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This reminds me of another post I saw around here about studio ghibli movies feeling different in part due to the space they leave for the plot to breathe. Where you've got scenes/interactions that are just there for the characters to exist rather than to advance the plot.

When modern cdramas try realism I find it fascinating? It's a very personal thing. I 100% understand why others don't find it compelling. But I'm intrigued! I do think there is sincere skill in actors mimicking life-like interactions and in writers capturing naturalistic interactions, that the viewer feels could have really happened. "Hidden Love", "Meet Yourself" and "Love Me Love My Voice" are 2023 examples.

We see these very "natural" performances by the actors, where the expressions and body language don't have that feel of "the stage" but like regular humans going about their everyday lives. There is a voyeurist fascination to watching another person's life. Entirely different than a compelling, exciting plot and wacky hijinks of quirky characters. (I don't watch those influencers on YouTube/Instagram or reality TV but I know a lot of people do. I assume that has a similar appeal.)

In the last 25 years, in most media there has been an increasing fear of silence and lack of momentum. Of just allowing moments to exist in 'real time' and taking the time they take. Writers skipping past or spicing up everyday conversations of people just being in the same place with no plot urgency... Characters all must be clever & smart and dialogue must be punchy, memorable. Every action has a 'purpose'. No minutes wasted. Editors have perfected the ability to communicate the max information in the minimum amount of time.

For instance, introverts who struggle to externalize their thoughts & contribute to conversations, who are sincerely awkward, have never had much of a place in media, but especially now they are allowed to only carry the title.

Thus "Love Me, Love My Voice" is such a risky adaption that I honestly admired the guts of the director. A story about 2 real introverts, who share a hyper fixation on the same fandom, falling in love. The showrunner could have chosen to adapt these characters to be more "tv friendly" but instead leaned into their introverted & demisexual characteristics. They are allowed to slowly peek out of their shells and struggle to find words. oh my GOD the tension as you start praying for FL to find a way to say anything, however generic, to continue the conversation...as the director lets the moment hang. FL's shyness and social anxiety feels so realistically crippling. They really said, 'let these motherfuckers be great at fandom content but awful at talking' with their WHOLE HEART 😂😭. Both ML and FL are uncomfortable with attention in social spaces, in a group setting will be nice & friendly but naturally go into another room to do more quiet solo/2 person activities. It's not immaturity - she's in her 20s, he's in this 30s; this is simply who they are. They warm up but it takes tons of time. Is the drama weird? interesting? boring? I can't even tell you. It was different and they Tried Something. I salute that. (also there was food porn) (so much fannish fixation & food porn)

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this is so rogue but does anyone have the poetry template that went semi-viral on twitter a while back? it was designed for kids but someone gave it to their mother who has dementia and she wrote a really moving poem about her experience.

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A crossover of Spy x Family and Batman I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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Two very different shen sibling dynamics that i both enjoy equally and some other svsss drawings

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“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition. No culture has ever bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise, women to run faster than the speed of light, or negatively charged electrons to be attracted to each other. In truth, our concepts ‘natural’ and unnatural’ are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The theological meaning of ‘natural’ is ‘in accordance with the intentions of the God who created nature’. Christian theologians argued that God created the human body, intending each limb and organ to serve a particular purpose. If we use our limbs and organs for the purpose envisioned by God, then it is a natural activity. To use them differently than God intends is unnatural. But evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with a purpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in the human body that only does the job its prototype did when it first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because the earliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn’t do those things with their mouths?”

— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari, Yuval Noah)

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The Red Team was worried about Wen Jianyan being held hostage, while the Black Team was worried about their captain being in the hands of their enemies. Therefore, neither side dared to attack first.

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Wen Jianyan, you sly man, using your enemies to find your teammates and letting your teammates “ambush” your enemies without them even knowing

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Repeatedly devastated that none of the infinite flow novels I’m reading are even a little bit as great as Welcome to the Nightmare Live

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i'm 400 chapters into 'welcome to the nightmare live', and wen jianyan is such a little bastard man, i love him.

he's coward and a thief. literally every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie. he will gladly risk his life to save his teammates, and then also lie about it. he's a hedonist and a gambler. he will cheat you out of your entire life savings and not feel a speck of guilt about it. if anyone touches any of his people, he will gladly kill them. he's the smartest person in every room. he's reckless, and every decision he makes is so fucking stupid. his love interest is some kind of eldritch overpowered god. he's stabbed that same god in the chest thrice so far, two times in the middle of a make out session. he's definitely into bdsm and, based on the way he continuously compares his love interest to a dog, possibly also into puppy play. so far, he's conned three different god-like existences and made them dance to his tune. he canonically wears custom-made frog slippers and t-shirts that say 'fuck off', in english. it's unclear whether he even knows english, but if he did, he would definitely know how to swear. the one time his love interest tried to do the yandere keep-him-to-himself bullshit, wen jianyan gave him a handjob so good that his brain leaked out of his ears and he completely forgot that none of wen jianyan's words can be trusted. this was after the first time he stabbed him, but directly before the second. his teammates would die for him in a heartbeat. they want to punch him in the face every time they see him. one time, he drove a man to depths of uncontrollable rage by giving him a gift basket. it was filled with strawberry candy.

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so i've been reading welcome to your nightmare again...

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In Fanfiction, Shen Jiu usually falls for sweet shixiong Shen Yuan, but what about feral internet troll Shen Yuan?

Disciple: Head Disciple Shen should watch who he associates with. I've heard that Shen Jiu has been going behind the sects back to fuck whores

Shen Yuan: Well if Shen-shidi is fucking your mother, then maybe she'll end up giving birth to a better son!

Shen Jiu: That's him, the man that will one-day be my wife

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[ID: Scum Villain fanart.

Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe standing across from each other, presumably in Jin Lan city, a crowd visible behind them. shen Qingqiu looks neutral, hiding behind his fan, and Luo Binghe leans in with an eager smile. Though drawn in sepia tones, they both have colorful thought bubbles: Shen Qingqiu's shows him looking panicked and horrified, a gloomy background showing comical severed limbs. Luo Binghe's shows him looking heartbroken, a hand clutching at his chest, broken heart icons surrounding him.

Tianlang Jun sitting on a throne with many last breath candles floating around him. He grins and spreads his arms widely, clawed hands facing palm up. The image is drawn in greenish tones except Tianlang Jun's eyes, zuiyin, and a "crown" of diamond symbols around his head.

Zhuzhi Lang in a leafy environment, sunlight shining through the trees illuminating him. He's wearing a hooded cloak and smiling down at a green snake twining around his wrist. /end ID]

I am rereading svsss right now and work has not been horrible for the past few weeks so here is some fanart

Edit: Thank you for IDing @bytedykes !!

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What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

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Obsessed with the idea of Mobei Jun going through most of his life thinking that he's the only one smart enough to pick up on Shang Qinghua's worth and try to court him, only to walk into a room one day (prior to his ascension) and see Luo Binghe's husband beating up his man in what is clearly a non-serious and recreational fashion.

Just how long has this been going on for? Is this why Qinghua has never formally accepted any of his proposals? How is he supposed to retaliate when Junshang will kill him on the spot for any perceived attack on his husband? The one guy he probably can't challenge to a duel, and he's clearly trying to seduce Mobei's man out from under him!

But what can he do? More violence? Sluttier outfits? Longer attempts at meaningful eye-contact? He was already pulling out all the stops, what does this stupid scholar have that he doesn't, huh?