#and it's in a predictable genre!

[fictionadventurer]

Apparently I've lost all ability to watch movies/TV where I don't already know the plot. I watch very little TV and movies to start with, and the little that I do watch tends to be things I've seen before, or very low-stakes genres like sitcoms. With books, you can rush through tense sections, and you aren't at the mercy of the pacing and sound design and all the other emotionally manipulative techniques that a show can use.

So now when I'm watching things with any kind of tension whatsoever, my nerves are stretched to the breaking point, and I don't know if I can take this.

[bird-inacage]

The Heart Killers: Predictions (Kant as Bison's Keys to Freedom)

Welcome to the first of my speculative brain dumps on this couple. The updated trailer has had my brain theorising like crazy.

Khao has mentioned a few times now that Bison was adopted into his family, and killing essentially became his way of life. Kant then comes along and becomes Bison's escape - a welcome distraction from the violent life he leads.

Whether Kant's undercover objective it to scope for dirt or to take the brothers down, it's through this mission that Kant begins to sympathise with Bison and the circumstances that led him to become a hitman. His feelings will ultimately compromise or derail his original objective. Once everything is out in the open, this doesn't seem to deter Kant. If anything, it only doubles down his resolve to protect Bison from harm. "I just need to know I'll always be with you." "You think I'd go on living if you died?"

We've been told that Kant goes goo-goo eyed for Bison pretty early on. My hunch is that once he finds out the type of life Bison is swept up in and just how dangerous it is, his personal mission will be to try and free him: "I'll help you start over". And if he can't free him in the immediate effect, he'll join him in order to watch his back. "We'll take care of each other. This isn't just an empty promise." Based on the fact he was asked to help with detective work in the first place, Kant must have some pretty handy skills in his arsenal, and likely knows a thing or two about survival.

On that basis, perhaps the real conflict for these two won't be the getting things out into the open, but what Bison chooses to do for his freedom. We don't yet know whether he’s on good terms with his adoptive family. It could very well be that he simply doesn't want to kill, but has too much gratitude towards them for taking him in, that he could never disobey or defy them.

So when Kant tries to find him an out or whisk him away - Bison will then have a choice to make. To leave with Kant, or side with his family. Staying would also mean exposing Kant (who seems eager to protect him) to the same violence he's desperate to leave behind, which may further complicate things. "With the way I live, I can't promise you anything." (I could die tomorrow).

The other thing I would be wary of is in order to 'free' Bison in some way, shape or form (from his supposed crimes and lifestyle), Kant may have to sacrifice or offer something in exchange. Considering he's the one tasked to investigate the two brothers (in order to put them behind bars, I would assume), there's a poetic irony if he turns out to be the key to Bison's freedom. Hearing how Khao loves Kant as a character also speaks volumes to me about his role in the story and what he means to Bison. But I may just be letting my mind run riot.

(Note: very interesting shot in the trailer below. To me, it almost looks like they're doing a 'training' exercise for something. Bison with his gun on Kant whilst he jumps into the sea tied up).

Narratively speaking, I’m not sure how this all of fits into a romcom of all things but I have a feeling Jojo is going to surprise us with his hijinks. Let’s wait and see!

[gayofthefae]

I made some joke a while back about like marriage and how if Carmy had Sydney sign a partnership agreement that'd basically be marriage because he's legally binding them. And that was a joke about like if that happened offscreen.

But now the trailer came out and he's having her sign a partnership agreement...as like a major plot point 💀

[waitineedaname]

Came here because of your FMA Post-Canon GreedLing series and now I want to read/watch/idfk what this is SVSSS now. You've infected me and now I need to do research

YESSS READ MY SICKOS NOVEL!!

my very basic pitch: SVSSS is Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, a Chinese transmigration novel! the premise is that Shen Yuan is the #1 anti-fan of a trashy stallion novel -- he likes the monsters and the little crumbs of plot and loves the protagonist, but fucking hates literally everything else about it. when he finishes it, he's so overcome with rage about the ending that it literally kills him, and his dying thoughts are "dumbfuck author, dumbfuck novel." much to his surprise, he wakes up as the central villain of that novel with a transmigration system essentially telling him "you think you can do better? just fucking try it buddy"

it's a hilarious series, and a very quick read! the characters are really fun, the two main characters are completely deranged (a classic example of "I can fix him" *makes him worse*), and the balance between ridiculous humor and genuine emotion is excellent. also, as a loving satire of stallion novels/BL novels/webnovels in general, it has a lot of interesting things to say about the tropes embedded in those stories, as well as interesting things to say about being a writer and being a reader!

there are official print translations in English, so I recommend checking out your local library/bookstores, but if that doesn't work for you, it's also available on the Internet Archive and Anna's Archive! it's fairly short, only four books (three for the main plot + fourth book of plot-relevant extras)

enjoy!!

[little-smartass]

it really irks me when people pan perfectly good movies for being "predictable". is it fun to watch a movie that keeps you guessing? for sure! but you only have to watch sherlock or moffat's run in dr who or the last season of game of thrones to know that wild plot twists do not equate to media actually like... being good. in the same way, a narrative that lets the viewer put together the clues before the reveal isn't bad just because you can guess what's going to happen! not every movie has be m night fucking shyamalan!

