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[watchingalotofmovies]

Love is Not Blind

Love is Not Blind    [trailer]

A white-collar worker goes through a bittersweet phase after she broke up with her ex-boyfriend, and eventually gets her true love.

The movie takes its time to show how her feelings develop. That happens slower than in many other relationship films, but it feels much more real. At times it's also a little sentimental, but that again is how it feels during such a time.

What I really enjoyed was the low-key humour and the funny interactions between the two leads. A very pleasant watch.

[deankarolina]

teaching myself dc's Maison on bass and oh yeah this is a fun bassline

[bobbie-robron]

Robron Fanfiction Recommendations (Feb-2024)

The below were recommended during February 2024 on Twitter.

I’ll always come home to you (2108) 7.1K words, livesybaby

Eighteen year old Aaron has attempted suicide. He is found and taken to hospital/in a coma but… in the in between… he meets 19 year old Robert. Robert has been alone in the limbo of fields for years but has watched Aaron all this time. It’s in this limbo where Aaron begins to accepts himself but also gets a glimpse of a possible future and a look back into his past. Can these soulmates find more than an afterlife together?

Back In His Arms (2018) 2.7K words, brokenspell77

Come back to the lads’ 2018 second reunion. It ended onscreen with them walking hand in hand back to their home but what happened next. A hint? Robert’s self-worth issues have not gone away and he’s afraid being back won’t last and he’ll be unable to cope if he loses Aaron once again. How does Aaron talk him around to assure Robert he’s there to stay?

The reason why we could never be… (2016) 5.6K words, softlyspoken

It’s the day of Chrissie & Robert’s wedding and Robert chooses to run off with Aaron but… Robert learns Chrissie has breast cancer which has him turning away from Aaron and marrying Chrissie after all. It’s ten years later and things have changed… and both Robert and Aaron are in the village once again. Do second chances exist for our lads?

I’m going to catch this rhythm (2017) 5.5K words, wafflesofdoom

What husband Aaron wants, the husband gets… which means, Robert gets tickets for the both of them to attend a three-day festival. And no, glamping will not do. Aaron wants the ‘real festival experience’ of tents and all. Will Robert be able to ‘contain his excitement’ long enough for the husbands to enjoy the ‘experience’ including rain, mud and so much more 😂.

Jack (2016) 1.5K words, robron_til_the_end

Robert has been a bit off and distant for a few days and not ready to talk to Aaron about it. When Aaron learns from Robert’s sister what it is, Aaron stays by Robert’s side until he finally opens up… about his past.

Affair 2.0 (2018) 12.6K words, Gertrude_Perkins

The pointless one is gone and Robert and Aaron are taking things slowly… secretly. They aren’t ready to tell anyone knowing the reaction they will get from certain family members who continue to think THEY know what is best for Aaron and what would make him happy… and it’s so not Robert. Tough! Aaron has made his decision and is sticking by it! It is just making the hypocrites back down when it’s time to tell them the happy news.

After the fact (2018) 3.1K words, toxica939

Aaron has called it quits with the pointless one the same days that woman’s life support is turned off. With all that is going on, Aaron doesn’t tell the now single dad and things remain status quo though their friendship has also stalled. After a few months, that friendship is resumed especially after Robert has moved into a new home outside the village. Time has also healed the remaining open wounds enough to give the lads (with Sebastian) another chance at a future. You cannot deny what is meant to be.

A thousand teeth (and yours among them) (2016) 5.5K words, Port_in_a_Storm

It’s 2016 and Robert and Aaron are together but that doesn’t mean others have accepted that he’s changed (far from it) or that he’ll last with Aaron. Enter Vic and Liv who provide point of views (with a little from Aaron) of how they see all of this affecting Robert (more or less brushing it off but there are those certain times…) and how Aaron is very much the person who holds him together. But if that changed…

[rjalker]

"Women" are a social construct. So are "Men". It's not just "gender" as a concept that's a social construct, the idea of "men" and "women" are also just as constructed.

[siglai]

im so bored chat

[dakotayounger]

One of the more creative and entertaining shows I've seen in a while. If even one of the planets in Starfield was like this, I'd never leave! 😂

[thepunktheory]

Wrapping it up for March!

