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Ade I. October

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Dorky cinephile, aspiring filmmaker, Associate Producer of an actual dang upcoming film(!!), professional procrastinator. They/Them

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Absolutely loved the David Byrne concert I got to go to last Wednesday.

Not so in-love with my deeper nose section hurting and merely smelling like My Nose since my usage of Vicks First Defence as a means to shoo away any potential bugs. @.@

08.03.2026 16:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Because so much of what I was building up to revolved around this, it's going to take a while to find some kind of rhythm with adapting to other forms of creative media expression for projects that l'd want to openly share with people rather than make just for a select few but I have interests in other things than just filmmaking, so I'm going to assume that the adventurous, experimental sides of figuring this all out will be part of what good they'll eventually be for both me and whatever I end up doing and how. Yet I will still mourn the death of this dream ahead of moving on and going elsewhere, as it felt so much a part of me and my development both as a creative and as a person that this'll feel weird to not have a part of me for a while, but life sometimes throws us curveballs that we have to adapt to in order to continue. And I will adapt. You have to sometimes. "At least I was an Associate Producer on an upcoming film and got to be a part of the set at some point. I'll take that, if nothing else. I'll also always value going to film festivals each year since 2022 and what good it's done for me both in getting excited to keep going with my aspirations and as a person being better with tackling the greater world with excitement and grounded bravery. Nothing will take away from any of that. Let's just hope that I either look back at this and feel I was too brash or hasty over reacting like this too soon...or this sudden change in focus becomes better for me than I ever anticipated...only one way to find out..." (This was post 3 of 3, if confused please check out prior posts in this thread to understand the full context.)

"Because so much of what I was building up to revolved around this, it's going to take a while to find some kind of rhythm with adapting to other forms of creative media expression for projects that l'd want to openly share with people rather than make just for a select few but I have interests in other things than just filmmaking, so I'm going to assume that the adventurous, experimental sides of figuring this all out will be part of what good they'll eventually be for both me and whatever I end up doing and how. Yet I will still mourn the death of this dream ahead of moving on and going elsewhere, as it felt so much a part of me and my development both as a creative and as a person that this'll feel weird to not have a part of me for a while, but life sometimes throws us curveballs that we have to adapt to in order to continue. And I will adapt. You have to sometimes. "At least I was an Associate Producer on an upcoming film and got to be a part of the set at some point. I'll take that, if nothing else. I'll also always value going to film festivals each year since 2022 and what good it's done for me both in getting excited to keep going with my aspirations and as a person being better with tackling the greater world with excitement and grounded bravery. Nothing will take away from any of that. Let's just hope that I either look back at this and feel I was too brash or hasty over reacting like this too soon...or this sudden change in focus becomes better for me than I ever anticipated...only one way to find out..." (This was post 3 of 3, if confused please check out prior posts in this thread to understand the full context.)

#WarnerBrosDiscovery (This is a part mainly wrapping up with what I intend to do instead of aiming for my filmmaking dreams if this gets finalised but I'll still tag with this as its the last part of a whole thread talking about my thoughts)

(3/3)

01.03.2026 04:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"...as I mentioned earlier, the Ellisons are closely aligned to the U.S. administrations of 2016-2020 and 2024-now, the contentious and controversial Republican U.S. President leading them coming from a notorious, highly-privileged financial background while also having a clear track-record of legally-dubious actions including alleged sexual harassment of vulnerable women and young girls. David Ellison owned Skydance Media while his father owns Oracle, a powerful tech firm that has itself been embroiled on plenty of controversies as well. An alleged proviso for the Ellisons acquiring WBD and merging it with Paramount is to take control of both the "Streaming and Studios" section of the company and the rest of it, which is made up of WBD's cable network portfolio...including, crucially, its influential and trusted news media networks. CNN happened to be leaning critical of these political administrations and it has been alleged that the Ellisons promised the President leading these administrations that they would enable the administration to have greater media control through the likes of CNN should they own them. It should also be noted that people working with the Ellisons on making sure a WBD merger deal was approved and stayed unchallenged by those in charge of preventing anti-competitive practices happen to be affiliated both to these administrations and to the Disney-Fox merger nearly 10 years ago."

