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yeah-yeah-beebiss-1 · 2 years

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I feel like if people had any sort of common sense at all, they would've realized that Nintendo firing a voice actor over an apparent pay dispute but then hiring someone that costs much more might have meant that there was more to the story than just money. Perhaps unrelated, Hellena Taylor is a TERF.

Thing is, “video game voice acting pays like dogshit” and “companies can and will use lowball offers to get contractors to leave of their own accord” are both commonly-known facts. With this in mind, I don’t blame people (myself included) for taking Taylor’s initial claims at face value because they were plausible. The multiple-session rate that it turned out Platinum actually offered was still low in a general sense, but it was at least consistent with union rates in the field. From what I can tell, if this new information is correct, it seems like it went something like this:

-Platinum approached Taylor with an industry-standard offer, five several-hour sessions at $3-4k each. VAs absolutely should be getting more than this, but it isn’t a lowball offer by current industry standards.

-Taylor declined and asked for six figures plus residuals, which is frankly unrealistic in the current industry (even if game VAs absolutely should be getting residuals).

-Platinum opted to bring on a new VA who would take the standard union rate (Jennifer Hale). Platinum initially announced to the public that the change was due to “scheduling conflicts.” They still offered Taylor a cameo role that would be a single $4k session.

-For whatever reason, Taylor took to the social-media warpath and spun the cameo offer as her being offered $4k for the entire game. People took her at face value because, again, plenty of VAs have been paid less for similar projects. Other VAs in turn speak up about some of the dogshit rates they’ve been offered for games that are frankly much bigger than Bayonetta.

-When Taylor’s story went viral, rather than hunkering down and letting PR do their thing, Hideki Kamiya went on his usual hyper-abrasive Twitter routine. When people started roasting him online over the allegations, he made very angry vaguetweets about the situation and blocked so many people that the Twitter suspicious-account-activity algorithm flagged his account. This is, as the kids say, not a good look for someone whose studio is facing scrutiny.

-Someone within Platinum or familiar with the project leaks documents showing the full situation to journalists, Jason Schreier is the first to break the story. He’s generally been pretty aggressively pro-worker when reporting on stories related to labor issues in the games industry, so the fact that he’s vouching for these documents suggests that he’s pretty confident in their legitimacy.

-Taylor doubles down on her side of the story. Jennifer Hale has mostly been silent on the matter (likely due to NDAs), but has liked tweets alluding to the idea that there are two sides to the story. Platinum has yet to issue a direct statement about the situation beyond the initial “scheduling conflicts” claim.

This is just my attempt to piece the situation together based on the public information available right now. For all I know, some new development may crop up that completely vindicates Platinum or proves Taylor correct. We’ll watch this space, I guess. My gaming time is still being consumed by Xenoblade 3 so I’m in no rush to get the new Bayonetta at launch, as much as I love the series.

(And yeah, Hellena Taylor’s dodgy politics don’t strike me as surprising in retrospect; I’m already on a “probably transphobic until proven otherwise” attitude with any Brit over the age of, like, 40. But if her claims of being offered $4k for the lead role of the whole game are true, then her being a shitty person doesn’t change the fact that Platinum made a ridiculously low offer.)

#anonymous #customer support

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xhoneygirlxx · 8 months

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i just know for a fact Eddie doesn’t know any celebrity names but he knows the most random shit.

i’m just picturing husband or dad! Eddie, somewhere around 30s/40s in age.

you guys are in the car and maybe the basic radio is playing or you’re hooked up to the bluetooth, either way there’s music playing.

Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance the Night Away’ comes on and even though you’re paying more attention to the cars that pass by, a thought pops in your head.

“Baby,” you turn to him, “do you know who sings this?”

For a second he just listens and you can see the gears turning in his head like he’s trying hard to figure who’s voice is coming through the speakers.

“Yeah, it’s Jen Montana.” Eddie says it with so much confidence, smiling brightly that he could remember.

When you correct him and tell him the actual name, he proceeds to tell you that Jen Montana is a real person and she was a very famous popstar. He clearly meant Hannah Montana.

Another time you guys are in your living room sprawled out on the couch, lazing about. Deciding that you had enough phone time, you asks if he wants to watch a movie and he quickly agrees, saying there’s on he really wanted to watch.

Leaving your spot on the comfy sofa, you pad to the kitchen to make some popcorn. When you return Eddie’s got his Ipad in his hand, glasses sitting on the bridge of his nose, tapping away on the screen clearly looking for something.

“I thought we were watchin movie, baby.” You say and he turns his head up at you, tongue still poked out from when he was concentrating.

“We are! I just couldn’t remember the name of the movie I wanted to watch s’all.”

“Well just tell me the actor or actress and i’ll use the remote to look it up.” Sitting back down in your spot, you place the bowl on popcorn between the two of you.

“It’s that one with Sofia Mascara girl.” popping a handful of popcorn in his mouth, he stares straight ahead at the tv like a small child, excited and ready to watch something.

You’re lost, completely and 100% lost. Who the fuck was he talking about because that clearly wasn’t a person. You’re still staring at him like he has five heads, trying to work every part of your brain to understand who he meant. Turning his curly haired head back to you, his eyebrows furrow at your expression.

“What’s wrong?” It’s almost annoying how unaware he is sometimes.

“Eds, that’s not a person.” you try to say it calmly, not wanting to get upset over something this stupid.

“Yes it is, babe! She’s the girl in that one movie! Remember?” He rolls his eyes at you, like you’re the one who said something ridiculous.

“That narrows it down to like, a thousand people.” You deadpan and he huffs.

“The one movie when she’s like screaming and her boyfriend where a bear costume!”

“That’s fucking Florence Pugh, Edward! Not Sofia Mascara!” He laughs at how angry you get and it makes you even angrier.

“Yeah, yeah, same difference.”

It boggles your mind how he can’t remember a single celebrity’s name, but he can remember things that no one else does.

The two of you are laid out in bed, the darkness taking over the space. You’re eyes grow heavier, sleep about to take over your body.

“Do you ever think about what Aron Ralston is doing?” Eddie’s voice is thick with sleepiness.

“Who?” Your lips are smooshed against the cushion of your pillow, causing your words to sound muffled.

“The guy that chopped off his arm when he got stuck in the Grand Canyon! They made that movie with the Green Goblin’s son.” You don’t have to open your eyes to know he’s looking at you in a strange way for not knowing the man’s name.

Either way, you’re too tired to argue or even indulge in this conversation.

“No, I don’t think about what he’s doing during his day.”

“Maybe you should, dude almost died ya know.” He says to you and you almost want to stop talking.

“Okay, well I’ll send him an apology in the morning for not thinking about his daily routine. Can we go to sleep now?”

So yeah, Eddie doesn’t know mainstream artists and actors names but he can tell you any random fact you wanna know.

#eddie munson smut #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson #eddie munson fanfic #eddie munson fluff #eddie munson angst #eddie munson x you #eddie munson blurb #eddie munson x female reader #eddie munson fic #eddie munson headcanons

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ratsoh-writes · 4 months

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Hello y’all! Let me introduce you to baubletale!!!

This au is an underground au with a twist! After nuclear warfare decimated the land above, monsters moved underground putting up a barrier for protection. However over the years, supplies grew scarce, but any who dared leave and venture above quickly succumbed to the elements

Over time, some clever monsters found out a way to posses their creations. But there was a trade off. You change your magic to the new possession style, and and loose your ability to perform magic without your creation. However survival trumps their love for their own magic, and after a few generations every monster was a bauble creator. It became the norm for their magic, and kids born no longer preformed their own magic, only being able to transfer it to their baubles

How it works: simular to how the nomads use a sliver of their soul in enchanting their tools, the bauble monsters use a sliver of their soul in animating their creation when they finish making it. What happens afterwards is:

They can move the item, see through it, and in some cases speak and feel through the item as well.

The item aside from being possessed and mobile does not have any other special features, they are only as durable as the materials used to make them, therefore the majority of bauble monster creations are temporary

Bauble creations can also be programmed to do certain tasks without needing the monster directly controlling it. But it takes a large amount of energy and requires being renewed regularly

After the crash, with their possessed creations no longer needed for survival, many bauble monsters began creating for the sake of expression. Nowadays these monsters are associated with all kinds of services like doll cafes, animated servants, acting, and sometimes just plain old art.

Now let’s introduce y’all to the boys!

Stitches (baubletale sans)

Stitches is a tiny skeleton monster, standing only at 4’8 feet tall and aged 40. He has peachy pink magic and the swirly marbled magic of a bauble monster. He recently had braces put in to correct his crooked teeth from malnutrition growing up.

Stitches is…. Well he’s a character. He’s an eccentric monster who seems to adore the strangest things, yet is bored by others that the majority of people consider important. He struggles a bit with boundaries having been pretty isolated most of his life. He’s sweet and cuddly, but sensitive as well can can have his feelings hurt easily. Many perceive him as childish due to his personality, but he’s plenty capable.

Stitches is a voice actor!! His father had saved many tapes of old cartoons, movies and audio books for his sons before his passing. Stitches idolized many of the characters, learning to copy their voices and getting quite good at it. Nowadays he has a gig as a voice actor for a popular kids cartoon. He’s voices the sidekick, love interest and the little brother of the show. He’s also had one of his creations starred in a movie of said cartoon.

Because he is a bauble monster, he has no magic weapon or ability to create and summon one

Stitches special ability is what he calls “sticky hands”. He can stretch the ecto of his left arm up to two feet to grab things out of reach!

Things he loves: bright wild colors, especially neon pink, tie dye clothing, vintage cartoon tapes and dvds, vintage cookie jars, thrift shopping, toy instruments, playing the keyboard, dyed rainbow roses, corn dogs, 80s pop and disco, crazy printed leggings, squishmallows

Tinker (baubletale papyrus)

The younger twin by a few minutes, he’s a 5’11 foot tall skeleton monster with pinkish purple eyes and the marbled swirled ecto of a bauble monster.

Tinker is a monster of few words. He’s always got his head in the clouds daydreaming about this and that and has trouble staying on track in long conversations. However when talking to a creation he’s possessing, he’s quite focused responding easier. He’s a very calm monster and is good at keeping his cool in scary situations.

Tinker owns an online shop where he sells crochet, embroidery and knit wear. Everything is an original piece, he never makes the same item twice. And he takes commissions! He also has a side hustle as a dishwasher for a restaurant he does on weekends. He of course sends a creation to do it as he hates the feeling of wet food on his hands.

Because he is a bauble monster, he has no magic weapon or ability to create and summon one

Tinkers special ability is that he can posses up to three items at the same time that he made. When he does this though, he can’t move, and can only keep it up for about three hours before getting migraines.

