#fuck you david yates

[rmwb-fanfics]

Movie!Ginny meets Book!Ginny.

“Well, how do we send her back?” Hermione asked, wringing her hands nervously.   Ron squinted at the other, less bright Ginny. “Why does it look like there’s grey paint poured on her skin,”   “What do you mean?” Harry asked, trying to remain respectful. She was right there after all.   “It looks like there’s some muddled filter over her. Like I'm looking through a dirty lens,” he said, gesturing vaguely in the other Ginny’s direction.   “Yes, where I come from, everything is grey, sad, and lifeless,” she said quietly.   Ginny, his Ginny, hummed at the back of her throat. “That must suck,”   “I don’t know,” the other Ginny shrugged.   There was a long silence. “You really don’t talk all that much, do you?” Ginny asked the annoyance in her voice was palpable.   The other Ginny shook her head.   “Right, well-“ Harry began but was swiftly interrupted.   “Your shoelace is undone,” the other Ginny said, pointing at Harry’s foot.   “Oh, erm…” Harry looked down. Indeed, the laces were loose, spilling onto the floor. “Thanks,” he crouched to fiddle with them while the rest of the room fell silent.   “Fucking hell,” Ginny sighed, collapsing into a chair opposite herself.

#fuck you david yates #double FUCK you steve kloves #harry x ginny #harry potter #ginny weasley #pro hinny #ron weasley #hermione granger #harry potter movies #harry potter books #romione

[beyondthefold]

CHRIS EVANS as PETE BRENNER Pain Hustlers (2023) | dir. David Yates

You eat what you kill. It’s a long-odds lottery ticket buried under a thousand fucking rejections, and you gotta have the grit and the balls to reach down and scratch it.

#pain hustlers #pete brenner #chris evans #netflix #arthurpendragonns #cevans #cevansedit #cevansgifs #cinemapix #cinematv #dailynetflix #dailytvfilmgifs #dilfgifs #dilfsource #evansedit #flawlessgentlemen #fyeahmovies #mancandykings #marvel cast #mensource #mcu cast #moviegifs #netflixdaily #tuserliliana #unearthlydust #userbecks #userfinn #userreh #weheartchrisevans #mine

[finniestoncrane]

We’ve had Frank Gorshin, John Astin, Jim Carrey, Corey Smith, and Paul Dano. We could have had Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, or even David Tennant.

My question to you is, who in your opinion, is the best man for the job in terms of live action? Who is YOUR ideal live action Riddler?

the fuckin face of disgust i made at the notion of bawheid leonardo dicaprio playing the riddler, paul dano's spherical dome was ENOUGH only ONE round boy may play him

ok so, i have a few different preferences for who i think would make an excellent riddler!!

so, fem!riddler? kate mckinnon as jillian holtzmann in ghostbusters really just. did something to me lmao

if i wanted to be entirely self-indulgent? fuck it, give me lucky yates. give that man to me in spandex. he already played an unethical scientist in archer, he's goofy, dorky, and he loves batman

if i'm going for a live action of my beloved arkham riddler? hit me with doc hammer baby, his face is spot fuckin ON

and then, if i want someone new and fun? phil wang. phil wang would be an exceptional edward nygma

#friends being friends #anon #finnie hc

[super-predictable98]

Glass and Gold Child

Chapter 1: One Day in the Life of Alex Yates

Word Count: 2 k

Warning: Strong language, alcohol abuse

a/n: Hello everyone! In my mission to write as many Michael and David characters as I can, here's another effort: a wee rewrite of There She Goes with my OC.

2015:

Simon had been trying to get Rosie to calm down all morning. Ben just watched that disaster unfold while their father tried to drag her back from the park to have dinner.

"Where's your sister when we need her?" Simon groaned, pulling Rosie away from a car that she ran to because the license plate had a big X on it, her absolute favorite.

"What's going on?" Alex asked when she came back from her judo practice. She still wore her white trousers with a black tank top and her brown belt wrapped around her waist.

"Fuck, Alexandra, there you are! Can you…?"

"Hey, Rosie!" She greeted with a big smile.

"X! X!" The little girl called.

"That's me, come on, are you gonna be good or will I have to give these wotsits to Dad?"

Rosie let out a happy screech when she saw the blue package and reached for it. It was never too quiet around her, she was always making noises to communicate, but those happy noises were always welcome.

She took the snack from Alex and gave her older sister a clumsy hug.

"Can you say thank you?" Alexandra asked.

In response, Rosie did the sign in BSL and her sister ruffled her hair.

"You're a miracle worker," Simon sighed as they walked from the park. "You can't be going around and leaving us alone. She needs you."

"You hear how insane that sounds, Dad?" Ben chuckled. "She's not her mum, besides, she was at practice not even hanging out."

"Not helping, Ben," he hissed.

"It went well then?" Emily, the matriarch of the family, asked while she prepared the food.

"As well as it can go," Simon murmured, watching the kids get around the table. "I was thinking, what if we never send Alex to college?"

"What? Are you insane?"

"You know what I mean! Sometimes she's the only one who can calm Rosie down and can you imagine the epic meltdown that Darwin's little exception is gonna have when her big sis moves out?"

"Simon, we can't just ask Alex not to live her life. We're their parents, it's our job to look after them, not hers."

"Now you just sound like Ben!"

"Because even an 11-year-old boy has more common sense than you! She's 17, she'll leave eventually, we're gonna have to make it work."

"Remember when it was just her?" Simon smiled.

"When you were not a total prick? Yeah, I remember."

*

2001:

"Where's Daddy?" Alexandra asked, crawling on the floor, even after she learned how to walk, she still loved to crawl.

"He's coming home, remember when I told you about Daddy working to buy your Christmas presents?" Emily picked up her little girl and kissed her forehead. "Why do you love Daddy so much? Can't it be Mummy?"

"No! Only Daddy," Alex laughed at her mother's expression when she said that.

"Where are my girls?" Simon opened the door and opened his arms to take his daughter. "There's my little princess! How you doing, sweet pea?"

"Good! I missed you!"

"I missed you too!" He bounced her and kissed all over her chubby little cheeks. "Oh, there's my queen."

