#modern drama

[sombredancer]

Asian dramas and relationship dynamics

There are my favorite relationship dynamics as a list. Opposites attract + power couple

Drama: I Am Nobody /  异人之下 Characters: Zhuge Qing & Wang Ye Screentime: Minor I like it when characters are different in a way they could complement one another, but at the same time they are similar in terms of what is important for people to stay stuck together. Zhuge Qing is public, easy-going and wants to be friends with Wang Ye. Wang Ye is mysterious, reflexive and doesn't want to be bothered by other people. But no one can beat extrovert if he decided to be friends with you =) Plus, they are united by their superpowers: they are both powerful sorcerers and their sorcery is very similar in its nature. So they can compete and learn from each other and, if necessary, kick enemy's ass together. ̶A̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶d̶y̶n̶a̶m̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶B̶L̶ ̶v̶i̶b̶e̶s.̶ By the end of season 1 they are OK and together.

Drama: Mysterious Lotus Casebook / 莲花楼 Characters: Di Feisheng & Li Lianhua Screentime: Secondary Di Feisheng is a leader of a demonic sect, a former slave and a very straightforward man. Li Lianhua is a former leader of a righteous sect and an extremely sly man with not-so-bad background. But both of them are the best martial artists in Jianghu and went through a lot together. One wants everyone to leave him alone, another wants to be with him together forever, and both of them don't give a damn about everything that happens in the world but they care for each other. B̶L̶-̶v̶i̶b̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶a̶c̶h̶e̶d̶.̶ The ending of the drama is obscure but I'd like to think they both are alive and happy together.

Drama: The Blood of Youth / 少年歌行 Characters: Xiao Se & Ye Anshi Screentime: Secondary A leader of a demonic sect who has an ultimate martial knowledge and the best righteous martial artist in the past, who is suffering from decease and can't fight anymore. What can unite them? The answer is: the similar mindset. They both had a great power and lost it, they both are shouldering great responsibilities that don't make them happy. Despite the fact that they should be on the opposite sides in Jianghu world, they are still good friends. M̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶B̶L̶-̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶X̶i̶a̶o̶ ̶S̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶g̶i̶r̶l̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶.̶ There is a small extra ep at the end of drama, when they meet each other again in a very romantic way. Just search for it.

Drama: The Legends / 招摇 Characters: Lu Shiqi & Qin Qianxian Screentime: Minor She is from a demonic sect. He is from a righteous one. She is immune to the impact of spiritual power. He is the one of the most powerful people in terms of spiritual power. She is dumb, straightforward and pure-hearted. He is blissed yet sensible and burdened with difficult moral choices. They could be an ideal Yin-Yang couple. But they have BE, because it's "The Legends", everyone should die in here Т_Т.

Pride and Prejudice + power couple

Drama: The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity / 晴雅集 Characters: Bo Ya & Qing Ming Screentime: Main This dynanics is similar with the previous one, but here we are focused on how they ended up together. Bo Ya has prejudice against demons-yao and believes all of them should be executed. He meets half-demon-sorcerer Qing Ming who helps him to overcome his prejudice. Finally, they become friends (or̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶) and together they win over the evil forces. At the end they are separated but there is a hope they meet again.

Drama: Wuliang / 无量 Characters: Po Xiao & Feng Ren Screentime: Main People of different social status both seek to get a magical sutra. During a road trip they exchange opinions on the sutra and how to use it and change each other's mind. In the end it turns out that they together saved the world and can be finally together. As friends, of course.

Drama: Oh No! Here Comes Trouble / 不良執念清除師 Characters: Pu Yiyong & Cao Guangyan Screentime: Main Pu Yiyong looks like lowlife, studies very bad and hates Cao Guangyan, who is self-confident, smart and thinks low of Pu Yiyong. But a mysterious case with ghosts forces them to interact and they find out, that together they are a perfect team. Honestly speaking, this little series couldn't develop this topic as good as I hoped, but it's a really interesting story, so you can watch it for the ghost detective plot and get this type of relationship in addition. It's a Taiwanese drama, so BL-jokes and dalliance with a viewer were huge, but it didn`t help much. Still a nice dynamics and a good drama. Us vs the World

Drama: The Untamed / 陈情令 Characters: Wei Wuxian & Lan Wangji Screentime: Main I don`t like the novel, but I like drama exactly because here I can see this dynamics. In the past life of Wei Wuxiang Lan Wangji was not strong enough to go against the whole world to protect his friend (well, in the novel they are lovers, but it kills the main idea of this dynamics by turning it into "I do it all just to get into your bed", which is meh), and his friend died. Suddenly, 16 years later, he gets a chance to choose once more: to be a part of society and watch once more his friend dying or to be with him against everyone this time. The moment he chooses to be with Wei Wuxian against the whole world I felt cathartic pleasure. The drama ends up on a little bit obscure but positive note.

