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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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Personal: some Health Stuff Plus Polls as Enrichment in My Cage

The last couple years the AS is more aggressive than it's ever been. It's why I have a caregiver now. Right now, it's just incredibly bad from a pain an mobility and gambling if a limb is going to work perspective.

I'm not recovering properly between treatments either and this too is way upping the challenge level. One needs air to accomplish things And I'm now at July levels entering wildfire season. I'm going to have to have a talk with them because it's escalating so fast and i think not sustainable.

I had a really scary time getting dressed and out front for the Pharmacy delivery guy. nothing was bending and nothing wanted to take my weight. Normally I pre-dress in these situations, but I was still so exhausted and coughing up chunks from Monday treatment, that it simply didn't happen. It is amazing I didn't seriously damage myself.

So I manage to get my gear off (not much easier than on), Livia waiting impatiently for her pet, and just get everything propped properly and Livia situated when the phone rings again. it was a pollster, and I have a policy of answering as long as there isn't a pressing need not to. This one was incredibly long, and I bet there completion rate is tiny. Don’t worry, Livia knows phone calls mean bed pets and she didn’t even stir when I answered. This was the first and longest of four bed pets for her today as the cats were taking turns.

Y'all know I am connoisseur of polls and this one was fascinating. I love trying to work out who commissioned these things and why. It started out like a normal political poll, but soon went a whole different direction. My theory is I was looking at a poll by some firm involved in advertising or rebranding for corporations. It dawned on me fairly early on that the structure was the one I've only ever seen a couple of times, both instances during the massive 2020 Democratic Primary, and I'm wondering if it was the same polling firm. It wanted to know my opinions on a bunch of things related to the image and labour practices of Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, some Seattle Sports franchises, and Starbucks.

There were a bunch of Seattle specific questions, actually, which was really stood out since I don't live there and no longer can make the trip given finances and the age and fragility of my car. (I love Amtrak. It's just way too expensive. I no longer trust my car in the mountain passes or for long drives). It also asked a lot of questions about what ads and news items I'd seen about them, with a lot of open ended questions. It wanted to know if I watched or read certain news sources and if I read political stuff on certain social media sources. Political questions were sprinkled here and there throughout and there was a long demographics section at the end which weirdly gave no fucks about my age. They usually sort these things by age, race, and political affiliation, and occasionally things like profession or income, etc.. The not asking about age really stood out, because it's not usually optional even in an automated 3-5 political question quickie.

Like the two massive political polls with this structure from the Primaries, there was a "randomly selected" pull out section. I remember doing these for Corey Booker, then later Kamala Harris. Maybe they really are random, or there's an algorithm picking the one most likely to yield interesting results. I was glad I got Amazon and not Facebook, because I am well Informed about Amazon's labour practices and I am Big Angry about them. Who knows, maybe if the stuff's negative enough, they might decide they need to make some actual changes here and there instead of sticking to lip service PR bullshit. Not big changes like are actually needed, but something.

I couldn't quite work out if this section was a push poll or akin to the ones I get for candidates and ballot measures where it's clearly a campaign trying toi test market assorted policies and messaging to maker their ads more effective. This would also fit with the questions about media consumption. I'm willing to bet they will be designing targeted ads for places like FOX and Facebook and CNN and Washington Post and wall street journal and new York Times trying to hit particular groups with particular concerns. (In the last week have you read anything in the new York Times? Me: No, they were having a strike. There were a bunch of others, that's off the top of my head.). My theory is the Seattle specific stuff fits with this too. Maybe they wanted to know about sports franchise consumption and whether I go to Seafair and assorted arts venues for advertising reasons as well and not in and of themselves. The Seattle stuff came right after the corporations and right before news stuff. Anyway, that's my best guess.

I love things like this, weird little puzzles my historian brain mulls before sleep. I also like things such as watching a bunch of adaptions of a book i never read to try to puzzle out which parts are original to the story and which are embellishments and which are interpretations. Sure I could read the book, but where is the fun in that, especially since I do this for books I didn't want to read in the first place. This is also part of the fun of Tumblr for me, guessing the actual content of a TV Show or Movie or book I never watched or read come across my dash and try to reconstruct it from the modern equivalent of traces in the archeological record, random pottery, and fragmentary papyri found down an ancient loo in the ruins of a city on the Nile. Enrichment in the cage of an ex-academic, basically.

Brains are weird. I love them.

#Personal #Polls #Polling

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guacam011y · 3 years

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***SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 5 OF WANDAVISION***

HOLY SHITE MY MIND IS BLOWN

TOMMY AND BILLY CRYING

“Do you want me to take that again?” “Take it from the top?”

Agnes knows ! Tiger - Ralph

“Dark liquor” Vision being concerned

Billy and Tommy aged up?!

I DO NOT TRUST HAYWARD

SCARLET WITCH - TALKING ABOUT HOW WANDA DOESN’T HAVE A CODENAME

SIS STRAIGHT UP TOOK VISIONS CORPSE

HEX — HER POWERS GET REFERRED TO AS HEX POWERS SOMETIMES IN THE COMICS

CAPTAIN MARVEL REFERENCE

NORM SAYING NONE OF IT IS REAL

SPARKY THE DOG - VISION HAD A STAND ALONE AND STOLE A DOG

HER ACCENT

LAGOS

SHE DOESNT KNOW HOW ANY OF THIS STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE

EVAN PETERS AS QUICKSILVER

DARCY GOING “SHE RECAST PIETRO?” MOOOD

X-MEN, START TO THE MULTIVERSE?!

WANDA CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE CONTROLLING IT

IS MONICA MAD AT CAROL???

MONICA X DARCY?! WHAT A POWER COUPLE THAT WOULD BE

SIS REALLY ENDGAME - ENDGAME ENDED WITH TONY’S FUNERAL AND WANDA PROBS WENT STRAIGHT FROM THERE AND STOLE HER DEAD BF’S CORPSE (can’t really blame her, it looked like they were trying to experiment on Vis and could it be Hayward behind it?)

WHO WAS THAT ENGINEER THAT MONICA WAS GOING TO CONTACT?

BABY VISION

AND AGNES DEFINITELY KNOWS SOMETHING

DARCY FINALLY GOT HER COFFEE

SO VIS SAID THAT WANDA COULD’VE MADE EVERYTHING SUBCONSCIOUSLY AND THAT OVER TIME SHE BECAME AWARE OF IT, AND SIS DEFO HAS SOME CONTROL BUT IT’S NOT ALL HER. I THINK AGNES IS AGATHA HARKNESS AND EITHER MEPHISTO IS BEHIND IT OR IT’S NIGHTMARE AND THEY’VE MAYBE POWERED UP NIGHTMARE

***FURTHER UPDATES AND EASTER EGGS***

Auntie Agnes and Agnes saying she has a few tricks up her sleeve - we should definitely take note of that seeing as Agnes definitely has something to do with the whole situation

Wanda and Vision’s house changed again, being inspired by Family Ties, possibly Full House and Growing Pains

“Do you want me to take it from the top?” It seems as though when someone, this time Vision, steers away from the script, things either reset themselves or people become aware to some capacity, although Agnes probably already knows

Speaking of Growing Pains - It had a spin off called “Just the 10 of Us” in which the director for Wandavision, Matt Shakman, was apart of the cast - and seemingly also inspired the theme song for this week

We should definitely keep an eye on Monica and her potential for powers. With Maria last episode revealed to have gone by the name ‘Photon’ (which is a name that Monica uses as one of her aliases in the comics) and could inspire Monica’s name as she develops her powers - those scans didn’t look 100% normal. Monica has also used the Captain Marvel monicker in the comics

Wanda’s energy field and such being referred to as “Hex” short for Hexagon, could be a little nod to the comics where Wanda’s powers are sometimes called Hex powers

