#not even a fucking teaser trailer OR CRUMBS

[mrsbridgerton]

we have 54 days left of this year and we have no update on s3

#can they end the strike pls #I JUST WANNA SEE MY MAN BENEDICT OK #I hate them all #one year since s2 and nearly 3 years from s1 #wHAT A JOKE #not even a fucking teaser trailer OR CRUMBS #they’re getting a bit TOO cocky if you ask me #bridgerton #bridgerton s2 #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton netflix #anthony bridgerton #benedict bridgerton #colin bridgerton #daphne basset #daphne bridgerton #eloise bridgerton #francesca bridgerton #gregory bridgerton #hyacinth bridgerton #violet bridgerton #kathony #anthony x kate #kate sharma #kate sheffield #penelope featherington #polin

[bestworstcase]

kinda sad if the jl p2 movie isn't canon now because we got awesome lines that allude to v10 and ruby (plus her team) traumas after v9

here’s the thing.

the crossover films are intended to reach a wider audience than rwby’s existing fanbase. to do so, they need to cater to viewers who know nothing or almost nothing about rwby. this requires things like exposition about things that rwby fans already know and some drift away from canon to facilitate that.

(for example: in canon, the kids not only never met watts, they didn’t even know he existed until a couple days before atlas fell; they don’t know who he is or what he wants, and they certainly do not have the kind of experience dealing with him that they would need to formulate a plan based on his past behavior, because again they knew he existed for all of like three days before he died, and every single time they had to deal with him he either maneuvered around them flawlessly or inflicted an intensely pyrrhic victory on ironwood.

in the film they very confidently rattle off a whole character blurb, including a motive that he straight up does not have in canon [“remaking the world”—watts is salem’s demolitionist and seems to be quite content working for her; and he doesn’t want to be recognized for his genius so much as he resents being taken advantage of and taken for granted, “you never appreciated my genius, james; you just stood atop it and called yourself a giant!”] but which of course he does in the film. similarly, they describe him as the one chiefly responsible for destroying atlas [he wasn’t: ironwood and cinder were] but don’t mention the thing that the kids would canonically associate with him, which is the virus that attacked penny.

none of this is bad writing: it’s an accommodation made for that wider audience, who would otherwise have no fucking clue who arthur watts is. the film simplifies his character, styles him as the villain who destroyed weiss’s home, and gives team rwby this familiarity with him so that his role as the big bad here will be accessible to all viewers.)

…ahem.

the point is that accessibility to a wider audience also necessarily constrains what the film is able to do with the events of v9. the only direct reference is yang saying “since we got back,” and even that is quite vague. the destruction of atlas carries weight because a significant portion of the first film happened in atlas. for rwby fans, the second film delivers pretty well on what we’d expect after v9—but it has to do that in a way that will be accessible to the wider audience.

if you watched just these two crossover films knowing nothing else about rwby, it would be easy to conclude that the thing fucking ruby up is that atlas fell in the weeks-long gap between part one and two. and that reading holds up! it makes sense! to a non-rwby fan the storyline is “watts wrecked atlas, everyone escaped to this desert, weiss and ruby aren’t coping very well” and that fits together pretty well. (i submit this is also partly why blake and yang were SO flirty in the first installment, to sell them to the wider audience as an established couple in the second.)

so.

look at the v9 aftershocks in the second film.

those are crumbs.

v10 is not going to be like the crossover films. it won’t be constrained by the need to cater to an audience that hasn’t seen v1-9. the massive upheavals and revelations the second film could only vaguely glance at are going to be the engine of the v10 narrative. what the film pulls off with subtext v10 will be able to dig its teeth into like a terrier with a rat.

it’s like an hourlong teaser trailer :)

#rwby jl spoilers #also the funniest thing abt jl!watts is basically they cindered him. #she set him on fire so hard she burned her own megalomania into his brain

[thefoldedbird]

How the fuck has Transformers One received virtually no marketing? The only “marketing” has been a couple voice actor interviews with big names going “wow it looks great”.

