#(I cried like 3 times during this and episode 1 of this season because of them)

[localfanbaselurker]

I watched s5e2 and was shocked to find out how bad you guys (I suppose I am now part of you guys) were robbed of black paladin lance

Look at him leadering all over the place

[theerurishipper]

Hi~ Hope you have a lovely day. I want to get your opinions on my rant lol and ask.

Marinette is such a disappointment of a lead female character in a western magical girl cartoon. She isn't a good leader and all her team consist of yes men and women and sidekick Chat Noir where her real partner Alya is standing over to the side. I liked her in the first two season and maybe some in s3 but the s4 and onward just got to me ngl. It's her world and we're all just living in it. Miraculous is so weird when it comes to team dynamics because I get she's guardian but I really wished it were someone else and not her because she chooses people she already get along great with. It fun for team dynamics to add be different and broader.

The whole she's just 14 the fandom spouts only goes so far how many messes do you do until you realise you need to own up to them even at that age when you should know better on your conduct ?

I get it hard to communicate but onwards I always thought the bigger of the two in the conflict was her because of her secrecy and her controlling tendencies. I disliked it so much in the ephemeral episode and her betraying her partner disgusted me. Sorry to those who like or defend her character this much but I can't stan or like a character that does this much crap to a friend let alone a love interest and then gloss over or minimize it and not be called out for it. Like, are people standards that low they think she's a good leader or a good proper representation on feminism when this show reeks of misogyny and misandry. She's the ultimatum voice for Astruc.

A communication issue with her Chat was fine a long time ago but now in s5 she crossed it hell nah how do people still support a ship with her knowing she followed Hawkmoth command for Adrien. I literally can't anymore with this show. Every guy she likes gotta be so 100 percent in effort and like in the Shadybug special him always comforting her makes me so jaded whenever she cries what about a change in dynamics had we ever seen her comfort him in turn how are people invested in this ship? Like that time in the bench and she just thought of ways to woo or give presents instead of just comforting him is so sad to watch.

She really followed in Master Fu steps. The bar is in hell and she crossed it in the finale. There is no excuse no handwaving it away and i know in my heart they gonna minimize it for Adrien own good. Everything is for his own good huh? What good is it rooting for a ship that just reeks of pity points. Like, she was never my favorite but who knew 8 years ago she'd pull a stunt like this and people bending over and doing mental gymnastics to rationalise this insanity. She really is a good foil to Gabriel ironically to bad she has no sway in this family drama we call the Agreste.

I know she has good intentions and it's not wrong for her to wish to save her prince but like thats all that is intention. Her actions are also important and the effects she's done is so bad that if she weren't the Main character and we haven't spent the chunk of the majority in her pov alone she'd be disliked.

I feel like compared to other respective series Winx Club s1-3 Bloom, Danny Phantom, Ben 10, Totally Spies they have it much more harder and so many more all show the consequences of your actions and how you do them right and they're her age. I feel like whenever someone bring up consequences it's like people in this particular fandom think we do it to punish Marinette but no I just never ever saw it properly done in this show because she's very coddled in the narrative. I don't see other MC as coddled as her before in a show where when they MESS UP it's actually integral and important.

Rant over.

You encapsulated all my thoughts perfectly, anon. I've said so many times before that I loved Marinette from Season 1-3 and even during Season 4 as it aired. What made me fall out of love with her character post Season 4 was the utter lack of acknowledgement of her actions and the insistence in portraying her as in the right at all times. Like you said, it's not just your intentions that matter. Your actions and the effects that they have on the people around you also matter. The writers don't seem to understand this, and it hits Marinette's character worst of all. She had so much potential to be such a great character, which is why I feel so sad seeing just how badly the writing failed her. Marinette deserved better.

Thank you for your ask!

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

My thoughts about episode 8, season 3 of The Legend of Vox Machina :

We open on the infamous meeting scene between Percy and Vox Machina. If I remember correctly, from the comics and the backstories told in Campaign 1, it was pretty much the same, except Percy did have money and gave all of his gold to Vex !

I cried during the whole funeral scene, then had a day, then wrote this : ultimately, Percy being dead-dead is so far the biggest change from Campaign 1. One I like. I've always agreed with Matt Mercer's opinion that death is not cheap, that D&D resurrections in the game are too easy past a certain level, that the immense gravity of death and the joy of life deserve better, and that death of a character is sometimes a great narrative point. Of course, you can say that knowing Percy won't stay dead in TLOVM (because that would fuck too much with the Campaign story, tbh) is a bit of a facility to like this. But I truly think this change is good for the new audiences and the old Campaigns viewers. The fact that the funeral scene was so beautiful and sad is just a bonus on top.

When Laura Bailey cries, I cry. Man. She deserves an Emmy.

No fate, but what we make, Vax.

Awwwww, the "I haven't wanted to be alone most nights" line !

Did I already say I love Kima and Stephanie Beatriz' version of her with all my heart ? Yes ? Well, no matter :

It's weird to see the difference between the Campaign and TLOVM, in terms of allies Vox Machina has. Grog in this scene says that they've made friends everywhere they've been, and that's not... exactly true ; or at least to me, the Campaign had more of that "we've been everywhere" feel (that the series can't do because it takes too much time).

But still, the gathering-allies-montage is cool. Especially, of course, Vex and her asshole father scene. Also Kash and Zarah !!

LARKIN ! I had to explain why I was laughing to my friend and sister, and well, it's one of those explanations that ended with "you would have had to be there -- to see the Campaign -- to get it".

Well, to no one's surprise... Raishan did betray them !

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 59: Fukuzawa Yukichi vs. Optimus Prime

Submitted kids:

Fukuzawa Yukichi: The entire detective agency (in order of acquisition— Ranpo, Yosano, Kunikida, Dazai, the Tanizaki siblings, Kenji, Atsushi, Kyoka)

Optimus Prime: Bumblebee, then depending on continuity, Cliffjumper, Smokescreen, Arcee, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, the Aerialbots, Sari Sumdac, Jack Darby, Miko Nakadai, Raf Esquivel, and possibly others

Propaganda under the cut!

Fukuzawa Yukichi:

1. “At about 32 he used to be an bodyguard for hire who only works alone then he met this 14 year old (Ranpo) who had no parents and was kicked out of the police academy. He ended up feeding him (I think Ranpo was homeless at this point not 100% sure tho. He is also a genius estimated iq as high as 200) and said he would help him free of charge (bodyguard) if he called. He ended up getting called and investigated something with him. Ranpo saw the world very plainly and cried to Fukuzawa about how scary it is. Fukuzawa helped Ranpo realize that not everyone is pretending not to know things they literally don't know what he does (big issue with Ranpo partly what he was crying about too i think. They have an entire episode (i think it's the first one in the 4th season) devoted to their backstory together which is black, white, and gray when it's from Ranpo's perspective until Fukuzawa helps him realize this and it turns colored. Fukuzawa ends up deciding he wants to create a detective agency (working with others!) with Ranpo not yet tho we still have one more kid first. Later when Fukuzawa's doing a bodyguard job he along with Ranpo end up rescuing a girl (Yosano!) from the man he was guarding (future mafia boss currently a doctor). Yosano ends up becoming a doctor for the detective agency when it's created. After it's created he ends up taking in another 14 year old (Kenji).

He also loves cats and has shoujo anime-esque cherry blossom flashbacks with his old childhood friend who asked him if he wanted to go to fight in war with him, Fukuzawa denied his request. They also have a like 15 min soft-lighting conversation while watching their memories of their childhood together in the latest ep.”

