#AND WE'RE ONLY 5 EPS IN????

[aioliravioli-69]

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I have never realised before how much I needed a story like this

DDOGAK I LOVE YOU OMGGGG

I LOVE THE TWO MAIN GIRLS SO MUCH OMGG

they're so precious

Like, one's dealing with the traumatic effect of bullying and the other(while I'm not quite sure yet) is just doing her best to keep a certain secret and is dealing with a seemingly unloving (possibly abusive???) father (-> all of this is taken from the last scene of the free release)

[guardianspirits13]

Another thought- the most heartbreaking part about this for the Doctor is that he's not a stranger to being talked down to by the people he's trying to save, but it is still his life's mission to save people. They don't need to like him, they just need to tolerate him long enough for him to do his magic.

There's the human aspect to this of us as the viewer reacting to the gross racism on display and feeling awful for the Doctor, as a person.

And then there's the second layer of a face-changing Time Lord who has dedicated his life to saving others only to be told by these people that they would rather die than even exist in the same space as him based solely on what must be, to a Time Lord, an entirely superficial reason.

He, as a Time Lord, is likely not fazed at all by the explicit racism after 2,000 years of time and space, but he is infuriated by the helplessness of the situation. He doesn't need people to like him, but he does need people to need him. Helping people keeps him moving forward. And people turning him away 'simply because of how he looks' ('simply' again being from his perspective as a time lord) just tears at something deep inside of him.

[gatalentan]

Lisa Ann Walter in LIFE’S WORK S01E11 (1996)

[leslieseveride]

if anybody on this goddamn show deserves to have a completely stress free wedding, where not one! single thing!! goes wrong!!!! it's tim and lucy.

[proveagain]

miguel had 1 driving lesson in s4 and then we never found out what happened after that

[aflockofravens]

We're starting two new animes this week because why the fuck not.

[chalkrevelations]

I realize I’m weeks behind everyone else, but we’re finally working our way though The Last of Us, and I’m watching Bill help Frank die then dying along with him because “you were my purpose,” and I’m watching Henry having to kill Sam and then turning the gun on himself because let’s face it, Sam was his purpose, and I’m wondering how many more times we’re going to see this parallel play out, and I’m watching Ellie and Joel, and ngl, I’m both anticipating and dreading where the show seems to be leading me with this.

[mimiri22-6]

You wanna know the worst thing about tomorrow for me is?

I'm gonna be at work when s2 of gomens drops. I can't even induldge and marathon the whole thing because I only get home around 1 am after a shift. And on Really bad nights, wich happen 1-2-4 nights a week? 2am. AND THEN I can't even marathon it the NEXT day because I work the next 3 days.

I want. To Die.

[crazykuroneko]

it's so funny seeing people reacting so strongly and negatively about that paragraph on 10 seasons and loustat without caring the key words are "want" and "at the time"

[scarlettfevor]

There's this guy whose channel is rly popular on booktube whose rant reviews of bad books come across my feed sometimes, but I refuse to watch any of them because 1.) I like how majority of the people in book related communities are women 2.) I hate men but most importantly 3.) I honestly don't see how you can make these 3, 4 even 8-hour videos about one bad book

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

"she didnt take much notice of you last time" theyre so fucking cute

[star-mum]

hey fellas, am i the asshole to purposely watch a show, that you already made serious plans to watch with your best friend, with your boyfriend literally the night before you were meant to watch it with said best friend ?

[terrorpenned]

97 / 4 / 12 / 87 / 102

[three--rings]

One thing I haven't seen a lot of talk about in the fandom so far is about the financials of this season.

It took us two whole months to get a confirmation of renewal from Max, and I talked at the time that I think there was probably a lot of heated negotiations going on at the time with contracts and that's why it took as long as it did.

I think we see a huge number of indications of the compromises that were made in order for S2 to be made. One obvious one that has been talked about is being making in in NZ instead of LA, to save $.

But there's also the eight episodes instead of ten. And then the cast aspect. One downside of moving overseas was having to fly out and house the cast, not just pay day wages.

We knew immediately about Guz Khan not coming back, losing Ivan as a character. At the time I was sad but I thought it had the air of a pretty harshly practical call. If you went through the main recurring cast and said okay which character will affect the fewest things, has the least character interactions of anyone? It would be Ivan. (With the only competition being The Swede IMO, but he's Stede's crew and therefore a little more central.)

And then this season started and we got first The Swede sidelined and taken out of major scenes. And then I noticed that different members of the crew were simply absent for long stretches, like Wee John isn't around for ep 5 at all. And then Buttons takes flight.

Lucius and Pete aren't at the party for most of it. Fang isn't in the torture scene. Roach and Fang aren't in the bar. Etc. SCHEDULING IS HAPPENING.