Are…are you fucking kidding me? Every image we have has been a leak. Every plot detail we have has been a leak. It’s to the point where when news sources regurgitate what meager news they were given they use those leaked images (which is a huge no no).

Not even a teaser. Less than 200 days and no trailer, no teaser, no legitimate promotional images, nothing. Not a fucking thing.

This is ridiculous. It’s the first animated transformers movie since 1986 to hit the big screen and it’s in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the franchise and the studio has given us nothing. Not even crumbs.

“Highest test scores for animation in paramount history”

“Movie is 75% done”

The writers “know their lore” so well it might be “hard for general audiences to follow”

Great! That’s all very nice. Whoop de doo!

Give us a damn trailer already.

#maccadam #transformers one #tf 2024 #movie news

[arostormblessed]

me in june: okay people where is the shadow and bone trailer??? I’ve been waiting for this for YEARS it would be really nice if we could at least have a teaser out soon

me now, in november: hm. fuck u netflix

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #six of crows #if me from four months ago knew that we wouldn’t even have a MOTHERFUCKIN TEASER TRAILER in FUCKING OCTOBER... #YOUVE BEEN WRAPPED FOR EIGHT MONTHS #I GET THAT THERES A PANDEMIC AND YOU MIGHT NOT BE READY TO RELEASE IT TILL NEXT YEAR #BUT COULD YOU AT THE VERY LEAST GIVE LIKE?? A TEN SECOND TEASER?? #YOU DONT EVEN HAVE AN OFFICIAL COVER YET #WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM #IM BEYOND TIRED OF WAITING #anyway I’m fine sorry for the rant but I want to see my crows so bad😭😭 #ive been waiting for ever #I need SOMETHING #even just like the tiniest bread crumb #but no. we get nothing 😋

[siancore]

Dime Store Cap LMAO I actually think Sharon *is* in the trailer, but I'm not 100% it's her. There's a scene where Bucky is shooting and two people are hiding behind him, and I think the woman might be Sharon. At this point, the only theoris I have are

1) Her whole presence in the series is too spoilery to include her in the teaser or first wave of merch

2) The creators of TFATWS are really fucking good at keeping their secrets even with theories and supposed leaks with no actual substance to them

Ha! I really don’t like him. I don’t even like reblogging the content with him in it haha yes, I am petty. 

And I thought that was her in the trailer, too. I hope it was. They haven’t even given us crumbs! I’m hoping her arc in the series is so huge that it would spoil too much to show her in the teasers etc. 

I just want them to give her a fleshed out storyline. Please. Just give Sharon what she deserves.

#sharon carter

[drunkkenobi]

Happy Watcher-versay

For all my sweet baby angels who were not in this fandom a year ago, let me paint you a picture.

In 2018, the content didn't flow as much as it does now, but there were still lots of Instagram photos, or surprise pop-ups in other Buzzfeed videos. You never knew when you'd click on Curly's instastory and see him hitting on Ryan or Shane and Ryan tweeting about some terrible dream Ryan had where Shane died or when you'd see them in airports together and begin speculating where they would be ghosthunting next. Then at the end of season 5 of Supernatural, when Ryan and Shane say they’ll be back but without a clear date, and while saying “we do have a special for you in January” (which would be the sponsored Black Dahlia revisited ep), it felt a little odd and sad, since SPN had only been 6 episodes instead of 8, but oh well, they’ll still be around. Plus maybe that meant they were working on season 2 of Ruining History! So we went on with our days, watching an awkward Buzzfeed holiday special with Shane as the grinch and Ryan not there at all, along with Shane getting the actual worst haircut of all time for a bit and Ryan not there at all. The Black Dahlia ep was a nice little treat, though. But then a couple weeks later, the Buzzfeed layoffs hit and I cannot emphasize enough what a shitty, anxious weekend that was. Ryan was at Sundance with Mari and so his lack of presence with regards to the layoffs was weird and made me (and a lot of other people) anxious as fuck that Unsolved wouldn’t continue at all. Shane didn’t say much either, although he was quietly liking tweets from fired friends. Katie Leblanc did eventually post that Unsolved was not canceled, although the damage had been done. TJ had been laid off, only a couple weeks back from paternity leave, and it was just a shitty time to care about Buzzfeed stuff. 

