#I wish I could love this series

[miss0atae]

I don't know why I'm still watching Our Story. It's been 4 episodes and they've dragged the breakup between Fifth and Zeke. It's heartbreaking. Fifth is so desperate to find a solution for them to still be together. Zeke, on the other hand, seems to only be annoyed by him and he gets to live his little domestic life with his former childhood love who made him so sad he got suicidal, but now everything is alright... It almost feels like what happened between Zeke and Fifth in My Story was a fever dream. Zeke doesn't seem sad at all not being with Fifth anymore. He is having a fun time with Kevin and silly little chit chat with his new friend Iris while Fifth is crying in every episode.

It is getting boring. The story is not progressing at all. I can't even care about the side characters' storylines because the main leads haven't had a real conversation since episode 2. Zeke is always in the mood or screaming at Fifth. I'm at a point where I wish they would give another love interest for Fifth so he can be happy with someone who respects him and truly loves him because if I was him, I would never get back with Zeke.

My Story wasn't the best BL ever but Zeke and Fifth's story was really compelling. They stole the show from the main leads and I was really expecting their own story to be as interesting as what we got previously. Unfortunately it's not the case. Sometimes the series is not great but there is one good point (or several good points) that keeps you watching it (hello The Jungle by GMMtv 👋). If something better doesn't come next week, I may give up watching it.

[ankahikoibaat]

Star Wars was and has always been meant to be hopepunk and good vs evil at its base, not grimdark and 'morally grey' and 'subversive', and this is a hill i will die on

[st-hedge]

I can’t believe they’d managed to animate kusuriuri’s insane character design and then decided to make it even more insane. The most character ever

[pawwlick]

Traffic gals with beards 💜

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Union χ - Daybreak Town

[spicyvampire]

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 7 // EP. 5

[ryllen]

I am playing Palia,

and I want Unsuur & Einar to meet

[unicoreads]

I love how GRRM HIMSELF came out & said a lot of the same things many of us have already said & got harassed for ☺️

I also find it HILARIOUS that even after GRRM says things out of his mouth the delulu hotd fans still try to argue the shit because of course they’re completely right & not the guy who idk made the shit 💀

The world we live in…..

[drawingcrows]

Thank you, Kikiyama

[gunsatthaphan]

#comedy king.

[demigods-posts]

I've seen a lot of discourse about Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series, and I'd like to say that I loved her. Don't get me wrong. I love Sally from the original book series, and I, too, would fight the God of War on her behalf. But something that I enjoyed about Virginia's portrayal of Sally that we don't get in the books is the character depth. We don't hear much of Sally's backstory in the TV series, apart from a couple of flashbacks with younger Percy and that scene with Poseidon (Toby Stephens). However, those scenes do an excellent job of showing us that alongside being Percy's mother, Sally is also a young woman who fell in love with a man she could not be with and is enduring the natural consequences of having Percy. She struggles to communicate with him when she's frustrated, gets teary-eyed when she lies to him to prolong the inevitable, and actively sacrifices her happiness to ensure his safety. Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson reinforces the character's humanity, imperfections, and determination, and it's everything to me.

[baldursghaik]

Reading the reaction to Larian's decision to fully step back from wotc/d&d/etc has been interesting

a lot of mourning of the loss of "content"

"we could have had years and years of content" "this is heart breaking to never see these characters again" etc etc

is that what you really want? content? is this what modern media production has come to, that people aren't sated with anything less than milking a property until it's a barren husk of anything it once was?

Why can't we be happy with what we have? I don't think it's unfair to be sad about this news, especially given that it felt like some things were being teased or hinted at, and now they most likely will not come to fruition (at least at larian's hands), but is that really so bad? If you're so dissatisfied with a character's ending or arc, write a fanfiction, draw fanart, boot up the game again and just imagine your way into what you DO want

is that not the fundamental nature of d&d?

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[bittersweet-alyssum]

an assortment of sams ft. some of the other yhs cast

i've been rewatching yhs for god knows however many-nth time and i've wanted to do fanart since FOREVER so why not.

once i finish rewatching tokyo soul seasons 1 and 2 i'm gonna give the reboot a try, still sad grian and taurtis aren't a part of the crew anymore tho.....

[wszczebrzyszynie]

im licherally Obsessed with your RPGmaker post if you ever want to talk about it more i would eat that up

its a very fun au. me and aku have a huge passion for rpg maker horror games so we just kind of... combined what we like with hermitcraft and 3rd life things and made a story around it

basically it all starts as a dark comedy about the end of the world vs grians very petty goal. the world is very much burning around him and jimmy but hes determined to fullfil his last goal and kill the mayor. until jimmy dies because of him and hes hit with the gravity of the apocalypse

its pretty late, and there is... way too much thought put into this au, and especially the endings, so ill explain them later ... instead ill just clarify some things from the tags under the first post i made about it

you are getting a pity discount after you cause jimmys death! scar is generally aware of everything going on in the game even if hes not present. and even if it happened in a different timeline (his ending would require the player to finish the game at least once). and hes feeling very sad for grian. even if he wants to kill some version of him

grian actually never fullfils his goal! its very much a case of story starting with one jokey thing and then getting more and more serious. but he also never realizes that the mayor is scar; and if he does he doesnt really care anymore. he treats every scar npc as a separate person whenever he puts on a different hat perry the platapus style

forgot to do the paperwork. all paperwork ever

there is only one scar and one grian. scar is just everywhere at once. that being said mother spore does exist in this au (it would be hard if she didnt), and its grians god form! im not providing any context. goodnight

[thirdeyeblue]

“Nine would have treated Martha better than Ten did”

I need to talk about this argument that never seems to stop circulating.

