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[isagrimorie]

Really great Kathryn Hahn interview!

Some great quotes:

If I look at the book of my life, [Agatha]'s like on the spine — I'm hoping in the middle.

[snip]

It’s remarkable, really, how Hahn carries herself completely differently, seeming to have the mannerisms woven into her DNA. Hahn credits the comics with helping her develop this. “Traditionally, she's shown much older with this fabulous gray hair up, this Edwardian look with the corset, and there's hardly any skin showing. That's my favorite Agatha,” Hahn gushes. “There are definitely Agathas in which she’s in the bustier with just a strip of gray, which is fantastic, but I love the Agatha that's very 'from another era.'”

[snip]

Hahn also shouts out her movement coach, whom Elizabeth Olsen originally hooked her up with back on WandaVision to help differentiate their magical hand movements (“her is chaos magic; mine was learned — it was important for us to develop our own vocabulary”)

I LOVE, love how Kathryn Hahn put emphasis on Agatha being more of a 'Wizard' (DND 5e) flavored Witch. Agatha loves Magick (with a K) and the craft of it. She treats Magick like a scientist/academic.

It makes me go back to what Agatha was accused of, in the first place. Learning Magick Above Her Station.

It's very informative because it tells me that her mother and coven forbade her from learning anything above the fundamentals of Magick.

And, she's never filled up that gaping hole her original coven left her.

On a more personal note, however, the purple coat we see in Agatha All Along holds a special place in her heart. “That coat was made with so much love by so many hands, and you could feel it when you put it on — how many hands were on it, how much power was in this garment. There were hand-drawn runes on the silk on the inside — protection ruins. It really did feel like a sacred garment.” Viewers will often see Agatha dramatically flipping the coat like a cape as she turns, which is no accident. “That was definitely for Daniel and for those amazing seamstresses that worked on it,” Hahn admits. “I was like, ‘I gotta give him a twirl because this is too good.’”

Shout out to our beloved purple coat! I hope Agatha gets to retrieve it! Also, I would love to see the inside of her coat! It sounds lovely!

Kathryn Hahn: “There's big, big feelings and big stakes already in there. I understood her bravado and her masking and her layers on top of it — her shell that's centuries old. Who can get in there, and who can't, and why? It's kind of like the spell at the beginning of the show. It feels like she's underneath her own protection spell.”

I love how Hahn put it-- Agatha is under her own protection spell!

While Hahn and Plaza didn’t hang out much, they sent each other poems and songs relating to their characters to prepare. When I press for details, Hahn pulls up the top of her shirt to cover her mouth. “There’s a lot… maybe we'll have to come out with some of those songs and some of that playlist. There definitely was one between us and the producer that we kept adding to as the show went on. Maybe one day we'll have to.” She tugs on her collar, fanning herself. “I'm getting sweaty thinking about it because I don't want to spill anything, but there are some really fab songs.”

She might not be able to reveal much about that just yet, but she does share a funny anecdote about talking to Plaza regarding a film that's not on their character mood boards. “I remember once, I was like, ‘Have you seen Fire of Love, that documentary about the two volcanologists?’ I remember she said she was looking at it and trying to find clues, and I was like, “Oh, no — I just thought it was a good movie,” she says with a laugh.

I love that in between making their character histories together, they have this funny anecdote.

 Considering Agatha is 350 years old, I’m curious as to what Hahn thinks she listens to. She ponders this thoughtfully. “I think she loves a really long Wagner,” she finally decides. “A long opera. And then, I think that she also loves a pop song. I think she would love a rave. I think she would be really fun to dance with — she would definitely be dancing by herself, though. And I think that she loves a chant. She loves old little ditties that mean something to maybe some old guys, but she's kind of taken them over and made them her own. And I think she loves anything that's practical — any sort of wailing in the woods with a fire going. I think she would love Eurovision. I think Eurovision, she would be in the front row.”

Of course, Agatha's a fan of Opera and Eurovision. Love that for her!

She’s excited for eagle-eyed fans to try and spot it — along with all of the details that will become meaningful after the entire show is out. “Agnes' house was so witchy, and there are so many Easter eggs in there. I can't wait for people to see that again after watching the whole show. There are so many little things that pay off later.”

