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callmearcturus · 9 months

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what do you mean by TC is a black box? what does that mean?

/pops gum loudly.

Sure, I've been avoiding this landmine a while lemme shove my foot onto it.

TC doesn't do serious interviews. He barely does press. everything out of him is a soundbite, and that's obviously a very deliberate choice on his part that probably has a few motives behind it. He consciously, actively avoids sharing anything beyond his enthusiasm for cinema and his work.

As someone who clearly has found a Problematic Fave in McQuarrie-era Cruise, I have thought about all that a lot.

One. I think that TC had to work consistently and deliberately to rehab his image after everything, and I think he's damn careful not to endanger the tentative equilibrium he's managed to build over literally about twenty fucking years.

Two. I'm old enough to remember Tom Cruise Crazy era, and one of the things that's... interesting to me with the maturity and hindsight of sitting here in 2023 is that, yes, a lot of TC's actions and associations were concerning back in that period, back when he was in the news. But the world didn't react with concern. The world, broadly speaking, called him a fag and a freak in a way that I hope we wouldn't today. I hope that "hey this huge star is part of a cult and is acting erratically" would cause even superficial concern today and not... what it did back then. Because I def remember songs and memes about that shit, and my family made jokes about him being a lunatic. Classmates talked about him being a closet case. It's what everyone did. I didn't realize that was fucked up for a long time.

I do genuinely wonder what TC's relationship with his audience and with the media would be if there was literally an ounce of compassion in the coverage about him. But we'll never know.

Three. TC has been literally world famous since 1983. Forty years. I....... literally cannot fathom that. What that does to someone. The very idea of it hits me with existential terror.

Four. I don't know anything about his life today. I don't really want to know because I've always been of the opinion that... I don't want to know shit about celebrities major or minor. I don't need to know, and I think it's weird that we accept that people must forfeit their privacy for even minuscule fame.

(The disgusting hounding and harassment of Jonny Sims, writer of The Magnus Archives, comes to mind. This is why I don't follow anyone like Neil Gaiman on Tumblr either, it feels invasive to me personally.)

Like, I know this cuts both ways. I am relieved when a famous person is a cool person. But also I would rather know nothing about them, because that inherent demand that they present their self for scrutiny and entertainment seems like bullshit to me. I don't think any of us are entitled to that. I think the fact so many entertainment industries demand that is repulsive and I wish that was a bell that could be unrung.

Point is: I don't know shit about TC's personal life. My genuine hope is that in this part of his life, as he's surrounded himself with people who seem passionate and supportive, i hope he's found his way out of the turmoil of the CoS (or is in the process of doing so). But while that is my hope, I don't think the details are any of my fucking business. And frankly, I think its obvious that he agrees.

Hence, he is a black box. Which I respect, as I'm a big fan of boundaries.

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oriocookie · 10 months

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Hi! Since you reblogges the post on this blog I am assuming you want to be asked here 😁 its for the fanfic writer ask game

❤️🎬 🧪 😎

oh hey!! im just gonna do it with whatever fandom bc this is my main (aka catch-all) blog lmaoooo

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

this one isnt posted yet and GENUINELY ive met 2 people who actually care about this fandom but its for mia and me (children's show with 12 works on ao3) and its a fic where mia lives in the magical world permanently after her grandpa renzo dies

But she couldn’t stop herself from pacing the empty halls in socked feet, simultaneously too young, too young to be without Renzo, too young to be alone in a house of her own, and yet eighteen years old, just old enough.

🎬 If a movie or show were based on your fic, which fic would you choose and who would you fancast?

going to be completely real i know Jack Shit about celebrities so the only thing i can say is jack black will be a part of it, whatever fic i choose, but i dont know anything else

🧪 Do you research for your fics?

so much. an unfortunate amount. i learned a whole language (and am currently still learning it) for silent spidey. im super bad at letting go of plot holes lmao

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

ooh this is fun!! i actually did a test on myself with this!! because when i'm reading fics for the romantic ship aspect, i prefer AUs and like pirate versions, mermaid versions, changing up the setting, etc. back when i read and wrote sanders sides, i wrote a LOT of aus, i think i only wrote one or two actually canon-set fics??? something like that, and i hardly ever read canon setting

whereas with irondad, phineas and ferb, gravity falls, etc. all those platonic fic ideas i currently have, i prefer sticking to more of the canon setting. not a single idea why lmao

the exceptions to this ive found are my horrendously obscure polyamorous romantic ships, probably because i can hardly find anything in general for them, not to mention random aus.

but yeah in general: romantic - au, canon noncompliant platonic - Mostly canon compliant with random things changed

ask game

#thank you!!!#ask game

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