#metoo sucks

[yourapple56-blog]

If you like your cupcakes dry, raise you hand!

#lizard chambers #hulu #woke mob fail #metoo sucks #hulu streaming

[moonestrus]

My rapist never stood trial, but he did give up a long career of getting fired from retail to pursue music and has 18 lifetime listeners on Spotify, and I think that is somehow more appropriate.

#justice #metoo #your music always sucked #loser

[queen-of-weird-girl-nation]

Why are you against taylor swift? I'm just curious.

❤️- Aurora

OK! so basically

1. I just don’t like her music, like I find it rlly bland

2. Her actions rlly suck:

Like:

Saying she stands with victims of SA, even posing on a times magazine cover for #metoo but recently she’s been such good friends with Brittany Mahomes, who told victims of SA to ‘just shut up’ (for context Britanny’s brother in law is accused of SA)

Taylor, by hanging out with Brittany sm, has given her a lot more publicity, which is gross to me. Jackson Mahomes, the guy with all the SA claims against him, is someone who she’s also been seen buddying up with, taking selfies and high fiving

Taylor dated Matty Healy, a known racist, who said awful things about black and POC women. While Taylor broke up with him, she never addressed his behaviour.

She makes a choice to hang out with these people, people who harm vulnerable communities, which leads to her (majority white and young) fandom thinking it’s ok)

Taylor Swift, as you probably heard, has huge carbon emissions. Like huge. She unnecessarily uses her private jet for useless trips.

When 1 person tried to make her climate use more public, they allegedly got sued, claims TS hasn’t yet disputed.

Taylor also sued a blogger who demanded that she denounce white supremacy in 2017

Why was this blogger asking that she denounce white supremacy? Bc swifties, as a fanbase, has some very toxic elements

As a POC, I don’t rlly feel safe in swiftie spaces (especially the ones on Twitter) bc her fandom has a tendency to go after people who don’t like her, especially POC. (Luke going after travis kelces ex, being rude about the Latina’s who criticised TS response to a girl dying at one of her concerts)

I know, ofc that not every swiftie is racist and white, but her fanbase can be, and it does affect the POC who try to criticise her.

Taylor has also done nothing to stop the harassment of her ex Joe Alwyn, with some ven saying she leads her fandom on with the way she releases her songs. If ur fandom is telling ur ex: if I were u I’d kill myself?’ Let get a hold on them!

She’s a billionaire. Enough said.

All in all, you can like her music and vibe to it, TS is someone who you can separate the art from the artist pretty well, unlike some others (cough JK Rowling, cough) but be a critical fan.

Ilysm 🩷

#anti taylor swift #taylor swift critical

[alphalaurahale]

Tumblr’s toxic feminism once again ruins a happy moment for me.

Johnny Depp won and rightfully so.

He wasn’t an abuser, Amber was.

That lying, conniving, manipulative bitch did everything she could to ruin this poor man - including but not limited to lying under oath and faking “evidence” - and he still came out on top.

As an abuse survivor myself, I couldn’t be happier and all of you fuckers who are still defending Amber - probably without even having watched the trial and her shitting acting - can suck my dick. You’re an embarrassment to yourself, the metoo movement and feminism in general.

#depp vs heard #johnny depp #amber heard #johnny depp vs amber heard #anti amber heard #justice for johnny depp

[grison-in-space]

Part of the problem with trying to protect young people from exploitation and grooming by extremist elements of the manosphere is that our understanding of exploitation and how to tackle it is still hopelessly out of touch. Dr. Firmin explained that the very hallmarks of adolescence that most attract young men to these online communities are also the ones least understood by traditional support mechanisms. During adolescence, young people prioritize belonging, self-autonomy, and independence. This, she said, is a period in which young people are struggling with intense emotions: they are “more inclined to take risks” and are particularly unlikely to think about “long-term consequences.” As such, traditional support services are not well suited to this period, because they tend to be “targeted at individuals who don’t like to take risks and will think about the long-term consequences of their behavior and will be generally emotionally stable.”
While support structures struggle against these typical adolescent behaviors, Dr. Firmin explained, those who exploit young people “will tend to work with” them, offering children

a sense of risk or going against the grain, focus on short-term gains, what it means in the here and now, and push aside the potential negative long-term consequences… They will provide means by which you can be very emotionally driven and passionate…and also validate those emotions as authentic when other adults are saying, “Don’t get so worked up.”

