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What is your favorite line that you've written? Or if you don't have a favorite then one you really like/are fond of/think back to/etc.
i think it would have to be a line in the episode of “the middleman” titled “the vampiric puppet lamentation” - which was written by andy reaser - in which wendy asks the middleman if he and her room mate truly are in love, and (because of a series of circumstances far too complicated to go into here) he replies that “the success of our demonic puppet marriage would appear to validate that - yes”.
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Oh my GAWDDDDD.
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Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed brought back his comic strip Bloom County after a 25 year hiatus. He tells Fresh Air producer Sam Briger the story:
“This summer Harper Collins cashed in on To Kill a Mockingbird … and they published Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, and I watched, slack-jawed in horror, as they threw one of the 20th century’s most iconic fictional heroes, Atticus Finch, under the bus. They almost killed him and he was as real to me as my own father. Believe it or not, there is a connection here.
At the time, and this is just a couple of months ago, it made me think that there would have been no Bloom County without Mockingbird because I was 12 when I read it, and the book’s fictional southern small town of Maycomb had settled deep into my graphic imagination and informed it forever. If you look at any of my art for the last 30 years there’s always a small town flavor to it. So when it came time to concoct a comic strip in 1979, 1980 when I was first syndicated, it became Harper Lee’s Alabama. Bloom County should’ve probably been called Silly Shit in Maycomb because that’s essentially what it was. So this summer, when Go Set a Watchman was causing an uproar, I went back to my files and I pulled an old fan letter from years ago. It was scripted in a shaky, handwritten scrawl and … it says:
Dear Mr. Breathed,
This is a plea from a dotty old lady and from others not dotty at all: Please don’t shut down Opus. Can’t you at least give him a reprieve? Opus is simply the best comic strip there is and depriving him of life is murder – a hard word to describe the obliteration of your creation. But Opus is real. He lives.
Sincerely yours, Harper Lee
Monroeville, Alabama
So that was June, just this last June, when I pulled it out. I hadn’t seen it for 25 years. I choked up and I thought about the preposterously ironic impossibility of my literary heroine from my childhood demanding that I not kill one of her fictional heroes 30 years later. The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by. Within 10 seconds I just thought, “I’m not gonna let them do to Opus what they did to Atticus Finch.” So that night I found the blank four frames of Bloom County from years before in my files and I sat down to draw the first one in 30 years and I had a picture of me doing it and posted it on Facebook in sort of a what-the-hell moment, “Here’s what I’m doing right now.” And that’s exactly how much careful reason, sober forethought went into the whole thing, and then it exploded after that.”
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Anonymous asked:
imagine you're speaking to someone who is white. It might sound like an odd request but you'll actually be less patronising and condescending. Believe me, it makes all the difference.
OK, obviously, I could go on about how this asshole wrote in to tell me I’m condescending in the most hilariously condescending way. Or that he thought his weak-ass rhetoric disguised as concern could somehow outflank me and let him get in some dig.
But the one thing that’s actually kind of worth discussing in this question is the idea that white people, you know, the culture that profits from racism, need to be treated with deference and respect if you want them to be against racism (ie, behave like decent human beings). Guess what, ya fuckface, if condescension in the face of an idiotic question about race is “all the difference” in whether or not you’re against racism, you’re a racist and you’re worthless, so, I guess at the end of the day, who gives a fuck what you think!
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Ava DuVernay was never going to direct Black Panther. Even if she’d accepted the job, even if they’d gone into pre-production, even if they were a week out from cameras rolling, she was never going to direct Black Panther. Yet when rumors circulated that Marvel wanted her for the job, I allowed myself the delusion of thinking about what her version of the character might look like.
Naturally, that version will never exist because the only version that can be allowed to exist — regardless of who gets the directing job — is Marvel‘s. Now that DuVernay has made plain that she won’t be making the movie, Marvel can find a new yeoman filmmaker on the rise (or on the other side of the down slope) who either sees perfectly eye to eye with what they want or is willing to go along with it for the paycheck and exposure.
Kim Masters and Borys Kit made this point beautifully back when Edgar Wright left Ant-Man after Marvel handed him a rewritten script he had nothing to do with. It’s not so much that Marvel is making movies, as much as they’re making $150m big-screen television episodes where Kevin Feige is the showrunner and the directing talent is treated like they would be in TV Land: capable conduits for a singular vision (that’s not theirs).
The funny thing about creative differences is that it’s only one person that walks away. Marvel waved goodbye to Wright, they fired Patty Jenkins from Thor 2, they gave Joss Whedon hell on Age of Ultron even after he helped them bust the box office with Avengers, Jon Favreau didn’t want to do Iron Man 3 because there was no clear vision, Alan Taylor echoed the sentiment that Marvel is “making it up as they go,” Edward Norton stopped playing The Hulk because he couldn’t get control over the character, and even directors like Kenneth Branagh who have expressed public willingness to return to the Marvel fold clashed with the studio during production.
What’s interesting is how open these actors and directors have been in criticizing Marvel after their time there. The consensus seems to be that Marvel works with too-tight budgets, too-tight turnaround on productions, and goes into a shooting schedule with incomplete scripts because of it. Elements that are typically found in a recipe for disaste"
Scott Beggs, “Mourning The Ava DuVernay Black Panther Movie that would never been made.” (via lyrafay)
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Bob the golden retriever is best friends with eight birds and a hamster. (photos via @bob_goldenretriever/imgur)
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Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)
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old school hate mail
Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock
Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.
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Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole
More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.
And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:
- He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
- The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.
Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).
But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?
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*SOBBING* IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL
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delicious-designs
Source: halfbakedharvest.com
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“The Future of Rock Belongs To Women”
Kurt Cobain
You’re God damn right!
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Ezra is not the point of the story. And so if you’re looking at Pretty Little Liars as the best show ever made, [you are] going to treat the young ladies on the show the way that your dad treats the men on True Detective. And all of a sudden the women on True Detective, maybe they have personalities, maybe they don’t. Maybe their tits are out. But either way, somebody’s gonna show up and hand the guy a gun. In a James Bond movie, when the lady shows up and hands him a gun, then that’s what the lady does. Or maybe she gives him a blowjob. If the story is really about Aria, Ezra only exists insofar as he is her sexual secret in the first season. And he is a sign of the larger problems of Rosewood for the rest of us, but is he a special case? No. Because the story is not about him. (…) You have to question the underlying foundation of why the men in Rosewood are so terrible. Well, it’s because the show is for people who know down to the marrow of their bones that men are terrible.
Jacob Clifton, PLL Roundtable Christmas Miracle! (via theelliedoll)