2. “This man literally created a whole detective agency for this one really smart boy (Ranpo) and taught him that he wasn't the one in the wrong but everyone else when he couldn't understand people. Then, he saves Yosano from the trauma this other guy was inflicting on her and brings her to the Agency. The Agency basically becomes the place where all his kids are. His special ability lets those in the Agency control their abilities so Atsushi and Kyouka don't have to be afraid of their out of control abilities anymore. He cares so much for all of them and during the Cannibalism arc when his life is literally on the line, they do everything in their power to save him.”

3. “My guy just CANNOT stop adopting kids. He went from lone wolf assassin to Dad of Many. His first (adopted) child, Ranpo, basically forced him to adopt him (he was like “I’m a teenager with no family or home. You GOTTA adopt me. Because I say so.”) From there he kept accidentally adopting every orphan he came across. Honestly the detective agency is more like a glorified orphanage except they let their kids carry guns.”

4. “A former Goverment assassin who stopped once he realized he was starting to enjoy killing people, Fukuzawa is looking for a job when he bumps into Ranpo, a genius capable of figuring out any mystery, who can’t understand how the world works. Taking Ranpo under his wing Fukuzawa tries a white lie that Ranpo has a special ability and manages to let Ranpo interact with the world without fear for the first time in years since he can know understand the problem wasn’t everyone acting like they couldn’t figure out things but that no one was as smart as him. They found the Armed Detective Agency specifically to use Ranpo’s abilities to help people and to have jobs.

He then saves Yosano from Mori, his ex something who after using her special ability to heal any injury as long as the person is about to die during the War, wanted to use it take control of their local mafia. Instead Fukuzawa and Ranpo rescue her and let her recover from her trauma and come into herself.

He then goes on to provide a place for Kunikida to fulfill his ideals, Dazai a place to do good after his own past in the mafia, Kenji a place to help people, Tanizaki and Naomi (siblings that don’t seem to have any guardians) work to support them, and Atsushi a place to work on his own trauma by protecting people. Fukuzawa later let’s Kyouka, another defection from the mafia, stay and work at the agency so she can help people and not have to kill them anymore. The entire Armed Detective Agency live in dorms that Fukuzawa provided. He also is very protective, putting everything on the line to help members of the Agency escape any danger he knows of. Like when Atsushi is kidnapped he bribes Ranpo to find him and sends Kunikida to rescue him. He sees any danger to the agency and its members as something for him to stop.”

Optimus Prime:

“#VOTE OPTIMUS HE'S THE DAD OF ALL TIME AND HAS ISSUES”

[onebedtorulethemall]

Okay, as you know I just finished Bad Omens, and it was probably the funniest fic I've ever read. THANK YOU for writing this masterpiece.

I adore your sense of humour. Can I ask what inspires, feeds, or fuels it? Because if there is a movie, book, or show you can recommend with more of these vibes, I'm RUNNING to it. I need more of this humour in my life. pronto.

Wishing you well <3

Oh no. You've asked about my favorite topic, I fear. (For anyone else who wants a rambling response from me, feel free to drop the words "Bad Omens" in my ask box.)

Unfunnily, I came by my sense of humor the old-fashioned way—by being fairly ignored as a child. I had a whole comedic routine I'd launch into any time I thought an adult might be about to pay attention. This behavior generally results in either wildly famous adults or extremely annoying ones. I am lucky I have writing to channel it into because I lack basically all the skills to become any sort of performer.

Ok. Obviously, the humor in this fic was mainly inspired by Good Omens. I dissected the book before and during writing to try to get as close as possible to the feel of the original (limited, of course, by the fact that I'm not Neil or Terry). I looked at sentence structure, joke setup and payoff, how and when those narrative asides were used... I remember being amazed by how much of the humor relied on clever adverb usage. Mainly, though, it's the dramatic irony doing the heavy lifting. You swap a muggle for a witch (or the Antichrist for Baby B) and tell the reader you did it, and they're already doing half the work for you. They're ready to laugh. They're bought in. They're spinning up hilarious scenarios in their mind before I've even told the joke (I know this because my comments are full of them).

That's a very long way of saying: I love anything that says "we've set up this absurd scenario, now let's watch it unfold." (Although I don't like when it gets too stressful. That's why the Bad Omens narrator was there to hold your hand through it.)

What We Do in the Shadows is the absolute best for this. Plus classics like In Bruges and Hot Fuzz, both of which I've been casually trying to find a way to adapt into a Dramione for a year now. It's not really the same humor, but I have cried laughing at Veep.

Darker comedies: Fargo and my favorite, Barry. There's an episode in season 2 (ronny/lily) that veers straight off the cliff into surrealism. It's FANTASTIC, and I was absolutely thinking about it when writing the Bad Omens war date. I looooove that feeling of "what the actual fuck am I reading/watching right now?"

And on that note: The Locked Tomb series. Just, please go read it. Join the cult. It's kept me in a book hangover for about two years and I think the only way out is to pass it on to someone else, The Ring-style.

I'll cut myself off here. Thank you for the ask, and for reading and loving my silly little fic. I am first and foremost its #1 fan, and it's just fun to get to talk about it.

(stealth edit because omgggg I can't believe I forgot O Brother, Where Art Thou? Comedic PERFECTION. Couldn't be a Dramione. Snakes buddy comedy, maybe?)

[mbrowne-writ-344]

The Promised Neverland (and why season 2 is dead to me)

Hello again my wonderful readers! I hope my introduction got you interested in the goodness i want to bestow upon you.

Today, the manga and anime I shall introduce you to is:

The Promised Neverland

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BOY! do I have some words.

When I first found out about this anime, I was in my sophomore year of high school and was still wet behind the ears when it came to buying or reading manga. It only had trailers that showed a bunch of kids having fun in an orphanage so I thought "sweet! a new slice of life anime for me to watch on my free time"... I was dead wrong.

Episode 1 comes out, and I decided to watch it while I was eating dinner. I dropped my fork at some point while watching, and in the time it took me to pick it up, it was like a switch had flipped. I came back up to look at my phone and thought I had accidently switched to a different show! (I will not spoil what I saw, but for those who know, you know what I'm talking about) One other thing I forgot to point out is that while I did see a trailer for this anime, what I DIDN'T do was read the genre tags, which would have told me that was I was watching was NOT a slice of life, but a PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER.

I mean just look at this! Does this look like something that would be a thriller?!?

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Lord have mercy, I was clutching my pearls for the rest of the episode. Once it was over, I knew that i was determined to stick it through to the end, however I was too excited to wait. Thus I found The Promised Neverland's manga online and had 131 chapters ready for my eager eyes. This was the start of my manga reading obsession. Now just because I read the manga, doesn't mean it took away from watching it be animated. My blood still ran cold, and I still cried at moments that i saw beautifully adapted.

Now then, after telling you about my mesmerizing experience without spoilers, surely you'll want to check it out right? But before i send you on your way, I must let you know of one fatal flaw.

If you choose to read AND watch The promised neverland, DO NOT go into it's season 2 thinking that they adapted it to the manga. (Because they went the anime only route and broke my damn heart!😭) They decided to completely cut out one of the most important character development heavy arcs, thus cutting out an entire cast of characters that were very near and dear to my heart. (R.I.P -Goldy Pond)

So small TLDR just in case things seem all over the place:

The promised neverland is a psychological thriller/ mystery anime about a bunch of children living happily in an orphanage until they weren't. Season 2 never happened (Just like there never being a war in Ba sing sei) and I am a proud owner of all 20 volumes that were published paperback.(With the REAL ending)

I implore you to give The Promised Neverland episode 1 a watch, though maybe not during dinner where your fork might drop, don't wanna miss anything!

