#also included in this interview:

[buttclench-ryugazaki]

"I'd like to imagine Brennan walked into the Critical Role offices, slammed his fist down on the desk and said, 'I'll tell you right now, either you put Lou Wilson in Calamity, or I walk!' And then Matt stomped out his cigar into an already crowded ashtray and was like, 'Fine Sweet Cheeks, but if he doesn't deliver it's your ass!'" — Lou Wilson, imagining how he was brought onto ExU ("We Chat With Critical Role's Exandria Unlimited: Calamity Cast" by Gavin Sheehan for Bleeding Cool)

#lou wilson #dimension 20 #critical role #exandria unlimited: calamity #exu calamity #fictionalized brennan lee mulligan #fictionalized matthew mercer #also included in this interview: #luis carazo #read the rest of it!

[cuntylestat]

The vampire bond, there is no human equivalent. It's a bond that can never fully be severed. A bond like that makes you believe there are only two of you on the planet.

#iwtvedit #interview with the vampire #loustat #loustatedit #tvedit #tvgifs #edits #gifs #this took longer than i expected. if it looks bad it's because i got tired #also there are so many quotes i wanted to include but fitting gifs looked bad so

[ganondoodle]

so guess what they released more interviews and i think given what a writing shitshow totk was and what they have been saying in all these interviews is actually painting a really bad picture; i dont have the time, nor the energy to go over every detail

but they were commenting on people wanting the more linear format back and aonuma himself basically said that he thinks people who feel like that do so only bc of nostalgia and "Why do you want to go back to a type of game where you're more limited or more restricted in the types of things or ways you can play?"

what .. the fuck, more freedom DOESNT automatically mean better??? like ... restriction can be a GOOD thing just as tooo much freedom can be BAD?? like in totk??? are you fukcing shitting me- what the hell are games even for then, has he had an awakening to the fact that he actually just loves sandbox games without realizing it???? im not playing fucking zelda for a sandbox, especially not when its advertised as a somethign else

its pretty clear that they want to keep this format going with everything they say there, ... maybe it really is over huh

also i hate how they kept talking around answering anything about story/lore; they go asked how ganondorf even connects to ganon since theres nothign about it in game, and all they got out was welllll we dont wanna say anything bc its up to the player; about every question you got the answer of "make somethign up yourself" which is just ... its really clear they dont actually care but dont want to say everything is meaningless actually, so they try to be vague about it and with doing that really just confirm they didnt think about it and they dont care- so no lore actually matters, nothing thats been said or established has any meaning bc they will get rid of it the second it crosses paths with their new -more freedom equals better- philosophy, they say its bc they want you to be "free" to think up anything but apparently dont realize that when there are no rules, no consistent lore or anything that it ROBS it, it stops having meaning, its fun to connect dots only when there are rules you need to work with and dots to connect in the first place, when you have an established world with its restrictions it drives you to think more creatively about things- but when there are no rules?? its fucking boring!! thats what it is!!

when you discard all rules i wont care to get invested into anything bc i know it will not be considered again, be done away with without any reason and wont have influence on coming or previous games ... bc there are no rules, anything is possible and everything can be changed any second, so nothing matters

(they also talked about the many viral videos of those very few dedicated people that make godzilla mechs in totk and how happy they are about that- i get that to some extent, but the way they kept talkign about it really just felt like it confirmed my suspicion that that whole mechanic was mainly implemented to let people do that since that gets shared around en masse making it seem like that is why people enjoy it while neither the game nor the narrative are build around it in any way ..)

it just makes all the time i spend thinking, feeling and theorizing about zelda like a true waste of time, bc nothing matters and there are no rules-

i am someone who greatly enjoys working with and around established lore/rules, its fun to me to recontextulize things by being smart or creative with it all without breaking anything or as little as possible of the established things!

if i wanted to do just do anything i want I COULD HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT bc theres nothing actually stopping anyone to just make up what they want! i DONT need canon to lose all rules for that??!!

maybe ill have to make myself believe the franchise ended with botw on a good note ... ono

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #sorry for sounding so agressive about this #but its making me so mad #also someone said to me that they literally admitted to not have an actual writer for totk??? #(or someone that has no connection to anything zelda before this??) #which i couldnt find myself but #it would make so much sense if true #like ... yeah if there werent any people dedicated for the narrative and it was jsut cool looking moment tacked on cool looking moment #or someone that has no idea of anything of the past ... including botw ... yeah .. yeah it does feel like that #it makes me so sad #and also like i have to come to terms with this franchise being practically dead to me now #just when i was about to start working on chapter 2 #can they please stop doing interviews when all they do is fuck it up more #(* ￣︿￣)

