I love cats theyβre just like
Oh, itβs not food time yet?
Alright. Okay. Lemme just go eat the single grossest thing I can find to express how disappointed I am in you.
The tragic reality of Tumblr is that I am presumably supposed to actually interact with other users but I just don't feel like it ever
I am going to interact with you
I am socializing with you
wait, you co-wrote WHAT??? Iβve followed you since 2015 and I had no idea you ever worked on anything barbie related.
β¦how did you get involved in that, anyways, it seems fairly out of your usual wheelhouse?
(chuckle) I am, and was even two decades ago, an experienced screenwriter (and former animation story editor) with a strong background of working in/creating worlds for children/young adults. My screen agent in L.A. (gods rest her hardworking soul) was as usual looking out for work for me, and when she realized Mattel was hunting for someone to help develop this property, she said to them "I've got just the writer for you right here." And so she had. :)
Here's the problem, as usual: my readerships / viewerships are wildly fragmented. The Young Wizards fans often have no idea about all that Star Trek.* The Trek fans don't know about all the animation work. The readers of my short and long fiction don't usually know about the computer games, or the assorted live action TV and film. Etc., etc.
(shrug) ...This is what happens when you Follow Your Heart and jump into interesting new work when people offer it to you, instead of attempting to slavishly Brand Yourself. Most of the TV and film stuff is here (though still not all the Hanna-Barbera credits: I've got to look into that...). For those interested in what else might be going on, the best bet is to go over to DianeDuane.com, pull down the "Works" menu, and rummage around.
HTH!
*Last time we took an inventory, it looked like I've written Star Trek in more formats than anyone else alive: TV, audio, books, computer games, comics, manga. The only significant one I'm missing is film, but somehow I doubt I'll be able to fill that gap before I fall over. That's all right: I've got other fish to fry. :)
This is honestly so inspiring β I hope to someday have this many irons in the fire.
Just shoot me
You have got to be fucking kidding me
I want my biopics, if they must exist, to be self-deprecatingly stupid, like Queenpins.
"I don't care if you think it's weird. I think it's weird you give a fuck about someone else's medical care so badly when you don't know the first thing about it!"
I try to keep my opinions off this blog now because I donβt want discourse over here β¦ but Iβm co-signing this entire post.
Keep politics out of medicine. Period.
for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme
i never knew that i was pirating anime and manga as a kid like i genuinely just thought it was free online
This came across my Facebook feed, felt Iβd share it.
apparently iβm a millennial woman
I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the βgrimdarkβ and βgrittyβ settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it
It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failedβwithout judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.
And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hopeβhe has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.
Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.
Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: βEven darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, itβll shine out the clearer.β
Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassionβfor our friends, for our families, for the strangers weβve never even metβthat will save us in the end.
It is worth noting that Tolkien was a World War I veteran who fought at the Battle of the Somme, the single bloodiest battle in human history. Over one million people died in the mud in that battle.
And yet he still wrote about hope in the face of evil and death. That no matter what, there is always light and beauty in the world.
I think about this a lot.
Happy fat fuck Friday to Themberchaud, Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh