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@nerwenaldarion
Today I was subbing for a special ed teacher who happened to work with a student who is in my little cousinâs English class. The class is reading The Princess Bride and they were doing a review. My cousin got the question: who ordered a sword from Inigo Montoyaâs father.
She guessed Yelte (Domingo Montoyaâs friend) not the correct answer which was the sixth-fingered man, you know the whole purpose of:
So I sat there like:
Sounds like we need to duel ConleyÂ
*whispers* I should be updating DL this weekend.
Please oh please oh please be soon. Iâve been rereading this story like mad again recently LOL
Went to a lingerie/sex shop today for the first time to look for stuff for my sisterâs lingerie shower. Holy shit, was I not prepared. Did you know they make 27 inch long inflatable penises?
O.O What the heck did you buy me??????
Finally updated Someone Else's Sin! Iâm getting married in a couple of weeks so it took longer than I wanted but here it is.
Something I threw together for my sister. Broken Crown is such a good song and it fits Lyanna and Rhaegar perfectly
Writers
Writer says: So I had this crazy idea one day and I just had to work on it. Here ya go!
Writer means: So I had this crazy idea either right before getting in the shower or right before falling asleep so I grabbed my fucking laptop and shat all over it to create the steaming pile of crap that I now lay before you. I donât even know if itâs good anymore. I havenât slept in two days.
Writer says: Wow, real lifeâs getting busy! Sorry on the slow updates.
Writer means: My life is a literal storm of shit at the moment. Why did I decide to do this. Why am I still doing this. Everything around me is spinning out of control and I am staying up âtil 5:30 in the morning every night to create a piece of work that will only get two comments and 12 demands for quicker updates. I hope no oneâs mad at me, all I wanted to do was write.
Writer says: Wow! Would you look at that! I updated on time! Please enjoy!
Writer means: Â WOOOOOOHOOOOOO BITCHES LOOK AT THIS PRODUCTIVE ASSHOLE GO YEEEEEHAAAAWWWW TAKE THAT YOU NASTY REVIEWERS ALWAYS DEMANDING ME TO BE FASTER! I GOT THIS SHIT I GOT THIS SHIT
Writer says: This chapter was a toughie. Glad itâs finally done!
Writer means: I donât know if this is good or not. I honestly donât fucking know. Iâve read the same words over and over and over again and I just couldnât look at it anymore. My beta said it was ok but Iâm not confident but HOLY SHIT I JUST NEED TO STOP WRITING THIS FUCKIGN CHAPTER.
Writer says: Thanks for reading!
Writer means: Please, oh please oh please oh please leave me a review. A comment. Anything. Please tell me youâre out there. Please tell me someone is reading this.
Writer says: I just want to say that real life is getting pretty hectic right now. Please try to be patient with me, I know you guys want updates. Thanks! :)
Writer means: FUCK. YOU. Who the fuck do you think you are, demanding shit from me?! You donât know my life! I have a very busy life! I create shit for free, you entitled son of a pig-fucker! STOP LEAVING ME COMMENTS TELLING ME TO UPDATE SOON OR I SWEAR TO GOD IâLL PUKE ALL OVER MY COMPUTERÂ
Writer says: Whatâs gonna happen next? Who knows? Hee hee ;)
Writer means: I have no fucking clue what the next chapter is going to look like. Whatâs my plot? I donât know. I feel no emotion.
Writer says: Please leave a comment! It helps me write!
Writer means: I am begging you to leave me a comment because I swear itâs the only thing thatâs keeping me motivated right now, I hate the work I put out and I need reassurance that people are actually enjoying this.
Writer says: I hope you enjoyed that chapter, big things are coming up! ;)
Writer means: Buckle up bitches, someoneâs gonna die.
Writer says: I know Iâve missed a few updates, but I swear I plan on finishing this story!Â
Writer means: *high pitched eternal screeching*
Writer says: Here we are at long last! This has been one wild ride. I want to thank you all so much for your support and love, I adore each and every one of you. I am so happy to say that this story has come to a wonderful close.