Drama: Word of Honor / 山河令 Characters: Zhou Zishu & Wen Kexing Screentime: Main A former king's assassin who is at the brink of death and just wants to live the time left in silence and a birdy master of the most skillful criminals find each other, find out that they are brothers-in-teachings and decide to fight against the world together just to live in silence and enjoy each other's company. When one thinks it's his last second of life, the other comes to help him even if they both can't beat the greater number of enemies and will die for sure. Catharsis! The drama has a small extra ep where they are together and all right.

Drama: The Legends / 招摇 Characters: Li Chenlan & Lu Zhaoyao Screentime: Main Them, again! The first half of the drama they have enemies-to-lovers dynamics, but then, when they find out the truth about Zhao Yao's death and about feelings for each other, they turn into Bonny and Clyde and go annihilate the righteous guys who are in fact not-so-righteous. And it makes me feel cathartic, too. A very catharsis-causing dynamics, indeed! It's little obscure, but they will be fine at the end of the drama.

Drama: Dong Lan Xue / 东栏雪 Characters: Shen Yan & Chu Ningyuan Screentime: Main Two bad guys work together to get power in the palace. And get involved in romantic relationship during their power gaining. Nice story with an open ending.

Drama: Derailment /脱轨 Characters: Qi Lian & Jiang Xiaoyuan Screentime: Main It's a little story inside a big one about transmigrators that you can read in another of my posts. It lasts something like 1,5 eps of the drama but is a nice story itself. A lonely bellicose boy from a rich family runs away from home where no one cares for him and lives on the street. A lonely girl from an extremely poor family and being bullied by classmates tries to survive in this world. They meet each other and understand that it's easier to fight their fate together. Nice story, it's a pity that this one is too short and not a main plot of the drama.

The next post will be about Asian dramas and familial dynamics.

[mariocki]

Vladimir: Did you ever read the Bible?

Estragon: The Bible... [He reflects.] I must have taken a look at it.

Vladimir: Do you remember the Gospels?

Estragon: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. There's where we'll go, I used to say, there's where we'll go for our honeymoon. We'll swim. We'll be happy.

Vladimir: You should have been a poet.

Estragon: I was. [Gesture towards his rags.] Isn't that obvious.

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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

[rothesmary]

Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues, p. 15

[moviemagus]

Do any of you have Opheliamachine by Magda Romanska in English, in digital form?

Would like to use it for one of my papers at the end of this semester and maybe even for my thesis but I can't find it anywhere. I only found a copy of it that's getting released in February, 2024.... 🥲

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Obviously you might have varying opinions for specific fandoms but generally if you think across many of them which do you prefer?

[cod-dump]

Roach: *walks into the rec room in a massive hoodie*

Gaz, staring at the hoodie: That confirms it

Roach: Confirms what?

Soap: That you’re dating König

Roach: Dati- I am NOT! Why the fuck do you think I’m dating KorTac’s colonel?!

Ghost: You’re wearing a outlandishly large hoodie with the Austrian flag on the back

Roach: IT’S FOR FOOTBALL

Ghost: You don’t even like football! And why the fuck would you support Austria over England?!

Gaz: Roach, just admit you’re dating König

Roach: I’M NOT

Soap: Oh my god- Gary! Stop playing around!

Price, walking in: What’s with the yelling?

Ghost: Roach’s denying that he’s dating Colonel König

Price: He’s not though

Roach: THANK YOU-

Price: They’re friends with benefits

Gaz, Ghost, & Soap: *immediately start losing their shit*

Roach: WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU TELL THEM THAT?!

Price: *says nothing before he leaves the room*

Roach: CAPTAIN-

[cinematic-phosphenes]

THE GILDED AGE costume appreciation: 2.07: "Wonders Never Cease" — Peggy Scott's pink evening gown with butterfly details

[harveywritings92]

[The 141 are playing paintball Friday the 13th, Ghost is the killer, Gaz is explaining the rules of horror movies to the others]

Gaz: Okay, rule one: Don't go off on your own. Rule two: if you do go off on your own, never go into the woods. Rule three: If you do go into the woods, never ever make out in the woods, or you will die in the woods! *notices two missing people* ...Where's Soap and R/n?

Roach: Breaking rules one through three.

[they hear two yelps and few seconds later R/n covered in yellow paint comes out of the woods supporting a limping Soap who is holding his paint covered crotch.]

R/n: Well we're out, some of us in more ways then one...