She’s never been referred to as the Scarlet Witch on the big screen - and it seems as though she soon may earn that code name

So we now know that Wanda stole Vision’s corpse from S.W.O.R.D, but did she actually re animate him fully? He’s still got the gem in the centre of his forehead, but the last time he had it was in Infinity War where it promptly got ripped out by Thanos - so has Wanda found her own way of reanimating him and he’s alive or is he dead and just a trick of the mind - though from other trailers/previews, Vis is seen trying to and looks successful at leaving Wanda’s barrier

They had a little call back to Captain America: Civil War with the Sokovia Accords, which were targeting the Avengers in general but were created when Wanda lost control of her powers and killed civilians

A little joke towards Vis as playing “Father Knows Best” in their little suburbia - Which was a sitcom that ran for 200 episodes in the 50’s

Sparky ! A little nod to the little green dog from the Walta and King comics run for Vision and unfortunately soon meets the same fate 💔

A little nod to Endgame when we hear from Monica that Wanda definitely could’ve taken down Thanos by herself had Thanos not rained fire - and Jimmy arguing that Captain Marvel could’ve just as easily done it - which leaves Monica with an angry look on her face

Good ol’ dial up internet

Can Vis “save” the residents of Westview? He can still seemingly interact with people’s minds, with or without the mind stone - Norm soon comes out of his trance as Vis snaps him out of it and asks to call his sister and that he has to save them all from “her” - now this “her” could be Wanda...but it could also be Agnes and then Vis shuts him down soon enough again and Norm goes back to his sit com self

Billy and Tommy are fully aware, or at least suspect Wanda’s abilities - after asking her to bring back Sparky from the dead and speaking of Billy and Tommy - could they be semi permanent fixtures in the MCU, it would help to introduce the Young Avengers eventually. They'll do Young Avengers at some point since Kang is supposed to be a thing in the third Ant-Man.

Teddy, unfortunately, I don't think will be here for a bit (I really hope he is though!). I think the guy they hired that everyone is rumoring to be Teddy might just be an episode about Billy coming to terms with his sexuality and Wanda and Vis learning to accept it in the way that era of tv they're in would go about with that kind of episode and the dude is just a dude - but again, I really hope it’s Teddy 😭

Wanda leaves the hex after a mini missile/plane tries to shoot at her - and she’s in her Scarlet Witch costume and is seemingly mostly back to her “normal self”, which includes her accent !

Lagos brand paper towels - “For when you make a mess you didn’t mean to” - a nod to Civil War again in which Wanda accidentally blew up a building in Lagos and caused the Sokovian accords to come to fruition

The mail man again - I also think he was in the commercial but anywho - “Your mom won’t let him go far” similar to “Much like she won’t let anyone leave” a potential nod to Wanda or Agnes not letting anyone leave?

“We can’t reverse death” and yet she brought Vision back - keeping in mind that he’s an android but still a little foreshadow to what happened at the end of the ep? Better yet, could Pietro coming back be a distraction for Wanda? Agnes or whoever introducing someone that Wanda lives in hopes that she won’t go full on breakdown superpowers or just to give her an attachment to Westview even more and make her not want to leave at all

“She recasted Pietro” EVAN ! I’m so pumped for this - it seems this could turn into the X-Men making their debut earlier than expected possibly? In any case, it’s a nice little Easter Egg to the previous Fox franchise of X-Men movies where Evan played Peter Maximoff “Quicksilver” alongside James McAvoy as Prof X, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and so many others - and with Deadpool being confirmed as Disney’s first R rated film, it seems Mutants are definitely on their way to the MCU

Agnes is definitely Agatha or a gender bent Nightmare

The way Billy shed himself and Tommy up was scary - definitely a little nod to his powers coming in

Multiple different perspectives of Wanda saying that Monica left

Red Hex dialled up to around light sources (computer, window, etc.)

Vision mentions reading Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man - which could refer to Mutants entering the MCU, Mutants being superior to humans

Agnes calls herself Auntie Agnes - in episode 2 during the title sequence in the grocery store there’s a product called ‘Auntie A’s Kitty Litter’

Agnes refers to herself as a Tiger and in the episode, there’s a Tiger on the dining table in the kitchen - could that be a listening device, her eyes and ears?

There are no other children in Westview - Billy and Tommy are immune because they have no prior trauma

Elizabeth Olsen’s photos are real and slightly altered with Sokovian flags in the background

In the birthday shot of Billy and Tommy, they have ‘1,2,3,4,5’ candles all on one cake

In the holiday photos, Vision goes from Turkey to Easter Bunny, to Santa and progressively gets more unhappy - realising he no longer wants to play along in Wanda’s Hex

During Monica’s callbacks to seeing Wanda’s pain inside her head, we see a new shot of Wanda crying - it looks like it’s around the time she stole Vision’s corpse, as the outfit she’s wearing is very similar, if not the same - could this be an after shot of when she’s trying to bring Vision back?

During the scene where we see the footage of Wanda stealing Vision’s corpse, the S.W.O.R.D logo that appears on the table has 8 stars around the rim of the logo but then has a 9th one in the middle - could this be a little Easter Egg to the nine realms of the Cosmos? And there’s also a map showing Cape Canaveral, could that be where S.W.O.R.D’s headquarters are?

Wanda and Pietro were born in 1989 to Irina and Oleg Maximoff - who were killed in an air raid when the twins were 10. In the comics, Wanda and Pietro were raised by Django and Maria Maximoff, before their true parentage was revealed as being the children of Magneto, however, in the comics this has been retconned so that Wanda and Pietro are no longer Mutants and the High Evolutionary had just disguised them as Mutants (something I think they should undo tbh - MARVEL, PLEASE MAKE WANDA AND PIETRO MUTANTS AGAIN!!!)

Speaking of the air raid, that was also referenced in Age of Ultron by Pietro and Wanda - “We were 10 years old, having dinner the four of us. And the first shell hits 2 floors below, makes a hole in the floor” - was the beeping Stark toaster be what that was referring to?

WHIH reappears for a brief cameo as the news service in the MCU - and Hayward cuts off Jimmy as he was trying to defend Wanda’s reputation, in which Jimmy then turns to Darcy and says “I try not to speak ill of people” Darcy then follows up with “Then allow me, Hayward’s a-“ and then she’s cut off by a shot back to Hayward saying the word “Terrorist” which would make sense as it seems with Vision’s corpse, he may have been trying to make sentient weapons and by subverting Vision’s will and blaming Wanda of doing the same. In the footage shown of Wanda stealing Vision’s remains, we see Vision broken up into parts and S.W.O.R.D seems to be experimenting on him and this seems to be the robotics/nanotech project that Hayward was referring to. Monica asks Hayward about the footage saying “When was this?” to which Hayward replies saying “9 days ago. Maximoff stormed our facility, stole Vision’s body and resurrected him” - this would mean that Wanda took Vision 2 weeks after the events of Endgame, about a week before Monica returned to S.W.O.R.D and Hayward didn’t tell her any of this and when he sent her in there, he knew exactly what he was doing - with her reputation after Civil War, this makes it easier for Hayward to paint her as the villain.

Back in Westview, Tommy wears red and Billy wears green - which are the colours that Wiccan and Speed wear in the comics, respectively. And it’s also the colours that Wanda and Vision are known for and appears quite a lot in their wardrobes

More in regards to Sparky, he was the synthezoid dog in Tom King’s run of Vision - the story being that he was originally a dog named Zeke who unfortunately passed away after digging up the Grim Reaper’s corpse and getting zapped. The Grim Reaper’s helmet appears during the title sequence of Episode 2 in the floorboards. Could Sparky have been trying to dig up a similar thing when he was caught by Agnes and consequently killed?