A question before you go! What do you think makes the show a psychological thriller?

Here's a final picture of season 1's spotlight characters. My favorites are Ray and Phil(Middle right & Bottom right. Such cutie patooties)

Thank you for reading! <3

[jomtones-bussy]

SCOUT HEADCANONS FROM THA 💯% COOLEST SCOUT KINNIE #2⁉️⁉️⁉️

He throws his voice. He once made pyro think the coffee maker could talk

He's circus level flexible and it's DISGUSTING. He once remarked that his organs probably looked weird in his body when he did this and sniper lifted his glasses in disgust

He once said "dis nematode in the midst of buffoonery 💀" out loud unwarranted

Can recite the entire script of king of the hill season 3 episode 7 "nine pretty darn angry men"

Had a pet roach named gooch bc he couldn't kill it. He lived for seven months and got to the size of a dollar bill.

Not a HC but scout is literally that one pic of brawny men fighting and chilling with this smaller phat tits green haired chick tearing up an ostrich leg, but if the woman was super buff.

Sometimes he becomes untethered and goes into fits of unbridled violence directed towards whatever moves for no reason at all. To fix this demo flips scout in a specific way and he gets rotated IDIOT

Ate an 1/3rd of a vintage Nancy drew book

If someone points at him he collapses like a ragdoll. The others found out about this after pointing at him while he was swimming and he nearly drowned

Got stuck in the walls and roamed the walls for three days whispering about being a rat, preying and stalking in the night

Counting to three never works on him unless it's spy

Scout is hazmat certified due to a situation with 16 wisdom teeth from 8 dumbasses, a propane truck, and a case of root beer.

Demo holds scout like a large dog when he gets his shots. He nearly ripped medic's ear off with his teeth and medic is never taking chances again.

Some nights he can be heard playing pistolero western music for hours. He yearns for the horses and pneumonia.

His favorite movies are those coming-of-age underdog sports docudramas. And blacula for some reason.

17 of his teeth are chipped so they look sharp

He stole the hope diamond to wear for his bar mitzvah before someone noticed the one in the museum was fake. the government stole it back two days later

He can beatbox very well but uses it to mainly beatbox castle crasher soundtrack during battle

He owns a big mouth billy bass modded to run doom and sing Delilah

Time for a sad one! Scout was violently sick with malaria once. The one time he was conscious he told heavy that he was so sick with the flu when he was 4 he nearly died, and lost all of his baby fat. "Kinda poetic yo, I dunno how. but it makes me sad when I think about it."

His worst fear is dying from starvation. The problem is, he gets hyper focused and forgets to eat, even if he loves eating. The others (mainly pyro) take turns to make sure he eats at least one meal every day

Scout has emetophobia, and sites this as the reason why he hates "that one shade of yellow." No one knows wtf the shade is.

He is banned from ever talking about, mentioning, or referencing Barbara Streisand in any manner in public

He cries when looking at the ocean because he's thinking of the rainbow fish

He made a 13-in-one hair wash and before ANYONE could use it miss pauling disposed of it where she dumps the dead bodies. Soldier, pyro, sniper, and medic held a funeral service for it with scout as the priest

His left eye is permanently triple lidded

[narciesuss]

Season Two

Episode Two: 222 Spiritual Downloads

WARNING! FULL DISCLOSURE! A message for your sensitive ass! Don’t take my advice or anything I say seriously. This is all for shits and giggles. Why you trippin?

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STOP SCROLLING! If this post has found you it’s because we’re energetically intertwined! I am receiving a channeled message FOR YOU 🫵

Hold on! I’m hearing… I’m feeling… I hear that… That you are the baddest fucking boss baddie bitch!

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Press play to start the vibes 😙

Oh, is there someone else or not?

'Cause I wanna keep you close

I don't wanna lose my spot

My black candle’s flame was always low and frail.

2:22 told me everything before you even opened your mouth.

I ground and cleanse myself after you.

I cut the cord and ask the universe for a sign.

Is there someone else? By The Weeknd starts playing.

Night came and your car was on fire.

A few nights later baby cries, glass breaking, and what I think was a gunshot.

Oh let’s not forget the footsteps on my roof.

And now the most painful revelation of them all, you compromised my health and well being.

11:11

2:22

3:33

4:44

5:55

777

888

And my favorite

999

So you ask, is there someone else or not?

[Death by Oliver Hibert)

There is someone else, hun. It’s me. My higher self. My final form. It’ll always be me.

And you lost your spot almost immediately babes. I was mirroring you the entire time. I never had a spot with you so…

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I cannot stress this enough. Trust your motherfucking intuition! Trust your body. Trust your knowledge of life! There is patterns and signs everywhere that scream at you to be acknowledged. Listen!

I’ll give you a simple example.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck… guess what?

I heard something some time ago. This man said, “trust people. Trust that people are going to be people. Trust that the politician is going to fulfill that role. Trust that the thief is going to steal.” Trust the patterns.

Believe the narcissist 😈

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The NEW MOON starts at 1:30 am Wednesday April 19th and will end Thursday April 20th at 9 pm. It will peak at 11:12 am on the 20th! It’s time to ask the universe in specific detail what is it exactly that you want.

Our New Moon will be part of a SOLAR ECLIPSE that will run from 8:36 pm April 19th to 1:59 am the following morning. Plant the seeds you wish to grow.

And don’t forget ARIES SEASON ends same day as our New Moon Eclipse. The world is your playground. Take advantage of the last wave of fire 🔥

MERCURY RETROGRADE starts April 20th and will end May 14th. We are already in the pre shadow period. Pay close attention to who hits you up during this time.

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As for me, I’ll be gone for a bit… I met The Divine Masculine and he’s helping me regain my powers 🥹✨

End Credits:

I wanna thank CVS for taking all my money 💙

I wanna thank my little bucket of nails (car) for always breaking down and prohibiting me from driving more than 20 minutes anywhere 😁

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Next time on The Kassie Show:

Goodbye to The Fool Era.

[beevean]

So!

Those first 3 episodes

What can I say?

The plot was written

The backstories were told

The characters were characterized

The social issues were commentated on

The pacing was....paced

100/10, best show ever

On a more serious note I'm genuinely impressed that they managed to make these 3 episodes feel even more rushed to fuck than Season 1, which in its 4 episodes was able to at least establish each of the main characters and the main villain, their respective motivations and you know was mostly just a testing season made to see if there was public interest plus it was made using the scraps of a cancelled movie from 10 years earlier

This shit right here is awful. Genuinely awful, just the most stereotypically fanficy writing I can think of, the pacing goes by so quickly it feels like they're speedrunning the whole thing and there's no way to properly establish each character without it feeling like a 5 minute digression at best and then on with the fight scenes!

And the social commentary is as subtle as a jack hammer of course, i'm treally curious to see if they'll explain how a vampire elite can control society from the shadows so fully when they souldn't even be able to make public appearences during the day. Are you really telling me the citizen of France are so dense they never thought to set the royal palace ablaze during the morning?

Oh and then there's Maria

Called it about her

I have a honest-to-god headache.

Where do I begin?

