isnt it? its a tragedy#spar speaks
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Exqusitie Form longline BH mit Vorderverschluß
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maybe a controversial take, but I actually couldn't care less about biic or transabled people.
I see a lot of people complaining about it, but generally I don't see the harm? it doesn't affect me what some random person identifies as. I suppose I worry more when it comes to things like "transharmful" but I trust that they know not to be bad to random people.
I personally don't really understand it, but it has absolutely no bearing on me really.
on top of that, i think it's good if more people use mobility aids. I personally would probably be better off using one as it's quite tiring for me to move sometimes, but I don't because of a stigma around it. I feel as though more people using it is better. like hell yeah, decorate them!
also, it's the way people go about denouncing transabled and such. they always yell at them, tell them to die, make long spews of hate posts, etc. if you're actually trying to make a difference and get someone to behave a different way, you don't just... yell at them? try to reason your point of view, not just shout "kys". the only thing that's ever achieved has been hate and discrimination.
of course, if you have anything to add or disagree with, feel free.
#daily blog#liusrambles#personal blog#side blog#artists on tumblr#blog#dear diary#diary#digital diary#personal blah blah#transabled#disabled#mobility aid#transabled discussion#discussion#let’s discuss#feel free to discuss#controversy#paraphile#biid#trace#trage
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loser.
#love how @ the end of noir 4 pete is so convinced that good guys will always win and then eyes w/out a face is just 🔨tragedy 🔨tragedy 🔨trage#spider man#spider man noir#you Will read spider man noir
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formerly an essay in tags but - billie lurk. half-nameless, misremembered woman. her powers derived from the things taken from her, without any catharsis or empowerment. the rat charm, tied with deidre's hair, her lover's voice in the mouth of rats. her arm and eye, taken, given back only to cause her chronic pain, then lost again. foresight seems a cruel gift for a woman who botched the timing of her takeover of the whalers, and bet wrong when it came to delilah.
she never bore the outsider's blessing; his first visit to her was more like an assault. every other dishonored POV character gets the choice to be selfish, and for that selfishness to mean something, but billie's actions have no effect on the world at large, either, in a game without a chaos system.
some say that corvo is the ghost, but he can reach out and change things. billie's buried herself twice and come back and nothing she does seems to matter - she is less a protagonist, more a convenient full stop in the narrative.
try this: open doto, start a new game. sit in her cabin. notice how little of billie there is. even the woman she loved more than anyone has the face of another named character.
she sits amongst the assets of other games: empty canvases and a dressmaker's mannequin that wears nothing.
#billie lurk#even the wiki is wrong about her its infuriating#pulled this out of tags because fuck it#in daud's DLCs even the stories that weren't about him were about him#but billie's stories are the scrapheap. they're the stuff they couldn't squeeze in elsewhere. cheap jokes and macguffins#i'm not even roasting the devs for this i think releasing dishonored in 2016 then DotO in 2017 was a feat (derogatory)#games should be made slowly and with love#and i know that everyones talked about this endlessly#but billie is my fav and it sucks that she got a game that only causes me to grieve for her as a character#not FOR her as a person#only the potential story that never was. that she never got.#you can have your strong black woman and not turn her into a trope. give her depth and range and heartache and agency. yes there was traged#but how did it SHAPE her?#dont get me started on her being designated caretaker of a former god and dying assassin. what the fuck#some of this i'd be more okay with if she was younger - i mean. the blank canvases? really?#this game could have been about wyman and there's not that much that would have changed in terms of the core story#“found out the asshole that killed your mother is still around. gonna go deal with that.”#emily who is stoned: “cool.bring me snacks on the way back”#wyman: “oh he's saying actually it was gods fault and that its possible to kill him. well i have literally nothing in my schedule”#billie's not surprised by anything anymore but maybe wyman would freak out over most of it. could have been a lot of fun#also you cant fuck up wymans characterisation. they barely exist.#local empress sends her enby girlboyfriend to kill god#pres writes increasingly deranged essays in the tags#death of the outsider spoilers#i have to complain about doto once every year or so or i die#but i'm not really gonna let arkane hide behind dev excuses when it comes to racism like. its not enough
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ok look I've never watched any of joko and klaas stuff but my sister used to recount what happened. and its not like I ever really cared but I'm seated for your statements here. not what i expected to see here this Monday night but I'll take it
