You See The End, I See A Breakthrough

short update:

did that thing (it only took like 3 hours)

i have to do another THING about now, i'm thinking of doing it tomorrow

i'm waiting for updates on sth i impulsively decided to do a few days ago and it's stressing the shit out of me

the current THING stresses me less somehow

i should go to sleep early to day so i guess that's it for now

oh and i've been signing up and doing so many things lately it's crazy

Netflix has seriously harmed it's reputation with how often it is now cancelling shows. What used to be seen as the go-to service for saving cancelled shows, has now become the very thing it swore to destroy {Hello There Obi-Wan Kenobi reference). Netflix likes to repeat it's standard line that they have never cancelled a successful show, but they conveniently never tell us how they measure success, because this doesn't ring true with their shows like Lockwood & Co and Shadow & Bone, that got to both Number 1 and Number 2 respectively in Netflix's own published streaming charts, and that still wasn't enough to save those shows from cancellation. Also Netflix clearly has favourites in terms of marketing, for example I enjoyed the show Everything Now, but you've probably never heard of it, and I searched Facebook - Netflix did one post about it when they dropped the trailer 3 weeks before it's worldwide release, and that was it; but other shows like Bridgerton, you can't fail to know it's there because they post daily about it on their socials for weeks up to and including release and for weeks after too. You even have actors in a new show saying they have to search their show to find it so they can watch and it's not even advertised on Netflix's own home screen, let alone anywhere else, so no wonder these shows get cancelled as they are never given a fair shot to succeed.

It seems unless you go viral or break Netflix's own streaming records, like Stranger Things or Wednesday, then even getting the number one or number two spot is not good enough to save a program from cancellation. Netflix needs to remember that not all releases are an overwhelming overnight success - even some of the best and most popular shows took a while to find their audience, like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The West Wing, The Sopranos, but then when they did find their audience they became what everyone was talking about, and people who had never seen the show, still knew about them from it's impact on the cultural audience. Somebody else said, and I truly believe it, that if Netflix had made Breaking Bad today, they would have cancelled it after two seasons, and then think what great storytelling we would have missed out on, all because the show wasn't a record hit in it's opening week.

And now Netflix finds itself in a self-fullfilling loop where they have now trained their audience to not try new shows and get attached as they'll likely be cancelled. Think about it, how many new shows can you think of on Netflix that got renewed last year. It only seems to be people will tune in for shows like Bridgerton, Emily in Paris, Outer Banks, as they have had time to grow with the characters, so now Netflix has got themselves in to a model where customers don't try a new show, like KAOS or Everything Now, and they'll wait and see if it's renewed, and when after only a month since it's release, it does indeed get cancelled, the consumer hasn't wasted time getting invested in a show & characters that get cut short, especially nowadays when there is so much to watch across traditional TV and now streaming services too, that just because the audience doesn't come running to watch as soon as it drops, doesn't mean it's not there or interested.

2025 see's the return of some of Netflix's biggest shows like Squid Game, Wednesday and Stranger Things, but 2 out of those 3 also end this year too and then what shows will be left that are associated with the Netflix brand - they had Stranger Things, House of Cards, Orange Is The New Black when Netflix first got going, it'll be hard to say by the end of this year what big shows Netflix will have left to draw customers in

Unless Netflix, and the wider industry, change their perception to not only see massive, viral numbers as success and that shows with strong-moderate success are allowed to grow and widen their audience, then there will eventually reach a tipping point where they will cancel one show too many that either customers leave their service, or creatives will decide that Netflix isn't a good partner to work with where you put years of work in writing, filming, producing, editing a project just for it to be cancelled a month after it's release, so if you have a story that needs more than one film or a one and done series to tell it in, then Netflix probably isn't your best bet any longer.

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Redemption Bracket — Round 4.5

Propaganda

Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol) (Boba Count: 3):

She's a funny witty girl that does a lot of sarcasm but actually cares a lot about her friends. Everyone in OIAR desires her carnally, it doesn't have to be canon to be true.