"Good one," Emily laughed. "She's been talking about you all day, she's a little chatterbox."

"Aww but that's cute! Remember when she'd speak full sentences before she could even walk? It was a nice party trick."

"I know, and it's cute, but I do hope our next daughter is less chatty. For my sanity."

"I heard that!" Alex gasped.

"See, now you hurt my little princess!" Simon joked. "Can you get me a beer, Em?"

"Noooo I don't like beer Daddy," the little girl cried.

"Wow, that is not concerning at all…" Emily arched an eyebrow. "Did Daddy ever hurt you after drinking beer?"

"Only on the inside…"

"No! I'm not-! You meant your heart, right? I hurt your feelings?" Simon asked, panicked.

"Yeah, you were mean."

"See, Em? Never say that again, sweetie, people might get the wrong idea and then they'll take Daddy to jail. Is that what you want?"

"No! We need to watch Barbie and the Nutcracker!"

"Good girl, if Daddy's in jail he can't watch Barbie and the Nutcracker with you."

*

2006:

"HIYAAAAAA!" Alex jumped on her father's stomach after bringing him to the floor with a rather flawless valley drop.

"Jesus Christ! That's what we're paying for? For you to learn how to kill your father in karate?" Simon groaned, curling up into a ball.

"It's judo, Daddy!" She laughed.

"Oh pardon me, I wouldn't wanna be rude to the little girl who just broke my ribs. You're always complaining I'm not home enough and when I am, you just wanna punish me."

Alexandra frowned and wrapped her little arms around him, kissing his cheek. She did complain because ever since her mum got pregnant, she would barely see him at all.

He was always 'at work' or with his friends and whenever she saw him, it was beer Daddy, not the one she loved.

"I'm sorry, I didn't wanna hurt you."

"Hey, sweetheart, it's okay," Simon assured, kissing the top of her head. "Daddy's sorry, okay? I wish I could be home more, but- it's hard to explain, my baby. Sometimes grown-ups do silly things even when they know it's wrong and then when they try to undo it, they can't right away. But I promise I'll make it better."

"Are you and Mummy getting divorced?"

"Why did you have to be such a smart girl?" He sighed. "I don't know, darling, I don't want to, but sometimes it's what's best for mummies and daddies."

"And then we'll never see you again?"

"Of course you'll see me, Alex! Even if one day I'm no longer Mummy's husband, I'm still your and your siblings' daddy, that'll never change. You're stuck with me for life, kiddo. Is that okay? You being stuck with your old man?"

"That's okay," Alex smiled. "I wanna come live with you if you leave."

"Why is that, princess?" Simon sat up, a bit worried that she'd given that whole thing so much thought. She shouldn't be pondering on that sort of thing.

"Because Mummy loves Rosie more. She only ever holds Rosie and talks to Rosie and about Rosie."

"Awww Alex, that's not true," he took her in his arms, stroking her long dark waves. "Mummy is only busy with Rosie because she was just born. She's just a little baby and she was born really small, she needs attention."

"I know, but when Ben was born, it wasn't like that. Mummy still loved me when he was a baby."

"Mummy still loves you now, sweetie, don't worry. But if you ever wanna come live with me, that'll be okay and… I mean, not that we're actually getting divorced. That's not happening as far as I'm concerned. Okay?"

"Okay… is it time to go to judo yet?"

"Yeah, it's time, come on."

Simon grabbed her Barbie backpack with her uniform and a little snack.

"Are you gonna stay and watch me?" Alex asked hopefully.

"I can't, sweetie. Daddy's meeting Aunt Helen, but I'll be there when you're done," Simon picked her up and looked up the stairs. "Em! I'm taking the little monster to judo!"

Father and daughter took the train, as Simon wouldn't learn how to drive to save his life, and he dropped her off at her class.

Alex saw Daddy leave and wanted to cry, to scream about how he never sat to watch her practices anymore like the other parents did, but she didn't. She was brave and put on her uniform all by herself.

She diligently got through her class and changed back into her street clothes, excited to tell her father that she was getting a new belt soon.

"Hey, I'm getting the yellow-orange belt, Daddy. It means I'm halfway to getting my orange belt which is my favorite color! I can't wait!" She whispered to herself as she sat right outside the dojo with the other kids.

One by one, the kids were picked up by their parents, but Alexandra stayed there, swinging her little legs and rehearsing what to say to Dad when he finally arrived.

"Yeah, she's still here," the sensei said into the phone. "Don't worry, I know you have a new baby at home, Mrs. Yates, I can drive her. It's no problem."

Alex never got to say her perfectly rehearsed lines celebrating her new achievement. She sat in silence the entire car ride back to her house and when her mother opened the door, she burst into tears.

"Hey, hey sweetie, it's okay," Emily hugged her after putting Rosie down in the crib. "Don't cry, baby. I'm sorry you were scared."

"I wasn't scared! He didn't come and he told me he would! Why won't anyone love me anymore?" Alexandra hit her head on the wall a few times before her mother could catch her.

"Mum? Why is Al hurting herself? Don't hurt yourself, Al!" Ben whispered, bringing her a pillow.

"Hear that? Your brother is worried about you, he loves you and so do I, so does Rosie, so does Daddy. And your grandparents, Aunt Soph…"

"Daddy doesn't love me, he left me there. He's not my daddy anymore!"

"It's not true, Al, you're his precious little princess and he just made a mistake. He forgot he was supposed to be there or he missed the train- the point is, everyone makes mistakes," Emily said even though she was also furious with her husband and that was far from his first fuck up. "Tell me how was class, let me make you something to eat."

"I get a yellow-orange belt next week, I'm not hungry," Alex said while she stomped up the stairs to get to her bedroom.

She hid in there all afternoon and when it was almost time to sleep, the door slowly opened and Simon came in stumbling over himself.

"Mummy just told me what happened, I'm so sorry, my pumpkin pie. I lost track of time, when I realized it was already eight," he slurred.

"Get out of here! You stink, I hate beer Daddy! I hate all daddies! I hate you!"

"I understand, I get it. I love you though and I'm really sorry," he said, too embarrassed to look her in the eye. "Mum told me you're getting a new belt? That's exciting, you're one closer to orange, your favorite."

