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[kneipho]

saturday,april 27, 2019; 1:55 p.m. (p.s.t.)  

spamming (sorry) and cutting out early, today, peeps. i have a concert to attend.  :)

see you all inna bit.

be well,

kneipho

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[nicbreed]

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[gatabella]

Hello

I saw your blog and thought you might like this book.  There is a lot about Ava Gardner in it and she seems like a hardcore down-to-earth person.

Mr S, The Last Word on Frank Sinatra by George Jacobs. (valet to Frank Sinatra)

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Thank you, I haven’t read it yet :)

[gnimmish]

I find your attitude at times odd you call some producers racist, yet you’re so excited for Dracula even though its lead actor once used the N word on airport staff in New York and was accused of beating up his girlfriend. This seems of no concern to you because Katie’s in it. Your obsession with her outweighs your beliefs. Maybe you should apply the standards you apply to others to yourself. You baffle me it’s like you see racism as an intellectual exercise applied only to people you don’t like

I’m well aware of JRM’s stupidity - I’ve no interest in fangirling him at all and am pretty grossed out by him in general (and by Katie’s friendship with him, which - ick). Yes I’ll support almost anything Katie does with her career, for a long list of dull personal reasons, but that doesn’t mean I’m above criticising when she does appropriative shit like that photoshoot with the hipster native american headdress, or talks about having ‘girl crushes’ - I’m sure if you actually read through my blog properly you’ll find that.

But regardless of Katie or JRM, Dracula seems to be one of the only gothic dramas made recently with queer representation in it, so I’d be watching it regardless of who was in it, to keep a critical eye on our representation in this sort of genre. Up to a point I prefer to engage with the problems in the media I consume, either by rewriting or criticizing via meta, rather than disavowing that media totally.

To that end, I’ve already mentioned side-eyeing the fact that there don’t seem to be any central poc in Dracula… and even worse that I at first got that impression because the one Black actor on the cast has been featured so little in the publicity for the show. GROSS.

I’m sorry it looks like I only see racism as an intellectual exercise - my background IS extremely academic so tbh it may well have started out that way, because I first really began to be educated about racism through reading post-colonial literature at uni and studying Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s literary theory of the Subaltern. This is a reflection of my own enormous class privelege, and as a result of this background the way I write about social justice issues tends to make heavy use of academic language, which i can acknowledge probably isn’t helping the impression that it’s an intellectual exercise for me. But I can assure you that I don’t see racism, or any social justice issue, in this way - that’s just the language I’m best able to articulate myself in in this forum, though I do try, where I can, to par it back.

The fact is that I see deconstructing racism as central to my remit, as a socially-conscious queer writer and a participant in fandom. I am probably not always successful in this endeavour - I’m white, I’m sure I mess up a LOT - but I am firmly invested in continuously educating myself. I try to call out racism where I see it, I try to shut up and listen to POC when they talk about their struggles with racism, and, most importantly, to constantly scrutinise myself for white supremacist and racist tendencies and change my thought patterns and behaviors when they are problematic. 

[citizensofatlantis]

Atlantis

You may this but check this out : )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/search/?medium=tv&channel=&yearweek=&day=

[ifeelbetterer]

You are full of it because you have never had to present your work to commissioners in film and TV and never will. Having a blog and running your mouth on it for your sheep doesn't mean you are right. Where is your great masterpiece that you have 'done better'? FYI Charlaine Harris was responding to readers offering to write a better ending to her book because they were so angry with her ending. She said it is her world, she created it and is the Queen of that world and she is right.

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In the UK the writers do not listen to the fans,you should stick with your American shows. They have ruined show after show listening to the fans. Definition of arrogance: unpleasantly proud and behaving as if you are more important than, or know more than, other people. Quote: 'And Alan Ball isn't afraid of alienating the core teenage audience that is drawn to the Twilight projects. 'I'm 53,' says Ball. 'I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.'

OK, so this is probably the last time I'm going to respond to this user because it doesn't seem like she's actually listening to anything I say which, ironically, is what I was arguing for in the first place. But as a last hurrah, I'll address some of the specific things raised in this illustrative nugget of prejudice and narrow-mindedness:

You keep singling me out when I wasn't talking about me-the-individual. I was talking about how comprehensive a group like "fans" can be/is. There's me in it, yes, but there are also a multitude of others, many of whom have professional experience as artists but many whose very lack of professional experience gives them access to insight the artist may not have had access to themselves. The very heterogeneity of this group is what makes them--objectively, not subjectively--capable of greater things than any one single person, i.e., the artist who started the ball rolling. No matter how good the original creation was, sheer mathematics dictates that the collective can produce some individual expression that equals or supersedes it. Not by democratically producing it, by every one of the multitude responding as is their right as autonomous humans. This has actually never been about what I alone have done. My point has always been about what a collection of people can produce en masse, not by consensus. It's complicated, I guess, because you have responded twice now without grasping the difference between a plural and a singular.