Writer means: My body is numb. Voices call out to me from the void, but I can no longer hear them over the beating of my racing heart. I am stressed to the point where I feel no relief. The story is done. Itâs fucking DONE. I loved it, I hated it, it was a fucking storm of horror and pain. I can no longer see color. Now I can at last relax andâŚwaitâŚâŚwait a secondâŚâŚâŚ..holy shit I just thought of the best idea for a one-shot thatâs totally gonna turn into a 50 chapter slow burn AU fic leTâS FUCKING DO THIS
This is so accurate that Iâm actually in pain hahahaha
Bahaha! Not all of these are me, but most of them sure are!
@glitterbark
@of-cats-and-sirens @megatraven @kittytish101 @tobythenoob @primrose-path-of-dalliance @krazy-ky-sta-hatter @celestialbomber
i cqnt breathe
All me except that I always plan out my plot beforehand and therefore if I use âheh hehâ you know someoneâs gonna die because I am an evil lil shit.
I shouldnât have expected less from our sin King
@voltrcn
Please. Isnât that us from beginning to end.
Every single one of these.
@runningwolf62
How dare you call me out like this.
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So accurate
So I drove seven hours straight today. I think Iâm ready to pass out now.
As someone who has driven 13 hours in one day, you donât get to complain to me
Hey, Iâve done that too. And that was when I drive into a ditch so that was no picnic.
You shouldnât be bragging about driving into a ditch LOL, especially when Iâm the one who drove an hour to go get you
So I drove seven hours straight today. I think Iâm ready to pass out now.
As someone who has driven 13 hours in one day, you donât get to complain to me
The Chemical Wedding
Requested by my dear @monroeisabadass (âĄâżâĄâż)
Imagine: Being The Jokerâs tattoo artist and him always getting turned on while you work on his new ink.
@mabelmadnessss
Okay, can I prompt you to write a fic where Harley gives Joker some new ink and this happens?Â
@nerwenaldarion Yeah! I was thinking the same thing. Maybe a playful Oneshot?
@mabelmadnessss Exactly. Which reminds me, in your stories, does Harley have her own tattoos yet? Because I know some of the ones she supposedly did herself in prison but obviously from the club scene she already had most of them.
Imagine: Being The Jokerâs tattoo artist and him always getting turned on while you work on his new ink.
@mabelmadnessss
Okay, can I prompt you to write a fic where Harley gives Joker some new ink and this happens?Â
I CANâT STOP LAUGHING
This is actually true
@rigormorton32 @arelyhb
Lol! The accuracy is justâŚ. bloody brilliant đ
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So very true
âWhat does a girl want?â is one of the most honest questions heâs ever asked Lisbon. Â He truly doesnât know. Â He knows he could try to manipulate Lisbon into staying with him, but he seems to very much to not want to do that, and he may not even be certain he could. If he canât manipulate someone into doing what he wants, heâs completely at a loss. Besides, this is too big of a deal, it would be too much. He desperately wants her to stay, and has no idea what he should say, so he puts it in her court, telling her that he only wants her to be happy. He tries it out, asking her to stay, but then immediately backtracks, making a joke of it. He wants Lisbon to choose him of her own volition. This backfires for him a bit in trying to avoid manipulating her at all, he also gives her nothing, nothing to go on.
Itâs not until it becomes clear that she is leaving, does he make a last ditch attempt to get her to stay. Â He falls back into his comfort zone, scheming to get her to stay by manipulating circumstances. Â Itâs a huge gamble because he knows she does not appreciate being a target of one of his scams. Â She has told him this in no uncertain terms. For a while it works, she even gives up a chance to go to Pike to stay and finish the case. Â But in the end, the plan blows up in his face. This is Lisbon, after all, sheâs too smart and knows him too well, if it hadnât have been the staff at the hotel, it would have been something else. Â She is furious, rightly so, and she gets right to the point. Sheâs angry to be the patsy in his con. Everything she says at this point is everything he feared - having no idea how to be a decent human being, causing others pain just to get the outcome he wants, with little concern for the consequences. He accepts what she says because there is some truth in it. He says heâs sorry. Â He lets her go.Â
Then an offhanded comment hits home and he decides to go for broke. Â Thereâs the a little over the top run to the airport and breaking into the airplane that I really wish theyâd done differently, but I guess it got the job done. Â In desperation, he tells her he loves her and that he expects nothing from her because of it. Â Heâs still letting her go. In the end though, she chooses him of her own volition, what he wanted in the first place. Â Jane got the answer to his question and he probably should have known all along. Â Be honest, tell the truth. How many times has Lisbon asked that of him?