Well... Richter is fine, so far, although he didn't do much. He's pretty laidback without being too vulgar. That's honestly how I'd imagine the real Richter to be. I wish they advertised those moments instead of showing him crying. I have to wonder, though, why did he use to be a prominent ice magic user of all things. Are they going to say that he inherited Juste's magic? (also where is the morning star?)

But then... big oof.

The pacing is shit. That was painful to go through. These three episodes were full of flashbacks and fight scenes: the latter to shoehorn tragic backstories instead of organically weaving them in the story, and the latter to pad out time, because they were just "oh there are monsters now! Go smash them!"

also I didn't see a single enemy from the games. We're back to S1's generic monsters. Nice.

Also, what's with those backstories? Richter has a Dead Mom, Annette has a Dead Mom + Slavery, Tera is Russian has a Dead Sister... really? That's the best you can do? It's so fucking cheap!

And the show really deadass killed Edouard, a nobody just introduced, in the second episode, and then expected me to feel bad about him because Annette, another nobody, misses him and cries with the most narmtastic voice acting so far. This is literally the same thing they did with Cho, except at least we weren't meant to feel sorry for her.

Maria is insufferable. She's the rudest and crassest of them all, can't talk about anything that isn't "liberty, equality, fraternity" and she's terrible to Richter - why is NFCV's idea of friendship insulting each other? We don't even know how they know each other! At least NFCV showed us how the gang was formed!

(Annette is too bland as of now, but justifying her metalbending with "she descends from gods" is... something)

Can we talk about that worldbuilding? There are still Devil Forgemasters? Who are they? Did Hector and/or Isaac have descendants (good god i do not want to imagine n!isaac impregnating a woman), or it's yet another person, diminishing the uniqueness of the art? And they're using machines to turn humans into Night Creatures? MACHINES??????? What the fuck is this, Sonic SatAM??????

(also bullshit that Night Creatures are only made, not born. Hector said, and I'm quoting from S2E3, "Before the war, night creatures were simply a species in hiding. They either reproduced naturally or were created by acts of wild magic." bro c'mon I'm not even a fan and I remember your worldbuilding, why can't you guys)

But also. Man they didn't even try to be subtle with these vampires. They are the entire French elite, they are the "white slave owners". Wow, deep commentary right there. And tell me, how can they go out in the open and show themselves to humans like that? How can they walk in the sunlight, like Drolta is seen to be doing? I know the original show had vampire lords like Carmilla and Cho, but they're really saying "yep, all the evil nobility is made of vampires" now, and everyone is aware of it.

And fucking Drolta. What the fuck are those shoes. They look like horse hooves. Isaac was neutered to keep her stupid hair and boobs, and also Olrox sitting on the-guy-who-looks-like-agent-stone-from-the-sonic-movies' chest. Okay. I'm normal about it.

and speaking of sonic references, edouard singing at the bird's funeral is peak NANANANANANANANANAAAAA energy.

Don't know what else to add. It was extremely boring and rushed and while we're not hitting the peak of offensiveness of the original show, this is still so, so bad from a writing standpoint.

And, as expected, the only thing that connects it to CV is that Richter has a whip. The story so far looks like a shitty period drama fusing the French Revolution and that good ol' american slavery story. They haven't learned a thing.

How in the hell are they going to butcher SoTN...?

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 15: Give Me Your Princess Season 1, Episode 16: Bridge Over The River Chozzerai

I'm attempting to do two episodes per post now! This will help me finish the show quicker and hopefully will make it more fun to watch

Episode 15 - Give Me Your Princess We start with Lotor quite literally asserting his dominance over his military as Commander, and immediately they're off to destroy Arus Also, this is where the obsession starts I guess, suddenly he's real interested in the princess

holy shit i cant believe he actually takes care of his hair

Oh we're already at this episode? Allura sneaks into black lion to learn to fly it in case of emergency, good plan but i always was annoyed that she thinks it HAS to be her when she's literally the most important person on the team, yknow being a princess and all

Ah yes a staple of the 80s "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't do things boys can!" Obviously it was important for girls during that decade and it still is now but MAN is the way of showing girl power outdated as I'm watching this now more than 30 yrs later

Lion troubles, apparently Black lion is malfunctioning, but they try and fail to form Voltron as Lotor is actually competent LMAO Allura faints and black drops out of the sky

Lotor has a personal fighter, and it looks like a bat, how cool, Keith is currently trying to rip it apart since everyone thinks it's allura in blue and not him which makes lotor scram

Harem time, I guess that's why they pulled the sudden obsession this episode, all the harem girls are blonde and could easily be mistaken for Allura and the allura imagery all throughout this episode that I haven't been mentioning

hell yeah they're telling off allura for her sudden test drive of black and now her reason changes from "in case of emergency" to "if you go back to earth"

oh my god this just turned into a telenovela Especially with Keith guilt-tripping her by saying Sven wouldn't have almost cost them their lives, low blow keith

She tries to apologize to Keith but the words of the other 3 boys get to her and she walks off I'm actually kind of glad she takes their opinions seriously and isn't being relegated to "the leader's girl" also keith regrets being so harsh on her, even though he was right to reprimand her in general

Did nobody learn anything from the last time lotor was on arus and said he'd be willing to leave in peace? Allura he won't give up just because you give yourself to him, especially if he smacked keith in the face with a ROCK after he won their sword fight

Allura literally busts through the tower lotor left on arus and gives herself up, and then faints (again) because Lotor electrocuted the lion, I don't blame her for that one The boys go rescue her and i think i missed something because keith is hurt? He did go after the princess outside his lion so maybe he got shot and i missed it, anyway he's ass at flying and allura is protecting him in turn now

No robeast this episode, but voltron is still formed and takes down the rest of the spires that lotor left behind, plus a giant laser weapon Allura and Lance carry Keith in, apparently he was cut by lotors laser sword, go figure Nanny doesn't care, as per usual, but goes to get stuff for Keith once Allura tells her to

Everyone forgives each other, Allura apologizes for stealing black without permission and the boys apologize for being so rude when she just wanted to do some good, Allura cries (for like the third time) in joy after being told she's wanted to be kept on the team, so she shouldn't doubt it

/episode end

Episode 16: Bridge Over The River Chozzerai Apparently the kingdom Allura rules over is called Altair and another nearby kingdom is called Helena. They have a running legend together about two lovers who were each a part of one of the kingdoms, but it was a romeo and juliette esq romance because the kingdoms were enemies, so they built a bridge between the vliff that separated them to finally be together the princess is playing one of the lovers, while she wants one of the boys to play the other

"getting icky sticky in the middle" Lance McClain sHUT-

The boys minus Keith are fighting over the part, Keith ain't no simp and especially not one for Allura LMAO Keith "No, Thanks" Kogane is a mood, I wouldn't want to go out to a bridge ceremony either

Hunk wins because Pidge tries to get the mice to help him cheat at a card draw, and they purposefully mess him up Now they have more beef lol

What a cute dress, I wonder if this is a historical reenactment or actual fashion on Arus

Haggar's cat exists once again and sends word that Allura and Hunk are away from castle. Lotor starts heading to Arus, specifically for Allura ofc, and interrupts the two right before they embrace on the bridge Now there's a robeast and it splits the bridge in two while Lotor shoots the cliff where the bridge hangs, causing it to fall. Somehow Allura is on the unsunken parts of the bridge and Lotor takes the change to try and snatch her before Hunk comes from behind and starts fucking SWINGING Very iconic of him, I'd feel safer if Hunk was protecting me in danger