[lord-squiggletits]

It's hilarious to me that someone actually asked/JRO actually confirmed via word of god that Tarn tortured Pharma while he was at Delphi bc like. Fucking yeah??? How else do you think Pharma went from "for most of his life, he was a good doctor" to stark raving mad? What else did people think Tarn, fanatical Decepticon who leads a group of professional murderers, would do to Pharma, Autobot stationed on DJD territory, to make him comply with the deal?

I get that sometimes people just want confirmation from the author for them to go "no yeah your theories are right" but on the other hand I don't understand asking for word of god confirmation on things that are obviously canon if you just think about it for a little bit

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #tho truthfully i dont like word of god in general for anytging besides like. trivia #if it was important to the text it wouldve been included in the text #and im not gonna trawl interviews and supplementary materials to figure out what the author actually meant #if word of god agrees with the text then the facts are already present in the text with no confirmation needed #if word of god contradicts the text then word of god is wrong bc text > retroactive writer commentary #and also i think its more fun to make theories and speculate #than to ask the author what is actually correct

[m0e-ru]

soejima should sign up for a stand up

#persona 4 spoilers #persona 4 #p4 #badpost #shigenori soejima #nanako dojima #naoto shirogane #kanji tatsumi #yosuke hanamura #moel gas station attendant #⛽️🌫 #ryotaro dojima #// the word 'naoto' can leave soejima's mouth and what comes after would make you throw up for different reasons it's fucking hilarious #// from the udon release of the official design works artbook which also included these translated interviews these bitches crazy #// did they really have to use that snippet for yosuke's page i mean cmon #// and the reasoning for liking naoto is because theyre just like the p3protag im losing my shit

[mastersoftheair]

part of anthony boyle's interview with WWD - Women's Wear Daily

#'i think i've got a face that just looks like it can't comprehend the internet' priceless! #also very funny bc MotA is actually the 2nd 1940s ww2 miniseries i've seen him in (everyone go watch the plot against america right Now) #he's been in the 1940s and the 1910s and the 1980s and the 1990s. soon to include the 1860s #i wanna see him in something set in the 1920s or the 1700s or hell. let's take it back to the middle ages lol i'm not picky! #masters of the air #hbo war #interview #anthony boyle

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

ways journalists have really described alex turner and miles kane:

"Wearing matching outfits, gazing into each other's eyes, talking about their instant connection… Alex and Miles' claims that they wrote the Shadow Puppets' album about 'a girl' weren't fooling anyone. Quite simply Alex and Miles are hopelessly, madly, enviably in love with each other. Please lads, just be true to yourselves, embrace your feelings, and have a massive snog - we can't bear the tension any more."    - NME

“If there’s one sexual dynamic at work tonight at the Usher Hall, it’s homoeroticism. The Last Brokeback Mountaineers are a camp pair of strutting cocks, to be sure.”  - The Wee Review

"Speaking to them together feels like interrupting a conversation that's been going on since 2005." - NME

“Looking over at his manspreading counterpart, Kane gleefully points at Turner’s exposed bulge. Not wanting to be rude, I look away.” - SPIN

“Watching them finish each others’ sentences, agonise over their answers to how well they know each other and embrace when it’s time to leave... well, you’d need a heart made of Hoosiers CDs not to find it incredibly sickly sweet.” - NME

“Alex Turner and Miles Kane turn towards each other with fond looks when we suggest they’re best friends. Like doodle in each other’s notebooks BFF status. After spending 15 minutes with them though, we’re pretty convinced they’re going to grow old together in matching tracksuits.” - Sidewalk Hustle

“Miles Kane looks like he’s gagging for a great big man-hug (and maybe more...) off his buddy. These two have spent overly long admiring themselves and each other.” -  The Wee Review

“As soon as I decide to just get started without Kane, Turner accidentally Facetimes him from his pocket, and the two erupt into a fit of giggles, our conversation veering off course for the third time in as many minutes.” - Consequence

“While Turner stares on the ground during his answers, Kane watches him like a lovestruck teenager from the side.” - Musikexpress

