#mj interviews

[offthewall1979]

why

[thamepo]

daniel being interviewed for his book like

[liberiangurl]

One of the things I always think about is how Michael was never asked the right questions during his interviews, but one question that really suck with me was "if you could turn off the fame, turn off the paparazzi, have a normal life would you do it?" I still believe to this day that this question wasn't the right one to ask...

Barbara Walters was asking a man who had known nothing but fame and cameras his entire life, a man who was raised to see his worth only in his performances, if he would simply trade it all for nothingness. She was asking someone whose entire identity had been shaped by the spotlight if he could imagine waking up to a life without it. She was asking someone who carried all the pain of crawling step by agonizing step to the heights he achieved, if he could suddenly just give it all up as if doing so would make all the suffering go away.

But why didn’t she ask him the correct ones, Why not ask if he wished he’d been born into a normal family? If he longed for a childhood where he could play, go to school and come home to a warm and loving father? Why not ask if he ever dreamed of choosing this life rather than having it imposed on him ever since he could speak?

Because let’s be honest none of that made made him who he is. In any reality, in any life, he would have become THE Michael Jackson. He created himself and his legacy, he made himself into the icon we all knew. Yet there were better ways to achieve that. Kinder ways. Ways that wouldn’t have left him scarred for life. Ways that wouldn’t have let the credit for his genius be stolen from him and handed to cruel Joe and paths that would have allowed the world to see him in a gentler light to appreciate the human behind the artist without the shadow of controversy and pain.

Michael might not have been asked the right questions, but he always gave the right answers.

[rosieposiepumkinpie]

Found these at the thrift today so happy 🥹

Will be posting more info soon

[foolsocracy]

Hi, hello, I’m new to your blog. I’ve made myself at home. Lovely carpet.

Can I please know more about your spider Robbie pie? Can’t seem to find the silverware.

but of course, kind anon

Spider Robbie is an au in which Robbie Robertson takes up the spider mantle after the death of the one before him. He is the third, following Ben Urich and, most notably, Peter Parker.

This au is very much canon divergence from Eyes Without a Face, where Peter makes it in time to save Robbie from his original fate but dies in the process. Peter is shot while rushing Robbie and the others out. In his panic and elation at finding Robbie physically unharmed, Peter outs himself as the Spider Man to his best friend. Robbie stays with him as he bleeds out and resolves to continue to hide Peter's identity.

Peter is buried and remains that way for... an undetermined amount of time.

Robbie is left with a mask, a jacket, and the question of just who was this other half of his friend. As he learns more of who this... Spider Man was, he gets more and more involved in the spider's cases and conflicts. Robbie gets more sure of his own abilities and makes a bit of a name for the Spider Man within his own community, though the people of Harlem are largely unaware that the appearances of a masked vigilante match the interests of one Robbie Robertson.

It is to be noted that none of these aforementioned abilities are spider-god-induced powers like Peter's. Robbie, especially at the beginning of his spidering career, leans more into Urich's role than Parker's. To me, Robbie has been passionate about the press and journalism in a way that Peter never was. For Pete, his job as a photographer and reporter was a job he took until he could get into college and study science. Robbie has a way with words and communication that Peter frankly lacks. Of course, that isn't to say that Robbie won't be kicking ass, because he will. It will just take him a bit of time to get some of those skills as he's, well, a normal guy. Not everyone can get their biology scrambled like Pete.

And just because Robbie hasn't been scrambled doesn't mean he's completely separate from all things supernatural either!

I think the marvel noir universe is at its best when there's a magical, supernatural undercurrent. This concept isn't super prevalent in the actual comics, but HoplesslyLost on ao3 has done some really cool world building with it.

I think in Robbie's case, where he would be the narrator, "magical realism" would be an interesting avenue to take it. I use this term in particular because I most closely relate it to Toni Morrison in my head, when I first learned about it through her work in high school. For Morrison, the concept was inseparable to blackness and I think for Robbie, where his blackness is so central to his character and his motivations, drawing on that could be more of a service to his character. It feels better to do that than ignore how incredibly racialized his society and story is. It will make his relationship with the spider god, Peter (who I will get to very very shortly), his community, and his own mythos as The Spider Man really interesting and complex.

So it's been established that Robbie doesn't have spider powers. And we all know that Peter did-- or should I say does. One of the spider god's abilities is to bring Peter back to life. She does this in the comics, but not in any of the runs from 2008-2010 (the runs that make up this au). When Peter dies on Ellis Island, he does not think he is coming back from that. Waking up again is a surprise.

Here's where I think the au really takes a left turn. Do I think the Spider God is purely evil and spiteful and has it out for Pete? No, not really. Will I be ramping said traits up to 11 for the au? Yeah, I guess I might. This is because I love a little bit of horror and the came back wrong trope. I will hopefully be fleshing the spider god out in the near future, but I really haven't given her the many hours of thought I have the other characters. For that I'm sorry spider god </3

Peter digs himself out of his grave, more spider than he ever has been. For much of his new, waking life he is more animalistic than not. There is clearly something wrong with him; his joints are too flexible and loose, he's got some eye-shine going on, his skin is pale and his veins are starkly dark beneath it. He's possessed. Someone is puppeteering him, someone who knows a lot-- almost everything about him, but it's clear that the someone isn't him.

And Peter--- the body, it can't be Peter. At least, that's what Robbie thinks when the figure catches his eye the first time. Because Peter is dead and buried, and he has been dead and buried for weeks.

[worstloki]

Series of street videos but it's Peter Parker trying to introduce different spices to Asgard

[felassan]

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[offthewall1979]

what was going on here

[sincericida]

Tom Holland says "I was actually the best at keeping secrets on that third movie".

Here's the moment Tom Holland accidentally revealed *that* Spider-Man spoiler way before the film had even been released 🥲:

[thamepo]

the tradition continues: forcebook captivate every person who interviews them

[liberiangurl]

"Thank you!"

That was Michael's response to Geraldo Rivera when he told him he had such a normal life as a father. I think Michael Jackson might be the only person on earth who would take that as a compliment.

Michael longed for people to see the real him, beyond the tabloids and lies that painted him as something he was not simply because his life was far from simple. He wanted nothing more than to be seen as a human being... a normal man who just happened to have extraordinary talent that graced the world.

And in that moment being called "normal" was not just a compliment, it was a rare moment where someone saw him as he wished to be seen: an ordinary man, beyond the fame and spotlight.

[moon-jellie]

Is anybody else anxious like. All the time

[natlacentral]

SHOWING THIS FEB 22!

[flowerakatsuka]

i ended up changing kuroba's voice claim to mitsuki saiga recently so i thought that now would be a good time to make a vc showcase for them!

kuroba typically sounds more like makoto while speaking with others, having a pretty pleasant & gentle tone, but will speak with a slightly flatter affect when around people they're more familiar with, ( kinda like dropping their customer voice. ) they're also more likely to be more expressive when interacting with people they're close to, like nao's examples.

[thaliagrayce]

guess who just got a job~~~~~~

[mooncakewalker]

BEAT IT INTERVIEW GIFS COMING SOON ♥️

i’ve been quite busy and tired from schoolwork and going out so thanks for your patience :3