The other boys are on their way, but Hunk slips off the bridge and is hanging on for his life as lotor gets pushed away by Allura who then gets smacked into the water Lotor comes back around for her in his jet until yellow line smacks him from behind, how the FUCK did Hunk get there so fast, and nanny since shes SOMEHOW IN THERE TOO

Lotor strikes back, and they crash into the cliff while the boys are stuck fighting a robeast at the castle, so they can't go help him Allura swims to safety anyway and runs to blue only to find lotor already there, honestly very smart of him since she's guaranteed to return to blue

HELLO?? Lotor tried grabbing her even though she had a gun, girl should've pulled the trigger, but only tears her dress so instead she runs towards blue AND POINTS THE BLASTER AT HER HEAD Damn, I really need to watch beastking golion if we get stuff like this in the censored American version

Anyway he tried to get the gun away but literally trips giving her time to shoot at his feet, so he back-ups enough for her to get into blue, smart girl Hunk and nanny are still at the cliff since yellow isn't responding well, so she basically piggybacks yellow onto blue to get back to the castle as lotor is shooting at them, that's a very weird position but ok

Keith can apparently take control over yellow when they're in voltron? I'm taking that as, since he's the center, having the ability to work with all 5 lions to coordinate movement, but not actually control the limb as that's up to the pilot in it

Voltron is formed, maybe it has a strong magnetic pull that brought yellow lion in even though it couldn't fly, also voltron has a whole other sword, that's interesting to know Blazing sword takes out the elephant tank hybrid robeast and now Yellow is getting repaired, it looks like it's being done inside it's den so that's good to know for world building

Hunk questions why Allura didn't kiss Lotor on the bridge since the legend was about uniting two lands but Allura is grossed out and says it's about people in love and that not even his father could love lotor get his ass princess

she was right lol, zarkon's PISSED and tells him to stop thinking with the head in his pants and start thinking with the head on his shoulders to defeat voltron

/episode end

[gemmabee]

my battlestar galactica thoughts

putting this under a read more because of major spoilers for the entire show.

I don’t even know where to begin. I watched the last episode yesterday and I’ve still not recovered. The thing with binging the entirety of the show in less than a month is you get all of the story at once and not in increments as you would watching it when it aired. Which means, a lot of stuff is sorta blended together in my head and there’s a lot I have forgotten about, simply because the characters change so much during the seasons that looking back on moments in season 1 you can barely recognise these same characters and their motivations. This is a good thing though, character development (or regression) is a vital part of great storytelling. and boy, what a monumentous journey, both literally and figuratively. This story took me places I never expected to go, with mindblowing plottwist i never saw coming. Knowing absolutely nothing about this show and, somehow, having avoided all spoilers that mattered, I came into this fully expecting only two things: 1. There was going to be aliens.

2. The Starbuck and Lee romance. (My initial reason for starting the show. They’re both cute.) 

I did not expect the aliens (or the Cylons) to be manmade AI creation gone rogue, but I loved it. I loved everything regarding the Cylons (except, perhaps, the human genocide. that wasn’t lit); How they came to be, the way they perceived themselves and the humans and the struggle of adhering to your programming or breaking out of it and becoming more than just a machine. It was utterly fascinating. Likewise to see the human aspect, which is of course the main point of focus throughtout the initial seasons. And I think this is what makes this show so good, because everybody, Cylon or not, are so very, very human and I could love a character utterly in one moment and in the next they could fill me with frustration or contempt even. (Tom Zarek i’m eyeing you hard) 

I enjoyed the spirituality of the show as well. This was something I did not expect, at least not to this degree, and this made me grateful that I have waited until now with getting into the show. I don’t believe a younger me would have appreciated the message of the show as well as present me does. Honestly, it’s a bittersweet story but in itself also deeply moving and hopeful. I don’t think I’ve cried so much to a show before, but all the characters really had me going through it.  Especially Lee and Starbuck. The internet somehow had let me to the assumption that the were The Couple. They were Endgame. and I fully expected that, so I was fine with watching their dance around each other, the whole “will they, wont they?” scenario I’ve seen times before. But I enjoyed it, I always found their scenes together interesting and fun (and sometimes frustrating). I just felt really bad for Sam and Dee (best girl, love you), and I would just sit there like “please for the love of galactica, divorce your partners and get together already, why is this dragging out??”  and then... they don’t even end up together??? because starbuck apparently DID die in season 3 and the kara we see is either her angelic form (beautiful) or an angelic being with the memories of kara thrace and not actually her (devastating) and she just disappears when they finally reach our earth and her job is done. The way Lee just stands there alone in the meadow just about broke my heart. Dee dead, Kara dead, Dad gone. Ah, so tragic. But mostly sad for me and my shipper heart I think. I really did love them and wanted them to be together. 

And just as I was trying to recover from that they just timeskipped 150.000 years and essentially killed off everybody hahah. But I did enjoy the last 5 minutes in present time, and I honestly thought (hoped) they would tease us with showing some of the characters reincarnated, but alas no juice. Instead we do get to see the Gaius and Caprica Six “Angels” walk down the street of a present day metropolian city and I thought their short conversation tied up everything quite nicely. And it was all in all a cool bit of foreshadowing for what could truly be in store for the human race, if we are not careful. Very thoughtprovoking conclusion and all in all a stellar note to end the show on. 

There’s so much i could talk about, this is merely the tip of the iceberg and I will probably make another post talking about all the main characters because they deserve to be talked about individually and i love them and i miss them and I am not crying again, nope. 

Regardless, I really think this show sets a precedent for future shows to be inspired by. Though it is by no means without flaws, i still felt the quality of the show was top notch and I’m so grateful to the cast and crew for this considerable accomplishment. What a beast of a story, what amazing characters and attention to details. This show has earned a special place in my heart and I can’t wait to rewatch this show in 10 years time and probably cry just as much as the first time around. 

So say we all.

[kalamitykas]

My thoughts on Arcane S2 [Contains LOTS of Spoilers]

So, the TL;DR, spoiler free summary: I really liked it, it was an emotional roller coaster that touched on a lot of topics, many of which resonated with my lived experience and I've cried a LOT. I do recommend the watch.

Now, the Long FULL OF SPOILERS version:

So, I'm going to try and give a little bit of order to this, with sections, but I'm a rambler by nature, so, yeah, sorry about the mess.

Over all

I think I can't find any serious fault in the season. I know there's going to be people that prefers the first season, and people that prefers the second one. There's going to be people that will feel disappointed, or even angry at the pacing, the amount of threads happening, the resolutions, the little time invested on certain storylines. But I think that they didn't set up to do "Another Arcane Season 1", my theory is that the two seasons had purposes and targets that varied widely.

The first one was an introduction, was a "look at this world, look at this potential", with very interesting characters, but the plots were easier to get into. This second season is a different beast, it throws the viewer right into the deep end, it doesn't hold your hand, lots of hints and indications are subtle, or last a couple of frames. The rhythm is a dash, not the marathon of the first one.

I still think that they would have probably wanted/benefited off making it a 3 season story. Having more time to explore some themes. But given the time they were given, I think they did a good job. Probably not perfect. Not to everyone's taste, but good. Far better than other shows I loved in their last season (Umbrella Academy comes to mind).

The Themes

I've seen a lot of people point out that Jinx's mental health has been done dirty this season, that the nuanced and more complex version of season 1 was discarded. And I half agree, but with a caveat.