"...as I mentioned earlier, the Ellisons are closely aligned to the U.S. administrations of 2016-2020 and 2024-now, the contentious and controversial Republican U.S. President leading them coming from a notorious, highly-privileged financial background while also having a clear track-record of legally-dubious actions including alleged sexual harassment of vulnerable women and young girls. David Ellison owned Skydance Media while his father owns Oracle, a powerful tech firm that has itself been embroiled on plenty of controversies as well. An alleged proviso for the Ellisons acquiring WBD and merging it with Paramount is to take control of both the "Streaming and Studios" section of the company and the rest of it, which is made up of WBD's cable network portfolio...including, crucially, its influential and trusted news media networks. CNN happened to be leaning critical of these political administrations and it has been alleged that the Ellisons promised the President leading these administrations that they would enable the administration to have greater media control through the likes of CNN should they own them. It should also be noted that people working with the Ellisons on making sure a WBD merger deal was approved and stayed unchallenged by those in charge of preventing anti-competitive practices happen to be affiliated both to these administrations and to the Disney-Fox merger nearly 10 years ago."

"The consequences to a fully approved P/S merger of WBD, given this context, would be (at best) a severe compromise to the media landscape and a potential launchpad for accelerating and unchallenging the unwelcome rise of U.S. fascism. Since the current administration began, already a disappointing compromise back to an uneasy time that most people did not look back on fondly when it was over, practices that lean to fascistic were emboldened or introduced. A deliberate climate of disproval over diversity and inclusion policies in many industries were set in place, better funding to conservative-minded or Christian-focused media groups were put into place and previously scorned police groups working supposedly to "control immigration" were formally reintroduced and given funding boosts. Giving such an administration this kind of power over media that was set up to target and serve majoritive audiences rather than high-profile, well-funded media outlets that "preach to the choir" of people who are already conservative-minded has the potential to dismantle all pretence of serving the public before dedicating to exercising bad-faith power over them, using it for fear and compromise of people's harmless values in order for the challenged status quo that the Republicans uphold to rule over with ever increasing, aggressive force. Suffice to say, I refuse to be a part of an industry that's okay with that happening."

"The consequences to a fully approved P/S merger of WBD, given this context, would be (at best) a severe compromise to the media landscape and a potential launchpad for accelerating and unchallenging the unwelcome rise of U.S. fascism. Since the current administration began, already a disappointing compromise back to an uneasy time that most people did not look back on fondly when it was over, practices that lean to fascistic were emboldened or introduced. A deliberate climate of disproval over diversity and inclusion policies in many industries were set in place, better funding to conservative-minded or Christian-focused media groups were put into place and previously scorned police groups working supposedly to "control immigration" were formally reintroduced and given funding boosts. Giving such an administration this kind of power over media that was set up to target and serve majoritive audiences rather than high-profile, well-funded media outlets that "preach to the choir" of people who are already conservative-minded has the potential to dismantle all pretence of serving the public before dedicating to exercising bad-faith power over them, using it for fear and compromise of people's harmless values in order for the challenged status quo that the Republicans uphold to rule over with ever increasing, aggressive force. Suffice to say, I refuse to be a part of an industry that's okay with that happening."

"I already had reservations on if I was comfortable with anything I were to make as a filmmaker going to the likes of MGM and Orion Pictures, legacy film studio brands now owned by Amazon (whose legally-dubious ethics with handling the workers of its primary e-commerce businesses only barely have been made accountable even a decade on from when they came to light) but by P/S buying out Warner Bros Discovery, l'd have to say no on principle to: New Line Cinema, Republic Pictures, Miramax and, of course, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures themselves. Not only would the amount of options l'd have with which film studios to potentially collaborate with be slimmed down to more trouble than its worth but even if I didn't feel the need to shutter out offers from such studios on principle...I mean...as an LGBTQ+ person on the autistic spectrum, they'd likely either refuse to work with me or would only work with me if I severely compromised my own work to serve their own agendas. I can only imagine how much worse it'll be to those who aren't caucasian like me, whose cultural origins and contexts likely won't meet those in charge of the potential P/S-Warner merger, let alone if they shared either being LGBTQ+, being neurotypical or even both like I do. Even if we tried to game the system to have a place into it, deep down there'd be no place for us there even if we got there. And if having different experiences and outlooks outside of the white, privileged, conservative lens is looked at as a negative, then we will get far less variety in the stories we tell and the kind of perspectives audiences get to learn and understand. On a fundamental level, it'd set back filmmaking as a storytelling platform so hard into the worst parts of our past that it'd be irrecognisable and contemporary audiences seeing that will wisely reject the medium with increasing vigour. Best case scenario, it will hurt the industry far worse than any recession or pandemic could even wish it could, if it doesn't also severely hurt the rest of mainstream media and the way we harmlessly express ourselves along the way."

