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[I'm working on it]

@twist-shout-and-shells

She/They • Biromantic • INTP/5w4 • mostly Supernatural, Dragon Age, Black Sails and Hannibal

A lovely lil Garrett Hawke my brother did for my fic Firestorm <3

His stuff is here and you can read the fic on Ao3

“Cullen sighs. Three years lying to his commander so she wouldn’t find out Hawke is a mage only for him to go and rub a staff on her face. [...] At least he’s wearing proper armour, with greaves, gauntlets, and a heavy grey coat. He looks...different. Powerful.”

the thing that gets me about the barbie movie being framed as an "anti-men" movie is that it's fundamentally untrue to the message it's sending out. the movie is an empowering feminist piece as much as it is a cautionary tale about men letting their insecurities and doubts about their place in the world lead them to falling into the alt-right/incel/mra pipeline. it's looking out for men just as much as it's looking out for women, and the only reason you might find this as an "anti-men" message is because you somehow deeply believe that this is the wrong message to send

*’no’ answers include ‘primary personality with both others equal’

i know there’ll be people who think of two personalities being equally primary, but i’m keeping it in line with the game in that regard. you’ve gotta pick one, but maybe you can have a secondary type as a treat

someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

Mr. Gaiman, would it be crossing the picket line if I saw Barbie in theaters, or should I wait until the strike has been resolved?

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No, it's not crossing a picket line to go and see anything. Nobody from any of the unions has asked for a boycott of anything yet.

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Continuing to go see your movies, watch your shows, stream your favorites is one of the best ways to support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA right now. This content has been made, and it makes money. It helps immensely to show the studios the value of the work that writers and actors do.

If you don't go, it hurts writers and actors. Studios can say, "Well, actually, Barbie only made $X dollars, Oppenheimer only made $Y dollars, only so-many thousands of people watched Good Omens 2, obviously there isn't enough money to go around. Sadface emoji."

See the stuff you want to see with reckless abandon.

I'm going to need y'all to preemptively chill out because the actor's strike is going to mean a lot of things including shows and movies we've been anticipating being pushed way back, and absolutely minimal press tours for the next however long this lasts.

The effects of the writer's strike are months down the road which made it a whole lot easier to support because as third parties we weren't really being affected (yet), the effect of the actor's strike is going to be immediate and we're going to get a lot more propaganda of "these people are overpaid to begin with."

Remember our desire for content does not supersede these people's rights to live.

Support unions, support the strikes.