Things he loves: the color dark purple, jello and boba teas, violet flowers, yarn yarn and more yarn, string in interesting colors, vintage clothing patterns, rag dolls, vintage lighters and brooches, old records, record players, jazz music

Side characters

Jigsaw: (baubletale Asgore) jigsaw almost didn’t accept his place with the royals, ashamed at how little he and his people had to give, but he was convinced by marionette and now works with the medical board. He funds and manages organizations that research cures and treatments for magical diseases like dimming and LV sickness. Jigsaw is a frail monster, but incredibly kind and compassionate

Marionette: (baubletale toriel) jigsaws best friend and his royal advisor before the crash, marionette convinced him to continue to take the title of royal, and was offered one for herself in turn. Marionette is a regal elegant monster with a heart of gold. She works closely with monsters researching fertility treatments and cares deeply for the humans coming into ebott. She’s one of the main royals who advocates for more immigrant rights

Nook-aster: (baubletale gaster). Technically aster died decades ago. Sick from the radiation on the surface, aster knew she wouldn’t live past her sons first birthdays, so she poured her whole soul into a tin doll she created. The doll, named nook, is merely a reflection of who aster was, it speaks like her, can preform basic tasks, but as time goes on, it’s magic fades away without its creator. Aster did end up living till her son’s second year of life, before she fell down and nook took over. Nook the doll did its best to raise the boys, it fed them, cleaned them, taught them to read and write, and even simple crafts. Thankfully the boys were intelligent, and as nook began to wear and slow, they filled the gaps learning more from the tapes aster left them. Nowadays the doll moves slowly, and only speaks a little at a time. But the boys still adore it and treat it as a true family member

#undertale imagines #undertale headcanons #baubletale #ratsohart

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modern-day-bard · 3 months

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Worth The Feeling

Note: this is a completed project but I’ve had major problems posting on tumblr from my laptop! I’m not sure why. If anyone who sees this is interested, I also posted the fic on Archive Of Our Own 🫶🏻

Content Warning: 18+

This story includes explicit smut, intimidation, and an age gap relationship (MC is 26, Pedro is in his 40s). Minors, do not interact.

Chapter 2:

Now, I've made some blunders before. Mostly calling talent by the wrong name, which is a big mistake when dealing with big personalities. But I've tripped a few times, spilled a few things, and I even broke a glass in the middle of a take.

Yet somehow, none of those things compare to this.

Treating the lead as if he was a PA? Telling him he needs to get a walkie ?

The thought makes me sprint even harder toward the sound stage. Once inside, I scan the area as quickly as I can. There's at least a hundred people in here now and the more I push past, the more I realize they are turning to look at me disapprovingly. I really should find a new shirt first, but it can wait.

"Lana!" I shout when I catch a glimpse of one of her classic colorful scarves. I can see the bright fabric tied in a bow on top of her curly head of hair, but she doesn't turn around.

"LANA!" This time several people, Lana included, turn around.

"Hey!" She runs up to me and sweeps me in a hug, before pulling back with an uncharacteristically miserable expression. "Why are you all wet? Ava, I can see your bra." She pokes my visible white strap.

I swat her away. "Just wait. That is the least of my worries."

I explain the situation, visibly cringing as I await her reaction.

In typical Lana fashion, she bursts into musical hysterics. She covers her mouth when she notices how pained my expression is.

"Lana, I am this close to panicking. You don't think he'll complain, do you?"

"No, no he won't complain. You said he was relatively cool about it, right?"

"Yeah, I mean, he didn't even correct me."

"Exactly. You know if it was one of the Marvel guys from our last picture, you might be in trouble. But from the sounds of it, he probably won't even remember it by tomorrow."

"Yeah..." Why did that idea not make me feel any better?

Lana is snickering again. "You know I sent you the cast list like a month ago, right? How do you of all people not recognize Javi Gutierrez?"

I lower my voice. "You know I'm not an indie movie fanatic."

"I know. It's your fatal friendship flaw. But he was on a bunch of shows, too!"

"I haven't had time for TV with school! Movies are less commitment. Don't scold me in my time of need." I wack her arm.

"Fine, fine," She holds her hands up in defeat. "But seriously Ava, unless you want to continue to give us all a free show you should really get another shirt. I have to get these mics up and running, but go to wardrobe and find Barb."

She's right. The first scene is at 8:00am, and as a sound assistant, Lana has to be ready to mic up the actors as soon as they're out of hair and makeup. I still have to print out scripts for the first few scenes, and I'm really starting to hate the sticky feeling on my stomach.

"Okay, thank you!"

Lana winks at me as I turn and head for the wardrobe trailer on the far side of the lot. Barbra has been on Norwick Productions sets since movies were invented. That is actually the answer she will give a person if they ask how long she's been working. She's the grumpy, tough-love mom I never had. And since Lana is pretty much the only person I hung out with during hiatus, I missed Barb dearly.

Barb's expression pales as soon as she sees me.

"Ava, it's only day one for god's sake."

"Don't worry Barb, Lana already scolded me for you."

"I do like that girl. And I'm guessing you came by to catch up after break, and not simply because you need my help?" She raises a knowing brow.

"Obviously." I flash her a very over-dramatic smile.

"I should give you one of the ratty uniforms from the end of this film for that."

"But you won't, because you love me." I batted my lashes.

"Uh-huh." Barb sighs, disappearing into the depths of the trailer before coming back out with a clean white t-shirt. No fuss, no fake blood.

"You are my guardian angel." I say after swapping the shirts.

"Bring me real coffee tomorrow instead of this crafty crap and we can call it even." She says in a flat tone, and I know she's not kidding.

I give her a quick hug. "It's good to see you Barb."

That makes her chuckle slightly. "You too, kiddo."

I check my watch again. 7:30am. Barely enough time to print out the scripts. I bid Barb a quick goodbye and head to the closest copier.

After kicking it a few times, and uttering several curse words, I got the copier up and running and several copies of today's script printed. I try to skim today's scenes while walking back to the soundstage. I'm beginning to grow curious as to watch is actually happening in this movie. Since we usually shoot scenes out of order, these few pages aren't helping very much.

Back on the soundstage, I spot Lloyd, our director, and walk over to hand him today's pages.

"Ava, welcome back." Lloyd says in his usual artistic drawl. He takes one of the copies from me, flipping through as though looking for something specific, though I know he is barely even skimming the pages.

Part of me is holding my breath, wondering if Javi would have complained to Lloyd or a production manager at this point. I'm not sure when he would have time for that between hair and makeup, but in a world where my mishap today costs me my job, he would find the time.

But, Lloyd is deep in conversation with a cameraman and doesn't spare me another glance. I take that as a good sign, and slowly slink toward the far corner of the room. This way I can still have a good view of the stage without calling too much attention to myself. I can see Lana across the room micing up one of the actors in the scene. Some older gentleman who I heard was popular on a cowboy show that I've never seen. I recognize his face more than I did Javi's, which embarrasses me further, even though the fact is only known to me.

Then, as though the gods of shame were looking down and laughing at me, Javi walks into the large room. I quickly open the first scene's pages to see if I can figure out whom he is playing. That, and so I can take my mind off of how he looks even more attractive in costume. I steal a glance up from the pages and see Lana micing him up now. He's smiling warmly at her, and she chuckles at something he said. Lana tends to laugh at most things, but I can't help but wonder what words were being passed between them.

The two men step onto the CIA set together, both dressed in impeccably tailored suits, making light conversation. Now is my que to bring them their copy of the pages for a final once-over before we roll the cameras. I inhale deeply and set my shoulders back.

Don't be intimidated, Ava. You can't embarrass yourself any worse than you already have.

Well, I know that last part isn't true. But I repeat it to myself all the same.

I walk up to the men, handing them each a copy with a smile.

The older gentleman gives me a friendly nod as he takes the script. Javi gives me the same smile he gave Lana a few minutes prior. I'm turning to leave, and I'm surprised when he says, "Thank you, Ava."

I pause, half out of surprise that he remembered my name, and half over the hesitation of wondering if I should apologize for earlier. But his attention is already on the pages, and there are so many people around to hear me admit my mistakes. I decide against it.

- - -

After we shoot the first few takes, I think I'm starting to piece together what the film is about. In the way that it is not unlike most other spy films I've seen. Older Cowboy, whose real name is still evading me, has a small role as the experienced head of the CIA who brings on Javi's character, a real loose cannon, despite his reservations. There is something about a kidnapping of Javi's lover that makes him "too close to the case," but he lies about his involvement with the woman to make sure he can be the one to save her. I'm assuming that is when we will be in Italy. Spy movies love a good ol' car chase in Europe.

I'm not blown away by the originality of the script or anything, but I'm still engaged in the scene even on their tenth take. I realize that Javi is actually quite talented. I'm only ever engaged in a scene if the actors are talented. That, or if Lloyd is having a breakdown.

I spend the rest of the scene trying not to notice just how well tailored that suit is on Javi. I never leer at the talent, but I always appreciate a good-looking man in a suit. Plus, there is something different about him. He has a kindness to him that I haven't seen with other actors. We've been working with a lot of big names recently, so maybe I've just become disillusioned. Even still, I know some lesser actors who would've complained about my assumption early, even if they painted it as a joke. They would never want me to fully live it down. But not Javi. At least, not so far.

When they call for a break, I decided it would be best to fulfill some of my other duties on another part of the lot.

The rest of the day goes by in a blur. I try to stay away from the soundstage, knowing that they will be working with Javi for the next few hours. I check my watch for the umpteenth today, and I crack a smile when I realize we only have about an hour left. My last stop is Emma Madden's trailer, our leading lady. And then I finally get to drive home and sleep.

I hadn't met Emma before, but similar to Javi, she isn't in the same celebrity category as our last film, so she seems much friendlier. I got a call on my walkie letting me know there was an issue with her food, and with not much else to go off of, I figured I might be in for a celebrity meltdown. However, when I got here, she let me know that she is severely allergic to mustard, and was afraid to touch the sandwich that had been dropped off to her. Sure, maybe it was a little 'Hollywood' for her to have me come and throw it in the garbage for her, but she was pretty apologetic about it.

"Thank you so much, Anna." She says with her knees brought up to her chest, as if she was shielding her center from the turkey sandwich springing back up out of the trash. Her expression is worried and her tone is so sincere that I don't correct her. Not that I would have otherwise.

"Not a problem Ms. Madden." I dust off sesame seeds from my palms.

"Oh please, call me Emma." She smiled at me now, and I couldn't help but like her a little.

"I know a mustard allergy is like, totally random, but it's actually pretty bad. I have an epipen and everything." I know she must be at least thirty years old, but her inflection reminds me of a teenager.

"I'll let crafty know. They should have sent you a food preference and allergy sheet to fill out months ago, that's the studio's fault."

"Oh, they did! I completely forgot about that. I figured it was just if you were a picky eater."

I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.

"Well, no worries. I'll let them know now." I reach for the doorknob of the trailer.

"Thank you again!" Emma called out as I closed the door behind me.

As I'm finally able to drop off my walkie for the day, I run through all the ways that Emma's Mustard Mayhem could have cost the studio hundreds of thousands of dollars. How did they start production without having her sign a waiver? Why did no one double check that all the talent had sent in their allergy lists? If she were a higher profile celebrity, this could have been a huge issue. But as usual, these are the scenarios I keep to myself. And as I drive home, I try to run through only mustard scenarios, and ignore any that pop up with another actor in mind.

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bengiyo · 1 year

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Bed Friend Ep 4 Stray Thoughts

Last week, King accidentally triggered Uea when he tried to kiss the back of his neck, and we, the viewers, were made privy to the knowledge that Uea was sexually abused by his stepdad. King apologized, even though he didn't exactly know what was going on, and assured Uea that he would never do anything to make him uncomfortable again. King is getting jealous of his coworkers flirting with Uea. Pock showed back up, and Jade was the only correct person to get security, followed by King insisting Uea report the incident to the police. We left with Pock assaulting Uea in the parking garage.