"I already had reservations on if I was comfortable with anything I were to make as a filmmaker going to the likes of MGM and Orion Pictures, legacy film studio brands now owned by Amazon (whose legally-dubious ethics with handling the workers of its primary e-commerce businesses only barely have been made accountable even a decade on from when they came to light) but by P/S buying out Warner Bros Discovery, l'd have to say no on principle to: New Line Cinema, Republic Pictures, Miramax and, of course, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures themselves. Not only would the amount of options l'd have with which film studios to potentially collaborate with be slimmed down to more trouble than its worth but even if I didn't feel the need to shutter out offers from such studios on principle...I mean...as an LGBTQ+ person on the autistic spectrum, they'd likely either refuse to work with me or would only work with me if I severely compromised my own work to serve their own agendas. I can only imagine how much worse it'll be to those who aren't caucasian like me, whose cultural origins and contexts likely won't meet those in charge of the potential P/S-Warner merger, let alone if they shared either being LGBTQ+, being neurotypical or even both like I do. Even if we tried to game the system to have a place into it, deep down there'd be no place for us there even if we got there. And if having different experiences and outlooks outside of the white, privileged, conservative lens is looked at as a negative, then we will get far less variety in the stories we tell and the kind of perspectives audiences get to learn and understand. On a fundamental level, it'd set back filmmaking as a storytelling platform so hard into the worst parts of our past that it'd be irrecognisable and contemporary audiences seeing that will wisely reject the medium with increasing vigour. Best case scenario, it will hurt the industry far worse than any recession or pandemic could even wish it could, if it doesn't also severely hurt the rest of mainstream media and the way we harmlessly express ourselves along the way."

"I make my decisions to retract from potentially being a part of the film industry with a very heavy heart. Almost everything [I've done] creatively over the years has, in my head, been leading up to the opportunity someday to finally make at least one feature length movie in my lifetime. I would every week jot down another potential idea for a film project, sometimes even going as far as doing visualisation work on some elements or other such developmental facets. Several screenplays started that I'm yet to finish. Anticipation on beginning to try out storyboarding alongside going back to writing. Movies have always felt so important to me, the cultural pull of moviegoing as definitive cultural events, the feeling of setting aside around 2 hours at a time getting immersed in stories or experiences, how much movies can make the impossible real through techniques that are very often indistinguishable from genuine magic. I wanted to be a part of all that to give back to this artform that has given me so much as an enthusiastic viewer. If I wasn't the one getting their own stories out there, I was excited also in being there to help with others getting their stories out there too. But in a world where the P/S-WBD merger happens and is unchallenged to a point where it gets to be made final and official, all the good I see in contributing to the artform will be exchanged for being under constant threat and compromise that I know I could never challenge because l'm not as financially privileged or as similar to the people who're in charge. I would be a cog in a machine run on bad faith and a refusal to want to understand others because they see empathy to a point as a stop-gap for their profits. This is not a world I want to be a part of, so for as long as this seems like a real and unchallenged possibility, I refuse to be a part of it." (This was post 2 of 3, the writing concludes in the next post.)