The new characters are almost entirely played by NZ local actors, which is great, but also...cheaper.

In other words there are big signs that they did everything possible to give us a giant cast of almost everyone we love from S1, and cool new characters, in the most economical way possible.

And I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful we got S2, and it looks great, and it's well written, I'm having a blast, and we get to spend more time with this awesome cast.

But I also kinda think it needs to be said that the cost-cutting shows. That it shouldn't have been only 8 episodes, the pacing is off. That we miss every time someone from the ensemble isn't on screen.

That despite what they've put on screen looking very good, there's far less costuming budget, there's less elaborate sets, and it's a little disappointing. And it's clear it's not a lack of will or talent or vision but blatantly lack of money.

Look, streaming networks want brilliant shows that people love (that will get them to subscribe) but they very don't want to pay anyone to make them. That's like, the whole moment we're having right now.

Max puts out promos about how great it is to not have unions messing shit up in NZ. Well I have friends who are union costumers in LA and guess what union costumers did amazing last season. This season, well, I guess Stede got three whole shirts, so that's cool.

So I dunno. It's just stuff I think about. I'm not trying to be negative about the show in any way. I'm extremely happy with this season; I love it more than well, possibly any show I've ever been in fandom for.

But I see you, Max. You're cheap. You weren't that cheap when you were called HBO.

[sarah-yyy]

Jie jie LGIEF rec post rec post rec post!!!!!!!

what: transmigration period drama // still airing (we're on ep 22 atm) // 32 eps, roughly 35 mins eachwhere: viki // netflix // wetv (standard disclaimer that i don’t watch with subs so i don’t speak to the quality of eng subs) why: this show is so fun ohmgod!! the costume designs are SO PRETTY and everyone looks bomb af!! ding yuxi is so good in this!! he plays a 姐姐控 demon hunter who falls in love with the first non-jiejie girl who is nice to him, it's a+++. if this show ends strong, it's going to be one of my favourites this year. do not do not do not let the terrible title put you off 🥺

ANYWAY let's go. meet ling miaomiao:

(how pretty is this entire wedding look ohmygod 我又沦陷了)

read a bad web-novel and ended up transmigrating into it while leaving a bad review (😂) - not as the female lead (mu yao-jiejie), but as the evil second female lead, lin yu, who is always trying to sabotage the main character's relationship with the male lead (liu-dage).

that's these two btw:

mu yao-jiejie comes as a package with her didi, mu sheng:

massive jiejie complex on this boy. has two goals in life only and that is: stay by jiejie's side + protect jiejie with his life.

the mu family are v prestigious in the demon hunting circles, but had their entire family massacred by a demoness years ago, so it's just these two siblings left. 🥺

in the original novel, lin yu ends up marrying mu sheng (not by choice) and is tortured(?) by mu sheng in return for all the grief she caused mu yao. massive BE for lin yu. massive BE for everyone actually. we did say it was a p terrible novel, didn't we?

miaomiao is Not Here for this. she doesn't want to be lin yu!! she wants to go home!! the system assigns her a task that will help her to do that - make mu sheng fall in love with you. 😏👌🏼

but my girl endures!! mostly because it's her only way out of this!! cue fun shenanigans with her trying to increase mu sheng's positive sentiments towards her (which started at like -200% 😂)!

mu sheng starts like this:

but miaomiao looks like this-

-on like a daily basis, so is it really mu sheng's fault that they become master and disciple! is it his fault that he has to give her a ring! what choice does he have but to become super protective over her 🥺:

it's all out of his hands!! he's got no choice!! who wouldn't fall in love with her!!

there are a few more plotty things in between but i'll leave us all off with just this for now. this show is incredibly fun and entertaining to watch, the plot is relatively simple and moves quickly, the leads are both a+++ in this (i actually forgot i was really into ding yuxi until yyxh), and overall just a very enjoyable watch!! 10/10 would rec!! START THIS SHOW BUDDIES!!!!!

(idk if the demon thing is considered a spoiler so i won't go into that but ahhhhhhhhhhh that's a huge huge huge selling point 😭 can y'all just take my word for it and start watching 😭)

eta (NOT SPOILER FRIENDLY): i've finished the show now!! there's very mixed reception to the last few episodes - those who enjoyed it really enjoyed it, those who didn't really didn't. i personally think this was a HE (but there're arguments for OE-leaning-HE; think: the untamed) and enjoyed how it ended? there are constraints over what you can do with a transmigration show, and i thought they managed to wrap it up nicely?? the last few eps were probably a bit rushed and PERHAPS we could've used a 5 min epilogue with them being cute in the real world but i enjoyed whatever we got!! still a good show imo!!

[depravedangelbaby]

okay I literally just posted this but i am actually Drunk Drunk wtf

6pm feels too early but I'm drunnnnky with my girl hehehe