Trigger Warnings: sexual assault (0:40 to 0:56, 14:20 to 15:20), rape mention (2:58 to 3:08, 15:50 to 16:40), child abuse (15:56 to 17:40, 25:51 to 26:02), post assault bruising treatment (6:40 to 7:25), sexual abuse flashback (14:14 to 15:20)

Alright. I need to pause immediately. James's voice was far too convincing when he played Uea's panic. (0:48 to 0:56).

So relieved King was still around. We should note that in the heated moment he declared himself Uea's boyfriend. Yes, he said it for Pock's benefit, but we know it's what he wants them to be.

I like how King, when he really wants to take care of Uea, frames the request as a favor Uea is granting him.

Props to this show for focusing on the physical aftermath of punching something. You will hurt your hand.

Man, these two do lust really well. It feels comfortable?

They're even showing the bruises Pick gave Uea. Love that King waited until Uea was asleep to apply something to them. Also, Uea's secret smiles are going to destroy me.

Absolutely vile to use Tonkao to force Uea to come back to the house. Did they make James take off his shirt to soften the blow for us?

Oh, gay boys and their sisters.

This is so gross to watch. This man is still trying to abuse Uea.

Though it is super uncomfortable, I'm relieved that if they're going to explore the specifics of what Uea experienced, the more physical work was given to James and not a child actor. Still, James's voice during these scenes is chilling. I keep holding my breath.

Did she really beat this boy with a wire hanger and then lock him in the fucking bathroom again?? That's your response to your son saying he's being raped in his own bedroom?

Man, I wish he'd just gotten Shabu with Jade.

I can't help but wonder what horrors the sister has suffered, too.

Bangkok streets look so dangerous.

Am very relieved that we are consistently showing boys who give head now.

I love King. He may be horny, but he knows something's wrong.

This boy had to celebrate his birthdays alone as a child goddamn.

Oh, Uea finally gave King a smile.

Alright, I know he's been through a lot but biting the cake that way is unhinged.

King's bed is huge, and yet he basically sleeps in the middle because he's trying to be as close to Uea as possible.

Oh, Uea. I get you wanting your life to be private, but I'm so glad someone seems to listen to you.

OUTING. Drone shots!

I feel like King conspired with Gun on this fall so he could stay with Uea.

Love Uea enjoying King letting him take charge all the time.

Uea drunk flirting with some white boy is sending me.

This final shot with the sunset is gorgeous.

Oh, hm, I don't know about the danger hovering around this new character next week.

So, this was a difficult episode, but I'm impressed with James's portrayal of the things Uea has suffered. I'm hoping we get some translated interviews with him and the cast about the preparation and filming for those scenes. I sincerely hope this show doesn't take us down some sort of parent forgiveness arc because I really don't want to dig for that with Uea's mom or stepdad.

#bed friend #bed friend meta #Ben watches

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unfortunatetheorist · 6 months

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Quote Debunk 10 - A Series of Unfortunate Debunks:

The Complete Works of Contradictory Logic in ASOUE: Volume I

Part 1 - The Bad Beginning: S1 E1

For Debunk 10, I'm going big: I shall list each and every statement that can confuse or distract viewers the first time around, but on closer inspection, actually make no sense.

12:42 - BAUDELAIRE MANSION DESTROYED (headline)

"But I thought it would cheer them up, the Gloomy Guses!" ¬ Eleanora Poe.

14:17 - "Our home is your home" (Arthur Poe); "But don't touch anything" (Eleanora Poe)

15:39 - "I remember how I was when I was your age" (Mr Poe); "We're all different ages" (Baudelaires)

15:49 - "And he's employed as an actor, so you know his excitement is genuine." ¬ Arthur Poe

26:43 - "I told them to cry using their inside voices" ¬ Olaf

27:51 - "I open my home to them and all they do is complain; the bathroom is filthy, the rat is noisy, the bed is cramped!"

Why are you opening a disgusting, rat-infested home to 3 orphans, Olaf?!

From the same scene, this piece:

"The plural of 'bed' is 'bed'." ¬ Olaf

29:02 - *Puts finger in mouth*; "The lamb was too salty"

30:43 - "Your secret tower room?"; "WRONG! My secret tower room."

33:28 - Pasta Puttanesca; "I wonder what that means in Italian" ¬ K.B.

NO, YOU DO NOT KLAUS! NO, YOU DO NOT!

34:00 - Something I picked up when reviewing the episode for this post: the trolley reads "THIS TROLLEY DOES NOT TURN ON RED LIGHTS"... why? A bit nonsensical if you ask me, but maybe Handler had his reasons...

35:58 - "N! For the knowledge, 'cause I'm very, very smart!" ¬ O.

So smart, you can't spell knowledge. Amazing.

37:25 - "...Like 2 pieces of a bread in the middle of a sandwich." ¬O.

Followed by Sunny's obvious correction.

As of 40:10 - From Olaf's monologue: "...for the purpose of plotting theater..."

Yeah. He told us from the start and we missed it.

40:41 - "There is no 'I' in acting..."

Except for the one right in the middle, of course.

40:58 - "There is only what the French call a certain... 'escargot'. "

What have snails got to do with acting?!

A noteworthy point: Only the villains give this counter-acting logic; maybe my hypothesis will still stand by TE...

¬ Th3r3534ch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

#asoue #vfd #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #snicketverse #asoue netflix #quote debunk #a series of unfortunate debunks #the bad beginning #olaf #mr poe #eleanora poe #arthur poe #the baudelaires #klaus baudelaire

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The thing that confuses me about the facial expressions, and correct me if I'm wrong, but these are all Voice Actors. With the exception of Ashley Johnson, I haven't seen any of them in a live-action role. Laura Bailey's acting has been honed to fit her medium, a medium where people can't see her face. That's not to say she can't act through expressions or body language, but to me, it seems like her default would be to convey through voice, not expressions.

Additionally, and here's where you should probably fact check me, in the past, many of the cast, including Laura, has narrated non-verbal reactions their characters have had in different situations. If they want us, the audience, to know their character is reacting to a situation in a particular way, such as lying or putting on a brave face, they don't do that in subtle, easy-to-miss facial expressions or shifts in body language. They do it in narration.

Hey!

So, most of them have been in live-action roles - Taliesin did a lot of TV acting as a child, Sam and Liam both have considerable stage experience, and Travis was in Nip/Tuck. I also have no theater training but I would assume that even if you're alone in a booth - or perhaps especially if you are, and have nothing else to act against - it helps to physically act things out. I mean, no theater training...but I do have to talk to clients over the phone and putting on a fake smile does tend to help.

You can watch the cast and they do often adopt facial expressions and postures in line with their characters. I think this is especially noticeable with Matt, since he plays many different people and his posture and expressions do noticeably change within the same episode. But we also have seen it in action. Liam as Caleb is a great example - note how he freezes when Trent's name first comes up in 2x17. Marisha and Travis are also very physical actors, and frequently embody their character's attacks. You can watch clips across campaigns and note differences in body language and expression among most of the cast depending on the character they play. They frequently narrate what their characters do as well, which I think is good both because a lot of people listen to the show as a podcast, because this is standard D&D practice, and because there's only so much you can embody while sitting down at a table. But there's a physical element and I don't think it's bad to attribute some acting in Critical Role to facial expressions.

I take issue specifically with like...well, if you're mentioning that Laura is biting her lip when she briefly glances at Liam or Marisha and claiming that this means she's secretly in love with them and those are the endgame ships, but leaving out, say, this:

or this:

you're transparently cherrypicking. There's quite literally hundreds of hours of the cast making all kinds of expressions both in and out of character, and you can probably find something that supports whatever you want, if taken out of context.

Here's actually a recent example of an out of context expression! Travis does make this face in that episode, but it happens much later in the conversation. Here's Travis when Ashton actually says he knows loneliness Laudna doesn't (around 1:48:50 in 3x49):

The expression in the post actually appears about 2 minutes later (around 1:50:40), as Ashton is asking Laudna what it was like to wake up and have people there, and if you watch it in context, it's not annoyance or rolling his eyes but intense listening to the conversation. (And, to be fair, it's possible they were just using Travis's face at a later point as a reaction...but it's still not even an annoyed face!)

You can find this constantly. It's in the Mighty Nein reunited; people claim that Caleb was dissociating when Jester says she died when he was in fact not even there (he was still polymorphed into a shark) because Liam happened to make a kind of blank expression, possibly because his character wasn't even there yet.

So it's not that the cast doesn't make expressions or embody their characters. They do! They do it a lot! But like...this is actually one of the things I was vagueing when I made this post about crumbs. People will be like LAURA BLINKED AND THIS MEANS SHE LOVES MY SHIP in an episode where Vex and Percy are fucking in the Whitestone vault, or Jester and Fjord are having a 10 minute intense conversation about the future. Expressions are just one piece (and I agree, what the cast actually deliberately says and narrates is far more important, usually, but expressions are still an important part of their acting - they're voice actors, but they're aware they're on camera) and they must be considered in the appropriate context because people will grab out of character moments or misrepresent when a cast member made a certain face or take a single frame and pretend it's a different emotion than was actually expressed to put forth a narrative they already support.

So: fine to include expressions! Great! If they weren't meaningful then our many fine gifmakers in the fandom would be wasting their time! But as with anything, they can be twisted or deliberately misrepresented, and when they're placed as immutable truth even when out of context, misinterpreted, and at odds with what the cast is actually doing and saying, it borders on deluded.

#answered #Anonymous #cr tag

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Audiobook review: “Big Swiss” is an affair to remember

In her mid-40s, Greta realizes she’s been drifting through life. In response, she leaves her decade-long relationship, moves across the country into an infested house, takes up work as a sex therapist’s transcriber, and embarks on an affair with one of his clients, not bothering to mention the connection. We’re in the last wave of gen-X midlife crisis novels, and these slackers are not going gently.

Daily life with Greta and her housemate Simone, in fact, isn’t far removed from the rhythms of Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, wherein post-boomers hang out in an isolated house, swapping stories and half-assedly trying to make some sense of it all. In Jen Beagin’s new novel Big Swiss, the women live in an 18th-century upstate New York farmhouse where they smoke cigarettes, load the wood-burning stoves, and maintain an uneasy balance with the various bugs suffusing the structure.

Greta never claims to be a good person; in fact, she experiences chronic low-level suicidal ideation linked to her feelings of worthlessness. Readers inclined to judge Greta for acting on an opportunity to sleep with a woman whose therapy sessions she’s been privy to are essentially invited to fire away: we’ll never loathe Greta more than she loathes herself.

That all sounds very bleak, and it certainly is, but Beagin counts on us to keep turning pages — or listening — based on shared curiosity about the object of Greta’s mounting obsession. Flavia, or “Big Swiss” as Greta regards her after making a correct supposition about the European American’s physical stature, is a married gynecologist in her late 20s. By various rules of society, neither woman should be with the other. That gives their affair a tenuous quality that manifests, for both of them, as an extra kick of sexual electricity.

