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#note I did not actually rewatch that ep recently
ectokelpeigh · 1 year
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I rewatched a few episodes of DP tonight.
And guys
Guys
I hinge so much of my “it’s actually reasonable to not figure out Danny Fenton = Danny Phantom” argument on the fact that no one would think that Phantom is a secret identity at all, let alone as a living person.
But at the end of Double Cross My Heart, the GIW are explicitly trying to single out Phantom among living Casper High students. They rule out Dash for being too much of a blockhead, and eventually attack Gregor because he matches the profile. They’re shocked when Phantom swoops in and foils them, because they thought they were already chasing him by chasing Gregor.
This means the GIW were on board with the idea of a living person being Phantom. Did they know about the whole half-ghost? Still can’t say. Maybe they think it’s a clever disguise. But they really took the logic leap of “living kid is also a ghost” and still didn’t catch Danny.
I’m running out of Watsonian excuses— at least for the GIW. I’ll still give everyone else a pass and assume that they didn’t know about the theory or didn’t believe it because “living kid is a ghost” is still a hard pill to swallow. But the GIW? They stupid
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absolutebl · 5 months
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Hey Abl, trust you are well. So I took a month off bl to deal with life stuff and upon my return there's a lot of new shows and I'm feeling overwhelmed and need to prioritize. What should I start with that started airing in late October/November? Spanx!
BL Quick Picks - End of 2023 Releases
That finished its run? Sorry I don't keep that close track of things ending but stuff I loved that ended relatively recently as follows. (I'm giving you a range of styles to suit your mood.)
Felling light and fluffy?
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Jun & Jun
(Korea Viki)
A delightful office romance about an ex-idol who joins cubical life only to find his new boss is his first love. Others boys are sniffing around too. Operative word being "sniffing" as much of this romance involves smell. With a snappy (sometimes even raunchy) script, enjoyable sides, a pretty as peaches cast, and descent chemistry this show made up for in style what it lacked in substance. I like fluff. I loved this. I smiled every moment I was watching. With tons of rewatch potential (especially the last few eps), my only caution is this is for fans of the BL genre only, I don’t think it’ll work for anyone else. 9/10
Feeling complex and drama llama?
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I Feel You Linger in the Air
(Thailand grey, YT for some)
I truly loved this time travel romance. IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, from filming techniques to narrative framework (much like Until We Meet Again). Steeped in history and family drama it edges into lakorn (but no as much as To Sir With Love and with way less scenery chewing). This is an elegant and classy BL… from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy. The main couple (both as a pair and individuals) were excellent, particularly Bright (Yai) whose eye-work acting style is a personal favorite of mine. Pity about the ending. Oh it wasn’t that sad but it wasn’t good either. This show should easily have earned a 10 from me except that it fumbled the… erm… balls. Argh. Whatever. 9/10
Feeling odd and chaotic?
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Why R U?
(Korea iQIYI)
Korea decided to remake, of all possible Thai BLs, Why RU? And that is exactly what we got: a short form, clean & pretty, slightly confusing, uneven chemistry, all the same tropes KBL that kind of cliff-noted the original but with none of the heat or complex relationship dynamics. I just … what world is this? Because it is BOTH bizarro land, and EXACTLY what I expected. How do I rate it? In the end I have to go back to simple questions: did I like it, would I rewatch it, and would I recommend it? Yes. Probably. And probably not. What the actual hell? 8/10
Feeling dark and complex?
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Tokyo in April is AKA Shigatsu no Tokyo wa
(Japan Viki)
Two young men with a shared tragic past reunite and fall in love all over again, but the past will not stop hunting them. Based on a manga, this office set reunion romance is GREAT… damn it. It’s Japan in full on soft focus which means it gets emo, abusive, and chewy. These two characters are giving parts of their souls away in a desperate attempt to shape themselves to the expectations they have of each other. Japan gave us the Bed Friends that Thailand could never even imagine. But here’s the thing: I don’t enjoy my BL this heavy and cutting. I know that for The 8th Sense crowd this is peak BL and I can’t argue with the fact that the romantic devotion, domesticity, script, and acting IS all on point. It’s just not my personal preference for that point to be so damn sharp. I appreciate that this being 2023 I have the luxury of consistent quality (especially from Japan) and thus the ability to say… I acknowledge that this SHOULD get a 9/10 but I can’t emotionally go higher than 8/10
Feeling sappy and in need of comfort?
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Stay By My Side
(Taiwan Viki)
This show was an interesting take on the "ghost boyfriend" trope. About a boy who is tormented by hearing the dead, except when he is around one other boy - desperation+proximity = love. Unfortunately, the story was erratic and waffled about. While the leads turned in solid performances and the sappy domesticity was off the charts, it never really had the strength of the narrative convictions such a strong concept should have supplied. Highly rewatchable and enjoyable for that sappy domesticity but not a whole lot more. Still I always give extra credit for the diabetes-inducing sugar content and rewatch capacity. 8/10 
Feeling sexy?
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My Personal Weatherman AKA Taikan Yoho
(Japan Gaga)
I liked it a lot and it's classic yaoi of the kind that really only works from Japan. Basically: boys who fell in love in college end up living together but both are so repressed they actually don't realize they're in love. It's higher heat from Japan and well done, but it leaned into the "why don't they just talk for fuck's sake?" trope which is only exacerbated into undiluted frustration by the fact that they're already fucking. It's good, but watching requires more patience than usual, even from Japan. 8/10
Feeling sweet and earnest?
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Sing My Crush
(Korea iQIYI)
This a cute coming of age drama around music and 2 kinds of self acceptance and actualization journeys. This was basically Korea’s version of About Youth, and was perhaps a bit too soft and ungrounded by comparison, like a marshmallow sculpture. Sweet but somewhat lacking in discernible flavor. 8/10
If you want to know what I'm enjoying that's airing right now, I'm mot yet caught up this week but I have time today so the weekly ranking will drop in a few hours. But I can tell you with confidence that very little is likely to unseat...
My Dear Gangster Oppa (Thailand iQiyi)
from my affections right now. I love it unconditionally and it's airing on iQIYI.
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myassbrokethefall · 6 months
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xf rewatch: ghost in the machine
This one was interesting to watch in light, obviously, of the current AI moment. Like, Deep Throat goes "how much do you know about ''''artificial intelligence''''?" and Mulder says "I thought it was only theoretical." You did? And then a minute later DT describes "a learning machine….a computer that actually THINKS." like hold up there fella! There's quite the gulf between THOSE two things but I suppose we don't really know that yet back now. Even Mulder saying "could someone have ''''''''hacked'''''''' into the system?" like this is the most out-there idea of all time, and instead of going, duh yes, hacking into the system is indeed something that someone could most certainly have done, Brad says "not your average phone phreak, that's for sure." remember phone phreaking?? neither do I because I'm old but I'm not THAT old. I heard an interesting podcast ep about it semi-recently though. Like you could make a noise with your VOICE that was the same pitch as some note the phone plays and it tricks it into connecting you to a long-distance line or something. neat stuff. anyway.
The computer stuff wasn't AS ridiculous as I remembered, but I also wonder if the farther we get from the time period the more I'm like, sure that seems like it could have been true back then I guess. At least, it seemed to more or less follow from a story perspective (but maybe that's what makes it so unrealistic in a tech way). Things that DID stick out to me included the following:
1. all those security cameras seem so RICKETY. They're all just stickin out there servo-ing jerkily around out in the air, just hit that shit down with a shovel and be done with it. Mulder dramatically covers one with a cloth and I was like, great now you only have to do that 9,000 more times in this building.
2. the superintelligent AI is courteous enough to jingle Scully up on her landline at 1:31 am to screech modem noises at her in order to give her a heads up that it's hacking into her computer at that moment (for what purpose? how is reading her reports on Mulder any help to it…ehh whatever).
3. Gordon/Gansa really running through the scifi "homages" with Conduit being very heavily Contact-by-Sagan-based and this one developing a voice solely so it could say things like "program……. EXECUTED GET IT" and "sorry Dave Brad, I can't do that."
4. I did certainly feel that the computer was "thinking" QUITE a lot more outside the box than seemed even marginally realistic (and per what I have read about machine learning, not that I am remotely close to being an expert on any of that). It sure got a LOT of info from filming people with its analog(?) security cameras and like, extrapolating from what it observed. The way it halted the elevator so Scully would call security and identify herself when she did so, so that it could learn her name and start googling (forgive me) her? I mean now that is some high-level strategizing. I feel Janelle Shane would not approve.
Other notes from my "notes":
Penny Northern as the lady congratulating Jerry on his profile that he stole from Mulder.
Scully's hair is slowly getting unfortunate. That swingy little Deep Throat floofy bob remains my favorite so far.
Nancy Spiller forensics instructor at the academy, "we used to call her the iron maiden!" Every time Scully mentions or interacts with a professor now I wonder if she fucked them. Heheh (EDIT: I just realized Penny Northern IS Nancy Spiller. !!! Still wonder if Scully fucked her)
This ep contains the iconique moment of Scully emphatically circling something on a computer monitor with a physical writing implement. (Also that whole mapping the voices together situation was very goofy and also pointless — if the system had a voice why wouldn't it be Brad's voice; he invented it.)
This is the first ep thus far that I've found Scully's Scullying kind of irritating. It seems very obvious that Brad did not do it so her being like "mulder I'm sorry you're so sad about your shitty friend dying that you can't think straight" feels condescending instead of sympathetic. "maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea if you talked to someone." "you're probably right." *leaves* "where are you going?" "to talk to someone." yeah you deserved that, sculls.
Failed mulderisms: "open sesame." I'm not offended by it or anything it's just so weak as to barely rise to the level of joke. Also, it has ALWAYS and I mean since the 90s grated on me that he scoffs "a politically correct elevator" because the elevator is being so outrageously, offensively woke as to… announce the floor numbers??? ok boomer!!! lord
Scully's got this book in bed with her. analyze as you will.
Pretty impressive how Mulder knows how to whip open a car hood and immediately rip the correct wire to get the horn to shut up.
Greatly enjoyed the This echo of them climbing stairs and yelling out numbers while doing so. Also, they are so young and athletic; sure they can go up 30 flights of stairs and then Scully is totally game to be hoisted into a ceiling vent and crawl around up there. J. Edgar's finest, at the top of their physical game!
I got so mad when Mulder goes "he apologized. in his own way" about Jerry. he literally did not even come close to apologizing! he said fuck you I stole your notes because you were gonna help me anyway so who cares, shut up, and then he stomped off. In no universe is that an apology of even the worst sort. Jerry sucks.
this house:
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(literal photo of tv taken from couch, too lazy to even get up)
is ugly as shit, and I was making fun of it saying that it looked like a suburban convention center and bar mitzvah venue instead of a rich tech guy's sleek futuristic mansion and wondering if they filmed it at like, a Days Inn, but I was informed it was actually the home of a star Canucks player?? well he had terrible taste.
Finally, I remain FASCINATED with watching Mulder and Scully Work In An Office and interact with other people in the office and do office things like eat pastries off a cart! and hang out in what looks like the FBI archives! This set:
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is so endearingly normcore-office to me. The library cart with archive boxes and also some other loose crap on it. All the haphazardly sized shelves from Staples with random mugs that no one wants so someone just sticks them on a bookshelf. Stacks of copy paper. A whole bunch of plants, some of which are dead, and also featuring at least 2 empty vases. The industrial tissue box. Someone did a very good job with this set dec is what I'm saying. Ok, the "INVOICES" folder is a little funny.
This is almost a workplace drama at this point in its life and I am a little bit obsessed with that. What is Fran gonna say about M&S smashing up that car. Smh.
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2am - Jean Kirschtein x Reader
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Sorry to sidetrack everyone waiting for my requests but i just had the URGE to write for mr jean kirschtein my aries king. watched the newest aot ep recently and then...rewatched the entire show lolol
i have a very specific scenario in my head, inspired by one of my most insane college memories since im graduating undergrad soon :)
Genre: Meet-cute, fluff, college AU, gender-neutral and BIPOC friendly reader, sfw, unrequited to reciprocated love
Content Warnings: alcohol/drinking mentions, connie being a little cringe, brief weapon mention, brief throw-up mention
Notes: here is the wagon you'll see in the fic LOL, not the exact one (the one i have is cheap as hell). And the gang lives in apartment style housing, so each of them have their own room.
Length: 2K words
"Um...are you guys okay?"
You say as you look at three incredibly disheveled students your age. One taller than the rest and pulling the others, a boy with a shaved head and brunette girl, in...a convertible wagon.
"Nope, no i am not." The tall mans exasperates, crouch down to regain his energy. "This is the last time I let these assholes drink this much."
You nod slowly, taking in the scene. Both of the 'assholes' in questions are sleeping in the wagon, without a care in world but with the smell of throw up. Tell tale sign of wasted college students.
"Could..could you do me a favor and just hold the door open while I wheel them in" he asks, standing up after his recovery on the ground. "My phone is out of battery so I can't call my roommate to let me in"
His face in better light, you start to realize who this man was. Jean Kirschtein, a business major who lives on your floor. You've seen him around before and thought he was cute, but you hadn't exactly had the courage to ask him out. Like, how would you ask a stranger in the hallway out for coffee?
He definitely doesn't know who you are, but it might be a good time to let him know and hope it plants you in his mind.
"Uhh, yeah sure." You say quickly "Let me just put this bag in the trash."
You sidestep to the slightly overfilled large trash container, tossing your bag in.
"That was quick, I thought you'd for sure question me a bit more." Jean says, grabbing the handle of the wagon.
"I've seen you around, I think we might be on the same floor."
"Oh, I see."
"Plus, if you did try anything," You display your keyring, adorned with many different safety weapons. "You'd be sorely sorry."
"Remind me not to piss you off." He laughs.
You hold the door open as he wheels in the wagon with the snoring friends in it. Hoping for the night not the end there, you decide to be a little bold.
"Um...since it is 2am, do you need help lugging them to your dorm?" You ask, before adding quickly "Since your roommate is probably asleep and all."
Jean looks a bit in shock, before composing himself.
"Actually, yeah." Jean says, nodding. He stiffens a bit before adding "If you don't mind, I don't want to take up too much of your time."
"It's okay, my sleep schedules is fucked from taking too many afternoon naps" You laugh "Plus, from personal experience, carrying two people to their beds is not easy."
"You've done this?"
"Once, though one of them got up in time. so we didn't have to carry them to the dorm."
"...Did you have a wagon too?"
"Nah, a car. The wagon is a nifty though."
Jean laughs and you smile.
The elevator dings as it arrives on the ground floor and you both enter with the wagon in tow.
"By the way, I didn't catch your name" Jean asks. "I'm Jean"
"(Name), it's nice to meet you" You say.
"Hell of a way to meet." Jean sighs, "The two idiots in the wagon are Connie and Sasha, my other roommates."
"Did they have fun at least?"
"I hope so," he groans, "I'm never partying with them sober ever again."
"Where did you find a wagon like this? I imagine not many hosts give out these things" You ask.
"Oh, we were at a kickback, it's my friend Historia's. She uses it for groceries and lent it to us."
"I see."
A beat passes, before Jean tries to fill the awkward silence.
"What's your major?"
"(Choice of Major), you?"
"Business."
The elevator dings as you arrive to your floor. The wagon creaks as Jean continues to pull it, interrupting your not so thrilling convo.
"Here's my dorm, you can hold the door open while I wheel them inside." He says, fumbling with his keys as you nod in understanding.
“Hnhhh…jean shut up” a voice calls from the ground. Connie had woken up, clearly still in a drunken stupor.
Jean tsks before opening the door slightly, leaving you to open it fully as he wheeled him in.
“Nice of you to wake up, dumbass” Jean grumbles. “I had to ask for help cause you two can’t hold your liquor”
Connie attempts to get out of the cart, but winces at invisible pain. “At least you got what you wanted”
“Wanted? I didn’t-“
Connie falls out of the cart, crawling on the floor a bit before sitting up and hollering.
“You got to hang out with ur babyyyy~”
Jean stops stone cold, blushing furiously.
“Connie, you’re drunk.”
“I’m sober enough to see it!! At least you’ll stop complaining to me about how you only see them in passing!”
“Connie-“
“‘Oh Im Jeaaannnboo, im in love with a mysterious classmate who i never talk to cause im a pussy—“
“CON”
“—who I think is so hot and likes the same nerdy shit I dooooooo, im such a simp-”
“FUCKING SHUT-“
“HEY!”
A head pops out of one of the closed doors in the dorm. It looked to be Marco, one of your classmates in your language arts class. You know him decently, he's been in a couple of your group projects before.
“Jean, why are you yelling at 2:30 in the morning”
“Connie started it!”
“Well, can you guys keep it down? I don’t want complaints. “
“Um.” You call from the door, dumbfounded from the convo. “We should get your other friend to bed.”
All three men fell silent, before Connie asked “When…did they get here?”.
“They’ve been here the entire time” jean said pinching his nose.
You ignore their bickering to open a room labelled “Sasha” and wheeled the wagon it there. Marco quickly walks in to help get the drunk brunette out of the wagon and onto her bed, making sure she's laying on her stomach.
Marco smiles, "Thanks for helping Jean with these two, usually I'm there to help but I got slammed with studying."
"Does this...always happen?"
"Eh, not really. Me and Jean usually stop them before it gets this bad, thought since I wasn't there.."
"Two against one." You finish, nodding.
"Exactly”
You and Marco stand for a bit before he breaks the silence.
“Connie isn’t wrong, exactly.”
“Huh?” You whirl your head around to face him. Marco laughs nervously.
“Connie’s exaggerating a bit, but Jean does…like you, but he hasn't been able to gather the courage to talk to you out of the blue.”
You stare at him in disbelief. Jean likes you? The hot guy who lives on your floor likes you???
“It’s up to you what you do with that info” Marco says “no hard feelings if you don’t reciprocate. It's really his fault for not saying anything”
“Ok…” you say, before adding “Sorry, I’m just…in disbelief., cause I kind of...like him too.”
“Wait, really?” Marco says, before Jean comes inside the room.
“Finally got the bastard to bed, how’s Sasha?”
Marco and you both turn quickly to look at Jean.
“Am I…interrupting?”
“No, we were just talking about our assignments” Marco says, darting past Jean. “I’m going to bed, Jean you should walk them to their dorm.”
“But they live down the ha-“
“Bye (Name)!”
Marco leaves the room and runs to his room, shutting the door as quickly and quietly as he could.
You and Jean stand there in awkward silence, before you decide to answer Jean’s question.
“Um, Sasha is sleeping like a baby, to answer your question” you gesture to the sleeping girl.
“Ah, um good” Jean says nervously.
The both of you move out of Sasha’s room, quietly closing the door.
“You don’t have to walk me to my dorm.” You say.
“Ok” Jean replies, before saying “you know, Connie is just saying stuff, he’s super dru-“
“But you have to buy me dinner sometime, since I took the time to help” you say, smiling brightly.
Jean looked at you absolutely dumbfounded, maybe even a bit annoyed.
“Okay, I guess I’ll buy you takeout or something-“
“No, like a sit-down dinner place”
“What? That’s so expensive.” Jean said, now clearly annoyed “Look, I’ll give you some money and you can go buy all the fancy shit in the restaurant”
“No, I mean like…you come with me, we eat at a restaurant” You say, and adding quietly “…like a date.”
The implication finally dawns on him. Jean starts blushing, scratching the back of his head.
“Is it…a date?”
You pause, feeling your heart beat out of your chest.
“Sorry, I guess the playful thing was confusing” you sigh “Jean, do you wanna go to dinner with me? As in…a date”
Jean looks at you, eyes wide and his ears red.
“Yeah, sure…wait I mean yes!” He says, staggering over his words.
“Cool, I’ll give you number and we can figure out when”
“Cool.” Jean adds, pulling out his phone while you pull out yours. Your heart flutters a bit as you punch Jean’s number into your phone.
"You know, we don't have to do dinner in a sit-down place if you don't want to-"
"No, we're doing it, and I'm paying." Jean affirms.
"But-"
"Just..ignore that. I got a little annoyed" Jean interrupts "I thought you were gonna ask me to pay for a meal with your friends or something and then order the most expensive shit on the menu."
He stops, before adding.
"I jump to conclusions too often, my bad."
"Who says I wouldn't order the most expensive shit on our date? Aren't you paying?" You ask mischievously.
Jean laughs "Well, I did say I would pay anything regardless."
"You don't seem that annoyed by it now"
"Well, now I get to spend more time with you." Jean says, smiling. "I think that's priceless."
That stops your playful banter. Now you were starting to feel hot. Jean is certainly saying all the right things. Cheesy, but kinda smooth.
You smile shyly, before gesturing towards the door. "I think I should get going, it's getting pretty late."
Jean nods, "Yeah, of course. I'll text you tomorrow?"
"Yeah sure!"
You turn around and start opening the main door to your dorm. Suddenly, you feel like you had more to say. You turn around as you're leaving, looking at the tall brunette in the dorm hallway.
"I'm excited to spend more time with you too, Jean."
Sasha wakes up to hooting and hollering, somewhat normal in the everyday life of dorming with three college boys. But this time was not fun, considering the raging headache and the empty stomach she had.
All three of the men burst into her dorm, Marco holding a breakfast tray (hopefully its for her), Connie with his arm slung around Jean, who is smiling but looks a little shy.
"What are you guys yelling about? and can you keep it down?" Sasha asks, before Marco gives her the update, along with the tray of eggs and bacon and apple juice.
"Sorry, Connie's excited about-"
"Jean finally got a date with the person down the hall!!"
Sasha becomes bewildered, but smiles. "Really? With (Name)?"
