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Sammyyyy-
I Can't Be Tamed, has reminded me of a brainworm i had one day while sleep deprived at work-
Klikbait AU- except he transmigrates after the war and is on Cybertron.
He's dirt poor, not a shanix to his name and most of the termiantors think he's a bum.
I mean, he technically is.
He decided to turn to the one thing he's good at- performing.
He starts as a street act, singing and dancing but as he draws more and more crowds, he gains fame, and then a contractor-
Klikbait becomes a fucking idol and he's so smug about having his face plastered everywhere- and about finally being fucking rich holy shit-
And then one day, as he's sneaking around in disguise to buy some energon candies, he runs into Bumblebee- idk what bee's doing at this time i still need to think on it lmao- but basically; Klik's hood falls off, and Bee is instantly smitten while Klikbait freaks the fuck out, throws the candy at him, and runs for it.
Bumblebee... somehow doesn't know Klikbait's an idol, and just wants to meet up with the pretty mech again xD
Ehehe, thoughts?
Yes
Bumblebee being oblivious of the Cybertron's rising sensation that is Klickbait, daydreaming of the day he might bump into the pretty mech; maybe ask why the other freaked out and ran off, try and shoot his shoot etc etc~
Bumblebee is daydreaming sooooo hard that he doesn't notice the same face of the mystery mech plastered all over every streaming hologram(?), posters and billboards as he sighs with lovesick eyes
Meanwhile, Klickbait is happy that he didn't get chased like how most his other fans would hound him for pictures and autographs; though he's a bit bitter on the loss of energon candies. What a waste.
Maybe he'll put on a much better fool proof diguise when he goes out to feed his cravings next time...
The biggest evidence for Byler endgame to me is that the Duffer's are giving the audience little to no insight on what Mike is thinking/feeling lately.
This kid used to arguably be the main character. But for the last 1 to 2 seasons, we've been pretty much in the dark about what's going on in his head, basically forced to read the subtext.
So the fact that they themselves are so tight lipped about Mike, it's just weird.
When it comes to season 4 especially, it's all about Will and his sexuality and what he's thinking, but then they're just crickets on Mike and what he could possibly be thinking.
But, if we're being honest, 4x01 had not only at least 3 possible hints about Will's sexuality, but it also had at least 3 possible hints about Mike's sexuality as well.
You can't say the Mike moments are reaching and coincidences, when we have them doing the same thing right there with Will.
So, why is the conversation only about Will???
Let's be real, would they even allow questions like this about Mike to be asked in interviews, at this point at least?? Probably not.
Which just begs to question, if this isn't going anywhere and if that's the obvious thing they want to make clear, why not come out and be like, "Yeah. Mike is obviously straight!" or stifle the increasing hope for Byler, with which they themselves have ignited to epic proportions, but didn't have to in the first place???
Instead they went all out and made the California color palette blue and yellow? Had Mike holding a mf 7up can during one of their final heart-to-hearts???? Like it's clear they know we know that they know we know!
They literally went all out using Byler in promotion together, on posters and billboards and in the final frame of the season beside the other endgames, only to be like, "OH, yeah... anyways, about Will's feelings..."
They keep playing dumb, holding off on this concept of not only what Mike is thinking, but most importantly, him knowing the truth?
And for what? So he can be disgusted with Will? So he can let him down easily? If that was the case, they would have done it by now!?
Duffel boys, I dare you to tell us what Mike Wheeler is thinking!!
But they can't!
And you want to know why!?!?
Because it would spoil the surprise.