So this "running my mouth for my sheep" idea is simultaneously hilarious, cliched, and misapplied. The people who might actually qualify for the title of "my sheep" (by which I assume you mean "my friends" but don't have the experience necessary to identify such a thing) all responded back in June when I first posted it. And since then, there are about 20-30 times as many reblogs of that post as I have followers, all but a tiny minority thinking some iteration of it is true. (I stopped reblogging their commentary after a while because it was simply too numerous, but I have been privately keeping track.) It's actually been a beautiful experience for me to see how many thousands of people are equally impressed by the sheer diversity of fan culture and the quality of the material it puts forward without expectation of monetary reward. I'm sorry that you have cut yourself off from this group, actually. It's not always perfect, but this post's runaway popularity has shown me a sliver of how cool it can be.

And, again, I never said any individual writer should write by consensus. Charlaine Harris, whoever she may be (and, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn), can write whatever she damn well pleases. But she can't shut down the response: if people are unhappy with the ending, they're within their rights to respond accordingly. It's only brave to put your work out there if you can take the variety of response it garners: it is cowardice to silence people who disagree. Cowardice, and being a bad artist.

OK, so you sound suuuuuper well-informed about the cultural and practical differences between the English and American television industries. Oh, wait. Did I say "well-informed"? I meant, "not at all informed."

Yes, see, I always knew what "arrogance" meant. You're the one who seems to think there's a hidden section of the definition that excludes you and/or artists.

Oh, look, another lovely little quote, how nice. I know that the "ask" feature on tumblr makes you keep things short and--well, I would have said "sweet," but, you know, context is king and "sweet" you aren't--but I think you're assuming these quotes make more of an impact than they do. But, sure, let's take a looksee at Alan Ball and his oh-so-awesome attitude about teenagers. Great. A 53-year-old man is dismissive of young people. What a shocking development. So, what you're saying is: teenagers should be unilaterally ignored because 53-year-old men have a vested interest in keeping them silenced, especially if they're female teenagers (which they are because they're Twilight fans, right). You'll have to excuse me if I don't immediately jump on that particular sexist bandwagon. I happen to like the variety inherent in keeping all avenues open and allowing equal expression from every group, even those rowdy teenaged girls. 

And I'd go through that whole concept of how fans' responses are no different from a scholar's or a film critic's except that class, gender, and racial hierarchies differentiate between the people speaking, but I actually already did that and you obviously couldn't wrap your brain around it. So. 

I'm not sure I understand what your end goal was in messaging me in the first place? You've been very aggressive from the get-go....I could respect that if you also were bothering to follow my half of the conversation, but you just haven't. And where can this conversation go if you're just repeating your one point again and again? I can do nothing but re-state mine in response and away we go, like the song says, on and on and on. It's not great television for our viewers, so I'm gonna call "cut" here and save everybody the tedium.

[ifeelbetterer]

I can only answer the sheer arrogance of your statement 'Fandom is not worshipping at the alter of canon. Fandom is re-building it because they can do better.' with this: Charlaine Harris on fan interference ’It’s like I have to write by a popular vote, I’m sorry this is not a democracy, this is an oligarchy, you know or actually a monarchy and I’m THE QUEEN that’s it.’ Also, if you can do better why don't you go and do better by writing your own series or books.

I really don't understand where you get "arrogance" from the statement that no one is above critique and that no one should assume their solipsistic worldview is better than any alternative anyone else in the entire world could devise. You accuse me of arrogance and then throw  a quote about being a queen and therefore above critique back at me. I'm thinking maybe you should go look up the word "arrogance."

But more importantly--and you'd have queued in on this if you'd bothered to read any of the responses I posted to reactions to this post, oh, three months ago when it actually happened--I'm not arguing that people have to take a popular vote on everything they create. I'm not saying that every new script has to be vetted through a democratic process. Duh. I'm saying it's actually arrogance--and this would be the correct usage of arrogance--to assume that your work of art is above criticism and that you, by having made it, were automatically the best artist who could have made it. In a world of infinite variety of experience and skill, surely that is true arrogance. And it's certainly arrogance to get offended that not everyone adored what you made. To complain about "fan interference" sounds a lot like complaining that people didn't want to just bend over and take whatever you wanted to give them. But, see, here's the tricky thing: your consumers will always be autonomous human beings of as much creativity and complexity as you, the artist, are. They will speak back and you cannot stop them.

So to change my meaning--to change "not worshiping at the altar" to "demanding writers write by popular vote"--is to buy into an oligarchy that is hoping against hope to silence you specifically. I don't want to do that. I don't want that system. And, you'll notice, my original post didn't demand any particular action of anyone and certainly not a change in writing processes. I simply expressed a frustration at people who assume that fans are blank slates waiting to be filled with canon information when they/we are, in fact, as capable of extraordinary artistic endeavors as any artist writing with the hegemonic artistic production systems. Nothing more, nothing less.

But, here's the cool bit: you actually proved my point by speaking up. You disagree with me. Cool. You can say so. That's my point. That you and I can feel differently about this and there's room for both sides. That's my point.

And as for your last point--which, yawn--I already said: fandom does do better. Every goddamn day.

[citizensofatlantis]

Twitter accounts of Atlantis cast and crew

As requested: 

Jemima Rooper -  https://twitter.com/CaptainPooper

Oliver Walker - https://twitter.com/ollywalker  (nice bod as well)

Dale McCready (DOP) https://twitter.com/dalemccready

Alice Troughton - https://twitter.com/search?q=alice%20troughton&src=typd

Hope this helps.

(submitted by biscuitsarenice - thanks! :D L x )