“Say this for Lennon and McCartney, or Plant and Page: they never had their own romantic rock ‘n’ roll portmanteau. But “Milex”—Miles Kane and Alex Turner, for the uninitiated—have just that enviable kind of bromance. The two even moved to Los Angeles in tandem a few years ago. No wonder multiple “Milex” pages have cropped up on Tumblr, breathlessly re-posting the duo’s every embrace and droll quip; there is fan fiction, too, the kind that would make a coal miner blush.” - Interview Magazine

'"Alex Turner is like a princess in need of his prince Miles's assistance to get down from a tower." - Dutch Review

"You'd be forgiven for barely noticing anything beyond the front of the stage, though. Like a pair of teenagers egging each other on, Turner and Kane are the most infatuated frontmen since the Pete Doherty and Carl Barat." - Hot Press

"If Miles Kane had a 'hard on' for being a front-man before The Last Shadow Puppets, he's grabbed the opportunity Turner's patronage presented him with both hands. So to speak." - Q Magazine

"The feeling is contagious too, as though we're looking in on star-crossed lovers finally reunited." - Hot Press

#okay this is really just the tip of the iceberg #but i think that's quite enough to be getting on with for now #a couple of details: #i've only quoted stuff from interviews that were actively with them or live reviews of concerts #there are also a couple of interviews in here that... yeah. i very much don't like the tone used or how the journalist has portrayed them #(see: the musikexpress one which is just so insulting to miles) #but they had quotes that were too good not to be included here #so yeah #i just wanted to make clear that just because i've included a quote here does not mean i agree with its source material #i'm really just fascinated by the sheer number of journalists who have described them in this light #also there are sources for almost all of these but a couple of them i couldn't find the links i needed but i know they are legit quotes #milex #alex turner #miles kane #the last shadow puppets #tlsp #milex interview #lulu posts

[evilhasnever]

"First of all when you get the role you have to understand the broad context of the script, you have to know what his role in the series is, you have to understand his character background and life experiences, and his educational background, his cultural background, you have to understand all of these things in order to understand the role better. From there you have to think within his perspective, you have to think why he would do these things, why would he have certain thoughts, you have to grasp these things very well." - zzj, chief JGY understander

#the man is on record having consumed all MDZS adaptations to prepare for the role #video also includes five mins of zzj waxing poetic on sugar gliders #zhu zanjin #jin guangyao #video #interview #the untamed #Youtube #zzj interview

[waystarresourceco]

Harriet Walter on how Caroline has influenced or realtes to each of the golden trio.

“She probably is a bit frightened by Siobhan because she’s quite like her dad and is very very smart about stuff that maybe Caroline isn’t. I don’t think she resents – I think she’s quite competitive for her affection because she admires her. I think it’s very possible for a mother to look up to her daughter if she’s not very like her, because I don’t think they are very alike.

I think If anything, funnily enough I think the one who’s most like – Caroline has flowed a bit into Kendall in that I think she has more depths than we’ve seen. A bit more inside torture than we’ve seen. And I think she’s also flowed into Roman because she’s got that glib “ha ha ha” every line is a joke defense mechanism. So I think those are the people she’s influnced or influenced by – I think Shiv is very different from her and very much her own thing and I think she’s quite scared of her really. And of course Shiv probably wants big affection too but just really doesn’t beg for it in the same way that Caroline probably never begged for it from her parents. It’s a terrible kind of poisoned challice, all that welath and power if you’re born into it.”

Excerpt from Excerpt from Still Watching: Succession Season 2 "Dundee" with Dame Harriet Walter – Sept. 29, 2019

#I should basically become a caroline blog at this point #and yeah...I probably will end up writing something about this at some point #especially her relationship with and similarity to kendall #I'm a Kendall and Caroline actually have a hugely complex relationship truther #and she's deeply wounded by the state of her relationship with all her kids (including Kendall) #she's obviously not a perfect mom and has done a lot of damage but she's also been damaged by her past and by Logan and #I have so many Caroline feelings all the time #also ouch - Shiv and Caroline #caroline collingwood #hbo succession #cast interviews #succession #kendall roy #shiv roy #roman roy #harriet walter

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Nooooooo, not doing celebrity discourse. I have lived in that world and it's far too complicated by bad faith and people putting fucking bizarre spins on statements and scrutinizing especially women, LGBTQ+, and PoC for any potentially bad opinions or things that might be construed as bad opinions or things that are bad opinions, period in order to pass a clear moral judgment on a person YOU DO NOT KNOW, in sum total. And I ain't doing it. Miss me with that.

