#a rom-com QUEEN

[lucyllawless]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[wngmn]

How DARE people say Top Gun (1986) isn't a rom com when THE rom com queen Meg Ryan is in it?

[hoe4seok]

So many people are mad about the illness plots in current kdramas but I just can't take those takes seriously. Some of us remember when the drama side plots were not illness but serial killers or kidnappers. In strong woman Do Bong Soon the main couple was almost killed by bomb. Secretary Kim had trauma responses resulting from kids being kidnapped. Hell even lovely runner, time traveling wasn't enough so we need a psycho trying to kill the female lead!! And you want me to be mad characters now have cancer or dementia??? And that they get better? Nah I'll take this any day

[kat-rose-griffith]

So watching Bridgerton I think I figured out what’s wrong with rom-coms nowadays and why they don’t hit the same as the ones from during and before the 2000s but Bridgerton does. Similar to Daphne and Simon (in my opinion), they largely polarize to the hot and/or disaster zones and completely forget about the adorable/cute factor that really pulls people in and holds them there. Ideally a rom-com couple would fall in the middle of this spectrum (like polin which is why the bridgerton brain rot is so potent this time around), but they can fall anywhere on here and still be a good rom com couple

Thoughts?

The rom com triangle is below the cut if you want to use it for anything or tell me I’m wrong about where the Bridgerton couples fall on the chart

Link to my original post where I started figuring this out

[swanqueenffprompter]

With Christmas around the corner and the chaos of Storybrooke behind them, Emma decides to surprise Henry with a special holiday getaway—a cozy ski resort tucked away in the mountains. But, unbeknownst to Regina, Emma's invited her along too, convinced that a family trip might just be the perfect way to mend fences and, perhaps, grow closer.

The only problem? Regina hates the cold and has never skiied in her life. Emma, on the other hand, thrives in the snow, eager to teach Henry to snowboard and drag Regina into some winter fun. As the days unfold, mishaps ensue—Regina tries to ski, only to tumble right into Emma's arms; they get stranded on a ski lift in a snowstorm and have to huddle for warmth; and there’s the annual holiday competition where Regina’s competitive nature gets the best of her, leading to hilarious outcomes.

But between snowball fights, late-night hot chocolates by the fire, and decorating the resort's giant Christmas tree, sparks begin to fly. Emma realizes that maybe this trip was more than just about family—it’s about finding love in the most unexpected of places. And Regina, despite her reluctance, might just fall for the Savior amidst the snowflakes and holiday magic.

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

yeah ok i am not immune to the androgynous murderer constantly drenched in blood and obsessed with revenge/hyperfemme gaslight gatekeep girlboss on her way to being the queen of japan dynamic

[pinkbunnygirl555]

[theclassymike]

Lindsay Lohan as Maddie in the film Irish Wish (2024)

[galecstatic]

me in qot episode 6 ending:

me in qot episode 7 ending:

WHAT HAPPENED TO ROM-COM SIGN UP TERMS I SIGNED HUH

[aurum-rays]

Meeta is the only reason why I go back to watching Hasee Toh Phasee, even though it has some problematic elements. Meeta and the music of the film, to be precise, but more particularly Zehnaseeb and Ishq Bulava, but that's another post.

Meeta, played by Parineeti Chopra, is shown as an intelligent girl right from childhood, along with Nikhil, played by Siddharth Malhotra. When the film opens with both our protagonists’ childhood counterparts, it's very interesting to see a young Meeta closing the door while a young Nikhil tries to open a closed door. While he does this to watch his favorite film, Agneepath, 14 years later Nikhil breaks out of his room by unscrewing the room’s windows to attend a wedding where he meets Meeta hanging by a barbed wire fence, trying to run away.

After their brief conversation, we understand that both of them have similar ideas and are alike, which we already established from the opening scene. As they say their goodbyes, Meeta asks Nikhil, whom she just met, to come to Goa with her. He doesn't, unfortunately. (He later in the film realizes how big of a mistake it was.) But this post is not about the “swooning” chemistry Nikhil and Meeta had. This post is only about Meeta as a character and how much we need more of her in the movies.