Soap, in high pitched and pained voice: I'm gonna kill tha' Skull-faced bastard!

Ghost, somewhere in the woods: YOU CAN TRY JOHNNY BUT I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!

[Paintballs come fly out the woods as everyone scatters in terror.]

[akiacia]

the myth of eros and psyche

[steddietogo]

Actor Steve Harrington, notoriously single, breaks the internet when someone posts a Tik Tok video of him in his car in an empty mcdonald’s parking lot at like 2am.

The person recording zooms in on Steve in the car with the interior lights on, arguing with a curly haired boy in the passenger seat digging through a mcdonald’s take out bag. The actor turns to someone in the backseat, the expression on his face melting into what can only be described as smitten.

He exchanges a few words with the mystery person, smile only growing on his face, before leaning in for a kiss. Only dark curly hair under a garish pink hoodie is visible as the angle of the video has the curly haired boy, completely unaffected by the show of affection and going to town on his cheese burger, blocking proper view of the actor’s lover.

The fandom goes into a frenzy over this new information. With some fans screaming it should be me in tweets like jilted lovers. Some think that this is just another publicity stunt (given than Harrington was known to date around in the industry). Some even claim that the mystery person must be Nancy Wheeler, a fellow actor and friend, who must be cheating on her fiancé with Steve (those rumors are very quickly shut down by all the parties involved).

In an interview shortly after the drama, Steve Harrington reveals that, yes, he’s in a relationship. Has been for the past two years and it’s a serious one.

Somewhere in twitter user bald_eagle_85 posts a detailed thread about how Steve Harrington’s mystery lover is none other than the international rockstar Eddie Munson.

It includes the picture Munson had posted, post show and in a pink hoodie the very same day the car video of Harrington came out. There’s pictures of separate events the two had attended in the same city at the same time (there’s too many for it to be a coincidence) and all the Harrington sightings at Corroded Coffin concerts.

There’s even a picture of Munson and Harrington chatting in the background at a party they had most probably met for the very first time— wait for it— two years ago.

Some fans call Mr Bald Eagle delusional. A small percentage are straight up homophobic and another few say it’s a funny coincidence but Steve is straight, guys lol. But very soon a devoted fan base is created under the banner Steddie Truthers.

[andr0nap-wf]

modern au younger man yaoi designs yippee

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Bar Mitzvah Boy (BBC, 1976)

"At this moment, on their way, are a hundred and seventeen guests. Sitting on the train, in cars, queuing for buses - all on their way. At half past six, Victor, a hundred and seventeen people from Bournemouth, from Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow, from Birmingham, everywhere... are going to turn up at the Reuben Shulman Hall expecting a dinner dance. All dressed up. Your Uncle Zalman, my cousin Freda. Your brother we don't talk about from Cardiff."

"Don't upset yourself."

"A hundred and seventeen people. A hundred and seventeen portions of chopped liver. A hundred and seventeen mushroom vol-au-vents. A hundred and seventeen chicken with croquette potatoes and helzel, French beans and coleslaw. A hundred and seventeen lokshen kugels. A four-piece band. No bar mitzvah boy. No bar mitzvah. No nothing."

[rothesmary]

Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monogues, p. 11

[izzyhandsyouaglassofwine]

seen a couple people running to that "is it bad writing or do you not understand genre" post in regards to the ofmd upset. and let me remind people that this show was marketed as a romantic comedy, ESPECIALLY this season!

In that regard, I found an article/blog post that directly addresses the question "can you have character death in a romantic comedy?" And it really hits the nail on the head.

Even if you were to make the argument "well it's a dark comedy!" or "its a pirate show!" there's still a balance that needs to be met if you don't want to alienate your audience.

People are going to argue that the death was earned because they spent the entire season building up his character and "completing his arc". Well, I'll argue that they DIDN'T complete his arc. In fact they took about twelve steps back in his death scene by seemingly ret conning his progress and having him center Ed's feelings on his literal deathbed. So it really feels a lot like fridging, because that's exactly what it was. Izzy's death was for Ed's arc, not his own. And they spent so much time focusing on Izzy all season, focusing on his growth and giving him such a specific arc about queerness and recovery, that yeah, his death feels like a slap to the face and not a tragic story beat that makes the story all the richer.

[heymeowmao]

2024.03.15 ° Xin Yunlai Weibo Update

[cod-dump]

Graves, holding a knife to Price’s throat: Do you want to fucking die?

Price: Kinda

Graves: *stares at Price before lowering the knife*

Graves: Babe, we literally sat down and talked about this! Didn’t we talk about this?!

Nik, laying on the floor tied up: We did. I’m a little disappointed you care so little about our feelings, John

Price: Oh my god-