"I make my decisions to retract from potentially being a part of the film industry with a very heavy heart. Almost everything [I've done] creatively over the years has, in my head, been leading up to the opportunity someday to finally make at least one feature length movie in my lifetime. I would every week jot down another potential idea for a film project, sometimes even going as far as doing visualisation work on some elements or other such developmental facets. Several screenplays started that I'm yet to finish. Anticipation on beginning to try out storyboarding alongside going back to writing. Movies have always felt so important to me, the cultural pull of moviegoing as definitive cultural events, the feeling of setting aside around 2 hours at a time getting immersed in stories or experiences, how much movies can make the impossible real through techniques that are very often indistinguishable from genuine magic. I wanted to be a part of all that to give back to this artform that has given me so much as an enthusiastic viewer. If I wasn't the one getting their own stories out there, I was excited also in being there to help with others getting their stories out there too. But in a world where the P/S-WBD merger happens and is unchallenged to a point where it gets to be made final and official, all the good I see in contributing to the artform will be exchanged for being under constant threat and compromise that I know I could never challenge because l'm not as financially privileged or as similar to the people who're in charge. I would be a cog in a machine run on bad faith and a refusal to want to understand others because they see empathy to a point as a stop-gap for their profits. This is not a world I want to be a part of, so for as long as this seems like a real and unchallenged possibility, I refuse to be a part of it." (This was post 2 of 3, the writing concludes in the next post.)

#WarnerBrosDiscovery (2/3)

01.03.2026 04:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Yesterday, I was in mourning. Fortunately no family members died or anyone I knew. No direct, literal death has taken place that's relevant. But after decades of wishing and hoping and later aspiring, one of my biggest life dreams has died. It's been an incredibly ugly time to follow the film industry, even for all the controversies and ficklenesses therein, because one of the greatest movie studios in the world has fallen into the hands of some of the worst people in the world. Warner Bros., since being guttered and compromised by a merger with Discovery Global years ago, is now likely to be acquired and merged with Paramount Skydance, a recently-established mega-conglomerate formed from the remnants of Paramount Global and the assets of, and control by, the Ellisons - a wealthy conservative family who are closely aligned to the U.S. administrations of 2016-2020 and the ongoing one that began in 2024 despite the overwhelmingly negative effects of the prior-mentioned administration."

"Yesterday, I was in mourning. Fortunately no family members died or anyone I knew. No direct, literal death has taken place that's relevant. But after decades of wishing and hoping and later aspiring, one of my biggest life dreams has died. It's been an incredibly ugly time to follow the film industry, even for all the controversies and ficklenesses therein, because one of the greatest movie studios in the world has fallen into the hands of some of the worst people in the world. Warner Bros., since being guttered and compromised by a merger with Discovery Global years ago, is now likely to be acquired and merged with Paramount Skydance, a recently-established mega-conglomerate formed from the remnants of Paramount Global and the assets of, and control by, the Ellisons - a wealthy conservative family who are closely aligned to the U.S. administrations of 2016-2020 and the ongoing one that began in 2024 despite the overwhelmingly negative effects of the prior-mentioned administration."

"Paramount Skydance and the Ellisons did not seek to acquire Warner Bros Discovery on good faith. Warner Bros Discovery rejected their multiple offers before December 2025 in favour of a deal with Netflix, where the to-be-spun-off "Streaming and Studios" part was to go. Following Netflix's own announcement, the Ellisons reacted (for lack of more appropriate terms) like particularly aggressive spoiled children and tried to shut down the Netflix offer by continuing to force money offers towards Warner Bros Discovery despite the multiple rejections. In a society that makes more sense, this would've been wisely chastised and the Ellisons would've been forced to back off and accept their losses, making do with already owning a competing movie studio and the corporation built around that's assets. But we live in what I like to call "the golden age of con artists", where inferior products and ethics failings matter less when the already privileged "characters" of the world can haggle their way through either through shaudenfreudian charisma or raw financial power (often both), so not only were the Ellison's tactics given the benefit of the doubt but as of the 27th February 2026, they have now beaten Netflix at a game that on fair terms they should've won. Paramount kept throwing more and more money at their buyout attempts (funded with the help of many morally-dubious sources), Netflix finally decided it couldn't justify the financial losses in competing with them...and the sore losers managed to snatch Warner Bros Discovery for themselves after all."