Dunno if anyone's done anything more extensive with this but I wanted to translate things in honkai star rail :> like- words you see on posters and whatnot. I saw the wanted posters and wanted to know what everything else says lol
Me: I'm not going to do everything and put it up here
Also me: does most if not everything in the administrative district
I'll be using the capitalization that's used in the in game writing (i.e. one sign might say BELOBOG and another might say Belobog) also note that there are in game typos and I'll mention that after writing them. If I get anything else wrong though, feel free to lmk. I tried to get things as accurate as possible but it's hard to make out letters sometimes and/or I may just mistype ^^
I mainly go from top to bottom/left to right
Anyhoot, let's get to it! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ sorry they're out of order, I basically just put them in the order which I saw them
Administrative district, Belobog
• Theatrical posters:
THE STARS ROSE (stardust rose poster. Interactable)
Flufftober 2022 - 27.10
Prompts | @flufftober
This is based on @jyushibat’s idea. Thank you for inspiring me! I took some liberties so it might be different from what you had in mind. I hope it's not a problem! Also, this took a different turn while I was writing it. Less romantic, more............... whatever is happening here. It's more Jakurai focused than what I had predicted. Weird.
Title: Yesterday and You Fandom: Hypnosis Mic Pairing: Jakurai/Hitoya Prompt: Reunion Words count: 1450 Contents: T-rated, mention of alcohol, mention of death, Hitoya is basically a therapist here.
Can you comment on that post I sent you from that towlers person or whatever about what they think about louis?
I assume you mean this one.
Yeah, its bizarre isn't it?
The argument is basically 'look we've all been doubting that Harry and Louis are still together in 2021, but clearly they are, and one reason is that Eleanor and Louis are a private couple'.
It's weird, because for a long time, Eleanor and Louis supposedly being 'too public' of a couple was used as a reason for why they 'clearly aren't real'. I mean, the whole point of a 'beard', supposedly, is to be a deliberately very public partner who attends events with you and has no actual access to your private life.
Eleanor has never, in any way, acted as a traditional 'beard'. She only went to a few red carpet events with him, and a lot of the spottings of them are in private contexts like pubs, parks, in crowds etc.
Apparently this blog thinks its 'weird' that Elounor isn't used for promotion. I just find that...confusing. Niall and his girlfriends have been just as private, so have Liam and many of his partners. It's almost like that's incredibly normal lol.
Why would they use Eleanor for promotion? Like that just confuses me? It's not exactly a secret that a lot of his fans don't like her and treat her like shit. And why would they 'play up' how cute they are online? That's not going to sell more albums lol. I'm just confused that they think that it's 'weird' that Eleanor and Louis act like a normal couple and Louis isn't forcing his girlfriend to be a walking billboard for his personal projects. They also seem to think its weird that general public fans wouldn't know much about Eleanor or something. I don't know a bloody thing about the partners of basically every musician I follow...how is that weird?
Eleanor and Louis seem like a pretty typical couple to me. Eleanor posts him sometimes, every now and then, which is cute. But she isn't posting them daily and they aren't flaunting their relationship. Which is normal. Eleanor goes with him to private events. Sometimes we see it and sometimes we don't. Again, I find it really bizarre and clearly illogical that these people assume Harry and Louis are together because we never see them together, but unless Louis and Eleanor, or Louis and Freddie for that matter, post every single interaction they are fake? Like...what? And these same people praise Zayn and Gigi for not posting their daughter, but now that Louis hasn't posted Freddie in a long while, its 'suspicious'. Like...it couldn't possibly be that Louis wants to protect his privacy on his end at this age, that he grew up and got wiser about it right? Louis can't make Briana and co not post him, it's not illegal, but he can control what information HE gives out.
Eleanor has constant access to his life. His real estate. His pet. She goes on private holidays with him. She is the most odd 'beard' of all time. A beard, by definition, exists to be seen, and as this poster literally said (lmao I can't), no one outside of the fandom even knows she's there! What a fantastic, well executed, beard who apparently exists to closet Louis Tomlinson!
In terms of 'why did they ham it up in the early years, why did they wear those coke pyjamas', do you think people might, you know, change over ten years? Some couples will post on social media about themselves, some wont, some do and then don't. This is normal life. Again, it constantly strikes me that a lot of larries don't 'get' human beings. I know couples who you would have literally zero idea are dating from their socials, couples who post constantly, and couples who post each other once in a blue moon. That is normal life.
It seems to me from that post and the one that's linked in it, that the argument being made now is 'they must still be together because I've decided things are weird even when they aren't' lol.