Monica mentions that she knows this aerospace engineer, they’re never shown but she is seen texting them. Could it be Reed Richards a.k.a Mr Fantastic? Hayward did mention that some astronauts used to work for S.W.O.R.D before a mission went haywire - though it seems a bit lacklustre to introduce such highly anticipated characters this way. Could it instead be the Skrull daughter of Talos that Monica befriended at the end of Captain Marvel? She mentioned that they had extraterrestrial allies in episode 4 working with her and Fury as apart of S.W.O.R.D - in the Spanish subtitles they use the feminine articles for this engineer - so I think it’s more likely to be Talos’s daughter

The board that we saw in Episode 4 now includes the mailman, drivers license and all - could he be Jimmy’s missing witness?

The tension in the room after Jimmy references Carol is similarly seen when in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Peter asks Skrull Fury/Talos “How about Captain Marvel?” To which Talos replies “Don’t involve her name”. Fury, Monica and Talos were all on the side of the Skrulls by then end of Captain Marvel and the space station that Fury was on maybe apart of S.W.O.R.D. So did Carol betray them?

A slight reference to Captain America: The First Avenger is made when Monica pulls a Peggy Carter and shoots at something to see if it’s bulletproof, in Peggy’s case it was the iconic Captain America shield and in the case of Monica, it was her clothes that she was wearing after Wanda threw her out of the Hex

Abilash (Norm) never states that Wanda is the one that Vision has to save them from, it’s just “her” - could this instead be Agnes?

When Billy is training Sparky to sit, he puts the treat by his ear up to his temple - a future reference that Billy will one day share the same powers as his mum?

During the scene in which Wanda leaves the Hex briefly, she turns the guns onto Hayward but none are trained on Monica - she may still trust Monica slightly, whereas with Hayward, she slightly more pissed off because of what he was doing to Vision’s remains. And turning a bunch of guns on the people you don’t trust? Like father, like daughter as Magneto pulls a similar move in one of the X-Men films - Hopefully, the big cameo they keep teasing will be Ian McKellan as Magneto or the Magnus of this House of M adaptation

During when Agnes “found” Sparky, she says he died from eating too many leaves from her plants - in the Tom King Vision run, one of Vision’s kids ends up killing Sparky and sees inside his stomach that there’s a plant that Agatha Harkness grows in her garden

All the names that appear during the credits that Wanda tries to run to end the show and to stop Vision from talking are names of people who work on the actual Wandavision show itself

When Evan Peter’s version of Quicksilver shows up, he says “Does a long lost bro get to squeeze his sister to death or what?” I DO NOT TRUST THIS PIETRO - Similar to Wandavision, the Fox X-Men movies moved up decade by decade - First Class was in the 1960s, Days of Future Past was in the 1970s, Apocalypse was in the 1980s and Dark Phoenix was in the 1990’s - which would make even more sense as MCU! Pietro wasn’t born until 1989, whereas Peter was active during the 1980s. I reckon that this Pietro is Jimmy’s missing witness, Agnes’s husband Ralph and is disguising itself as a comforting presence to Wanda as Vision no longer brings comfort and is trying to bring Wanda back to reality - and when he shows up, the mirror in the background behind Wanda is slightly distorted but his hand looks red and in the shot as well, there seems to be a grey arm reaching towards Pietro - in the shot itself behind and in front of Wanda, there’s nothing there but in the mirror, there is! Either way, I do not trust this Pietro and it’s just an entity trying to give Wanda the last thing that could make her happy - but it won’t last, as everything is already breaking down around her.

I seriously seriously love this show so much 💙

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dickshardblog · 4 years

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For Russia With Love: The Tara Reade Story?

There are three women I know of now whose name is pronounced Tar-uh Reed. Tara Reid is an actress who starred in the Sharknado franchise. Tara Reed is an artist and designer. She designed my favorite coffee mug. And now I've learned that there is a Tara Reade, who used to work for Joe Biden.

When I heard about the allegation that Tara Reade made against Joe Biden, I was deeply disturbed. Were Biden's hands on shoulders, close-ear talking, hair petting, and hugs something more than just an overly-affectionate guy with boundary issues and a lack of understanding of personal space? It had always looked uncomfortable, but innocent, to me. And, if it's innocent, I find it strangely endearing, despite the fact that I don't personally like to be touched by strangers.

He's not just overly familiar with females. For every picture of Joe Biden petting a little girl's hair, there's another of him with his arms around a man, gazing into his eyes, or practically kissing his ear. I could do a Google image search and come up with some pretty compelling visual evidence that Joe Biden is in love with several men. He's not. At least, I don't believe so. Some people are huggers. And Joe Biden is a hugger extraordinaire.

I think the world no longer tolerates that, but I also think it is both innocent and changeable behavior. Unlike Trump, Biden does have some sense of self-awareness, can listen to criticism, and make changes.

I'll be honest: I really don't want the allegations to be true. I do have that bias, and I will freely admit it. I always have that bias. No matter who it is. Like any regular person, I don't want sexual assault to happen. I would hope we all have that bias. I hope that none of us would wish a woman had been sexually assaulted so we could have some ammunition against a political opponent. But I know better. There are plenty of people who really hope Biden did exactly what Reade says he did. And we all know it does happen, of course.

Tara Reade's story, when I first heard it, sounded credible. In a public, yet deserted hallway, Biden pinned her to a wall, groped her, kissed on her, and asked if she wanted to go somewhere else. When she reacted negatively, he said, "Come on, Man, I heard you liked me." Shit. That sounds like Joe Biden, I can hear him saying that. So, it sounds bad. I agree that we should listen to women. We should take them seriously. We should look into their allegations and dig until we find the truth. I let other people do the investigative journalism. I found their articles, checked their sources and compiled a pretty decent collection of truths that form a pretty cohesive picture.

Here's the truth that I have found:

In 2009, Reade wrote an article commending Biden's work on the Violence Against Women act. The same year, she wrote another article claiming that she'd left DC because her husband had received a job offer to manage a Congressman's campaign in the Midwest, and she'd moved with him.

From late 2016 to early 2017, she had a Twitter account using her newly married name, Tara McCabe. She used this platform to praise Biden on multiple occasions. She retweeted him saying, "My old boss speaks truth. Listen." This Twitter account also featured a lot of anti-Russia, anti-Putin sentiment.

Then, in 2018, she writes in an Op Ed for Medium which praises Russia and Putin, that she left Washington because she "saw the reckless imperialism of America and the pain it caused through out the world," and because she loved Russia with all her heart. In this article she describes Putin as a "compassionate, caring, visionary leader."

She wrote several pro-Russia, pro-Putin articles during this time, gushing over him, saying, "President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace while facing adversity. It is evident that he loves his country, his people and his job … President Putin’s obvious reverence for women, children and animals, and his ability with sports is intoxicating to American women … And like most women across the world, I like President Putin… a lot, his shirt on or shirt off.”

Then in 2019, she's all in for Bernie Sanders. She wrote another article, with yet a different reason for leaving, this one with the harassment allegation attached. "Then, I went to Senate personnel for help. No one helped me. I resigned or I would say, I was forced to resign." The report she says she filed doesn't seem to exist.

When she started attacking Biden publicly, she also resumed denouncing Putin. Putin was bad again. When the media dug up her old articles praising Putin, she deleted them. Too late, of course. They can no longer be found where they were originally published, but copies were made. She now claims they were part of a novel she was writing that was set in Russia. They were clearly op-eds, not notes for a novel. No novelist I know of publishes their novel notes as op-eds while they're working on the book.

There are a whole lot of other inconsistencies, people she says she told about the incident denying any knowledge, her brother pointedly changing his story, an old neighbor of hers coming forward to say she wouldn't trust a word Reade says, and countless other glowing red flags. But this blog is already so very long, and I haven't even gotten to the meat of what I want to talk about yet. This has all just been background, the evidence I followed to form my theory of what is going on with this. And I want to get it down before I read it somewhere else.

