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Sang Yan☀️ & Wen Yifan 🌙 in THE FIRST FROST 难哄 (2025)

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the loneliness of being queer

to quote trixie mattel: gay people are so broken

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okay, y'all know hot priest

let me introduce you to

hot rabbi

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Was stalking a guy on instagram and he mentioned me in his story, scared tf outta me but its chill was just the photo we took a day back

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Lately I’ve been down. The hell with it i think im down since a lot of fucking time probably after hitting puberty and all. Whatever shit was easy for me when i was in middle school is so rough now that I’ve reached at the age of 19. Everything is so blurry and its like im present in the room but at the same time im not, i crave for all the things but yet I’ve done absolutely nothing to achieve it and i sit here at night thinking where the hell i went wrong that i think my whole life is a big regret. I just sit and stare at the ceiling as if all the answers would be there but then a thought comes even if the answers were there would i even work for it?

My relationship with my parents and friends have been going weird, whatever topic they wanna talk about is something that i avoid what i run from, whatever they agree on is something im against for which makes me feel they don’t want me there and maybe they don’t but if I don’t have any of them there then who am i left with? My loneliness? And do i wanna be alone with it? No. Absolutely not. Every bit of me wants to change everything thing about me but from where do i get the energy from to do that. When all i want to do is lie in bed and stare into the ceiling and listen to music all day long.

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I made a quiz hehe. DO IT

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i got over him so I think this is compulsory:

kutte ullu ke patthe you bastard saale suar ki aulaad tujhe kya laga tu mujhe chod dega toh mai zindagi bar tadapti rahungi? tadpega tu kaminey. keede padenge tere upar kutte ki maut marega aur marne ke baad hamesha HAMESHA ke liye narak ki aag mai jalega. TERI MAA KI-

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Ji Chang Wook

Also Ji Chang Wook

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One of the things  that is extremely sad about weak hero class 1 is the endless cycle of violence and neglect towards all those kids.

It's not ok for a teenager to be so busy that he has to sleep in school, in order to not miss classes.

To tell your child that he's fine on his own, because he's so smart. It is only you justifying your neglect, It doesn't  matter how smart and mature a child is, they're still a child and it's your job as a parent to take care of them.

At the end of the day, kids are not supposed to be "mature for their age".

It's not okay to adopt a child because you're thinking about your image.

Those kids get beat up in school every day and there's no adult intervening.

No child is supposed to go through physical, mental  and emotional abuse at home, and again, people know about it and don't do anything.

When a child is going through bullying, you don't tell them to "man up" and hit back, you don't tell them that they are weak, you can't use violence to fix the consequences of violence.

It's neglect to move your kid from one school to another only because you're worried about your own image, you don't wanna  help your child, you don't care about what they're going through, you wanna get away from the problem, you want to ignore it, because you don't wanna be affected by it.

The fact that the adults basically let those kids by themselves, ended up leading the kids to solve  things the way they knew, with violence, because that's  what they see every day, at home, at school, they know they can't ask for help, because that would be a burden, that would be weak, that would lead to more violence. Due to the consequences of adults' actions, we are left with kids hurting each other, nonstop.

Those kids don't need more violence, either giving or receiving, they need help, they need mental health help, they need adults that they can count on, they need people to look at them and see them for who they are.

It's really sad to see that after all that pain and trauma that the characters faced, at the end, no adult was held accountable, it was their fault in the first place and nothing happened.

The bullying is not gonna stop, and the school will still act like it is not their problem.

Sooho is in a hospital bed.

Beomseok's dad is gonna continue being an abusive, horrible person, and nothing is gonna be done.

Sieun's mom is still gonna prioritize everything other than her own child, and his dad still not gonna pay enough attention.

And the kids will keep on trying to survive within this endless cycle.

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I can’t don’t talk to me till the end of eternity. AND I DONT WANT IT IF ITS NOT THISSSSSSSSSS

🚨 SUPER DUPER QUEEN OF NOTHING SPOILER ⚠️

So I’m in a lovely little group on Facebook for The Folk of The Air fans and one of those amazing ladies was kind enough to post Cardan’s letters from the Queen of Nothing Barnes and Noble edition. According to Holly these should be read after the book however I just couldn’t help myself. I’m posting them here in case you’re also like me and have no self control. I haven’t actually read any of Queen of Nothing yet but these letters made my heart ache.

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All exclusive short stories: The Folk of the Air

I decided to collect all exclusive stories I know of. I have done something similar for SJM books .  If you know of any other exclusive story, please let me know! THE CRUEL PRINCE A visit to the Impossible Lands Barnes and Noble edition THE WICKED KING deleted scene from The Wicked King, Barnes and Noble edition THE QUEEN OF NOTHING Cardan’s letters from the Queen of Nothing Barnes and Noble edition, should be read after the book deleted scene from The Queen of Nothing , sent via Holly’s official newsletter THE STOLEN HEIR The Walmart Exclusive Stolen Heir content The Stolen Heir Barnes & Noble Bonus Content, author’s personal journal pages and notes on the manuscript, Some posts I found useful: post about True Names A Guide to Holly Black’s Extended Faerie Universe

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ⓘ This user wants to be someone's sweet villain and darling god, dearest punishment and sweet nemesis, who they think is the only real thing in a land of ghosts, and by who they are forever undone.

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there is something so devastating about being so exhausted so young. i am tired all the time, and my muscles feel weak so quickly. i used to be able to dance for hours a day and feel nothing but a tired kind of pride and adrenaline rush. now, i watch my teachers and i blink so slowly that they call me out, and i do nothing but mark the movements. i am devastated because i failed that little girls dreams of being something. i followed all the right steps and worked as hard as i could and now i’m freshly eighteen and too tired to ever make it as anything.

