#winstonthequant

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winstonthequant replied to your post: we have to wait all the way until the start of May...

I’ve heard before that they’d be pushing back the airdate but man i sure wasn’t expecting may 3…

yeah ugh i was thinking more like “well maybe april” and that’d be annoying but tolerable but goddamn, waiting around for May for even the first ep to be thrown into this dungeon of cursed souls aka people who know billions exists and pay attention...........jesus

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With regards to wrol filming: I say keep an eye on that moustache of his. S5 most likely will be the immediate aftermath of the S4 finale and I don't think Winston could grow facial hair overnight. Unless... Anyway, Billions is likely finishing filming Ep 2 or right in the middle of Eps 3-4. If previous seasons are to go by, he could show up maaaaybe December? And if he's in the last couple episodes, he could film his parts up to March.

that’s what ive been keeping an eye on but of course it’s not like we’re seeing pics of him daily…….. but also fear that they WONT make him shave…….. he pretty much HAS to be in this season considering the palcement of his character last season but im just paranoid…..

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unrelated, but if dollar bill AND that dude who offered taylor the illegal deal gets to sing in this show, then so does winston. i dont make the rules. will roland better be singing something this next season @ billions writers.

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@cockbiteproductions Imagine Winston at his station with his headphones on, head bopping and singing along to his music and just generally in the zone, while making some kickass algo. And then you've got Ben and the other traders just staring at the him like "wha--?"

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@winstonthequant​ hes WAY too used to working in the basement alone where he can sing from the top of his lungs if he wants. and idk how long he has been working in the Actual tmc offices, but i think its implied that he isnt in the main large room, which means he probably has his own office or something that still relatively private. and now that hes working somewhere else hes forgotten that Other People Are Around And Can Hear Him. anyways long story short this is canon

[x] the amount of singing random characters do on this show + the number of Musical Theatre Actors in the cast is just further proof that the musical episode ought to exist. winston may have learned to Not sing while working once he had to run the quant team again but we can’t be denied of his pipes forever

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winstonthequant replied to your video “This is giving me Star Trek Borg vibes…”

@transalana @nothingunrealistic He tweeted that? Him knowing that almost obscure (Voyager wasn't that well received was it?) Trek reference just made him cooler in my books. I was really just focusing on the eye and arm pieces but come to think of it, he really does look like Seven what with that whole body suit thing going on.

yup!! i found the tweet

(& the original tweet just cuz)

and i’m pretty sure he’s going from left-to-right/foreground-to-background which would make lauren=drew barrymore, the incredibly successful actress/model/author/entrepreneur/a ton of other stuff i can’t remember, will=jeri ryan, (and i think there is definitely something to be said about the parallels you can draw between jeremy and seven as both having been part of a hivemind and having had their autonomy stripped from them as well as both having to deal with the challenge in the aftermath of hearing voices in their heads after regaining control/being freed) and katlyn=the candyland box art girl with her giant bow

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I can already tell that this season is going to make me go crazy. I’m going to be relying on you guys as my fellow Winstans to keep my sanity in check! @winstonthequant @winstonbillions @unproduciblesmackdown @nothingunrealistic

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Okay, so I just watched the Evan and Jared scene from “Good For You” for the first time and, though I couldn’t hear Evan’s dialogue (it was in a “Billions” shit post by winstonthequant: https://winstonthequant.tumblr.com/post/185360026911/im-sorrydehbillions-shtpost-2-heading-your-way ) just the delivery Will Roland did is so much different from what I was expecting, but also so much better? I expected it to be quiet and broken, but no, Jared yells at Evan, no holds barred, the anger very apparent in his voice as he gets up in Evan’s face. Throughout the whole musical, Jared has been hiding all of his emotions behind humor (see: mocking and bullying others) and stubborn pride, even showing his increasing agitation at Evan’s growing self-centeredness with passive-aggression (“Look at you, ‘helping the Murphys’”). We’ve never really seen how he TRULY feels about any of this, because again, throughout it all he suppresses it. The good and the bad. The pretty and the ugly. And even though it seems he shows some measure of compassion in songs like “You Will Be Found”, you can even come to argue that numbers like this are a matter of “Will Roland still looks and sounds like Jared but he’s an ensemble member, now and this isn’t actually Jared’s thoughts”. Throughout most of the musical, Jared is not a sincere person.