All this resonates powerfully with the tactics of the manosphere. Young people are offered a highly emotive narrative and a sense of deep belonging and community. They are repeatedly encouraged, in incel forums, for example, to take violent action that would position them as countercultural disrupters without thinking too much about the consequences. “It’s very easy to sell those ideas,” Dr. Firmin added, in a community that boasts about “going against the norm.” In the case of the manosphere, she said, that manifests as “pushing against this idea of new masculinity…or men’s increased role in parenting… This narrative would push against all of that, push against #MeToo, so it’s very easy then to sell it as a risk and sell it into this idea of wanting a sense of self, a sense of personal identity.” In some respects, she said, given the current climate, the attractiveness of the manosphere to young men is “not very surprising at all.”

Men Who Hate Women, 2020, Laura Bates.

... Ohhhhh. Well, Bates is talking about young men getting sucked into the manosphere, but TERF tactics make a whole lot more sense now, don't they? There's all this uncertainty in our collective lives, and a simple but risky narrative that just requires brave, passionate folks to stand up for what they believe in to fix everything...

Ah.

For that matter, the same patterns totally resonated with me in my teens and twenties; I just had causes that I still feel good about to stand up for, like queer solidarity and ace community raising and allyship as an active choice.

I'm carrying some grief about that this morning—I have a lot of scars that came from being brave and open and riskily vulnerable and trusting my own resilience and hard work to catch me, and it's been a hard, hard ten years. But I also find myself thinking in the same breath: oh. That's the same romantic tendency that's kicking off the wistfulness about labor uprisings I was so critical of last night, and that association builds commitment to changing the critically unfair economic systems of inequality we live with. That's the same energy that makes so many teenagers so emphatic about climate change. That's the thing that makes my grad students stamp feet and snap "well, it shouldn't be like that then!" while I'm trying to do more with less to support them and keep them safe. And sometimes that makes me adjust my course, often for the better.

Stuff like this really renews my commitment to listening to folks who are significantly different in age to me. Sometimes I think they are missing big things in their politics, but sometimes I think that the uncompromising optimism of what could be is a powerful, heady current.

I've only been an adult for about a decade, is the thing, and I've already watched the activism of the generation of millennial activists I grew up alongside make real, profound changes in the status quo, often but not always informed by the support and lessons of generations that have broken the trails before ourselves. I think there can be a certain complacency about that, an idea that younger folks are going to either save us unassisted (lol no) or pick up largely arbitrary battles and waste the momentum of their energy and commitment. I don't think that complacency is a good idea, but it exists. It's worth opposing.

Just like any social construct, generations are both imaginary and profoundly real at the same time, both a wave and a particle at once. It's worth thinking about what people at different ages and life stages need, and it's always worth thinking about how to build coalitions to best channel and support one another.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

What do you make about the fact that Harry was the ONLY person named in court papers?

I’ve been thinking about this since I saw your ask.

I think 3 things:

1. To show how widely-attended these parties were. These weren’t just industry events that music people or music-adjacent people were attending.

2. For attention. Everyone knows that namedropping Harry, the son of The King, will bring a ton of attention to something that could easily be glossed over. Someone clearly wants people to know not just about these parties but also what happened at these parties.

3. To directly implicate Harry. He knows something, or this producer (who filed the lawsuit) thinks Harry knows something, and it’s a clue for investigators and the lawyers. I think we could see Harry potentially getting deposed or subpoenaed over it.

But what does Harry know? How much does Harry know? Does he know enough to be equally complicit under RICO charges? Or is he just a patsy?

Whatever the truth is, it’s not good for Harry. If he’s complicit or involved, there’s no hope of coming back to the BRF at all. If he’s just a patsy that was used as a bribe to get others to attend, well, then sucks for his ego because he’s still only just a spare.

And it’s also not good for Meghan, who’s built her whole ego and platform around women’s rights. She can’t stay with him and still expect to be taken as a credible authority. Not when she stakes her whole Royal Duchess persona on condemning #MeToo. But then again, when has Meghan ever taken accountability?

But the second aspect of this is that her association with Harry and his part in this (whether all he did was attend the parties or whether it was more nefarious) is going to tank ARO/Roop. She’s going to have one hell of a time getting people to buy her merch and support her brand. It’s why Georgina Chapman left Weinstein as soon as his scandal broke; to save her own reputation and rescue her brand (Marchesa) from association. Chapman was perfectly happy being married to him for all intent and purpose, until the allegations became fact, went mainstream public, and her own brand was impacted.

So if this thing has legs and it turns out Harry knows a whole lot more, or actually participated, then Meghan could very well leave him and take the kids with her (as she should). I’d be shocked if she didn’t and stuck by him.

