Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Ynon Kreiz, the president of Maker Studios (The New Yorker)

I am really incredibly sorry for the dumb shit adults say, kids.

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not only can we do it but we’ll do it in one 24 hour period

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Here’s the thing I find really funny (and by funny I mean pathetic) about this assumption that younger, digital-savvy generations today have no attention span. The thing is, yes, we will tune into a thing for five minutes and then flip away to another channel. We will turn to our phones for entertainment during commercial breaks and if we’re not interested in what we’re looking at we’ll go look at something else. This might be interpreted as a short attention span.

The thing is, what we have right now is what a lot of us and the generations before us didn’t have: a metric fuck-ton of choices. Sure, there’s a growing market for short, self-contained forms of entertainment: short stories and webisodes and other types of serialized fiction that you can consume in small doses, while you’re on your lunch break or taking your morning train. And that’s great. I love that stuff. Again, it gives you another choice, tailor-made with modern life in mind (but not exactly new, either; plenty of popular fiction used to be serialized in magazines and newspapers).

But if creators and network executives are looking at their audience and deciding that the audience isn’t paying attention to what they’re producing because “these kids today and their attention spans,” I’ve got a news flash for them: you’re not losing their attention because they’re not capable of giving it to you. You’re losing their attention because what you’re producing isn’t good enough and they’ve got better more interesting things to do with their time. They’ve got options. You want to capture their attention? Step up your fucking game and produce something that isn’t fucking garbage.

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Jill Soloway accepting the Best TV Comedy Golden Globe for ‘Transparent’ (via micdotcom)

This show is amazing! thank god it won

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Hermione Granger at some point probably (via the-girl-who-had-nerve)

• You won’t look at any of us!” Ginny snapped. “It’s you lot who won’t look at me!” said Harry angrily. “Maybe you’re taking it in turns to look and keep missing each other” suggested Hermione, the corners of her mouth twitching.
  

• “It was a bad night for romance all around. Ginny and Dean split up too, Harry” Hermione said. Harry thought there was a rather knowing look in her eye as she told him that”
  

• “Harry could not help himself talking to Ginny, laughing with her, walking back from practice with her; however much his conscience ached, he found himself wondering how best to get her on her own. It would have been ideal if Slughorn had given another of his little parties, for Ron would not be around — but unfortunately, Slughorn seemed to have given them up. Once or twice Harry considered asking for Hermione’s help, but he did not think he could stand seeing the smug look on her face; he thought he caught it sometimes when Hermione spotted him staring at Ginny or laughing at her jokes.”

• "After several long moments - or it might have been half an
  hour - or possibly several sunlit days - they broke apart. The
  room had gone very quiet. Then several people wolf-whistled
  and there was an outbreak of nervous giggling. Harry looked
  over the top of Ginny’s head to see Dean Thomas holding a
  shattered glass in his hand and Romilda Vane looking as
  though she might throw something. Hermione was beaming,
  but Harry’s eyes sought Ron.”

• "I never really gave up on you,” Ginny said. “Not really. I always hoped…Hermione told me to get on with life, maybe go out with some other people, relax a bit around you because i never used to be able to talk if you were in the room, remember? And she thought you might take a bit more notice if I was a bit more -myself.”

• "‘Harry, will you come in here a moment?’ It was Ginny. Ron came to an abrupt halt, but Hermione took him by the elbow and tugged him up the stairs.”

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