I've got a theory! It could be Russia!

Okay, hear me out. Here's what I think might have happened:

Sometime in late 2017 or early 2018, Reade somehow becomes involved in communications with Russia, a political operative, maybe even someone in the government. Hell, perhaps even Putin himself, a highly unlikely prospect, of course. But not outside the realm of possibility. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Putin maintains a stash of burner phones and carries on flirtatiously with American Women in his spare time. It's the stuff of spy novels, sure. Yeah, it's far-fetched, but allow me my fantastic imaginings. I am a fiction writer, after all.

But a Russian political operative of some kind becomes romantically involved long-distance with Reade. Of course it's not a real relationship, not on the Russian side. They are just using American citizens as sleeper agents they can prompt to stir up shit when it would cause the most damage.

Reade is manipulated to turn against Joe Biden and encouraged to back Bernie Sanders. Now, an aside at this point. I like Bernie. I would vote for Bernie, I'd love to see him as President. I don't believe that Bernie Sanders or his campaign are involved in any collusion with the Russian government in any way, and both he and his campaign openly discourage Russian meddling. None-the-less, there still exists evidence that Russia has interfered in ways favorable to Sanders and his campaign. Russia doesn't want Bernie Sanders as President, but some of Sanders more rabid supporters are very easily influenced by carefully placed fake news stories and are extremely useful at stirring up political infighting on the left. Alright, back to my theory.

At this time, she's also advised to stop praising Russia, so as not to raise any suspicion. And, finally, to drop that allegation bomb on Joe Biden right when it would do the most damage. Hopefully to allow Bernie Sanders to overtake Biden for the nomination, but, failing that, at least send Joe limping into the General.

Yes. In a nutshell, I think the Tara Reade allegation is simply more Russian meddling of the same sort that has been going on all along. I think, in some form or another, she is a Russian agent. Maybe there is no spy novel romance going on. Perhaps she's just being paid. But this whole thing stinks of Russia, and Russia's fingerprints are all over it.

But, hey, what do I know? I'm just a fiction author with a good imagination

#tara reade #joe biden #allegation #metoo #putin #bernie sanders #Russia #russian meddling

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hero--for--fun · 4 years

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Shadow {an analysis}

Been putting a lot of thought into her lately and I’ve decided a path for her and its pretty good development.

This is pretty long so its going under a cut, but I wanna talk about her.

This post also contains some Zombieman parenting stuff.

~A great deal of her feeling of rebellion and toxic mind set comes from three factors. A). Feeling like she’s less important B). Being shut down for her interests. C). Skunk

Lets start with A.

Feeling Like She’s Less Important

Her father is an S class hero, so he’s usually busy. Often Zombieman would have to break promises to her. Slowly, she developed the mindset that he was undependable, but with Skunks pushing, she started to believe that she was just not one of his priorities.

Especially since Sadako was born, Zombie has been trying to spend more time with his girls, and this rubs Shadow the wrong way. He only gets them on the weekends (every other week if he’s lucky in the summer or during breaks), so he tries not to miss too much time. After years of him not being around, for him to be around now just feels like a kick down.

This doesn’t stop with Zombie either, this also takes place at her mothers house. Shadow’s moms house was given to her in the divorce. Zombie wanted to ensure that his girls had a secure place to stay, and he didn’t want that to ever be jeopardized. When her mom remarried, her new stepdads kids started to stay over more and more, and he decided that the kids needed a room.

While Shadow and Sadako were in Zombies care, stepdad and mom decided to have “renovations” made to the house, and their visit was extended to a month rather than a weekend. When they were finally allowed back home, it was revealed that Shadow’s childhood room was no longer hers, and she had been downgraded to the basement.

Shadow would have been fine with the basement considering that it was larger than her room, but the fact nobody asked was one of three reasons this was bad. The second reason was that the basement was also going to be made into a playroom, which meant she would have little privacy or space to herself. This decision also meant that her mother and stepfather threw away a lot of her things that they deemed “inappropriate” for the younger children (Shadows posters, creepy stuffed toys, basically anything that seemed occult or dark), not caring about sentimental value or Shadow’s feelings. The third and final reason was that they decided to switch the doors lock so it only locked from the outside, meaning they could lock her in.

Feeling less important doesn’t stop at parents or family, but I don’t want to get into that for now (because its not fully branched) so lets move on to B).

Being Shut Down For Her Interests

I made a whole fake franchise just for her to be super into called “Labyrinth Series”. Basically it follows main character Betrice (Bet rice) and a group of teens as they navigate this giant labyrinth that takes them across planets and dimensions. It has an awful movie and tv series, a good book series, and basically it’s one of her favorite things because of how dark it can get.

Shadow could go on and on about this series, and considering that she’s a quiet and introverted person, this is a new behavior for her. It’s not normal for her to have full on conversations and what not, yet here she is talking about this book series and all its plotlines and characters. One of the few ways she is able to bond with Zombie, is this series.

Let me set a scene here. She’s sitting on the couch on her laptop and suddenly she just lets out this excited gasp. Zombie looks up from where he’s trying to figure out how to set up child filters on an old phone and asks what’s going on. She explains that Labyrinth Series is getting a graphic novel done by an artist she really admires. He asks what Labyrinth Series is and Shadow just starts infodumping about it to him.

He’s invested, interacting, and interested in this. He’s also impressed that Shadow is actually willing to have a conversation with him, because normally she’s either ignoring him or one word answers. Shadow actually gets him curious about all this and he winds up asking what happens next. She goes quiet and mumbles that she doesn’t know, she left the latest book at her moms and she can’t ask her to bring it because its essentially contraband.

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Shadows mom disapproves of most of Shadows interests and Zombie doesn’t interact with her enough to know what she was into.

Her mom blamed Shadow’s “anti-social behavior” on three things; Zombieman, her appearance, and her “occult interests”. When Shadow would get to talking about things like Labyrinth Series; what music she was into; or something that didn’t sound like a typical teenage girl interest, her mom would shut it down instantly. This led to Shadow spending more time in her room, which was once the only space where she could freely express herself. Shadow couldn’t trust her mom to even touch her laundry because she’d “accidentally” throw away anything that seemed “too dark”. (That being said Shadow has lost many t-shirts this way)

Zombieman was honestly a big stuck in the past, and while she still loved Monster High most of her dolls were put away. He knew Shadow was growing up and that she was changing, but he didn’t know how much was changing. It genuinely surprised him when she started dressing in black and going by Shadow. He tends to miss trends or hit the wrong ones, and he can’t tell when a trends been over for a while. Shadow also doesn’t typically make it easy to tell she’s into something, so when he does notice she’s into something, she will sometimes deny it purely out of fear of getting shut down.

Lets move onto C).

Skunk.

Skunk is an 18 year old high school dropout who dyes a straight line down his hair different colors and thinks he’s all that and a bag of jacks. His belief is that its him vs the world and every girl who wears black has daddy issues.

He wound up meeting Shadow at a Hot Topic and he started filling her head with his rather toxic way of thinking.

“The world is against people like us, the chosen few.”

“You and I can live forever, if you trust me.”

“Nobody understands the pain your going through like I do.”

And Shadow believed him, because in her eyes the world was against them. Every new disaster, every bad thing in her life, the world itself, was flawed. Skunk convinced her that this was all because people like them were wiped out and shipped off as monsters. Skunk was filling her head with lies, and in her already damaged mental state she believes him.

Zombieman openly despises Skunk, but he can’t do much about him because Skunk isn’t doing anything too illegal. He hears the things Skunk says, and he knows that this is a large source of his daughters toxic mindset, but Shadow is so caught up in this web that she believes that its Zombie oppressing her. This is what Skunk was talking about, and her father will never understand.