But a month later, the boys were back filming True Crime and then La Llorona with Curly and we hit another fandom mini-high. But, curiously, during the same time, Ryan was posting instagram ads and tweeting at a bunch of LA companies asking to do collabs and it seemed like our fears were true: Ryan had left Buzzfeed and Shane. He was doing Unsolved on contract but was going to venture out into the world and do his own thing, maybe acting or ~influencer shit. Shane was still popping up in some other Buzzfeed videos so it was the only logical conclusion we thought. 

Every time a random Buzzfeeder I followed posted a shot from in the office, I’d try to scour the background for Ryan and Shane but I never could find them. Whenever they did post instastories, they were working from home, sometimes together, sometimes not. That felt weird, but we thought maybe Buzzfeed was allowing people to work from home more as a boost to morale after the layoffs. And we knew they filmed more Berry Boys stuff at Knott’s, where was that? And then after True Crime s5 ended, we went months without anything, besides the Annabelle sponsored episode. All summer, no videos of them at pool parties together, no tweets from other Buzzfeeders about them at all, nothing. A lot of the time, though, Ryan was visiting Mari on set so that helped explain his absences, but maybe not all of them.

August rolls around and the boys film s6 of Supernatural, ghost hunting in Florida and South Carolina. The joy of seeing them post weird pics of each other while traveling could not be overstated. Then Ryan tweeted that Shane was “irreplaceable”, even when faced with switching him out for Paddington. Things in the fandom were looking up! We didn’t know why they were only filming 14 episodes of Unsolved a year when they used to do twice that many and we didn’t know what the fuck they were doing with their time and Sara finally commented that Ruining History probably wasn’t coming back so what the fuck did Shane do with his time, especially now that it had been a year without the Hot Daga and just what was going on over there???

Season 6 of Supernatural came and went, a glorious 6 week run that included “it’s not like he’s my daddy”, face-touching, and Ryan’s Old City Jail freakout. But after Halloween, it was done and it was another month of lows of after such an intense high. When were we going to see them again? Was Unsolved coming to an end? Were they growing apart? A lot of future reunion fic popped up during this time, which I think is a good indicator of where the fandom was at, how we were coping.

Then, on December 8, 2019, Ryan, Shane, and Steven Lim all posted eye emoji tweets. Weird. Some thought it was a reference to an album coming out around that time, some assumed it was some sort of teaser for a BFU/Worth it crossover (Andrew doesn’t social media so that helped too). An odd crumb of content that we nonetheless ate up.

December 9th rolls around. At around 10am PST, a trailer goes up. And suddenly, everything about the past year shifts into place.

I cannot emphasize enough that no one, no one, though they’d ever leave together. They couldn’t pull a Try Guys, Unsolved was too expensive to shoot and they couldn’t buy out that name with just two of them. It never crossed our minds that they’d want to create new things together. That they truly do think of each other as irreplaceable, not just as co-hosts on their spooky show, but in all aspects of their lives.

So. Happy Watcher-versary, my darlings. It’s been a shit year, but made immeasurably more tolerable with these doofuses and this lovely fandom. 

#watcher dummies #I'm having a lot of feelings on this here wednesday

[ars0nism]

Just fuck Disney.

Endgame. The poor attempts at fitting in with kids, adding memes and a background gay. Ruining Steve and Bucky, not even the ship but simply their friendship.

Star Wars. My father has been in love with that franchise as long as he's lived and even he looked so tired of it after TRoS. A franchise I watched with him when I was three years old, half asleep in his lap.

LGBT rep. Endgame man. Nameless lesbians kissing in the background. Throwaway line troll cop. LeFou. News outlets singing Disney's praises and we get left with crumbs.

And then Artemis Fowl happened. I was so hopeful when the first teaser arrived. I loved Artemis Fowl when I was 12. Ask where I think my villain main character obsession started, and I will tell you Artemis Fowl. Most of my main characters can be absolute bastards, simply because 12 year old me fell in love with the AF books.

