I think on this fine Saturday afternoon it's a good opportunity to take a breather and remember that there are really no ethical paparazzi pictures. Every single one is inherently exploitative.
Just because photos were taken on a movie set, when someone is 'working,' does not make the practice any less invasive and creepy. Imagine just going about your day, doing your job and having some weirdo snapping pictures of you to sell without your consent for others to endlessly repost online.
There are thousands of pictures of your favourite actor online already. Plenty taken with his knowledge and consent. I'd really like to see more of them on my dash, rather than the creeper shots.
And don't get me started how disseminating these pictures directly leads to people going to said sets. What starts off as admiring how good someone looks has real world implications.
No, hanging around a movie set and disrupting people doing their jobs is not harmless fun or a way to show your appreciation.
If you hang around a movie set, you are a stalker.
Don't tell me that it's okay to take your online admiration for someone offline. You may admire him but he does not, and will never, personally know you. He will never be your friend/boyfriend/daddy. He is a stranger.
The only way meeting your favourite actor is going to happen is at a convention or maaaaaybe a movie premiere if you're incredibly fortunate. You know, places they appear specifically to meet fans (or not in the case of premieres, where the purpose is to promote a movie. Which is also completely understandable if actors don't stop. You are not owed an interaction).
Of course, you cannot help it if you randomly run into someone you admire in the wild. Even then, consider that they probably won't be all too thrilled to be approached in public by a complete stranger. It's up to you to gauge the situation, but remember there is a person at the heart of all of this.
Boundaries and respect are a kindness which deserves to be extended to each and every human being regardless of their looks/talent/fame/wealth.
Fandoms blur those lines a little too often for my liking and I think just scrutinising what you're interacting with, or what behaviour you could be possibly falling down that slippery slope towards is nice to do every once in a while.
I mean no malice with this post and it is not directed at anyone in particular. It's something I cannot help but feel strongly about because I've seen this destructive cycle time and again in fandoms over the years. It's not healthy and it makes us all a little bit more disconnected from our humanity for it...
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hi GT!
Lionheart had me the moment you kicked it off with “it’s a nice day to start again.” Might i ask why you chose that particular line?
And, if you havent already answered to this emoji:
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P.s: you have my eternal gratitude for creating the most brilliant piece of writing i’ll ever read. I shout about it from the rooftops, share it on my socials, requested my spouse to read it so we may discuss it together (in lieu of a present for my 30th birthday), et cetera.
I see from your URL you are a fellow lad of taste.
There's a couple things going on in the epigraph for Book 1. On one level, it's a lyric from the first muggle song I picture Draco listening to on his walkman at the end of the book, so there's a cute full-circle thing there. The second layer is the theme of change and redemption, which, in Lionheart, doesn't so much come from major moments or self-sacrifice, but from the slow, grueling, everyday work of living, and living better. It's a nice day to start again because every day is. You always have the opportunity to start making better choices, no matter what lies behind you. That's the thesis of any Draco redemption arc, right? You have to imagine that he could have chosen to be better.
And then thirdly, there's the audacity of doing a full Hogwarts canon rewrite, a good 30 years after the original books came out, millions upon millions of words of fanfic later, and basically asking everyone to read the same story they did the first time around, only different. So it's a kind of winking entreaty. It's saying to readers, many of whom are understandably wary of doing it over, zeroing out the characters to starting positions, and starting from the beginning with 11-year-olds all over again. It's going: "hey. That was fun, right? Why not do it again?"
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Oh my god, I just watch Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and I am in LOVE!! (I love you Johnny Depp)
Listen to my vision, Yandere Headless Horseman Kaoru or Katsumi who came back from the dead to either collect (Rival)’s debt to him or to take back his head, which (Rival) has, as he uses Kaoru/Katsumi to get revenge on the town that wronged him
Darling’s a detective, finds his head and gives it back to him to end this nightmare
Only she gets snatched up in his arms as he takes her with him as his bride to the Underworld as a way to repay her loyalty to bring back his head
Because she’s a woman, the residents doubted her abilities and qualifications to do a “Man’s Job” and he’s saw how she’s been treated despite her trying to help this ungrateful town when she should’ve been treated with respect (And what better way to reward such a ‘Good Girl’ than to make her his Bride?)
Sorry for the splurge, I just had so much go through my head when I saw the Movie
Oooh that movie is so good, a true classic! <3 Love imagining reader being like "I am going to end this! That will definitely prove my worth!" but then surprise!!! You are missus headless horseman now yay! :D
Not what she was going for, but honestly? A true win for her. Katsumi was right, this is what she deserves.