"Long story short," Connie recounts "They helped Jean with us, and apparently Jean did something to convince them to ask him out."
"It was mostly me" Marco affirms, "I told them that Jean had a little crush."
"I swear, you guys are like gossiping aunties at a family gathering." Jean groans, "It was thanks to none of you. It was all me and my smooth talking."
"Yeah right, I was wasted but you kept having the most awkward energy around them, man" Connie says, shaking his head.
"No I wasn't! You didn't even hear about the flirting thing we had!"
"What thing?" Sasha asks, chewing on the bacon on her fork.
"Well, we were talking about dinner and I was saying I would pay for it-"
"Gentleman move" Sasha says. "That's needed more in our generation"
"Bullshit, what about equality!" Connie argues.
"Stop interrupting, but thank you Sasha," Jean continues. "They joked about ordering the most expensive shit on the menu, and I said I would do it regardless because I get to spend time with them and that their time was priceless."
Everyone stares at him for a moment, before bursting in laughter.
"Jean..are you serious?"
"That has to be the chessiest thing eve-"
"JEANS A SIMP!!"
Jean grumbled "I hate all of you."
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To answer your qs, yes i did have to haul two of my drunk ass friends in a wagon, no i did not meet a hot guy like Jean that helped me, campus safety caught us cuz they wanted to check that my friends were alive LMAO
I hope you've enjoyed this fic! It's been a while since I've written something this long and for aot, so hopefully it's not too OOC. I also had fun making reader social awk but still assertive! I find that that type of boldness is much needed in my personal life.
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lamonnaie · 8 months
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bad buddy fandom getting-to-know-you meme!
Thanks for the tag @fiercynn !! This is a really lovely idea :)
note: i consider "fanworks" to pretty much everything people create related to a fandom, including but not limited to meta/analysis/discussion, gifs, fanvids/edits/fancams, filk, fanart, fanfic, fan food, fan crafts, etc. please include this note with the meme unless you have a different definition!
name and whatever you want to share about yourself hi i'm mars, i use she/her pronouns, i live in australia and i've been into thai/asian bl for a little over a year now. i mostly just lurk and mass rb on tumblr lol, but i'd definitely like to get to know more people !!
when did you watch bad buddy/join the fandom? I was actually trying to track down the exact date recently (i failed), but i watched it for the first time around mid-september 2022, ended up binging it in a day and been a part of the fandom since
favorite ship(s) patpran <3
favorite character(s) pat !! he's one of my favourite characters from any media ever. I just love how selfless he is and how he transforms through the show, and how bright he is but knows when to stand his ground. i could wax poetics about him fr <3
favorite episode(s) Whenever i watch/rewatch bad buddy i tend to binge it so i can never distinguish betweens episodes lol. In general, ep 12 is definitely one of my favs because i feel like it ties things up nicely and i like seeing them happy :) i can probably give a better answer for favourite scene...
favorite scene(s) ...which is why it's great that this is the next question!
In no particular order: the staircase proposal scene, the bus stop roleplaying scene, the post-curtain bench hand holding scene (specifically that one face pat/ohm makes which imo is the single most most heartbreaking frame in the entire show), the ep 12 post-credits scene (wait was it actually post-credits, i don't remember ajksdjf), the screaming on the rocks at the zero-waste village scene, and the rooftop kiss (ofc)
Basically i just like to see them happy (most of the time) :)
one thing you would change about the show if you could the whole making-it-up-to-wai arc was not it for me. WHY was pran the one apologising and going after him??? still makes me mad to this day, but i think i'd have a lot more animosity towards wai if ep 12 didn't exist (also all the wai redemption arcs in fanfics have made me warm up to him :P)
what are your some of your favorite fanworks made by other people? ahhh so many!! joy of stanning a show that's finished is that it stays going through fanworks, but also now there's too many that i absolutely adore to remember in the moment, sp here's some:
we both know you're my only dream (fic) by @fiercynn: one of my favourite fics ever that i constantly go back and reread whenever i'm having a bad day (or not)
yield strength (fic) by @dulosis: the physics analogies do something to my brain /pos
10 things i hate about you (fic) by @nobodynobodyno: this one's so cute and i reread it all the time
this fmv to tujh mein rab dikhta hai by @transpat: desi moots, iykyk. but fr this holds such a special place in my heart, the lyrics are so patpran and the editing and clip choice is just *chef's kiss*
this fmv to dandelions: IT'S SO GOOD. all the parallels, the dialogue overlaying is just perfect, and the TRANSITIONS (the one at 1:28 especially)
every single one of @hereforlou's art: i'm literally obsessed, i don't always see everything on my dash so i'll literally check their tumblr every couple days. is this stalker behaviour? possibly, but if you've seen their art i think you'd understand.
Also special mention to this one gifset of the staircase proposal scene which was my first ever exposure to bad buddy, it made me watch the show to begin with, but i didn't rb it when i first saw it so now it's lost to the times 😭😭
I have an insane amount of fanfic i wanted to put here but for the sake of length of this post, i restrained myself ajskdjf
(if you create fanworks) what are your favorite fanworks that you’ve made? i do not (yet 👀)
a song that makes you think of bbs (the ones in the show don’t count lol) pretty much every fmv/edit that i've rewatched a couple times set to a song will make me thing of bbs lol, so some are tujh mein rab dikhta hai and dandelions from above, emily by Jeremy Zucker and Chelsea Cutler because of this amazing fic, and gorgeous by Taylor Swift because of this gorgeous edit (y'all please go watch it it's amazing).
idk anything else you want us to know? It's the perfect timing for this because these are my nails right now ):)
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honestly not super sure who of my mutuals are bbs moots so i'm just gonna tag some people, feel free to ignore this if you've already been tagged/don't want to do it! :)
@nobodynobodyno @dropthedemiurge @justafriend-ql @cornflowershade @hometothecanyonmoon @7nessasaryevils
If you see this and you want to do it, this is is me tagging you as well !!
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vacationship · 3 months
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"About the Blogger" meme
Aw thank you for tagging me @happylikeasadsong and @currymanganese . Belatedly getting around to this.
Star Sign(s): Cancer sun, Cancer moon, Taurus rising. Water and earth, yo! It gets muddy over here. A decent amount of fire and air in my whole chart, too.
Favorite Holidays: Christmas, it's the lights and Ave Maria and Joy to the World what can I say.
Last Meal: Burmese mango chicken and coconut rice with browned coconut flakes on top of the rice. Delish! I would eat that coconut rice every day, just by itself. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Current Favorite Musician: First Aid Kit is a current favorite, love sister duos. Khruangbin has been an obsession for awhile.
Last Music Listened To: Monster Rally. Lately I need no lyrics. Just take me away please. Into the stars, into the universe.
Last Movie Watched: well the fam bam was out of the house so I took advantage to leisurely wrap presents, sip my bevvie, and watch not one but two xmas movies back to back. Last Christmas and Love Hard. Both were fun! Last Christmas: it got me at being an homage to George Michael songs the whole way through. Love Hard: catfishing turned love story, okaaaayy, I'm with you. These holiday romcoms though, wince, cringe, love you/hate you.
Last TV Show Watched: I finally started Pen15 and it is EEK watching these adult actors play this young age so well, it is so wild. I'm also slowly watching Only Murders in the Building (do I like it? I think so… Selena Gomez is killin it and I gotta say I love her makeup line) and also Not Dead Yet (hmm, didn't realize there was a death theme). I just really enjoy Gina Rodriguez and it’s a fun sitcom and makes me miss Jane the Virgin.
Randomly found Crashing from 2016—Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s writing had me belly laughing in a few spots and I almost want to say I'd have preferred this show to continue with another season than Flea Bag getting two seasons, which I rewatched a few eps of to remind myself and compare with Crashing, and while FB was such a good show that got acclaim, like Crashing is sort of the funnier prequel (for PWB?) with an ensemble cast? And fuckin Jonathan Bailey is in it? Both lead characters played by PWB are annoying af to me, probably in a good way.
I hope to get through all these but the Bear has me fixated.
Last Book/Fic Finished: Ok well let me pull out my dusty kindle now to see what I last read. All really good recent reads: If I Survive You, True Biz, Black Cake, Kindred, the Book of Form and Emptiness, the Island of Sea Women. Okay, I feel I need another worthy book to maybe offset my Sydcarmy obsession. These were good books. Books are good. Note to self: read a book!!!!!!!
Last Book/Fic Abandoned: I'm a mama, I can't tell you what fics I like best and which I abandoned!?!? I love all your fics my sydcarmys and honestly I want to read more. Last book I abandoned: What Fresh Hell is This. It's a funny and serious book about menopause that I started reading it to see if I could recommend to a client because I haven't been througu it, but I just can't yet. Glad it's out there tho. One day.
Currently Reading: Nothing. I'm waiting for something good. I need something good. I'm afraid to start more sydcarmy fics because then I won't sleep til 3am.
Last Thing Researched for Art/Writing/Hyperfixation: Never you mind
Favorite Online Fandom Memory: Being in an online fandom is actually pretty new for me, I’m sort of an oldie and I’ve been missing out. Just finding the sydcarmy tag has been revolutionary. It’s so fun, mind blowing, brain rotting, and I respect y’all so much.
Favorite Old Fandom You Wish Would Drag You Back In/Have A Resurgence: Since I mentioned it already: Jane the Virgin, and I'm guessing it had a divided ship fandom, and I could personally never decide who I liked best for Jane even though SPOILERS I knew Rafael was endgame. I hated what they did to Michael, HATED it. (SPOILERS let him RIP.) Not saying I’d want a resurgence, more that I wish I’d been there because I was so alone in my angst over obvious endgame guy versus so much unexpected chemistry with the other guy and they like worked that into the show and made me wonder if they were gonna change their minds about who was endgame? That was enticing and nerve wracking. Also I ship the three generations of women and, Rogelio with himself, but with Xiomara, too.
Favorite Thing You Enjoy That Never Had an Active or Big "Fandom" but You Wish It Did: I don't know. I really want to have a good answer. I was not here. I seriously thought tumblr was a dating app for like the longest time. What a dummy. I needed this.
Tempting Project You're Trying to Rein In/Don't Have Time For: I am my own tempting project.
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unsleepingtales · 8 days
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Happy holidays from all of us here on fantasy high tumblr.
Coming back to the top having just finished the ep. I feel insane. ANYWAY.
Our name is ally brennan beardsley mulligan!!
I AM FRIENDS WITH PETE WENTZ FROM FALL OUT BOY WHO IS WANDA CHILDA’S (RECENT) EX BOYFRIEND???????
Ok glad we’re talking about spies tongue curse. Bc what was that
Oh my god this episode is three hours long
Sklonda what’s your goal here bestie
I’m really distracted rn so not many notes are being taken I’m definitely gonna have to rewatch this episode over the weekend
But god all the soil stuff is weird
Something in his office??? Something like maybe the mirror where baron first appeared??
Yeah just throwing energy into external things to avoid feeling your own feelings. Is a thing that happens.