Greta’s mordant humor buoys the novel even as it delves into the traumatic events that have shaped these characters’ lives. The therapist character plays a surprisingly constructive role: despite Greta’s contempt for his dubious holistic practices, ultimately he emerges as a voice of reason, encouraging his clients to see themselves honestly but charitably. (His decision to hire a transcriptionist who’s not just human, but local, while he’s telling clients the task is handled by software, is a contrivance that’s never fully explained.)

In Hollywood, the setup would lead to a third-act payoff where Big Swiss discovers the deception and Greta pays the piper. It remains to be seen what producer Adam McKay will do with the forthcoming HBO series based on this novel, but Beagin takes her time to follow the story’s unwinding strands. Even amid shocking surprises, the novel’s focus remains on the unexpected bond between the two lovers — then, latterly, returns to the friendship between Greta and Simone.

The audiobook involves a cast of five, which helps to differentiate the therapy sessions Greta transcribes from her inner dialogue. The audiobook credits fail to specify which actors portray which characters, but together they have fun with Big Swiss’s Nico-esque rumble and Greta’s self-deprecating wit. Director Nikki Banks Maurer ensures that the narrators capture the character’s nuances and the text’s shifting tones: with a novel like this, autopilot performances would be disastrous.

Despite its crackling dialogue and meme-worthy moments, Big Swiss is ultimately a patient examination of two women’s relationship with each other, and with their disparate histories of trauma. The characters don’t ask for our empathy, but Beagin ensures that by novel’s end they have it.

– Jay Gabler

#audiobooks #Jen Beagin #books #Big Swiss

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Seth Rogen Weight Loss – Ultimate Case Study

About Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen was Born on 15 April 1982,

He is well known as Canadian Actor, Comedian, and Filmmaker, and he is also known as a Stand-Up Comedian in Vancouver.

Donnie Darko First Movie was Released in 2001 by Seth Rogen, he Performed a Minor Role in This Picture.

Seth Rogen Goldberg Co-Write Many Films Like Superbad, Pineapple Express, The Green Hornet, This is the End and also Directed This is the End.

Seth Rogen Also gives Voice to Many films like Shrek the Third, Horton Hears a Who!, The Kung Fu Panda Trilogy, Paul, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Monster Vs. Aliens, Sausage Party,

And He Also Gives Voice to the Lion King which was released in 2019 and the Forthcoming Mario Film.

There is Lots of things I want to tell you Related to Seth Rogen but I tell you at the End, First I Tell You about

Seth Rogen Weight Loss

Seth Rogen weight lost his most incredible transformations if you earned,

A fan of the Canadian American actor Seth Rogen and his movies his fantastic weight loss might impress you,

Vancouver-born actor Seth Rogen is well known for his comedy and versatile roles in Hollywood

Nowadays many fans might see Seth Rogen as handsome and in perfect shape, they would be quite surprised to see his pictures post-2011.

He went through a dramatic weight loss journey succeeding to shed 30 pounds within a timeframe of ten weeks stay with us to find out how

Why did Seth Rogen lose weight for the initial decade of his acting career despite being fat Seth Rogen did pretty well as he got proper roles in several Hollywood movies.

Such as freaks and geeks and the 40-year-old virgin the 38-year-old used to be quite chubby.

While growing up maybe because of a young metabolism or genetics itself the game-changer began when he got the lead role of Britt Reid in The Green Hornet consequently.

In the Movie, the opportunity was tempting enough to get the 220 lb actor to go through a hectic diet and workout scheduled to lose about 30 pounds.

And getting down to 190 pounds in three months Seth Rogen adhered to a strict diet all the fitness experts,

Might relate to the fact how diet plays a pivotal to get healthy and slim luckily Seth Rogen was well known for the fact,

And he altered his diet in the first place which proved influential thanks to the likes of celebrity dieticians,

And fitness trainer Harley Pasternak the artist started quite strong in the mission to be fit for the role in The Green Hornet.

The Canadian American artist put on a five-factor diet which meant he ate five different meals in a day.

Considering the fact that his food intake was very frequent before.

In the weight-loss mission, Pasternak didn’t do a drastic change to his eating it’s but did alter the menu instead losing weight was no cakewalk for the Emmy-nominated.

Writer as he had to sacrifice his favorite food items like cheeseburgers and all sorts of junk food items.

Furthermore, he took natural supplements like apple cider vinegar blueberry, and lemon tea to burn the fat and lower the carb deposition.

Brogan’s five-factor menu new 5-factor diet played an essential role in Rogen’s rapid weight loss

Since it ensured the correct amount of calories and nutrients, it helped the process of metabolism to burn fat getting into details sets day began with a breakfast.

Which focused much on proteins and fruits like grapefruit banana eggs and hemp seeds unlike the ordinary person,

Who eats lunch after breakfast there is a mid-morning snack for Rogan which suits right for his workout schedule,

Interestingly the second meal of his day includes freshly baked or olive oil-fried veggie chips with salsa sauce,

Similarly, Rogen’s lunch included a rich protein and fiber with eggs seafood chicken, and organic vegetables after a few hours of lunch.

Rogan used to have some afternoon snacks like dry fruits and protein shakes which kept him active during the day lastly to call it a day Seth,

Used to keep the carbs low and push on proteins and green on the dinner as well.

Thus it included items like chicken breast pork loin codfish and salmon complemented with vegetables like lettuce carrots and cabbage.

It’s just diet and exercises it works ah stay fat people that’s my motto it’s no picnic while many speculated his dramatic transformation was the result of surgeries,

And experimental injections the actor from Paul denied all the allegations he remained quite vocal about how intense exercises and diet,

Working quite right just in case anyone is interested in Brogan’s 5-day workout in the gym well going on a restrictive diet is irrelevant.

If not matched with the right combination of exercises thus Seth Rogen did work more on calories.

Burning and muscle building exercises five days per week interestingly the training focused on the upper body,

Muscles in the chest shoulders and upper back with works like pull-ups barbell bench press and inclined bench press the 38-year-old kept.

The balance is quite right with leg workouts as well as lunges squats step-ups and weighted leg presses,

Generally, it was all targeted into the gluteal calf and thigh muscles surprisingly Brogan didn’t do any sort of cardiac activity to burn fat,

As the muscle buildup helped him get rid of it instead Brogan loved the HIIT circuit plan which remains one of the unique yet,

Effective measures to burn calories and lose fat although it was hectic the proper matchup between the workout and nutritional intake helped him to cut,

Down 30 pounds in the span of 10 weeks.

Just in time for the shooting of The Green Hornet.

Seth Rogen Early Life

Seth Aaron Rogen was born on April fifteen, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia to a Jewish family of Ukrainian and Russian origin.

His mother, Sandy Belogus, could be a public servant, and his American father, Mark Rogen, worked for a non-profit organization,

And as an assistant director of the Workmen’s Circle Jewish fraternal organization. Of his twin citizenship, Rogen has declared,

“I definitely go along with being Canadian much more than being American” as a result of he grew up in a North American nation.

He has described his parents, who met on kibbutz Beit Alfa in Israel, as “radical Jewish socialists”.

Rogen has an older sister named Danya. He attended Vancouver Talmud Torah school and grey gray secondary school,

Incorporating several of his classmates into his writing, and took up Kyokushin martial art for 10 years.

He was additionally known for the stand-up comedy he performed at Camp Miriam, a Habonim Dror camp.

As a child, Rogen did not need to pursue any career apart from comedy, stating, “As soon as I noticed you could be funny as employment,

That was the work I needed.”He got his beginning in show business at age twelve after enrolling in taught comedy workshop schooled by Mark Pooley.

His early comedy routines involved jokes regarding his bar mitzvah, his grandparents, and his camp counselors.

During his teenage years, he would perform stand-up comedy routines at places like bar mitzvahs and tiny parties, later shifting to bars.

A mohel paid him to write jokes. At the age of thirteen, he co-wrote a rough draft of Superbad with childhood friend Evan Goldberg,

Whom he had met at bar mitzvah classes. based on their teenage experiences, Rogen and Goldberg spent the rest of their time in high school polishing the script.

They initially worried that American Pie (1999) had beaten them to the idea for the film, however, they decided that the film,

‘managed to totally avoid all honest interaction between characters,’ which is what we’re going for.”

His mother was supportive of his comic endeavors and would often drive him to stand-up gigs at the comedy club Yuk Yuks.

Together with his deadpan humor, he placed second in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest at sixteen years old.

Once Rogen was sixteen, his father lost his job and his mother quit hers, forcing them to place their house up for sale and relocate to a significantly smaller apartment.

Around this time, he landed a task on Judd Apatow’s television show Freaks and Geeks after attending a local casting call.

Rogen dropped out of high school, began operating for Apatow, and settled together with his family in Los Angeles.

Rogen paid the bills and had become the most the main at just sixteen.

Career

1999–2006: Early work and friendly relationship with Judd Apatow

Rogen’s acting debut was as Ken Miller, a cynical, acerbic “freak”, in Apatow’s Freaks and Geeks, a cult hit series 1st released in 1999.

Revolving around a group of teenagers’ lives, Freaks and Geeks 1st aired in 1999. though well-reviewed, the show was NBC’s lowest-viewed program.

And was canceled after one season due to poor ratings. impressed with Rogen’s improvisational skills,

Apatow then selected him as the lead in another of his shows, Undeclared. Rogen was originally set to play a fairly popular but nerdy college freshman,

But the network didn’t think he was leading man material. Apatow opted to not go along with the show. Rogen also served as a staff writer for the short-lived production.

Following the show’s cancellation in 2002, Rogen didn’t get several auditions, which wasn’t disconcerting to him as he forever thought he would achieve better success as an author.

He would shortly be a part of Apatow’s “frat pack,” a closely-knit group that includes Steve Carell and Paul rudd.

Of the awkwardness of a grown man spending such a lot of time with a teenaged Rogen, Apatow said:

“I’m such a comedy fan that, even though he is sixteen, I know I am hanging out with one of the guys who’s going to be one of the good comics.

“Around now, Apatow would return up with odd requests for Rogen and Goldberg, such as turning an inspiration of his into a picture in ten days,

And coming up with a hundred one-page concepts for films. relating to Apatow’s skilled effect on Rogen, the actor said in 2009,

“Obviously, I can’t stress how important Judd’s been to my career.”

Rogen had roles in Donnie Darko (2001) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

(2004). a big career point for him was becoming a staff author for Sacha Baron Cohen’s last season of da Ali G Show in 2004.

Besides the show’s different writers, Rogen received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

He became acquainted with audiences as one of the most character’s co-workers in Apatow’s well-reviewed buddy comedy directorial debut feature,

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Rogen also co-produced it and improvised all his dialogue. “[Rogen] hadn’t done any screen work,

That indicated he could carry as memorable and convincing performance as he does with the character Cal,”

MTV’s John Constantine wrote. The Boston Globe reviewer Wesley Morris wrote that Rogen, along with co-stars rudd and Romany Malco,

Were every hilarious in their own right, and Orlando Sentinel’s Roger Moore believed that Rogen had his moments in the film whereas,

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times said the actor was “droopily deadpan”.

He followed this with a small role in You, Me and Dupree (2006), a critically panned comedy featuring Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson, and Owen Wilson.

Seth Rogen Before and After

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gilly-bj · 3 years

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Rivamika: age issues

“It’s pedophilia!”

“She’s 15 and he’s 40!”