"Whatever, if you cared you would've watched me."

"I swear, I promise next week I'll be there to see it."

"No, you won't! I don't believe you anymore. Go away, I'm going to sleep."

*

2015:

"That is my monster, it's ears are so fluffy!" Alex read and closed the book. "Now, my little monster Rosie, it's time for bed."

The noise her sister made was indication she wasn't happy about it.

"I know, I know you don't want to. But let me tell you something. I know you can't talk, but you understand me, right? You get what X is saying?"

Rosie didn't nod or give any proof that it was true, but she stared directly at Alex, she was listening.

"If you close your eyes and fall asleep, you can play with the nice monsters and Hippo in dreamland. Right here," she touched Rosie's head. "Don't you wanna play with Hippo and the monsters from the book? Yeah, I know. So please, close your eyes and sleep, alright? I love you, pretty girl."

When Alexandra put up the gate to stop her sister from leaving the room, she noticed her parents were watching from afar.

"Sorry, I'm gonna go wash the dishes now," she chuckled, knowing she was behind on her chores.

"No! Don't you dare, Alex," Emily hugged her tightly. "You help more than enough and honestly I feel bad about it sometimes. Daddy will do the dishes."

"What? Why me?" Simon yelped. "I mean, yeah, I agree she shouldn't have to after getting Rosie to sleep, but why me?"

"Because you're a lazy arse," Alexandra laughed.

"You know what? Let's just order some pizza and relax while we have a little time," Emily suggested.

"Ah come on! We order pizza every week, let's have something different," Simon wrapped his arms around each of them.

"I don't think lazy arses have the right to decide," Alex laughed. "Come on, let's play a game while we wait. Oh! And remember tomorrow everyone needs to come to the gym, I'm getting my black belt!"

"Don't worry, princess, we'll all be there for you," he smiled.

#there she goes #there she goes fanfic #david tennant fanfic #simon yates #fanfic #au #oc

[lily-orchard]

You said you're willing to praise the wizard books where they get things right. What do you mean by this?

Simple concept: I don't need to make up reasons to hate JK Rowling, there's enough real reasons to hate her. So if I'm critiquing the wizard books I'm not going to go out of pocket just to wring more critiques out of it.

For example: Some people complain that the Wizarding World doesn't make sense from a worldbuilding perspective, but the books are for 7 year olds and were made before "Worldbuilding" was a thing nerds pretended to give a shit about a shit about. You were never really supposed to care about the world outside the school, until prequels started to get made.

The real issue there is that Jojo followed the same fallacy that the readers did. There's a perception among Potterheads that the books "grew up" with the audience and got darker and more dramatic.

But that's never really been true, and it's a perception created by the films because the third film was all grey and moody and sucked and the films directed by David Yates were also really grey and moody. But people always say PoA is the best of the films BECAUSE it's grey and moody and superficially dark and has ominous shots of the Dementors everywhere.

To hear Potterheads talk, the third film is where the films "get good."

At least until a scene with one of the shrunken heads shows up, a surprisingly racist addition that the books went without. So good job Alfonso you are the only director to make it worse.

The books, however, were always pretty even-toned because they only came out over a period of ten years and the idea of it "growing up" with the audience was fallacious because most 17 year olds in 2007 had better things to do than read a fucking Harry Potter book. The idea that the books got darker is just plain wrong. People say "In the fourth book, a good character died! Then Sirius died in the next one!"

But Harry cold-bloodedly murders a guy in both the first and second books, and in the last book he wins his duel with Voldemort on an "uwu I technically didn't strike the killing blow" technicality. So if anything the books got less dark as they went on.

The books were always decidedly childish and so the worldbuilding was childish. Fandom just convinced itself (and Jojo) that it grew up with them. A similar fallacy that leads to stupid shit like this

So I'm not really interested in picking apart how the worldbuilding doesn't hold up, even though it's now trying to be for adults with the Fantastic Beasts movies because the core of the problem is a property geared towards kids trying to cling to established viewers as they've grown up, instead of telling them to fuck off out of Little Timmy's playpen and go watch documentaries with all the other grown ups.

But Harry Potter isn't unique in that regard. Sonic the Hedgehog, the DC Universe, The Avatar Universe, these are all things that tried to pivot to older audiences and were laughed out of the room by everyone except sad nerds. This is an industry wide issue.

[hermiones-amortentia]

I won’t even do this anonymously i stg.

I follow you on Instagram and I know this isn’t an ask but I just gotta get it off my chest:

We need a romione shipper to script the Harry Potter remake. Like, y’all are the most borderline annoyingly passionate part of the fandom, but the biggest deal is that you all understand Hermione and Ron. (Both of which were completely ruined in the films)

Generally, romione shippers also have a good deal of respect/correct understanding of Harry, Ginny, Snape, Dumbledore, Draco, etc as characters, so that’s unlikely to get fucked up.

Praying for a romione shipper to get hired to depict these characters the way they were supposed to be depicted.

Fuck it, here’s my crack at it from a discord convo a while ago.:

Now imagine if the music was playing in the tent, Ron is back after the locket has been destroyed. Hermione is sitting in the chair sulking and Ron switches from the death watch’s radio to a song on the wireless.

The camera is focused on Hermione. A freckled hand enters the frame and her eyes dart to it before looking up, off screen. She hesitantly reaches forward, still frowning, and the camera pulls back, and we see it’s Ron, pulling her up (and figuratively out of her negativity)

Hermione’s stone-faced expression remains, but Ron’s is soft. His eyes are on her. He’s sorry, but he doesn’t know how to say it properly, not after his first botched attempt.

He starts shuffling awkwardly, swinging back and forth because he sure as hell doesn’t know how to dance.

The camera keeps them centred. Hermione on the left, and Ron on the right. It looks like the room is turning around them. They’re the focus.

“I know Krum was probably better at this than me,” Rom starts, and Hermione makes to pull her hand out of his grip, but Ron tightens his hold. Not aggressive, he’s serious. It forces her to look at him, and the room isn’t spinning anymore.

“But I don’t care,”

Hermione let’s Ron continue to dance with her, and slowly, the cold expression softens somewhat as she understands just how immature they all are.

