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heartstopper: the best show out of 2022 so far

posted: 4/26/22

this was supposed to be a post about the shows I've been watching recently but i ramble on a lot

starts playing lover by taylor swift...

a few spoliers for heartstopper!

a tv show that was adapted from a webcomic by alice oseman! i had actually never heard of this show until twitter blew up after it was released. i think it's one of the best shows I've seen in a while (and that's kinda saying a lot). i love all the characters and the representation in the show. one thing that i noticed while watching is that they rlly nailed how teenagers talk and interact with each other. through the texts and dialogue, i felt like i was talking with my friends. sometimes the dialogue was witty, sometimes it was just plain awkward and that's how me and my friends talk so i think it was great. there were a lot of emotional scenes throughout the show that pulled on my heartstrings :"). i never usually cry while watching shows bec i never get emotionally invested in the characters on my first watch so that was a new experience for me.

the things i usually look for in a tv show are the small details, especially if the show was adapted from somewhere else. idk why but it sort of gives me an insight into how much the production team sought to understand the characters and how much effort they were willing to put into the show. it also gives me a few details on the characters! one thing that i noticed were the little rainbows in the outside shots, an extremely small thing for me to notice but seeing the pops of color made me so happy.

another thing that i noticed were the books that Isaac was reading. i read a few articles on the show and the major thing that people were mad about was that they cut off a major character, aled. isaac was brought as a kind of replacement for him, from my understanding. the creator wanted to use isaac as a way of branching out into newer storylines. after finishing the show, isaac really caught my eye just because he never rlly talked that much, but when he did, it was comforting and kind of gave me insight to what his character is. i guess you can say that he's my favorite character because of how much he reminds me of myself in terms of being the introverted character that nothing ever rlly happens to (reminds me of the shrinking violet trope but not rlly?? don't get mad at me lol). the small details that i noticed were the books that isaac read throughout the series. if you want to know the full list of books you can check out this link. i loved the books that he read because it sort of followed the storyline. his range was kind of wide bec i like to think that as the characters were discovering their sexualities by experience, Isaac is learning through his books. one of the books he read was gender explorers by juno roche. this book is a collection of interviews from trans children, teens, and adults, talking about their everyday experiences. i read a snippet of it online and i thought it was extremely thought-provoking. i like to think that Isaac read it to better understand elle and how to support her. another book on the list was proud by gareth thomas. gareth, nicknamed alife, was the first openly gay rugby union player for wales. i think its a cute but subtle reference to the fact that his gay bestie was playing rugby! the last book that i noticed on the list was radio silence by alice oseman, the creator of the webcomic. i saw people saying that it was a continuity error and that it was breaking the timeline which i thought was pretty funny. i think the fact that he was reading alice's book was bec the book, radio silence, is about aled. aled wasn't in the show because the author thought that aled deserved his own story.

i think this show goes in line with a lot of other shows i've been watching. sex education, young royals, and yuri on ice are great shows that i highly recommend and are kinda in the mix with this show! one thing that i do want to see is a wlw show that, for the most part, resembles the themes of shows that i mentioned. a lot of lesbian series that i've watched are vv depressing and angsty tbh and i would loovee to see a super cute, fluffy but realistic show that makes me feel how i feel while watching heartstopper!

i finished the whole series in one day and i loved every single minute. i think i might actually start reading the webcomic since i like comparing the original to the shows (that's kinda what i do with mangas). i'm excited to see season 2 and what else heartstopper has in store!!

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how much is too much?: thoughts on oversharing.

posted: 4/22/22 - friday

i just realized that most of the things that I've thought about came from me just lying down in my bed with nothing to do lol.

note: i probably should have researched for this but these are just my thoughts on the subject (pls tell me if i got anything wrong :D)

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of 'oversharing'. it's not really a concept, maybe I'm just being overdramatic, but more of like a thing that happens to a lot of people.

in my opinion, there are two types of oversharing in (my personal) life, online and irl. I'll be talking about the online part and then i might ramble a lot :D. if you saw my 'about me' pinned post, then you probably saw that i was (and kinda still am) in 'studygram' and I've been on the internet for a while now so i get the consequences of sharing too much information to the general public. i think a lot of people have different ideas of what constitutes as oversharing but i think no one should disclose any personal information on the internet, not even to online friends. I've seen many horror stories regarding some users telling their so-called friends of their addresses, real names, schools, and so much more. i think it's just so scary, you never know what they'll do with that info.

i think it's even more complicated if you have a bigger following. there's a line between being 'authentic' and 'oversharing'. i think celebrities (whether mainstream or digital creators) have a big problem with fans asking too much of them. it's extremely important to set boundaries especially if you do have a "bigger-than-average" following.

this also ties in with "work-life balance". some followers/fans need to realize that the people they're following have their own lives and they don't owe anyone anything, especially info on their personal lives, because most of the time, these digital creators (ppl on yt, ig, twt, etc.) are making this content for free and for their enjoyment. so when people speculate about their relationships, families, or even if the celeb is pregnant or not, then it's kinda invasive? i'm sure a lot of famous ppl already got the hang of people being too invested in their lives which is kinda scary.