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American Television after 5 years of pushing for queer representation: I hope you wanted unnecessary drama, angst with a maybe resolution, and three unfulfilling seasons of questionably written flirtation. And that all comes before anything is half-confirmed with a singular lukewarm kissing scene between two conventionally attractive, white bisexual women!

Thai Television .3 seconds after they figured out queer content is marketable: Did you want something kinky, soft, or stupid? Did you want cat ears? We’ve got cat ears! We’ve got safe/sane/consensual OR off-the-charts bad etiquette BDSM. We’ve got college students out the ass! As long as they’re an engineer or architect, choose your flavor. Do you want an age gap or classmates? Something for adults? Teens? Everyone was childhood besties, how about that??? This is a short order restaurant and I will flip you some gays like they’re hotcakes, just tell me what you want.

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Bed Friend

Overall, I really liked this show! Uea and King felt like very fully realized characters to me. They were interesting, flawed, very human in their reactions to each other and the stressful situations the show put them through. The actors had excellent chemistry and really made me believe in their connection. For me, the peak of the series was episode 6 - it was the height of the tension between them, just after we started seeing that they had something real, and featured the only pre-finale bed scene that actually felt deeply intimate and sexy to me (this is not a knock, I think this was quite intentional on the part of the show).

After that, some of the plotting got a little dicey, with very serious conflicts suddenly getting dealt with far too conveniently. I didn’t like rich boy King just making a few phone calls and neatly dispatching all of Uea’s abusers; those resolutions didn’t feel equal to the magnitude of the trauma we were taken through with Uea. And there were a few instances, like the confession scene at the end of episode 8, where I believe the translations were bad because the emotions and reactions of the characters just were not lining up with what my subs claimed they were saying. But even with those quibbles, the core relationship stayed solid and I believed in their emotional development, and I appreciated that the show took some time getting back to their physical connection once they decided to be serious about each other, and that we got to see Uea essentially adopted into King’s family. The finale was just a horny epilogue (I’m making fetch happen @shortpplfedup) and fluff fest, which felt earned for this show more than most.

Many smarter people than me have already done a ton of thorough analysis on this show, so I’m just gonna reblog folks like @wen-kexing-apologist instead of attempting to break it down myself. But I do want to weigh in on a couple things that were on my mind as I tracked reactions (with help from excellent weekly recaps from @bengiyo and @waitmyturtles) and considered whether I wanted to watch:

Is it realistic for this much terrible shit to happen to one character?

Does this feel like trauma porn?

On the first question, let me just say it unequivocally: YES. I have personal and family experience with a lot of the types of trauma Uea went through, which I won’t get into because… I don’t wanna. If you don’t, and therefore find it hard to believe a parent could be that awful, or that this many predators could find one person, I am glad for you. But the truth of the matter is that yes, some parents are really that hateful toward their children, and it’s quite common for victims of abuse to be perpetually targeted over the course of their life. Abusers have some sort of uncanny radar for vulnerable people.

On the second question, I won’t speak for anyone else, but for me the trauma depicted in this show did not feel gratuitous or exploitative. Uea’s experiences, and their effect on his mental health and ability to connect with others, were taken seriously. King, while certainly not perfect, treated him with respect and supported him as soon and as much as he could with the opportunities he was granted. We got to see Uea find some peace, make a new family for himself, and truly start to heal. If you’re going to lean on trauma to drive characterization and relationship development, this is the way it should be done.

This show gets two thumbs up from me, and I will be enthusiastically seated for Middleman’s Love.

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i read Alex Dudok de Wit's short book for 'BFI Classics' on Grave of the Fireflies. goddamn can de Wit write. it's got some very specific information about the production of the film that I hadn't known - the shenanigans needed to fund that Fireflies-Totoro double bill, the fact that it wasn't finished on release and that almost tanked Takahata's career - and an incredibly sharp scene by scene analysis of the film, particularly noting what Takahata changes from the novella and from its author's life, and the simultaneous realism and romanticism comparing to the Italian neorealists.

but especially interesting to me is de Wit's analysis of how and why the film failed to realise Takahata's ambition to not just convey 'war is sad' but convey his critique of contemporary Japan in Seita's actions (here are two excerpts I found interesting)

and how that relates to subsequent 'war anime'...

i wrote about this subject last year after I saw Fireflies, comparing it with Gen and In This Corner; my post is like, ok, but of course it doesn't get nearly as far as Dudok de Wit does. but then he has been at the animation journalism and film crit thing a lot longer than I have. (also i was totally confusing Alex Dudok de Wit with Michaël Dudok de Wit, co-director of The Red Turtle, for a while there...)

In This Corner... doesn't get a mention here, but it seems that it is perhaps more typical of a genre than I realised. I'll pull out more whenever we get around to Giovanni's Island and - if I can find a copy! - Beneath the Black Rain on Animation Night.

anyway I think it's easy to read about Takahata's intent for the movie and think like, uhhh you wot mate? you want us to judge how irresponsible this teenage orphan in the middle of a war is being? some of his decisions to sanitise and idealise Seita, which already saw Nosaka (for understandable reasons, even if he didn't forgive himself for it) editing out the ugliest parts of his actions in that time, like hitting and taking food from Setsuko, also seem to undercut that intended reading. though it seems unlikely it would be a better film if he hadn't. so no wonder his intended reading doesn't come across. it's hard to imagine what a Grave of the Fireflies which was that uncompromising would feel like.

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I haven't been this messed up over a pair of siblings since grave of the fireflies