"Paramount Skydance and the Ellisons did not seek to acquire Warner Bros Discovery on good faith. Warner Bros Discovery rejected their multiple offers before December 2025 in favour of a deal with Netflix, where the to-be-spun-off "Streaming and Studios" part was to go. Following Netflix's own announcement, the Ellisons reacted (for lack of more appropriate terms) like particularly aggressive spoiled children and tried to shut down the Netflix offer by continuing to force money offers towards Warner Bros Discovery despite the multiple rejections. In a society that makes more sense, this would've been wisely chastised and the Ellisons would've been forced to back off and accept their losses, making do with already owning a competing movie studio and the corporation built around that's assets. But we live in what I like to call "the golden age of con artists", where inferior products and ethics failings matter less when the already privileged "characters" of the world can haggle their way through either through shaudenfreudian charisma or raw financial power (often both), so not only were the Ellison's tactics given the benefit of the doubt but as of the 27th February 2026, they have now beaten Netflix at a game that on fair terms they should've won. Paramount kept throwing more and more money at their buyout attempts (funded with the help of many morally-dubious sources), Netflix finally decided it couldn't justify the financial losses in competing with them...and the sore losers managed to snatch Warner Bros Discovery for themselves after all."

"There's many reasons why this is terrible news. Warner Bros Discovery should've never been in a state where they had to be wholly sold off anyway, but Discovery owner David Zaslav has compromised the business practices of the company almost as soon as the transactions to enable the merger's existence were made official and final. He "pioneered" business practices in the industry where media companies can easily "write-off" in-production or even long-existing media projects for tax discounts. Several high-profile projects were shuttered, deleted or compromised by these tactics and Zaslav has never had legal repercussions from them (in fact, Disney under Bob Iger has also later tried successfully to do those same practices before major backlash undid some of the damage, though some projects given that treatment irregardless of status still remain deleted). Clearly those practices did a lot of good for WBD, because despite some undeniable financial successes such as the 2023 "Barbie" movie, Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" and "Sinners", they were still financially in the red while Zaslav himself saved more and more money that could've instead gone to taxes..."

"There's many reasons why this is terrible news. Warner Bros Discovery should've never been in a state where they had to be wholly sold off anyway, but Discovery owner David Zaslav has compromised the business practices of the company almost as soon as the transactions to enable the merger's existence were made official and final. He "pioneered" business practices in the industry where media companies can easily "write-off" in-production or even long-existing media projects for tax discounts. Several high-profile projects were shuttered, deleted or compromised by these tactics and Zaslav has never had legal repercussions from them (in fact, Disney under Bob Iger has also later tried successfully to do those same practices before major backlash undid some of the damage, though some projects given that treatment irregardless of status still remain deleted). Clearly those practices did a lot of good for WBD, because despite some undeniable financial successes such as the 2023 "Barbie" movie, Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" and "Sinners", they were still financially in the red while Zaslav himself saved more and more money that could've instead gone to taxes..."

"...and the Netflix deal was contentiously received on a "oh no, a streaming service owning a major movie studio, our worst nightmare" front but not only were Netflix clear on their terms of ensuring they'd not have to lay off as many jobs as a P/S merger would do ans promised time and time again to keep to a "45-day theatrical window" for Warner Bros.-affilated films, but Netflix themselves aren't a "major studio"-tier name like Paramount are so Warner Bros. being bought out in a Disney/Fox-esque situation doesn't apply to them. Meanwhile, Paramount (while, I would argue, neither as consistently successful as Warner Bros. OR Netflix within the timeframes WBD has existed) IS another major movie studio name. Warner Bros. being owned by Paramount in any context is a repeat of the Disney/Fox deal all over again, which turns out to have resulted in massive lay-offs, compromises to already-in-progress projects, shutterings of production houses within the merger and compromises to the Fox film studios' production handlings and output (for example, the renamed 20th Century Studios mainly theatrically now releases films that are franchise continuations of past 20th Century Fox film properties and the originally more deeply indie-focused Searchlight Pictures largely now distributes pet projects from already-established filmmakers and media figures). All this adding to the fact that Skydance and the Ellisons acquiring Paramount was a deal that only just barely had its ink dry, finalising nearly only 7 MONTHS before I even finish writing all this and only *4* months before WBD initially gave Netflix's deal the official go-ahead. These things on their own would be reasons to dread a P/S merger with WBD but they aren't even the very worst one..." (Writing continues in next post, this is post 1 of 3)