Hello, my darling readers!Another month is over, so let me give you a little summary of the amazing posts just to make sure you didn’t miss anything. 😉 This month I added a new format. I’ve never given recommendations for things to watch on Youtube before, but during the pandemic, I started consuming content there a lot. So, I figured I’d share some of my favorite creators with you: What to…

[edgeray]

(That reminds me, I've always thought about it, but would you guys like a post where I recommend my favorite Arlecchino fics from other authors for you starving simps ^^?)

About this yes sure!

Arlecchino x Reader Fic Recommendations (From Tumblr Writers)

by the way, these fics are in no particular order of what I like the most, these are all just my favorites that I wanted to share (and of course, none of them from me). This will include series, oneshots, headcanons, blurbs, drabbles, etc. most of these come from my tag #edgeray.reblogs. All of these are SFWs, but I could do a NSFW rec list too if someone wants it.

I forgot to add @chucapybara in my last reommendation post of writers T^T, so forgive me. chucapybara does not accept requests either, so do not request from her! For this reason, I'm going to put her works here first. She has a few more works besides the two listed below, but those are my favorites from her <33. Check her out, her writing is so gorg 😍

monsters

soft mornings with arlecchino [f!reader]

Now to the other recommendations. The writers which I recommended in the prior post will be put first out of convenience, and only from writers that do have a fair amount of works (it's hard to pick one favorite out from a few works ^^, hence why).

bring me the sun by @servalisms | short, fluff

phantom!arle (fem! reader) by @megistusdiary | short

fathers day arlecchino by @knavesflames | oneshot, fluff

hanahaki!reader x arlecchino pt. 1 | pt. 2 by @aetherdoesthings | oneshot series, hurt/comfort

bassist! arle and photographer!reader by @liliewrites | oneshot, fluff

Red Sky at Night, Shepherd's Delight by @jessamine-rose | headcanons

heart-to-heart by @vulpe-fox | headcanon(?)/oneshot, emotional rollercoaster

affections by @abros1an | short, hurt/comfort

Buried angels and that odd wish to live. pt. 1 | pt.2 by @deathbxnny | oneshot series, hurt/comfort

hollow by @kana-de | oneshot, angst

Arlecchino being comforted by her s/o by @eluxcastar | oneshot, hurt/comfort

One of Repetition by @eluxcastar | oneshot, angst

and her heart is a bird on a spit in her chest masterlist by @thecoffeelovingfreak | oneshot series, emotional rollercoaster

possessive arlecchino w suggestive fluff by @queenphanessa | short, suggestive

umm hopefully that was enough because this took me a few hours to compile lol. enjoy some of my faves.

[maleyanderecafe]

Hi! Do you know any yandere games in which the MC is NOT some featureless person? Like MC actually has an appearance, that's not up to interpretation or grey? I'm tired of these visual novels with invisible MCs 😩 them having a personality would be great too!

Oof man, I understand. I personally prefer it when a character has some sort of design, but I understand why they do it. An invisible MC is easier since it means the artist doesn't have to add another character in CGs and it leaves the player able to self-insert more cleanly. Same with the grey people since it doesn't really define itself as a certain bod type or skin color- but honestly it looks really silly watching a grey blob self in CGs. But yeah, having an actual MC design would be pretty neat to see more- you and Cherry have the same thoughts on this.

That being said, most games that do have a design are either BLs or Otome games and very few are gender neutral with a set design.

Otome Games (With Renamable MCs)

Sweetest Valentine - the MC has a nice character design and a pretty interesting personality depending on which route you go for.

XOXO Blood Droplets - the MC (or JB) is very flirty with all of the guys and very forward. It's put on hiatus for now since GB Patch is working on other games currently.

What's Your Name - actually has three female MCs all with different backstories to compliment each of the love interests, though you only really see their designs at the end of the good routes.

Particles of Reality - the MC (or Monika) has a pretty tragic backstory and runs in with a couple of different yanderes.

Please Don't Hate Christmas - the MC (or Molly) has a fairly cute design, though a lot of her personality is surprised otome character, but with a twist! Future Recommendation

Otome Games (With Defined MCs)

Go Away, Yandere! - for essentially a meme, self insert train of thought game, it's actually pretty well made. Coella is amazingly great as a protagonist since they just run with whatever goes. Future Recommendation.

My Puppy Fiancee/In Search of Haru/Jime Quiet Boyfriend- these are all otome IOS games from SeeC Inc which all have pretty good female protags. Though short, each of them has at least one yandere ending which is enough to put this on this list. You can find most walkthroughs on youtube if you can't play it. Future Recommendation.

Apartment No.9/Solopolism Reigns/Dawn of the Damned- all these games are made by @melancholy-marionette, who has a huge plethera of yandere games. I did a huge summary of Solopolism Reigns here, but the other games also have defined females. Future Recommendation.

ITYH: Horror Otome/Saccharine - Amiralo has pretty good and bittersweet games overall and the female characters are always interesting to say the least.

Parasite in Love -Marlowe is placed in a pretty unfavorable situation, but in the true ending is able to use her wits to get Niall off of her case. Quite literally, in fact.

Colorful Mirai: Spooky Edition - a spin off of their other game, Lauren is pretty fun as a protagonist. None of the yanderes have any lasting impressions or do anything too detrimental to her though.

Most Japanese otomes also tend to have MCs with character designs and I think more recent yandere ones tend to have ones with more character than simply just a blank slate.

BL Games

Most BL games have a predefined character already, so I'm not going to split this into two parts.

House Check - you actually play as the yandere, Arlon, who periodically breaks into his crush Owen's house to house clean. Future Reommendation

Stuck in a Yandere Visual Novel… Help!! - comedic game where the MC gets isekaied into a yandere game he played and has to survive. One of the few on the list that has a renamable MC. I have yet to play the updated version though.

Forgive My Sins, Father/ Forgive My Desires, Father - two sides of the same coin, though only one side is the yandere.

Mistrick/Misfiction/Line88 - all created by @hatogedev, Mistrick and Misfiction's yanderes are the same character, but Line88 is a kinetic novel. Future Recommendation for that last one.

Blood and Lust and Lust for Blood - I like the character design for Dimitri, but the game is a little uh... well, it could be more polished, let's say. Future Recommendation.

Killing Kiss - mobile game, but I really like Ryu and his design. The yandere in this one only really appears in one ending though.

Gender Neutral MC/ Male or Female Selection Games

Heart Fragment - extremely well made game, and you can choose a more masculine or feminine appearance. The yandere in this one is fairly light though.

Froot Basket Dark Chocolate - this one is kind of weird because you're actually playing as the yandere but the "MC" (Jordan), can have their gender chosen and has a set design.

Picture Perfect Romance -MC does have a design, though not given a name or gender. Very surreal game, I will say.

The Things You Do for Love!! - the MC is the yandere interestingly enough and you can choose their gender, and has a cute design. Still debating if I want to do a recommendation on this one though.

Degrees of Lewdity - does this count? I mean you can customize what your MC looks like and there are up to two yandere in this game

Purrfect Apawcalypse - Olive, the main character is nonbinary so I will put them on the list, though the yandere is yandere for another character. It's a triology and very good.

I also have my own game @perfectlovevn, which has Eris, an MC with a design and strong personality as well. I'm still doing the SFX/Music assignment for it but you can see my progress as it goes.

Anyways, I hope that was able to help you. There's a butt ton of other yandere games I still need to get through on itchio, so I may find some more in the future.

[aquarelle-rina]

Thoughts on Fashion Dreamer Day 1

Since the game received close to no marketing outside of Japan. I love fashion games and I want this one to do well too.

I played all the Style Savvy games before (almost 300 hours on each of then oof) but I ll try not to compare with Fashion Dreamer too much since the concept is different.

Apologies in advance for the mistakes (English is not my mother tongue)

What I like so far:

- Getting lookits from other players and giving some to them! I love seeing everyone's creativity

- There's SO many options to design a logo!! I spent too much time making them haha

- Visiting other's showrooms feels fluid. Its fun to just change try an outfit on a mannequin and walk to another showroom, like a carousel.

