Actually, I'm a gnome cleric.

[rogueslayer452]

++ I was absolutely thrilled with the SAG awards turnout, most importantly because of all the amazing speeches that occurred. I especially enjoyed David Harbour who accepted the award for Stranger Things (yay, it finally won an award!) along with the rest of the cast, but his speech went above and beyond and it was precisely what everyone needed towards the end of the award show. And just like with everyone else who also gave such brilliant speeches, from Mahershala Ali's acceptance speech to Julia Louis Dreyus's wonderful heartfelt statement, it was passionate and powerful and a great way to showcase the good use of such a platform to speak out about such important issues that are affecting everybody right now.

++ Richard Armitage has been filming in NYC for Ocean's Eight, and just judging from the filming pics alone I'm pretty curious about what character he'll be playing. Also, him and dogs! ♥

++ Very recently I've gotten into Critical Role, a livestreaming webseries on Geek & Sundry's Twitch channel where a group of voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. It was purely by accident because I was searching for Ashley Johnson things, and I wound up watching clips and saw gifsets and suddenly I became rather drawn to it. Of course, I haven't watched full episodes yet since each episode is about several hours long, so I mainly only catch up on the highlights or the funniest moments of each episode, and I have to say it's so fascinating and everyone is absolutely hilarious. While I adore Pike (Ashley Johnson's character) and her friendship with Grog, I have become quite fond of the other characters as well. I know that Ashley has been absent for some amount of episodes here and there because she has been filming Blindspot, to which they somehow managed to make references to D&D/Critical Role (and in turn they also make reference to Blindspot whenever they get the chance).

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[giallarhorn.livejournal.com]

Stranger Things was a pleasant surprise winner- I wasn't surprised that it got nominated, but I hadn't banked on it actually winning.

it was passionate and powerful and a great way to showcase the good use of such a platform to speak out about such important issues that are affecting everybody right now

Yeah. I get that people are going to say 'oh no, you shouldn't use award speeches as a personal soapbox' but when you're playing a role in a media form that directly ties into the social issues at hand? Kind of seems like an offense to not direct it to the matter at hand.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I'm actually surprised it took this long for it to win something. I mean, it is a genre show so it has a lot of competition, but at the same time considering how praised it has been I half expected it to have been nominated/win awards sooner. I'm happy with this win nonetheless, of course. :)

but when you're playing a role in a media form that directly ties into the social issues at hand? Kind of seems like an offense to not direct it to the matter at hand.

Exactly. One of the things that bothers me is when people complain when actors/celebrities speak out on these particular issues, usually with a, "you're just actors, stop talking politics", as if what is happening in the political world doesn't also affect them, as well. When you have a huge platform such as this it is rather insensitive to not use your voice and speak on such important matters. Also, this isn't something so obscure that it seems out of place to mention in speeches, what is happening now is about human rights and that is definitely something worth mentioning in speeches and on social media and being an activist about.

[giallarhorn.livejournal.com]

Right- I think it's a problem with how we view media in general? If we accept that most media forms exist for reasons other than pure entertainment, and that we're creating material for reasons as to reflect who we are as a society, then the people making them would of course be the first and foremost ones to get up and say something about what's going on.