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mifletset replied to your post:

Isn’t that the whole premise of Gaiman’s “Neverwhere”?

I don’t know, I’ve never heard of that, but if so, that’s fantastic news.

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mifletset replied to your post: Since it’s BPD Awareness Month I wanted to take a...

Thanks for sharing. I love your stories of your spiritual practice. Any thoughts on how those intersect with your BPD?

It intersects in many ways. for one, trusting my discernment is difficult. I have constructed a nice little distorted box for myself where good things are delusions or fantasy and bad things are real. Hearing my companions is a good thing so no matter how much divination says “no you heard a damn spirit deal with it” my brain still insists it’s purely fantasy. Discernment is also made difficult in that part of discernment is knowing oneself. How can one know oneself fully when they struggle with BPD? 

BPD also affects who I choose to worship. Trolls and jotnar are associated with mental illness. One common theme with trolls is their intense rage. Trolls have emotional regulation issues just like me. I see myself in the entities I worship.

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mifletset replied to your post “It’s so amusing to see the same old arguments come out when someone...”

Personally? because I find Posey a bad actor (and I mean BAD) and an annoying person, and D'Ob an exceptional actor and at least tolerable as a person.

Posey isn’t any worse than Tyler Hoechlin, or Daniel Sharman, or Ryan Kelley, or even Holland Roden, sorry. I will grant you that in S1 and early S2 there were things missing in his acting in comparison to some others in the show, but this is a show that has the legendary I HAVE A RESTRAINING ORDER and MOUNTAIN ASH line deliveries, given by actors that I would say are not terrible, so. Y’know. If you were watching Teen Wolf for its acting, you were going to be disappointed.

Plus, I fail to see how sterek could be more popular on an acting basis alone, given that half of it relied on Hoechlin, who’s major expression during all of S1 and S2 was Grumpy Cat, and half his vocalisation was too. I love Hoechlin, but he was not particularly persuasive or arresting in the role of Derek Hale in S1 and 2. By the time he got good at it, none of the writers seemed to know what to do with his character. 

As for how annoying or not annoying Posey and Dyl are in comparison to each other: ehhh, I don’t care for doing that, but I suspect part of it is that we see and hear from Posey a lot more. We see him at his worst as well as at his best. 

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mifletset replied to your post:michael fassbender is an abuser

In cases of abuse, unfortunately, there’s no such thing as “staying neutral”/ Staying neutral=supporting the status quo=supporting the abuser. You have his word and her word…and you’re NOT believing hers. Why?

there is a thing as staying neutral, and unfortunately most people on the internet (including yourself, apparently) aren’t aware of this and just jump to one side or another, because for them the world is black and white, so they either call him an abuser or call her a liar, I’m not calling anyone either, I’m not saying she made it up, but I’m not going to call him an abuser either when there is no actual evidence of the alleged abuse, I know that many actual abusers walk away without punishment, that’s a sad truth, but it also happens often that innocent people are punished for something they didn’t do, so I’m not going to play the judge and simply not lean to either side

“Staying neutral=supporting the status quo=supporting the abuser” is nothing but a slippery slope argument, staying neutral=staying neutral and that’s it, that’s how courts work until they have enough evidence (or lack of it) to bring in a verdict, so if there is no hard evidence, I am not going to call anyone anything, that’s it, if I accused you of murder, would you want people to immediately believe me and call you a murderer? no, you would demand I provide hard evidence that supports my claim, at the end of the day the burden of proof lies on the accuser, and in the end there was zero evidence of the alleged abuse in Fassbender’s case

innocent until proven guilty doesn’t support criminals, it prevents innocent people from getting punished for what they didn’t do

you are free to think and believe what you want, so am I, if you don’t support Fassbender and don’t want to see him you can either unfollow me or just blacklist the tags I use for him and the movies he’s in, but I’m going to keep enjoying his work and posting about him

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mifletset answered your question:question!  what kinds of diet soda don’t taste...

Coke Zero is the closest to non-diet flavor i’ve ever tasted

thanks!  i’ll give that one a try.

There’s a 1989 film called “Roadhouse” starring Patrick Swayze as a tough bouncer in, well, roadhouses.

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*FACEPALM*

well, I COULD have imbd’d that, but you know, that would have been too easy :p

thanks (and to everyone else who pointed this out) x

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Constructive criticism and Davis

mifletset replied to your post “accordingtomel replied to your post “The adaptation of Malia Tate” But...”