Her mom also hates Skunk, but she has absolutely no idea how to make this friendship stop without Shadow turning 100% against her. Shadow would sooner commit crimes then drop the only person who seems to understand her.

Skunk is manipulative, sleazy, and extremely dangerous. He has a borderline obsession with Shadow because everything she brings to the table here. A famous father, already “damaged”, and willing to follow him blindly. Skunk is a “nice” guy and he wants to “help” Shadow any way possible. He wants what she has, he wants to live forever.

He doesn’t care about the consequences of it, if he has to sacrifice Shadow or not, or even if he has to spend it alone. All that matters is he is a legend to them all. She depends on him to show her his way, because this path is all she has in her eyes.

Shadow feels like she’s running in a nightmare.

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There is saving her, there is a way. I’ve already talked a lot and I wanted to post this, so if y’all actually like this maybe let me know. I can type more if y’all like this.

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hi i love frozen and just found your blog and was hoping you could answer some questions because i see a lot of stuff on your blog that surprises me and that i haven't known. i hear rumors of some course correct going on but i was wondering if this is true and how people know this? what would happen? did they really think to redeem hans at one point? where did they talk about how they got hans' actor to come back? can helsa become canon with honeymaren and people wanting elsa to be gay?

If you love Frozen, I’m afraid you find my blog at a dark time. As I no longer consider myself a Frozen lover. Yes, I still hold some good old memories from the first film but all my love and respect goes to Helsa (Elsa and Hans). I love Elsa, I’m a Hans fan, and a Helsa shipper forever and always. None of those categories include me being a Frozen fan. And I don’t even want to talk about my extreme hatred toward- I don’t even feel like typing the title of that forsaken sequel.

Having said that I’ll try to respond as much as I can, as much as I know, and as much as I heard.

I’m going to add a cut here because this is a very long message. Like 1900 words long.

I have a little of an idea about those “some course correct” you talk about. But first of all; I don’t think anything is confirmed. It all started most likely with this video #StarsInTheHouse #30: Bobby Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Santino Fontana, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff. If you go to ‘1:07:50′ you hear Kristen Anderson-Lopez mention “Frozen 3″ but nothing is really said about a third movie happening. I think someone asked if there was a wedding somewhere. And Kristen says that’s Frozen 3. So I assume she’s talking about a Kristanna wedding happening for Frozen 3. Then again I don’t even know if they are being serious or they are just playing around talking about a Frozen 3 that is not in the making.

Josh Gad then jumps saying that ‘he won’t come back for a Frozen 3 if Santino Fontana doesn’t come back.’ Josh says that Santino has to come back. Santino either is touched by Josh’s words or he plays being touched by Josh’s words. Then Kristen says that there are a lot of angry people on the internet complaining about the same thing; I assume she means Santino not coming back for the sequel. And Robert adds that some people complain or blame the Anderson-Lopez for that? But the couple says they had nothing to do with that. Jennifer is the main culprit. Santino seems to appreciate that people want him back but comments about being hard to do so after “hanging a sword over a girl’s head” and he goes to talk about him now being father to a girl. Josh Gad goes to talk about how Darth Vader tried to kill both his children and he still was redeemed, meaning that there’s still hope for Hans.

And here I have to say that people seriously need to stop with the idea that Hans is this demon that came from Hell because they couldn’t be more wrong. This whole thing of Hans being an “Irredeemable monster” is so f*cking stupid and so f*cking forced. I’m so sure it came right from Jennifer Lee’s a** to spite fans. There are thousand of Disney villains, real villains, who are real monsters. Who have done far worse than Hans. But Hans is the one getting this absurd amount of hate? Are they f*cking kidding me?

I don't hold anything of importance said on that video as set in stone. But anyone who wants or needs to think there is truth in that conversation can come to the conclusions of:

A Frozen 3 could happen. I think anyone knew already that if this franchise keeps being popular, Disney would figure out a way to make a third film. Because all they care about is dirty money. Personally I'm only interested in a third film if they bring back Hans, redeem him, and have Helsa happening at-freaking-last. If they are going to make a third film all about Kristanna getting married and Elsa being treated like an immaculate supernatural being in the forest, all the while Hans keeps being forgotten and mocked for some cheap laughs, Jennifer Lee and her crew can very well go f*ck themselves with a giant cactus for all I care. That's just my personal opinion. My very strong personal opinion.

Josh Gad and the Lopezes, mostly Josh Gad, want Santino Fontana back. Which at that I’d like to think it is because they see how much he is missed and they know his character has so much to give. Also I would like to believe they are talking this way for the sake of the fans. Hans not coming back at all is one of the main reasons for why I’m beyond pissed at the Frozen sequel and I know I’m not the only one feeling this way.

“What would happen?” I don’t know what you mean by that.

“Did they really think to redeem Hans at one point?” Definitely yes. And this is the interview that gave many Hans fans, me absolutely included, hope 6 years ago. Jump to ‘minute 17′ and they start talking about the Frozen sequel. Santino got in contact with the writers to see if he was going to be in the new film and - I’m really feeling like insulting the writers right now. But I won’t because I have to focus on the fact that it is the directors and not the writers calling the shots - the writers tell Santino that they want to bring him back and redeem him. This has been known for years and the fact that Hans’ “participation” in the sequel turned out to be f*cking nothing, is a huge problem for me. A very huge problem. If there’s not foam coming out of my mouth right now, I’m sure that at least my blood is boiling in my veins.

I’ve read more about the dropped redemption plot from @leepunzel. But I don’t know how reliable she or “her source” really is. So it’s up to you if you want to ask her more about this.

"Where did they talk about how they got Hans' actor to come back?” I don’t know where you get “Santino coming back” is a fact. Like I said, I don’t think anything of that Stars in the House video is official. As far as I know there’s been talks about a “Frozen 3″; I’ve seen people on YouTube who have access to press information drop the title, “Frozen 3″. But nothing is fully official or confirmed yet.

Also, 6 years ago Santino was ready to come back. Now? I don’t see him that convinced if the opportunity presents. Which, being brutally honest, I find truly sad. Painful even. I want Santino Fontana to come back. Hans’ redemption and Helsa are the only things that would make me want to give my money to Disney again. But I don’t blame the actor if for whatever reason he doesn’t come back if this “third movie” ever happens. God, there’s nothing I want more than for Hans’ redemption and Helsa to happen. Disney can come up with all the animated movies and live action remakes they want. But all I want, all I need, all I care about is Hans’ redemption and Helsa. Nothing more. Nothing less.

“Can Helsa become canon with *one*m*r** and people wanting Elsa to be gay?” Yes. Personally I don’t care about the new characters. They could be dropped and completely forgotten for a third movie and I seriously wouldn’t care. I think most people wouldn’t care. None of the new characters are relevant or important. And I think the only new characters people really care or talk about are the fire and water spirits anyway. I dare say that Helsa happening has even more chances of succeeding because that would be a compelling story and it wouldn’t cause the film to be banned in other countries. Besides, every time Disney (or Pixar) has come up with LGBT characters in their films they always seem to get backlash. It’s clear that it doesn’t matter how much Disney tries to insert an LGBT character, it just doesn’t work in a positive way. That’s what I’ve seen anyway. Very few people show their approval at the revelations while most only critique, bash, and complain. And I doubt very much Disney wants Elsa to be victim of that kind of treatment. While if Helsa happens, the story will obviously have to show how Hans really doesn’t want to be “the monster everyone thinks he is” and they would show how Hans and Elsa really grow to care for each other. Could something like that generate backlash? In my opinion it shouldn’t. Maybe a little? But it really shouldn’t. However I’m convinced that story would be beautiful.

"If we get Frozen 3 what do you think will happen and what do you think they can do with the characters with where they are right now?”

