#IM JS

[sheepsgf]

we are all lucky to see this

[foolishskull]

idk guys. i blacked out and when i came to this was on the canvas 😔

bonus sketch while im still in a thrawn mood

[fadewalking]

The deep cuts on Solas' face look sore enough. But those huge scrapes across his face are what looks truly painful...

Just imagining that raw stinging pain when he's cleaning himself up later

[lilcowzia]

can't a girl just be pathetic, weak, and happy about it?

[teal-fiend]

Looking for a gender neutral for good girl/boy?

"Good pred"

[rupertdriggs]

just figured out on accident that while a certain event with logan is happening... you can go rewatch all the cutscenes hes in and see him like this instead. Yes i took many screenshots sdkuhfkrh

[damagecompilation]

imma be honest the people who click the "for [mun] only" button on polls need to be put down

[skin-slave]

Started S2 of Squid Game and I can't tell you how happy I am that I can ship 001 and 456 again.

[gravednger]

shipping with Isolde works best when they're a little bit scared of you

[audaciiae]

considering what dio did to pentheus for disrespecting him, id say hed give theseus a great dose of the horrors for what he did to ariadne

[potetosaradas]

i accidentally ship tony the tiger and chester the cheeto cheetah now

[shyshyaaaaaa]

gang is it like NOT normal to want to spend every waking moment with your best friend. like you stay up late for them to wake up and literally tell them everything and lowkey have like the biggest friend crush on them. like you wanna talk to them every waking moment. is that not normal. is that obsession. am i like. going insane.

[fadewalking]

Solavellan but instead of no contact for 10 years they write each other letters like 19th century lovers who yearn in flowery prose

[prickcest]

marinating in thoughts about rick and diane's broken marriage hhrhghgh

ALSO in the process of drafting fics for Rick Prime and Diane Prime

[rockange-a]

adam and lute would def have matching names in the video games they play. like those e-dater types. the kind that yell at you if you pick the character they are a one-trick at and they'll rage in chat.

[arthurslesbian]

anyway, as someone coming at this movie from not having read the book but being an avid rom com fan, i kind of don't like how rwrb is being called not original or not creative or not inventive or silly or basically not good

i mean. i get if you don't like rom coms. i do, they're truly not for everyone. but like. this movie was really fucking good. maybe rom coms just don't get credit for how hard they are to do well?

like idk actors repeatedly say how comedy is harder to do than dramatic, serious scenes, which is probably why there's a whole group of actors who are known for doing comedy, because it's really hard and a specialized skill set. getting those comedic beats right, the expressions that have just the right amount of irony and im in on it is hard!

and with romance, you need to have that chemistry, that rhythm it's really hard to do well because there's nothing external to the characters to distract from their performances there's no cool effects or world at stake plot or menacing villian

and rom coms?? really hard to get right. the whole genre has been in a decline for like the past ten years if I've been honest. so many recent rom coms have not been good at all! horribly written, terribly edited with really bad pacing, the flattest acting with no chemistry and not to mention uninteresting sets and costumes and stagnant camera work

meanwhile. rwrb is brilliant. it's written so well, with hilarious one liners (thank you zahra) and so much humour and comedy from the couple, the actors went all out with phenomenal performances, the shots showed so much care and attention to each scene, and the pacing was perfect for what it is - a rom com.

like so many recent rom coms take 4k way too far and it looks so bad, but rwrb looks so beautiful in every still. every single background was gorgeous every set, every detail with costuming. and this is important in rom coms! the two leads look so incredible!! taylor looks like a greek god with his long legs and his abs and his eyelashes to his nose while nick looks like a beautiful angel. (sorry it had to be said)

and the thing is, this is really hard to do. I believe rom coms have been in decline as the industry grapples with how much technology has pervaded dating recently, from dating apps to communicating constantly through things like texting and facetime, which it's really struggled to show convincingly on screen. the last good rom coms were before things like smartphones really took off

and rwrb did that so well!! romance as a genre in books recently has kind of been leaning into the tropes we're nostalgic about while incorporating those more recent aspects of relationships, and rwrb translates that so well on screen. the way they did the text messages was honestly innovative!!

the way it kind of led up to having henry physically in the room was an amazing way to capture growing closeness and how we now perceive text conversations to be just like real conversations, while still highlighting the kind of difference of actually being there which is actually really hard to portray and not really something the industry has figured out how to show well imo.

i loved the chemistry in that scene, and i loved how they did the emails as well because those are two different things!! and how it was able to show their togetherness while they were apart. even the way that ghosting works and alex literally storming a castle was shown so well!! that's not easy or done before!!

all this to say, i for one really appreciate matthew lopez's vision and will be rewatching this movie just as much as movies like 27 dresses, bridget jones' diary, and the proposal and i can't wait for a new wave of (queer!) rom coms