Reliving this part of Jane and Lisbonâs story through your description! I love The Mentalist and their story so much.
Perfect
Chapter 13 is up! How will Jane and Lisbon see their daughter for the first time? How will they come to terms with being parents together when Lisbon is still royal pissed off? More importantly, how will Lisbon adjust to life OUTSIDE of prison? Read to find out!
Chapter 12 is up, Lisbon has to work with Jane again while he tries to get her to confess that they have a daughter. But sheâs still really angry which always makes for an interesting time.
Your face is tanking
And now for todayâs lesson in institutionalised misogyny.
Todayâs news: Ghostbusters âtanksâ, âstumblesâ with 53% drop in its second week.
Presumably thatâs a bad performance compared to other action movies in their second week then?
Letâs checkâŚ
Captain America: Civil War: -59.5%
Dark Knight: -52%
Amazing Spider Man: -61%
Oh, and for an example of an actual âtankingâ:
Batman vs Superman: -69%
Now, letâs examine all the reporting last week that Ghostbusters was going to struggle because of its first week multiplier against its budgetâŚ
Ghostbusters first weekend US figures: $46m It had a $144m budget, so in its first week it made 32% of that. Descriptions: âLacklustreâ, âproblematicâ, âwill haunt Sonyâ
Star Trek Beyond first weekend US figures: $59.6m It had a $189m budget, so in its first week it made 30% of its budget. Reporting: âDominatesâ, âwins bigâ
To be clear: there are articles describing both moviesâ openings as âsolidâ. But thereâs basically no one calling Beyond worrying or Ghostbusters a big win.
So. âNuff said? **********EDIT**********
A few people have requested sauce for the data above. Honestly, this post was an off-the-cuff thing this morning done off the first page of Google. Iâve resisted actually providing said data because the % drop and $ profit figures are verifiable basically anywhere you like and the quotes are all over the place. I have not done a thorough corpus analysis of everything written on Ghostbusters and Beyond, nor do I plan to. However, because Iâm so damn nice, here are the particular articles I happened to read for the Googley-challengedâŚ
www.hollywoodreporter.com
deadline.com
fortune.com
www.theguardian.com
www.breitbart.com (yes, I know who/what Breitbart is, but it came up on the first page of Google so that makes it a mainstream source on this occasion)
www.forbes.com
And, to be fair, on looking for my original sources just now, I also found this, so there is at least one article thatâs circumspect about Beyondâs success. I canât find the article where I got the second week drops info, but I imagine the numbers came straight from here and here.
There were more articles all showing this basic trend, but honestly, no matter how many I list, if you donât believe me youâre gonna have to go search for yourself anyway, and if you do believe me, well, you already believe me, so why bother?
To be clear: there are articles describing both moviesâ openings as âsolidâ. But thereâs basically no one calling Beyond worrying or Ghostbusters a big win.
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Star Trek Beyond fails to boldly go where no other film has gone before - The Telegraph
Star Trek Beyond fails to prosper -The Guardian.
âhere we now have âStar Trek Beyond,â a tepid, bland exercise that recycles some familiar Trek tropes but is, in the end, just another sophomoric action movieâ - The Washington Times.
Itâs almost like *gasp* BAD FILMS GET BAD REVIEWS REGARDLESS OF THE CASTâS GENDER!!!
Is it so fucking hard to put âStar Trek Failsâ in the Google search?!
@manfeels-park, iâm asking you, shameless liar. What held you from typing âStar Trek Failsâ into Google search before jumping to conclusions about a worldwide conspiracy against women?!
And the last one, how could I forget.
ST Beyond, Captain America: Civil War, Dark Knight; Amazing Spider Man; Batman vs Superman - none of these are all-male cast with a token female. The last one that can be described as such that Iâm aware of is The Revenant, that had ONE named female character in it, who had ONE speaking moment in the whole film, and the only thing she said was âIâll chop your balls offâ.