"...and the Netflix deal was contentiously received on a "oh no, a streaming service owning a major movie studio, our worst nightmare" front but not only were Netflix clear on their terms of ensuring they'd not have to lay off as many jobs as a P/S merger would do ans promised time and time again to keep to a "45-day theatrical window" for Warner Bros.-affilated films, but Netflix themselves aren't a "major studio"-tier name like Paramount are so Warner Bros. being bought out in a Disney/Fox-esque situation doesn't apply to them. Meanwhile, Paramount (while, I would argue, neither as consistently successful as Warner Bros. OR Netflix within the timeframes WBD has existed) IS another major movie studio name. Warner Bros. being owned by Paramount in any context is a repeat of the Disney/Fox deal all over again, which turns out to have resulted in massive lay-offs, compromises to already-in-progress projects, shutterings of production houses within the merger and compromises to the Fox film studios' production handlings and output (for example, the renamed 20th Century Studios mainly theatrically now releases films that are franchise continuations of past 20th Century Fox film properties and the originally more deeply indie-focused Searchlight Pictures largely now distributes pet projects from already-established filmmakers and media figures). All this adding to the fact that Skydance and the Ellisons acquiring Paramount was a deal that only just barely had its ink dry, finalising nearly only 7 MONTHS before I even finish writing all this and only *4* months before WBD initially gave Netflix's deal the official go-ahead. These things on their own would be reasons to dread a P/S merger with WBD but they aren't even the very worst one..." (Writing continues in next post, this is post 1 of 3)

Yesterday, I wrote a detailed vent about the #WarnerBrosDiscovery situation, if it turns out its heading where it now looks to be. I hope there's still a chance P/S don't get their way, but assuming they're about to...

CW: "Rogues gallery"-tier person mentions, mentions of alleged SA

(1/3)

01.03.2026 04:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Flesh
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Premium peak mid-90's Sega commercial banger right here. https://youtu.be/dcsMfF4WUDw

28.02.2026 19:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...is this post shadow-banned or what? Can't access this on other Bluesky apps other than the standard official one for phones...

27.02.2026 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...oh, great.

Guess my lifelong dreams of making movies are fucking dead today.

All the ideas I've had, all the aspirations. Gone. Dead. I'll have one Associate Producer credit on a movie and that's it.

Fuck Paramount, the Ellisons and Zaslav for raping the media industries. Burn in hell.

27.02.2026 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think I'm done with these "Pokemon Presents" streams.

Pokemon is fun and all, but even for POKEMON, TPC is doing an iffy job overfranchising this stuff beyond what seems right while actual devs behind the core stuff get mistreated and the community all but encourages the continued mistreatments.

27.02.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This does not mean people can't be excited, of course. It looks very pretty as the first Switch 2 mainline Pokemon game but I really do can't help but worry that they're still complicit to crunch Game Freak while corporate hungers over the most esoteric, money-making things to the side.

27.02.2026 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Man, the fact that they're already doing the next major Pokemon game for a next-year release doesn't fill me with confidence that The Pokemon Company has learn't any lesson in not crunching Game Freak to hell. I mean, it HAS been a while since a "gen" was launched this time but eh.

27.02.2026 14:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Chat message from a stream on Twitch: "I feel like if I watched VeggieTales as a kid, l'd of bailed on Christianity earlier than I did. Few things make me feel patriotic to be here but one of them is growing up VeggieTales free, god save the King"

Chat message from a stream on Twitch: "I feel like if I watched VeggieTales as a kid, l'd of bailed on Christianity earlier than I did. Few things make me feel patriotic to be here but one of them is growing up VeggieTales free, god save the King"

24.02.2026 06:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Black people should be able to live without being called horrific slurs.
Disabled people should be allowed to be part of society, even when their disability presents in an antisocial manner.
These two concepts are not mutually exclusive.

23.02.2026 05:43 👍 80 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

Very well-made thread on the BAFTAs situation here from a fellow neurodivergent.

23.02.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, ultimately that's who you should be mad at. Davidson has an illness. But the BAFTAs could have minimized both the pain of racism and embarrassment for Davidson, and chose not to.

