#kyrieanne

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Happy birthday to two of my faves: Anne Shirley and @kyrieanne. I feel like the three of us have spent a lot of time together in recent years. Anne has puffier sleeves, but @kyrieanne is a better co-writer and she very definitely has feet that I have seen live and in person.

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kyrieanne replied to your post ““Shut the door. Have a seat.””

ohhhhhh i’m intrigued….

Here’s my thinking on this: a Janet that’s been reset 802 is the most evolved Janet ever to have existed. Team Cockroach might not remember all the other times they were rebooted, but ever since they decided to work with Michael, Eleanor has been increasingly empathetic, compassionate, and patient with everyone--she gives Michael advice, she offers to be Janet’s heartbreak coach, she’s able to articulate how learning to be good has helped her listen to her better angels instead of giving into her more selfish instincts. What Michael’s proven with the reboot is that even in the Bad Place, there’s no hopeless cause. One of the fundamental things he planned on the first go-around was that Eleanor would bring them to a chaos point simply by being Eleanor, but Eleanor forks up the entire premise because she’s chaos incarnate--and that extends to her ability to be emotionally intelligent enough to understand the torture he devises every single time. (As well as having some kind of emotional muscle memory when it comes to Chidi and knowing he’s her key to outsmarting the Bad Place.) She’s not necessarily learning better or more deeply this time around and therefore being more humane and able to help her non-human cohorts because the lessons have somehow sunk in and stuck this time, it’s because Eleanor has a capacity for change that Michael can’t calculate no matter how many times he recalibrates the experiment. I am not a philosopher and I don’t know anything about the study of ethics, but there’s something inherently dynamic about Eleanor Shellstrop that shows that even incremental growth over time can add to a person’s goodness. And the flaw in the Bad/Medium/Good paradigm has always been that none of the four humans we know are essentially bad, they’re not evil, they’re just imperfect in incredibly specific and (in their lives) consistent ways. They all have really pronounced and (quite literally) fatal flaws, and maybe they had to die to figure out how to overcome that, but it’s bug in the system I think HAS to be addressed. 

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Happy Birthday, Katie!! Yes...I made this two years ago and its just as awesome today. Hope u had an amazing day!!

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timetravelbypen replied to your post “Having watched, in part, both The Fellowship of the Rings and Parks...”

I have heard from some SUPER hardcore Tolkien nerds that the movies lose a lot from the books/the changes don't make sense? Personally LotR is that rarest of movies where I think it improves on the books, but that's just me...

It makes sense to me that gargantuan tomes would lose something in translation, and I literally remember neither what I read when I read them nor what I thought about the movies having read the books first.

kyrieanne replied to your post

My head canon is that Ben didn't agree for the nuances lost in the Jackson version that Tolkien did through world building through the less glamorous characters in the LOTR characters - the bits gained in the songs sung in pubs and poetry he wrote in the text and characters more in the vein of Gollum than the elves. I'm just making that up - not canon evidence to support my theory. I just think Ben is enough of a nerd to resent the gloss of the Jackson production.

This is a good theory, especially for a person who has a LotR pen pal persona. Ben is probably someone who loooooooooves all the little tiny detail that wouldn’t make it into a film, and has probably read all the ancillary/auxiliary material he can get his hands on. I wonder what he’ll think of the Amazon series.

camillavirgil replied to your post

Probably Faramir lol. While a lot of changes were made from the books, the Faramir storyline is the most obvious and (probably the most) egregious departure. Jackson essentially gives Faramir’s rejection of the ring to Aragorn and then makes Faramir a much more passive/easily swayed character. Jackson and all had their reasons for this - increasing dramatic tension, emphasizing the ring’s power, etc.. But film!Faramir is nowhere close to book!Faramir in terms of characterization/personality.

See, I don’t remember this! But I love this answer! After I posted this last night I was poking around the internet and learned the line from Ben was an ad-lib, but IT STILL WORKS BASED IN ACTUAL FAN REACTIONS. If I ever make it through my tbr list of books I’ve bought and then not started, I’m going back and rereading these books for stuff like this. Thank you! ALL OF YOU.

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Old friends, please do me a favor if you have the bandwidth. You know @kyrieanne and I have been working together for the last three years on various projects. I love her dearly. She’s incredibly compassionate and patient in ways that I wish I were. The world would be a better place if more people like her. Anyway. She’s having an absolute shit day. A lot of people she loves are going through really hard, heartbreaking things and if you love her or any of her work, now would be a good time to remind her.

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kyrieanne replied to your post: It’s a three bunny evening.

I don’t understand.

There are many, many wild bunnies in our neighborhood. (I asked David to estimate the number of bunnies and he is very tired and said, “I’m not going to play your rabbit games.” And that’s not one of those wacky things he said when he’s asleep. He’s mostly awake.) We used to see bunnies in Cambridge sometimes, but it’s bunny-palooza here. I saw three walking home from Walgreens. One night I saw five all together.

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Today was hard. : / Hopefully this weekend will be better.

Friend, I am so sorry. You’ve been piled on lately and I’m kind of pissed off on your behalf. If there was a place I could register a complaint I would, but there is no BBB for the universe. And like that one time Job tried it went badly. (For you I make Bible jokes.)

You are loved by many people and I hope that helps a little bit. I love you and you’re stuck with me now. Some day we will sit on a beach somewhere and drink margaritas. Like the same beach at the same time.

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Happy birthday to one of my favorite persons alive or dead: @kyrieanne