Hokay, kiddo, my post doesnât reference reviews; it references reporting on first weekend figures. As it happens I havenât read any Trek reviews, partly because word of mouth tells me Iâm gonna like it so I feel no need to check them - oddly enough I donât put a great deal of stock in reviews⌠And I didnât search for reviews for this post because that isnât what the post is about. The post is - again - about initial reporting on first weekend box office performance, which at time of writing I found to be skewed.
Believe me or donât, but I reported what I found. Is it exhaustive? Not remotely - if Iâm honest I didnât expect it to get over 20k notes - nothing I have EVER posted has been reblogged like this; I am terrible at tumblr. It was just a trend is noticed on my first searches on the two movies for my own information. It was what I saw. It was the stuff coming top on Google. That doesnât make it pointless, only qualitative. Itâs a quick overview, not an extensive corpus analysis. On my Facebook post of this there was even some healthy debate with a film industry professional about how well the comparison held up. Iâm not ignorant to nuance, but I certainly wonât be debating it with someone who canât tell the difference between a review and a box office report.
What kept me from typing âstar trek failsâ into Google? Well the fact I wasnât trying to lead my search results OR look for reviews. My Google searches were âstar trek beyond box officeâ and âstar trek beyond first weekendâ - no positive or negative adjectives attached, and I took the first few posts on the page as indicative for my purposes.
I didnât post the one link you included that DOES talk about box office take - and negatively too, interesting and thank you - because⌠*drumroll*âŚit was posted the day AFTER I wrote this post. Woops. Iâll admit happily to not being able to see into the future.
(PS: Where did I say anything about the movies I listed having only male characters in them? Theyâre certainly all male led and having seen all of them Iâd be surprised if they all passed the Bechdel test, but I just used them as a quickie example of second week drop off figures for typical big budget action movies. I didnât make any comment about the level to which they sidelined women.)
âIs it exhaustive? Not remotely ⌠It was just a trend is noticed on MY first searches on the two movies for MY own information.â
I really appreciate that the original post was nothing but your personal opinion based on your personal searches that Google gives with accordance to your previous searches (unless you deliberately turn off Personal Results), and that the results you presented in the original post where not exhaustive, thereforeâŚ
they donât count as a âlesson in institutionalised misogynyâ (quoted from the original post).
Especially taking into account that you made this post 3 days after ST Beyond release and 16 days after Ghostbusters release.
Your sources on Ghostbusters relative to release date of Ghostbusters:
Hollywood Reporter - 9 days after release;
Deadline - 9 days after release;
Breitbart - 15 days after release;
Forbes - 15 days after release.
And you dare to whine and claim that asymmetrical media coverage of âStar Trek Beyondâ THREE FUCKING DAYS after release is somehow âlesson in institutionalised misogynyâ? You know, taking a journey to fuck yourself would be a better lesson.
Donât you âkiddoâ me, kiddo.
UPD: Major self-fix: yes, official domestic release of Ghostbusters was on 15th and not on 9th as IMDB misinformed me with its tiny font, which still leaves us with ONE source (Hollywood Reporter) that made a report on the third day after premiere on early morning. Do I need to explain why one source is statistically insignificant?
And since you admitted that one of the sources I provided is a negative box office report on ST Beyond, are we done with âInstitutionalized Misogynyâ argument?
Yes, absolutely weâre done. Institutionalised misogyny doesnât exist. With two posts on tumblr you have refuted the whole of feminism. I see it all clearly now. How could I have been such a fool.
Also what am I going to do with all these baths of man tears I collected now? Will they take them back do you think?
You know, I almost, almost, wrote a lengthy post sort of defending this iamretrograde dude. I thought he made some decent points.
Then I went âwaiiiiiiit a minute, Iâve been burned before. Letâs go actually read his blog. Oh. Look. Heâs an MRA.â
So yeah. Guy can go fuck himself. Thereâs a legitimate conversation to be had over the sort of press coverage Ghostbusters has gotten and just how well it is actually doing, but not from this asshole, who even a cursory check reveals has a long history of completely missing the fucking point.