“He could be her father!”

How many times did we hear that? Well, too many. Indeed, that’s haters’ second favorite negative argument which they like to use against our ship, after “It’s incest!!”. Some of them probably don’t even know what they’re talking about, they just follow what the others say thinking that it’s sensible. Well, it isn’t. Here I want to dispel this myth with you.

I bet that since you ship Rivamika, you already know that it’s a totally fine couple, but some people, who are also part of RM fandom, are a bit confused about Levi’s age, so we’ll talk about it too. Now, let’s start.

In this post you can find:

• Their exact ages and the age gap

• Why Rivamika isn’t pedophilia

• It’s age gap a problem in couples?

The subheadings are written in their own special colour, so if you’re not interested in one of them, it will be easier to find the other.

• Their exact ages and the age gap

Levi’s age is a mystery; many doesn’t know it, many think he’s 40, many that he’s 35, and others doesn’t care at all. Actually, his exact age is unknown, but our dear Isayama gave us some informations who give us the idea of how old Levi is.

Back to 2016 [from chapter 19 to 21 (japanese language)], the Japanese voice actors of Mikasa, Eren and Armin made an appearance at the Universal Studio Japan’s SNK THE REAL exhibition with Hajime Isayama. During an interview, a fan asked to Isayama Levi’s real age (He said that it isn’t important for the story, but he is more older than what it seems), and he answered he’s in his late-thirties. Then, Isayama corrected his mistake and said that Levi is in his early-thirties.

I did some researches and with the term “early- thirties”, you indicate someone between 30 and 33 years old, with “mid-thirties” instead between 34-36 and “late-thirties” between 37-39. So, if Levi was 30 during season 1, 2, 3, now he’s 34, if he was 31, now he’s 35, if he was 32 now he’s 36 and if he was 33 now he’s 37.

Mikasa was confirmed to be 15-16 before the timeskip so now she is 19-20. Knowing this, we can calculate their age gap:

(Sorry If it’s a but messed up)

I consider Levi 34, so their age gap is of 14-15 years.

• Why Rivamika isn’t pedophilia

I think it’s not that difficult to understand that it isn’t, but since haters are a bit crazy, we’ll talk about it. So, for the law, Mikasa is not a minor anymore because she’s 19-20, so a relationship between her and Levi would be considered legal, end of the discussion. But I won’t stop here.

What’s pedophilia?

Actually, 15yso Mikasa with Levi wouldn’t have been pedophilia, SCIENTIFICALLY, but obviously for us a relationship between a minor and an adult it’s disgusting. It all depends on the historical period we are living in; ever since we were kids, our parents teached us that grown people who are interested in children are dangerous and that we have to stay away from them. But the law was different centeuries ago, and I know that it’s difficult to imagine a society where it’s legal to have a romance between teens and adults, but remember that the world we are living in it’s way different from the past one.

But when is AOT set? Well, I think that there’s not an actual year who matches perfectly with ours. We can say that it’s after the discovery of America in 1492 because they eat potatoes, which were imported by American colonies. They have also dirigibles, who was invented in the 19s, but they still move on carts and car were invented in 1886. Another thing, they communicate with letters, so no phones yet, and phone was invented in 1876. Like I already said, for me that’s not an year who corrisponds perfectly to our calendar, so the range of my analysis it’s quite huge.

According to my researches, many girls, even younger than Mikasa, got married with older men in the nineteenth century; in America, many believed that marriage could transform a child into a wife who was legally and socially an adult because of marriage. Her marital status trumped her chronological age. In Great Britain, the minimum age at which marriage was permitted (with parental consent) was 12 for a girl and 14 for a boy. Since usually women didn’t have many options for their future (the works which were permitted for them weren’t many, and they weren’t well payed), it was convenient to get married with a man they didn’t even know; men’s salaries were higher so they could support them economically. Actually, Mikasa could have been considered old according to the usual age of marriage.

And another thing, do you think that in AOT’s world, with titans who eat people, they care about age? no. Falling in love is probably considered a gift from heaven, something special who can make people smile in a such difficult period, and they don’t pay that much attention to age. I know that for us a relationship between an adult and a teen is creepy, but remember that for them it’s a miracle to be alive at the end of the day.

• Is age gap a problem in couples?

I think it’s a completely subjective thing. Google can’t give you the right answer this time; we’re all different in the world, so for some people it would be a problem, and for some no. It depends. Anyway, I want to list some famous couples with age gaps:

I hope you liked this post guys!! I wanted to post it two weeks ago but I don’t know why I didn’t 😂

I’m working on another post right know and it’s taking very much time, I hope I’ll post in before the end of the month.

Tell me what do you think about this!!!! 💜💜💜

#rivamika #gilly bj

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Please allow me to tell you about one of my favourite cartoons through this informal essay I did for school a couple of months back.

Gravity Falls and How it Did The Unimaginable

**SPOILERS... KINDA**

The 2010s saw the creation of some of the most iconic animated tv shows ever made, the likes of Adventure Time (2010), Steven Universe (2013), Over the Garden Wall (2014) and The Legend of Korra (2012). To explain why this era’s shows are so admirable is honestly rather difficult. Yet, there are many factors that can be taken into consideration when looking for an answer.

The past decade was very successful in perfecting their craft and utilizing the animated format to their favour, creating some of the wackiest and fascinating cartoons ever made. With the advancements made in both 2D and 3D animation for film, this bled into the world of TV as well.

To mention that 2010s cartoons have stunning visuals would be an understatement. Everything about the animation was beautiful; the strong colour palettes, the clean and imaginative character designs, the colourful and immersive backgrounds and especially the mesmerizing worlds that can be found within episodes that are half an hour.

This era’s cartoons also led to a massive shift in storytelling, writing longer-running stories that spread out across seasons while also swapping out episodic adventures for serialization. This heavily aided in the popularization of these shows, due to the rise of internet fandoms and dropping the taboo that cartoons were only for kids. Many shows acknowledged their older viewers by leaving clues and even puzzles to be solved by the theorists who have a large appearance on social media platforms like Reddit, Twitter and Tumblr. As the shows progressed, their fandoms created many theories for what they believed might happen within their favourite series. The top three shows from this era all utilized these changes, being at the forefront of the shift and helping guide the creative vision of 2010s cartoons.

Often regarded as many people’s favourite cartoon, Gravity Falls presented one of the best mysteries of the decade with two seasons and only 40 episodes. Inspired by Twin Peaks and The X-Files, it’s considered as the kids’ version of these two iconic shows as this cartoon acts as many people’s first introduction to horror through bright colours and fun characters.

This series follows the adventures of Dipper and Mabel Pines, twins, who are sent to spend their summer with their great-uncle or Grunkle Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon. This town is full of oddities like supernatural creatures, insane and eccentric inhabitants, and many puzzles. The Pines twins must adjust to the weirdness while uncovering the mysteries and protecting their new town.

While living in Gravity Falls, the twins are forced to work in the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap created by their Grunkle Stan that overcharges unlucky tourists, teaching about fake monsters despite there being real creatures all over town. On his first day in Oregon, Dipper accidentally came across a mysterious journal written by an unknown author that explains all the oddities to be found in this strange town. This book acts like an encyclopedic of the Weird for Dipper, an inquisitive 12-year-old kid who seeks answers.

Dipper is an extremely intelligent kid, his brain being far more developed than his body. He’s rather awkward and self-conscious as he often stumbles over his words or gets embarrassed trying to talk to girls. Despite this, the boy is an adventurer at heart who just wants to grow up and skip his upcoming teenage years.

While Mabel is quite the opposite in many ways, she is loud and has an in-your-face personality. Mabel is bouncy and fun, she is so excited to start high school. She is easily excitable and for the larger part of the series, she is in her boy-crazy phase. Mabel is a girly-girl as she likes all things; glitter, unicorns, rainbows, partying and crafting. Yet, she doesn’t often compare well with many of the other girls in town, they see her as weird and “too much”.

(In all fairness through, it is not too kind to either of the characters as their personalities are more complex than just awkward nerd and artsy girl-girly.)

Dipper and Mabel’s personalities are very different but somehow, they—along with their Gravity Falls family—manage to solve mysteries and save the town, multiple times.

Gravity Falls is an honestly genius series that completely changed the way cartoons were made. Originally when writing a series, you’d create a base of your story; characters, the universe and a basic plot. Yet, when creator, Alex Hirsch (who was in his early/mid-20)s and his small team first began constructing their show, they planned out everything they could possibly think of for the first season. Additionally, outlining some answers for their biggest mysteries that would be answered at the end of the series.

Despite being rated TV-Y7, this series really pushed the boundaries of kids’ television. From the teeth being ripped out of a deer’s mouth by a demon, rearranging the functions of every hole on a man’s face to an aggressive pop-rock sock puppet show that ended in a dramatic slow-motion scene of the puppets burning. Gravity Falls wasn’t afraid to get a little weird or creepy. Or create some genuine nightmare fuel.

From the beginning, Gravity Falls had built a mystery into its series, hiding secrets and clues all throughout the show. Most notably were the backwards-recorded message and cryptograms, using roughly nine different kinds, even creating two of their own.

The inclusion of cyphers and mysteries for fans to solve is possibly the reason why this series was so successful. As one of the first shows to do something like this, Gravity Falls used social media and internet fandoms to its advantage.

As mentioned earlier, cartoon fans have quite a presence on social media platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. They create theories and share fun ideas about their favourite shows. Viewers of Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe were all included in their share of theory fun.

Sometimes, fan theories end up being correct but when you’re Gravity Falls creator, Alex Hirsch, you don’t just watch from the sidelines as your viewers figure out the biggest mystery of your show. No, you create a hoax to get your viewers off your trail and that is what he did. Around 2013, only halfway through the first season of the show, viewers had started to follow the clues, theorizing who was the author is Dipper’s mysterious journal.

Unfortunately for the Gravity Falls production crew, the viewers were right— for the sake of readers who have never seen the show, I will not mention who the author was as it would be the biggest spoiler.

In 2013, a supposed leaked image of a tv showing a younger version of the show’s crazy old man character, Old Man McGucket, writing in the infamous journal was uploaded anonymously (by Alex Hirsch) to 4Chan.

Despite the image only being on up for a few hours, it spread like wildfire. Much to the team’s success, theorists stopped searching for the answer to “who is the author” and just accepted the image of McGucket as the truth.

To further push the fake-out, three words were posted to Alex’s Twitter, “fuming right now.”

The tweet was deleted a few minutes later and fans genuinely believed that someone from the Gravity Falls team had leaked the most important part of the story.

While doing research, I came across a Reddit post from April 10th, 2013, the day after ‘leak,’ Alex’s tweet was uploaded. In this post, user, TheoDW uploaded an image of Alex’s tweet with the caption, “It seems that Hirsch got mad at last night’s leak. He already deleted this tweet.”

Seeing the reactions of these Redditors in 2013 is kind of weird and crazy to look at. “He has every right to be upset. Someone internally released a plot revealing screen shot of series breaking spoiler information,” a deleted Reddit account commented.

“This is Alex Hirsch’s biggest success by far, he spent a huge amount of time carefully planning out the series, and then in a moment someone releases a major spoiler. It would make anyone upset,” the user, Time_Loop commented.

