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Ooh Lost in Kyoto is playing with the meta of the show and I'm loving it. Like the lines are blurred. The feelings are complicated and mixed up. Both men have other people in their lives that they seemingly don't feel the same about anymore (or maybe never did). They were clinging to some hope for the future whether artistically or romantically and its all messy now. But also I love how real life is reflecting the suggestions made to add more drama in the film their making. Like the film has somehow bled into reality and vice versa. I wonder how it's going to end

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Sometimes I worry if I’m posting too much about the same things and then I remember this is the Cringe Hyperfixation Website and that’s the point

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All right. We’ve got five whole meows in this one. Let’s go, Jeff, keep ‘em coming!!

Download here if you’d like.

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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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But I don't know why I feel differently about you. When you get close my heart just goes puh-pump, puh-pump, puh-pump...

THE PROMISE OF THE SOUL Episode 9

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THE PROMISE OF THE SOUL (2025) EPISODE 9 + kisses

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This kiss deserves a place here pt. 6

Old Fashion Cupcake (2022) l ep 4 l dir. Ayaka Katô

*They filmed this four minute scene in one take and I think that says a lot about how talented this cast and crew is.

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The Promise of the Soul Ep 9 thoughts

They're so freaking cute

Their color matching outfits need to be studied

The costuming department putting Haiyuan in that shirt with the red string over his heart 👀 I hope your pillow is always cool

I still want to know what's going to happen with ghost Zefang... like where is that heading? But also Cha and Haiyuan don't seem to notice him at all. He should spend more time haunting someone who cares 🤣

Their kisses and affection is soooo adorable

Haiyuan kissing Chas forehead and cheek and nose 🥹

The ex (can't remember his name) really needs to get a grip. Like that preview??? Bro... you obviously don't love Zefang if you're treating him like that....

Why would Zefang even be with that guy?? Zefang must have had some major issues cause like.... I highly doubt they were any good for each other

Also loving the women at the bar showing up Cha and Haiyuan going full force with his pool table kiss!

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This!

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Sirs??? This is a McDonald’s drive-through???

We Best Love : Fighting Mr. 2nd

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GIVE IT UP FOR THE MOST ROMANTIC COUPLE EVER IN HISTORY

BECAUSE WHOEVER DARES TO SEPARATE US WILL DIE

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There are some days when I'm sooo tempted to delete all social media except Tumblr. Today is one of those days

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Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

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it's very important to me that the public understands the difference between thinking that someone is dating and feeling entitled to it. like, are there a couple of cps that make me go 👀? absolutely. but if my limited outsider observations turn out to be incorrect, i'm not going to be upset. i'm not going to feel betrayed or lied to, i'm not going to be mad about "the fanservice". i'm just gonna go "oh? well alright then!" and move on with my life. because, you know, it's kind of fucking wild to actually feel entitled to a specific relationship between two people you don't even personally know.

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This is a dangerous sentiment for me to express, as an editor who spends most of my working life telling writers to knock it off with the 45-word sentences and the adverbs and tortured metaphors, but I do think we're living through a period of weird pragmatic puritanism in mainstream literary taste.

e.g. I keep seeing people talk about 'purple prose' when they actually mean 'the writer uses vivid and/or metaphorical descriptive language'. I've seen people who present themselves as educators offer some of the best genre writing in western canon as examples of 'purple prose' because it engages strategically in prose-poetry to evoke mood and I guess that's sheer decadence when you could instead say "it was dark and scary outside". But that's not what purple prose means. Purple means the construction of the prose itself gets in the way of conveying meaning. mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about. Cerulean orbs flash'd fire as they turn'd 'pon rollforth land, yonder horizonways. <= if I had to read this when I was 12, you don't get to call Ray Bradbury's prose 'purple'.

I griped on here recently about the prepossession with fictional characters in fictional narratives behaving 'rationally' and 'realistically' as if the sole purpose of a made-up story is to convince you it could have happened. No wonder the epistolary form is having a tumblr renaissance. One million billion arguments and thought experiments about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that almost all evade the point of the story: that you can't wriggle out of it. The narrator is telling you how it was, is and will be, and you must confront the dissonances it evokes and digest your discomfort. 'Realistic' begins on the author's terms, that's what gives them the power to reach into your brain and fiddle about until sparks happen. You kind of have to trust the process a little bit.

This ultra-orthodox attitude to writing shares a lot of common ground with the tight, tight commodification of art in online spaces. And I mean commodification in the truest sense - the reconstruction of the thing to maximise its capacity to interface with markets. Form and function are overwhelmingly privileged over cloudy ideas like meaning, intent and possibility, because you can apply a sliding value scale to the material aspects of a work. But you can't charge extra for 'more challenging conceptual response to the milieu' in a commission drive. So that shit becomes vestigial. It isn't valued, it isn't taught, so eventually it isn't sought out. At best it's mystified as part of a given writer/artist's 'talent', but either way it grows incumbent on the individual to care enough about that kind of skill to cultivate it.

And it's risky, because unmeasurables come with the possibility of rejection or failure. Drop in too many allegorical descriptions of the rose garden and someone will decide your prose is 'purple' and unserious. A lot of online audiences seem to be terrified of being considered pretentious in their tastes. That creates a real unwillingness to step out into discursive spaces where you 🫵 are expected to develop and explore a personal relationship with each element of a work. No guard rails, no right answers. Word of god is shit to us out here. But fear of getting that kind of analysis wrong makes people hove to work that slavishly explains itself on every page. And I'm left wondering, what's the point of art that leads every single participant to the same conclusion? See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. Down the rollforth land, yonder horizonways. I just want to read more weird stuff.

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