#ask #brf #sussexes #theories #rumors

[muav99]

Drunk Confessions with Hyunjin pt.2 final 💋

Drunk sex but consenting, hyunjin x reader, best friends to lovers, F receiving, no protection (plz use it🩷), swearing, praise kink

So thats why he wanted to know. That bastard. But what he’s doing is working too well.

You moan on his lips as he pulls you in again. He grabs your ass and pulls you on to his lap never breaking the kiss.

God you should have done this earlier

You both start grinding into each other becoming a sloppy moaning mess. Trying to create any friction possible through Hyunjin’s jeans. He rocks your hips back and forth as his tongue swipes your bottom lip

It might just be how drunk you are, but this feels so good

“Hyunjin I want more” you say in between kisses

“Say no more” he says ripping off his shirt, and sliding down his jeans

You quickly rid of your sweats and tank

He lifts you up and your legs wrap around his waist as he walks you to the bed. His lips now creating harsh hickeys on your neck.

Too late now, you’re all in.

“How do you want me?” Hyunjin asks smirking

You both crack up laughing in each others arms

“You’re so beautiful” he kisses you all over

He starts kissing on your thighs moving up further

Your breath hitches

He slips your panties to the side, and practically dives in

He gives you the best head of your life. What can this man not do??

He has 2 fingers inside you and his tongue is circling and flicking your clit

At this point you can’t help but scream out from pleasure

“Hyunjinnnnn….immm” you yell out so close

“I know, you’re doing so well you’re such a good girl” he groans into you

You whimper overwhelmed by everything

He sucks on you and you finally release

He lifts himself up from in between your legs and its a sight.

His face glistening with juices, he looks like a dream

He wipes his face off with his hand and climbs over you

He gives you a little peck on the lips

“Are you still okay with this?” He asks sweetly looking in your eyes

“Hyunjin im very sure” you peck his lips back

You’re absolutely ready but you will not remember this tomorrow

He strokes your cheek with his fingers, moving some hair out of your face

“Then i’ll love you right” he says softly

He sits up pulling his boxers off and throws them across the room

“Balenciaga boxers?” You chuckle looking on the floor

“Only the best for….you know” he smirks at you

You take the que to look down and you audibly gasp

“Like what you see?” He says wiggling his eyebrows

“Put it in me” you whine “stop teasing hyunjin”

“As you wish baby”

He lines himself up with you and slowly eases in

You’re already moaning and gripping his arms, he can feel you clench around him

“You’re…….driving….me crazy” he moans out finally fitting the last of him in you

You’re both face to face

“Hyunjin move” you cry

“So needy” he kisses your lips and thrusts his hips gently

God you love that he dances. It feels so good

He starts to pick up the pace thrusting harder and harder and…

“Hyunjin i….” Your eyes roll to the back of your neck, back arched in pleasure

“You like it rough y/n?”

“You aint seen nothing yet”

He pounds into you and you scream wrapping your legs around his waist

The sounds coming from outside the room are goddamn pornographic

He’s sucking on your neck biting into you, bruising your skin

Your nails clawing at his back trying to grip on to something

“You’re……doing so good baby” he says moaning into your neck

You whimper

“Say it again”

“You feel so good, ugh y/n you’re doing so good for me pretty girl”

You start to climax seeing stars

“Hyun……” you choke out

“Mmm metoo” he says muffled in your neck

You both rock and grind on each other desperately hitting that one spot and…..

He lands on your chest

Both of you heavy breathing

He kisses your fingers and your forehead

“God why didn’t we do that years ago” you say giggling

“Beats me but lets do it again huh? ” hyunjin replies poking you like a little kid

You squeal

Not much sleeping happened that night

*Fast forward to the morning*

The warm sun shines on your face through the blinds.

You roll over and bump into the figure laying next to you.

His arms are around you sleeping peacefully. You lift his fluffy morning hair out of his face.

No……it cant be……

“HYUNJIN?!” You scream and he jolts up

“Y/N???” He screams back holding the blanket on himself for decency

You both look at each and start to remember last nights events

“My head hurts” hyunjin whines

“Mine too” you say “So……what do we do”

“Well……..what if I kinda like you?” He says timidly

You never even let that cross your mind. You’ve been friends for ages. Close. Really close. And you’ve had a crush on him once or twice… I mean you were so willing to sleep with him. So…..do you like him too? Why am I debating? I know how I feel.

You don’t say a word and lay in his arms. He wraps himself around you in a cuddling position

You kiss him on the cheek

“I kinda like you too” you say stroking his hair

Thank you for all the love on my story😭🩷 feel free to recommend any time! All people from my last post are tagged here!