“Seriously, this is a nightmare for a storyteller, and shows a breach of trust. I feel so bad for him–honestly, I hope whoever did the leak gets caught and appropriate action is taken. You don’t f–k with someone’s story like this. It’s unprofessional.” the user, lonelybeloved angrily commented.

In 2014, this ‘leak’ was finally disproven when viewers were given an episode on McGucket’s backstory and an amazing tweet from Alex Hirsch.

Alex had post an image of himself playfully pointing at a monitor with the supposed leaked picture with the caption, “1) Make hoax 2) Upload to 4Chan 3) Post angry tweet about "leak" 4) Delete tweet 5) Let internet do rest”

It is so interesting to look at these comments know that all of this was orchestrated by Alex.

I wish I had been old enough at the time to follow theories and fandom stuff like I do now with current cartoons but really looking at this from an outside perspective, this was insane!

The real author wasn’t revealed until 2015 and when viewers first got the answer to this biggest show on their screens, they must have freaked out!

Following the finale in 2016, a single frame of a stone version of Bill Cipher, the show’s villain, flashed in after the credits had finished.

Alex Hirsch and his team actually created a real-life statue of their villain for their viewers to find and on July 20th, 2016, the Cipher Hunt began.

By following clues, the Hunters found themselves all over the world; Russia, Japan and then travelling throughout the United States for the final 12 clues. When the hunt took them to Los Angeles, actor, Jason Ritter (voice of Dipper Pines, also a massive fan of the series) and Alex Hirsch’s twin sister, Ariel Hirsch (the inspiration for Mabel) joined in the fun helping the search.

Finally, the hunt ended on August 2nd when someone tweeted out an image of the found statue in Oregon, the same state in which the fictional town of Gravity Falls exists. The Cipher Hunt had ended but finding the statue wasn’t Alex’s goal for the scavenger hunt, it was about the journey and bringing together the viewers, more than having them actually find the statue.

Creating its own hoax, an international scavenger hunt and quite a bit of nightmare fuel, Gravity Falls was a show truly unlike any other.

The 2010s saw some of the strongest cartoons ever made, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe acting as the leaders for multiple different changes in the medium; storytelling, worldbuilding, interaction with viewers, utilizing social media, representation and further pushing music into the cartoon world. From what was created this past decade and what has already been released in 2020, I’m so excited to see what comes next.

I have another one of these which is on Steven Universe’s representation and music if you would like to see that too!!

#isaac rambles #long post #gravity falls #cartoons #cartoon review #dipper pines #alex hirsch #OH MY GOD I LOVE ALEX HIRSCH'S BRAIN!!!#disney #disney channel #disney cartoons

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Universal Pictures was, for the most part, not considered a major studio when it released its first horror films in the early synchronized sound era. Its line of classic monsters includes The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), and others. Horror, seen as a popular (but lesser) genre in American filmmaking at the time, burnished Universal’s reputation through the 1930s and ‘40s. But despite the commercial success of so many of the Universal Monsters movies (not considered a franchise until the 1960s and ‘70s), the studio still did not command the resources of a Paramount or a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Unlike Hollywood’s biggest major studios, Universal did not have as many contracted craftspersons and actors in its ranks. As such, the studio often had to rely on its rivals loaning talent out to them. Universal, more than any other studio, leaned on actors at the time better known for their radio work. Among those radio stalwarts were Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose “Who’s on First?” routine remains widely-referenced.

By the mid-1940s, Universal’s stable of monsters was well-known to the general American moviegoing public. Many of those monsters – Frankenstein’s monster especially – had appeared in various sequels over the years, to decreased budgets and diminishing returns on audience frights. In an attempt to rejuvenate this then-unofficial series of movies, Universal hatched the idea to put their leading comedy duo and many of their monsters in the same film. To some at the time, the very idea of pairing Bela Lugosi’s Dracula with Abbott and Costello was the death knell for Universal’s monsters. Instead, Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein, though chaotic in terms of plot, is a first-rate comedy. It is perhaps the best movie made featuring Abbott and Costello. However, the film’s naysayers are partly correct – this is the beginning of the end of Universal’s classic horror movies. And for those who have been able to see each of the original Universal Monsters movies prior to this, this is a hilarious way to cap off a journey into the most iconic horror movies of Golden Age Hollywood.

One evening, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) telephones a train station in La Mirada, Florida, warning of two packages addressed for McDougal’s House of Horrors (a wax museum) that must not reach their destination. But just as Larry is about to complete his thoughts, the moon rises, and he transforms into The Wolf Man. Without that critical information, baggage clerks Chick Young (Abbott) and Wilbur Grey (Costello) make the deliveries. As they crack open the crates, they realize that they are delivering Dracula’s (Bela Lugosi; this is not Lugosi’s final role as a vampire, but it is his final go-around as Dracula in a movie) coffin and Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange; Boris Karloff refused to appear in this film). With a cast of characters also including Mr. McDougal (Frank Ferguson), Dr. Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert), and an undercover insurance investigator named Joan Raymond (Jane Randolph), the so-called plot bounces around a number of horror hijinks that center on Dracula attempting to provide Frankenstein’s monster a more intelligent and obedient brain.

The film’s opening credits and its seamless vampire bat transformation sequences were animated by Walter Lantz, best known as the creator of Woody Woodpecker and the original voice actor for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Vincent Price has a voice acting cameo, years before his association with the horror genre.

For almost the entirety of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the film depends on the shtick that defines the titular duo. This is an Abbott and Costello movie first, a Universal Classic Monsters movie second. Where Costello is the prone-to-face-scrunching, excitable, and more easily-frightened of the two, Abbott is the straight man with the composure in the hairiest of situations. And this shtick – which I admit never sounds appealing when reading it, so it is best to view it for yourself – does not overstay its welcome. It is most effective in the scenes immediately after revealing Dracula’s coffin and the monster’s boxes and when our beleaguered baggage clerks (there is an incredible joke about unions that I do not wish to spoil for first-time viewers) meet Larry Talbot, in-person, for the first time. As messy as this movie can be in spurts (it feels as if there were several ideas cross-stitched together in hopes of forming a coherent whole), Abbott and Costello’s brand of humor fits neatly in this film. Their comedic dynamic feels natural in a world where heavily-accented, cape-wearing vampires and reluctant werewolves exist – let alone humans who might want to profit off the actions of these monsters or ride the coattails of Dracula’s machinations.

Of all the other actors not named Abbott and Costello, it is Lugosi who makes the most of his time here, even with material that is not as demanding as he may have wanted. By this time in his career and almost twenty years removed from Dracula, Lugosi was the victim of serial typecasting while contracted to Universal. The Hungarian-American actor, in his listing in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Players Directory, requested Hollywood’s casting directors not to think of him only for horror movies. And yet, he frequently found himself cast for horror movies – usually second billing behind Englishman Boris Karloff. Once more, for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Lugosi was in overly familiar territory – but at least this was a send-up of the horror tropes that he must have been too familiar with by then. But no one, past or present, could ever be as charismatic in a cape and stare, menacingly, at someone’s neck. Lugosi, who was not as fluent in English when he made the original Dracula, has less, but more complex dialogue for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. He nevertheless delivers it with aplomb, including his delightful dramatic pauses he occasionally inserts (“What we need is young blood – and brains.”) Lugosi might have been annoyed in starring in yet another Universal horror movie, but he never shows it here in what was his final “A”-picture (and before his association with low-budget filmmaker Ed Wood).

As a part-horror movie, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein’s favoring of the comedic duo over any of the monsters will likely irritate fans of the Universal Classic Monsters series. But I do not think imbalance of screentime is the problem (which I will elaborate on shortly). Though longtime Abbot and Costello writer John Grant’s (1941’s Buck Privates, 1945’s The Naughty Nineties) screenplay grants considerable authority to Dracula, one cannot say the same for Frankenstein’s monster and The Wolf Man. After the opening scene of the film, Lon Chaney Jr. never again appears as if he is committing himself fully to playing Larry. Glenn Strange’s turn as Frankenstein’s monster, too, feels far too labored a performance (and a performance that is never given enough attention in this film). This monster mash, on paper, should be a graveyard smash. But by film’s end, the screenplay has not done Frankenstein’s monster or The Wolf Man the narrative justice that both characters deserve, given the legacies they have at Universal.

This imbalance is of no fault of the comedic aspects of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, or of Abbott and Costello themselves. Horror and comedy are not oil and water. The two can absolutely mix, as seen in Young Frankenstein (1974) and Tremors (1990) – in these examples (among many others), the comedy does not interfere in the gravity of the horror, and the horror elements do not detract from the audience’s laughter. For director Charles Barton (the principal Abbott and Costello director from 1946 on, 1959’s The Shaggy Dog) and John Grant, the film’s most glaring problem is their unwillingness to use their monsters’ hallmarks and their lack of trust in the monsters’ stage presence until the film’s unexpectedly gruesome finish. As such, despite some fascinating, atmospheric art direction by Hilyard M. Brown (1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1963’s Cleopatra) and Bernard Herzbrun (1938’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Creature from the Black Lagoon), this film sags in its appeal as a piece of horror. As a comedy, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein might just be the most effective use of the comedic duo in any movie. The film is deserving of its comedic reputation from the first minutes, as we find Bud and Lou at the height of their comedic prowess. But, as a send-off for the horror characters and the actors that portrayed them, there might be a bitter taste for the most ardent fans of Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and The Wolf Man.

During the filming of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, practical jokes ran rampant on the set. On a set with Abbott and Costello, once has to expect daily mischief. And for this production, that meant exploding cigars, pie fights, and frequent ad-libbing to throw off other actors. According to Barton, “Bela [Lugosi] of course would have nothing to do with any of this. He would just glare at those involved with his famous deadly stare and the only emotion he would show physically was one of utter disgust.” Lugosi, by all accounts, never reacted to any of Abbott and Costello’s off-camera tomfoolery, and committed to delivering the best work possible. One of the most iconic figures of Hollywood horror movies was not going to blemish his reputation here.

By 1948, horror movies at Universal Pictures had mostly run their course during the age of the Studio System. Universal would not release another monster horror film until Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Within a few years, Universal would abandon its line of monster horror movies entirely. By then, a plucky studio in London was beginning to make its own monster horror movies, often using the characters that Universal had adapted and codified for audiences in the 1930s and ‘40s. For boasting such an influential run of horror movies, Universal did not truly treasure what incredible talent it fostered until decades after Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. No one in the year of the film’s release might have predicted the cultural cachet that Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein eventually found as a horror comedy film. The film was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2001, and remains one of the most highly-regarded comedies in American moviemaking.

My rating: 8/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

#Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein #Abbott and Costello #Charles Barton #Bud Abbott #Lou Costello #Lon Chaney Jr.#Bela Lugosi #Glenn Strange #Lenore Aubert #Jane Randolph #Vincent Price #John Grant #Robert Lees #Frederic I. Rinaldo #Hilyard M. Brown #Bernard Herzbrun #Walter Lantz #TCM #My Movie Odyssey

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Taking care of you

Hi, guys! I initially wrote this post for an ask, but it got too long to be included, so I separated it in another post.

Disclaimer: fake info.

I’d like to highlight the moments they take care of each other. It must be because of how my own relationship works, but I really feel there’s something real between them when I see them just caring for each other.

