I haven’t seen a full fancast for One Last Stop yet but you better believe I’ll make one myself 😎 unless y’all come across any good ones, then please pass them my way!
BREE KISH as AUGUST LANDRY
-> One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston
“There was this girl. I met her on a train. The first time I saw her, she was covered in coffee and smelled like pancakes, and she was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and learn every street by name [...]. She had soft lips and green eyes and a body that wouldn’t quit [...], hair like you wouldn’t believe. Stubborn, sharp as a knife. And I never, ever wanted a person to save me until she did.”
Ezra Michel as Niko?
He is a latinx trans bisexual artist, and looks almost exactly how I pictured Niko while reading.
the way One Last Stop has so many central queer characters............ a black girl with a love for all things engineering and artsy is in love with a psychic latine trans man with tattoos and more plants in his apartment than in the amazon rainforest. a gay jewish tattoo artist who is very secretive and rarely speaks and the black drag queen across the hall who is in love with him (whom he is also in love with but refuses to tell). a fat bisexual girl who never had friends and now has a family to call her own. a punk asian lesbian from a time when living and loving was inherently an act of survival finally feeling peace and closure. all living together. all finding their place in the world together.
One Last Stop is a love letter to the modern queer success story and truly prioritizes the importance of building, not only a community, but a famiy to surround yourself with. it's brilliant.
The found family from from 6F>>>
Iconic items from One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Okay, I picked up this book on a whim while visiting my sister in NYC, and I just finished and now I’m sad and empty. But Y’ALL NEED TO READ THIS ASAP. I am thriving. This is the slow-burn, spicy, mysterious time travel big city sapphic love story you’ve always wanted to read. Pluses: queer fat girl, butch Asian, and trans rep 😍 now someone turn this into a movie!
Please come scream about this with me, I am OBSESSED.
people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.
oh my god I just saw like 20 people solemnly agreeing that it "looked nice but was written for children" because it. because it. has. immature jokes about hot dog fingers and butt plugs and because the ultimate message is "be kind".
written for children
as if it isn't extremely written for adults dealing with adult problems that are keeping them from finding space in their life for joy and whimsy and silliness.
it is about a woman doing her taxes!!!!! it's about being weighed down by age and responsibility and the sense of the turns you missed in your life and being so exhausted from Being A Grown-up that you burn all the most important relationships in your life!!! it's about being a mother and a wife and a businesswoman and a human person!!!!! it's about trying and failing to hold it together in the face of your own well worn traumas and cycles of abuse for decades! it's incredibly specific to an adult audience!
the message of the film isn't even "be kind" as much as it's "be silly. fuck around. laugh it off. find joy in being ridiculous. fuck cynicism."
like I just. the amount of contrarianism you have to be huffing to fuck up your sense of media literacy this bad. there is a lot of childish humour and absurdity and silliness in the film because the thesis statement of the film is that silliness is profound and important. the message isn't "be kind" it's "find joy." literally it's so on the nose the character Evelyn is reaching for is Literally Called Joy.
like how do you watch a film where the triumph over nothingness is symbolised by sticking googly eyes on everything and think "oh, the reason this film is full of absurdities that seem immature is clearly an unconscious failure of the film to be mature or deep" rather than "oh the way this film is constructed is Specifically About This Explicit Theme that the whole film has been repeatedly reifying, that both stoic responsibility and chaotic nihilism are paths to self destruction and the real hard important work is allowing yourself to be earnestly naive, vulnerable and silly."
I do not understand. how multiple people seem to have decided the theme of the film was "be kind to one another" and not "engage authentically with the absurdity and joy of the world because nothing matters except what you make matter!!!!" Simone de Beauvoir did not die for this!!!!!!! kill both the sensible man and the nihilist and revel in the absurd!!!!!!!!!!
*fills my own schedule with events and tasks that are fun or good for me*
Well what the fuck. Where’s my seven daily hours of dicking around time.
A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.
Kitchen Nightmares is really just like
Owners: i don't know why my restaurant is failing. Chef Ramsey please help
Ramsey: hello i am Gordon Ramsay. How is the food
Owners: we have the best food
*food comes out*
Gordon: this is an alive rat
Owners: our customers love te alive rat. We have the best food. Every day they order the alive rat.
*dinner service*
Customer: oh my god this is an alive rat
Waitress: is everything okay?
Customer: no it's an alive rat
*food is sent back*
Owner: this has never happened before. Fuck you Gordon Ramsay you should just leave. People love the alive rat
*Gordon goes in the freezer*
Gordon: there are 25 molds unknown to science. The rats have set up a lab to study them. Blimey. Scientist rats. They've unionized.
*later*
Gordon: your food is bad
Owner: no!!!!!!!!
Gordon: yes
Owner: oh my god our food is bad
*remodel, menu change*
Owner: oh my god Gordon Ramsay you saved my life thank you so much
Gordon: promise never to serve alive rats again, yeah?
Owner: yes of course
*end of episode*
Gordon: ratatouille ammirite? *He walks away chuckling*
End card: the restaurant was shut down three months later because they went back to serving alive rats.
unpopular opinion but i think the film and tv industries should have better labor laws even if it makes it harder or impossible to depict certain things
attackofthebteam
i dont care if it makes it harder to produce game of thrones or whatever, acting should not leave women traumatized
Okay I know this is about acting and people are getting more traction about it (sexuality safety coordinators are a job! yell about them. demand your shows get them) but
Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died.
Not usually on set, but afterwards. Because we don’t have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices when “unsafe” means 16 hour days. Or more. For weeks. Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.
I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because they’ll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home. And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.
I know you mean acting but please. Don’t forget the crew. We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families. Burnout is high. Chronic illness and broken bodies are common. Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant. Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.
The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades. Which means longer days.
Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.
There are labor laws but what they do is levy fines. Those fines are either factored into budget, people are bullied into not reporting actual hours, or crew members see them as incentive to take those jobs because more money and cost of living is high. (Also this industry has a crew culture of dick measuring by sticking your wang in a blender and boasting about how many 100 hour weeks you pulled.)
this can be applied for people working in animation as well. Like I know people who work at Pixar and they straight up work 12 hour days and go into work on weekends to meet their deadlines. The incredibles 2 made over a billion dollars and Pixar still cut jobs due to “budget”. The entertainment industry is a business at the end of the day. There here to make money and they are going to do it at the expense of workers because they know no one is going to do anything about it.
This is why I get pissy when people have a go about British TV shows only producing 10-12 episodes per season at most, instead of 24. Do you know why? Because the UK has fucking labour laws.
When I worked on BBC Causalty, as soon as it hit 5pm, everything stopped. The producer/director etc would have a quick meeting to decide if we’d go into overtime or schedule it in later in the week. And I got an extra payslip in the mail for every minute of overtime I did, even though I was paid a weekly rate.
I don’t care if it means producing less content. I don’t care if it means it costs twice as much - if treating your creatives and your crew like shit is needed to make your show, then your show doesn’t deserve to get made.
And that’s aside from the fact that actors are often exploited, neglected, coerced into doing scenes they’re uncomfortable with etc or outright abused by directors for the sake of ~performance.
No art is worth that.
not to be a hater (but yeah to be a hater) shocker that the show with the black lesbian lead is cancelled and... The Other One gets renewed for two seasons