@moirastaaa

@hyunjinhoexxx

@gdirtydime19

@vanitaslvr

@chartrucewhore

#smut #skz scenarios #skz fanfic #skz smut #felix smut #straykids smut #felix x reader #hyunjin smut #hyunjin #skz felix #hyunjin x reader

[aftonfamilyvalues]

i want everyone using the #mentoo tag to suck on a loaded gun. no one actually supported or took women in #metoo seriously but god forbid the darvo men dont get their own version while being coddled and believed immediately despite the evidence stating otherwise

[gothicprep]

whenever someone wants to broach the subject of why sex scenes in film & television have all but disappeared, I feel like I pretty much have always disagreed with the conclusions they draw. like a lot of it seems like the people who author these pieces are flinging spaghetti at the wall. there’s always the possibility that I’m being unfair, but when I’m reading something about this subject and I’m just being hit with “neoliberal housing crisis police abortion #metoo trans rights algorithm capitalism trump COVID Palestine” it’s sort of like… what the fuck are you talking about lol. please stay on topic. don’t throw a shitload of progressive sounding words at me to trick me into thinking your meandering essay is convincing.

(these are real examples from an essay that was so bad about this I couldn’t finish it. is this SEO or some shit? but luckily I can say this wins out for “worst palestine take ever” because – I cannot emphasize this enough – what the fuck bro.)

I’ll grant that because we live in a market economy, it’s important to factor in the business side of entertainment too. i try to factor that in when I write about movies on here. but sometimes I’ll read the word “capitalism” and I feel like more often than not, it’s kinda invoked like a thought-terminating cliche. Though it’s definitely true that as movie budgets have ballooned, they’re more geared towards general audiences.

in terms of the cultural reasons, i think it’s mostly burnout tbh. you’ve read so many think pieces about why hookup culture sucks, why modern dating sucks, that people are opting out of this stuff because they don’t want to deal with this. and this is coming off the heels of millennial sex culture from around a decade ago, where the ethos was basically “be a messy bitch”. and now a lot of those people are in their 30s, they’re looking back and saying “this was all really emotionally bad for me”. if you want a visualization of the kind of thing I’m referring to, lena dunham’s “girls” imo captured the moment really well. I’ve always kind of thought Gen Z’s revulsion towards sex scenes is in part to do with the association with uncool old fuddy duddies. because the impression I’ve gotten from those complaints has been less that their thinking is “sex icky”, it’s more like… the equivalent of watching a coworker who just went through a breakup get really into “return of the mack”. you think it’s cringey. you think it’s extra. I’m not articulating myself well, but I hope I’m getting my point across anyway. it’s not surprising that film would come to reflect this to an extent.

so, what do? honestly, just wait it out. the pendulum always swings back. it’s really not a big amount of time you’ll need to sit around for. and there are plenty of old movies you can go back to in the meantime.

#don’t mind me. my family is preoccupied with watching the auburn/alabama game and I’m bored #reel tide or whatever I guess #frankly it’s giving me flashbacks to the time where my mom was insistent that I make a detour on a 20hr drive back home from NOLA #’we have to stop in Tuscaloosa’ #what college football does to a mf #I love watching movies with my friends

[yourapple56-blog]

Bad at minding the store...

#lizard chambers #hulu #metoo sucks #woke mob fail

[beardedmrbean]

Just wanted to clarify on another ask I sent; I never said Johnny Depp SHOULD be the face of male abuse victims, nor was I saying he will be or he wanted to. Just to clarify.

Though it sounds like he cares.

I was saying haters were quick to say he shouldn't be the new face of male victims from here on. But they don't mean that in a compassionate or "don't give him an ego" sense. More so, "we hate to acknowledge that we lost," sense if that's clear enough.

Which is funny when many of those haters also try to twist him winning as something you should thank feminism for. MeToo says, "go to hell," to most victims of female on male abuse/rape and still sides with Heard over Depp, yet they still think Feminism has a monopoly on what to do with a gender they don't believe can be victims.

What a planet we live on.

Love this blog!

agree and disagree, hear me out

It would be great to have him out there doing all of that, and I hope he does come out and do some different things to aid abused men, there's just too many people who firmly believe that he's the abuser in that situation and it's not just the misandrists who will claim that a woman who broke her hand punching a random dude is the real victim either.

Part of that can be summed up by looking at if people even believe men can be abused.

the first 4 here when I search 'woman assaults man social experiment' are what I looked for, the rest are all about men assaulting in some way or another and a few kidnappings, there's a lot more as you scroll too.

the butt pinching one is in there twice.

inb4 bing, ya they're better than google is by a long stretch since they're not running a algorithm that can be manipulated.

I think if they want to do a PR campaign for male victims of domestic violence a good option would be using pictures of the perpetrators of that violence looking like they would in every day life and then listing their crimes underneath it.