- The photo mode offers a lot of options. I like being able to take a picture anywhere. Also you can take vertical pictures for a better composition! Or just use the random button to have your muse in a dynamic pose.

- I love the idea of unlocking color palettes and using them to design clothes. There's some color theory in there... Also having reommendations is nice for indecisive people.

- It's rewarding to see the earrings I designed on the trends board. Then I found them again on a mannequin in another muse showroom. My muse tried the whole outfit (that was styled to match the the earrings I designed) and it was SUPER cute! I took pictures to remember that moment. I dont think there's any game that offers this kind of experience.

- Not having to manage a budget and getting items for free it is a fashionista dream haha.

- The animations and the models look nice! I was also afraid of EVE looking cold and empty (like the EDEN in Digimon Cybersleuth) but I was pleasantly surprised. I also havent seen anything clip though the models? (Anyone an expert on that lol?)

What I like less:

- Search function could be better. I want to be able to search by pattern and color!

- There's a bit of a performance issue when you have a lot of clothes. Hope this gets fixed in the future.

- Not being to zoom in clothing when dressing up is... Odd. Because you can zoom on the ones you design.

- Its super easy to get likes (I dont know if its the case for everyone). What bothers me is you get a notification for EACH likes. Im the kind of person that deacrivates most of my notifs on my cellphone because I find them intrusive.

- I hope they add runways, handbags and the possibility to share pictures with other players. And it would be fun to suggest makeup or hairstyles to other muses!

Game is pretty addicting, Im gonna play more for sure. I really needed a good fashion game for the Switch!! Its not Style Savvy but if I miss it too much, I can always power up my 3ds.

Maybe I ll write another post about Fashion Dreamer as I play more. Who knows :p Dont hesitate if you have questions!

[thelaithlyworm]

C-drama wot I've been watching lately

I've been on a Chen Xiao kick since watching The Ingenious One and Viki has been very kind about scratching that itch.

Dream of Splendor

This is based on an opera set in the Song Dynasty about a clever courtesan helping her friend out of an abusive marriage with some clever tricks, and the drama is, like, the continuing adventures of Zhao Pan-er and her friend, plus a nice butcher-lady whose husband had the bad taste to divorce her.

It's got a solid line in adventures and hijinks and a lot of social commentary about what it's like to exist in a lower social class where the law is explicitly written against you. I rejoiced in Zhao Pan-er's cleverness and valour even as the system she struggled with made me overpoweringly angry. And this isn't the Song Dynasty, but enough of those problems were intensely familiar. It's skewed very het, but the love interests are well-drawn and nobody's eclipsing anybody's identity or skills when they get together. Why They Fell For Each Other feels believable, as does, They're Going To Have A Happy Ending. People are *complicated* -- Chen Xiao's character, the love interest, works a job where torturing suspects is part of a day's work, and he doesn't like it but he doesn't quit, either; there's a character who's a colossal ass for two-thirds of the story but he and Zhao Pan-er become friends and really solid business partners; corrupt ministers continue to be corrupt and prosper... we've carved out a bit of happiness for characters we care about, but society hasn't improved a whole lot by the end.

And it's beautiful. There's a lot of art-work floating around, and some of the scenes seem to have been drawn specifically from paintings of the period. Various characters are virtuosos in various ways and display their skills -- down to cutting fish or tofu! It's amazing. 10/10 would reommend.

Being A Hero

I saw Wang Yibo's face advertising this and got the impression it would be very clean-cut and idealistic which I wasn't in the mood for at the time, and moved on. Boy Was I Wrong. It's set on the border where drug-smuggling is a huge issue and, while the forces of law and order do tend to be on the side of angels, there's a lot of issues with overlapping identities and complicated relationships. Wang Yibo is a young police officer. Chen Xiao is his childhood friend who disappeared three years ago after his father was killed and has now come back, thigh-deep in sin. And it's complicated. And various other characters have complicated relationships, there are ploys and counter-ploys and a constantly shifting landscape. Wang Yibo is very upright; Chen Xiao is a sad wet cat and their bromance is lovely. It has a huuuuge cast and I had some moments where I was squinting at the screen trying to remember who was who, but I'd say that's my shitty facial recognition at play, not a flaw in the writing. Special props to two actors I'm more familiar with as Marquis Yan and Xie Yu from Nirvana in Fire. They have amazing parts and they are so good, they act their parts so well my guys.

