So I saw this picture of Callum Turner, Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law and Ezra Miller and I got to thinking. . .what if Theseus, Newt, Albus and Aurelius all sat down on a couch together like this? The idea wouldn't leave me alone so I'm drawing something whoops.

Who are your role models? Do you have pets? Favourite ice cream flavour? If you could be any animal, what would you be?

I don't think the "Mind Eraser" spell is Eclipsa's because it is very unlike her other spells. It doesn't use old formal english or creepy sounding words.

My personal theory is that it is grandma Skywynne's spell because it has a very silly incantation like her time freeze spell, and you know she is the type of person to make a spell that sounds silly but morally wrong.

As to where Eclipsa learned the spell, I think it is more likely that she learned it from a relative, because Skywynne is very secretive and a spell like that would probably cause controversies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

skam austin was ahead of its time…….

I am weirdly convinced that if the Thor movies had been made in the 1990s Patrick Fischler would have been casted as Loki and Dolph Lundgren as Thor.

this is my mom and my little sister, in a legit paparazzi photo from the set of the first movie while they were filming in shelby, nc. my sister is still proud of this to this day

OKAY the survey has been posted to some facebook romance novel groups, now we wait to see if they get mod approval

going "why'd i feel like it was monday for a sec" earlier & immediately answering it with "oh yeah b/c the summer stock performances 'weekend' is mondays & tuesdays off" and going Whoah just now refreshing myself on the exact schedule when this is the first wednesda & thursday of performances, like, kicking off both days w/2 pm matinees

TLOVM live action fancast

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i actually love tumblrs repetitive ads, when i know how they look i dont have to waste my time reading them

realized I'm now three degrees of separation from SJB, Patina Miller, and Gavin Creel just because they're all in the same cast rn

I got a funky idea to join a facebook group about Anchorage, AK to see if there was anyone in the group who knew anything about the barbershop my great-grandpa ran for 20 years before his death in 1987. I was honestly expecting this to be a longshot because on googlemaps the building straight up doesn’t exist anymore, but after posting I’ve already had two people tag other folks who’ve lived in Anchorage for many years... one person very excitedly using !!! while tagging her dad, so this might actually lead somewhere.

I specifically asked for photos and/or stories about the place and then specified the owner is my relative, then gave a bit more background from what I found in his obituary.

since ur really good at finding leaks, do you think you'll attempt to find any [coughs] pirate show related leaks now that production is starting soon?

Unfortunately, I'm not really that into OFMD to go digging for anything. I watch the show and love it, but not enough that I'm that invested in spoilers ahead of the actual episodes coming out.

(And 'digging' is generally a combo of googling and poking around on social media? Anyone can do it - it's a big fandom, so I'm assuming a fair amount of fans will be looking and things will turn up!)

Thanks for thinking of me, though. /o\