I watched the live action version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on Youtube and I was not ready for the utter lack of emotions from the CGI animals.
Nala looking concerned about Simba hiding something about his past, a comparison:
Also, in CGI this song called "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" does not take place at night.
I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally
group of wizards who ask this in-universe, and after extensive study learn to their surprise that animals are casting spells all the time, just that their magic is so fundamental as to be unrecognizable to humans. turns out the only reason acorns grow on trees is because squirrels keep wishing for them.
Soon after the Garden began to relax its Covid restrictions in the spring of 2021, Nina Richards was regularly going to Knicks games there. According to one former MSG security staffer, she became a fixation for Eversole.
Eversole, a former senior director of global investigations at Oracle, instructed his deputies to compile âwork-upsââopen source intelligence dossiersâon her. He made sure she was in the Garden's face-recognition system and ordered the Garden's security apparatus to focus on her, former MSG security staffer Donnie Ingrasselino later alleged in a lawsuit. Not because she posed any kind of danger at that moment. Because Richards was a transgender woman, and Eversole allegedly wanted to keep her âaway from the players.â
Eversole targeted Richards âbecause of her gender identity,â Ingrasselino added in his suit. Employees who were forced to conduct the surveillance were often uncomfortable, since they believed it to be a clear act of profiling, according to the first former staffer. "She posed no threat," added a second former employee.
"She wasn't taking pictures in restricted areas. She wasn't trying to go places she shouldn't be,â the source continued. âThis is just a very large transgender woman, being a fan, walking around.â
But Eversole's orders were explicit: Keep watching. According to the lawsuit, he showed Richards' picture in several weekly meetings, misgendering her, and telling employees to watch out for âhim or it or whatever it is.â Ingrasselino further contends in his court filing that âEversole did not similarly limit access to others who socialized with athletes, including individuals who had extensive criminal histories and had the potential of posing a legitimate threat to MSG.â
On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored.
07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5
07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse
07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher
Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red.
08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar
08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks
08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table
It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG âmembership experience executiveâ (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.
[Scans of two documents reporting on her movements. Photographs of her have been blurred]
Every MSG security source who was knowledgeable about this surveillance campaign used the word âexcessiveâ or some synonym for this level of scrutiny. The report listed no reason for including these details on her movements. But when Richards and her guest on that January night began to move to some of the best seats in the house, the document's background turns red. It catalogs Richards talking to a security guard at 9:06 pm; that same guard walking over to section 1, row 1âright next to the Garden's famed âcelebrity rowâ and Richards taking one of those seats 34 seconds after.
That night, Richards posted photos to her Instagram account. The images were included in the MSG security report. âWhat a great night,â she wrote in the captions. âI pray that this new year brings more peace, love and understanding to everyone.â In three of the photos, she's standing on the court, presenting a striking figure in a glittery jacket and boots. The post got 13,501 likes.
People who make it courtside often take such pictures or are caught on camera during TV broadcasts. According to Ingrasselino's lawsuit, Eversole claimed that if an âopenlyâ trans woman were noticed, it could âdamage MSGâs reputation.â The first former employee adds that they were told the very sight of Richards made the Garden brass uncomfortable.
âThis was harassment. This was not OK,â the third former staffer said.
There's been centuries' worth of theorizing about the effects of surveillance on people's actions. More recently, neuroscientists have demonstrated what happens to the brains of people under the spycamâs gaze. Associate professor Kiley Seymour of the University of Technology Sydney has theorized that it induces a kind of hyper-reactivity, a constant state of fight-or-flight. âBeing watched,â Seymour told Scientific American, âdrives this hardwired survival mechanism into overdrive.â
Richards used to have an active, vibrant presence online. Today, Richards has functionally erased herself from the internet. Her 44,000-follower Instagram account has been nuked. Richards didnât respond to requests for comment about her treatment by the Gardenâs staff, other than to ask that WIRED not use her real name.
(An MSG spokesperson didn't respond to detailed questions about the treatment of Richards. But in a court filing, Garden lawyers said the allegation that âEversole directed the use of facial recognition software to monitor the activities of a transgender womanâ was âa clear attempt to cast Eversole in a negative lightââone carried out in âexcessive, needless detail.â)
Richards was banned from the Garden, right when the Knicks have been fielding their best teams in decades. âMr. Eversole [f]abricated a stalking allegation to justify banningâ her from the Garden, according to Ingrasselino's suit. Every knowledgeable MSG security source we spoke to about this felt the charge was a smear. But it worked.
If a plutocratâs corporate enforcer can put Richards in that position, it opens any of us to being the subject of the next paranoid campaign. âYou have all this work going into tracking someone who's not doing anything tangibly wrong,â the second ex-staffer says.
These Garden security sourcesâand several othersâclaim the pursuit of Richards was very much in character for Eversole, who brought an intensity to his role at the Garden that colleagues alternatively described as scary, cartoonish, ruthlessly effective, or a combination of all three.
there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.
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Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat.
Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records.
My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now.
Called the county clerk.
Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty.
Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons?
Me: Yes, but he's a cat.
Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county?
Me: He's a legal cat.
Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption.
Me: He can't file anything. He has paws.
Clerk: You can file on his behalf.
Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat."
Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons."
Me: What's the medical reason?
Clerk: He's a cat.
Me: That's not a medical condition.
Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving.
Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later.
"Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement."
Took the letter to my vet.
Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty.
Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty?
Me: Excellent question. No good answer.
Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten.
Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve?
Vet: On what grounds?
Me: He's a cat.
Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings."
Me: Perfect.
Sent it in. Got another rejection.
"Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court."
My roommate thought this was hilarious.
Roommate: Felix is going to jail.
Me: This is serious.
Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens.
Decided that was actually the only option left.
Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters.
Checked in at the courthouse.
Clerk: Name?
Me: Felix Martinez.
Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix?
Me: Yes.
Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat.
Me: I've been saying that for six weeks.
Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption?
Me: I filed three. All rejected.
Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief.
Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation?
Me: Twice.
Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this.
Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me.
Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote?
Me: You tell me.
Supervisor: This is a data error.
Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out.
They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience.
Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry.
Me: Appreciate it.
Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted?
Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats.
Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card.
For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was.
Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud.
Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent.
Roommate: That's what they all say.
Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now.
Fitting end to his legal career.
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