#source: esquire

[tayfabe75]

"I'm not gonna let them make me have a meltdown. But, I think, as a songwriter you lose your edge if you find a way to protect yourself from everything they're going to say about you. You lose touch with what made you vulnerable enough to connect with people in your songwriting. And that's not something I wanna do. So it's all about walking a tightrope between not being so fragile and breakable that they can level you with one blow and being raw enough to feel it and write about it when you feel it. And it's not just a celebrity-takedown culture. It's a takedown culture. I know it when I see these kids—they're gonna get tortured socially until they find their calling in life."

November 2014: Taylor describes the importance of remaining vulnerable in the face of "takedown culture". (source)

[hobipowers]

welcome home 💐

[carwens]

jannik sinner as orange cats

For the sinneristas out there who are missing him🧡

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

tgese pictures haunt me every day what the fuck was this for theres no reason for this to behappening im so scared

[sowhat17live]

KIM MINGYUUUU😭🫠

[uwu-momo]

JIHYO x ESQUIRE KOREA

[minhanniecoupsie]

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant speaking to Esquire Magazine about kilts - during the promotion for Rivals

Video Source [ X ] see also: Discussing his EE BAFTA 2024 red carpet look

[alltimefail]

I'm sure someone has already shared these three things, but I'm going to as well:

(Source 1, 2, 3)

I am a realist, and I'm telling you all, with the utmost confidence, that there is hope for saving this show so long as we continue to fight. The cast and crew themselves have given, and continue to give, every indication that there is hope for this show.

As we make noise online and advocate for it, the showrunners are given the ammo they need to fight behind the scenes, so DO NOT STOP.

Worst case? You pour a shit ton of love onto a story that is meaningful to you, and onto people who played a role in bringing it to life. Best case, we drum up enough noise that viewership increases (this is already happening), and the show is ultimately saved.

Many shows have been saved. Ours can be, too. There is absolutely no reason to despair. Dead Boy Detectives was released on two "Best-Of" lists just today. The Sun, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, CNet, and even the goddamn DAILY MAIL are just a few notable publications that revered Dead Boy Detectives and lamented its cancellation THIS WEEK. Dead Boy Detectives has the best audience score of any DC television adaptation to date; the only one that I found that's even in the same league audience-wise is The Penguin which is new and being called a "Hit..." and IT HAS THE SAME AUDIENCE SCORE AS DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (91%).

Dead Boy Detectives even has a better critic and audience score than its parent show, The Sandman, for fucks sake. Its audience score beats out some of the longer-running DC shows by a mile. It is, objectively, a success.

So keep making noise, keep streaming like the actors are still encouraging you to do. I'll tell you this; it's been two months of silence from Netflix, but that's not a bad thing. They dodged THE NEW YORK TIMES who inquired about the Dead Boy Detectives cancellation by choosing not to give a statement. They know this decision wasn't a good one, and all it takes is the right amount of pressure from audiences to get things done.

I've lamented show cancellations in the past and never fought to save a single one because the numbers were bleak, or Netflix was clear with their reasoning, or even the showrunners themselves told us not to fight because it was a lost cause. That is NOT the case with Dead Boy Detectives. The more we dig, the more we find, and new people are watching this show every day because of the noise being drummed up. The more of us that fight, the better chance we have.

So keep making art and fics, keep making noise, keep recommending this show to anyone who will listen, and believe that we can save this show. The only people who benefit from us giving up are the same ones who canceled it, and why should we give them that satisfaction?

[crimsonzia]

Source: Esquire Korea behind the scenes

© Crimsonzia (credit if use and DO NOT REMOVE WATERMARK.)

[tayfabe75]

SR: You and your family lived on a Christmas-tree farm? That's a unique place to grow up. TS: It was such a weird place to grow up. But it has cemented in me this unnatural level of excitement about fall and then the holiday season. My friends are so sick of me talking about autumn coming. They're like, "What are you, an elf?" SR: Who took care of the tree business? TS: My dad. SR: I thought he was a Merrill Lynch guy. TS: He'd tend to the farm as his hobby. He'd get up four hours early to go mow the fields on his tractor. We all had jobs. Mine was picking the praying-mantis pods off of the trees, collecting them so that the bugs wouldn't hatch inside people's houses. SR: How old were you? TS: From five to ten. The only reason that was my job was because I was too little to help lift trees.

November 2014: Taylor describes what it was like to live on a Christmas tree farm as a child. (source)

[thirstkanaphan]

Tinytown Digest - April 2025 Week 4

Hello! Welcome to a new weekly Ateez recap series. I'll aim to get these out at the end of every week and new entries will be pinned to my blog and reposted to the Ateez Community.

What Did I Miss?

San was #9 on the list of Top 10 Celebrities by Media Impact Value (MIV) at the Four Major Fashion Weeks. San generated $5 million in MIV from his appearance at Dolce & Gabbana!