Here's the thing, I've worked on animations, trailers, videos, etc for well, about 20 years. And there's a cruel thing, when you have a lot to say, you never have enough space to fit it all. In the case of Jinx, during the first season the slower pacing allowed them to examine it way closer, to take the time to show her struggle. But having only one season to close everything, they didn't had that luxury on this season. So, I don't think it was a matter of "now she's cure, everything is fine", but more a "We can only show you the broad strokes, because we need the showtime for other stuff".

In that regard, I do think they had that issue with LOTS of the topics they wanted to address. Like, the whole class divide, they had to cover it only in the broadest of strokes, specially Cait's "Dictator phase". I'm willing to bet that if they had been given an extra season, Cait's descent into totalitarianism would have lasted several more episodes, probably an entire season, and we would have seen way more. But for the story to be able to be completed in 9 episodes, they couldn't afford.

That's the hard part of telling stories in media like TV shows or Movies, SPECIALLY in animation, where each minute is SO expensive to make. You can't fit it all, you have to decide "What is the most important part to tell, what HAS to be there in order to make the story work". I know lots of people think that Episode 7 took WAY too much time on the AU, but it is an important narrative tool, specially since they didn't had all that time to delve in the topics they wanted.

By showing you a better world, a "what could have been" scenario, they are able to quickly comment on the consequences of hatred, of class divide, of generational trauma, with much less time, because they can use the contrast. Silco talking about forgiveness in that scene, makes you think of all the damage being unable to forgive did, because you saw it in the previous season, even in this same season.

One topic that I'm sure MANY will talk about, and say "it was done too quickly, too simple" is Jinx's depression. I'm VERY familiar with depression, I'm currently on a medical leave precisely because of that. And yeah, I wish depression was that easy to fix, but I think that with the given time they had, it was not done as terribly as many other media have. I don't think Jinx is cured, she is just pushed a little bit away from the edge by Ekko, and that is enough for her to fight in the battle. Changing her hair, her style, those are coping mechanisms for people in that situation. It doesn't mean she's cure, just that now she's at least trying.

Storytelling

This season used several tropes with BRUTAL efficiency. They didn't make anything new, and I've seen a lot of people mention that many characters felt like "plot devices" more than actual characters, and I'm of two minds about that particular criticism.

I would have loved to have more time and see more depth of MANY of the new characters. But, in stories, some times you do need characters that only exist to make a point, or to facilitate a plot or event. It's not a sign of bad writing! Because if they had to develop EVERY SINGLE character that does something important or relevant, the show would be unbearably long. First season was full of those characters, Grayson, Benzo, etc, they are there just to advance the plot, to give you more insight on other characters. Hell, even Singed in the first season, he's little more than a plot device 99% of the time.

One thing they got really good at is: Promise and Delivery. With subversions of course. But they do this all over the season. Episode 7 makes Jinx's sacrifice hurt WAY more, because you see the potential, the what could it been. Makes you WANT that Ekko saves her. So when that doesn't happen, the emotional backlash is way more brutal. Without that episode? Jinx's sacrifice would have been way less effective, because many can argue that just because Jinx cared about Vander, Isha and Vi, it doesn't mean she gets to show up at the final battle and is automatically redeemed, so many would not have felt sad. But when you see what she could have been, what she could have had with Ekko, it breaks your heart, because now is not just Vi being heartbroken, now Ekko has a reason to mourn too.

I saw post about how Cait's agression towards Vi shows a problematic red flag, that this could mean that Cait is abusive towards Vi in their relationship going forward. I would agree if we were talking about real people, but here, again, is done for story efficiency. Cait has to hurt Vi as a reaction for Vi preventing her from getting her revenge. And because Vi is, well, Vi, to get that across with words, and have Vi not chase after her, it would have taken way more time than the time they had for that scene, so they make it an actual, physical hurt. It's a story shortcut. Vi is left on her knees, hear broken, because with a couple of seconds they efficiently managed to convey "They had a massive fight, and it ended up badly, and Cait is not seeing the dark path she's going towards". Sure, if they had had as much time just for the two of them as they had in the first season, they would have probably done this way smoothly and without needing the shortcuts. But then again, every second counts.

This season also relied way more heavily on the music to carry the narrative than previous one. The "videoclips" at the beginning of several of the episodes allow them to tell you a LOT without needing to spend so much time. Taking for example "Paint the town blue", they compress months of escalating conflict, the frustration Cait is suffering, the many crimes against the people of Zaun, etc, in just a couple of minutes. In a book, that would have probably been several pages of exposition, but here, they sprint over that, give you the information and keep running.

The only fault I can give them with this, and also what made a lot of the characters feel like they were flipping direction on a dime is that they didn't communicate that well the time skips. We got used in the first season that time skips were VERY obvious, while the ones for, like Paint the town blue, are really subtle, you don't get a clear image of how much time has passed, only by context. Which is why it makes some scenes feel forced. Cait didn't just decide to betray Ambessa just because Vi called her Cupcake, but you can see in the previous episode how months of frustration has led her to little progress, and in the previous episode she's already having doubts. Seeing how Vi is there not as a threat, but trying to protect her family, specially after Cait's pain over her mother's death is still quite raw, is the final push. But because it all happens within the same Arc, and we all watched those episodes back to back, it feels like she went from full dictator to revolutionary in seconds.

Art & Style

This season Fortiche really flexed their muscles to the world. There are SO many different art styles, approaches and techniques used, back to back, that if you love art, just visually, this was a feast. Even knowing the technical side behind of how to achieve those looks, I was left astonished, because it was done smartly and with heaps upon heaps of talent and time. I will admit that Fortiche's approach to art is very close to mine, and I'm an absolute fangirl of their work, but still, season one left me impressed, season 2 straight up blew my mind.

The changes and iterations of the character's designs are also amazing. I love the different looks, the subtle changes and how much of the personality of each character they convey. I have anything but praises for them on this department.

Voice acting

This will be short. Everyone fucking NAILED IT. There wasn't a single voice or character that felt out of place, or badly done. Everything felt natural, part of the whole and I can't remember a single second that I was "huh, that didn't sound right".

Final Thoughts

I know that this last season wasn't probably everyone's cup of tea, and I totally understand it. When I argue in my points about why I think they did this or that, is not to tell people "You are wrong", but to maybe give perspective, as someone that has worked on digital medium with animations and storytelling, of why I think some decisions were made, and how sometimes I agree with them, and others, I disagree. But that's the beauty of art, each artist has different voices, methods, approaches. If everyone tried to make the most efficient and standardized art, it would be monotonous and boring. Even on the point I disagree with the writers of the show, I respect their decision, it was their story to tell.

Overall, I already made a ramble about why I'm angry that it's likely we won't see anything even remotely like this for quite some time. Even for a corporate product to popularize an IP (Let's not fool ourselves, Riot didn't do this show out of the goodness of their hearts, even if the people that actually worked in the show did do it out of passion and love), they took serious gambles that quite honestly, most wouldn't have taken. Make the main romance of the story a queer one? (hell, of the romances on screen, half of them are queer!) Ask shows like First Kill or Warrior Nun how that worked out for them. Having the "Rich and educated" not be the saviors in the end, and not be automatically redeemed by the end of the story? Those are all massive risks. They could have (and still can) face a LOT of backlash, specially seeing how places like the US are going, by angry people asking "Why are there gay people in this show?!?!".

And that's beyond the discussion about profitability, investors, etc.

