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He’s probably just sick with jealousy over Cait’s success because she’s absolutely killing it!!!😂 Sam’s whole “I don’t care about Cait” act imo just comes off so sour and frustrated, she’s the one who’s booked and busy, mingling with A-listers, filming six movies in a row, while he’s over here sitting around with nothing going on, flopping hard, and stuck clinging to the only thing that ever actually worked for him: Outlander.

Obviously, I don’t know Sam or what goes on inside his head, but if I had to guess, I’d say you’re very wrong, Anon.

I have no doubt he congratulated her privately and that he’s genuinely happy for her success.

Sam seems to have chosen to focus on other things this year, and let’s not forget that he also starred in a series that’s coming to Amazon. That’s hardly insignificant. And while he chose not to make a huge deal out of it, he also did Macbeth on a very respectable stage, which is a major achievement in its own right.

I do think that now his schedule has opened up a little, we may see him turn his attention back to acting. But obviously, that’s up to him.

It really is.

It’s okay that he doesn’t like or repost them, or leave some carefully worded comment that can then be dissected and interpreted ten different ways.

Because let’s be honest, those public interactions are for us, not for them. They’re there for us to notice which emoji he chose, how he phrased something, whether it was too much, too little, too warm, too cold.

When two people are genuinely close, the things that actually matter are said between them. They don’t need to be performed for the rest of the world.

You asked me where he is.

She’s just writing another chapter of her fanfiction about the greatest love story ever told.

Because, of course, all the friends of every celebrity in Scotland are familiar with Purv’s famous blog, and those celebrities naturally volunteer wonderfully flattering and remarkably detailed information about other celebrities’ girlfriends, completely unprompted.

You know who else always had a professional life conveniently wrapped in mystery?

Anthony G. McGill

And perhaps some of you have been around long enough to remember how fascinatingly flexible his professional biography used to be.

In the beginning, we had the rather generic “works in finance.” Then, somewhere along the way, the story became considerably more interesting. Anthony was apparently the owner of a bar in London. Or perhaps two bars, depending on which version happened to be circulating at the time.

And eventually, after a few adjustments and upgrades, we arrived at the title that seemed to stick, music producer.

Quite the professional journey, when you think about it.

The interesting part, of course, was never simply what Anthony supposedly did for a living. It was watching his professional story become a little more polished and impressive as the years went by, while actual details remained remarkably scarce.

A vague job becomes a business. A business becomes multiple businesses. And eventually, we land on something suitably glamorous for the narrative.

Until one version is repeated often enough that everyone simply starts treating it as established fact.

Perhaps that’s why watching another mysterious professional biography being slowly assembled feels so familiar.

Some of us have been here long enough to recognize the process.

And yes, he was a publican in Islington, London.

He wrote, for example, that Good and Evil are concepts built and set in stone by human societies themselves, who annoyingly decree -at some point in time - what they mean, while also setting their respective boundaries. He also wrote, if I remember well - and yes, I do remember well enough, I believe - that what social morality considers as 'evil values' (selfishness, straightforwardness, aggressivity, etc) make the world progress and accelerate change. He believed the New Man must free himself of this artificial distinction and go beyond this dichotomy. In fact, he believed that so strongly, that he made one of his most famous books out of this idea. Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil), which he explicitly considered as a 'prelude to a future philosophy'.

Playing with Nietzsche's ideas is like playing with scissors. Please, please don't do this at home, unattended. It's grandiose and depressing and raw and -yes!- 'human, all too human' (another interesting book for your nightstand, or perhaps not). It is also racist, blaming and proven tragically wrong by recent History.

added about 11 hours, 34 minutes, 50 seconds ago

I just needed to get this off my chest.

I'm reading the complaints from fans about the auction of the series' costumes, and I think something needs clarifying…

These pieces are copies. A film or series' wardrobe is never made up of unique pieces due to potential damage or misuse. In fact, extras and stunt doubles wear the same outfits as the main actor. Rest assured that the most important costumes will be preserved, and many of them will be stored in a warehouse where they will be inventoried and reused for future period productions.

There are many specialized warehouses that rent and care for these costumes, and if you're observant, you'll notice that many of the costumes you've seen in other productions appear, slightly modified or exactly as they were made, in other series or films.

Cornejo, in Spain, is one of the leading tailors specializing in period productions. I've visited their facilities, and they are enormous. They have costumes from films and series like Ben-Hur, Game of Thrones, and Pirates of the Caribbean, to name a few.

If you're curious, visit their website 😉

yourpublishingprofessor

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PS: meanwhile, the Mommies' Brigade...