Yeosang's feature for ESQUIRE Korea gave us so much good content!! We have stunning photos from the feature along with beautiful b-cuts and bts footage. His interview is HERE.

Seonghwa got a digital cover with Cosmopolitan Korea as the face of John Varvatos' Artisan Black scent! Check out his instagram posts HERE and HERE, and read Seonghwa's interview HERE.

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Mingi went on another side quest and performed AUTOBAHN Remix at EDC Korea with DJ Raiden!

Mingi also covered his song for DINGO!

San became the new face of Korean skincare brand RETURNITY. You will be able to get a San PC inside every box of acupressure stickers.

Jongho and Wooyoung went on a baseball date!

San confirmed that we won't be getting new episodes of Wanteez for a while, as they've been too busy filming other content 👀

Ateez was nominated for an American Music Award! This is Ateez's first nomination!! The award is decided through a fan vote, which is happening now. See the next category for details on how to participate.

This Week

Voting continues for 'Favorite K-Pop Artist' at 2025 AMAs. Anyone from anywhere in the world can vote, and it's easy! Vote HERE.

The first turbo voting (double votes) takes place tomorrow (29th April) at 4PM KST.

Music and Performances

Ateez recently performed at SBS INKIGAYO UNICON in TOKYO DOME and the videos are out!

Coming Soon!

ATEEZ World Tour [Towards the Light : Will to Power] in Cinemas Screening Schedule. Sign up for updates HERE.

ATEEZ is on the Day 1 lineup for 2025 Busan One Asia Festival to be held on Jun 11 (Wed)

Extras:

Youtuber Aeli has uploaded ATEEZ THE WORLD: TO THE END | THE FELLOWSHIP: BREAK THE WALL Europe + North America tour behind with English Subtitles

From the Archives

Because @atiny-for-life just posted it, here's an iconic video that has become the source of so many memes for the Ateez community.

Song of the Week

I am increasingly certain that this is their best album..

That's it for this week!

Let me know if I'm missing anything, or if there are any categories you'd like to see for the next round.

Feel free to reply below if you'd like to be tagged for future posts.

[b-skarsgard]

“He’s gross,” Bill Skarsgård told us, “Hopefully you’ll get a little bit attracted by it and disgusted by your attraction at the same time.���

via @/esquire on TikTok

full esquire interview at the source link

[freckledjoes]

New/old photo of Joseph Quinn for Esquire Singapore!

source: charliegraystudio on instagram

[abbysimsfun]

Sims In Bloom: Meet the Ruggbyrnes!

I know I didn't immediately freeze and answer this one, but I loved the question. Thank you @wolkentage for the tag!

The most recent saved family in my gallery is The Ruggbyrnes! Consists of three sims I grabbed from the public gallery and updated for the 1920s, and one I made with genetics.

Maude has been a great supporting character this week, and we spotted her son Bruno and his governess briefly, but we didn't get a great look at Berend in the old photos on the wall, so here's a little bit of background on them just for fun!

Maude Alcorn married Berend Ruggbyrne in 1916, just over a year after the untimely death of her fiance, Felix Psyded, Esquire. The intrepid reporter and brusque adventurer settled into his family home in Britechester, where they had their only child, son Bruno, in 1917.

Maude was always focused on her career, as well as motherhood, which made her quite a feminist in her day. And Berend was happy to support his wife's career goals in addition to his own - which included attempts to become the first sim to scale the peak of Mount Komorebi. They were both content to pour their focus into Bruno when not working.

As was common for well-to-do families of the era, the Ruggbyrnes also employed a live-in governess for their son. According to the creator who uploaded the original sim to the Gallery, the governess' name is Maisie Hall.

Maisie is a spinster who's spent her life devoted to helping raise her charges - but despite a lifetime in the role, she only joined the Ruggbyrnes in 1919, just after Bruno learned to walk.

As an adult, Bruno married a woman named Mamie and had a daughter named Coral. Coral married and had a daughter named Mary Sue, who married Daniel Pleasant. Together Daniel and Mary Sue had twin daughters, Lilith and Angela.

Check out tomorrow's post for even more about the lives of the Ruggbyrnes (and then it's unlikely we'll ever see them again, which makes me kinda sad!)

Where can you find Maude and Berend's wedding day looks? @happylifesims of course!! Check out their gorgeous 1920s Wedding Fashion Set, which is as high quality as everything else I've used for this arc! Maude and Berend's wedding portrait is posed with Lucky CC's Wedding poses.

I've posted this before from the Sims Wiki, but here's a reminder how Maude, Berend, and their son Bruno (top row, third from left) connect to the Pleasant twins:

Source details for the Gallery sims used to build this family:

[digitalposterarchive]

1962 Pontiac Grand Prix. Civilized, well-mannered - but a tiger at heart!

Source: Esquire Magazine

Published at: https://digitalposterarchive.com/automobiles/pontiac-ad-and-poster-collection/