If Frozen 3 happens, I will always want nothing more than what I have already stated several times. But I really don’t trust the directors and writers. So I have no idea what they will do. Probably come up with bad ideas and poor development and characterizations like they have done already in the sequel. It’s going to be super hard for them to come back from that fiasco in my eyes.

What do I think they can do with the characters? First of all I think they should break Kristanna up. There’s this deleted scene from the sequel where Kristoff actually has a serious character arc that involves him being insecure or uncomfortable living a “royal life” and I think it hints at Anna thinking that maybe they shouldn’t be together? I think that’s neat. I think I haven’t seen that in a while in a Disney movie. The last time I saw a couple deciding they shouldn’t be together was at the end of Pocahontas 2. But not many pay attention to that direct-to-video sequel xD Quite frankly the whole idea of Kristoff being married to a queen and having to live as a royal is one of the most uncomfortable things the sequel came up with. I can’t imagine for the life of me that Kristoff is the type of character that would want something like that. For a character like Aladdin that story works. He wanted the life in a palace style and I loved how in the live action movie it is clear that Jasmine is the one who wants to rule the kingdom and Aladdin just wants to be there for her as her right hand. But as much as I imagine Kristoff wants to be there for Anna, the palace life doesn’t suit him. He never expressed wanting that life. And the same goes with Anna wanting to be queen. That’s not the life she wanted either. The whole “Anna being queen” thing did ruin Kristanna for me.

Hans is easy because he is a resourceful and adaptable character. To me his home lies with Elsa. If Elsa stays in the forest, Hans can adapt. I would imagine he would even adapt faster than Elsa to that life. If Elsa goes back to Arendelle, Hans definitely has things he could do. He could want to take a simple job as a commoner if he doesn’t have his royal title anymore. He could go for a military position as he already has military training. Or he could be taken as an advisor for either Anna or Elsa (if Elsa wants to take back the responsibility she literally dumped on her sister’s shoulders), as Hans has shown aptitudes as a diplomat and leader. He could be a big help for the inexperienced Anna, or he could help lift some of those duties from Elsa’s shoulders when she feels she needs some time out for her sake. Hans is more valuable as an ally than an enemy. And the directors were seriously stupid when they decided to keep him out. No wonder Hans wanted to “find his own place” in Arendelle. He really does have so much good to offer.

Something also interesting, although too political maybe, would be the "what if" Anna and Elsa want to end the monarchy? What if Elsa doesn’t want to be queen again and Anna doesn’t want to be either? Maybe Anna remembers she actually wants to have an outdoors life with Kristoff, or she just doesn’t find herself as queen? I honestly think that job will consume her. What if Elsa and Anna come up with an idea to turn Arendelle into a democracy or whatever? Both sisters would be free to do and go wherever they want.

This last option is the most unlikely to work, but who knows. Disney could find a way to not make it sound so political.

#frozen 2 #frozen 3 #santino fontana #helsa #future of frozen #my pov #dfg musings #dfg answers

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They say that there has never been a greater time to be a Nerd. Marvel Movies rule the box office, indie comics are getting full multi series tv shows, Star Wars is back on the big screen, and even Dungeons and Dragons, has become mainstream! With BAFTA and Emmy Award Winners gracing our tables to roll dice and act out fantasy adventures.

Yet at the exact same moment Nerds are told to celebrate, there are those amongst us who have aren’t even invited to the party, those with photosensitivity. It is well known that movie theatres had to provide warnings for the Incredibles 2 because it triggered seizures. Yet it wasn’t the only film that year to do so! It was just the most well recorded. Into The Spider-Verse proclaimed that “Anybody Can Wear The Mask” and yet if you spoke to a photosensitive person they’d tell you that the information for that never came across, since the opening sequence featured so many flashing lights that it practically took them by the arm and threw them out of the cinema by force. And if they managed survived the opening then there were plenty of other strobe affects used throughout the movie to trap down those last bloody blighters who thought they might still be able to enjoy the film!

Other Top Nerd Hits from the last year to feature heavy strobing effects include: Aquaman, Umbrella Academy, Titans, Captain Marvel, Avengers Endgame… essentially every major superhero franchise out there has a big sign on it saying “Photosensitive Folks Back The F Off”. And let’s not even go there with Video Games, I’ve already had to block most company’s twitters because their promotional tweets contain video adverts that make my brain hurt.

Yet, it isn’t all doom and gloom (or should that be brightly lit and causing fits?) in the Nerd World. As I mentioned, live streamed DnD is now a thing! Where you can watch amazing actors pour their hearts and souls into a world of magic and without having to fear for your health from watching it. They’ve become one of the few safe havens on the internet. Some even have comic books out there now, which are proving to be a massive (yes Jody massive) success even outside their existing communities!

And that’s where this blog post comes in. I am, will full blatant honesty, now talking directly to the wonderful people at Critical Role. Hello! I do hope you’re reading this, you may remember me as That Girl With The Weird Laugh At The Live Show Who Was Totally Not A Chair Travis Thanks For That. Aside from weird laugh, depression, chronic jaw pain and an inability to watch Marvel Endgame without crying, I am also Epileptic, and whilst I personally am not especially photosensitive, there are PLENTY of Critters who are.

After watching the advert again for fully funded animation series, it occured to me that suddenly there may well become a version of Vox Machina that I have to warn people not to watch. The last safe haven on the internet for the photosensitive could very well all go to bust with the casting of just one spell…

The very thought of it breaks my heart. So I feel I have to say something, and it is best to say it now before anything else gets made. Never before have i trusted a company more than to actually listen to me when I say: Please, I beg you on hand and knee, please do not use flashing lights in your new series.

By this I mean:

Please keep the number of flashing lights per second as low as you can. In extreme cases, seizure trigger occurs with 3 - 60 flashes per second, but the more standard rate is 5 - 30 flashes per second.

Please make sure to include a warning before an aired episode if there is going to be flashing lights, and since this is also going to be streamed online, time stamps can be given so as people can skip those scenes, or know to turn away.

Please keep in mind why you are including strobe light effects, and if they actually help tell your story, or is it just for show? Are there other ways you can tell this part of the narrative without resulting to strobe effects? This may require some more creative thinking on the part of the animators, but that’s all part of the challenge of creating a tv series, right? Regardless, you have to way up: Would you rather you got 10 seconds of animation that had flashing images, or would you rather trigger a seizure in someone? These are the questions you need to ask yourself, and I beg you to please do just that because God Knows none of the major animation companies are doing it.

I can go into more technical information here, but I fear it would just come off as overly complicated and kind of preachy.

So instead, I am going to link you to the Ofcom* guidelines on flashing images for television. These can be found on pages 18 - 21 and details everything from frame rates to screen sizes:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/104657/Section-2-Guidance-Notes.pdf

Following the infamous Pokemon Incident, TV Tokyo also implemented guidelines for their animation so as not to cause anymore seizures as a result of their shows! You can find an english translation of those guidelines here:

https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/kouhou/guideenglish.htm

The Epilepsy Foundation and Epilepsy Action are also both excellent sources should you wish to learn more about photosensitive epilepsy, or any kind of epilepsy for that matter!

And whilst all of this has a focus towards photosensitive epilepsy, please remember that not there are a wide range of other photosensitive conditions out there! And by keeping these things in mind, we can maintain a diverse and welcoming community that is unprecedented within other fandoms.

A final big thank you to @justepilepsy for providing me with sources and information! They wrote their dissertation on flashing lights in animation, and are in general just a Top Notch Person worth checking out <3

Stay turnt, and don’t forget to love one another,

Anna M.

*Ofcom is the Office for Communications, the UK Government approved regulatory for broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industry within the UK.

