#mere babbles

[thelegendofclarke]

ok i am crawling slowly out of my long time grave solely for this one very important question:

is a Belly/Conrad future fic where approximately 97% of the plot is literally just Belly hardcore thirsting over Conrad in gray sweatpants going to be, like, Too Far for the TSITP fandom??

[thelegendofclarke]

ok are there any Belly Conklin Stans on here?!?

I’ve been wandering the Hellscape for days trying to find My People.

[thelegendofclarke]

so... what’d i miss??

[thelegendofclarke]

Welcome back.

How do you feel about gay pirates?

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you have my complete and undivided attention.

[thelegendofclarke]

oml i’ve only been back on here for LESS THAN A DAY and i’ve already done that thing where you tell yourself “i’ll just look for 10 minutes” and then end up scrolling for hours with out blinking or speaking or getting up to pee or having literally any awareness of time passing and the word rotating. 

[thelegendofclarke]

hey frands!

sooo i realized i’ve done that Thing again where i fall from the face of the earth with seemingly no trace... SO SORRY about that! i will get better about not doing it one of these days I SWEAR!

basically the judge i work for and our chambers have been on writ duty, which is already an epic pain in the ass because it basically means a lot of work that has to get done really quickly. and it just so happened to perfectly coincide with me getting hit with a pretty brutal case of the Seasonal Blahs, so it was already hard for me to concentrate. so the moral of the story is that i’ve had to unplug from social media in general so i can get shit done...

but i miss you all much MUCH and hopefully i will be back soon once my life returns to something resembling normal.

miss you all and love you dearly! bless your hearts and other parts, 💕 love Mere

[thelegendofclarke]

god there is this ask post where someone started an argument with me from when i first started getting into the asoiaf fandom that will randomly start popping up a bunch in my notifications every once in a while and every time i cannot help but marvel at past me's patience and stamina because good god it might honestly be the actual. stupidest. fcuking. argument. i have ever been in and present me can barely read two sentences with out laughing and peacing tf out.

[thelegendofclarke]

ya know, the simple fact of the matter is…

if there were actual, legitimate reasons that Bob was (physically or otherwise) unable to be included in the promotional material for this season, there were SO MANY ways to let us know that are STUPIDLY EASY.

it could be something as simple as J. Roth or the network saying he was absent for "health reasons" or "personal reasons" or was "working on another project." there are legal and PR people being PAID to do exactly that for both the series AND the network. it is their literal job to come up with ambiguous-yet-reassuring informative statements to give the public regarding these EXACT types of situations. i mean honestly, the damn social media interns could do it in the time it took them to take a bathroom break.

and even if Bob was the one who refused to be in the promo material, he ALSO has people who could handle that shit for him. but i gotta say, i highly doubt that was the case. mainly based on the fact that entertainment industry contracts almost always have something called a 'Promotional Services' clause in them that is really broad and basically allows networks to require actors to render unlimited publicity services for the duration of their employment. if and actor is going to breach or try to get out of the duties agreed upon in the contract, it has to be a little better of a reason than "I don't wanna." as the party looking to invalidate the contract, the actor would have to meet the legal burden of proving just cause. and even if they CAN provide some kind of just cause, they can still be sued by the network and their employers for millions of dollars.

while you can get out these contractual duties based on prior contractual duties not yet performed, that wouldn't even apply here, because the duty to preform the agreed upon obligations are based on seniority. i highly doubt that anything Bob would be working on right now would have seniority over a show that he has been a main character (as well as an occasional director) on since 2014. and yeah, there are accommodations made (mostly within the contracts themselves) that take into account the value of the duty (i.e. promos/cons/photo ops vs. acting/directing ect.) and the amount of time it would take the actor away from their subsequent project. but even if Bob were currently cast to star a in huge blockbuster or some shit, it would have been so easy to accommodate that. (for eg. the countdown pictures can be taken at any time during filming OR the hiatus and couldn't possibly take more than a day).

yeah, there has been speculation about there being a "special reason" and that this is a "promotional tool" or whatever. but it is SO. EASY. to make promotional material with out giving away a "secret" or a "twist,” shows and movies do it ALL. THE. TIME. if they didn't or couldn't, there would literally be no such things as mystery crime shows and movies. this just goes so much against industry custom standards and practices, and there has been literally zero explanation, or even information, offered about it at all. Bob is a popular actor in the series playing the (also popular) male lead character on the show. if they didn't expect at least some uproar, or even just questions, about his absence or inferred exclusion, then they are in the wrong industry tbh. and if they try to claim they didn't foresee it, i would have no qualms with saying they are probably being intentionally insincere and purposefully obtuse.

so this is either incredibly weird and unprofessional at best or deliberately spiteful and malicious at worst…

and either way its definitely some fucking nonsense.