Dd taking care of gg

From gg’s angle, I think the biggest clue is not just him taking care of dd, but letting himself be taken care of. From my experience, a independent, proud and competitive person like gg admitting that he doesn’t want to do something, asking for help or letting others defend him like dd does, shows a great deal of trust in the other person. He trusts the other one to do the right thing, to say the right words. And that’s present from start to finish in all of their events.

In the Thai fanmeeting (0:13-0:40 here), when asked a difficult question, gg and dd both said: “you answer”. Gg said in a very low voice “I don’t want to answer”, so dd inmediately turned to the reporter and thought of an answer. However, his answer was too short, so gg jumped in to complete it. Gg is perfectly capable of taking care of himself in events and interviews. He has done so before and continues to do so. However, whenever he’s with dd, he relaxes more, and lets dd take the reins or even asks him to (he asked him in this segment, but dd always rushes to defend him if needs arises, like the “you look at the waist” or the “why rush into marriage” moments). That doesn’t mean that he just disconnects, but remains attentive so he can help dd too if necessary. The way they rely and complete each other is really cp goals.

In CQL bts (the scene of the boat), dd keeps peeling lotus seeds for gg and giving them to him. Gg just naturally takes the seeds from him, and when YB hands him another stem, he just hands it to dd. If it wasn’t dd, just any other coworker, I don’t think gg would bear to just sit there and have another person peeling lotus seeds for him. He’d probably peel them himself, because that’s the “polite” thing to do. However, there’s no such need with people you’re really close to, and gg just sitting there speaks volumes of their closeness to each other.

(And note that when YB asks dd to pass him a lotus seed, dd just throws an unpeeled one to him, and YB has to peel it himself, because dd is only peeling lotus seeds for gg. Dd’s double standards).

In TTXS 11th anniversary, dd brings gg as his special guest. Gg says: “wang-laoshi please take care of me”, and dd answers: “I can’t even take care of myself”. But in the episode, he never leaves gg’s side, slows down the dance so gg can follow and jumps in to dance himself when gg is asked to and uncomfortable to say “no” (note that he also defended gg in the Thai fan meeting interview, when the reporter asked if gg could dance for them, dd was the first one to answer “no”)

Gg’s hearing is quite poor, so he often misses hosts’ questions. Dd is used to it by now: sometimes gg doesn’t even needs to ask him and dd will already be turning to him to repeat the question to him. I can think of at least three times that dd helped him like that: (1), (2) and (3)

(In Tencent Awards night, gg didn’t even hear the host telling him to stay for a bit, and only stopped after seeing dd. He didn’t hear anything the hosts said either. What is remarkable is that dd started to explain as soon as he turned. How did you know that gg hadn’t heard anything if you were facing the other side, dd?)

In Nanjing concert (191101), gg had a infection in the throat (faringitis). He could barely talk in the practice, and it’s part of the reason he’s much more silent in that concert. His throat was bothering him at the end of the concert, when they were both singing WuJi, so dd just simply sang his lines for him, hitting the high notes even though his voice isn’t suited for them. He continued to sing the leading voice of the song, just so gg could rest his voice. Gg’s reaction is so sweet too (his surprised stare, their smiles, gg nodding his head giving his thanks... judge for yourselves). He was smiling much more afterwards too.

Gg taking care of dd

But of course, gg also takes care of dd. As I’ve said, this goes to them both.

We’ve the famous knee pads moment in the 9-minutes boat video. Gg notices injuries in dd’s knees and looks very sad when he asks “b-but these are new injuries?”. They even bicker for a second, but gg keeps looking at dd’s knees and out of concern asks him to wear knee-pads. We all know that more than a year after that, dd is indeed listening to gg’s words, even though at first he laughed at them and asked “who would wear knee pads?”.

In the same 9-minute boat video, gg also asks him “I heard yesterday was so hot that an extra fainted... how were you?”. From my pov, this video allows us a small glimpse into how they interact, and by dd’s answer I think it’s usual for gg to be caring and attentive of dd. Even when they are playing and joking around, gg keeps in mind dd’s health, like when he said “yes, I’ll let you off since you haven’t slept for 2-3days and that’s sad. Rest well, please” here.

I don’t even think gg was thinking of anymore than just friendship with dd at that moment. But it already started to show that he cared a lot about him.

There are also multiple instances of gg taking care of dd’s throat. For some reason, it seems dd is very prone to colds and coughs (he once said he was the kind of kid that got sick every season, and I don’t think the idol life workload is doing anything to fix that).

Bxg digged out that gg gave dd a certain brand cough drop in the Thai fan meeting (and it’s the same one he was sharing with the other hosts in SDoC). Then we jump at Tencent Awards night. Gg sees that dd has something candy-like in his mouth and inmediately asks: “does your throat hurt?”. The amount of knowledge necessary here: as his cohosts from SDoC demonstrates for us, when we see a friend eating a candy, it’s more normal to ask “oh, you’re eating a candy?”. But gg inmediately knows that it’s a cough drop, most likely because he knows that dd doesn’t like sweets and snacks and he gave him those. From there, we jump to gg’s worry about dd “does your throat hurt?”.

In TTXS episode with gg, at the end, when they are eating meat skewers, gg advises dd to eat less of them: “they have black pepper, it’s bad for the throat”. For me, it’s a sign of how gg takes care of dd in a more domestic and daily basis. The comment is taken naturally by dd, as if he’s used to it.

(Actually, I’d like to know what gg has to say about dd eating so many spicy hotpots with his cough. In traditional Chinese medicine, “spicy, sweet, oily and alcohol” are the four prohibitions for people who want to take care of their voice and their throat. By gg’s comments and the brand of cough drops he gives dd, I’m almost sure he wouldn’t like dd mistreating his throat like this).

I’m sure most of you has noticed the next one, but gg always clears the seat for dd. He did so in Nanjing fan meeting, and took the papers and the pen away so dd didn’t sit on them, and again cleared the seat next to him in Tencent awards. So when gg wasn’t sitting next to him in w/ibo night, dd simply sat with a water bottle behind him, and gg noticed when he sat in dd’s seat later, when dd had left.

(It’s also interesting to analyze gg’s movement in Tencent Awards. Everyone in that sofa where sitting widely apart from each other, so a pen placed next to gg shouldn’t bother dd if he simply took his seat keeping the same distance everyone was keeping. But gg assumed naturally that dd would be sitting next to him).

(At the left, an actress who is rumoured to follow other actors cp’s, and was seen observing gg and dd that night quite closely).

Also from Tencent Awards night, dd was confused as to how to leave the stage, which gg kindly points him the correct way. The same thing, though much more subtle, appears again at the w/ibo night, when with a glance from dd, gg points the way with his fan for dd.

Gg also cares about dd’s career. In c-culture, connections and relationships with important people play a large part in your success in any industry. So at first gg was standing between ZLY and dd, but when he noticed ZLY talking with dd, he just gently pushed dd towards her, so they could chat.

This is why I don’t really believe in the famous video of a “jealous gg moment” (when they got off stage and were walking down the stairs, dd looked at ZLY, and that glance was supposedly seen by gg, who stormed off, leaving dd behind). I think gg didn’t react like that because of dd (though he did look at him), but because someone signaled him from afar.

Dd even waited for ZLY to get on stage, and offered his help to her because she was wearing a long dress. This was also seen by gg, who turned to check if dd was following. If this moment didn’t get a reaction from gg, and he doesn’t react poorly when they both chatted at his side, I don’t know why dd just looking at her afterwards would sit so badly with gg (and we get back to the fact of ZLY being married and with a baby).

At the Nanjing concert, in the first day, when gg and dd were singing Wu Ji, there were some problems with their earphones. You can actually see them trying to fix it from here. However, dd ends up taking off his, and there’s a moment of silent communication, where I think dd was asking gg to cue him the start of the next part of the song (which is dd’s). From here, you can see gg keeping up with the beats of the song, and see him pointing with the mic towards dd when is his turn to start singing.

I particularly love this Wu Ji interpretation from them, because it’s first dd asking gg for help, and inmediately after, dd taking care of gg.

They rely on each other, trust each other and they move around each other like the other one is meant to be in their personal space. Neither gives or receives more help from the other, they are in an equally balanced relationship. Now you can take this and compare it to real relationships you know of to get your own conclusions about whether it resembles a romantic relationship or a strong friendship.

#yizhan #bjyx #taking care of each other #bts #mainly #191228 #191101

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Worth The Feeling

Content Warning: 18+

This story includes explicit smut, intimidation, and an age gap relationship (MC is 26, Pedro is in his 40s). Minors, do not interact.

Chapter 4:

Sure enough, a week goes by without any extra attention from Javi. Lana swears he is still looking at me in between takes, but I know better than to trust a hopeless romantic. I do smile at him occasionally if I happen to catch his eye, but otherwise it is business as usual.

That is until Emma Madden gets rushed to the hospital.

We've almost completed our second full week of shooting. Halfway through the day, we are setting up for a flashback scene between Javi and Emma's character. A flashback to before she was kidnapped, apparently. As we are setting up, another PA called Lloyd in a panic that he was in the ambulance with Emma on the way to the hospital.

Emma had made it to the age of 32 without ever having tried sushi. And she decided that today, at eleven in the morning, was the day that she was going to give it a whirl. The issue is, Emma was unaware that wasabi is virtually made up entirely of mustard seed. And it turns out that Emma was not being a Hollywood snob when it came to her food. She was, in fact, highly allergic to mustard.

Naturally, Lloyd's first reaction was to freak out about when we were going to block this scene. Then one of the producers reminded him that he should be concerned about Emma's welfare, and he took a deep breath, and called the hospital.

Lloyd returned in a few minutes to a silent room full of at least seventy five people, all waiting on a response.

"Emma is alive and well, they're just keeping her until tomorrow to monitor her."

There is a collective sigh of relief in the room.

"And now that that is taken care of, I need someone to come up with a scenario in which we get this scene blocked off today without our leading lady, and somehow miraculously stay on schedule to fly out to Italy in two weeks."

The room grows quiet again. I can tell by Lloyd's eyes that he is a ticking time bomb.

"We need to block this scene today, people!" Lloyd's voice is shaky now. "It's bad enough we can't shoot it today."

"Okay, alright, nothing we can't handle." Henry, one of our oldest producers, claps Lloyd on the arm, startling him in the process.

"We need to block out where to place the actors, correct?" Henry continues talking to Lloyd in a tone that resembles a kindergarten teacher trying to subdue a meltdown. "And it's just Javi and Emma in the flashback scene, right? So let's just get Javi up there and mark camera placement for tomorrow when Emma is back."

"We would need Emma to know where she should be tomorrow. And that's impossible." Lloyd covers his face in his hands.

Henry looks briefly around at the crew, before he makes eye contact with me and I just shrug.

"Ava!" Henry beams. "We can have Ava block the scene and report to Emma tomorrow and explain what marks she needs to hit."

Lloyd looks frantically to follow Henry's line of sight, almost as if he's forgotten who I am. And honestly, maybe he has.

"Why Ava?" Lloyd asks.

No seriously, why me?

"Because she is about the same height as Emma, so the angles will be correct. And she is a PA, exactly the person who could report to Emma tomorrow and make sure she can hit her marks." What Henry really means is, anything can fall under the job description of a PA, and I cost less than a stand-in.