Here's another example, from the A Voice For Men wiki page

Very roundabout way for the author to say that men should suck it up and let women abuse them and not fight back.

That's showcased in video 3 up there.

Male DV victims got a good boost from his very public ordeal, but it's insane how far we still have to go.

It'd be nice to be able to have the guy come round and do some PSA's that's for sure, but if you really want to get the point driven home there's gonna be other ways that will likely be more effective.

Posters or billboards with the kids of male victims of DV who were killed by their abuser with something like 'It doesn't just hurt men' up there with a statement about male DV victims.

Since society doesn't really give a shit about men anyhow so pointing at the children and saying it deprives them might actually do some good.

I'm gonna cut it here, since it's getting a bit heavy in my head but I will end with a website suggestion.

The Art Of Manliness is a good website, lot of good stuff for guys there, some good tongue in cheek stuff too.

It's a foil to people like andrew tate because TAOM doesn't go with the misogyny bs he does, it's just a really good site to hit up every once in a while for guy things.

I went through to find beard oil reviews and such at one point and got way more info than I bargained for.

Which was super nice

#anonymous #this got long #and I could go way way longer #but brain needed to stop

[skiplo-wave]

I just saw the most brain dead take on reddit (stop judging me for going on reddit). The post was “what celebrity was treated unfairly” and obviously Amber Heard was brought up because reddit people love to suck her tits, and someone in the comments was like “Her and Asia Argento were treated so unfairly” ASIA ARGENTO???? THE #METOO LADY WHO WAS EXPOSED FOR SLEEPING WITH A 17 YEAR OLD AT THE BIG AGE OF 37???? ANTHONY BOURDAIN’S (rip) EX ASIA ARGENTO?

Oh lord, why do people think women can do no wrong in this world. This is sickening. But what else do I expect from radfems really.

Anon didn’t you know woman can’t rape or be harmful at others it’s literally impossible 🤓 s/

#asks #jfc

[iamafanofcartoons]

Why RWBY Criticism is rarely constructive or respectful, and why haters of RWBY hide their toxic behavior behind the “criticism card”

When I blazed a RWBY Positivity Resource post last weekend, I was harassed by RWBY Haters accusing me of being unable to take criticism.

These people? Kept saying “RWBY Bad” or “RT is pandering” or “Fandom is toxic” but act like they know what criticism is.

They also screamed about “valid criticism” and “lost potential”

Here is from https://twitter.com/meliorqte/status/1540864352357699586

Judgmental Critter and her sister Twiins Iink repeatedly make video after video defending male villains and attacking female protagonists.

If you ever call out their severe hatred towards RWBY and their harassment of RWBY Fans, critics accuse anyone defending the show from their criticism of being “misogynists” or “toxic positivity”

I have never heard of toxic positivity until RWBY Critics started using it in their videos to harass RWBY Fandom and the writers.

Vexed Viewer repeatedly makes one video after another insulting female characters...People claim he’s “progressive” even as he insulted the #MeToo movement in 2019 while he was mourning Vic Micnogna’s sentencing.

UoW basically made transphobic rewrites that supported abusive relationships. Which was after his ex, another youtuber, left UoW for being emotionally abusive, something that UoW’s rewrite promotes, to where Bumbleby and Renora are written as emotionally abusive, and people defend that?

Raymond McNeil made sexist and racist “fixing rwby” that basically was one big middle finger to each and everyone one of rwby’s themes and elements (he made a sexual predator the stepfather of Yang and included “faunus heat cycles” while having women lose to men in most fights)

And Eruptionfang promoted the toxic “qrow is ruby’s father theory” and repeatedly idolized adam taurus before his channel got taken down.

A criticism is meant to be respectful, meant to be helpful.

Accusing the show of “sucking, bad, etc”? Wanting RWBY to die? NOT Criticism.

Behold every single RWBY Critic. “RWBY deserves better than the writers who literally created it”

These are the same people who like to talk about Monty’s vision or what Monty wanted.

But what was it that Monty wanted.

Here’s the first from the man himself! The first one being? Qrow is not Ruby Rose’s father.

But as you know, every single defender of this theory accuses Monty and CRWBY of being liars.

When a theory is shut down by the writers/creators, its no longer a headcanon, its an obsession with wishing a lie would be truth.

Sadly?

Too many “youtubers who claim to love RWBY more than CRWBY” refuse to accept canon because it doesn’t serve their bias. This youtuber, Sytokun? Who is basically making “RWBY Remnants” Basically claims to love RWBY but repeatedly insults the show’s writing and its writers. How many times must the writers Debunk a theory before these fanatics accept that the theory is wrong, and that insulting the writers because you don’t get what you want is wrong?

THIS is why I treat the “Qrow is Ruby’s father” theory as beyond contemptible. Because not only does it involve the writers lying for years on end, romanticizes the deadbeat dad, and encourages spitting on the complex family dynamic that is the xiao long rose family?

But also 95% of every single one of these theorists has insulted Monty, his friends, etc....and then claim “its just a headcanon, bro” when called out on their toxicity.

Anyway, moving on to Quote 2 from Monty Oum

Well....I’m sure I don’t need to explain this one?

Every single RWBY Critic when asked to please stop watching RWBY if they don’t like it or if they keep insulting Monty’s friends? They refuse , because they say they “criticize from a place of love” while they accuse Miles and Kerry, who Monty handpicked to write RWBY...of “Running RWBY into the ground after Monty’s death”

So wait, they wait till after Monty is dead to insult his friends and coworkers Checks every single RWBY Critic channel....yep, looks like pretty much every single RWBY Critics ignores this quote...especially HBomberguy who made half of his 3 hour video into a hate spiel against Monty’s friends.

And finally....Number 3

This was for the fans who actually enjoy RWBY....

I just.....whenever I hear “I’m making this rewrite as a love letter to Monty and RWBY” All I think about is Fallout New Vegas Frontier, whose writers had the similar arrogance the these rewriters do with their claim of FNVF being a “magnum opus”.

I cannot confirm this quote by George Martin but...

These people have got to stop.

I’m going to leave it at this.

And will end this with a fantastic statement by Neath Oum...aka Monty’s Brother.

#sytokun #rwby #rwby fandom #rwby discourse #rwby community #rwby criticism #rwby critics #rwby rewrite #neath oum #monty oum #crwby #rooster teeth #rwby discussion #iamafanofcartoons #thefloofartist

[joannerowling]

How do you think the Johnny Depp situation got so toxic so quickly? Is it just because he’s so famous? I do think the anti metoo crowd saw Depp as a good person to use to discredit the metoo movement and used him accordingly considering how famous he is.

I mean I remember the level of hatred he got in 2016-18 then it just changed so dramatically during the trial with seemingly so little effort. It felt so suspicious to me. I went from being pretty indifferent to feeling genuinely quite sorry for Amber. She was treated awfully and I have never really been a fan of hers. I wonder if he employed bots to help start a conversation in his favour considering it really seemed like he had very little positive media coverage before the trial. Although there were plenty of real people on his side on TikTok and Twitter etc.

I just wish he was never cast as Grindelwald. Jo and the crew got so much hate for keeping him as Grindelwald for CoG after allegations then got so much backlash for getting rid of him after a judge literally deemed him guilty. I do think it really damaged the fantastic Beasts films. I have a feeling it would have received a little more goodwill if another actor played Grindelwald from the beginning. Plus as a Grindeldore fan I really didn’t like him as Grindelwald at all and I’m genuinely sad now that anyone who plays Grindelwald will be tainted by the Depp fans who’ll always act like the character belongs to Johnny. No Grindelwald belongs to Jo!

Prefacing this with: i'm not really the best to ask about the Depp/Heard case, or actors in general tbh. I'm not the most knowledgeable and found the whole circus around the trial grotesque.

That being said, how did the situation get so toxic? First of all, the heavy involvement of Depp's legal team (as well as either well paid or very motivated third parties) in building his "defence" online in the years preceding the trials and weaponising the Internet against Heard. This is well known by now and includes falsifying evidence before leaking it to fans, use of bots to build a momentum, etc. But it doesn't explain how the sauce took so well, does it? Imo and in no particular order:

Social context online. Check out the first comment on this reddit thread i've found about the Netflix documentary that came out about the case recently: "The appeal of getting in deep with the case wasn’t so much to learn about law and defamation, it was the fun of joining in with others as a community and sharing reactions and emotions." Based on this alone you could have told this was never going to be about justice, but the internet equivalent of a rave party in post-Covid times.

Fashion. It was trendy to be pro-Heard, now it's trendy to be pro-Depp. "Don't you know new info came out that she actually was the abusive one all along?? Keep up!" is a much better story to gossip about than "yeah, Depp, that known abuser, we've known since 2016"

Reactionary response to the brief #MeToo era, or as we call it, the classic pendulum of misogyny coming back in full swing.

The extremely ridiculous American legal system allowing for trials to be filmed and justice to be made a spectacle of, under the very thin veil of education and "transparency". The only thing that's transparent here is that the US fucking suck but we knew this.

