Mwahaha, love to be an utter Otter enabler!

"The largest one that's not too sinew—what, why's everyone looking at me like that?"

Anyway. The existence of the social category "you can't think about that, your manager wouldn't like it!" is arbitrary, and its boundaries are arbitrary, and arbitrary boundaries drawn by an abuser are a statement of intent to get away with more the very second they feel able

If you can't draw the line from that dot to the payment processors pushing back, with glacierlike inevitability, on the extent and very existence of those concessions *because they can*—

consider: You *do* write good and *am* smart, not like me

two things can be true at the same time and all that ;)

That's Our Elf.
"Yeah yeah yeah we all have death-or-worse-than sentences hanging over our heads, you're not special"

tldr, it's not writers. studio execs are greedy, know nothing leeches who wouldn't know how to make money if it bit them in the ass. imagine throwing away a sequel to crazy rich asians over less than 4 percent of the projected gross. are you fucking kidding me.

adele lim found out her co writer pete chiarelli was getting TEN TIMES her contract for the second film. she was offered 100k, he was offered a million dollars.

she walked, rightfully! and the film is still delayed

so to save a million bucks, warner bros lost out on a sequel to a huge hit

It gets "better"/worse since that replyguy (or at least, one of them, as usual, one doesn't want to look too closely into the abyss) alleges "media scholar" in bio, which goes in the "weep for humanity" bucket

Them: "Grease? Yeah, they must use a lot of grease to keep those mechs in fighting shape, but what does that have to do with my question about names?"