THANK YOU RIZ please please talk about the students freaking out
Oh godddddd the soil it all comes back to minerals and soil somehow ok
Diamondized blood 😭
I love tired Adaine she’s trying her bestttt
Goddd the bad girls are everything to me. They are every triad ever.
You’re giving the identity spell a stroke guys
Holy SHIT Beardsley
Oooooooh DOME COLOR CHANGE
Saint Kristen Applebees motherfuckers
Okay that’s horrifying!
Ok so that was fun
Zac is SO smart
‘Gorgug….. so good’
Godly whale fall……… Zac Oyama your mind
It’s like burning man 😭
Burning Man as Whale Fall. Maybe I’ll write the paper.
Planeshift is a spell guysssss you have used it before
The way he talks to her makes her mad!!!!!
Cassandraaaaaaaaaa
Gorgug <3
Your enemy the beekeeper!
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT IT
Yeah Fabian probably does not want to go to Aelwyn’s house
Riding a scooter. Classic Adaine.
Devastating.
OOF
Yeesh.
Yeah the last friends Aelwyn had we’re not good!
🚨🚨 ZAYN MENTION 🚨🚨 Zayn my best friend Zayn Darkshadow 🖤🖤🖤
Brennan’s physicality as Aelwyn is so funny
Aelwyn and Fabian leave it alone!!! Don’t!!
What? No! No! What? What? What? No!
One thing about Ally Beardsley is they’re gonna talk about Joe Biden.
They’re good crimes? You’re having fun with the crimes? Come do crimes with us!
Aelwyn librarian era??
Holy shit Emily
What the fuckkkkkk
Absolute dream terrorist Figueroth Faeth
Gertie my beloved!
Dark red honey oooh
Kristen x Gertie let’s goooooo
HELLO????????
OKAY I GUESS THATS HAPPENING FANTASTIC LOVE THAT FOR BOTH OF THEM
Also that makes Gertie campaigning for Kipperlilly 100x funnier
Whattttttt
I need fic. STAT.
Yayyyy a bit of financial breathing room for Riz
Mazey!
My mind’s still back in the cafeteria I can’t wait to see fantasy high tumblr’s response to Kristen and Gertie
Do NOT get tracker. NO.
Oooh so we finally have info on the bylaws
Where did you get wanda childa’s resume???????
He’s really committed to the neck tattoo thing huh.
They’re all so good. They’re just good.
Gorgug!!!!
THEY FINALLY REALIZED!!!!
We’ve been sooooooo intense about it I wasn’t even sure if they had realized lol
Ok! Nephew. Interesting.
Henry helped build Grix. Ok.
Henryyyyyyyyy
God we can’t trust any of the teachers really. That’s so depressing.
God if only you could actually just go let’s end the meeting right there every time you were uncomfortable
The ENTIRE family is going yeah
THEYRE BRINGING ZAYNNNNNNNN
I’m so glad they’re bringing Zayn my best friend in the world Zayn Darkshadow
His art makes me so fucking happy.
Ooh good thinking Siobhan
Telemaine oh boy
Oh god
Gilear time!!!!
(haunted and suspicious)
Awww she called him dad
Sometimes Brennan just says shit
He really had to get rid of the puppy fast
She killed my god- NO- fine. She helped my god die.
That actually makes so much sense. Once things are good after they’ve been bad for ages you don’t know who you are without the bad things
It’s me fig! From the phone!
(all talking at once about Kristen’s kisses)
What
What??
Babe how could we not clown
RIZBERT
We could have been calling you rizbert this entire time
WHAT????
Telemaine leave Riz alone
RUVINA?????? Winter in fallinel for the first time in eons????? Ruvina maybe??
Oh yeah the name of the religion is literally wolfSONG
Fantasy Hamilton
It’s so funny that they’re calling her bee girl bc there’s an npc named bee boy in my current campaign that we all love SO much
Aelwyn. Babe.
Gorgug white knuckling the railing to avoid Telemaine
There is NOT an option for under 18s on any kink dating app
Sandra Lynnnnnnnn I would be so good to you you don’t even know
Okay but wasn’t Gilear cursed way before he put the armor on???? This is what keeps tripping me up. Gilear’s life was like this before.
My only daughter in the world 😭😭😭
Fig. Fig honey. That’s not. That’s.
Fig and Sandra Lynn. They fuck me up so bad.
Sandra Lynn Faeth the woman that you are………….
Zayn is coming to the church! Zayn Darkshadow my best friend in the world!!!
SPY’S TONGUE
Ohhhhhhhh okay
I love that it’s canon that Aelwyn and Zayn are wizard buddies who worked for Kalina together
Using devil’s nectar too much causes you to to believe your own lies. Fabulous.
Divinity is so weird
Name heist?
Winter Break! I believe in you!!
Kristen. Kristennnnnn
Narnia Burning Man 😭
Oh god
Oh god!
She will be risen!
It is SO cold
OUCH
Guys what the hell is going on
Yeah of COURSE she’s deeply bothered. Kristen is doing the same thing to her that she did earlier. They bother each other. They need each other to understand.
This kills me. This kills me so deeply.
Ohhh thank you for thinking about Ruvina
They’re BEST FRIENDS
They’re rolling initiative to decide who goes first in secret sylvan. I’m gonna fucking cry.
ADAINE THATS SO SWEET
Fabian. Fabian this is actually so nice. Please think about this. It will make them not attack you. Adaine wanted to help you with your fear.
Fabian we know you can give good gifts
Murph is running a tight ship on secret sylvan
(attempted tearing noises)
That’s actually really nice
They’re tactical!!!!!!
I love this so much
That’s so nice oh my god Kristen you know Riz so well
They love each other so much
GORGUG HAD FIG IN SECRET SYLVAN. Be still my figgorgug heart.
Brennan stopppppppppp
The intense zoom on Ally doing this.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Is she like me.
Zaynnnnnnn
Sorry I’m incredibly not normal about Zayn Darkshadow I’m sure you couldn’t tell from how I react when he has .5 seconds of screen time
Girl WHAT
God they’re good
Riz Gukgak!!
IS THIS WHERE CASSANDRA WAS MARRIED
Dig bitch!
Oooooooooooh baby
Adaine I love you
Oh fuck oh god oh fuck
Zayn nooooooooo
Oh god why
KRISTEN
The idea of watching the moon get fuller is really cool
Oh god
MIRRORS?
Somehow I completely forgot baron was in this episode. I was so distracted I forgot what was coming.
Awww Cassandra is protecting her paladin
Oh my god this is insane
Oh no oh no oh no
Don’t break a mirror don’t do that not right now not here
Oh my god?????
They’re married <3
BARON HELPING??!
BARON ART BARON ART BARON ART
Is Zayn okay :(
You can’t ALL go in the briefcase can you???
WARDING BOND 😭😭😭😭 oh my god I can’t handle that
Death bond <3
What the fuckkkkkkkkk
Hello???????
NAT 20 DEX SAVE FROM KRISTEN APPLEBEES
Where the fuck are they.
Ooooh fig’s bedroom art!
How did this happen.
BARON MINI NEXT WEEK
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Minor Meta Tsunami: YELLOWJACKETS
So - fair warning, these are out of context notes and commentary I made for myself over the course of watching and rewatching (... and rewatching, and rewatching...) the first season and heading into the new one.
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Meta for the most recent ep will be up SOON and it will be the deepest shit yet, so prepare your flower crowns and fermented berry juice! IOW: These are essentially outdated notes in many ways, so please do not yell at me about any of the ideas contained therein for being 'wrong' if they've obviously shown us something else on the series itself by this point. I'm all caught up with every episode and fully switched on and paying attention, here, I promise! That said, I'm doing this for fun. Theories for me are fun, because I'm a writer and a huge nerd and I just love reverse engineering other people's work to see how it ticks, kay? I never claimed to NOT be mentally ill, y'know xp Anyway! Yellowjackets! Off we go! Downstairs, team!
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I'm about 99% certain that the symbol that keeps popping up doesn't change from episode to episode wherever they see it, but I'd have to go back through and double-check. Since it almost looks like one of the ones in this ep was slightly different.
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I have to say, too, I absolutely love Nat as a character. I was so relieved to see that the whole thing with her dad wasn't what it appeared to be. Kinda nauseating, though, to think that her mom was talking about how 'you don't know how good you've got it' when that's how they had it. Ugchk.
I know that everything's pointing to Nat and Travis hooking up with each other after they were rescued from the crash (it's only a teeny little flashback in a previous ep, but it's from Nat's POV and it's of Travis all grown up and naked in bed with her soooo - they kinda didn't leave any doubt, imo), but idk - unless he's got some super secret, soft hidden depths or something, he's mostly just coming off as this crushingly awkward nerd who's insecure about basically everything, but simultaneously moodier than all get out (I get he and Javi lost their dad, but why take that out on Nat, y'know?). It feels like the writers want the relationship to come off as like starcrossed lovers or something and it's just mostly giving bad Twilight - which sucks, because I love Nat and she deserves better than a butthead like Travis.
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Here's my theory about Tai: I do think she's the lady in the tree that Sam keeps mentioning, but I also think that she's why their dog is missing. Tai notices a bite on her hand (way too big to be a human bite) and she mentions later in passing (to her wife, iirc) that the dog must have gotten out somehow. I think Tai encountered the dog outside while she was sleepwalking, the dog got freaked out and bit her, and she winds up killing it and burying it in the planter in her sleepwalking state. She'd have absolutely no memory of doing it, either! The writing on this show is so baller. I swear, I wanna work for this show ;v;
In the episode where Laura Lee baptizes Lottie in the water, Lottie looks up at her and, through the water, we see Laura Lee's head surrounded by this kind of blooming light. At first, I thought it was supposed to be holy light, but then it dawned on me - that was Lottie seeing Laura Lee's death before it happens in 1x08. They don't really make as big a deal of it as they did with the bear and the sick deer - it's actually quite subtle for a vision on this show - but my jaw dropped when I rewatched that scene and saw that bit.
This is the theory I've been able to work out thus far, based on what we've seen - imho, I think Lottie made it back to civilization and she's continuing on the cult-like stuff that they got up to while they were stranded. Since we haven't seen Javi all grown up, my guess is "Adam" was Javi all grown up and pretending to be someone else so Shauna wouldn't be able to figure him out. He and Lottie both share a similar kind of touched/disturbed vibe to them, so I have a feeling that might play into things later. Plus - the only person who could gain access to the money in Travis's account? Family. So - either his brother, Javi, or maybe a wife, if he had one at some point. Because seriously - the black candles, all of the hand-drawn sigils they were resting on? I could see Travis maybe putting them there but he obviously couldn't take them away after he finished an-hero'ing himself, because he'd be dead - so that means someone was there and performed a ritual specific to that crash and then took all the ritual materials with them when they left. So far, we can place Lottie, Nat, Misty and Jessica at the scene, whether by seeing them there ourselves (Misty and Nat, our beloved road trip besties) or hearing them admit to being there (Jessica, Lottie) - but, going by their accounts, we don't see ANY of them mention to anyone or see them remove those candles when they leave on-screen. Which means someone else took those candles. Someone who was there, who we haven't seen, yet.