some no context images that may peak ur interest
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there's been too many times i've clicked an old link & it no longer goes anywhere so i'm gonna begin the tedious yet satisfying process of archiving some interviews that i reference frequently starting with this one
Like the offspring of any revered icon, Brandon Cronenberg’s last name grabs hold of your attention. Indeed, the 33-year-old Canadian filmmaker is the son of David Cronenberg, genre cinema’s great auteur of psychodrama and body horror. And like his father, Brandon expresses a strong interest in the inextricable brain-body link, not to mention the dark crevices of society’s underbelly. Antiviral, Brandon’s feature debut as writer and director, is a sci-fi satire with a sharp conceit worthy of that unmistakable surname, and a stylistic strength that promises more compelling work from its maker. Uniquely skewering our ever-evolving (or devolving) obsessions with celebrity, the movie, now playing in limited release, tells of a world intended to appear not very far from our own, wherein a facility known as the Lucas Clinic perpetuates the ultimate form of star worship, infecting rabid fans with diseases harvested from the cells of the über-famous (what’s more, delis on corners sell “steaks” grown from celebrity muscle cells, so die-hards can literally consume their favorite A-Listers). At the center of this seriocomic nightmare is Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones), a Lucas employee who also moonlights as part of the superstar-sickness black market. Things turn especially ugly when Syd comes down with the same bug afflicting America’s most-wanted sweetheart.
In person, Brandon is deeply humble and unassuming, a boyish-looking guy with his father’s grey-blue eyes, and a few piercings that project just the right amount of edge. He’s remarkably articulate about the themes his film explores, and he proves just how fully he mulled over the movie’s ideas, which, according to him, aren’t that far-fetched at all. In a high-rise in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, in a small office whose unremarkable sterility calls to mind Antiviral‘s stark aesthetic, Brandon chats at length about the psychology of fandom, the time he cozied up with a primate on one of his dad’s sets, and his thoughts on the trajectory of celebrity culture, which, if not literally, has surely already gone viral.
Filmmaker: There’s a lot of pointed dialogue in Antiviral in regard to celebrity, such as, “What does it mean to deserve to be famous?” and, “Celebrities are not people, they’re group hallucinations.” How much of this is your own perspective? Do you believe that certain celebrities don’t deserve to be famous? Do you see them as being real people?
Brandon Cronenberg: A lot of that is me, but it’s also filtered through the character, so not everything said in the film is just directly my own opinion. “Celebrities are not real, they’re group hallucinations”—I do believe that. I think that the majority of people have this idea about a celebrity, but that idea is sort of a culturally constructed thing and kind of a fiction. Because a lot of what’s reported about celebrities is made up, and a lot of our sense of them comes from the media and is sort of unrelated to the human being who is living their own life, and living and dying in this way that’s sort of disconnected from their media double. But I think anyone who’s famous deserves to be famous, only in the sense that this whole criterion for fame is that people recognize you enough to be famous. A lot of people say, “Oh, this person doesn’t deserve to be famous.” What is it really to deserve to be famous? It isn’t an accomplishment. I think fame has always been something other than an accomplishment. It’s sometimes tied to an accomplishment—sometimes people become famous because they accomplish something. But I think it has more to do with the repetition of an image, or of a person, or a name, rather than fulfilling a certain obligation.
Filmmaker: The whole thing must be a more interesting concept for you now, since you’re essentially becoming a celebrity yourself, being a filmmaker in the public eye.
Brandon Cronenberg: That aspect of it is really weird, because going around promoting a film that’s about something like this is kind of strange. But, two things: First of all, as a director, and especially as a Canadian director, I can only become so famous, so I don’t imagine myself getting stalked by paparazzi anytime soon. Also, I think that the film is about the industry of celebrity, which isn’t the same as just celebrity in general, in a sense. I think, for instance, to recognize someone and have respect for them because you like their work, and to take an interest in what they’re doing because of that isn’t unhealthy—I think that’s fine. It’s more that certain level of fanaticism that represents a kind of mania and a kind of delusion that is unhealthy. And tied to that is this increasingly insular industry of celebrity that sort of mass produces fame through reality television, and tries to elevate people to this point where they’re famous and their job is just being famous for a year, or two years. I think that is different from just talking about your film, in that all art, to a certain extent, is a cultural dialogue that you need to engage in as an artist.