However, in this? You can very clearly tell this is a piece of Jared’s true mind, and it’s something that’s been waiting to come out. The way he really gets in Evan’s face, the absolute fury in his body language. Not only this, but even in his fury, Jared’s voice wavers, indicating he’s probably on the verge of angrily crying. This is the true Jared, and the true Jared is hurt and upset and absolutely pissed.

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tagged by @ohbelladonna. thanks, except w h y. my url is looong. and you can BET im going to shove as MANY musical songs into this as i can. in fact im going to try to do this so i ONLY include musical songs. and im going to TRY to do a different musical for each letter. we’ll see how it goes

rules: spell out your url using song titles and tag as many people as there are letters in your url

comfort and joy - bat boy the musical

one step ahead - spies are forever

congratulations - hamilton (cut song)

kaboom - untitled, unauthorized hunter s thompson musical

blackout - in the heights

it’s all good - the black suits

together - firebringer

epic iii instrumental - hadestown

positive - legally blonde the musical

rogues are we - holy musical b@man

one in a million - ani

days of summer - a very potter sequel

upgrade - be more chill

cousin - 21 chump street

their sign - the lightning thief musical

it’s time to dance - the prom

one day more - les miserables

never heard nothing - things to ruin

sincerely, me - dear evan hansen

i tag @noneeyewithleftyork @worthyghouls @redvsblue @coffeeastronaut @joelslegs @almostatimelord @aiderynddraig @jokerchenisdifferent @keplcrs @intergalactic-spacewitch @heartspamz @winstonthequant @unproduciblesmackdown @nothingunrealistic @rooster-tumble @sevenspires @rubyisms @absterwebby @akasyp 

holy fuck, i managed to drum up 19 people i vaguely know on this website. anyways dont do it if yall dont feel like it. some of yall also have long ass urls and this would be a pain. 

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Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then choose 10 people. Tagged by @lycanthropic-tongue-twisters.  

Hey, thanks man! Decided to also include links so y’all can judge my ass

1. January Hymn by The Decemberists https://youtu.be/XqDlTKqxu2w

2. Love Me Dead by Ludo https://youtu.be/DrQgUfkYhic

3. Starfuckers, Inc by Nine Inch Nails https://youtu.be/F89zmxC2yIg

4. Little Black Dress from Shock Treatment https://youtu.be/p3_2GYjw9_4

5. Ras Trent by The Lonely Island https://youtu.be/YQTb5gBZSNM

6. For the First Time in Forever from Frozen https://youtu.be/dOReid0vEwY

7. M.I.A. by Foo Fighters https://youtu.be/IlBW4tPLMzs

8.RANT by Bo Burnham  https://youtu.be/LMMSEZk7Eqo

9. Blackbird by The Beatles https://youtu.be/Man4Xw8Xypo

10. You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon https://youtu.be/aoq7M_Fwtgc

Wow, for random of thousands of songs this is ABSURDLY accurate to my listening habits lol.  I wanna tag @ald-fan-girl @estelofimladris @purplepints @yellowish-kitten-drowns-in-fics @nevospitanniy @larkabout @bitemyshinymetalaustralopithecus @dehydratedtesticle @graves-is-here

@winstonthequant because I feel like getting to know some of my new mutual better, if you got tagged and don’t wanna do it no worries!  If you didn’t get tagged and wanna do it, pretend I tagged you!

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winstonthequant replied to your post: of interest that apparently the chicago show will...

