Ollo~!
Hey all, it's sure been a minute. Let me dust this place off for a sec.
So it's obvious most of the fandom has moved on from LiveJournal, but with how social media goes these days it's left us pretty scattered. I wanted to try to come to some middle-ground with this, possibly just temporary until a more helpful, easy-to-organize platform comes around again. Who know when that will be though!
SO. This is an open invitation to join The Evil Lair Discord!
It's run by moi, and any Megamind fan is welcome to join anytime~! Even if you just wanna lurk! Even if you don't like me! It's all good! I just want us to have a place we can all BE, again.
I miss you guys so much all the time. I fell into a depressive swing for a few years there, and was very minimal in general online and IRL. If you saw me at the MegaCamp meetup, nope, I was not ok! But apparently I'm great at bullshitting so no one noticed?? Yay?? I think??
I also wanted to come back and address a difficult situation from this fandom's community back in 2011 or so. The whole thing with the lingering Dreamworks employee that went by "Mr. Ed". This is mostly personal griping, but I'll spare you under a cut. Anyway, come to the discord! We want all of you around!! And if the Discord moves to another platform I will try to comment here with that. :D
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So. Mr. Ed! Where do you start with that.
First of all, I should have been transparent from the very beginning of that situation-- I was NOT in a good place at the time this chaos was going on. I was still grieving for DWA cancelling the sequel and, at the same time, trying desperately to get my personal life together as it was hopelessly falling apart from years of neglect/depression. I was threatened of being kicked out of my home if I didn't get my act together, and fast. And the thing that saved my life in 2010-- this fandom, this movie, meant the world to me. When a DWA employee came here with cryptic messages about how to "fix" things? I kind of imploded on myself.
When I say I love this movie and this fandom? What I'm saying is this idea DROVE ME INSANE with grief. For many years. Like. 10 years. I wanted to help, more than anything, and I wanted us to be okay-- I was not the only person heavily affected/saved by this movie's mere existence, and it wasn't simply a "me" thing. It was important. So fucking important.
I still tried, and failed. I still got kicked out of my home. And I fumbled, bad, and asked for help here way too late when I should have asked for it in the very beginning!
I was not in a great situation at home, moreso than I was letting on, and I was not a very good adult! But I wanted to be, and when it came down to the most important thing in my life, I couldn't fix that either. I internalized this. For years, I have felt in some strange way, like I could have saved this franchise if I had just tried more, done more, found more people, something-- I have felt personally responsible for the dumb decisions of Katzenberg and the inability to scream loud enough in the way THEY wanted, that this movie meant a lot to people and wasn't worth scrapping. That's obviously not true, they probably don't even notice I exist!! Why even would they?! But!! I internalized this as failing you all. And I held that guilt for a long time. I know it's not valid, now, but part of me still feels responsible despite knowing well better. I assure you, I did my very best. I tried my hardest. But I ultimately got us nowhere and for my own sanity I have to accept that there was nothing more I could do.
But, I burned our bridges. Mr. Ed made it clear not to burn our bridges with anger-- and I did. I called Katzenberg a huge asshole. He is. He fucking is. I still stand by this. Crying about Shrek Money and lumping a movie like Megamind in with other bland parody movies, firing hundreds of employees suddenly because of "finances" and then turning around to offer $75 MILLION DOLLARS to another franchise that wasn't even his, for 3 episodes of Breaking Bad? LMAO are you shitting me, are you fucking SHITTING me. You're a fucking asshole, dude. I'm glad they told you no! Because now you know how it feels to want to throw everything at something and still get told "no, you're NOT getting more". I HOPE IT STINGS. I hope all the DWA employees who lost their dream jobs and stability STING in your selfish soul, you greedy fucking asshole.
This is ME talking, not the fandom. But I stand firm on this.
But my anger in this possibly cost us everything? Because I am indeed a very persistent, loud voice for this fandom. I still struggle with this. But those employees at DWA didn't deserve to be fired. Katzenberg could have taken that hit and personally funded all of those paychecks. What an asshole. I seriously have no words for the titanium balls on this jerk. Full respect for giving Disney the finger! Zero respect for just about everything you did before leaving Dreamworks Animation to rot!
So yeah. I don't know if I'm being clear here. If, in any way, I am the reason DWA ignores us, I am sorry. It's probably not a realistic way to think, honestly, but I still struggle with these feelings. But I will accept my potential mistakes here and stick around. I'm here for life, dudes, even if Dreamworks isn't. I would not even be alive if it weren't for this movie, I'm sure of that. I'm here until I'm gone. It's extremely important to me that I am, and I don't expect others to really understand.
We will continue to party hard as we have for the last ten years, with zero shame! If Dreamworks has abandoned us, then whatever. We're still having tons of fun! And if they decide they like us enough to continue and make a wicked sequel that surprises us all? I might actually die happy! But hey!! Who knows! What's another ten years. Listen, the last ten feel like I blinked. We'll be here for a while. I know it. We never left before, we're not now, lol.
But either way, I needed to get the Mr. Ed situation and that guilt out there, off my chest, because it's stuck with me for a very long time and I really need to move on from it.
