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@userdramas event 22: villain era  — wei wuxian | the untamed (2019) [x]

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From @whumpitywhump

Is there going to be a deus ex machina to save Armin too??

(The fact that Khru A directed both Reset and The Sign and has a signature style when it comes to sex scenes has me expecting other things to line up too, so I'm going to be extra annoyed if Armin actually dies from the fall.)

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Wangxian Fight Moves

(masterpost)

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Highkey obsessed with these 2 pics. I'm excited for the danger because ThadaArmin are wearing different clothes which means they are getting attacked more than once in EP 9. Thiwthit is at his limit with Thada and Armin (by extension) and at this point he just wants to exterminate them both. He don't give af about anything else. I'm worried about them but my gawd I'm excited for the DRAMA.

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"The Untamed" ranked 1st the most popular domestic dual male lead TV drama!!

7 large screens will be placed in 7 cities as well as 24-hour opening screen on weidian app ​as a reward🎉🎉🎉

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Do you want to stay? Stay. Do you want revenge?

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GMMTV's casting team usually does great work, but when they put Great and Inn together they weren't just cooking they were catering a whole damn event

They're so pretty. They're so talented. They look so good together. They have such good chemistry; every scene of theirs feels like the universe pausing to say “these two souls have found each other in every lifetime". I may go crazy

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I've decided not to get over them. Just as a treat for myself.

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Hello petty here's something I wanna ask, which is the best barrier scene that u cannot forget about or want everyone to remember the beauty of that scene.Here are the hearts to show my love.💜💛

Oh my goodness! This is so difficult to answer because I love all barriers! I'm a sucker for good visual rhetoric, but if I'm having to pick, some of my favorite barriers mean more than just conflict between two characters.

Like I need a barrier to hurt me! I need it to be another character! I need it to bring me pain!

And I need it to matter when a character crosses the line.

(Oh and don't even get me started on when a person is the barrier!)

For example, Parasite does an excellent job with lines and levels and crossing them, but I was in awe of how class was represented in the film through the windows. The rich people get these huge clear windows so they can see everything because their wealth grants them freedom and seclusion.

While the poor folks have a smaller dirty window cut into portions with bars on it because their poverty imprisons them and exposes them. They don't get to see the full picture. Their world is fragmented.

So when I saw Li Ming imprisoned not only by his poverty but by his sexuality in Moonlight Chicken, my whole heart went out to this tiny fictional character.

Or when Zo had a barrier between him and heterosexuality as he struggled to accept Joke's love in Hidden Agenda, I was also distraught.

But barriers are a specialty of Director Tee who is behind Hidden Agenda, Jack and Joker, Knock Out, I Feel You Linger in the Air, I Saw You in My Dream, Step by Step, and many other Thai QLs.

So in I Feel You Linger in the Air and I Saw You in My Dream, the barrier represented how one of the characters was fading and possibly leaving/dying.

PAIN!

While in Knock Out, the barrier was there to not only show the issues between the two characters.

But the fact that they could overcome them, together with love.

But it's just not Thai dramas that do such a great job at using barriers to reinforce the narrative like The Boy Next World when the barrier immediately came up the second Cir no longer recognized Phu.

South Korean dramas excel at this, and the barriers used in Our Dating Sim showed that Shin Ki Tae was respecting Lee Wan's boundaries even though he could've easily gone around them.

And Japan always knows what it's doing with a barrier like when it made the barrier glass in When It Rains, It Pours to show that Sei was splitting himself in two and imprisoning himself while Kazuaki wanted to be free.

But Taiwan always pushes the barrier a step further for me (pun intended, you'll see).

Like in W Series: Love Yourself, the barrier showed a clear shiny world behind the main (dead) character, but he was on the side that was tarnished and ruined.

Because for Taiwanese dramas, the barrier is never just one thing. It's good versus bad; it's freedom versus imprisonment; it's the desire to be let in versus the need to keep others out; it's everything like it was in We Best Love.

Which is why if I had to pick just one barrier, it would be the red line of fate in Unknown.

The red line won one of my annual Colors Awards because it was an evolution that began when Qian decided to cross the red barrier and feed Yuan who was withering away in the darkness.

That red line was was symbolic of their destiny but it also was a major barrier that boxed them in because Qian could only see them as brothers. He couldn't ascend beyond their past. He couldn't move forward nor up. He was stuck.

That red line is what tied them together yet constantly separated them, and we were visually reminded of that all the time.

And it wasn't until Qian accepted their fate that the red shifted from a barrier into a shield.

Because as the great Maya Angelou said, "Love recognizes no barriers."

Thanks for the ask, Wandee!

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Cats by Léo Forest

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I'm catching up on Revenged Love, and I'm wondering which came first, the source material for this show or the source material for Love in the Air? Revenged Love follows the same type of story and even a lot of the same character beats as Love in the Air:

Wealthy sexy brooding guy involved in underground/probably illegal competitive activity

Young straight guy with non-relationship with the girl he loves, deciding to pursue the sexy brooder and then dump him later

Straight guy falls for sexy brooder, is not as straight as he thought

Adorable friend of straight guy pursued by wealthy sexy young playboy businessman, continually pushes him away which makes the playboy pursue him harder

Adorable friend turns out to have been (almost certainly) assaulted in the past

Playboy decides I Will Love And Protecc Him FOREVER

Except as a slooooow burn because 24 eps of roughly 45 min each.

I'm enjoying it 😌

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You’re abusing your authority. I did it because I want to take care of you and protect you.

RESET (2025) | Episode 8

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Wait....he's the guy who played New Joe in My Stand In, right? Writers when I catch you

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Ok, imagine you're comic accurate Clark Kent and you're a working-class immigrant raised on a farm. You grow up and dedicate your life to helping people while being a total malewife to your Pulitzer prize winner girlfriend. You're despised and targeted by an unethical, megalomaniacal billionaire who thinks his intellect and his power and his wealth entitles him to your inherent abilities and the adoration you've earned through years of nonstop altruism. YOU WERE CREATED BY TWO JEWISH MEN IN THE 1930S

And then people complain about a movie about you being too woke

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life