I think she's exactly what she seems, and there's no bait-and-switch. We're not even supposed to suspect her. We're supposed to find her charming. The reason that some of us do find her actions suspicious is the usual: Jeff's crappy writing...

That... doesn't make any sense. Davis has made poor writing choices in the show -- I can think of half a dozen examples off the top of my head. But this? I don't see how you even got to your conclusion.

Thinking about it, I can see two possible ways Malia's changing look could potentially be attributed to "crappy writing", but none of them hold water.

Reason 1 - Davis doesn't care how she looks

This is less a problem with writing than with showrunning. Writers often don't spend a lot of script time on costuming, hair and make-up, because it's not their job. They'll write about how the character's personality or job is reflected in their look. For instance: She wears a suit so sharply creased it could cut you if you brushed against it. And then it turns out the character is an assassin. Or: Even his grunge had grunge. His blond dreds were grey with grime, and his fingers stained with nicotine, but his pants were clearly $600 designer grunge-wear, now covered in a sheen of stale alcohol. Or: he looked like he'd just stepped out of a 1940s recruitment poster, and he had a smile that lit up the room. Every woman wanted him, and every man did too.

What then happens is that the costume/wardrobe crew, the make-up and hair crew, the props crew, and the actor themselves take that description and collaborate to come up with a look that suits the character. The showrunner will usually sign off on this, but won't usually micromanage, because the crew are experts at what they do.

In the case of Teen Wolf, the wardrobe choices are also influenced by product placement deals. So generally, the costume crew try to give each character a distinctive look, so that the actors show their clothes off like a mannequin, in addition to the clothes being for characterisation. Stiles wears plaid. Scott is classic denim and jeans, with red as a feature now he's alpha. Lydia is florals and pinks and high heels. Kira is tights and cute jackets.

Malia started off kind of boho and sporty, which was a cute look, but now wavers between Kira and Lydia. Nope. That's not how product placement of this type works.

In other words, there's really strong reasons for Malia to have one style and stick with it, and three teams, other than the writing team, who have major creative input in her look. They've managed a consistent look for every other character, over several seasons, and Davis has been writer/showrunner all that time.

This kind of change doesn't happen by accident. It just doesn't make sense that suddenly no-one cares when it comes to Malia, when they are consistent for every other character.

Reason 2 - Davis wrote her that way for a "crappy" reason

So, it's on purpose, but rather than given Malia decent characterisation that makes sense, Davis decided to just use constant costuming, hair and make-up changes to tell us Malia is struggling with adapting. We're meant to think it's cute and charming. She's trying!

Okay, so if that's the reason, why make it so subtle some people might not even notice? Why not give her a cliched make-over scene (where they can do more product placement and make their sponsors happy), or have her ask Lydia or Kira (or Stiles, LOL) for help?

I just don't find the excuse of "crappy writing" convincing in this case. If costuming/wardrobe, make-up, hair and props (all separate teams) are going to all that effort, but it's just for a superficial reason, why make it so subtle? Why not make money off it?

Even the dumbest showrunner in the world wouldn't do that, and Davis has managed his show for four seasons, so he's not the dumbest, even if he's not a gift.

Or... Davis wrote her that way for a plot reason which hasn't paid off yet

It's on purpose and there's a reason. It's subtle at the moment because it's a building arc, but we're meant to notice and wonder what it means.

I'm not ruling out that Davis' plot for her might end up falling flat. It could still turn out to be a stupid reason, like a bait-and-switch, or Malia is mimicking Lydia to get Stiles' attention, because she thinks that's how it works for humans. Or it could turn out to be a more interesting reason, like she's not what she seems and is playing some kind of con.

But either way, it's intentional. It didn't happen by accident or because no-one cares. At least three teams of people in addition to Davis made this change happen, and happen in a progression over several episodes.

That's why I disagree with your explanation that "We're not even supposed to suspect her. We're supposed to find her charming. The reason that some of us do find her actions suspicious is the usual: Jeff's crappy writing..."

In this particular case, that argument makes no sense at all. Davis deserves to be called out when he does dumb stuff, but this doesn't (yet) fit the bill.

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mifletset replied to your post:mifletset replied to your post:what the...

OMG I have the BEST dreams. SFF extravaganzas, with starships and vampires and explosions and superheroes and I can usually fly, and I get to see different planets and alien cities, and I once had a dream that lasted 20,000 years.

...that is the most splendid thing i've heard. ever.