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this is not okay, THEY'RE TOO MUCH FOR ME

The absolute gay 'please let me control myself as I live out a dream but also a nightmare' in this moment just destroyed me. Tian is in love. He loves Wang on every level and he wants to kiss him and to hold him and love him and now he is being invited not just into his bed but to share his blanket and it is everything he wants but also none of it.

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Tian staring at his hand when Wang pulled away and the slow switch to holding onto his backpack. It's agony. He stares and he slowly realizes and he moves back and it's this separation that hurts and the way he just wants to keep holding on, to keep supporting him, to be there for him.

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The On1y One being nerd4nerd is giving me so much life.

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sorry, I just had to break away from house and ITS WERIDLY SAD SUBPLOTS... malpractice this, malpractice show that, NO ITS SO SAD LEAVE ME ALONE... please

Sirius Black is the type of guy to sit in his boyfriend's lap and shout "GAY!" as James literally just looks at Regulus.

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I'm currently really not very happy

I've been thinking a lot about the impact of Kutner's suicide and am baffled by complaints that it was too sudden and that the show moved on too quickly afterwards.

Re: "too sudden" -- well, we all know the real reason for its suddenness is that the actor needed to be abruptly written out of the show (thanks, Obama), but it was also a realistic depiction of suicide. Sometimes people impulsively kill themselves while drunk and no one knows why. Happens all the time in the real world.

Re: "moved on too quickly" -- did we watch the same show???

Kutner's suicide was the direct cause of the overarching plot for the second half of season five, and also drastically changed the overall trajectory of House's life. Presumably the writers originally had something else planned for the instigating event and just swapped in Kutner's suicide, but either way that crisis is what kicked off most of the major plot twists for the remainder of the show:

Kutner's suicide upset House so much that he could no longer sleep and drastically increased his Vicodin intake to cope with both his insomnia and his feelings.

The sleep deprivation set off House's first bout of psychosis in which he tried to kill Chase, and the Vicodin abuse set off his second round of psychosis in which he hallucinated having sex with Cuddy.

The multiple bouts of psychosis are what convinced House to go to rehab.

House getting off Vicodin is what made Cuddy willing to give things a shot with him.

That relationship ending badly led to House crashing his car into her living room and going to prison.

The knowledge that his parole was about to be revoked and he'd miss the last 5 months of Wilson's life is why House faked his death.

The show didn't "move on" from Kutner's suicide at all -- its effects reverberated for three and a half seasons, all the way through the series finale.

I'm not arguing that Kutner's suicide was the *only* reason those things happened. House's life was already in the dumpster. But Kutner's suicide was the match that lit the dumpster fire.

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CRYING

my best friend in the whoooole wiiiide world

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No but seriously, can we talk about this trio?

Rivals from different clubs, competitors since childhood yet brothers/friends in real life.

When Meng Xiao Dong (female lead’s cousin brother) and Jiang Yang were introduced in the earliest episodes, I thought definitely they are foes of Lin Yi Yang (the male lead). They hinted to some past unresolved tensions and I thought most definitely at least one of them will be a prick throughout the drama (either in the sport or in the love or both)

But surprise, surprise and what a pleasant surprise indeed! These two are LY’s biggest supporter both in sport and in love. They love him, they support him, they care about him and they do whatever necessary to be there for him. We love a good bromance! We love to see men build each other up rather than making everything a dick measuring contest.

Just 3 hotties who are good in their game and loyal in their friendship ✨🎉🍾

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"Someone told me these days that when I'm with her, all we do is eat. Maybe it's because I was poor as a kid. So poor that I had no zest for life. And even now, I feel that being able to be fed in various ways is the happiest thing in the world."

Lin Yi Yang

Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (2024 Chinese Drama)

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I am watching Amidst a Snowstorm of Love and I am dying at how her older brother comes and you think he’s going to be all scary and disapproving and protective and then he’s just like “You need to kidnap and marry this man immediately.”

Love to see it.

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ACTUALLY LAUGHED OUT LOUD YOU'RE SO RIGHT

watching amidst a snowstorm of love and the funniest thing to me is that like... as much as yin guo loves lin yiyang...

meng xiaodong is even more in love with him

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the way amidst a snowstorm of love is giving good vibes, fluff and constant butterflies in my stomach

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OpheThorn: A Rambling Analysis

A Winter’s Promise is the first novel in The Mirror Visitor quartet by French author Christelle Dabos. Although it was originally published in France in 2013, with the next two volumes having since been published, the English translation was only just released in September, with the second book due for a May release here in the States.

I praise it as a delightful concoction of originality, sprinkled with some J.K. Rowling, a dash of Philip Pullman, and a generous splash of Hayao Miyazaki. How smug was I when I read an old interview with Dabos wherein she cited all three as inspirations? Super smug.