#taika in particular has said some things i do not agree with and will not agree with #and i ain't defending anything or any bad opinions he has #but he has also had a lot of frankly racist bullshit thrown at him #including some goddamn bizarre takes on his work #and it's hard not to note when an indigenous artist is being treated real differently from white artists #also i just read the transcript of the interview and people #are badly misconstruing what he said in an off the cuff conversation

[belle-keys]

Vampires being Southern confederates in the American pop culture tradition makes so much sense to me logically. Not saying that I don't believe it's propaganda, because it absolutely is. But planter vampires and confederate vampires (Jasper, Damon, Lestat, Louis, Bill Compton) make a lot of sense in the American context, as much as aristocratic and “Old World” vampires make sense in the British context.

If vampires are inherently Gothic, then vampires must symbolize and personify the vestiges of a long-gone past – one which only simmers to life from far below the surface when it’s time to reveal the horrors, or the romance, of what is usually an oft-forgotten history. In 19th-century Britain, through vampire short stories and novellas, and later Dracula, vampires evoked the (misunderstood and misappropriated) time of the Goths. This, in turn, brought to readers’ minds images of towering castles, the superstition of Eastern Europe, and the so-called barbarism of the Old World, that which was made to appear antiquated in its monstrosity and secret imperialist desires. (*sarcastic voice*) The Old World was so at odds with enlightened, modern, industrializing Britain! It’s no wonder that vampires in British literature took the forms of counts, noblemen, and princes – they were the conspiring, powerful leaders of the Old World, or the medieval world, or some forgotten pre-Industrial feudal world.

And if we are to apply this concept of what vampires should represent for the United States, it only makes perfect sense that vampires would be planters and confederates. Slavers, planters, and confederate fighters also evoke the Old America, conjuring images of Southern chivalry, the great Antebellum, and the humble pioneers of this free nation of God and goodness and prosperity! And then the confederates got their ass beat really bad. And they could only hold on to these romantic images of that former “honour and glory” through propagation of the Lost Cause myth. What better vehicle to wield this romanticisation of, yunno, the defense of chattel slavery than through vampire softbois?! Immortal beings who symbolize the survival and resilience of the Antebellum South through time. Why don’t we make them hot guys who were just protecting the South in our pop culture? Sure. If the vestiges of America’s long-gone past are slavery and genocide and, uh, chivalric Southern honour, then vampires do a pretty effective job of reminding us of this horrifying/romantic (you choose here) history. Spoiler alert: it’s horrifying.

#also idk if any of you have watched La Révolution on netflix but in that show the vampires are #the nobles of Versailles! which includes King Louis #and that makes perfect sense to me because monarchism is the ‘ugly vestige of history’ #in the french context #yeah vampires mean something hoes that’s right #also the sheer amount of Gone With the Wind propaganda on tvd??? #also abraham lincoln vampire hunter makes even more sense now #the vampire diaries #damon salvatore #tvd #true blood #bill compton #twilight #jasper hale #iwtv #interview with the vampire #anne rice #lestat de lioncourt #vampires #vampire lore #us civil war #gothic fiction #gothic lit #gothic #english lit #english literature #dracula #bram stoker #halloween #spooky season

[minhyukie]

comedy kings tbh

#monstaxedits #monsta x #minhyuk #kihyun #hyungwon #jooheon #changkyun #**mine #also #wonyoung #because she's so cute here.. her laugh was so cute #anyway minhyuk (+mx) are so funny #i love that they always make the comeback interviews something Fun and Different #and they always include the MCs in on their jokes!

[cyndrastic]

hey remember when i said i was drawing Vic Chaos as a milf?

alternates with different lighting (with and without words) and a time lapse under the cut! (btw the words on the cover all have to do with lore in my post covid au so send asks if you’re interested <3)

tw for nudity (without genitalia) in the time lapse cause i shaded the whole body before drawing the dress