publications/magazines/tabloids like pop crave, intouch, or life & style all follow the same pattern of trying to get the best 'news' or, to be more specific, dirt and gossip on the most popular celebs. they get an "outrageous" photo from the paparazzi which probably costs a lot, then they form a whole story around that specific person and then they spread it to their thousands of fans. in the early 2010s (i'm not actually sure), tabloids were extremely popular bec it had all of the info from well-known people and readers just ate that shit up. most of the time, these stories were just fabricated by pr managers (kinda likely), paparazzi, or from the publication itself. idt the people (writers) cared about if the story was real or not bec the headlines were so bizarre that it grabbed people's attention and helped them generate profit. and the readers were just so starved? for info and they wanted to believe that the most famous celebs at the time would actually do shit like that.

due to all of the popularity, headlines started to become more and more outrageous, sometimes even infringing on the celebs' health and relationships which were probably not the best things to share (esp if the person didn't want that info to be public). and it's not only tabloids who spread things that they maybe shouldn't have. i remember ellen degenerate (not a typo) interviewing mariah carey in 2009 (?). it's a very famous interview because ellen "got" mariah to admit that she was pregnant. i put 'got' in quotations bec she basically forced mariah to drink an alcoholic beverage to prove that she wasn't pregnant. it is kinda uncomfortable to watch now, esp with all the allegations against ellen. anyway, after the interview, mariah had to announce to the public that she got a miscarriage. it was probably such a sad time in her life and i hope she's happier now but the fact that her friend (ellen) forced to speak about her pregnancy, esp when she was visibly uncomfy with that, is my problem with oversharing.

if the person whose info is being spread isn't comfortable with the info being public, why do people keep insisting and forcing them to come out and speak about it? i'm not really sure of the answer and i don't want to assume things bec, as i said before, everyone has their own lives and they can whatever they want with them. hopefully not to the point where they're hurting someone with their actions. i think the most important thing here is to set boundaries online and irl and to respect boundaries people have set.

wow that was long, i didn't actually expect to ramble on like that...oh well.

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shower thoughts..pt. 1/?

"cancel culture" today is basically just today's equivalent of being exiled. it was either leave or krog bash your skull in with the skull bashing rock.

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hello. nice to meet you!

decided to make a little intro post just in case anyone wants to talk to me lol.

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name: sabrina (you can call me 'sab')

pronouns: i'm comfortable with any pronouns :)

interests: watching long (1-5 hr.) video essays on youtube about anything, baking chocolate chip cookies, playing genshin impact (c6 ningguang main), obsessing over fictional characters, collecting stationery (and never using them bec I'm a hoarder), designing posters for random things

fandoms (kinda in order): genshin impact, fruits basket, jjk, glee, pll, spy x family, aot

what/when do i post?: anything, really, i feel like i have a lot of things to talk about :D, mostly pop culture and tidbits on how my days are going, might not be that active, who knows?

dni: anyone who doesn't respect boundaries, kaeluc shippers, homophobes and racists, if you know me irl

note: this a safe space! i'll be putting trigger warnings (tw) for posts with darker themes (if there are any).

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4/21/22 - thurs.

first post! it’s a long one (that’s what she said..i’m sorry)

good evening/morning/afternoon to whoever may be reading this. no one will, probably, but i decided to be more active on tumblr rather than just looking at fanfics (dont perceive me lol). 

- summer! (finally)

i just started summer a week or so ago, i think it’s even worse because all the days are melded together and i have no concept of time whatsoever. i think it was better to remember days just because of all the deadlines. am i rlly looking into the positives of school now?? (that was a joke don’t sue me) also, i’m going into my first year of senior high (grade 11)! i’m extremely scared for the school year because i’m going into a highly competitive class and idk if i can handle the pressure.

- glee outsold all tv shows 

i just watched the mike’s mic glee recap video and i am obsessed like you don’t know how much i love the glee songs. most of them are pretty okay but there are these small gems in every season and i absolutely live for them. if you look at my playlist, it’s just mostly santana, mercedes, and kurt songs (i’m sensing a pattern here). 

- status of my book-reading-journey

yesterday, i received my copies of these violent delights and these violent ends. i was so excited to read them but now, i’ve just lost any motivation i had for reading. i used to be an avid reader but, with yt and all the long form content on the platform (video essays, docu-series, etc.), i’ve been more interested in those. it sucks and i feel like i just wasted money when i could have just gotten an e-book or just not read them? thats just me thinking out loud lol but it sucks that i’ve lost my love for reading when everyone is talking about the newest books and booktube/blr/tok trends. 

- acting like a fool? probably..

i feel like most of my life, i’ve just been an introvert but this whole pandemic kinda made me want to talk to people. i just went out to meet my friends two days ago for the first time since march 2020 and i was so happy to just interact with people who weren’t my family. i’m also extremely anxious and an overthinker btw. so the whole time, i was so self conscious on how i was talking, moving, and basically everything. it was literally the first time i went out to an outing with people other than my fam so it was extremely nerve wracking to act like a normal person FDKLAS. 

today’s highlights!

↳ i lived (glee cast version) - that finale actually got me crying (idk if it was bec i was so happy it was over or sad that it ended lol)

↳ helped my sister with her makeup and actually did a pretty good eyeliner wing 

↳ cleaned a part of my desk, still a work in progress tho