I think that for me, Arcane has been an incredible experience, I had been reading and consuming media about the world of Runeterra for quite a while before they announced the first season, and it blew me away, still does. And while right now I'm recovering from the emotional damage this last act has inflicted to rewatch the last Act (I've already rewatched the first two acts twice :) ), I think this is a show that I'll probably rewatch every year or so. Because it has so much to teach about how to tell a story, how to think visually, how to convey meaning in ways beyond words.

I'm going to miss these characters, dearly. But I'm so glad we got this ending, compared to so many other shows and movies that I loved and fumbled the ending so badly out of greed, lack of patience, or just wanting to be done. Was it perfect? Probably not, but to me? It was as good as I had any expectations for it, and I'll be forever grateful to the writers and artists, the voice actors, everyone.

Thank you,

A Fan still trying to stop crying 4 hours after finishing the last episode.

[bunny-the-bunny]

(Slight spoilers in side rant)

Oh yeah did I mention that I have a hyper fixation over Yu-Gi-Oh GX and the main character, Jaden Yuki?

Yeah I love this dude whether he’s hyperactive, serious, immature, goofy, being a jokester, intelligent at card games, gay for Jesse or Chazz and whatever.

For a dude that’s been through a lot, I love him so much because he relates to me too much.

No other Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist can relate to me as a person.

I’m calm and collected like Jaden after going through my own trauma/character development in my life.

There’s no other person that can relate and he’ll always be my favorite in the show.

Side rant:

I’m almost done with Yu-Gi-Oh GX season 4.

I’m being for real this time. I got two more episodes left and I’m gonna finish them while I’m in college now.

I paused last time I watched it because it got f*cking emotional cause it’s like they’re graduating (Jaden and his friends) omg!

I felt like I only knew them for a year or something and they’re already graduating?!

It was even more emotional cause I had graduated high school four months ago.

So I could relate to Dr. Crowler for a moment when he got emotional af during the graduation ceremony.

I cried too much that I couldn’t continue.

This was back at the beginning of September.

Another emotional hiatus oh lord.

But I love this show so much that I’m committed to finishing it and I plan to watch the whole thing in sub, all seasons.

Or before I do that, I could watch my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh movie of all time, Bonds Beyond Time after a few years of not watching it.

I will mainly watch it for the Jaden parts I swear.

But I feel like I need to evaluate the movie and take notes on it like I’m a f*cking film critic to see how well it’s aged or not and rating the dub’s dialogue all while getting nostalgic over my favorite scenes of that movie.

So yeah that’s where I’m at, plus I’ll continue to write more stories for my Yu-Gi-Oh GX au.

I just wrote one on Wednesday night about Jaden and Jesse before I had to get up on Thursday for move-in.

It’s the second chapter about them. I don’t have much stories about them yet but I’m planning them out as I go.

It’s mostly chapters about Jaden (Season 4) and Jay (Season 1-3 Jaden) cause they’re the main characters plus Jesse and Haou.

If you’re confused by what I’m saying, don’t worry I’m gonna make a post soon about my au to introduce it.

But first I need a name for it and y’all can vote on it.

Of course I’m gonna keep writing more chapters about it as I daydream about them immediately as soon as I listen to a song.

But first off my au isn’t completely canon to the show. It’s more non canon as it only has some slight canon elements and it’s based on the events after Season 3 and Season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh GX.

I swear I’ll make a intro post for this au.

Anyways I don’t wanna spoil anything else about it.

P.s. The poll for the name of my Yu-Gi-Oh GX au will be up for a week.

I WILL FOREVER LOVE THIS MAN.

Judai/Jaden Nation rise up 🫡

[slonekaru]

I’m back with another question!! What were your top 5 moments in a BL.

It could be the moment you went from “I kinda like this show to I love this show so much” or like moments that made you swoon.

Wow this one is actually so much harder than favourite BL's of this year! (I also had to remind myself that it wasn't just sex scenes - bad brain)

Love in the Air - Riding (Episode 6)

So we are starting with a sex scene but lets face it that scene left me gobsmacked! Payu may have still been the Dom and in charge but he let Rain reward him for winning his race and take control.

The tongue lick, Rains dirty talk, Payu looking absolutely wrecked.

If I could get pregnant via watching TV, that moment Payu called Rain Naughty Boy, IN THAT VOICE, would have been it.

Then when Rain said he was riding, I was like, he's not, he's not, he is! OMG he did!!!

Cutie Pie - Marriage Talk (Episode 7)

The scene where they are in Lian's club and talking about marriage. I really liked the discussion in general. It's a popular discussion point in BL's now but I liked this one because it had one friend that took the role of 'why is it important you can still be together'. I thought it was important because friends sometimes say things like that without malicious intent they just don't think.

The other reason I love it was it was my intro to BounPrem. I heard people go on about them but had never watched a show with them in. As soon as I saw them I fell in love with their pairing. It was a revelation and I fell down the BounPrem rabbit hole.

I believe my thoughts were along the lines that Boun looked like a vampire (hilarious since I later found he wants to play one) and that Prem looked like he would be really good in bed (again - bad brain). I also like it because it has more PremBoun vibes rather than BounPrem.

Between Us - Boyfriend Talk (Episode 5)

This has been stuck in my head the last couple of weeks.

The fact Win leaves his bedroom door open for Team and that Team is comfortable enough to let himself in speaks to how their relationship is progressing.

But the part that got me was when Team asked Win not to see anyone else at that time. When Win doesn't reply, Team looks so heartbroken.

It must have taken great courage to ask for exclusivity when they are on such unsure footing.

Then the fact they both clearly want to date each other but aren't ready yet.

We Best Love: No 1 for You - Confess and Walk Away (Episode 5)

I love the We best Love series so much. I'm sad Season 3 has never materialised.

Shi De confesses to Shu Yi while he thinks he is asleep and later (after some intervention from a third party) Shu Yi confronts Shi De.

It's beautiful, they are just two guys talking and then Shu Yi says he never wants to fall in love with a man. The camera is focused on Sam Lin's face who is playing Shi De and I feel it every time. The way Sam Lin is trying to hold back the tears but still helping Shu Yu. It's so real. So, so very real. And then he tells Shu Yi to be happy and find a nice girl. So heartbreaking.

I will watch this scene over and over.

Kinnporsche - Apologise (Episode 13)

Lets face it, there were so many moments between Vegas and Pete.

Trying to choose one was so hard! Do I choose the post-credit scene, the sex scene, the talk about their fathers, Vegas being shot, Pete leaving the Main Family, Pete first seeing Vegas torture someone.

But ultimately I picked the scene behind the bar after Pete escapes the safe house.

Biblebuild were so amazing. Pete truly needed the apology from Vegas, he needed the breakdown. It was finally about Pete and not about Vegas like the earlier apology. Vegas is the only person Pete cried in front of during the series. And Vegas needed to truly understand how much he hurt Pete.

