Tag: truth

abc-always-be-cool:

I just need to say something because every now and then since the season premier I’ve been seeing this in Mads’ tag of little shits making comments about how “horrible” his Italian was. 

Let me tell you something, Italian is basically the 5th language Mads knows. Danish, Swedish, English, French, and he did mention that he actually does speak some Italian.

So, I tell you want. Go fucking learn 4 more languages and then recite some sonnets and we’ll see how well you do. Because I’d bet a cannibal’s next fucking meal you won’t come anywhere near the brains and perfection of Mads Fucking Mikkelsen. 

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this tho^^

and people really need to fuck off about his accent.

What are the downsides of making stories and content based on established characters if any?

berlynn-wohl:

Fanworks are considered low art because we make and distribute them for free. (Also because we are mostly young, female, queer, or all three, but mostly because we refuse to monetize what we do in a society where monetary value is the only value worth considering.)

I tell you for free what adventures I think Doctor Who or Sherlock Holmes should have, and I’m a nerdy loser with too much time on my hands.

Stephen Moffat convinces the BBC to give him money to tell you what adventures Doctor Who or Sherlock Holmes should have, and he becomes the most celebrated television producer in the UK.

And speaking of monetization: E.L. James forever destroyed any hope of fanworks being treated with respect by mainstream culture when she published a harmful and poorly-written fanfic-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off that became a global phenomenon. (But I’m sure you already knew that.)

Other than that, making fanart and fanfiction is pretty much completely awesome. 🙂

In re “supporting my lifestyle”…. Do y’all feel that you’re subsidizing the lifestyle of the supermarket checker who bags your groceries? Are you helping to put the late Steve Jobs’s kids through college? ‘Cuz you are–every bit as much as you support me. I write books, and if you want to buy them, I’m really pleased. But all I owe you is the best book I can write. That much, I promise you.

Diana Gabaldon

I want to thank her for telling it like it is.

That quote should be inprinted in every book everywhere in the world to make it clear once for all that readers have no right to claim, as passionate as they can feel about the books written by their favorite author 

The author owes you  nothing  

He isn’t here to write for you your fanfiction

He doesn’t write to support your cause: feminism, fight against racial discrimination, or against homophobia etc as legit as those causes are.

And he has no obligation to make it a part of his/her story if he/she doesn’t feel that it’s required by the plot or the characters.

So a man writer like Georges R Martin  can write about a sexist world where all the women are raped, that doesn’t make him a man who hates women.

He can also perfectly feel that since his story is told through characters point of views and since none of his main characters is a gay men, there’s no reasons to force a gay romance or a gay sex scene in the plot. 

A man writer like Bryan Fuller can kill an asian  female detective who is investigating the house of a very dangerous serial killer by getting her caught up and overpowered by the said serial killer, that doesn’t  mean he thinks lesser of korean people or asian people in general.    

I’m not angry because people who belongs to minorities are asking to be more visible or better  represented in fiction. I’m not convinced that it would necessarily change their real life, that homophobes would treat gay people and lesbian better because of it but they are entitled to think otherwise. Same for racists. (IMO, the only effective influence that society can have on intolerant attitudes is through education and it must start earlier in schools).

I’m angry because those pretended fans are putting an incredible and insufferable amount of pressure on these authors to get them to censor their creativity in order to please their audience.

It’s just authoritarian and plainly wrong.    

(via goontheview)

kirbycrow:

A WORD ON THE “IT’S TOTALLY NO-HOMO” BETWEEN WILL AND HANNIBAL THAT HIT TUMBLR TODAY

We discuss this quite a lot in publishing circles, so I’m only going to say this once, and I’m putting on my Author hat (yes, it really does sparkle) to say it. God knows it’s been said enough to writers.

Once the story leaves your hands, you don’t get to decide how readers interpret it. In this case it’s viewers, but it’s the same thing. Whatever they take away from it will have a valid measure of truth no matter what you “really” intended. 

So even though I love Bryan Fuller’s work, I’m not going to accept his interview statement that the relationship between Will and Hannibal isn’t sexual, because if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, I reserve the prerogative not to agree that it’s really a wombat.

That is all. XD

Truly the voice of reason! :]