She smiles, and the music gets louder. It’s all we hear now, and now the camera is turning around them as she joins the dance. Not following anymore but leading with Ron. Multiple cuts throughout their dance as they laugh and joke around. Then, the camera turns away from the dance, and we see Harry sitting at the kitchen table, smiling at his two friends, the sword of Gryffindor lying on the table next to the marauders map.

(The lighting when Hermione is pulled out of the chair changes completely. There’s more colour in the shot when Ron is there. ++ saturation. How about get a filmmaker who actually uses all the tools of the craft at his disposal, and not David fucking Yates and Steve “The Fucktard” Kloves)

The camera moves across the floor towards Harry, and as it is about to reach his head he turns his attention from Ron and Hermione to the map on the table.

His expression saddens, and the camera follows his attention to the map, where we see Ginny’s dot.

PLEASE, Warner Bros, I beg of you.

Also, (though i know your opinion on them has soured) I fucking adore Ron and Harry’s friendship, and I love how they’re blokey blokes. We NEED that represented ASAP.

I love love love that ficlet omg😭❤

#hermione granger #ron weasley #romione #harry potter #harry james potter #ginny weasley

[confused-robot-cat]

The Acceptance of Violence in the Wizarding World

I haven't played Hogwarts Legacy, but I've heard a lot of people talk about how nonchalantly the player character murders people in increasingly fucked up ways, and nobody in-universe seems to give much of a crap. I'd like to explain why that might be perfectly in line with the way the wizarding world works.

So! From an early age, witches and wizards are likely exposed to a something that may negatively affect their sense of empathy. Paintings. Paintings are like some Who Framed Roger Rabbit shit, animated characters complete with personalities able to interact with the real world. If Walt Disney had been a wizard, they'd have cinemas by now.  Paintings and even photographs in the wizarding world move around within their frame, and some can even travel beyond. They can speak, they can react emotionally, and can even be trained to mimic the person depicted like training an AI to pretend to be a dead celebrity. The magical community learns early on that no matter how convincing a depiction of a person is, they're not alive. So things that look like humans aren't necessarily sentient or sapient.

But pictures are just one thing, right? That's not much of a connection to real living things. Well, let me introduce you to a lovely book written by Newt Scamander. That's right, it's Fantastic Beasts time! The movie series that would have been much improved if David Yates hadn't cut all those important scenes because when you read the screenplay they're ten times better than the Harry Potter movies ever were and the decision not to continue the five part saga is grounds for a terror attack on WB studios. Wait, what were we talking about? Oh yeah. Animals.

  The wizarding world is full of creatures that look like humans to some degree! And I don't just mean vampires and centaurs. Gnomes are pests in the wizarding world. Imagine walking out into your back garden and there's a bunch of tiny naked fat men running around shitting on your lawn and gnawing on your house's foundations. They're a serious pest in the wizarding world, and while they appear humanoid and can even speak, they're non-sapient and it's perfectly legal to get rid of them by setting loose a magic talking weasel on them. Then you can take a photo of the weasel devouring your tiny man-pests and hang it on the wall to replay the event for all eternity. The weasel is, of course, also non-sapient despite its power of speech.

  There are also Doxies, tiny naked people with extra limbs and wings that hide in your curtains and bite you with venomous fangs. They and fairies both have developed languages, and both can be killed with insecticide if you want to get rid of them because they're considered non-sapient and have no rights either. Pogrebins, ogres, trolls, erklings... So then, why is it so strange for wizards to just accept House Elf slaves? Their bigotry against goblins, centaurs, and mermaids definitely doesn't seem all that strange for the world in which they live.

Finally, I'd like to talk about Conjuration. Wizards and witches can wave their wands around and poof an animal into existence. A whole fucking animal. Now, if one reads Miranda Goshawk's Book of Spells, they'll find that conjured animals aren't real and will fade away after a while. This amount of time is indeterminate. Some can last until the caster them self passes away. But they look so real!

Ultimately, wizards and witches are surrounded by things that look like them, sound like them, and act like them but aren't even sapient. They're also surrounded by things that appear alive but that life is a matter of illusion. Indeed, even otherwise inanimate objects can appear to develop personalities over time (see: Arthur Weasley's Ford Anglia). But they're not alive. In a world like this, the magical community can easily become detached and lose a sense of value for life, because so often life turns out to be nothing more than an illusion. So when 20th century wizards are happily throwing around buzz-saw flying discs that can take people's fingers off, it's not too surprising that 18th century wizards might turn each other into barrels of gunpowder and yeet them into a crowd.

#harry potter #hogwarts legacy #wizarding world

[denimbex1986]

'Emily Blunt is on a break from the big screen.

During an appearance on Bruce Bozzi’s iHeart podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, the A-lister opened up about a decision to spend more time with her children in 2023.

“This year, I’m not working. I worked quite a bit last year and my oldest baby is 9, so we’re in the last year of single digits,” she explained. Blunt shares two daughters, Hazel and Violet, with husband John Krasinski. “And I just feel [like] there are cornerstones to their day that are so important when they’re little. And it’s, ‘Will you wake me up? Will you take me to school? Will you pick me up? Will you put me to bed?’ And I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch. And I just felt that in my bones.”

The interview comes just days ahead of the release of her newest film, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, in which she plays Kitty Oppenheimer, the wife of Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer. Blunt, who recently starred in the limited series The English, also has a slate of projects on deck including David Leitch’s The Fall Guy opposite Ryan Gosling and David Yates’ Pain Hustlers opposite Chris Evans.

The latter film follows Blunt’s character as she seeks to build a better life for herself and her daughter only to wind up working at a pharmacy and getting caught up in a dangerous racketeering scheme. “I feel strongly that most female characters in Hollywood are usually held up to some sort of feminine ideal,” she said talking about her Pain Hustlers character. “And I’m always hearing this like, ‘Is she likable?’ I like, I don’t give a fuck if she’s likable, you know? And no man has ever asked that. Like, those guys in The Big Short or Wolf of Wall Street, we were never concerned if they were likable and they were doing terrible, corrupt things.”

