Fable, a book club app, just added TV Shows... so you can join TV Show Clubs.
Inventing, I think, Fandom for Normies.
Like if you didn't know there were already spaces you could go to to find people to scream about your blorbos with, you could use their app.
Goblin changelog, 24/04/2024
Extended the de-duplication of posts to mastodon threads and conversations (it only applied to goblin posts until now). This is how a ‘toot-storm’ looked before:
And this is how it looks now:
Fascinated by what the business case could be for Coca-Cola using generative AI.
All the ads they can generate...
Listen it wasn’t the most baffling thing in the world when Netflix canceled Lockwood and co even tho it performed well bc let’s be real, Netflix will basically cancel a show if it breathes wrong…
But do you think that Netflix actually canceled Lockwood and co bc around the time it aired they’d aquired the rights to dead boy detectives (a show with a competingly similar premise to Lockwood and co that has Neil Gaiman attached who’s had two very successful shows in the last few years with Netflix and Amazon prime)… because I do.
Like to me that’s the missing puzzle piece of what happened there
I'm seeing and being sent a lot of things like this. So, to remind you, this was what Sandman did in 2022 per Wikipedia:
The Sandman ranked at number one globally on Netflix's Top 10 titles three days after its release with 69.5 million hours viewed.[90] In its first full week of streaming, The Sandman remained the most-watched show on Netflix's weekly Top 10 list of the most-watched TV shows, with 127.5 million hours viewed between August 8–14.[91] The Sandman remained the most-watched English-language TV show on Netflix for the third time in a row between August 15–21.[92] The show had been watched over 393.14 million hours in total by September 18.[93]
The show was the eighth most-watched English language show on Netflix of 2022 spending 7 weeks in the global top 10s.[94]
and we were touch and go on whether Netflix would renew Sandman for three months, because the figure that Netflix cared about was not how much we were being watched but our "completion rate" -- how many people were binge-watching it to the end. And that started out out low, something like 30%, because, it turned out, people liked watching an episode of Sandman and then going away and thinking about it, and then coming back in a week and watching another. So by the end of the 12 weeks we were lucky, enough people had watched all 11 episodes that we were safe, our completion rate (which normally remains consistent and unchanging) had risen to about 70%, and Netflix let us know that we were renewed.
Lockwood and Co, per Wikipedia did:
Lockwood & Co. featured in the Netflix global top 10s for 3 weeks between 22 January and 12 February, picking up 79.91 million hours.[29] It reached Netflix's Global Top #1 Show spot in its second week on the platform,[30] holding the number one spot in 18 countries.[31]
Over the first half of 2023, the show ranked fourth among Netflix UK's original shows, with 113 million hours viewed,[32] and 80th globally among all Netflix titles.[33]
Which is great. But if Sandman wasn't a slam-dunk, that's not a slam-dunk either. It all comes back to people at Netflix looking at all of their algorithms, and deciding whether or not they are going to renew a show. And in this case Lockwood and Co didn't get renewed.
Dead Boy Detectives is a very different kind of show to Lockwood and Co, even if there are superficial similarities. Netflix buying Dead Boy Detectives from HBO Max (who didn't have space on their schedule to release it until late 2025 or early 2026) in February 2022 didn't change Netflix's plans with Lockwood and Co. Netflix doesn't think like that. They release shows, then they look at their algorithms, and completion rate and completion speed is the most important for them (I have no idea why this is). Then they make more or they don't.
Nobody knows whether Netflix will renew Dead Boy Detectives, especially not Netflix. It will come out. It will find an audience or it won't, it will top the charts or it won't, and no matter how well it seems to have done we'll all still be on tenterhooks for two or three months until the final numbers are in, and the mysterious forces at Netflix make their decisions.
If you love it, tell your friends. Encourage them to watch all eight episodes, or to have their computers finish watching all eight episodes even if they don't have the time. That's always going to be the most important number, for Netflix, all over the world: completion rates and binging.
enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to
“Yes, Trump is a former president. But, under the law, he is just an ordinary citizen at this point in time. Once the public fully realizes that the emperor has no clothes and that Trump is just a bombastic charlatan, then everything can turn against him very quickly. I don’t know what the Republican Party is going to do if he implodes over the next few months, which is what I believe will likely happen. They don’t have a plan B. The Republicans have put themselves in an untenable situation, politically and morally. They are in danger of becoming a permanent minority party for the next couple of decades, comprised of angry white folks seething in their own sense of victimhood.”
really? another album? didn't she just make one??
taylor swift is the MCU of music
do you realize what you're wishing on me
gay sex wasn't legal in kansas until 2 years before supernatural started airing. just btw
charlie was introduced as canon lesbian 3 years before obergefell v hodges legalized queer marriage nationally
don't ask don't tell was repealed when supernatural was on season SEVEN
sometimes I think the entire point of writing – of heartfelt, nuanced, fucking true writing – is that it allows the audience to point to a piece of art and say “that. that is how I felt. all those complex, jumbled, overlapping, contradictory emotions. that is how I felt to live it.”
the point of writing is to distill human emotion into something we can identify with, to use thousands of words (or 28 pages for one real-time scene that grabs you and doesn’t let go) to illustrate what a single-syllable word like ‘grief’ can never fully explain. and when it is done well, it is the single most human thing that humans ever can or ever will accomplish.
Hang it in the Louvre. ❤️💛
Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness
Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?
THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT
I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible
Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together
It's also important to know, this feeling of isolation is what the author feels but ten fold. It's the exact reason writers are begging for comments. It's to talk about the story with someone. That story that's taken up your life for a few hours, or perhaps days, has taken up the author's life for weeks, months, and - very often - years. There's a very good chance these authors are dying to talk to you.
theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for
things that sure are.
things that are.
This is peak design
Can't believe no one posted chair (for sitting)
flint goes up to billy with his i will be your king monologue. mind you this is the pilot. billy looks at him like he’s insane and you (the audience) think that too. you’re like sure war is coming whatever you say my guy now go do cool pirate stuff. two seasons later he’s not only managed to convince the whole pirate world he’s their king meant to lead them to victory in an unwinnable war but you (the audience) as well. absolutely incredible character
it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)
what they all have in common:
The look of annoyance and utter disdain at the human exposing their wing pit.
Yes.
UNHAND ME FEATHERLESS BIPED