The whole thing about Travis signing over his money to the cult would make sense - but an alternate version of that could be Travis and Lottie marrying or maybe Lottie and Javi? Those would be the most direct means for her to have access to the money, that I can think of, anyway!
The thing that made me connect the Javi + Adam dots were the stuff that Shauna was talking about with Tai - how she was always daydreaming about falling in love with this guy with floppy hair (notice Adam's hair?), and these big, soulful eyes and he writes poetry (Adam's a painter) and they have this big, romantic affair. I could be off, but it just seems extra coincidental that he'd just so happen to have alllll these same kinds of qualities that she was romanticizing. PLUS, Javi did have access to her journals when they were stranded (at least for a bit) - if she wrote about her dream guy in there, he would have absolutely seen that when he was going through her stuff! Also, Shauna was the one to warn Javi and tell him to 'run' when things get scary during Doomcoming, so I could see him almost putting her on a pedestal as this amazing, strong woman who saved his life, once.
By all accounts - considering the weather, the fact he wasn't dressed for cold weather and has basically zero survival skills - Javi should not be alive, but going on how they've been showing us Lottie's sort of 'raport' with the forest over the last season, I can't help but think we will find him sort of 'miraculously' alive because of some little something Lottie did or said to him.
Either that OR - something almost as likely - he was able to make his own connection with the forest and survived because of that.
Here's my theory about this whole thing so far, based on what we've got: I think that forest the plane crashed in is alive or cursed or something to make it essentially a sentient entity. It connected with Lottie and she wound up connecting right back with it in the last episode of s1 (the line about darkness, plus the whole ritual with the bear's heart).
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I think the forest likes that she has visions and can basically use her to do whatever it wants. And in trade - she gets whatever she wants out of life.
Which would lead me to my other theory: I sincerely do think that Tai is absolutely unaware of what that whole shrine (RIP Biscuit! ;v;) under their house is or does - but the sleepwalking version of herself does know. Because I think that wherever Tai's mind goes when she's sleepwalking, she's either still connected to or reconnecting to the forest (or whatever entity/entities are out there) when she goes to sleep. And it's that part of her knew that doing that whole ritual with Biscuit would secure her election win.
(Which - now I'm starting to wonder if they don't sacrifice Shauna's baby and/or another one of the girls on the team to the forest in exchange for being rescued. Maybe Coach? Hmmm…)
I care so much more about Shauna's storyline in the forest than the current-day lol Like - Shauna in present day has literally made all of her own problems wholesale, no help from the forest required! EVERYTHING is her fault for her making a whole lot of dumb assumptions. Jeff and Bianca, Adam, all of it. Shauna's going in the corner because she's trifling and she annoys me. lol
Sweet baby Steve! He's adorable, and hopefully he'll survive the season. I'm not hopeful (knowing the track record cute pets tend to have in horror movies), but I'm still holding out hope, iykwim. Because pubby!
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Van is still alive (yay! Nat is hands-down my favorite, but Van is literally just me - snarky lesbian with a heart-on for queer cinema and 80s tech?! it MEH!) and I have a feeling that she was, for a while, a part of Lottie's forest cult once they got back to civilization - since we do see her participating in that ritual that Lottie did at the tree back at the end of s1 - but ultimately, she decides to leave and hide away so nobody in the survivor's group can find her. As we do see, though, Tai eventually is the one to go and find her (sleepwalking, but still).
The thing is - I went back and watched the opening of the very first episode of the series. It's weird, though - because the girl who's running has long brown hair, but it looks like she's pregnant, since she reaches down at one point and kind of clutches her stomach. But when she falls into the pit, we can see she was wearing Jackie's necklace. But it's obvious that whoever fell in (the necklace and the stomach thing makes it seem like Shauna) would have almost certainly died from their injuries - but we all know that Shauna's alive and well.
So I'm not sure if that was maybe us getting to see some kind of screwy forest vision or maybe another girl in the group winds up pregnant - I just - what? :/
[I do also have another lil theory that maybe the forest is 'replacing' the team one by one - the entity or wtf it is reaches into each of them, sort of pours itself into the person and replaces their consciousness, and then that connected copy takes over. I think it's why Lottie was able to see Laura Lee again as she would be now (ie. dead and moldering), but Laura Lee in the mall - beautiful, happy, smiling - was the one to push Lottie out of the daze she was in and essentially shove her back into her body she was leaving. Because that was absolutely an indicator of Lottie beginning to die (just like Jackie dreaming about cocoa in the cabin with the team) - whether from exposure or blood loss, she was dying. Which makes it seem like Laura Lee's not entirely under the forest's control now that she's dead. Also might explain why Javi is still alive even though he definitely should have been done and croaked, by this point.]
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At this point, it's a tossup between who I think is more tangled up with the forest and its abilities. But considering that we literally see Lottie feeding the tree in a recent s2 ep, it makes it seem more like she's actively still doing stuff with the forest on purpose, whereas Tai is doing it without being conscious of it - because she's still connected to the forest with her sleepwalking. There was someone who came to stand over the girl who fell into the pit at the start of the first episode, and judging by the sneakers and scarf, it looked like Taissa, since Tai tends to wear the same kind of scarf/face covering in the woods.
That being said, though - I think the dream Lottie had about the bloody beehive is either a warning from the forest that it's going to punish her for something she did wrong (maybe taking Nat in?), orrrrr it's warning her that it wants more blood soon or it will destroy the things she finds precious (like her beloved beehives).
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Soap opera: picard ep 3
You know that moment? That moment where picard and beverly are standing in silence for a few beats too long to be comfortable across the room from each other (nice intentional usage of wide screen format, btw) and they didn’t score it so it really Was an uncomfortable silence? Half way through that silence? That’s where they should have played the eastenders theme (it is the most prolific and well known british soap opera). 
any of y’all who can vid??? bc that’d be iconic
anyway, the episode mvp’s were Sidney LaForge, Seven, Worf and Raffi. I love you all. 
Worf recently swallowed a self help book and i am Living for it. 
the good cop bad cop they had going on here was Impeccable. It is unfortunate that is perfectly juxtaposed the hyped up melodrama of the other part of this episode and made it look even worse by proxy. There was drama with these two, raffi’s a mess, the situation is dire (if not as immediate), but it was still personable and not over the top. There were even laughs! 
Like i get that they’re all stressed but you know that episode of snw when they’re first attacked by the gorn in that nebula? How good that was? How tense it was? How they didn’t rely on interpersonal melodrama with people being obtuse to manufacture excess drama because they realised it wasn’t needed with an already dire situation?
yeah. 
anyway i saw some comments @ the holo scene with Troi before i saw the ep and i was worried but it wasn’t half as bad as implied. I mean, that’s such a typical dudebro scene and my eyes are rolling so Hard but there was no sign deanna was in danger at any point in the birth. The baby can be in danger without the parent being in danger. Like, slower heartrate in utero can make doctors panic while the parent is still 100% healthy. Seems to me like they didn’t like the baby’s vitals so called Will but it turned out he was fine. (my niece did this. panicked a fair number of people for an 100% healthy baby.) 
i’m not even going to go Into the whole justification stuff here other than to say that if she was gonna do that, just have the decency to own it properly instead of whatever that was. If he forgives her in the course of this season I call bullshit. Nobody has that done to them and gets over it quickly, not after so much was lost that will never be recovered. If i liked either of them a lot, and if i shipped them properly, i’d be distraught over this turn of events. And before i get some smart ass saying she didn’t have to tell him, well Clearly she didn’t bc she’s not exactly under arrest right now, but everybody else has a right to think what they want of her for what she Did do. And it was objectively shitty to him. I don’t even like the dude and it grinds my gears. 
'you’re insane’ with seven @ jack after that punch dfjffdjfdkdkd the Line delivery here. That seven and jack get on makes total sense! no notes. 
 will gets points for lasting so long before telling picard to sod off, BUt, is it captain of the titan disease to not own up to your own orders??? first shaw and now will??? sure Picard was being an irritant but damn dude he who ordered it dealt it and he didn’t wrest command from you. 
Unless u meant what happened in the Last episode and not this once, which, fair, but instead i call bad writing bc you instinctually look for what they Just did and picard was actually right in that if they can’t run they have to fight back at that point, which is the Only reason Will actually did fight back, so yeah... 
if the entire resuscitation sequence starting from the turbo lift did not last exactly seventeen seconds i will ask them why they even bothered tbh 
the changeling special effects have certainly improved
tho i sense i will rue the day i never got past the halfway mark of s1 of ds9 
beheading day is on wednesday
worf i love you. You’re a much better intelligence officer than a lawyer. Yeah i rewatched the movie this week in ode to the Plummer family. 
if we see seven with a hair out of place next week we know she’s been copied. I figure that this point she has mess resistant hair. 
will telling jack to call him captain lollllllllllllllllllllllllll 
the portal warfare??? super cool!!!! 
i was both amused by Shaw noping out of captaincy and also irritated by it. Like i get it dude, but still... I suppose i forgive him for being potentially fatally injured. The man is a class A jerk in a situation where he’s not actually in the wrong and that always grinds the gears. 
hearing seven call herself commander hansen in a rote way was weirdly upsetting. 
but really. The drama of interpersonal relationships Added onto the drama of the plot was too much. The tension between picard and beverly. the tension between picard and jack. the tension between riker and picard. The tension between beverly and the medical staff. the crew side eyeing jack. too much. Tone it down. they’re all already injured, being hunted, AND you have a changeling sabotaging you. Too much at once. 
now my ideal seven and raffi spin off involves worf being on the cast as well. Before it was the two of them and Elnor and his pet cat. Maybe Miral Paris. If we can have a baby LaForge we can have her. 
honestly i would have had way less notes for this ep if the snw one similar to it wasn’t so recent and so much better lol
anyway, i hope next week’s one won’t be as.. much... as this. 