Filmmaker: What specific thing in our celebrity-obsessed culture do you see as being most closely linked to the satirical extreme that you go to in Antiviral?
Brandon Cronenberg: I don’t think there is one! [Laughs.] Someone bought John Lennon’s teeth, you know? But that isn’t even just the one thing. Covers of magazines comparing people’s cellulite…[the film is] only a very slight exaggeration. That industry’s pretty insane.
Filmmaker: I read that this idea germinated when you were in film school at 24, and came down with a bad case of the flu. Did a fear of illness or mortality factor heavily into the concept?
Brandon Cronenberg: It wasn’t really a fear of illness, it was more just a moment of seeing disease as something intimate. Because a virus is manufactured, literally, in someone else’s body, by their infected cells, and then gets into your body and penetrates your own cells, and that’s hugely intimate if you think about it on that level. So it was that moment of seeing disease as intimate and trying to think of a character who would see disease as something intimate. We tend to be repulsed by disease, but you could imagine an obsessed fan who would want a celebrity’s virus, or something, as a way of feeling physically connected to them if it were described in those terms—something from their body into your body. Don’t you want that? Someone’s gotta want that.
Filmmaker: You’re 32 now?
Brandon Cronenberg: 33.
Filmmaker: In the the eight or nine years since you first toyed with this idea, the world of celebrity and fan relationships has changed quite a bit, with social media somewhat leveling the field of interaction and things like that. Was there ever a worry that the concept would lose some of its relevance because of that evolution?
Brandon Cronenberg: During editing, a friend of mine sent me this Sarah Michelle Gellar clip where she was on Jimmy Kimmel Live and she was saying that she was worried about singing because she had this cold—she was worried she would infect the entire audience. And then everyone started applauding madly and cheering. So I thought, “Okay, we’re pretty much making a documentary now!” So it’s changed and it hasn’t changed. I’ve been talking about Paris Hilton lately. She’s out of style now, and maybe seems like the obvious, passé celebrity to go to to discuss this sort of thing, but I think, early on, when I was first writing, she was just really becoming very public, and there’s something about that moment, when a lot of people were using the phrase “famous for being famous.” Again, I don’t think fame has ever been inherently bound to accomplishment, but I think she was so just famous for being famous, in a way that everyone recognized, that I think that really fed into the celebrity industry. It was a certain moment in the history of celebrity. Now, to say that she’s famous for being famous is not even interesting anymore, but at the time, people were like, “Haven’t you noticed that Paris Hilton is famous for being famous and isn’t that kind of weird?”
Filmmaker: As the central character, Syd March, Caleb Landry Jones gives a really impressive breakthrough performance, and he looks like a runway model, which amplifies your visual juxtaposition of fashion-magazine chic and body horror. Can you describe how you came to work with him and how he complimented your aesthetic?
Brandon Cronenberg: Sure. His agent had worked with my producer, and when we were looking around for actors, he sent Caleb’s stuff over—some clips from films he’d been in and an audition he’d done for another film. And we all got immediately, really excited because he has that very striking look, and he’s very intense, and a great actor, He really has that thing that some actors have where they’re immediately interesting to watch. Even when they’re doing very mundane things, they’re somehow able to be captivating performers. So we wanted to get him and he wanted to do it, so it worked out nicely. I had actually written the character for a much older actor, and the character was a bit different in my mind, but when I saw Caleb, I wanted to plug into the excitement and roll with it. Now I can’t see that character any other way. He brought a huge amount to it and that was part of developing that character—discovering all of this stuff with him.
Filmmaker: And then, of course, there’s Sarah Gadon, who starred in your father’s Cosmopolis last year, and A Dangerous Method the year before that. Did your father recommend her to you?
Brandon Cronenberg: Well I saw her in A Dangerous Method, and I thought she was great, but I hadn’t met her until we sent her the script. I liked what I saw from her in my dad’s work, and then I asked him, and he said he had a great experience with her. So, whether you’re related to them or not, being able to talk to directors who have worked with actors, it’s a good thing.
Filmmaker: Gadon’s character, Hannah Geist, is the ultimate desirable object in Antiviral, and then there’s also Aria Noble, played by Nenna Abuwa. I was wondering why you didn’t opt to focus on any obsessed-over male celebrities in the film.