So it's obvious most of the fandom has moved on from LiveJournal, but with how social media goes these days it's left us pretty scattered. I wanted to try to come to some middle-ground with this, possibly just temporary until a more helpful, easy-to-organize platform comes around again. Who know when that will be though!
SO. This is an open invitation to join The Evil Lair Discord!
It's run by moi, and any Megamind fan is welcome to join anytime~! Even if you just wanna lurk! Even if you don't like me! It's all good! I just want us to have a place we can all BE, again.
I miss you guys so much all the time. I fell into a depressive swing for a few years there, and was very minimal in general online and IRL. If you saw me at the MegaCamp meetup, nope, I was not ok! But apparently I'm great at bullshitting so no one noticed?? Yay?? I think??
I also wanted to come back and address a difficult situation from this fandom's community back in 2011 or so. The whole thing with the lingering Dreamworks employee that went by "Mr. Ed". This is mostly personal griping, but I'll spare you under a cut. Anyway, come to the discord! We want all of you around!! And if the Discord moves to another platform I will try to comment here with that. :D
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So. Mr. Ed! Where do you start with that.
First of all, I should have been transparent from the very beginning of that situation-- I was NOT in a good place at the time this chaos was going on. I was still grieving for DWA cancelling the sequel and, at the same time, trying desperately to get my personal life together as it was hopelessly falling apart from years of neglect/depression. I was threatened of being kicked out of my home if I didn't get my act together, and fast. And the thing that saved my life in 2010-- this fandom, this movie, meant the world to me. When a DWA employee came here with cryptic messages about how to "fix" things? I kind of imploded on myself.
When I say I love this movie and this fandom? What I'm saying is this idea DROVE ME INSANE with grief. For many years. Like. 10 years. I wanted to help, more than anything, and I wanted us to be okay-- I was not the only person heavily affected/saved by this movie's mere existence, and it wasn't simply a "me" thing. It was important. So fucking important.
I still tried, and failed. I still got kicked out of my home. And I fumbled, bad, and asked for help here way too late when I should have asked for it in the very beginning!
I was not in a great situation at home, moreso than I was letting on, and I was not a very good adult! But I wanted to be, and when it came down to the most important thing in my life, I couldn't fix that either. I internalized this. For years, I have felt in some strange way, like I could have saved this franchise if I had just tried more, done more, found more people, something-- I have felt personally responsible for the dumb decisions of Katzenberg and the inability to scream loud enough in the way THEY wanted, that this movie meant a lot to people and wasn't worth scrapping. That's obviously not true, they probably don't even notice I exist!! Why even would they?! But!! I internalized this as failing you all. And I held that guilt for a long time. I know it's not valid, now, but part of me still feels responsible despite knowing well better. I assure you, I did my very best. I tried my hardest. But I ultimately got us nowhere and for my own sanity I have to accept that there was nothing more I could do.
But, I burned our bridges. Mr. Ed made it clear not to burn our bridges with anger-- and I did. I called Katzenberg a huge asshole. He is. He fucking is. I still stand by this. Crying about Shrek Money and lumping a movie like Megamind in with other bland parody movies, firing hundreds of employees suddenly because of "finances" and then turning around to offer $75 MILLION DOLLARS to another franchise that wasn't even his, for 3 episodes of Breaking Bad? LMAO are you shitting me, are you fucking SHITTING me. You're a fucking asshole, dude. I'm glad they told you no! Because now you know how it feels to want to throw everything at something and still get told "no, you're NOT getting more". I HOPE IT STINGS. I hope all the DWA employees who lost their dream jobs and stability STING in your selfish soul, you greedy fucking asshole.
This is ME talking, not the fandom. But I stand firm on this.
But my anger in this possibly cost us everything? Because I am indeed a very persistent, loud voice for this fandom. I still struggle with this. But those employees at DWA didn't deserve to be fired. Katzenberg could have taken that hit and personally funded all of those paychecks. What an asshole. I seriously have no words for the titanium balls on this jerk. Full respect for giving Disney the finger! Zero respect for just about everything you did before leaving Dreamworks Animation to rot!
So yeah. I don't know if I'm being clear here. If, in any way, I am the reason DWA ignores us, I am sorry. It's probably not a realistic way to think, honestly, but I still struggle with these feelings. But I will accept my potential mistakes here and stick around. I'm here for life, dudes, even if Dreamworks isn't. I would not even be alive if it weren't for this movie, I'm sure of that. I'm here until I'm gone. It's extremely important to me that I am, and I don't expect others to really understand.
We will continue to party hard as we have for the last ten years, with zero shame! If Dreamworks has abandoned us, then whatever. We're still having tons of fun! And if they decide they like us enough to continue and make a wicked sequel that surprises us all? I might actually die happy! But hey!! Who knows! What's another ten years. Listen, the last ten feel like I blinked. We'll be here for a while. I know it. We never left before, we're not now, lol.
But either way, I needed to get the Mr. Ed situation and that guilt out there, off my chest, because it's stuck with me for a very long time and I really need to move on from it.