It's gritty, and hot, and violent, and sympathetic, and going on my rewatch list.

[juregim]

I saw your tag on the praire post and googled Qash, and the trailer is intriguing. Is that a good movie, would you reommend watching it?

i think i have a short post somewhere here i made after i watched it ill try to rb t after answering this

definitely would recommend. Seitov has a background in directing music videos (some of the most famous are Run - Joji and A lot - 21 savage & J. Cole) so the visuals are symbolic and very picturesque.

plot-wise, its a psychological horror that i think plays well by the rules of the genre while still telling a unique story. it doesn't have jump scares as far as i remember, mostly just increasing pressure.

there is some context you need to know before watching, and some that can be discussed afterwards, it is a very kazakh film, making historical, mythological and cultural references.

the film takes place during Stalinist collectivization, which caused the worst famine in modern history. they took away everything they could from us, our cattle, our horses, our food, our money, all our posessions. according to even the most conservative calculations anywhere from 38 to 42 percent of all kazakhs died as a result. Under the definition of UN, the conditions of the famine are legally recognised as a genocide, but people still argue that. It was a desperate time, underlined by increased presence of (unwanted) Soviet military and leadership and forced settled way of life (took our horses - nomads without a mode of transportation).

mythologically, i could go deeper on this but basically know that like all cultures, we have a number of malevolent deities who pretend to be something they're not to get to their prey.

finally, if u haven't found it already, i am not sure where you can watch it online. ill look into it meanwhile and if i do ill upload it onto a drive.

[bat-soup]

i don't follow you bc. if i did, tumblr would stop reclentlessly reommending your blog. this way i get to see the pink husky boy at least once a day because "i seem interested". which is true!

ALFKJDGNGSLKAJ thank u for this ask. u are so right you'd never be able to get a daily dose of pink husky if things were different.

[happykjd]

exo-l official magazine #17 - chen’s guide

- FOOD -

q: good you want to eat with exo-l japan? samgyeopsal. it’s one of my favorite foods so i want to eat it together! q: good you want to eat depending on the season, like summer or winter? for summer, cold noodles. for winter, roasted sweet potato. q: food you recommend for people who have been to korea often? gukbap q: stalls or street market food you reocmmend to eat while walking? mung bean pancakes, korean pancakes, tteokbokki q: foods you recommened for people who are bad with spicy things? seasoned kalbi, cold noodles q: snack when you’re taking a break? croffle q: when you come back from an overseas trip or tour, what’s the first food you want to eat? ramen

- TRAVELING -

q: what’s your fashion while traveling? i coordinate my outfits to match my destination! q: which member do you want to travel with? suho hyung. he plans well so i think we wouldn’t waste any time on the trip. q: what is your rule to be fully enjoy a trip? take the most efficient routes. q: an item you always being when traveling? hats q: favorite thing you brought as a souvenir from a trip? supplements q: the place you want to visit on your next trip? hawaii

- SEOUL -

q: area you would want to take someone who is traveling to seoul for the first time? cafe hopping at seoul forest q: area you want to take someone who is traveling to seoul again after a while? haebangchon q: area you reommend for a leisurely walk or stroll? han river q: an exo song you want people to listen to while walking around seoul? don’t go

- BONUS -

tell us your one day plan to tour seoul with exo-l japan!

1. explore seoul forest 2. stroll around gyeongbokgung palace 3. have chicken and beer at the han river 4. admire the night view from a place that overlooks seoul streets

[omniglitch-au]

So that that quote I made, it was just an idea I would give you, you could borrow it if you like and maybe credit?

Already did!

Though in the future, I'd reommend just submitting qoutes and the likes. It automatically credits you too.