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Press: Elizabeth Olsen Opens Up for Who What Wear's September Cover

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WHAT WHEN WEAR: A loose linen blouse. An untouched plate of madeleines. An empty French bistro in the Valley on a Tuesday at 4 p.m. These are the poised circumstances under which I spend an afternoon attempting to better understand one of Hollywood’s most discreet young celebrities: Elizabeth Olsen.

The 30-year-old actress’s identity doesn’t seem like it would lend itself to much mystery. Since 2014, Olsen has starred as the Scarlet Witch in Marvel’s superhero movie franchise—one of the most-watched film series in entertainment history. (This summer’s Avengers: Endgame quickly became the second-highest-grossing movie of all time.) It’s a role she’ll reprise later with WandaVision, a Disney+ spin-off series about her superhero character coming spring 2021. In the meantime, Olsen executive produces and stars in Sorry for Your Loss, a drama series following Olsen as Leigh, a young widow struggling to deal with the sudden loss of her husband. (The show airs on Facebook Watch, and its second season premieres October 1.) By any objective measure, business is booming for Olsen, the younger sibling of Ashley and Mary-Kate, who long ago reached a level of fame so behemoth they no longer need a last name. The Olsens are as much American royalty as the Kennedys or the Rockefellers. I should know everything about Elizabeth Olsen.

And yet, as soon as she walks through the door of Petit Trois (the setting she chose for our interview) and introduces herself to me, it sinks in how little I do know. “I’m Lizzie,” she says with a jumpy half-hug, half-handshake—though the awkwardness is entirely my fault. I’m caught off guard that the young starlet lives just outside of L.A., around the corner from where she grew up (I would have pegged her for more of a hip Eastside girl), and I never knew she went by the cozy nickname. “Thanks for coming to the Valley,” she says, smiling.

Following behind two heavy-hitting child stars turned esoteric fashion moguls, Olsen, who decided at a young age to pursue a career in acting (and obtained a degree in it from NYU), had prodigious shoes to fill. Her on-screen breakout, a critically lauded lead in the 2011 Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene, suggested that Olsen would be taking a cleverly divergent route from her older sisters—one of a risk-taking indie cinema darling. Some of her filmography still reflects that identity—roles in quirky small-budget dramedies like 2012’s Liberal Arts and 2017’s Ingrid Goes West.

Maybe that’s why, even after all the Marvel movies, which are about as commercial as they come, I still see her in that light. Or maybe it’s Olsen’s enigmatic personal life, almost laissez-faire approach to style (“A combination of suburban mom meets little boy,” is how she describes it), and overall serenity of manner that create the sort of intrigue that independent film girls tend to have.

Her current project, Sorry for Your Loss, certainly has some of that indie energy, simply because Facebook Watch is still a new and unknown content platform. Olsen admits that selling the show to Facebook felt like a scary move in the beginning since most audiences don’t know that watching TV on Facebook is a thing at all. Moving into season two, she’s still figuring out the best way to spread the word to audiences. “There is no precedent, and that can be really challenging,” Olsen emphasizes. Still, there are major pluses to the marriage of television and social media, especially for a show that addresses a topic as personal and underrepresented as grief. “The show living on Facebook has been interesting because of the dialogue people get to have about their own experiences with grief and loss on the platform,” Olsen says.

The actress is looking forward to audiences’ feedback on season two, which finds Leigh “taking big swings, making big mistakes, and trying to figure out the balance.” As Olsen says, “Grief isn’t something that you ever just shut a door on or move forward from. It’s very cyclical.”

Olsen, however, will not be participating in these conversations with fans herself, because—ironically—she’s not on Facebook. She didn’t have a trace of social media presence until 2017. She finally downloaded Instagram shortly after the release of Ingrid Goes West, in which she pulls off playing a very convincing L.A. influencer. In contrast to millennial celebrities who use social media to speak about everything from beauty products to social justice, Olsen doesn’t feel the obligation to be any sort of influencer, politically or otherwise. “If I like blending into a wall, screaming from a stage isn’t something that would help me enjoy my life,” she says. “Sometimes I just don’t want to be part of a conversation because I don’t want anyone looking my way.”

As it turns out, privacy and stability inform everything about Olsen’s life—from how she dresses to the roles she chooses—more than any desire to seem “cool.” She lives in suburbia with her fiancé, musician Robbie Arnett, where she enjoys cooking, eating, and dabbling in interior design. “I love food more than I love anything that has to do with clothes,” she says, starkly contrasting her stylish sisters. (Though the actress is more of a beauty girl—she currently serves as a global ambassador for Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.) Categorizing herself as an “obsessive, detailed perfectionist” beset with a heavy dose of social anxiety, Olsen prefers poring over moldings and wood stains than obsessing over how her body looks in a dress and which angle she should pose in.

Transforming into a character—wearing costumes, acting on camera—puts the performer right at home, but photoshoots and red carpets, which give her no role to disappear into, are a source of great distress. “I don’t like standing out in a crowd,” she tells me just after ordering the dainty plate of madeleines. Our server also named raspberry tarts and pains au chocolat on her list of available pastries, but down to her desserts, off-screen Olsen likes to keep it simple.

“At 30, I feel like I’m finally getting to an age that was meant for my personality,” the actress says with no ounce of irony. “Just domesticated. A homebody.” I introduce her to the term JOMO: the joy of missing out. “Yeah… that,” she confirms. “I never feel bad about not leaving my house.”

Quietude feels inherent to Olsen’s personality, but it’s also something she learned from her family. She tells me her parents have had the same group of 10 friends their whole lives; so have her older sisters. Like other famously private Hollywood families (the Coppolas, the Fondas), the Olsens justifiably keep their circles tiny and exclusive to those with whom they have history—those they can trust. “I don’t have too many friends that I’ve met through work,” Olsen says. “I care about privacy. I don’t have a desire for people to speak about me.” Bottom line: Lizzie Olsen is not particularly interested in fame.

Ultimately, no matter how superhuman she appears on the big screen, Olsen values a fairly normal life: She wants her pastries from Petit Trois, where everybody knows her; she wants her white button-downs and her stable paychecks from Facebook and Marvel (most of which she’s been tucking away in savings to prepare for a family, she says). “Maybe I think about things too rationally, but my career goals are longevity and stamina,” Olsen tells me. “Working steadily, feeling challenged, and just kind of hunkering down for a bit.” One day, that paycheck might come from a less visible job; Olsen says that later in life she’d like to go back to school for a degree in architecture, interior design, or landscaping. “I’m interested in the new science of irrigation and water conservation in California,” she shares. “I could be someone who’s lived multiple lives, multiple careers.”

Before heading out, Olsen packs the six madeleines, which have all gone untouched, in a to-go box for later, when she’s home, to savor in her quiet, happy place. “The next career could be a lot more private,” she says. “Maybe. We shall see.”

Press: Elizabeth Olsen Opens Up for Who What Wear’s September Cover was originally published on Elizabeth Olsen Source • Your source for everything Elizabeth Olsen

#Elizabeth Olsen #Avengers #Scarlet Witch #Avengers Infinity War #Avengers Age of Ultron #Captain America Civil War #Kodachrome #Ingrid Goes West #Godzilla #Sorry For Your loss

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Annabelle Comes Home

I’ve never actually taken notes during a scary movie. Oh sure, I see a lot of horror movies. But not many scary movies, and I’m gonna be real with you, pretty much anything in the Conjuring universe scares the hell out of me. All of those movies are literally the most terrifying experiences I’ve ever had in theaters (except for The Nun, although the figure of the Nun herself.....yeah, that’s a HARD NO from me). I was unsure if I would be able to sustain the tension and atmosphere of a truly scary movie while trying to write in my little whale-printed spiral notebook in the dark, just praying that characters turn on a goddamn flashlight or something so there’d be enough light for me to write things like “this dumb asshole” or “trust no bitch.” So was the vibe totally ruined, or was I able to maintain maximum spookiness? Well...