I loved the whole thing, but the biggest takeaways for me were the protagonists, Ophelia and Thorn, both as individuals and as a pairing. I have so many thoughts! So, I’m hoping/waiting for there to be more of an English fanbase for this book. 

Until then, here’s a super-long essay of my impressions. If I’m at all difficult to follow in regards to the source material, then I guess you’d best get out there and get a copy!

[All fanart images used credited to @patricialyfoung] 

Keep reading

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some thoughts i have on the killing eve finale because i can’t think about anything else:

i saw this post :

and i wanted to elaborate and share some messy thoughts.

every reference they had in the finale to ‘divine reunion’ & the kintsugi ‘taking your broken bits and making them stronger by coming together’

but once eve chose to go to villanelle they actually made it work. and that’s what makes me so sad because it wasn’t either of their faults that it ended tragically, they found each other finally. and there was STILL death.

dying in a way that matters is one thing, and it’s heroic which would have been a good callback to carolyn telling eve that ‘the hero only gets the girl in hollywood’. like eve thought she was the hero, but in the end it was villanelle who saved HER. it could have been good like that but instead they chose to murder villanelle for nothing.

it’s pretty cruel of the writers to reduce her life to nothing and make her die due to some plot convenient twist. right when happiness was in her reach and right when she knew for sure that she was capable of being loved, which everyone kept saying she wouldn’t be because she was ‘evil’ and ‘a monster’ etc etc. i’m so happy that she atleast got to feel love from the person she loved the most (even if laura ruined those moments when she talked about them in her interview )

in my own version of an ending for them, they wouldn’t die. as i said, there would be meaningful ways to kill them off but i don’t like to think of them as people who were ‘doomed from the start’. especially not after they have such a beautiful reunion. those romeo & juliet, thelma & louise, and scorpion and frog references were too much for me </3

in my own version of an ending there would still be a degree of ambiguity and open ended-ness, but it would end as them being the versions they were always meant to become, separately and together. i feel like their stories could have started out so differently, and they’d still find themselves together in the end.

let’s a raise a glass to the red string metaphor:

the set up for these characters was so perfect, and the ending felt cheap and rushed compared to the complex and beautiful nature of their story. after everything they’ve been through, they deserved to come out of it. it is not creative, entertaining storytelling to kill off a character last-minute, who’s life had changed because of another. and also in eve’s case, she lost her person right when she accepted her.

also this season in of itself was comprised of so much filler… for example, what was the point of pam and yusuf? hugo could have easily been yusuf. and pam’s character was useless after she ended up rejecting carolyn’s offer when her whole arc was built on learning to follow orders and kill when she’s told to without asking questions ( like she did with helenes ex gf & konstantin). how were the twelve and kenny such a big plot point but we never found out the truths about any of that either. not to mention how villanelle killed the supposed twelves in a 15 second montage while eve was dancing?? it feels like a very bad fanfiction.

they could have easily tied pam into the bigger picture if they followed something like this :

i think it would have payed off a bit better if v & e heard gunshots so they jumped into the water and we thought they got hit but then it cuts to carolyn dead on that bridge and then to pam lowering her gun and walking away. pam once again “choosing” the assassin lifestyle by killing carolyn since at the end of the day carolyn will always be loyal to MI6. then it would cut back to v & e and they’d floating in the water, not shot, and very much alive.

a greater plot twist than what we got.

what actually ended up happening seemed like a failed attempt to visually re create dani & jamie’s ending in ‘bly manor’. unlike with killing eve, dani died with purpose, and died a real hero; her death was a key plot point and it was not some half-assed last second attempt at shock.

it could have been so much better if laura gave a shit about these characters the way phoebe did.

also, the entire subplot of villanelle being obsessed with christianity out of the blue, wanting to “get better” and finally when she accepts herself and is loved for who she is, then she dies—and according to laura, eve has had a “rebirth” and is going to go on and live the life she “deserves”…. how homophobic does she want to be?? that was not a scream of relief from eve as laura is trying to make us believe it was, sandra oh screamed in pain and horror. eve was heartbroken. she was not relieved.

i also cannot believe that laura said eve was happier around “human beings”… basically saying villanelle isn’t one, and dehumanising her so bad. when the POINT of the show is for us to empathise with the villains as phoebe said, and villanelle’s own journey was realising she was more than just an assassin and that she was capable of a life that satisfied her, a life with love. but no, laura really just dehumanised the fuck out of her and said slay eve is better off without her.

why can't people see that eve doesn't want another ‘chance' to 'get it right.' she's not the same woman from s1 (maybe she never was). i think she surrounded herself with people who were forcibly doing ‘the right thing' so she could pretend she was happy that way. but she wasn't.

