the only walls are those you build around yourself

🤍 star wars is life 🤍 former Caryler in another era

[foundmeagainbitch]

There’s a rumor that some people expect apologies to Norman and smoke for Melissa if Caryl stays platonic. I mean, Zabel was pretty clear, and it sounds as though bets are being hedged.

Reedus is a grown man who repeatedly acted out on social media in a way unrivaled by any actor I know of, to the point of going after journalists and then being forced to delete his tweets.

The key word is actor. He’s no one’s friend or buddy; he makes his money off your viewership. It’s purely transactional. He has a history of low-quality behavior going back years, and he won’t be receiving any apologies.

It’s pretty weird that Carylers want smoke for Melissa, of all people. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that particular sentiment before. Regardless, I doubt that will happen, either. Has Melissa ever indicated, even once, that she wanted Caryl canon? That always seemed like an assumption to me.

[foundmeagainbitch]

🤔

[ikkleosu]

Norman Reedus is Repeatedly Problematic

CW: Sexual assault, misogyny, transphobic language

I see some people are discovering today about Norman Reedus’ friendship with Marilyn Manson, along with his support for Johnny Depp, and that he is vanity searching his own name on twitter. 

 (Something he does all the time, a quick look at his likes tells you this. During all the controversy about the spin-off, he has MANY fans tagging him with support and begging for attention, but he ignored them and just was vanity searching his own name, blocking many)

I thought due to this it was time to post an unfinished post I have had in my drafts for over 8 years. I am embarrassed that I kept ignoring this stuff in order to support the ship but hopefully this will help others.  

 Remember that time Norman and Sean Patrick Flanery manhandled a Japanese fan between them like she was a ragdoll, exposing her ass to the world in the process?

http://ikkleosu.tumblr.com/post/70753988709/a-pathetic-fangirl-oh-boys-is-there-an

It should also be noted, Norman has had a long very close friendship with Flanery who delights is retelling the gross prank he played on Norman where he made him think he was going to be attacked and raped by a stranger, amongst much other problematic behaviour.

https://aclockworkashley.tumblr.com/search/sean

https://shineuntiltomorrow.com/norman-reedus/reedus-lost/

Remember that time Norman worked with Terry Richardson long after the photographer has been exposed as a repeated sexual abuser?

  Remember when Norman went through a phase of fake strangling women he’d just met in photos without asking them if it was okay, or if they were comfortable with it?

http://ikkleosu.tumblr.com/search/strangling

Remember when Norman was still using the “t” slur in 2017?

Also here in 2014, where frankly there’s so much disturbing stuff:

(GQ interview October 2014)

  Remember that time Norman called the Duck Dynasty dudes “pretty sophisticated” AFTER their homophobic and racist rants?

Remember that time Norman revealed that an actress  (Dagmara Dominczyk) being scared, nervous and shaking during a sex scene turned him on?

Remember how Norman refused to denounce his very close friend Marilyn Manson, even after Evan Rachel Wood had given her deposition And in fact, he deleted comments and blocked fans who brought it up?

(redited because the majority of screenshots didn’t come through for some reason!)

[foundmeagainbitch]

Much of this information is new to me. I really did not know.

How many of you want to defend him and bury your face in his greasy hair now?

[foundmeagainbitch]

I cant bear to listen to Reedus. Did he really go after fans on Twitter? He blocked me :P (and he had followed me for years).

He totally bitched and whined about fans. He’s so mad, lol. This is a man who has a significant other, a little girl, an enormous fortune, and a career he has said he loves. Melissa, according to AMC, got pushed out of her own spin-off. But HE is upset because fans don’t pay him proper homage.

I transcribed that part of the interview and posted it a few minutes ago.

[foundmeagainbitch]

Here’s the transcript of the fandom-related part of Reedus’s interview, for anyone interested. It’s worth listening to, however, just to hear his tone.

Norman: I will be doing a spin off, it’s a different spin off than I thought I was going to do because Melissa wants a break.

Alex: Which is totally understandable that she wants a break!

Norman: 12 straight years.

Alex: Yeah!

Norman: And I get it and she deserves it. In the meantime I’m gonna go on a thing, I’m gonna see what happens over here. I’m sure those characters will come back together. There might be a world where a lot of characters will come back together, I don’t know. Those decisions are made in rooms I’m not invited into. It all coincides into one big soup.

Alex: (Blah blah about the fan base, ownership, personal and private life) Melissa is not Carol. You’re not Daryl.

Norman: It’s a thing to deal with. Do you know how many girlfriends I’ve had that have been threatened? Because I’m not with Beth or Carol in real life? It makes zero sense. It’s fucking bananas. And the social media thing—I thought it would be over by now. Why are we still doing this? Is it really fun? Not really. Do you know why are we doing it? I thought it would be done. It’s nice to reach out and hear from different people, but yeah .

Alex: It’s a mindfuck!

Norman: Oh, you eat a pie. Whatever.

Alex: People feeling like they have a right to your private life, and you want to reach out to your fans and you want to share, but you have a right to say there are only certain things I’m going to share. And it’s a balance that seems hard for a lot of people. Like I’m glad that you’re obsessed with my show, I love that you’re that passionate about my character, but remember I’m a human being!

Norman: It’s literally been 12 years. Here I am with a knife (gagging noise) pouring it all out for you. Like you’re literally, like it’s all right here on the table and you’re going to dissect it? And you’re going to throw it in the microwave and turn it into something else? Like what are you doing? So there’s a balance and there’s a bunch of assholes on the Internet. Seems like the assholes are the loudest and they try the hardest to be the assholes. I will say I know a lot of cool people. Cool people never go on the Internet and tell you you’re not cool. They don’t need to do that, you know. Pretty people don’t go on and tell people you’re ugly. It doesn’t work like that. So you can kind of raise a big ass hole flag, you know what I mean?

Alex: And lot of it stems from their insecurities and their fears and it’s easy to be braggadocious (sp). And it’s easy to be big-balled when you’re behind a screen and it’s the way it works. When you hate another person because of their sexuality or the color of their skin it’s because of a fear.

Norman: We all know what you’re doing, you know? We don’t care. We don’t want to hear it.

Alex: How do you have that balance though? You’ve had this incredibly long career, not only Walking Dead, you had Boondock Saints. I also loved you in Blade 2. So where do you find that balance of sharing with the fans but also keeping your own self?

Norman: There’s a mute button on there. There’s a mute button, and an unfollow button, and a block button, and I hit those buttons all the time. And then sometimes I don’t look. I really thought it would be over by now, I thought it was a fad, that we would be onto something else now. But to be honest with you I’m kind of bored with it. It’s kind of boring. I’d just rather meet people.

Alex: Like can we be over with it by now?

Norman: And look at your profile picture. That’s not your picture. I know that person. That’s not you. 2 billion people think they’re Selena Gomez. No you’re not. Stop it.

https://soundcloud.com/alexditrolio/norman-reedus-on-the-ravaged-and-the-walking-dead