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Mattie... you're a good friend and a true Ally

Nothing in my theology makes me think Hell even exists but I remain certain that Ryan Murphy is going there

Nothing in my theology makes me think Hell even exists but I remain certain that Ryan Murphy is going there

Sometimes it all falls together, baby

In retrospect I should have considered the way this post would read in light of my Personal Brand

Listen...sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug

Huge fan of Square February

If Nic Cage can start in a Spider-Man Noir spinoff from Spider-Verse I don't see why Leopardon can't return

heard. I mean, I'm logging my 7th Ghost in the Shell of the year into Letterboxd as we speak; I'm the last person who gets to critique anyone for being interested in that movie

I kinda wanna share my thoughts but I extremely wanna wait and hear what you think when you're done

You're JOKING

My first 4K was the notorious 2017 Ghost in the Shell, found in a clearance bin on a sales holiday for less than the DVD would have been secondhand

So...also extremely typical

I find myself trying to represent different touchstones from different periods of my life but even that has its drawbacks and limitations.

I've been too many people over the span of my life! Which one do you want to know about?

Kit i respect your taste as a lover of cinema but if your first 4K isn't absolute B-movie trash or straight up porn i'm gonna be shocked

that duality is what makes you fun tbh

tried to stave off anxiety with some good, old-fashioned affirmations today and what came out of my mouth was, "I...DON'T deserve...to be ground into a fine paste, with a big pestle."

Oh that's interesting. I felt like the visuals really influenced the story. Like. They knew it was gonna look sorta camp and leaned into that aspect of it?

Idk. I didn't hate it for what it was, the Batman '66 version of Bebop. But live action Vash could be a lot of fun

I still don't see where you're seeing that, I'm digging through interviews and wiki articles and I don't understand why you'd think he owns it beyond "it feels like he should cause he made it" but maybe it's best if we just sort of leave this aside

Oh for sure. Also Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Outlaw Star exist and the more you watch those the more you understand Firefly as mostly a work of collage

Right. I just can't find any information indicating that Whedon has any rights to the IP and nothing I've ever seen indicates he would or should

I only even ever brought it up to contrast it with Firefly, which I can't get excited about whether Whedon is involved or not

Normally U.S. IP law is the most depressing thing to know about but this one, one time it's giving me a win

And to be very explicit - that's the part I'm excited for. The fact that his victim is profiting from an IP he created while he doesn't.

Because most of the people I've known in that situation? It's been a tragedy and an injustice. And this just really fucking isn't

If you already have an existing, successful property you can *license* instead of sell then sure, you can get residuals as a creato r. But if you sell a n untested script you've usually gotta give up a ton of rights to get that done, which is why a producer credit is such a big deal

That tends to not be nearly as true in TV/film development. If you want someone to tahe the risk of making something you've often gotta sell the rights off. He gets residuals for the stuff he produced but far as I can tell if anyone for paid for new wish it's Fran and Kaz Kazui who produced the film

Friend did first, I did later

And I'm sorry, that is hard, dear

And like obviously my own support of Disney is nonexistent to the extent that it's possible to perceive entertainment without knowingly giving them money

but in a world with 2.5 functioning media studios she may as well get hers

I mean financially, Buffy belongs to Fox, a subsidiary of Disney. Unless he gets a producer credit a reboot doesn't benefit him, and as the exec producer's abuser that's unlikely

If you mean something else, I'm certainly all ears. but in a very real and material sense Buffy does not belong to him

I didn't even say my piece in her quotes cause I figured she's probably just some rando will doesn't deserve the heat lol

Which sucks cause I met two of my all time best friends, one of whom is my songwriting partners, over a Firefly hat. But sometimes you just gotta be grateful for what you had and let it float down the river

And that's leaving aside the whole "South will rise again" vibes of the Browncoats

A Firefly return is much trickier. Whedon should be nowhere near a studio, that's painfully clear. The other writers are great - Ben Edlund in particular has grown a lot, as the most recent Tick shows. But with Book and Wash gone and Adam Baldwin a motherfucker what's left of what we loved about it?

I'm excited about Sarah Michelle Gellar producing a Buffy followup because she's clearly reclaiming her legacy back from whatever Whedon did to her that she still can't talk about, even as she supports Charisma Carpenter and supported Michelle Trachtenberg

She deserves to take back what's hers