The post that's linked about Holivia basically says it must be a stunt to promote the movie. As I've already talked about, PR does not equal fake. Almost every 'PR couple' has turned out to have been a legit couple. And this film doesn't need this kind of PR. Especially not a year from its release. I've seen members of the GP say they don't want to see it anymore because they don't like Holivia. And in my country the level of attention being paid to Holivia? Literally zero. That film was going to promote itself with Florence in it and Harry opposite, it's clearly Oscar bait, AND it was a highly sought after script. If anything, I think Harry and Olivia deciding to bang kind of made the film lower in people's estimation lol.
Logic dictates that higher advance = bigger marketing and publicity budget. But why do a small number of books with super high advances (7 figures for 2 or 3 books) end up not getting much marketing and publicity?
Hm well uh - I have never been in the lucky position to have had a seven figure book (THOUGH I AM VERY MUCH OPEN TO IT, UNIVERSE) - but.... I don't think what you are positing is true, actually. Like I feel pretty sure that if a publisher paid A MILLION dollars on a book (or even 2 or 3 books), they would feel PRETTY strongly about wanting to at least TRY and sell some copies of it????
Here's the thing - I think that people are sometimes a bit confused about the difference bt Publicity and Marketing. Forgive me if you know all this but:
Publicity refers to EARNED MEDIA. Book reviews, traditional media coverage, and organic social media coverage, particularly. The publisher doesn't PAY for publicity -- they pay publicists to get material to review outlets and pitch stories to media outlets, and then the review and media outlets decide whether or not to bite.
So you have a new book. For every new book, the publicists want to get it in front of all the trade book reviewers, mags and newspapers, and big mouths on social media, and influential librarians and booksellers who might write reviews or talk about it.
The bigger the book, and the more possible "publicity hooks", the more likely they will also approach every TV show and huge "fancy" media outlet. (They don't do all this for every book -- because it's pointless. Most Fancy media outlets simply do not care about random books and are not appropriate. Like, if you have written a chapter book, it's pointless to send it to Vanity Fair or Entertainment Weekly, you know?)
But for the "big" splashy books, they will be pitching the book to be in, like, Reese's book club and the author to go on Late Night and Vanity Fair to put it in some round-up, and possibly submit the author to the Miss Baltimore Crab competition for all I know! If the book has multiple "publicity hooks" -- they will further pitch THOSE. So, let's say the author of this splashy fantasy ALSO was a soldier who rescued a bunch of people and then came home and wrote this book for the kids she rescued -- well THAT'S an interesting hook for a story, maybe the People magazine will want to cover that as a human interest story. Or let's say the author is a doctor and studies XYZ syndrome, and the novel stars a kid with XYZ syndrome - maybe the Journal of XYZ Syndrome would write a profile, and the author could be on 60 minutes. Basically, they do a LOT of outreach to all kinds of different places, is the point. BUT:
They could send it to ONE MILLION places. If nobody wants to review the book or pick up the story.... they just won't. This is the curse of Publicity -- it's really hard to judge the amount of work that has been done by the result. Book 1 might take off because of a random tiktok by a tween that goes viral -- Book 2 might have multiple publicists working around the clock to get the word out about it, but the book sinks like a stone. (And, worse luck, if Book 2 went and hired the tween from Book 1 to try the "viral" trick again - it probably wouldn't work!)
Marketing refers to PAID media. That is to say, advertisements in NYT, or on a billboard in the subway station, that's marketing, yes. But is THAT appropriate for every book? Absolutely not, it would be a waste of a large amount of money for most books. Like, it's MUCH more likely that a billboard or full-page ad in the NYT will be effective for an already super-popular series, to gin up enthusiasm from fans that KNOW the property and author, or to celebrate the book winning a huge award or something like that and remind people to buy it -- a billboard for something that nobody has ever heard of yet will just be wallpaper for commuters.