[chocolatepot]

The trouble with discussing the s2 reunion expectations vs reality that I rarely see anyone mention is that nobody(?) predicted it would happen with Ed completely powerless, knocked out of his position by a mutiny that essentially killed him, so there's still a huge variable to take into consideration when talking about people "getting it wrong".

Like, yes, we can discuss it from a Doylist perspective - Jenkins chose to have it happen that way, rather than having Ed and Stede meet again when Ed was capable of saying anything to him, and what does it mean that the fandom largely didn't consider that as a potential dramatic scenario.

But conversely, the fact that he did choose to do that means that we still have no idea how it would have gone in the circumstances involved in most reunion fics - if Stede made it back to Ed before he'd successfully committed suicide by crew. Given his choice to push Stede away through most of Fun and Games, I think people who wrote him as hostile weren't far off, actually! But there's no way of knowing how hostile he might have been, or if he'd have completely snapped out of it.

(TBH I also think it's a bad idea to assume that scenarios people write fic about = their expectations for canon, but that's a different matter.)

[sunlight-shunlight]

i was talking to a friend who said she was visiting la with her partner a while back, and at the time i was like "oh wow, are you sure you want to go? the us is kind of dodgy right now"

and she was like "ahh no it'll be fine! :)"

anyway they went, and, couldn't leave their hotel bc of the protests, and then the curfew, so they didn't really do anything. and then they went back home.

[edge-oftheworld]

i don't care about everything else I've said about it so far. I need a pop punk 5sos6

[luciddreamingstuff]

Okay so, this just got dropped right?

Listened to it, did some stuff and then checked the comment section and someone was saying they were showing clips from Season 2. I thought to myself, "there's no fuckin way?" So I went and watched it again a little more closely and I shit you not, that comment was right.

THE COMMENT WASN'T LYING THEY ARE SHOWING CLIPS FOR SEASON 2!!!!!!! THE LONG HAIR LOOKS GOOD ON YOU DANTE BUT I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS!!!!!

GLAD TO SEE YOU UN-WINTER SOLDIERED BUT WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!!??! THAT GUN! IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?!

Yep! that's them! Sick! he got Ebony & Ivory!

Oh look, Vash got his .45 back

Hmm, if they are bringing this name back, I wonder if Dante is actually on the run in this iteration. Like he escaped DARKCOM and took on a new name to try to get his stuff back, the amulet and the sword, and to go look for his brother. Though that makes me wonder if he's gonna do what his dear old pops Sparda did and seal the Demon realm away from the human realm because of the way humans are being. Like hey, maybe it was better to have them separated for everyone's sakes.

One thing that's kinda proving this theory is as I'm scrolling through the clips frame by frame, I can't see the amulet anywhere. Nor his sword.

However somebody did come up in the background of one of those clips. (Sent to me by a friend this time)

Hey Lady, what you up to? So either they let him out and he goes under a fake name or this is post Dante escape and she's with him now. Either way, she is here in the hat, which means he is either on a leash and we'll get some grand escape later. Which gives her more time to develop her character. Oooorrrrrrrrr, you get the point. Either way, they are doing something here and I like it.

So I dunno, either way, I'm fucking hyped for the new season. LET ADI COOK YOU COWARDS! LET THE MAN COOK!

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

i miss the mpreg where it was like

two guys just fucked too hard and one gets pregnant and hes like

wtf but im a man!!! im a FREAK

and then doesnt tell the other one and the other one also doesnt know whats happening

whats it called? im gonna draw that somehow

is there a yuri equivalent? not like futanari GASP suddenly grew a dick

id assume some stupid shit like they finger eachother but the skin cells somehow become super powered and fertilize the egg

OR SOMETHING

i need to study this

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Burning Witch - Sacred Predictions

[fideidefenswhore]

the downfall and execution of a tudor queen (2023) / the boleyns: a scandalous family (2021) / the king's pearl: henry viii and his daughter mary (2017), melita thomas / anne boleyn (tv miniseries 2021) / the mirror and the light (2024) / elizabeth (1998)

[mariocki]

Night School (Terror Eyes, 1981)

"There's been another killing."

"Mmm."

"That doesn't seem to surprise you."

"When man kills for the sake of killing, there's no reason why he should stop."

"Do you really believe that man can go out and kill, just like that?"

"Why not? You see, animals kill when they're hungry or when they're threatened. But man is the only animal who destroys his own kind for the sheer pleasure of it."

[alliluyevas]

i have to stop reading domestic thrillers aka missing suburban women novels. every time i'm like well these are easy reads and it will only take a couple hours and it might not be bad this time :) and then upwards of half the time it's just straight up bad. i'm like charlie brown with the football.

[pancakehouse]

guys i need to rewatch glee

[totallyseiso]

Looking into that (currently unreleased) yunyun syndrome game by the needy girl devs, and it says it's a rhythm game all about denpa songs.

So I finally looked up what denpa songs are like

That rhythm game is going to be so fucked to play