Aside from spending time with her family, Blunt also revealed that she happens to share quality moments with another Oppenheimer co-star, Matt Damon, who lives in the same Brooklyn building.

“Matt [Damon] is just the most easygoing, beautiful person. Lucy is even more beautiful — sorry, Matt. But we all became friends and then they moved to Brooklyn and they said, ‘We found this amazing building.’ And of course, we were like, ‘We’ll live in the same building!’ But there’s really lovely, cool people living in Brooklyn and we have Sunday night dinners … the kids love each other.”

Bozzi also asked Blunt about the time she spends with Krasinski. “It’s usually the morning. We [rescued] a puppy who’s absolutely beautiful. … I wasn’t wanting to get a dog, but the kids were pushing for it and John was up for it,” she noted. “I don’t mind getting up early with this puppy because it means that John and I can kind of talk in the morning and catch up and really talk before the kids are up and everything. … I love watching things like The Voice. I mean, we love The Voice.”'

#Emily Blunt #Oppenheimer #John Krasinski #The Voice #Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi #Matt Damon #The English #The Fall Guy #Pain Hustlers #Ryan Gosling #Chris Evans #Kitty

[moonlightdancer26]

I saw you post that Romione and Remadora have a special place in your heart and you notice a pattern. Elaborate?

YAY! I was hoping someone would ask that!!

I’ve always found many similarities between Romione and Remadora, here are some of them:

1. Their haters.

Wolfstar shippers and Harmony shippers. I’ve explained many times that I think of Wolfstar shippers as the Harmonians of the Marauders fandom. Wolfstar and Harmony shippers are extremely toxic, attack others, and insist that their ship is canon. Wolfstar and Harmony shippers are the reason I started hating these two ships.

The better love interest in Romione and Remadora (Ron and Dora, obviously) gets hated on and gets called abusive and manipulative merely because they “got in the way” of two awful ships.

2. Their balance/dynamic.

Ron is lazy (affectionate), fun, carefree, and is overall a very chill person. Tonks is bubbly, fun cheerful, and a bit silly (affectionate).

Hermione is hot-tempered, stubborn, serious, and organised. Remus is self-loathing, peaceful but serious, and prone to sadness.

In my opinion, one of the best things about these two ships is that they (Remus x Dora and Ron x Hermione) balance each other out.

Ron and Dora would help Hermione and Remus loosen up, have fun, and see the other side of life. Hermione would help Ron to become more organised and to pay attention more, Remus would help Dora learn there’s a different side to life.

3. The fans’ victim-blaming.

(This one is not a good similarity ☹️)

Hermione stans blame Ron for Hermione assaulting Ron and getting him mauled and injured by canaries (it literally left cuts all over him). They say it’s his fault because he kissed Lavender, despite the fact that a) Hermione showed zero hints that she liked him and b) he and Hermione weren’t even together, he’s available and has a right to do whatever the fuck he wants.

(Even if he knew Mione liked him, HOW DOES THAT JUSTIFY HER MAKING HIM BLEED???)

Wolfstar shippers blame Dora for Remus planning to abandon his wife and unborn child. They say it’s her fault because she “wasn’t good enough” (which seems so misogynistic tbh) or that “he didn’t truly love her,” despite the fact that Remus trying to abandon them was a problem with Remus himself (his insecurity and cowardice), and that he would’ve done the same if it were anyone else.

Here are some others:

THESE TWO SHIPS DESERVE MORE SCREENTIME (ESPECIALLY Remadora)

THEY WERE BOTH DESTROYED IN THE MOVIES, ESPECIALLY ROMIONE. FUCK YOU DAVID YATES.

Despite Remus and Hermione sometimes treating Dora and Ron badly (Hermione more so than Remus, obvi), you can tell that Remus and Hermione deeply love their partners and would do anything for them.

Romione and Remadora both get labelled as “toxic” (sure, there are some problematic factors, but they’re not toxic) and get hated on by a majority of this fandom when they don’t deserve it.

When I look at Romione and Remadora’s similarities, I think to myself it’s no wonder why they’re both my favourite canon couples (tho Romione beats Remadora). I think I may have a certain type when it comes to ship dynamics. 😆

Thank you for asking (I was dying to get an ask telling me to elaborate), I hope my answer was satisfactory! Have a nice day. <3

[Wait should I tag this as anti Remus and anti Hermione?? I MEAN IT’S NOT (I love them both) BUT I KINDA BASHED THEM??? idk idk]

#romione #remadora #similarities #ship dynamics #ron weasley #ronald weasley #dora tonks #nymphadora tonks #tonks #harry potter #i just won’t tag mione and remus #hp

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2022 - April

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "Judges" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Eyy Samson, and a lot of focus on how the Israelites are more a loose band of tribes than a nation led by a king. And we sing, "there is no king."

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - "Ruth" ed. Richard Challoner (1752)

Short and sweet, focused on Ruth's origin as wife of Booz in the lineage that leads to King David. The next book is called 1 Kings so it feels like they'll finally get to the fireworks factory.

Man Hating Psycho - "Change :)" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

This takes me back about a decade or more to wanting to be a cool and interesting writer with cool and interesting friends. The way these characters live their lives feels so chaotic and carefree, as I tried to be for a hot second.

Man Hating Psycho - "Pain in the Neck" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

There are moments where a character might wonder if they should just go home, and I’m like, yes, go home and get outta this situation full of uncertainty and risk, but then I should know better, shouldn’t I? This pairs well with my recent Mitski obsession.

Man Hating Psycho - "Middle English Bestiary" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

There’s a voice here I hadn’t read for a long time because I was terrified to go back there. I used to ask some people I'd meet (digitally communicate with), "are you real?" Since those mixed up days (are they any different now?), I've cut myself off from most communication with most people. Instead, I found a place in reading fiction. All sorts, high-minded lit to comfy-as-a-couch science fiction or horror.

Man Hating Psycho - "vodaphone.co.uk/help" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

I received the communication from them, these made-up people in made-up scenarios. They didn't need anything from me. I, naturally, began tracking all these fictional works in lists, because how else would I remember that one story about the time a young woman named Belle Starr held a man at gunpoint and which offered no resolution? That's been the way of it for going on a decade.