Restaging was definitely a possibility so I’m not surprised there. I’m intrigued at that “and truthful” part.

yeah like it seems like it’d be harder to do these shows Without certain adjustments anyhow, even if just yeah like for Technical things like how their bway stage was slightly less deep than their off-bway stage lol........but yeah very vague about what they’re intending to change, probably b/c like. they’re at a very vague point in the process lmao. maybe hitting people over the head with 2834 newtons of force of “The Reasons Jeremy Is Feeling Fucked Up” like a porcelain toilet tank cover so that ppl stop thinking it’s anything about “teen wants to be high school popular” or whatever? who can guess

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winstonthequant replied to your post: there’s some like behind the scenes interview news...

What do you remember about it? Maybe I can help find the video…

actually i just found it thanks to remembering they play the theremin for like 3 seconds in one clip lmao, here we go

like i think this two-source lighting + its purplish color really gets to me, and will’s hair has got this great swoop going on there....even the Depression Set behind him can’t diminish his radiant beauty. also, was it beowulf boritt who talks about hiding elephants in the sets? cuz whoever’s doing it, there’s one on top of the tv, i’ve just noticed lmao

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winstonthequant replied to your post: i would wear jared’s Sriracha and Sunset look all...

Same. Saw the sriracha shirt at a shop at redondo beach once and was tempted on getting one but it was overpriced as heck. So, I got a tacky keychain instead ��

oh yeah lol it’s Tragic that apparently so many of jared’s shirts are Expensive.......out here settling for will’s red tabasco-label tee instead u_u

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2,3,6

2: what random objects do you use to bookmark your books?

i do sometimes tend to gravitate towards like, stuff that’s got some Stiffness to it (lol….) like something printed on real sturdy paper or even printed on plastic coz when i take the bookmark out, a lot of times i’ll like to fidget with it while i read, and this one weird specific stim i’ve always had is like, to take the Edge of something and push it up against the underside of my outermost Finger Joint if that makes sense lol….

3: do you prefer coffee or tea? how do you take it?

oh i didn’t mention that also sweet tea + lemonade is great, though i don’t have it often….or just sweet tea + lemon juice……and also with coffees like, if i’m out buying it i’ll get it with Flavors or some shit, whether it’s just a mocha or like, add some raspberry in there or smthing, one time i had a latte-or-something with Lavender flavoring which sounds weird and mysterious but it was real good. also i like to have these as Hot Drinks in the wintertime just b/c i’ll be always cold and want to have something to warm my hands and just pour some Hot Liquid into my body……..and yea when it comes to the flavor of stuff i just. don’t like Bitterness and so i’ll like, want everything kinda sweetened + flavors. same with like, if i’m getting a drink i’ll shoot for a solid vodka+fruit juice cuz like. i don’t like the taste lmfao. i don’t care that it’s like, straight coffee is Tough and getting it fucked up with milk n sugar is for heathens and bitches like…..im bitches. i want to Enjoy the drink. 

6: what artistic medium do you use to express your feelings?

not really any lol!! i mean i Never do ~original content~ (even as a kid unless you count like, doodling random animals in the margins of schoolwork, which i don’t really) but within that sometimes it’s likes “the mortifying ordeal of ppl consuming ur content that you projected onto Real hard” but if i like, went and just straightup Draw Your Mood’d i’ll usually say so, and it hasn’t happened like that too often………i’m generally cagey and cards-close-to-the-chest Except Obviously when it comes to like, “the art of embarrassing-ish vent-y text posts in the dead of night” which even then i didn’t get around to untilll idk? being 16 yrs old, ish? but i never really Directly Express My Feelings through art……never was one to write songs or poetry in my teens or anything……i can’t even really do Diary / memoir Comics or anything b/c like, writing in My Own Voice in that way or god forbid anything like self-depiction just never feels like i’m doing it right / it’s genuine. i’m way too like, i really don’t have like, a “be yourself” natural mode,always aware of myself lol like How Do Yall Stop Performing Ever, and so anything that’s like, me Expressing Myself through a way in which i would choose how to present it like you do via art always feels accordingly Performative (not in a good way obviously like. so not Genuine that it doesn’t feel like there’s any point and it’d just feel weird). so yeah everything’s gotta be through a proxy…….me expressing my feelings through art is stuff like [me getting real into my mediocre LGW Singalong in the kitchen and getting misty-eyed towards the end]………..and otherwise i just express myself through like, conversation, just telling shit abt myself to people sometimes. or tweeting complaints about whatever’s frustrating me. or the occasional text post where it’s like, your repetitive vents and mentions of miserable boring life facts might Only be enjoyable to read if you put it into Memoir Comic Form lmao and i’m aware of that but. i truly just like, can’t express myself in that way. the closest i’d be able to come probably would be like, “take your Life Experience and finetune it into a 10, 15 min story like you’d hear on a podcast” but a) i’m not a great storyteller and b) there’s not really any Beginning Middle End stories here and c) my life has been fairly boring / uneventful. i do keep catching myself sort of like, searching for something in my life to craft into a Narrative but like, well who doesn’t, i guess.

