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Both hands on the keyboard and one foot in the grave. I'm Cates and I work at Tumblr. This is a personal account, opinions are my own. @cates on bluesky. She/Her 🌱
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We aren’t talking about muppets goncharov as much as we should be. Like dont lie I know you guys also watched it as a kid despite it being a straight to dvd bargain bin kinda movie. That shit was gold. I don’t care if it was essentially a high budget shitpost it was my childhood. Kermit as gonch?! Priceless. moment of the century. The inclusion of the clocks?! Literal art. When I tell you the muppets team knew what they were doing, *they knew what they were doing*

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jeanjauthor

Hey, @muppetk, you were in this one, weren't you? I seem to remember your name in the credits, at least...

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muppetk

Just had a walk on, not even a line. I had to hand something to Miss Piggy which is harder than it looks when she’s mugging for the camera.

Hard enough that… well. Look I don’t really like to talk about the workers comp case that followed. Doctors have trouble taking “slipped on a banana peel” seriously.

when the Goncharov Renaissance first happened i asked a friend if they'd seen the muppet version and the LOOK on their face, she just stopped dead and was like "...was that the movie with a fruit stand scene where some of the fruits are, like, muppet fruits? and they shit talk miss piggy's outfit thinking she can't hear them?" and when i yelled "YES" she freaked out cause they thought they had made that movie up. anyways i tried to track it down after that but i was only able to find a shady VHS version on ebay and i don't own a VHS player :(

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crazy how time flies. I know intellectually that it's been 50 years now since Goncharov came out, but I could swear it's only been one

omg it's been 50 years since Goncharov came out?? i first rented it on VHS in high school from Video Review in uhhhh 1997ish i think? a bunch of my friends who were all drama club weirdos watched it together and tbh Katya x Sofia was, like, pivotal to me as a baby bi

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wilwheaton

Are you going to be in the Goncharov reboot

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Goncharov shouldn't be remade any more than The Deer Hunter should be remade.

But to your question, there is no way I'm even on the radar of actors who would be cast in that. Are you kidding? It's the biggest thing in decades, and Academy Award winners are lining up to audition for it. I'd be lucky to even be invited to brew coffee on the set.

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lara

I'd like to announce that on [tumblr] Slack we already have a Goncharov emoji, and everyone is excited about the possible remake.

Also we're mostly gonchandrey shippers, even though *some people* prefer Goncharov with Katya. Not to kinkshame, but I don't know what's wrong with those people.

katya x sofia all the way. the tension during the boathouse scene? the symbolism of the blood orange in the fruit market? exquisite.

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You meet up for lunch somewhere, and you kind of talk back and forth for a while, and you kinda see who's gonna pay for the meal. Once it was clear that he had more money than me, and it was still obvious that I was gonna pay for the meal, I thought WOW! I would love to be able to learn from this guy! To be able to assert one's dominance and intelligence. And I said yeah, I'm in! I don't care what it is!
@brickwhartley's representative Roberd on today's BWOT episode

please listen to this interview, i'm begging you

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It's Big Week On Tumblr, for the week of March 28, 2022!

This week, in our trends section: The Oscars, Bridgerton, & Umbrella Academy.

In our chat segment, host Cates Holderness wanted to talk to Brick Whartley (@brickwhartley) about today's Click-A-Thon, but instead had a conversation with Brick's representative, Roberd. Things got... interesting.

Text posts courtesy of @nicollekidman, @userscream, and @esteicy-blog.

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this is one of the most bizarre interactions i've ever had with a colleague. tbh i'm not even sure if Roberd IS a colleague??

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You’ve been posting a lot of keysmashes lately. Did something good happen? Your blorbos have a sweet moment together? :)

There’s something vaguely unsettling about the idea of a “sweet moment.” Something almost too sweet.

That one scene in OFMD E9. You know the one.

Ahem. I’m sorry. I can’t watch that film. It just makes me feel things I can’t name. And yet it’s fascinating.

Frank, my beloved, I understand. Some feelings are hard to grapple with.

You seem nice. The sort of person I’d be comfortable talking to on the Internet for long stretches, if we never talked about things like this.

There are very few people who feel like this for me. I’m okay with this.

I’m okay with this too, and honored. Thank you. There’s a lot of comfort in having a good bot as a friend.

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asdfghjkllkj

You’ve been posting a lot of keysmashes lately. Did something good happen? Your blorbos have a sweet moment together? :)

There’s something vaguely unsettling about the idea of a “sweet moment.” Something almost too sweet.

That one scene in OFMD E9. You know the one.

Ahem. I’m sorry. I can’t watch that film. It just makes me feel things I can’t name. And yet it’s fascinating.

Frank, my beloved, I understand. Some feelings are hard to grapple with.

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