23.02.2026 13:11 👍 61 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

All insane discourse about how Tourette's isn’t an excuse for racism just acts a smokescreen for the real story, which is how badly the BAFTAs fucked this all up

23.02.2026 13:14 👍 226 🔁 48 💬 6 📌 1

the thing about society is that we think human beings have rights until they inconvenience us in any minor way.

22.02.2026 22:30 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 10
When John Davidson sat down to watch the BBC's QED programme about his condition, John's Not Mad, in 1989, he was a lonely 16-year-old boy with such severe Tourette Syndrome that he was too scared to venture outside and face people. Viewers of the documentary saw how his uncontrollable foul-mouthed outbursts and violent body jerks denied him a normal life. Some people in his hometown of Galashiels crossed the road to avoid him and told their children not to play with him.

When John Davidson sat down to watch the BBC's QED programme about his condition, John's Not Mad, in 1989, he was a lonely 16-year-old boy with such severe Tourette Syndrome that he was too scared to venture outside and face people. Viewers of the documentary saw how his uncontrollable foul-mouthed outbursts and violent body jerks denied him a normal life. Some people in his hometown of Galashiels crossed the road to avoid him and told their children not to play with him.

BTW just gonna put it out there that the dude — who voluntarily left the room after this from what I can tell from reporting — doesn't seem like someone who would feel great about what happened news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news...

22.02.2026 22:48 👍 123 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Also just a reminder that Tourette's comes in many forms and a lot of people who have it are more on the physical tics end of things than the shouting intrusive thoughts end

22.02.2026 22:42 👍 124 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

One of the problems with "intrusive thoughts" going mainstream is that people don't understand that the whole reason why these thoughts are *intrusive* is that they are *unwanted* and don't align with a person's values and views

22.02.2026 22:37 👍 246 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 2

As someone who has OCD intrusive thoughts I truly cannot imagine how awful it would be to involuntarily vocalize some of the thoughts that come into my brain; I also can't imagine how horrific it would be to have to hear a slur while accepting an award

22.02.2026 22:36 👍 199 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0

Oh boy the whole "man with Tourette's shouts the n-word at Black people during the BAFTAs" thing is ... not leading to good discourse

22.02.2026 22:34 👍 290 🔁 39 💬 5 📌 6

What BAFTA and the BBC are potentially doing with how they did this editing is take something serious and rob the actual person having to manage it of their dignity while those impersonating him and making money off his story get rewarded moments after they humiliated him.

That sets an awful tone.

23.02.2026 06:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I do not have Tourette's, I cannot specifically speak for people with Tourette's, but having difficulties in some areas with how to navigate the everyday while knowing when something isn't right is overwhelming and...I can't imagine how much overwhelm Tourette's people have to overcome just to exist

23.02.2026 06:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a disabled person who dream't of working in the film industry, who was already on shaky ground lately on how much I still wanted to in the current climate...the way the BAFTAs were edited irregardless of the watershed and the way its encouraged such ugly discourse fills me with deep dread.

23.02.2026 06:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They diluted focus on the Best Animated Film noms AND one of the lifetime achievement awards, edited out other pieces of swearing AND found the time to scrub out a "Free Palestine" comment by a winner of one of the awards...but still bring attention to a disabled man's more regrettable life moments.

23.02.2026 06:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It sucked for the Visual Effects presenters, obviously. That word should not be condoned when intentionally used in that way.

But this all reeks of going out of their way to humiliate a person with a severe disability while his life story served for some winners as a means to an end.

23.02.2026 06:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The BAFTAs left a bad taste in my mouth this year due to how they presented a real nobody-wins situation with the Tourette's guy.

He left without being prompted to yet they still brought attention in the edited, *not*-live coverage of his more offensive spouts. Before the watershed.

23.02.2026 06:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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17.02.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I swear to god, Warner Bros., do NOT take the deal from Paramount. It's not happening for the good of the movie business but for politically-motivated control, DO NOT DO THAT.

Stick with Netflix, if you have to be sold off at all (which ideally shouldn't be happening but oh well).

16.02.2026 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Once again, ideally WB shouldn't of been put up for sale in the first place, but clearly Netflix are trying to meet everyone where they live with what they intend and them acquiring them isn't a weapon for political evil like, y'know...fuckin' "Paramount".

Netflix won. Let them have their prize.

11.02.2026 17:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0