For most authors, the most effective marketing is not nearly so splashy as that, and it involves marketing TOWARD BOOKSELLERS (and librarians) rather than to the general public; raising awareness with these "gatekeepers" means that they will (hopefully) pass their enthusiasm on to readers, get piles of copies into the bookstore for you to buy. What I mean is, the marketing IS happening, for sure, but YOU, an outsider, may not ever see it in the same way you see a billboard. For example:
Putting ads in book-industry places like Shelf Awareness or PW, having the book on display in the publishers booth at ALA or NCTE, giving away posters or swag to educators, printing galleys/ARCS, bookmarks, whatever -- all of that is marketing. "Publisher co-op", where a bookstore gets a certain amount of money or credit of some kind for advertising a book - or special promotions where a bookstore orders x-number of copies of a book and gets both a better discount and a cool display to put the books in -- that's marketing.
But again - the problem is, the biggest marketing spend in the world doesn't guarantee anything. I've walked into the Javits Centre for BEA or ALA or another huge conference -- and seen a book COMPLETELY saturate the entire conference centre with adverts. I'm talking LITERALLY multi-story high banners -- massive adverts running up the stairs and escalators -- the title and logo of the book branded on each lanyard that 25,000 librarians are wearing, and each of them with a tote bag featuring the book art, all of which must have cost a fool's fortune in marketing $ -- and the book just does "meh" when it comes out because people don't care. And guess what? That author's friends probably think "wow, they really didn't do any marketing." THEY DID! THEY DID MARKETING! THEY SPENT A FORTUNE! Not all marketing is successful! Sometimes you get a "Coke" -- sometimes you get a "NEW Coke"!
thoughts? kjfhlkjdfh asking bc i rb'd the original post from u a bit ago because i agreed w/ original poster but i just saw this rb of it and wanted to know what u thought. ciaran(.)tumblr(.)com /post/652413157345820673/there-is-a-genre-of-posts-thats-obsessed-with-the
well first of all i hope this isn't a bait ask. this reply really doesn't deserve the time and effort i put into refuting it, but there was a point in time when i was emotionally confused by these..."arguments", so whoever u are, anon, i hope this is helpful. i also recommend some distance - literally, "go outside and touch grass", which is a lot more difficult than it sounds, but it needs to be done. anyway, here's my "analysis":
for context, here's what the post in question said:
and the tags:
at a high level, we can see that what ciaran is saying doesn't really respond to what OP was talking about. for this reason, i'm not going to bring in much of what OP said, because it's uncontested in this context, and look at ciaran's reply. i'll try to break this up...
EDIT: i had a long-ass response here, but then i realized it was dumb because the source material is dumb. i cut out most of it, but here are the highlights.
"there is a genre of posts that’s obsessed with the notion that fandom is something much larger, more prevalent, and more able to affect the way media is processed and consumed, than it actually is in reality."
so, as we can all see on tiktok and, indeed, on the electronic lore olympus billboard that takes up a side of a literal skyscraper, fandom is no longer the niche thing that "fandom olds" make it out to be. also, we can't ignore how many (white) fandom players go on and work in the industry (cassandra clare, whoever wrote 50 shades, man idk much of anything so there's probably many more). so this comment is sort of myopic. and since this is what characterizes the rest of the reply, well...it's not great.
also don't look up lore olympus; it's basically a dd/////lg fanfic that happens to be one of the most popular series on the line webtoon app, which is rated for teens...and for $1 to the creator's patreon, you can view not sfw p*dophilic art, so. also obviously i didnt do that; there was a video essay about this. i can't find it though
"ironically but understandably, these posts are made by people who are so terminally fandom-poisoned that they ascribe phenomenal power to it, and think of it as some great evil that must be defeated (by making posts on tumblr, which is obviously a very influential thing to do)"
"fandom-poisoned" is such a nebulous term, especially since it appears to mean "has had some really significant, (in this context) bad experiences with fandom." this is, first of all, a huge assumption to make about a stranger, and second, not the own they think it is. i'm just going to link this post, and hopefully you can see how it relates.
anyway, the "making posts on tumblr is meaningless" is um...interesting, seeing as off the top of my head i can think of two very influential tumblr blogs that talk about really important issues, Gradient Lair and Red Light Politics. I don't know as much about Red Light Politics, but Gradient Lair is frequently cited by academics (not getting into academia nonsense now but... -_-). also, they sound more pissed that the original post did gain traction, but whatever. this paragraph doesn't really make sense, but nothing here does, because i wasn't given much to work with.