What this tells me, is we should comb through Agatha's house and see the clues that might pop up!

[a-little-revolution]

Hi! I really really enjoy your blog, it's such a great resource for a perspective check. Apologies of this has been asked before, but I was wondering your opinion of what the bar is for jokes about height? I don't mean anything like saying the m-slur, but rather the common teasing around being shorter than average. As someone who's of shorter stature but not a little person, the teasing I get has never bothered me, but I always wondered if it was harmful to people with dwarfism even if it wasn't directed towards them. Thank you in advance if you do choose to respond, and have a lovely day 💕

Hello! I'm glad you enjoy it!! I may have discussed jokes about my height early on in my blog, but that would be quite a long time now! I personally do not tolerate or accept any humour surrounding my height from anyone outside myself. Usually when I joke about it, it's more centred at pointing out an area of in-access or to make light of struggles I face on the regular. I've found when I've allowed other people to joke about my height, it comes from a much more demeaning and hurtful place. Even when they're trying to use humour to connect with me, they often miss the mark and hurt my feelings in the process. At the end of the day, my body and my experience is mine alone to joke about.

It is also worth noting that comedy has been used to attack bodies like mine throughout history - in everything from circuses, side shows, public display and ownership, humour was the stick people beat us with to make slavery look like "all fun and games".

And it's not all fun and games. The humour around people with dwarfism is different than the humour used towards folks that are 5'5. Cheeky comments turn into belittling and objectification really fact, so I often just nip it in the butt.

Fun Fact: At my last job, one of the first questions one of my managers asked me after our interview was "how are you with short jokes?". Know that this translates to "I find your body humorous, is it okay if I make fun of you?"

[potterandpromises]

OMITB 4x10 liveblog. Who lives? Who dies? Did Marshall / Rex act alone? Will Theo show up in the background for seven seconds? Does it all have anything to do with who poisoned Winnie? These are the questions.

I love seeing the Brazzos reboot again ikjuiknbgh

They're getting smarter, seeing the patterns

Okay so it's not going to be Loretta

I don't know how they're going to do what they need to do in 35 minutes

Ooooh I'm remembering someone said something about someone walking on the ledges of the Arconia in an interview

"All he does is let in murderers." Is there a REASON for that line?

Love the crazy television logic. 'Gotta move to New Zealand the day after tomorrow. It's in my contract all of a sudden.' ijhfcgyhujk

I love the touching ledge shenanigans and I love the Westies

THE MULTITOOL

"Sazz was kind to everyone." I like the flip with that all and all the other victims being assholes

I really like the cinematography with Marshall / Rex explaining Sazz' killing

Oh god, is he the next victim? I'd prefer not watch a season about him tbh

Oh never mind. Hi Jan!

Love that no one thought to check the secret passageways

Interesting that Jan is Charles' long term love interest

"We're endgame" lol

Oh Oliver, they don't always die, sometimes they just get catastrophically injured (the 12 mermen)

I feel so much more stress looking towards the last eight minutes of this show then to all the stuff with the guns and the ledges

That's sweat. Though I don't know when Will and Loretta and Dickie would have had a chance to meet in the first place

Ooooh so it is Nicky the Neck

She killed him. Investigation over.

It's obvious they added Oliver's line in post lol

Annnnd the fountain is spitting blood

I knew there was something to my suspicions of Lester as the next victim

And the person on Reddit who figured out the next victim would be in the fountain based on the soundtrack is so clever

[imprintmoonstone]

Dear Liam,

Na bangaaram (transl. 'My Beloved' in Telugu, my native language), where do I begin?

I first became a fan of 1D in 2015, just a few months after Zayn left. My friend (she was a big fangirl!) suggested that I listen to your songs. But frankly, I was disinterested. I was like, "meh! okay.." But a week or so later, the Drag Me Down music video was in my YouTube recommendations, and I was kinda curious, so I finally watched the music video and thought to myself, "Damn! these guys are fantastic and so talented!!" And the rest is history. In no time, I had become a big fan of 1D.