[strangerfigs]

I really hope we get some Will and Lucas friendship in vol 2. Their friendship is so sweet. I love that Lucas tries to apologize to Will again during the Sauna Test episode, and that in the Pilot, Mike calls Lucas first, planting the seed that they go search for Will, and Lucas is fully on board with the idea, while Dustin comes along but is freaked out. I love the little laughs they share, and how they mutually bond over Mike’s ridiculousness, how Will comes to Lucas’ aid during the ghost busters fight, telling Mike that he was pretty sure Lucas didn’t agree to be whoever, I forgot the name, sue me, and how Will tried to extinguish the fight between them. How Will laughs when Lucas makes fun of him and Lucas says, “Will thinks it’s funny,” and Will confirms it. Them searching for a bowl in season 3 at Melvald’s and finding the fireworks together. Lucas giving Will less of a hard time when he wakes them up for D&D and instead just asking “can I shower first?” Like, I love to think that while Dustin is at camp, Max, Lucas and Will all hangout, and yeah, sometimes Lucas will wrap an arm around her or they’ll do something couple-y that Will thinks is gross, but they never make him feel like a third-wheel. <3

Like, I swear to you, if we find out that Lucas (and/or Dustin) didn’t keep in touch with Will, I will be so angry and sad (at the Duffer Brothers). Like, no. Will would be super supportive of Lucas playing basketball - he would tell him that he’s been into some new stuff, too - painting. Like, I’ll go mad if Lucas and Dustin don’t crush him with a hug when they see him, I really will. They cried when he left, they did! And then Dustin bringing Will up <3 like I totally see him bringing him up during Hellfire Club, too, and Mike just like, holding his breath, waiting for someone to bring him up because he doesn’t know what’s appropriate in regard to mentioning him.

I love Will and Dustin’s moment of friendship in season 1 when Dustin asks him to race, and Will just goes soaring, and Dustin knows he already lost, calling after him.

🥺🥺🥺 just please give me this, like I need to know that Dustin and Lucas remained close, like I need to know that Mike was the only one who failed to stay in touch - please.

And it would also be cool to know about the whole Hell Fire thing. I want to know if Will knows about it, if because Dustin wasn’t at guilty last summer for not playing with him, Dustin discusses it freely, and Will smiles, genuinely happy that they are playing again, but just a little hurt that Mike never spoke to him about it, or at all.

Like is this too much to ask? I don't think so. I demand it.

[sothisispeerpressure]

These are my unprompted ideas for Tweek and Craig centric episodes of South Park:

1. Tweek and Craig offer couples counseling to other kids at recess.

- would definitely be more of a subplot but I can totally see Stan going to them for help with Wendy

- imagine them both dressed up in button up shirts and little ties, and reading glasses, like therapists

- also had an idea where Stan goes to them because the asian girls decided to draw yaoi of him and Kyle, and he's asking them what he should do about it.

- "Here's the thing Stan. The Asian girls don't draw Yaoi of just anyone. The Asian girls observe, and draw couples, not to make you gay, but because...they can already tell that you are..." - Craig

- i just know it wouldn't ever be canon so maybe someone should write a fanfic or something

- just people going to Tweek and Craig for romance advice, even adults

2. Tweek and Craig get married

- The whole idea is that they're kids, and you know how kids will just randomly have fake weddings on the playground at recess? it's like that

- it starts at lunch, as per usual, Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, Butters, Clyde, Tolkien, Jimmy, all sitting together, and Tweek and Craig just randomly walk up and invite them to their wedding

- it's very impromptu, it's literally happening right after the lunch period they're in currently, so everyone's a little surprised.

- so they all go outside and all the children gather around, Jimmy is the officiant (which, you can imagine how well that's going) Tweek and Craig are holding hands with everyone, and they're using RingPops as wedding rings.

- I think it would be really cool to make it kinda parallel to the Tweek vs. Craig season 3 episode ("so, what do we do?" "just smack each other around" "i've never been in a fight before" "awh ok postpone the fight so they can learn how to fight") ("so what do we do?" "you're supposed to kiss" "we've never actually kissed each other before" "awh ok postpone the wedding so they can learn how to kiss")

- "what about when we played super heroes and you guys' ultimate move was literally kissing" -stan

"it was pretend, we were faking." -Craig

- afterwards, the town gets wind of the wedding, and of course, since Tweek and Craig are the pride (no pun intended) of South Park, they decide that it should be more formal, they should wear suits and exchange proper vows and stuff

- meanwhile, Craig's friends are all sucking up to him to try and be the his best man, (they interrupt while Craig and Tweek are very awkwardly trying to learn how to kiss)

- this is an edit but i forgot to mention that Tweek is a total bridezilla and he's freaking out about every little detail

-eventually they actually hold a cute little wedding, not legal, just for funsies, and the whole town attends (Craig tells his friends that none of them can be his best man) They decorate the place with a bunch of Tweek x Craig yaoi art

-Craig has beautiful vows. "I never would've thought that the kid I'd have my first fight with on the playground, would turn out to be my future husband" "When the asian girls first started drawing yaoi of us, it felt like the worst week of my life, but now i think it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to me"

- Tweek's vows were also very well written, but due to nerves, all he could say was "WAAAAH"

- The whole town had a party, they ate cake and Clyde cried, Cartman probably slow danced with "Cupid Me"

- bonus idea, that Tweek's fucking parents come up to him during the reception and tell him that "now that you're married you're supposed to go on your honeymoon and consummate your marriage" because you know Tweek's dad is fucking horrid

- Tweek freaks out, Craig had a plan ahead of time for this and setup the most awesome sexless gamer heaven for their honeymoon

- they spend the next week and a half in Craig's room playing video games and hanging out together for their "honeymoon" and Tweek is finally able to recite his actual vows privately for craig

- and this is why in Post Covid they aren't legally married with rings, because they consider the little stupid wedding they planned as children to be their actual wedding

3. Bradley from S11 E2 (where Butter's goes to conversion therapy) moves to South Park (this one is probably the most developed idea)

- except that this time, he's not the same bible verse-reciting anxious kid from before, and he's completely confident in his sexuality now

- he immediately becomes friends with Butters again, who has to tell him that he's not actually bi (when Bradley immediately flirts with him), and tells him that "the only gay kids in south park are Tweek and Craig!"

- Bradley then takes a liking to Craig, and starts to hit on him, not knowing that Craig is taken, saying stuff about how "Mysterious" Craig is, and how that's attractive

- before Craig has the chance to tell him to fuck off, Tweek is already behind him, going off on Bradley telling him to "stay away from my Craig"

- Craig likes Tweek standing up for him, so he doesn't actually do anything to stop Tweek and may even sneakily instigate some of his anger just so he can watch his boyfriend fight for him

- subplot, Bradley actually moved into Stan's old house. This freaks Stan out because, as we all know, Stan hates living at Tegrity Farms, and now that his old house has sold, he feels there's no hope of him ever moving back in next to his best friends anymore.

- He turns to the only friend he knows who is crazy enough to drive someone out of town: Cartman.

- Stan and Cartman attempt to gather up more people who are interested in Getting rid of Bradley, but the only other person willing to help is Clyde. ("That Bradley kid said that Craig is the cutest boy in the school. That's not true because everyone knows that I'm the cutest! The girls said so!")

-Tweek is busy working on his own plans, and doesn't know that Stan and Cartman are planning anything

- Cut to a sleepover at Bebe's house, all the main girls are there talking about their crushes and boyfriends, and Wendy brings up how Stan is really concerned about "that Bradley kid" moving into his old house.

- pivot to Tweek, also at the girls' slumber party, hair pulled back with a headband with bunny ears and a mint colored face mask on. This man is fuming, twitching like he does and going off about how "i'm gonna fucking kill him"

- eventually there's a scene outside of Bradley's house, where Stan, Cartman and Clyde were all about to execute whatever plan they came up with to get rid of Bradley, but before they can start, an extremely violent Tweek is speed walking down the street clenching his jaw, with his trusty boxing gloves over his hands.

- Tweek beats the crap out of Bradley and Craig ends up having to break it up, deciding that he's let it go on long enough. Bradley's family does, in fact, move out of Stan's old house

if you have other ideas i'd love to know or I might post my non-creek centric episode ideas if this does well