But this trailer. This trailer makes me want to fly to Disney's headquarters and just punch whoever's in charge of this movie. Whoever thought it was a good idea to make Butler fully black and give him hair, to whitewash Holly, to take away from the story and give us a generic chosen one tale in return. To set up such an obvious romance where there is none, at least not at the start. To make Artemis a good guy, like the appeal of the books wasn't that he was such a bastard and slowly changed for the better. From the details, from Butler's wrong gun and Mulch's wrong height and Holly's wrong everything, to the big things like the entire story being changed, and for what? To please parents? To keep everything PG? The one kids' book series I know that is fantasy and doesn't have a good main character, a kid's series with a redemption arc as its overlying arc instead of simply a good kid doing good things, and they simply took the names and decided to go their own way. I loved Artemis Fowl because he was both the most and least relatable character when I was 12.

This isn't Artemis Fowl. This is a dumb cash grab, another beloved franchise ruined by Disney. And I hate it so, so much.

#disney #artemis fowl #avengers endgame #star wars sequel trilogy #they messed up my boy

[nezumionice]

im fucking crying these past three months have been too much for me to handle because all my favourite fandoms and ships are waking up like: - the reylo fandom has risen from the ashes of star wars hell because of five seconds in a trailer, eventually leading to all-out reylo tlj marketing and promotion. now the fandom is prospering and flourishing and buried in new reylo content every day. it's like a daily reylo newspaper subscription overflowing with support from the cast and the director himself. i love it. i love it so damn much. - the newtina fandom has also awaken in the midst of the new teaser clip, giving us the first look at our characters and a title for the next fantastic beasts movie. not to mention the little crumbs and snippets of bts shots the official fantastic beasts ig account has been leaving us. i daresay we've all been analysing them like crazy to derive at the conclusion that at least a few of them have to do with newtina. the fandom is now rewatching fbawtft and exploding with newtina theories, speculation, fanart and fanfics. i implore you all not to stop creating / posting these content because it's literally the only thing keeping me alive until the movie is out. JUST A LITTLE LESS THAN A YEAR TO GO CMON GUYS - the buckynat fandom has awaken since the infinity war trailer has FINALLY dropped, after years of waiting. i assume we all exploded in excitement when we saw the very thumbnail of the trailer - literally bucky and natasha running into battle together, side by side. we're probably overthinking / over-analysing this, but who cares, we've been deprived. let us speculate as we wish. a new wave of fanart and fanfiction crashes in and i am more than willing to drown in them. - the jancy fandom is literally WOKE. stranger things season 2 could just be called the jancy road trip au fanfic, only thing is that it's canon. IT'S CANON BITCHES. FINALLY. the bedroom scene. our lord and savior murray bauman. this season everything fell into place. we got everything we ever wanted and more. - the quakerider fandom has risen upon the premiere of aos season 5. it just makes me so happy that the first few words out of daisy's mouth was about robbie, and that the first episode alone held various references to the ghost rider. we are all united by our current dislike towards deke, and we're all wary about him becoming daisy's new love interest. we were all mad about the "sweetheart" thing. and then gabriel luna showed up on chloe bennet's ig story and we all flipped shit. it feels good to have some reassurance once in a while. keep them fanfics / fanart going, guys, and we might just get the quakerider reunion we deserve. don't stop hoping!! - the clawen fandom is freaking out rn because the jurassic world: fallen kingdom trailer is coming this week AND we've already gotten a new clip featuring owen and a baby raptor. plus, all those amazing, beautiful bts pics with owen and a BADASS LOOKING CLAIRE DEARING like holy shit my bbys look so good. i'm so freakin pumped for the next film and to think that we'll be seeing more of them as a couple (maybe even engaged omgomgomg) is just astounding. it's too much to take in. the end of 2017 isnt a bad one. let us hope this will continue into the start of 2018.

#reylo #tlj #sw #newtina #fbawtft #fbtcog #fantastic beasts #buckynat #avengers #infinity war #marvel #quakerider #aos #s5 #clawen #jw #jp #jurassic world #fallen kingdom #2017 #2018 #we are BLESSED #fandom #fanfic #fanart #ships #otp