Note: Not a venomous/anti post. There’s more than enough of that across fandom spaces as is, and this is supposed to be a place for ✨sweet, blissful escapism✨

When making this argument, people seem to envision a scenario in which Nine never met Rose.

While I can appreciate a good hypothetical, recognizing Rose's significance to the Doctor (Nine and Ten) is essential to understanding why things with Martha played out the way they did in the first place.

In the third series, the Doctor is grieving. This grief is deliberately threaded into nearly every script, whether spoken aloud or not (and these are just a few examples):

He's burning in Rose’s wake the entire time Martha travels with him, which is why it’s so frequently called upon: It’s 100% deliberate in framing his grief. He grieved as Nine too, of course— having been fresh on the heels of the Time War — but then he met Rose, which changed everything.

Back then, he was still a rude, traumatized pain in the ass, but we watch Rose soften more of those jagged edges with every episode as they grow closer; as he lets his guard down and forms a deep connection with her.

He falls in love (against his better judgment) and it's game over.

And yes: provided S1E1 had been titled 'Martha', one can realistically assume things might have unfolded similarly to how they did with Rose. However, it wouldn’t have been that way just because the Doctor was Nine and “Nine was different” — it would be because he wasn’t already in love with someone else. The same can't be said for the start of S3.

Think of it like this: if Rose AND Martha had been in that cellar — if Nine had taken both of them along with him in S1 — we’d eventually be looking at the most melodramatic love triangle ever, what with him living in close quarters with two brilliant, gorgeous, compassionate young women... But Doctor Who is plenty “soap opera” as is with just one woman in the TARDIS.

(I certainly wouldn’t object to reading that fic, though)

Now, regarding the unrequited elephant in the room…

His inability to be romantic with Martha isn’t because he thinks her lesser, nor is it for lack of compatibility. It isn't because Rose is any better than her. It certainly isn’t just because he’s Ten.

It’s really only for one reason, which can't be denied — and now I’m a broken record:

He is still in love with Rose.

(cut from a tenrosedaily gif)

Nine is Ten, and Ten is only such a mess in S3 because he’s just lost the love of his life. Martha merely got caught in the crosshairs of a volatile Time Lord in mourning, and yes — it sucks. Absolutely.

But it also feels dismissive to chalk Ten and Martha’s relationship up to little more than some sort of mindless dance of pining, jealousy, and toxicity.

Ten trusted Martha with his life over and over again — and hers, with him. He constantly praised her brilliance, happily carting her around time and space with no intention of letting her go. In the BBC’s extended universe of novels/comics/cartoons/etc, there’s so much depth to their relationship: love and trust and trauma and sacrifice. They had their own special bond as mates, their own complexities — so it’s a bummer that it's forever overshadowed by the other things.

I’m not denying that there was a lot of stuff that sucked/was for sure toxic about Ten's S3 behavior, but so many of the things I've seen him catching flak for can be directly attributed to being A Clueless Fucking Alien Idiot (not a trait that’s unique to Ten) — as well as his flat-out obliviousness to Martha’s feelings.

So yes, I agree: if Rose never existed, he would have treated Martha differently as Nine. He also would have treated her differently as Ten. Certainly.

But Rose did exist, and when discussing canon, it matters.

“He tells me that he absolutely, 100% loves Rose... He tells me how my daughter; my wonderful, beautiful, clever little girl saved him from himself before… And he says that’s all because of me! I made her into the Rose Tyler that saved him.”

-Jackie Tyler, Flight Into Hull!

Martha got the short end of the stick in S3. She came round at the wrong place and time, but that doesn't mean it was all bad. It doesn't mean the Doctor didn’t adore her. It certainly doesn't mean the time they spent together was wasted or worthless. They were brilliant!

Sure, he could be a twat, but let it be known that he was a twat with Rose as well, both as Nine and Ten. I’m sure Tentoo can be plenty infuriating, too. So while I'll defend Ten (and Tentoo) into the ground forever and ever and ever, I'll concede that he's fucked up.

The Doctor is a certified Pain In The Ass. It’s one of the things I love so much about this character — dynamics.

But never forget that Martha was goddamn tough as nails and overcame every bit of it. She moved on with her life, and the Doctor moved on with his. One can only pray that, when they inevitably drag her back onto the show (which feels inevitable if I'm honest), we see at once that she's been living her best life for all these years.