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tentothemonkeynine · 2 years

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https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/12/eddie-izzard-unplanned-pronoun-change/

In the past few days, there have been a few articles about Eddie Izzard, covering topics discussed in the Clive Anderson podcast released earlier this week. (My Seven Wonders, episode 35)

The amount of coverage and backlash surprised me, as the podcast interview seemed very tame and without any revelations… although we did learn that Eddie likes roundabouts, a hot take which The Daily Mail has been suspiciously silent on.

Most of these articles have willfully missed or distorted whatever points Eddie made in the interview.

The PinkNews article linked above is the exception. Nothing is sensationalized and the headline isn’t an utter fabrication.

“But I prefer she/her, don’t mind he/him, and I’m going to be relaxed about it. It’s not the time for fighting each other on this.”

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Eddie Izzard also spoke about her continued ambitions to run as a Labour MP, something she has been vocal about since 2010, and how ex-comedian and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has inspired her.

“He’s been very strong. Very consistent,” she said of his leadership.

As good as this article is compared to the competition, I’d argue that writing “Zelensky has inspired her” is a wee bit of a misrepresentation.

Here’s my transcription of the applicable part of the podcast, about 5:30 before the end:

Clive Anderson: Well I suppose you might trip up on the basis that Boris Johnson was essentially a comedian. He likes gags, he likes to take jokes, he appeared on the television, and “oh that’ll be nice let’s have a comedian as prime minister!” It crashed and burned for all sorts of reasons. The voters may think, “oooh, do we want a comedian to be our member of parliament or prime minister?” I’m just suggesting that as a possible harm that might have been done to you by Boris Johnson.

Eddie Izzard: Volodymyr Zelensky.

Clive: Yes. Okay.

Eddie: So, there you go.

Clive: You’ve dealt with this.

Eddie: Have I answered?

Clive: Whoa, elect him!

Eddie: Yeah, no. He’s been very strong, very consistent. And it’s not the jokes, in the end that the Tory party itself took out Boris Johnson. The Tory party said, “Look, we will not allow a person running our party and our country to lie more than 5,721 times.” They said, “That’s the line. It’s a red flag. And you’ve crossed the 5,721 and that’s it and you’re out.”

Of course there’s nothing wrong about being inspired by Zelensky, and perhaps Eddie Izzard would call him an inspiration, but that isn’t what she said in this interview.

I suppose “Eddie Izzard mentions Zelensky as an example of a comedian who turned into a capable politician” doesn’t sell ad views.

#eddie izzard #I HAVE OPINIONS #pinknews #link #my seven wonders #clive anderson #article #interview #politics

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demaparbat-hp · 29 days

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Almost

#zutara #atla #zuko #avatar the last airbender #katara #zutara fanart #Wip #First page of three is done!!!#Won't be sharing until I have the whole thing but I'm. So. Close!!!!!!!#It's been ages since I started this project omg #But it's worth it #Hopefully I'll get the chance to finish it tomorrow... Won't be making any promises tho #I've missed you guys and I can't wait to share this with you #Anyways I know it's ZK month (and all the content has been WONDERFUL so far) but I won't be participating. Sorry about that.#Working with prompts is such an amazing creative exercise but I know myself good enough to be certain that I'll never get past the first...#... prompt without coming up with seven different AUs and I can't deal with more of those right now lol #Like I've got this Blue Spirit! Katara and Painted Lady! Zuko AU on the works since last week or so. And more lore for the og BS/PL spirits #And also this S3 canon divergence AU... And another one... And another one...#And I need to work on them at my own rhythm otherwise I'll go nuts #So uh #Yeah #Love u all and I hope I'll get to share this one soon (if only to start on yet another comic. I've got ideas for two of them. Yay)#Dema out #(Sorry for the rambling I'm just anxious)#(Don't know why but I stopped caring a long time ago)

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ryllen · 1 month

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A question I have just recently,

can Sebek handle spicy?

this is what i generally think of fae.

tho i think,

lilia knows spicy spices from his travel.

even tho in dragon form, malleus breathes fire from his mouth, and fire is hot, it might be like the kind of fire that doesn't hurt him in the first place

sebek father might bring spicy spice from human world with him, but since i think of him as a mellow man, he might not be interested in spicy food in the first place

#honestly it makes me wonder all the nrc students ability to handle spiciness & i wish everyone would start putting them into tiers #twst #twisted wonderland #do i tag this as sebek #i do want to know what others think of him #sebek zigvolt #i think the octas would be very bad at it #but floyd probably keeps on challenging it so he gains tolerance over it #riddle would be very bad with it #ace would be pretty good #but deuce would be a little less #or do u think punk him would dare other punks on spicy food #who would shed tears #who would break a sweat #who would eat like it's nothing #who would wail asking the great seven to take them to the after world #i am just wondering bcs of the rabbit sausage roll in deuce hometown #leona who never lift a finger finally break a sweat from spicy food #who knows we even see tears in his eyes while he endures it silently #can vil stay beautiful eating spicy food #despite his tough claim can epel handle spicy #anyhow do u know there's samyang 1/2 spicy now #that's the only one i can eat without suffering like actually enjoying it #idia i feel like he would wrinkle from spicy food #but what if he is some connoisseur of instant noodles so he had been eating spicy ones quite a lot #my brother always love to see me suffer over spiciness

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madzillus · 1 year

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The Dragon’s Tears

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gummi-ships · 2 months

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Kingdom Hearts 3 - Twilight Town

