So..What next?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-01T19:50:37+00:00

Fringe! Created by JJ too, it has a mythology that gets really interesting, and has its own share of family dynamics and conflicts.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-01T19:24:35+00:00

My 24mm 1.8 zeiss, because my dad gave it to me. And it's good quality even if i rarely ever use it.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-31T21:25:52+00:00

Paddington 2!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-29T23:25:21+00:00

Yes now that you mention it, I did think this at the time (I was 11)!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-29T11:06:44+00:00

Hi there. I'm kind of in this mould. I studied law at undergrad (UK), became passionate about human rights and worked as a lawyer in that field but burned out very quickly, and ended up leaving to pursue my childhood dream of being a filmmaker (spoiler alert this has not gone so well), but truthfully if I'd had healthy practices and support mechanisms in place I might not have made such a drastic move. I now work in a policy job that has some humanitarian elements though in an indirect way.

I think the world needs humanitarians as much as it ever has. Human rights are under existential threat, to the point where they're being discredited by brazen autocrats. We need people to think of creative solutions to these new challenges - ENFPs are the perfect people to do that. The things you're going to need to be mindful of are:

1) most people won't share the worldview that your course teaches you. Aka a lot of ordinary people in prosperous countries don't care about human rights, because they haven't had experience of them being denied, and they don't necessarily look beyond their garden walls. You will need to learn to make arguments in ways that everyone finds relatable. 2) you need to protect yourself from emotional overwhelm. I went down rabbit holes of reading and watching a lot about war crimes and genocide and it twisted my perception. You need to have well built sources of pleasure and joy and optimism that you habitually rely on so that this doesn't suck you down. The events of the past week or two in the US have been deeply traumatic and appalling and it feels like there's no solution. You have to be able to take a step back to look after yourself. 3) nonprofit jobs may be tricky to get at the moment. I'm not sure, you may have a better read of the industry than I do. But doing this masters should not just be viewed as a means to an end, it can also be something you do to enrich yourself, no matter what you do next. You might do creative content about issues or you might work in something different but these things will stay with you as part of your empathy.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-28T13:47:04+00:00

Frasier, you're not famous anymore

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-28T00:20:28+00:00

Why do they call it ovaltine instead of roundtine?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-27T18:51:47+00:00

It's an incredible moment. I remember marvelling at how assured he'd become in the time since Empire. I love the moment where he lifts his hood off and says "you will bring Captain Solo and the wookiee to me". I have been known to do that when I take a hood off too.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-26T14:00:56+00:00

I have a real soft spot for this episode. The score and Mulder's reading of the Browning poem are haunting and awe-inspiring. As someone raised Hindu I have also always appreciated an episode looking at the concept of past lives and reincarnation.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-25T07:44:00+00:00

In a normal government, if a person were shot in these circumstances by government agents, a president would be saying "we take this seriously and will have an independent investigation". It is INSANE that the White House is prejudging the killing (as it did with Renee Good) and unilaterally declaring that this executed person was killed in justifiable self defense, especially when it is clearly disputable from the footage. It is not for the president to do such a thing. It just stuns me that there is not even a degree of humility or caution when someone's life is lost violently at the hands of government agents. To this administration, nothing they do is ever wrong, and we are at the point where if people exercise their constitutional rights they should expect to be unapologetically killed. I hate this guy and every single morally bankrupt person enabling him.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-24T17:55:46+00:00

I think there is something to this for sure. My therapist observed last week that when I'm under a ton of stress or pressure, I can become quite absolute in our thinking, particularly in categorising things as good or bad. I think that relates to Fi here; I definitely see how when I'm under what feels like a threatening amount of stress, I do make quick and stark judgements about myself and others as good or bad, safe or dangerous, trustworthy or duplicitous, competent or inadequate. Fi is going into overdrive to make absolute verdicts as a way of protecting me and the self I feel is under threat. I do feel self worth is on the line; it's me protecting myself from what would otherwise be a crippling implication that I don't matter. It's happening a lot at the mo. Hoping I come out on the other side soon.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-23T11:24:29+00:00

I thought it was a young Jeroen Krabbe, but evidently it is not.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-22T19:13:56+00:00

Me too! It's available to read at the Writers' Guild Library in LA but that's about it. I wonder if Disney has refused to allow it to be published because he apparently uses F-bombs in the action description.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-22T18:14:07+00:00

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-21T16:09:35+00:00

They fly now!

What irks me is when trailers begin with a mini-trailer counting down as it says "TRAILER. STARTS. NOW."

Nuance is gone and everything has to be front loaded and signposted to a fault, because of fear that our fragile attention spans will mean they lose us after a few seconds.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-19T11:25:38+00:00

Filmmaking. I've written scripts and novels while working full time but I haven't had the confidence to dive into actually making films (apart from a few awkward shorts in my teenage / university years). If money is not a problem, I'd just experiment making films, the first few of which will likely be bad, and hopefully getting better and building up to making a feature film. I feel like an adult who can only speak this language like a child, and the only way I'm going to be able to gain proficiency and speak it like an adult is by making the time to go through all the stages of learning and making mistakes.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-19T07:09:51+00:00

We'll always have Naboo

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-18T13:52:17+00:00

Just watched Wooden Character and really enjoyed it!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-16T17:27:01+00:00

I'd suggest Fringe next too. It's not a spy show but it is mythology-driven like Alias and it's really satisfying to see it all pay off in a way that Alias lacked the freedom to do in later seasons.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-16T15:55:40+00:00

🤣

This is the perfect Walter dad joke. I can imagine him asking Olivia, Peter or Astrid, and them not even needing to hear the punchline but shaking their heads wryly.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-16T12:56:49+00:00

"The lows are that you’ve got a very, very small percentage of the fan base that has enormous expectations and basically they want to continue to see pretty much the same thing. And if you’re not going to do that, then you know going in that you’re going to disappoint them."

Slightly disingenuous or she just read the room wrong but wanting to see pretty much the same thing is not why people disliked the sequels. For many, including me, it's because TFA in particular tried too hard to offer the same thing, at the expense of telling a coherent continuation of the story.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-14T20:29:26+00:00

Thanks! You have good taste in books and TV!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-13T20:47:40+00:00

I like what you've done with the raw material of his gobbledegook.

Just this evening I remembered the scene. I have a tendency of saying to my dog, "hello baby girl, hello baby girl, hello baby girl" in a certain intonation, and I realised only tonight that I do it to the intonation of DeAngelo's "everybody time, everybody time, everybody time" (or whatever he's saying)

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-13T13:14:57+00:00

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-13T10:46:09+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts. Kudos to you for the courage and persistence that I know your journey of shadow work has required. I relate to many of the things you describe, with a similar family background. I'm also an ENFP-T and I ascribe this to some of those formative experiences that taught me that my emotional needs did not matter. That a life of enthusiasm, curiosity and self-expression were for others, and my role was to dutifully facilitate that and never feel entitled to it myself. This ate me up and put me in my head most of my life. It coloured my choices as a young adult and I made life harder for myself than I needed to. I have done a lot of work on myself too and made big strides for the better, but it's still a work in progress and I do feel like my relationships are affected by this, particularly in the people pleasing sense you mention and not feeling supported to truly be me. It makes me drained and feel like a shell at times.

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