For me, press and actor love are the whipped cream on top of the sundae. It's nice to have (and damn do i love Anthony Mackie talking about defacing posters in michaels) but it's not what I'm really there for, and if that's all you have then your project probably isn't going to be that great.
I'm still working on Foggy as wizard and the Foggy targeted by a serial killer-prompt. Though I'm really almost only writing on the former because that seems to be what my inspiration wants right now. (I already have over 4000 words...the termpaper I handed in yesterday is only half as long...nobody tell my lecturer that I care that much more about superhero-shows than about Russian war poetry). I also have some vague and not so vague ideas for non-prompt fics but since I can barely juggle writing two at the same time those are more on a back-burner.
I agree. He was going through some shit and he came to work and gave us a good performance. He may fall in love with the role yet, when he actually gets a chance to, or he may not. As long as he doesn't hate it, and he continues to do a good job, I hope he stays. I've really enjoyed his work.
Also, he wasn't demanding a ton more money; he was refusing to take a hefty pay cut. Regardless of how the various parties might have behaved, that was a tricky negotiation in which each side had an eminently reasonable position.
say someone sticks a wand up someone else's nose, Harry Potter-style, and says a spell that releases a high-pressure stream of water from the tip of said wand, sort of like if you turn your hose up to the highest it can go.
would the victim's head swell and burst? what else might happen?
I just feel it's disappointing that fandom is a place where we can bend rules to make stuff like mpreg happen, but suddenly other non cis white m/m ships are just too hard to create for. So the writers give more content to Matt and Foggy (although beyond knowing Punjabi and making butcher jokes, what do we /really/ know about this Foggy? He has not had any more development than Karen, nor Claire for that matter), so instead of using the tools we have to change that and give more space to characters that didn't have that much in the show, we just continue the status quo? It's nagl to brush the responsibility of including intersectionality off your shoulders bc "oh well canon is like this so w/e."
I've seen you post about this on your Tumblr and I'm still not sure what the hell you mean.
Are you implying that his performance itself was shitty? That you just don't like how he portrayed Foggy, and see his lack of enthusiasm in interviews as proof that he half-assed the role because "work is work, gimmie money"?
Like??? I dunno man, show me the receipts.
Some actors are hella awkward during interviews or when they don't have scripts to follow (have you see Chris Evans). Maybe he hates press junkets. Maybe he's *gasp* just not that into comics.
I'm the medical Q&A anon. At close range and full power, fire hoses can break bones and strip flesh. Your wand shouldn't cause the head to swell but if the pressure is high enough, I suppose it could conceivably just tear straight through in whatever direction it were going, and if it couldn't make it through the main bones of the skull, it could certainly rip through the nearest eye.
If it isn't /that/ strong, the water should take the path of least resistance, which in this case would be through the nasal cavity, into the pharynx, and from there out the mouth and down the esophagus/trachea (not to mention out the other nostril) - likely damaging tissue all the way from the pressure. This almost certainly would be as fatal as your burst head, resulting in drowning, and if the drowning were somehow survived, then water intoxication (assuming they "ingest" six or more liters).
I'm also looking for the one where Matt and Dr Strange travelled into another universe and ran into MCU Matt and he kept freaking out. I'm not sure if it was ever put up on Ao3 tho.
This, exactly. We have all this room to create and fandom (in general, not just this one) tends to stick with the white m/m ships. And there are definitely those who write other ships but it's not as abundant.
My mind boggles because do you know how many Karen/Ben fics are on AO3? One. Next to Matt and Foggy, Ben is the person Karen spends the most time with in that show. And there's one fic. (I'm sure there's more on here, I hope there is, I'm fairly sure there's at least another one I've read.) And people go 'but, Ben's married with a sick wife' and Matt is pretty much straight in the show and into Claire but there are 654 fics of Matt/Foggy so what?
We need to be the change we want to see. And I'm not saying boo on Matt/Foggy because damn I love me some of that but I think fandom as a whole needs to open their eyes a bit more.
However, maybe keep this in mind of he ever makes con appearances (that are not part of the promotion of the thing in question like SDCC).
That's the only time I've ever begrudged an actor for treating acting like a job and nothing more, only because it's not fair to take thousands of dollars for the appearance with the expectation of interacting with fans and answering fannish questions, take fans money for a photo shoot or autograph, and then act like you don't want to be there or be non-interactive with them.
Not every actor is going to be a fan themselves though. You can't possibly expect them too, because that's just not everyone's personality. As a community, we in fandom can reward and support the people we like by going to cons and supporting them in other projects and ignore the ones who we don't like as a person. That's our right. It's why some actors attract swaths of fans to cons decades later and have fans prop up their later acting careers and some don't.
But don't blame the actor or dislike the performance because of it.
SA "It's already hard enough to write two fics at once" she cried. And then she started writing the 'Matt plays the bait for a serial killer targeting the disabled' because she clearly has a death-wish.
(Btw: can you tell that my usual poison are crime-shows?)
Going to cons literally changed my life. Regardless of who I went for at the time.
If you've never been to one, my advice is to go. Go to at least one. Because at the very least you will see some amazing cosplay, meet some cool people and talk to some cool artists or vendors. They're never regrettable even when the actual co itself isn't well organized or well put together (and I say that assuming that Alamo Comic Con is probably wonderful because I know nothing about it specifically).
Wasn't he later quoted as saying, "They gave all my money to Iron Man"? Makes me think of Marvel and/or Stark industries having a machine at the entrance that sucks all the money out of your pockets
Russian war poetry? Now there's an idea for a Mafia Brothers fill lol
Do you have like a whole document of random bits and pieces that you like, but don't have a place for? Mine's about 5 pages by now, and I only started it at post 3
Well, and then there are actors like Robert Beltran, who positively hates science fiction, didn't much like playing Chakotay on Voyager, will talk openly about it, but still goes to Star Trek cons...
Which is not to say Elden Henson is one of those. Cause somehow I don't even get the vibe that he isn't that much into Daredevil.
I'm SUCH a slow writer. I'm still filling the Foggy was raised as a Red Room agent over on AO3.
I'm also trying to work on a Santino fic for the minor character fest. I wanted to show the poor guy go through some positive character development ('cause I'm pretty sure he would be traumatized after being beaten up by Russian gangsters and giving away Claire's location. ;_; ) I also thought it'd be fun to write a little bit of backstory on him. I am trying to come up with a plot that is kind of a coming of age thing. It's kinda hard but it will happen, I think.
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