Neo capitalism. See this article : the real winners of the case are media content creators who "went all in".

I too wish Depp was never cast as Grindelwald, first because he's such an obviously poor choice for the role independently of his behaviour. But WB in general has a problem with casting the worst possibly individuals known to man (or rather women) in lead roles. See fucking Ezra Miller and the Flash disaster. But i think what actually damaged the movies much more than any celebrity business (least of all JKR's own controversy which the general public knows shit about) is that they weren't all that good.

#replies #anon #fb #hp cast

[broadwaydivastournament]

Audra and Bebe and Bernadette and Christine: The Good Fight

Diane Lockhart:

After slapping the shit out of Julianna Margulies in the series finale of The Good Wife, Diane Lockhart became the star of her own spin-off series The Good Fight. On the eve of her retirement, Diane finds out she's dead broke due to a series of financial schemes perpetrated by friend and client Bernadette Peters' husband (whose name I don't care enough to look up). Following this disastrous turn of events, Diane becomes a partner at a Black Chicago-based firm, and is later upgraded to named partner.

She's also a fashion icon, so jot that down.

Throughout six seasons, staunch-Democrat Diane spends her storylines addressing the social and political climate of the day. She handles cases revolving around fake news and the MeToo movement, briefly joins an underground anarchist group because Katie Finneran tells her to (understandable), gets SWAT-ed, has a few breakdowns, and enjoys the fun of microdosing. In short, she's living her best life.

Liz Reddick:

In the second season, Liz Reddick-Lawrence joins the gang at Reddick, Boseman, & Lockhart. Formerly a U.S. Attorney, and Boseman's ex-wife, she joins the firm following her father's death. Initially, she and Diane get off to a rough start with their professional and personal differences. White name partner, Black firm... You can understand why. They spend the series butting heads as often as holding hands, and when the chips are down, they'll support each other.

Liz, another fashion icon, has a young son, divorces her cop husband, has a romantic liaison with Wayne Brady, has another affair with her ex-husband (and perjures herself when asked about it in court), and fucks a workplace subordinate (a white man, which is the real crime here). She and Diane briefly put aside their fight-of-the-week to lean into the rumor that they're lesbian lovers in order to win a court case. And we didn't even get a fake dating kiss out of it, so if anyone wants to join my class action lawsuit for emotional harm, let me know.

Judge Claudia Friend:

Judges on The Good Fight, often have a fun little schtick that recurs throughout their guest appearances. Judge Claudia Friend is cursed to always preside over cases where the lawyers see fit to bicker like children the entire time. She is...so tired. (Hence why my multi-story saga about this minor character started with her getting absolutely railed over her desk by another judge--as played by Joanna Gleason).

In addition to three appearances in The Good Wife, including Audra McDonald's single guest appearance where they shared a scene, Claudia Friend presides over two episodes/cases in The Good Fight. And I, for one, would have liked more of this exhausted and exasperated judge in my life.

Lenore Rindell:

Mother of early-series protagonist Maia Rindell, Lenore is a co-conspirator of the ponzi scheme that makes Diane flat broke season one. While her husband fucks off to some island to avoid prosecution, Lenore has to stay and face the music. She's also having an affair with her brother-in-law, so there's that.

Okay, sucks for Diane and all that, but take a look at this woman and tell me you wouldn't let her do whatever she wanted? I support women's wrongs, and I really support the costume department putting Bernadette in this pretty little nightie. Anyway, Lenore is eventually prosecuted for her part in the whole financial scheme and her character is written out of the show.

Other Divas who appear on The Good Fight include: Brenda Braxton (Madeline Gilford - 16eps), Andrea Martin (Francesca Lovatelli - 6eps), Mary Testa (Amy Ann Howard - 3eps), Katrina Lenk (Naftali Amato - 3eps), Jayne Houdyshell (Renee Rampling - 2eps), LaChanze (Julius's Wife - 2eps), Carolee Carmello (Judge Eve Sebald - 2 eps), Linda Emond (Judge Leora Kuhn - 1ep), Katie Finneran (Valerie Peyser - 1ep), Judith Light (Deidre Quinn - 1ep), Joanna Gleason (Judge Carmella Romano - 1ep), Kelli O'Hara (Deirdre Kresteva - 1ep), NaTasha Yvette Williams (Juror - 1ep).

