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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, 2023)

[lifeinpoetry]

When I’m suffering I don’t ask for help. I’m afraid they’ll come and try To take my pain away.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "Dramedy," Normal Distance

[jisungsdaydreamer]

Anti-Romantic | TEASER | CHAPTER 3 OUT NOW!!

«GENERAL M.LIST» · «NAVIGATION» · «TALK TO ME» · «SERIES MASTERLIST»

Pairing: Hyunjin x Fem!reader Genre: non idol au, fluff, smut, romcom, drama, opposites attract Warnings: swearing, explicit sexual content, dysfunctional relationships, taboo couples/relationship therapist and patient dynamic

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As the most beloved dating coach in the sunny state of California, Hyunjin has dealt with all kinds of nightmares— from real desperate housewives and their indifferent husbands to toxic shotgun marriages doomed to fail— and he’s fixed them all. Dubbed the “Love Doctor,” Hyunjin has a PhD in both sociology and broken hearts. Every single day for Hyunjin ends the same: yet another flashy career success and to celebrate, sliding on his rose-tinted glasses and sipping on pink champagne, his perpetual poison.

That was all before you, of course.

For your entire life, you’ve been unlucky in love. From your endless unrequited high school crushes to your situationship who turned out to be gay, love has just never been in the cards for you. It’s all changed you from a hopeless romantic into a pessimist who doesn’t believe in true love. You now make fun of every couple you see, religiously watch wedding fails on Youtube, and absolutely hate romantic comedies. 

But no amount of lackluster girls’ nights or hours thrown into your crappy job can fill the hole in your heart. You’re absolutely lonely. In one last attempt to give love a chance, you ditch your Tinder dates and decide to turn to L.A.’s famous “Love Doctor,” this hotshot relationship therapist all of your friends rave about. 

Barrelling into Dr. Hwang’s office like a cyclone, you bring along your signature stormy attitude and want a remedy to your emotional dry spell, even though you still believe in your heart that counseling won’t work for you. You don’t expect, however, your new intimacy expert to be hotter than hell, definitely not a middle-aged woman ready to lecture you about putting out.

No, Dr. Hwang is more like the Grandmaster of love, the amorous warlock of the West Coast, and with the way he silently strips you with his bedroom eyes the moment you walk in, perhaps even the sex scholar of the Valley. As he slowly disarms your defenses, you do your best not to let him know of your inappropriate fantasies about him. But even worse than your impossibly vivid wet dreams, you’re falling in love with your fucking therapist. Or Hyunjin, as he so charmingly commands you to call him. 

And you try to keep your feelings for him at bay, you really do. But Hyunjin just doesn’t give up, relentlessly tugging at your mind and heart and taking up every quantum of your life. Because after all, the Love Doctor loves a good challenge.

«GENERAL M.LIST» · «NAVIGATION» · «TALK TO ME»

TAGLIST @army-stay-noel, @hwangjuhong, @chizumiyoshi

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[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pinocchio” November 9, 2022.

[hellish-cruelty]

Drowning in sorrow

Films in frame - Frances Ha, The virgin suicides, Mommy, Blue is the warmest colour, Black Swan, Inception

[bonobochick]

Aleesha celebrates with a surprise kiss with Luke. 💋

Upload ep 3x08

[gregor-samsung]

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016)

[alfredopizzaluver151]

I hope we get more stories like The Apothecary Diaries where even though it’s centered in a Man’s world it’s still about the women! And has humanity and comedy in such a serious setting as well lol

[nerdby]

Absolutely in love with this cover of "Suicide Is Painless" by Lady & Bird. The song is more commonly known as the MASH* theme song and was first made by Johnny Mandel, and an instrumental version was used for the TV series. Because at time you weren't allowed to mention suicide on TV.

If you've never seen MASH* I'd get on that, by the way. It's one of a few TV series that I think qualifies as a Must Watch. It was a brilliant anti-war protest that was way ahead of its time, and I don't think it gets enough love.

[texaschainsawmascara]

Wristcutters: A Love Story

[russenoire]

in response to this post:

ONE-sensei is a bit of a troll, not gonna lie.

but... i actually like this ending, at least for comedy's sake. the stark juxtaposition of

'boy gets hit by a truck and his unexamined jungian shadow self flattens a city before he finally makes peace with it'

with

'and everything was just fine six months later'

is funnier than spelling out exactly how we get from point A to point B, because we KNOW — as the audience — that it wasn't 'just fine'. after everything we saw, how could it be?

subverted expectations underpin a lot of comedy, even dark comedy, especially absurdist comedy. MP100 is practically built on both. this story wrings a lot of humor out of sad, if not tragic, situations: witness shigeo's 'who told you you could pass out?!' after his home has been reduced to kindling. or ritsu's admission that he only recently stopped crying himself to sleep at night over his inability to bend spoons like his big brother. while he's letting shigeo know just how much he supposedly hates him in that alley.

not expanding upon the real-life consequences of said city-flattening is funny precisely because dropping 'i wrecked my hometown after nearly dying in a car accident on the way to ask out my crush when i was a teenager' in a conversation and just... leaving it there? would be fucking horrifying in real life. here, in the elastic magical-realist context of MP100, it's more darkly absurd than anything else...

more to your point, OP: in this particular series, ONE-sensei tells so much of this story by implication. the answers to some of your questions are in the text, only... alluded to.

this might get long. bear with me:

the fact that joseph from the government exists? and that he's an esper working in secret? implies that the knowledge of destructive espers might need to be concealed from the public at large, perhaps to prevent wide-scale panic or ostracism of espers themselves. i doubt the government was forthright with its citizens about the confession arc disaster or the actual cause, for the same reasons.

