PART 2ヽ(゜∇゜)ノ
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*Merrill voice* wOW Fenris you are so good at dealing with humans! I still have a lot to learn, I’m not good as you… I always feel like I’m annoying them! *3*
Also, you know how quickly news spreads in Kirkwall…
Listen. Listen. No one is ever going to be a better Bob Cratchit than Kermit the Frog.
no one is ever going to be a better Scrooge than Michael Caine, who treats the Muppets with all the respect they deserve as renowned veteran actors
According to a blip in the IMDB trivia section, Michael Caine told Brian Henson that he was going to play this as if he were in the Royal Shakespeare company. He was going to be the ultimate “straight” man in the world of puppets, running gags and humor.
“Before production began, Sir Michael Caine told Brian Henson, “I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me.” Henson replied “Yes, bang on!“” IMDb.com Trivia section
tis the season for this post to make the rounds again i guess
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
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If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise
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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
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If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
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If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father’s Advice to His Son (via quoted-books )
also actually to make another point: get a real life outside of this website. the way this website encourages you to constantly seek out problems with everything and to be in a constant state of wearing yourself down trying to appear as a perfect progressive activist all the time so people don’t “cancel” you isn’t healthy. a lot of the discourse people get into on this website does not exist in the real world. your friends and family are not going to “cancel” you if you don’t parrot back everyone else’s opinions perfectly. you are not obligated to put every single thing you enjoy under a microscope.
this website really encourages black and white thinking in terms of other people, ourselves, and the things we enjoy, and it’s not healthy. it’s good to be critical and conscious, but not so much so that you tear yourself down for not being perfect and can’t let yourself just have fun and enjoy stuff.
I don’t know how to explain the difference between reality and fiction to people like this. “They would have real feelings if they were real” - yes, but THEY’RE NOT REAL, and that is THE END OF IT.
If you argue like this, the ultimate consequence is that ALL FICTION IS ABUSE! Why? Because by creating it, you force the characters to do things, it’s that simple. The argument goes like this: “Real people should be able to act out their free will, so if the characters were real they should be able to act out their free will, not your story. I know they’re not real, but if they were, they wouldn’t want to do to the letter what you want them to do. Don’t write fiction, it’s abusing characters who’d want to do what they want if they were real, not what you want!”
This! I sometimes get the impression people do think of fictional characters like in Toy Story, and it’s weirding me out. It’s a fun concept, but nothing more than that. Have I ever, for fun, imagined/pretended that all the characters in all the different imaginary worlds, in all fanfics etc. etc. are somehow really existent? Yes, when I was younger I absolutely did. Was I serious, did I actually believe it? NO, OF COURSE NOT!
They’re no more alive than a stone or a roll of toilet paper, damn it!
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