Other Divas who appear on The Good Wife include: Mary Beth Peil (Jackie Florrick - 49eps), Anika Noni Rose (Wendy Scott-Carr - 14eps), Vanessa Williams (Courtney Paige - 4eps), Joanna Gleason (Judge Carmella Romano - 3eps), Linda Emond (Judge Leora Kuhn - 3eps), Jan Maxwell (Camilla Vargas - 2eps), Debra Monk (Tracy Mintz - 1ep), Julie White (Selma Krause - 1ep), Susan Blackwell (Professor Jolie - 1ep), Tovah Feldshuh (Lena - 1ep), Karen Ziemba (Lina Banner - 1ep), Ann Harada (Isabel St. Jean -1ep), Donna Murphy (Judge Alice Adelson - 1ep), Victoria Clark (Shannon Janderman - 1ep), Jackie Hoffman (Judge Maria Felletti - 1ep).

And pretty much every other Broadway actor you can think of.

#christine baranski #audra mcdonald #bebe neuwirth #bernadette peters #the good fight #the good wife

[marnz]

hello friend!! i was wondering since you both read and write a lot if you had any recs for books that are narrated by death?

also! how is your original novel writing going? you posted a snippet to tumblr once of the opening scene i think and i still think about it because your writing was so descriptive and lush

friend!! please accept my apologies in this delayed answering, your message was so kind that every time I thought about it I got overwhelmed 🥰

Okay books narrated by death! The only one I’ve read is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and it is gorgeous, I was so obsessed with it as a kid however it is about wwii in germany so ymmv.

however! I did some research and Mort by Terry Pratchett comes highly recommended (it is part of discworld). I enjoy Pratchett, he’s very fun. Death is also a big character in the Sandman Comics by N*il G*iman. I do not enjoy G*iman but ymmv!

I also am duty bound to recommend In the Woods by Tana French, a gorgeous, atmospheric murder mystery that is deeply spooky and unsettling. Death is not the narrator…but I do believe it is a character (many many interpretations!)

I feel quite bad sending you away with like 3 recs so here’s what I’ve been reading

- Exordia by Seth Dickinson - I’m not done with this yet but so far it’s like, what if every sci fi first contact military propaganda action movie…got lost and ended up being about the moral quandary of the trolley problem, Kurdistan, pink noise, and prime numbers? what if an author who hates imperialism and loves math decided to write a book length call out of Barack Obama’s drone warfare program with body horror? what if you were a cringe fail elder millennial in nyc that rescued a sexy alien with 8 snake heads instead of only one and every time you physically touched it was a sex scene? And this made the savior of the world? this book is for: homestuck fans, people who were in tragic situationships with their wife and their bestie, pilots, people who like their sci fi hard

- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin - okay if you haven’t read this stop everything and read it immediately. This book is for: tragedy lovers!!!! Gay people!!!!! Francophiles. Marxists. People who were into the social network rpf in 2013 and read that one fanfic where Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg get cast in a Giovanni’s Room adaption and finally fuck. Anyway. Earlier this year (or possibly last year?) I read a memoir about toxic masculinity and how it demands emotional alienation of the self and I was like “okay. I mean. Obviously?” And buddy. Baldwin says more about this topic in chapter one than that author did in his whole book. And it’s sooooooooooo beautiful god like every paragraph has a life ending sentence.

- the Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - the year is 1985 and the location is Boystown, the Chicago gayborhood. Our hero? Yale, art lover, is trying to pull off an insane deal at work and survive the devastation of the AIDs epidemic. But actually the year is 2015 and our heroine is Fiona, Yale’s best friend, who travels to Paris to track down her estranged daughter and then her emotional repression stops working! I know this book sounds devastating and it REALLY is, like at one point I was sobbing so hard my husband got really worried and I was like, no, it’s all good, thumbs up! But ALSO this book is very funny and very joyful. This book is for: people who love to laugh. People who love to cry. Art lovers. People who love emotionally messy families.

- I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai - a film studies professor & podcaster returns to her elite high school boarding school 20 years after graduating and find herself getting sucked into investigating the murder of her junior year roommate, who was murdered senior year and is now the internet’s favorite cold case. Please note this book is a response to #MeToo. This book is for: people who love True Crime but are also critical of it. People who love twitter drama. People who were losers in high school. People who devotedly at watch YouTube essays. Hot divorcées. Angry women.

I have also read a lot of excellent non fiction, the Murderbot diaries (just read themmmmm! Worth it), the entire Kate Daniels series (again.), the new SJM book, and some mid to bad books.

#answered #ummide #also to answer your question I figured out why my old draft wasn’t working. decided to start over. worth it #thanks so much for asking 🥺 #I did do the whole normal epic fantasy thing where I wrote it like that. and now I have decided to approach it like #it’s a true crime investigation memoir that uncovers more than Luka bargained for. I’m loving it. #💜💜💜💜 #the new SJM book is. her tortured poets department. which really could mean anything.