Even though I liked all the boys, I always had a soft spot for you and Zayn. You were both my favorites. In 2017, I remember another friend spamming my phone with texts when the 'Strip That Down' music video was released. He and I went bonkers that day, haha (He was a big fan of you and Zayn, too! He loved 'Get Low' and 'Bedroom Floor' a lot.) I also remember waking up early to listen to LP1 while staying in bed, watching your LP shows until 3 AM during 2020, all your cute Insta lives, etc. I have so many fun memories like these that I'm eternally grateful for 💝

Liam, I have always admired your kindness, passion, strength, patience, and bravery. Even with all the noise outside from many people, you stood firm. You loved everyone loudly and were always there for them. Your music made me so happy, and your voice always had a soothing effect on me. Your musical talent (especially your live performances and acoustic versions) and artistic skills always amazed me! Your interviews and weekly round-up videos during quarantine time helped me stay sane (I still watch all these videos and instantly feel relaxed.)

You've become my comfort person, honestly. There was a time when I wanted to give up, but you gave me the strength to move forward. You inspired me to be kind and gentle with myself. I can't thank you enough for being the warmth I needed during my coldest nights. I'll love you forever, my hero ❤️

I'm sorry that the world was never nice to you. It was so painful to see all the unwarranted hate towards you. You deserved all the love and kindness you always spread. It's devastating that you didn't get to do the things you were so passionate about. I'll miss your kind eyes, voice, your warm smiles and sweet giggles, your goofiness. I'll miss you so much, Liam, and I'll forever cherish all these memories.

Rest gently, angel. I hope that wherever you are now, you find peace 🕊️❤️‍🩹

Love,

Ri

[maridotnet]

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

Thank you @coffeebanana, @ck2k18, and @lesbitorte for the tags :)))

1. Are you named after anyone?

I have my grandmother's name as my middle name, but my first name is new to the family tree.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Oh uhhhh I might have teared up watching Across the Spiderverse a couple nights ago? I also think I shed a few modest tears after being left at the airport for an extra hour at 2 am (NOBODY'S fault, just a victim of circumstance), on the tail end of a very stressful day of travel

3. Do you have kids?

No but I'd LOVE to someday

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I'm told I do, especially by people who I'm just meeting :) but it's the vibe in my family, so I don't think of it as "a lot"

5. What sports do you play/have played?

No SPORTS sports, but I did swimming and running for a while, and now I rock climb and hike. Also I love dancing and yoga!

6. What’s the first thing you notice about someone?

Gosh it depends on the person - probably if they're nice or not? I interact with a lot of different people every day at work, and so the first thing I usually clock is whether I think they'll be easy to get along with.

7. What’s your eye color?

🔵👄🔵

they were once described as "fanfiction blue" and I think that's my favorite one to date

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

I don't feel like the two are exclusive to each other but dude happy endings!!! I don't like my main emotional experience in a piece of media to be fear, and i don't need it to be HAPPY either but at least a sense of catharsis and relief is needed or I get a little messed up about it lol

9. Any special talents?

Ooh well I'm pretty good at languages! If we mean like a party trick kind of talent, I'm coming up blank, but I do have a lot of poetry memorized.

10. Where were you born?

Texas baby 🤠🤠

11. What are your hobbies?

so so many!!!! art of course, I'm learning to swing dance, piano and singing are something I love doing when I have the chance, hiking and rock climbing as I said, plant identification, cooking (I'm big into mediterranean food right now - complicated saucy entrees on fresh bread or rice is like my IDEAL meal I think), crocheting, and reading - probably others lol but that's enough of a list!

12. Do you have pets?

MHM A CALICO NAMED JUKEBOX LOVE HER TO BITS AND PIECES

13. How tall are you?

5'6" and a quarter hehe - 168 cm

14. Favorite subject in school?

It depends so much on the teacher. I've LOVED my linguistics and brain cognitive science classes in college, though.

15. Dream job?

I have a couple! Top choice would be a specific type of interpreter in the language field I'm studying to go into. I want to be a teacher at some point (my parents and grandparents were all teachers for at least a bit, and I've always assumed and hoped I'd end up in a classroom again for a while as the educator), and I would SO SO love to be a children's book illustrator someday. Artists like the Johnstone sisters and whoever else illustrated my books as a kid have had such an influence on the interior decoration of my brain.