#this is the most effort i’ve put into a drawing in the past year #im so in love with her <3 #fellas is it wrong for a girl to be in love with her own design of a 40+ year old south park character #i’m never gonna shut up about this drawing idk what to tell you #south park #south park au #south park fanart #south park art #cyn art #also about the extra words: #yes the interview with Kenny bit does confirm that in this au Kenny finally convinces the world he’s immortal #the bonus about Jimmy being in a court case involving ‘Birch’ IS a reference to Timmy Birch and has to do with his lore as well #and yes Vic was on America’s top ten most wanted list for a variety of reasons including but not limited to: #money laundering tax evasion breaking and entering arson murder smuggling people across the border destruction of private property- #-starting a violent uprising being able to manipulate anyone and everyone incredibly easily possession of substances and illegal weapons #and more #shes my babygirl i can make her commit whatever war crimes i want #also you may notice she’s wearing a wedding ring but her name is still ‘Chaos’ #this is because her and Kenny are married but since they’re both well known they don’t want the extra media drama #butters stotch #marjorine stotch #sp butters #butters sp #sp marjorine #marjorine sp #vic chaos #victor chaos #sp post covid #south park post covid #south park pcov

[tungolcraeft]

do it for the world's most special goalie

#jesper wallstedt #minnesota wild #iowa wild #goalie love #hockey #rip several pictures i also wanted to include but couldn't fit #namely 16yo jesper sassing a camera in an interview #special thanks to anne for the inspo and pics

[protoindoeuropean]

ok so the slovenian government announced today it will participate in the ICJ proceedings against israeli occupation of gaza and the west bank, which is based on a december 2022 UN resolution and is thus separate from the SA genocide case {wiki page}

there have been calls for slovenia to intervene in the genocide case too, to which the minister of foreign affairs has said that "Slovenia supports the proceedings regarding the violations of the Genocide Convention both in the case of Ukraine and Palestine ...", but that it is not yet possible to intervene as the court has to first decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case or not (her statement of support is also not an official position of the country afaict) {x}. she said that the decision will be made at the governnent level {x} (i.e. she evaded the question, but the fact the she hasn't dismissed it is positive, and both the pm and the president as a rule follow her lead, not the other way around; not to mention that the left party, a coalition member, has been very vocal about how slovenia is not doing enough, how we should recognize the state of palestine, apply the bds measures etc., so that's a force pushing in that direction as well). the ambassador to the UN security council said that slovenia regards the case "with great interest" {x}

considering the fairly consistent discourse of slovenian foreign policy on the israel-palestine conflict and especially the expressed need for principled and consistent political positioning during the slovenian mandate in the UN security council, i am moderatly optimistic that it might actually intervene in the case

fajon can be quite frustrating, because you really have to comb through what she's saying to find anything of substance, but i have been surprised at times by her discourse in the past few months, for example when she said that if not the EU as a whole, then a smaller group of like-minded countries within the EU could jointly recognize the state of palestine "when the time is right" (– slovenian politicians have been waiting for the right time to recognize palestine for literally a decade, but in this context specifically fajon has said that the condition for that to happen is permanent ceasefire) {x}, or when she explitictly designated the attacks on schools and hospitals and critical infrastructure as severe violations of international humanitarian law – apparently she appeared on CNN a few days ago where she said that Israel was "definitely" in the breach of international humanitarian law {fb link to the video} {x}, which reportedly made israel angry, but she'd already said the same thing in the UN security council chambers a month ago {x}, so that wasn't new for them and she'd been saying that since november at least {x}. i was also really positively surprised when in the context of the exchange of hostages she designated the palestinian prisoners as political prisoners {x} (only in a podcast, but still)

ofc this is still far from ideal, much more decisive measures would be needed (cf. what the left party wants above) and they'd be more effective too, imho, but this is honestly more than i expected from a politician who, idk – i suspect! – wants to present our country as a potential mediator in the conflict and thus doesn't want to step on israel's toes too much, or at least wants to keep the image of a "reliable partner" with regards to the us, still, while going as far as possible in (what she thinks might be) toeing the line

#incidentally the suggestion of a smaller group of countries recognizing palestine was smth i included in my letter to the minister just a #month before‚ so obv that must be my influence lol #also im sorry for including a fb link but i couldn't find the whole interview elsewhere #she talked both about ukraine and gaza but the only clips i could find elsewhere where only with the part on ukraine #anyway #i am optimistic but we'll see #j #p #slovenia #slovenian politics

[mastersoftheair]

part of anthony boyle and nate mann's interview with the daily beast

#girl! so is it 'wingate' or 'westgate' bc it can't possibly be both at the same time!!! #think of my poor tagging system!!! #also. way for an incredibly random interview to answer the mustache question lmao ig that answers That! #it was just 'this is historical fiction‚ really. who wants a mustache?' #(i just included the pic bc looking at graphic design is my passion) #masters of the air #hbo war #interview #anthony boyle #nate mann