#the apprentice

[mrs-stans]

Jane Fonda’s remarkable speech at the #SAGAwards accepting her Lifetime Achievement Award, including the nod to Sebastian Stan when speaking about the empathy you must have as an actor.

[oatmilque]

i will never get over asra and the apprentice . imagine being a teenage wayward nomadic magician w/ no family and you meet this beautiful kind soul at a masquerade while you're there performing for coins. and when the empress comes by during the parade this person ushers you into their aunt's magic shop and you become friends and then year after year you see them at the masquerade, until eventually you start staying w them for weeks at a time and then traveling again, sometimes even bringing them with you. eventually they inherit the shop and you start kind of living there, and you've fallen so deeply in love but the red plague takes over the city and your lover wants to stay and use their magic to help the sick. it's ridiculous, you have your own little hideout you could both go to on the outskirts of the city, they don't need to be a hero. but they've always been better than you. kinder, more skilled in magic, more loving. you say things you can never take back and you leave them to their fate, only to regret it weeks later and of course, of course they're gone, the shop is empty and you follow the trail of their magic to that mass grave of an island where they burn the corpses. you dig and dig until your fingers bleed but all you can find are their bones and ash.

you lose your mind from grief, you beg and borrow and steal and cheat and lie and kill to bring them back. you do what you swore you'd never do and you find every book on black magic and deadly rituals with the major arcana and you commit acts so unspeakable as to make you unrecognizable. your lover would never have wanted this, they'd never forgive you, they'd never choose this path for you but you are single minded and selfish in your grief. you tear yourself apart trying to get them back, you use everyone you can, until finally you are able to involve everyone you know in a ritual to sell parts of yourselves to the devil. and you give up half of your heart in exchange for your lover being brought back to life.

but they come back terribly, horribly wrong. it's not them. the shell theyre in bears their face but they are a blank slate who cannot speak, walk, or understand you. and even when you're able to teach them these things once more, the spark of the person you once knew, the brilliance, the cleverness, is missing. and each time you try to get them to remember who you are to them, and who they once were, something in the spell goes wrong and they go comatose until you erase their memories. so to protect them, you lie. you lie and tell them you are their teacher and they are your apprentice and there was some sort of mysterious accident. you're still in love with them but you can't initiate anything when they're like this, and you don't want to know, really, if they have feelings for you or not. seeing them in this state becomes so unbearably painful and nostalgic and bittersweet and heartbreaking that you start to go on long trips by yourself, telling them it's for reasons they can't know but really it's because you have to get away from them. it's too much. what have you done?

[casifell]

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ seb month day nine — ‘the apprentice’ Cannes premiere ⭑｡𖦹°‧

— a sebastian stan pic/gif set every day of august to celebrate seb’s bday! ₊˚⊹⋆

[rebassketchbook]

Pulled from the brink of an art slump by sketching my favorite sassy plague doctor. ♥️

[official-buckybarnes]

[theitalianmoviegoer]

Sebastian Stan filmography

[charlesoberonn]

Often during the filming of his reality show The Apprentice, Trump would fire the wrong contestant on a whim or just because he forgot/didn't realize which contestant he was supposed to fire.

Instead of reshooting the scene, which they knew Trump would refuse to do, the producers had to cobble up a mangled and manipulated edit to make the fired contestant appear to be doing worse than they actually did to make Trump's objectively incorrect decision appear reasonable.

This is what the American news media had been for Trump's political career since 2015.