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winstonthequant replied to your post: 3:50am let’s get all up into act 2

That “You were supposed to fix me!” was one of the best additions they ever made.

Simple And Effective like ughhhhgghhgghgghhhhhhh jeremy.... :’(

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winstonthequant replied to your post: The mini dance party at Axe Cap was when they were...

I’m really hoping either Sarah or Kelly or even Daniel (the ones who are kinda active on twitter) will drop some of these gems come filming time. The official accounts cater to a different set of audience (to be fair, it is their main audience) and the likelihood of them showing these type of videos are slim to none.

oh yeah that’s true, there’s at least a handful of the 58374 other cast n crew members who might be on twitter and likely to post anything who we might be able to look to. maybe the odds are upped that their filming adventures might even overlap more with william if the quasi-acquisition plot point involves the tmc team being at axe cap hq sometimes, beyond just that scene in the finale. who can predict anything with this series. the Audience of billions is absolutely useless, which frankly is totally alright because already the subreddit’s existence of “the more Online members of the audience” is like, 10% people with some goddamn sense, and 90% useless and/or terrible input, so it’s fine that the more average demographic re: billions-viewers doesn’t really cause their twitter account to be a super active online presence or anything. like, please remain figuratively and literally offline about it, that’s what’s preferable to me. makes sense that the billions twitter account is fairly Official Updates and not much else, but like, they have the official youtube channel, and beyond Clips and Trailers (which i Always forgot every single week that there’d be the like, 20 sec “on the next episode of billions” teaser) i know they have some Bonus-esque Content videos. i demand more, but in the behind-the-scenes vein. got any deleted scenes? outtakes? makings-of?? doesn’t even need to be fancy and polished to just put up for us on youtube. meanwhile, all we have is “crossing our fingers that actors smuggle out some 15 second clip of some random moment in production, and/or selfies or something” like. help us out. we’re not meant to be here and we’re in hell, we could at least use a little bonus content now n then

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The mini dance party at Axe Cap was when they were shooting that final scene in the last ep. I'm guessing this was during break. There was one other video (only some of them were in frame) and they were just waiting around. Still kinda wished Will dropped some of them bts vids as he had mentioned some time ago though...

oh right that explains the whole thing where they’re also at the axe cap interior set……..they all seem like Sitting There is so official. everyone getting a little coaster and everything…….

really all of us in the winstan society is out here holding out hope that will might drop some behind the scenes material on twitter……..like, entirely reasonable if he forgot seeing as The Announcement happened so soon afterwards, or maybe he didn’t actually find any content. in either case, maybe he’ll also get some New Material this autumn….winter….whenever the filming/production process gets going. or maybe billions could step the hell up and provide us some behind the scenes Clips and etc of their own. like, in terms of bonus content, i don’t want some 10 min minidoc about axe’s character or anything fancy like that. in fact, the less edited the better. i just want behind the scenes production content. the fact that this show is so Dramatic and that like 85% of the characters take themselves pretty seriously means that just showing actors chilling out is like, a novelty. the occasional mid-shot production pic is nice but imo we can do better

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winstonthequant replied to your video: the audience cheering during the final mts

this is the one that says it’s for sale right?

yeah the one where the channel author apparently has dvds for various shows.........old school w/ that physical format