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My pals from discord and I were talkin shit about Aphmaus Minecraft series and two of them wanted to rewrite Diaries n Mystreet respectively and the more we talked the more I wanted to rewrite Diaries as well so now Im gonna watch/rewatch it and write my notes down here
Ive only actually watched the first season before bc I really liked Zane in Mystreet when he was a bastard asshole and ive heard that he was the villain in Diaries but then I wanted to look up his age on the wiki and found out that he really wasnt too important in seasons 2 n 3 so I never watched anything of aphmaus again. until now
Heres my notes on ep. 1:
Im considering renaming Aphmau (as a character obvs) to Jess/Jessica or smth. Idk like, all the other characters (aside from maybe Kawaii-chan but I'd prefer not to think abt her in general) have these very normal kinda generic names (Katelyn, Garroth, Zane, Lucinda, Lawrance, Aaron n god knows who else) so Aphmau as a name just seems really out of place but im not fully sure yet
Okay, so I think im gonna keep the plot stuff about how their Lord recently passed away and now everythings in chaos and theyve lost contact to all those other village states and theyre running low on resources oh no, I think thats a good excuse to keep it contained to one single place in the beginning as everyone is trying to deal with this shit. I dont remember too much about the plot from when I last watched this series though, so I might change some stuff later to have some foreshadowing and maybe make things more cohesive
Because this is a Minecraft Roleplay Aphmau doesnt really have a backstory which makes perfect sense in the context of it being a Minecraft Roleplay since we (the audience) dont really need to know anything about what happened prior the RP starting, however, Im trying to approach this like more of a traditional story so I think thats kinda necessary. I actually kinda already rewrote Diaries when I first watched it a few years back (but I was also using my own OCs back then so idk if it really counts) and the way I dealt w/ it there was just, the Main Character has amnesia. The full backstory was that she was actually the daughter of a noble (idk if it was the noble running the community she stumbled upon but its likely) and they did some magic/herb bullshit to make her forget everything but her name in order to protect her from being killed like the rest of their family and then shes just kinda a helpful nice girl in this struggling community until her past catches up w/ her yknow? I'd like to basically just do that but w/ Aphmau here
Im gonna go more into detail when we actually get to it, but I know towards the end of the first season they reveal that Aphmau is actually the reincarnation of Irene (whos basically Jesus in this world) and I feel like thats a bit much?? So im just gonna say shes like, Irenes only child or her only living child instead and sort of tie that into my previous idea, but again Im gonna get more into it when we get to that part
Im also leaning a bit more towards realism here (obvs its still fantasy I'd just rather nor have Minecraft physics yknow)
Aphmau finding the village is gonna go like this: She sees Vylad on patrol or some shit, follows him to the village, sees the other guards and kinda hides in the bushes nearby, eavesdrops on them (hears Garroth n Zenix have their exposition talk, (G) "I dont think anyone in the village will listen to any of the guards. Not after how horrible the last Lord was..." (Z) "Now that the Lord is gone the village is in chaos. What are we going to do?"), wonders whats going on and sneaks to the village without alerting the guards
Aphmau is staying more or less lowkey and just kinda walks around the village for a bit, sees all the villagers and all that, maybe has some little interactions with them idk
She nabs some carrots from one of the fields bc shes hungry (this is basically all just like it is in the OG Diaries but less Minecraft RP-ey yknow)
After that ya girl jusg sort of wanders around in the village, maybe pointing out some stuff that needs fixing and thinking about how she could help (bc shes definitely not leaving) and its kinda like foreshadowing her being this really good and helpful presence in this struggling village n shit
Im not fully sure how Im gonna deal w/ the Minecraft stuff initially, like, before it transitions into pure story and more or less cuts out all the modded!Lets Play shit. Bc in the RP, they dont really craft things (if I remember correctly) they just. get them somehow but Aphmau is gonna be crafting quite a bit in these early episodes im pretty sure. Now I have tried to convert this type of MinecraftRP into a proper story before, and the way I dealt w/ the crafting aspect there was by having a sorta Fullmetal Alchemist style magic system, where you have to put raw resources in this summoning circle thing and they work exactly a crafting bench but more Mystical n Magical but Im not sure if that would work that well
Aphmau is exploring the area a bit (and collecting some stones for better resources, if I'll actually go for my idea w/ the crafting benches) and hears weird creepy noises?? I dont remember if that leads anywhere, but Im putting it here in case it actually does or in case I can use a scene like this for something else
She doesnt really worry about finding a home and just kinda does her thing for a bit, exploring the area and all that, but then she realizes Oh Shit. Its Night Time and everyone already went home and locked their doors so dhes kinda fucked. She tries knocking on some doors but no one opens her but she fortunately manages to find a house thats seemingly abandoned and stays there for the night
(Also, Im keeping the hostile minecraft mobs)
And yeah, thats pretty much it for the first episode/chapter??maybe
Im not sure how close I wanna keep it to the OG but we'll see
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Summer of Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures episodes 23 - 26
This batch of episodes marks the end of season one, which means it also contains the episodes I've seen the least. Back when BBA was airing on The Hub, I still only had SD, so I preferred to rewatch the episodes when they were released on DVD and I could get HQ screenshots. However, they were still releasing season one on DVD when season two started airing, and since season two was half as short as season one, they started putting out DVDs of season two eps while still putting out season one, which is part of why I started to feel that I didn't need to purchase every BBA DVD anyway (the fact that it was actually airing on TV didn't hurt either).
I actually kind of revisited How You Play the Game relatively recently, as when the SSC youtube channel put it up, I had no memory of the episode, and skimmed through it to jog my memory. Whether this meant I hadn't seen it when it first aired, or just didn't remember, I'm not sure, but I did at least have a passing recollection of the rest of these episodes. That said, as an episode it's just okay, as the end is painfully clear from early on. Though when the girls said they were keeping Orange from making the schedule because she has a tendency to jump into things without thinking, I was like "Yeah, that's fair." I mean, the very first episode was about her adopting a fish for no reason other than she thought it needed her, and the crux of her campaign speech for BerryFest Princess was "Less planning, more doing," to name just two examples.
Good Citizens Club puts a new spin on my most hated story contrivance in this series; Plum is kept away from the other girls to prolong the story. At least this one also has Kadiebug and Sadiebug in the mix, and their attempts at being polite were amusing enough. If they'd really been smart, of course, they would have told Plum she passed the third test after she "reminded" them that cutting the flowers from the community garden was wrong, that her refusal to do it proved she was a good citizen (which is ultimately what Strawberry does later, but still).
Team for Two is another ep where I was vibing with the first half, and it lost me in the second. Honestly, Raspberry and Lemon sniping at each others' creative styles was the most entertaining part of the episodes, but the scenes where they had to delay Princess Berrykin just felt too long. Conclusion: this is another ep that could have benefited from just being 11 minutes. And I did note that Strawberry's line about how it would have been better to be honest was added in a later draft of the script.
Lost and Found caps off the season, and is a good one to go out on, as it involves all the characters we've met over the season (except for Postmaster Bee, but he turned out to be a less important character than I remembered), and gives them each a moment to shine. Which is especially nice considering we won't see most of these characters in the seasons to come (as far as I recall). The search party is a comedy of errors that plays out well and ends happily, the perfect way to put this season to rest.
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ask for no reason! Favourite companion for each (modern) Doctor
Let's see...
Nine: Wow, this is a really difficult one... who could there be... Rose. *remembers Jack counts* Eh, still Rose. Jack felt more like a guest companion only being in it for five episodes (only three stories), and of course I haven't listened to Big Finish so I can't judge from that, so Rose wins by default. She had the most complete relationship with the Doctor anyway, and that all worked out. I actually prefer the dynamic she has with Nine than Ten. I'm not anti-companion romance, but I just found Ten and Rose's dynamic being happier and less complicated less interesting, even if Doomsday is a massive gut punch.
Ten: For years I said it was Donna... but that's actually changed since my rewatch. I think Martha slightly edges her out. It kind of comes down to just me having a soft spot for the most underappreciated (seriously when they brought her back in Series 4 she didn't do much of note until the finale and even that's debatable) but I do really like how she basically decided she was tired of the Doctor's shit and also understandably needed a break from everything after all the shit the Master did. I hear she even gets unlucky in Torchwood.
As for why Donna got slightly bumped down... I think it's a couple things. First... revisiting the Meta-Crisis as I'm older? Kinda total bullshit. I envy kid me who was able to just run with it, now I'm just seeing total nonsense. I still love Donna... but I'm not really sure how I feel about the culmination of her self worth being basically "she absorbs the Doctor's brain so now she can be like him". Not to mention there's an absurd amount of ass pulls to make meta-crisis stuff work in the story. For other things... I think it's just that she's kind of been elevated in a way that was unncecessary? I'll explain under 14's section.
Honorary mention for Wilf I guess even if he's more a guest companion? Still loveable as ever even as growing up I now feel he has some major boomer energy lol (look I think he's pre-boomer but you get what I'm saying). Imagine him in the room with Christopher "parasite in chief" Eccleston when he's telling people to show respect for the queen for example, lol. But yeah, joking aside, it's amazing how much heart he's able to bring to being the supportive grandad of Donna.
Ugh if I listed Wilf as a guest companion but wrote about him anyway, then I'll have to also give an honourable mention to Adelaide Brooke. One episode, but she was amazing in it (it's also awesome to see the Doctor play off an older, less wide eyed woman for once), even as she had one of the darkest endings for a central character yet.
Eleven: This is a weird one, because this is what I remember the least, having watched his era the least of everyone's recently (and I didn't even see eps with Amy and Rory). Honestly... I'm not sure how much stock I put in anyone here. If I HAD to pick, I'd actually say Clara, but I think that just comes down to me loving Day of the Doctor and Jenna Coleman being great in the role even if she was just a walking mystery box in Series 7.
So why not Amy and Rory despite being actual characters here? Look, the main stuff I remember about them is basically Rory falling under the "henpecked husband" trope and Amy treating him poorly through that, not to mention you have weird stuff like them needing to get back together like three times (with Asylum of the Daleks being an especially bad example). Just not my thing.
I guess River Song could count since this was the era she'd count as a companion... but her best appearances are the episodes with Doctors that aren't Eleven (and having now seen Husbands of River Song I literally only think the final scenes are genuinely great there). Funny how that works. :v
Twelve: Nardole. Just Nardole.
...okay enough kidding around. I think I'd say Bill here. I don't really know her in and out and I haven't seen most of Series 10 in ages, but not only was it nice to see Moffat finally write a character that doesn't fall into his usual female companion tropes, but her dynamic with the Doctor was genuinely refreshing, and is honestly still pretty unique in the modern era.
I will say that I do think Clara could potentially give her competition though. I think I'd need to revisit Series 8 to be sure (aka where she's arguably the least likeable lol), but I do think her Doctor-companion dynamic is genuinely one of the most fascinating even if not everything worked in that era. Also, I'd need to see how much their relationship is able to step above the usual domestic abuse BS Moffat can't help but insert cuz he loves his dominant women, lol. Huh, Capaldi gets all the cool unique dynamics huh?
Thirteen: ...can I say Dan? For the memes? No? Fine. What's the point of being alive?
This is interesting though, cuz looking back, I do kind of think a lot of the companions blend together. It's not as bad as most say it is for sure, like I feel like they do fit specific roles (Graham and Dan as the older comic relief with a dash of heart, Ryan the more youthful person being opened up to the world, Yaz being the more experienced/accomplished person to match the Doctor when needed), but I do see why people feel like they blend together.