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Decided to log into twitter (hell) and outside of everything going to shit as always i found this piece of shit as my banner
I dont even remember when i made this but i do remember that i did and i remember how i made it
I saw a picture on twitter w some kind of caption and decided that i could make it look like a banner
i tried to add the fire flaming text that i saw on some reposted to twitter tumblr posts where someome makes a grammatical error and someone corrects them in a form of flaming (sometimes animated) text (never change guys, gals and all of you magnificent pals lol) but at the time i didnt know the website that you all used so i tried to improvise and google
I remember half way thru the making of this text being so upset that it looked like shit but after taking a break for 20 minutes i said "fuck it, it is way funnier this way" and i kinda glad that back then i decided to "fuck it we ball" it
It looks disgusting and i love it
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My favorite fanfic you wrote is Just Like a Movie
my dear anon you truly are the definition of god gives his toughest battles to his bravest soldiers 😔
Just Like A Movie is probably the world's most work in progress in the history of wip-dom. That being said, here are unpublished bits that I wrote forever ago.
Uncle Neji moment
"Neji-ojisan! Stop moving! I'm trying to turn you into a princess." Himawari complained to her uncle as he kept squirming around and placed another heart shaped barrette in her masterpiece.
Neji sighed as Hanabi snickered behind her phone. "I apologize, Hima-chan. Please continue."
Hinata entered the living room, placing the nail polish bottles on the coffee table that was in the middle of the room. She smiled a tight smile before delivering the bad news. "I have to go. They moved the date of the shoot to today."
Once the words were out of her mother's mouth, Himawari had stopped braiding Neji's hair. Her mom had to go? Now? She had planned on giving her space buns! Yes, they were gonna be lower than normal space buns with her mom's short hair and all but she was still gonna do them! As much as she wanted to spend time with her mom, she couldn't exactly just ask her to skip out on her work.
Could she?
No, the girl thought. She couldn't.
Narudad moment
"So. Karin tells me that you're a fan of my movies?" Naruto smirked and nudged his son's shoulder. As a famous actor, the man had a fairly large fanbase but knowing that his son, someone whom he hadn't seen in forever, was a huge fan of his acting made his heart flutter in excitement.
Boruto blushed and looked away. He had fanboyed about Naruto's acting to his aunt in confidence! He would have never told her if he knew she was gonna tell his dad. The boy finally managed a mumbled "yes" that caused his dad to beam in happiness.
"Which one's your favorite?" The man asked, happy to have found common ground with his son, even if it involved his career.
"Rasengan," the chibi responded proudly. He watched that movie so much that he was (at least 99%) sure that he could recite it word for word.
"That was a fun one to shoot! I remember that Shikamaru threatened to stop paying for lunch when I kept showing up late." He chuckled at remembering the look his usually stoic manager had when he came back from Hima's play rehearsal after a missed meeting. "Fun times, fun times."
Boruto sweatdropped. He never thought that someone that was supposed to be so cool was so… lame. "What's your favorite movie?" he asked, trying to bring the topic back to something he knew.
"Oh! My favorite would have to be..." he paused in thought trying to rid Shikamaru's face of disappointment from his mind, hand on his chin. "Shadow Clones."
Boruto's nose wrinkled in confusion. He didn't know that one.
Naruto's eyes widened in excitement. "You don't know that one? We could watch it if you want?"
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moi j'ai même pas l'option de prendre des mauvaises décisions météorologiques wesh, on est en alerte rouge cycloniques, donc interdiction de quitter le domicile. du coup tu devrais nous accompagner dans notre confinement je trouve! même sans obligation externe, décide tout seul comme un grand d'être prudent et de rester chez toi, yayyy?
alerte rouge cyclonique, c'est très inquiétante ! j'espère que tu et les tiens restez sains et saufs dedans et que les cyclones ne se matérialisent jamais !!
ici c'est pas si mauvais mais j'aurais dû t'écouter tout de même, parce que j'ai fini par rebrousser chemin quand mon amie n'a pas pu me rencontrer à cause de la congélation des serrures de ses portières...et au bout du compte il m'a fallu une heure et demi pour rentrer parce que j'étais déjà en route quand elle me l'a dit 😂 et j'ai dû aller tout le long du chemin jusqu'au centre-ville pour changer de bus ! et puis il y avait des détours bien sûr !! finalement je suis chez moi, au chaud, et je laisse tomber. d'accord, j'ai compris la leçon 😩 plus d'aventure pour moi, j'en ai ras le bol, merci !
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