“Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up.”
I love Clark Kent because realistically both a nice 6'5 superhero with godlike powers AND a friendly 6'5 country boy reporter would be rolling in bitches, but Clark suffers from terminal Sweetiepie Syndrome and has zero game as a result
Fighting for his LIFE on the phone with a cute girl. He’s so real for this.
This is Clark Kent. Sure he’s not the Reserved Mild Mannered reporter like he was in 1939, but as he changes with the times the thing that should always remain is that goody goody honest to the core Boy Scout Farm boy dork with a heart of Gold.
Down with seasonal anime down with overconsumption down with every series regardless of how complex needing to be boiled down to fit into 12 episodes
there’s just too many shows
too many shows and they’re coming out at such an unprecedented rate that we can’t even fully appreciate them. and I KNOW that people are slaving away in unethical work conditions to make them, all so that nobody can even remember them, no matter how lovingly crafted or beautiful they really are
Not just Anime, all animation.
Nothing is being allowed to be memorable, to fully “cook.” The same business demands that are pushing the shows out at unreasonable paces for Japanese studios are the ones shoving “western” productions into the one-size-fits-all-noodle-arm-bean-head-bug-eyed-vector-puppet-box.
Longer seasons, more variety, long-term viability, and not getting shelved for tax breaks are all things cartoons need now, as well as the kind of investment that will make puppet-animation an option rather than an obligation.
wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….
“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”
This was in place till 1973.
Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy
The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.
I remember reports in late 90’s early 2000’s as the Irish Boom was starting that many English (at least the ones interviewed) could not imagine Ireland or the Irish being economically successful at all. It was alien to the people interviewed.
