#i'm going chronologically

[thedirtiwalkoniswet]

I finished the Obi Wan series and wow it is... not good.

I just watched the bad batch (actually solo inbetween but that was so bad I won't mention it further) and this show surprised me with how good it was. When these characters were introduced in season 7 of clone wars I was sure I wouldn't like the show, because they annoyed the hell out of me. But then I actually got to watching the show and it was good all the way through.

So Obi Wan was a whiplash. I have a lot of thoughts.

It's bad. It's so bad. For one, it looks cheap. The main reason I think is the lighting, half the time it is so painfully obvious it was filmed in a studio, and it takes any emergence that you could've had. They also could've color graded a little, it is boring to look at. Additionally is everything so stale, nothing in the background moves, there is 0 wind essentially in the show. The budget also definetly didn't went into make up and costume design, but that is so obvious it's barely worth noting and not the worst part.

The worst part, by far, is the dialog however. The actors are great, I know they are great, but they still struggle so hard to make the dialog sound normal and they can barely do that, because it is so, so bad. They just string random sentences together that don't make sense as a whole anymore. The actors can't react properly to the dialog, because in real life you'd look at them with the most confused face, like what the hell are you talking about bro. It is a shame that great actors are wasted on terrible dialog, that could have easily been better.

Additionally is the camera work quite odd. It can be decent occasionally, I think the scene were "Leia" gets dressed was nicely done and so are some other scenes. But then you get the scenes like when Reva was climbing on these buildings, which had terrible camerawork. Don't get me wrong, there is charm in the camera not being completely stiff, but they're just shaking it around whenever a fight scene comes up or any scene that isn't completely peaceful. It is jarring and makes the show look like a fan project, and not even a good one.

The action scenes also feel slow somehow. I know I can't compare it to a cartoon, obviously not. But I can compare it to action scenes from the prequels or Andor. In Obi Wan, it very much feels like the characters are holding back, when they clearly shouldn't be. Everyone is running and moving so slowly, it only makes me frustrated to see. I fear it might be because the actors weren't given enough time to rehearse or not enough care was put into choreographing/ editing. Even the fight between Vader and Obi Wan at the end was meh, and that was for most the best part. Yeah, it's cool he can use the force again, yeah it's sad that he has to accept that Anakin is not there anymore and Vader is all that's left. But... what else? This was what the entire show led up to and it could have been better. At least the location was extremely cool.

Tragically I'm still not done. Because another issue is that it is simply not a good experience. I'm not saying it has to be a happy one, but even tragic stories can make you engaged and riled up. It was a very bold desiscion to completely change Obi Wan, considering that in episode 3 and 4, he is extremely similar. So they had to change him just to bring him back to who we knew. Usually I LOVE angst, I think it is so interesting to see characters who you love go through hard times and evolve and change. But somehow it didn't work with him at all. I blame it mostly on the writing being so in your face, so bland and without nuance. Star wars was never known for good dialog, but usually that was George Lucas' fault and he wasn't really involved in the writing as far as I know.

There are good ideas sprinkled in. But it mostly felt like somebody said "you know what would be cool to see?" and then they wrote the plot around it to make it happen. (Like that pick up driver or whatever the space version would be)

Maybe I have so much to say because it is a huge shame. It could've been good, it could have been great. And yet it is genuinely terrible, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. To me this is some of the worst star wars media I have seen out of what I watched so far. Only Solo being worse (I fucking hate that movie). BUT I do think it's salvagable. They could make a fantastic season 2, it is very easily possible if they only put more effort in the writing and maybe fire Chung Chung-Hoon.

If you like it I am super happy for you, I know I ripped it apart, but please don't let me ruin something you like, despite all of this. My uncle loved this show and I can't talk to him about the show because I am not blinded by nostalgia bait. You can tangle any familiar character in front of him and he will most likely like it. (He liked Boba Fett and I haven't seen anyone liking it yet, but I haven't watched this one either so I don't have an opinion yet)

[za1ka]

Good Omens x The Great Mouse Detective redraws part... 2! featuring Adam and Dog 🐭🔍🐶 (part 1 here)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Five foot something and he's royalty.

[lcs-scar]

PLEAS PLEAS PLLEEEEAASSSS

Can you draw some pete content?? 🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏🙇🙇🙇

THAK YOU IF ITS YES

sure!!