<3

I'm sure all the people I want to tag have been tagged already, but let's yell at @heartfulselkie @sandradoodles @asukiess @wackus-bonkus-maximus @shameboree @lad-bug-and-chad-noir @ladybeug @bugaboooooooooo @davey-in-a-minivan

[artkaninchenbau]

For the record, I did figure that out a long time ago, it just gets funnier the more time passes

[kuromi-hoemie]

interviewed a very beautiful Afghani trans woman just now and I'm gonna be thinking about it the rest of the day.

[naivety]

sorry but i hate that claudia's dress is hung up like it's in a museum. i know why it is, and it's sweet and tragic and i don't blame louis for trying to both honor and grieve her in this way, but i hate it <3 that her clothes fitted perfectly just for her by her immortal companion, just like her diaries, her own private thoughts penned down throughout her life, have been preserved and made perfect in bright open spotlight for gloved hands and watching eyes to feast on even in death. kinda hate it here

[embrace-and-love]

I was reading a new Demi Lovato interview and they were talking how one of the reasons she was so obsessed with succeeding was to get their father's attention (she had a complicated relationship with him)... Like, they did love her work, but it was also an unhealthy coping mechanism for the family issues, bullying, SA trauma, undiagnosed and untreated mental illnesses etc... Now I wonder if that's also one of the reasons why Lestat loves music and theater so much? Sure, there's genuine appreciation for art there and possibly some levels of narcissism too, but it could also be the child him craving for the attention and love he didn't get from his family growing up.

P.S. I'm alternating neutral and feminine pronouns because Demi is non-binary and uses both ok

[magentagalaxies]

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[arcane-vagabond]

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[astrovian]

y'know sometimes I see people making comments or talking about Richard Armitage's specific family members or hinting that they know who his potential partner might be or that they know which specific places he goes to regularly (e.g. gyms) and it always makes me:

a) want to barf a little and apologise profusely to RA that people are so horrific

and

b) reminds me of not only how little I know about all that but also how much I enjoy being blissfully & wilfully ignorant on these topics

[always-on-fire-for-sara]

Um, well I was really heartbroken when I first heard it. I mean, I wasn’t in the acute stage of heartbreak, I was in the stage where you feel like you’re never going to get over someone and all your friends are like, ‘Please don’t talk about her anymore.’ They were like, ‘Get over it!’, but I couldn’t because there was no other face I wanted to look at more. So yeah, I was in a very preoccupied but functional stage of a breakup – and I don’t even know if it was really a breakup – and I honestly felt sleepless. Like I was trying to sleep with a broken heart and I just couldn’t. It was devastating to me that I just couldn’t get over this woman, and just being in that isolating period when the time of people being empathetic is over and nobody wants to hear about it anymore.

Sara Quin about her memories associated with “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart” by Alicia Keys (x)

[movementsofmylife]

okok i feel fucking insane, but like, first's acting is so good that it kind of, stresses me out?

like i knew, in my brain, that first played both yok and akk before i started watching the eclipse. yet it took me like 3-4 episodes of the eclipse to like notice that akk was played by first. which sounds antithetical to the first statement, but it's like the difference between hearing someone describe a taste and tasting the taste? like, my brain could not overlay yok and akk, and see that they were being embodied by the same person.

i still kind of struggle with it. and it's wiiiild to me. like wtf is first doing with his body to make me read him so differently. because that's definitely the point where he differs from other actors.

i read people's bodies more than faces to recognize them, like it always confuses me when people can't recognize friends from the back, because they stand in the same way as they always do. but also i will struggle to recognize faces. so actors, even good ones, still read mostly like, the actor, just one emoting accurately and contextually.

but first kanaphan!!! he does some shit that makes his entire body language read like a new person. idkidk i've been slightly losing my mind over this the entire time i was watching the eclipse. i think khao is also quite good at doing this, but khao's acting doesn't make my brain hurt.

i am entranced by seeing first be yok and akk and have both of them feel genuinely like fully formed people and also completely different fully formed people.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

no, More active effort, More conscious consideration

[tkbrokkoli]

:O