I’m pleased to report the spookiness factor stayed at a solid 7.5 to 8 throughout in spite of my note-taking. There’s not a TON in here that we haven’t seen in other entries of the Conjuring-verse, but with likable characters and a strong “the walls are closing in” vibe, you could do far worse this Halloween season. The basic story is that Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) have taken custody of Head Bitch in Charge, Annabelle the murderous demon doll, to place her in their room of cursed, haunted, and otherwise don’t-fuck-with-us objects. When they have to leave for the weekend, their daughter Judy (McKenna Grace) is left with her babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman) and Mary Ellen’s friend, Daniela (Katie Sarife). Daniela is SUPER into the occult stuff that the Warrens have spent their careers dealing with and breaks into their don’t-fuck-with-us room, and you know what she does? She fucks with everything AND she lets Annabelle out of her case to party. And party she does, by inviting all her spirit and demon friends to come out to play and turn the Warrens’ house into a death trap.

Some thoughts:

I love how much Ed and Lorraine love each other. They’re so normal and happy and ground everything in their real affection for each other, and with every movie, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson sell that connection more and more.

That low level sound when Annabelle is outside of the glass makes me want to weep and then die. That’s some fucking excellent sound design there, and it is effective.

Here’s my question - if this visiting friend is clearly kind of the worst and also SUPER OBVIOUS about wanting to snoop around, whose fault is it really if you leave her alone in the house? I don’t care if she promised to stay in the kitchen, TRUST NO BITCH.

Question: how did Ed and/or Lorraine construct that entire glass shelf so quickly? What was the turnaround here, like a day? It seems like Ed is a pretty handy fellow, but I would think that if I were attempting to contain a source of pure unadulterated evil, I would want to really do a thorough measure-twice-cut-once kinda job.

It’s so easy to become furious at Daniela (Katie Sarife) because she is being the dumbest asshole and touching ALL OF THE CURSED THINGS - which, sidebar, if she believed in this shit enough to try to reach out to the spirit of her dad, why does she not believe in it enough to think that everything in the cursed room is y’know, CURSED?? end sidebar - but I can’t stay mad at her. One, she’s just a kid, and two, she’s in so much pain and just misses her dad. I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same thing at 16. Ok, but I wouldn’t have just gone around touching all the objects willy-nilly. Maybe a little, but...she really went for broke, man. As the movie goes on and more and more demon creatures try to murder them, it just becomes so clear that no one has ever fucked up this badly.

McKenna Grace is probably my favorite working child actress, which may be why she’s in like, everything right now. She’s just so soulful, and conveys a real depth of emotion in everything she does. She does a FANTASTIC job as Judy Warren, who frankly, has done nothing wrong in her life, ever, and did nothing to deserve all this bullshit.

OK but would someone get some goddamn WD-40 in this creaky ass house. This is the most 1970s house I’ve ever seen, it can’t have been built more than 10 years ago, why are all your hinges so creaky that they can be heard from miles away?

One problem with being the 7th entry in a horror movie universe is that we’re seeing a lot of the same tricks used in previous films. Obviously haunted house movies only have so many guns in their arsenal, but it is a disappointment to see the exact same slow walk around with a scary figure (The Bride here, The Nun in The Conjuring 2) that we’ve seen play out exactly this way in a previous franchise entry. In fact, I noticed a LOT of other nods and similar bits to a number of horror movies (The Grudge, The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity) which is an interesting parallel given the events of the movie and all the various evil entities we see coming alive in the house, but that was the one that felt particularly egregious.

The few moments of comic relief (the pizza guy, and Bob) are WELCOME distractions, and well executed.

Nice close-up shot of a Raggedy Ann doll (the real-life Annabelle is a Raggedy Ann doll).

As for the evil entities we see, there’s a mixture of truly unnerving and just ho-hum. There’s one demon in particular that I’m thinking of who is VERY scary at first, but then in shown somewhere else for way too long and becomes noticeably less scary.

The whole situation with the Ferry Man was just A Lot. When the coins started hitting the ground, Sleepy Gay pointed out that there were no good options here - the absolute best case scenario is that there’s a dude in your house throwing coins, and that’s not a situation you want to find yourself in.

Did I Cry? No, there was no crying. However, Sleepy Gay and I both screamed out loud at a VERY high volume.

Overall, this is pretty solid and certainly in the top ranks of the non-Conjuring movies in the franchise. There’s a little something for everyone in terms of types of scares, and if you like the creeping dread and building atmosphere of these types of haunted house movies, you’ll like this one too.

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Loving on Monroe day? Right, here we go. /clears throat. So, I was talking about how hard and often impossible it is to mesh book and show material for muses, especially from this franchise yesterday with a friend, and Monroe, you seem to be a real exception to this. Somehow, you found a balance in between the two for Alec and massive credit is deserved for that, for it's beautiful to witness in each of your threads. Hats off, my friend.

I will have you know that I read this, went to sit down, & missed my chair to nearly land on my cat. so that’s a thing. Thank you, this means a lot, especially because I know you are very strictly book based in your portrayal but also preferences.

I’ve always taken a very, very long view towards canon & I think that’s very heavily influenced by the fact that I started out writing in the 007 fandom, then entrenched myself within Marvel. Both of those fandoms deal quite significantly with multiple-source canons, variable arcs, & a variety of things that may or may not apply at any given time to a specific portrayal. I feel like that taught me how to handle drawing from an incoherent pile & streamline it into something that made sense without becoming something overdone, if that makes sense?

Another thing I’ve tried to get away from is relying on one specific facet of a personality or singular dimension of a character in my portrayals (This is something you see A LOT in the Marvel RPC; the perceived moralistic rigidity & purity of Steve Rogers, the uncurbed hedonism of Tony Stark, the unbridled sexuality of Natasha Romanov, etc.) at the expense of exploring their true complexity because really that’s just?? a lot more fun?? But it’s also something I can easily understand when it happens.

Human emotion exists on a messy, complicated spectrum & in order to make a character believably human, it’s often frustrating, complicated, headache-inducing, & decidedly not fun to write or explore. I think, sometimes, that’s part of the appeal of the show in this case - especially for Alec - because the show scrapes the surface of a lot of things he deals with in the books but doesn’t delve into them nearly as much. A lot of Alec’s canon is VERY frustrating - the boy experiences more emotional growth in a handful of months than most experience in a singular lifetime & with that, there’s a lot to unpack.

It’s incredibly tempting to want to gloss over that, to how his insecurity as easily smoothed over within an episode or two, to see his temper calm as he comes into his own, than it is to handle the full range & specs of his temper + all of the negative emotions that caused so much complication & pain (I’m looking at you, page 511) for him.

It’s easy to say you want to blend canon & gloss over all the things that you don’t like to make something almost godlike in a lot of ways. (and if that’s what you want to do? if that’s what you want to RP? that’s awesome, go for it - real life is hard & we all deserve to feel like our best selves & live our best lives vicariously through our muses.) It’s far, far harder to stop picking & choosing solely what you like & start blending what’s believable, but if you have the spoons, the desire, the attention, & the patience to do it? I’ve found it extremely rewarding.

and trust me, some days I wish I didn’t feel the need to have the books open (on my laptop, on my tablet, & in hard copy sometimes, all around my desk) so I could figure out something stupidly specific for a headcanon, but that’s the only way I can keep this asshole balanced. it’s a lot of fucking work, & even I don’t always love the results but that’s the price I pay for being selfish & wanting both canons in my life, so it’s what I have to put up with 😂⚰

tl; dr, thank you.

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#long post #i am so sorry #this post got away from me #✧ ❛ too soon to joke about the happy memory thing i take it ❜ || keep

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