Man Hating Psycho - "Nothing Old, Nothing New, Nothing Borrowed, Nothing Blue" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

Then I read this collection of short stories, and I couldn't immediately file it away and move on. I was confident I was reading fiction in the first few stories, clearly satire yeah? But then it starts to get more real, too personal to be made-up. Perhaps drawn from the author's real life but rearranged to protect the innocent, you know. The momentum then builds as more and more of real life seeps in including some of my own that I try to keep at bay.

Man Hating Psycho - "I Just Want to Pull Down Your Panties and Fuck You" by Iphgenia Baal (2021)

London and Los Angeles, police and Grenfell, identity derived from parents and their parents and their parents. It's a jam. So some fiction and some nonfiction? How have I never run into this before? I researched the author's work. Some fiction, some nonfiction. Six in one hand, half a dozen in the other. This and that and all of it. I guess some writing just does that to you.

"The Night-Mother" by Melanie Gillman (2021)

Not long for the upright world.

"Sometimes even the villains have standards" by britainbray (2022)

Someone has to place value on life.

You Won't Be Alone dir. Goran Stolevski (2022)

Carve the home you want from the stone in the path.

Morbius dir. Daniel Espinosa (2022)

You could have been a contender.

Ambulance dir. Michael Bay (2022)

A gambling man never wins.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 dir. Jeff Fowler (2022)

Eggman or Robotnik, you decide.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore dir. David Yates (2022)

Unnecessary secrets in a unnecessary confession.

Dual dir. Riley Stearns (2022)

Keep it, it’s yours.

The Northman dir. Robert Eggers (2022)

When the story has too much meaning to its creator.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent dir. Tom Gormican (2022)

Mr. Cage is doing fine.

The Bad Guys dir. Pierre Perifel (2022)

Join us or die.

Moon of the Wolf dir. Daniel Petrie (1972)

My fantasy in which the monster kills all the landed gentry. Just unnecessary violence and destruction. This is not it, but I want to see it.

Charlotte dir. Eric Warin & Tahir Rana (2022)

Charlotte Salomon lived a short life. Charlotte Salomon lived a complicated life.

The Monster Squad dir. Fred Dekker (1987)

I understand, but it flew by and now it’s beyond me.

Memory dir. Martin Campbell (2022)

Two Liam Neeson snoozy thrillers in as many months and I wonder who's clamoring to see these in theaters. This was the better take on an aging assassin thanks to the rest of the cast. A more generous analysis might be, "Under this reading, Neeson’s action movies are about the order whiteness and wealth has imposed on the world, the male sense of entitlement to that order, and the violence lurking beneath it, aimed at anyone who tries to disrupt it."

#new fiction #2022 #memory #martin campbell #the monster squad #fred dekker #charlotte #eric warin #tahir rana #moon of the wolf #daniel petrie #the bad guys #pierre perifel #the unbearable weight of massive talent #tom gormican #the northman #robert eggers #dual #riley stearns #fantastic beasts #the secrets of dumbledore #david yates #sonic the hedgehog 2 #jeff fowler #ambulance #michael bay #morbius #daniel espinosa #you won't be alone #goran stolevski

[gluteus-canis-familiaris]

Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’

By Kevin EG Perry

October 1, 2016, The Guardian

A few years ago, Alexander Skarsgård turned up at a Hammarby football match in Stockholm noticeably… what’s a polite way of putting this? Worse for wear? “I was shitfaced,” says Skarsgård. “I went up in front of the crowd and started doing this chant. Someone put it on Youtube. I’m very drunk, going: ‘You fucking cunts, listen to me!’ I thought: ‘This is real embarrassing.’”

During the bleak hangover that followed, the 40-year-old Swedish actor thought he might have torpedoed a career that had just seen him get the part of Tarzan in this summer’s blockbuster. In fact it made him an even more perfect fit for the role. “Warner Bros had said they needed someone primal and animalistic,” he says. “So my agent sent them the video, saying: ‘Isn’t this motherfucker primal enough for you?’”

Another one of the half-million people who watched it was John Michael McDonagh, writer-director of The Guard and Calvary, who was on the lookout for a hard-drinking detective for his pitch-black buddy comedy War On Everyone. “He saw the video and went: ‘That’s the guy,’” says Skarsgård. “It got me the job. The moral of the story is: Make a fool of yourself and people will love you. Remember that, kids.”

When we meet around midday in the lobby of the Hotel Normandy during the Deauville American film festival, it seems he’s taken his own lesson to heart. The previous night he was so smashed that he invaded the DJ booth at War On Everyone’s afterparty and proved that while you can take the man out of Sweden… “I played strictly Abba,” he says. “When in doubt, Lay All Your Love On Me. We closed that place down.”

As he concertinas himself into the back of a people carrier for the two-hour drive to Charles de Gaulle airport, sheltering his eyes behind dark shades, it’s somehow reassuring to know that savage hangovers afflict even movie stars who’ve been blessed with the sort of face that led Ben Stiller to cast him in Zoolander so he could ask him: “Did you ever think there’s more to life than being really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?”

Yet he was back with his pecs out this summer for The Legend Of Tarzan, a blockbuster that, like many in 2016, struggled at the box office. He says he was drawn in by the character’s search for a place in the world and impressed by Harry Potter director David Yates’s ability to make a £140m film feel “intimate”. But it was in some ways a change of scale. “I work mostly in independent movies so the scope of Tarzan was definitely different,” Skarsgård says. “I didn’t feel pressured [by the box office demands] though. It wasn’t like: ‘Oh fuck, this is a big movie.’ It was an incredible experience, but it was also nine months of just gym, work and bed. I didn’t have a sip of alcohol. It was robotic.”

Which explains the appeal of War On Everyone, a film in which he both downs and takes shots in every direction. Skarsgård plays Terry, a perma-drunk, Glen Campbell-obsessed, unapologetically corrupt detective partnered with the lightning-witted Bob, played by The Martian’s Michael Peña. It’s the old bad cop/worse cop routine, but laced with fierce cleverness. Where Shane Black’s The Nice Guys were bumbling dunces, McDonagh’s pair trade wisecracks peppered with esoteric references to everyone from Simone de Beauvoir to realist painter Andrew Wyeth.