Brandon Cronenberg: There are a couple of references, and on the walls there were some male celerities in the office. I guess I was focusing on female celebrities just because of the degree of the fetishy body stuff you get in celebrity news. I mean, you get that with male celebrities, too, but the “who has the worse cellulite?” stuff is always female. The covers of those magazines, the surgical precision with which people fetishize and criticize—it’s particularly extreme for females. But there are both in the film.
Filmmaker: I also read that you had initial interest in writing, painting, and music, and then turned to film because it merges all of those things. How influential was your father, or his work, in that decision?
Brandon Cronenberg: I was less inclined to get into film because of people’s preconceptions about me based on my father and the fact that they assumed I should want to be in film. Like, “Oh, you must love film and want to be in your father’s footsteps!” It was always kind of obnoxious and kind of off-putting. So, I would say it probably took me longer to develop an interest in film because of that, if anything.
Filmmaker: Yeah, the connection must be a bit of a double-edged sword. There’s a clear cache to it, but also this pressure to assert your own voice, and to live up to expectations.
Brandon Cronenberg: I’ve felt that pressure, but only because everyone keeps telling me I should! I didn’t feel any special pressure, but especially now that the film’s done, everyone’s asking me if I feel some special pressure to live up to something, so I’m starting to wonder if I should.
Filmmaker: Well there’s obviously some thematic kinship going on. Did that develop on more of an unconscious level?
Brandon Cronenberg: Yeah, it’s more…I decided when I got into film that I needed to not worry about his career and just do whatever was interesting to me. To actively avoid it would be defining myself in opposition to him and in that way defining myself in terms of his career still. So I just did what I thought was interesting. I mean, he’s my father and we have a close relationship, so the fact that some of our interests overlap is pretty reasonable.
Filmmaker: Growing up, were you on set for a lot of your dad’s projects? Any experiences tied to specific films that stand out as remarkable?
Brandon Cronenberg: I was present to varying degrees. I mean, obviously, a lot of it happened when I was very young, or before I was born, depending on the film. I worked on eXistenZ in the special effects department, so I was very around for that one. Some of the other ones, not so much. I tried to be on set a fair bit for Eastern Promises just because I was already in film school at that point, and wanted to absorb what I could. When I was a kid, the baboon from The Fly sat on my lap. That was a pretty memorable experience! But I don’t think it had an influence on me as a filmmaker. [Laughs.]
Filmmaker: Good stuff. In Anitviral, I noticed you also make passing mention of Henrietta Lacks, who’s made a lot of headlines thanks to Rebecca Skloot’s bestseller, and even recent updates about the continued usage of her cells. Did Lacks’s story strongly influence the film’s concept, or was it just woven into the fabric of it?
Brandon Cronenberg: It didn’t strongly influence it, but it’s just a really interesting idea, I think. Because that relationship between identity and the body is really interesting. I think they’re two very different things, and I think identity is this very theoretical, weird thing that no one has a full grasp on. I don’t think we can perceive ourselves perfectly clearly, but obviously, from the outside, people can’t know us perfectly either, and we’re always in flux. And then you have this body that people associate that identity with, but again, the body is constantly changing, and I find all of that stuff really interesting. And in the film, obviously, there’s the celebrity cell steaks, and the idea that they’re grown from the celebrities. It’s sort of cannibalism, but it’s not quite cannibalism. Are they that meat, or is that another thing? The human being, the body—is that the celebrity, or is the celebrity this cultural idea, this abstract thing? So that was just a really great, real-world example of that sort of thing, but it wasn’t at the core of the film.
Filmmaker: You mention in press notes that you’re naturally reclusive, much like Syd March. How much do you identify with the character? Beyond, you know, his activities…
Brandon Cronenberg: Well, I definitely put some of myself in there. But in weird ways. I was going to college in this horrible city in Ontario, called London, Ontario, and it was hard to get good food there. So, for a while, I was eating a lot of egg salad sandwiches and orange juice. And when I was thinking about the character, I thought that for a character whose main interest in his body is this disease, I could see how food could become just a purely functional thing—just a necessity that he takes no pleasure in. So he has these units of food—orange juice paired with egg salad sandwiches. Interestingly, Caleb—because he likes to live the character as much as he can—was eating all egg salad sandwiches and orange juice when he initially got to Canada, and then he got really sick of them. So he was worried that when it came to doing those scenes, he wouldn’t be able to eat the egg salad because he was so grossed out by it at that point. But apparently the props department makes solid egg salad, so… [Laughs.]
