TFA sentinel: SQUEEEE OMG IM FINALLY A PRIME and I hate that stupid scrapheap Optimus
TFONE sentinel: okay airachnid now hit the second tower
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I will say, Kidnap is turning out to be as pulpy as I was initially hoping it would be.
It's fast-paced in a way that BL rarely is—our hero finds himself in a new predicament every week, struggling to balance his situational needs with his moral code. He's fighting off loan sharks, his brother has health issues, he's struggling with a kidnapping that he's not emotionally committed to, he's falling for his target, he's getting involved with the mafia, and soon enough, the police will be on his tail.
It may not be as heavily sexual as some pulp can be, but Kidnap bears markers of erotic and romantic pulp stories—it's tinged with situational bondage, we have a sadistic villain, and its romance is built on a contrast of high danger and emotional tenderness. As a romantic lead, Min is both strong and vulnerable, while Q plays a "damsel in distress" who is smart, snarky, and more capable than he seems.
Because I'm not fluent in Thai, I'm not comfortable speaking to the wittiness or snappiness of the dialogue, but the show is funny, and the comedy brings a levity that such a fast-paced story needs. Not all shows dealing with heavy topics like loan sharks or mafia need a lighthearted or silly aspect, and often this can be out of place, but when you are moving as quickly as Kidnap, those heavier elements can feel like a constant barrage.
I won't declare that the show was for-sure going for a pulp feeling, but it certainly bears the markers of a lot of pulp literature. Pulp weeklies (which, incidentally, made a lot of their money off of advertisements x), needed stories that would keep their readers coming back week after week. How will Min get out of this predicament now?
Overall, I hope that people can take Kidnap as it is without judging it for failing to achieve something that it's not trying to accomplish. Pulp may not be for everyone, and that's fine. It's certainly not high-brow literature, it was made to be accessible to the masses, but many great writers got their start in pulp, and the pulp era had a lasting impact on modern storytelling. Personally, I tend to really love things with strong pulp influences, so I am being well fed by Kidnap. Maybe that will change in the future, but so far I have enjoyed each episode more than the last.
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Let's say you could still engage in this function if you wanted to, but you have no need to anymore, and you would not do it automatically or reflexively.
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Hey just to like. Make it clear. We follow a bunch of rp blogs (particularly rotomblr stuff) because we find the roleplays interesting, and because we've been in a perpetual state of "we should maybe join this" for like 3 months. We have character ideas we just have very little actual knowledge about Pokemon and also don't know if we'd be able to keep up consistently enough to really do much.
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Ough realized I forgot to upload some sketchwork I did about springtrap during a time I don’t see a lot of people drawing/using story wise
Anyways here’s good ol willy freshly springlocked and not quite so decrepit yet. May do lineart of this later may not, depends on how I feel.
Tho I may do more of this, already have a baseline idea on how to make it work
In that I’m gonna make Fredbears diner and Freddys pizzeria a ‘conjoined’ location. In that what would be the backrooms springtrap would be locked in for 30+ years instead is a gift shop that would be the connector between the two locations (that way spring boyo has a whole restaurant for himself, allowing me to not just endlessly draw the same dude in the same room)
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"Look at this video of a child disappointed at their expensive gift! Children are so spoiled these days!"
That's cool. So, why did their parents upload their small child being upset online? In a public video, shared to the entire video? Why did they even save the recording?
Like. The kid in that scenario could be saying the most entitled nonsense in the world, and if their parents post it online to be publicly shamed, I'd still support the kid 100%. Thinking your child's life is a toy to exploit freely for #content is "spoiled"; when faced with mommy vlogers, kids should be demanding three PS5s and a new Bugatti, and we should be applauding them for it
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We've had strap ons since at least 400 BC, and people still have the nerve to go on gay hook up apps and ask "how can an FTM be a top?"
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