and it was so obvious with the way she was chasing after villanelle. because villanelle represented this part of her that she pretended wasn’t there and she didn’t realise how powerful that part was until she found someone else who embraced it. on a surface level it’s the killing and the murder, but the subtext screams with queer undertones and that’s why the story between them resonated a lot with the majority wlw audience.

i don’t think fictional stories are ever just stories, not when they impact people in real life to this capacity. the amount of people who were re-thinking if they deserved to be happy in their own lives because of the way killing eve ended really broke me. and it’s not this dramatic overreaction either because traumatic endings with queer couples is all we’ve ever known.

it was devastating that killing eve, a show that had subverted those stereotypes in the past, built its legacy around it, had followed through with the worst one of them all in the end. bury your gays is such lazy writing i’m so tired. with eve in the earlier seasons, even her husband couldn't see that side of her that villanelle had & it frustrated her because she was scared of it. but then villanelle made it make sense and it scared her more that someone lived so freely that way. that's why she was so hesitant & she walked away so many times. being confronted is scary. that was good storytelling.( i mean of course villanelle was in a cage of her own) but eve saw everything she could be in villanelle. through everything, all her hesitation and morality, she found her way to villanelle and the two of them finally made it work, they finally had it all. her happiness WAS villanelle. it’s sad to see how the s4 writers saw villanelle the same way her mother did , a one dimensional psychopath with an incurable darkness :(

it’s so clear too. when it comes to the tarot cards, villanelle got the sun card, and to her being loved back by eve = the sun, pure and true happiness (even if it was only a few hours). eve got the death card, having to live without villanelle especially after they came together is worse than a physical 'death' for her.

it's unfathomable to be that people can't see that. and furthermore, why would the writers write eve to have been happy to “escape villanelle” when they wrote her to say that she didn’t like it when villanelle got shot with the arrow, just 3 episodes earlier…nothing is adding up between what we see on screen and the narrative laura neal has in her head. if we aren’t interpreting it the way you wanted us to, laura, (which NOBODY is) than that’s on you , not us. especially, ESPECIALLY when you never seemed to know the souls of these characters to begin with.

killing eve is a love story at its core. their mutual understanding of each other was the only thing in both of their lives that made sense. there would be no point otherwise. phoebe literelly said that every scene in the show was for the purpose of getting v and e to be close, everything was supposed to lead up to it. being seen by someone beats everything else, that's real love. the implications of the finale felt very homophobic. i'm so tired.

what i used to love about killing eve was the complex nature of the femme fatale trope, and the way it was so effortlessly queer. it was powerful the way the queerness was never this massive talking point. it just was. villanelle’s female gaze for example>>>>. i have never seen anything depicted as well as it was depicted through her eyes. and the subtle emphasis of how femininity could be vile , scary and lethal. villanelle changed so many things just by existing in that show and that’s why it means so much , that’s why the fourth season feels like such a slap in the face because it didn’t feel like the others (s3 was questionable too ).

and more so the fact that straight viewers and professionals recognise how bad this ending was. it’s a huge backstab. eve’s speech at the end was completely about how beautiful reuniting with villanelle was, and they killed her after that for what? shock factor doesn’t work anymore :/ not even the actors were satisfied , but jodie and sandra did their best and really made the episode what it was. especially after reading laura’s interviews … yikes she really lost the plot and it infuriates me. it felt as though she hated these characters and never understood them at all. i could go on about this for ages but i don’t have to, just look at any news article on the finale or the 4x08 ratings…

i guess i’m just happy that villanelle got to experience that love from eve because that was what everything was ever for. for her story alone, i think killing eve will always be remembered despite the horrible ending. we have a right to be devastated.

there’s so much more i could and have said other times about this, but physically i am drained at the moment. and it’s been said and re-said all over twitter and in recent articles so i think you’re all aware.

rip villanelle you will always be famous to us.

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That was Carolyn's sacrifice to MI6, but, more importantly, it was the creators' sacrifice to the Carolyn spin off they want so bad. They disrespected the whole series to try to wring more money out of it.

I get that the show was called killing eve but the original eve was already dead. The title was already honoured.

Despite the fact that this season made no coherent sense after the last finale, I'm glad we got to see them in love. It ended with the hug on that boat though.

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LMAOOO, why does every kdrama i start either have a potential gay ship or turn out to be queer-coded.

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someone needs to conduct an expansive study into the sort of drug hidden love and when I fly towards u are laced w,,, like it's genuinely insane how addicting these shows have been. its watch finish repeat for dayssss

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UNCONSCIONABLE

GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 WHAT THE HECK