"...and then because these people have basically no imagination and unfailingly pick on others for their own faults, they project their own experiences on everyone they perceive as being more ‘in fandom’ than them,"
jesus christ. i'm going not say anything about the tone of this because i put too much effort into this for some rando to call me a cyberbully.
i think what they're thinking about is how there appear to be some "fandom critical" people who try to, holistically, "ruin everyone's good time" by "stirring up drama" about popular fandom artists/writers/whoever else idk. oftentimes these people will also make jokes about fandom whatever, seemingly picking on random people's interests.
however, if you look at the long history of fandom racism, fandom's normalization of p*dophilia, and even general fandom harassment, and then you look at fandom's visceral, unwarranted reaction to criticism regarding these things, you can quickly see that disillusionment towards fandom is entirely reasonable. as for the joking, well...this an oversimplification but not everyone needs to like what you like. it sounds like they just need to get over themself.
and go “You, a 27 year old queer blogger who is into [tv show/anime/movie] an embarrassing amount, are now going to be the face of Capitalism” with no self-reflection or critical thought given to how fucking cringe it is-"
so, i'm regretting putting so much effort into this because this is so fucking long and i have to analyze this nonsense...it feels like i'm back in my feminist thought class. nightmarish. but anyway, this seems to deal with- [CUT FOR LENGTH. nothing important was missed].
EDIT 2: actually here's a summary of what I had. it deserves better than to be a response to this nonsense, but first it detailed how this took 1. the op's post and 2. a comment that we don't even know if op agreed with and misinterpreted that, and threw quite a fit about this- and i hate to say this because this term is misused so often by redditors, but- strawman.
I then went on to discuss how, for example, PoC can uphold systems of white supremacy. while obviously no person of color is going to be the "face" of white supremacy, the discussion still needs to be had, especially within that group. similarly, while fandom constituents may not be the face of capitalism, there needs to be a discussion, within fandom, on how they support and are defined by capitalist (and other) systems.
it was really too good of a point to be making for this trash reply. I could go say more, but I'm still trying to stay on topic, unlike ciaran.
"to act like random people on the internet, end users with no influence over corporate decisions, are the ones personally responsible for the fact that late-stage capitalism has destroyed popular art and culture in an increasingly sordid attempt to make money."
we've been over the "no influence" bit - because in fact fans do have influence, especially since media creators are literally fans, etc etc. i'm tired of people acting like they have no power and using that as an excuse to support and perpetuate harmful, easily avoidable behavior.
also, to act like the nebulous system of late-stage capitalism is the only cause of bad media is ludicrous. first of all, someone has to make these so-called "corporate decisions", and the people making artistic decisions are, again, overwhelmingly members of "fandom." this comment is really trying to keep marvel trash and lore olympus-esque nonsense in the same atomic, indivisible category lest someone catches a whiff of nuance.
"the above post is a great example of this phenomenon because op admits freely that they only think fandom is destroying media because they have been spending more time in fandom and thus have an over-inflated sense of its importance in greater culture. posting your own Ls indeed."
i'm so tired. this person literally has 120 works on ao3 like...who is spending more time in fandom.
and the tags:
#i assure you that fandom has no bearing on my actual real life #and if it does on yours. then that is your problem #it's also a very funny problem to
now this is just egregiously tone deaf. you do not need to do more than a cursory google search to find a bottomless well of examples of fandom harassment, threats, doxxing, and violence, much of which is racially motivated. you can see why it would be bad to make fun of this.
also the way that “fandom has no bearing on their actual real life“...120 fanfics on ao3. 120.
conclusion:
the reply clearly misinterprets of op's point, and as such, does not refute it. they responded to another issue altogether, which is that of the sanctity of their ~coping mechanism~ or whatever it is. their argument in this respect was, in my opinion, delusional and pathetic, especially given that they wrote it on someone else's unrelated post.
FINAL NOTE: i cut out lots of this because the reply went in so many different directions, so some stuff might not make sense. let me know if you have any questions.