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[olivermoss]

* The Canada smoke hasn't hit here yet and the air is lovely, but projections show that is about to change. I've just re-ordered air filters. Anyone in the are might want to make sure you've got supplies.

Being that it's ****ing May you might not have thought to be ready, but be ready.

* My balance issues make me sit in very dumb ways sometimes and ack my foot right now. Yeekles. Multiple things derailed my outing today, including where I planned to go being unexpectedly closed. I want to go Thurs instead, but if smoke hits then no.

* The Idol has premiered at Cannes and a lot of people are saying [actor] did this or [actor] did that to [other actor] and they mean the characters did that, not the actors. The whole project is a mess, but right now people using actor names in places of character names is causing a lot of confusion online. Actors and characters are different things, people!

I am in NO way defending this hot mess when I say this but, if you hear anything weird about the show or the production take it with a bucket of salt. Even headlines are saying 'The Weeknd ********** Lily Rose' and no, their characters on the show did that.

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[gingicat]

Nick Mohammed has gotten grief on social media because of things his Ted Lasso character has done. People.

Apparently we're getting haze here in Massachusetts from the Alberta fires, though not at ground level.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, a lot of people who play villains deal with weird stuff. But with this show everyone seems to refer to the characters by the actors, even in articles and it's very weird.

I hope it stays away from the ground there. Typically, when we get smoke we're in the thick of it. I hope we miss it somehow

[mistressofmuses]

It is just fucking stupid/awful that the fires are so bad already. :( I hope it doesn't hit you guys too badly.

Ugh, I HATE when people use actor names as stand-in's for the character. Like, if you have to, then say *[actor]'s character* rather than the character name, if you think that'll make more sense to people who haven't seen the show yet. Conflating actor and character is a bad deal anyway, even in productions where there may be some uncomfortable crossover between the two, but especially when you're talking about things that would actually be a crime for a real person to do!

[olivermoss]

For The Idol it seems completely standard to just refer to the characters as The Weeknd and Lily Rose Depp, and that is really not good in general but in a show with this kind of content? Yikes

[mistressofmuses]

Biiiig yikes.