First, let me put aside a few things by saying that I absolutely despised the bade pappa who loves slapping Meeta, and the rest of her family who are at any given time passing sexist comments on the sisters. They always want their girls to wear “dhang k kapde.” Meeta’s dad is the only one who has encouraged her smarts since childhood, and I am glad that he finally takes her side during the climax. I also hated that Meeta takes all the pills at the airport (which she later pukes), which made her look like she has forgotten her goal, her lab, her colleagues, working on the project, everything basically everything she went through, all the family trauma, and the reason she came home for. It just felt extremely out of character for her. Yes, she's in love with a guy who is going to get married to her sister. I get it! But that one scene just felt… I mean… She did her PhD on her own, started her lab, her thesis and her project all without any support from family and her forgetting all of that instantly just felt out of place. But then again, “the things love makes you do,” I guess.

Now that all that's out of the way, here's why I loved watching Meeta.

Meeta is a scientist. She casually starts explaining physics concepts during conversations (the hiccup scene). She comes from a science background and all her bits and her dialogues are just straight-up facts. She's extremely intelligent and a little bit quirky and does weird stuff sometimes, although most of it is due to her medicines. But I don't blame her for it. If I had a family who constantly called me crazy, disowned me, abused me, and behaved like I didn't exist, I would be popping some pills too. The scene with her singing “Ek garam chai ki pyali ho” or even the confusion that ensues with the twin relatives at the bazaar is a laugh riot.

Meeta deserved better treatment from everyone in her family. But just Meeta as a character deserved better.

I cannot remember any other female character in Indian cinema that was showcased as a highly intellectual, nerdy protagonist. Even though Hasee Toh Phasee isn't a Meeta-centric movie (it should've been) and doesn't talk sensitively about Meeta’s conditions (most of her behavior from the meds is shown comedically), this was the only film where I was rooting for the female lead and wanted to put up Meeta’s poster in my room. I mean, where in movies do we have a female scientist protagonist, and that to a rom-com?

Even after being raised in an extremely orthodox family, she dares to dream, and with her dad’s support, she fulfills her dreams and makes a crazy invention. She knows what she wants, and she goes to extremes to fulfill her goals. The only unfortunate part of her life is her unsupportive, misogynist family who will spend money on lavish weddings but won't fund their daughter's educational needs. This is why Meeta runs away with the money.

As a physics nerd, I would've loved to see more about Meeta’s life in China, her friends, her colleagues, and her work, Or just her growing years as a science enthusiast that made her a scientist. Because Meeta, for me, felt like “finally a nerdy female character who is not shown as one of the bros or an introverted thick-rimmed glass-wearing geek or even a stereotypical tomboy.” Meeta, in my books, will always remain a superhero scientist, creator of the perpetual motion machine polymer ball whose story still needs to be told.

Meeta is not a manic pixie dream girl who's here to save the male protagonist from his depressed life and show him the “world through a different lens,” nor is she a damsel in distress who needs saving. She's here for herself. She comes home from China for her lab, her project, and her passion. Meeta is an extremely intelligent, career-driven woman who also knows that “Do half mein ek full se zyada milta hai”! 😉

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

27 Dresses | Emmys After Party

[blackholepenguin]

Just finished watching The Artful Dodger on Disney + (in the UK). Can't recommend enough. Totally enjoyable, great pacing, witty and insightful (but not in a preachy way, in a 'omg I didn't actually know that about life, history and medicine and that's so interesting' way), bit of Peaky Blinders style modern music to get you amped for all the crime caper parts. It's graphically gory in places but I just watched through my fingers 😅

It's got the kid from Love Actually and Queens Gambit. And the werewolf teacher from the best Harry Potter film. Don't know the rest of the cast but they are all great. Especially the mother.

I've never read/watched the source material so I can't comment on the accuracy. I think I saw the animated version with the cats once but I don't remember any of it. But you can def enjoy without knowing the original story.

Support good things and check it out 💕

[freddie-mercury-rising]

But when Roger fell for someone, he felt it with his whole being. And he couldn’t deny it, not to himself at least: he was falling for Freddie.

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[enchantedlandcoffee]

Ask me about any of my WIPs?

[stefandstuff]

it’s Meg Ryan season

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