“It’s so un-PC, it’s so me,” says Skarsgård. “You could tell John didn’t give a fuck about anything, which I found refreshing in a script. I’d read a couple of comedies but nothing that was fun or intelligent enough. When I got this script and it was dark and twisted and weird and completely out there, I was excited.” And besides, he adds, “[John is] a beautiful soul, which helps when you insult everyone.”

He even sees some similarities between his dirty detective and the king of the swingers. “As with Tarzan, there’s dichotomy in the character between being a civilised man and a beast. That’s something we can all relate to. We live in a civilised society, but 12 hours ago we were beasts dancing to Abba.”

The young Skarsgård’s first taste of fame was his own. His appearance at the age of 12 in TV film The Dog That Smiled made him a child star, but he soon found he hated the attention and quit acting. “I was desperate to be normal and blend in,” he says. He saw his chance at a life on the straight-and-narrow by enrolling in the Swedish military at 19, “unheard of” in his family. “That was my way to rebel,” he says.

Afterwards, still in search of himself, he decided to head to university in the UK. But he swerved London to find a more authentic British experience, and enrolled at Leeds Met. “It doesn’t get more British than a northern, working-class town,” he says. “There was a club called the Majestic where they had student nights and it was a pound a pint. We lived in Headingley, near the pubs on the Otley Run. Uni was a bullshit excuse for being there. I was studying British culture. I loved it.”

Deciding at 20 that he may have been a little hasty quitting acting, it was while visiting Stellan in LA that he won his small part in Zoolander – at his first Hollywood audition – but it was a false dawn. It would be another seven years before he got a major role, and he spent the time in between shuttling between theatres and coffee shops. When he was cast in David Simon and Ed Burns’s Iraq miniseries Generation Kill, he spent a month convinced he was about to be sacked. “It was only after four or five weeks I realised they weren’t going to recast,” he says. “Before that all I could think about was how much it would cost them to reshoot the big fight scenes after they fired me.”

Imposter syndrome is a common feeling – although a little hard to believe from a handsome, 6ft 4in movie star. “That shit doesn’t change,” he assures me. “I felt like that on Tarzan. I was on set thinking: ‘When is the director going to come over and say: Dude, you can go home. We’ve got Tarzan here now.’ That was 10 years after Generation Kill.”

Alexander Skarsgård, then: just like the rest of us. Fond of a pub crawl, obnoxious at sporting events, constantly waiting for that tap on the shoulder telling him the jig is up. So life is still pretty much the same when you’re really, really, really ridiculously good-looking?

“I mean, fuck, I still wake up shivering in the foetal position,” he says. “I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunities I get. Getting drunk on someone else’s dime listening to Abba is brilliant, but my life is still shit. I’m still agonising. What the fuck am I doing with my life? Where do I belong? Who gives a fuck? Let me assure you, it doesn’t get any better.”

War On Everyone is in cinemas from Friday

#alexander skarsgard #saw the video before when he mentioned it in a separate interview #but it gets me wheezing every time #GET SOME BRADLEY GET SOME #the translation in the youtube comments is a blessing #SAHLEN LOOK AT HIM #Hammarby IS the most handsome !!! #also I'm so hung up on drunken alex invading dj booths and subjecting everyone to abba

[allycat75]

Oh, Boston Dumb Fuck!

Was it all worth it? You may not even be able to get that one project a year now! Sure hope "Red One" turns it around for you, but based on what I have seen and the lack of passion you have for your work, and quite frankly for life, I highly doubt it. Plus, many people aren't digging The Rock right now as he came off as a bully with Black Atom and was pretty tone deaf asking hard-working citizens to donate to the Maui fire victims, when he and Oprah have more money than many small countries.

Get your life in order, man. You're a fucking mess and it is only going to get worse!

(Just so you don't think I am completely dragging you, I did like The Grey Man, I think that just got caught up in the fact it was Netflix's most expensive movie to date, but came out right as they were claiming poverty and raising rates and cracking down on account sharing; meanwhile their C-suite is on almost every top 10 list of richest white men in America).

Maybe you can start doing ads for Concord Chevrolet. You already have that Used Car Lot Balloon thing going for you and I am sure your clout chasing friends would appreciate the 20% off their next oil change.

#People's most pathetic man alive #Brian Wilson vibes #We can see you are miserable #Deflated used car lot balloon

[messrmoonyy]

Knowing that there is a scene out there somewhere in the abyss of Dora telling molly she’s pregnant AND Remus asking harry to be the godfather causes me pain everyday

#fuck you david Yates #remus lupin #nymphadora tonks #harry potter #remadora #remus x tonks #ronks #the marauders #lupin #tonks x lupin

[buggre-alle-this-for-a-larke]

Some people ship Hinny

Some people ship Harmione

Some people ship Drarry

But the thing we can all agree on

Is that the ending to Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2 was SHITE

#harry potter #deathly hallows #film #wb #what the fuck David Yates #is a question i find myself asking zo many times a day #WHY DOES HE TURN TO DUST #lets finish this the way we started it?? #together??? #i think the fuck not harry you little shit #drarry #hinny #Harmione #what the fuxk did Molly do to Bellatrix #where was Kingsley and mcgonagall fighting voldemort #god fucking dammit #who approved these choicea #this is why we cant have nice things #battle of hogwarts

[jaskiersbard]

“tina only having one scene is because katherine had covid and a baby!!1!”

Nope. Sorry, nope. That’s not gonna fly. First of all, yes, she had COVID; the thing to do when a key cast member gets COVID is to shut down production and WAIT for them to be well again - not to rewrite their role and give it to an irritating minor character who was pointless in the last film and only there to make us laugh about “perhaps newt should remove his shirt hardy har har”. I would rather wait a longer time for the movie than them totally write her out bar one scene. If production had taken longer, then so be it - I would rather have waited that time to see her, especially after the lackluster amount in the second film.