Lloyd checks his watch. "Alright, let's get it done."

As soon as Lloyd concurs, Henry briskly walks over to me and ushers me toward the set. The soundstage today has been transformed from the CIA headquarters to a beautiful hotel room with an office nook and a four-poster bed. The fake windows look out into gorgeous fake scenery that I believe is trying to resemble Paris. I hadn't had a chance to look over the pages today, so all I have to go off of is that it's a flashback to an earlier part of their relationship.

I'm standing in the center of the fake hotel room with my hands at my sides when lights blast on. I've never been on the stage when they're ready to shoot, unless it was to briefly run something up to an actor or take something away from the set at the last minute. The lights are hot and really, really bright. My hands start to feel shaky. I have yet to spot Javi, even though I know he is Emma's scene partner. I can barely see anyone around the stage anymore thanks to the lights, so I'm unsure if anyone has pointed out something for me to do.

"Um, where should I start?" I call out to no one in particular.

"Just wait there Ava. Javi and the coordinator are incoming." I can hear Henry reply for somewhere off stage left.

Coordinator? Is it a fight scene? I don't picture Emma doing her own stunts.

I'm still twiddling my thumbs when Javi and a small woman with a clipped blonde haircut step up into the hotel room. I'm too busy at first trying to figure out who the woman is that it takes far too long for me to realize that Javi is wearing nothing but a bathrobe. It's tied loosely, and a trail of chest hair is peaking through the opening. I can feel his eyes on me and I try my best to take a deep breath.

"Ava, is it?" The pixie-esque woman walks up and offers her hand. "I'm Naomi, the intimacy coordinator."

"Nice to meet you," I smile at her instinctively before I fully process what she just said. "Wait, you're the what?"

"I'll be walking you two through the scene. Since Emma is out, I'll give you the tips on what I'm looking for so you can tell her tomorrow. We'll also focus on getting the camera angles correct so nothing is exposed. So once we finish hitting a mark, we'll place some tape down and move to the next spot. It shouldn't take too long. Any questions?"

"I...um, exposed ?" I can feel my palms start to sweat.

"Oh, don't worry sweetie. We were already on our way when we heard about Emma so Javi was already in wardrobe. We're just blocking, so you can keep what you have on. And if anything makes you uncomfortable, just let us know." Naomi smiles at me.

"I'm going to have a quick chat with the cameraman and be back to lay down the first mark." She steps off the stage and I'm left under the bright lights, trying to pretend that Javi isn't half-naked in front of me.

"She means it, you know." Javi's eyes are still on me, and his face looks borderline apologetic. "If you are uncomfortable, just let me know. I have a feeling that we would still be able to make our flights to Italy even if this wasn't completed today." He rolls his eyes in sympathy.

"Probably...but would we make it through Lloyd's wrath?" Javi chuckles at my comment, seemingly a little relieved. "Just please tell me you have something on under there." I give him a once over with my eyes for dramatic effect, but it has an added effect on me when I really take in the full stature of him. His skin is perfectly bronzed, his shoulders broad and muscular, and the way the robe is tied around his waist... giving just enough away of his abdomen. When I look back up at his face, it almost looks as though he's blushing.

"Yes," He clears his throat, "Not to worry, I'm covered." He pats his leg.

"Okay, folks, let's get going!" Naomi bounds back up onto the set. "This scene is about passion. You two haven't seen each other for several months, so I'm thinking that we have several stops on the way to the bed."

I bite my tongue to keep my nervous laughter from spilling out.

"We're going to start you both by the door, and in each shot we just have to check with the cameramen that the angle is right, sound good?"

I don't trust my voice at this point, so I just nod. Javi does the same.

Naomi walks us toward the fake door of the hotel room.

"Okay, so, the scene begins with you two bursting through the door, all tangled up in each other. Ava, make a mental note of these directions to tell Emma tomorrow."

Javi steps into the doorframe and holds his hands out. I just stare at them.

"Ava, sweetie, you burst through the door all tangled up in each other." Naomi repeats as she gently pushes my back, walking me into Javi's embrace.

"Oh right, right." I whisper. Javi splays his large, warm hands on my back, pulling me in slightly.

"Is this alright?" He whispers, too. I look up at him and nod. His gaze is dark, and that familiar knitted brow is back in the center of his face. With my nod, he pulls me in closer, and I put my arms around his neck.

"Lovely. Now get your faces a little closer together and I'll check with the camera." Naomi instructs.

I wrap my hands a little tighter around Javi's neck. I realize with our height difference that he has no choice but to bend down as I do this. His skin is so warm and soft under the collar of the robe. It makes me shiver despite the hot spotlights. His brown eyes lock onto mine, and I'm hoping he didn't feel my response.

"Camera check!" Naomi calls.

"All clear, both in shot." Someone calls back.

"Great. So from here, I'm thinking that we have Javi press Emma, or in this case, Ava, against the wall once they close the door. And from there, we'll move to the desk."

Javi starts walking me backward before turning me slightly until my back is against the wall. He doesn't move his hands from behind my back, nor do I move mine from around his neck. Our faces are mere inches apart, but I'm trying my best to look anywhere else. Anywhere that would help keep my breathing in check.

Naomi finishes placing tape where we had been before, and then comes over to check our new placement against the wall.

"Okay the spot looks good...but Javi, I wonder if we could have you pin Ava's arms to the wall and you sort of dominate her in this moment. Then we could have a tighter shot of your arms holding her hands back."

Holy shit. I have hardly any hope of controlling my breathing now. And as Javi looks at me expectedly, and I give him the nod of approval, I can't help but let out a shaky exhale. Slowly, so achingly slowly, he drags his hands off my back and slides them up my arms to unhook them from his neck. I can tell that his pace is out of respect. He wants to make sure I have the chance to say that I'm uncomfortable. The problem is, I am way too comfortable with this. With his closeness, his skin, and God, his scent. I've never been close enough to smell him before. He smells like cedarwood soap and the kind of musk that only ever seems to be produced from masculine skin.

Javi threads his fingers through mine and pushes them above my head against the wall behind me. In doing this, his chest is closer than it was before. I try not to notice how good it feels to have my breasts skim both the soft fluffy fabric of the bathrobe, but also the warmth of his bare chest.

That look of concern, or concentration, or whatever makes his face so serious, is still staring at me. I look up at him briefly, only able to handle the intensity of his gaze for a moment.

"Perfect. Ava, make note of arching your back toward him like that for Emma." Naomi approves.

Oh my god. I didn't notice I was doing that. My cheeks burn.

"Camera check!" "Clear. Both on the wide and close shots."

As soon as that is confirmed, Javi practically jumps back from me. I feel a wave of disappointment. I've given so much thought to how good he smells, that I forgot to wonder if maybe I smelled unpleasant. I have been working all day...

But then Naomi tapes where he is standing and I feel embarrassed by my own train of thought. He was probably just making room for her. Two minutes of being in close proximity to this man and I'm losing my head.

"Okay so then Emma is going to push Javi, walk him toward the desk. Sort of take back a bit of that control, you know? But then Javi, you're going to lift Emma, or Ava, up before placing her on the desk. Both of you have missed each other so much you're fighting over who gets to be in control of the moment." I can tell this woman loves her job, but I'm also wondering if she particularly revels in making me as antsy as possible. And with Javi now a few steps away, I'm vaguely aware of the fact that there are nearly one hundred people in the room with us, even if I can't see them right now. I pray that only us, Naomi and the cameramen need to watch this.

"Take it away, Ava." Naomi encourages. I realize that I may have been stalling a moment.

I walk toward Javi and place my hands tentatively on his chest. I give him a similar expression to the one he's been giving me. A silent ask for permission. He glances down at my hands before smirking at me through his hooded gaze.

"You're going to have to push a little harder than that." He teases.

My heart stutters, feeling a little relief from his humor. And also, a little mischievous. "I'm sorry, I thought you were an actor. Act like I managed to shove your tall butt over to the desk." I give him another light nudge.

Javi chuckles and makes a large show out of stumbling backward until his behind hits the desk.

"Better?" He asks, bringing his hands up to cover mine still resting on his chest.

"Oscar-worthy." I say, almost breathless as his large hands envelope mine.

"Okay great, now the lift you guys." Naomi instructs.

"You okay with that?" Javi asks in a low voice.

"Mhm." I nod.

Javi put his hands under my butt and lifts me up against him. I wrap my legs around his torso, and I'm finally at eye level for the first time. I can feel his chest rising and falling at a rapid pace. His arms are so strong around me, and I know he can't possibly be winded. Is it possible he's feeling how I am? Like I wish no one else were here right now?

As he places me on the desk, I'm wishing I wore something other than the standard PA wardrobe of a t-shirt and jeans. He looks so unequivocally male, and here I am ready for a long day's work. My legs are still wrapped around him, and at this angle, I don't have many other places to look other than his chest or the band of his boxers that I can now see peeking out of his robe. I have a strange feeling that I wish I was wearing something that could evoke the same feelings that his current outfit gives me. I want to even the score.

"Alright, almost done you two. Javi I want to make sure we can get another tight shot of you kissing Emma's neck tomorrow. Can you hold next to Ava in the same way?"

Javi leans down, hands on either side of my waist, and places his lips on the right side of my neck. His breath is hot, and concentrated right below my ear. I shiver for the second time, knowing that he had to feel it now. But somehow, I'm not as embarrassed by that thought anymore.

Naomi marks the spot and moves us to the bed for the last block.

"Okay so I essentially would like Javi to be between your legs, and sort of crawl up to be on top of her." I feel my mouth go dry. "Once you're above her, we want to take a moment and pause.You two have been waiting for each other for so long, and now the passion takes a backseat for a minute while you soak that in. Sound good? Javi let's have you start at the bottom..." Naomi positions him at the edge of the bed with me laying in the middle.

Javi splays his hands on the bed, one on each side next to my body. It's impossible for me not to stare at how his arm muscles flex, even through the robe. Naomi checks to make sure he is in frame, and then he slowly starts crawling up the bed until he is hovering over me. Unlike before when I could barely keep my breathing in check, now I can't breathe at all. If he lowered himself down just a little bit further, I'd get to feel the sheer mass of him. I wish he would. Somehow I think his weight on top of me would help me breathe easier. Right now, all I can do is look at him, with that same crease in between his eyes, and wonder how good of an actor he really is. I hope that the heat I feel between us isn't one-sided, but his serious expression only leaves me more confused. Maybe he doesn't have to act. Maybe he feels nothing.

"In shot?" Naomi asks out into the abyss of the room below.

"All clear, we got it."

"Excellent. Ava, can you let Emma know that I'd like Javi's hand to travel down to her navel? It's a fade-to-black, so we don't need to go over how to pretend to finger her, but we'd like to be implied."

Javi rolls off me quickly, coughing into his elbow.

"Um, yeah of course. I'll let her know." I say, staring at the ceiling.

"Superb. Well, good job you two! Javi, I'll see you for this shoot tomorrow. I'll go let Lloyd know we're good to go." Naomi prances off the stage.

I take a moment to breathe deeply, still laying in the middle of the bed in this fake hotel room. I sit up finally, trying to think of what to say to Javi. But when I shield my eyes from the lights, I can see him already stalking off in the direction of the soundstage door.

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