#BUT I REPRESSED IT

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I hate when I get into these phases when once I process through one thing causing me anxiety there's another thing right behind it

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

[beebfreeb]

[nataliescatorccio]

"Originally it was not called 'Good Luck, Babe!', it was called 'Good Luck, Jane!", but my co-writer and I kept getting in arguments about it, so it became 'Good Luck, Babe!'." CHAPPELL ROAN on 'Good Luck, Babe!'

[aerequets]

cost and benefit

[grumpoww]

I'm sorry I'll never stop drawing them being physically affectionate

[skellyjingles]

coping mechanisms

[godspeedpietro]

"so what are we gonna do? just like.. ride bob into the sky?" yeah you would be the one to suggest that, john...

[novelconcepts]

Also please let’s discuss the Other Tai of it all, because this is important to me. She isn’t evil. It’s incredibly important to understand she isn’t evil. She’s hungry. She’s hungry for all the things that kept Taissa alive in the woods. She IS the thing that kept Taissa alive in the woods, in her own way. She was the very essence of nature. She was dirt and trees and need. What kept Tai alive out there? Food. Meat. Van. What does Other Tai naturally gravitate toward, trying to steer Taissa toward the things she needs? Food. Meat. Van. That political career? Theater. That family polished to a shine? Facade. What really matters, when everything else is shorn away? Food. Meat. Van. Base impulse. First loves and full bellies. She isn’t evil. She’s trying to keep Tai fed and alive, as she always has. It just comes at such a terrible cost.

[ruoyeming]

A lirtle wangxian wip cause I've been rewatching The Untamed <3

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

everyone talkin about the "Oh. Oh." revelation but can we refocus on "Oh no they're hot"

because alas. you're hot as fuck. i still despise you, but you're hot as fuck. all our interpersonal actions are gonna erotically tinged from here on out. it won't change anything plot-related but now i hafta be aware of it

[cup-o-stars]

Finished a rewatch. Love these two.

It was fun toggling my style just a smidge. I need a break from my usual or I'm gonna go crazy.

[sunderwight]

Usually in stories where the lead character gets a whole harem of lovelorn admirers, it begs a lot of willing suspension of disbelief. Especially when the harem protagonist is also trying to be a relatable audience proxy, because as most average people can verify, getting people to fall in love with you at the drop of a hat is not a normal thing. Many a harem anime has tried to work around this by asserting that the lead is just somehow attracting absolute weirdos by the dozens, and coincidentally this flavor of freak just really goes for the "boring and generically nice-ish" type, but plenty also just shrug and are like, yeah everyone's in love with this guy for no discernible reason, just go with it.

But then there's Scum Villain. With Shen Yuan, I can finally buy this happening. At last someone got the "audience proxy character" formula to combine successfully with the "most desirable love interest" formula.

[eleu22]

angry boy

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

What I do find low key funny is that in most shows/movies, when a character goes through their Traumatic Incident™️, they're almost always very tight lipped and secretive about what happened to them.

However if you speak to Edwin Payne for more than 20 minutes, not only will he tell you that he was in Hell, he'll give you a time scale and recommendations for restaurants there. He's leaving catty reviews on TripAdvisor. He's the Edwardian equivalent of a vlogger who had a bad time at a starbucks and has to make a 40+ minute call out video. Conceptually he should be Broody and Mysterious but he's fundamentally too much of a gay little bitch to keep shit to himself.