#Idk any other reality shows

[the-halfling-prince]

Finally watching 19 Dolls and Counting and I'm losing my mind here. The acting? The dialogue? The background music in some scenes? Literally the same level of seriousness as Aspen Heights and Realm of Arragara. Girl put her entire soul into making Aly... Like that.

[holyjost]

there's this phenomenon i've seen talked about where a product is finally being created for a market that wasn't previously being served, and the first response to it being an expectation of moral perfection, especially when the market in question is marginalized in some way (as women are in general, but especially in the world of sports). the product is held to a higher standard than the counterpart that serves the non-marginalized because people are projecting a sense of morality onto the product that they don't with the counterpart because the counterpart is (wrongfully) seen as neutral or apolitical because it represents the non-marginalized.

i'm not by any means saying everyone should shut up and take what they can get, but the threats of specifically boycotting over things that wouldn't result in any comparable amount of pushback if they happened in the nhl (which can actually afford to withstand a boycott and where changes made by a boycott would have a much bigger impact) is worth examining to me. also i don’t know how productive it is toward making the world a better and more inclusive place. is an approach to punishing one single individual having a net positive benefit when the approach could also harm women's sports at large. sometimes it feels like people just want to have a strong reaction in the moment because it makes them feel like a good person

[dukeofthomas]

Something I really especially love about btas is that every character is just… a human. Batman doesn't just show up and incapacitate 30 people no issue, he has to fight and brawl with just 1 or 2 henchmen. He can be taken out by hits and poisons and such. The rogues have to surrender when the cops get guns to their faces, and can be overpowered even by normal people. Joker isn't some pure evil incarnation of the Devil or whatever, he's just… a really bad man. Same for every other villain and character. And Bruce actually gets to show personality and emotion beyond Brooking and Grunting. He makes jokes and laughs and gets sad.

I'm really getting to understand why people call this the best Batman adaptation.

[egcdeath]

reality tv star patrick zweig…. walk with me

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

y’know if there’s one good thing that came out of the book of bill, it’s that you can’t take it as canon and be a proponent of same coin theory at the same time

[simple-sheep]

I genuinely think people would have a better time with stuff of they just stopped holding everything to super high and impossible expectations and then get disappointed when this very-specific-thing-they-wanted didn't happen.

Like just enjoy the ride. Go in with "imma have a good time" and amazingly you'll probably have a good time and if not it'll be a better time than if you didn't.

Be here now.

[kideternity]

Easily one of the pettiest reasons I've gotten mad at a spider man retcon was because one arc tried to tell me via retcon Mysterio was from California. He is absolutely not from fucking California. You are lying to me and everyone else reading this comic. Take that back right fucking now.

[sketching-shark]

I feel ya on the whole "falling out of love with the show" thing. When it first released, I LOVED Monkie Kid. Liked really loved it. I would talk about it all the time. But four seasons in, you could say I've been disillusioned. I don't hate the show or anything and still find enjoyment from it, but I'm just very much aware of it's shortcomings in terms of storytelling and characterizations (looking at you Wukong) and just see that there's much to be desired. When there's a hiatus, my feeling isn't "No, I'm upset it's over." My feelings have turned into "thank goodness because I need a break from this show." Kinda sad because I thought this show was the greatest, and it's not.

Initially, I thought going in a more narrative direction was the best decision the writers made. Now I can't help but question if sticking with the slice of life format would've been better, instead of trying (and kinda failing) to be this dramatic, angsty story. I think Season 2 had the best balance between the two formats.

Lol, I think I can sum it up by saying that I thought LMK would be ATLA level of great, and it's far from it.

Monkie Kid spoilers & some complaining below the read more

bigh sigh but yeah anon. i found Monkie Kid so fun in its first few seasons because besides the neat characters and good animation most of the stories revolved around silly adventures and issues that could in fact be wrapped up in a pretty satisfying manner within 10 minutes. And oh yeah there was also that little detail of the Monkey King being presented as at least a somewhat competent mentor. So yeah need to note as usual that i lean towards pessimism but ugh you can only go through so many instances of Qi Xiaotian getting relentlessly traumatized & a significant amount of that trauma being the result of things SWK did or failed to do all while one character after another yells at the Monkey King for being a thoughtless jerk who ruins literally everything & all of that while the plot then repeatedly trips over itself to kind of confirm this sentiment before you go from "Oh boy! I can't wait to see what goofy fun times we'll have next!" to "Oh boy. I wonder how Qi Xiaotian's going to get traumatized and SWK's going to be made even worse. Again."

[arolesbianism]

Yet another beautiful day to have the Maxwel tag blocked (can't see half of the posts in the Wendy tags)

[eurekavalley]

I feel like Jimmy’s got a “need to keep busy” thing (like Bad Choice Road and any excuse to go into work when he really shouldn’t), and after he gets out of jail he’s going to drink up on everything he’s missed, direct little films, maybe go to cooking evening classes, obviously help Kim out with her pro bono firm, theatre programs you name it. Also the addict coding business, the more joy he finds the less likely he’ll go back to old habits when things get hard.

Or when he started selling drop phones because Kim was too busy to watch Doctor Zhivago with him?

I can definitely see him doing theater with at-risk youth or for re-entry. I hope he also lucks into the best therapist in Colorado and starts to understand what he's doing. He's always going to be Jimmy but I hope he becomes someone who can like, enjoy a bubble bath in the middle of the day too.

[valentinemailbox]

no bc tumblr + tiktok gays who look down on drag queens in general just bc of what they’ve seen of drag race (which doesn’t even represent all drag) piss me tf off

[wheucto]

what if fan was also a robot

[astrxealis]

okay i'll seriously stop now (just a maybe) anyways please get into milgram listen the songs watch the mvs and all! <3

but just to ramble a bit: fuuta really is. so similar to the viewers/es

[achingly-shy]

as someone who is ace-spec myself, my thoughts on the ace-spec representation in heartbreak high are all over the place…

[1327-1]

my hard launch to get medicated immediately thwarted by healthcare professional who believes i am there to inconvenience them

[britneyshakespeare]

brandi glanville is so weird to james maslow in celebrity big brother season 1. she is so clearly mean bc she’s attracted to him. when they’re laughing behind james’ back bc he said he didn’t want to wear a leotard as a punishment and brandi’s like “he probably doesn’t want everyone to see the small outline” it’s like... girl first of all ew. second of all why are you making me defend the size of his dick bc that’s definitely not true