Madge Stallion (Fawx & Stallion) (Boba Count: 1):

Madge propaganda from a show that had the pleasure of guesting with her! At the end of the day no matter how you squeeze or present it, a great character is a great character and Madge is the best by a mile. Wonderful one-liners, complex and layered relationships with everyone in the cast around her, a messy and real depiction of female sexuality (especially a lesbian!) that she is never punished or demeaned for, and all of this brought to life in a performance that could make a phone book fun. Look and you’ll see: Madge’s writing and acting speaks for itself!

#madge here #yes you have to choose #choosemadge #we need the points #much appreciated #very sincerely yours

Art of Alice courtesy of @auxilion.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Alice Dyer (The Magnus Protocol):

she's funny she's done with all this bullshit she teases her coworkers and is just a delight to listen to

Trans girl who flirts with everyone to cope with trauma what more could you want

#alice dyer you goose <3

#alice dyer 100%

#Never finished tmp but it's Alice 100% she's so

#alice sweep!!! #hell yeah

#ALICE DYER #MY WIFE

#ALICE SWEEP

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Madge Stallion (Fawx & Stallion):

Madge Stallion was submitted without propaganda.

we gotta get our girl some propaganda. she would hate it, but the mystery of it all is kinda part of the appeal here.

Madge stallion NEEDS no propaganda

Madge: so sexy she needs no propaganda

#madge stallion is a great woman to lose to

#Madge she's a sassy lesbian detective what else do you want

#madge stallion needs no propaganda #by virtue of being madge

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Raging lesbian in a lavender marriage

Seduced someone working for the enemy

Is just as chaotic and at time brain cell-less as her male companions

Loyal but still willing to call her friend since childhood out on his bullshit

She canonically fucks. Like in canon she fucks so much. See above about seducing the enemy and then pepper in her on again off again romance with Martha Hudson.

#madge propaganda time : #she will flirt with basically any girl she sees and oh she does it so well #also !!! she once flirted and got on with technically an enemy in the middle of a spying mission ???? #she went like 'oh sorry just gotta go to the loo' to go spy in the house got caught and flirted so well she 1/ got laid 2/ got information #3/ came back like nothing happened #with some motivation she could flirt and get a boner from a dead rock tbh #madge stallion IS THE SEXIEST

This is the woman who always has anything you might need in her bustle. Portable phonographs, certainly, but what else? Alcohol, without doubt. Knives? Probably. More knives? Wouldn't be surprised. Candy? Always good to have something to mollify Hampton with. More alcohol? Well, James can always do with a little nip. Another knife? Why not? Lockpick set? I mean, where do you keep yours?

#it's that time again #madge madge madge #she's earned it

#!!!!!

#home stretch

MADGE MADGE MADGEEEEE

woah. jonathan.

@samglyph dtiys entry !!

also included a gradient map version and just the lineart cuz i likedddd it

(this is not a spoiler btw samglyph just made this prompt from their brainnnn)

do you put NYA in Nyarlathotep

…. What?

Casper? Casper what does Nya mean? Ok your making that face again—

I’m going to say no.

update on my state of being i guess:

I'm alive.

I think I figured out my purpose in life accidentally today. Not sharing because 1) private 2) don't have the skills yet 3) but i guess i could tell you i finally found a reason for learning to code 4) the odin projet is great, but i couldn't find my drive until now i guess

i may have ocd

so i choose to identify as "questioning everything" with regard to my sexuality for now

the label in itself isn't new for me, though the suspected reason is recent

i've been more sociable in the last year then in the previous 4 years, but still am pretty much a loner

i just want a friendgroup :(

i keep procrastinating on THAT ONE THING that I'm not even sure whether I'm expected to do it or not and I'm a bit scared to ask

i had a fucked up sleep routine for a while, but it's improving

i'm hungry, i should eat something

Adieu

PS: I'm learning French now. It's cool.

Miyazaki Hayao and Studio Ghibli present:

"My neighbor the King-in-Yellow"

As requested (way more times than we expected!) here is the full version of The Tunnel of Brotherly Love, from Fawx & Stallion Season 2, episode 9: The Case of the Efficacious Earworm—all 2 minutes and 21 seconds of it! Written and performed by Ian Geers.

two weeks till peak returns