#kingdom hearts 3 #kh3 #twilight town #scenery #my gif #would've loved if we could explore the whole town #it's so detailed and lively #it's nice to hear passing conversation about the seven wonders and struggle matches and even seifer's whereabouts #i feel like i fumbled this set because donald and goofy were a nightmare to deal with #they're always wandering around in the exact spots i'm trying to get a nice clear shot of #this took so so long

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stormbluestories · 1 year

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so just in case the tumblr peeps don’t know: yugipedia is down, it has been down for two days, they have lost three years worth of backups, and if you want to volunteer some minor inconvenience towards fixing it u can google ‘yugipedia recover’ and let it search your caches for whatever files you have in there. psa over.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh dm #yugioh gx #yugioh 5ds #yugioh zexal #yugioh arc v #yugioh sevens #yugioh go rush #(if this is a thing people know I apologize for maintagging but. If I had been able to find a post abt this I wouldn’t have made this one.)#blue originals #my iPad is currently running the recovery and it is going VERY slowly #making this post from my phone #in case you’re wondering ‘how did this happen’ well apparently they were doing some rearranging & a server they thought was empty & safe 2 #take offline. wasnt #edit yeah it’s yugipedia.com/recover I forgot to put that in the first time #yugipeda

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macchitea · 1 year

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gamer iterators doodles based on a recent convo with @sapphicdib lmao

#rain world #looks to the moon #no significant harassment #seven red suns #dib if u are seeing this hi hihihihihi i loved our convo. doing things to my brain <3 #o if anyones wondering their fits in this were based on viet traditional clothing !!!#macchiart

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theatricalmage · 22 days

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The brainrot took over and so here's a vat7k hadestown au!! Don't know if I'll develop it fully but I liked designing it at least!

More info under the cut:

- Varian, the Coronan royal alchemist, tasks himself with deciphering an incantation capable of bringing the world back into tune. Times are tough, and the royal family + Quirin are doing their best to cope with the meagre crop yields and desolate weather (Corona not really being the sunshine kingdom - hasn't been for a while). He wants to help and do good and I think he'd be a good Orpheus.

- Hugo, having moved about from place to place, still has his interest in alchemy and does what he can to get by. He plans on temporarily staying in Corona before looting, but he encounters a certain like-minded scientist at the Snuggly Duckling. I think him being selfish works especially well in Eurydice's role, having a more pessimistic view of the world. It also works with how he gets drawn to Donella's offer of working for her later on, leading him to his death.

- Ulla as Persephone! I was initially stuck on whether to have Rapunzel (and either Eugene/Cass) as her (and Hades) but I was drawn to the connection that Hugo has to Donella and the Donella/Ulla relationship in vat7k just works too well. In this case, Ulla won't be Varian's mother. She's still gonna be somewhat of an inspiration to him though, being the previous Coronan royal alchemist and for her intelligence. For half the year, she'll return to Corona with food, drinks, and alchemical compounds/inventions, bringing Spring and Summer to the world, if only for a bit.

- Donella would be such an interesting Hades, losing sight of her love for Ulla, heart filled with fear and hurt, leading to bitterness and cruelty. Ingvarr being Hadestown and how by being the esteemed Ingvarrian engineer, she'd be in charge of major technological advances across the kingdoms and so would wield a significant amount of power (like how Hades is literally the ruler of the underworld). Ingvarr essentially being a near death sentence for its workers while also displaying its technological prowess, all still shrouded in mystery and corruption - a place so otherworldly compared to the rest of the kingdoms.

I didn't want to modify the outfits too much nor the personalities,, if anything I imagine the general plot beats being the same as the original musical/story but with slight differences that'd you get inherently as a result of these characters. I wouldn't want it to be the case where it's just the show but the names are changed. I'd want this to still make reasonable sense in this AU, with the actions being understandable for this particular cast of characters.

For Hermes, I ended up picking Xavier, as he's most knowledgeable of old legends and stories, which would work in reference to the Hades and Persephone myth (and so Donella and Ulla)! He'd act as a mentor figure for V, someone who can guide him in uncovering the forgotten incantation. Quirin would still be the good supportive dad he is (even if he doesn't fully understand his son's project).

Last but not least, the fates!! often lurking in the background, I'm still a bit stuck on who it could be? I'm tempted to have it be Raps, Cass, and Nuru as they've had celestial connections at some point (and ya know how stars can represent fate), but I also love the freckled siblings dynamic so much. Also Team Radical... Maybe Raps and Cass can be their normal selves but their Sundrop/Moonstone counterparts are the manifested physical forms of the fates? They wouldn't be visible to the characters though, just voices in the wind.

Anyways yeah!! Those are my thoughts. Do let me know if you've got any cool ideas or questions. I'm really combining my interests at full force and there's nothing anyone, not even myself, can do about it quite frankly. 😮‍💨

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ohno-wallace · 1 year

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Happy Valentine’s to only them

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simcardiac-arrested · 6 months

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@bitsbug thank you so much this is the best idea ever

#suns after trying to convince pebbles that life is beautiful and worth living and failing 50484047 times: I should go fuck myself #myart #rain world #five pebbles #seven red suns #i fucking miss suns so much it’s hurting me. my little failboy (gender neutral)#sorry for putting you on blast bits but your tags are simply wonderful

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tentothemonkeynine · 2 years

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Eddie Izzard was the guest on episode 35 of Clive Anderson’s podcast, My Seven Wonders. You can listen to the episode here or wherever fine pods are cast.

#eddie izzard #podcast #interview #clive Anderson #twitter #link #my seven wonders

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wavesoutbeingtossed · 3 months

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Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…