#another tragic couple

[toffee-arts]

🏵️Day 3, 4, 5: 

Tianlang-Jun & Su Xiyan

their story ended before it even began..

[l-a-l-o-u]

Capucine 🌼

[lotus-pear]

what is childe doing in bungou gay dogs😟

[makaramon]

rebirth

[k-wame]

DI Alfred Hillinghead & Henry Ashe BODIES (NETFLIX) ‧ 2023 ‧ S1·EP8

[ludwig-dieter]

TMA SPOILERS (and maybe implied wtnv ones)

I’m on ep 133 of tma and 53 of wtnv and I find the protagonist differences so fascinating like

With each passing day Jon’s life increasingly falls apart. Like S4 started and bro just woke out of a coma, most of his friends are dead, the ones that ARE alive absolutely despise him (for being in a coma apparently??), his work crush/bf is purposefully avoiding him, and he just had to rip out his literal fucking rib to save some murderous, bloodthirsty and dirt-traumatized cop.

Meanwhile in Night Vale my boy Cecil has been in the sweetest relationship imaginable, his obsessive behavior has been steadily growing more sane, he just beat the corporate bad guys™ and everything has been seemingly falling into place.

The duality of (gay) man

[badjohnspeakeasy]

Psykos and Orochi interview "That Man" for a position in the Monster Association.

Link 1

Link 2

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Full Tech Day One pic today from kiko laureano (denizen of skid row / ensemble) & video (that's four seconds of "ya never know" playing over the static image) from & ft. marcia milgrom dodge (director / choreographer) double captioning "there might be puppets in this musical ;)" & "Well Shake my hand! Come see LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS @guthrietheater featuring @actually_will_roland's hand!"

[jazzystudios82]

Webcomic Recommendation: The Broken Ring: This Marriage Will Fail Anyway ♡

Summary: "When six-year-old Inés laid eyes on the handsome heir to House Escalante, she promptly made the boy her fiancé. Since noble men are all the same, she figured she might as well choose a pretty one. But Lord Cárcel isn't ready for this sort of commitment just yet, and he spends the next decade and a half avoiding the marriage at all costs! Luckily, that's no trouble for Inés, as this marriage failing is exactly what she wants. In fact, he has her blessing to sow his wild oats as long as he stays out of her business. Unfortunately, being a playboy isn't as fun when your fiancée gives you permission. And doesn't this mean she's cheating on him too? Now, Cárcel is determined to change Inés' mind about him and prove he can be the husband she's always wanted."

Distributer: Inklore Books

Source: Tappytoon

Creator: CHACHA KIM, CHOKAM, & Cheong-gwa

Genre: Romance, romance fantasy, another chance at life, fake love, tragedy, royalty, past lives, steamy romance

Status: Ongoing

Personal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars ⭐️ (so far)

Availability: Coming soon to wherever books are sold

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Note: If you don't follow 'Inklore Books' on Instagram, then you probably didn't know that this was getting physically printed in English.

[sarcophagid]

theoretically there isn't anything wrong with character being a murderer that fronts as a gentlemanly artist etc, but then they did the same thing they did with mary and tried make jack more and more similar to the irl inspiration which. none of that was necessary, and it makes the result less interesting anyways. you can just make up a character. but whatever netease wants to be edgy again

[fruiteggsaladit]

Every once in a while I'll despair a little at finding so little Hina and/or Rui or Koorime content in general and then I'll recall how in a post asking "whatever character you're drawing their fate is yours now", a description of mine of Hina (I think I said "had illegal sex and will die in illegal childbirth (allegedly, in the manga, but yes does die) or by suicide after having said illegal childbirth (allegedly, in the anime)") picqued someone's interest and they wondered what that character was from. I told them and then they never asked me any further abt that (fair, it's a heavy description to hear on the Internet from a stranger and the yyh fandom is terrifying and Hina's presence in the story as "tragic female character willing to die in childbirth" and it being not left to much speculation Why She Was Willing To Do That aside from the expectant "well she's a female character and she was written by a man so it must've been the ye old ideal and self-sacrificing mother trope" are all fine reasons that come to mind) but I'm carrying that affirmation in my heart! I know that if a character's story is just told in an interesting way, they can in fact become interesting through that interpretation, even if at first they were expected to be boring.