Filmmaker: There’s a lot of talk in the film about the human face. Can you discuss your fascination with it?
Brandon Cronenberg: Yeah. There’s a line in the film that says “[the face] has a high information resolution.” I think it’s true. There’s such a huge amount of information that we communicate consciously and unconsciously through our facial expressions. And apparently that’s why we so commonly see faces in clouds and in rock formations—because our brains are tuned to look for faces, and look toward that information. Apparently with zebras, it’s the stripes. We see zebras as just striped animals, but they really identify each other through the stripes and they can really recognize quickly individual markings, and that’s a huge identifying factor for them. So I think the way we see things depends greatly on our biology.
Filmmaker: Antiviral speaks for itself, but how would you sum up your current view of our celebrity culture? Where do you see it going? Is it on a hopeless downward spiral? Is all this transparency just becoming more and more unhealthy? Is it getting worse? Better?
Brandon Cronenberg: I don’t know! I think it’s a version of something, a kind of broader, older human tendency that we have to deify each other. One example I tend to fall back on is sainthood. The saints were sort of celebrities. They were people elevated to the status of gods, almost, and there’s the iconography—the recognizable repetition of images—and the same physical fetishism. There are the old Italian churches that claim to have the finger bone of such-and-such saint, and it’s imbued with this great power, these relics. So I think we do that, for some reason. I’m not exactly sure why. I think it’s hard to predict where celebrity culture is going, just because I don’t think it’s unique to our time and place. Again, I think the industrial aspect of that is something that’s fairly unique, or that’s at least becoming more prominent—the manufacturing of celebrity to make money. And I assume that will, just by the nature of industry, go as far as it possibly can, but it’s hard to predict. I don’t know if it will implode eventually. I think we’ll always have some version of celebrity.
#texticles#eventually im gonna edit these to not have read mores bcus the fact that readmores become inaccessible if sth happsnt to a blog is a traged#antiviral#av archival
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though i will say my favorite type of reaction to that godforsaken goncharov index post is when it reaches other rote people. like. the gang's all here.
#roteposting#@second to last commenter: am i talking about robin hobb? as all my friends and family can attest#yes. unfortunately yes. i am always talking about robin hobb dsgfjhd#lol we have at least increased our index all the way to 0.77 progress!#let's give it up for trage with her 40 works including the one that's longer than war and peace#hers alone brought us from 0.72 to 0.77 lmao
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got possessed by more au ideas that are probably stupid.
there's a reason the loops start at the colorado location otherwise do you know how chaotic shit COULD get if someone gets revived that shouldn't be revived?
the colorado location is in shambles. no one knows whats going on. dave's still heartless, jack's still soulless, and steven's still in constant pain. harry doesn't know why he's there and he's having a crisis. henry's sick of people dragging themselves out of their graves. peter's tired. location 14 got set on fire by steven the day after henry killed him & harry was transferred to location 47 as a result. everything is going JUST FINE.
also why blue? bc red is the same color as blood and who wants to look like they're covered in blood constantly? so i just went with the opposite color to red, which is blue.
#dsaf#dayshift timeloop au#dayshift at freddy's#dsaf au#mod doodles#harry: what a traged-#steven: i lived bitch#dsaf location 14 edition when#also yes this would still be a timeloop situation#a loop thats completely off the rails like this would be fun ngl but ive already got this confusing mess of a loop going#also i slightly messed up drawing harry but its 4 am cut me some slack#ive seen ppl revive peter in jack's place but i raise you whatever this is instead#you can tell im nervous posting this bc of all the fucking tags my god anxiety is hell
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Hallo liebes Fest & Flauschig Fandom, ich hab da was für euch... <3
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#ich trage diese idee schon viel zu lange mit mir rum#jetzt hab ich es endlich geschafft den ersten oneshot hochzuladen#ich bin nicht ganz zufrieden pls be nice#to be continued#enjoy :)#jan böhmermann#olli schulz#janolli#jan x olli#fest und flauschig#fanfiction#ao3#fanfiktion.de
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