[leoholzer]

Leo & Adam looking at each other I19/xI

[herrshepard]

Lestat in 1.01 — In Throes of Increasing Wonder…

[beeduoo]

i really like that one tiktok

[voltoise-art]

The difference thirty years makes

I've had the Stan twins' done since January haha oops

[starlingfawn]

for the number playlist ask game, how about 2, 5, 21, and leafpool?

leafpool with 21!

fuera de contol

requests are still open!!

[randelion-red]

[mlobsters]

person of interest s1e19 flesh and blood (2012) / supernatural s7e3 the girl next door (2011)

If I had a nickel for every time I was into a show that had meaningful rubbing of a scar on someone's palm, I'd have two nickels—which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

first time watch liveblogging via gifs part 21 of ?

[egophiliac]

Sorry, most likely my memory being poor, but I thought Malleus' mom (don't know how to spell her name and too lazy to check how to spell it) was already an adult when Lilia ""proposed""?? Like I was always under the assumption that it was like a one-sided child crush on somebody completely out of your league you tend to have as a kid 💀

I don't think they say how old she was? although it's entirely possible I just misunderstood; my Japanese is...shaky. :') the actual line is "幼い頃に私に求婚したのは偽りか?", which I read as "isn't it true that you proposed to me as a kid?", and took as her being older than him, but not necessarily an adult (like, I was thinking of Lilia as being not quite a preteen and Mel being preteen/young teen). although I don't know if there's a connotation or something I'm missing that implies a bigger age gap, if that makes sense!

(and of course, I might also just be forgetting some other line -- if someone else knows, then please correct me! I need to know which headcanons need adjusting 👀)

BUT YEAH in a canon-y sense, Malleus is 178 and around the third-years developmentally. which makes me think that even though dragons have a way longer lifespan, they go through childhood at about the same rate as most fae (or at least the kind that Lilia is) and just kinda...slow waaaaay down once they hit adulthood. so it makes sense in my brain that he and Meleanor could've basically grown up together!

...it makes it angstier that way, anyway. :)

[unloneliest]

tmg spreadsheet update:

format column has no blanks left! does need to be standardized in how i wrote things down, though, and reviewed, because i'm pretty sure i made it before at least one re-release that included tapes.

added 15 songs (mostly covers, 11 of which are covers that saw official release, two of which are demos, one of which is from the sir arne's treasure/sweden live performance. the last song is cover adjacent). they're not added to the public copy of my spreadsheet yet, because all i've added is their names + cover status, details coming later.

figured out where i want to start cross-referencing my sheet with others' lists of tmg songs (annotated tmg, then the wiki, then a couple other spreadsheets that were posted to the reddit and that i've saved for this express purpose)

once i finish that? that means i get to play with the other ideas i've been meaning to add to the spreadsheet! new tabs...

[syndrossi]

Thursday's NYE drabble (hah!) prompt set, assuming I get through five again, is a fun batch:

What if the twins had been born to Maegor instead? (I'll probably go with Rhaena for double twin theme.)

Otto POV learning that the twins don't burn/are special prophecy children (in Viserys's eyes)

Resonant!Rhaegar POV of Jon being an absolute hero

Dany summerhalled with the twins (triplets? i'm sort of leaning Reverberate AU where one of Elys and Rhea has the twins, and the other has Dany, and Daemon just goes "whatever, we're not saying which of them is trueborn so you'll have to assume all of them are!")

Rhaella and Daemon telling the twins they'll be getting a sibling

[hangofthursdays]

OSHAMIR one-shot mature/explicit fics - PART III

OSHAMIR fic rec MASTERPOST: LINK

part III (published December 2024 - January 2025)

edāx by unhinged_summer_fun main tags: Vampire AU Heavy is the Heart by beriallen main tags: canon universe, wedding A Kind of Christmas Magic by Tovesaiko main tags: Modern Christmas AU, established relationship these celestial appetites by dangerwillrobinson main tags: canon universe, rough sex, D/s you imagine an ocean by benjanninsolo (teen) main tags: canon universe, first kiss Sea Salt by flythesail for LRRH17 (teen) main tags: canon universe, swimming, first kiss

part I (July - September 2024): LINK part II (October - November 2024): LINK part IV (February 2025 - ?): LINK

[nayuu]

why so serious🤯🤯🤯

also have this horrible thing that I didn't want to post for several weeks