I made my own post about how the original post missed a lot of legitimate concerns
Fact: highest drop from first to second weekend of Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feigs career
Fact: budget is higher than reported, closer to 300 million when coupled with marketing
Fact: international box office is expected to be much lower then Beyond because China will not be showing Ghostbusters and they have the second biggest box office after the US
Fact: original expectations because of the recognition and fan base was closer to 75-100 million but this was lowered to 60 million after the backlash of the first trailer and then lowered again until the final 40-45 million debut, Ghostbusters met that but not exactly a huge number considering the original expectations
Fact: Star Trek has better critical and audience reviews then Ghostbusters and can reasonably expected to have longer legs because of this.
But I suppose it's hard to think critically
Your face is tanking
And now for todayâs lesson in institutionalised misogyny.
Todayâs news: Ghostbusters âtanksâ, âstumblesâ with 53% drop in its second week.
Presumably thatâs a bad performance compared to other action movies in their second week then?
Letâs checkâŚ
Captain America: Civil War: -59.5%
Dark Knight: -52%
Amazing Spider Man: -61%
Oh, and for an example of an actual âtankingâ:
Batman vs Superman: -69%
Now, letâs examine all the reporting last week that Ghostbusters was going to struggle because of its first week multiplier against its budgetâŚ
Ghostbusters first weekend US figures: $46m It had a $144m budget, so in its first week it made 32% of that. Descriptions: âLacklustreâ, âproblematicâ, âwill haunt Sonyâ
Star Trek Beyond first weekend US figures: $59.6m It had a $189m budget, so in its first week it made 30% of its budget. Reporting: âDominatesâ, âwins bigâ
To be clear: there are articles describing both moviesâ openings as âsolidâ. But thereâs basically no one calling Beyond worrying or Ghostbusters a big win.
So. âNuff said? **********EDIT**********
A few people have requested sauce for the data above. Honestly, this post was an off-the-cuff thing this morning done off the first page of Google. Iâve resisted actually providing said data because the % drop and $ profit figures are verifiable basically anywhere you like and the quotes are all over the place. I have not done a thorough corpus analysis of everything written on Ghostbusters and Beyond, nor do I plan to. However, because Iâm so damn nice, here are the particular articles I happened to read for the Googley-challengedâŚ
www.hollywoodreporter.com
deadline.com
fortune.com
www.theguardian.com
www.breitbart.com (yes, I know who/what Breitbart is, but it came up on the first page of Google so that makes it a mainstream source on this occasion)
www.forbes.com
And, to be fair, on looking for my original sources just now, I also found this, so there is at least one article thatâs circumspect about Beyondâs success. I canât find the article where I got the second week drops info, but I imagine the numbers came straight from here and here.
There were more articles all showing this basic trend, but honestly, no matter how many I list, if you donât believe me youâre gonna have to go search for yourself anyway, and if you do believe me, well, you already believe me, so why bother?
You're missing a few things. Coupled with the huge marketing campaign Ghostbusters has a budget closer to $300 million
Originally when this project was announced expectations were closer to $75-$100 for the first weekend. After the first trailer it was downgraded to $60 million and continued to have expectations lowered until the final $40-$45 million figure
It dropped 55% from weekend to weekend. The highest drop of either Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feigs careers. To compare, their last venture together Boss only dropped 33%
Ghostbusters is a built in fanbase, as previous reboots and remakes of franchises have shown, they usually premiere much much higher. But this is a hard point to prove so I can concede here
Finally it is only going to get worse as international sales are not expected to help as the second biggest market, China, has flat out refused to show it. Making it that much more difficult for this film to recoup its already substantial budget. This is in contrast to other films like the new Star Trek which has already made over $150 mill overseas alone
Basically any way you look at the numbers it is hard to classify it as a hit. Even though it is "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes audiences have scored it around 50-55 percent which is much much lower then the critics who seem to be more focused on the progressive aspects of the film over the actual quality of the work. The bottom line is the majority of the audience rejected this film even after its release.
And that could be because it was so insanely unfunny, where are the lines "cats and dog living together! Mass hysteria"? I guess vagina fart jokes are considered funny now. (Seriously, that was the first big joke of the film. No one laughed and several people walked out)
So I digress, Beyond actually exceeded expectations and is doing and is expected to do well overseas. Ghostbusters barely met the already lowered expectations and is not expected to do well overseas with the biggest market refusing to show it.
That is why Ghosbusters is not a hit
