my type is angsty elf boys

i find it annoying that you’re joking about which vaccine you’re getting as if it’s an ice cream flavor you can choose from, implying there’s an overabundance of it, while people from the southern hemisphere are begging for any vaccine at all.

north america and europe blocked petitions from these countries to drop patents and let us mass produce these vaccines for cheap, so that everyone has access to it. but no, they’ve decided their profit and ‘intellectual property’ is more important than literal human lives. countries from the global north also have bought vaccines amounting to 3 or 4 times their population.

Before he was scouted for aladdin he was working on a passion project (ferngully) when disney caught wind of the fact that a smaller animation studio had got comedian smash hit robbin williams. They tried at first to get him to only work on aladdin but robin refused to stop working on ferngully. Disney didn’t like that so they actively sabotaged the production of ferngully by doing things like renting out locations which the ferngully team had already paid to use, but nobody can turn down disney money.

Anyway, there’s a reason why Robin Williams was only paid $75k to play the Genie: he actually refused a multi-million dollar offer and took a pay cut in exchange for Disney’s promise that they wouldn’t use his name or the Genie character to promote the film. Williams hated the idea of his name and voice being used to sell merchandise to kids, thinking that it was predatory and that it cheapened animation as an art form. So he asked Disney to promise not to put his name in any ads, and only give the Genie a small spot on the film poster. How’d that work out?

YEAH, NOT GREAT.

This is the original theatrical poster. It’s pretty much the complete opposite of what Williams was promised by Disney. The ad campaign hyped the hell out of Williams being in the movie: if you look at the old TV ads, Aladdin himself is barely in them, it’s pretty much a Genie sizzle reel. And of course, they made an Mt. Everest’s worth of Genie merchandise and marketed it directly to kids. Williams was livid, and refused to work on any Disney project for years (which was right around the time that he became the hottest comedian in Hollywood. Disney played themselves.) That’s why Genie is voiced by another actor in the sequel and the subsequent Aladdin TV series.

If memory serves, I think you have to talk to Emily around this point in the story. It has been so long since I’ve played this game that I kind of can’t remember what you’re supposed to do; if anybody has any advice, feel free to reply/reblog!