Secondly, the baby excuse also doesn’t track as she has filmed MULTIPLE projects since having the baby. She stated on a podcast she has a partner who reads her scripts and gives advice too, so it’s not like she’s single-parenting either. Other cast members - including Victoria Yeates who plays Bunty who had a baby at around the same time (if not after) and has a BIGGER part for some bizarre fucking reason - have young children and babies and still they have not been treated like this. 

For me, it comes down to a few things: JKR being an abysmal writer who can’t keep track of her own characters and plot lines, David Yates cutting any and all scenes where the women characters shine, Kloves being brought on board (see: what he did to Ron and Ginny in the Potter films), Katherine being the only cast member with the balls to openly state she didn’t want to be associated with JKR’s views on trans people (except Eddie, but given the fact he’s a larger name and supposedly the main lead, writing him off would have been a hell of a lot harder). Sure, some of the other cast made comments in favour of the trans community, but they did it in such a way that it wouldn’t offend poor old billionaire jk. 

I am so tired. I was already on the fence about this film but all of this just makes it all the more unlikely I will continue to support it. Sure, there’s that 2% chance that the reason NONE of the several test screenings have featured more than one Tina scene is because “she’s so important to the plot that she’s a spoiler”, but we all know deep down that’s bullshit at this point. Why should I waste two and a half hours of my time, as well as £30, going to the cinema to watch a film that can’t even remember who its own leading lady is and that my favourite character is only in 30 seconds of? It would be like paying that money to see, for example, the Patil twins in the Harry Potter movies - absolutely pointless and you just come away feeling dejected and sad.

Sure, there’s Eddie and Callum and... Eh. That’s kind of it at this point. I like Alison but the second film ruined Queenie’s character - her arc could have been interesting but it was so poorly done that at this point I don’t even care anymore. 

Apologies for the negativity, but I’m so upset right now and frankly just want to cry.

#fantastic beasts: the secrets of dumbledore #fantastic beasts #fantastic beasts and where to find them #anti jk rowling #tina goldstein #katherine waterston #fuck warner bros #will probably delete later but right now i'm fucking heartbroken and furious

[fllourishandblotts]

Ok my very, very early (and VERY SPOILERIFIC) thoughts on the secrets of dumbledore below:

i am so overwhelmed (as i always am with these films) so i feel like i don't even know what i think just yet. i really need to see the film again i think but these are my very, very early thoughts.

the film itself is amazing. i was blown away by how much they upped the quality in this one. it was visually beautiful, it was dark, the screenplay was amazing. the sets were incredible. the beasts were beautiful. there was so much going on, and not in a bad way at all. it was honestly really great.

but for me, i think (and i may change my mind) it was too dark. i don't like how quickly they've darkened the films - it felt deathly hallows level dark for me, which felt a bit unnecessary. and i do totally get that these are very dark times in the wizarding world, but for me it lost the incredibly original 'fantastic beasts' charm the first film had. and i feel like the first film was such a great mix of light and dark, and was such a great example of how you can do that.

the two things i said i wanted from this film was better pace and for more depth - and quiet moments, which I know David Yates can do brilliantly (and obviously JKR). and we DEFINITELY got that in this film. the structure and timeline of the film worked really well for me. but being the incredibly picky person i am, i actually felt that it was a bit too slow this time....

I did feel like the unveiling of where/who Credence actually came from was a bit underwhelming. I'm so happy it wasn't a retcon (AND I KNEW IT WOULDN'T BE - fucking patience JKR haters) but I so could have done with some more backstory on it and explanation (who was his mother?!) as it was such an important plot point in the lead up to this. ALSO - IS CREDENCE DEAD?! I literally thought Aberforth was taking him to die at the Hog's Head, and then we didn't see them again?! I really, really hope this isn't the end of Credence.

I really wish we'd had some flashbacks. I don't feel like we got enough of Dumbledore's backstory, and I'm still confused by the title of this film - where were his secrets?!

I have to admit I also felt like the destroying of the blood troth was also a bit underwhelming, but i was also really confused so i think i need to rewatch that part lol

Anyway I realise I'm sounding so negative, so I need to get on to some more positive thoughts (as I genuinely think this film is amazing). I think I just get in such an overwhelmed, over-thinking state when I first see these films.

I LOVED MADS' GRINDELWALD SO MUCH!! He fucking nailed it. His performance was flawless. He was such a real character this film, and just don't get me started on how his love was portrayed both by his performance and the script. I can't actually put that into words. 'Who will love you now Dumbledore?' The heartbreak in his voice. I fucking can't.

I love Jacob so god damn much. He was so great in this film. Dan Floger just doesn't miss a beat. He's such a perfect addition to this world and I'm so grateful for him. AND I'M SO HAPPY JACOB AND QUEENIE ARE BACK TOGETHER! I wanted to cry. That's all I needed lol.

LALLY! She was awesome. Another amazing new character in this world. I can't wait to see more of her.

The first few scenes of this film were absolutely mesmerisingly beautiful. I love how they weaved a beast (the qilin) into the central part of the plot of the film. I thought that was done so well.

As always, it was SO great seeing Hogwarts again. WE SAW A FEW SECONDS OF WHAT DUMBLEDORE'S THEN OFFICE LOOKED LIKE! I so wish we could have seen more. I love Minerva but I wish we'd seen more of her. Hogsmeade, Hogsmeade, Hogsmeade! What a bloody delight. I loved Aberforth. He was great.

My one downside with Hogwarts was the Great Hall. That set is pure escapism to me, and I just feel like it didn't have any of the warmth or the 'buzz' it had in the HP films - I don't know what it was.

Ok um great to see Tina at the end - we better have a lot of her in the next film to make up for this one. And I really hope we see Nagini return next film.

I really need to see it again. It was just so, so dark. But it wasn't done in a 'cringey' way if you get me, I think it was done beautifully - I'm just not ready for these films to be this dark yet. But it really was incredible. Ok you can see how confused I am with my thoughts right now.

I'm also really wondering where the films go from here now? I feel like a lot of it was tied up (obviously Grindelwald still needs to be taken down) but I'm really curious as to what they'll do with the next two films now.

Ok that'll do for now, more to come once I've digested it more (and seen it 10 more times)

#tsodspoilers #fbtsodspoilers #fantastic beasts #fbtsod