in addition to all the other reasons the soup scene is so funny, there’s also the element of like... pulling the reverse eucharist card on god in the game of catholic uno. make god eat YOUR body and blood for once, actually, see how he likes it. the heresy of it all
Byrd: Teach us!
Juniper: Okay! First, you’ve gotta put your hands above your head.
Wren: Nuh.
Juniper: This part’s easy.
Byrd: Like this?!
Juniper: Just like that-.. keep them there and bring your foot up against your leg, like this!
[Byrd giggled, wobbling precariously as he mimicked his cousin]
Juniper: It takes a lot of practice-.. c’mon, Wren!
[Wren scowled, making a break for it; the only thing worse than dancing was being told what to do]
…
Having given up trying to reply to Alex’s latest letter, Robin stared listlessly at the star shaped stickers on his ceiling. He’d poured his heart out about how nothing ever went right, how he never fit in anywhere, how he was having a tough time at school-.. that he got in a fight, that he kept imagining what it’d be like if his parents died, particularly his father; he’d briefly considered asking what’d happened to her mother too but he’d thought better of the whole thing and viciously crumpled his pathetic attempt into a ball instead. Maybe he ought to burn it in the sink so no one else would read it by accident.
He felt bad that he hadn’t replied yet but he’d been in such a foul mood recently that he couldn’t think of anything remotely interesting or fun to talk about, and the last thing he wanted to do was bum her out.
He rolled onto his side as Wren stomped toward his door; it rattled familiarly as her little fingernails fiddled with the lock. Robin knew it was her because he could sense her current disdain, and she was the only one of his siblings who’d learnt how to do it-.. plus, if it were either of his parents, they would’ve knocked.
Wren: Juni’s tryna make me dance!
Robin: She’s not gonna make you do anything.
[Wren grabbed Robin and shook him with urgency, yanking at his hair with desperation]
Wren: I’m gonna hide in here, okay?!
[Robin sighed; reasoning with a six-year-old, especially Wren, was rather pointless]
Robin: Sure.
Wren: Wait-.. where’re you going?!
Robin: Does it matter? You’re safe in here.
Wren: Robinnnnn.
Robin: Get off me!
Wren: I wanna play!
Robin: So, play-.. just don’t delete all my saves again.
Wren: You do it! I wanna watch.
Robin: I don’t really wan-…
Wren: Pleeeeeeease?
…
Robin: I can’t play if you’re gonna squish me-.. get off.
Wren: Uuuugh.. I can’t, I’m stuck.
Robin: Move!
Wren: [gasps] What is that-.. kill it!
Robin: I don’t have anything to ki-…
Wren: KILL IT!
Netflix keeps stabbing themselves in the gut and then complaining that they’re bleeding out, it’s beyond asinine.
I hope their bullshit decision gets enough backlash and attention that another service picks it up and shows Netflix what a stupid move they made.
There’s basically no reason to keep paying obscene prices for a severe lack of good shows and when you do get a gem they cancel it because it isn’t a Stranger Things level money grab
Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (05/23/2023)
Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms. Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.
hey! just a quick update on what's going on for tumblr's lock nation. this is mostly from the discord, if anyone wants the join link dm me but don't feel pressured to join anything! you don't have to do anything you don't want to.
the petition links are here and here, please sign! at the time of writing one of them has 4000+ signs.
we have the google site and the padlet right here, as well as an open letter in the works!
articles have also been written by a few major agencies covering the massive outcry, a few linked here! leisurebyte, forbes, wegotthiscovered, express, sportskeeda
jonathan and georgina stroud have been interacting with posts on twitter about passing to another studio, which is a positive sign that they want to do something. it's unclear how much control the strouds have over this, but they're on our side.
authors like rick riordan and eoin colfer have interacted with instagram posts about the cancellation, sharing their thoughts on how it shouldn't have been cancelled.
#savelockwoodandco has reached 10k+ tweets!
keep doing what you're doing. please. keep posting, hashtagging, sharing and spreading awareness. this isn't looking as bad as it did at the start.