[regallibellbright]

How can I connect to you? Share your love even if it isn't true

Deep inside your desire's calling me, dive in and then set it free!

I want to connect, but...

Sometimes you get stuck in a surreal otherworld where you're forced to bare your soul to other people in a deep psychic connection because you're dead, and sometimes, it's because you've been turned into a kappa.

Sometimes there's singing involved.

(I love Sarazanmai so much.)

[aparticularbandit]

As of right now, between the prompts I have (assuming I complete them all) and finishing Thrall (one chapter left, I would like to finish that this month) and another chapter in Life is but a Dream (because I have one started and could probably finish and get that up this month) and a couple of other things I'm thinking about (something for Agatha's birthday on the 21st, Danganronpa Fragments holiday something (I have a very clear picture involving Junko, don't ask me why))--

between all of these, if I get them all done and posted daily, that's seventeen days of content. (two of these have specific dates attached, so this doesn't actually get me through the seventeenth, it gets me through the fifteenth with two additional days later.)

so.

if you have more prompts or requests or ideas, feel free to send them in! i'm trying to do the thing, but brain may not here are ideas for things until later.

[mekatrio]

is there a lot of setomary content in this world yes. but none of it portraying the dynamic i need it to......

[yue-muffin]

I finished rewatching the Tokyo Babylon OVAs and it was such a nostalgia trip, but also made me want a full adaptation that much more. It’s a pity the 2021 remake wasn’t able to get off the ground due to the design plagiarism issue, but hopefully they haven’t given up after that setback and we’ll see a proper remake/adaptation one day!

Tokyo Babylon is very much one of those ‘case of the day’ stories with the overarching plot and relationships evolving over time. The two cases they animated in the OVAs were really good, but those two episodes taunt you so much - you know there’s something more than meets the eye about our main characters, but it’s over before you know it.

Great advertising for the manga, by the way, because I want to pick it up now.

The overall tone is actually rather dark, not in a bleak grim dark way, but the story, the city, and the characters are all set up to be...shiny on the outside, but beneath that glamor almost everyone is hiding something, though perhaps not intentionally (except for Mr. Obvious).

Subaru also raises a few red flags for himself, maybe that’s hindsight talking since I know where his story is headed, but both his sister Hokuto and Seishirou allude to him giving too much of himself, or going above and beyond his duty, and that he might get hurt by it someday.

A few interesting things that kind of slipped my notice years ago when I first watched it...One, is the obvious age difference - Subaru’s only 16 and Seishirou is somewhere in his 20s, but for some reason, neither he nor his sister find it strange and Hokuto encourages them as well. Two, Seishirou knows all about their onmyouji business, which she kind of starts asking him about but he very clearly dodges the question. Maybe it’s expanded on in the manga.

Anyway, the cases themselves reveal a twisted side of humanity, but at the same time they’re very human. A lot of Japanese dramas and stories shine the brightest when they focus on the human condition, and human suffering. Whereas a lot of western media tends to be bombastic about similar topics, jdramas and manga tend to be more contemplative and raw. Relatable. Even in a show where there’s supernatural stuff, it’s relatable.

Well, I’m off to figure out how I’d like to go about reading Tokyo Babylon! Dunno if I should go for the localization or the original Japanese...physical or digital...I mean, I already have CLAMP’s RG Veda in Japanese, and it would be nice to add to the collection...

Discussion on Subaru and Seishirou as a couple (and as CLAMP-designated soulmates) will have to be saved until after I’ve finally read the entire manga properly...And yes, they are very clearly and without a doubt supposed to be a thing. A very toxic, twisted, tragic, and irreparable pairing.

All you have to do to identify CLAMP couples (and a few others, including sibling-like relationships) is to look at who’s connected to each other in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles lol. But, also, the events of X are absolutely all the proof you need for this particular pair.

[ackermental]

Friendship ended with Li Susu ❌ now Sang Jiu is the Best Girl ❤.