Hmm, if I had to pick... I'd go Yaz. Please ignore that she's a cop though. ACAB. Not sure if it's fair, but I think it might be BECAUSE she got to be with Thirteen the longest (her whole run in fact). Like, I feel like she didn't really get to live up to her full potential, but I do think seeing someone like her with her rough past going all in on the Doctor only to be shut out because Thirteen is afraid of being emotionally vulnerable (which could arguably be influenced by what happened with Clara, and I do think you could argue Yaz has some similarities here, like she even got taught how to fly the TARDIS). Her story is honestly pretty tragic, but I guess like Martha, I have a soft spot for the underappreciated (gosh it's always the companions of colour who are the underappreciated ones huh?). I think the whole semi-unrequited love aspect certainly added to that, and kind of cemented why she had to leave (even if she didn't really have much of a say, it was more just a quiet understanding, at least I think so). Power of the Doctor was also honestly a nice culmination of everything for her, too. Wish it was clear how much she knew about the Timeless Child stuff though.
Fourteen: Gosh, another really difficult one... so hard to choose... oh, Donna. Okay I'm sure some might argue Rose Noble and even Mel could count, but I don't really see them as full companions here.
I guess to continue what I was saying on Donna earlier, I described her as kind of being elevated in a way that was unnecessary. Like, after everything, as great as it was to see her back and get a happy ending... was that really the best or most interesting thing to do for her? I just can't help but feel like RTD was being overly indulgent with her, like how many felt he was with Rose (Tyler). Also... yeah, the metacrisis stuff is still bullshit. "Just let it go." I know emotions were running high in Journey's end, but come on, it makes all the drama there feel kind of hollow now.
I will say I do enjoy the evolved family dynamic though.
Fifteen: Ruby Sunday. I'd say it's super hard and there's so much to pick from, but we've seen so much, and there's so many rich complex layers, it's unlike anything we've ever seen... okay, enough kidding around. We've only seen one episode of them so far, but I am curious to see where they'll go with them.
...but wait, there's more! Time to acknowledge all the other Doctors that were created for the revival!
TimeCrash!Five: Look, he might be a bigeneration, so I'm counting him just in case... oh wait, no companions. Fuck, forget this.
TenToo: Rose! So hard to choose, I know. But isn't it cool that Rose has her own home grown Doctor she can fix again? ...what am I even saying?
Dream Lord: He's from the Doctor's brain, so he counts. Seemed to like fucking with Amy a lot, really exposed the whole love triangle she was in, lol.
Ganger!Eleven: Ganger Amy. Gangers traveling across all of time and space.
War: Clara. Day of the Doctor. Oh wait, I already mentioned that for Eleven. But I guess she kind of ended up working a lot with him specifically.
Curator: The painting. Gallifrey Falls No More. Look, I haven't listened to Big Finish, I don't know what counts. Also something something bigenerated Fourth Doctor (who also might end up being the Watcher if you subscribe to that version of bigeneration theory, like me who's trying to stay sane?).
FakeOne: That's not the First Doctor in Twice Upon a Time, that's a new incarnation who got his brain scrambled from the bigeneration reaching back in time for his first regeneration, making the side effect of him being a bad sexist parody of his original self. So who does this bigeneration have as his best companion? That one soldier dude. The Brigadier's grandpa or dad or whatever. Because they can laugh about women being made of glass. Oh right, Bill was there. Or Bill's avatar from Testimony. She had actual heartfelt moments. Or they would've been if I liked that episode. I'm committing way too hard to this bit.
Fugitive: Lee Clayton, anothe really har- Oh wait, Karvanista was one. Do you think her and Karvanista ever dated? I'm sure someone thinks Karvanista is acting like a bitter ex. Danvanista shippers, team Ruthvanista is gonna give you a run for your money!
OG Timeless Child: That kid who pushed her off the cliff. He's not just the best companion of this very first Doctor, but the best in the whole show. Without him, Tecteun would never have found out the child could regenerate, and therefore we'd have no Time Lords. And no Time Lords means no Doctor Who. This kid is the reason the show exists. Show some gratitude to this kid, guys. Also, who wouldn't push their friend off a cliff to keep playing with a toy?
The other pre-Hartnell Doctors: IDK Tecteun? Are the worth calling a companion? ...why am I still doing this
The Thirteen Doppelgangers from the Vanquishers: um how many people did she interact with, also wait it's all still one consciousness trying to manage three bodies this is a reach sorry forget i said this
The Master!Doctor: It was so great when he shouted at Yaz right? Or when Vinder held a gun to him? Oh yeah what about the Dalek and Cyber-Master perplexed at the Rasputin dance? They were still around after the Master stole the Doctor's body right?
The other bi-generated Doctors that are basically canon now that RTD is in charge: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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groolover · 1 year
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TV, you say?
I found it quite cathartic to respond to @julietsbb​ tagging me a few weeks ago (about TV here and about music here) so I feel like updating my answers (also I have a lot of work to do and I’m procrastinating...)
Current music: I am still obsessed with Dum Dum, but it has definitely been overtaken by the new McFly song (which has so many layers that I have literally taught lessons on it in the last week). 
Recent songs stuck in my head:
Where did all the guitars go? - McFly
Dum Dum - Jeff Satur
Pearls - Jessie Ware
Like Crazy - Jimin
I feel like dancing - Jason Mraz
Eunoia - Billlie
Mother - Meghan Trainor
In lightning - Feist
I found her - Olly Murs
A&W - Lana Del Rey
Now, TV, of which I have watched a LOT recently (haven’t spoken to anyone - online or otherwise - to anyone since Thursday, which is a bit depressing (especially as I *have* contacted a few people but none of them have responded)). A few new things to note!
I have started my Untamed rewatch and it is making me smile SO much - I should have done that ages ago. I would love to binge it (especially as I definitely need to rewatch all 50 episodes before 9th May) but there are so many other things I also need to watch!
Recently ended:
Shadow and Bone - like many others, I couldn’t get excited at all about the “main” storyline, but I loved the Crows, especially (obviously) Jesper and Wylan. The final two episodes were extremely boring apart from the bits with the Crows (especially their various entrances in episode 7, which made me cheer!) Looks as if it’s unlikely to get renewed, but there are murmurings about a Crows spinoff, which would obviously be awesome.
Midnight Museum - remained weird until the end, but episode 7 was a gamechanger because it all started to make a bit more sense from that point. It seemed to be hinting about a season 2 at the end - let’s see. (Also, although it wasn’t actually a BL, it did show signs of heading that way at the end.)
Our Dating Sim - very cute and I liked it, but it was ultimately forgettable (that’s the trouble with most of the Korean ones - they are so short and therefore very easy to watch, but that’s also probably why they don’t stay in my head).
A Shoulder to Cry On - ditto, plus it was very reluctant to show anything physical - I don’t think they even kissed, although by the end (after the time jumps) they’d been together for several years. I wonder if that’s because of their K-pop background - maybe their management didn’t want two boys from the same band kissing each other? But they were very cute together, and I was surprised to find from the special episodes that for both of them it was the first time they’d ever acted - they were pretty good!
Ongoing (mentioned last time):
Bed Friend - I am absolutely loving this, especially episode 8 (the most recent one), but episode 9 looks a bit worrying! KING WILL SAVE THE DAY THOUGH, he’s such a hero... but maybe in the end Uea will need to save King?!?
A Boss and a Babe - loving this too, even though it’s slightly less emotional than Bed Friend. (Also, it makes a lot more sense now I’ve realised that two of the minor characters who I thought were the same person are NOT in fact the same person.) 
The Promise - this is on hiatus for a few weeks at the moment, but episode 5 ended on a HUGE cliffhanger. I’m really enjoying it, and looking forward to finding out why that guy did what he did, and how he’s going to fix it!
Boy Band - I have now seen the first three episodes of this and it’s fun, but it’s turning out to be difficult to find eps 4-6 with English subs, and my Thai is definitely not yet good enough to try without. But I will persevere!
Chains of Heart - there are only 10 episodes of this, and as of episode 8 (the most recent one) I still have NO idea what’s going on, although a couple of details did become slightly clear right at the end. I actually googled “wtf is going on in chains of heart” last night, and was delighted to find a great Reddit thread which reassured me that it’s not just me - nobody else knows either! I’m actually intrigued to see if they finish the show without explaining anything. 
Picard - I did quite like it for a while & am up to date, but the last few episodes have been boring (to me). Should’ve kept Elnor!
New shows! (started since last time):
The Eighth Sense - this is the one I’m most excited about. It’s Korean, but is on a whole new level compared to most other Korean things I’ve seen. The episodes are much longer and the acting and cinematography are amazing. The main couple are great together (although both of them have some REALLY annoying friends). There is also an evil ex, plus three separate (they don’t know each other) slightly older female characters who are all awesome. Also there has already been kissing (at the end of episode 1 - amazingly fast progress for a Korean show!) Warning, though (in case this is a trigger): there is more drinking in this show than in probably all the other Asian shows I’ve seen, combined. A LOT of alcohol.
Till the end of the moon - I’ve only watched one episode of this so far (it started very recently) but I can see I’m going to love it. It’s Chinese and has 40 episodes (because of course it does) but it looks amazing (and I love the music). Feels similar to Love Between Fairy and Devil in lots of ways, which I absolutely loved but have not been able to persuade anyone else to try!
Not started yet:
Nothing But You - contemporary Chinese drama (already airing) that I’ve heard good things about (not a BL though, and there are 38 episodes)
Double Savage - didn’t know about this until a few days ago, but it has a lot of my favourites in (annoyingly the main two seem to be brothers rather than boyfriends, but hey, Supernatural made me a lot more accepting of certain things...) - starts 17th April
Step by step - Thai thing starting 18th April - age gap in an office, looks well done
La pluie - Thai thing starting 29th April, with soulmate stuff (they can hear each other when it rains!)
Couple or Not - I can’t quite believe there is going to be a Chinese show with ABO and mpreg, but apparently there is?!? No start date yet though
Our Skyy 2 - extra bits from lots of my favourite shows, what’s not to like! Hope we get a start date soon
Only Friends - heard a lot about this and will definitely be watching, although I don’t think there’s a start date yet
Anyway, I really should get on with some work, but I enjoyed writing all that down, even if nobody else ever reads it!
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ted lasso 2x09 thoughts
for an episode that I knew I wasn’t going to be hugely excited about - I like beard, but he’s not one of my faves by any stretch of the imagination - this was really cleverly put together
the precise reason why beard isn’t one of my faves is we get very little to latch onto with him, and this episode did a good job of reversing that: we see coach beard not as ted’s guardian angel or the football-exposition provider, but just as beard: a man clearly dealing with some seriously self-destructive tendencies and one hell of a toxic relationship. also, we all have those little voices that tell us when we’re fucking up and make us feel bad about ourselves, but the fact that beard’s are gary lineker and thierry henry? damn.