that suzuki's broadcast-hijacking world domination announcement is met with public disdain and ridicule, especially over social media? outside of our cast, no one actually takes his threat seriously until it happens. reigen's trash-talking claw's seventh division down to earth also shows how little respect espers who don't make themselves useful to society actually get here. he is, after all, just another member of the public.

that reigen agrees to take on haruaki amakusa as a client after the world domination arc in part because he's worried about losing business? people have begun to move away from seasoning city in the aftermath; whatever the threat amakusa's hyakki present, neutralizing them as soon as possible is best for reigen's continued financial health. i can see even more residents deciding they've had enough and leaving after shigeo's last brush with death. would you stay?

how many people know shigeo is connected to reigen, apart from the people they both know? out of his own inflated and fragile ego, reigen presents himself as a sole proprietor on his website; it doesn't seem his business or its reputation would be directly affected at all.

and the injuries caused? possible deaths? we get a taste: early on in chapter 100, several people are trapped and unable to move in a 地盤沈下 (jibánchinka, literally: 'land subsidence', which can apply to a sinkhole, a landslide...) shigeo has left in his wake. we only find out because a cop is being briefed on this and its cause while trying to detain the suspect for questioning.

but like all other bodily harm caused in this story, we aren't treated to the fallout. did the elderly ishiguro survive shou plowing him into the earth? did miyagawa die after teruki flipped his barrier onto him and broiled him in his own flames? did those high school bully boys live after shigeo cracked their heads open on the pavement like eggs? like, these are good questions. (i'm inclined to believe that all these people died, but many would call me harsh for saying that about an otherwise kind story. we never see them again, either way.)

shigeo actually has a healing factor of sorts; his jungian shadow self keeps plucking him from death's arms. we have no way of knowing if this is true for anyone else, because that isn't the story ONE wanted to tell. if nothing else, the mangaka's lack of desire to engage with this question of lethal consequences is at least consistent across MP100.

any questions that aren't answered either directly or that can't be answered by easy extrapolation can foster continued engagement with the material.

for example: we don't know what shigeo's parents think about much of anything in this story, besides how little they expect from him and how ritsu sets a standard they feel shigeo should live up to. this boy goes through hell multiple times and is never shown to confide in either of his parents about it, instead suffering in silence for some time until he finds someone he feels safe enough to talk to. all this gives me the distinct impression that shigeo just isn't that close to his mother or his father. i can understand why. it's actually kind of sad, even as readers' frustrated expectations of real-life parental involvement with — and confusion over — his and his brother's shenanigans also generate some dark humor.

this also establishes a precedent: since we never check in with them, by the time the confession arc rolls around, their opinion hardly matters. (but i'm sure someone has written a fic fleshing that out! i'm somewhat curious myself.)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Shortcomings (Randall Park, 2023)

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Alright. Gonna set down the feed and plug the thing.

New year, new habits!

I write this travesty!

The site is in constant need of repair, so are the characters, and so is the author (me). Part 1 is steampunk, and in Part 2 we've gone diesel. It starts with a hate crime, this is not for the faint of heart, but it does get quite funny in places. The absurdity is a coping mechanism!

I've got to break my website later so I can try to fix it, but there's a new instalment this week so I'll give people time to read that, if there's any takers!

Known Readers: 2 (hi 5th and Kith!); 1st Goalpost: 10?

If you're reading, check in with me. My hit counter is buggy AF and I moved the comments offsite, to Tumblr. I won't know you're there if you don't say hi!

Known Supporters: I'm burning my Patreon to the ground because they annoyed me, give me some time to set up someplace else! 1st Goalpost: 5?

If you WANT to support, go ahead and let me know that too. I'll be working on a subscription basis in the future - you'll only pay when I publish!

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” May 24, 1989.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Idea for a movie:

The movie is called “In the Background”.

An anthology film comprised of three different stories that are all wildly different from each other. The concept is the idea that every person is the protagonist of their own story and that even background characters have a story worth telling. So, the protagonist of one story shows up as a minor/background character in the previous one.

Here’s how I’d structure the movie -

1) Cold Opening: The first few minutes could be seen as the end of a crime drama movie. A notorious bank robber (played by Brad Pitt) is busted in his final job. Not wanting to spend the rest of his life in prison, he commits suicide-by-cop.

2) The first main story: The main protagonist (played by Gemma Chan) is one of the bank tellers from the cold opening. Her story is a dramedy/romance movie and is about her deciding to go backpacking in Asia to escape how traumatic the robbery situation was. While backpacking through Indonesia, she meets and falls in love with a local musician (played by Iko Uwais).

3) The second main story: The main protagonist (played by Michael B. Jordan) is a CIA agent who was one of the passengers on the plane that the bank teller took. His story is a spy thriller since he had gone to Indonesia to track down a nuclear weapon that ended up in the black market. The agent’s hunt for the missing bomb takes him all the way to London, where he manages to save the day by taking the bad guys out and securing the device. The agent’s story ends with him going to the pub, deciding that he really needed a drink after all the chaos he went through.

4) The third main story: The main protagonist is the bartender (played by Natalie Portman) who served the CIA agent, although she’s unaware of his true identity. The bartender’s story is a psychological horror film and is about her adopting her niece (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who recently lost her parents. As the movie goes on, it’s slowly revealed that the niece killed her parents and is planning on doing the same to her aunt. The bartender’s story ends with her being forced to kill her niece in self-defense, which results in her getting arrested.

5) The ending: After the bartender is driven away by the police, the focus shifts to one of the police inspectors at the scene (played by Simon Pegg), indicating that if the movie were to go on, he would be the new main protagonist. It’s not clear what type of story he would have, which is intentional.