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last song: Vienna by Billy Joel

favorite color(s): Red. Any type of red. I’ve yet to find a shade of red I don’t adore…

currently reading: The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson, which is pretty good!!

currently watching: House of the Dragon and Hacks, so I’ve got a good lineup!

last movie: Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’. I saw it in theaters and I’m rewatching now that it’s on Max. The visuals and sound design of that movie are absolutely spectacular (should I make a cinematography post for that movie?)

sweet, spicy or savory: Yes.

current obsession: My fanfic—I’ve been working on it a ton—and also Phoebe Bridgers. I listened to I Know the End because it was at the end of a movie and now I can’t stop because OH MY GOD—

tea or coffee: ooooh, I like both, but I guess I’ll go with tea?

last thing I googled: Alex Edelman (he won an Emmy so I wanted to find out who he was)

no pressure tags: @renegadeknight @adhdprincess @lauronk @mildredellie @wordspinning @boopernatural @becomethesun @march-flowerr @two-birds-alone-together and anyone else who wants to play!

Happy Birthday, Bella Ramsey!

Thank you for all that you’ve done! The way you put your heart and soul into your characters is unforgettable. Your kindness and compassion cannot be overstated—you’re truly an inspiration.

plastic folding chairs???????

That’s a good one. Basically the premise is that Joel and Ellie go to support groups and get help for their trauma. Joel makes a deal with Ellie that if he goes to a support group for people who lost kids then she has to go to a support group for survivors of SV. She agrees because she wants him to shut up about it and doesn’t think that he’ll actually do it, but he and Maria go to a group together.

I always try never to compare Pedro and Bella’s performances with Ashley and Troy’s.

That isn’t to say I don’t compare performances in general, or that I don’t have character choices that prefer in one version over the other, because I absolutely do. I just think that in this specific instance, the comparison of ‘X did better acting than Y’ is nonsensical and reductive of both parties. Both versions of TLOU have absolutely stellar performances, but they aren’t the same kind of performances!

In gaming, the actors have to be more exaggerated in order to get emotion across, since mocap doesn’t allow for the kind of subtle emotion that video does. You can’t tell what someone’s thinking by the look in their eyes or the way they hold their bodies without it being more exaggerated. But being more exaggerated doesn’t mean being more expressive. Pedro and Bella are both truly fantastic subtle actors, who act more with their eyes than most Hollywood stars do with their whole bodies. That’s just as expressive, it’s just a different kind of expressive. Acting with your eyes and with the subtle ways you hold your body just isn’t possible in video games yet.

If you took Ashley and Troy’s performances in TLOU game and stuck them 1:1 in a live action show, they would seem out of place and over-acted. That’s good! That’s how it’s supposed to be, because mocap and v/o acting are different from live-action, in-front-of-camera acting. Ashley and Troy are also incredible tv actors, but video game acting isn’t tv acting!

My point is that not is comparing these specific sets of actor’s performance useless and unnecessarily antagonistic, it’s also nonsensical. They both gave stellar performances, each pair delivering all-time-great acting specifically tailored for their respective mediums, and that deserves our respect and admiration, not useless manufactured competition.

Gorgeous!! I cannot wait for Bella to absolutely CHEW the scenery in s2!!

What is my trademark? Either for my tumblr or my ao3! I’m weirdly desperate to know haha

New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.