(seriously, I know gary lineker mainly as the crisps ad guy rather than the football guy, but seeing him narrate beard’s spiral downwards just had me spluttering.)
beard constantly rewatching the game in his mind’s eye was brutal to watch, but cleverly done as well. I also found it interesting that as well as highlights (well, lowlights) from the match we also saw him relive the moment when he fell over the fence and Ted was left at the side of the pitch clapping the guys on as if nothing was going wrong. tell me that’s not significant, I dare you.
the fact that we had more of the pub regulars was a dream! they really deserved their moment in the sun, and they had so many little wins tonight - I love how they could just be left as a running joke but instead we get to see more of them and end up rooting for them. (particularly in a show set in britain, where the class divides and lingering images of ‘chavs’ could have led to the three mouthy football supporters being seen as a very one-dimensional negative stereotype.)
seriously, if you didn’t cry tears of joy when the boys were playing at nelson road to the tune of ‘we are the champions’, you have a heart of stone.
(uh, and if you didn’t then panic from realising that ‘we are the champions’ is not now being held for the season finale and richmond’s long-desired promotion back to the premier league, you’re a stronger soul than I.)
I absolutely loved how much of this episode felt like weird british pub/club/ambling around London at 1AM in the morning culture. I feel like I’ve had so many of these conversations with my mates myself. and honestly, ‘Just One Cornetto’ was peak drunk brit, and it makes me really sad that most of my american followers won’t quite get how significant and perfect that was.
As an ex-oxford person I can also confirm everything about that scene in the bar was pretty much dead on too.
FUCK ME the moment James Tartt showed his face was worse than any horror movie jump-scare I’ve seen recently.
the significance of Beard continuously dropping his keys was interesting - I wonder if it’s carrying on with the theme of ‘there’s no place like home’ that we’re beginning to see emerge? A sign of his self-destructive tendencies? I like the theory already suggested on here that it’s just a demonstration of the fact that there are always good people around if you just let them help you: Beard has a brutal night, but people who don’t even know him that well like Jeremy and the impeccably-played Big Angry Man are willing and happy to help him get back home.
other folk have written better meta than me about Beard and Jane - I certainly don’t think it’s a healthy relationship and think Beard needs to run, run like the wind, but I found it cleverly done that by the end of the episode I was happy when Beard ran into Jane. he’d been through so much and now he needed a break, needed that rush of endorphins, and she provided it. it was a clever way of showing just why he keeps going back, and although we still don’t want him to stay with her, it provides a good insight into why he goes back.
I’ve said it before and will say it again, but we had direct, verbal confirmation that the coaching team lost Richmond the Man City match. whether you see that snippet as something that only happened in Beard’s imagination - which is significant, he knows something’s wrong and needs to change - or if you think Lineker and Henry were actually saying it out loud - which is also significant, if Gary Lineker and Thierry Henry are criticising your coaching tactics you want to listen - it all boils down to the same thing. the coaching team is heading for trouble, and that’s not just us reading too much into the situation -  the show is actively acknowledging it. colour me both scared and intrigued.
(on a side-note, I thought Lineker and Henry were hilarious in this episode. same goes for all of the sporting personalities they’ve managed to wrangle onto season 2.)
that last scene did exasperate me a little - it feels like even with these inroads into therapy Ted is still going for the classic head-in-the-sand, everything’s-going-to-be-ok-if-we-just-look-at-it-positively approach - but, well, I did like the Benny Hill theme music, even if this feels like the last calm before the storm.
still not quite over the fact that we got zero new colin or isaac content in this ep. I am a simple woman: I want to watch pretty boys being a bit daft and a bit sweet to each other on a regular weekly basis.
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reveal your watch and rewatch list
so i got tagged to do this by both @itoldsunset and @spicyvampire so why not do it hehe (little spoiler: i’m not watching any bls)
currently watching:
9-1-1 s5 (as some of u may have noticed by my recent rbs)
dr. stone s1 (cool anime thats basically a mad scientist but said scientist is 17 years of age and living in a world that has no modern technology even though he’s in future)
uramichi oniisan (i started this but it was a little weird ngl, idk if i’ll continue it)
vanitas no carte s2 (i am SO behind on this, the last ep of s2 airs this friday and i’m 5 episodes behind and have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on)
currently rewatching:
kimetsu no yaiba s1 (doing it basically because ive forgotten a lot about it and i missed them v much)
plan to watch:
moon knight!!! it starts airing this wednesday so i’m HYPED!!!!!!!!
i have a list for this on my notes app actually but there’s this gay anime that is either airing or just finished but i saw something about it yesterday and i want to watch it soooo bad
of course i also want to watch ms marvel !! kinda worried that i’ll get bored of it since it seems very highschool centred but we’ll see !
and that’s it!! watching a lot of things overwhelms me so i try to not do that lololol i didn’t even add not me here because i completely forgot to continue watching so i’d be lying if i did say i was........ as u can see i’m on my animanga phase lmaooo
i’m gonna tag my friends cus idk if theyve done it and im a nosy bitch and need to know what their brains are rotting for so @jangchu @soulmatelines @offjumpol @nanonkorapat @petekaos @richkidtay @tipnaree @lovingtrans @kaonoppakao @sapphicsharks (sorry to anyone who wasn’t mentioned i just put the urls i remembered :HELP:)
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Animaniacs Reboot Season 2 Review Summary
Happy one year anniversary Animaniacs reboot! Here’s a season 2 review.
I might do individual episodes. Just mini reviews of each.
First and foremost, I don’t know Pinky and The Brain that well.
Aesthetic
From what I’ve seen, it’s more fluid and the characters bounce more. Especially during a song. I’ve heard some say the opposite, but that was from the trailer. The trailer is mashed scenes together with edited dialogue. I go by the episodes once they’re released.
The speed is still the same. Not fast like OG. Although I’m not surprised. I don’t know the animation budget. The OG show was really expensive. It looked a little awkward at times. Like slower but still hits the notes and scene. Might be large key frames.
I like the different art styles in certain situations (like songs). Very creative. Although I would say it’s a little jarring when you’re so used to the current art style. A little inconsistent. The only exception is Yakko Amakko since that’s the point.
The humans look a lot better. Less detailed. And thank goodness the grotesque bits have waned. Still there, but about one fourth of season one’s.
Music
I definitely hear the orchestra. It’s sounds better than season 1. But I’m not gonna hang over it because of recent events.
The SFX improved! They used musical sound bytes instead of stock sound effects. (I don’t know about everything but it’s definitely there.)
Songs
Vast improvement. Season 1 had variety in music genres. I wasn’t privy to it and it wasn’t really Animaniacs. But this season had the educational songs. I can safely say there wasn’t a song I disliked.
There doesn’t need to be any exposition in song shorts, though. Literally just a title card and maybe an intro sentence would be fine.
The backup singers for Yakko, Wakko, and Dot were there for the first episode. I don’t remember them being in any other ones.
Still waiting for a Dot educational song and a Wakko song longer than a minute.
Humor
I don’t necessarily remember laughing at jokes, but at the references I did. I’ll be honest, I might have to rewatch, but I don’t remember that much comedy. Just shock humor. There were some that was explained to the audience. Animaniacs is known for not dumbing down their audience. Let’s keep that.
I…don’t remember any innuendos (sexual jokes you have to to think about or have second hand knowledge of). Not necessarily bad but a couple would’ve been fine. Any non-direct humor is welcome actually. Encouraged. I know it’s hard, but at least don’t explain a joke.
Story
No themed episodes. There was potential for one. The Thundercats parody, exercise break (80’s workout), P&TB episode with 60’s music, and Warners with archival footage (70’s PSA) could have all been one episode. Span of three decades.
Pinky and The Brain were just as good as season one if not better. They compliment each other really well. You can tell the writers put heart into them. I was genuinely surprised at the outcome of some - which is a good thing. The Julia episode was really good. And the how-to video. There were a couple that were weak. Like the 60’s one. It felt rushed.
As for the Warners, they are generally the same as season one although it is better. More decent episodes. Some really good. Some weak. The sweet sixteen one also felt rushed.
Some had like an unnecessary element. Like in the exercise break, there was a mayfly with them. I get why but literally just a spoof of workout videos would’ve been fine.
They toned down the reboot references but now we got Yakko’s World. It gets old real fast. I know the OG did some as well but that was a recurring gag this season. I don’t think we need an update cause then we’ll need another down the road. (Plus I’d rather have new content.) There was a lil one which was nice. But no more. Same with the meta jokes. It’s unnecessary. Meta humor works if it’s subtle and you have to think for it. The joke is ruined if its outright told.
Also, why was there a death theme this season? In nearly every episode, someone died.
Too much modern day technology references. If it’s shown then fine but not every segment has to be about something technology based. Or actually, that could’ve been a theme for an episode. We got…Wakko’s short shorts, Please Submit, streaming service, targeted ads, for P&TB the how-to video…that’s about an episode.
The Warners are also more physical with each other. Or people are physical with the Warners. They’re not those kind of siblings. They don’t physically fight each other.
Characters
Pinky is spot on. Silly, loveable Pinky is still a joy to see. Brain though…geez. They really made him evil, huh? I get he’s bitter but he’s not like that. Some of his ideas are a little out there, but shouldn’t be diabolical. It’s shown that when he rules the world, it’s peaceful in OG. In reboot it’s tyrannical. …Makes me not wanna root for him. It’s only good because he always fails.
Maybe they can show him slowly getting more cool and collected in season three. Character development. Him and Pinky seem to be getting closer which is nice. It’s canon that they’re best friends and care for each other. They seem to be hinting at a relationship. But I won’t accept it until Brain cools down. He’s too absorbed and obsessive at the moment to be fully committed (Happy Narfday). But it is a positive sign that whenever Pinky’s in danger he chooses him over anything else.
The Warners are still off. Actually it’s like different personalities each episode.
Yakko’s too focused on his past acknowledgements at times. He does lead in some skits but overall it’s Dot. Here’s my problem with Dot being the leader: if she’s in charge, and her and Wakko talk a lot more, what does that make Yakko? That’s what he’s known for. So either he has to take his sibs personality traits (which he does), give him new ones, or do the same thing as before. But there only needs to be one leader. They made him the drama one, but that was Dot’s role back in OG. He’s also random but that’s what Wakko is known for. It doesn’t work. He’s stuck in limbo.
Wakko is generally the same. They mention him as an eating machine and Wakko says he is more than that (correct), but where’s the proof? He’s like a third wheel to his siblings. I’m definitely gonna have to rewatch it cause at the moment I can’t think of anything else he showed.
Dot’s the same as last season. Less feminism (thank god). More aggressive. Like the trait. Better than wit. They all displayed the same amount of wit this season. Nothing inherently bad but again she took Yakko’s role.
The voice talent is still good.
I would give it 7/10
I am being harsher, but this was also made the same time as season 1, so, a little lenient. So a generous score of 7/10 for season one and a harsh score of 7/10 for season two is actual improvement.
Season three though…look out.
I would suggest, if any staff reads this, that they rewatch episodes again or even read a wiki to read about the characters. To understand them more. If you want episode ideas, try some more of history with historical figures (but make sure that what you portray them as is accurate), a black and white cartoon (with red noses), a Marx Brothers parody, scammers, art history song (show a portrait and talk about it for example along with artists), lgbtq info song (like explain the terminology), etc.
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