I was just off to do House of Cards and we had been in the process of filming and a nuclear bomb went off and Ryan very graciously said, “What you need right now is to act with extraordinary women.” All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors. When he said, “I want you do Horror Story. You’ll be opposite Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates,” I burst into tears. He said my character had long hair with an affinity for capes and that’s all I needed to know.
Property always sold fast in Palos Verdes. People liked that the grass had to be kept green and cut attractively. That the walls of each house had to be painted every 3 years, and that the buildings were required to have tiled roofs. The beaches were maintained daily with special machines to clean the sand and thresh, mix and spit it out into crystals of immaculate white powder. The police knew each family by name and by make and model of their car. There were no lights on the football stadium because the locals didn’t want anyone from out of town there after dark, or anywhere in P.V. really. The beaches were not private but they might as well be. The residents didn’t want any outsiders ruining their zillion dollar views either. There were no streetlights, fast food stands or apartment buildings. All outlawed by the city ordinance. A chaos of stars filled the skies of Palos Verdes. But everything else was regulated.
The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017) dir. Brendan Malloy & Emmett Malloy
Now that Tumblr has completely fucked most people with killing their links (if you put any link, even one that directs back to a Tumblr post, it no longer shows in the search engine), it’s on YOU, the consumer, to make sure things get noticed. By that I mean, if you LIKE something and you don’t reblog it, that’s right, that’s less chance of it getting seen. When a post does poorly, the creator will eventually stop creating. This goes for gifs, icons, headers, writing, art, you name it. Creators will eventually stop. So, you LIKE something, click that little reblog button. Click the queue option. If you want to keep seeing your favorite creators, it’s up to YOU to make sure their posts actually get seen.
And, before anyone wants to pipe up, one person DOES make a difference. If you’re reading this thinking “oh, someone else will reblog, I don’t have to!”. Well, no. You’re wrong because if YOU’RE thinking that, many other people are as well which means, no the post will not be seen and the creator stops creating (or at least publishing for your unpaid consumption).
The post doesn’t match your blog aesthetic? Make a new blog. You don’t have to maintain it. Just click the reblog button and it’ll STILL help get the creators some form of recognition.
If you like seeing creations from creators, then help them out and hit the damn reblog button.
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